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HARTFORD, Conn., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund (NYSE: NCV), announced today that it has declared a $0.3515625 per share cash distribution payable on June 30, 2022 to Series A cumulative preferred shareholders of record on June 13, 2022.
The Series A Cumulative Preferred Shares, which trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NCV PR A, are rated "A" by Fitch Ratings and have an annual dividend rate of $1.40625 per share. The 4,000,000 Series A Cumulative Preferred Shares were issued September 20, 2018 at $25.00 per share and pay distributions quarterly. This distribution represents the accrual period from April 1, 2022 through June 30, 2022. The Series A Cumulative Preferred Shares will be callable at any time at the liquidation value of $25.00 per share plus accrued dividends from and after the expiration of a five-year non-call period on September 20, 2023.
About the Fund
Virtus AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund has an investment objective to provide total return through a combination of capital appreciation and high current income. Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. has been the investment adviser of the fund since February 1, 2021 and Allianz Global Investors manages the fund in a subadvisory capacity. For more information on this fund, contact shareholder services at 800-254-5197, by email at closedendfunds@virtus.com, or through the closed-end fund section on the web at www.virtus.com.
Fund Risks
An investment in a fund is subject to risk, including the risk of possible loss of principal. A fund's shares may be worth less upon their sale than what an investor paid for them. Shares of closed-end funds may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value. For more information about each fund's investment objective and risks, please see the fund's annual report. A copy of the fund's most recent annual report may be obtained free of charge by contacting "Shareholder Services" as set forth at the end of this press release.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rally House has a wide reach across the Detroit area, and now the nationally recognized sports and merchandise retailer has landed west of the metro in Ann Arbor, MI. Rally House Arborland is the go-to destination for local merch and sports apparel to rep pro and college teams in the area, especially with the store's expansive Michigan Wolverines collection.
Rally House enjoys branching out to populous college towns, as it gives students, residents, and loyal fans a trusted outlet for all their team gear. "When customers stop into Rally House Arborland, they'll not only find an abundance of Wolverines gear and other stylish apparel, but they'll also find a dedicated team ready to help in any way possible," explains District Manager Monika Ross. "Our staff looks forward to helping area fans rep their favorite teams and local attractions, so come see us today!"
Customers will feel confident while shopping at Rally House Arborland, as the store keeps several brands known for their quality and style, such as Nike, Jordan, Mitchell & Ness, and New Era. There's also a wide range of professional and collegiate team assortments available, including area favorites like the Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, Detroit Lions, Tigers, Pistons, and more.
Rally House Arborland also wants to help everyone flaunt their love for Michigan, which is where the store's vast local section comes in handy. Within this local collection, patrons will find eye-catching, unique apparel and gifts for numerous hometown icons, like Detroit Vs. Everybody, Stroh's Beer, and more.
The Rally House Arborland staff strives to deliver exceptional customer service and a fun in-person shopping experience. Customers can also shop online at www.rallyhouse.com, where products can be ordered and shipped to all 50 states.
Current store news and updates are available at www.rallyhouse.com/rally-house-arborland. Area fans can also stay up to date by following the store on Facebook (@RallyHouseArborland) and Instagram (@rallyarborland).
About Rally House
Rally House and Sampler Stores Inc. is a family-owned specialty boutique that offers a large selection of apparel, hats, gifts and home décor representing local NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS teams in addition to locally inspired apparel, gifts and food. Proudly based in Lenexa, Kansas, Rally House operates 125+ locations across 13 states.
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DENVER, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gates Industrial Corporation plc (NYSE:GTES), a global manufacturer of innovative, highly engineered power transmission and fluid power solutions, today announced that the Company will participate in the 2022 KeyBanc Industrials & Basic Materials Conference in Boston, MA, on Wednesday, June 1, 2022.
About Gates Industrial Corporation plc
Gates is a global manufacturer of innovative, highly engineered power transmission and fluid power solutions. Gates offers a broad portfolio of products to diverse replacement channel customers, and to original equipment ("first-fit") manufacturers as specified components. Gates participates in many sectors of the industrial and consumer markets. Our products play essential roles in a diverse range of applications across a wide variety of end markets ranging from harsh and hazardous industries such as agriculture, construction, manufacturing and energy, to everyday consumer applications such as printers, power washers, automatic doors and vacuum cleaners and virtually every form of transportation. Our products are sold in 128 countries across our four commercial regions: the Americas; Europe, Middle East & Africa; Greater China; and East Asia & India.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens more when he allegedly drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee last year has decided to mount an insanity defense, his attorneys said Monday.
Darrell Brooks Jr. faces more than 80 charges, including six homicide counts, in connection with the Nov. 21 incident in Waukesha. He pleaded not guilty in February. During a hearing Monday one of his attorneys, Jeremy Perri, told Judge Jennifer Dorow that Brooks is changing his plea to not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
Perri did not elaborate. The judge ordered a mental evaluation for him.
When a defendant enters such a plea under Wisconsin law a judge or jury must determine whether he’s guilty or innocent of the alleged crime. If the defendant is found guilty, a judge or jury must determine whether the defendant was mentally responsible for his conduct at the time of the offense. Such a determination could result in the defendant being committed to a mental health facility rather than prison.
Perri announced the change after Dorow refused a defense request to move the trial out of Waukesha County or bring in jurors from outside the county. Perri has argued that the publicity around the incident has been so intense and so overwhelmingly negative that Brooks can’t get a fair trial in the county.
Dorow said that she has found media coverage has been prolific but objective and jurors aren’t required to be ignorant of a case. She went on to say that internet analytics show interest in articles about the parade has waned since the first few weeks immediately following the incident and she was confident the court could assembly a pool of about 150 prospective jurors who could decide the case fairly.
The criminal complaint detailing the charges against Brooks describes how he allegedly drove into crowds of onlookers during the parade. People bounced off his vehicle as police ordered him to stop. Police arrested Brooks later that night.
Brooks is being held on a $5 million cash bond. He appeared at Monday’s hearing in a surgical mask and an an orange jail T-shirt. He said nothing throughout the proceeding.
His trial had been scheduled to begin Oct. 3 and last all month. It wasn’t immediately clear if that date will stand given Brooks’ new plea.
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Man who pleaded guilty to killing philanthropist Jacqueline Avant is sentenced to 190 years to life in prison
By Taylor Romine, CNN
A 30-year-old man was sentenced to 190 years to life in prison for the 2021 murder of Jacqueline Avant, a philanthropist and the wife of music icon Clarence Avant, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday.
“Today marks the end of a tragic case that rocked our community,” District Attorney George Gascón said during a news conference. “The senseless act not only impacted the Jacqueline Avant family, but an entire community.”
Aariel Maynor pleaded guilty last month to first-degree murder, attempted murder and several other charges, according to a release from the DA’s office. Maynor broke into Avant’s Beverly Hills home on December 1, 2021, and fatally shot the 81-year-old, the release said. He also shot at her security guard, but the guard was not injured, according to the release.
Maynor is not eligible for early parole and will spend the rest of his life in prison, Gascón said.
CNN has reached out to Maynor’s attorney for comment on the sentencing.
Gascón said he thought the sentencing was appropriate considering the circumstances, as he claimed Maynor allegedly made a series of jail calls that demonstrated “no remorse” and that were “very disturbing in nature.”
“Our office has and will continue to seek to hold accountable those that cause grievous harm in our community. That is especially true in cases where people show little or no remorse,” he said.
Maynor has been in and out of the criminal justice system since he was 12 years old, according to Gascón.
Gascón said this is an example of why better support systems are needed for those who frequently interact with law enforcement.
“We need to ensure that we provide the resources necessary for treatment, support both inside and outside the prison systems, and that we facilitate reentry in a way that would make us all safer,” he said. “We should do this not because we want to cuddle up to those that have committed crimes or cause harm, but because it is necessary for the safety of our community.”
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Gabriela Montero at Prager Family Center for the Arts Brings Yuja Wang,
Paquito D'Rivera, Joshua Bell for Exclusive Musical Series in Easton, MD.
Adding a Music Education Program for Underserved Youth
EASTON, Md., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pianist-composer, Gabriela Montero, started her studies earlier than most – at just four years old – making her solo debut with an orchestra in her home country of Venezuela at age seven. She went on to receive a scholarship to attend school in the U.S., and later became a graduate and fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London. Montero has showcased her phenomenal musicality and rare improvisational ability internationally – from Carnegie Hall to the 2008 Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama. Come this fall, Montero will be performing, along with a selection of GRAMMY-winning musical artists, like Yuja Wang, as part of the Gabriela Montero at Prager series in the newly restored Ebenezer Theater at Prager Family Center for the Arts, Easton, Maryland. Comprised of eight concerts, beginning September 2022, and continuing through the summer of 2023, Montero and some of the most influential musicians of modern times – representing China, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Ireland, Cuba, and the United States – will bring sounds from around the world to Easton.
Season One of the series will feature Montero and seven of the music world's brightest stars, including esteemed talents like Joshua Bell, the GRAMMY-winning and Emmy-nominated violinist. Bell was selected to play for the first musical mission to Cuba commissioned by President Obama to celebrate the renewed cultural diplomacy between the U.S. and Cuba; he was named "Instrumentalist of the Year" by Musical America, and his genre-crossing collaborations – with musicians like Sting and Chick Corea – along with contributions to the Academy Award-winning film, Red Violin, have made the Indiana native a musical legend. Yuja Wang, the Beijing pianist and the youngest of the visiting artists, is known for her charismatic stage presence and her fashionable and bold attire that reflects the energy of her performances. In addition to her four GRAMMY nominations, Wang has been recognized with Gramophone's prestigious "Young Artist of the Year" award, and the Musical America "Artist of the Year" award; she's a fresh and youthful voice in the classical world. Paquito D'Rivera, with 14 Grammy awards to his name, discovered his love for the saxophone and clarinet early in his home country of Cuba, performing at age 10 with the National Theater Orchestra in Havana. Known for his ability to blend Latin jazz and classical music, he was honored with the National Medal for the Arts by President George W. Bush. Larisa Martinez, born and raised in Puerto Rico, joined the previously mentioned artist Joshua Bell in Cuba as part of the delegation sent by President Obama. The Soprano singer has toured with tenor Andrea Bocelli; she won the Metropolitan Opera's National Council Audition in Puerto Rico; and her talents were showcased on the Emmy-nominated PBS special "Live From Lincoln Center, Seasons of Cuba." Regarded as Ireland's finest tenor, Anthony Kearns toured with the acclaimed group, The Irish Tenors. Kearns performed during several of President Obama's Inauguration events and he regularly makes time to sing in support of important causes such as musical education and autism awareness. Vanessa Perez is a pianist; at age 11, she was invited to make her concert debut in Caracas, Venezuela. Today, Perez is the performance partner of actor Bill Murray, and recently played a major role alongside Murray in the concert documentary, "New Worlds: Cradle of Civilization." Her presentation at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, was filmed by director Andrew Muscato and became an official selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. She was interviewed by Jane Pauley on CBS Sunday Morning and has performed on the Stephen Colbert Show. The final artist joining Montero is Marc-André Hamelin, a Canadian musician who began playing piano at the age of five. Hamelin is a recording artist for Hyperion Records; with a discography that spans more than 70 albums, he has nearly 30 compositions to his name. Hamelin has received seven Juno Awards and 11 GRAMMY nominations.
Ensuring inclusivity, up to 20 seats at each performance will be allocated at no cost to underserved communities through the Access to Excellence ticket program. In addition to the performances, Montero is introducing three new programs to Easton. Back to School with Gabriela brings the world-renowned artists to community youth, with showcases at Talbot County Public Schools the day before each of their performances at the Prager Family Auditorium. The Gabriela Montero Piano Lab offers year-round mentoring to the next generation of concert pianists from across the globe. She'll be leading live, digital instruction to nine piano fellows, each of impeccable talent and skill. The 90-minute Open Door Piano Lab Sessions offered throughout the year will allow the Easton community exclusive access to observe Montero's mentoring work.
Given Paul Prager's proclivity for restoring historic buildings in Easton, Maryland, it comes as no surprise that he is behind the ambitious revival of the Ebenezer Theater, within the Prager Family Center for the Arts. The historic building of 1856 was built to house the Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church. Sold in the mid-20th century, it was the headquarters of the Historical Society of Talbot County, which initiated the transition from a place of worship to an auditorium. When Prager, as principal of Bluepoint Hospitality, acquired the property in 2014, he created something almost as spiritual as the original building - a performing arts venue. At the Ebenezer Theater, Bluepoint Hospitality has created a rich atmosphere of Victorian Gothic and Aesthetic Movement design, taking its cue from the original features like stained-glass windows and gothic arches. Period wallpapers from Bradbury & Bradbury embody the high ideals of mid-19th century interior design. The pressed-tin ceiling has been transformed by 24-karat gold leaf, hand-applied by Maryland artist Kelly Walker, who also created a dramatic celestial canopy over the stage. Thanks to the latest 21st-century technology, the auditorium's acoustics now set the stage for memorable performances. Completing the Prager Family Center for the Arts is Zachariah Hall, adjacent to the theater, adding space for programs that present literary, visual, and performing arts for the enrichment of the community. Bluepoint Hospitality looks forward to 'sharing the stage' with Gabriela Montero at Prager.
For further details and scheduling of the eight select concerts at Ebenezer Theater, please visit the website of www.bluepointhospitality.com.
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BRISTOL, Tenn., April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NFI Consumer Products (NFI), the makers of Blue-Emu®, are proud to announce that Blue-Emu® Ultra Pain Relief Cream with hemp seed oil received official certification from U.S. Hemp Authority®. The innovative and proprietary formulation combines Trolamine salicylate with pure hemp seed oil – an exciting way to meet the high expectations of both new and loyal consumers.
Certification with U.S. Hemp Authority® involves a rigorous audit of manufacturing practices and product quality concerning hemp ingredients. NFI completed this third party audit successfully, showing their selected hemp seed oil and manufacturing protocols meet the high standards of the U.S. Hemp Authority® and reflect the best manufacturing practices that Blue-Emu® is so well known for.
"Satisfying our consumers is the most important aspect of our business. This certification demonstrates our products continue to meet their high standards of quality. " – CEO, Susan Gregory
The U.S. Hemp Authority® logo will appear on the Blue-Emu® Ultra Pain Relief Cream packaging in the very near future. The logo will show prominently on both the external and internal product packages, adding yet another incentive for consumers to choose Blue-Emu® for their pain relief needs both at the retail shelf and at home.
"We deeply value Blue-Emu® consumers' product experience and loyal support. With this U.S. Hemp Authority® certification, we proudly reinforce confidence in our products and innovations as pain relief consumers can trust." – SVP of Sales, Jim Richmond
For more information, please contact NFI Consumer Products via email at marketing@nficorporate.com or visit the Blue-Emu® website at www.blue-emu.com.
About NFI Consumer Products, Blue-Emu®
NFI Consumer Products (NFI) is an innovative consumer products company that manufactures, markets, and distributes the Blue-Emu® line of products for muscles and joints. Blue-Emu® products are made with real emu oil. In January of 2014, Gregory Pharmaceutical Holdings, Inc. purchased NFI and quickly capitalized on the Blue-Emu® following amongst consumers, expanding advertising efforts and accelerating the growth of the Blue-Emu® brand and product line. In June 2014, Original Blue-Emu® Super Strength cream was recognized as the #1 selling over-the-counter muscle and joint cream in the United States. Under the leadership of CEO, Susan Gregory and guidance from EVP of Sales and Marketing, Benjamin Blessing, NFI has expanded the Blue-Emu® product line to include Blue-Emu® Continuous Pain Relief Spray, Blue-Emu® Maximum Pain Relief Cream, Blue-Emu® Ultra Pain Relief Cream, Blue-Emu® Pain Relief Micro-Foam™, Blue-Emu® Lidocaine Pain Relief Cream, Blue-Emu® Recovery Bath Pods, and Blue-Emu® Foot Therapy. Today, NFI distributes Blue-Emu® products, in over 50,000 locations throughout the US, primarily across the Mass, Food, Chain Drugstore and Independent Drug Store channels, as well as via wholesalers and numerous e-commerce platforms.
About U.S. Hemp Authority®
The U.S. Hemp Authority® Certification Program is the hemp industry's initiative to provide high standards, best practices, and self-regulation, giving consumers and retailers confidence in hemp and CBD products. Started in 2016 from the Kentucky Hemp Industry Coalition as the U.S. Hemp Roundtable, the organization has continued to update their Guidance Plan to ensure the highest quality hemp processing and products in the United States. They have partnered with FoodChain ID® to be the exclusive certifying body for its Certification Program. For more information, visit https://ushempauthority.org/.
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MARBELLA'S LATEST PROPERTY IS SET TO ELECTRIFY COSTA DEL SOL
LONDON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 14th July will mark the opening of Marbella's hotly anticipated new property, Hard Rock Hotel Marbella, after a full renovation. The adults-only property will offer unique experiences through its state-of-the-art facilities and services, while reflecting the immersive music environment for which Hard Rock Hotels are known.The new property, acquired in June 2021 by Stoneweg and Bain Capital Credit, the real estate investment firm, and managed by Palladium Hotel Group, has been designed by international designers Studio Gronda. It will be Palladium Hotel Group's third Hard Rock Hotel operated and also the group's third hotel located in the Costa Del Sol.
Jesús Sobrino, CEO of Palladium Hotel Group said, "We are delighted to announce the launch of Hard Rock Hotel Marbella in Puerto Banús, one of the most stunning parts of the Costa del Sol. Puerto Banús is a perfect destination for the Hard Rock Hotels brand and its magnificent offering. Its inimitable style, it's gastronomic and leisure offering and its eagerness to impress guests will make this hotel a reference point for the area. We are convinced that Hard Rock Hotel Marbella is going to become a really key destination for visitors and residents in a very short time."
The hotel is located in the gorgeous Puerto Banús and contains a total of 383 rooms, including 64 suites. Showcasing contemporary interior designs seamlessly blending Hard Rock's signature musically infused aesthetic with local cultural references from Picasso to Flamenco. Guests can look forward to unique experiences at the Hard Rock Hotel Marbella, with impressive culinary options, an incredible VIP rooftop infinity pool and bar, swimming pool surrounded by a lush and oasis-like garden, musical events and, of course, a curated collection of music Memorabilia featuring Spanish musical icons, as well as international music legends. Notable pieces including an acoustic guitar from the legendary Elvis Presley, a satin purple jacket worn by Prince and sequined dresses worn by Lady Gaga.
'We are proud to build on our success with numerous recent openings in Europe," said Graham Kiy, Area Vice President of Hotel Operations EMEA at Hard Rock International. "Hard Rock's partnership with Palladium Hotel Group has been a great success in Ibiza and Tenerife we are thrilled to expand to Marbella where we will integrate into the brand into the fabric of this much loved and vibrant destination"
AN INNOVATIVE DESIGN AND LOCATION
The jewel of Marbella has a new star that will provide all its distinctive rhythm and sophistication. One of the most important tourist centers of Andalusia has now become Hard Rock Hotel's new stage. Idyllically situated just steps away from the sea, the property will be the go-to destination for those looking to combine attentive and contemporary service alongside the aqua blue waters of the Mediterranean.
Designed by international architecture and interior design firm, Studio Gronda the hotel effortlessly blends Hard Rock's signature design with elements that recall Andalusian style and culture. Local ceramics, reds and the iconic flamenco polka dots are cleverly used to blend tradition with contemporary design. The bright and airy interiors are enhanced by vibrant artwork that was carefully curated to compliment the Memorabilia collection displayed throughout the hotel.
The hotel is located in Puerto Banús, the epicenter of exclusivity and glamour in Marbella – one of the most exclusive regions of Spain. Just 40 minutes from Malaga Airport, the property is easily accessible to all those looking for a sophisticated retreat.
A CULINARY SCENE FOR THE MOST DISCERNING TASTEBUDS
Hard Rock Hotel Marbella presents an unparalleled culinary scene that will satisfy even the most discerning palates. Two restaurants will offer an impressive selection of culinary delights from around the world, including the finest Asian food at Nu Downtown. Alongside world-class food, diners will also enjoy live music performances and DJ's during their meal – as well as an electrifying after party after dessert. With a refreshed programme every week, the venue is set to be the trendiest place in town to grab a bite.
There is also the Spanish show-cooking restaurant, Sessions. Ready to delight and tantalize, this restaurant offers guests unique Spanish flavours and seasonal products in an immersive dining space. The impressive breakfast display offers impeccably prepared dishes, using the freshest produce suited to every taste.
For some of the best views from the hotel, the sky lounge bar Sun Society is a must. The stunning space also features an incredible VIP infinity rooftop pool with a pool bar for guests to truly enjoy the Spanish sunshine. Offering a carefully curated cocktail selection as well as Mexican and Japanese fusion snacks, guests will be able to indulge in panoramic views of the beautiful area alongside eclectic flavors. The gorgeous setting is sure to be one of the most in demand spots in Marbella.
Throughout the day, guests can also stop by the Eden Pool Club, snack bar where to enjoy a selection of the best cocktails and delight the palate with salads, burgers, and succulent desserts, or the delicious sushi food truck offering. During the afternoon, the GMT +1 Lobby Bar for specialty coffees, craft cocktails and light bites, perfect for when hopping between activities.
UNIQUE AND IMMSERSIVE BRAND EXPERIENCES
In true Hard Rock style, a variety of signature brand experiences and amenities exclusive to Hard Rock Hotels can be found in Marbella. Amenities include the Sound of Your Stay® which allows guests to listen to Tracks® curated playlists inspired by the city they're in, Crosley record players available upon request with Wax®, or play a Fender guitar with Picks® in the privacy of their room. The Unleashed® pet program will welcome four legged friends to enjoy the same memorable experience as their pet parents. Guests are invited to exchange the traditional city map for Soundtracks® interactive area guides which are curated by Hard Rock and musical artists to showcase the best of each destination.
Known for sparkling events and incredible live concerts and performances, those visiting the Hard Rock Hotel Marbella can prepare for a similar program of star-studded line-ups and shows.
Guests can find tranquility by enjoying the Rock Om® amenity and experience the perfect blend of yoga and music to relax the body and mind. Those interested in fitness can make use of the modern BODY ROCK® Fitness Centre where the hotel offers innovative training systems to keep up with cutting-edge workouts while matching the rhythm of a curated playlist every step of the way.
Hard Rock Hotel Marbella's introductory nightly rates start from 299 €. For more information and reservations, please visit www.hardrockhotels.com/marbella.
About Hard Rock®:
About Hard Rock®: Hard Rock International (HRI) is one of the most globally recognized companies with venues in 68 countries spanning 253 locations that include owned/licensed or managed Hotels, Casinos, Rock Shops®, Live Performance Venues and Cafes. HRI also launched a joint venture named Hard Rock Digital in 2020, an online sportsbook, retail sportsbook and internet gaming platform. Beginning with an Eric Clapton guitar, Hard Rock owns the world's largest and most valuable collection of authentic music memorabilia at more than 86,000 pieces, which are displayed at its locations around the globe. In 2021, Hard Rock was honoured as one of Forbes Magazine's Best Employers for Diversity, a Top Employer for Women and the Top Employer in the Travel & Leisure, Gaming, and Entertainment Industry. Hard Rock was also designated as a U.S. Best Managed Company by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal and named the top performing hotel brand in J.D. Power's North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study for the fourth consecutive year in 2022. The brand is owned by HRI parent entity The Seminole Tribe of Florida. For more information on Hard Rock International, visit www.hardrock.com or shop.hardrock.com.
About Palladium Hotel Group:
Palladium Hotel Group is a Spanish hotel chain with over 50 years of experience, owned by Grupo Empresas Matutes (GEM). The group operates 41 hotels and over 13,000 rooms, distributed amongst six countries: Spain, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Italy, and Brazil, and manages nine brands: TRS Hotels, Grand Palladium Hotels & Resorts, Palladium Hotels, Palladium Boutique Hotels, Fiesta Hotels & Resorts, Ushuaïa Unexpected Hotels, Only YOU Hotels, BLESS Collection Hotels and the Hard Rock Hotels Brand under licence with three hotels in Ibiza, Tenerife and Marbella. Palladium Hotel Group is characterised by its philosophy of attention to its team and to offering its clients high quality products and services. www.palladiumhotelgroup.com.
About Bain Capital Credit
Bain Capital Credit (www.baincapitalcredit.com) is a leading global credit specialist with approximately $52 billion in assets under management. Bain Capital Credit invests across a full spectrum of strategies, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt and special situations, private lending, structured products, non-performing loans, special situations real estate and majority and minority equity stakes. Founded in 1998 as a private, employee-owned firm, Bain Capital Credit's experienced team of over 150 investment professionals seeks to identify attractive equity and credit investment opportunities across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. In addition to credit, Bain Capital invests across asset classes including private equity, public equity, real estate and venture capital, and leverages the firm's shared platform to capture opportunities in strategic areas of focus.
About Stoneweg
Stoneweg (www.stoneweg.com) is a real estate investment adviser and asset manager established in 2015 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The firm leverages in-house local operational teams to source, develop and manage real estate investments.
To date, Stoneweg has executed and advised on almost €5 billion of real estate investments across different sectors including developments. Stoneweg expertise includes both equity and debt strategies, advising its client base of financial institutions and family offices across a range of structures including club deals, joint ventures, co-investments and funds.
The firm's investment philosophy is driven by a bottom-up approach to project selection, utilising Stoneweg's own teams on the ground and deep networks to seize the best opportunities.
Stoneweg has a dedicated presence in Switzerland, the United States, Spain, Italy, Andorra and Ireland, enabling many of the operational aspects of the firm's investments to be carried out in house and locally.
Stoneweg has completed more than 300 acquisitions alongside best-in-class partners since 2015.
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Insights from Chen Liyu, SVP of Bairong Inc. on Banks to Moving from An MAU-Driven to an AUM-Driven Approach of Digitalization
BEIJING, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bairong Inc. ("Bairong" or "the Company", 6608.HK), a leading independent AI-powered technology platform in China, called on banks in China to speed up the digitalization of their wealth management businesses to meet the growing demand from the burgeoning middle-class families.
It is expected that the total assets of personal wealth management in China will increase by 10% annually from 2021 to 2025, according to a study published by McKinsey.
"With the fast development of AI, 5G, blockchain, and virtual technology, the finance industry should leverage cutting-edge technologies for the digital transformation, and it is imperative for banks to digitalize their wealth management business as the market is undergoing significant changes," said Chen Liyu, senior vice president of Bairong at a recent industry event in Qingdao, Shandong Province.
The digital capability has become a key driver for financial institutions to boost the wealth management business. The digitalization of services will spur the total assets of wealth management to increase by 25% to 50%, and help financial institutions grow their revenues by 15% to 30% and profits by 25% to 50%, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group.
As banks in China have been racing to transform their businesses with digital technologies, the monthly active users (MAU) have become the primary target over the past few years, and almost everything insides banks has been mobilized to reach the MAU target, including sales and marketing, operations, procedure, risk management, and organization structure.
"Over the next decade, the asset under management (AUM), instead of MAU, will become the primary target for banks in China," said Chen Liyu. "This change of target will bring significant consequences for banks in their strategic planning, sales and marketing model, operations management, and even corporate culture."
Facing the new trend, financial institutions will need to leverage digital technologies to expand the services, reduce reliance on star managers, enlarge customer coverage, and improve collaboration efficiency, which will help them reach both MAU and AUM targets, added Chen Liyu.
With the leading technology platform to empower financial institutions, Bairong is committed to supporting the digital transformation of China's financial industry. With smart analytics services and solutions covering the whole business process, Bairong's client base includes the majority of state-owned banks, regional banks, consumer finance companies and main insurance companies. By the end of the first quarter of 2022, the Company provided services to 5,900 FSP clients in China, including 3,501 paying FSP clients.
About Bairong Inc.
Founded in March 2014, Bairong is a leading independent AI-powered technology platform in China serving more than 5,900 financial services provider clients. Bairong was the largest independent financial big data analytics solutions provider in China. Adhering to the mission of empowering every financial services provider in China with smart and comprehensive data analytics, Bairong has built a cloud-native technology platform that supports the full business cycle of FSP clients, including data analytics, decision-making support and smart consumer operation solutions, enabling them to improve risk management ability, promote user activity and operational efficiency. Bairong also provides big data marketing and distribution services that enable FSP clients to reach and serve their target customers more effectively.
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Retail sportsbook and mobile offering planned for upcoming launch
FREDERICK, Md. , July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Betfred Sports is excited to announce an agreement with Long Shot's of Frederick, Maryland to bring retail and online sports betting to Maryland pending regulatory approval. A temporary retail sportsbook will be adjacent to the Maryland Jockey Club's OTB within Long Shot's for the 2022 football season. A permanent, 8,800 square foot, state-of-the-art sportsbook with a video wall and comfortable theater-style seating will open just after the first of the year. A robust food and beverage menu will also be available. Online betting will be launched when formally allowed by state regulators.
"We were at the forefront of bringing sports betting to Maryland and specifically to Frederick. We are thrilled to open a sportsbook at Long Shot's in partnership with Betfred Sports," stated Long Shot's CEO, Alyse Cohen. "We are proud that Long Shot's is one of the premier off-track betting locations in the State and we look forward to achieving similar success with sports wagering. Long Shot's will not only boost the local economy but contribute to enhancing the education of our students."
Bryan Bennett, Betfred Sports Chief Operating Officer, stated "We identified Long Shot's very early when searching for a Maryland partner. When combining Betfred's 50 years of bookmaking experience and Long Shot's success with off-track betting, we believe this will be a formidable partnership to compete in the Maryland sports betting space."
The temporary sportsbook, scheduled to open in September pending regulatory approval, will consist of in-person betting windows and self-serve betting kiosks.
Long Shot's, LLC, based in Frederick County will be, currently, the first and only 100% female owned business in the state of Maryland to house a Sportsbook. Created by Alyse L. Cohen, Long Shot's has been located within the Frederick Event Center since 2019 when she brought in the Maryland Jockey Club's OTB.
Betfred Sports is the wholly owned US subsidiary of Betfred Group, a Warrington, United Kingdom based bookmaker that owns and operates over 1400 betting shops in the UK as well as industry leading online and mobile products in the UK and Spain. Betfred Group, founded by brothers Fred and Peter Done in 1967, created Las Vegas based Betfred USA Sports in 2019 specifically to enter the robust and ever-expanding US sports betting market. Betfred Sports is currently a licensed operator in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Louisiana and Arizona with Nevada, Washington and Maryland coming soon pending regulatory approval.
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson // Becker, PLLC is a nationwide products liability law firm with extensive experience representing victims of pressure cooker explosions. The firm has represented over 500 clients who have been severely burned by exploding pressure cookers designed and sold by numerous manufacturers.
Johnson//Becker filed this Complaint against manufacturer Pick Five Imports, on behalf of Kimberly Harbin, a resident of Canton, North Carolina, alleging that Ms. Harbin's Maxi-Matic pressure cooker exploded during normal use due to a defective and unsafe lid locking mechanism.
The Maxi-Matic pressure cooker explosion left Ms. Harbin with "serious and substantial burn injuries" after the steaming-hot contents of the cooker were explosively projected onto her when she attempted to open the lid. The explosion happened despite Maxi-Matic's claims of "safety," including the contention that the unit cannot open while its contents are still under pressure. The Complaint alleges Maxi-Matic "put profit ahead of safety by continuing to sell its pressure cookers to consumers" and failing to warn consumers or recall its defective product.
This suit is filed by Adam J. Kress and Anna R. Rick of Johnson // Becker, PLLC. Adam exclusively handles injury cases, with an emphasis on national products liability litigation, including cases involving burn injuries from defective products.
If you or a loved one has been injured by a defective Maxi-Matic pressure cooker, you may want to speak with the lawyers at Johnson//Becker. We are filing new pressure cooker lawsuits across the country, and you may be entitled to financial compensation for your defective pressure cooker injuries.
We offer a free case evaluation. To learn more about Johnson // Becker's product liability cases, or to arrange a free, no obligation case review, please visit Johnson // Becker at https://www.johnsonbecker.com/product-liability/pressure-cooker-lawsuit/, https://www.johnsonbecker.com/product-liability/elite-bistro-and-elite-platinum-pressure-cooker-lawsuits/ or contact Johnson // Becker directly at (800) 279-6386.
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Roshunda Jones-Koumba to be lauded on-stage at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 12th at the 75th Annual Tony Awards #ApplaudMyTeacher
PITTSBURGH, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University announced today that drama teacher Roshunda Jones-Koumba of G.W. Carver Magnet High School in Houston will receive the 2022 Excellence in Theatre Education Award.
The Excellence in Theatre Education Award was co-founded in 2014 by the Tony Awards and CMU to recognize top K-12 drama teachers and to celebrate arts education. Jones-Koumba will receive her award at the 75th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 12, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
A panel of theatre experts from The American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League and Carnegie Mellon University selected Jones-Koumba from a nationwide call for entries. Impassioned endorsements from students past and present, along with peers from the arts community in Houston — such as The C. Lee Turner Black Theatre Educators' Caucus — helped make Jones-Koumba a standout.
As one student put it: "I have been in awe of her vision; her tireless work ethic; the countless hours; blood, sweat, tears, money, food that she's given to her students in the community around her. And she taught us, usually Black and Brown kids from inner-city communities, that we could do anything."
In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Jones-Koumba is a director at the G.W. Carver Theatre, where the Panther Players Troupe #6753 has earned multiple regional and national awards for their thespian competition pieces and one-act plays. The Panther Players under her direction also have earned multiple Tommy Tune Awards for musical theatre. Among other performing arts laurels, Jones-Koumba is a past recipient of the Stephen Schwartz Musical Theatre Teacher of the Year Award; the International Thespian Society Inspirational Theatre Educator Award; and she was recently inducted into the Texas Thespians Hall of Fame.
"Our students are doing amazing things. Many are working actors on stage and on television; some are continuing their education; some are pursuing careers outside of performing. In theatre we accept all, so you're not afraid to be yourself. And that gives you confidence to do anything you want, enables you to work with different people, and to be a better all-around person," Jones-Koumba said. "Theatre is life. I'm very grateful to the Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon University for this honor."
The Excellence in Theatre Education Award recognizes a K-12 theatre educator in the U.S. who has demonstrated exemplary impact on the lives of students and who embodies the highest standards of the profession. Jones-Koumba will receive $10,000 for G.W. Carver Magnet High School's theatre program and tickets to the Tony Awards and Tony Awards Gala. Jones-Koumba's students will also receive a visiting Master Class taught by CMU drama professors.
"Theatre education opens students' minds to reveal their potential, whether onstage or off, through artistic expression and inclusivity. That doesn't happen by chance. It happens through hard work, countless hours and a tireless commitment that drama teachers know better than most. Roshunda takes that dedication to a whole new level, and we're honored to present the Excellence in Theatre Education Award to her this year," said Heather Hitchens, president and CEO of the American Theatre Wing, and Charlotte St. Martin, president of The Broadway League.
"In our increasingly complex society, teachers serve as incredible champions and mentors for young people, helping them to discover their passions and achieve their dreams," said Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian. "Roshunda Jones-Koumba is an enthusiastic champion for her students, and her unique theatre education program empowers them to become leaders in any field. That's the power of the arts, and that is why CMU is so proud to present this award in recognition of her impact."
Academy Award winner and Tony nominee Ariana DeBose will host The 75th Annual Tony Awards, airing live coast-to-coast, on Sunday, June 12th (8:00-11:00 PM, LIVE ET/5:00-8:00 PM, LIVE PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming live and on demand on Paramount+. Julianne Hough and Darren Criss will host "The Tony Awards: Act One," one hour of exclusive content streaming live, only on Paramount+ (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/4:00-5:00 PM, PT.)
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Leading cold-crafted hummus brand teams up with Grillo's Pickles to create the first ever co-branded dill pickle hummus packed with bold, pickle flavor
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ithaca Hummus, restaurant-quality, fresh ingredient hummus brand, is announcing a fresh twist to its beloved hummus lineup with its newest limited-time-offer launch, Ithaca Grillo's Pickles Hummus. In collaboration with the all-natural, always fresh, refrigerated pickle brand, Grillo's Pickles, this new launch delivers an iconic and delicious dill-forward flavor to consumers – just in time for summer grilling season.
Available for a limited time, this first co-branded pickle hummus blends Grillo's Pickles' clean and simple signature dill flavor with Ithaca's distinctive cold-crafted hummus, for a new, bold summer go-to spread. This curiously crisp, fresh flavor unites two fan-favorite brands for an unexpected twist to dress up popular summer meals. The next condiment to take over BBQs this summer, Ithaca Grillo's Pickles Hummus amplifies any burger or hot dog with a refreshing, pickle-forward bite and brings a kick of dill when topped on sandwiches and dipped with crudité.
"We're always looking to push the boundaries and reinvigorate growth within the hummus category with innovative flavors, while also giving our fans something deliciously bold to snack on," said Chris Kirby, Founder and CEO of Ithaca Hummus. "Grillo's commitment to using fresh ingredients perfectly aligns with Ithaca's brand ethos and allows us to continue to provide our fans with an ultimate hummus option that packs intense flavor with every bite—making this collaboration a no-brainer. What better way to celebrate grilling season than with a tangy, dill pickle flavored hummus as the quintessential barbeque must-have? We're looking forward to seeing fans taste this unbelievable collab and how they put their own spin on enjoying it."
"This collaboration is a fresh way to add that great Grillo's flavor to your summer plates," said Eddie Andre, Director of Brand Experience, Grillo's Pickles. "Partnering with Ithaca Hummus to highlight our pickles through this fun and delicious product mash-up is something we're excited to bring to life and think our fans will go crazy for it. This hummus is going to be a staple in refrigerators everywhere this summer for sure!"
Hummus and pickle lovers can purchase the new Ithaca Grillo's Pickles Hummus at select retailers including Whole Foods, Hannaford, Fresh Direct, Stop & Shop, Price Chopper, Tops, Market Basket, Safeway Seattle, NCG, and Big Y, with additional retailers rolling out nationwide throughout the summer for $5.49.
For more information visit www.ithacahummus.com.
Created in 2013 by chef Chris Kirby, Ithaca started out as a stand at the Ithaca Farmers Market and quickly grew to become the fastest growing hummus brand in America. Ithaca is made using quality, real-food ingredients and uses High Pressure Processing to keep the ingredients fresh and full of nutrients. The brand offers eight chef-inspired varieties that each showcase bold, intense flavors, including: Lemon Garlic, Lemon Dill, Classic, Lemon Beet, Roasted Red Pepper, Kalamata Olive, Buffalo Ranch, and Everyone Bagel. Ithaca can be found in over 8,200 stores nationwide in a variety of premium, natural and conventional retailers such as Whole Foods, Wegmans, Publix, Sprouts Farmers Market, Safeway, Hannaford, and Stop & Shop. For more information, visit www.ithacahummus.com.
For people who want freshness, Grillo's is the pickle company that is changing the game. That's because Grillo's uses only clean, garden-fresh ingredients to make deliciously simple foods that deliver all the crunchy, tangy, satisfying flavor you've been searching for, with none of the junk. How do we do it? Our products are made cold, shipped cold and sold cold. So you get an incredible crunch and we never have to mess with artificial preservatives. In fact, the only thing traditional about us is our 100-year-old family recipe. The rest? It's fresh. Grillo's offers mouthwatering bites nationwide for sweet, spicy and sour flavor seekers, with their selection of chips, wholes and spears and Pickle de Gallo. For more information, visit GrillosPickles.com or contact grillos@autumncommunications.com.
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LAS VEGAS, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wynn Resorts (Nasdaq: WYNN) recently issued its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, defining the Company's important milestones in 2021. The report provides insight into key initiatives including the Company's continued commitment to decrease emissions; an enhanced Diversity and Inclusion program; a comprehensive Human Trafficking Prevention program; and transformative investments in the communities in which the Company operates.
"Wynn Resorts brings the same level of effort and dedication to our ESG efforts as we do to all our business operations. We focus those efforts around three key areas: Our People, Our Communities, and Our Planet," said Craig Billings, CEO of Wynn Resorts. "As proud as I am of the accomplishments mentioned in this report, I'm confident our record will continue to improve thanks to our talented and dedicated team."
The Wynn Resorts sustainability program, known as Goldleaf, houses scientific solutions to the wide range of environment and climate challenges that are unique to each resort. In 2020, the Company clearly defined ambitious corporate sustainability goals that are aligned with the recommendations made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:
- Net-Zero by 2050: To reduce or offset all carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by our operations no later than 2050.
- Carbon Dioxide Emissions Peak by 2030: To stop and reverse year-over-year growth of operational carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2030.
- 50% Renewable Energy Procurement by 2030: To increase Wynn Resorts' supply of renewable energy produced or procured to at least 50% of total consumption by 2030.
In 2021, the Company achieved key metrics to advance environmental initiatives:
- Wynn Las Vegas reduced its annual water consumption by 16% relative to 2019. To adapt to today's challenges, Wynn Las Vegas collaborates on water conservation goals with the Southern Nevada Water Authority. The resort monitors and minimizes water usage, with the goal of reducing consumptive water use. The Company's mitigation programs include investing in smart technologies, controlling and repairing leaks, metering water use on a functional basis, prioritizing water efficiency equipment and appliances, and aligning practices across the portfolio of resorts.
- Encore Boston Harbor continues to receive 100% of its purchased electricity from renewable sources of power with an onsite microgrid balancing solar energy production, combined heat and power co-generation, and utility-scale battery storage.
- Wynn Las Vegas recycled, reused or composted 4,000 tons of material in 2021 through a comprehensive waste management program, including recycling 271 pounds of personal protective equipment. Encore Boston Harbor diverted 100 percent of material waste from the landfill in 2021, matching the same diversion in 2020.
As a testament to these efforts, Wynn Resorts was recently recognized as a Travel + Leisure Global Vision Award winner. The award spotlights international companies, individuals, destinations, and organizations taking strides to develop more sustainable and responsible travel products, practices, and experiences.
Additionally, the 2021 ESG report showcases long-standing corporate values of giving and core behaviors that govern fair, transparent, and ethical behavior. Under the pillars of Our People, Our Communities, and Our Planet, highlights include:
- A comprehensive Human Trafficking Prevention Program implemented across Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Boston Harbor that augments a broader Human Rights Policy. In 2021, the Company introduced mandatory training to help employees identify and respond to situations that may be indicative of human trafficking. Wynn Las Vegas is also the first resort to pilot the Resources and Integration for Survivor Empowerment (R.I.S.E.) program in partnership with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Signs of Hope. This program provides timely and trauma-informed response to potential victims of human trafficking and ensures a victim advocate is present on-site within 45-minutes.
- A three-phase Diversity and Inclusion Program to increase representation, recruitment, and retention of diversity within the workforce; the strategic plan, led by the Company's VP of Diversity and Inclusion, spans hiring, mentorship, internal promotion, management training, and external partnerships. Wynn Resorts continues to rise on Forbes Magazine's Best Employers for Diversity list, ranking among the Top 12 companies in the travel and leisure sector.
- A continued commitment to host communities. Wynn Resorts was recognized as one of the most community-minded companies in America on the Civic 50 list by Points of Light. Over the past year, employees of Wynn Resorts set a new company record for donations to the Wynn Employee Foundation. Collectively, employees in North America donated more than $620,000 to the Foundation and volunteered more than 14,000 hours of volunteerism. In 2021, the Company's dollar-for-dollar match for individual employee donations through the Foundation was increased to $75,000 per employee.
The Wynn Resorts ESG Report presents information that references select Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and Sustainability Accounting Board Standards (SASB). The full report is available at www.WynnResponsibility.com.
About Wynn Resorts
Wynn Resorts, Limited is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol WYNN and is part of the S&P 500 Index. Wynn Resorts owns and operates Wynn Las Vegas (wynnlasvegas.com), Encore Boston Harbor (encorebostonharbor.com), Wynn Macau (wynnmacau.com), and Wynn Palace, Cotai (wynnpalace.com).
Wynn and Encore Las Vegas feature two luxury hotel towers with a total of 4,748 spacious hotel rooms, suites and villas, approximately 194,000 square feet of casino space, 21 dining experiences featuring signature chefs and 11 bars, two award-winning spas, approximately 513,000 rentable square feet of meeting and convention space, approximately 155,000 square feet of retail space as well as two theaters, two nightclubs, a beach club and recreation and leisure facilities including Wynn Golf Club, an 18-hole, 128-acre championship golf course.
Encore Boston Harbor is a luxury resort destination featuring a 211,000 square foot casino, 671 hotel rooms, an ultra-premium spa, specialty retail, 16 dining and lounge venues, and approximately 71,000 square feet of state-of-the-art ballroom and meeting spaces. Situated on the waterfront along the Mystic River in Everett, Massachusetts, the resort has created a six-acre public park and Harborwalk along the shoreline. It is the largest private, single-phase development in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Wynn Macau is a luxury hotel and casino resort located in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China with two luxury hotel towers with a total of 1,010 spacious rooms and suites, approximately 252,000 square feet of casino space, 14 food and beverage outlets, approximately 31,000 square feet of meeting and convention space, approximately 59,000 square feet of retail space, and recreation and leisure facilities including two opulent spas, a salon and a rotunda show.
Wynn Palace is a luxury integrated resort in Macau. Designed as a floral-themed destination, it boasts 1,706 exquisite rooms, suites and villas, approximately 424,000 square feet of casino space, 14 food and beverage outlets, approximately 37,000 square feet of meeting and convention space, approximately 107,000 square feet of designer retail, SkyCabs that traverse an eight-acre Performance Lake, an extensive collection of rare art, a lush spa, salon and recreation and leisure facilities.
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Motor America and its African American marketing agency of record, Culture Brands were recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) with a Salute to Excellence Award for its OKAY Hyundai campaign. The award was announced this past weekend at the Salute to Excellence Awards ceremony which took place during the 2022 NABJ Convention in Las Vegas.
"We're thrilled by this recognition for the work we do to engage with our multicultural consumers," said Angela Zepeda, CMO, Hyundai Motor America. "To be honored by NABJ in this way is not only an endorsement of our efforts, but also validation of our commitment to engage with our African American consumers in a culturally authentic way."
The OKAY Hyundai marketing theme was first launched in Fall 2021 and is designed to strengthen the connection between Hyundai and the African American community through the embedding of cultural references and nuances in the creative messaging. The campaign was developed by Culture Brands under the leadership of Eunique Jones Gibson, founder and chief creative officer.
"We are incredibly excited and honored to receive this important peer recognition by NABJ," said Gibson. "To be recognized by the country's largest media organization for journalists of color, this speaks volumes of our work, our creative and our commitment to represent African Americans in media with content that inspires those audiences by ensuring they feel seen, heard and valued."
Erik Thomas, senior group manager, experiential & multicultural marketing, Hyundai Motor America added, "Through our partnership with Culture Brands, we continue to look to connect with people on their own terms and in relevant ways, which we know then leads to longstanding relationships. As we increase our share of voice with the African American market and communicate successfully, this tremendous honor and recognition from NABJ is further affirmation we're on the right path."
Founded in 1975, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), is the oldest advocacy organization for journalists and media professionals of color in the nation. The Salute to Excellence Awards honors journalism and communications that best cover the Black experience or address issues affecting the worldwide Black community. Entries are judged on content, creativity, innovation, use of the medium, and relevance to the Black community.
Culture Brands
Culture Brands is an independent, minority and female-owned agency that exists to authentically celebrate, reflect and represent African Americans in media. Founded in 2017, by 15-year advertising veteran Eunique Jones Gibson, we create culturally relevant and affirming campaigns and content that inspire African American audiences by ensuring they feel seen, heard and valued. At Culture Brands, we are constantly engaged in a two-way conversation with the African American community through our owned and operated media platforms and consumer brands such as the award-winning Because of Them We Can®, Because of Them We Can Box (Just For Kids), #CultureTags® and Dream Village®. Culture Brands is headquartered right outside of the nation's capital in Hyattsville, MD. www.culturebrands.co
Hyundai Motor America
Hyundai Motor America focuses on 'Progress for Humanity' and smart mobility solutions. Hyundai offers U.S. consumers a technology-rich lineup of cars, SUVs, and electrified vehicles. Our 820 dealers sold more than 738,000 vehicles in the U.S. in 2021, and nearly half were built at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama. For more information, visit www.HyundaiNews.com.
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Platform enhancements, new free trial enables users to upload conversations and see insights within an hour
AUSTIN, Texas, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tethr, the leading AI-powered conversation intelligence platform, today launched its Zero Touch offering, which includes a free trial giving users self-service access to the platform and in-depth analytics of their own customer conversations.
The Zero Touch initiative includes enhancements to the Tethr platform that make gathering intelligence from customer conversations easier. The free 30-day trial, the first of its kind in the industry, allows users to upload conversations and explore the platform on their own.
This initiative builds on Tethr's leadership in delivering value quickly with research-backed, prescriptive insights as part of its conversation intelligence platform that doesn't require coding, developers, or data scientists.
With the Tethr trial, users can explore pre-built dashboards using data from sample customer conversations. Trial users can also upload up to 1,000 of their own calls and discover powerful insights Tethr uncovers about their interactions.
"We believe it's time to change our industry and make AI-powered conversation intelligence easily accessible. Zero Touch enables people to see how Tethr works, get valuable insight, and put them on the fast track for improving their overall customer experience", Tethr CEO Robert Beasley said.
Companies use Tethr to gather intelligence about their sales, contact center, and customer experience, especially about sources of friction customers face when contacting them.
Tethr ingests unstructured data from popular voice, chat, and other customer interaction platforms, identifies key moments using advanced conversation and sentiment analysis, and then populates a set of dashboards with valuable insights.
These TethrRx dashboards score agent performance, measure churn risks, optimize sales results, identify operational cost-drivers, and analyze trends all without coding. For each metric, users can also see how their scores compare to industry benchmarks, enabling them to focus improvement programs where they will have immediate impact.
The Tethr Zero Touch free trial is available immediately at tethr.com.
Tethr envisions a world where every company listens, and every customer is heard. Tethr is a cloud-based conversation intelligence platform that combines powerful AI, machine learning, and over a decade of research to surface contextual insights from customer interactions. Tethr quickly and easily turns large amounts of unstructured customer conversation data into insights that fuel smarter decisions and improved business performance. For more information, visit tethr.com and follow Tethr on LinkedIn.
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- International health authorities, such as the WHO and the CDC are warning of the emerging danger of bacterial infections resistant to current antibiotics
- The 2022 World Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) Congress in the greater Washington D.C. area is serving as a forum to openly address the threat of AMR
- Debiopharm will join the action-focused discussions around this silent pandemic in 3 panel discussions, presenting their microbiome-sparing FabI inhibitor class as a future tool to fight AMR
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Debiopharm, (www.debiopharm.com) a privately-owned, Swiss-based, biopharmaceutical company committed to the development of novel class antibiotics, today revealed its involvement in three panel discussions at the World AMR Congress, taking place in Fort Washington, Maryland, from September 7th – 8th. This conference offers pharmaceutical companies, government, and policy stakeholders from all around the world the opportunity to meet, discuss and formulate initiatives to effectively tackle the emerging threat of antimicrobial resistance. Debiopharm will present developments on its FabI inhibitor antibiotic class including afabicin (Debio 1450), Debio 1453 and Debio 1454S, all of which have microbiome-sparing potential, a promising characteristic for AMR prevention.
AMR is a leading cause of death and disability and represents a major threat to human health. Among the 1.27 million deaths1 that occur globally due to antibiotic-resistant infections each year, more than 35,0002 occur in the United States and over 33,0003 occur in Europe. The economic burden of AMR is also significant4 in direct health care and lost productivity costs are attributable to antibiotic-resistant bacteria like Staphylococcus spp.
The WHO and the CDC have identified such pathogens posing a threat to public health and Debiopharm, one of the few private companies still engaged in the development of novel antibiotics, has directed its efforts toward targeting them. The World AMR summit offers a great opportunity to governments, funds, associations, and passionate companies like Debiopharm to join forces against one of the top global public threats facing humanity.
"We're proud to unveil more on the role our novel class antibiotic, the FabI inhibitors, amongst key international stakeholders at the World AMR. We're hoping that our collaboration with specialized organizations and lawmakers will trigger the much needed changes in the way we think about the unmet need for antibiotics as well as provide hope to people and health practitioners dealing with these seemingly insurmountable infections," stated Mohammed Benghezal, Global Project Lead in Anti-infectives, Debiopharm.
"Pathogen-specific antibiotic effect without harming the 'good' gut bacteria: it is the best of both worlds! As we research their efficacy and safety profile, this class of antibiotics could be like no other," expressed Ricardo Chaves, Executive Medical Director, Debiopharm. "Now is the time to encourage the development of new antibiotic classes by establishing new business models that will assure future patients access to effective treatments that will knock out highly resistant bacterial infections and at the same time prevent AMR development."
About afabicin
Afabicin (Debio 1450) is Debiopharm's first-in-class FabI inhibitor against Staphylococcus spp., whose sub-class Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is high on the WHO global priority pathogen list and deemed a "serious threat" by the CDC. Afabicin can be administered orally or IV and selectively targets Staphylococcus' essential bacterial fatty acid biosynthesis. Promising results have been obtained in a comparative double-blind Phase 2 trial with afabicin in acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections. Currently, an international Phase 2 trial in bone and joint infections is being conducted comparing afabicin to standard antibiotics.
About Debio 1453 and Debio 1454S
Analogous to Afabicin, the preclinical compounds Debio 1453 and Debio 1454S are potential first-in-class pathogen-specific drugs targeting the essential bacterial fatty acid biosynthesis. Debio 1453 can be administered orally or intramuscularly to treat Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections while Debio 1454S is being developed for IV use in cases of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.
Debiopharm's fight against antimicrobial resistance
Debiopharm, an innovation-focused, Swiss biopharmaceutical company is one of the few privately owned companies developing novel class antibiotics to combat hard-to-treat infections. Through their unique partnership-based business model, the company is advancing pathogen-specific antibiotics from early stage through phase II clinical research with afabicin, specifically targeting staphylococci, being the most clinically advanced for the treatment of bone and joint infections. As a result of high selectivity, FabI inhibitors specifically target selected pathogens while preserving intestinal microbiota and meet all four WHO 2020 innovation criteria: new chemical class, new target, new mode of action and no cross-resistance to other antibiotic classes.
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References
[1] Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis. Lancet. 2022;399(10325):629-655.
[2] CDC Antibiotic resistance threats in the United States, 2019. https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/pdf/threats-report/2019-ar-threats-report-508.pdf
[3] Cassini A, et al. Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019;19(1):56-66.
[4] CDC Antibiotic resistance threats in the United States, 2013. https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/pdf/ar-threats-2013-508.pdf
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Academy Award Winner and Tony Nominee Ariana DeBose to Host Sunday, June 12, on CBS
NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CBS, The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing will broaden access to THE 75TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS® by providing, for the first time, audio description for the live telecast. The addition of audio description, which provides audio-narrated descriptions of a program's key visual elements, ensures that viewers who are blind and low vision will be able to take in all the action occurring on the screen, and provides a much richer experience of the event. The audio description will be provided on the Secondary Audio Programming (SAP) channel by industry leaders VITAC and Audio Eyes.
Live from the legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York and hosted by Academy Award winner and Tony nominee Ariana DeBose, THE 75TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS will be broadcast Sunday, June 12 (8:00-11:00 PM, LIVE ET/5:00-8:00 PM, LIVE PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+*.
Since April 1, 2002, CBS has continuously provided audio description and is proud to have been an industry leader and innovator in the voluntary provision of the service. The Network offers audio description with nearly all its regularly scheduled scripted primetime programs, all movies, selected specials and the entire CBS DREAM TEAM Saturday morning block of educational/informational children's programming.
"For over 20 years, CBS has continually improved upon and increased the availability of audio description in our programming. We are proud to be able to offer THE 75TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS to an even wider and more inclusive audience," said Mark Turits, vice president of captioning and audio description at Paramount Global.
The 75th Tonys television event will recognize all the award categories and honor the incredible artistry of the 2021-2022 season. The Tony Awards, which honor theater professionals for distinguished achievement on Broadway, is presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing and has been broadcast on CBS since 1978.
The Tony Awards are produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, and White Cherry Entertainment. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss are executive producers for White Cherry Entertainment. Weiss will serve as director.
About the Tony Awards
The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Award, which was founded by the American Theatre Wing in 1947, is bestowed annually on theater professionals for distinguished achievement on Broadway. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast – the night America watches Broadway – is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.
About AUDIO EYES
Audio Eyes is a partnership of audio engineers, producers, accessibility experts, blind professionals and audio description professionals who are passionate about providing high quality services in a creative, inclusive work environment. The Audio Eyes production team has more than a decade of experience providing live audio description in theaters as well as recorded audio description for broadcast television networks, nationally distributed DVDs, government agencies and private entities. Additionally, they have extensive experience producing audio dramas, audio books, music, radio programs, radio ads and a variety of business-to-business audio products. The Audio Eyes progressive work environment, inclusive hiring practices and technical expertise keep the company at the leading edge of the accessible media production industry.
About VITAC
VITAC, a Verbit company, is the largest provider of accessible video products and services in North America. Responsible for captioning hundreds of thousands of programming hours each year, its customers include every broadcast company and most cable networks, as well as Fortune 1000 corporations, educational institutions, government agencies, plus stadiums and arenas.
*Paramount+ Premium subscribers will have access to stream live via the live feed of their local CBS affiliate on the service as well as on demand. Essential-tier subscribers will have access to the program on-demand the day after the special airs.
Audio Description on Paramount+ will only be included in post-live air streams.
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Suspect in Brooklyn subway train shooting has been arrested, officials say
By Brynn Gingras, Shimon Prokupecz, Pervaiz Shallwani, Artemis Moshtaghian, Laura Ly, Kristina Sgueglia and Eric Levenson, CNN
The man suspected of shooting 10 people on a subway train in Brooklyn on Tuesday was arrested by patrol officers in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.
Frank James, 62, was arrested without incident on the street at about 1:40 p.m. after police got a tip on its Crime Stoppers hotline, NYPD commissioner Keechant Sewell said.
“My fellow New Yorkers: We got him. We got him,” Mayor Eric Adams said.
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James is suspected of setting off smoke grenades and firing a handgun 33 times on a crowded N train traveling toward the 36th Street station in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood. The attack left 29 people injured, including 10 who were shot, though none of the injuries appear to be life-threatening, officials said. Five of the victims were young people commuting to school, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said.
The motive of the shooting is not yet known.
James has been charged by complaint in Brooklyn federal court with violating a law that prohibits terrorist and other violent attacks against a mass transportation system, according to Breon Peace, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. He will be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn and, if convicted, could spend life in prison, Peace said.
James is being represented by federal defender Mia Eisner-Grynberg, according to his criminal docket. CNN has reached out to her for comment.
James has nine prior arrests in New York dating from 1992 to 1998, including possession of burglary tools, criminal sex act, and theft of service, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said. He also had three arrests in New Jersey in 1991, 1992 and 2007 for trespassing, larceny and disorderly conduct, Essig said.
The arrest came hours after officials elevated James from a “person of interest” to a suspect in the shooting and less than a day after authorities launched a manhunt for his whereabouts. Earlier Wednesday, the city issued an emergency alert to residents saying James is “wanted” and asking the public for tips.
The tip to NYPD Crime Stoppers hotline reported that the suspect was at a McDonald’s restaurant on 6th street and 1st Avenue, a police official said. Officers did not find him there but spotted him just around the corner.
The subway shooting represents a long-feared nightmare scenario for New York City, which relies heavily on its mass transit system. Subway ridership cratered during the Covid pandemic as many workers stayed home, and ridership has not returned to its pre-pandemic levels, in part due to wariness over an increase in violence on the transit system.
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How investigators homed in on James
In a news conference Wednesday, officials laid out some of James’ actions prior to the attack and the evidence connecting him to the scene.
James got on the subway’s N train at the Kings Highway Station on Tuesday at about 8:30 a.m., Essig said. After opening fire on the train, he got off at the 36th Street station, boarded an R train across the platform and rode to the 25th Street station stop, Essig said.
Less than an hour later, he was spotted boarding the subway at 7th Avenue and 9th Street station, about 1.5 miles away, Essig said.
Investigators combing through the shooting scene found a Glock 9 mm handgun, three extended magazines, two detonated smoke grenades, two non-detonated smoke grenades, a hatchet and keys to a U-Haul van, Essig said. Witnesses also described the suspect as a heavyset Black man wearing a neon construction jacket.
The gun found at the scene was purchased by James in Ohio in 2011, Essig said Wednesday. A credit card that was used to rent the U-Haul was also found, two law enforcement sources told CNN. Two officials told CNN they believe the gun jammed during the shooting.
The U-Haul van was rented by James, police said. The van was recovered near the Kings Highway Station, and surveillance video shows James leaving it on Tuesday morning, according to a criminal complaint. The neon construction jacket, which had been discarded on the subway platform, had a receipt for a storage unit in Philadelphia registered to James, the complaint states.
Federal prosecutors believe he visited the storage facility filled with ammunition and more weapons on the evening before the Tuesday attack, according to court documents.
On Tuesday, authorities executed a court-authorized warrant to search the storage facility and found “9mm ammunition, a threaded 9mm pistol barrel that allows for a silencer or suppresser to be attached, targets and .223 caliber ammunition, which is used with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle,” among other things.
According to the complaint, law enforcement executed a search warrant at a Philadelphia apartment authorities believe James rented for 15 days beginning around March 28 and found “an empty magazine for a Glock handgun, a taser, a high-capacity rifle magazine and a blue smoke cannister.”
Investigators did not find any other weapons or explosives in the van, two law enforcement officials said. The officials said it appeared James may have slept in the vehicle. They said a license plate reader detected the van driving over the Verrazzano Bridge from Staten Island into Brooklyn around 4 a.m. Tuesday.
Authorities also tracked the purchase of a gas mask to James through an eBay account, two officials said.
His family did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
How the shooting unfolded
People aboard the train car on Tuesday morning said smoke filled the car and gunshots rang out, causing people to push their way to the other side of the train in panic and confusion.
Hourari Benkada, 27, who was shot in the back of the knee, said he thinks he was sitting next to the shooter.
Speaking from a hospital bed Tuesday, Benkada said he’d gotten into the last car of the N train and sat next to a man with a duffel bag who appeared to be wearing an MTA vest. The man let off a “smoke bomb,” said Benkada, a housekeeping manager at the New Yorker Hotel.
“And all you see (is) smoke — black smoke … going off, and then people bum-rushing to the back,” Benkada said. “This pregnant woman was in front of me. I was trying to help her. I didn’t know there were shots at first. I just thought it was a black smoke bomb.
“She said, ‘I’m pregnant with a baby.’ I hugged her. And then the bum-rush continued. I got pushed, and that’s when I got shot in the back of my knee.”
The shooting started about 20 seconds after the train took off from the 59th Street station and felt like it lasted for nearly 2 minutes, Benkada said. Benkada heard other people in pain, but couldn’t see them or the suspect because of the smoke, he said.
Claire Tunkel, 46, who was in the subway car where the shooting took place, described the scene as chaotic. She said she couldn’t see anything because of the smoke, but she heard people crying out for help and others saying they were bleeding.
“You couldn’t see anything, but you could feel it,” she said. People were rushing to the front of the car, and some fell to the ground, she said. “You could feel the bodies.”
She took off her jacket and tied it around the leg of a man who suffered a gunshot wound, she told CNN. Tunkel, who later went to the hospital for smoke inhalation, said several victims were lying on the floor of the subway platform after the train arrived at the station.
Suspect talked about mass shootings in videos
James has been linked to multiple rambling videos posted on a YouTube channel. A screenshot from one of the videos was used on an NYPD Crimestoppers flyer seeking information about the shooting.
He documented his travel from Wisconsin to the Northeast over a series of videos in recent weeks.
James talked about violence and mass shootings in the videos, including one uploaded Monday in which he said he’s thought about killing people who have presumably hurt him.
“I’ve been through a lot of s**t, where I can say I wanted to kill people. I wanted to watch people die right in front of my f**king face immediately. But I thought about the fact that, hey man, I don’t want to go to no f**king prison,” he said.
In another video posted last week, James rants about abuse in churches and racism in the workplace, using misogynistic and racist language. Many of the videos that James uploaded included references to violence, including at a set group of people he believed had maligned him, in addition to broad societal and racial groups that he appeared to hate.
In another video posted last month to the same channel, James said that he had post-traumatic stress. In that video, James said he left his home in Milwaukee on March 20. During the trip eastward, he said he was heading to the “danger zone.”
“You know, it’s triggering a lot of negative thoughts of course,” he said in the video. “I do have a severe case of post-traumatic stress.”
In a video posted in February, he also criticized a plan by the Adams administration to address safety and homelessness in the subway in part through an expanded presence of mental health professionals. In a racist and rambling recording, James called the new effort “doomed to fail” and described his own negative experience with city health workers during a “crisis of mental health back in the ’90s, ’80s and ’70s.”
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crunch Fitness today announced the upcoming winter launch of Crunch Fayetteville, a franchise club located in a spacious, $5 million, 55,000-square-foot fitness facility, with $1 million in state-of-the-art equipment and amenities. Crunch Fayetteville will be located at the Northwest Arkansas Mall on 4201 N Shiloh Drive. This will be the first Crunch location in Arkansas.
Crunch Fayetteville is owned by partners John Armatas and Brian Hibbard, Chief Executive Officer for Fitness Ventures LLC, which owns and operates Crunch Fitness locations across the U.S. Crunch Fayetteville will be Fitness Ventures' 27th location nationwide.
"We are excited to bring the Crunch brand to Fayetteville, Arkansas," said owner Brian Hibbard. "Crunch is for everyone, from the first-time gym-goer to the seasoned athlete. Add in a high-energy and fun environment, and with memberships starting at $9.99 per month we have options to meet everyone's goals and budget."
Crunch is known for its exciting group fitness programming and Crunch Fayetteville will offer a wide range of classes every week, including BodyWeb with TRX®, Zumba®, Cardio Tai Box, Yoga Body Sculpt and Fat Burning Pilates. Members looking for additional guidance or motivation can utilize the HIITZone™, a proprietary high-intensity interval group training program.
Crunch offers top-quality cardio and strength training equipment, circuit training, personal training, a functional training area with indoor turf, a dedicated group fitness studio, a dedicated ride studio, Kids Crunch, tanning beds and sunless spray options, HydroMassage® beds, and more.
Prospective Crunch Fayetteville members can visit https://www.crunch.com/locations/fayetteville or call 479-309-0399 to purchase memberships beginning at $9.99 per month.
Crunch is a gym that believes in making serious exercise fun by fusing fitness and entertainment and pioneering a philosophy of 'No Judgments.' Crunch serves a fitness community for all kinds of people, with all types of goals, exercising all different ways, working it out at the same place together. Today, we are renowned for creating one-of-a-kind group fitness classes and unique programming for our wildly diverse members. Headquartered in New York City, Crunch serves over 1.9 million members with over 400 gyms worldwide in 34 states and the District of Columbia, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and Spain. Crunch is rapidly expanding across the U.S. and around the globe.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Aemetis, Inc. ("Aemetis" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AMTX). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Aemetis and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On May 12, 2021, Aemetis issued a press release announcing its financial results for the first quarter of 2021. Among other items, Aemetis reported GAAP earnings per share of -$0.69, missing consensus estimates by $0.16, and revenue of $42.8 million, missing consensus estimates by $6.26 million.
On this news, Aemetis's stock price fell $2.02 per share, or 16.25%, to close at $10.41 per share on May 12, 2021.
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.
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc. (NYSE American: BRG) (the "Company") today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized and the Company has declared a monthly cash dividend on the Company's Series B Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series B Preferred Stock") for the month of April 2022, equal to a quarterly rate of $15.00 per share (the "Series B Preferred Dividends"). In addition, the Board of Directors has authorized and the Company has declared a monthly cash dividend on the Company's Series T Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series T Preferred Stock") for the month of April 2022, equal to a quarterly rate of $0.384375 per share (the "Series T Preferred Dividends").
The Series B Preferred Dividends will be payable in cash as follows: $5.00 per share to be paid on Thursday, May 5, 2022 to Series B Preferred stockholders of record as of Monday, April 25, 2022.
The Series T Preferred Dividends will be payable in cash as follows: $0.128125 per share to be paid on Thursday, May 5, 2022 to Series T Preferred stockholders of record as of Monday, April 25, 2022. Newly-issued shares of Series T Preferred Stock held for only a portion of the applicable monthly dividend period will receive a prorated Series T Preferred Dividend based on the actual number of days in the applicable dividend period during which each such share of Series T Preferred Stock was outstanding, as permitted under the Articles Supplementary to the Company's charter dated November 13, 2019.
About Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc.
Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc. (NYSE American: BRG) is a real estate investment trust that focuses on developing and acquiring a diversified portfolio of institutional-quality highly amenitized live/work/play apartment communities in demographically attractive knowledge economy growth markets to appeal to the renter by choice. The Company's objective is to generate value through off-market/relationship-based transactions and, at the asset level, through value-add improvements to properties and to operations. BRG has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (REIT) for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
For more information, please visit our website at: www.bluerockresidential.com.
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Virgo Continues To Grow Gaming Practice As Industry Evolves To Focus On More Data
NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virgo PR, a leading New York based PR agency, has been appointed to work with Appodeal, a publisher-first ad mediation platform for mobile app developers and studios. The Virgo PR team has worked with similar clients in the space such as Ready Player Me and Upland to name a few.
Virgo PR attracts attention for its clients by creating personalized brand campaigns that pushes the boundaries on traditional public relations strategies. Through this customized approach, Virgo PR helps its clients disrupt industries, launch new initiatives, and garner media coverage.
Appodeal was originally created as an internal ad mediation tool of a mobile games publisher. They came to realize that there was no ad monetization platform on the market dedicated to putting publishers' interests first. In 2014, Appodeal launched a beta version of their ad mediation platform and then released it to the public in 2015.
Today Appodeal's team unites more than 100 people from all over the world, with offices in Austin, Barcelona, Warsaw among other international locations. Every day, Appodeal's exceptional team members use their deep experience and the most innovative technologies to bring the power back to mobile app publishers.
"As the gaming space continues to evolve, Virgo is all in on Appodeal's mission to empower indie mobile app developers and publishers," said Mike Paffmann, CEO of Virgo PR. "Their dedication to the industry and providing both big and small players with key insights and data should be is something our team will be focused on."
The campaign will focus on company news, expert commentary and bringing their data and insights front and center in the market. For more information on the partnership or to see more of Virgo PR's work, please visit https://virgo-pr.com/.
About Virgo PR
Virgo PR offers its clients many services to drive growth, engagement, sales, and increase lead generation and conversions. Our team of professionals in all things PR and marketing can support brands in developing different strategies and campaigns that allow them to better understand their brand and industry and provide various services that drive knowledge through our expertise. We're able to execute worldwide integrated campaigns for our clients' brands by playing on the strengths and constraints of any niche.
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Mike Paffmann
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Lawyers Association (CLA) and the California Judges Association (CJA) are introducing a new event—a black-tie- Gala celebration—to raise money for their respective charitable foundations.
On September 17, 2022 in San Diego, the Gala will bring together lawyers and judges from across California to recognize the best of the legal profession.
Andy Buckley from the hit show The Office will serve as the emcee. ESPN SportsCenter host Sage Steele will deliver the keynote address. The Gala will serve as the closing event for CLA's 2022 Annual Meeting, to be held September 15–17, 2022 at the San Diego Hilton Bayfront Hotel.
"We appreciate the opportunity to come together as a statewide legal community, recognize our shared goals, and shine a spotlight on members who are improving our profession and beyond," CLA's CEO and Executive Director Oyango A. Snell said.
"We are looking forward to hosting a fun evening of entertainment and socializing to raise money for essential programs that benefit the public. We hope this is the first of many annual galas celebrating heroes in the legal profession," CLA President Jeremy M. Evans said.
The Gala will benefit the California Lawyers Foundation, which shares CLA's mission and is focused on civics education and development among our youth, and the California Judges Foundation, which is dedicated to educating the public about the importance of an impartial judiciary.
About California Lawyers Association: Established in 2018, CLA is the bar association for all California attorneys. CLA's mission is to promote excellence, diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and fairness in the administration of justice and the rule of law.
About California Judges Association: CJA is dedicated to promoting judicial excellence to achieve fair, impartial and equal justice for all through education, ethics, inclusivity, outreach, and advocacy.
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FAIRFAX, Va., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI), a global consulting and digital services provider, today announced its participation at the Canaccord Genuity 42nd Annual Growth Conference. ICF Chair and Chief Executive Officer John Wasson and Executive Vice President for Energy, Environment and Infrastructure Anne Choate will present at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, August 10.
A live webcast of the presentation will be available at: https://wsw.com/webcast/canaccord76/icfi/2421225. The replay will be available for 90 days following the conference.
About ICF
ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI) is a global consulting services company with approximately 8,000 full- and part-time employees, but we are not your typical consultants. At ICF, business analysts and policy specialists work together with digital strategists, data scientists and creatives. We combine unmatched industry expertise with cutting-edge engagement capabilities to help organizations solve their most complex challenges. Since 1969, public and private sector clients have worked with ICF to navigate change and shape the future. Learn more at icf.com.
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Investor information contact:
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or
David Gold, AdvisIRy Partners, david.gold@advisiry.com, +1.212.750.5800
Company information contact:
Lauren Dyke, ICF, lauren.dyke@icf.com, +1.571.373.5577
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Which dark lipstick is best?
Vampy, mysterious, dramatic, glamorous — dark lips are always a surefire way to turn heads. Neither drugstore brands nor high-end designers shy away from offering rich, bold shades with unexpected depths. Don’t be afraid to experiment with dark lip colors like eggplant, wine, chocolate or even black, as you may be surprised by how flattering they look. Here are some of the best dark lipsticks you can find at any price point.
How to pick a dark lipstick
Whether you’re looking for a deep, rich red, a dark burgundy or even pure black lipstick, knowing what undertones to look for will help you pick a flattering shade. If you have cool undertones, lipsticks that lean purple or blue will be the best fit. For warm undertones, look for lipsticks with orange or bronze hues.
How to wear dark lipstick
Prep your lips for longer-wearing lip color by giving them a gentle scrub with a damp washcloth or a lip exfoliator. Lip scrubs help remove flakes and dead skin, creating a smooth surface for your lipstick to sit on. If you have drier skin, or if your lips tend to feel uncomfortable wearing liquid lipstick, apply a lip balm and blot away any excess to lock in moisture.
To apply dark lipstick evenly, you may prefer to use a lip brush to pick up color from the bullet instead of trying to apply it directly. Outline your lips with the brush’s narrow tip, then brush on the lipstick using short strokes for controlled coverage.
Best dark lipstick
Best dark lipstick
Dior Rouge Dior Refillable Lipstick
What you need to know: Available in a range of finishes and shades, this nourishing lipstick lasts up to 16 hours.
What you’ll love: It’s formulated with nourishing natural ingredients like red peony, pomegranate extract and shea butter. Dark shades include a satin-finish burgundy (869 Sophisticated Satin), matte plum (975 Opera Matte) and deep brick red (951 Cabaret Matte). Refills can be ordered to reuse the outer case and reduce waste.
What you should consider: The lipstick has added fragrance. Some users found the matte-finish formula drying.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Best dark lipstick for the money
Sephora Collection #LIPSTORIES Lipstick in 33 Wanderlust
What you need to know: One swipe of this richly pigmented lipstick delivers dramatic dark berry with a satin finish.
What you’ll love: Its creamy texture makes it easy to apply and comfy to wear. Plus, its packaging incorporates eco-friendly cardboard components.
What you should consider: The bullet is so soft that it can be prone to breakage. Some users need to use a lip liner with this lipstick.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
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NARS Velvet Matte Lipstick Pencil in Train Bleu
What you need to know: The convenient pencil format of this lipstick delivers rich yet lightweight color in a dark eggplant shade.
What you’ll love: The formula glides on soft and smooth. It’s comfortable to wear and can also be used as a base color or lip liner.
What you should consider: The pencil can be difficult to keep sharp, even with the brand’s recommended sharpener. Application can be blotchy and may require frequent reapplication.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Macy’s
Best dark liquid lipstick
Best dark liquid lipstick
KVD Beauty Everlasting Longwear Liquid Lipstick
What you need to know: This cult-hit liquid lipstick comes in 19 pigmented shades.
What you’ll love: It’s formulated with vitamin E and a coconut oil derivative to help keep lips feeling comfortably hydrated. Popular dark shades include Vampira (deep burgundy), Exorcism (dark blackberry) and Witches (black).
What you should consider: Application can be patchy. Some colors don’t dry down as well as others.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Ulta
Best dark liquid lipstick for the money
Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink Liquid Lipstick
What you need to know: This lightweight liquid lipstick is famously pigmented and long-wearing.
What you’ll love: The formula is available in more than 50 shades, including Composer (a dark chocolate brown), Believer (a dark fuchsia) and Thrill Seeker (black). It lasts for hours and resists transferring.
What you should consider: Some users note inconsistencies between the online product photos and the true product color. The formula can be challenging to remove.
Where to buy: Sold by Ulta and Amazon
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Fenty Stunna Lip Paint Longwear Fluid Lip Color in Underdawg
What you need to know: This long-wearing black-cherry shade flatters a wide range of skin tones.
What you’ll love: The matte formula is easy to apply thanks to the doe-foot applicator. Once it dries down, it lasts for hours without transferring, feathering or bleeding.
What you should consider: It can take a long time to dry down. The formula doesn’t have a very long shelf life compared to some liquid lipsticks.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora and Ulta
Best hydrating dark lipstick
Best hydrating dark lipstick
Rare Beauty Lip Souffle Matte Cream Lipstick in Transform
What you need to know: This deep wine shade has a lightweight, whipped texture that dries down to a non-drying matte finish.
What you’ll love: The unique texture feels velvety and comfortable compared to most liquid lipsticks. It’s formulated with Vitamin E and an assortment of nourishing botanicals. This lipstick is vegan and cruelty-free.
What you should consider: Color may require a few layers to achieve the desired level of opacity. It’s not as transfer-proof as some liquid lipsticks.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Best hydrating dark lipstick for the money
Urban Decay Vice Hydrating Lipstick
What you need to know: Urban Decay’s best-selling Vice lipsticks get a hydrating makeover with this aloe-infused formula.
What you’ll love: It comes in 35 shades in satin (like Iced Americano, a deep brown) and matte finishes (like Hex, a dark red). The vegan, cruelty-free formula also includes avocado oil for comfortable, moisturizing wear.
What you should consider: Some users still experienced drying lips with this formula.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora, Ulta and Macy’s
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CLEVELAND (WJW) — The future is here. Those tired of taking out their wallet or phone to pay for things could soon skip that step entirely, thanks to a new implantable payment chip.
The British-Polish company Walletmor has created a microchip that can be implanted inside a person’s hand and used as one would tap a credit card for payment. The technology is only currently allowed to be sold in the European Union and the U.K.
“The implant can be used to pay for a drink on the beach in Rio, a coffee in New York, a haircut in Paris – or at your local grocery store,” founder and chief executive Wojtek Paprota told the BBC. “It can be used wherever contactless payments are accepted.”
The company said it’s the first to sell these kinds of chips to willing customers, unleashing its biopolymer technology about the size of a small safety pin on the world last year. The cost is around $300.
But just how many people are all right with the idea of having essentially a credit card placed in their body? Walletmor said in a press release that so far at least 200 people have purchased its technology.
According to a 2021 survey, which talked to 4,000 people across Europe, nearly 51% said they would consider an implant of some type, yet security issues reportedly remained a concern for some.
Walletmor explained their chips use near-field communication or NFC, the same system smartphones use for contactless payments, and that they cannot be read until they’re in close contact with a payment reader device. The company said the chip does not include a battery nor does it make radio waves on its own. | https://cw33.com/news/hand-implant-allows-people-to-pay-with-chip/ | 2022-04-18T18:58:38Z |
One grand prize winner will earn a donation toward a sustainable project for their school and a science day with The Space Gal, Emily Calandrelli
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- What sustainable solutions do you want to see at your school? That's the question the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) is asking students and parents to think about as part of a new scholarship contest to promote environmentally friendly practices at school—like riding on a clean, propane-powered school bus.
PERC's "Be Like Jack" sustainability contest, held in partnership with The Week Junior magazine, is inspired by Jack Kendrick, a middle school student from South Carolina that successfully petitioned his school district to purchase the state's first propane-powered special needs school bus. Jack earned PERC's first Clean Energy Hero Award for his actions.
Students ages 8-14 interested in entering the contest can visit theweekjunior.com/percbigideas to submit a drawing with a short, written response about how they would make their school more sustainable. One winner from each age group (8-9, 10-11, 12-14) will earn a $2,000 donation to their school to put toward a sustainability project of its choice.
"Jack is an inspiration to us all, and we know there are many more children just like him who have big ideas on how to make the world a more sustainable place," said Stephen Whaley, director of autogas business development for PERC. "By advocating for propane school buses, Jack was able to significantly reduce harmful emissions for his classmates, his bus driver, and his community. Imagine what could happen if every student stood up for their sustainable idea, and we're excited to kickstart a cleaner future through these donations."
Additionally, one grand prize winner will also get to meet The Space Gal, Emily Calandrelli, during a special Day of Science event at their school. Emily is an MIT-engineer turned Emmy-nominated science TV host and co-executive producer of Emily's Wonder Lab on Netflix. She's also featured as a correspondent on Netflix's Bill Nye Saves the World and an executive producer and host of FOX's Xploration Outer Space. Emily is the author of the science chapter book series, the Ada Lace Adventures.
"These students have the power to change the world with their ideas and make their community a cleaner place to live," said Calandrelli. "We hope this contest inspires them to think big about how they can make a difference, just like Jack with his propane school bus."
More than 1,000 school districts across the country have improved its sustainability by adopting propane-powered school buses, including many districts that have replaced entire diesel fleets with clean propane. Compared to modern diesel buses, propane buses reduce harmful nitrogen oxide emissions by 96%, which is the key building block to smog and ozone formation that can aggravate respiratory issues. Propane school buses also have the lowest total cost-of-ownership of any fuel, saving districts money that can go back into the classroom. Learn more about propane school buses, by visiting BetterOurBuses.com.
To submit an entry into the "Be Like Jack" contest, or to view official rules of entry, visit theweekjunior.com/percbigideas. Entries must be submitted by July 15, 2022.
The Propane Education & Research Council is a nonprofit that provides leading propane safety and training programs and invests in research and development of new propane-powered technologies. PERC is operated and funded by the propane industry. For more information, visit Propane.com.
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BERLIN (AP) — Warning that disaster prevention must be improved, Germany and Belgium on Thursday commemorated the deadly floods that hit a year ago with high-profile memorials to pay tribute to the more than 230 people who lost their lives in those countries.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeiner visited the Ahr valley, where at least 134 people died when heavy rain turned streams into raging torrents that swept away houses, roads and bridges.
The wine-growing region south of Cologne was hardest hit by the floods. Reconstruction work is still going on and scars of the devastation are clearly visible.
“We are going to need strength for a very long time yet,” the head of the local government, Cornelia Weigand, said at a memorial event attended by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “That goes for the sorrow, which won’t leave us so quickly. It also goes with regard to the future.”
At the memorial in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, the main town in Germany’s Ahr valley, the crowd held a minute of silence for the flood victims as church bells pealed and the victims’ first names were projected on a screen.
Mayor Guido Orthen acknowledged the lingering frustration in the region, although he said “people’s solidarity was and is indescribable” and the area was grateful for the “unique” support from a government rebuilding fund.
“Many of us are simply tired, spent. Also disappointed that rebuilding at home, in their own house, but also the rebuilding of public infrastructure, is in some cases only progressing slowly,” he said.
Experts say such disasters will become more frequent due to climate change.
“We have to prepare better for such major incidents,” said Hendrik Wuest, the governor of Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia state, where 49 people died. “Protecting the climate and preserving creation are the greatest tasks of our time. Adapting to the already existing consequences of climate change is part of that too.”
In Belgium, where 39 people died in the floods, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said “we cannot just sit and wait for the next flooding, the next heat wave or drought that will claim lives.” He insisted nations needed to build on the U.N. climate agreements reached in Glasgow last year.
“We have to put climate protection at the heart of our security strategy,” De Croo said.
Edith Stoffels, who has lived in the German village of Gemuend near the border with Belgium for 50 years, put it more bluntly, calling the 2021 floods “a nightmare.”
“When we looked out the attic window upstairs in the morning … it was like a lake here,” she recalled.
“Garden shed, cars, everything was gone,” Stoffels said. “It’s unimaginable.”
For weeks after the disaster, the exact death toll was unclear. Some of the bodies recovered from the debris were later found to have died before the floods. Two other people are still missing. German authorities say at least two people took their lives after the devastation. In addition, more flooding deaths were also reported days later in Austria and Italy.
Across the border in eastern Belgium, King Philippe and Queen Mathilde traveled to a series of remembrance events Thursday that included meeting with survivors and families and friends of people who died when the sudden floods hit several Ardennes villages.
The main ceremony was in Chenee, an area of Liege where the royals were joined by De Croo and other leading politicians. But in neighborhoods along the Ourthe and Vesdre rivers, which swelled to record levels last year, residents planned more intimate events to mark the loss of their way of life.
Like in Germany, many families in Belgium have yet to recover from the devastation, either because their homes remain in disrepair or they had to move elsewhere because their houses were destroyed.
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Casert reported from Brussels. Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Synaptogenix, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPX) ("the Company"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing regenerative therapeutics for neurodegenerative disorders, today announced that Dr. Daniel L. Alkon , the Company's President and Chief Scientific Officer, will appear as a featured guest on TD Ameritrade Network's "Trading 360" today, Friday, August 12, 2022 at 10:30am Eastern time (www.TDameritradenetwork.com).
Dr. Alkon will discuss the progression of treatments for Alzheimer's disease ("AD"), Synaptogenix's lead drug, Bryostatin-1, and its ongoing National Institutes of Health ("NIH") sponsored, Phase 2b clinical trial of Bryostatin-1 for patients suffering from advanced and moderately severe AD.
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Synaptogenix is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that has historically worked to develop novel therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Synaptogenix has conducted clinical and preclinical studies of its lead therapeutic candidate, Bryostatin-1, in AD. Preclinical studies have also demonstrated Bryostatin's regenerative mechanisms of action for the rare disease, Fragile X syndrome, and for other neurodegenerative disorders such as multiple sclerosis, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Orphan Drug Designation to Synaptogenix for Bryostatin-1 as a treatment for Fragile X syndrome. Bryostatin-1 has already undergone testing in more than 1,500 people in cancer studies, thus creating a large safety data base that will further inform clinical trial designs.
Additional information about Synaptogenix, Inc. may be found on its website: www.synaptogen.com.
Any statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding the anticipated initiation of a clinical trial to treat Multiple Sclerosis with Bryostatin and continued development of use of Bryostatin-1 for AD, Fragile X and other cognitive diseases. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and other influences, many of which the Company has no control over. There can be no assurance that the clinical program for Bryostatin-1 will be successful in demonstrating safety and/or efficacy, that we will not encounter problems or delays in clinical development, or that Bryostatin-1 will ever receive regulatory approval or be successfully commercialized. Actual results and the timing of certain events and circumstances may differ materially from those described by the forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties. Additional factors that may influence or cause actual results to differ materially from expected or desired results may include, without limitation, the Company's inability to obtain adequate financing, the significant length of time associated with drug development and related insufficient cash flows and resulting illiquidity, the Company's patent portfolio, the Company's inability to expand its business, significant government regulation of pharmaceuticals and the healthcare industry, lack of product diversification, availability of the Company's raw materials, existing or increased competition, stock volatility and illiquidity, and the Company's failure to implement its business plans or strategies. These and other factors are identified and described in more detail in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements.
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New Corolla foal sired by stallion that died last summer after getting tangled in wire
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COROLLA, Currituck County, North Carolina (WLOS) — The legacy of a Corolla stallion lives on in a new foal born into the coastal North Carolina wild herd.
Officials with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund shared pictures of the colt – the fourth foal to be born this year – who came into the world on Monday.
The group said his father was Hurricane, who died last summer after he got tangled in some wire and suffered heatstroke. They have chosen the name Cyclone for him, in honor and in memory of his sire.
Officials remind visitors that they must stay at least 50ft away from the horses at all times, but they encourage everyone to give them even more space, especially this time of year.
Stay in your vehicles and stay safe, they said, as mares are in season, herd dynamics are unstable, and stallions are only thinking of one thing.
It’s also critically important that mares and foals have space and peace to bond and grow, they added.
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NEW YORK , Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- D&S Marketing Systems, Inc. (D&S), New York-based provider of Advanced Placement (AP) preparation books, has partnered with Magic EdTech to offer a solution for schools to access their publications digitally. This will empower schools that have opted for eBooks as they phase out of traditional physical textbooks. D&S digital initiatives for teachers and students will be powered by Magic EdTech's flagship technology solution, MagicBox™, an award-winning SaaS digital learning platform, accessed by over 6 million users globally.
Easing Learning Delivery and Access
With nearly 40 years of success in publishing AP preparation textbooks, D&S broadens its scope by providing access to its learning materials via a digital platform.
The company is an established leader in the AP preparation and review segment. Their offering includes learning resources authored and edited by the most reputed academics in the field. Today, thousands of private and public schools across the US use these resources to power their students for a bright future.
The transition to MagicBox™ will allow the company to offer AP preparation textbooks in a format compatible with multiple devices and operating systems. D&S will also continue to offer traditional physical textbooks for those who prefer them.
"We are excited to offer D&S eBooks to our schools! Not only can eBooks be delivered instantly, they can accommodate more learning styles and students can study anywhere at any time. Additionally, the app offers many features including bookmarking, searching, annotation, highlighting, teacher dashboard to track student analytics and more," says David Lederman, Founder and President of D&S. The company believes no job is more important than helping students learn, reach their full potential, and achieve success.
MagicBox's eReader will allow interactive and personalized learning in addition to online/offline capabilities for a smooth experience.
"This partnership is significant to us because it furthers our commitment to ensuring accessibility and inclusivity in education and fulfilling our mission of Digital Education for Everyone," said Annu C Singh, Chief Product Officer at Magic Edtech.
About Magic Edtech
Magic EdTech is an NY-based technology company harboring 30+ years of Education experience. Its flagship platform, MagicBox™, helps create and conceptualize digital learning solutions for K-12 and higher education.
About D&S Marketing Systems, Inc.
Since 1985, D&S has published Advanced Placement (AP) Preparation books for numerous subjects. It is an industry leader in AP preparation and review.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa., June 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Freshpet Inc. is announcing a voluntary recall of a single lot of Freshpet Select Fresh From the Kitchen Home Cooked Chicken Recipe (4.5 lb. bag), with sell by date of 10/29/22, due to potential contamination with Salmonella.
Salmonella can affect animals eating the product and there is risk to humans, notably children, the elderly, and the immunocompromised, when handling contaminated products, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with the products or surfaces exposed to these products.
Healthy people infected with Salmonella should monitor themselves for some or all of the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramping, and fever. Salmonella can result in more serious ailments, including arterial infections, endocarditis, arthritis, muscle pain, eye irritation, and urinary tract symptoms. Consumers exhibiting these signs after having contact with this product should contact their healthcare provider.
Dogs with Salmonella infections may be lethargic and have diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. Some dogs will have only decreased appetite, fever, and abdominal pain. Infected but otherwise healthy dogs can be carriers and infect other animals or humans. If your dog has consumed the recalled product and has these symptoms, please contact your veterinarian.
If pet parents have products matching the following description and sell by date in their possession, they should stop feeding it to their dogs and dispose of it immediately. Please call us if you have any of the recalled product, Freshpet Select Fresh From the Kitchen Home Cooked Chicken Recipe (4.5 lb. bag) with Sell by Date 10/29/22. The Sell by date, along with the UPC code, can be found on the bottom and back of each bag. Please see chart and product pictures below for details.
Our Freshpet Team had designated this single lot for destruction, but a small portion of the lot was inadvertently shipped to retailers in limited geographic markets in the last two weeks. No other Freshpet products or lot codes are impacted by this recall.
To date, Freshpet has received no reports of illness, injury, or adverse reaction. The lot may have sold at limited Walmart stores in Alabama and Georgia; and limited Target stores and other select retailers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia.
The safety of pets and pet parents and the quality of our products are of the greatest importance, and we value the trust placed in Freshpet.
Pet parents who have questions or would like to report adverse reactions should call 1.800.285.0563 Mon. through Fri., 9 am–9 pm (EDT) and Sat. through Sun. 9 am--1 pm (EDT) or visit https://freshpet.co/JUNE22.
This recall is being conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Justice Department files challenge to Alabama transgender law
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday challenged an Alabama law making it a felony for doctors to treat transgender people under age 19 with puberty-blockers and hormones to help affirm their new gender identity.
The Justice Department filed a motion seeking to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit challenging the law as unconstitutional and seeking to block it from taking effect on May 8.
The action comes after the department sent a letter to all 50 state attorneys general warning that blocking transgender and nonbinary youth from receiving gender-affirming care could be an infringement of federal constitutional protections.
Doctors and others would face up to 10 years in prison for violating the Alabama law. Trans kids and parents have said Alabama is trying to ban what they consider necessary, and sometimes life-saving care for them.
“The law discriminates against transgender minors by unjustifiably denying them access to certain forms of medically necessary care,” the complaint states. “As a result of S.B. 184, medical professionals, parents, and minors old enough to make their own medical decisions are forced to choose between forgoing medically necessary procedures and treatments or facing criminal prosecution.”
Alabama Republicans who supported the law have maintained it is needed to protect children.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Friday that the “Biden Administration has chosen to prioritize leftist politics at the expense of Alabama’s children.”
“As we will show in this case, DOJ’s assertion that these treatments are ‘medically necessary’ is ideologically-driven disinformation. The science and common sense are on Alabama’s side. We will win this fight to protect our children,” Marshall said in a statement.
Four families with transgender children, two doctors and a member of the clergy filed a lawsuit challenging the Alabama law as an unconstitutional violation of equal protection and free speech rights and an intrusion into parental decisions. U.S. District Judge Liles Burke has scheduled a May 5 hearing on a request for a restraining order or preliminary injunction to stop Alabama officials from enforcing the law while the court challenge goes forward.
Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, a LGBTQ advocacy group, said they are, “encouraged to see the Department of Justice weigh in on this law that so severely interferes in the lives of Alabama families.”
“Parents want to do what’s best for their children, but SB 184 strips some Alabama parents of that ability by imposing criminal penalties for providing critically important and established medical care for their transgender children,” Warbelow said in a statement.
Alabama is among several states with Republican-controlled legislatures that have advanced bills regarding transgender youth and LGBTQ issues.
The Alabama law is the furthest reaching and the first to criminalize the treatments. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate as abuse reports of gender-confirming care for kids. Arkansas also banned gender-affirming medications, but that law has been blocked from taking effect.
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AR-701 is effective in vitro against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants, including BA.4 and BA.5
LOS GATOS, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARDS), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel anti-infective therapies to treat life-threatening infections, announced today that inhaled treatment of its fully human monoclonal antibody cocktail AR-701 resulted in no detectable SARS-CoV-2 virus in the lungs of infected rhesus macaques, and protected their lungs from disease. AR-701 was effective in the non-human primates when used either as a prophylactic or therapeutic treatment regimen.
- Therapeutic administration of inhaled AR-701 substantially reduced and continued to suppress the viral load in the nasal sinus and oropharynx (upper respiratory tract region) for the entire 5-day testing period.
- Additional lab research also indicates both mAbs in the AR-701 cocktail are effective against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1, BA.2, BA.4, BA.5 subvariants in vitro.
This non-human primate research was conducted through a collective effort involving researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), the University of California at Davis, Vanderbilt University, the University of California at Irvine, and Aridis, with a grant supplement to OHSU from the National Institutes of Health's Office of Research Infrastructure Programs in the Office of the Director (OD, PHS grant P51 OD011092). Preliminary study results were recently presented at the Immunotherapy for Infectious Diseases Conference 2022 in Pavia, Italy. Additional data are being analyzed and will be submitted to a peer-reviewed scientific journal for publication.
"An efficacy demonstration in non-human primates has been a key milestone and a correlate for clinical success in human trials. The observed strong prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy bodes well for AR-701 and is an important step forward," commented Vu Truong, Ph.D., CEO of Aridis Pharmaceuticals. The proprietary inhaled formulation is designed to deliver the mAbs directly to the site where the SARS-CoV-2 virus initially infects, amplifies, and is transmitted from the infected individual to others. "Given the challenges in maintaining high vaccination coverage and a protracted COVID-19 pandemic, there is a greater need to develop accessible, long-acting therapeutic treatments, especially treatments that can also effectively block person-to-person viral transmission. These data demonstrate that the inhaled, self-administered dosage form of half-life extended AR-701 is on track to meet this product profile," said Truong.
About AR-701
AR-701 is a cocktail of two fully human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) mAbs discovered from screening the antibody secreting B-cells of convalescent SARS-CoV-2 infected (COVID-19) patients. Each mAb of the AR-701 cocktail neutralizes coronaviruses using a distinct mechanism of action, namely inhibition of viral fusion and entry into human cells (AR-703) or blockage of viral binding to the human 'ACE2' receptor (AR-720). The activity of the two mAbs complement and enhance each other in a synergistic fashion, creating a potent first-in-class cocktail. AR-720 binds to the 'receptor binding domain' of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, while AR-703 binds to the 'S2' stalk region of spike proteins from betacoronaviruses, including the SARS-CoV-2 variants (Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, and Omicron). Both mAbs bind to the Omicron subvariants, BA.1, BA.2, BA.4, and BA.5 with comparable affinity compared to the original Wuhan strain. All authentic live SARS-CoV-2 beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, and Omicron variants, SARS, and MERS tested were neutralized by both mAbs of AR-701 cocktail in vitro. Multiple animal challenge models widely used to evaluate COVID-19 treatments support the broad efficacy of AR-701 against the original Wuhan wildtype strain, the Delta variant, the Omicron variant, and the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus (SARS). The AR-701 mAbs are engineered to be active for 6-12 months in the blood. AR-701 is being developed as a long-acting intramuscular as well as a self-administered inhaled formulation for the treatment of COVID-19 patients who are not yet hospitalized. Aridis Pharmaceuticals recently received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate the prevention of influenza and SARS-CoV2 viral transmission using inhaled delivery of monoclonal antibodies.
About Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops novel anti-infective therapies to treat life-threatening infections, including anti-infectives to be used as add-on treatments to standard-of-care antibiotics. The Company is utilizing its proprietary ʎPEXTM and MabIgX® technology platforms to rapidly identify rare, potent antibody-producing B-cells from patients who have successfully overcome an infection, and to rapidly manufacture monoclonal antibody (mAbs) for therapeutic treatment of critical infections. These mAbs are already of human origin and functionally optimized for high potency by the donor's immune system; hence, they technically do not require genetic engineering or further optimization to achieve full functionality.
The Company is advancing multiple clinical stage mAbs targeting bacteria that cause life-threatening infections such as ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) and hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP), in addition to preclinical stage antiviral mAbs. The use of mAbs as anti-infective treatments represents an innovative therapeutic approach that harnesses the human immune system to fight infections and is designed to overcome the deficiencies associated with the current standard of care which is broad spectrum antibiotics. Such deficiencies include, but are not limited to, increasing drug resistance, short duration of efficacy, disruption of the normal flora of the human microbiome and lack of differentiation among current treatments. The mAb portfolio is complemented by a non-antibiotic novel mechanism small molecule anti-infective candidate being developed to treat lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. The Company's pipeline is highlighted below:
Aridis' Pipeline
AR-301 (VAP). AR-301 is a fully human IgG1 mAb targeting gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) alpha-toxin and is being evaluated in a global Phase 3 clinical study as an adjunctive treatment of S. aureus ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP).
AR-320 (VAP). AR-320 is a fully human IgG1 mAb targeting S. aureus alpha-toxin that is being evaluated in a Phase 3 clinical study as a preventative treatment of S. aureus colonized mechanically ventilated patients who do not yet have VAP.
AR-501 (cystic fibrosis). AR-501 is an inhaled formulation of gallium citrate with broad-spectrum anti-infective activity being developed to treat chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. This program is currently in Phase 2a clinical development in CF patients.
AR-701 (COVID-19). AR-701 is a cocktail of fully human mAbs discovered from convalescent COVID-19 patients that are directed at multiple protein epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is formulated for delivery via intramuscular injection or inhalation using a nebulizer.
AR-401 (blood stream infections). AR-401 is a fully human mAb preclinical program aimed at treating infections caused by gram-negative Acinetobacter baumannii.
AR-101 (HAP). AR-101 is a fully human immunoglobulin M, or IgM, mAb in Phase 2 clinical development targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) liposaccharides serotype O11, which accounts for approximately 22% of all P. aeruginosa hospital acquired pneumonia cases worldwide.
AR-201 (RSV infection). AR-201 is a fully human IgG1 mAb out-licensed preclinical program aimed at neutralizing diverse clinical isolates of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
For additional information on Aridis Pharmaceuticals, please visit https://aridispharma.com/.
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The fight against an age-old effort to block Americans from voting
As a new wave of restrictions makes voting harder for people who struggle to read — now 1 in 5 Americans — people like Olivia Coley-Pearson have taken up the fight, even if it makes her a target.
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InvestigateTV - For nearly 10 hours on Georgia’s primary day, Olivia Coley-Pearson tracked down every potential voter she could find, working two cellphones as she paced the parking lot outside the polls, repeating the same message: “You need to tell all your cousins, your brothers, your sisters, your aunts, your uncles — everybody you know — to come on down here to vote.”
A third of her neighbors in Coffee County struggle to read at a basic level, and she wanted to make sure they had help navigating their ballots. In the late afternoon, she slid behind the sparkly pink steering wheel of her SUV for her final push of the day, heading down a long stretch of road where buildings gave way to fields and thickets of pine. She turned in to the Kinwood Estates mobile home park and stopped at the edge of a familiar dirt driveway just as Shondriana Jones, 30, bounded down the steps of a trailer.
“I can’t find my ID and Mama, she’s still at work,” Jones said.
Coley-Pearson has helped the family vote for years — she’s known them since she and Jones’ mother, Sabrina Fillmore, were young. Now 60, Coley-Pearson serves as a city commissioner in Douglas, the majority-Black county seat. Fillmore, 54, works at the local poultry plant cutting chickens. Neither Fillmore nor her daughter can read beyond a first-grade level, but they rarely miss an election, believing their votes can influence everything from their electricity costs to the way police treat them.
Coley-Pearson urged Jones to track down a utility bill to prove her identity at the election office just as Fillmore returned from a 10-hour shift, exhausted. With the women aboard, Coley-Pearson started the car, anxiety brewing in her mind.
Even though federal law guaranteed the two women the right to have someone help them vote, Coley-Pearson knew too well that this right was under attack. For all of the recent uproar over voting rights, little attention has been paid to one of the most sustained and brazen suppression campaigns in America: the effort to block help at the voting booth for people who struggle to read — a group that amounts to about 48 million Americans, or more than a fifth of the adult population. “How the system is set up, it disenfranchises people,” said Coley-Pearson, who blames Southern political leaders for throwing up hurdles. “It’s by design, I believe, because they want to maintain that power and that control.”
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Conservative politicians have long used harsh tactics against voters who can’t read — poor, often Black and Latino Americans who have been failed by the U.S. education system and who conservatives feared would vote for liberal candidates. Some states have required voters who needed help to sign an affidavit explaining why they need assistance; some have prevented voters who couldn’t read from bringing sample ballots to the polls and limited the number of voters that a volunteer could help read a ballot. Time and again, federal courts have struck down such restrictions as illegal and unconstitutional. Inevitably, states just create more.
Over the last two years, the myth of election fraud, supercharged by former President Donald Trump in the wake of his 2020 loss, has fueled a barrage of new restrictions. While they do not all target voters who struggle to read, they make it especially challenging for voters with low literacy skills to get help casting ballots.
Last year, Georgia passed a law limiting who can return or even touch a completed absentee ballot. Florida expanded the radius around election locations in which volunteers are prohibited from asking people if they need help. Texas passed a law prohibiting voters’ assistants from answering questions or paraphrasing complicated language on the ballot; a federal judge struck down several sections of the law in June. But the court left other provisions in place, including ones that increase penalties for helping voters who don’t qualify and require people who assist voters to fill out more paperwork. Texas did not appeal the decision.
To understand the impact of low-literacy voters going uncounted, ProPublica analyzed data on turnout from the three most recent national elections and compared it to average estimated literacy levels for over 3,000 counties. We found that as literacy rates decline, voter participation tends to decrease. (Read more about our analysis, and the data used, in our methodology.)
It is impossible to say precisely what role literacy plays in voter turnout. There are many other factors that contribute to lower participation, including some closely intertwined with literacy, such as income and education level. But to put the importance of reading ability in perspective, our analysis found that if low-literacy counties had turnout similar to high-literacy counties, they could have added up to about 7 million votes to the national total for each of those three elections.
This is meaningful, considering that some of the most consequential elections of our time have come down to the narrowest of margins:
Despite losing the popular vote, Trump secured the presidency in 2016 by winning Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan by a margin of just under 80,000 total votes.
President Joe Biden prevailed in 2020 by winning Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin by just over 40,000 votes combined.
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Coley-Pearson recognizes the importance of this moment for Georgia, which is no stranger to close elections. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp faces another challenge from Democrat Stacey Abrams, and Sen. Raphael Warnock is attempting to hold on to his seat in a race that could tip the Senate back to Republican control. But to Coley-Pearson, helping people vote isn’t only about politics or even just about their rights as individuals. It is about the future of democracy at a time when it seems like the views of the majority are being marginalized by the actions of the few.
As a child in the 1970s, she’d watched as her mother, Gladys Coley — who stood just above 5 feet and had only an eighth grade education — rose to the helm of the local NAACP and challenged the discriminatory school system and police department. Her mother begged her not to return from college in Atlanta, but Coley-Pearson wanted to fight for the people of Coffee County, too. As she headed to the polls on primary day this past May, though, she couldn’t subdue her fear that by helping Jones and Fillmore, she was putting a target on her own back.
Over the course of several years, she’d become tangled in an investigation of supposed voter fraud, which took aim at her attempts to assist voters who requested help. She had pleaded her case to television cameras and at a hearing before the state’s highest election official. She had even wound up in jail.
“Intimidation is real,” Coley-Pearson said. “If we don’t continue to vote, they’re going to have us right back where it used to be.”
Coley-Pearson was born in an era when Southern states forced convoluted literacy tests on voters to keep Black people out of the polls. In those days, local voting officials often made exceptions for white people who couldn’t read. In 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act prohibiting racial discrimination at the polls. That didn’t stop white conservatives, especially in the South, from continuing to discriminate against voters with low literacy skills, who, due to centuries of oppression, were disproportionately Black.
Conservatives argued that removing barriers for voters who couldn’t read would allow the federal government to overrule states’ decisions on how to run local elections and would hand more votes to liberal candidates. Clearly, they said, voters with low reading skills would be easily swayed by anyone assisting them, leading to rampant fraud.
“Today the bureaucrats are issuing certificates to vote to people who cannot read the ballot nor even the instructions on a ballot or on a voting machine,” segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace declared in late 1965. “The left wing liberals need as many illiterates as they can get to vote in order to keep them in power.”
The Rev. Fred C. Bennette Jr., a civil rights movement organizer, right, instructs Black people in Atlanta how to fill out registration forms in 1963. (AP Photo/Horace Cort)
By 1981, voters of color, including those with low literacy levels, still faced “white resistance and hostility,” according to a U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report. “For many minority voters, the kind of assistance that they receive at the polls determines whether they will vote,” the report stated. “If minority voters who do not speak English or who are illiterate receive inadequate assistance, they may become too frustrated and discouraged to vote or they may mark their ballots in such a way that they will not be counted.”
Congress amended the Voting Rights Act in 1982 to affirm that voters who need help due to an “inability to read” could bring someone, other than their employer or union representative, to assist them in the voting booth. A string of subsequent lawsuits shows this federal action again failed to eradicate the discrimination.
In a 2001 case, the federal justice department claimed that white poll managers in Charleston County, South Carolina, were intimidating Black voters who requested assistance. According to testimony given in the case, the poll workers launched a barrage of questions at these voters, such as, “Can’t you read and write? And didn’t you just sign in? And you know how to spell your name, why can’t you just vote by yourself? And do you really need voter assistance?”
A federal judge found that there was “significant evidence of intimidation and harassment,” but said evidence of the mistreatment was too “anecdotal” to take direct action.
In 2012, the chairman of Coffee County’s board of elections filed a complaint against Coley-Pearson and three other residents, alleging that they’d assisted voters who didn’t legally qualify for help. Georgia law only allows voters to receive assistance if they are disabled or cannot read English. The secretary of state’s office, then under Kemp’s leadership, initiated an investigation.
The following summer, a 52-year-old line cook named Alvin Williams answered his phone to find a state investigator on the other end. The man had questions about the 2012 election. “It looks like you were assisted by Olivia Pearson,” said state investigator Glenn Archie, in a recording obtained by ProPublica. (Archie did not respond to a request for comment.) “It’s not marked why she assisted you and I was wondering why you needed assistance.”
The tone of the man’s voice made Williams nervous. “Because I can’t read. I’m illiterate,” Williams told Archie. He’d dropped out of school at 16 to work full time catching chickens and selling them to the local poultry plant, a job he’d skipped classes for since he was 11 to help support his family.
“I’m sure she read the candidates to you,” Archie said. “Did you get to pick the people you wanted to vote for?”
“Yes, sir,” Williams said. “I can’t read. That’s why she was helping me.”
“That’s no problem,” the investigator assured him. “She can assist you if you have problems reading.”
But the call left Williams humiliated and fearful of how his vote could be used against him or Coley-Pearson. “I don’t fool with the law,” he said in a recent interview. “And I don’t do nothing for them to fool with me.”
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Some other voters told investigators that they had requested and received help even though they could read. The investigation found that Coley-Pearson and the other volunteers neglected to verify whether some voters qualified for help and incorrectly filled out forms indicating why voters needed assistance. It also found that election workers failed to include required information on many forms and turned them in without making sure they were accurate.
Testifying at a 2016 hearing chaired by Kemp, Coley-Pearson maintained that she hadn’t broken any laws. In response to a poll worker’s claim that she’d touched the voting machine, Coley-Pearson said she’d merely accompanied voters who had requested her assistance and stood by to answer questions about the process or read names on the ballot. She said she followed the instructions of the poll workers, signing forms when directed.
“If someone asks me for help, I felt an obligation to try to assist if I could,” she testified at the hearing, stressing that she never told anyone who to vote for. Coley-Pearson suspected there was a deeper significance to the investigation and told the board, “Sometimes things are done to try to maybe dis-encourage, or whatever, other people from voting, and I don’t feel like that is fair.”
The state election board chose not to recommend her case for criminal prosecution, but a local district attorney’s office prosecuted her anyway, which made national headlines in BuzzFeed. It charged her with two felonies for improperly assisting a voter and for signing a form that gave a false reason for why a voter needed assistance. The trial ended with a hung jury. One of two Black people on the jury told a local reporter that she was the only holdout; everyone else voted to find Coley-Pearson guilty. She was tried again in a nearby county and, after about 20 minutes of deliberations, the new jury acquitted her of all charges. The district attorney’s office did not respond to ProPublica’s emailed questions.
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Three other volunteers took plea deals in which they admitted to making false statements on forms indicating the reason that a voter needed assistance; in exchange, they got probation, after which any fines would be waived. One of them, James Curtis Hicks, said that if he had fought his case and lost, he could have faced jail time or a mountain of fines. He didn’t want to take any risks. “Around here, to me, they target the leaders, the people that are standing up for the rights of the minority,” he said in a recent interview. “To shut me and Ms. Pearson down, it would stop a whole lot of people going to the polls.”
For years, the 59-year-old truck driver had kept tabs on Coffee County voters to see if they needed help reading the ballot. But after the settlement, he stopped. “I didn’t want a focus on me to suppress anyone else,” he said. “I really felt intimidated.”
But the charges didn’t deter Coley-Pearson.
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Before Jones could vote that May afternoon, she needed to get temporary identification. Dodging the pouring rain, she and Coley-Pearson scuttled into the elections office shortly before it closed. At nearly 6 feet tall, Coley-Pearson towered over the woman sitting behind a plexiglass barrier.
“She needs a voter ID, sweetie,” Coley-Pearson said, leaning in. The woman handed Jones an application.
“You need me to do it, baby?” Coley-Pearson asked softly.
Jones nodded, “Yes, ma’am.”
The woman at the counter emphasized that Jones had to complete it on her own.
“She has trouble reading and writing,” Coley-Pearson said.
After a tense moment, the woman agreed that Coley-Pearson could fill out the form. She read the questions out loud and filled in Jones’ answers, pointing out which lines to sign and date.
Jones is in the third generation of her family that is not able to read. Her grandmother never learned how, and her mother, Fillmore, left high school in her sophomore year, after frequently being disciplined for fighting. As an adult, Fillmore briefly attended an education program to help her learn how to read, but she felt discouraged and left.
Jones graduated from high school in Coffee County but says she reads at the same first-grade level as her mother. She remembers attending special education classes with more field trips than written assignments and says teachers never diagnosed her with a learning disability or gave her one-on-one assistance. School administrators also frequently suspended her for fighting, she said. “They were trying to get rid of me.”
Coffee County has long failed to provide an equal education for students of color. In 1969, federal officials sued its school board for refusing to integrate white and Black schools. Even after the school system was integrated, Black students continued to receive fewer academic resources and harsher punishments than their white peers. A decade ago, the district acknowledged its shortcomings in reading instruction and the need to rectify its problems with literacy, which were more pronounced for Black students.
The county’s lower literacy rate is related to its high poverty rate, and since integration, the district has worked to increase opportunities for students of color, Coffee County School District Superintendent Morris Leis said in an email; he added that the district does not use discipline to “push out” children who have academic challenges, and it has reduced racial disparities in discipline after it initiated a new program in 2014. By that time, Jones had graduated.
She aspires to learn how to read through an adult education program and to eventually work at a child care center, but she cannot do so without steady transportation. She has not applied for a driver’s license; though she could take the written test orally like her mother did, she hasn’t been able to find someone who has time to help her study the examination booklet.
Ordinary tasks are often insurmountable for her. She owns a smartphone, but mining the web for information is daunting. After she fell several months behind on her electric payments, she could not read the notice that warned her lights would be cut off. She likely qualifies for low-cost internet, but she cannot navigate the instructions for accessing it. When she takes her son to the doctor’s office, she prints his first and last name on the forms but asks the staff for help with the rest. Unable to decipher her most valuable documents, like her birth certificate, she entrusts them to her aunt, who can read and helps determine what she needs for appointments and applications.
Jones worries most about keeping up with her 4-year-old son as he grows. She can read beginner books to him, but she knows his knowledge will soon surpass her own.
For Jones, the voting process itself is like a literacy test. If she changes her address, she cannot easily update her registration. If she enters the polling booth alone, she may recognize a few names on the ballot, but any unfamiliar words could confound her, particularly when it comes to the often-confusing constitutional amendments. She prefers voting by mail, which allows her more time to process her choices, but Georgia’s new election law is making that more difficult. The law has banned outside groups from mailing out absentee ballot applications that have the resident’s information already filled in, and it has limited who can submit the applications on voters’ behalf. The law does include exceptions for people helping “illiterate” voters, but experts say its limit on assistance could still discourage those voters from requesting help.
“Any law that limits assistance is going to have an impact on voters with limited literacy,” said Sean Morales-Doyle, acting director of voting rights at the Brennan Center for Justice. “Whether or not that’s the intention of the lawmakers, that’s always a difficult thing to say. But I do think sometimes it may very well be the intention.”
Across the country, people like Jones are stumbling through inscrutable election processes fraught with poor ballot design and rigid registration rules. Some are choosing not to vote at all. (Read more about how some states are trying to make voting more accessible.) “We know in general that the more barriers we put in front of people, the lower the participation rate,” said Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at Georgetown University. “Even if someone with lower literacy has the same desire to vote as someone reading this article, they have to overcome more barriers.”
In 2014, for example, Ohio legislators began requiring voters to fill out more complicated versions of absentee and provisional ballot forms while at the same time limiting the assistance they could get from poll workers. Minor errors in the paperwork could lead to people’s votes not being counted. In a lawsuit, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless claimed that the laws disproportionately harmed poor, nonwhite and low-literacy voters who would be more likely to have their ballots rejected for minor errors.
Data submitted as evidence shows that thousands of forms were tossed in the 2014 and 2015 general elections for simple problems such as incomplete addresses and birthdays. Poll workers refused one form because the street name “Cuthbert” was misspelled as “Cuthberth.” Several others were rejected because birth dates were listed as the current date, an indicator that voters may not have understood the instructions.
In 2016, a federal judge struck down the measures, concluding they disproportionately harmed Black voters. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that state rules requiring perfect completion of absentee ballot forms posed an undue burden to voters. But the panel said the other measures were minimally disruptive and left in place regulations that limited the assistance voters could get from poll workers and the amount of time voters were given to correct errors on absentee and provisional ballots.
“What the case demonstrates is the indifference of officials from one political party, and of unfortunately many federal judges, to voting rights and to the need to make voting not only secure, but relatively unburdensome,” said Subodh Chandra, an attorney for the plaintiffs.
A similar law in Georgia suspended voter registration applications when the information on the form didn’t exactly match a driver’s license or social security record. (If voters didn’t correct the information within 26 months, Georgia could cancel their registrations.) When then-Secretary of State Kemp ran for governor against Stacey Abrams in 2018, his office suspended the applications of an estimated 53,000 voters, most of them Black, due to these discrepancies. Kemp won the election by about 55,000 votes.
A federal judge ordered Georgia to ease the restrictive program, calling it a “severe burden” on some voters. Politicians, academics and advocates have accused Kemp of voter suppression not only for suspending registration applications over minor discrepancies, but also for purging tens of thousands of infrequent voters from the rolls — a more aggressive effort than is made in other states.
Kemp press secretary Katie Bryd disputed the allegations and noted that Kemp had implemented automatic voter registration through the state’s department of motor vehicles in 2016, which added hundreds of thousands of eligible voters to the rolls. “Politically driven, irresponsible accusations of voter suppression alleged at Governor Kemp have been repeatedly found void of basic facts and validity,” Byrd said in an email.
Today, voters flagged for minor discrepancies in their registration paperwork can no longer be removed from the rolls, but they do have to show a photo identification before they vote.
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As Coley-Pearson parked at the polling station, her thoughts flew back to a similar day not long ago when she wound up handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser.
In October 2020 — more than two years after she was cleared of the felony charges — she was standing in a voting booth helping a young woman with low literacy skills read a ballot, as is allowed by law, when the county’s election supervisor, Misty Martin, confronted her. Martin yelled at Coley-Pearson to not touch the machines and told her she was barred from returning to the polls. Coley-Pearson said she wasn’t touching any machines. “We’re done,” she told the young woman after she finished voting. “Let’s go.”
Martin, who also has used the last names Hampton and Hayes, called the police to report that Coley-Pearson was disruptive, and the department issued a trespass warning barring her from the polls indefinitely. Later that morning, when Coley-Pearson returned to drop off another voter, she was arrested in the parking lot and charged with criminal trespassing. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into election interference claims in Coffee County, including an incident in which Martin allowed several computer experts connected with Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 results into her offices, where they may have had access to election systems; Martin resigned from her county post under pressure last year. She did not respond to ProPublica’s questions related to either incident.
The charge hung over Coley-Pearson for nearly two years; this past June, a state judge agreed to drop the case if she signed a consent order agreeing to follow election law. “There was no evidence of any crime here,” Coley-Pearson said. “It feels like you’re fighting a losing battle.”
Her daughters see how the last several years have worn her down. AiyEsha Coley said she would sometimes wake up at 4 a.m. to feed her newborn and would find her mother on Facebook, reading through disparaging comments. Her daughters have long campaigned for her to retire from city commission, scared that the stress might eventually kill her. She’s starting to come around, and she plans to leave her post next year.
Now peering into her back seat, Coley-Pearson worried her presence could interfere with Jones and Fillmore’s ability to vote. “I did not want any type of confrontation, I did not want any kind of accusations, I just didn’t want any hassle,” she said.
She told them she would not be going in with them and instructed two close friends to help them instead. “When you get through, you all come down there to the tent,” she said, motioning to where her volunteers were sitting out of reach of the rain.
Coley-Pearson watched the women shuffle into the building and fretted as she waited, leaning on her mobile walker at the edge of the parking lot with a group of volunteer canvassers. She had reminded her friends of the rules, but she knew that sometimes, following them was not enough. “They might try to look for anything they could use against them,” she said.
After nearly an hour, Jones and her mother emerged, beaming.
Coley-Pearson’s nerves settled, at least for the moment.
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(The Hill) – Rep. Val Demings is projected to have coasted to victory on Tuesday in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary and will take on Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in November.
Demings, a former Orlando police chief who first won her House seat in 2016, faced little serious opposition in the Democratic primary, giving her an easy path to the nomination.
The big question now is whether Demings will be able to flip control of a Senate seat in a state that has trended increasingly toward Republicans in recent years.
While Democrats see her as one of their best Senate recruits of the 2022 midterm cycle, Rubio has emerged from tough races before and has a history of outperforming other Republicans in Democrat-heavy Miami-Dade County, where he’s from. Florida Democrats have also struggled in recent years to fix a crumbling party infrastructure.
Still, both Democrats and Republicans say that the race is far from a lock for Rubio. For one, Florida has a history of ultra-close statewide elections, and Demings has proven to be a prolific fundraiser capable of outpacing her Republican rival. She brought in an eye-catching $12.2 million in the second quarter of the year.
She’s also sought to counter Republican attacks that she’s soft on crime and supports defunding the police by pointing to her career in law enforcement.
The Florida Senate race has so far attracted less national attention than some of the other marquee matchups this year, like the Senate contests in Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
But Democrats also see it as a potential pickup opportunity that could bolster their position at a time when their Senate majority is on the line. The upper chamber is split 50-50 and a net loss of even one Democratic seat this year would hand control of the Senate to the GOP.
Early polling also suggests that Demings may have a fighting chance against Rubio. A recent survey from the University of North Florida found Demings leading Rubio in a head-to-head matchup 48 percent to 44 percent. | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/demings-clinches-democratic-nomination-to-face-rubio-in-november/ | 2022-08-24T03:09:20Z |
Expanded long-term partnership to increase Leica Microsystems' ability to serve customers in this important geographical area
DEERFIELD, Ill., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leica Microsystems, a technology leader in microscope and image analysis solutions, announces an expanded market representation for its neurosurgical, spine, ophthalmic, otolaryngologic, dental and plastic reconstructive microscope sales. SurgicalOne has represented Leica since 2000 in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Northern Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland and Upstate New York. SurgicalOne is expanding into the Midwest (Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota and Iowa) as Leica's exclusive distributor for surgical microscopes.
"We are excited to expand our long-term partnership with Leica Microsystems to the Midwest region," said Al Ludvigsen, President of SurgicalOne. "Together with Leica, we have built the most comprehensive surgical microscope sales and service organization in the Midwest & Mid-Atlantic Regions. We are proud to serve our customers in our current geography and look forward to expanding our success."
"SurgicalOne has been a strong and successful Leica business partner for over 20 years. SurgicalOne offers customers a professional sales experience to include a robust and comprehensive service team, to meet all surgical microscope needs. Expanding SurgicalOne's geographical reach is the next logical step in this proven partnership. We are confident we have the correct partner to best serve this customer base," says Greg Bonner, General Manager for Leica Microsystems Medical Division.
About SurgicalOne
SurgicalOne is a premier distributor of surgical products, including Leica microscopes, covering 19 states across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. The company, founded in 2000, serves all medical specialties in the microsurgical, implant, dental and capital equipment markets. SurgicalOne partners with neurosurgeons, orthopedic and spine surgeons, ophthalmologists, ENT specialists, urologists, gynecologists, and cardiovascular surgeons to provide high quality products to surgeons and the patients they serve.
About Leica Microsystems
Leica Microsystems develops and manufactures microscopes and scientific instruments for the analysis of microstructures and nanostructures. Widely recognized for optical precision and innovative technology, the company is one of the market leaders in compound and stereo microscopy, digital microscopy, confocal laser scanning and super-resolution microscopy with related imaging systems, electron microscopy sample preparation, and surgical microscopy.
Leica Microsystems has six major plants and product development sites located in Wetzlar and Mannheim (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Heerbrugg (Switzerland), Durham (USA), and Singapore. The company is represented in over 100 countries, has sales and service organizations in 20 countries, and an international network of distribution partners. Its headquarters are located in Wetzlar, Germany. Leica Microsystems is part of Danaher.
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IRVING, Texas, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Better healthcare among America's large and growing Hispanic community is receiving an important, new level of support from Quest Diagnostics, the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, through the launch of a multi-faceted initiative. "Es Tu Poder," being launched in San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Rio Grande Valley and other communities with large Hispanic populations in the Southwest, is designed to empower better health for Hispanics. The initiative includes the launch of a new microsite, Es Tu Poder, reminding patients that good health is within their power.
"Hispanics are at a higher risk for certain diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes and succumb to diseases at a much higher rate than the general population," said Dr. Romeo Solano, Quest Diagnostics Executive Director of Toxicology. "Our goal is to significantly alter these current trends by providing one stop for resources, educational tools and collaborations with non-profit healthcare organizations, clinics and physicians across the region."
Texas has one of the highest Hispanic populations in the nation, with more than 10 million Hispanics who have a high prevalence of chronic conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Studies among Hispanics indicate a high interest and desire to improve access to healthcare information and resources for themselves and their families.
"The Rio Grande Valley was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Because our population is predisposed to diabetes, we need educational programs like Es Tu Poder to improve health outcomes," said Rep. Bobby Guerra, Vice Chairman of the Texas House Public Health Committee.
"We witnessed how COVID-19 exposed the health disparities within the Hispanic community, and we encourage Hispanics across Texas to take an active role in their healthcare and visit the Es Tu Poder website and utilize the tools and community resources to empower better health for themselves and their families" added Dr Solano.
Quest Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world's largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors, and improve healthcare management. Quest annually serves 1 in 3 adult Americans and half of the physicians and hospitals in the United States. Our 50,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives. www.QuestDiagnostics.com.
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MINNEAPOLIS , June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- World Poker Store Inc. (OTC: WPKS) on May 7th 2022, signed a definitive agreement and submitted for shareholder approval a merger with Genuine Marketing Group Inc.
Genuine Marketing Group Inc. or GMG is a retail and consumer focused marketing company that creates brand affinity and builds consumer confidence through its proprietary authentication system, ZPtag. Combining the user-friendly engagement of a smartphone app with the smart contracts of the IBM blockchain, GMG seamlessly integrates brand marketing and measuring consumer sentiment into the everyday consumer shopping experience.
As GMG's app development and technology partner, IBM not only serves as the blockchain engine, but also as an integral part of the data-rich user experience. IBM blockchain is utilized to authenticate products while tracking and recording the product journey from origin to shopping cart. This allows for real-time customer engagement and product authentication direct from the shopping aisle.
According to OECD data as published in a NC State University SCRC article by Robert Handfield Ph.D., the value of counterfeit and pirated goods is projected to exceed $3 Trillion in 2022. GMG's ZPtag app intends to address this issue.
More information about Genuine Marketing Group Inc. can be found at https://genuinemarketinggroup.com/
Contact: Greg Needham
Email: greg@theworldpokerstore.com
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Israeli Government Backed Organization, CanNegev, to Fund Research and Innovation from Day Three Labs to Relieve Parkinson's Symptoms in Patients and Stop the Progression of the Disease
DENVER and JERUSALEM, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Day Three Labs (DTL), developer of Unlokt™, the first proven novel protein delivery technology disrupting the way edibles are developed, delivered and consumed, today announced that CanNegev, the world's first government sponsored cannabis innovation incubator, will fund the company's research and innovation to remedy Parkinson's Disease, a disease that affects more than 10 million people worldwide, with cannabis.
"Research shows that cannabis has the ability to ease Parkinson's symptoms in patients, but to date, no one has been able to decipher the exact combination of cannabinoids and terpenes for a consistent, reliable, and repeatable remedy," said Dr. Shimon Lecht, Chief Innovation Officer at Day Three Labs. "There are over a trillion possible combinations of cannabinoids and terpenes that could be derived from the cannabis plant, but only a handful are the optimal combination to treat Parkinson's. Our mission is to discover the correct combination, and to identify the precise ratio so all active ingredients interact in the right way with each other. We can then leverage our Unlokt™ technology to make a product that will deliver the precise combination of cannabinoids and terpenes to patients quickly, safely and effectively."
For the first time ever, there is technology available that allows for delivery in a safe, controlled, precise and predictable way. Unlokt™ by Day Three Labs enables drug delivery that protects the cannabinoids and terpenes and allows the body to receive the intended medicinal effects, in the intended amount. Funding from CanNegev enables Day Three Labs to find the combination of cannabinoids that work best to treat Parkinson's and use Unlokt™ to take the research straight from the lab to product development.
"Parkinson's Disease and other neuro-degenerative diseases have been notoriously difficult to treat, and the pharmaceutical industry has failed to develop appropriate solutions to address these terrible diseases or alleviate symptoms, " said Ziv Bet Or, VP of Business Development at CanNegev. "Our mission has been solely focused on funding tech-focused companies with proven innovation that has the potential to advance from the research stage to the drug development stage to address unmet needs. DTL shows the potential to identify a breakthrough therapeutic remedy for Parkinson's Disease symptoms and a pathway for effective delivery of the treatment."
DTL is the only company to have passed the first phase of the CanNegev program, solidifying the concept and building the project idea, and receive funding for the second phase to start research, data collection and presentation to The Office of the Chief Scientist of Israel, recently rebranded as the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA), in September 2022. The third and final phase of the program will require a presentation of the proof of concept to the IIA to secure additional funding of 1.25 million Israeli Shekels for product development, seventy percent of which is a government grant.
"Unlokt™ is a significant leap in technology that will disrupt traditional research and delivery of cannabinoid compounds and beyond," said, Josh Rubin, Co-Founder and CEO of Day Three Labs. "Utilizing a groundbreaking technology like Unlokt™ in the adult-use market is revolutionary and game-changing, and creates incredibly enjoyable products, but it only scratches the surface of what this technology is capable of. Our work with CanNegev is just the beginning of the technological advances we are bringing to this fast-growing industry with the hope of eradicating previously untreatable illnesses and conditions and bringing solutions to the cannabis industry that are safer, more efficacious and efficient."
Unlokt™ leverages decades of pharmaceutical research and expertise and applies it to cannabis innovation that will soon replace emulsion-based delivery systems used by edibles manufacturers across the industry. The Unlokt™ technology packs cannabis within a natural protein, that for the first time ever, shuttles the cannabis directly into the body's circulation bypassing the liver, protecting the cannabinoids and terpenes and allowing them to be released and absorbed into the bloodstream in their entirety. This delivery method is safe and offers predictable, very functional effects for consumers and patients, essential when using different strains of cannabis to treat specific medical conditions.
In addition to Israeli government support, CanNegev partners with three privately owned companies for this program: Breath of Life, Our Crowd and Padagis. To qualify for funding, companies must be registered in Israel and have a strong technology focus. Companies chosen for the program will own their own IP. For more information about Day Three Labs and Unlokt™ visit: www.daythreelabs.com.
Day Three Labs™ (DTL) is a cannabinoid CPG ingredient manufacturer specializing in the development and commercialization of novel cannabis product solutions. An international company with headquarters in Denver and a pharmaceutical research lab in Israel, DTL reimagines existing cannabis offerings with pharmaceutical-grade technology and innovation like Unlokt™ to deliver precision and predictability to the infused product experience. Unlokt™ is disrupting the way edibles are developed, delivered and consumed, quickly replacing emulsion-based systems used today by edibles manufacturers across the industry. Without any synthetic ingredients or surfactants, Unlokt™ preserves the delicate terpenes and cannabinoids in every strain, resulting in a highly functional, and very pleasurable experience that enhances the lives of consumers and patients.
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BALTIMORE, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brookes Publishing, a leading provider of evidence-based assessments, textbooks, and training for professionals in early childhood, special education, and communication, language, and literacy, announced today that it has acquired the complete list of titles from Caslon Publishing, a trusted publisher of books on multilingual language and literacy education. The acquisition enables Brookes to expand its offerings for teachers and other education professionals serving diverse learners.
"At Brookes, we believe that all students should have the opportunity to realize an inclusive education that helps them reach their full potential," says Jeff Brookes, President of Brookes Publishing. "The acquisition of the Caslon Publishing program was driven by the goal to better support culturally and linguistically diverse children and families, through research-based resources that help teachers serve their increasingly diverse classrooms. We look forward to continuing Caslon's important work, and we're excited to welcome their authors and customers to the Brookes Publishing family."
Caslon, a company based in Philadelphia, has published some of the most trusted textbooks and guidebooks for educators who work with multilingual students, including the more than 5 million U.S. students officially designated as English language learners. Charles and Rebecca Field, founders of Caslon Publishing, say: "We are pleased that Caslon has found a home in another independent publishing house that is committed to equity for diverse learners. Brookes has the capacity to take Caslon Publications to the next level at this important time in pre-service teacher preparation and in-service professional learning. This is a good move for Caslon, and for the education of multilingual learners and their teachers."
English language learners are the fastest-growing student population in the U.S., and federal legislation mandates high-quality instruction for ELLs. "The need for research-based guidance on equitably serving this population is urgent," says Jeff Brookes, "and with the acquisition of Caslon's titles, Brookes will bring the expertise of Caslon authors to a wider audience of education and language professionals." Through this acquisition, Brookes Publishing will now offer more titles on critical topics in multilingualism, such as translanguaging, differentiated instruction and assessment for ELLs, biliteracy, and special education for bilingual students.
To learn more and explore the newly acquired booklist, visit the Brookes website at https://brookespublishing.com/caslon/.
About Brookes Publishing
For more than 44 years, Brookes Publishing Co. has been a leading provider of professional resources and assessments in communication, special education, and early childhood. Brookes Publishing is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information, please visit www.brookespublishing.com.
Contact: Jessica Reighard, Brookes Publishing
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Acquisition brings MindX's innovative software technology and Blackrock's industry-leading BCI hardware under one roof
SALT LAKE CITY, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackrock Neurotech ("Blackrock" or "the Company"), a leading implantable brain-computer interface ("BCI") technology backed by world-renowned investors Peter Thiel and Christian Angermeyer, announced today the acquisition of spatial computing software firm MindX, integrating the Company's innovative augmented reality ("AR") and artificial intelligence ("AI") technology with Blackrock's BCI hardware. MindX was created in 2017 by serial health-tech entrepreneur Julia Brown and Catalio Capital Management, a multi-strategy life sciences investment firm.
The acquisition bolsters Blackrock's existing software portfolio and positions the Company to deliver full-stack, integrated BCI products with innovative capabilities. The move comes on the heels of Blackrock's exclusive neural decoder licensing deals with Stanford University and Columbia University.
At the forefront of neurotechnology, implantable BCIs are currently being used to restore function in people with paralysis and neurological disorders. Blackrock Neurotech has long been the industry leader in BCI hardware and is responsible for the technology used by 31 of the 35 global human patients, with the longest chronic implant still active and lasting more than seven years. These implants have been shown to restore movement, communication, and touch, leading to increased independence and quality of life for these patients.
Central to the clinical application of BCIs is the development of user-friendly software that decodes neural activity and translates brain signals into digital commands. With a focus on real-world applications, MindX's proprietary spatial neurocomputing technology is used to recognize and interpret the movement of objects in physical space, and in combination with decoded biological data, could unlock more meaningful levels of interaction between patients, their physical environments, and the digital world. This cutting-edge, integrated BCI platform aims to offer patients hope for increased quality of life, independence, and autonomy and deliver on the long-term promise of BCI.
As part of the acquisition, Julia Brown, MindX founder and CEO, and her team will join Blackrock. Julia brings an extensive background in intelligent system design, neurotechnology, and the development of personalized medicine and digital health solutions, as well as her startup experience, which includes launching a series of successful health-tech ventures spun out of Johns Hopkins University.
"MindX is home to fantastic engineers who are developing groundbreaking, cutting-edge software at the intersection of neurotechnology, AR and AI, and we are particularly pleased to partner in a deeper way with Julia Brown, who has been an insightful innovator and leader in this space," said Marcus Gerhardt, Blackrock co-founder and CEO. "By fusing our hardware DNA with their software DNA, we enhance our neural data analysis and enable flexibility and customization for a variety of BCI applications. Furthermore, the opportunity to broaden applications through spatial software and AR exponentially advances our commercialization aims."
Blackrock, which anticipates releasing the first commercial BCI platform, MoveAgain, in early 2023, views the acquisition as a key step in the development of its patient-facing software, the expansion of its technology platform, and the seeding of a core capability in AI. While the initial aim is to help paralyzed patients interact with devices like keyboards, other applications such as restoring vision through human optical prostheses are also being explored. The acquisition is further expected to accelerate existing studies in speech restoration for aphasia patients.
"Blackrock is the company advancing most rapidly toward making this technology commercially available to patients and doing so in a way that aligns with our values in neuroethics and our vision for the potential of BCI," said Brown. "I can't think of a better way to get this technology into the hands of patients who need it than by bringing two talented teams together and melding Blackrock hardware with MindX software capabilities."
Though Blackrock intends to release the first commercial BCI platform in 2023, its technology has been involved in human clinical trials since 2004. The Company received a Breakthrough Designation from the FDA in 2021, which is expected to enable an expedited FDA review process of the MoveAgain platform so the product can be commercially available to a broader patient population.
Blackrock Neurotech, formerly known as Blackrock Microsystems, is dedicated to the clinical translation of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Blackrock, founded in 2008, is the world's leading platform company for BCI technology and the development of implantable solutions that improve human lives. Blackrock's precision electrode technology is at the core of many worldwide innovations in BCI, enabling dozens of early users (known as "BCI Pioneers") to SeeAgain, HearAgain, MoveAgain and more. For more information, visit www.blackrockneurotech.com.
MindX has developed an innovative software platform, MindOS, that utilizes brain-computer interfaces for next-generation spatial computing applications in assistive medical devices and consumer electronics. This platform provides users with a hands-free, "look-and-think" interface for instantaneous access to the world around them using a combination of neurotechnology, augmented reality and artificial intelligence. The company was founded in December 2017 as a spinout from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory with a team of talented engineers devoted to creating new technologies that solve fundamental health and social issues and advancing those technologies from laboratory prototype to real-world products for every-day use.
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Brittney Griner’s wife, Cherelle, wants President Joe Biden to secure her partner’s release, doing whatever is necessary to get the WNBA star home from Russia where she has been detained for more than three months.
“I just keep hearing that, you know, he has the power. She’s a political pawn, ” said Cherelle, who became emotional detailing what little she knows about Griner’s detainment during an interview that aired Wednesday on Good Morning America. “So if they’re holding her because they want you to do something, then I want you to do it.”
The Phoenix Mercury center has been detained since Feb. 17 after vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage at an airport near Moscow.
The 31-year-old Griner — a two-time Olympic gold medalist for the U.S. — faces drug smuggling charges that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Earlier this month, the Biden administration said Griner is being wrongfully detained.
Cherelle has talked with Secretary of State Antony Blinken about Griner’s case, but not the president.
“I was grateful for the call, you say she’s top priority, but I wanna see it. and I feel like to see it would be me seeing BG on U.S. soil,” Cherelle said in her first public interview. “At this point I don’t even know who I’m getting back when she comes back.”
Russian officials have described Griner’s case as a criminal offense without making any political associations. But Moscow’s war in Ukraine has brought U.S.-Russia relations to the lowest level since the Cold War.
Despite the strain, Russia and the United States carried out an unexpected prisoner exchange last month — trading former Marine Trevor Reed for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the United States.
While the U.S. does not typically embrace such exchanges, it made the deal in part because Yaroshenko had already served a long portion of his sentence.
The Russians may consider Griner someone who could figure into another such exchange.
Besides Griner, another American regarded as unjustly detained in Russia is Paul Whelan, a corporate security executive from Michigan. Whelan was arrested in December 2018 while visiting for a friend’s wedding and was later sentenced to 16 years in prison on espionage-related charges his family has said are bogus.
“Even though they’re separate people, separate roles, no connection besides what they’re going through in Russia, you know, I obviously want him back too,” Cherelle said. “You don’t want anybody to be there, going through what they’re going through.”
Cherelle, who graduated from law school at North Carolina Central University earlier this month, hasn’t talked on the phone with Griner since the day she was first detained.
“I first heard the news through Brittney, actually. She started texting me around 2:00 a.m. that morning,” Cherelle said. “‘Babe. Babe. Babe. Wake up. They have me in this room. I don’t know what’s going on.’ and so I instantly text back “Who are they and what room?”
Cherelle said Griner responded, texting: “The customs people. They just grabbed me when I was going through, and they have me in this room.” Griner then sent a message saying, “They’re about to take my phone.”
Cherelle said she told Griner to call her when she could. She’s still waiting for that call nearly 100 days later.
“The first week I laid on this couch and cried my eyeballs out. I was numb. I couldn’t move,” Cherelle said. “And then I said, ‘You got to get up now.’”
Cherelle and Brittney communicate through letters and her lawyers. The attorneys print out articles to show Griner so she can keep up-to-date with what’s going on.
Initially, friends and teammates of Griner were hesitant to talk about her situation for fear of interfering with the ongoing negotiations for her release. However, they began cautiously speaking out before the women’s Final Four in early April as her detention gained more national attention.
Cherelle became emotional when talking about the support and how it helps Griner stay strong during the struggle for her release. The WNBA has acknowledged the 6-foot-9 Mercury center’s absence by putting a decal with her initials and number on the home floor of all 12 teams.
“It comforts BG,” Cherelle said. “It let’s her know she’s not forgotten and … when you’re sitting over there, your country … they haven’t come … to your rescue yet. I know that it makes her feel good, Because she doesn’t want to be forgotten.
“Things like that matter, like, it has her hopeful,” Cherelle added. “It lets her know she’s not forgotten. Those small moments, I know give her some type of hope.”
Cherelle said that prior to the detention, Griner’s experience playing in Russia over the past nine years had been great. She was returning to the country after the Russian league took a break for the FIBA World Cup qualifying tournament when she was detained.
“You know you are a GOAT if you can actually play in Russia … on the team BG plays for,” Cherelle said. “They treat them like superstars.”
Griner, who won an NCAA championship at Baylor, earns over $1 million playing for UMMC Ekaterinburg to supplement her WNBA income where she is makes the maximum base salary of $228,000. Elite players like Griner can earn up to $500,000 with their salaries, bonuses and WNBA marketing contracts.
“BG would wholeheartedly love to not go overseas,” Cherelle said. “She has only had one Thanksgiving in the (United) States in nine years since she’s been a pro.”
The WNBA and U.S. officials have been working toward her release, without visible progress. A U.S. consular officer was able to meet with Griner last week.
“We did note that a consular official from our embassy in Moscow was able to visit with Brittney Griner on the margins of her court hearing in Moscow that day,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday. “We have made the point that one off consular visits are, in our view, not sufficient.
“But it’s not only in our view, it is in the requirements that are put forward by the Vienna Convention and other bilateral agreements that stipulate that we should have regular, sustained access to Americans who are held in detention around the world, including to those in pretrial detention.”
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AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Netflix, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of NFLX 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 persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Netflix common stock or call options, or sold put options, between January 19, 2021 and April 19, 2022, inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Netflix was exhibiting slower acquisition growth due to, among other things, account sharing by customers and increased competition from other streaming services; (2) the Company was experiencing difficulties retaining customers; (3) as a result of the foregoing, the Company was losing subscribers on a net basis (4) as a result, the Company's financial results were being adversely affected; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and/or misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: July 5, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/netflix-inc-loss-submission-form-2/?id=28867&from=4
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The TruSight and Whistic partnership helps suppliers turn their validated risk assessments into sales acceleration tools
NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TruSight, the financial industry's leading provider of validated third-party risk data, today announced a partnership with Whistic, the creator of an innovative network to assess, publish, and share vendor security information. The alliance will enable third parties to quickly inform prospects and customers that they are TruSight validated and streamline customers' requests to access their TruSight assessments and additional audit reports.
TruSight and Whistic aim to improve the third-party experience by reducing the duplicative work associated with third-party risk assessment requests. Whistic helps companies streamline and automate their third-party risk management (TPRM) programs through the Whistic Vendor Security Network, which accelerates the vendor assessment process by enabling businesses to access and evaluate a vendor's Whistic Profile – which consolidates all a vendor's security documentation, including questionnaires, certifications, and audits, into one place. TruSight, an industry-backed platform, facilitates the efficient exchange of standardized and fully validated risk data between service providers and their customers. The TruSight utility model, in which assessments are performed once and shared by many, reduces the time and effort spent by both financial services institutions and third parties by eliminating the need for repetitive and duplicative questionnaires and assessment inquiries.
The partnership between TruSight and Whistic helps suppliers take their assessment reports and turn them into a sales acceleration tool. As a TruSight partner, Whistic is exclusively offering a free Profile to TruSight Third Party Suppliers. TruSight third-party suppliers can upload their TruSight Validated Badge, security questionnaires, audit reports, security certifications, and other documentation to their Whistic Profile to effortlessly share due diligence efforts with customers and prospects to expedite the security review process. The TruSight Validated Badge will link to a third-party assessment inquiry form, allowing customers and prospects to easily request access to the third-party's assessment – cutting down on the sales cycle while promoting the due diligence efforts of the third-party and ensuring third parties retain the rights to their security data.
"Whistic shares our belief in the importance of a trusted supply chain, particularly in today's volatile risk environment," said Luke Nordlie, Chief Revenue Officer of TruSight. "Our partnership allows us to further streamline the assessment process by centralizing the distribution of due diligence information. We are excited by the opportunities this partnership brings and look forward to working with Whistic to provide even more advantages to third parties and customers in the future."
"TruSight has played a key role in driving industry change around third-party risk assessments, and this partnership is another step in that direction," said Sunil Dsouza, Vice President of Partnerships and Business Development at Whistic. "By giving vendors the ability to quickly respond to common risk assessment and review process challenges, our partnership will give them improved support to build trust with customers. Through the Whistic Profile, third parties will be able to proactively share a snapshot of their security efforts with prospects and customers, giving businesses greater visibility into supply chain risk and make more informed risk decisions."
About TruSight
TruSight, an industry-initiated utility, is the leading provider of comprehensive, validated third-party risk assessments. Developed and backed by five of the largest global financial institutions, including American Express, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, BNY Mellon, and Wells Fargo, the TruSight methodology combines best practices and standardization to deliver the highest quality data, enabling businesses to gain greater visibility into supply chain resilience.
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Services for Norma Jean Sweeny, 94, of Temple will be 2 p.m. Monday at Harper-Talasek Funeral Home in Temple.
Burial will be 2 p.m. Sept. 17 in Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Mission.
Mrs. Sweeny died Tuesday, Sept. 6, at a Temple hospital.
She was born Feb. 17, 1928. She was a bookkeeper for McAllen Dental Office until retiring in 1986. She was a member of First Christian Church in Temple.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James Herschel Sweeny, and two daughters, Karen Elaine Sweeny and Karen Sue Schmidt.
Survivors include two sons, Gary Sweeny and James “Jim” Sweeny; a daughter, Linda Cover; six grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the Bell County Animal Shelter.
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Guilty plea in plot to firebomb California Democratic HQ
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California man pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to blow up the state Democratic Party’s headquarters in what prosecutors said was the first in a planned series of politically-motivated attacks after the defeat of former President Donald Trump.
Ian Benjamin Rogers, 46, of Napa, pleaded guilty to conspiring to destroy a building by fire or explosives, possessing an explosive device and possessing a machine gun under a plea agreement that could bring him seven to nine years in federal prison.
U.S. prosecutors in San Francisco charged Rogers and Jarrod Copeland with conspiring to attack targets they associated with Democrats after Trump’s defeat in the November 2020 presidential election.
The pair “hoped their attacks would prompt a movement,” prosecutors said when they announced the charges in July.
Copeland, 38, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy and destruction of records.
“I want to blow up a democrat building bad,” Rogers wrote in one of the messaging apps he used to communicate with Copeland, according to the indictment. In a different message he said that after Democratic President Joe Biden was inaugurated, “we go to war.”
Their first planned target was the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters in Sacramento, prosecutors said.
Law enforcement officers who searched Rogers’s home in January 2021 seized nearly 50 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and five pipe bombs, prosecutors said.
He was taken into custody then on state charges after the FBI said he sent text messages that agents perceived as threats against the unoccupied Governor’s Mansion and social media companies Facebook and Twitter.
Under a universal agreement, the federal sentence will be served concurrently with a 10- to 12-year state sentence on similar Napa County charges of possessing fully automatic weapons and explosive devices, said Rogers’ attorney, Colin Cooper.
Rogers “has never been in trouble before,” Cooper said.
“He’s accepted responsibility and he is desirous of paying his debt to society and resuming a life of productivity, of being a good father and good husband and a good family man” with an 11-year-old son, Cooper said. “He feels awful about what happened and what he’s done to his family, and he’s a guy I think we’ll never see again in the (criminal justice) system.”
Rogers remains in custody awaiting his sentencing, set for Sept. 30.
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Garden City Public Schools unveils Wi-Fi on buses
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (KWCH) - Garden City students will return to school in mid-August with new technology on their school buses. The district now has Wi-Fi hotspots on all of its buses on Thursday.
“If you have a child who rides the bus to school, there’s no excuse now for them not doing homework on those long trips. The connections are now available to any student who wishes to use their time to do homework on the bus to be connected to the internet,” said the district, pointing out students who have to travel long distances, to games or other school-related activities.
The district said its iPads will connect to the WiFi just as if they are in a classroom at school. Filter and access settings are also in place in accordance with the school district’s policy and managed by the district’s technology department.
WiFi on the school buses was made possible through Emergency Connectivity Funding, which also provides dollars for connectivity for remote learning.
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Choosing the best air mattress for guests
When guests come to stay, finding a good spot for them to sleep can be a challenge. A quality air mattress offers more comfort and support than they’d get sleeping on a couch, plus there’s more flexibility over where you set it up.
You want your guests to have a comfortable stay, which is why it’s all the more important to choose a decent air bed. Ample support is vital for stays of more than a night or two, and picking one that doesn’t leak air significantly will keep your guests from waking up on the floor.
Do you need an air mattress for guests?
It’s a great option for anyone who wants to host guests but doesn’t have a spare room. Even if you do have a spare room, there may be times when you have more guests than beds, for instance, if your whole family descends on you at Thanksgiving. While adults can certainly sleep on air beds, they’re also ideal for kids’ sleepovers.
If you don’t feel comfortable asking guests to sleep on an inflatable mattress, you can always be the one to sleep on it, relinquishing your bed to your guest. That said, quality mattresses of this kind are comfortable.
Air mattress features
- Single-height vs. double-height: Single-height mattresses measure around 9 inches tall, while double-height ones measure roughly 16 to 24 inches tall. Single-height versions are affordable and quick to inflate. Double-height versions are more comfortable, especially for anyone who finds it hard to get down to and up from the floor, and you aren’t left touching the floor if they deflate a little during the night.
- Built-in pump: Many air beds meant for home use have built-in pumps. These pumps have power cords that you simply plug into an outlet for quick and easy inflation. Some even monitor air levels and top the mattress up during the night if necessary when you leave them plugged in.
- Size: You can choose sizes from twin to king. Twin and full sizes are great for people sleeping alone, while queen and king sizes are best for two adults sleeping in the same bed. Full mattresses can just about accommodate two adults if they don’t mind getting cozy, but it’s a better choice for a single adult or a couple of kids.
- Air coils: Air coils or air beams are reinforced areas inside the mattress that help provide even support. They’re especially important in double-height versions, as they’re prone to sagging in the center without air coils.
Best air mattresses for guests
Top single-height air mattresses
Intex Dura Beam Pillow Rest Classic Air Mattress
A great choice for tight spots or people without much storage space, this compact twin air bed packs down small and is quick to inflate with its built-in pump. The flocked top and raised pillow rest end create a comfortable sleeping surface.
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Active Era Luxury Air Mattress
While this one doesn’t have a built-in pump, an electric pump is included for quick and easy inflation. It’s available in either twin or queen sizes.
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Aria Queen Inflatable Air Mattress
Thanks to the built-in battery pump, this inflatable mattress is just as well-suited to camping as it is to providing a bed for guests. It also has inflatable pillows. The flocked top is not only comfortable if your guest sleeps directly on it, but it also keeps sheets from slipping if you choose to use them.
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Coleman EasyStay 4-N-1 Air Bed
This air bed straddles the line between single-height and double-height. You can use it in single-height mode as two twin mattresses or one king mattress. You can also configure it as a single twin double-height mattress.
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Intex Dura-Beam Standard Single-High Air Bed Series
With its internal contoured support system, this mattress will keep guests comfortable for short to medium-length stays. It comes in twin, full and queen sizes. You can buy it without a pump, with a battery pump or with a built-in foot pump.
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EnerPlex Never-Leak Inflatable Mattress
Using the included air pump, this mattress takes roughly two minutes to inflate, so tired guests won’t need to wait long to hit the hay. It comes in twin and queen sizes with internal air coils for added support.
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Top double-height air mattresses
Intex Dura-Beam Series Pillow Rest Raised Air Bed
From a big name in inflatable mattresses, you can trust that this one is durable and supportive. You can choose between twin and queen sizes in both standard and deluxe versions.
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SoundAsleep Dream Series Air Mattress
Measuring 19 inches tall, this mattress is comfortable and easy to get on and off of. It comes in five sizes, and all of them have internal air coils for additional support, helping your guests get a good night’s sleep.
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SleepLux Durable Inflatable Air Mattress
This durable queen mattress has internal air coils for support and a pillow rest at one end. At a generous 22 inches tall, you’ll be pleased to know it comes with a built-in electric pump that inflates it in around five minutes, so you won’t have to spend hours with a foot pump blowing it up.
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King Koil Luxury California King Air Mattress
Thanks to its advanced air coil technology, this mattress is highly supportive. You can choose from three sizes: twin, queen and California king. There are also three height options: 13, 16 and 20 inches.
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Intex Dura Beam Elevated Fiber Tech Air Mattress
The inflatable headboard makes this mattress stand out from similar models. It is easy to inflate and deflate with the built-in pump and has Fiber Tech technology for added durability.
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Englander Luxury Double High Inflatable Bed
Made with a microfiber material, it’s thermoregulated so guests won’t get too hot at night. It inflates in less than three minutes and comes in twin, queen and California king sizes.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. and GREENVILLE, S.C., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First Bancorp (Nasdaq: FBNC), the parent company of First Bank, and GrandSouth Bancorporation ("GrandSouth"), the parent company of GrandSouth Bank, announced today the signing of a definitive merger agreement under which First Bancorp will acquire GrandSouth in an all-stock transaction with a total current value of $181.1 million, or $31.43 per share, based on First Bancorp's stock price as of June 17, 2022.
The merger agreement, unanimously approved by the board of directors of each company, is expected to close in the late fourth quarter of 2022 or early first quarter of 2023, subject to customary conditions, including GrandSouth shareholder approval and regulatory approval. At closing, GrandSouth shareholders will receive 0.910 shares of First Bancorp's common stock for each share of GrandSouth's common and preferred stock.
GrandSouth Bank currently operates eight branches in South Carolina in key towns and cities that match First Bank's desired areas for growth, including Greenville, Fountain Inn, Anderson, Greer, Columbia, Orangeburg, and Charleston. With a focus on small business banking, the acquisition complements First Bank's strengths in that area.
"GrandSouth is in great communities with talented bankers," said Mike Mayer, President and CEO of First Bank. "Our cultures are very similar and we are excited to bring our teams together."
Upon completion of the acquisition, the combined company is expected to have over $12 billion in assets, $7 billion in loans, and $10 billion in deposits. This transaction represents an opportunity to accelerate First Bank's South Carolina expansion.
"We are very excited about this partnership and the unique opportunity it presents," said J.B. Schwiers, President and Director of GrandSouth. "We have long admired First Bancorp, and our combined company will be positioned to capitalize on an enhanced presence in exceptional markets, talent, and financial strength."
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. served as financial advisor to First Bancorp and Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP provided legal counsel. Piper Sandler & Co. served as financial advisor to GrandSouth and Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP served as legal counsel.
Further information on the terms of this transaction will be included in an Investor Presentation to be filed by First Bancorp and GrandSouth with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").
First Bancorp is a bank holding company headquartered in Southern Pines, North Carolina, with total assets of approximately $10.5 billion at March 31, 2022. Its principal activity is the ownership and operation of First Bank, a state-chartered community bank that operates 110 branches in North Carolina and South Carolina. Since 1935, First Bank has taken a tailored approach to banking, combining best-in-class financial solutions, helpful local expertise, and technology to manage a home or business. First Bancorp's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "FBNC." Visit our website at www.LocalFirstBank.com. Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender.
GrandSouth is a bank holding company with assets of $1.3 billion at March 31, 2022. GrandSouth Bank provides a range of financial services to individuals and small and medium sized businesses. GrandSouth Bank has eight branches in South Carolina, located in Greenville, Fountain Inn, Anderson, Greer, Columbia, Orangeburg and Charleston.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including certain plans, expectations, goals, and projections, and including statements about the benefits of the proposed merger between First Bancorp and GrandSouth, which are subject to numerous assumptions, risks, and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated by such statements for a variety of factors including, without limitation: the businesses of First Bancorp and GrandSouth may not be integrated successfully or such integration may take longer to accomplish than expected; the expected cost savings and any revenue synergies from the merger may not be fully realized within the expected timeframes; disruption from the merger may make it more difficult to maintain relationships with clients, associates, or suppliers; the required governmental approvals of the merger may not be obtained on the proposed terms and schedule; the shareholders of GrandSouth may not approve the merger.
This communication is being made in respect of the proposed transaction involving First Bancorp and GrandSouth. This material is not a solicitation of any vote or approval of the shareholders of GrandSouth and is not a substitute for the proxy statement/prospectus or any other documents which First Bancorp and GrandSouth may send to shareholders in connection with the proposed merger. This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities.
In connection with the proposed transaction, First Bancorp intends to file with the SEC a Registration Statement on Form S-4 that will include a proxy statement of GrandSouth and a prospectus of First Bancorp, as well as other relevant documents concerning the proposed transaction. Investors and security holders are also urged to carefully review and consider each of First Bancorp's and GrandSouth's public filings with the SEC, including but not limited to their Annual Reports on Form 10-K, their Proxy Statements, their Current Reports on Form 8-K and their Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. GrandSouth will mail the proxy statement/prospectus to its shareholders. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING OR INVESTMENT DECISIONS, INVESTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS OF GRANDSOUTH ARE URGED TO CAREFULLY READ THE ENTIRE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS REGARDING THE PROPOSED MERGER WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC, AS WELL AS ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS TO THOSE DOCUMENTS, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION. Investors and security holders may obtain a free copy of the proxy statement/prospectus (when available) and other filings containing information about First Bancorp and GrandSouth at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Investors and security holders may also obtain free copies of the documents filed with the SEC by First Bancorp on its website at http://www.localfirstbank.com and by GrandSouth on its website at http://www.grandsouth.com
GrandSouth and certain of its directors and executive officers, under the SEC's rules, may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies of GrandSouth's shareholders in connection with the proposed transaction. Information about the directors and executive officers of GrandSouth Bancorporation and their ownership of GrandSouth common stock is set forth in the proxy statement for GrandSouth's 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, as filed with the SEC on a Schedule 14A on April 11, 2022. Additional information regarding the interests of those participants and other persons who may be deemed participants in the transaction may be obtained by reading the proxy statement/prospectus regarding the proposed transaction when it becomes available. Free copies of this document may be obtained as described in the preceding paragraph.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that Finland and Sweden would be “important additions” to NATO as he led a delegation of GOP senators to the region in a show of support against Russia’s aggression.
McConnell also called on President Joe Biden to designate Russia as state sponsor of terrorism over its invasion of Ukraine.
Speaking to reporters from Stockholm, McConnell said that Finland and Sweden, unlike some members of the Western alliance, would likely be in a position to pay their NATO obligations and would offer significant military capabilities.
“They will be important additions to NATO, if they choose to join,” he said, adding, ”I think the United States ought to be first in line to ratify the treaty for both these countries to join.”
McConnell is a longtime NATO supporter, and his trip to the Nordic nations with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John Barrasso of Wyoming and John Cornyn of Texas follows their surprise stop Saturday in Ukraine’s capital to express solidarity in the fight against the Kremlin.
McConnell was in Sweden while leading diplomats from the 30 NATO member states met in Berlin to discuss providing more support to Ukraine and moves by Finland, Sweden and others to join NATO in the face of threats from Russia.
Several hours after Finland’s announcement that it would seek to join NATO, Sweden’s governing party also endorsed becoming an alliance member, a move that could lead to the country’s application within days.
The office of Finland’s president, Sauli Niinisto, said the American lawmakers will meet with the president to discuss Finland’s NATO membership, the Ukraine war and other issues. McConnell’s office confirmed the visit.
But NATO-member Turkey is “not favorable” toward those two additions, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday, complicating the move to bolster the alliance as a deterrent to Russia.
The high-level meetings comes as the Congress is working to approve $40 billion in military aid to Ukraine, a substantial infusion of support for the region. The measure includes $6 billion for Ukraine for intelligence, equipment and training for its forces, plus $4 billion in financing to help Ukraine and NATO allies build up their militaries.
The latest round of assistance would push U.S. support to Ukraine beyond $50 billion, which has raised concerns from some conservative Republicans in the party’s isolationist wing wary of the price of overseas spending. The measure stalled in the Senate over the objection of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., but McConnell is determined to see that it passes in the coming week.
“We’ll get the job done,” McConnell told reporters on a conference call.
McConnell said it is in America’s interest to support Ukraine as he brushed aside criticism from some fellow Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, about the level of spending. It’s a a reemergence of the isolationist “America First” approach to foreign policy by a faction of the Republican Party.
McConnell said he told Zelenskyy that there is vast bipartisan support in Congress for helping Ukraine. “This is not a charity we’re involved in here,” McConnell said. “This is to prevent this group of thugs from beginning a march through through Europe.”
Asked about a resolution introduced in the Senate designating Russia a state sponsor of terror, McConnell said he supports it. But he also said Biden could declare that on his own, without congressional action.
“I would encourage him to do it,” McConnell told reporters.
McConnell could not say whether the latest aid package would be the last before the November elections. The spending on Ukraine has been a simmering campaign issue for some Republican candidates.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who already pushed the aid through the House with bipartisan votes, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” about the Senate Republicans: “They couldn’t pass the Ukraine bill with the senators going over to Ukraine empty-handed with a promise. We passed the bill.”
Zelensky, in his nightly video address Saturday after meeting with the Republicans, said he believed that the senators’ trip showed “the strong connection between the Ukrainian and American people. We discussed various areas of support for our country, including defense and finance, as well as strengthening sanctions against Russia.”
It was the second high-profile congressional delegation to stop in Ukraine in as many weeks. Pelosi visited on May 1 with a group of House Democrats and promised Zelenskyy that the United States will “be there for you until the fight is done.”
First lady Jill Biden visited western Ukraine last weekend for a Mother’s Day meeting with Zelenskyy’s wife, Olena Zelenska.
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Associated Press writer Jari Tanner in Helsinki contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/mcconnell-gop-senators-to-visit-helsinki-amid-nato-talks/ | 2022-05-15T23:51:13Z |
DUBLIN, Ohio, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tyson Group is pleased to announce it has been included on Selling Power's Top 25 Sales Training Companies 2022 list.
Selling Power Magazine's prestigious Top Sales Training Companies List helps sales leaders identify and select sales training companies with a track record of producing tangible ROI while also providing superior customer service.
According to Selling Power publisher and founder Gerhard Gschwandtner, sales training is more important than ever. The economy has shifted significantly due to inflation, Covid 19, the war in the Ukraine, shortages in supply and the emergence of new learning technologies.
"Sales training companies had to adjust in the last year," says Gschwandtner. "Each of the sales training companies included on this list was able to pivot quickly to deliver best-in-class, engaging sales training both virtually, and in person. Their efforts and expertise helped their clients reach and exceed sales goals and decrease onboarding time in a highly challenging economy."
All companies on the list submitted a comprehensive application that included a detailed listing of their offerings for both training and retention, innovative solutions, their company's unique contributions to the sales training marketplace, and their ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The world of sales and training has changed dramatically. CEOs have no choice but to rebuild their sales force in new ways. This award benchmarks against the best in class," says Lance Tyson, President & CEO of Tyson Group.
See the Selling Power Top Sales Training Companies 2022 list at https://geni.us/sellingpowerSTC2022
About Tyson Group
Tyson Group offers expert sales consulting and training tailored to companies' individual needs, cultivating talent that yields measurable results. They have consulted and provided negotiation strategies for multi-billion dollar deals for the nation's most prominent sports stadiums, developed elite sales teams, and advised on the installation of sales methodology for countless organizations.
Their expertise in recruiting, training, and coaching helps the right talent drive organizations to the next level. They have proven experience creating, establishing, and implementing organizational changes and new processes that help sales leaders and their teams meet and exceed goals in all industries.
Tyson Group is available for commentary. Contact Audrey Donegan of TGC Worldwide - audrey@tgcworldwide.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRBP) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Kiromic common stock issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 and/or (b) Kiromic common stock between June 25, 2021 and August 13, 2021, both dates inclusive.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 4, 2022
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Learn more about your recoverable losses in KRBP:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The complaint alleges that the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's public offering that closed on July 2, 2021 (the "Offering Documents") failed to disclose that the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") had, prior to the filing of these documents, imposed a clinical hold on the Company's Investigational New Drug ("IND") applications for its two new drug candidates. Given that the offering closed on July 2, 2021, more than thirty (30) days after the Company submitted the IND applications for its two immunotherapy product candidates, investors were assured that no clinical hold had been issued and clinical trials would commence.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Kiromic you have until October 4, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Kiromic securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the KRBP lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/kiromic-biopharma-inc-loss-submission-form?id=31349&from=4.
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- Increased Cash Runway into Third Quarter 2024 with Cost-Savings and Corporate Restructuring Efforts
- Strengthened Executive Team with Appointment of Dr. Michael Sumner as Chief Medical Officer
- Announced Positive Data from a Phase 1/2 Trial with INO-5401 to treat Glioblastoma (GBM) at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting
- Will hold investor call today at 4:30 PM EDT
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- INOVIO (NASDAQ: INO), a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing DNA medicines to help protect people from infectious diseases and treat people with cancer and HPV-associated diseases, today reported financial results for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2022. INOVIO's management will host a live conference call and webcast at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) today to discuss financial results and provide a general business update for the second quarter. The live webcast and replay may be accessed by visiting INOVIO's website at http://ir.inovio.com/events-and-presentations/default.aspx.
Dr. Jacqueline Shea, President and Chief Executive Officer, said: "During the second quarter, we focused on reshaping our organizational structure to help us achieve our product development goals. These efforts included strengthening our executive and R&D teams by appointing Dr. Michael Sumner as our Chief Medical Officer and extending our cash runway into the third quarter of 2024 through cost-savings measures and a corporate restructuring effort."
Dr. Shea continued: "During the quarter we also focused on advancing our strategies for those programs that have the greatest potential to deliver DNA medicine technology to the market. Those programs include our heterologous booster program for our COVID-19 vaccine candidate, INO-4800, as well as our HPV-associated programs. We were also encouraged by positive Phase 1/2 data presented at ASCO involving INO-5401, when used in combination with PD-1 inhibitor, Libtayo®, against glioblastoma. With several additional pipeline milestones expected over the next several months, I look forward to sharing our progress in advancing our DNA medicines towards commercialization in the second half of 2022."
Second Quarter 2022 Corporate Updates
Extended Cash Runway into Third Quarter 2024 – INOVIO announced a corporate reorganization designed to extend its cash runway and support the Company's focus on key clinical programs with the goal of driving long-term growth. The reorganization, which included an 18% workforce reduction in full-time employees and an 86% reduction in contractors, along with other cost-saving measures, is expected to reduce operating expenses by approximately 30% over the next 18 months and extend INOVIO's cash runway into the third quarter of 2024. These projections do not include any funds that may or may not be raised during the time period through the Company's existing at-the-market program or other fundraising mechanisms. INOVIO expects a one-time restructuring charge of approximately $1.6 million in the third quarter of 2022 related to the headcount reduction.
Strengthened Executive and R&D Teams – INOVIO announced the appointment of Dr. Michael Sumner, MB BS, MBA, as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Sumner brings more than 25 years of extensive pharmaceutical, medical and clinical experience driving numerous late-stage product approvals and supporting successful commercial products on a global basis across multiple therapeutic areas. Dr. Sumner now oversees INOVIO's entire clinical-stage pipeline of DNA medicines, as well as global clinical development, clinical operations and biostatistics efforts, and regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance and medical affairs.
Presented Positive Clinical Data for INO-5401 at ASCO – INOVIO announced additional results from a Phase 1/2 trial involving INO-5401 and INO-9012 at the 2022 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting held in June. In the trial, INO-5401 + INO-9012 was observed to have favorable tolerability and immunogenicity results when administered with Libtayo® and RT/TMZ (radiation and temozolomide) to newly diagnosed GBM patients. Notably, INO-5401 + INO-9012 elicited antigen-specific T cells that may infiltrate GBM tumors.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
INOVIO reported total revenue was $784,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to $273,000 for the same period in 2021. The increase in revenue resulted from the delivery of INOVIO's proprietary smart devices related to its contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. Total operating expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2022, were $104.9 million compared to $83.5 million for the same period in 2021.
INOVIO's net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2022, was $108.5 million, or $0.46 per basic and diluted share, compared to net loss of $82.1 million, or $0.39 per basic and diluted share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2021.
Operating Expenses
Research and development (R&D) expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2022, were $56.5 million compared to $70.8 million for the same period in 2021. The decrease in R&D expenses was primarily due to $21.9 million in lower expenses related to the acquisition and installation of manufacturing equipment for INO-4800 during 2021 were non-recurring, and $7.0 million in lower engineering services and expensed equipment related to our CELLECTRA® 3PSP device array automation project. These decreases were partially offset by an $8.3 million increase in drug manufacturing costs related to our COVID-19 variant studies and a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency COVID-19 dMAb grant, as well as $6.9 million lower contra-research and development expense recorded from grant agreements, among other variances.
General and administrative (G&A) expenses were $48.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022, versus $12.7 million for the same period in 2021. The significant increase in G&A expenses in the 2022 second quarter was primarily due to a $14.0 million non-cash expense related to the proposed settlement of INOVIO's previously disclosed securities class action litigation, including the proposed issuance of INOVIO common stock as part of the settlement, and other related litigation costs, as well as $6.9 million in one-time severance expenses related to the separation of INOVIO's former president and chief executive officer, among other variances. The proposed settlement still requires court approval, but has been agreed to, in principle.
Capital Resources
As of June 30, 2022, cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments were $348.1 million compared to $401.3 million as of December 31, 2021. As of June 30, 2022, INOVIO had 247.5 million shares of common stock outstanding and 267.8 million shares of common stock outstanding on a fully diluted basis, after giving effect to the exercise, vesting and conversion, as applicable, of its outstanding options, restricted stock units, convertible preferred stock, and convertible debt.
INOVIO's balance sheet and statement of operations are provided below. Additional information is included in INOVIO's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, which can be accessed at: http://ir.inovio.com/financials/default.aspx.
Financial Guidance
INOVIO's projections to extend its cash runway into the third quarter 2024 include its cash burn estimate of approximately $73 million for the third quarter 2022, and its expectation that cash burn will decrease incrementally from there into the third quarter of 2024.
Conference Call / Webcast Information
INOVIO's management will host a live conference call and webcast at 4:30 p.m. EDT today to discuss INOVIO's financial results and provide a general business update. The live webcast and replay may be accessed by visiting INOVIO's website at http://ir.inovio.com/events-and-presentations/default.aspx.
About INO-4800
INO-4800 is INOVIO's clinical-stage DNA vaccine candidate targeting the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. INOVIO has conducted clinical trials with INO-4800 as a primary vaccine candidate that demonstrated it was well tolerated and generated an immune response consisting of both a humoral response (including neutralizing antibodies) as well as cellular responses (generation of both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells). In 2022, INOVIO began developing a strategy to explore the use of INO-4800 as a heterologous booster vaccine.
About VGX-3100
VGX-3100 is INOVIO's clinical-stage DNA medicine product candidate being developed as a potential treatment for several diseases associated with the human papillomavirus (HPV). It is designed to elicit T cell immune responses against the E6 and E7 proteins of HPV types 16 and 18, which are known to be associated with different pre-cancerous conditions and cancer. INOVIO has conducted several clinical trials with VGX-3100 targeting cervical, anal, and vulvar high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL), which are precursors to cancer.
About INO-5401
INO-5401 is INOVIO's clinical-stage DNA medicine product candidate being developed as a potential treatment for glioblastoma (GBM), a rapidly growing and aggressive tumor of the brain and spine. INO-5401 is designed to enhance T cell immune responses against three known tumor-associated antigens commonly expressed in a variety of cancers: human telomerase (hTERT), Wilms tumor gene-1 (WT1), and prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA). GBM is an almost universally fatal disease with treatment essentially unchanged for the last decade.
About CELLECTRA® Delivery Technology
INOVIO's DNA medicines are delivered into cells of the body using its investigational proprietary CELLECTRA smart device, either intramuscularly (IM) or intradermally (ID). CELLECTRA devices use brief (millisecond-long) electrical pulses to reversibly create small pores in the cell membrane, enhancing intracellular uptake of DNA medicines by more than a thousand-fold compared to the injection of a DNA medicine without this delivery enhancement technique.
About INOVIO
INOVIO is a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing DNA medicines to help treat and protect people from infectious diseases, cancer, and diseases associated with HPV. Our DNA medicines are delivered using our proprietary smart device to produce immune responses against targeted pathogens and cancers. For more information, visit www.inovio.com.
Contacts
Investors & Media:
Gene Kim, (267) 589-9471, gene.kim@inovio.com
Thomas Hong, (267) 440-4298, thomas.hong@inovio.com
Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements relating to our business, including our plans to develop and commercialize DNA medicines, our expectations regarding our research and development programs, including the planned initiation and conduct of pre-clinical studies and clinical trials and the availability and timing of data from those studies and trials, expectations about the upfront costs and long-term cost reductions associated with our corporate reorganization and the anticipated extension of the company's cash runway. Actual events or results may differ from the expectations set forth herein as a result of a number of factors, including uncertainties inherent in pre-clinical studies, clinical trials, product development programs and commercialization activities and outcomes, the availability of funding to support continuing research and studies in an effort to prove safety and efficacy of electroporation technology as a delivery mechanism or develop viable DNA medicines, our ability to support our pipeline of DNA medicine products, the ability of our collaborators to attain development and commercial milestones for products we license and product sales that will enable us to receive future payments and royalties, the adequacy of our capital resources, the availability or potential availability of alternative therapies or treatments for the conditions targeted by us or collaborators, including alternatives that may be more efficacious or cost effective than any therapy or treatment that we and our collaborators hope to develop, issues involving product liability, issues involving patents and whether they or licenses to them will provide us with meaningful protection from others using the covered technologies, whether such proprietary rights are enforceable or defensible or infringe or allegedly infringe on rights of others or can withstand claims of invalidity and whether we can finance or devote other significant resources that may be necessary to prosecute, protect or defend them, the level of corporate expenditures, assessments of our technology by potential corporate or other partners or collaborators, capital market conditions, the impact of government healthcare proposals and other factors set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, and other filings we make from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. There can be no assurance that any product candidate in our pipeline will be successfully developed, manufactured, or commercialized, that the results of clinical trials will be supportive of regulatory approvals required to market products, or that any of the forward-looking information provided herein will be proven accurate. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this release, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise these statements, except as may be required by law.
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LINCOLN, Neb., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of professionals from across the agriculture, commercial trucking, construction, heavy machinery, and aviation industries will convene in Lincoln, Nebraska, on August 9th and 10th for the 2022 Sandhills Global Forum. Attendees will include equipment and parts dealers, fleet owners and operators, auctioneers, and representatives from manufacturing companies, equipment rental and leasing facilities, and aviation businesses.
The popular in-person event will start on Tuesday, August 9th, with a golf scramble and reception. Networking opportunities will continue on Wednesday, August 10th, with the addition of seminars, one-on-one workshops, and roundtable discussions.
Attendees can opt to receive quick overviews of new and upcoming Sandhills products and features by attending various workshop sessions, which will begin every 30 minutes from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Session topics will include maximizing equipment liquidation potential through a combination of retail, wholesale, and auction solutions; obtaining real-time and future machine valuations to set the best prices for the market; providing customers with competitive equipment financing to streamline sales; and much more.
Guests can also participate in in-depth, industry-specific roundtable discussions, and attend keynote addresses in which experts will speak to recent market changes and offer insights into where those markets are headed. Featured keynote speakers include Ron "Gus" Gustafson, who will give remarks on how businesses can turn setbacks into comebacks, and David O. Woods, who will discuss the skills modern leaders need to develop trust and improve the culture across an organization.
Anyone wishing to attend the event should contact Sandhills Global soon as space is limited.
Sandhills Global is an information processing company headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. Our products and services gather, process, and distribute information in the form of trade publications, websites, and online services that connect buyers and sellers across the construction, agriculture, forestry, oil and gas, heavy equipment, commercial trucking, and aviation industries. Our integrated, industry-specific approach to hosted technologies and services offers solutions that help businesses large and small operate efficiently and grow securely, cost-effectively, and successfully. Sandhills Global—we are the cloud.
Contact Sandhills
www.sandhills.com/contact-us
800-331-1978
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PARMA, Italy, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sidel, a leading global provider of packaging solutions, is inviting customers to meet its experts at Munich's drinktec 2022 (12-16 September) to discuss industry challenges and discover the packaging solutions of the future. drinktec is a world-leading beverage and liquid food industry trade show. Visitors to Sidel's booth 339 (hall A6), will be guided through a unique experience.
The stand showcases advanced systems and services, line engineering, and digital and eco-solutions, including aseptic production, sustainability, packaging optimisation and holistic turnkey solutions.
An immersive experience, with advanced multimedia illustrating the latest packaging equipment and processes, the stand is designed to engage all the senses.
Ko Hoepman, Executive Vice President – Portfolio, Innovation & Marketing at Sidel, said:
"We will be renewing and building relationships and demonstrating the very best of our offer as a trusted, reliable partner. We are confident that our superior performance and technological expertise will help our customers meet the challenges of the future."
Sidel will demonstrate its key expertise in:
Digital evolution
Top-class digital solutions enabling customers to face challenges, and reach peak production performance without compromising operational costs, product quality or environmental impact. The Evo-ON® software suite offers powerful cloud computing and data analytic technologies.
Sustainable transformation
Eco-friendly packaging alternatives, from 100% recycled PET (rPET) and light-weighted primary packaging with tethered caps, to optimised secondary and tertiary packaging alternatives.
Aseptic
With 47 years' experience in aseptic packaging equipment technology, Sidel will be premiering a new development.
Complete line solutions
Sidel has expertise and a comprehensive portfolio of services in every related field including line concept, engineering, line control and automation, packaging technologies and equipment.
Join Side
Sidel is eager to welcome visitors and provide them with the best advice and information in the industry.
Click here for Sidel's drinktec updates.
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For more information, please contact:
Claire Cunningham,
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Aerial crew to help install new insulators along 68-mile transmission corridor
AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Transmission Systems, Inc. (ATSI), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), is using helicopters and ground crews to replace more than 1,100 insulators along a 68-mile transmission line corridor that runs through Carroll, Columbiana, Jefferson, Stark and Summit counties in northeast Ohio.
The work on the 345-kilovolt transmission line running northwest from a substation in Stratton, Ohio, to a substation in Wadsworth, Ohio, upgrades equipment to help ensure the power system remains reliable and resilient. Insulators separate high-voltage transmission lines from their grounded support towers and help maintain safe, consistent delivery of power while preventing the current from traveling through the structures.
FirstEnergy crews will perform a portion of the insulator replacement work between Wadsworth and New Franklin, Ohio, while the majority of the replacements will be handled by a contractor that carries linemen to the top of the 80-foot towers via helicopter. The linemen will be harnessed and lowered down onto each structure to install the new insulators, and the helicopter will also lower the new materials for the assembly and carry the old materials away.
This aerial method is faster and more efficient than deploying ground crews to each structure, which would require the creation of access roads for large trucks and equipment. ATSI began replacing the insulators in July and expects to complete the replacements on 376 transmission structures along the corridor by this fall. The transmission line has been deenergized until the work is complete but is not disrupting service to customers, who are being served by an alternate power feed.
"By proactively addressing equipment needs before they become a problem, we can help prevent potential power outages and ensure that our transmission system continues to serve customers safely and reliably in the future," said Carl Bridenbaugh, FirstEnergy's vice president of Transmission.
The project is part of Energizing the Future, a multi-year, $7 billion initiative designed to upgrade FirstEnergy's transmission system with advanced equipment and technologies that will reinforce the power grid and help reduce the frequency and duration of customer outages. Since 2014, FirstEnergy has upgraded or replaced existing power lines, incorporated smart technology into the grid and upgraded dozens of substations with new equipment and enhanced security features.
FirstEnergy is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its 10 electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. The company's transmission subsidiaries operate approximately 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Follow FirstEnergy online at www.firstenergycorp.com and on Twitter @FirstEnergyCorp.
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Man drowns visiting North Carolina beach on July 4th holiday weekend
OAK ISLAND, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) – A man visiting the coast of North Carolina during the Fourth of July holiday weekend drowned Sunday in Oak Island.
According to town officials, 52-year-old Kevin Whitley of Hickory, NC was pulled to the shore. Bystanders on the beach started CPR until emergency responders arrived.
WECT reports emergency medical personnel performed all available resuscitation efforts for over 30 minutes before pronouncing Whitley dead.
This is the fourth drowning death in the area this year.
Oak Island Water Rescue received more than half a dozen water rescue calls Sunday afternoon.
Authorities in the area stressed the dangers of the water from the aftermath of Tropical Storm Colin.
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YARDLEY, Pa., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) (www.crowncork.com) has published its 2021 Sustainability Report to share progress against its dedicated Twentyby30 sustainability strategy and other key environmental, social and governance (ESG) achievements during fiscal years 2019 through 2021. Launched in 2020, Crown's comprehensive Twentyby30 program includes 20 measurable sustainability goals to be completed by or before the end of 2030, all set against a 2019 baseline. The program includes five distinct pillars of action – Climate Action, Resource Efficiency, Optimum Circularity, Working Together and Never Compromise – which are supported by the Company's robust governance and ethics principles and practices.
"We are incredibly proud of the progress we have made one year into the implementation of our Twentyby30 program," said John Rost, Ph.D., Vice President, Global Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs at Crown. "Our strategy focuses on several key issues including emissions reduction, product lifecycle and recyclability to slow the pace of climate change, transitioning to renewable electricity, prioritizing water preservation, enhancing employee and product safety, and increasing workforce diversity. We are mindful that sustainability is not a linear journey and remain committed to continuous process and product innovation and exploring how we can accelerate progress by collaborating with our customers, suppliers and the industry at large."
Some of the tangible advances made by the Company toward its Twentyby30 program goals (as of December 31, 2021) include:
The report is available on the sustainability section of Crown's website and has been prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Core Standard and adheres to the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), which Crown recently signed onto as a participant. The report also maps Crown's progress to indicators defined by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Containers & Packaging standard and key United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Company's climate reporting also follows the guidelines of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The 2021 report includes the Company's GRI index as well as its SASB and TCFD disclosures.
Crown's 2021 Sustainability Report received independent assurance from Lucideon CICS Limited related to its total 2021 data for GHG emissions (Scope 1, 2 and 3 categories) and 2021 water usage data. Lucideon also provided GRI verification to the GRI Core Index, Limited Verification.
About Crown Holdings, Inc.
Crown Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is a leading global supplier of rigid packaging products to consumer marketing companies, as well as transit and protective packaging products, equipment and services to a broad range of end markets. World headquarters are located in Yardley, Pennsylvania. For more information, visit www.crowncork.com.
For more information, contact sustainability@crowncork.com
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Eli Hart’s former foster mom says she feared him returning to his mother’s custody
By Adam Duxter
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RANDOLPH, Minnesota (WCCO) — Six-year-old Eli Hart’s family is continuing to share the feelings of grief and frustration they say have persisted since the boy was found dead in a car trunk near Orono Friday morning.
Orono police say they stopped a car traveling near Shoreline Drive and Bartlett Boulevard Friday morning after a caller reported the car had a shattered rear window and blown out tire. In a release, Orono Chief of Police Correy Farniok revealed when officers stopped the woman driving, they noticed blood inside the car, leading them to a body in the trunk.
While police have not released the name of the victim or the two people they say they’ve arrested since, multiple family members have identified the boy in the trunk as Eli Hart. An online jail roster in Hennepin County shows Hart’s biological mother, Julissa Thaler, was arrested by Orono police early Saturday morning on pending murder charges.
Dakota County court documents portray the last two years of Hart’s life centered around an ongoing custody battle between Thaler and his biological father, Tory Hart. In January of 2021, records show Eli Hart was placed into family foster care after concerns regarding his mother’s mental health grew.
“It was just expanding our hearts to accept him as our own child,” said Nikita Kronberg, whose family took Hart in for almost a year. “He was an amazing kid. He was full of energy, always smiling. So outgoing. He always wanted to befriend everyone.”
Kronberg’s husband, Stephen, is Thaler’s cousin. She says she was concerned about Thaler once again regaining full custody at the conclusion of the Child Protective Services investigation.
“I feared if she got custody back, that she would harm Eli, if not worse,” Kronberg said Sunday. “I instantly responded with, you know, this is a dangerous situation for Eli. You know, I fear for his safety if he’s returned to her. There’s numerous things I had brought up that were concerning that I had noticed.”
Dakota County court documents show concerns about Thaler’s mental health, living situation and criminal history. The case was closed and she was awarded sole custody less than two weeks before her arrest.
“At that point, I felt like I failed (Eli),” said Kronberg, who has two children of her own. “I keep looking at pictures of him and I think this can’t be real. He’s out there somewhere playing, having fun. It can’t be real.”
Kronberg says her biggest question is why.
“You want to blame one person,” she said. “You want to put that blame on one person so you have somebody to be mad at. But it’s a whole team.”
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PRINCETON, N.J., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Soligenix, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need, announced today its recent accomplishments and financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
Christopher J. Schaber, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Soligenix stated, "We remain focused on our significant upcoming milestones for 2022. We anticipate submitting a new drug application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for marketing authorization of HyBryte™ (SGX301 or synthetic hypericin) in the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) in the second half of this year. We expect to initiate a Phase 2a clinical trial in mild-to-moderate psoriasis with SGX302 (synthetic hypericin) in the second half of this year as well. With approximately $22.9 million in cash, not including our non-dilutive government funding, we anticipate having the capital required to achieve our near-term milestones, including NDA filing and expansion into psoriasis with the initiation of the Phase 2a clinical study."
Dr. Schaber continued, "Supported by funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, our Public Health Solutions business segment continues to achieve key objectives with our heat stable vaccine platform technology, ThermoVax®. Recently, we announced results of a booster vaccination study using CiVax™ (heat stable COVID-19 subunit vaccine program) in non-human primates (NHPs) demonstrating rapid enhancement of neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2, including against Delta and Omicron variants. As always, we continue to evaluate various strategic options, including but not limited to, partnership and merger and acquisition opportunities."
Soligenix Recent Accomplishments
- On April 19, 2022, the Company announced it had received approximately $1.4 million, net of transaction costs, in non-dilutive funding via multiple government tax programs. To view this press release, please click here.
- On March 17, 2022, the Company announced the results of a booster vaccination study using CiVax™ (heat stable COVID-19 subunit vaccine program) in NHPs demonstrating rapid enhancement of neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2, including against Delta and Omicron variants. To view this press release, please click here.
Financial Results – Year Ended March 31, 2022
Soligenix's revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 were $0.2 million as compared to $0.1 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2021. Revenues primarily included payments on government contracts and grants received to support the development of: RiVax®, our ricin toxin vaccine candidate; SGX943, for treatment of emerging and/or antibiotic-resistant infectious diseases; ThermoVax®, our thermostabilization platform technology; and CiVax™, our vaccine candidate for the prevention of COVID-19.
Soligenix's basic net loss was $4.3 million, or ($0.10) per share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, as compared to $2.4 million, or ($0.06) per share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2021. The increase in net loss was primarily attributed to an increase in legal and consulting services associated with the arbitration against Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries as well as an increase in research and development expenses associated with preparation of the upcoming HyBryte™ NDA filing.
Research and development expenses were $1.7 million as compared to $1.3 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The increase in research and development spending for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 was primarily attributable to the increased expenses associated with preparation of the upcoming HyBryte™ NDA filing.
General and administrative expenses were $2.6 million and $1.0 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. This increase in general and administrative expenses is primarily attributable to an increase in legal and consulting services associated with the arbitration against Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries.
As of March 31, 2022, the Company's cash position was approximately $22.9 million.
About Soligenix, Inc.
Soligenix is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need. Our Specialized BioTherapeutics business segment is developing and moving toward potential commercialization of HyBryte™ (SGX301 or synthetic hypericin) as a novel photodynamic therapy utilizing safe visible light for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). With a successful Phase 3 study completed, regulatory approval is being sought and commercialization activities for this product candidate are being advanced initially in the U.S. Development programs in this business segment also include expansion of synthetic hypericin (SGX302) into psoriasis, our first-in-class innate defense regulator (IDR) technology, dusquetide (SGX942) for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including oral mucositis in head and neck cancer, and proprietary formulations of oral beclomethasone 17,21-dipropionate (BDP) for the prevention/treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) disorders characterized by severe inflammation including pediatric Crohn's disease (SGX203) and acute radiation enteritis (SGX201).
Our Public Health Solutions business segment includes active development programs for RiVax®, our ricin toxin vaccine candidate, and SGX943, our therapeutic candidate for antibiotic resistant and emerging infectious disease, and our vaccine programs targeting filoviruses (such as Marburg and Ebola) and CiVax™, our vaccine candidate for the prevention of COVID-19 (caused by SARS-CoV-2). The development of our vaccine programs incorporates the use of our proprietary heat stabilization platform technology, known as ThermoVax®. To date, this business segment has been supported with government grant and contract funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
For further information regarding Soligenix, Inc., please visit the Company's website at https://www.soligenix.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter at @Soligenix_Inc.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that reflect Soligenix, Inc.'s current expectations about its future results, performance, prospects and opportunities, including but not limited to, potential market sizes, patient populations and clinical trial enrollment. Statements that are not historical facts, such as "anticipates," "estimates," "believes," "hopes," "intends," "plans," "expects," "goal," "may," "suggest," "will," "potential," or similar expressions, are forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results in future periods to differ materially from what is expressed in, or implied by, these statements, such as experienced with the COVID-19 outbreak. Soligenix cannot assure you that it will be able to successfully develop, achieve regulatory approval for or commercialize products based on its technologies, particularly in light of the significant uncertainty inherent in developing therapeutics and vaccines against bioterror threats, conducting preclinical and clinical trials of therapeutics and vaccines, obtaining regulatory approvals and manufacturing therapeutics and vaccines, that product development and commercialization efforts will not be reduced or discontinued due to difficulties or delays in clinical trials or due to lack of progress or positive results from research and development efforts, that it will be able to successfully obtain any further funding to support product development and commercialization efforts, including grants and awards, maintain its existing grants which are subject to performance requirements, enter into any biodefense procurement contracts with the U.S. Government or other countries, that it will be able to compete with larger and better financed competitors in the biotechnology industry, that changes in health care practice, third party reimbursement limitations and Federal and/or state health care reform initiatives will not negatively affect its business, or that the U.S. Congress may not pass any legislation that would provide additional funding for the Project BioShield program. In addition, there can be no assurance as to the timing or success of any of its clinical/preclinical trials. Despite the statistically significant result achieved in the HyBryte™ (SGX301) Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, there can be no assurance that a marketing authorization from the FDA or EMA will be successful. Notwithstanding the result in the HyBryte™ (SGX301) Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and the Phase 1/2 proof-of-concept clinical trial of SGX302 for the treatment of psoriasis, there can be no assurance as to the timing or success of the clinical trials of SGX302 for the treatment of psoriasis. Further, there can be no assurance that RiVax® will qualify for a biodefense Priority Review Voucher (PRV) or that the prior sales of PRVs will be indicative of any potential sales price for a PRV for RiVax®. Also, no assurance can be provided that the Company will receive or continue to receive non-dilutive government funding from grants and contracts that have been or may be awarded or for which the Company will apply in the future. These and other risk factors are described from time to time in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, Soligenix's reports on Forms 10-Q and 10-K. Unless required by law, Soligenix assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events.
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LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Gatos Silver, Inc. ("Gatos" or the "Company") (NYSE: GATO).
Class Period: October 28, 2020 – January 25, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: April 25, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that the technical report for Gatos's primary mine, the Cerro Los Gatos deposit, contained certain errors; (2) that, among other things, the mineral reserves had been overestimated by as much as 50%; and (3) that, 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.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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VANCOUVER, BC, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Lock Search Group, a Canadian Recruitment and Consulting firm, today announced a search partnership with a leading global technology company to lead the recruitment initiative for various scientific related leadership positions based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
This organization searches, decodes, and analyzes natural immune systems to find antibodies that its partners can develop into drugs to prevent and treat disease. Their full-stack, AI-powered drug discovery platform integrates modern technologies from engineering, microfluidics, single-cell analysis, high-throughput genomics, machine learning, and hyper-scale data science. They have established partnerships with drug developers of all sizes, from large pharmaceutical to small biotechnology companies, empowering them to move quickly, reduce costs, and tackle the toughest problems in drug development.
Here, you will find the stability, scope, and reach of a Global Biotech, but one that fosters an environment and culture of innovation, collaboration, and purpose. They truly believe in doing things the right way and continually pushing the limits of their proprietary AI technology and patented software platforms to identify antibodies and speed to process of drug discovery.
Their multidisciplinary team of data scientists, biochemists, engineers, machine learning experts, cell biologists, and business professionals are working on some of the toughest areas of disease. These are fantastic opportunities to join one of Canada's most innovative technology companies and live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
The position descriptions are posted on the Lock Search Group career page (links below):
- Head of Functional Biology - Lock Search Group
- Lead, Biotherapeutic Analytics - Lock Search Group
- Lead, Biomolecular Interactions - Lock Search Group
Full-service relocation/immigration support provided, including:
- Permanent Residency (PR) application
- Work VISA application
- Partnerships with realtors/ living agents
- Relocation allowance, etc.
Founded in 1983, Lock Search Group provides exceptional Recruitment and Consulting services through a network of 11 offices in Canada and one in the United States. A leader in sourcing top talent, Lock Search Group leverages its deep network, relationships, and sourcing history to deliver the very best candidates to our clients. More information about Lock Search Group is available at www.locksearchgroup.com.
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Alex Honnold: New series offers immersive experience watching ‘Free Solo’ star climb without ropes
By Ben Church, CNN Video produced by Amy Li, CNN
Alex Honnold stunned the world when he climbed El Capitan without any safety ropes — and now the climbing sensation is giving fans a front row seat to his free soloing skills.
Honnold is the star of a new two-part virtual reality (VR) series which follows him as he demonstrates his skills on unforgiving mountains in the Dolomites, Italy, and in his familiar stomping ground of the US.
Audiences, who require a Meta headset to watch the series, get to see Honnold shimmy up rock faces using just his hands and feet. Look down, and viewers get a very real sense of just how far he is off the ground.
“I’d never done anything in VR, so it seemed like an opportunity to do something new and interesting,” Honnold told CNN Sport, speaking about the making of the ‘Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR.’
“The real highlight of doing VR is that it allows people to really be there.”
Honnold was joined on the adventure by a number climbers, as well as series producer Jonathan Griffith.
Griffith had already demonstrated the art of VR in a stunning project focused on Mount Everest, but the opportunity to work with the world-renowned Honnold was an exciting prospect.
‘You never panic’
Griffith had worked with plenty of professional climbers but was impressed with how methodical Honnold was, which helped the producer feel more comfortable filming the sometimes death defying routes.
On occasion, Honnold is hanging on to the rock face with one hand, at other times he’s seen hanging upside down with nothing between him and the ground.
While viewers can enjoy watching stunning sunsets and the beautiful orange light they throw across towering mountains, the series also shows Honnold climbing in the mist and cloud.
At one point, viewers are seemingly standing in the clouds as mist rolls in with Honnold climbing in an almost dream-like setting.
The show allows for a new appreciation of the strength, flexibility and mental fortitude which has made Honnold such a name.
“They’re very thoughtful human beings,” Griffith told CNN Sport when asked what it was like working with free soloists — those who climb without ropes.
“And when they go and solo something, they don’t just turn up and go crazy on it. There’s an awful lot of planning and training and everything else that’s gone in before they even set foot on the solo.
“So when you watch people like Alex solo, he’s always in control. He’s never panicking and terrified. I mean, that really would be terrifying to watch. But he’s so calm on the rock when he’s soloing.
“He just exudes confidence and chill when he’s soloing, so you never panic.”
‘Sharing with my family is the most important thing’
Griffith had his work cut out trying to capture Honnold and world-class alpinist Nicolas Hojac — who helped guide the team through the Dolomites.
The equipment needed to shoot in virtual reality isn’t light and was hauled up and down the rock faces wherever they went. The crew would then hide behind corners or rocks so viewers are left with an unspoilt view of Honnold climbing in these astonishing settings.
The camera itself, which weighs around 5.5 kilos, is actually made up of eight different cameras, allowing Griffith to shoot in 3D.
Then comes the rigging system which aims to get the camera as far away from the rock face as possible while still keeping the very expensive equipment safe and secure.
Griffith said it took the team over a year to mastermind the complex rigging system which can be set up while hanging off the side of a mountain.
But the outcome, Honnold says, was worth the extra effort.
“I’m not normally that impressed by soloing footage because, in general, the memory of the experience of something is more powerful than watching it on film,” he says.
“But the VR experience is pretty close.
“Sharing with my family is the most important thing, having people close to me actually understand what we’re doing and where we are and what it feels like.
“My mother-in-law has been watching the film five minutes at a time. She will watch five minutes and get all stressed out and put it away. And then the next day she will watch five more minutes.”
More to come
Given his standing, Honnold is asked to feature in numerous projects around the world but, it seems, working in VR with Griffith has captured his imagination.
The pair both seem excited about collaborating again and Honnold, named as a producer in the series, has ideas about what could come next.
“I’ve already floated some ideas to Jonathan,” he laughed.
“I’m very proud of the final result. I think it’s great. You know, honestly, if anybody would have us, I would happily do it again.
“The whole experience was great and I got to do a month of great climbing. I’m very, very pleased with the whole thing and I would happily do more of it.”
Griffith, who spent hours painstakingly going through the footage in post-production, said he’d also be keen after taking a break from such an intense and time consuming project.
“I feel like it’d be really hard now to better it because my brain is just like tons of sponge cake after that project,” Griffith said.
“But I know, in about two months’ time, I’ll look back on it and I’ll think ‘we should have done that better and that could have been better’ and I’ll get totally psyched to do another one.”
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- Clinical trial interim results of SCG101 shows tumour control with lesion shrinkage observed in two out of three patients with advanced HBV-related HCC
- Results show rapid and significant serum HBsAg reduction indicates signal of antiviral activity
- Data presented support the advancement of SCG101 to Phase 1/2 of the clinical trials globally
SINGAPORE, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Singapore-based SCG Cell Therapy Pte Ltd ("SCG") today announced interim data from an investigator-initiated clinical trial of SCG101, which included data evaluating single dose SCG101 in patients with advanced hepatitis B (HBV) related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The data showed significant antiviral activity and tumour control in two of three patients. This set of data was presented at the International Liver Congress (ILC) 2022 Annual Meeting in London on 23 June.
In the three HLA-A*02:01-positive patients with advanced HBV-related HCC who had received at least two prior cancer therapies, the tumour growth was controlled in two out of three patients with lesion shrinkage observed. In addition, there is rapid and significant serum HBsAg reduction observed in both subjects from a baseline of 1,004.3 IU/mL and 521.6IU/ML to 23.8 IU/mL and 9.1 IU/mL in just 28 days from SCG101 treatment and further reduced to 14.0 IU/m and 0.3 IU/mL within 60 days from treatment.
"These data showed encouraging antiviral activity and tumour control by a unique T cell receptor (TCR) therapeutic targeting hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) which provides the first clinical proof-of-concept," said Prof. Dr Ulrike Protzer, Director of the Institute of Virology at Helmholtz Munich and Technical University of Munich and Scientific Founder of SCG. "These early results support the continued development of SCG101 for patients with HBV-associated hepatocellular carcinoma where we see a high unmet medical need."
The safety profile of SCG101 was consistent with the side effects expected in T cell therapy. There was no neurotoxicity observed and also no treatment-related AE or SAE (Adverse Event or Serious Adverse Event) which led to treatment discontinuation. Treatment-related cytokine release syndrome (CRS) with fever and bloating were observed in all three patients. Transient ALT and AST increase, without bilirubin elevation or clinical symptoms, was observed but expected due to SCG101 mechanisms of target cells clearance.
"The results of SCG101 show for the first time that an HBsAg directed TCR T cell therapy can provide dual benefit of antiviral and tumour control to patients with HBV-related HCC," said Shunda Du, MD, hepatologist, Peking Union Medical College and principal investigator for the trial. "Chronic HBV infection accounts for more than half of all patients with liver cancer worldwide. The development of HBV-directed TCR therapeutic prompts us to reconsider hepatitis B as a factor in diagnosis and treatment planning for patients with liver cancer."
"We're proud to collaborate with our partnered hospitals to deliver the world's first clinical proof of concept for TCR T cell therapy targeting HBV, which we believe validates the strength of our platform and opens doors for us to explore further breakthrough discoveries for the treatment of other cancers and diseases with high unmet need," said Dr Ke Zhang, Chief Scientific Officer of SCG.
SCG101 was granted clinical trial approvals by China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and Singapore Health Science Authority (HSA) in May 2022. It is the first TCR-T cell therapy product approved by the NMPA for the treatment of HCC and the first multi-country clinical trial approval across China and Singapore in the field of cell therapy.
About SCG101
SCG101, an autologous T-cell receptor (TCR) T cell therapy, is an investigational cell therapy product that targets specific epitopes of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). SCG101 incorporates SCG's proprietary technology, which allows for redirecting and engineering endogenous T cells using virus-specific TCRs with high sensitivity and avidity selectively against dysfunctional infected and tumour cells. Preclinical studies of SCG101 demonstrated tumour inhibition and HBV cccDNA eradication. In 2022, SCG101 was granted clinical trial approvals by the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and Singapore Health Science Authority (HSA) for the potential treatment of HBV-related HCC. The Phase 1/2 study evaluating SCG101 is underway.
About Liver Cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer. It is estimated more than 905,000 new cases of liver cancer and more than 830,100 deaths from the disease globally in 2020, making it one of the leading causes of cancer deaths around the world [1]. Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection accounts for at least 50% of cases of HCC worldwide [2]. HCC is typically diagnosed at an advanced stage and is associated with a poor prognosis. The five-year survival rate of less than 15%.
About SCG Cell Therapy
SCG is a leading biotechnology company focusing on the development of novel immunotherapies for infections and their associated cancers. The company targets the most common cancer-causing infections: helicobacter pylori, human papillomavirus, and hepatitis B, and develops a broad and unique pipeline of T cell therapies, antibodies, and therapeutic vaccines against infections to prevent and cure its associated cancers. Established and headquartered in Singapore, SCG combines regional advantages in Singapore, China and Germany, covering the entire value chain from innovative drug research and discovery, manufacturing, clinical development and commercialization. SCG collaborates with leading scientists and researchers to bring first-in-class and best-in-class medical products/technologies to enhance innovation in medical product development.
For more information about SCG, please visit us at www.scgcell.com
[1]https://www.wcrf.org/cancer-trends/liver-cancer-statistics/
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WATCH: Police close highway so bear can safely cross
EPHRAIM, Utah (CNN) - Authorities in Utah stopped traffic Wednesday to allow a bear to safely cross a highway.
Police said they initially received a report of a bear in a cemetery.
Those who spotted it became worried as it headed toward the highway.
After the bear crossed, a wildlife resources officer followed it into the mountains to make sure it was safe.
The sighting came just one day after another black bear made its way onto a middle school campus in the area.
Wildlife officials are now reminding residents that the chance of a bear encounter increases as the drought continues in the state.
The lack of normal food supply leaves bears forced to seek alternate sources, which can lead them into more heavily populated areas.
This year, they’re expecting a possible increase in incidents of bears getting into people’s trash looking for food.
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Leadership expansion supports multiple growth initiatives set by the company to meet revenue growth and qualifications for uplisting
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PHOENIX, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SinglePoint, Inc. (OTCQB:SING) ("SinglePoint'' or "the Company''), a renewable energy and sustainable solutions provider, announced today a strategic expansion of the leadership team. The Company is pleased to announce the addition of Chad Miles, Executive Vice President of Operations, and Jason Lally, Executive Vice President of Revenue. The experience these leaders bring to the SinglePoint team will help drive operational and revenue targets in addition to supporting the strategic growth vision as the Company continues the uplist process.
With the Company's aggressive revenue growth plans, management brought in Jason Lally as Executive Vice President of Revenue. The addition of Mr. Lally will give a direct focus on internal, organic revenue growth for each subsidiary. Mr. Lally brings over a decade of focused experience within the solar and renewable energy technology industry. Most recently, he held the Vice President of Sales role at Solarjuice America, a subsidiary of NASDAQ-traded SPI Group Company. Prior to this, Lally spent six years at SolarCity, developing his solar sales expertise finishing his tenure as Regional Sales Director managing over 100 personnel across some of the largest solar markets. His success in this role translated to working for Tesla, post-acquisition of SolarCity, to open one of the first sales efforts in California. His experience creating processes that drive revenue are in line with the opportunity SinglePoint is creating in the Company's growth initiatives. Lally has experience building and managing solar sales teams as well as directing the development of processes and procedures for a successful sales cycle. He also led the strategic planning and launching of smart-grid solar-plus-storage solutions in collaboration with local utility companies in multiple states. Management is excited as Mr. Lally's long tenure in the space and deep-rooted relationships should result in near term success and long-term growth.
Jason Lally commented, "It is a pleasure to join the SinglePoint team as Executive Vice President of Revenue. This is an exciting time as the company has the potential to be transformational. I look forward to being a part of defining moments and executing on the strategic vision. With our nation's elected leaders endorsing and prioritizing an infrastructure plan that includes substantial emphasis on advancing renewable energy and clean indoor air environments, there is significant potential for sustainable growth. I am thrilled to continue my personal commitment to making the world a better place through leading ethical adoption strategies of solar energy and healthy living solutions throughout the nation."
Over the past few years, the Company has focused on building a strong foundation to position the company for long-term, sustainable growth. Operations and operational efficiency are imperative to this mission. The addition of Chad Miles as Executive Vice President of Operations provides support in an area crucial to the Company's continued expansion. Having served in the military as an officer with global logistical and operational responsibilities, Mr. Miles is perfectly suited and has deep experience in creating detailed operational plans and executing on them. Throughout his career, Mr. Miles has been able to establish a network of suppliers and vendors including government procurement experts, creating an opportunity for SinglePoint to utilize relationships to support increasing demand within clean energy and indoor air quality markets. Process driven and detail oriented, his focus on daily execution as well as designing and implementing world class operational efficiency is positioned to maximize profitability with all existing and future acquisitions.
Chad Miles added, "SinglePoint's strategy to grow its national footprint perfectly aligns with multiple opportunities to be a relevant company in the improvement of the way we generate, store and consume energy. The federal government, through two White House directives focused on solar based initiatives and air quality in buildings, has created massive opportunities for companies like SinglePoint that have the ability to leverage government procurement. I will focus on the necessary creation of goals and milestones that are measurable and designed to enhance each business unit's value and contribution, ultimately delivering increased shareholder value."
Wil Ralston, CEO of SinglePoint, adds, "Expanding upon the expertise at the executive level has been a major initiative for us to meet our growth goals. We continue to execute on our goals ensuring we meet listing requirements, and the addition of these two individuals moves the company closer to that objective. We have been aggressive in our timelines and continue to push for a successful listing. Both Mr. Miles and Mr. Lally's experience is critical as SinglePoint expands its footprint. The shared vision and alignment of operations is key as subsidiary companies begin to rapidly increase their revenue. We are fortunate to have attracted and retained such talented and experienced individuals as SinglePoint further expands our clean energy and clean air business across the nation. I look forward to working closely with them to improve and expand the companies in our current portfolio. With the additional support, we will identify other companies aligned with our acquisition criteria to grow our revenue and market share. We are building the foundation for 2022 to be a year that SinglePoint maximizes revenue growth. Bolstering our management team will help drive the Company to execute on our projections. In addition to internal hires, we have engaged a team of uplist specialists who will assist and prepare us for a timely uplist. We continue to drive forward on our growth plans and look forward to sharing future achievements with our shareholders."
The Company is at a pivotal point in their roadmap and the business strategy set by current CEO, Wil Ralston. In April 2022, SinglePoint finalized the latest acquisition of The Boston Solar Company. Through acquisition, SinglePoint is now vertically integrated, from lead to install, on the residential solar side of the business. To support growing operations, the Company expanded their leadership team to ensure as the company grows that SinglePoint has dedicated individuals to direct and manage the synergistic relationships between subsidiaries, driving revenue and shareholder value.
SinglePoint Inc. is a renewable energy and sustainable lifestyle company focused on providing environmentally friendly energy efficiencies and healthy living solutions. SinglePoint is initially focused on building the largest network of renewable energy solutions and modernizing the traditional solar and energy storage model. The Company is also actively exploring future growth opportunities in air purification, electric vehicle charging, solar as a subscription service, and additional energy efficiencies and appliances that enhance sustainability and a healthier life. For more information, visit the Company's website (www.singlepoint.com) and connect on social media for the latest updates.
Certain statements in this news release may contain forward-looking information within the meaning of Rule 175 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 3b-6 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are subject to the safe harbor created by those rules. All statements, other than statements of fact, included in this release, including, without limitation, statements regarding potential plans and objectives of the Company, the use of proceeds, anticipated growth and future expansion, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.
Technical complications, which may arise, could prevent the prompt implementation of any strategically significant plan(s) outlined above. The Company undertakes no duty to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
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The event marks the one-year anniversary of listing and its first Investor Day
Among the highlights of the event were SaaS solutions offering unique customer experiences
SÃO PAULO, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenvia Inc. (NASDAQ: ZENV), the leading cloud-based CX communications platform in Latin America, empowering companies to transform their existing communications with end-customers along their life cycle, is ringing the opening bell today in celebration of its one-year IPO anniversary.
Zenvia held yesterday its first Investor Day, where it presented the main aspects of its strategy, product portfolio, customer cases, market overview, financial results, and long-term targets.
Among the key business areas presented, the highlights were the SaaS solutions that empower companies to create unique experiences along the customers' journey. Zenvia Attraction, Zenvia Conversion, Zenvia Service, and Zenvia Success are all full multichannel solutions that interconnect the customer journey from the first interaction up to the continuous relationship with the brands.
"We are excited to celebrate our first year as a public company and to share our forward vision and strategy. We want to build a new world where the interaction among companies and customers is relevant, where the interaction matters. Our products, tools and platform enable the building of seamless human-centric journeys. This is a huge market, as organizations are now understanding that responsiveness alone is not enough, they must stay more and more connected and adapt," said Cassio Bobsin, ZENVIA's CEO.
According to research firm IDC, Zenvia's Total Addressable Market (TAM) including the sum of CPaaS and selected CX SaaS markets (comprising Customer Service, Marketing Campaign Management, Customer Communications Management and Customer Data Platform Softwares) in Latin America will reach $4.4 billion in 2022. This market is projected to have a 17.5% CAGR between 2021 and 2026, reaching $9.0 billion in 2026, with SaaS representing 60% and CPaaS 40%.
Zenvia also presented its outlook and recent achievements, including an update on the promises made during its IPO, which have enabled the Company to build its fully integrated platform through a combination of M&A and increased R&D investments.
"The acquisitions made following our IPO have complemented our position to be able to capture additional market opportunities moving forward. With our full suite of solutions, tools and intelligence, we are developing the customer journeys of the future and shaping a new world of experiences, all while remaining focused on creating value for all our stakeholders," added Bobsin.
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About ZENVIA
ZENVIA is driven by the purpose of empowering companies to create unique experiences for customer communications through its unified end-to-end platform. ZENVIA empowers companies to transform their existing customer communications from non-scalable, physical and impersonal interactions into highly scalable, digital-first and hyper-contextualized experiences across the customer journey. ZENVIA's unified end-to-end CX communications platform provides a combination of (i) SaaS focused on campaigns, sales teams, customer service and engagement, (ii) tools, such as software application programming interfaces, or APIs, chatbots, single customer views, journey designers, documents composer and authentication and (iii) channels, such as SMS, Voice, WhatsApp, Instagram and Webchat. Its comprehensive platform assists customers across multiple use cases, including marketing campaigns, customer acquisition, customer onboarding, warnings, customer services, fraud control, cross-selling and customer retention, among others. ZENVIA's shares are traded on Nasdaq, under the ticker ZENV.
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These forward-looking statements are made as of the date they were first issued and were based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and projections, as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management. Words such as "expect," "anticipate," "should," "believe," "hope," "target," "project," "goals," "estimate," "potential," "predict," "may," "will," "might," "could," "intend," variations of these terms or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify these statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond Zenvia's control. Zenvia's actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking statements due to several factors, including but not limited to: our ability to innovate and respond to technological advances, changing market needs and customer demands, our ability to successfully acquire new businesses as customers, acquire customers in new industry verticals and appropriately manage international expansion, substantial and increasing competition in our market, compliance with applicable regulatory and legislative developments and regulations, the dependence of our business on our relationship with certain service providers, among other factors.
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TOKYO, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nippon Express Co., Ltd. (hereinafter "Nippon Express"), a group company of Nippon Express Holdings, Inc., launched on May 30 a logistics service capable of handling goods requiring ultra-low temperatures (-20 C to -85 C) for the pharmaceutical industry.
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As a priority approach for the core business growth strategy outlined in the "NX Group Business Plan 2023 - Dynamic Growth," the NX Group has positioned the pharmaceutical industry as a priority industry and is moving forward in developing quality control systems and improving its business infrastructure both inside and outside Japan in accordance with the Good Distribution Practices (GDP) established for pharmaceuticals.
Nippon Express has heretofore provided a pharmaceutical distribution platform with strict temperature control in two ranges -- 2 C to 8 C (refrigerated) and 15 C to 25 C (constant temperature) -- and has recently introduced innovations that will enable it henceforth to handle goods requiring ultra-low temperatures in the -20 C to -85 C range.
These enhancements will permit ultra-low temperature storage and transport of pharmaceutical products at the research and development stage and in the formulation process. Nippon Express is thus able to offer temperature-controlled logistics services for a broad spectrum of pharmaceutical commodities, including raw materials, intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients as well as finished products.
Going forward, Nippon Express will continue expanding and developing its services globally to meet demand for increasingly sophisticated and diversified end-to-end pharmaceutical logistics services.
Dedicated website for pharmaceutical logistics services
URL: https://www.nipponexpress.com/industries/pharma/
Nippon Express website: https://www.nipponexpress.com/
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NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE: NLSN) (the "Company") announced today that certain of its subsidiaries have commenced cash tender offers (collectively, the "Tender Offer") to purchase any and all of The Nielsen Company (Luxembourg) S.à r.l.'s ("Luxembourg Issuer") outstanding 5.000% Senior Notes due 2025 (the "2025 Notes") and any and all of Nielsen Finance LLC and Nielsen Finance Co.'s (together, the "US Issuers" and, together with the Luxembourg Issuer, the "Offerors") outstanding 5.625% Senior Notes due 2028 (the "2028 Notes"), 4.500% Senior Notes due 2029 (the "2029 Notes"), 5.875% Senior Notes due 2030 (the "2030 Notes") and 4.750% Senior Notes due 2031 (the "2031 Notes" and together with the 2025 Notes, 2028 Notes, 2029 Notes and 2030 Notes, the "Notes"). In connection with the Tender Offer, the Offerors are soliciting the consents of holders of the Notes to certain proposed amendments to the respective indentures governing the Notes (collectively, the "Consent Solicitation"). Concurrently with but separate from the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation, the Offerors have commenced offers to purchase for cash any and all of the Notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount (the "Change of Control Purchase Price") of the Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of purchase (collectively, the "Change of Control Offer"), pursuant to the change of control provisions of the indentures governing each applicable series of Notes. The Offerors are commencing the Tender Offer, the Consent Solicitation and the Change of Control Offer in connection with, and each is expressly conditioned upon, the acquisition of the Company pursuant to the Transaction Agreement, dated March 28, 2022, as amended on August 19, 2022, by and among the Company, Neptune Intermediate Jersey Limited and Neptune BidCo US Inc., as further amended from time to time (the "Acquisition"). Neptune Intermediate Jersey Limited and Neptune BidCo US Inc. are newly-formed entities established by a consortium of private investment funds led by Evergreen Coast Capital Corp., an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management L.P., and Brookfield Business Partners L.P., together with institutional partners, for the purpose of acquiring the Company.
The Tender Offer will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on September 21, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated (such date and time, as may be extended, or earlier terminated, the "Expiration Date"). Under the terms of the Tender Offer, holders of the Notes who validly tender their Notes and provide their consents to the proposed amendments and do not validly withdraw their Notes and consents at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on September 7, 2022 (such date and time, as may be extended, the "Early Tender Date") will receive an amount equal to $1,011.25 per $1,000.00 in principal amount of Notes (the "Total Consideration"), which amount includes an early participation premium equal to $50.00 per $1,000.00 in principal amount (the "Early Participation Premium"). Holders who validly tender their Notes and provide their consents to the proposed amendments after the Early Tender Date but at or prior to the Expiration Date will receive an amount equal to $961.25 per $1,000.00 in principal amount (the "Tender Consideration").
Holders whose Notes are accepted in the Tender Offer will also be paid accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes up to, but excluding, the settlement date. Holders should note that the Total Consideration is higher than, and the Tender Consideration is lower than, the Change of Control Purchase Price under the Change of Control Offer. The procedures for tendering Notes in the Tender Offer and in the Change of Control Offer are separate. Notes tendered in the Tender Offer may not be validly tendered in the Change of Control Offer for the related series of Notes, and Notes tendered in the Change of Control Offer may not be validly tendered in the Tender Offer for the related series of Notes.
The purpose of the Consent Solicitation and proposed amendments is to eliminate the requirement to make a "Change of Control Offer" for the Notes in connection with the Acquisition and to make certain other customary changes for a privately-held company to the "Change of Control" provisions in the indentures governing the Notes. Holders may not tender their Notes in the Tender Offer without delivering their consents under the related Consent Solicitation, and holders may not deliver their consents under the Consent Solicitation without tendering their Notes pursuant to the related Tender Offer. If the requisite consents to approve the proposed amendments with respect to a series of Notes are received (and a supplemental indenture to the related indenture giving effect to the proposed amendments is executed), the Offerors expect to terminate the Change of Control Offer for such series of Notes.
Consummation of the Tender Offer and payment for the Notes validly tendered pursuant to the Tender Offer are subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including, but not limited to, the receipt of requisite consents for such series of Notes and the consummation of the Acquisition. The Offerors reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to waive any and all conditions to the Tender Offer. Complete details of the terms and conditions of the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation are included in the Offerors' offer to purchase and consent solicitation, dated August 24, 2022. The Acquisition is expected to close in October 2022, and the Offerors expect the consummation of the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation to coincide with the closing of the Acquisition through the extension of the Expiration Date, although not the applicable withdrawal deadline (unless required by law). The consummation of the Acquisition is not conditioned upon, either directly or indirectly, the consummation of the Tender Offer or the receipt of the requisite consents in the Consent Solicitation.
Requests for documents relating to the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation may be directed to D.F. King & Co, Inc., the Information and Tender Agent, toll free at (888) 541-9895, toll at (212) 269-5550 (Banks and Brokers) or email at nielsen@dfking.com. BofA Securities, Inc. ("BofA Securities") will act as Dealer Manager for the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation. Questions regarding the Tender Offer and the Consent Solicitation may be directed to BofA Securities at (980) 388-3646 (collect) or (888) 292-0070 (toll free).
The Change of Control Offer is being made in connection with, and is expressly conditioned upon, the consummation of the Acquisition. The consummation of the Acquisition will constitute a "Change of Control" under each of the respective indentures governing the Notes. Following such a Change of Control, Section 4.14 of the respective indentures governing the Notes requires the Offerors to make an offer to purchase at a purchase price in cash equal to the Change of Control Purchase Price, plus accrued and unpaid interest up to, but excluding, the date of purchase. The Offerors, however, are permitted to make a Change of Control Offer in advance of the Change of Control if a definitive agreement for such Change of Control is in place at the time the offer is made.
The Change of Control Offer will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on September 21, 2022, unless extended or earlier terminated. The Acquisition is expected to close in October 2022, and the Offerors intend to extend the expiration time to have the purchase date in the Change of Control Offer coincide with the closing of the Acquisition. If the requisite consents to approve the proposed amendments with respect to a series of Notes are received (and a supplemental indenture to the related indenture giving effect to the proposed amendments is executed), the Offerors expect to terminate the Change of Control Offer for such series of Notes.
The consummation of the Acquisition is not conditioned upon, either directly or indirectly, the consummation of the Change of Control Offer.
Holders who do not tender their Notes in the Change of Control Offer, or who tender their Notes in the Change of Control Offer but validly withdraw such Notes, may tender their Notes in the Tender Offer. Holders should note that the Total Consideration is higher than, and the Tender Consideration is lower than, the Change of Control Purchase Price under the Change of Control Offer.
This press release neither constitutes a notice of Change of Control Offer as required by the respective indentures governing the Notes, nor does it constitute an offer to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to sell or a solicitation of consents with respect to, any security. No offer, solicitation or purchase will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or purchase would be unlawful.
Requests for information or additional copies of the Change of Control Offer, dated August 24, 2022, may be directed to D.F. King & Co, Inc., the Information and Tender Agent, toll free at (888) 541-9895, toll at (212) 269-5550 (Banks and Brokers) or email at nielsen@dfking.com.
This communication includes information that could constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include those set forth above relating to the proposed transaction as well as those that may be identified by words such as "will," "intend," "expect," "anticipate," "should," "could" and similar expressions. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results and events could differ materially from what presently is expected, including regarding the proposed transaction and Nielsen ONE. Factors leading thereto may include, without limitation, the risks related to Ukraine conflict or the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy and financial markets, the uncertainties relating to the impact of the Ukraine conflict or the COVID-19 pandemic on Nielsen's business, the failure of Nielsen's new business strategy in accomplishing Nielsen's objectives, economic or other conditions in the markets Nielsen is engaged in, impacts of actions and behaviors of customers, suppliers and competitors, technological developments, as well as legal and regulatory rules and processes affecting Nielsen's business, the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals of the proposed transaction that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the proposed transaction, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the transaction agreement entered into pursuant to the proposed transaction (the "Agreement"), the possibility that the Company shareholders may not approve the Acquisition, the risk that the parties to the Agreement may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed transaction in a timely manner or at all, risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction, the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Nielsen's ordinary shares, the risk of any unexpected costs or expenses resulting from the proposed transaction, the risk of any litigation relating to the proposed transaction, the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of Nielsen to retain customers and retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders and other business relationships and on its operating results and business generally, the risk the pending proposed transaction could distract management of Nielsen, and other specific risk factors that are outlined in Nielsen's disclosure filings and materials, which you can find on http://www.nielsen.com/investors, such as its 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K reports that have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Please consult these documents for a more complete understanding of these risks and uncertainties. This list of factors is not intended to be exhaustive. Such forward-looking statements only speak as of the date of these materials, and Nielsen assumes no obligation to update any written or oral forward-looking statement made by Nielsen or on its behalf as a result of new information, future events or other factors, except as required by law.
This communication relates to the proposed transaction involving Nielsen. In connection with the proposed transaction, Nielsen will file relevant materials with the SEC, including Nielsen's definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed on July 8, 2022, as supplemented by the supplement to the definitive proxy statement filed on August 19, 2022 (the "Proxy Statement"). This communication is not a substitute for the Proxy Statement or for any other document that Nielsen may file with the SEC and send to its shareholders in connection with the proposed transaction. The proposed transaction will be submitted to Nielsen's shareholders for their consideration. Before making any voting decision, Nielsen's shareholders are urged to read all relevant documents filed or to be filed with the SEC, including the Proxy Statement, as well as any amendments or supplements to those documents, when they become available because they will contain important information about the proposed transaction.
Nielsen's shareholders are able to obtain a free copy of the Proxy Statement, as well as other filings containing information about Nielsen, without charge, at the SEC's website (www.sec.gov). Copies of the Proxy Statement and the filings with the SEC that will be incorporated by reference therein can also be obtained, without charge, by directing a request to Nielsen Holdings plc, 675 6th Avenue New York, NY 10010, Attention: Investor Relations; telephone (410) 717-7134, or from Nielsen's website www.nielsen.com.
Nielsen and certain of its directors, executive officers and employees may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in respect of the proposed transaction. Information regarding Nielsen's directors and executive officers is available in Nielsen's definitive proxy statement for its 2022 Annual General Meeting, which was filed with the SEC on April 5, 2022. Other information regarding the participants in the proxy solicitation and a description of their direct and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, are contained in the Proxy Statement and other relevant materials to be filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed transaction when they become available. Free copies of the Proxy Statement and such other materials may be obtained as described in the preceding paragraph.
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SOURCE Nielsen Holdings plc | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/08/24/nielsen-announces-commencement-tender-offers-consent-solicitations-change-control-offers-senior-notes/ | 2022-08-24T21:44:39Z |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Well, not that long ago the internet was locked in on Phoenix Suns superstar Devin Booker as he trolled Dallas Mavericks’ young king Luka Doncic after flopping and dubbing it, “The Luka Special.”
Booker and his fans aren’t laughing anymore after getting obliterated by Doncic and the Mavs in Game 7 in their NBA Playoffs series. However, laughs are being had on Twitter from a tweet nearly 10 years ago by the Suns’ shooting guard.
On May 12, 2013, Devin Booker tweeted, “I wished I lived in a bigger city.. Like Dallas! Lol.” After the embarrassing loss it wasn’t long before the tweet resurfaced and the internet trolls did what they do best and troll.
Well, now it’s time to move on and smile as the Mavs will face the offensive juggernaut that is the Golden State Warriors who seem to have room to add even more splash bros to the family that was originally Steph Curry and Klay Thompson with Jordan Poole coming in hot in the NBA Playoffs so far. | https://cw33.com/sports/2013-tweet-from-suns-devin-booker-shows-love-to-dallas-internet-trolls-resurface-it-after-game-7-loss/ | 2022-05-16T19:24:25Z |
Fewer than 1 in 5 US parents say they’ll get COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 5 as soon as they can, survey finds
By Virginia Langmaid, CNN
US children under 5 are getting closer to authorized COVID-19 vaccines, but most parents may be reluctant to actually get them when they become available, a new survey found.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Vaccine Monitor survey, published Wednesday, only 18% of parents of children under 5 said they would vaccinate their child against COVID-19 as soon as a vaccine was available.
Nearly 40% of parents of young children said they would “wait and see” before vaccinating their child, 11% said they would get the vaccine only if required, and 27% said they would “definitely not” vaccinate their child against COVID-19.
More than half of parents in this age group said they “don’t have enough information about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for children in this age group,” compared with 34% of parents of children ages 5-11 and 25% of parents of children ages 12-17. About 13% of parents of young children said the US Food and Drug Administration’s delay in authorizing a vaccine in this age group made them less confident about its safety, and 22% said it made them more confident.
There were similar findings among parents of older children. For the 5 to 11 age group, 39% of parents said their children were vaccinated, and 32% said their children would definitely not be vaccinated. Among parents of children 12 to 17, 56% said their kids had been vaccinated, and 31% said they definitely will not have their children vaccinated.
A majority of parents who took part in the survey also said they felt that their child was at least somewhat safe from COVID-19 while at school, but the answers varied by race.
More than 80% of parents surveyed said their child was very or somewhat safe in school. However, only a third of Black or Hispanic parents said they felt that their child was very safe, compared with 52% of White parents.
The survey found a “large shift” in school mask requirements, with the percentage of parents who said that their child was required to wear a mask at school falling from 69% in September to 16% in April.
“Parents who are Black or Hispanic are more than twice as likely as White parents to say their child usually wears a mask (70% vs. 26%) and five times as likely to say that most other students at their child’s school wear masks (9% vs. 47%),” the report authors wrote.
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MILWAUKEE, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A. O. Smith Corporation (NYSE: AOS), a leader in water heating and water treatment, today announced the appointment of Noelle Brigham, P. E., Env. SP. as the Company's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Director. Brigham will lead and drive all aspects of the ESG initiatives while developing a long-term strategy for the Company's global commitments and strategy in this field.
Brigham is a licensed Professional Engineer and Envision Sustainability Professional with more than 20 years of experience in sustainability and environmental engineering in the consumer products and consulting industries. In her sustainability role at S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Brigham created global strategies and led international implementation plans for research, development and engineering for consumer product formulation and packaging. As an Instructor, Professor of Practice in the Opus College of Engineering at Marquette University, she developed a new sustainability management executive education program.
"Noelle's extensive experience in the ESG space will prove invaluable as we continue A. O. Smith's efforts to blend our business and sustainability goals," said Chuck Lauber, A. O. Smith executive vice president and chief financial officer. "Underpinning our corporate values is a commitment to sustainability and we are proud to welcome Noelle to lead this critical initiative as her singular focus."
Noelle is completing her PhD in environmental engineering at Marquette University. She received her master's in environmental engineering and Bachelor of Science in civil and environmental engineering from Marquette University as well. She is a member of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) and Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam Development committee member, in addition to participating in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources air management study group.
A. O. Smith Corporation, with headquarters in Milwaukee, Wis., is a global leader applying innovative technology and energy-efficient solutions to products manufactured and marketed worldwide. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: AOS), the company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of residential and commercial water heating equipment and boilers, as well as a manufacturer of water treatment products. For more information, visit www.aosmith.com.
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Suspect accused of body-slamming man on concrete charged with attempted murder, police say
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) – A man in Louisiana was charged with attempted second-degree murder after authorities say he body-slammed another man on concrete, causing the victim to suffer a brain bleed.
Brody Hurst was arrested and booked in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on Tuesday.
According to arrest documents, on March 5, around 3 a.m., the victim stated Hurst showed up at an apartment complex. The victim reported that he encountered Hurst after entering the security gate of the complex and that the two were not on speaking terms.
A witness told police Hurst and the victim had agreed to meet up to resolve issues between them.
Once the victim entered the security gate, the witness says Hurst grabbed the victim and slammed him to the ground, knocking him unconscious. The witness went on to tell police Hurst began stomping the victim in the head and torso as he lay unconscious.
The witness also stated she had to pull Hurst off the victim with the help of another person. The witness reportedly told Hurst that she was calling police, causing Hurst to stop and flee the scene.
Cell phone footage captured some of the attack, police say.
Arrest documents detail the witness took the victim to a local hospital. A bone in the victim’s face got broken and he suffered bleeding on the brain, reports say.
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ASTON, Pa., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 14, representatives from fourteen 14 credit unions and three legislators delivered 3,035 pounds of non-perishable food items as well as donated $26,100 to Philabundance's South Philadelphia warehouse. Loree Jones, president of Philabundance expressed her gratitude for the credit unions' continued support, emphasizing the need is often greater during the summer months when students are out of school. Rep. Mike Zabel said it was great to see such overwhelming support from credit unions as well as his constituents. However, he stated he hopes there comes a time when children as well as adults don't have to go hungry, and we no longer need to have food drives to offer assistance.
The following legislators and credit unions participated:
- Senator Maria Collett
- Representative Jennifer O'Mara
- Representative Mike Zabel
- American Heritage Federal Credit Union
- Ardent Credit Union
- BHCU
- Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union
- Freedom Credit Union
- Merck Sharpe & Dohme
- Norristown Bell Credit Union
- Penn Federal Credit Union
- Reliance Federal Credit Union
- Sun East Federal Credit Union
- Superior Federal Credit Union
- Tri County Federal Credit Union
- TruMark Financial® Credit Union
- Ukrainian Selfreliance Federal Credit Union
With inflation surging along with school programs paused for the summer, there has been an increase in the number of people needing assistance to feed their families. "Sun East is proud of our commitment to people helping people, and humbled by the generosity of our employees," said Sun East's President and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Kaczenski.
Sun East Federal Credit Union, founded in 1949, is a full-service, not-for-profit purpose driven financial institution serving the savings, borrowing, and virtual banking needs of 50,000+ members, 1,250 employers, and multiple other organizations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. Sun East has over $820 million in assets with branches throughout the Quad-State area, nationwide ATM access, and online and mobile banking. For more information, call 877- 5-SUNEAST or visit www.suneast.org.
MEDIA CONTACT: Sharee L. Coleman 610-485-2960 ext. 268
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FGP acquires minority stake in CCI, signs Portfolio Management Service Agreement to accelerate growth across investment strategies
SOLANA BEACH, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear Creek Investments ("CCI"), an emerging investment manager focused on sustainably oriented investments across the food, water, and energy sectors; and Falco Global Partners ("FGP"), a private equity operations management company; today announced a strategic partnership and investment, with FGP acquiring a minority stake in CCI and entering into a Portfolio Management Services Agreement to benefit current and future CCI portfolio companies and investors.
With FGP's long standing operational support in European and trans-Atlantic investments, the partnership will broaden CCI's global reach, deepen its operational expertise, and increase its prospective limited partner base. Current CCI investments will also benefit from FGP's deep knowledge in private and public capital markets – including commercial and industrial due diligence, acquisition strategy, structuring, program management and integration – to drive growth and enhance value across the CCI investment strategies.
"As a young and rapidly growing firm, CCI's strategic partnership with Falco Global Partners gives us the additional tools we need to punch above our weight class, further accelerate our investing activities, and ensure that we continue creating value for our clients," said Todd Crescenzo, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, CCI. "FGP is recognized globally as a best-in-class private equity operations management team and its minority stake in CCI validates our leadership and ability to execute our investment strategies across public and private markets."
"With over 150 years of combined operating experience among the senior executive team at FGP, sustainability and innovation are always top of mind," said Mike Allan, Partner, FGP. "We believe in the vision that Clear Creek Investments has laid out and together we can strengthen our value, expanding our work with companies in the U.S. and Europe, and applying our expertise to both private and public companies across CCI's investment strategies."
This strategic partnership follows CCI's hiring in January of Paul Ang and David Smith, CFA, as Managing Directors at the firm. Ang and Smith focus on a broad range of growth initiatives including the firm's committed efforts to public equity market investing across the food, water, and energy sectors. CCI launched its public market strategies – the CCI Global Water Fund, LP, and the CCI Sustainable Innovations Fund, LP – in January with initial funding from CCI's investment team and shareholders.
For more information, visit www.clearcreekinv.com.
Clear Creek Investments ("CCI") is an emerging investment manager, based in Solana Beach, Calif., with a focus on investing in companies across the Energy, Food and Water sectors. Specifically, CCI looks to invest in companies across these critical but resource constrained sectors that are stewards of catalytic capital – "doing more with less" in the spirit of global innovation and betterment. The firm was founded in January 2021 and currently manages four investment vehicles across the private and public markets. CCI is a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).
Falco Global Partners ("FGP") is a private equity operations management company based in Zurich, Switzerland. FGP combines financial and operational excellence to create long-term and sustainable value with each portfolio partner. As former senior executives from various industries and located around the globe, FGP knows what it takes to deliver results within businesses and adopt an investment model which spans far beyond injections of capital. With years of operational expertise at global industry heavyweights and more than 30 years of combined experience in private equity, FGP has a strong track record of leading transformations of large global industrial portfolios and the ability to scale and grow new technology portfolios. Leveraging this experience, we reduce risk with hands-on involvement in the day-to-day operations and strategic conversations of our investees.
Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements contained in this news release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including the performance of financial markets, the investment performance of CCI's sponsored investment products and separately managed accounts, general economic conditions, future acquisitions, competitive conditions and government regulations, including changes in tax laws. Readers should carefully consider such factors. Further, such forward-looking statements speak only on the date at which such statements are made. CCI undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements.
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Eastern Afghanistan earthquake kills at least 255 people
Published: Jun. 22, 2022 at 12:29 AM CDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s state-run news agency says at least 255 people have killed in an earthquake that struck the country’s eastern Paktika province.
The state-run Bakhtar news agency reported the death toll Wednesday and said rescuers were arriving by helicopter.
Information remained scarce on the magnitude 6 temblor that struck Paktika province, but it comes as the international community largely has left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover of the country last year amid the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S. military from the longest war in its history.
That likely will complicate any relief efforts for this country of 38 million people.
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Two-vehicle crash slows traffic Friday morning in northeast Topeka
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A two-vehicle crash slowed traffic but resulted in no serious injuries Friday morning on a busy highway in northeast Topeka.
The collision was reported around 6:15 a.m. in the 800 block of N.E. US-24 highway.
A white Honda CRV sport utility vehicle and a white Volvo sport utility vehicle collided at that location.
The Honda came to rest facing southwest in the grassy center median that divides east- from westbound traffic on US-24.
The Volvo came to rest facing southwest in the right eastbound lane of US-24.
Police at the scene said no one required ambulance transportation to the hospital.
Wreckers were removing the vehicles from the scene.
Additional details weren’t immediately available.
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National Dog Bite Awareness Week Starts June 5
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 5,400 postal employees were attacked by dogs in the United States in 2021. From nips and bites to vicious attacks, aggressive dog behavior poses a serious threat to postal employees and the public. To highlight the enormity of this serious issue, the U.S. Postal Service is providing information on the do's and don'ts of responsible dog ownership as part of its annual National Dog Bite Awareness Week public service campaign.
The campaign runs Sunday, June 5, through Saturday, June 11. This year's theme is "The USPS Delivers for America — Deliver for Us by Restraining Your Dog." Spread the news of the campaign by using the hashtag #dogbiteawareness
"Every year, thousands of postal employees are attacked by dogs as they deliver America's mail. And while it's a dog's natural instinct to protect their family and home, we ask all customers to act responsibly by taking safety precautions with their dogs while the mail is being delivered," said USPS Employee Safety and Health Awareness Manager Leeann Theriault. "When a carrier comes to the residence, keep the dog inside the house and away from the door — or behind a fence on a leash — to avoid an attack."
Dog owners with friendly dogs often expect a friendly reaction from other dogs. However, even friendly dogs will bite, depending on the circumstance. Dogs are primarily territorial in nature and protective of their owners and their owners' property. Defending its territory sometimes means attacking — and possibly biting — the letter carrier. Dog owners are responsible for controlling their dogs. The best way to keep everyone safe from dog bites is to recognize and promote responsible pet ownership.
- Inside the house or behind a fence;
- Away from the door or in another room; or
- On a leash.
Informed Delivery is a useful tool for dog-owning customers. It's a free service that gives customers a digital preview of the mail and packages that are scheduled to be delivered so that they can take precautions and secure their dog when parcels are delivered to the door. Sign up at informeddelivery.usps.com.
Last year, many attacks reported by letter carriers came from dogs whose owners regularly stated, "My dog won't bite." Dog bites are entirely preventable. One bite is one too many.
- Not startle a dog.
- Keep their eyes on the dog.
- Never assume a dog won't bite.
- Make some noise or rattle a fence to alert the dog if entering a yard.
- Never attempt to pet or feed a dog.
- Place their foot against an outward swinging door.
Lastly, when a carrier feels unsafe, mail service could be halted — not only for the dog owner, but for the entire neighborhood. When mail service is stopped, mail must be picked up at the Post Office. Service will not be restored until the dog is properly restrained.
The top 25 ranking are comprised of 32 cities, as some cities reported the same number of attacks. For the 2022 dog attack rankings in your specific city or town, contact your local USPS public relations representative.
Top 10 Dog Bite States:
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Flashfood will roll out in five Vallarta stores in Palmdale and Lancaster to save Southern California shoppers money on groceries while reducing food waste
LANCASTER, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vallarta Supermarkets, one of the largest Latino-owned supermarket chains in California, has announced an exciting pilot partnership with Flashfood, a digital marketplace that provides customers access to heavily discounted food nearing its best-by date. The five-store pilot will bring the app to Los Angeles County shoppers in Palmdale and Lancaster for the first time, expanding Flashfood's presence across the U.S. from coast-to-coast.
Flashfood aims to eliminate food waste at the retail level by connecting shoppers with savings up to 50% on food nearing its best by date that would otherwise be thrown away. The partnership will enable consumers to save big on everyday grocery items like meat, produce boxes, dairy and bakery items, as well as center-store foods and snacks at five Vallarta stores.
The Flashfood app allows shoppers to conveniently browse and buy their groceries. Purchases are made directly through the app and customers can simply pick their order up from the Flashfood zone located inside their participating Vallarta store. The pilot partnership will not only save shoppers money but will drive further impact for the planet by reducing the amount of perfectly good food reaching landfills. To-date, the Flashfood app has diverted 40 million pounds of food from reaching the landfill and has saved shoppers more than $100 million on their groceries.
"Partnering with Flashfood enables us to connect our communities with discounted groceries at their local Vallarta store," said Andrew Lewis, Vice President of Marketing, Vallarta Supermarkets. "As a proven sustainability leader, Flashfood will not only help our shoppers save up to 50% on groceries but will also effectively reduce the amount of food reaching the landfill and further our commitment to zero waste."
The pilot partnership will make Flashfood available at the following Vallarta locations:
- 440 E. Palmdale Blvd, Palmdale, CA
- 1803 E. Palmdale Blvd, Palmdale, CA
- 38118 47th St. East, Palmdale, CA
- 815 E. Ave K, Lancaster, CA
- 1801 West Ave. I, Lancaster, CA
"An estimated one in nine Americans are food insecure, including more than 15% of shoppers in Lancaster and Palmdale," said Flashfood CEO and Founder, Josh Domingues. "We are proud to partner with Vallarta, who is deeply committed to serving their community to offer shoppers more affordable groceries, while in turn reducing food waste. This pilot partnership is exciting because it also marks Flashfood's entrance into the West Coast and expands our footprint across the country."
Today, Flashfood can be found in more than 1,210 participating grocery locations in the U.S. and Canada including GIANT, SpartanNash, SN Martin's, Loblaws, Tops Friendly Markets, Meijer, Giant Eagle, Stop & Shop, and more. All participating Flashfood store locations can be found via the store locator.
To learn more about Flashfood, visit Flashfood.com. To learn more about Vallarta's sustainability commitments visit vallartasupermarkets.com/en/sustainability/.
About Vallarta Supermarkets
Founded in 1985, Vallarta Supermarkets is a full-service independent grocery chain with 53 locations throughout California. Vallarta Supermarkets, known as the home of the Original Carne AsadaTM, is recognized for having fresh produce, quality meats, exquisite pastries, and specialty items from Latin America and other parts of the world. Visit www.vallartasupermarkets.com for additional information.
About Flashfood
Flashfood is a mobile app that is tackling the mounting problem of food waste by connecting local shoppers with grocery items nearing their best before date. Founded in 2016, Flashfood is live in more than 1,210 grocery stores throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Wisconsin, and Canada. Flashfood has diverted 40 million pounds of food, saved shoppers millions of dollars on their groceries, and fed hundreds of thousands of families more affordably. Flashfood partners include Meijer, The GIANT Company, Tops Friendly Markets, SpartanNash, Giant Eagle, and Loblaw Corp. Flashfood is available on iOS and Android. Find out more at www.flashfood.com.
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LEADING OFF: Old-Timers’ Day in Bronx, Kershaw at Coors
By The Associated Press
Ron Guidry, Bernie Williams and Tino Martinez highlight the Yankees alumni set to appear at Old-Timers’ Day in the Bronx prior to a matchup with the Kansas City Royals. There won’t be a playful reunion game this season, with New York calling off the exhibition because too many of the retired players in attendance will be recovering from various operations. But there will still be a pregame ceremony on the field at Yankee Stadium, which will also include David Cone, Bucky Dent and Aaron Boone. Elsewhere, Clayton Kershaw pitches in Colorado — his second outing since starting the All-Star Game for the National League on his home mound at Dodger Stadium. The three-time Cy Young Award winner is 11-7 with a 4.81 ERA at hitter-friendly Coors Field. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/29/leading-off-old-timers-day-in-bronx-kershaw-at-coors/ | 2022-07-30T08:46:52Z |
20-month program to provide students with critical skill set to meet evolving business demands
NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of a commitment to prepare the business leaders of tomorrow, Columbia Business School and Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science will offer a new dual-degree program that pairs the foundational skill sets of business with those of engineering. Students in the 20-month program will receive two degrees: a Master of Business Administration and an Executive Master of Science in Engineering and Applied Science. The program will officially launch in September 2023 and interested students can begin applying now.
Designed to meet the evolving needs of leaders in technology, product managers, entrepreneurs, and other roles associated with technology and business, the Dual MBA/Executive MS in Engineering and Applied Science curriculum will cover core engineering, areas of "tough tech," and applied science foundations, as well as essential business courses in leadership, strategy, finance, economics, and marketing. Students will take courses with both Columbia Business School and Columbia Engineering faculty, spend a summer pursuing an entrepreneurial venture or interning at a technology company, and complete a capstone project.
"Today's business challenges are multidisciplinary, and their solutions often lean on technological innovations. Students need, on one hand, a broad exposure to and understanding of how technology and engineering breakthroughs are shaping our lives today and the world of tomorrow. And, on the other hand, they need a deep understanding of business and, importantly, how to manage and lead in this dynamic environment," said Columbia Business School Dean Costis Maglaras, the David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business. "In this competitive marketplace, Columbia's new MBAxMS: Engineering & Applied Science equips students with both the management skills and the science and technology core that enables them to move seamlessly from the classroom to product development to large-scale innovation – and ultimately help create and grow companies and drive change."
The MBAxMS: Engineering & Applied Science core curriculum will focus on the creative application of technology and will include a variety of new and existing courses, including Digital Disruption & Tech Transfer, Business Analytics, Human-Centered Design and Innovation, and more. Students will also choose from an extensive array of electives designed to stimulate innovation, strengthen analytical skills, and bolster critical knowledge for their specific entrepreneurial or enterprise path.
"Technology, data, and analytics are transforming every aspect of modern businesses, especially those prized by the ambitious and entrepreneurial students who come to Columbia University," said Columbia Engineering Dean Shih-Fu Chang, the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor of Engineering. "We recognize how important it is to provide students with broad exposures to emerging technology breakthroughs, the comprehensive training of business leadership skills, the unique experience in applying the human-centric design approach to innovative products and solutions, and importantly the ability to apply these unique skills in confronting major challenges facing our society and business world today. We look forward to partnering with Columbia Business School to launch an unprecedented program that can give our students a major boost."
The dual degree program, which is based in New York City, provides students with unmatched access and opportunities to work with and learn from the world's leaders in business, technology, data, analytics, and more. This includes opportunities to learn from guest speakers, meet with in-house mentors, and pursue internship opportunities that extend beyond the summer months. With one of the largest tech and entrepreneurial ecosystems in the country, the NYC location provides a unique, one-of-a-kind experience for the Dual MBA/Executive MS in Engineering and Applied Science students and graduates.
To learn more about the program, please visit https://academics.gsb.columbia.edu/mbaxms.
About Columbia Business School
Columbia Business School is the only world-class, Ivy League business school that delivers a learning experience where academic excellence meets with real-time exposure to the pulse of global business. The thought leadership of the School's faculty and staff members, combined with the accomplishments of its distinguished alumni and position in the center of global business, means that the School's efforts have an immediate, measurable impact on the forces shaping business every day. To learn more about Columbia Business School's position at the very center of business, please visit www.gsb.columbia.edu.
About Columbia Engineering
Columbia Engineering, based in New York City, is one of the top engineering schools in the U.S. and one of the oldest in the nation. Also known as The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School expands knowledge and advances technology through the pioneering research of its more than 250 faculty, while educating undergraduate and graduate students in a collaborative environment to become leaders informed by a firm foundation in engineering. The School's faculty are at the center of the University's cross-disciplinary research, contributing to the Data Science Institute, Earth Institute, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Precision Medicine Initiative, and the Columbia Nano Initiative. Guided by its strategic vision, "Columbia Engineering for Humanity," the School aims to translate ideas into innovations that foster a sustainable, healthy, secure, connected, and creative humanity. To learn more about Columbia Engineering, please visit engineering.columbia.edu.
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, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Link-age today announced that Steve Wermuth, Partner at Strategic Health Care, will join Link-age effective today as Vice President of Strategic Innovation. Wermuth leaves Strategic Health Care to join Link-age after a four-decade long career in public policy, health care, and senior living.
"I am excited to join this successful team, which provides important services to long-term care providers," said Wermuth. "Health care is changing and Link-age's ability to introduce providers to innovations and processes to improve their business functions as well as health outcomes for those they serve will be vital."
Link-age is a union of three interconnected companies that serve the senior living space through its group purchasing organization, market intelligence capabilities, and growth-oriented innovation funds. Through its partnership with investment bank Ziegler, Link-age is focused on growing technology, tech-enabled services, and emerging care delivery models in the post-acute and aging markets.
"Steve's extensive health care and public policy background along with his deep understanding of industry trends make him a perfect fit as our Vice President of Strategic Innovation," said Scott Collins, Chairman and CEO of Link-age. "In this role, Steve will be directly involved in helping Link-age develop and launch innovative new companies that directly address the most critical challenges facing healthcare providers across the continuum."
Prior to joining Strategic Health Care as Partner and managing clients within the health care sector, Wermuth served as Chief Operating Officer at the Ohio Department of Health, overseeing over 120 programs and managing the government affairs staff at the department. Wermuth also served as interim President & CEO for LeadingAge Ohio from 2012-2013 through a transitional period.
Wermuth's background includes nearly 40 years of experience in health care, including 15 years serving as health commissioner in both Tuscarawas and Clark counties. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cincinnati in Community Health Education, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Kent State University.
Link-age is a Mason, Ohio-based company with membership comprised of more than 850 senior living communities located across the United States. Link-age's three interconnected companies - Solutions, Connect, and Ventures - work together to develop and deliver services that help senior living organizations focus on being successful. For more information, visit www.linkageconnect.com.
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Lights out! Mets-Nationals delayed 14 minutes in the dark
WASHINGTON (AP) — Baseball players and fans are familiar with rain delays. Even, in recent times, replay review delays. The Washington Nationals and New York Mets waited through a lights delay on Friday night. Max Scherzer’s first start for the Mets — against the Nationals, the team he helped with the 2019 World Series, no less — was held up for 14 minutes because the lights at Washington’s stadium did not turn on fully. Players had taken the field at Nationals Park in anticipation of a scheduled 7:05 p.m. start for the teams’ second game of the season. But only a handful of bulbs actually turned on around the ballpark as dusk descended. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/04/08/lights-out-mets-nationals-delayed-14-minutes-in-the-dark/ | 2022-04-09T01:19:23Z |
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mitch Trubisky, Kenny Pickett and Mason Rudolph all impressed Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin during the preseason with their respective accuracy.
If only the same could be said for whoever put together the team’s initial depth chart for the 2022 season.
While Tomlin announced Trubisky as the starter on Tuesday — a move telegraphed a day prior when Trubisky’s teammates voted him one of five captains for 2022 and the depth chart placed Trubisky’s name at the top — it will be Pickett and not Rudolph who will serve as Trubisky’s backup on Sunday when the Steelers open at defending AFC champion Cincinnati.
The chart released on Monday had Rudolph listed as the No. 2 before being corrected shortly before Tomlin spoke on Tuesday. Entering his 16th season, Tomlin laughed off the mix-up as a clerical error.
“The cut-and-paste component was the cut-and-paste component,” Tomlin said with a smile. “ I know you were hoping for a little bit more colorful explanation, but it is what it is.”
Tomlin and the Steelers are optimistic the depth chart won’t require much editing in the coming weeks following a solid preseason by Trubisky in which the 28-year-old gave the coaching staff little reason to consider turning to Pickett, the 20th overall pick in the draft, or Rudolph, who is now in his fifth season with the club.
“We’re just really comfortable with what Mitch has shown us,” Tomlin said. “He’s a guy that came to us with franchise quarterback experience if you will. He’s comfortable in those shoes.”
Trubisky has certainly acted the part over the past six months, immediately embracing his fresh start after spending 2021 backing up Josh Allen in Buffalo following four turbulent seasons in Chicago. He reached out to his new teammates shortly after signing an incentive-laden two-year contract in March, hosted skill position players at his house in Miami and hardly seemed bothered by the team’s decision to draft Pickett in late April.
And for all of the issues that cropped up during Trubisky’s tenure in Chicago — some of them well out of his control — he had a 29-21 record as a starter and twice led the Bears to the playoffs, all things that made Trubisky “very attractive” to a team that has been a postseason fixture for the majority of the past 50 years.
Pickett did his best to apply pressure, playing well during the preseason on his way to supplanting Rudolph as the No. 2.
Tomlin said Pickett’s learning curve accelerated during exhibition games, where he passed for 261 yards and three touchdowns without throwing an interception.
“I thought that he grew and grew at a really fast pace once we got in the stadiums,” Tomlin said. “And I also think it’s reasonable to expect that growth and development to continue as we push into the regular season.”
That development won’t include — at least at the moment — having Pickett on the field in certain packages, something other teams like San Francisco have done with rookie first-round quarterbacks.
At least Pickett will be in uniform. Rudolph — who is 8-5 as a starter — will be inactive after Tomlin said the team will not dress a third quarterback. Tomlin made it a point to praise Rudolph’s professionalism during the process and said the play of Rudolph, Pickett and Trubisky over the past six weeks helped a young offense get up to speed quickly.
“I thought all three of our quarterbacks represented themselves, us really, well through this process,” he said. “I thought they made plays. I thought they moved their units. I thought they took care of the football. So that made the (final decision) a challenging one.”
NOTE: Tomlin declined to offer specifics when asked if Pro Bowl WR Diontae Johnson (left shoulder) would be available for the opener. Johnson injured the shoulder while making a catch in the preseason finale against Detroit on Aug. 28.
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‘If I win $1M, we are splitting it’: Friends share winning lottery ticket after good deed
METHUEN, Mass. (Gray News) - A lucky lottery winner is sharing his newfound wealth with a friend who had recently helped him and his family.
According to the Massachusetts State Lottery, Eric Cochrane won the $1 million prize in the lottery’s $10 million Winter Riches instant ticket game on April 15.
Cochrane told lottery officials that he planned on splitting his winnings with his friend John Galvin after Galvin helped him fix his son’s guitar at no charge.
Galvin said he did not charge Cochrane for the repair as Cochrane’s son had a health issue that week.
Cochrane insisted that Galvin accept at least $40. When Galvin refused, Cochrane said he decided to purchase two $20 instant tickets and told Galvin he would split the money if he won $1 million.
Later that day, the two friends were on their way to the lottery headquarters.
Cochrane selected the cash option in receiving a one-time payment of $650,000, according to lottery officials.
The winning ticket was purchased at a convenience store in the Methuen area. The store will receive a $10,000 bonus for the sale.
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CHICAGO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Van Lines, one of the world's largest moving companies, has identified the top five cities to which Maryland residents are moving recently. Every year, Allied Van Lines produces a Migration Map report based on their data to show relocation rates across the United States. These recent reports have shown that Maryland's population has faced a decline in recent years. Many of these Maryland residents are relocating to states with larger populations, more job opportunities, and more affordable living costs. As an expert in relocation, Allied Van Lines has used their data and research to compile a list of the top five cities where Maryland residents are relocating. Allied Van Lines' Migration Map data was also used to examine why Maryland residents are choosing to move out of state.
The top five relocation cities for Maryland residents that were named by Allied Van Lines are as follows:
- Sarasota, Florida
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Los Angeles, California
- Tampa, Florida
- West Palm Beach, Florida
The article shared by Allied Van Lines explores the qualities of each new destination city that could be potential reasons as to why Maryland residents are choosing to relocate to these particular locations. Typically, when people move to a new state, it is because they are in search of a better quality of life. When relocating, people consider elements like crime rates, quality and availability of health care, quality of education, well-being, and commuter index. The statistics from the Migration Map data show that many of these people are moving to states with lower living costs, unemployment rates, and income taxes. Additionally, Maryland residents who choose to leave seem to migrate to states with warmer weather.
"Maryland is a beautiful state with a lot to offer, but in recent years, they have seen a population decline due to people relocating to states with lower income taxes and better work opportunities," stated Steve McKenna, Vice President and General Manager, Allied Van Lines. "Lots of these people are in search of a higher quality of living, along with nicer weather year-round and lower cost of living. These factors are leading to Maryland seeing a gradual population decline throughout recent years."
Allied Van Lines has been named a leader in providing relocation services to corporations, consumers, government agencies, and non-profit organizations worldwide, with over 400 agent locations in North America. The moving company has been voted as America's Most Recommended Moving Company by Women's Choice Awards for five consecutive years and is an established global brand of SIRVA, Inc. As one of the leaders in the moving van industry, Allied Van Lines has the data and research tools required to analyze relocation patterns in the United States. The company's recently released article, "Where are Maryland Residents Moving To?" can be viewed by visiting https://www.allied.com/migration-map/2021/maryland.
For more information about Allied Van Lines, go to www.allied.com.
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Establishes "LG Life's Good Endowed Scholarship Fund" and Contributes to Rebuild of Fire-Damaged Basketball Court and Other Technology Upgrades at the School
NEW ORLEANS, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As March Madness® and the Men's Final Four® reaches its crescendo in New Orleans, LG Electronics USA, an official NCAA® partner, announced today it has committed $150,000 in funding as well as product to St. Augustine High School, a New Orleans-based college preparatory school.
The pledge from LG will establish the "LG Life's Good Endowed Scholarship Fund" at the school as well as contribute to the rebuild of the school's flood and fire-damaged basketball court. LG is also supplying a range of products including LG OLED TVs for a new film room in its Health & Wellness Center, LG Washers & Dryers for a new laundry room and LG Air Purifiers for use throughout the school. The LG Life's Good Endowed Scholarship Fund, which will award its first recipient this year, is a need-based general award that all St. Augustine High School graduating seniors can apply for as long as they are going to attend an NCAA school.1
"As a proud partner of the NCAA, LG wanted to give back to the host city of the Men's Final Four and help inspire the next wave of student athletes in New Orleans," said Peggy Ang, Senior Vice President of Marketing at LG Electronics USA. "When our partners at the NCAA, Turner Sports and CBS Sports, brought to us the story of St. Augustine and the positive impact that school has in its community, we wanted to help them continue their tradition of inspiring students to succeed in the classroom and on the field of play."
"We are truly grateful for this inspiring commitment from LG," said Aulston Taylor, President & CEO at St. Augustine High School. "The St. Augustine community is thrilled that LG has decided to invest in the future of our students and our school. Our basketball court and Health & Wellness Center are a symbol of resiliency at St. Augustine, as it has emerged stronger after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida, and most recently a fire on Thanksgiving Day last year. With the help of friends like LG and many other supporters of our school, we are on the path to rebuilding our facility to its former glory. We will prevail!"
St. Augustine High School is an all-boys Catholic high school founded in 1951. Educating students primarily of predominantly African American backgrounds, the school serves as a training ground for leadership through academic excellence and moral values. It is also home to the world-renowned marching band, "Marching 100", which was the first high school band to march in the Rex Parade on Mardi Gras Day in 1967. The band has since played for eight U.S. Presidents, and performed at five Super Bowls, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC, and the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California. The band will perform at the halftime of this year's second Final Four game. To learn more about St. Augustine High School's fund raising efforts, please visit staugnola.org/lg
LG's commitment to St. Augustine High School arose as part of a three-year partnership with the NCAA, Turner Sports, and CBS Sports for category exclusive marketing and distribution rights to NCAA Championship competitions, including March Madness, that will expand the reach of college sports to legions of current fans and generations of new ones. LG's support of the NCAA Championships will include multiple initiatives to inspire fans and support student athletes including the recent launch of the NCAA Championships Channel (Channel 100), which will feature up to 50 NCAA Fall, Winter and Spring championships, both live and on-demand via LG's exclusive free streaming service, LG Channels. To learn more about LG's partnership with the NCAA visit LG.com/NCAA.
Editor's Note:
Video footage of the LG check presentation ceremony at St. Augustine High School available here.
Footnote:
1 LG will not be involved in selecting scholarship recipients. Selection of the scholarship recipients will be the sole responsibility St. Augustine High School. Eligibility for the scholarship is need-based and does not require participation in athletics as a prerequisite.
About LG Electronics USA
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $63 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, energy solutions and vehicle components. LG is a seven-time ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. www.LG.com.
About St. Augustine High School
St. Augustine High School is a college preparatory school for young men in grades 8-12 founded in 1951 by the Josephite priests and brothers. St. Augustine High School has built a legacy serving as the training ground for leadership through academic excellence, moral values, Christian responsibility, and reasonable, consistent discipline. In 71 years, it has graduated 9,200 men.
About the NCAA®
The NCAA is a diverse association of more than 1,000 member colleges and universities that prioritize academics, well-being and fairness to create greater opportunities for nearly half a million student-athletes each year. The NCAA provides a pathway to higher education and beyond for student-athletes pursuing academic goals and competing in NCAA sports. More than 54,000 student-athletes experience the pinnacle of intercollegiate athletics by competing in NCAA championships each year. Visit ncaa.org and ncaa.com for more details about the association and the corporate partnerships that support the NCAA and its student-athletes. NCAA, Men's Final Four, and March Madness are trademarks of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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‘I thought it was merciful.’ Brian Laundrie confession claims Gabby’s death was mercy killing
Petito family unhappy contents were released
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The confession letter written in a notebook found near the remains of Brian Laundrie in Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park have been made public and the attorney for the Petito family is very concerned over the release.
Gabby and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, were on a cross-county journey last year, documenting the trip on social media, when Gabby suddenly disappeared on Aug. 25, 2021. Brian returned home -- alone -- to North Port with Gabby’s vehicle.
In September, Petito’s body was found in a remote area in a national park in Wyoming. The cause of death was ruled to be strangulation.
Brian Laundrie disappeared Sept. 17, 2021. His remains were eventually found in Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park near his home, and the cause of death was ruled as a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A notebook near his body contained a confession letter, in which he claims it was a mercy killing after Gabby suffered a head injury after falling.
“Please do not make life harder for my family,” Laundrie wrote. “They lost a son and a daughter. The most wonderful girl in the world. Gabby I’m sorry.”
Laundrie also added that Gabby was in pain and that he thought the killing was “merciful.”
A civil lawsuit currently underway alleges Christopher and Roberta Laundrie knew their son had killed their daughter and said nothing; and were conspiring to help him flee. It asks for damages for pain and suffering, accusing the couple of acting “with great malice or great indifference to the rights of Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt.”
The suit also contends that the Laundries concealed that their son had confessed to the murder from investigators and Petito’s parents while the search for Gabby was ongoing, intentionally inflicting emotional distress.
Laundrie family attorney Steven Bertolino released Brian’s confession letter in which he admitted to being responsible for Gabby’s death. Initially, he released the letter to Fox News but also provided a copy to ABC7.
In a statement, Bertolino wrote, “Today the Petito family attorney, Patrick Reilly, and myself met with the FBI in Tampa to sort through and take possession of the personal items that belonged to Gabby and Brian. This was a previously agreed upon exchange to enable both the Petitos and the Laundries to receive what belonged to their respective children.
“As part of this return of property in FBI custody I was given Brian’s notebook. I would like to share with the public the note that the FBI alluded to when they said on January 21, 2022 that Brian claimed responsibility for the death of Gabby Petito. Although I have chosen to release this letter as a matter of transparency I will not be commenting further as there are still proceedings pending in Court. These are Brian’s words.”
Patrick Reilly, attorney for the Petito family, reached out to ABC7 saying he was shocked that within a half-hour of meeting at the FBI’s office, the letter was released to the media.
Three people had been given a copy of the confession letter. Reilly said he, Nicole Schmidt and Steven Bertolino were the only ones who had copies.
“We were shocked to learn that within a half-hour’s time after we left the FBI office in Tampa the letter had been released. It was not released not by the Petitio family or on their behalf,” said Reilly.
Laundrie’s last request was for investigators to pick up his belongings. “Gabby hated people who litter.”
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Man arrested in weekend Pontotoc Co. murder
Published: Jul. 11, 2022 at 4:16 PM CDT|Updated: 8 minutes ago
PONTOTOC COUNTY, Okla. (KXII) - A man has been arrested accused of killing another man in a confrontation while the two were noodling on the South Canadian River in Pontotoc County on Saturday.
According to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Larry Sanders, 53, reported to authorities he had killed Jimmy Knighten by strangling and striking him.
Sanders was initially arrested on an outstanding warrant until Knighten’s body was found during a search by Pontotoc and Seminole county deputies and OSBI agents Sunday.
Sanders faces a charge of first degree murder and is being held in the Pontotoc County Jail.
Watch News 12 tonight for more on this story.
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Threat against federal law enforcement ‘imminent,’ official says
(Gray News) - Federal law enforcement officers are facing a “real” and “imminent” threat, a representative from an FBI organization said.
In an interview with CNN, Special Agent Brian O’Hare, head of the FBI Agents Association, urged the country’s political leaders to immediately and publicly denounce recent attacks on the agency.
“FBI Special Agents are dedicated members of the law enforcement community who put their lives on the line every day to protect the public from criminals and terrorists. Special Agents and their families should never be threatened with violence, including for doing their jobs,” he said recently in a statement.
“The threats made recently contribute to an atmosphere where some have, or will, accept violence against law enforcement as appropriate. It is not. This is not a partisan or political issue. It is a matter of public safety and basic decency.”
The FBI said they’ve been looking into an unprecedented number of threats to bureau personnel and property.
It’s more than just words. A man attacked the FBI office in Cincinnati on Thursday armed with a nail gun and a rifle, fled and then died in a gun battle with police.
The threats started after they searched the Florida resort of former President Donald Trump earlier this month.
O’Hare said the attacks are making it difficult for them to accomplish their mission of protecting the American people.
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There's still time to claim the enhanced child tax credit as well as other federal tax breaks, which could be worth hundreds -- if not thousands -- of dollars. But you have to submit your 2021 tax return first.
This year, the filing deadline is Monday, April 18.
Most eligible families received half of the beefed-up credit in monthly installments last year.
But other folks, particularly some very low-income Americans who aren't required to file taxes, have yet to see any of the funds.
Parents can claim the remaining amount on their 2021 return. They'll need Letter 6419 that the Internal Revenue Service mailed earlier this year. It states how much families received in monthly child tax credit payments from July through December and notes the number of kids the agency used to calculate the credit.
More than 36 million families with more than 61 million children received monthly payments, which totaled more than $92 billion, according to the IRS.
However, because the monthly payments were based on a family's income from a prior year, the amount of remaining credit they'll receive may have to be adjusted if parents' earnings or the family size changed in 2021. The letter is critical to this reconciliation.
Those who miss Monday's filing deadline still have time to claim the child tax credit as well as other credits. They can request an automatic six-month extension. Also, taxpayers can receive the credits if they file a 2021 return within the next three years. Those who are not required to file returns or don't owe money to the government generally will not face penalties.
Bigger child tax credit for 2021
Democrats beefed up the child tax credit to a maximum of $3,600 for each child up to age 6 and $3,000 for each one ages 6 through 17 as part of the American Rescue Plan Act, enacted in March 2021. Parents received up to $300 a month for younger children and $250 for older ones in the second half of last year -- the first time the credit was delivered on a monthly basis.
The full enhanced credit is available for heads of households earning up to $112,500 a year and joint filers making up to $150,000, after which it begins to phase out. For many families, the credit then plateaus at $2,000 per child and starts to phase out for single parents earning more than $200,000 or for married couples with incomes above $400,000.
Prior to the expansion, which was in effect only for 2021, the standard child tax credit was up to $2,000 for each child up to age 17, and parents claimed it annually on their tax returns.
Filing a tax return also enables parents to claim the enhanced child and dependent care tax credit.
Eligible families can be reimbursed for up to half of the cost of care for 2021 -- as much as $8,000 in expenses for one child under age 13 or other dependent and up to $16,000 for two or more dependents, under the American Rescue Plan Act expansion.
The credit is also fully refundable for 2021 for the first time, enabling more lower-income families to qualify. But taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of more than $438,000 are not eligible.
The changes helped an estimated 7 million working families better afford child and dependent care, according to the Treasury Department.
Previously, taxpayers could claim between 20% and 35% of their eligible child care expenses, up to $3,000 in costs for one qualifying child or dependent or $6,000 for two or more of them.
Plus, certain Americans without dependent children can claim a larger earned income tax credit when they file their 2021 returns. The American Rescue Plan Act nearly tripled the maximum credit from $540 to $1,500 and extended eligibility to more people. The minimum age to claim the childless credit was reduced to 19, from 25, and the upper age limit was eliminated. It was the first increase in the credit for these workers since 1993.
The enhancement of all three credits was only in effect for 2021.
Reaching the lowest-income Americans
To achieve its goal of reducing the child poverty rate, the Biden administration has been focused on getting the child tax credit to the lowest-income families who don't have to file returns. It's not known exactly how many children are in these households -- estimates range from 3 million to 5 million kids.
Next month, the administration will reopen a child tax credit portal, run by Code for America in partnership with the White House and Treasury Department, to give these parents a simplified way to claim the credit if they haven't filed a return.
The IRS, state benefits agencies and community organizations nationwide have been trying to reach these families since the monthly payments began last summer, urging them to submit a recent tax return or use either the Code for America portal or a similar one created by the IRS.
This year, the focus has been on having these parents file 2021 returns so they can claim all the credits -- and the third stimulus payment -- for which they are eligible.
Reaching these families, however, has proved challenging. The administration does not yet know exactly how many non-filers have claimed the child tax credit, Gene Sperling, the White House official responsible for managing coronavirus relief efforts, told CNN.
Some 730,000 children were automatically signed up for the credit when their parents filed for the stimulus payments using a different portal, he said.
Also, more than 115,000 simplified returns were successfully processed last year using the Code for America portal, the non-profit group said in December. But most people were claiming the stimulus checks -- only more than a fifth received the monthly child tax credit payments.
In addition to giving families information about the enhancement, administration officials and community groups are directing low-income parents to experts who can explain the credit, help families submit returns and ease their concerns about getting in trouble for not filing for years.
"What became clear is that awareness just wasn't enough," Sperling said of the early efforts last year. "The problem was people needed a trusted person that could answer their concerns and help them through the filing process."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Ehrenreich, the author, activist and self-described “myth buster” who in such notable works as “Nickel and Dimed” and “Bait and Switch” challenged conventional thinking about class, religion and the very idea of an American dream, has died at age 81.
Ehrenreich died Thursday morning in Alexandria, Virginia, according to her son, the author and journalist Ben Ehrenreich. She had recently suffered a stroke.
“She was, she made clear, ready to go,” Ben Ehrenreich tweeted Friday. “She was never much for thoughts and prayers, but you can honor her memory by loving one another, and by fighting like hell.”
She was born Barbara Alexander in Butte, Montana, and raised in a household of union supporters, where family rules included “never cross a picket line and never vote Republican.” She studied physics as an undergraduate at Reed College, and received a PhD in immunology at Rockefeller University. Starting in the 1970s, she worked as a teacher and researchers and became increasingly active in the feminist movement, from writing pamphlets to appearing at conferences around the country. She also co-wrote a book on student activism, “Long March, Short Spring,” with her then-husband, John Ehrenreich.
A prolific author who regularly turned out books and newspaper and magazine articles, Ehrenreich honed an accessible prose style that brought her a wide readership for otherwise unsettling and unsentimental ideas. She disdained individualism, organized religion, unregulated economics and what Norman Vincent Peale famously called “the power of positive thinking.”
A proponent of liberal causes from unions to abortion rights, Ehrenreich often drew upon her own experiences to communicate her ideas. The birth of her daughter Rosa helped inspired her to become a feminist, she later explained, because she was appalled at the hospital’s treatment of patients. Her battle with breast cancer years ago inspired her 2009 book “Bright-Sided,” in which she recalled the bland platitudes and assurances of well wishers and probed the American insistence — a religion, she called it — on optimism, to the point of ignoring the country’s many troubles.
“We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles, both of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking,” she wrote.
“Positive thinking has made itself useful as an apology for the crueler aspects of the market economy. If optimism is the key to material success, and if you can achieve an optimistic outlook through the discipline of positive thinking, then there is no excuse for failure. The flip side of positivity is thus a harsh insistence on personal responsibility.”
For “Nickel and Dimed,” one of her best known books, she worked in minimum wage jobs so she could learn firsthand the struggles of the working poor, whom she called “the major philanthropists of our society.”
“They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high,” she wrote. “To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone.”
Ehrenreich wrote for The New York Times, The Nation, Vogue and many other publications, and her other books included “The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed,” “Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War” and “Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class.” | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-barbara-ehrenreich-muckraking-writer-and-activist-dies/ | 2022-09-03T02:50:58Z |
- Flagship trading apps moomoo and Futubull have acquired 18.1 million global users as of quarter end
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Moomoo's parent company Futu Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: FUTU) (Futu), a leading tech-driven online brokerage and wealth management platform, reported solid performance for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, with US$209.5 million (HK$ 1641.0 million) total revenues, and US$79.4 million (HK$622.2 million) non-GAAP adjusted net income.
Financial & strategic highlights for the first quarter:
- As of quarter end, total number of users of moomoo and its sister brand Futubull was 18.1 million, an increase of 27.1% YoY;
- Total number of registered clients was 2,910,995, an increase of 48.7% YoY;
- Total number of paying clients was 1,326,163, an increase of 67.9% YoY;
- Over 80% of the newly acquired paying clients in first quarter were from Hong Kong SAR, the United States, Singapore and Australia markets, indicating the company's thriving international business;
- Client stickiness maintained at a high level with the quarterly client retention rate of over 98%.
- In terms of enterprise service, Futu I&E had 258 IPO and IR clients as well as 459 ESOP clients as of quarter end, climbing up 69.7% and 129.5% YoY, respectively.
- Regarding wealth management, total client assets reached HK$20.9 billion in the first quarter, an increase of 59.1% YoY. Futu has partnered with 64 world's well-known financial institutions to offer wealth management services.
- As of quarter end, Futu has acquired 50 licenses and qualifications (including approvals-in-principle) from regulators across major financial markets.
Futu's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Leaf Hua Li said, "Although the market sentiments remained volatile in the first quarter, Futu demonstrated its resiliency with upbeat highlights and growth in key indicators across various markets. Notably, our enterprise service business and wealth management business performed robust growth."
Futu continues to lead the industry with continuous growth of Hong Kong paying clients
Having established its presence in Hong Kong for almost ten years, Futu has led the way in the brokerage industry and its renowned Futubull app is now a household brand name for local investors. Meanwhile, the number of paying clients continues to grow.
Futubull's highly engaging online investor community remains the largest in scale among its local peers. Hong Kong users spent an average of 33.4 minutes using the Futubull app per trading day during the first quarter. There were over 363,000 daily average Hong Kong active users in the online community in the first quarter, producing nearly 100,000 pieces of UGC content each trading day.
Meanwhile, Futu's Hong Kong subsidiary Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Limited won five awards from HKEX, demonstrating the recognition of the efforts made by the company in pursuing better trading experience.
Futu Singapore is becoming the first online brokerage to acquire full Singapore Exchange memberships
One year into moomoo's debut in Singapore, Futu Singapore Pte. (Futu SG) has obtained approvals-in-principal for all of five SGX memberships and an Exempt Financial Adviser status from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
This makes Futu SG not only the first online brokerage in Singapore to receive approvals-in-principle for full trading and clearing memberships for securities and derivatives, but also the pioneer in the industry to achieve all five SGX memberships. As a fully licensed member of the Singapore Exchange, Futu Singapore can provide trading and clearing services for itself and other Futu subsidiaries, creating synergies and providing a more diversified product range and better services to local investors.
Futu is renowned among Singapore investors for its premium fund products and customized services. Futu Money Plus has expanded its fund product offerings in Singapore to support SGD funds, money market funds, and dividend funds, and has partnered with 26 leading international financial institutions to provide local investors with more options for wealth management. During the quarter, Futu Money Plus' client assets and the number of fund clients in Singapore increased by 93% and 95% quarter-over-quarter respectively.
Futu expanded its enterprise service footprint in Singapore by participating in several high-profile ETF IOPs. Futu SG was entrusted by Nikko Asset Management as a participating agent in the Initial Offering Period and listing of the Nikko AM – Straits Trading MSCI China Electric Vehicles and Future Mobility ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) on SGX in the first quarter. The subscription of the ETF via Futu Singapore ranked the first in the market, proving Futu's value in enhancing the local market's liquidity and promoting investment.
Moomoo steadily acquires users in the US and makes a debut in Australia
Since its debut in the U.S. in 2018, moomoo continued to gain interest from active traders who seek better tools to trade like a pro – a pro that treats investing seriously to have greater control of their financial future.
Moomoo's core users are retail traders who strive to learn and improve their investing strategies, using the tools, data and training content on moomoo app. Moomoo broke the information barrier by making professional data that used to be exclusive to institutions available to all of its users, such as free level 2 data and free daily short sale volume data, to name a few.
As of quarter end, moomoo had rolled out almost 2500 investing courses online, delivering content in forms of stories, infographics, gif images, videos, animation clips, live streaming, etc., with which users can learn investing concepts and tactics easier than ever. In January moomoo worked with the reputable U.S. financial media firm Benzinga to hold an online seminar series aiming to help the audience to develop professional trading skills.
With the outstanding trading experience moomoo delivers, the app was named as the "Best Trading Platform" in first quarter by FinTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization in the U.S. focusing on global FinTech innovators.
Moomoo also announced its official launch in Australia on 08 March 2022, with the vision of empowering all investors to grow their wealth through an affordable yet powerful investment platform. Australian investors can now use moomoo to trade stocks and ETFs listed in Australian and US markets - soon trading of Hong Kong, China-A shares and Singapore markets will be available.
Moomoo promotes financial education for investor of all levels, putting responsible investing into practice
Elsewhere, the company keeps investing in education to promote responsible investing, cultivating financial literacy for investors of all kinds and empowering them to achieve their financial goals.
In February, moomoo partnered with Palo Alto Education Group and LaunchFIT, two Bay Area-based educational organizations, in launching #Investeen, a campaign aimed at improving financial literacy and equity investment knowledge in adolescents. As part of the campaign, moomoo participated in launching the paper trading competition in moomoo app, which enabled students from more than 20 countries to practice trading in a safe environment with stimulated funds, to test-drive their investment strategy responsibly.
In Singapore, moomoo partnered with SUSS Investment Group, a student-led community in the Singapore University of Social Sciences, to launch the inaugural Portfolio Management Challenge 2022 early this year. The challengers executed trades in the US market with moomoo platform and updated their portfolio weightage on moomoo's portfolio feature to view live rankings.
Futu stays committed to the vision of making investing easier for investors all over the world
"We are humbly glad to see the achievements in the first quarter from various markets, but we will never feel fully satisfied in making investment more accessible for all." Leaf added. "Since the inception of the company, we are committed to our pursuit in making investing easier and not alone, with our tech excellence. We will never cease bringing better trading experience to investors worldwide, becoming their trusted partner to make more savvy decisions, to connect with like-minded peers and to stay up to date on the financial world."
About moomoo
Moomoo is a next-generation one-stop digital financial service platform created by Moomoo Inc., a fintech company based in Palo Alto, California.
Moomoo integrates trading, market data, social networking with advanced features, such as AI-powered analytics and anomaly detection functions. It supports free online account-opening and provides access to the trading of stocks and ETFs in multiple global markets such as the United States, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, and Australia. Moomoo and its brand affiliates also offer rich investor education content and an interactive online community with 18 million users in more than 200 countries globally.
Moomoo's parent company is the Nasdaq-listed fintech company Futu Holdings Limited ("Futu"), which is headquartered in Hong Kong. Futu's subsidiary is also one of the largest brokerages in Hong Kong. On March 8, 2019, Futu was listed on the Nasdaq (symbol: FUTU).
For more information, please visit the moomoo official website at www.moomoo.com.
About Futu Holdings Limited
Futu Holdings Limited ("Futu") (Nasdaq: FUTU) is an advanced technology company transforming the investing experience by offering a fully digitized brokerage and wealth management platform. Futu provides investing services – including stock trading and clearing, margin financing, wealth management, market data and information, and interactive social features for Hong Kong, US and China Connect stocks – to individual investors through its proprietary one stop digital platforms, Futubull and moomoo. Futu also provides Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) solutions and IPO distribution services through its enterprise service brand FUTU I&E, with a focus on providing employee stock ownership plans to corporate clients.
Futu aims to become an influential financial services platform globally, by building a complete financial technology ecosystem with the mission of "making investing easier and more collaborative." For more information about Futu Holdings, please visit the company's official website www.futuholdings.com.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gravitate is pleased to announce that Huck's Convenience Stores – AKA Martin and Bayley, INC – are replacing their legacy supply optimization and dispatching software with Gravitate's Best Buy & Dispatch solution.
Huck's, a Midwest convenience store chain with 120+ locations, was searching for partnership opportunities that could enhance their supply and logistics operations and deliver a better experience for drivers, dispatchers and supply managers.
Huck's understands the need to improve productivity and internal decision-making processes to meet market demand in a competitive industry. Their dynamic operations vary in complexity and advancement requires reliable support from a software partner that leverages AI and Automation to deliver end-to-end results.
Paulette Hosick, Huck's Director of Fuels, and a transportation industry veteran, commented, "Given the volatility we're facing with fuel supply and the driver shortage, I was looking for a solution to future-proof our business. Gravitate will help us make better supply decisions and increase the productivity of our drivers and dispatchers. The Gravitate team has a smart but simple solution, and they understand our business."
Gravitate applies AI and Automation to the supply and logistics challenge and helps c-stores keep sites wet with the lowest possible laid-in cost of fuel. Gravitate uses the same innovative technology to maximize the utilization of trucks and drivers, offering a compelling return on investment. Grativate's faster, smoother and more sophisticated solutions have propelled clients to move beyond old challenges.
Schedule a free demo or follow the conversation on LinkedIn to learn more.
ABOUT GRAVITATE
Gravitate is a software company that provides AI-enabled collaboration and decision-support solutions in the refined fuels value chain. Gravitate helps c-store operators, fuel wholesalers, distributors and refiners get more from their supply chains. Their software optimizes supply and logistics, reduces costs, automates processes and better engages customers.
ABOUT HUCK'S
In 1960, Bob Martin and Frank Bayley began opening Big John supermarkets in small Southern Illinois towns and branched out to Kentucky and Tennessee. Their first convenience store, HUCK'S, was opened in 1974 in Grayville, IL.
They operate 120+ locations in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Innovative ideas, hard work and a vision for the future have grown Martin & Bayley, Inc. to one of the country's most financially sound companies, with over 1,500 employees.
Gravitate Contact:
Tom Hunt
Tom@gravitate.energy
(713) 360 9941
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Study finds Enhanced wildfire-resistance can be achieved for less than $3,000 during new construction; stresses importance of also creating path to retrofit existing homes
RICHBURG, S.C., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and Headwaters Economics today released a study examining the cost of building more wildfire-resistant homes in California, which found vulnerable areas of the home can be mitigated for less than $3,000 during new construction. This analysis, Construction Costs for a Wildfire Resilient Home: California Edition, fills a gap in understanding wildfire-resistant construction costs and demonstrates the affordability of three wildfire resistant options as communities in California and across the West face a growing threat of home-ignition due to wildfire events.
California has historically led the way in improving wildfire resilience with its Building Code Chapter 7A. Yet, with the increasing wildfire risk and population growth in wildfire-prone areas, a modest investment today to build beyond Chapter 7A can ensure greater and lasting resistance to wildfire ignitions.
"Each new home built in California is an opportunity to make choices that will help ensure the housing stock of the future is better prepared for the wildfire risk it faces," says Roy Wright, president and CEO of IBHS. "Wildland fires are a natural part of the ecosystem. But when wildland fires spread into communities, homes ignite and communities are forever changed," says Roy Wright, president and CEO of IBHS. "Research has identified home vulnerabilities and mitigation actions that can reduce the chance of ignition. Now we have a clearer view of just how affordable it can be for California homeowners to take these steps to better wildfire resilience."
"Measures that protect homes from igniting are among the best defenses against rising wildfire risks," said Dr. Kimiko Barrett, a wildfire policy expert at Headwaters Economics and co-author of the report. "Our approach to building and retrofitting homes must adapt to the threat."
The study looks at building materials and assemblies for five primary home components – the roof, under-eave area, exterior walls, attached deck and near-home landscaping – and analyzes the cost of three different levels of wildfire resistance for homes in California: a baseline home meeting the minimum requirements of California Building Code Chapter 7A, an Enhanced home with added enclosure of the underdeck area and landscaping changes to establish a noncombustible home ignition zone in the first five feet, and an Optimum home with expert judgment on the most stringent, fire-resistant options available. To account for variations in California's geography, homeowner preferences and market trends, costs were analyzed in both northern and southern California.
The cost analysis reveals building an Enhanced wildfire-resistant home, beyond the requirements of Chapter 7A, increased the approximate cost of construction by just $2,800 in both northern and southern California markets. Upgrading to Optimum wildfire-resistant construction raised the overall cost by approximately $18,000 in northern California and $27,000 in southern California.
"With ever-increasing wildfire risks, we cannot wait to invest in wildfire-resistant homes, neighborhoods, and communities," said Barrett.
Wright added, "Every dollar matters in a family budget. A modest investment in wildfire resilience at the time of new construction is more affordable and practical to achieve than through a later retrofit. Delaying these wildfire-resistant actions just shifts the burden to the future homeowner who will, undoubtedly, need to address the survivability of their home later."
While findings from the cost analysis inform dialogue and policy for new construction, wildfire risk remains for millions of existing homes in need of retrofits. The report urges policymakers and communities to identify ways to support existing homeowners with actions on individual properties that can improve community resilience.
The wildfire-resistant components assessed in the Enhanced and Optimum homes are consistent with IBHS's Wildfire Prepared Home™ program, which can be used as a retrofit solution for existing houses. As the first wildfire mitigation designation program, Wildfire Prepared Home provides homeowners with a set of wildfire mitigation actions that, when taken together, can meaningfully reduce risk. Once the actions have been completed and verified by an inspection, IBHS provides a designation that demonstrates the home's increased wildfire resilience.
According to the study, upfront investments in wildfire resilience yield not only long-term benefits for communities by reducing the chance of a devastating fire event even as the crisis grows in California, but these steps also increase energy efficiency and boost durability.
Explore the full report online: https://headwaterseconomics.org/natural-hazards/wildfire-resistant-costs-california/.
Headwaters Economics is an independent, nonprofit research group whose mission is to improve community development and land management decisions. https://headwaterseconomics.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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SOURCE Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/07/28/new-headwaters-economics-ibhs-study-analyzes-costs-wildfire-resistant-construction-california/ | 2022-07-28T15:46:24Z |
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