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The expert in energy distribution, control technology and renewable energies will exhibit its portfolio for the first time at the International Manufacturing Technology Show – with a focus on three products.
- Innovative company that has been active in the US market for many years
- CrossBoard, MOTUS C14 and CrossMT are in the centre of the exhibition
- Company focuses on digitalization and intelligent solutions for industrial control cabinets
RÖDENTAL, Germany, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wöhner, a leading solution provider in the fields of power distribution, control technology and renewable energies, is exhibiting at IMTS in Chicago, USA – one of the world's leading trade shows for manufacturing technology – for the first time in the company's long history.
From September 12 – 17, the company, which exemplifies efficiency and structure in control cabinets and repeatedly highlights this claim with innovative products, will be presenting industry leading solutions such as the CrossBoard, MOTUS C14 and CrossMT at booth 134854 on level 3 of the East Building. All three products have set new standards and changed the industry in their respective segments.
During the show, visitors and journalists will have the opportunity for interviews and product deep-dives with Wöhner's experts.*
"Participating at IMTS for the first time is an important event for Woehner – and an excellent opportunity to present our portfolio in an extraordinary setting. Our innovative solutions have been key to our success in North America and internationally for many years. Participating at the International Manufacturing Technology Show is a logical result of our activities in the USA," explains Joe Wolfe, Director Engineering & Sales at Woehner LLC.
Specialist with tradition
Wöhner was founded in 1929 as a family business in the Bavarian town Rödental near Coburg, where the company is still headquartered today. For more than 90 years, the brand has stood for forward-looking technologies in the distribution and control of electrical energy. Today, the company is known worldwide as a specialist for electromechanical components, including fuse holders and busbar systems. Additionally, the company has added electronic products and software to the portfolio. Wöhner has four production sites globally, one of which is in Hampton, NH, USA. International sales support is provided by twelve subsidiaries as well as a comprehensive field service network in more than 80 countries on five continents.
"The US market with its growth potential is increasingly becoming a focus at Wöhner. We have been serving our customers in the US from our Hampton site since 1999 – and we would like to continue to build up this business with our innovations. This is exactly what we will demonstrate with our booth at IMTS," added Philipp Steinberger, CEO of Wöhner GmbH & Co. KG.
Busbar systems are now the market standard
In addition to Wöhner's innovative strength and expertise, the basis of the company's success are above all its busbar systems – such as the 60Classic System, which is now considered the market standard for power distribution and control technology. Recent new developments include the contact-protected power distribution system Crossboard, 185Power, the electronic motor starter MOTUS C14 and the measuring technology adapter CrossMT.
Wöhner's focus is on sustainability and digitalization. The product design and the materials used are selected and optimized considering environmental compatibility. A reduction in the use of plastics combined with the use of bio-based materials from renewable plant raw materials reduce the CO₂ footprint. In addition, the leanest possible structure in the company ensures maximum agility and resilience, especially during challenging times. This means that products can be brought to the market within twelve to 18 months.
In the spotlight at IMTS
Three solutions will be featured at the Wöhner booth during IMTS 2022: CrossBoard, the electronic motor starter MOTUS C14 and the measuring technology adapter CrossMT.
CrossBoard: modular system solution for machine and plant engineering
As a modular system solution, the CrossBoard out-of-the-box range allows safe power distribution up to 160 A. The basic system combines the advantages of a high-performance busbar system with traditional wiring on a DIN rail. In addition to the existing widths of 225 mm and 405 mm, it is now available in widths from 500 mm to 1100 mm – selectable in 100 mm increments.
The system, which is supplied as a complete unit and fitted with components without the use of tools, offers integrated touch-safe protection and includes numerous products for power connections and branch circuit protection.
MOTUS C14: Safety in microseconds
An additional highlight from Wöhner at IMTS is the innovative electronic motor starter MOTUS C14. The product offers fuseless motor protection in a compact size, with a user-friendly interface. If an error occurs, the electronics switch off the motor in a maximum of ten microseconds – faster than any fuse and with a low system load.
Thanks to C14 technology, the system is intrinsically safe and can be switched on again immediately after a fault has been cleared. In addition, the motor starter requires 75 percent less space than conventional solutions, and includes a CrossLink interface, making it compatible with all Wöhner basic systems. Last but not least, the starter has an interactive, guided maintenance and fault management, with numerous diagnostic functions.
CrossMT: new product category for accelerated digitalization
The CrossMT measurement technology adapter represents a product category of its own: as a fully electronic and supplier-open measurement technology module, it drives the digitalization of CrossBoard. Not only is it suitable for numerous application scenarios, but it also provides comprehensive information. The CrossMT can be used for main feed measurement to determine power quality and stability as well as energy consumption. It is also suitable for measuring motor protection equipment, where determination of motor parameters and status is required.
The CrossMT adds intelligent functions to control products that do not have such functions. Not only does it consume very little energy itself, but it also makes a significant contribution to greater sustainability. Last but not least, the CrossMT can be used in combination with solutions from other manufacturers.
About Wöhner
For more than 90 years, Wöhner has been a leader in forward-looking technologies for the distribution and control of electric power. The company is a global specialist for international fuse and busbar systems in the field of power distribution, control technology as well as renewable energies.
With twelve subsidiaries and an extensive network of representatives in Germany and abroad, Wöhner has customers in over 80 countries. The cornerstones of our success are ingenuity, the consistent implementation of the system concept and continuous growth. The headquarters of the family-run company founded in 1929 by Alfred Wöhner is in Rödental near Coburg (Bavaria).
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MAKASSAR, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers in Indonesia were searching for 25 people who were missing after a cargo boat sank in the Makassar Strait in South Sulawesi province, officials said Sunday.
A total of 42 people were on the boat when it sank in bad weather on Thursday morning while traveling from a seaport in Makassar to Kalmas Island in Pangkep Regency, said Djunaidi, the head of the provincial search and rescue agency. Like many Indonesians, Djunaidi goes by only one name.
Seventeen people were later rescued, including some by two tugboats that were at sea at the time of the incident.
Djunaidi said the search and rescue agency received new information about the location of the sunken boat on Saturday and dispatched crews to the area. Two motor boats and a search and rescue boat, along with local fishing boats and Indonesia air force helicopters, are involved in the search for the missing passengers.
The sunken vessel was initially said to be a passenger ferry, but Djunaidi later clarified that it was a cargo boat carrying construction materials. Thirty-six passengers had asked for a ride on the boat and there were six crew members.
Ferry tragedies are common in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, where ferries are often used as transport and safety regulations can lapse.
In 2018, an overcrowded ferry with about 200 people on board sank in a deep volcanic crater lake in North Sumatra province, killing 167 people.
In one of the country’s worst recorded disasters, an overcrowded passenger ship sank in February 1999 with 332 people aboard. There were only 20 survivors. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/25-missing-after-cargo-boat-sinks-in-indonesia/ | 2022-05-29T19:09:26Z |
ATLANTA (AP) — A pastor, political operative and former high-ranking Atlanta city official was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison after a jury found her guilty of charges stemming from a long-running federal investigation into corruption at City Hall.
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones told Mitzi Bickers that the evidence showed that she was involved in “a deliberate, calculated plan to cheat” the taxpayers of Atlanta over a number of years. In addition to the prison time, he ordered Bickers to pay nearly $3 million in restitution to the city and to serve three years of supervised release once she’s out.
Bickers, 56, was the first person to go to trial in the investigation into corruption during the administration of former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. She helped Reed win election and then worked as his director of human services for several years. Prosecutors said she used her influence to funnel roughly $17 million in business to city contractors Elvin “E.R.” Mitchell Jr. and Charles P. Richards Jr. in exchange for more than $2.9 million in bribes for herself and others.
A jury in March found Bickers guilty on charges including money laundering, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit bribery.
Prosecutors had asked Jones to sentence Bickers to serve 17 and a half years in prison. Her lawyers asked for a much lower sentence, pointing to the five years that Mitchell got and the two years Richards got.
Bickers told the judge that what prosecutors said about her was a “mischaracterization.”
“I pray and believe that God is not through with this situation and that you, sir, will see beyond this awful picture that has been painted,” she said.
Her mother, Ethel Bickers, said in court that her daughter “has been the glue that keeps our family and our church together” and that “her absence from the community would be a great loss.”
Bickers’ father served alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement and founded Emmanuel Baptist Church next to an Atlanta housing project, according to a court filing. When her father died in 1998, she took over as pastor of the church.
She also was elected to the Atlanta Board of Education at 26 and held the position for a decade. And she was an effective political operative known for getting voters to turn out.
Defense attorney Drew Findling said prosecutors previously offered to recommend a five-year sentence if she took a plea deal and that she was being punished for going to trial. He has said they plan to appeal.
Prosecutor Jeff Davis said cases like this are difficult because “you have to try and balance an otherwise meaningful and productive life against egregious criminal conduct.” Bickers used the formidable skills that made her so effective in her honest pursuits to commit crimes, he said.
Public corruption convictions must carry harsh penalties, Davis argued, because they “damage the public’s faith in its government.”
Jones told Bickers that it’s clear that she has a “caring heart” and is “obviously a very smart person.” Referencing the roughly four dozen Bickers supporters in the courtroom, he said he was touched by her community’s support.
But he noted that 12 jurors who sat through a weekslong trial found her guilty on nine of 12 counts. He disputed the notion that her sentence was harsher because she went to trial.
Her actions were not accidental, he said, adding that she had a “deliberate plan” to put money in her pocket and in the pockets of the two contractors. Her actions “cast a shadow” over the many honest city employees in Atlanta, he said.
The corruption investigation became public in early 2017 when prosecutors accused Mitchell and Richards of conspiring to pay city officials to get contracts for emergency snow removal, sidewalk maintenance and bridge reconstruction from 2010 to 2015. Over the next several years, a half dozen others were charged, including high-ranking members of Reed’s administration. Reed himself was never charged, but the investigation loomed over his final year in office.
A 2018 indictment against Bickers said she accepted bribes from Mitchell and Richards and failed to disclose that companies she controlled received payments from the pair while she worked for the city. She also did not declare the income to the IRS and falsified tax documents, the indictment said.
The “pay-to-play” scheme continued after Bickers stopped working for the city, prosecutors said. When a January 2014 snowstorm paralyzed Atlanta, she used her influence to secure a multimillion dollar contract for Mitchell’s company, even though it “owned no snow-clearing or other equipment.”
She used the money for big purchases, like a lakefront home, a 2014 GMC Denali SUV and four Yamaha WaveRunners, and spent lavishly on travel and personal expenses, prosecutors said.
Bickers is to be under house arrest and to wear an ankle monitor until the federal Bureau of Prisons summons her to start her sentence, Jones said. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/ap-former-atlanta-official-gets-14-years-in-corruption-case/ | 2022-09-09T00:59:50Z |
- Outback and Legacy receive a redesigned front fascia
- Latest version of EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology is standard
- SUBARU STARLINK® multimedia systems offer improved on-screen controls
- Wireless Apple CarPlay® and wireless Android Auto™ are standard on 11.6-inch Multimedia Plus system
- Outback Onyx Edition now has two engine options
- Legacy Sport now comes standard with 2.4-liter turbo SUBARU BOXER® engine
CAMDEN, N.J., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Subaru of America, Inc. today announced pricing on the updated 2023 Outback SUV and Legacy sedan. Both models receive updated styling as well as new safety and in-vehicle technologies. This year, the Outback Onyx Edition trim level is available with two engine options and the Legacy Sport comes standard with a 2.4-liter turbo SUBARU BOXER engine. Both models will begin arriving at Subaru retailers this fall.
The 2023 Legacy and Outback (except Wilderness) receive a bolder look thanks to a new front fascia incorporating a more prominent grille and redesigned LED headlights. On the sides of Outback (except Wilderness), the expanded wheel arch cladding adds to the vehicle's new look while providing additional protection.
Both vehicles come standard with the latest generation of EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology. The enhanced system operates more smoothly and under a greater range of conditions. These improvements are the result of a wider field of view, updated control software, and the addition of an electric brake booster.
The 2023 Outback and Legacy make available the latest version of the SUBARU STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Plus system with standard wireless Apple CarPlay and wireless Android Auto with full screen display. The system features an 11.6-inch high-resolution touchscreen with combination meter integration and improved on-screen controls for audio, HVAC, X-MODE® (on Outback), and other vehicle functions. Additional standard features include Bluetooth® hands-free phone and audio streaming connectivity; AM/FM stereo; rear vision camera; SiriusXM® and SiriusXM Travel Link® (4-month free Platinum subscription); HD Radio®; over-the-air updates; and new Valet Mode.
The top-level Touring adds a Wide-Angle Mono Camera that works with the dual-camera EyeSight system. The additional camera expands the field of view even further to recognize pedestrians and bicycles sooner when the vehicle enters an intersection at low speed. EyeSight gives an alert to the driver and, when necessary, applies brakes to avoid collisions.
On models equipped with Blind-Spot Detection with Lane Change Assist and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert, EyeSight now includes Automatic Emergency Steering. The two systems work in conjunction to help avoid a collision with an obstacle at speeds less than 50 mph.
2023 Subaru Outback
The 2023 Outback delivers the optimal blend of SUV capability and car-like ride and handling with standard Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive, Active Torque Vectoring, Vehicle Dynamics Control and X-MODE with Hill Descent Control. The 8.7 inches of ground clearance (9.5 inches for Wilderness) is greater than that of many SUVs, yet the Outback maintains a comfortably low step-in height for both front and rear passenger entry.
For 2023 model year, Outback will be available in Base, Premium, Onyx Edition, Wilderness, Limited, Touring, and XT trim levels.
The Outback Base starts at a competitive price of $28,395 and comes with an extensive list of standard features including EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology with Advanced Adaptive Cruise Control with Lane Centering; Apple CarPlay and Android Auto; LED Steering Responsive Headlights with High Beam Assist; LED fog lights; Rear Vision Camera with Adaptive Guidelines; X-MODE with Hill Descent Control.
The SUV is also equipped with power windows, door locks, fuel door, and mirrors as well as a USB-A input/charge port and 3.5 mm auxiliary input jack in the front center console. The standard security system includes remote keyless entry and the dome and cargo area lights have been upgraded to LED.
The entry-level trim is powered by a 2.5-liter BOXER engine that produces 182 hp and 176 lb-ft of torque. The naturally aspirated engine is paired with a standard Lineartronic® CVT (continuously variable transmission) with 8-speed manual shift mode and steering wheel paddle shift control switches.
In addition, the Outback Base is equipped with the STARLINK dual 7.0-inch center information display with improved on-screen controls. The upper 7-inch touchscreen operates audio controls while the lower 7-inch touchscreen operates controls for climate, EyeSight, X-MODE, and other vehicle systems. The multimedia system also offers AM/FM/HD Radio; Bluetooth hands-free phone and audio streaming connectivity; rear vision camera; and SiriusXM® and SiriusXM Travel Link® (4-month free Platinum subscription).
The Outback Premium, with a starting price of $30,695, includes all the standard equipment from the Base and adds an All-Weather Package; leather-wrapped steering wheel; dual-zone automatic climate control system; 10-way power driver seat; and rear gate LED light.
The Premium comes standard with the latest version of the STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Plus system featuring wireless Apple CarPlay and wireless Android Auto with full screen display.
The front center console now features an available USB-C input/charge port, as well as the existing USB-A port and 3.5 mm auxiliary input jack. All three input locations are now illuminated. The rear section of the center console offers a USB-A and new UBS-C charge ports and rear ventilation.
There are two option packages available for the Premium. The first includes Hands-Free Power Rear Gate; Keyless Access with Push-Button Start; and Blind-Spot Detection with Lane Change Assist and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert (EyeSight adds Automatic Emergency Steering) with an MSRP of $1,400.
The second package includes all the features of the first package and adds a Power Moonroof and the STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Navigation powered by TomTom® for an MSRP of $2,995.
The Onyx Edition is now available with the 2.5-liter naturally aspirated SUBARU BOXER® engine. Priced from $33,495, the Onyx Edition features black-finish exterior elements and badging, 18-inch alloy wheels in black finish, and an exclusive gray two-tone interior. Further, the seats are wrapped in a water-repellant durable StarTex® material. The Onyx Edition builds on the Premium trim and includes Hands-Free Power Gate and dual-function X-MODE.
An available option package includes a Power Moonroof; STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Navigation system; and Reverse Automatic Braking for an MSRP of $1,845.
Priced from $38,595 the Outback Onyx Edition XT upgrades to the powerful 2.4-liter turbo BOXER engine as well as 180-Degree Front View Monitor, 8-way power front passenger seat, and a full-size spare tire. New for this year, a Power Moonroof; STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Navigation system; and Reverse Automatic Braking are standard equipment.
The Outback Wilderness has a starting price of $38,445. The rugged trim level builds off the Onyx Edition XT including the 2.4-liter turbo BOXER engine; Hands-Free Power Gate; 180-Degree Front View Monitor; and a full-size matching spare tire. In addition, the Outback Wilderness is equipped with dual-function X-MODE; Yokohama GEOLANDAR® all-terrain tires; and unique exterior and interior accents.
The suspension on Outback Wilderness has been tuned for improved stability on rough terrain while retaining ride comfort and handling performance on the open road. The front and rear shock absorbers and springs were increased in length to provide more suspension travel with 9.5 inches of ground clearance.
An option package that offers a Power Moonroof; STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Navigation system; and Reverse Automatic Braking is available for an MSRP of $1,845.
The well-appointed Outback Limited starts at $35,295. New for 2023, the Limited comes standard with 12-way power driver's seat with two position memory with power lumbar support. Built on Premium, the Limited adds perforated leather-trimmed upholstery; heated rear seat backs; hands-free power rear gate; and Keyless Access with Push-Button Start to its list of standard features. Standard driver assist technologies include Reverse Automatic Braking and Blind-Spot Detection with Lane Change Assist and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert. EyeSight adds Automatic Emergency Steering.
An option package includes a Power Moonroof; Heated Steering Wheel (360-degree); STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Navigation system; Harman Kardon® audio system; and DriverFocus® Distraction Mitigation System for an MSRP of $2,060.
At $39,695, the turbocharged 2023 Outback Limited XT upgrades to the 2.4-liter turbo BOXER engine. The Limited XT adds a Power Moonroof; Heated Steering Wheel (360-degree); STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Navigation system; Harman Kardon audio system, and DriverFocus.
The top-of-the-line Touring is priced at $39,845 and includes all the standard equipment of the Limited, plus a 180-Degree Front View Monitor; automatic power-folding mirrors; heated steering wheel (360-degree), and ventilated front seats.
For 2023, the Touring trim adds a Wide-Angle Mono Camera that works together with the dual-camera EyeSight system. Also new for Touring is a full LCD Smart Rear-View Mirror with auto-dimming, compass, and Homelink®. The top trim is also adorned with exclusive exterior and interior accents and genuine Black or Java Brown Nappa Leather upholstery throughout the interior.
The Outback Touring XT is priced at $42,295 and comes with all the standard equipment of the Touring and upgrades to the 2.4-liter turbocharged BOXER engine.
2023 Subaru Legacy
The 2023 Legacy lineup receives a new front fascia incorporating a more prominent grille and redesigned LED headlights. For 2023, the Legacy is available in Base, Premium, Sport, Limited, and Touring XT.
The Legacy Base is priced at $24,395 is equipped with standard Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive and Active Torque Vectoring and is powered by the 2.5-liter BOXER engine. The naturally aspirated engine produces 182 hp and 176 lb-ft of torque and is paired with a standard Lineartronic® CVT with 8-speed manual shift mode and steering wheel paddle shift control switches.
The Legacy comes with an extensive list of standard features including EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology with Advanced Adaptive Cruise Control with Lane Centering; Apple CarPlay and Android Auto; LED Steering Responsive Headlights with High Beam Assist; Rear Vision Camera with Adaptive Guidelines. The mid-size sedan is also equipped with power windows, door locks, fuel door, and mirrors as well as a USB-A input/charge port and 3.5 mm auxiliary input jack in the front center console. The standard security system includes remote keyless entry, and the dome light has been upgraded to LED.
In addition, the Base trim is equipped with the STARLINK dual 7.0-inch center information display with improved on-screen controls. The upper 7-inch touchscreen operates audio controls while the lower 7-inch touchscreen operates controls for climate, EyeSight, and other vehicle systems. The multimedia system offers AM/FM/HD Radio; Bluetooth hands-free phone and audio streaming connectivity; rear vision camera; and SiriusXM® and SiriusXM Travel Link® (4-month free Platinum subscription).
Starting at $26,695, the Legacy Premium upgrades over the Base trim with an All-Weather Package, leather-wrapped steering wheel, dual-zone automatic climate control system, rear ventilation in the center console, and a 10-way power driver seat.
The Premium comes standard with the latest version of the STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Plus system featuring wireless Apple CarPlay and wireless Android Auto with full screen display.
The front center console now features an available USB-C input/charge port, in addition to the existing USB-A port and 3.5 mm auxiliary input jack. All three input locations are now illuminated. The rear section of the center console offers USB-A and USB-C charge ports and rear ventilation.
Two option packages are available for the Premium. The first package has an MSRP of $1,000 and includes Keyless Access with Push-Button Start; LED fog lights; and Blind Spot Detection with Lane Change Assist and Rear Cross Traffic Alert. EyeSight adds Automatic Emergency Steering. The second package includes all the features of the first package and adds a Power Moonroof and STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Navigation for an MSRP of $2,595.
For 2023, the Legacy Sport comes standard with the 260 hp 2.4-liter turbo BOXER engine. The Sport is priced at $33,895. The Sport trim's exterior is immediately distinguishable by a red accent across the front grille; magnetite gray metallic side mirrors and trunk spoiler; and gray 18-inch alloy wheels. The interior comes in an exclusive black and gray two-tone cloth with contrasting red stitching.
The Sport builds on the Premium trim and adds sport-tuned suspension, LED fog lights, power moonroof, and STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Navigation. Additional standard safety features include Reverse Automatic Braking and DriverFocus® Distraction Mitigation System.
The Legacy Limited, with a starting price of $31,445, includes all the features of Premium and upgrades with perforated leather-trimmed upholstery; heated rear seatbacks; rear A/C outlets; and Keyless Access with Push-Button Start. Standard driver assist technologies include Reverse Automatic Braking and Blind-Spot Detection with Lane Change Assist; and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert. EyeSight adds Automatic Emergency Steering.
The Limited offers a single option package with DriverFocus; STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Navigation system; Harman Kardon premium audio system; Power Moonroof and Heated Steering Wheel. The MSRP for this value-packed option package is $2,060.
The 2023 Legacy Touring XT is priced at $37,695 and builds on the Limited trim with upgrades Power Moonroof; Heated Steering Wheel (360-degree); STARLINK 11.6-inch Multimedia Navigation; Harman Kardon premium audio system; 180-degree Front View Monitor; and DriverFocus. The Touring XT also comes with luxury appointments including exterior side mirrors in satin chrome finish with integrated turn signals and Nappa Leather upholstery (Java Brown or Slate Black). The top-of-the-line Legacy is powered by a 2.4-liter turbo BOXER engine delivering 260 hp and 277 lb.-ft. of torque.
For 2023, the Legacy Touring XT is equipped with a Wide-Angle Mono Camera that works with the dual-camera EyeSight system to expand the field of view even further to recognize pedestrians and bicycles sooner when the vehicle enters an intersection at low speed.
The Outback and Legacy are built at Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA) in Lafayette, Indiana along with the Ascent and Impreza.
About Subaru of America, Inc.
Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Subaru Corporation of Japan. Headquartered at a zero-landfill office in Camden, N.J., the company markets and distributes Subaru vehicles, parts and accessories through a network of more than 630 retailers across the United States. All Subaru products are manufactured in zero-landfill plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. is the only U.S. automobile manufacturing plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. SOA is guided by the Subaru Love Promise, which is the company's vision to show love and respect to everyone, and to support its communities and customers nationwide. Over the past 20 years, SOA and the SOA Foundation have donated more than $270 million to causes the Subaru family cares about, and its employees have logged nearly 78,000 volunteer hours. As a company, Subaru believes it is important to do its part in making a positive impact in the world because it is the right thing to do.
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CALGARY, AB, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Frontera Energy Corporation (TSX: FEC) ("Frontera" or the "Company") announces that the Company has taken up and paid for 5,416,666 of its outstanding common shares (the "Shares") at a price of $12.00 per Share (the "Purchase Price") under its substantial issuer bid pursuant to which the Company offered to purchase from shareholders for cancellation up to $65 million (equivalent to US$50 million) of Shares (the "Offer"). All dollar amounts are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise specified.
The Shares taken up and paid for by the Company represent approximately 5.84% of the total number of Frontera's issued and outstanding Shares as of August 8, 2022. The aggregate Purchase Price is equal to approximately $65 million. After the cancellation of the Shares taken up and paid for by the Company, Frontera anticipates that 87,408,875 Shares will be issued and outstanding.
6,498,558 Shares were validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to auction tenders at or below the Purchase Price and pursuant to purchase price tenders. Since the Offer was oversubscribed, shareholders who made auction tenders at or below the Purchase Price and shareholders who made, or were deemed to have made, purchase price tenders will have the number of Shares purchased prorated (other than "odd lot" tenders, which are not subject to proration).
Shareholders who made auction tenders at or below the Purchase Price and shareholders who made, or were deemed to have made, purchase price tenders will have approximately 83.3% of their tendered Shares purchased by the Company. Shareholders who made auction tenders at a price in excess of the Purchase Price should not expect to have any of their Shares purchased by the Company. 609 Shares were taken up and purchased pursuant to proportionate tenders.
Payment for Shares taken up by the Company under the Offer will be effected by Computershare Investor Services Inc., the depositary for the Offer, on or about August 15, 2022, in accordance with the Offer and applicable law. Any Shares not taken up, including such Shares not taken up as a result of proration or Shares tendered pursuant to auction tenders at prices higher than the Purchase Price or invalidly tendered, will be returned to shareholders as soon as practicable.
To assist shareholders in determining the tax consequences of the Offer, Frontera estimates that a deemed dividend in the amount of $2.04 per Share was triggered on the repurchase of each Share, based on the estimated paid-up capital of $9.96 per Share at August 8, 2022. The dividend deemed to have been paid by Frontera to Canadian resident persons is designated as an "eligible dividend" for purposes of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and any corresponding provincial and territorial tax legislation.
For the purposes of subsection 191(4) of the Income Tax Act (Canada), the "specified amount" in respect of each Share is $11.41.
Shareholders should consult with their own tax advisors with respect to the income tax consequences of the disposition of their Shares under the Offer.
The terms and conditions of the Offer are described in the offer to purchase and issuer bid circular dated June 24, 2022, letter of transmittal, notice of guaranteed delivery, and notice of variation dated July 25, 2022, copies of which were filed and are available without charge on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
This news release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Shares.
Frontera Energy Corporation is a Canadian public company involved in the exploration, development, production, transportation, storage and sale of oil and natural gas in South America, including related investments in both upstream and midstream facilities. The Company has a diversified portfolio of assets with interests in 33 exploration and production blocks in Colombia, Ecuador and Guyana, and pipeline and port facilities in Colombia. Frontera is committed to conducting business safely and in a socially, environmentally and ethically responsible manner.
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SOURCE Frontera Energy Corporation | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/08/11/frontera-announces-completion-substantial-issuer-bid/ | 2022-08-11T12:12:46Z |
(The Hill) – Former President Trump said on Monday that his aides reached out to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to offer “whatever we can do to help,” saying the “temperature has to be brought down” after a spike in threats to law enforcement following the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
“People are so angry at what is taking place,” Trump told the Fox News.
“Whatever we can do to help — because the temperature has to be brought down in the country,” he added. “If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”
The FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago one week ago in connection with its investigation into whether Trump violated the Espionage Act and other federal statutes. Agents allegedly seized 11 sets of classified documents from the estate, although Trump has claimed he declassified the material.
The search has set off waves of criticisms of the FBI and DOJ from Trump and his allies, who argue the investigation is politically motivated. Some have called to defund the agency.
A new intelligence bulletin reportedly warned of a spike in threats to federal law enforcement following the Mar-a-Lago search, referencing an incident on Thursday at the FBI’s Cincinnati field office in which an armed man allegedly tried to breach the building.
The Hill has requested comment from the DOJ.
Trump said he has not yet heard back from the department on his offer for help but added he “thinks they would want the same thing.”
Yet the former president himself has been one of the most vocal critics of the FBI and DOJ since the search, repeatedly denouncing the investigation as being politically motivated and at times suggesting an unproven conspiracy that the FBI was planting evidence to hurt him.
Trump as recently as Sunday evening called the search “abuse in law enforcement” and a “sneak attack on democracy” on TruthSocial.
“There has never been a time like this where law enforcement has been used to break into the house of a former president of the United States, and there is tremendous anger in the country — at a level that has never been seen before, other than during very perilous times,” Trump told Fox News.
His allies have echoed that sentiment, but Trump’s offer to DOJ comes after Democrats and some Republicans called for Trump to tamp down his rhetoric amid the increased threat level.
Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called Trump’s rhetoric “inflammatory” during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
“I don’t want to put any law enforcement in the bull’s-eye of a potential threat,” McCaul said. “And that’s someone who’s worked with law enforcement most of my career.”
Despite declining to comment on the investigation itself, the White House has pushed back on notions that DOJ is making decisions for political gain.
“This is not about politicizing anything,” Jean-Pierre said on ABC “This Week” on Sunday.
“That is not true at all,” she continued. “And I would remind our folks on the other side that the FBI director was appointed by the president’s predecessor.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday delivered remarks announcing he personally approved the search while similarly condemning attacks against DOJ and the FBI.
“I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,” Garland said. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/trump-says-temperature-has-to-be-brought-down-after-mar-a-lago-search/ | 2022-08-15T21:17:34Z |
Liz Truss set to become new UK Conservative prime minister
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative Party announced Monday that Liz Truss, currently the country’s foreign secretary, has been elected as the party’s new leader and thus the U.K.’s new prime minister.
Truss, 47, beat former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak after a leadership contest in which only about 170,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote. Truss received 81,326 votes, compared with Sunak’s 60,399.
She faces immediate pressure to deliver on her promises to tackle a cost-of-living crisis walloping the U.K. and an economy heading into a potentially lengthy recession.
Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to formally appoint Truss as Britain’s prime minister on Tuesday. The ceremony will take place at the queen’s Balmoral estate in Scotland, where the monarch is spending her summer, rather than Buckingham Palace in London.
The two-month leadership contest left Britain with a power vacuum at a time of growing discontent across the country amid spiraling energy and food costs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made no major policy decisions since he announced he was stepping down on July 7, and officials insisted that measures to address the energy cost crisis would be deferred until his successor is in place.
Meanwhile tens of thousands of workers have gone on strike to demand better pay to keep up with relentlessly rising costs. Inflation is above 10% for the first time since the 1980s, and the Bank of England has forecast that will reach a 42-year high of 13.3% in October. That’s largely driven by soaring energy bills, which will jump 80% for the average household starting next month.
“I will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy. I will deliver on the energy crisis, dealing with people’s energy bills, but also dealing with the long term issues we have on energy supply,” Truss told party members after she was elected.
“I know that our beliefs resonate with the British people: Our beliefs in freedom, in the ability to control your own life, in low taxes, in personal responsibility,” she added. “I know that’s why people voted for us in such numbers in 2019 and as your party leader I intend to deliver what we promised those voters right across our great country.”
Truss has won the support of many Conservatives with her Thatcherite zeal to roll back state intervention and slash taxes. Both she and her rival Sunak have spoken of their admiration for Margaret Thatcher, who was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, and her free-market, small-government economics.
It’s not clear how Truss’s right-wing brand of conservatism, which played so well with party members, will go down with the wider British public – especially those most in need of government relief to help heat their homes this winter.
“This is someone who believes in the market in a radical way, someone who believes that the objective of government is to get towards a much smaller state sooner rather than later. She takes that very seriously,” said Steven Fielding, a professor of political history at Nottingham University.
While the economy is certain to dominate the first months of the new premier’s term, Johnson’s successor will also have to steer the U.K. on the international stage in the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine, an increasingly assertive China and ongoing tensions with the European Union over the aftermath of Brexit – especially in Northern Ireland.
Truss will be the U.K.’s fourth Conservative prime minister in six years, entering Downing Street following Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron.
Johnson was forced to resign after a series of ethics scandals that peaked in July, when dozens of cabinet ministers and lower-level officials quit in protest over his handling of allegations of sexual misconduct by a senior member of his government.
Both Truss and Sunak were key players within Johnson’s Cabinet, though Sunak resigned in the last days of Johnson’s time in office.
A Truss government may not sit well with many because it reminds voters too much of Johnson’s misdeeds, Fielding said.
“She’s basically been elected as Boris Johnson 2.0 by Conservative members — she’s made it very clear that she is a loyal Boris Johnson supporter,” Fielding said. “I think she’s going to find it very difficult to disentangle herself from the whole Johnson shadow.”
Truss and Sunak were the final two candidates whittled down from an initial field of 11 leadership hopefuls.
Under Britain’s parliamentary system of government, the center-right Conservative Party was allowed to hold an internal election to select a new party leader and prime minister without going to the wider electorate. A new general election isn’t required until December 2024.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/09/05/britain-learn-who-will-succeed-johnson-prime-minister/ | 2022-09-05T12:32:40Z |
GENEVA, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pioneering micro-video social platform Coub.com is moving into Web3 with the launch of an innovative Watch-to-Earn content monetization model and the industry's first NFT marketplace offering NFTs that are already generating rewards for collectors in Q3, 2022.
Coub.com pioneered the very first meme video clips long before TikTok and Instagram Reels began to surface and has been amassing quite a considerable following since 2012, boasting a community of over 106 million yearly active users. Now, for its 10-year anniversary, the platform is tapping into the world of Web3 with a brand new concept — Watch-to-Earn (W2E) — which will enable those who create and watch videos to instantly get rewarded for every view, like, comment, and share.
The transition to W2E will be carried out smoothly without changing the user experience, with a new feature — a tangible value tied to each of the coubs created, which will be displayed for 12+ million unique clips at Coub.com. The team are looking to ensure a smooth transition with innovative implementations, such as non-custodial Coub Wallets natively provided to all users. Another addition, the NFT Marketplace, will offer advanced monetization tools allowing creators not only to capitalize on the success of video clips but also to convert them into NFTs that can be later sold.
Through the launch of the NFT Marketplace, Coub.com is introducing a new class of collectable NFT assets, which offer quantifiable ownership benefits to collectors. Each Coub NFT contains not just media assets but also a proportionate share of all future W2E earnings from the purchased NFT. All the NFTs also bear an inherent value that Coub users can assess on the basis of content statistics collected and proven by the blockchain. This gives buyers an accurate tool for assessing the real market value of an NFT and predicting its future income, which continues to be generated after the owner changes.
To complete the final transition to the Web3 architecture, Coub.com will introduce CoubDAO — a Decentralized Autonomous Organization — that will enable creators and viewers to participate in the governance of the platform. Users will be able to propose and vote on any changes and upgrades to the platform using two tokens — vCOUB (tokens rewarded for activity on the platform) and COUB (utility tokens that can be used for trading NFTs and unlocking additional W2E opportunities). The integration of a DAO architecture will allow Coub.com to strengthen its community-driven focus and make millions of creators and viewers not just platform users, but a part of its ongoing growth.
The platform team has spent a number of months thoroughly researching, designing, and implementing a robust and secure on-chain infrastructure that will sit behind the W2E and NFT Marketplace. To address questions surrounding the legal framework at play when monetizing artwork, the platform plans to implement an innovative on/off-chain legal system with a ContentID engine that will ensure the fair tracking of royalties and provide creators with convenient music library to pick soundtracks for their coubs. The platform is also cooperating with a leading blockchain security audit firm to ensure that it can handle the 106 million+ users currently involved with the platform.
The launch of Coub's Watch-to-Earn platform will entail the introduction of extensive functionalities and new modules throughout the second and third quarters of 2022. Users who want to avail early-bird benefits
can access a wait list which is now open on the website.
About Coub.com
Coub.com is known for its 10-second looped videos dubbed 'coubs'. They are created using a powerful HTML5 Editor through Coub.com, where users can mix and cut up to 10 different videos from all across the web. Coubs may be embedded on all leading social media platforms, messengers and blogs, which means that traffic may be derived from all corners of the internet.
Launched in April 2012, Coub instantly went viral, with its fan base surpassing 45 million users within two years of launch. It effectively paved the way for the success of Vine in 2013, Musical.ly in 2014, Periscope in 2015 and eventually TikTok in 2017.
Coub now boasts over 12 million unique videos that are available to watch on the platform, generating over 650 million views monthly. In April 2022, the platform was acquired by a private Swiss tech company.
Visit coub.com/litepaper to learn more about the platform.
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(The Hill) — The monkeypox virus has reached all 50 states.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, Wyoming reported a single case of the virus on Monday, becoming the final state in the country to do so.
In a news release, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) said the lone virus case is from a male resident in Laramie County, adding that state public health representatives have followed up with the infected individual to see if other residents had direct contact with him.
“Because monkeypox spreads through close, intimate contact we do not believe the risk for the virus is now a higher concern for the local community or for most people in Wyoming,” WDH state health officer and state epidemiologist Alexia Harrist. “Monkeypox does not spread easily like familiar viruses such as influenza or COVID-19.”
Harrist also recommended that getting vaccinated is the best possible way to “prevent further spread” of the virus.
“While anyone can become ill with monkeypox, vaccine eligibility is currently limited to people who are at highest risk in connection with this outbreak and how its spreading,” she said. “The goal is to put available vaccine supplies to the best possible use.”
As of Monday, there are 15,433 reported cases of monkeypox in the U.S with New York leading the way with nearly 3,000 reported cases, followed by California, Florida, Texas and Georgia, CDC data showed.
Recently, the Department of Human and Health Services officially declared monkeypox a public health emergency in the U.S.
The Biden administration, which has faced criticism for its slow initial response to the outbreak, plans to accelerate the production of the monkeypox vaccine by making an additional 1.8 million doses available starting this week. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/monkeypox-has-reached-all-50-states/ | 2022-08-23T13:08:54Z |
US, S. Korea fire missiles to sea, matching North’s launches
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. and South Korean militaries launched eight ballistic missiles into the sea Monday in a show of force matching a North Korean missile display a day earlier that extended a provocative streak in weapons demonstrations.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the allies’ live-fire exercise involved eight Army Tactical Missile System missiles fired into South Korea’s eastern waters across 10 minutes. It said the drill was aimed at demonstrating an ability to respond swiftly and accurately to North Korean attacks.
The South’s military on Sunday detected North Korea firing eight short-range missiles over 35 minutes from at least four different locations, including from western and eastern coastal areas and two inland areas north of and near the capital, Pyongyang, in what appeared to be a single-day record for the country’s ballistic launches.
It was North Korea’s 18th round of missile tests in 2022 alone — a streak that included the country’s first launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles in nearly five years. South Korean and U.S. officials also say North Korea is preparing to conduct its first nuclear test since September 2017 as leader Kim Jong Un pushes a brinkmanship aimed at cementing the North’s status as a nuclear power and negotiating economic and security concessions from a position of strength.
U.S. and South Korean forces conducted a similar live-fire drill following North Korea’s previous ballistic launches on May 25, which South Korea’s military said involved an ICBM flown on medium-range trajectory and two short-range weapons. Those tests came as Biden wrapped up his trip to South Korea and Japan, where he reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to defend both allies.
North Korean state media have yet to comment on Sunday’s launches. They came after the U.S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan concluded a three-day naval drill with South Korea in the Philippine Sea on Saturday, apparently their first joint drill involving a carrier since November 2017, as the countries move to upgrade their defense exercises in the face of North Korean threats.
North Korea has long condemned the allies’ combined military exercises as invasion rehearsals and often countered with its own missile drills, including short-range launches in 2016 and 2017 that simulated nuclear attacks on South Korean ports and U.S. military facilities in Japan.
Hours after the North Korean launches, Japan and the United States conducted a joint ballistic missile exercise aimed at showing their “rapid response capability” and “strong determination” to counter threats, Japan’s Defense Ministry said.
The United States has vowed to push for additional international sanctions if North Korea conducts a nuclear test, but the prospects for meaningful new punitive measures are dim with the U.N. Security Council’s permanent members divided.
Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-sponsored resolution that would have imposed additional sanctions on North Korea over its latest ballistic tests on May 25, insisting that Washington should instead focus on reviving negotiations with Pyongyang.
Those talks have stalled since 2019 over disagreements in exchanging the release of crippling U.S.-led sanctions for the North’s disarmament steps.
Despite facing harsh challenges at home, including a decaying economy and a COVID-19 outbreak, Kim has shown no willingness to fully surrender an arsenal he sees as his strongest guarantee of survival.
His government has so far rejected the Biden administration’s offers for open-ended talks and is clearly intent on converting the dormant denuclearization negotiations into a mutual arms-reduction process, experts say.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kxii.com/2022/06/06/us-s-korea-fire-missiles-sea-matching-norths-launches/ | 2022-06-06T01:27:27Z |
Republican candidate in New Hampshire voted in two states’ primaries in 2016
By Dan Merica, CNN
Matt Mowers, the former Trump administration aide who is running for Congress in New Hampshire, voted twice during the 2016 primary, according to voting records obtained by CNN, opening the Republican candidate up to criticism from his opponents and charges of hypocrisy from Democrats.
Mowers, then a top aide in New Hampshire to former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign, cast a ballot in the Granite State’s critical February primary, according to the city of Manchester’s official voter checklist for the contest.
Christie’s presidential campaign was short lived, though, and after the New Jersey chief executive finished sixth in New Hampshire’s Republican primary, he dropped out of the race and eventually endorsed then-candidate Donald Trump.
Mowers, however, cast another ballot in a presidential primary four months later, according to documents obtained by CNN, using his parents’ New Jersey address to re-register in his longtime home state and cast a ballot in the state’s June Republican primary.
The fact that Mowers voted twice in the 2016 primary, which was first reported by the Associated Press, opens the Republican candidate up to legal questions and accusations of hypocrisy as the Republican has made election integrity a central issue in his campaign.
Mowers responded to the Associated Press reporting by attacking Democrats and saying he was “proud to work for President Trump as the GOP establishment was working to undermine his nomination and accepted a job with his campaign in 2016, registered to vote and casted my vote in accordance with the law, and served as an elected Trump delegate to the Republican National Convention.”
At no point in the statement does Mowers deny that he voted twice in the 2016 primary process.
One of the most frequent attacks against Mowers in the New Hampshire Republican primary has been his ties to the state he hopes to represent, something that will be fueled by his decision to re-register in New Jersey in 2016. Mowers also cast his ballot in the 2016 general election in New Jersey, according to voting records.
“While I’m running the bill in NH for a full forensic audit of the 2020 Presidential election, @mowers is potentially breaking federal law by voting in BOTH NH and NJ,” Tim Baxter, a Republican state representative who is also running in the Republican primary, tweeted on Tuesday. “My question for ‘#JerseyMowers’: Are you running to represent #NH01 or NJ?”
The story could be particularly potent in New Hampshire, a state where Republicans have looked to crack down on who can vote in their elections, especially targeting transient populations and short-term residents like students.
It is unlikely that Mowers will face any prosecution for voting in two states in 2016. While New Hampshire law says “a person is guilty of a class B felony if” they “knowingly” cast a ballot in New Hampshire and “also casts a ballot in the same election year in any election held in any other state or territory of the United States,” the law says one defense could be if the “person legitimately moved.”
Michael S. Garrity, spokesperson for the New Hampshire Department of Justice, told CNN on Tuesday that the state’s “Election Law team is aware of the Associated Press report and is reviewing the matter.”
Charlie Spies, a Republican lawyer who has known Mowers for years, said the law around the issue of voting in two primaries is a “gray area” and called the chance the candidate could face legal trouble because of it “non-existent.”
“Mr. Mowers moved to New Jersey, established residency there and then had a pattern in voting in New Jersey. It is an open question whether the election referred to in the statute would be a party controlled primary election in one state, versus another state months earlier,” Spies said. “Even if it were a clear violation of a clear statute within the statute of limitations, which it is not, but even if it were, there is no evidence, that I am aware of, of anybody having been prosecuted.”
The political ramifications for Mowers, however, could be more dramatic than the legal.
Mowers’ Republican opponents have already seized on the story, wasting no time to note how the candidate voting twice in the same primary cycle is out of step with the Republican focus on securing elections, an emphasis that has been spurred by Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
“My opponent… potentially violated election law, and he is hiding behind his attorney, calling the report ‘silly,” Karoline Leavitt, another former Trump aide running in the New Hampshire primary, wrote on Twitter. “This is a very, very serious allegation. Election integrity matters. Voters deserve truth and @mowers owes them an honest answer.”
Gail Huff Brown, another candidate in the Republican primary, tweeted, “The Republican Party is the party of election integrity, and we cannot nominate someone who has engaged in voter fraud and expect to be taken seriously on the topic. We can do better.”
Mowers, like many Republicans running in 2022, cites election integrity as a central issue to his campaign, writing on his website that “nothing is more important or sacred than each American’s right to vote” and backing “establishing effective voter ID laws, regular audits of elections to verify vote totals and provide every American citizen with the certainty that their vote counts.”
Mowers also specifically notes that he supports Republican efforts in New Hampshire to “improve our own voting laws so that only legal residents of New Hampshire are entitled to vote, and voter ID is required.”
Republicans have made New Hampshire’s First Congressional race a top target in 2022, hoping a pro-Republican national environment will help unseat Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas, who defeated Mowers by 5% in 2020.
Mowers is married to a senior video producer at CNN.
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Boy persuades car thief to let him, his young brothers out of minivan
By WCCO Staff
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Police say an 11-year-old boy convinced a car thief to let him and his four young brothers out of their minivan after it was stolen in Minneapolis Sunday afternoon.
The children’s parents “stepped away from their running vehicle,” according to police, on East Lake Street near 12th Avenue South, leaving five boys between the ages of 1 and 11 alone inside.
It’s not clear how long the parents were gone, but just before 3 p.m., an unknown man got into the driver’s seat and drove off with the boys in tow.
Police say the oldest boy was able to persuade the thief to let them out, and the man dropped them off one block north of where they were originally parked. He then drove off.
The oldest boy then used his cellphone to call his parents, and they were all soon reunited.
The minivan is still missing. It’s a 2007 Silver Honda Odyssey that may have either of these Minnesota license plate numbers: XNB-858 or MWY-024.
Anyone with information on this case is asked to submit an anonymous tip online to Crime Stoppers, or call 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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BEIJING, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday began official visit to Kazakhstan - the country in which the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first proposed back to 2013, and Uzbekistan, and will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.
The visit to two Central Asian countries marks a monumental culmination of nine-year bilateral cooperation under the BRI, as the mega mechanism has unleashed a plethora of opportunities for the region ranging from economic fronts such as energy, mineral to security and politics, while also facilitating its export diversification efforts and integration into the global economic system.
The local business community has also hailed the visit, with high expectations on future deepened high-quality cooperation that could further flex China's advantage in capital and tech know-how as well as Kazakhstan's edge in rich agricultural and natural resources.
Analysts said that the prospects for cooperation is also underpinned by a relatively stable geopolitical environment in Central Asia, plus a further enhancement of China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership, and they hold firm on the role of the BRI - despite the launch of several Western-led infrastructure schemes and fear-mongering campaign - on continuing serving as stabilizer and propeller in the regional development.
The Almaty tungsten ore mine is a world-class super-sized strip mine, with prospective reserves of 500,000 tons. It is included in the list of key China-Kazakhstan production capacity projects of BRI.
Energy is another field which bilateral collaboration yields fruitful results. On Tuesday, the first new energy project jointly built by China and Kazakhstan, the Shelek wind farm commenced operations.
According to a statement the project contractor Power Construction Corporation of China sent to the Global Times, the wind farm can generate 230 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, which means a reduction of 206,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions and saving of 89,000 tons of standard coal each year.
The flagship BRI project also echoes with Kazakhstan's infrastructure initiative "Bright Path" and a global push in reducing carbon emissions. According to Kazakhstan's energy department, the Shelek wind farm will help to alleviate the power shortage issues in southern Kazakhstan and promote the country's carbon reduction plans and power restructuring.
The two projects are a vivid display of how BRI has ushered in a new era of unprecedented economic cooperation between the two neighbors, as well as China and the Central Asian region. China has now become Kazakhstan's second largest trading partner and number one export destination.
A new growth model
"Kazakhstan is resource-rich, but it lacks the ability to process raw materials. Chinese BRI investments have largely elevated the country's manufacturing capacity and sped up its industrialization," Zhang Hong, an Eastern European studies expert from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.
China's market of sheer size also helps Kazakhstan to shed overreliance on a single country in export, especially in agricultural and energy products, and opens up more opportunities for regional and global integration, according to Zhang, exemplified by the implementation of the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline, which began operating in 2009.
In 2020, the China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline delivered over 39 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The gas pipeline starts from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, running through central Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan, and ends in Xinjiang's Khorgas. In 2017, the pipeline established terminals to transfer natural gas from Kazakhstan.
"China-proposed BRI amplified more collaboration chances between Central Asian countries, and such significance carries special weight in the midst of elevating Western sanction against Russia and the latter's countermeasures, which inevitably embroils Central Asian countries," Zhang said.
He noted that the Central Asian countries face a crunch in pushing forward regional integration while tackling heightened uncertainty. Mechanisms such as the BRI and SCO, as multilateral platforms, serve to entrench and expand business ties.
Strategic location
This year marks the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Kazakhstan. In terms of geographic location, Kazakhstan is an important node on the BRI. Bordering Xinjiang, Kazakhstan is regarded as an important westbound gateway connecting China with Europe, and about 90 percent of China-Europe freight trains transit via the country.
In 2014, one year after the BRI was launched, Kazakhstan became the first country to reach an agreement with China on "production capacity cooperation" of BRI. And to date, the cooperation list includes 52 projects which have attracted over $21.2 billion investment.
Analyst noted that despite certain political movements and stepped-up engagement by the West, the geopolitical environment in Central Asia remains "relatively stable without vicious power rivalry," auguring well for Chinese companies' long-term investment in the region.
In addition, the further elevation of China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination is also a booster for to China-Central Asia cardinal economic ties, Zhang noted.
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Medicinal cannabis oil was developed by Vietnam Veteran Bob "Natural" Luciano to provide relief for people suffering from PTSD, chronic illness and pain.
LAS VEGAS, April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Australis Capital Inc. (CSE: AUSA) (OTC: AUSAF) ("AUSA", "AUDACIOUS", or the "Company"), today announced that Mr. Natural, an AUDACIOUS brand, is pleased to launch its first product in Nevada: Full Spectrum Hash RSO. The powerful medicinal oil – rich in major and minor medicinal cannabinoids including THC, CBD, and CBN – is known for its therapeutic benefits and potential to provide relief for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), chronic illness and pain.
The Mr. Natural brand was developed by U.S. Vietnam Veteran Bob "Natural" Luciano beginning more than 50 years ago. Like many of his compatriots, Luciano discovered the therapeutic benefits of cannabis during his service. But when he returned home, he and his fellow veterans discovered that access to cannabis – the only viable treatment they had found for their ailments – was no longer available. Since its founding, Mr. Natural has gained a large following of veterans who rely on Mr. Natural products to help manage symptoms from PTSD and other ailments.
That experience inspired Luciano to pursue his lifelong mission to educate people on the benefits of medicinal cannabis. A strong advocate for the medical use of cannabis for veterans, Luciano cultivates strains specifically for treating PTSD, chronic illness and pain to enable other veterans to gain relief. He has actively worked with the U.S. Veterans Administration since 1972 to educate others on cannabis and its use for treating PTSD.
"Bob has dedicated his life to being an advocate for the medical use of cannabis for veterans, and we are honored to help further his efforts by bringing Mr. Natural Full Spectrum Hash RSO to patients in Nevada," said Terry Booth, CEO of AUDACIOUS.
Named after the Canadian cancer patient Rick Simpson who developed it, RSO or "Rick Simpson Oil," is a full extract, high-potency cannabis oil meant to be ingested orally or applied topically. Mr. Natural Full Spectrum Hash RSO is a mix of cannabinoid-rich cultivars and tests high for several major and minor cannabinoids, as well as numerous terpenes. The company uses a proprietary extraction method that provides a product that is closer to full spectrum, the way nature intended.
"Mr. Natural was founded on the universal principles of positivity and healing," said Mr. Natural. "Our Full Spectrum Hash RSO is made with cannabis that is grown in premium soil, rich in terpenes and cannabinoids, and cured to perfection. We have dedicated our lives to cultivation, which lets us offer a final product that is exceptional."
Mr. Natural Full Spectrum Hash RSO is available at Jardin, Vegas Tree House, and Exhale dispensaries in Las Vegas and in other dispensaries across Nevada. Small Batch Mr. Natural Craft Cannabis Flower is also available now at dispensaries in California.
About Mr. Natural
Founded by industry pioneer and military veteran Bob "Mr. Natural" Luciano, the Mr. Natural brand of cannabis products are handcrafted, the way nature intended. Informed by his experience as a veteran, he cultivates medical grade cannabis and advocates for the healing power of nature's medicine and affordable access to those who need it most. Learn more about Mr. Natural here.
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As part of its senior executive ongoing compensation plan, the Company issued 126,411 common shares.
About AUDACIOUS
AUDACIOUS is a next-generation MSO growing the cannabis industry of tomorrow from the ground up, led by industry pioneer Terry Booth and an accomplished management team with proven industry track records. With operations that range from providing industry-leading sustainable cultivation design and optimization to retail storefronts, growing flower in-house, and manufacturing award-winning brands, AUDACIOUS has products and solutions for everyone. Quickly expanding through innovative partnerships and collaborations, AUDACIOUS is forging the inclusive cannabis community of tomorrow, today. Learn more about AUDACIOUS here.
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Did you sell or otherwise dispose of securities of Twitter between March 24, 2022 and April 1, 2022? If so, please visit Twitter, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who sold or otherwise disposed of the securities of Twitter, Inc. ("Twitter" or the "Company") (NYSE: TWTR) between March 24, 2022 and April 1, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Elon Musk ("Musk") is the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, and according to Forbes, is the richest person in the world.
Beginning in January 2022, Musk started to acquire shares of Twitter. By March 14, 2022, Musk had acquired more than a 5% ownership stake in Twitter.
Pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and SEC Rule 13d-1 promulgated thereunder, 17 C.F.R. § 240.13d-1(a), Musk was required to file a Schedule 13 with the SEC within 10 days of passing the 5% ownership threshold in Twitter, or March 24, 2022.
Musk did not file a Schedule 13 with the SEC within the required time and instead continued to amass Twitter shares, eventually acquiring a 9.1% stake in the Company before finally filing a Schedule 13 on April 4, 2022.
When Musk finally filed the required Schedule 13, thereby revealing his ownership stake in Twitter, the Company's shares rose from a closing price of $39.31 per share on Friday, April 1, 2022, to close at $49.97 per share on April 4, 2022 – an increase of approximately 27%.
Investors who sold securities of Twitter stock between March 24, 2022, when Musk was required to have disclosed his Twitter ownership, and before the Monday, April 4, 2022 disclosure, missed the resulting price increase as the market reacted to Musk's purchases and were damaged thereby.
By failing to disclose his ownership stake via Schedule 13, Musk was able to acquire shares of Twitter less expensively during the Class Period.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 13, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you sold or otherwise disposed of TWTR securities, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Twitter, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
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NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Upstart Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPST) between November 9, 2021 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 12, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Upstart securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Upstart class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6208 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 12, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Upstart's AI model could not adequately account for macroeconomic factors such as interest rates that impact the market-clearing price for loans; (2) as a result, Upstart was experiencing negative impact on its conversion rate; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to use its balance sheet to fund loans; and (4) 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. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Upstart class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6208 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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Texas family killed in New Mexico flash flood, mudslide
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD/Gray News) - A Texas family is grieving after two of their members were killed, while another went missing in New Mexico flash floods on July 21.
Jane Cummings, 62, and her mother, 84-year-old Betty Greenhaw were found dead in the Tecolote Creek channel near Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the deaths Friday, but did not release the names of the victims. Cummings’ daughter, Michelle Post, confirmed Monday it was her mother and grandmother, who died in the flood and that her father, 62-year-old Chris Cummings, was missing. His body was found Tuesday.
Post says her family has a cabin in the Tecolote Canyon on the Camp Blue Haven property in New Mexico. She says her family were warned of flash flooding because of the burn scars from the Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon Fire, but never thought something like this could happen or happen so fast. She says the flood destroyed the cabin within minutes.
The National Weather Service issued a Flood Watch Thursday, warning that thunderstorms were producing high rainfall over the Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon burn scar in Mora County and San Miguel County that could lead to localized flash flooding.
Greg Greenhaw, Betty’s son, says their family cabin had flooded at a low level before with minimal damage. The family prepared for the flooding by placing sandbags, but never expected eight feet of water to rush into the cabin.
Post says her parents and grandmother were the only people in the cabin at the time, ‘their favorite place in the world,’ spending time with family.
She says there is a family that lives about 100 yards up the mountain. A man there told her he heard the water rush in. He turned around and water had already covered the entire front door. Greenhaw says the flood took out two walls, and half of two other walls.
The family says Camp Blue Haven staff were the first to hear the flooding and started searching for the family. They found Greenhaw’s truck about a half mile down the road.
Originally, they thought the family may have been inside the truck and got out, but the truck doors were locked. They then found Jane about two miles from the Blue Haven Camp, and four miles from the cabin.
Betty was found about a half mile away from the cabin. Chris’ truck was found buried outside the cabin. Post says investigators were keeping her updated on the search for her father.
Post says the cabin is a vacation and holiday home for her family for more than 60 years. In 1965, Greg’s grandmother signed a 100-year lease, when Camp Blue Haven started leasing out plots to help fund the camp. Post says all of her cousins were baptized at the camp, and that her son was there for camp just two weeks ago.
Greg says between the two canyons, there were about 60 cabins. He says about 25 of them burned in the Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon Fire.
Part of the family is in New Mexico, now gathering belongings. Post is in Plainview, Texas, where she and her family lives. She says her family is lost, broken and doesn’t know what to do.
Post says she is thankful for her community for showing up for her family.
She says there are people in Plainview, Hale Center, Lockney, and New Mexico all supporting them right now,” she said. “Her church family, and her son’s teachers at Plainview Christian Academy have all been pitching in to deliver meals, and help them get through this time.”
She ended the conversation with the words, “God is good.”
Greenhaw says the Blue Haven community has been very supportive, searching for their family, gathering their things and consistently checking in.
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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — An abortion clinic set to open next month in conservative Wyoming was damaged in a fire early Wednesday that police believe was deliberately set — possibly by someone seen running away from the building carrying what appeared to be a gas can and a bag.
The blaze damaged the inside of the building under renovation to house the clinic in Casper, the second-biggest city in a state where opposition to abortion is widespread.
The clinic, which also planned to provide other health care services for women, had been set to open in June as only the second place in the state to offer abortions. Wyoming’s current lone location for women to get abortions is at a hospital in Jackson, 281 miles (452 kilometers) away.
A person who called authorities before dawn saw someone running from the building with what appeared to be a gas can and a black bag, police said in a Facebook post. Investigators were reviewing video footage from the area in hopes of identifying the suspect or generating a suspect description, police said. No injuries were reported.
Julie Burkhart, the clinic’s director, said clinic organizers had been receiving harassing emails and telephone messages. The building had video cameras that were functioning, and police were given access to them, she said.
“Whether you’re against abortion or support abortion rights, you’re not going to make abortion go away,” said Burkhart, a former associate of Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider who was shot and killed in a Wichita, Kansas, church in 2009.
Protests have been held this spring by abortion opponents at the future clinic site, and signs opposing abortion were visible Wednesday in a window of an apartment next door to the building.
Wyoming is one of 13 U.S. states with a so-called trigger law that would immediately outlaw abortion if the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized it nationwide is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. A leaked draft of a ruling suggests that will happen soon.
Police temporarily closed off the street where the small building is located as officers investigated. Several of the building’s windows were broken, and smoke damage was visible around one shattered window. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/fire-damages-wyoming-abortion-clinic-ahead-of-june-opening/ | 2022-05-26T01:57:42Z |
PHOENIX, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Spine and Pain (ASAP), a comprehensive, interventional pain practice with twelve locations across Arizona, is proud to announce its commitment to whole-patient care by launching an integrated behavioral health program at its Phoenix locations. In collaboration with Scottsdale-based evolvedMD, ASAP aims to provide the most effective minimally invasive pain care services while also addressing the increasing need for high-quality mental health services in Arizona.
"As Advanced Spine and Pain (ASAP) continues to foster our personal growth and provide patient focused treatments, we strive to be a comprehensive care center of excellence," said Dr. Jarrett Leathem, ASAP's Medical Director. "Mental health is a critical component of care for our patients to achieve optimal outcomes and success. As most of us have experienced, physical pain and emotional challenges are intensely intertwined, which can affect our mind, body, and spirit. ASAP is proud to announce its new partnership with evolvedMD, providing comprehensive support to our communities in achieving harmony with our mental health."
This collaboration makes ASAP the first interventional pain management group in the state to implement a behavioral health integration program at its practices. Its patients will be able to start seeing evolvedMD's onsite behavioral health specialists beginning in Summer 2022.
"Living with daily pain is not only physically stressful but also emotionally stressful," said Erik Osland, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at evolvedMD. "Our partnership with ASAP allows us to proactively tackle both challenges concurrently so patients can live more productive and enjoyable lives."
For more information or to learn how your practice can benefit from behavioral health integration, please visit evolvedMD.com.
Launched in 2017, evolvedMD is leading the integration of behavioral health services in modern primary care. Uniquely upfront and ongoing, our distinctive model places behavioral health specialists onsite within a practice. evolvedMD offers an economically viable and better way to integrate behavioral health that ultimately drives improved patient outcomes.
Advanced Spine and Pain (ASAP) is a comprehensive, interventional pain practice. ASAP prides itself on individualized patient treatment programs driven by an outcomes program developed by our own physicians. ASAP physicians are double board certified specialists and our non-physician providers typically have years of experience in interventional pain management.
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NEW YORK, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: April 4, 2017 to October 20, 2021
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: June 6, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that International Business Machines Corporation made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Strategic Imperatives Revenue and growth, CAMSS and CAMSS Components' revenue and growth, and the Company's Segments' revenue and growth were artificially inflated as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives Revenue; (ii) the Company's present success and positive future growth prospects concerning its Strategic Imperative business strategy were being fueled by the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperative Revenue and, as a result (iii) the Company misled the market by portraying the Company's Strategic Imperative's financial performance and future prospects more favorable than they actually were as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in IBM you have until June 6, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased IBM 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 IBM lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/international-business-machines-corporation-loss-submission-form?id=28114&from=4.
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Floirda gas prices still falling, AAA says
TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) - Florida gas prices fell 14 cents last week, continuing a two-week decline since setting a new record high price of $4.89 a gallon on June 13.
“Gas prices are moving in a favorable direction, as millions of Americans prepare to embark on an Independence Day road trip,” said Mark Jenkins, spokesman for AAA - The Auto Club Group.
“Despite the recent declines, gas prices are still likely to be the highest for this holiday in history.”
The discount at the pump is due to a recent drop in crude oil and gasoline futures prices, which are largely driven by concerns about the economy, following the Fed’s interest rate hike. The U.S. price of oil declined a total of 11% during the past two weeks.
AAA forecasts that auto travel will set new records this Independence Day, with 151,000 more road trippers than last year. More than 42 million Americans are forecast to drive 50 miles or more during the holiday weekend. More than 2.3 million of those will be Floridians.
It will cost around $25 more to fill the family vehicle’s gas tank this year. On Sunday, the state average price for regular unleaded was $4.68 per gallon. That amounts to $70 for a full 15-gallon tank. Holiday travelers paid $3.01 per gallon on July 4, 2021; and $2.68 per gallon on July 4, 2019.
Drivers should expect busy roads during the holiday weekend, particularly during Thursday and Friday afternoons, as commuters leave work early and mix with holiday travelers.
Drivers in major U.S. metros could experience double the travel times compared to a normal trip. AAA advises road travelers to leave early and identify alternate routes in case you encounter congestion.
Regional Prices
Most expensive metro markets – West Palm Beach-Boca Raton ($4.86), Gainesville ($4.77), Naples ($4.77)
Least expensive metro markets – Crestview-Fort Walton Beach ($4.50), Pensacola ($4.55), Panama City ($4.57)
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Apollo Class II e-bike designed to accommodate two riders or additional cargo safely
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Veo, the first profitable micromobility company, has created the micromobility industry's first dual-passenger vehicle, the Apollo Class II e-bike, that can safely accommodate two riders or additional cargo storage.
Revealed today at Micromobility America, the Apollo is designed to increase ridership and reduce dependence on gas-powered vehicles by addressing two needs: the ability for two people to ride one vehicle and to transport goods utilizing a cargo storage system. The Apollo will launch in select markets in early 2023.
"As the micromobility industry continues to grow, we must expand our vehicle offerings to address unmet market demands," said Candice Xie, co-founder and CEO of Veo. "The Apollo was developed in direct response to insights from rider surveys, feedback from municipalities, and global research that indicates the immense need for safe tandem riding and cargo hauling. By opening up micromobility to new riders and new trip types, we can reduce car dependency and help cities advance their ambitious climate goals."
The Apollo features a throttle-assist motor, which allows riders of varying body types and abilities to get where they need to go without pedaling. The throttle provides assistance for traveling up hills or carrying cargo and offers a boost to get up to speed from a stopped position. Veo's ridership data shows that the first-generation throttle-assist e-bike, the Cosmo-e, receives four times as many rides per day as Veo's electric pedal-assist bikes. Once deployed, Apollo vehicles can carry two passengers or can be retrofitted to accommodate one passenger with additional cargo, depending on the needs of each market.
"If we want to get more people out of cars and into the bike lane, micromobility must accommodate rider needs for varying trip types and purposes," said Edwin Tan, Veo co-founder and president. "A second seat and cargo-hauling capabilities make the transition to micromobility realistic for more people."
Veo has been designing and manufacturing its vehicles in-house since 2017, which allows for continuous innovation, consistent deployment of new vehicles, and control of the entire supply chain process to ensure top quality and safety. Veo, which has a fleet of eight vehicles, including seated and standing scooters, class I and class II e-bikes, accessible wheelchair devices, and pedal bikes, continues to expand its portfolio in the more than 50 markets it serves nationwide.
"For the past five years, Veo has led innovation in the shared micromobility industry, bringing more vehicles and safety technology to market than any other company – including the industry's first seated scooter – and we're just getting started," said Tan.
Apollo Specifications
- Motor - 750-watt
- Tires - 20-inches
- Max load- 400 lb. passenger weight
- Battery range - 45 miles
- Max speed - 15 mph
Veo is committed to designing and manufacturing vehicles that lead the industry in safety and user experience. Apollo safety and convenience features include:
- Simulated electric engine noise: When the throttle is engaged, the vehicle will notify pedestrians, particularly those who are blind or have visual impairments, that an e-bike is approaching with an audible noise.
- Intelligent display system: A light-up display that communicates information about the vehicle's status (e.g., battery level, speed level, riding zone information) and displays turn signals to other road users while the vehicle is in use.
- Integrated phone holder: Holds riders' phones for safe navigation.
- Bluetooth speaker: Syncs with smartphones so riders can hear directions or listen to music for safe routing and riding.
- Veo Voice: Veo's newest IoT with precise geofencing and Veo Voice technology, which uses on-board speakers to explain local riding regulations.
- Veo's proprietary swappable battery technology: Allows field technicians to swap out batteries in the field, enabling scooters to be available 24/7. Batteries are compatible with other Veo vehicle types to further enhance field operations efficiency.
About Veo
Veo is on a mission to end car dependency by making clean transportation accessible to all. We have provided millions of shared bike and scooter rides in 50+ cities and universities across North America and counting.
Veo operates from a set of values that distinguish us in the industry. We are grounded in financial responsibility: Veo partnered with select cities to achieve profitability before scaling. Our in-house design and manufacturing process enables us to constantly innovate and provide cities with the next generation of shared electric bikes and scooters. We develop collaborative, long-term partnerships with cities and universities so we can work together toward a sustainable, safe, and equitable transportation future.
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Half-marathon runner proves autism is his superpower
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ST. LOUIS, Missouri (KMOV) — “I completed my first half marathon!” 35-year-old Jim Wahl said after crossing the finish line of the Go! St. Louis half marathon, Sunday.
Wahl ran 13.1 miles in 2 hours, 20 minutes, and 4 seconds. He has those numbers, and many others, memorized.
“He just has such a knack for numbers, and he always has,” Jim’s father Bill Wahl said.
Jim’s autism makes him a number wizard. If you tell him your birth date, he can tell you what day of the week that was.
“He’s going to do really well on a course with a lot of numbers, mile markers, water stations to count, your pace per mile,” said Go! St. Louis president Mona Vespa.
The numbers and the running help clear his mind.
“During COVID when everybody was on lockdown, he wasn’t working so he went out and ran 5 days a week and I really think that gave him a purpose and something to do,” Jim’s mother Carolyn Wahl said. “It kept him grounded in that stressful time.”
The race started at Forest Park and ended in downtown St. Louis. Jim ran the course with his brother.
“It was hard, really hard,” Jim said. “I’m gonna go rest.”
“You know, I think the cool thing about running is it’s pretty accessible to a lot of people and there’s easy ways to make accommodations so that everyone has the opportunity,” said Vespa. “Any time we can make that possible, we do.”
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NEW YORK, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for INDO, PHIO, RDBX, DIDI, and CLF.
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LOS ANGELES, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This Brentwood Home sale is unprecedented. In honor of Earth Day, the maker of California-inspired sleep products is offering 10% off its entire site, including its top-rated eco-friendly mattresses, bed frames, bedding, yoga, and kids products.
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Largest Ever Acquisition in India's Infra and Materials space valued at USD 10.5 billion
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- Acquisition propels Adani into the cement business, and will establish its new materials, metal and mining vertical
- With this, Adani is now India's second largest cement manufacturer (capacity ~70 MTPA)
AHMEDABAD, India, May 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Adani Family, through an offshore special purpose vehicle, announced that it had entered into definitive agreements for the acquisition of Switzerland-based Holcim Ltd's entire stake in two of India's leading cement companies – Ambuja Cements Ltd and ACC Ltd.
Holcim, through its subsidiaries, holds 63.19% in Ambuja Cements and 54.53% in ACC (of which 50.05% is held through Ambuja Cements). The value for the Holcim stake and open offer consideration for Ambuja Cements and ACC is USD ~10.5 billion, which makes this the largest ever acquisition by Adani, and India's largest ever M&A transaction in the infrastructure and materials space.
"Our move into the cement business is yet another validation of our belief in our nation's growth story," said Mr Gautam Adani, Chairman of the Adani Group. "Not only is India expected to remain one of the world's largest demand-driven economies for several decades, India also continues to be the world's second largest cement market and yet has less than half of the global average per capita cement consumption. In statistical comparison, China's cement consumption is over 7x that of India's. When these factors are combined with the several adjacencies of our existing businesses that include the Adani Group's ports and logistics business, energy business, and real estate business, we believe that we will be able to build a uniquely integrated and differentiated business model and set ourselves up for significant capacity expansion."
Mr Adani added, "Holcim's global leadership in cement production and sustainability best practices brings to us some of the cutting-edge technologies that will allow us to accelerate the path to greener cement production. In addition, Ambuja Cements and ACC are two of the strongest brands recognized across India. When augmented with our renewable power generation footprint, we gain a big headstart in the decarbonization journey that is a must for cement production. This combination of all our capabilities makes me confident that we will be able to establish the cleanest and most sustainable cement manufacturing processes that will meet or exceed global benchmarks."
"I am delighted that the Adani Group is acquiring our business in India to lead its next era of growth," said Mr Jan Jenisch, CEO of Holcim Limited. "Mr Gautam Adani is a highly recognized business leader in India who shares our deep commitment to sustainability, people and communities. I would like to thank our 10,000 Indian colleagues who have played an essential role in the development of our business over the years with their relentless dedication and expertise. I am confident that the Adani Group is the perfect home for them as well as our customers to continue to thrive."
With India's cement consumption at just 242 kg per capita, as compared to the global average of 525 kg per capita, there is significant potential for the growth of the cement sector in India. The tailwinds of rapid urbanization, the growing middle class and affordable housing together with the post-pandemic recovery in construction and other infrastructure sectors are expected to continue driving the growth of the cement sector over the next several decades.
Ambuja Cements and ACC currently have a combined installed production capacity of ~70 MTPA. The two companies are among the strongest brands in India with immense depth of manufacturing and supply chain infrastructure, represented by their 23 cement plants, 14 grinding stations, 80 ready-mix concrete plants and over 50,000 channel partners across India.
Both Ambuja and ACC will benefit from synergies with the integrated Adani infrastructure platform, especially in the areas of raw material, renewable power and logistics, where Adani Portfolio companies have vast experience and deep expertise. This will enable higher margins and return on capital employed for the two companies. The Companies will also benefit from Adani's focus on ESG, Circular Economy and Capital Management Philosophy. The businesses will continue to be deeply aligned to UN Sustainability Development Goals with clear focus on SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SDG 13 (Climate Action).
The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and conditions.
About Adani
Headquartered in Ahmedabad, India, Adani is the largest and fastest-growing portfolio of diversified businesses in India with interests in Logistics (seaports, airports, logistics, shipping and rail), Resources, Power Generation and Distribution, Renewable Energy, Gas and Infrastructure, Agro (commodities, edible oil, food products, cold storage and grain silos), Real Estate, Public Transport Infrastructure, Defence & Aerospace, and other sectors.
Adani owes its success and leadership position to its core philosophy of 'Nation Building' and 'Growth with Goodness' – a guiding principle for sustainable growth. The Group is committed to protecting the environment and improving communities through its CSR programmes based on the principles of sustainability, diversity and shared values. For more information, please visit www.adani.com
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About Holcim
Holcim builds progress for people and the planet. As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Holcim is enabling greener cities, smarter infrastructure and improving living standards around the world. With sustainability at the core of its strategy Holcim is becoming a net zero company, with its people and communities at the heart of its success.
The company is driving the circular economy as a world leader in recycling to build more with less. Holcim is the company behind some of the world's most trusted brands in the building sector including ACC, Aggregate Industries, Ambuja Cement, Disensa, Firestone Building Products, Geocycle, Holcim and Lafarge. Holcim is 70,000 people around the world who are passionate about building progress for people and the planet through four business segments: Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates and Solutions & Products. More information is available on www.holcim.com.
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WASHINGTON, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Minority University Education and Research Program (MUREP) Innovation and Tech Transfer Idea Competition (MITTIC), a Shark Tank-style competition for students at minority-serving institutions, is officially included in the 2022 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) Scholar Recognition Program. The program is part of a White House initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity.
MITTIC is a customized, condensed version of NASA's MUREP idea competition, which began with a 2021 scholar cohort. The competition, referred to as Mini MITTIC, challenges teams of HBCU scholars to develop selected NASA ideas for potential uses in the commercial space industry.
"Mini MITTIC offers an amazing opportunity for students to gain real-life work experiences," said Misti Moore, MUREP lead and MITTIC activity manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "By formalizing this NASA offering for HBCU scholars, we are able to help individuals from underrepresented communities explore their entrepreneurial interests using NASA's technology portfolio while working toward a common goal of discovering commercialization opportunities."
NASA has participated in the White House initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity since inception of student programming in 2014. However, Mini MITTIC establishes a formal program that includes NASA in the offerings provided to scholars.
By incorporating Mini MITTIC into the HBCU Scholar Recognition Program, NASA can better reach and encourage students at minority-serving institutions to participate in NASA missions, as well as research and development activities, while also diversifying the American STEM workforce pipeline.
NASA's MITTIC team and subject matter experts will work over the summer to introduce 86 scholars representing 56 HBCUs to NASA's entrepreneurial opportunities so they can develop business proposals. The university teams will pitch their final product in a forum to the MITTIC team. The top three teams will be selected to present their ideas in September during the National HBCU Week Conference in Washington.
MUREP is administered through NASA's Office of STEM Engagement. MUREP investments enhance the research, academic, and technology capabilities of minority-serving institutions through multiyear cooperative agreements. In addition, awards provide NASA-specific knowledge and skills to learners who have historically been underrepresented and underserved in science, technology, engineering, and math.
NASA's Technology Transfer Program, managed by the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), ensures that the innovations developed for exploration and discovery are broadly available to the public, maximizing the benefit to the nation.
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Certification comes amid rapid growth for Neighborly Software, as it continues to expand its market leading platform for Housing, Economic, & Community Development programs.
ATLANTA, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neighborly Software, the provider of the industry's most comprehensive platform for Housing, Economic, and Community Development program management, announced the successful completion of its Service Organization Control (SOC®) 2 Type 2 compliance audit. This is a significant achievement, requiring a substantial commitment of financial and internal resources. The certification positions Neighborly Software very well with government bodies who require SOC2 compliance as a condition of doing business with them. It is also a powerful 3rd party validation of the company's ability to not only implement critical security policies, but also prove compliance over an extended period of time.
A Service Organization Controls (SOC) report is prepared by an independent auditor and is based on the Trust Service Principles and Criteria framework developed jointly by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA).
As part of Neighborly Software's SOC 2 Type 1 certification, an independent auditor verified that the company follows internal controls related to compliance and operations, including how sensitive data is stored, handled, and transmitted.
Following its certification for SOC 2 Type 1, Neighborly Software continued the process to become Type 2 certified. This additional certification is awarded to companies that meet stringent requirements related to the security, availability, and processing integrity of the systems the company uses to process users' data. SOC 2 Type 2 certification confirms the design, effectiveness, and implementation of those controls during the certification review period.
"Successfully completing SOC 2 Type 2 demonstrates that our platform can be trusted to adhere to strenuous compliance standards," said Chris Behm, COO of Neighborly Software. "Our clients can feel confident that we will continue to make investments to establish and maintain the highest level of security and compliance."
Neighborly Software will maintain its SOC 2 Type 2 certification through yearly 3rd party audits.
Since 2016, Neighborly Software has partnered with its "Neighbors" (clients) to reimagine and reinvent the way housing, economic and community development programs are administered. With 350+ public sector Neighbors using its platform, Neighborly Software has established itself as the premiere software in City, County, and State markets.
The company's cloud-based software provides a comprehensive, integrated solution that replaces paper-based applications, manual processes, and outdated technology. Organizations can not only improve their efficiency and regulatory compliance, but also provide a better client experience for the populations they serve.
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NEWTOWN, Pa., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM), a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company, will host an Investor Day with financial analysts and institutional investors on May 19, 2022, in Boston, Massachusetts.
A webcast of the event can be accessed at https://investors.epam.com.
For all pre-registration and event questions please contact EPAM's Investor & Analyst Day Team.
About EPAM Systems
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has leveraged its advanced software engineering heritage to become the foremost global digital transformation services provider – leading the industry in digital and physical product development and digital platform engineering services. Through its innovative strategy; integrated advisory, consulting, and design capabilities; and unique 'Engineering DNA,' EPAM's globally deployed hybrid teams help make the future real for clients and communities around the world by powering better enterprise, education and health platforms that connect people, optimize experiences, and improve people's lives. In 2021, EPAM was added to the S&P 500 and included among the list of Forbes Global 2000 companies.
Selected by Newsweek as a 2021 Most Loved Workplace, EPAM's global multi-disciplinary teams serve customers in more than 45 countries across five continents. As a recognized leader, EPAM is listed among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services on the Fortune 1000 and ranked as the top IT services company on Fortune's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list for the last three consecutive years. EPAM is also listed among Ad Age's top 25 World's Largest Agency Companies for three consecutive years, and Consulting Magazine named EPAM Continuum a top 20 Fastest-Growing Firm.
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A social media account bearing the name of Ricky Shiffer, the suspect in the Ohio standoff with the FBI, made a post on the social media platform founded by Donald Trump, referencing an attempt to storm an FBI office and encouraging others online to prepare for a revolutionary-type war.
The post about the FBI office attack was made minutes after the Ohio State Highway Patrol said the incident at the FBI office in Cincinnati began, shortly after 9:15 a.m.
"Well, I thought I had a way through bullet proof glass, and I didn't," the user posted at 9:29 a.m. Thursday on Truth Social, Trump's social media site. "If you don't hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I., and it'll mean either I was taken off the internet, the F.B.I. got me, or they sent the regular cops while."
It's unclear whether the user was attempting to write more, as the post stops after "while." A spokesperson for the Ohio State Highway Patrol said that at 9:37 a.m. authorities located and began pursuing the suspect's vehicle.
Authorities have not yet confirmed that the account belongs to the suspect. However, a law enforcement source told CNN that an image on the account matched a government ID photo of the suspect.
The FBI declined to comment on the account and its postings, citing their ongoing investigation.
On the Truth Social account, the user claimed they was present in Washington on January 6, but did not say whether they entered the Capitol. The user's push for violence did not start or stop with the FBI's recent actions. The poster constantly referenced his belief that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
The user communicated to others with the account -- which has only been active in the last few weeks -- with increasingly politically violent and revolution-minded thoughts.
"People, this is it," the user wrote Monday, shortly after news broke of the search warrant. "I hope a call to arms comes from someone better qualified, but if not, this is your call to arms from me."
In that post, the user encouraged people to go to gun and pawn shops to "get whatever you need to be ready for combat."
"We must not tolerate this one," the user wrote.
When another user responded, saying that they would be sending his photo and information onto the FBI, the user responded saying, "Bring them on."
It's unclear whether the information was forwarded to the FBI.
"Evil already won, now we need to fight a civil war to take back the country," the user later wrote Monday.
On Tuesday, the day after the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the poster wrote that people were heading to gather in Palm Beach and that if the FBI broke up the group, "kill them."
When another user responded to his post, saying no one should resort to violence, the user responded with, "Why not?"
The user of the Ricky Shiffer account, as they did frequently on the social media site, pushed a message of political violence, saying, "when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."
"Don't forget how Americans handle tyrants," the user wrote to another user Wednesday, commenting on the same article.
"They rig elections, and get away with it," the user wrote Tuesday.
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Leading group purchasing company continues to recognize Sharp for exceptional customer service, excellence and commitment to lower costs
MONTVALE, N.J., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation (SEC), today announced that it is a proud winner of the 2022 Supplier Horizon Award from Premier Inc., a leading healthcare improvement and technology company that unites an alliance of more than 4,400 U.S. hospitals and health systems and approximately 225,000 other providers.
One of 10 suppliers to receive the award this year, Sharp received the award in recognition for its support of Premier members through exceptional customer service and engagement, ability to drive value through clinical excellence and commitment to lower costs. Sharp also received the award in 2021.
"We are very excited to receive this prestigious industry award two years in a row from Premier, Inc.," said Erica Calise, Director of Marketing, Government and National Accounts, Sharp Imaging and Information Company. "Sharp is committed to providing the highest level of customer service and value to customers in the healthcare industry and this recognition is a testament to that."
"Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America supports Premier members by offering valuable products and services that help to lower supply chain costs and improve operating efficiencies," said David A. Hargraves, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, Premier. "We're honored to recognize them as a Horizon Award recipient."
Sharp Electronics Corporation is the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Sharp Corporation. Sharp is a worldwide developer of one-of-a-kind home appliances, networked multifunctional office solutions, professional displays and smart office technologies. Sharp has been named to Fortune magazine's 2020 and 2022 World's Most Admired Companies Lists, a ranking of the world's most respected and reputable companies.
Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America, a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, strives to help businesses achieve Simply Smarter work through technology that is smart and easy to use. The aim of the Simply Smarter Workplace strategy is to accelerate collaboration, improve efficiencies, digitize workflows, and increase information security. Sharp's expansive line of products and solutions include interactive displays such as the award-winning Windows collaboration display and AQUOS BOARD® interactive display, commercial displays, security-first laptops, desktop monitors and a full suite of multifunction copier and printer solutions.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MCFIVA, a renowned result-oriented marketing consultancy and advertising agency, joins hand with world-class partners to host a very exclusive seminar, the SEAT 2022: Southeast Asia Technology Conference 2022 - Bringing together world-class experts and investors, including 200 billionaire executives and top entrepreneurs, under the theme "Future of Everything" that will prepare you to step into the future on 3rd-4th October 2022 at The Crystal Box, Gaysorn Urban Resort, Gaysorn Village, Bangkok, Thailand
Mr.Warachya Urupongsa, Chief Digital Officer of MCFIVA, says: "In the past 2 years, it seems as if the world has turned more slowly and the economy has slowed down, but actually the technology, especially Frontier Technology or 'Deeptech' has progressed and grown by leaps and bounds, whether in the new financial industry that has grown very rapidly, in virtual reality (Metaverse), or in the added opportunities for new business creation through collaboration with Startups. We can see that there have been plenty of new opportunities emerging, as is readily observable from the massive growth of investment in technology businesses. I would like to suggest 6 technological trends that are worth watching closely, as follow:
1. Cloud and Edge Computing: This technology has become more mainstream during the past 2 years, since people started realizing that Edge is a crucial component of IoT that will help to fulfil Cloud's operation by reducing latency along with solving data storage and network congestion problems. The market has grown 1.5 times, totalling USD 136 Billion in value.
2. Sustainability: Since consumers have started to support brands that place importance on sustainability, they have also started to replace existing products with alternative products that emphasize sustainability. They are happy to pay more for products that are manufactured on the basis on sustainability. As such, non-profit organization has grown 1.6 times, totalling USD 109 Billion.
3. AI or Artificial Intelligent: This industry grew 2.5 times, totalling USD 165 Billion. This is a very influential technology that is a 'Game Changer' in raising organizations' ability to response better to the changing consumers' habit that now gravitates towards digital lifestyle. Especially in the era where data is akin to a treasure trove for business operations, AI-derived solutions have only been on the increase.
4. HealthTech: Certainly, Covid-19 has affected people's health and lifestyle globally. As such, everybody now gives importance to having a more efficient healthcare system. This industry has grown 2.9 times, totalling USD 28.3 Billion. Since this is the digital and customer-centric era, healthcare provision is becoming more focused towards being patient-centric than ever before.
5. Immersive-Reality Technology: This industry has grown 3 times and now totals USD 30 Billion. It is also expected to create impacts to society in multiple dimensions, whether in education, economy, medicine, and ICT. Analysis from Bloomberg Intelligence indicates that the industry will have a global market value of USD 800 Billion by 2024.
6. Web 3.0: This has grown 5.5 times, now totalling USD 110 Billion. Web3.0 has turned everything into being Human-Centric, with transparency in data collection. Users can now control their own data with a high degree of security. This can be seen with the emergence of Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and the commercial world has now turned into a Decentralized Marketplace, where every shop can access the market without an intermediary.
These technologies form the basis of the SEAT Conference 2022, with the objective of connecting the world of Frontier Technology together, shrinking it down, and turning Thailand into the centre of Technology, resulting in many forms of cooperation. The event is a very exclusive one, only 200 people. For the first 100 VIPs, we will invite the most respected executives and entrepreneurs, both domestic and international, and the remaining 100 will be selected amongst the target group who have submitted their applications for the event.'
Ms.Pireeya Wiriyapan, Chief Operating Officer MCFIVA, adds: "The event will be packed with content and experience that you won't find anywhere else for the whole 2 days. The content will be about future trends regarding Metaverse, FinTech, HealthTech, AgriTech, Venture Capital, FoodTech, IoT&Hardware, Web3.0, and much more. Some of the world-renowned speakers, such as Apipat Virdi, former Global head of Metaverse, Meta(Facebook), Karthik Iyer, CEO, BlockchainMonk, the No.1 Bitcoin Analyst and Investor, Gabe Sibley, Co-Founder and CEO, Verdant Robotics that create robots that will transform the AgriTech industry, Sara Naseri, CEO and co-founder, Qvin, leader in WomenTech among others.'
Unmissable Highlights of the Event
- More than 30 World Class Speakers from all over the Globe
- Attendees by invitation only, with top-tier executives and world-class entrepreneurs
- Networking & Curated Business Matching – strike a conversation with well-respected people from many industries and curated business matching
- Organized in cooperation with our partners Gaysorn Village, RISE, SeaX Ventures, and SO (Siamrajathanee)
Interested person can submit application for the chance to join the event. For further information please visit https://seatcon.co/ or contact seat@seatcon.co
SOURCE MCFIVA | https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2022/09/02/mcfiva-announces-seat-conference-2022-bringing-world-class-experts-showcase-technological-trends-under-theme-future-everything-readying-you-charge-into-future/ | 2022-09-02T07:32:33Z |
Fisher-Price, US regulators warn of infant deaths in rockers
Published: Jun. 14, 2022 at 1:47 PM CDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fisher-Price and U.S. product safety regulators are telling parents not to let their infants fall asleep in the company’s rockers after 13 infants died in the devices between 2009 and 2021.
The deaths happened when the babies fell asleep in Fisher Price’s Infant-to-Toddler and Newborn-to-Toddler rockers.
The company, along with U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, said the rockers should never be used for sleep and infants should never be left unsupervised or unrestrained in them.
Other similar baby rockers were recalled in 2021 and 2019.
A new rule requiring that infant sleep products have a sleep surface angle of 10 degrees or less goes into effect next week.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.kxii.com/2022/06/14/fisher-price-us-regulators-warn-infant-deaths-rockers/ | 2022-06-14T19:26:40Z |
KENANSVILLE, Fla., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wild Florida Airboats, Gator Park & Drive-thru Safari announces a massive new addition to its facility. Since 2020, the Drive-thru Safari Park has expanded with new land and animals for guests to see. Their latest expansion invites Huckleberry, a new white rhino, to the Wild Florida family! The exhibit opens on September 22nd, in celebration of World Rhino Day.
Originally from another world-class facility in north Florida, Huckleberry, or "Huck", is a two-year-old, 3,500-pound, male white rhino. White rhinos can live up to 50 years old and weigh up to 5,000 pounds!
With only 18,000 white rhinos existing in protected areas and private game reserves, rhinos like Huck are classified as nearly threatened animals. In fact, they are one of only five rhino species that aren't endangered. That's why Wild Florida will pledge a percentage of Drive-thru Safari Park sales to give back to the International Rhino Foundation to preserve wild populations.
"We've worked really hard to create a world-class environment where our rhinos can thrive," says Jordan Munns, co-owner of Wild Florida. "It took a lot longer than we planned, but it was worth it. We're so excited to introduce these enormous animals to our guests."
Wild Florida opened on Lake Cypress in 2010, focuses on educating individuals on Central Florida's natural resources. The Wild Florida team is dedicated to protecting, conserving, and enhancing Florida's diverse ecosystem to ensure that future generations can enjoy the wonders of wild, native Florida. Opening in 2019 and expanding across 170 acres of scenic landscape, the Wild Florida family is excited for the new addition in their Drive-thru Safari Park.
Admission to Wild Florida's Drive-thru Safari Park is $33 per adult and $23 per child, but Florida residents can enjoy more than 150 exotic and native animals for $23 per adult and $18 per child. Admission to the Gator Park is included for any guest who purchases an airboat tour, visits the Drive-thru Safari Park or experiences an animal encounter. Learn more about Wild Florida's offerings at WildFL.com.
Contact Sam Haught, Co-owner at Wild Florida
sam@WildFL.com
407-957-3135
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An experienced employment law firm, Davtyan Law Firm (www.d.law) is expanding again, this time to help employees in Lake Tahoe, California and surrounding areas. DLaw's original office opened in 2015 to help protect the rights of the working class in the Los Angeles area. DLaw's attorneys focus on assisting all Californians with navigating employment issues, such as workplace harassment, discrimination, unpaid wages, and wrongful termination. Their passion and dedication are what set them apart from other employment law firms in the area.
Founder and Managing Attorney Emil Davtyan is looking forward to seeing how his firm's experience and knowledge will help workers in and around the Lake Tahoe area. The entire team at DLaw wants to bring accessible, comprehensive, and caring legal services to all employees in this region.
DLaw also has offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Chico, and San Luis Obispo to protect all Californians from abusive employers.
Since its inception in 2015, DLaw's 50-plus lawyers and staff have helped hundreds of thousands of California workers recover nearly a quarter of $1 billion from their employers. To date, the firm has helped pursue nearly 3,000 cases.
"Hourly and low-wage workers are a collective group of people who make up the backbone of America," said Emil. "These hard-working individuals often don't have the resources and means to pursue their valid claims because employment law projects intimidation. If anyone has experienced unfair workplace treatment, they can look to us as the best place to help. We're always a phone call or online visit away from answering questions and offering free advice."
DLaw's newest office is located near Truckee Tahoe airport at 12242 Business Park Drive, Suite 19, Truckee, CA 96161.
DLaw specializes in the following fields of employment law:
Wage & Hours Claims — California has strict laws regarding lunch breaks, rest breaks, overtime, expense reimbursements, off-the-clock work, minimum wage, etc. These laws change frequently and can be confusing.
Workplace Harassment & Discrimination — Employers are not allowed to discriminate or harass, based on certain protected classes such as race, age, and gender. In addition, California protects more classes including immigration status, sexual orientation and others.
Wrongful Termination — There are several types of wrongful termination including those based on discrimination, contract violations, sexual harassment, and workplace retaliation.
Protected Leave Violations — California employees are entitled to a variety of protected leaves including FMLA (family and medical leave), new parental leaves, military service leave, and more. California's leave laws protect employees from unlawful discrimination, harassment, or retaliation as a result of requesting or taking protected leave. Employees have a right to take these kinds of leaves, and employers cannot take certain actions just because they exercised that right.
Workplace Retaliation — Workplace retaliation occurs when a business takes an adverse action against the employee who initially filed a complaint. If an employer punishes or fires an employee for exercising his or her employment rights, it is considered workplace retaliation and it may be illegal.
Are you a California employee who is treated unfairly at work? If so, please call 888-TRY-DLAW, visit the www.d.law website or email info@davtyanlaw.com. A representative is standing by 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help with your employment law legal needs.
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UK Food Standards Agency will now proceed through the safety evaluation process
DENVER, April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - (TSX: CWEB) (OTCQX: CWBHF) Charlotte's Web Holdings, Inc., ("Charlotte's Web" or the "Company"), the market leader in full-spectrum cannabidiol ("CBD") hemp extract wellness products, has achieved a milestone becoming one of the first companies to receive validation of its Novel Food applications from the UK Food Standards Agency ("FSA") for its full-spectrum hemp extracts in the United Kingdom. To date, most UK consumers have had access primarily to CBD isolate products and may be unaware of the potential benefits of the entourage effect from full-spectrum CBD like Charlotte's Web, which includes all of the cannabinoids, terpenes and flavonoids extracted from the whole hemp plant.
Importantly, this milestone adds Charlotte's Web to the FSA's list of products allowed to be sold in the UK, whereas companies not on the list are prohibited from the market. Charlotte's Web is one of the fraction of companies to receive validation from the FSA out of more than 800 applications submitted, and one of only a few U.S.-based companies represented.
"This milestone gives Charlotte's Web and full-spectrum CBD a legitimate presence within the UK market," said Jacques Tortoroli, CEO of Charlotte's Web. "We can now expand in the UK and commence discussions with large retailers who have been waiting for access to full-spectrum products from our patented hemp cultivars."
Novel Foods
Novel Foods are ingredients which have not been widely consumed by people in the UK or European Union (EU) before May 1997. This includes cannabidiol ("CBD") and other consumable derivatives of the hemp plant, including whole-plant hemp extract. Novel Foods need to be authorised by the FSA before they can be included on the list of novel foods and marketed for sale in the UK.
The FSA is the Central Competent Authority for food safety that issues guidance to support consistency in approach in the United Kingdom. The FSA's rigorous Novel Food authorization process for CBD offers regulatory stability and a viable path to full commercialization for CBD products within the UK. A validated Novel Food FSA authorization is required to legally sell ingestible CBD products such as oils, gummies, and capsules beyond March 2021. Charlotte's Web's applications with comprehensive toxicity and safety studies have been validated and will proceed for risk assessment. This status allows Charlotte's Web to continue selling its products in the U.K.
In addition to its Novel Foods application, Charlotte's Web is collaborating with The European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) which is part of the Secretariat Advisory Board (SAB), a European consortium of the UK's and Europe's leading CBD and hemp trade bodies and groups collaborating to provide hemp industry views, innovation and research, and includes the Scottish Hemp Association and the British Hemp Alliance. The SAB is focused on encouraging the development of clear UK regulation for CBD that reflects evidence-based policy to safely serve the public and wider national interests engaged in public wellness.
"Through the hard work of the EIHA and others like Charlotte's Web, we now have the ability to move forward with consumer education and access to full spectrum CBD wellness," said Lorenza Romanese, Managing Director of the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA). "Novel Foods authorised companies' adherence to the regulatory framework will drive consumer confidence."
UK CBD Market
According to the Brightfield Group the CBD market in the UK has grown rapidly, with the number of CBD consumers virtually doubling in 2019 to reach over 7% of the adult population (8% in 2020), representing sales of more than US$250M in 2020, growing to an estimated US $1.3 billion by 2025.1
The UK has a large populace of 67 million people with a predisposition toward natural wellness products making the UK CBD market well-positioned to thrive. With the FSA's support for a uniquely well-defined regulatory framework, the UK's CBD market is expected to continue on an upward trajectory.
Charlotte's Web Products in the U.K.
Charlotte's Web products can be legally purchased online today through the Company's exclusive UK distributor Savage Cabbage Ltd., one of the oldest and most trusted CBD companies in the UK, serving an active and loyal customer base of wellness seekers. Savage Cabbage is a Member of EIHA (European Industrial Hemp Association) and distributes a large portfolio of Charlotte's Web whole-plant, full spectrum products that contain all the beneficial compounds that exist in the hemp plant as well as CBD. Under the new Novel Foods regulatory framework, Savage Cabbage will leverage its extensive distribution network in the UK to expand the presence of Charlotte's Web in retail distribution channels and on the high street, with a growing number of notable retailers.
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About Charlotte's Web Holdings, Inc.
Charlotte's Web Holdings, Inc., a Certified B Corporation headquartered in Denver, is the market leader in innovative hemp extract wellness products under a family of brands which includes Charlotte's Web™, CBD Medic™, CBD Clinic™, and Harmony Hemp™.
Charlotte's Web was founded by the seven Stanley Brothers in 2013 when they famously developed a unique CBD hemp extract to help a little girl in need, and forever changed global perceptions around the wellness benefits of hemp. With its storied origins, Colorado-based Charlotte's Web is widely recognized around the world for its patented hemp cultivars which provide full spectrum entourage effects from its whole-plant extracts. Charlotte's Web is often referred to as "The World's Most Trusted Hemp Extract".
Charlotte's Web branded premium quality products start with proprietary hemp genetics that are 100-percent American farm grown and manufactured into hemp extracts containing naturally occurring phytocannabinoids including cannabidiol ("CBD"), CBC, CBG, terpenes, flavonoids, and other beneficial hemp compounds. The Company's CW Labs R&D division, advances hemp science at two centers of excellence in Louisville, Colorado, and the Hauptmann Woodward Research Institute at the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) network. Charlotte's Web product categories include full-spectrum hemp CBD oil tinctures (liquid products), CBD gummies (sleep, stress, exercise recovery), CBD capsules, CBD topical creams and lotions, as well as CBD pet products for dogs. Through its vertically integrated business model, Charlotte's Web maintains stringent control over product quality and consistency. In the United States, Charlotte's Web products are distributed to more than 15,000 retail, over 8,000 health care practitioners, and online through the Company's website at www.CharlottesWeb.com.
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Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management's current expectations, estimates and projections regarding the future of our business, future plans, strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this news release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. The material factors and assumptions used to develop the forward-looking information herein include, but are not limited to, the following: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; the regulatory climate in which the Company currently operates and may in the future operate; consumer interest in CBD; successful sales of the Company's products; and the success of sales and marketing activities. Important factors that could cause actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking information include, among others, the factors discussed throughout the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 available on www.SEDAR.com and www.sec.gov , and other risk factors contained in other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission available on www.sec.gov and filings with Canadian securities regulatory authorities available on www.sedar.com. Except as required by applicable securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking information, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Surgical Care Coalition and over 100 medical organizations representing more than one million physicians and other health care professionals are joining together to urge Congress to take immediate action to protect America's seniors by stopping proposed cuts to Medicare for calendar year 2023.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a nearly 4.5% cut to the Medicare conversion factor, a key element for calculating Medicare payments. When combined with the pending 4% Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) cut, surgical care faces a nearly 8.5% cut next year. These looming cuts, which come after the 2% sequestration cut that was fully reinstated in July, represent a significant threat to the millions of seniors nationwide who rely on the Medicare program to access timely, high-quality care.
As a result, more than one million physicians and other health care professionals urge Congress to implement at least a 4.5% adjustment to the Medicare conversion factor, waive the 4% statutory PAYGO requirement and provide a one-year inflationary update based on the Medicare Economic Index. These efforts will provide the Medicare system with short-term fiscal stability and lay the groundwork for long-term payment reforms, the letter states.
"The Surgical Care Coalition and broader community of health care professionals are fighting against these cuts and the continued disinvestment in patient care that jeopardizes patients' access to critical procedures," said Patricia Turner, MD, MBA, FACS, American College of Surgeons Executive Director. "While short-term intervention is clearly needed, it is vital we also identify and advance necessary reforms that create a more robust and reliable Medicare payment system in the long-term."
The letter further argues that the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule's (MPFS) budget neutrality requirement, coupled with the lack of an annual inflationary update, are serious systemic issues that encourage arbitrary cuts to select forms of care. Rather than promoting an ecosystem that provides the best possible care solutions to patients, CMS continues to introduce cuts that disincentivize collaboration between physicians as they are pitted against each other for critical resources.
Doug Rhee, MD, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery President added, "When adjusted for inflation, the value of Medicare payments has declined by 28% over the past 20 years, while the cost of running a medical practice has increased exponentially. As medical costs reach record highs, the proposed cuts reflect an unsustainable Medicare payment system that is out-of-touch with the needs of millions of Americans. Congress must work urgently to stop these cuts and reform the outdated MPFS system."
The Surgical Care Coalition is committed to developing and promoting policy solutions that would address these risks and help ensure our nation's seniors maintain access to the high-quality care they deserve.
Read the full letter here.
About the Surgical Care Coalition
The Surgical Care Coalition advocates for access to quality surgical care for all Americans. The Surgical Care Coalition is comprised of 14 professional associations that proudly represent the more than 180,000 surgeons and anesthesiologists working across the country with a common goal of improving the quality of care, and quality of life, for all patients.
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Pocatello hosts second annual OHV Safety Fair
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) - The second annual Pocatello OHV (off-highway vehicle) Safety Fair was held Saturday at the Bannock County Fairgrounds.
Young bikers learned valuable skills about trail etiquette and safe vehicle operation.
Classes were available for both ATV's and motorbikes, allowing for great practice before the kids head back on the trails.
"It gives them something structured to learn more and to be safer on their equipment," said ISP Corporal Travis Gurney. "It gives us a little bit of hope that when they're out there, they'll be treading lightly on the trails and then also being a little bit safer."
The event is a partnership between Idaho State Police, Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, and Bannock County Search and Rescue. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/05/22/pocatello-hosts-second-annual-ohv-safety-fair/ | 2022-05-22T23:06:59Z |
NK Seeds soybean experts offer management tips for adjusting practices after a late planting, early-season disease, pest and weather issues
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From a cold, wet spring that forced a late planting to June storms that left many Midwestern farmers assessing hail damage, the 2022 growing season got off to a bumpy start across much of the Corn Belt. Fortunately, farmers are resilient by nature, and with a few adjustments to their soybean management practices, NK Seeds soybean experts say that there's reason for optimism for the season ahead.
- When it comes to early-season diseases, look at your crop stage, not your calendar. "Farmers are accustomed to addressing issues like Phytophthora Root Rot and Pythium in the spring, but given this season's delayed planting, they are issues that need to remain on farmers' radars," says Eric Miller, NK Seeds Soybean Product Manager. This time of year, Phytophthora can be more challenging to identify, since its symptoms (wilted or dying leaves) mimic the effects of drought. Pythium is also a risk this year since a primary causation of the soil fungus is cool, wet soil. While these spring yield robbers can be treated with seed treatments and fungicides, respectively, Miller encourages farmers to consider varieties with stacked Rps1c/3a or Rps1k/3a genes to protect from them. "Seed selection is one of the best tools in their toolbelts," he says. "Products like NK14-W6E3, NK29-Z4E3 and NK31-M7E3 have defense mechanisms built into their genetics to get soybeans off to a strong and vigorous start."
- Scout and treat for pests like soybean cyst nematode now to prevent late-season disease. Soybean cyst nematodes tend to make their move early in the growing season, as they burrow into the plant and move through the roots. "Aside from the obvious damage this pest causes by weakening the plant roots, they also provide an entry point for later-season agronomic issues like Sudden Death Syndrome," warns Todd McRoberts, NK Seeds Agronomy Manager. "Fortunately, products like NK14-W6E3, NK19-T8E3S feature Peking soybean cyst nematode protection, which in turn offers solid standability." For fields with a history of soybean cyst nematode and Sudden Death Syndrome, McRoberts advises farmers to also consider seed treatments like Saltro® Fungicide.
- Carefully consider replant decisions necessitated by poor emergence, hail damage or other weather incidents. "Some Midwest farmers have already had to contend with hail damage this year, and they'll want to look at defoliation as a measurement of damage," says McRoberts. "While leaf loss may have little impact on yield potential, it can cause significant damage in later reproductive stages." Before making any soybean replanting decisions, farmers will also want to evaluate plant health, determine their remaining stand and compare the yield potential of a reduced stand to a replanted stand. NK Seeds offers tables in the NK Seeds Agronomic Guide, available for free from NK sales representatives, to help farmers calculate these factors based on harvest population, planting date and plant stand assessment. Finally, adjust seeding rate and row spacing for late-planted crops. Miller suggests increasing seeding rate by 5%-10%, as a general rule of thumb, and reducing row width from 30 to 15 inches when possible.
- Control weeds early. With planting complete, it's time to focus on early-season weed control — before weeds exceed four inches in height. Look for products like NK20-B6E3S, NK33-W2E3S, and NK37-V4E3S, which feature proprietary genetics stacked on Enlist® E3 Soybean herbicide traits, and consider in-season applications of 2,4-D and glufosinate as needed.
- Document observations and capture early-season data. There are many data points to be noted in the first weeks of the season, from how vigorously crops emerge from the ground to how they stand and tolerate disease pressure. "The evaluation process for next season should begin long before harvest; it should begin during emergence," urges Miller. "There's a lot to be learned during soybean emergence and the critical weeks that follow."
For more soybean tips, visit your NK Seeds sales representative or contact your local agronomist.
Syngenta Crop Protection and Syngenta Seeds are part of Syngenta Group, one of the world's leading agriculture companies. Our ambition is to help safely feed the world while taking care of the planet. We aim to improve the sustainability, quality and safety of agriculture with world class science and innovative crop solutions. Our technologies enable millions of farmers around the world to make better use of limited agricultural resources.
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Under federal and local laws, only dicamba-containing herbicides registered for use on dicamba-tolerant varieties may be applied. See product labels for details and tank mix partners. NK® soybean varieties are protected under granted or pending U.S. variety patents and other intellectual property rights, regardless of the trait(s) within the seed. The Enlist E3® soybean traits, the LibertyLink®, Roundup Ready 2 Xtend®, the Roundup Ready 2 Yield®, XtendFlex® traits may be protected under numerous United States patents. It is unlawful to save soybeans containing these traits for planting or transfer to others for use as a planting seed. Roundup Ready 2 Xtend®, Roundup Ready 2 Yield® and XtendFlex® are trademarks used under license from the Bayer Group. LibertyLink® is a trademark used under license from BASF. ENLIST E3® soybean technology is jointly developed with Corteva Agriscience LLC and M.S. Technologies, L.L.C. The ENLIST trait and ENLIST Weed Control System are technologies owned and developed by Corteva Agriscience LLC. ENLIST® and ENLIST E3® are trademarks of Corteva Agriscience LLC. NK®, Saltro(R) and the Syngenta logo are trademarks of a Syngenta Group Company. All other trademarks are the property of their respective third-party owners.
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CARLISLE, Pa., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bullet Liner (www.BulletLiner.com) is pleased to announce that Phoenix Protective Coatings, a national leader in protective coatings solutions, has joined its exclusive North American distribution network. With its reputation for high product quality, excellent customer service, and consistency, Bullet Liner, a global pioneer in the elastomer sealant category, has long attracted entrepreneurs and qualified operators looking to establish independent, fully owned businesses in the highly lucrative spray-on truck bedliner marketplace.
Phoenix Protective Coatings will be an ideal complement to Bullet Liner's growing distributor network, helping to recruit new qualified dealer-operators. With its significant expertise in the pure and hybrid polyurea space, Phoenix will help to substantially expand the brand's domestic footprint. Specifically, the company, which has multiple locations across the mid and southern U.S., will offer commercial and original equipment (OE) growth opportunities for new dealer entities looking to enter the high-quality chemical protective spray coatings arena—while also helping to provide training for technicians, applicators, and upfitters.
"Bullet Liner, the industry's 'Un-Franchised Alternative', is a true pioneer in the protective elastomer sealant category," said Steve Lucka, National Sales Manager, Specialty Polyurethanes. "Potential dealer-operator candidates have long been drawn to Bullet Liner's role as a heritage player in the market space, working for more than three decades to grow the overall spray-on truck bedliner industry. We are now pleased to welcome Phoenix Protective Coatings as an integral new part of our operation, working in tandem with Bullet Liner Corporate to help expand our new dealer presence throughout the U.S. and market our premium fourth-generation technology."
Bullet Liner is presently one of the only players in the market to offer prospective dealers a non-franchised alternative. Free from the financial constraints of the traditional franchise model, Bullet Liner's owner-operator formula offers prospects greater Freedom to Perform. This model offers managerial independence for automotive aftermarket accessory shop operators, auto repair shops, automotive dealerships, and other qualified candidates looking to add to their revenue stream. Along with a robust warranty, Bullet Liner dealers benefit from a nationally recognized brand name and series of support tools including spray equipment, onsite training and certification, access to a personalized retail website, qualified corporate leads, and integrated branded promotional opportunities to help them grow their business.
For more information, please visit www.BulletLiner.com.
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Will Righeimer, CEO of Hyland's Naturals, Elevates Focus on Empowering Employees and Cultivating Positive Workplace Culture
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyland's Naturals, a leading consumer health company with more than a century of history making high quality products to help families live healthier and happier lives, is honored to be certified by Great Place to Work®. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Hyland's Naturals. This year, 88% of its employees said Hyland's Naturals is a great place to work compared to 57% of employees at a typical U.S.-based company.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention and increased innovation. "Great Place to Work Certification™ isn't something that comes easily – it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, Vice President of Global Recognition at Great Place to Work. "It's the only official recognition determined by employees' real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that Hyland's Naturals is one of the best companies to work for in the country."
"We are proud to become Great Place to Work Certified™, our employees have always been at the heart of what we do. Every day we strive to provide our team an amazing and inclusive work environment with meaningful career growth opportunities. This certification demonstrates that our employees know we truly care about them, and they love working here!" said Will Righeimer, CEO. "Every day, our employees are exemplifying our core values and delivering the highest quality health products for millions of families, which is a key driver of our continued success."
At Hyland's Naturals, employees are passionate about fostering a culture that focuses on their total wellbeing, with comprehensive programs to support physical, emotional, social, financial, and career wellness, with market leading compensation and benefits.
"Hyland's Naturals employees are highly engaged, energized, passionate and dedicated. We also attract and retain top talent at a significantly higher rate than companies with lower levels of employee engagement and satisfaction, as evidenced by our industry-low turnover of 2% and an average tenure of 11 years," said Martha Arias, Vice President and Chief People Officer. "We also know Hyland's Naturals is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included and heard – when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day."
According to Great Place to Work® research, job seekers are 5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work. With its Great Place to Work Certification™, Hyland's Naturals continues to build upon its positive workplace culture to support its strategic vision and accelerate future growth.
About Hyland's Naturals
Hyland's Naturals is a leading consumer health company with more than a century of history making high quality products to help families live healthier and happier lives. With a trusted brand, rich history, and highly engaged associates, Hyland's Naturals proudly leads several consumer categories across children's and adult's health with over 80% of its sales from product lines that hold #1 or #2 market share in their categories. Hyland's Naturals' new state-of-the-art, FDA-regulated and cGMP compliant facility produces millions of the world's best-loved products each month that are sold in more than 15 countries and can be found in every major retailer in the United States. At the core of Hyland's Naturals business is its mission to create natural wellness products that empower families to live healthier and happier lives, and its corporate values of Quality, Integrity, Passion, Innovation and Accountability are brought to life every day through the company's dedicated employees. Hyland's Naturals is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. For more information about us, please visit www.hylands.com.
About Great Place to Work Certification™
Great Place to Work® Certification™ is the most definitive "employer-of-choice" recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified.
About Great Place to Work®
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a growing challenge to Russia’s grip on occupied areas of southeastern Ukraine, guerrilla forces loyal to Kyiv are killing pro-Moscow officials, blowing up bridges and trains, and helping the Ukrainian military by identifying key targets.
The spreading resistance has eroded Kremlin control of those areas and threatened its plans to hold referendums in various cities as a move toward annexation by Russia.
“Our goal is to make life unbearable for the Russian occupiers and use any means to derail their plans,” said Andriy, a 32-year-old coordinator of the guerrilla movement in the southern Kherson region.
A member of the Zhovta Strichka — or “Yellow Ribbon” — resistance group, Andriy spoke to The Associated Press on condition of not being fully identified to avoid being tracked down by the Russians. The group takes its name from one of the two national colors of Ukraine, and its members use ribbons of that hue to mark potential targets for guerrilla attacks.
Ukrainian troops recently used a U.S.-supplied multiple rocket launcher known as HIMARS to hit a strategic bridge on the Dnieper River in Kherson, severing the Russians’ main supply link. The city of 500,000 people, seized by Russian troops early in the war, has been flooded with leaflets from the resistance, threatening Moscow-backed officials.
Just before the bridge attack, leaflets appeared, saying, “If HIMARS can’t do it, a partisan will help.”
“We are giving the Ukrainian military precise coordinates for various targets, and the guerrillas’ assistance makes the new long-range weapons, particularly HIMARS, even more powerful,” Andriy told the AP. “We are invisible behind the Russian lines, and this is our strength.”
As Ukrainian forces step up attacks in the region and reclaim some areas west of the Dnieper River, the guerrilla activity also has increased.
They coordinate with the Ukrainian military’s Special Operations Forces, which helps them develop strategies and tactics. Those forces also select targets and set up a website with tips on how to organize resistance, prepare ambushes and elude arrest. A network of weapons caches and secret hideouts was established in occupied areas.
Bombs have been placed near administrative buildings, at officials’ homes and even on their routes to work.
An explosive placed on a tree went off as a vehicle carrying Kherson prison chief Yevgeny Sobolev passed by, although he survived the attack. A police vehicle was hit by a shrapnel bomb, seriously wounding two officers, one of whom later died. The deputy head of the local administration in Nova Kakhovka died of wounds after being gunned down over the weekend.
Guerrillas have repeatedly tried to kill Vladimir Saldo, the head of the Kherson region’s Russia-backed temporary administration, offering a bounty of 1 million hryvnias (about $25,000). His assistant, Pavel Slobodchikov, was shot and killed in his vehicle, and another official, Dmytry Savluchenko, was killed by a car bomb.
The attacks have prompted Moscow to send anti-guerrilla units to Kherson, Saldo said.
“Every day, special units from Russia detect two or three caches with weapons for terrorist activities,” Saldo said on his messaging app channel. “The seizure of weapons help reduce the threat of sabotage.”
Early in the occupation, thousands of residents staged peaceful protests. But the Russian military quickly disbanded them and arrested activists, radicalizing the resistance.
Wedding photographer-turned-activist Oleksandr Kharchikov, 41, of Skadovsk, said he was beaten and tortured after being arrested in a Russian security sweep.
“The Russians tortured me for a long time. They beat me with a baseball bat, they pinched my fingers with pliers and tortured me with electric shocks,” Kharchikov said in a telephone interview. “I suffered a concussion and a broken rib, but I didn’t give them any information, and that saved me.”
Kharchikov spent 155 days under Russian occupation until he escaped.
“The repressions are intensifying. They are creating unbearable conditions for the Ukrainians, making it increasingly difficult to survive under Russian occupation,” he told the AP.
The Russians were offering 10,000 rubles ($165) to anyone applying for Russian citizenship to strengthen their grip on the region, he said.
Moscow has introduced the ruble, set up Russian cellular networks and cut off Ukrainian television in the area. Giant screens showing Russian TV broadcasts have been placed on the main squares of cities.
Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov, who also spent a long time in Russian captivity, told the AP that about 500 Ukrainian activists were detained, with many tortured. Some vanished for months after their arrest.
In May and June, guerrillas blew up two railway bridges in Melitopol and derailed two Russian military trains, Fedorov said.
“The resistance movement is pursuing three goals — to destroy Russian weapons and means of supplying them, discrediting and intimidating the occupiers and their collaborators, and informing Ukrainian special services about enemy positions,” he added.
Russia responded by bolstering patrols and conducting regular sweeps for those suspected of guerrilla links. During such raids, they check phones and arrest those with Ukrainian symbols or photos of relatives in military uniforms.
“In a mopping-up operation, the Russians seal the entire neighborhood, halt traffic to and from it, and methodically go from one apartment to another. If they find any Ukrainian symbols or any link to the Ukrainian military, they put all family members in a filtration camp,” Fedorov said.
“In the best case, people are told: ‘Get out of here if you are against Russia,’ but it also happens that some people disappear,” he said.
Of Melitopol’s prewar population of 150,000, more than 60,000 people have left.
Pro-Moscow officials are preparing for a possible referendum on Melitopol and other occupied areas joining Russia, conducting security raids and handing out Russian passports, Fedorov said.
“We will thwart the Russian referendum. We won’t allow voting under Russian gun barrels,” he said, adding that no more than 10% of the population sympathizes with Moscow, and half has fled.
Guerrillas have tied yellow ribbons on buildings where voting is to be held, warning residents that they could be targeted by bombs during balloting.
The resistance ranges from radical activists to teachers and retirees who sing Ukrainian songs in parks and secretly wear yellow and blue ribbons.
“The Russians were expecting that they would be met with flowers, but they faced the fact that most people consider themselves Ukrainians and are ready to offer resistance in various forms — from collecting information to burning and blowing up the occupiers,” said Oleksii Aleksandrov, who owned a restaurant in the southern port of Mariupol.
In one recent gesture of defiance in Mariupol, a young man wrapped in a Ukrainian flag stood on a street next to the theater destroyed by Russian bombs. The photo spread through Ukrainian media, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed him in an address to the nation.
“It was a very brave thing to do, and I would like to thank him for his action,” Zelenskyy said. “This man is one of many people who are waiting for Ukraine’s comeback and won’t accept the occupation under any circumstances.”
Although pro-Moscow sentiment is strong in Ukraine’s mostly Russian-speaking industrial heartland of the Donbas, a guerrilla movement also has emerged there.
Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said six Russian troops were wounded last month when their vehicle was blown up by guerrillas in the city of Sievierodonetsk soon after its seizure. They also have targeted railways, disrupting Russian munitions shipments and other supplies.
“The guerrillas have acted quite successfully,” Haidai told the AP. “They haven’t only spread leaflets. They also have destroyed infrastructure facilities. It helps a lot to slow down the Russian attacks and advances.”
Observers say the guerrilla movement varies by region and that it is in the interest of both sides to exaggerate its scope.
“The Russians do it to justify their repressions on the occupied territories while the Ukrainians seek to demoralize the Russian forces and extol their victories,” said Vadim Karasev, head of the Kyiv-based Institute of Global Strategies think tank. “It’s hard to believe the tales about Ukrainians feeding Russian soldiers with poisoned cakes, but sometimes myths work better than facts.”
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Yuras Karmanau reported from Tallinn, Estonia.
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Man convicted on 16 charges for distributing meth in drug trafficking organization
GREELEY, Colo. (Gray News) – A Colorado man was convicted on 16 drug charges for his involvement in a major drug trafficking organization in 2019.
According to the Greeley Police Department, an investigation into a large-scale drug trafficking organization operating out of Weld County Colorado took place. The investigation led to the arrests of multiple people, including 49-year-old Luke Braziel.
Braziel, along with other organization members, distributed about 28 pounds of crystal meth and heroin into Weld County, according to police.
During their investigation, authorities said they intercepted 14 pounds of those drugs before they could be bought by people in the community.
Police said Braziel was living at and distributing drugs from a home in Greeley.
With the help of evidence secured by multiple agencies, Braziel was convicted on multiple felony charges.
He was found guilty of 14 counts of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and 2 counts of distribution of a controlled substance.
A sentencing hearing for Braziel has been scheduled for May 23. He faces up to 32 years per count.
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ATLANTA, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marine Products Corporation (NYSE: MPX) today announced several changes within its senior leadership team and among its Board of Directors. Marine Products is a leading manufacturer of fiberglass boats under the brand names of Chaparral and Robalo. Chaparral's sterndrive models include SSi and SSX, along with the Chaparral Surf Series. Chaparral's outboard offerings include OSX Luxury Sportboats, and SSi and SSX outboard models. Robalo builds an array of outboard sport fishing boats, which include center consoles, dual consoles and Cayman Bay Boat models.
The following changes to Marine Products' Executive Officers and Board of Directors are effective immediately:
- The transition of Richard A. Hubbell, President and Chief Executive Officer, to Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors;
- The relinquishment by Gary W. Rollins of his position as Marine Products Corporation's Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, while continuing as a Company Director;
- The promotion of Ben M. Palmer, Chief Financial Officer, to President and Chief Executive Officer, and his election by the Board as a Class I Director;
- The appointment of Michael L. Schmit to Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary.
"Our announcement today is consistent with our history of management continuity," stated Richard A. Hubbell, Executive Chairman. "I am pleased to continue my long association with Marine Products Corporation and our Board as we continue our more than 56-year history of producing outstanding recreational boats with broad consumer appeal and dominant market share. I also express my complete confidence in Ben as he takes on this new position."
"I am excited to assume this new role at Marine Products Corporation," stated Ben M. Palmer, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Our tenured operational management team will continue to operate our two brands and generate strong financial results. The leadership team will leverage our deep industry knowledge to pursue strategic growth opportunities and continue the long-term strategy of generating peer-leading shareholder returns. We are also pleased to welcome Mike Schmit to our senior leadership team. Mike has a great deal of successful finance and accounting experience in several multi-national manufacturing companies, including public company, business combination integration and financial management experience. I am confident that this experience will serve him well in this role at Marine Products Corporation."
MANAGEMENT PROFILES
Richard A. Hubbell previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Marine Products Corporation since its formation in 2001. He has also served as a Director of Marine Products Corporation. Mr. Hubbell is currently the Executive Chairman of the Board of RPC, Inc., and previously served as President of RPC, Inc. from 1987 to 2022 and CEO from 2005 to 2022. Previously, Mr. Hubbell served as the Executive Vice President of Rollins Communications, Inc.
Ben M. Palmer previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Marine Products Corporation since its formation in 2001 and as Corporate Secretary since 2018. Mr. Palmer is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of RPC, Inc. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer of RPC, Inc. from 1996 to 2022 and as Corporate Secretary from 2018 to 2022. Prior to this, Ben held several positions in financial management and public accounting.
Michael L. Schmit joins Marine Products Corporation from SWM International, where he served as Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller. Prior to that, he served as the Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of Chart Industries. Earlier in his career, Mike worked for other public companies and in public accounting, both in the U.S. and Australia. Mike holds a CPA certification as well as several other related professional designations. Effective today, he is also the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary of RPC, Inc.
Marine Products Corporation (NYSE: MPX) designs, manufactures and distributes premium-branded Chaparral sterndrive and outboard pleasure boats, and Robalo outboard sport fishing boats. The Company continues to diversify its product lines through product innovation. With premium brands, a solid capital structure, and a strong independent dealer network, Marine Products Corporation is prepared to capitalize on opportunities to increase its market share and to generate superior financial performance to build long-term shareholder value. For more information on Marine Products Corporation visit our website at MarineProductsCorp.com.
Certain statements and information included in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include statements that look forward in time or express management's beliefs, expectations or hopes. In particular, such statements include, without limitation, belief that we will continue to manufacture products with broad consumer appeal and dominant market share, and that our two brands will continue to generate strong financial results. Additional discussion of factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from management's projections, forecasts, estimates and expectations is contained in Marine Products' Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") for the year ended December 31, 2021, including the "Risk Factors" discussion contained therein.
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Computecoin, a Web3 cloud services platform, is partnering with decentralized storage network Crust to make storing and retrieving files from the decentralized cloud easier.
The partnership will see Computecoin integrate Crust's decentralized storage resources into its network, expanding the storage capacity available to Computecoin users and enabling developers to easily access Crust's storage resources with Computecoin's streamlined user experience.
Computecoin Chief Operations Officer Sang Lee described the partnership as an important step toward making decentralized cloud services for Web3 applications more comprehensive and accessible to users.
"Today's Web3 cloud infrastructure just can't meet users' needs. The solutions that Web3 providers currently offer are too limited, and users face a steep learning curve even if they do want to use these services. In some cases, users need to know how to code just to store or retrieve files from a Web3 cloud provider. Computecoin and Crust want to address these pain points in the industry by making robust, decentralized cloud services - including storage - more affordable and easier to use."
Just as Expedia provides an easy, end-to-end booking solution that simplifies the reservation process by eliminating extra steps, Computecoin offers users a comprehensive computing and storage solution by working with individual data centers, crypto mining farms and decentralized platforms.
"Crust is one of the first projects that we've worked with to show developers that they don't need to rely on the legacy providers or learn to code to build and run dApps in the cloud," Lee said.
Crust is a decentralized storage network for Web3 applications that offers users access to storage capacity at a low cost. The network boasts customized and premium solutions for web/dApp hosting, NFT metadata storage, and personal file sharing, etc.
Crust Network Core Developer Luke Fan believes the partnership will benefit both communities. "Collaborating with Computecoin will introduce new users to the Crust Network ecosystem and create more token use cases for Crust. Through infrastructure like Computecoin, users and developers can more easily access underlying decentralized storage, such as Crust, which allows us to better develop Web3!"
Computecoin (CCN) is a decentralized cloud infrastructure with a Web2 user experience built to power all-purpose cloud services. CCN bridges a gap in the industry by respectively allowing users and developers to easily use and deploy applications through a low-cost, private and reliable alternative to traditional centralized clouds like AWS. Learn more at https://www.computecoin.com/.
Crust Network is a versatile, purpose-built storage blockchain that delivers truly decentralized file storage for the entire Web3 ecosystem, empowering privacy and data ownership. Crust's unique decentralized storage marketplace connects storage requests with storage node providers almost instantly, enabling users to easily host websites, dApps and NFT metadata; share personal files; and build custom APIs. Learn more at https://crust.network/.
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Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera said in a new tweet that he’s not going to support former President Trump again.
Rivera on Wednesday stressed the former president’s “shameful” claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
“Election Deniers depress me,” Rivera said. “I blame President Trump for his shameful campaign to slander and undermine American faith in our elections.”
“For all his positive accomplishments, and there are many, I could never support him again,” Rivera added. “Without fealty to the Constitution, we’re 2d rate.”
The former syndicated talk show host has been a frequent critic of Trump in the past few years, previously saying that Trump hadn’t spoken to him after Rivera declared that the 2020 election result had been decided.
Rivera, who in January, 2021 said that Trump should be impeached for his role in the rioting at the Capitol, said in August that the former president still rules the GOP, adding that he’s disappointed in many if not most Republicans for still believing Trump’s election claims.
Rivera last month tweeted a response to James Carville’s interview with The Hill during which the Democratic strategist said that GOP voters are “stupid” for believing that Trump did not lose the 2020 election.
“James Carville is wrong. Trump does rule the GOP. Many, if not most Republicans believe Trump was robbed in 2020. That doesn’t make them ignorant or racist,” Rivera said at the time. “It makes them disappointing. They’re drunk on Trump Koolaid, and either don’t believe he lost, or worse, don’t care.” | https://cw33.com/news/geraldo-rivera-says-he-could-never-support-trump-again/ | 2022-09-08T23:50:54Z |
More than 50,000 small and medium-sized businesses have downloaded the multicamera app, Live2.Social
MIAMI, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Streann Media announced the launch of Live2.Social, the first multi-camera video app for iOS and Android. The disrupting service is the next-generation tool for content creators to produce outstanding quality video from their mobile devices with multiple camera angles.
The key benefit of multi-camera is that creators can literally be in two or more places at once: They can go live on different social media platforms, and they can add exclusive features like behind-the-scenes clips, interviews, tours, and more.
"We are thrilled to push new boundaries and build the new era of video content creation! This market is huge, and now video creators worldwide will be able to bring remote production to the next level with Live2.Social. Multi Camera streaming is expensive, not anymore. We are lowering significantly the cost of quality video production while increasing content creation mobility," commented Gio Punzo, CEO of Streann Media.
The dominance of streaming services and social media platforms continues to disrupt the media world, enabling the rise of hundreds of millions of independent creators who upload video on a daily basis. Now we are witnessing the beginning of a new era. Up until now, social media and monetization platforms have provided creators the means to distribute their content, while generating limited revenue. These creators, realizing that social media platforms have all the control, have begun experimenting with Web 3.0 innovations, experimenting successfully with nonfungible tokens (NFTs), cryptocurrency, and even the Metaverse. They are discovering for the first time how these crypto-assets provide them with control over the distribution and monetization of their content and likeness.
The acceleration of digital video tools for broadcasters, schools, churches, influencers, e-commerce, real estate, and corporations is here to stay, as mobile video represents try far the largest share of internet traffic around the world. Live2.Social is a perfect solution to make quality programs, gatherings, round tables, interviews, events, and visual radio, with live broadcasts through YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitch Live, LinkedIn, and OTT platforms.
The app is free for 10 minutes of streaming, with paid weekly, monthly, and yearly tiers. Additional Web 3.0 features will be released in Q4 2022 and available via in-app purchase. The App is available globally, on Apple and Google stores, in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian language.
On September 6th, 2022 Live2.Social will be available on one of the biggest technology marketplaces in the world.
Streann Media®️ is the world's most innovative and interactive content creation, distribution, engagement, and monetization streaming platform. With Streann, content providers can create live streaming content and build next-generation Web 3.0 business models, with more than 150 proprietary features. Established in Miami, Florida, the company has won several industry awards for its innovations and has millions of active users in 141 geographies. For more information, visit www.streann.com.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Carvana Co. ("Carvana" or the "Company") (NYSE: CVNA) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Carvana investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
CVNA investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, Defendants' statements about Carvana's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Carvana during the relevant time frame, you have until October 3, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Woman suffers life-threatening injuries during attack by boyfriend’s ex, police say
CENTER, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) – A woman in Colorado said she was attacked by her boyfriend’s ex while she was dropping her kids off at school.
“I don’t even know how to describe the situation,” Alyssa Castanuela told 11 News. “Like, I literally was just trying to take my kids to school, and we were saying good morning to a friend, and I almost died.”
According to police, her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend, Shianne Silva, was standing at the driver’s side door of Castanuela’s vehicle.
“The two exchanged greetings, but Shianne told Alyssa that she was not to be around her child,” an excerpt from the affidavit reads.
Castanuela said she responded that this was up to the daughter’s father, the affidavit continues, enraging Silva, who allegedly lunged at her through the car window.
“I just remember seeing her stabbing me and just hearing my kids crying and crying,” Castanuela said, adding that her two small boys saw everything.
A neighbor tried to intervene but was threatened, too.
Police say Silva sped off, leaving Castanuela bleeding profusely from her neck. Her jugular vein was nicked during the attack and was threatening her breathing, according to the affidavit.
Castanuela was taken to Rio Grande Hospital, where she was later airlifted to Colorado Springs.
“She went through my carotid artery. I was only a couple millimeters away from losing my life,” Castanuela said.
When law enforcement caught up with Silva, she confirmed hitting Castanuela but claimed not to know she was holding her keys while doing so. Silva said she didn’t mean to stab Castanuela, according to the arrest papers.
Silva is now facing first-degree assault charges for “causing seriously bodily injury with the grave risk of death.”
“To do it in broad daylight, you know, it’s just scary,” Castanuela said. “[My sons] are pretty traumatized. They just cry.”
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hillphoenix, part of Dover Food Retail and Dover (NYSE: DOV) and a pioneer in designing environmentally sustainable refrigeration systems, today announced the launch of R290 self-contained display cases, part of the company's Second Nature® Natural product line. R290 cases are the newest addition to Hillphoenix's expansive natural refrigerant portfolio and provide customers with a plug-and-play, flexible and compliant solution for their retail operations.
"We are constantly monitoring the environmental regulations in the refrigeration industry and have been proactively expanding our natural refrigerant product line," stated Anand Rajagopalan, Enterprise Director of Product Management at Hillphoenix. "The use of R290 in our self-contained case portfolio re-emphasizes our commitment to the environment and will also help retailers realize the benefits that this refrigerant can offer their business."
R290 boasts a zero Ozone Depletion Potential (ODP) and Global Warming Potential (GWP) of three, making it a clean and environmentally sustainable refrigeration option. And, with R290's excellent thermodynamic performance and energy efficiency, it can offer retailers up to a 20-50% reduction in energy usage.
The portfolio currently comprises 10 self-service cases in a variety of heights, widths, and depths, from large vertical upright cases, to multi-deck and orchard bin displays. Cases are designed to accommodate various products, including berries, produce, grab-n-go, deli, and meat applications with critical product temperatures.
Second Nature Natural R290 self-contained cases utilize less energy than comparable models utilizing traditional refrigerants. Many of the cases are designed for harsh environments and tested to meet NSF Type II conditions at 80°F and 55%RH. In addition, no piping or refrigeration lines are needed, allowing for a variety of placements throughout retail grocery and small format settings.
About Hillphoenix:
Hillphoenix branded products and services deliver advanced design and manufacturing of commercial refrigerated display cases and specialty products along with commercial and industrial refrigeration systems and integrated power distribution systems. Training, design, energy and aftermarket services are available through the Hillphoenix Learning and Design Centers and The AMS Group. For more information, visit www.hillphoenix.com, or call 800-283-1109.
About Dover Food Retail:
Dover Food Retail, part of Dover Corporation with headquarters in Conyers, Georgia, is the partner to customers seeking to create unique food experiences. Employing the capabilities of our industry-leading brands, Anthony and Hillphoenix, we are able to provide insight and a comprehensive portfolio of innovative solutions that enables our customers to sell more food, more profitably. Our ability to evolve with the ever-changing market demands is driven by our passion for understanding our customers' business and providing them with the best quality products and services they need to succeed both today and in the future. Our focused, forward-thinking approach, combined with the strength of our brands, sets the stage for streamlined product development, a broader product portfolio, and cutting-edge technology resulting in redefining what is possible for customers in the food retail value chain.
About Dover:
Dover is a diversified global manufacturer and solutions provider with annual revenue of approximately $8 billion. We deliver innovative equipment and components, consumable supplies, aftermarket parts, software and digital solutions, and support services through five operating segments: Engineered Products, Clean Energy & Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Pumps & Process Solutions and Climate & Sustainability Technologies. Dover combines global scale with operational agility to lead the markets we serve. Recognized for our entrepreneurial approach for over 65 years, our team of over 25,000 employees takes an ownership mindset, collaborating with customers to redefine what's possible. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, Dover trades on the New York Stock Exchange under "DOV." Additional information is available at dovercorporation.com.
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Child, 2, dies in hot car in Kansas, sheriff says
Published: Aug. 1, 2022 at 2:00 PM CDT|Updated: 7 minutes ago
SCRANTON, Kan. (WIBW/Gray News) – A 2-year-old child was found unresponsive in a car in Kansas on Sunday afternoon, according to the Osage County Sheriff’s Office.
Emergency responders rushed the toddler to the hospital where the child was pronounced dead, WIBW reported.
Circumstances surrounding the child’s death have not been released, but Sheriff Chris Wells said evidence suggests the death may have been heat-related.
Wells said authorities do not believe the child was left in the car.
The child’s official cause of death will be determined by an autopsy.
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SILVER SPRING, Md., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a draft guidance to help ensure that information is available to patients and health care professionals to clearly communicate the benefits and risks of LASIK devices.
"It is important to provide patients with comprehensive labeling that clearly describes the risks involved with LASIK surgery, including potential adverse effects such as dry eye, pain and discomfort, and visual symptoms," said Jeff Shuren, M.D., director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. "These proposed labeling recommendations, based on extensive consultation with stakeholders and patients, are intended to present information about LASIK in language that is easy to read and understand and include images that convey visual symptoms that could occur following LASIK. The draft guidance is designed to support discussions that patients should have with their eye care providers about the benefits and risks of LASIK to help them make informed decisions before proceeding with the surgery."
LASIK is an outpatient surgical procedure that permanently reshapes the cornea to change the way the eye focuses light rays onto the retina at the back of the eye. LASIK surgery is intended to correct common vision problems such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism and to reduce a person's dependency on eyeglasses and contact lenses.
The draft guidance "Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) Lasers–Patient Labeling Recommendations," details the FDA's proposed recommendations for the content and format of patient labeling for LASIK devices, including general information about the surgical procedure; indications for use; benefits; procedure alternatives; contraindications, warnings and precautions; risks; what to expect before, during and after surgery; clinical study information; and manufacturer contact information. In addition, the draft guidance proposes the inclusion of a patient decision checklist as part of the patient labeling information that physicians provide to their patients prior to the procedure. To ensure the patient decision checklist is clearly understood by patients, the proposed checklist includes, among other information, who is a good candidate for LASIK, what to expect after surgery, and a summary of long-term risks of the procedure. It also proposes that the patient and physician sign the checklist to acknowledge it was read and discussed.
The FDA collaborated with external experts on research efforts that informed the recommendations in the draft guidance. The agency, in collaboration with the National Eye Institute and the Department of Defense, conducted research as part of the LASIK Quality of Life Collaboration Project to help better understand the potential risk of problems that can occur after LASIK. This project led to the development of the Patient-Reported Outcomes with LASIK PROWL Symptoms and Satisfaction (PROWL-SS), questionnaire, qualified through the FDA's Medical Device Development Tools (MDDT) program.
By issuing draft guidance for public comment, the FDA is encouraging feedback on the proposed labeling recommendations from patients, health care providers and stakeholders. The FDA will continue to monitor the latest scientific data related to LASIK and work with professional medical societies and patient advocacy groups to help ensure that risk information about LASIK devices is disseminated to patients, as new information becomes available.
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- Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) Lasers – Patient Labeling Recommendations
- LASIK
- Medical Device Development Tools (MDDT) Program
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“I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”
— Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Order of the Day, June 6, 1944
On this day, 78 years ago, 12,000 transport planes took off from southern England under cover of darkness to deliver seasoned Allied paratroopers across the Channel, behind enemy lines, in preparation for Operation Overlord — the Normandy invasion. Later, in the early hours of the following morning, 4,000 American, British and Canadian ships — the largest armada in history — landed an expeditionary force of some 175,000 soldiers onto the heavily-fortified beaches of German-occupied France.
Still, there were no guarantees. Even Eisenhower, after giving the green light for the attack only hours before, scribbled a note intended for release, accepting sole responsibility for the decision to launch the invasion and full blame if we failed.
At 8 p.m. on this day, 78 years ago, Lt. Col. Robert L. Wolverton, commanding officer of 3rd battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, called his men together in an orchard near the airstrip. Standing slightly above them along a hedgerow, he said: “Men, I am not a religious man and I don’t know your feelings in this matter, but I am going to ask you to pray with me for the success of the mission before us. And while we pray, let us get on our knees and not look down but up with faces raised to the sky so that we can see God and ask his blessing in what we are about to do.
“God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask favors or indulgence but ask that, if You will, use us as Your instrument for the right and an aid in returning peace to the world.
“We do not know or seek what our fate will be. We ask only this, that if die we must, that we die as men would die, without complaining, without pleading and safe in the feeling that we have done our best for what we believed was right.”
“Oh Lord, protect our loved ones and be near us in the fire ahead and with us now as we pray to you.”
According to one account, “All were silent for two minutes as the men were left, each with his individual thoughts. Then the colonel ordered, ‘Move out.’”
Wolverton was never able to complete his mission, because he was killed a few hours later, sprayed by German machine gun fire while still in his parachute, descending into darkness above another orchard — this time over Saint-Côme-du-Mont, Normandy, France. But perhaps his personal mission wasn’t to kill after all, but to inspire. If such was the result, then it was “mission accomplished.”
On Wolverton’s previous orders, his battalion went on to carry out their assignment to destroy a vital communications link between the town of Carentan, near the Utah Beach landing site, and the occupying forces along the Cotentin peninsula. This action kept the Germans from making contact with reinforcements from the northwest, buying the Allies precious time to establish a beachhead and link up with paratroopers scattered behind enemy lines.
You may not have heard of Col. Wolverton, but his best friend and regimental commander in the 506th PIR may ring a bell. Col. Robert F. Sink was leader of 2nd Battalion’s Easy Company of the 101st Airborne, better known as the “Band of Brothers,” who, after helping liberate France, fought their way through some of the most famed battles in the European Theater, like Operation Market Garden and Bastogne. They were memorialized in a book by Stephen Ambrose and subsequent HBO miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
Last week, on Memorial Day, we honored soldiers like Wolverton who gave their lives for our country and “brothers in arms” to defend an ideal we’ve held tightly throughout this as well as many other wars. Certainly, Gold Star Families and fellow veterans will never forget and forever hold fast to an unbreakable bond with fallen comrades, but what about the rest of us who haven’t experienced this sort of painful loss?
Maybe we thoughtlessly slipped up and said Happy Memorial Day or forgot to pause for remembrance between TV commercial breaks or grilling out last weekend. If so, it’s still not too late to do a little soul searching on the eve of D-Day 1944. The extraordinary courage previously mentioned didn’t start or end with The Greatest Generation. You’ll find it looming large in the shadows of both distant and recent history. Remember these heroes and thank a vet.
Lee Wolverton, VP of News for HD Media and grandson of Col. Wolverton, said it best in a recent column, “We mistake greatness for many things today. But the brotherhood of those men, my grandfather’s love for them and theirs for him, the kind that Christ described — ‘greater love hath no man that this, that he would lay down his life for his friends’ — this is the stuff of authentic greatness.
“America is starved for it now. It’s within all of us — and up to all of us — to change that. It’s about our love for one another and for our country, and finding comfort and security in the knowledge we are doing our best for what we believe is right.” | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/will-thault-a-soldiers-prayer/article_beed4cd2-e40c-11ec-89b9-576db25d819e.html | 2022-06-04T22:55:37Z |
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — With stark political divides on abortion, gun violence and other issues threatening to overshadow their meeting, the nation’s governors sought to find common ground — on other issues.
The National Governors Association formally kicked off its summer gathering Thursday, the first in-person meeting since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. It follows recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have deepened the rift between red and blue states, by overturning Roe v. Wade and striking down gun restrictions in New York.
Leaders say there’s still room for bipartisanship.
“It’s about trying to find things that we can work on together, and that’s plentiful,” said Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican who is wrapping up his yearlong term as the association’s chair.
Hutchinson is handing the reins of the group to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey, who will serve as its next chair. The two governors last month announced a bipartisan task force to make recommendations on preventing mass shootings, following the massacre at a Texas elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers.
The task force was announced before President Joe Biden signed into law a sweeping, bipartisan gun violence measure that includes billions in new funding for mental health and school safety. The task force is comprised of eight governors, equally divided between Republicans and Democrats.
Hutchinson said he sees the group helping shepherd that law’s implementation at the state level.
Republican Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, a member of the task force, acknowledged that any change to gun policy would invite controversy in his state, yet he encourages politicians to listen to proposals from across the political spectrum, including funding for school security, counselors, gun buybacks and red flag laws.
“I’ve asked everyone to be open to every conversation,” Cox, the association’s incoming vice chairman, said in a press conference last month.
The public agenda at the event in Maine avoided any high-profile partisan issues. Sessions on Thursday featured Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger and the leader of a global robotics competition for a discussion of computer science education. Another session focused on travel and tourism.
The governors also held several other events, including a mixer Wednesday evening and a scheduled lobster bake Thursday evening.
Security was tight with road closures and a large police presence. Organizers declined to say if there was a specific threat or concern.
Nineteen governors, including the governor of Puerto Rico, attended the event. Missing were governors of several large states including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, New York Gov. Kathy Huchul and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Hutchinson said he doesn’t see the governors association addressing abortion following the reversal of Roe. That ruling has pitted states against each other, with “trigger” bans taking effect almost immediately after the ruling in a number of states.
Republicans in some states are looking at ways to prevent women from going out of state for abortions, steps that could include going after abortion providers. In response, some Democratic governors have signed measures banning their state’s law enforcement agencies from enforcing other states’ abortion bans. That includes Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who formally welcomed the governors to her state on Thursday.
When she signed an executive order last week, Mills said she “will stand in the way of any effort to undermine, roll back or outright eliminate the right to safe and legal abortion in Maine.”
Partisanship was underscored on the eve of the gathering as New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu campaigned alongside fellow Republican Paul LePage, a former Maine governor who hopes to unseat Mills.
Newsom, the governor of California, has even run a campaign ad in Florida criticizing that state’s Republican leaders. And protesters supporting reproductive choice gathered outside an event some of the governors attended on the Portland waterfront.
Nonetheless, Hutchinson said the group has been able to work together on other issues, being a voice for the states during the COVID-19 pandemic and during negotiations over the bipartisan infrastructure package.
Massachusetts’ Republican Gov. Charlie Baker said the governors tend to get along with each other — and they tend to focus on things where they can get results instead of areas of disagreement.
“While we will disagree on different issues, we as a group have much more in common than what sets us apart,” said Mills, the host governor.
Hutchinson’s chairmanship of the group has elevated his national profile as he considers running for president in 2024. The two-term governor, who leaves office in January, has criticized former President Donald Trump and has urged fellow Republicans to move on from the 2020 election.
Murphy is coming into the chairmanship after narrowly winning reelection as governor last year. An unapologetic progressive, he recently signed legislation enshrining abortion rights into law and a new package of gun control bills.
Even though they’re at opposite ends of the political spectrum, Hutchinson had words of praise for his successor.
“Part of being a human being is that you recognize good quality that you see in people, even though disagree fundamentally and you’re on a different team. I think that’s needed in America today,” he said.
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DeMillo reported from Little Rock, Arkansas. Associated Press writers Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan; Mike Catalini in Trenton, New Jersey; Sam Metz in Salt Lake City; and Patrick Whittle in Portland, Maine, contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/stark-political-divides-overshadow-gathering-of-us-governors/ | 2022-07-14T19:03:16Z |
VAUGHAN, Canada, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch + Lomb Corporation (NYSE/TSX: BLCO) ("Bausch + Lomb"), a leading global eye health company dedicated to helping people see better to live better, will release its second-quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Bausch + Lomb will host a conference call and live web cast at 8:00 a.m. ET to discuss the results and provide a business update. All materials will be made available on the Investor Relations section of the Bausch + Lomb website prior to the start of the call.
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Bausch + Lomb is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the gift of sight for millions of people around the world – from the moment of birth through every phase of life. Its comprehensive portfolio of more than 400 products includes contact lenses, lens care products, eye care products, ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter products and ophthalmic surgical devices and instruments. Founded in 1853, Bausch + Lomb has a significant global research and development, manufacturing and commercial footprint with more than 12,000 employees and a presence in nearly 100 countries. Bausch + Lomb is headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario with corporate offices in Bridgewater, New Jersey. For more information, visit www.bausch.com and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
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Investment underscores Daimler Truck's focus on cutting-edge software that will enable the truck of the future
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Apex.AI, a company developing safety-certified software for mobility and autonomous applications, today announced that Daimler Truck (DTG: DTR0CK), one of the world's leading commercial vehicle manufacturers, has made a strategic minority investment in the company.
Apex.AI has developed an industry-leading suite of automotive safety-certified software solutions, including the Apex.OS operating system. The software suite serves as the foundational infrastructure on which smart machines operate in the automotive, agriculture, mining, IoT and industrial automation industries.
"This strategic investment from Daimler Truck demonstrates its forward-thinking nature by ensuring that our scalable applications continue to drive software defined vehicle development for the entire industry," said Jan Becker, Co-founder and CEO, Apex.AI. "Our powerful solutions are purposely designed with simplicity in mind. That's the approach that's changing the way companies in a wide range of industries develop their future vehicle technologies."
The Apex.OS SDK enables automotive software developers to create safe, reliable, real-time applications more efficiently. Like Apple's iOS SDK, which allows practically anyone to create an iPhone app, Apex.OS makes programming for a vehicle or robot almost as easy as programming a phone. The result is significantly shortened development cycles of new mobility functions, all of which are created on a bedrock of software that's recognized for having the highest safety standards.
Apex.AI's flagship Apex.OS operating system is an operating system that has earned the highest safety certifications in the industry, including product certification from German testing organization TÜV Nord and the highest level of automotive software safety ISO 26262 ASIL-D. Passing these rigorous testing programs means that the software system is approved for serial production.
With this investment, Daimler Truck joins an impressive array of previously announced, world-class strategic investors, including Toyota Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital, Jaguar Land Rover's InMotion Ventures, Airbus Ventures, Continental AG, ZF, AGCO, and HELLA Ventures.
About Apex.AI
Apex.AI is a global company headquartered in Palo Alto, CA developing breakthrough safe, certified, developer-friendly, and scalable software for mobility systems. The company's flagship product is Apex.OS, a robust and reliable meta-operating system that enables faster and easier software development for mobility, smart machines and IoT. The associated software development kit targets two main customer groups: OEM developers who need to implement complex, integrated AI software in machines or vehicles, and autonomous mobility developers who can now implement safety-critical applications easily and reliably.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HaystackID, a specialized eDiscovery services firm supporting law firms and corporate legal departments, announced today the formal launch of its Global Advisory practice. The global group consolidates the consulting branch of the firm, providing more comprehensive management for its clients and enabling expertise with cross-functional area support.
HaystackID now serves clients through its HaystackID Discovery Intelligence, HaystackID Core™, and HaystackID Global Advisory offerings, ensuring the best alignment of approach, technology, and counsel in support of transactions, implementations, investigations, and litigation.
"The combination of these three practice areas strategically positions HaystackID as the leader in its unified approach, highlighting our experts along with our technology services, in a manner that differentiates our firm from consultancies and providers worldwide," said HaystackID CEO Hal Brooks.
HaystackID Global Advisory features specialized industry experts and teams organized into practices that are optimized to help organizations plan, assess, report, and manage complex and critical tasks, projects, and programs.
The new offering includes four dedicated practices:
- Global Cyber Discovery and Incident Response Services – This focus area provides organizations with end-to-end reactive capabilities to rapidly identify sensitive data (PII/PHI) during a security incident so that organizations can understand and respond to regulatory risk arising from personal data compromise. The cutting-edge process is driven by a dedicated division of cyber, forensics, data science, and legal experts that work together to create successful outcomes for corporations, breach coaches, and cyber insurance providers.
- Privacy and Compliance – This group takes a pragmatic, risk-based approach to help clients maintain individuals' privacy rights, preserve data integrity, and comply with developing privacy regulations, while still allowing information to flow efficiently so that business can be done. HaystackID's experts bring to bear years of experience when advising on data risk, data security, data transfers, and data compliance.
- Global Information Governance Advisory Services – This area enables organizations to be prepared for litigation, regulatory requests, and investigations through a comprehensive enterprise data strategy. It provides advice, frameworks, templates, and tools to transform and improve an organization's enterprise data management and protection strategies, satisfying legal, privacy, compliance, security, records management, and risk obligations. The team is comprised of data management and governance experts, each with an average of more than 20 years of field experience.
- Enterprise Managed Solutions – This group offers flexible and cost-effective discovery management programs from fully managed, turnkey subscriptions to bespoke solutions tailored to unique legal enterprise needs. It is designed to solve the problem of the unpredictable cost of discovery and create operational excellence in the legal process.
"By offering these dedicated practices under one umbrella, we are able to provide our clients with a holistic experience that provides solutions for every aspect of their complex needs. Open and ongoing dialogue helps drive innovation. Our experts facilitate this innovation and rapid deployment of solutions for elaborate and unique needs," said HaystackID President Andrea Wallack.
To learn more about HaystackID Global Advisory, which is available now, visit here.
HaystackID is a specialized eDiscovery services firm that helps corporations and law firms securely find, understand, and learn from data when facing complex, data-intensive investigations, and litigation. HaystackID mobilizes industry-leading cyber discovery services, enterprise solutions, and legal discovery offerings to serve more than 500 of the world's leading corporations and law firms in North America and Europe. Serving nearly half of the Fortune 100, HaystackID is an alternative cyber and legal services provider that combines expertise and technical excellence with a culture of white-glove customer service. In addition to consistently being ranked by Chambers USA, the company was recently named a worldwide leader in eDiscovery Services by IDC MarketScape, a representative vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for E-Discovery Solutions, and a Legal Technology Trailblazer by The National Law Journal. Further, HaystackID has achieved SOC 2 Type II attestation in the five trust service areas of security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. For more information about its suite of services, including programs and solutions for unique legal enterprise needs, go to HaystackID.com.
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NEW ORLEANS, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until August 1, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Dentsply Sirona, Inc. (NasdaqGS: XRAY), if they purchased the Company's shares between June 9, 2021 and May 9, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
If you purchased shares of Dentsply and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-xray/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by August 1, 2022.
Dentsply and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On April 19, 2022, the Company disclosed the sudden termination of CEO Donald Casey "effective immediately." On this news, shares of Dentsply fell by $6.52 per share, or 13%, from $48.72 per share to $42.20 per share. Then, on May 10, 2022, the Company disclosed an ongoing investigation by the Audit and Finance Committee of the Board of Directors, outside counsel and a forensic accounting firm into whether "former and current members of senior management" used improper means to achieve executive compensation goals and other matters relating to financial reporting, which resulted in the Company being unable to timely file its Form 10-Q for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022. On this news, shares of Dentsply fell by $2.87 per share, or 7%, from $39.25 per share to $36.38 per share.
The case is City of Miami General Employees' & Sanitation Employees' Retirement Trust v. Casey, Jr., No. 2:22-cv-02371.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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DENVER, April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STACK Infrastructure ("STACK"), the digital infrastructure partner to the world's most innovative companies, announced it has joined the Infrastructure Masons ("iMasons") Climate Accord to lead carbon reduction efforts in digital infrastructure. The pledge, presented at the Broadgroup Datacloud Global Awards ceremony in Monaco on Monday, April 25, is a part of an expansive mission to take a leading role in achieving planetary net zero carbon emissions.
STACK joins dozens of the world's leading technology and digital infrastructure companies in the iMasons Climate Accord, including Amazon Web Services and Meta. These industry leaders unite to leverage their influence over market-based decisions and drive to collaboratively adopt carbon reduction standards, corporate transparency policies, and industry accountability reports.
"STACK's commitment to sustainability initiatives continues to expand beyond our internal goals, and we are proud to pledge our support for the industry standards of carbon measuring and reporting outlined in iMasons Climate Accord," said Brian Cox, STACK Americas CEO and Infrastructure Masons Advisory Council member. "We are thrilled to be a part of this moment in our industry's history as we unify in our efforts to accelerate global carbon reduction."
The founding coalition of companies have pledged to an open standard to account for and report carbon in data center power, materials, and products. The coalition will identify or establish an independent governing group to define the industry standard methodology for measuring carbon with a focus on transparency, traceability, and identification of the carbon history of data center power and facilities. Utilizing the standard measurement methodology, participating companies will declare the carbon footprint of a product or facility and then show the progress of reducing operating and embodied carbon in materials and products.
This announcement comes shortly after STACK's recent accomplishment of its goal to operate its entire portfolio on 100% renewable energy. In further support of its sustainability commitment, STACK is piloting more environmentally friendly technologies including low-carbon concrete and recycled steel to reduce the embodied carbon in its new facilities as well as fossil-free renewable diesel fuel, such as hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), and scale battery deployments as alternatives to fossil diesel for backup energy needs.
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McDonald’s intentionally sold Muslim family bacon, complaint says
BOSTON (AP) - A civil rights group says workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Wednesday that it had filed a discrimination complaint on the woman’s behalf with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
Followers of Islam are not supposed to eat pork products.
An email seeking comment was left with McDonald’s corporate headquarters in Chicago. A message was also left with someone who answered the phone at Gomez Enterprises LLC, which operates the McDonald’s restaurant on Meadow Street in Chicopee.
The complaint is the first step in the process for seeking monetary damages, according to CAIR lawyer Barbara Dougan. She also hopes it prompts McDonald’s to better train its workers to prevent a similar incident in the future.
“Anti-Muslim bias takes many forms,” Dougan said. “But you can’t go much lower than tampering with the food of a young child. We hope that McDonald’s will find these actions as appalling as we do.”
The advocacy group also shared a picture of the sandwich in question:
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Energy Transfer LP ("Energy Transfer") (NYSE: ET) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired common shares of Energy Transfer stock between April 13, 2017 and December 20, 2021, both dates inclusive.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Energy Transfer, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
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ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Energy Transfer includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) Energy Transfer had inadequate internal controls and procedures to prevent contractors from engaging in illegal conduct with regards to drilling activities, and/or failed to properly mitigate known issues related to such controls and procedures; (b) Energy Transfer, through its subsidiary Rover Pipeline, LLC, hired a third-party contractor to conduct Horizontal Directional Drilling Activities for the Rover Pipeline Project, whose conduct of adding illegal additives in the drilling mud caused severe pollution near the Tuscarawas River when a large inadvertent release took place on April 13, 2017; (c) Energy Transfer continually downplayed its potential civil liabilities when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") was actively investigating the Energy Transfer's wrongdoing related to the April 13 release and consistently provided it with updated information about FERC's findings on this matter.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a plumber and I thought there could be a better way to hold, store and organize a series of project tools for jobsite use," said an inventor, from Gypsum, Colo., "so I invented the MULTI- USE TOOL BUCKET. My design ensures that the interior remains free of rain, debris or other airborne contaminants."
The invention provides an improved 5-gallon plastic bucket for holding and storing tools. In doing so, it protects against water and weather. It also increases organization and convenience and it eliminates the hassle of searching through a traditional toolbox. The invention features a portable and weatherproof design that is easy to use so it is ideal for trade workers, contractors, outdoor enthusiasts, gardeners, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Denver sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-DNV-343, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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LUND, Sweden, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Safeture AB has signed a partnership agreement with Amarante International, one of France's leading providers of security advisory and management services.
Through the agreement, Safeture has quickly gained several new customers. Large companies such as Airbus, Lufthansa and Corsair, part of TUI, will be able to access Safeture technology in the future.
The innovative platform provider for travel and employee security provided by Safeture is now also active in France on a large scale. The SaaS company's services are offered through its new partner Amarante International. Amarante is one of the leading providers of security advisory and management services in France.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Paris, the company employs 1 250 people in 20 offices worldwide. Amarante's services include risk analysis, crisis management, security awareness training and personal protection. In addition to the European Union, governmental organizations, and internationally active corporations such as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) such as BASF, Schindler, Givaudan, Layher and Airbus. Amarante's clients also include many tourism companies such as the airline Corsair, which belongs to TUI, or the French branch of Lufthansa.
"Security in global mobility becomes more and more important for our customers and the demands get higher with ever-increasing complexity. We realized that to continue to leverage our business, we want to partner with the best," says Amarante CEO Alexandre Hollander.
"We got a call from Amarante after they had screened suitable providers in the market and then it was a swift process from the first demo to finalization of the agreement. In our discussions, we covered how Amarante could leverage their business with Safeture, migration of customers, post-sales, integration of risk intelligence onto the platform and much more. The first joint customer was up and running within days and are already looking into several joint tender requests as of now," says Magnus Hultman, CEO of Safeture.
Safeture operates a fully cloud-based platform on travel security, risk and crisis management and emergency communication. The central components of the platform are the Safeture Management Tool, with which companies can locate their employees anywhere in the world, communicate with them and support them in crises, and the Safeture App. It offers users a real-time alert system on security-related issues in their environment and, using the Emergency Button, the possibility to call for help in an emergency with one click. The app includes various other features such as country information, medical databases, flight information, currency converters, and e-learning.
Alexandre Hollander and Magnus Hultman
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Created in 2007 by former executives of the French armed forces, Amarante celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2022. With 1,250 employees in more than 20 countries, the group is now a leading operator in the security market in France and abroad.
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Funding led by Calibrate Ventures and Foundry Group brings AI-powered software to physicians nationwide
LOS ANGELES, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regard (formerly known as HealthTensor), a software company developing an artificial intelligence (AI) co-pilot for physicians to help diagnose medical conditions, today announced it has raised $15.3 million in Series A funding. The financing was led by Calibrate Ventures and Foundry Group, with participation from existing investors TenOneTen Ventures and Susa Ventures, as well as new investors Brook Byers of Byers Capital and Drew Houston. The investment will be used to help grow the Regard team to support more clients, reduce integration time, and expedite reach to new physicians and hospitals, faster.
The funding comes at a critical time for the healthcare industry, with nearly 50% of physicians reporting being burnt out this year. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this issue, with 20% of the clinical workforce leaving the field from 2020 to 2021. Regard aims to help solve this problem by deploying its medical co-pilot. Designed to recognize approximately 50 of the most common medical conditions, the algorithm augments and automates patient medical records to ensure no condition is overlooked, thus saving physicians time with their note-writing process. Since its launch in 2020, Regard's technology has been used on over 30,000 patients and has diagnosed over 420,000 medical conditions that otherwise would have been missed by providers.
"This round of funding underscores Regard's mission to create technology that enriches and advances healthcare," said Eli Ben-Joseph, co-founder and CEO of Regard. "Healthcare technology today often makes a physician's job harder, not easier and takes time away from patient care. We created Regard as a solution to enhance physicians' workflows and enable them to focus on what matters most—providing the best available care and improving health outcomes. It's exciting to know we've created a software doctors actually love using and look forward to continuing this growth."
Regard's key differentiator is that it sits upstream of the patient visit, allowing physicians to easily access a patient's medical background in one, user-friendly interface. Partnered with Epic and Cerner, two of the nation's leading electronic medical record (EMR) providers, Regard's proprietary algorithms aggregate and then mine the entirety of a patient's medical history through their electronic health record (EHR). The aggregated data decreases room for error while optimizing the diagnostic and billing processes, resulting in overall improved quality of care and allowing for accurate hospital reimbursements.
Mark Laret, Regard's newest Board member and former CEO of UCSF Health says, "Regard addresses two critically important issues in healthcare: it improves the accuracy of clinical documentation, while simultaneously reducing the workload of physicians. I expect this software will become ubiquitous within the healthcare system because providers and hospitals both want and need it."
"We first invested in Regard in 2020 because we clearly saw the immense promise of its AI-driven technology to empower doctors to practice more patient-centered medicine, while saving time," said Jason Schoettler, managing partner at Calibrate Ventures and Regard Board member. "Regard's real magic is in the team. Co-founders Eli, Nate and Thomas have deep exposure to the medical and data science fields and they've assembled an incredible team of physicians, engineers, and company-builders laser-focused on one end goal: building the best AI software to help doctors improve patient care."
In addition to improving physician workflow, Regard also helps health systems and revenue cycle managers improve hospital finances through evidence-based documentation and accurate medical coding and billing.
Regard has a rapidly-growing waitlist of hospital systems eager to get access to its groundbreaking technology. To learn more, visit: www.withregard.com.
Regard improves healthcare by building AI software that empowers physicians to accurately diagnose patients. Working closely with physicians and health systems, Regard's product analyzes physicians' notes and lab results to ensure no condition is overlooked. The diagnoses, along with supporting documentation and billing information, are written back into the medical record. It is the only product on the market that saves physicians time, improves patient outcomes, and increases hospital revenue through automated diagnosis and documentation. Since launching in Fall 2020, Regard is now live in 13 hospitals and seven states. With dozens of hospitals lined up, Regard is carving a path to bring top-tier medicine to every physician and patient worldwide. For more information, visit www.withregard.com.
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WATCH: 17-year-old dives into bay to save teen who drove car into water
NEW YORK (WABC) – A 17-year-old dove into a Long Island bay to rescue a classmate after she accidentally drove into the water in an incident caught on camera.
The driver, 18-year-old Mia Samolinski, had accidentally accelerated her Subaru Outback and plunged into the bay.
When people rushed to the dock moments later, high school senior Anthony Zhongor dove into the bay to save her.
“She went pretty deep in there,” he said.
Zhongor had coincidentally just joined the Marines.
“She was banging on the door, banging on the window, trying to break the window of course,” Zhongor said. “And then that kind of got me nervous, scared for her. I took my clothes off and went into the water. The dive was pretty, pretty far, so it was just right there as soon as I looked up, grab the door handle.”
The two had tried to unlock and open the door with no luck.
Zhongor had to find another way to get Samolinski out when he realized he could use his own weight.
“Weight made the nose of the car go deeper into the water, which helped the back get free,” he said. “Open the back up, and she was able to escape from the back.”
Together, they swam back to shore.
“She just came up and said, ‘Oh, my God, thank you’ and was crying, that’s all,” Zhongor said.
Charles Samolinski, Mia’s father, said he was grateful for his daughter’s rescue.
“He jumped out of his car and jumped in and because of that, my daughter is alive and not really harmed, you know?” he said. “I mean, it’s a miracle.”
Zhongor said his actions were not a big deal for him.
“It’s a girl, it doesn’t matter who it was, they were suffering,” he said. “I couldn’t watch anybody suffer in front of me.”
Zhongor graduates this year and will head to boot camp in South Carolina in September.
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Emerging global AI training data leader responds to increasing demand with expansion of its capabilities to support over 750 language locales, including Canadian French
TORONTO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LXT, an emerging leader in global AI training data, today announced strong demand for its data collection and annotation services for AI that has led the company to expand its secure facilities and workforce globally. In particular, the company has seen a recent increase in requests for data to train applications in Canadian French and has leveraged its proven methodology to quickly deploy new secure facilities in that region. LXT now operates five facilities in strategic locations to provide balanced coverage of languages, with more to be added based on regional demand.
Earlier this year, the company released an executive survey, The Path to AI Maturity, highlighting the growing demand for AI training data across organizations of all sizes and industries. A follow-on report, The ROI of High-Quality Training Data, details the benefits of high-quality training data.
"The development of AI applications and the automation of business operations only continues to gain momentum in today's global enterprises," said Mohammad Omar, LXT Co-founder and CEO, "resulting in a need for robust AI training data to power that innovation. LXT is dedicated to meeting this demand through our agile approach, comprehensive services, talented workforce and secure facilities. We have demonstrated our ability to help companies looking to expand within the Canadian market and look forward to expanding our partnerships with similar organizations in the future, wherever they're located."
LXT supports data collection and annotation in more than 750 language locales and has recently seen an increase in demand for Canadian French. The company now operates four ISO27001 and PCI DSS compliant locations in Canada - two in Toronto, one in Mississauga and one in Montreal - as well as one in Cairo, Egypt. These facilities support customers that require the utmost security to meet stringent standards set by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), among others.
The company is also hiring in Canada and throughout the world, with more than 500 full-time team members across six countries, and a global crowd workforce of 100,000 and counting.
To date, LXT has completed tens of thousands of AI training data projects with 100% fulfillment of client needs such as volume, quality and on time delivery to successfully support its customers' product development cycles. The company has played an important role in improving a wide range of AI solutions, including speech recognition, conversational AI, and sentiment recognition among many others.
LXT is an emerging leader in AI training data to power intelligent technology for global organizations. In partnership with an international network of contributors, LXT collects and annotates data across multiple modalities with the speed, scale and agility required by the enterprise. Our global expertise spans more than 115 countries and over 750 language locales. Founded in 2010, LXT is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with a presence in the United States, UK, Egypt, Turkey and Australia. The company serves customers in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Learn more at lxt.ai.
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It’s a Jack and Coke with no bartender required.
Coca-Cola Co. said Monday it’s partnering with Brown-Forman Corp., the maker of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, to sell premixed cocktails. The canned Jack and Coke will be sold globally after a launch in Mexico late this year. A zero-sugar version will also be available.
“This relationship brings together two classic American icons to deliver consumers a taste experience they love in a way that is consistent, convenient, and portable,” said Brown-Forman President and CEO Lawson Whiting.
The move comes amid strong global sales of of ready-to-drink alcoholic blends, including hard seltzers like White Claw. Global consumption of ready-to-drink beverages jumped 26% in 2020 and 14% last year, according to IWSR Drinks Market Analysis, an alcohol market research firm. For comparison, global consumption of all alcohols was up 3%.
Louisville, Kentucky-based Brown-Forman has been making ready-to-drink cocktails since 1994, when it launched spiked lemonade, cola and apple juice in Australia.
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, by contrast, has been slower to add alcoholic drinks to its portfolio of 200 brands ever since selling off a California winery it owned in the early 1980s.
Coke launched Lemon-Dou, its first ready-to-drink alcoholic beverage, in 2018 in Japan. More recently, it has launched Topo Chico Hard Seltzer, Simply Spiked Lemonade and Fresca Mixed.
“We are strategically experimenting and learning in alcohol,” said Khalil Younes, Coke’s president of emerging categories. “We are excited about the opportunities, but we also know it will require effort and patience.” | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/no-bartender-required-premixed-jack-and-coke-going-on-sale/ | 2022-06-14T06:52:59Z |
At 409 U.S. Highway 177 North #2
BURGAW, N.C., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BenchMark Physical Therapy opened an outpatient clinic today at 409 U.S. Highway 177 North #2.
The clinic is open 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. To make an appointment, call 910-970-8141 or visit benchmarkpt.com.
BenchMark has clinics throughout the Wilmington region and more than 50 in North Carolina.
BenchMark offers in-clinic and telehealth options for outpatient orthopedic physical therapy. Services include manual therapy, injury prevention, return to performance, total joint replacement, concussion management and vestibular rehabilitation.
Clinic director Dylan Mascarenas earned a bachelor's degree in athletic training from East Central University and a doctor of physical therapy degree from Chapman University.
Mascarenas is a certified athletic trainer and is certified as an orthopedic clinical specialist. He is a fellow in training with the Upstream Rehab Institute orthopedic manual therapy program and an advanced dry needling specialist. His special interests are TMJ treatment and athletic rehabilitation.
BenchMark, part of the Upstream Rehabilitation family of clinical care, offers access to care within 24 hours and works with all insurance types.
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(The Hill) — As the first prime-time hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol gaveled in, Fox News host Tucker Carlson opened his show Thursday bragging about his network not carrying the proceedings live on its main cable channel.
“This is the only hour on an American news channel that won’t be covering their propaganda live,” Carlson said of the committee. “They are lying and we are not going to help them do it.”
Every other major television network and cable channel offered continuous special coverage of Thursday’s proceedings, including NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN.
Fox News took heat this week from Democrats and media pundits after it announced it would carry live continuous coverage of Thursday night’s hearing only on Fox Business Network and its other streaming, digital platforms. It will also make its coverage available to its local affiliates across the country.
But Fox did not on Thursday pre-empt Carlson’s top-rated opinion program, which the host has used over the last several weeks to cast doubt on the committee’s assertions and suggest the controversy over the violent attack on the Capitol has been overblown.
On Thursday night, the committee made the case that former President Trump worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election and incited the mob that stormed the Capitol that day. Carlson called the attack “forgettably minor by recent standards.”
Fox News said this week its primetime anchors would cover Thursday’s hearings “as news warrants.” Carlson played clips from the first hour of the hearing three times, attacking committee members Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) over their statements after doing so.
Carlson’s show took no commercial breaks during Thursday’s show. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/tucker-carlson-jan-6-panel-is-lying-and-we-are-not-going-to-help-them-do-it/ | 2022-06-10T15:17:16Z |
NOVI, Mich., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- All American Pet Resorts (AAPR), a leading national dog boarding and daycare brand is proud to reveal a major rebranding effort that is designed to reenergize the brand and define AAPR's future as the preferred name for safe, trusted, and reliable dog boarding and daycare that meets the lifestyle of today's pet parents and also appeals to investors looking for a solid franchise investment.
According to Stephan Dimitroff, Executive Vice-President, AAPR, "As we expand the franchise nationally, the brand refresh ensures consistency visual brand identity and consumer messaging throughout our national franchise network."
The rebranding solidifies the company's stance as a premier dog boarding, daycare, and grooming franchise leader offering:
- 24 hour, 365 On-site staff and care
- 24 Hour Webcams
- Medical Administration with a health/wellness focus
- High end air exchange and purification HVAC system
- Pet Suites, not crates
The redesign included the AAPR website, corporate logo, all branded marketing materials, and Resort signage. The new imagery displays a bold, clean design that incorporates movement with a vibrant color palette and new photography throughout.
The website, www.allamericanpetresorts.com, is easy to navigate & mobile-friendly for fast and easy on-the-go Resort boarding and daycare scheduling.
Involved in the rebranding effort was Your Franchise Success, Scorpion, and the AAPR management team.
Kevin Casida, AAPR's Director of Operations says, "As we expand our family of franchisees, having most recently adding, New Bern, North Carolina to our network of Resorts, the goal of attracting the right individuals who want to become successfully self-employed and enjoy a truly gratifying business, starts with our branding."
"Our re-energized image goes before us into the marketplace as a symbol of the value we deliver, the care we provide, and the trust our clients and franchisees put in us," says Casida.
All American Pet Resorts is a leading national dog boarding and daycare franchise focused on delivering a remarkable customer experience to pet parents nationwide, while giving their dogs (and cats) the highest level of care in a safe, secure, and fun environment. Founded in 2005 by Art and Yolanda Rimbold, AAPR is headquartered in Novi, Michigan with locations in Michigan, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, and opening Fall 2022 in New Bern, North Carolina. For Franchising opportunities, visit www.allamericanpetresorts.com/franchise-opportunities/
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Chiefs beat the Packers 17-10 in final preseason game
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WIBW) - The Kansas City Chiefs ended their preseason slate with a 17-10 win over the Green Bay Packers on Thursday night.
Before Patrick Mahomes called it a night, he started the game with a choir huddle to honor the late Len Dawson. A delay of game penalty was called on number 16, which was then declined. Arrowhead Stadium gave a standing ovation.
Then the action started. Kansas City got on the board first with under four minutes left in the first quarter with a 44-yard field goal from Harrison Butker.
Green Bay’s Tyler Goodson responded with a 24-yard rushing touchdown about two minutes into the second quarter, but that would be the only time the Packers held the lead in this one.
Shane Buechele connected with Matt Bushman on a wide-open 54-yard touchdown pass with 8:45 left in the first half, putting the Chiefs back on top 10-7.
The Packers tied things up 10-10 courtesy of a 23-yard field goal with under two minutes left in the first half.
Coming out of halftime, the Matt Bushman show continued. The tight end caught a 2-yard touchdown pass that was nearly picked off, but he walked his way into the endzone putting the Chiefs up 17-10.
A scoreless fourth quarter solidified a Chiefs win.
With the win, Kansas City has capped off the preseason at 2-1. They will open the regular season in Arizona against the Cardinals on September 11 at 3:25 p.m.
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LOS ANGELES, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz is investigating potential claims against the board of directors of MicroStrategy Incorporated ("MicroStrategy" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MSTR) concerning whether the board breached its fiduciary duties to shareholders.
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Looking for the best CBD deals this Labor Day? Look no further.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Labor Day - it's around the time when kids go back to school, and adults…keep working. Offering some relief to the folks out there making a living, FABCBD marks down prices by 30% from September 1st through September 6th.
The 30% discount is easy for anyone to grab. Just enter the coupon code LABORDAY30 at checkout to receive FAB's top-shelf products for about a third off the regular price.
Since 2017, the FAB team has been on a mission to boost people's health through the careful and meticulous creation of high-quality, full spectrum, broad spectrum, and CBD isolate products. To that end, FAB continually strives to find ways for a new generation of people to live a preventative wellness lifestyle through science, innovation, and premium supplementation.
FABCBD continues to grow as a company and as a brand by pushing the envelope in its newest offerings. And though it has only been on the market for a short while, the brand's new complete cannabinoid soft gels are beating out competitors' capsules because they are vegan, easier to swallow, totally tasteless, and they have equal parts CBD, CBN, CBG, and CBC. The company's powerful CBD+CBG oil was launched in the past year, and is already a huge hit with countless customers.
FAB remains a top brand in the CBD industry because the team dedicates their time, effort, and knowledge to product creation from seed to sale. Moreover, they also work nonstop to bring new and innovative products to every one of its customers. So, not only is FAB improving upon its already amazing pre-existing products, the brand is also crafting new, clean, organic, potent products to enhance the lives and lifestyles of its customers. With an eye to the future, FABCBD plans to unveil a completely fresh product– D9 gummies– before the end of 2022.
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NEW YORK, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Inotiv, Inc. ("Inotiv") (NASDAQ: NOTV) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between September 21, 2021 and June 13, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Inotiv, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/inotiv-shareholder-loss-submission-form?prid=29668&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Inotiv includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Inotiv's acquisition, Envigo RMS, LL ("Envigo"), and Inotiv's Cumberland, Virginia facility (the "Cumberland Facility") engaged in widespread and flagrant violations of the Animal Welfare Act ("AWA"); (2) Envigo and Inotiv's Cumberland Facility continuously violated the AWA; (3) Envigo and Inotiv did not properly remedy issues with regards to animal welfare at the Cumberland Facility; (4) as a result, Inotiv was likely to face increased scrutiny and governmental action; (5) Inotiv would imminently shut down two facilities, including the Cumberland Facility; (6) Inotiv did not engage in proper due diligence; and (7) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: August 22, 2022
Aggrieved Inotiv investors only have until August 22, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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SOURCE The Law Offices of Vincent Wong | https://www.wibw.com/prnewswire/2022/07/11/class-action-alert-law-offices-vincent-wong-remind-inotiv-investors-lead-plaintiff-deadline-august-22-2022/ | 2022-07-11T11:31:41Z |
Growing Communications Firm Hires Brian Sweany To Scale Thought Leadership Practice
DALLAS, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genuine Article, a Texas-based independent public relations and integrated communications firm, has added its first senior leadership talent since launching in 2021. Brian Sweany, who spent more than two decades rising in the ranks of city and state magazines, as well as in posts teaching university-level journalism and directing communications for state agencies and national nonprofit organizations, joins the firm as a principal. In his role, Sweany will oversee Genuine Article's staff and growing book of clients. Genuine Article was established by former PR heads from The Richards Group with the goal of helping brands, causes, and initiatives establish and enhance their national and regional relevance.
Sweany spent more than 18 years at Texas Monthly magazine, serving as editor-in-chief from 2014 until 2016 when he was named to the Folio 100 as an "Up and Coming Trailblazer." That same year, Texas Monthly won the award for General Excellence, the highest honor given by the City and Regional Magazine Association. Over his more than two decades in journalism, he covered a spectrum of topics, including politics, culture, business, and sports. He interviewed a host of prominent state and national figures and covered multiple sessions of the Texas Legislature. Sweany also held stints as a senior editor at D Magazine and as an independent consultant providing brand management, governmental relations, and crisis communications for state agencies and nonprofits. In this role, he began collaborating with Genuine Article founders Stacie Barnett, Elizabeth Clayton, and Greg Miller on various strategic initiatives.
"When we started Genuine Article, we made a promise to align ourselves — internally and externally — with those who have a desire to create fair and balanced conversation through creativity and kindness," said Clayton. "Brian, often the most likable guy in the room, shares that commitment and masterfully navigates the increasingly choppy waters of public conversations. We know our clients' reputations, especially among policymakers and journalists, will be strengthened by Brian's experience and dedication."
"I am thrilled to join the talented team at Genuine Article, and I have been in awe of their dedication and professionalism as they have built this brand," Sweany said. "Their commitment to our clients is unmatched, and with my background in journalism and public policy, I hope to add value to existing clients as well as grow our presence in Austin."
Originally from Plano, Brian earned a bachelor's degree in literature at the University of North Texas and a master's degree in literature from The University of Texas at San Antonio. He serves on the board of the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas and the advisory board of the Texas Book Festival. Brian will be based in Genuine Article's office in Austin, where he lives with his wife of 27 years, their two children, and a golden doodle.
Sweany's hire comes as Genuine Article has added multiple staff members in media relations, communications strategy, and account management since the beginning of 2022. The firm recently added national and regional retainer work for nonprofit and commercial real estate clients, which join Genuine Article's client roster, including The Salvation Army, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, Discount Tire, and Scottish Rite for Children.
Brian Sweany can be reached at brian@genuinearticlecomms.com.
About Genuine Article
Genuine Article is an independent communications firm that partners with brands and agencies to authentically bring conversations, businesses, societal issues, and nonprofits the attention they deserve. Founded in 2021 by a trio of PR and cause branding pros with 50+ years of combined experience, Genuine Article serves clients throughout North America. Recognition for its team's work includes the Bronze Anvil, Bulldog Award of Excellence, and the Cause Marketing Golden Halo Award. Genuine Article is headquartered in North Texas with team members and specialists in Austin and Phoenix. For more information, follow Genuine Article on LinkedIn.
For Inquiries: info@genuinearticlecomms.com
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2 killed, 20 injured after car barrels into Nebraska crowd
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Two people were killed and 20 others were injured after a crash that sent two cars careening into a crowd of bystanders at an annual Memorial Day weekend cruise night in Nebraska’s capital, police said Monday.
Two women, ages 20 and 22, had been inside one of the cars and died in the Sunday night crash on O Street in Lincoln. One person was listed in critical condition and the others were treated at hospitals for injuries not believed to be life-threatening, Lincoln Police Capt. Max Hubka said.
“We do not believe nor is there any evidence this was an intentional act,” Lincoln police said in a statement.
A witness told the Lincoln Journal Star that a speeding car crashed into another vehicle attempting a turn at an intersection. Hubka said both vehicles jumped the curb and struck several people standing between the street and a parking lot.
Police did not immediately respond to inquiries from The Associated Press.
Details of the cruise night are not clear. Authorities have previously said that some drivers have attempted dangerous maneuvers to excite the crowd, such as burnouts and speeding. Hubka said none of the officers assigned to monitor the event witnessed the crash, but law enforcement reached the scene within a minute.
The investigation is ongoing, Hubka said.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/05/30/2-killed-20-injured-after-car-barrels-into-nebraska-crowd/ | 2022-05-30T17:59:31Z |
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Workplace safety is a top priority for companies across the globe. To help businesses keep their employees safe, Interplay Learning is releasing new workplace safety training for the essential skilled trades.
This on-demand training includes new courses on Bloodborne Pathogens Awareness, Heat Stress Recognition and Prevention, Hazard Communications, Electrically Safe to Work Procedures, Hot Work, and more. With Interplay's affordable safety training courses, companies can quickly equip their teams with the knowledge and skills to perform work safely and minimize risk.
Interplay's Safety catalog will include more than 30 hours of workplace safety training featuring short, entertaining videos that can be accessed on demand from a phone, tablet, or desktop computer. The catalog also features a hands-on, 3D simulation course teaching the tasks and requirements of establishing safe work conditions when working with electricity.
Companies using Interplay can quickly deliver consistent training to their entire team and allow workers to train in their downtime. Interplay also makes it easy for companies to track compliance and comprehension using course assignments, built-in quizzes, and progress tracking.
With these new offerings, Interplay now offers one-stop-shopping for both safety training and award-winning, hands-on skilled trades training. Employees can quickly gain the knowledge to work safely while also taking advantage of a full online catalog of hands-on technical training for HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, Multi-Family, Facilities Maintenance, and Solar. Using short video courses, immersive 3D simulations, VR, knowledge checks, and coaching, Interplay can rapidly train and upskill workers for increased productivity.
"Interplay gives companies the best of both worlds by offering safety and technical training in one affordable online training solution," said Doug Donovan, CEO of Interplay Learning. "We are excited to help companies build a culture of safety, reduce incidents, and keep workers healthy while also giving them a pathway to develop the technical skills of their entire team."
Interplay's safety training will help prepare workers to identify and avoid potential hazards, equipping them with the skills to handle situations effectively and giving employers increased confidence that their workforce is ready to take on jobs safely and effectively.
Interplay Learning, a global provider of scalable, highly effective hands-on digital learning simulations for the HVAC, plumbing, electrical, solar and facilities maintenance industries, is building better training, better careers and better lives for its customers and their employees. Interplay Learning's digital experiential learning platform, SkillMill, conveniently turns any space into a training lab with short video courses, 3D simulations, knowledge checks, and other advanced features that prepare users to be job-ready in weeks, not years.
For more information, visit https://www.interplaylearning.com.
About Interplay Learning
Since 2016, Austin-based Interplay Learning has been building better training, better careers and better lives for its customers and their employees. Its award-winning online and VR training for the essential skilled trades, including HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Solar, Multi-Family Maintenance and Facilities Maintenance workforces, is scalable and more effective than traditional training methods. By leveraging immersive learning technology, Interplay's customers are able to train and practice hands-on learning from a desktop, phone, tablet or in virtual reality. The result is a highly trained employee who is job-ready in weeks, not years. Its digital learning platform, SkillMill, conveniently turns any space into a training lab with its short video courses, 3D simulations, knowledge checks, coaching and connectivity. Recent accolades include recognition by Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards in the Education, General Excellence and On the Rise categories. Welcome to the next generation of the skilled labor workforce. Visit https://www.interplaylearning.com to learn more.
Heather Ripley
Ripley PR
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hripley@ripleypr.com
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Test taking anxiety in students
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - We’ve all been there before, it’s Friday and the only thing standing between you and the weekend is that test you’ve been dreading all week.
What makes the thought of taking tests so grueling for some of us?
Clinical Director of the Child and Family Guidance Center of Texoma, Tiffany Dancer, shared her expertise on the matter.
Dancer said, “Some people are just not good test takers and so that definitely plays in, and causes a lot of anxiety and a lot of stress… but kids still sense the importance and the gravity of it.”
The pressure to do well on tests is something Dancer said is taught early on.
She said, “We talk about testing a lot, there’s a lot of build up to it throughout the year…”
For college students, Hailie Swiatkowski and Kyra Dawson, test taking anxiety is a memorable experience.
Swiatkowski said, “I felt like it was constantly a competition of if you were smart enough. Then if someone got a better score, you’re like oh I need to do better, or oh maybe I’m not smart enough.”
Then Dawson said, “My first dose of anxiety was like taking tests in school, having to deal with that. The pressure of if I’m going to know it enough... and when you get on the test and none of the stuff that you were even taught are even there, it’s like oh my gosh.”
With the new school year in action, Dancer has a reminder for parents. She said, “If your kid is more likely to be anxious...be aware that testing may be something that triggers them and that they may have a harder time with and if they are more anxious about testing they’re likely to be more anxious about other obstacles that come up too.”
Copyright 2022 KXII. All rights reserved. | https://www.kxii.com/2022/08/25/test-taking-anxiety-students/ | 2022-08-25T05:04:58Z |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A former employee with the Danish police has been charged with hacking and attempted hacking of 140 employees’ mobile phones, and accessing more than 100 cases of investigative material, investigators said Friday.
The material included images of child pornography and photos belonging to a large number of private citizens, police on the central Denmark island of Funen said in a statement. It was unclear how he accessed the material and whether the man was a police officer or a civilian employee.
The man faces charges of sexual harassment, hacking, abusing his position and possessing child pornography. If found guilty, he faces fines or up to six years in jail.
His victims include former colleagues, friends and acquaintances and random individuals from whom he bought used hard drives “from which he recovered and acquired private and humiliating content,” police said.
On top of that, police said that about 140 employees had their mobile phones hacked at least once. Some cell phones were hacked up to 30 times. He also took pictures of a female colleague through a keyhole to a changing room at the police station.
The man, who was not named in line with Danish policy, allegedly committed the offenses from both his workplace and his home, over a long period of time before he was arrested on March 29, police said in a statement.
No date for a trial was announced.
The man’s defense lawyer, Henrik Garlik, declined to say how his client will plead, the Ekstra Bladet newspaper reported. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/ex-danish-police-employee-charged-in-huge-hacking-case/ | 2022-05-27T22:25:36Z |
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- Telit and Thales jointly announce intended transaction whereby Telit incorporates Thales' cellular IoT products business and goes forward under Telit leadership
- Combined company, to be called Telit Cinterion, is leading Western IoT provider, supporting customers with expanded IoT portfolio of products, services, and bundles comprising hardware, software, and connectivity solutions
- Telit Cinterion will leverage Thales' expertise in IoT security across SIM technology, modules, and connectivity
- Through this intended transaction, Thales will transfer its cellular IoT modules assets to Telit and receive a 25% stake in Telit Cinterion
IRVINE, Calif., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Telit, a global leader in the Internet of Things (IoT), and Thales (Euronext Paris: HO), a global leader in Aerospace, Defense, Security & Digital Identity, today jointly announced they have entered into an agreement under which Telit intends to acquire Thales' cellular IoT products. The intended transaction includes Thales' portfolio of cellular wireless communication modules, gateways, and data (modem) cards, ranging from 4G LTE, LPWAN to 5G.
The intended transaction establishes California-based Telit Cinterion, as a leading Western provider of IoT solutions, expanding the company's presence in growing industrial IoT segments and end markets including payment systems, energy, e-health, and security. It also enhances the company's ability to respond more expertly to growing demand for cybersecure IoT solutions in modules and cellular connectivity, thanks to leading technologies from Thales.
Paolo Dal Pino, Telit's CEO, remarked: "Innovation, scale and efficient IoT solutions are key for success. This transaction with Thales is arguably the most impactful one for Telit competitiveness. While it will boost our ability to address customer needs more precisely from a richer portfolio, it will also enable us to deliver all new offerings derived from the experience, expertise, and the DNA of two companies that have made security and quality part of their brand promise from the very beginning."
Philippe Vallée, Thales's EVP Digital Identity and Security, added: "The Thales and Telit combination brings together complementary strengths. The business will provide a unique value proposition in a highly competitive global IoT market and will allow Thales to focus its investments on its three core activities in aerospace, defence and security and digital identity and security. The new combination will rely on a unique set of expertise brought by Thales and Telit employees. It will also benefit from leveraging both companies' strong and complementary product portfolio and Thales's experience in cellular connectivity."
Thales' cellular IoT module business, with approximately 550 employees across 23 countries, services many of the world's top brands. It generated sales of more than €300 million in 2021. With the transaction expected to close in Q4 2022, subject to entering a binding share transfer agreement, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, Thales becomes a shareholder in Telit Cinterion, controlled by asset manager DBAY Advisors and led by Telit CEO Paolo Dal Pino.
Thales' cellular IoT products business and Telit's customers and partners will continue to receive the outstanding supply, support, and service to which they have been accustomed. All relevant parties will receive regular updates throughout the transaction, upon closing and ensuing integration periods.
To sharpen focus on Industrial IoT, Telit Cinterion plans to spin off and manage separately the automotive IoT unit after closing.
Deutsche Bank acted as exclusive financial advisor to Thales, and Rothschild & Co as exclusive financial advisor to Telit, DBAY Advisors.
About Telit
Telit simplifies onboarding of connected 'things' with a portfolio of enterprise-grade wireless communication and positioning modules; cellular MVNO connectivity plans and management services; edge and cloud software; and data orchestration, IoT and Industrial IoT platforms. With over two decades of pioneering IoT innovation experience, Telit delivers award-winning, secure, integrated IoT solutions for many of the world's largest enterprises, OEMs, system integrators and service providers, so they can connect and manage IoT at any scale.
For more information, follow us on YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook or visit www.Telit.com.
Copyright © 2022 Telit Communications LTD. All rights reserved. Telit, Telit OneEdge and all associated logos are trademarks of Telit Communications LTD and its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. Other names used herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
About Thales
Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global leader in advanced technologies, investing in digital and "deep tech" innovations – connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum technologies – to build a confident future crucial for the development of our societies. The Group provides its customers – businesses, organizations and governments – in the defense, aeronautics, space, transport, and digital identity and security domains with solutions, services and products that help them fulfil their critical role, consideration for the individual being the driving force behind all decisions.
Thales has 81,000 employees in 68 countries. In 2021, the Group generated sales of €16.2 billion.
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BRAMPTON, ON, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - PaySprint Inc is deepening financial inclusion of underserved in urban and semi-urban centres, globally, through its product, PaySprint.
Through its wallet-to-wallet transfer, PaySprint has become the preferred way of sending and receiving money in both the formal and informal economies. Small business owners, freelancers, consultants, and many business professionals also find PaySprint for Merchant account to be a more affordable method for accepting payments from customers.
With PaySprint Merchant Account, merchants can accept payment from customers via mobile app (for In-Store Sales) or on the merchant's website (for Online Sales) at no extra costs to business.
In addition to connecting with customers for free, merchants also have access to modern and latest tools to grow their business:
- eStore. PaySprint eStore helps merchant, especially those business in the informal sector, to drive more traffic to either their physical or online business through social media at no extra costs.
- eFX. PaySprint eFX provides merchants with a tool to access required foreign currencies to meet financial obligations with ease.
- eConnect. PaySprint eConnect drives traffic of customers to the merchant's location by sharing merchant business information and services with customers within the same location.
- eCash. PaySprint eCash provides merchant with additional working capital. Funds are available in the merchant account immediately on approval.
Here are more reasons everyone is switching to PaySprint:
- Free Plan. Free plan on PaySprint is Free Forever. This means you can use PaySprint for free, anytime, anywhere.
- Paid Plan. Users can upgrade to Paid Plan at anytime and can also cancel the subscription at anytime.
- Simple to operate. No computer knowledge is required.
- PaySprint Mobile app is available on Google Play Store and Apply App Store.
- Merchant can accept payments from customer on any mobile device. No POS Terminal is required
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Collision is known to be the largest gathering of technology experts globally.
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LOS ANGELES, May 18, 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 Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. ("Stronghold" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SDIG).
Class Period: October 2021 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: June 13, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that the Registration Statement was materially false and misleading and omitted to state: (1) that contracted suppliers, including MinerVa, were reasonably likely to miss anticipated delivery quantities and deadlines; (2) that, due to strong demand and pre-sold supply of mining equipment in the industry, Stronghold would experience difficulties obtaining miners outside of confirmed purchase orders; (3) that, as a result of the foregoing, there was a significant risk that Stronghold could not expand its mining capacity as expected; (4) that, as a result, Stronghold would likely experience significant losses; and (5) as a result, Defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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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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MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centerspace (NYSE: CSR) published its 2021 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report, highlighting the company's commitment to sustainable business practices in the multifamily industry. This is the company's third annual report following its 2019 formation of an Environmental, Social, and Governance Committee established to lead the charge in identifying, implementing, and tracking the progress of various sustainability initiatives.
In 2021, Centerspace focused on safety and well-being, team member development, and financial performance and transparency based on the materiality assessment completed in 2020 which identified topics that matter most to our stakeholders.
The report coincides with the company's initial participation in the GRESB (formerly known as the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark) disclosure framework for the year 2021. GRESB is a globally recognized organization that provides ESG assessments and sustainability benchmarks for financial markets.
"Our 2021 achievements are meaningful and lay the groundwork for "Better Every Days" as we continue to make progress. We are excited to receive our GRESB results and incorporate the feedback into the Centerspace ESG program," stated Mark O. Decker, Jr., President and CEO of Centerspace.
Centerspace is committed to exploring and implementing common-sense business practices that further its ability to operate in an environmentally responsible manner. This includes being good stewards of resources, pursuing opportunities to minimize consumption, managing and reducing waste, and conserving energy and water.
The full report can be accessed on the Centerspace website at:
Corporate Governance — Centerspace
About Centerspace
Centerspace is an owner and operator of apartment communities committed to providing great homes by focusing on integrity and serving others. Founded in 1970, the company currently owns 83 apartment communities consisting of 14,838 homes located in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Centerspace was named a Top Workplace for 2022 by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. For more information, please visit www.centerspacehomes.com.
If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Susan Picotte, SVP, Asset Management, at ESG@centerspacehomes.com.
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Susan Picotte, SVP, Asset Management
E-mail: ESG@centerspacehomes.com
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DALLAS, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH) will webcast a conference call to review its second quarter 2022 financial results on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET). After the close of market trading on Tuesday, August 2, Match Group will publish its second quarter results along with supplemental investor materials, which may include certain forward-looking information, at https://ir.mtch.com.
The live webcast and replay will be open to the public at https://ir.mtch.com.
About Match Group
Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH), through its portfolio companies, is a leading provider of digital technologies designed to help people make meaningful connections. Our global portfolio of brands includes Tinder®, Match®, Hinge®, Meetic®, OkCupid®, Pairs™, PlentyOfFish®, OurTime®, Azar®, Hakuna™ Live, and more, each built to increase our users' likelihood of connecting with others. Through our trusted brands, we provide tailored services to meet the varying preferences of our users. Our services are available in over 40 languages to our users all over the world.
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Shots fired into Canton home, child injured
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CANTON – Someone fired gunshots into a home in the 1500 block of Logan Avenue NW about 12:20 p.m. Monday, injuring a child.
The 11-year-old boy suffered a small cut to his finger, an injury that may have come from a ricocheting fragment, according to police.
Police spokesman Lt. Dennis Garren said the boy's mother was also in the home. She was not hurt.
Garren said police continued Tuesday to investigate the incident. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/2022/05/17/child-injured-when-shots-fired-into-canton-home/9809695002/ | 2022-05-17T20:43:11Z |
Huntersville, N.C., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ONYX Systems, LLC an innovator of technology powering a cleaner future, is excited to announce and introduce the latest addition to our battery powered floor-care range, the DX15 15" Floor Scrubber. This machine is small, maneuverable, and light. Ideal for small retail or commercial applications. These machines clean fast with best-in-class productivity, are simple to operate, and are reliable. They have a superior specification, including:
- 125Ah, 12V AGM maintenance-free batteries
- 3 – 4-hour run time
- 7-Gallon solution/8-Gallon recovery tanks
- 27" squeegee and waste water recovery width
- Cleans up to 16,000 Sq-Ft per hour
ONYX DX15 Floor Scrubber with two 12V AGM 125 a/h batteries, yielding industry leading 3–4-hour runtimes. The unit has a 15" rotating scrubbing brush with a 27" squeegee width to assure users of a streak-free clean with easy and complete cleaning solution pick-up. The unit has a 7-gallon cleaning solution tank and 8-gallon recovery tank. Unit is designed for small commercial and retail applications. Engineered for hygienic, light, convenient cleaning in small area commercial applications such as:
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Most micro floor scrubbers have the squeegee and waste water recovery vacuum mounted right behind the scrubbing head, directly coupled on the frame of the machine. The ONYX DX15 has a floating squeegee and waste water recovery vacuum system that is not directly coupled to the frame of the machine. This results in no residual liquid trace marks regardless of the turning angle of the machine, and up against hard edges.
This ONYX floor scrubber is capable of cleaning up to 16,000 Sq Ft per hour. This machine is an excellent investment for regular cleaning applications of smaller commercial spaces. These quick-cleaning scrubbers allow for optimal work productivity, and the associated labor productivity advantages. These machines help reduce the risk of slip and fall hazards, and leave your floor surfaces looking pristine and clean, without the need to hire a professional cleaning company.
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MONTREAL, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - MY01 Inc. today announced that initial data from an ongoing, prospective multi-center study was presented at the Canadian Orthopaedic Association's Annual Meeting. The data represents the first 30 of 100 patients to be enrolled in MY01's inaugural post-market study, which is intended to assess functionality of the use of the MY01 continuous pressure monitor.
The presentation, entitled "Clinical Trial of a New Device for Real-Time Muscle Pressure Measurements in Patients with an Upper or Lower Extremity Fracture at Risk for Acute Compartment Syndrome" reported that 88% of surgeons rated the device very good or excellent with regards to their confidence in the function of the device and its ability to monitor pressure continuously. 90% of users rated the device as very easy to deploy.
Ross Leighton, MD, who presented the results, commented, "As surgeons, we are seeking objective data to support our clinical judgement. MY01 is safe, easy to use, and a very useful tool as an adjunct to clinical examination. It may lessen overall risk and improve outcomes by balancing the significant clinical and medicolegal consequences of a missed compartment syndrome and the possible risk of overtreatment."
"The data presented is encouraging, and align with the overall positive feedback from surgeons who are already using the MY01 device across North America and Europe." said Charles Allan, CEO of MY01, Inc. "We are committed to providing a strong base of clinical research supporting the effective use of our product and its positive impact on patient outcomes."
The data presented included the first 30 patients from a prospective study with six sites and plans to enroll 100 patients.
About MY01, Inc. MY01, Inc. is on a mission to empower healthcare professionals with the objective data to aid in the diagnosis of compartment syndrome, thereby improving patient outcomes. MY01 believes that adding actionable, quantitative data at the bedside can augment clinical assessments to provide more effective care. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec since 2019, MY01, Inc. leverages its expertise in microsensing technology to provide innovative diagnostic solutions.
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PITTSBURGH, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I did not like how it was difficult to see the road when travelling in various conditions," said the inventor from Santa Ana, Calif. "I wanted to create a device that would allow roadways to have an abundance of light through the collection of different types of energy and converting it into light."
He invented the patent-pending SOLAR POWER AND HEAT GROUND REFLECTOR to help enhance roadway visibility and safety for motorists who might otherwise overlook traditional reflectors. This could help prevent indecisiveness and unintended over-steering accidents and vehicular damage. This roadway device may reduce stress and anxiety that are often associated with driving on unlit roadways. Additionally, this would help provide peace of mind for drivers and allow then to get to their destination safely.
The original design was submitted to the Orange County sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-OCM-1525, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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How to take advantage of rising interest rates
By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Business
In a bid to curb high inflation, the US Federal Reserve on Wednesday increased its key short-term interest rate by half a percentage point — the first hike of that magnitude in 22 years.
While the US economy is still operating in a fairly low rate environment, that won’t last long. The central bank is expected to raise rates several more times in the months ahead, though it’s not clear by how much.
“Inflation is the hub on the wheel and will dictate just how much and how often the Fed will need to raise interest rates,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested in a press conference that he expects there will be additional half-percentage-point rate hikes for at least the next few meetings.
Hiking rates to tame inflation will make borrowing more expensive, and it also has the potential to cause a recession. But there are a few ways to situate your money so that you can benefit from a rising rate environment, while also protecting yourself from its downside.
Credit cards: Minimize the bite
When the fed funds rate — also known as the overnight bank lending rate — goes up, it will push up various lending rates that banks offer their customers. So you can expect to see a hike in your credit card rates within a few statements, McBride said.
If you’re carrying balances on your credit cards — which typically have high variable interest rates — consider transferring them to a zero-rate balance transfer card that locks in a zero rate for between 12 and 21 months.
“That insulates you from rate hikes over the next year and a half, and it gives you a clear runway to pay off your debt once and for all,” McBride said. “Less debt and more savings will enable you to better weather rising interest rates, and is especially valuable if the economy sours.”
If you don’t transfer to a zero-rate balance card, another option might be to get a relatively low fixed-rate personal loan.
In any case, the best advice is to make every effort to pay down your balances quickly.
Home loans: Lock in fixed rates now
Mortgage rates have been rising over the past year. And that is likely to continue.
“Mortgage rates have jumped two full percentage points since the beginning of the year, from 3.27% to 5.28%,” McBride noted.
If you’re close to buying a home or refinancing one, lock in the lowest fixed rate available to you as soon as possible.
That said, “don’t jump into a large purchase that isn’t right for you just because interest rates might go up. Rushing into the purchase of a big-ticket item like a house or car that doesn’t fit in your budget is a recipe for trouble, regardless of what interest rates do in the future,” said Texas-based certified financial planner Lacy Rogers.
If you already have a variable rate home equity line of credit, and you used part of it to do a home improvement project, McBride recommends asking your lender if they would be willing to fix the rate on your outstanding balance, effectively creating a fixed-rate home equity loan. Say you have a $50,000 line of credit but only used $20,000 for a renovation, you would ask to have a fixed rate applied to the $20,000.
If that’s not possible, consider paying off that balance by taking out a HELOC with another lender at a lower promotional rate, McBride suggested.
Bank savings: Shop around
If you’ve been stashing cash at big banks that have been paying next to nothing in interest for savings accounts, don’t expect that to change just because the Fed is raising rates, McBride said. That’s because the big banks are swimming in deposits and don’t need to worry about attracting new customers.
But online banks, which are looking to keep current accounts and attract more business, are offering far better rates and are actively increasing them as benchmark rates go higher. So it’s worth shopping around.
Stocks: Consider pricing power
When deciding whether to invest in a company or sector that might do well in a rising rate environment — especially one marked by inflation that is being driven by a strong economy, as well as disruptions in the supply chain and rising commodity prices, consider, “what companies will have pricing power in an inflationary environment?” said Michael Stritch, chief investment officer at BMO Wealth Management.
Financial service businesses, such as banks, typically do well in rising rate environments because, among other things, they make more money on loans. Insurers can prosper, too, partly because the yields on the securities they hold in their portfolio go up.
Normally, real estate can be hurt by rising rates. But since the 10-year Treasury yield, which drives mortgage rates, has already risen strongly in the past year, it may not jump sharply from where it is, Stritch said.
Given that there also may be a period of sustained inflation this year, some exposure to real estate via Real Estate Investment Trusts may offer good income and growth potential if the underlying companies boost revenue through rising rents, hotel room rates and the like.
Technology companies also don’t usually benefit from higher rates. But considering cloud and software service providers issue subscription pricing to clients, those may rise with inflation, said certified financial planner Doug Flynn, co-founder of Flynn Zito Capital Management.
Bonds: Go short
To the extent you already own bonds, the prices on your bonds will fall in a rising rate environment. But if you’re in the market to buy bonds you will benefit from that trend, especially if they are short-term bonds, since prices have fallen more than usual relative to long-term bonds. Normally, they move lower in tandem.
“There’s a pretty good opportunity in short-term bonds, which are severely dislocated,” Flynn said.
Given today’s high rates of inflation, Series I savings bonds may be attractive because they’re designed to preserve the buying power of your money. They’re currently paying 9.62%. But that rate will only be in effect for six months and only if you buy an I-Bond by the end of October, after which the rate is scheduled to adjust. If inflation falls, the rate on the I-Bond will fall, too.
There are some limitations. You can only invest $10,000 a year. You can’t redeem it in the first year. And if you cash out between years two and five, you will forfeit the previous three months of interest.
“In other words, I-Bonds are not a replacement for your savings account,” McBride said.
Nevertheless, they preserve the buying power of your $10,000 if you don’t need to touch it for at least five years, and that’s not nothing. They also may be of particular benefit to people planning to retire in the next 5 to 10 years since they will serve as a safe annual investment they can tap if needed in their first few years of retirement.
Other assets that may do well are so-called floating rate instruments from companies that need to raise cash, Flynn said. The floating rate is tied to a short-term benchmark rate, such as the fed funds rate, so it will go up whenever the Fed hikes rates.
But if you’re not a bond expert, you’d be better off investing in a fund that specializes in making the most of a rising rate environment through floating rate instruments and other bond income strategies. Flynn recommends looking for a strategic income or flexible income mutual fund or ETF, which will hold an array of different types of bonds.
“I don’t see a lot of these choices in 401(k)s,” he said. But you can always ask your 401(k) provider to include the option in your employer’s plan.
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Billions of dollars in climate and environment investments could flow to communities in the United States that have been plagued by pollution and climate threats for decades, if the proposed Inflation Reduction Act becomes law. The bill, announced by Sens. Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin last month, could also jumpstart a transition to clean energy in regions still dominated by fossil fuels.
But there are also provisions in the bill that are supportive of fossil fuel expansion. And some who live and work where climate and environmental injustices are the norm worry that those parts of the bill force their communities to accept further harm from pollution, in order to protect their health from climate change
“Environmental justice communities once again appear to be placed in a precarious position of having to accept risky carbon capture and sequestration technologies, more pollution, and unfair health ‘trade-offs’ in order to get environmental and climate benefits,” Robert Bullard, a professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University in Houston, told the Associated Press after reading the bill. Bullard is also a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Still, experts say the climate and environmental justice provisions proposed in this bill, along with other federal investments in pollution reduction and climate damage avoidance, are historic and could mean a generational shift in environmental health for some regions of the U.S.
“Over the last two years, there’s probably more money being invested in these communities than over the last 20 years,” Sacoby Wilson, associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, said.
The regions that could most benefit from the approximately $45 billion proposed for environmental and climate justice are port communities threatened by rising sea levels and areas dominated by the fossil fuel economy.
That’s the case for Kim Gaddy, who serves as a port commissioner for the City of Newark and lives there. Gaddy said the air pollution from diesel trucks in the city, and entering and leaving the Port of Newark, are a major contributor to high rates of childhood asthma and other respiratory conditions in the city, which is nearly 50% Black.
“The pollution from our ports is a huge problem,” Gaddy said. “We get so much diesel pollution in our communities because some of the oldest trucks are still allowed to come in and out of the port and then there are all of the highways and byways that are part of the whole movement of freight. That has a huge impact on our community.”
There is $7 billion in the bill that could help communities like Gaddy’s – $4 billion to create a fleet of zero-emission heavy duty vehicles and $3 billion in grants to clean up air pollution at ports. And 40% of overall benefits from those investments would go toward underserved communities, as part of the Biden administration’s Justice40 initiative.
Gaddy said federal investments like the ones proposed in the Inflation Reduction Act would help Newark “tremendously.”
“We would see cleaner trucks in our community and the transportation would change as well,” she said. “There’s a lot of individuals who rely on public buses, so our buses need to be electrified or have cleaner technology.”
Newark isn’t the only port city with a predominantly non-white population and poor air quality. Cities like Oakland and Los Angeles in California, Houston, and New Orleans have some of the busiest ports in the U.S. and poor air quality and predominantly Black or Latino populations surrounding the ports.
Two of those cities, Houston and New Orleans, are dominated by the fossil fuel industry and have already experienced several extreme weather events made more intense by climate change.
Environmental and climate justice communities in both of those cities could benefit from multiple provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, experts said. There’s also $2.6 billion for coastal climate resilience projects, $3 billion in block grants set aside for environmental and climate justice programs and $7 billion for pollution clean up.
But one of the largest investments proposed in this bill is the $27 billion for establishing a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The fund, modeled after green banks established in states like Connecticut, New York and California, will invest in clean energy projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Like several provisions in this bill, the fund was originally proposed in the Build Back Better legislation that failed to pass Congress last year as a key piece of climate and environment policy to clean up air pollution and transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources.
Katherine Hamilton, co-founder and chair of the clean energy and innovation consulting company 38 North Solutions, has been a major advocate for establishing a green bank at the federal level. She said it would help accelerate investment in clean energy projects around the U.S. and aid regions where fossil fuel industries are the primary source of economic activity, like in the Gulf Coast or Appalachia.
“We find ourselves in a position where people are left behind who should not be left behind,” Hamilton, who’s family is from Appalachia, said. “Their entire ecosystem …. is built around an industry that is dead and they’re left with …. not being able to understand how they can be a part of the future and this bill, and this fund specifically, will hopefully allow those communities to start seeing themselves as part of the future.”
But while there is a lot of hope for what the Inflation Reduction Act can bring to communities, there is also hesitation with parts of the bill that experts said prop up the fossil fuel industry. One of those is a provision that requires the federal government to lease a certain amount of its public lands for oil and gas extraction whenever it leases public lands for solar and wind energy generation.
“There are things in this package that are poison pills for our communities. So while there are environmental justice investments and clean energy investments, we have to be clear-eyed in our assessment,” said Adrien Salazar, policy director for the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, a climate justice nonprofit. “There are things that will harm people who live on the frontlines of fossil fuel extraction, pollution and the climate crisis.”
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Border Report) — Kansas City Southern could soon break ground on a second binational freight railroad crossing that will connect the border cities of Laredo, Texas, to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
Construction is expected to begin in October or November and will double the number of freight trains carrying goods between those two border cities, Oscar Del Cueto Cuevas, president and general manager of the railroad company Kansas City Southern de Mexico, recently told Border Report.
“It’s very important for both countries,” Del Cueto Cuevas said, adding that the project is being facilitated through the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to promote trade between the countries.
“Rail is more and more important in Mexico and now we are offering this capacity, additional capacity, there in the border, the most important border, which is Laredo and Nuevo Laredo,” he said.
Del Cueto Cuevas was a panelist last week at the NADBank U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Forum in San Antonio. He says a new rail line across this port will increase the United States’ supply chain at a time when more routes for goods coming from Mexico are needed.
“This huge project will allow us to connect again Texas and Tamaulipas through Laredo and Nuevo Laredo with this second span on the bridge,” Del Cueto Cuevas said.
Kansas City Southern already operates a freight rail line connecting the two cities, called Class I, and this new line will run parallel, he said.
Currently, 28 to 32 trains cross this border every day and Del Cueto Cuevas said “this second span is to double the number of trains.”
The estimated cost for the rail bridge is $75 million, according to Freight Waves.
Del Cueto Cuevas said the project is expected to take two years to complete.
The rail project coincides with the proposed binational river park, whose renderings and proposals include schematics of the new rail crossing over the Rio Grande.
Presidential permits to build the rail bridge have already been approved by the U.S. and Mexican governments, but some final border permits are still awaiting approval, Del Cueto Cuevas said.
Also, by the time the rail bridge opens, the company is expected to have merged with Canadian Pacific to create Canadian Pacific Kansas City, the only single-line rail network that will link the United States, Mexico and Canada. Merger approval from the Surface Transportation Board is still pending, Del Cueto Cuevas said. | https://cw33.com/news/texas/new-binational-rail-crossing-to-connect-northern-mexico-and-laredo-texas/ | 2022-09-01T16:12:48Z |
NEW YORK, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Meta Platforms, Inc. between March 2, 2021 and February 2, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until May 9, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Meta Platforms, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Apple's iOS privacy changes were having a material impact on Meta's ability to provide the kind of targeted advertising that its customers wanted and, as a result, customer ad spending was dropping precipitously; (2) Meta's mitigation efforts were either not properly implemented or ineffective; (3) measurement of ads was not accurate as mitigation efforts were failing; and (4) Meta did not have a plan in place to properly address the impact of the iOS privacy changes.
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Recently enacted California law increases customer access to no-cost energy-saving home improvements which support SoCalGas' efforts to lead the transition to a clean energy system
LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) announced that as of July 1, 2022, more customers will now be eligible for no-cost energy-saving home improvements through the Energy Savings Assistance Program. The new guidelines expand eligibility criteria for customers whose income is up to 250% of federal poverty guidelines, compared to the previous criteria of up to 200%. A family of four that earns up to $69,375, will now be eligible for no-cost energy efficiency upgrades. The previous income eligibility guidelines were up to $55,500 for a family of four.
The ESA program provides attic insulation, furnace repair or replacement, clothes washer, water heater repair or replacement, water heater blankets, door weather stripping, caulking, low-flow showerheads, faucet aerators, minor repairs to doors and windows, and other services to eligible customers.
Customers could save up to 20% annually on their natural gas bill depending on the energy efficiency upgrades performed. More than 1.6 million homes have been enrolled in the program since 2002.
Customers can qualify for the Energy Savings Assistance Program based on having one individual in the home who falls under the income guidelines or participates in a public assistance program like Medi-Cal/Medicaid, CalFresh, the National School Lunch Program, among others. The program is open to renters and homeowners, and income levels are updated annually to adjust for federal poverty guidelines.
"SoCalGas is leading the transition to a more resilient energy future by providing customers with affordable, more sustainable energy. Through the Energy Savings Assistance Program, we can offer long-term, energy-efficient home improvements to customers that will lower their costs and reduce a household's environmental footprint. The program's expanded guidelines will allow more SoCalGas customers to save energy and save money and help us collectively reach clean energy goals," said Brian Prusnek, SoCalGas' Director of Customer Programs and Assistance.
The Energy Savings Assistance Program's revised income guidelines were the result of Senate Bill 756, authored by San Diego Senator Ben Hueso (D-40). "The ESA program is an important tool for our state in the fight against climate change," said Senator Hueso. "Energy efficiency upgrades reduce energy utility bills, increase a family's quality of life and comfort, support economic development, and move the state closer toward its climate goals. However, the ESA program budgets are routinely not fully expended – often with hundreds of millions of dollars remaining unspent each year. This new law will remedy that by expanding eligibility to include more low-income customers."
"My family and I are very happy and grateful for the weatherization repairs SoCalGas and their contractor ACSGROUP provided to our home," said Veronica Medrano, a SoCalGas customer from Montclair. "We received a new furnace, and they installed a new water heater and we also qualified for a new washing machine. Our home is now more energy efficient. This program has changed our lives."
Another SoCalGas customer assistance program is the California Alternative Rates for Energy (CARE) program, which will continue to provide a 20% discount on the monthly natural gas bill for customers who participate in certain public assistance programs or fall within 200% of federal poverty guidelines. A family of four that earns up to $55,500 is now eligible for the discount.
To learn about SoCalGas' customer assistance programs, including the CARE program, or to sign up for the Energy Savings Assistance Program, visit socalgas.com/assistance or call (800) 331-7593. Information is available in the following languages: Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
About SoCalGas Headquartered in Los Angeles, SoCalGas® is the largest gas distribution utility in the United States. SoCalGas delivers affordable, reliable, and increasingly renewable gas service to 21.8 million consumers across 24,000 square miles of Central and Southern California. Gas delivered through the company's pipelines will continue to play a key role in California's clean energy transition—providing electric grid reliability and supporting wind and solar energy deployment.
SoCalGas' mission is to build the cleanest, safest and most innovative energy company in America. In support of that mission, SoCalGas aspires to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and delivery of energy by 2045 and to replacing 20 percent of its traditional natural gas supply to core customers with renewable natural gas (RNG) by 2030. Renewable natural gas is made from waste created by dairy farms, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. SoCalGas is also committed to investing in its gas delivery infrastructure while keeping bills affordable for customers. SoCalGas is a subsidiary of Sempra (NYSE: SRE), an energy services holding company based in San Diego.
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- Experts selected EV6 for its modern, cutting-edge interior design
- Kia's first dedicated EV continues to earn accolades within months of launch
IRVINE, Calif., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 Kia EV6 was named winner of a Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX award. The EV6 is Kia's first dedicated battery-electric vehicle and is the first step in a projected cadence of efficient and progressive vehicles guided by the brand's 'Plan S' strategy.
"We are honored to receive this award for the EV6, which represents an important step toward Kia's transformative 'Plan S' global electrification strategy," said Steven Center, COO and EVP, Kia America. "The EV6's modern, bold design elements and interior solutions thoughtfully integrated with intuitive technology reinforce Kia's future-forward vision for electric vehicles."
To determine the winners, the team at Wards evaluates new or heavily redesigned vehicle interiors and user-experience technology. Scoring is based on a variety of metrics including design and aesthetics, comfort, materials, fit-and-finish, connectivity and infotainment, displays and controls, advanced driver assist systems and value.
"The Kia EV6 is a solid overall value, with a stylish and sporty interior and highly innovative morphing controls that save space and reduce clutter," said Drew Winter, WardsAuto editor and judge. "That, plus its very spacious and comfortable cabin and top-notch materials, put the EV6 firmly on our 2022 Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX list."
The EV6 continues to rise in popularity. To date, more than 10,000 EV6 models have been sold throughout the U.S., contributing to the 132-percent growth in sales of Kia's electrified vehicles over the previous May record set in 2021; and the 5-percent increase over the all-time monthly sales record for the vehicle category set in March of 2022.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electrified vehicles sold through a network of nearly 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America. For media information, including photography, visit www.kiamedia.com. To receive custom email notifications for press releases the moment they are published, subscribe at www.kiamedia.com/us/en/newsalert.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AUVSI Hampton Roads, working with the Commonwealth of Virginia, will host an Advanced Air Mobility and Space Exposition on September 27-29, 2022 in Hampton Roads Virginia. This hallmark occasion begins on the 27th at Fort Monroe, 100 Stillwell Road with robotic demonstrations (Unmanned Air and Ground) for Virginia's first responders. The 28th and 29th will be a symposium held at the Newport News Marriott, City Center focused on Advanced Air Mobility & Space speakers and panel discussions. Speakers include leadership from the State of Virginia, NASA, DOD, Virginia Space, and more. The 3-day event culminates with a NASA Langley reception celebrating its anniversary and an evening Gala hosted by Virginia AeroSpace Business Association.
Event details can be viewed at http://bit.ly/expoUxS.
AUVSI Hampton Roads was founded during the mid-1990's to serve the needs of emerging defense and industry technologists who were supporting uncrewed systems development. Our region includes the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard, and NASA and 18 local municipalities that comprise Hampton Roads. Our growing base includes members from academia, industry, and local governments. We reach from Northeast North Carolina, to the Eastern Shore of Virginia, to Richmond.
VASBA is the voice of all aspects of the aerospace industry in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Representing more than 25 companies, nonprofits, and individuals representing many facets of the market segment, VASBA is the state's advocate for the aerospace industry before federal, state and local policy-makers.
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NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Outset Medical, Inc. ("Outset" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: OM). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Outset and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On June 13, 2022, Outset issued a press release announcing, among other things, guidance for the second quarter of 2022. In the press release, Outset also announced that it "implemented a shipment hold on the distribution of its Tablo Hemodialysis System for home use pending the Food and Drug Administration's ('FDA') review and clearance of a 510(k) the Company submitted for changes made since the device's original March 2020 clearance."
On this news, Outset's stock price fell $6.95 per share, or 34.05%, to close at $13.46 per share on June 14, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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Pomerantz LLP
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By adding AI abilities to the company's Safe Workspace solutions, the company will offer zero trust endpoint solution that will provide a safe working environment for workers anywhere
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BUFFERZONE, a provider of next-generation endpoint security solutions which protect organizations from advanced threats such as ransomware, zero-days and phishing scams, has appointed Dr. Ran Dubin as the company's CTO as part of the company's efforts to add another layer to its Safe Workspace solution by combining phishing and fraud protection with endpoint containment and isolation.
Prior to joining BUFFERZONE, Dr. Dubin was the cofounder and CEO of SNDBOX, which was acquired by OPSWAT. Dr. Dubin is a cyber and artificial intelligence (AI) veteran, with over 20 years of experience in AI, zero-trust attack prevention, malware research, and network analysis.
"By adding AI capabilities to BUFFERZONE's existing Safe Workspace solutions, the company will be able to offer protection at an affordable cost," said Dr. Dubin. "When you look at cybercrime threats it is very difficult to develop detection systems that will provide full security. Zero trust tools are the real game changer in the industry. BUFFERZONE's containment tools close the main breach. By adding deep learning capabilities BUFFERZONE will further improve its prevention abilities by adding another security layer."
"Ran Brings with him substantial state of the art AI and cyber abilities and his addition to the BUFFERZONE team illustrates our commitment to becoming a leading player in the Safe Workspace market," said Israel Levy, BUFFERZONE CEO. "Ran will lead our development team efforts to introduce a groundbreaking endpoint isolation solution that will enable workers to work safely no matter where they are working from."
Dr. Dubin has served as cyber and AI Technology innovation leader for companies such as Radcom, Allot, Double Verify and other projects. He holds B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in communication systems engineering from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
BUFFERZONE Safe Bridge enables downloads, attachments and files from removable devices to be disarmed for secure extraction from the container. The company's Safe Workspace for endpoints solution provides ironclad protection from all types of downloaded and attached malware, and combats web fraud (phishing) with cutting-edge intelligent detection and prevention.
BUFFERZONE's endpoint isolation tool will be less vulnerable to new malware techniques, as downloaded or other externally accessed files on endpoints, are kept in a virtual container.
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BUFFERZONE Safe Workspace solution protects enterprises and SMBs from advanced threats including zero-day, ransomware, drive-by downloads, phishing and APTs. By using BUFFERZONE zero trust containment, IT can grant a hybrid workforce seamless access to internet, email and removable storage – while reducing IT operational cost & keeping the organization safe.
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UTRECHT, Netherlands, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ultimaker, the global leader in professional 3D printing, has launched the beta for Ultimaker Cura 5.0, the latest version of its free, open source, slicing software during the Spring Showcase. Unique applications in design, architecture, engineering and metal 3D printing have been enabled by the enhanced slicing engine that sets a new threshold for finer and faster 3D prints. The newly developed variable line width capability of this slicing engine improves its ability to print thin walls and fine details. Parts printed with this engine will also be stronger. Other improvements include faster print profiles for owners of Ultimaker printers, support for Apple M1 chips, and more.
"Ultimaker Cura 5.0 represents the biggest leap forward in print quality that the software has ever seen. This is the start of a true revolution in 3D printing technology," says Miguel Calvo, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Ultimaker. "We believe that even those who have looked at 3D printing before and concluded that it may not be ready for their use, today it is time for them to look again. Until now, you had to make your design work for 3D printing. It's time to turn the table... from designing for 3D printing, to 3D printing for design."
The most eye-catching improvements of Ultimaker Cura 5.0 are:
Thinner walls and finer details
The new slicing engine in Ultimaker Cura 5.0 allows for the use of variable line width when slicing a 3D model to most accurately print fine details.
Stronger parts
The variable line width capabilities of the new slicing engine in Ultimaker Cura 5.0 results in fewer gaps on the inside of printed parts, making them more solid, and therefore stronger. The improved printing of thin walls brings parts printed with Ultimaker Cura 5.0 closer to the strength of those produced using injection molding.
"Cura is evolving and there is much more freedom in the design for FFF, so the software is less of a limiting factor. Thin walls, and the kind of small design features that are often featured in injection molded parts, are created more efficiently and this results in applications being produced in an improved way in 3DP," according to Steve Cox - Engineer and 3D printing advocate.
Faster print profiles
Print profiles available to users of Ultimaker printers have been updated to make use of the improved capabilities of Ultimaker Cura 5.0 resulting in print time reductions of up to 20%.
New possibilities and new applications
The Showcase featured innovators and thought-leaders from the 3D printing community who demonstrated unique applications enabled by the newest version of Ultimaker Cura 5.0. It can be watched here for anyone who missed the original presentation of Cura 5.0.
You can download Ultimaker Cura 5.0 beta here: https://ultimaker.com/software/ultimaker-cura.
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