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Parish Episcopal has been making quite the name for itself when it comes to dominating the DFW-area sports scene. Moreover, though, the athletes have been making it a point to sharpen their skills and fine-tune their abilities in every area in order to continue the tradition of excellence that Panthers Athletics has set and maintained. Junior athlete, Cedric Mays II, has seen the benefit of hard work and dedication throughout his time at Parish. The 5-foot-6 athlete is a three-time football state champion and closed out his junior track and field season as the best triple jumper in TAPPS 6A- all while breaking Parish Episcopal’s triple jump school record. VYPE DFW was able to catch up with Mays following his gold medal jump.
Hard Work Reaps Benefits
Under the guidance of Parish Episcopal track and field head coach Jeremy Wariner, working towards competing in the state championship track meet has been something all of the Panthers track and field athletes have been focused on. With consistent appearances, Wariner was positive that his team would do well in the 2022 track and field season- and he was correct.
So, what has been the secret to Mays’ success this season? Mays would tell you that the real secret is in the coaches that have helped shape who he is as an athlete. “Coach Wariner and Coach Esther helped push me to become better,” Mays told VYPE in an exclusive interview. “I wouldn’t be where I am without them.”
Even the newest track and field fan can tell you there’s something special about Parish’s track and field team. Not only are there great individual results, but the team- as a whole- has done great. At the beginning of the season, coach Wariner told VYPE he believes the team does well because the kids truly care about one another and support each other across all events during practice and meet days. Mays reiterated that building relationships with the team and strengthening bonds has been a key component to Panthers track and field. “I feel like this year specifically everyone who was out there strived to be the best, so we would all push each other and hold each other accountable. This didn’t do anything but make us as close to the best as we could be,” said Mays.
Setting and Accomplishing Goals
As an accomplished football athlete, Mays has become used to focusing on growing and getting better throughout the years. Mays has been a three-time state champion with Parish Episcopal football and was ready to make a splash in track and field. With the mindset to always be better than he was than the year before, Mays has been able to get into gear each season. Setting obtainable goals for himself, Mays feels as though this season has been filled with accomplishments, but he continues to look toward the future and strives to do everything he can to remain at peak performance.
“My goal this year was to try to PR in all of my events and- if possible- go to state in all of my events. I feel like I met my goals, but I do have a lot of work I need to do before my senior year.”
Mays posted a school record 43’4.50 triple jump at the TAPPS 6A State Meet resulting in his gold medal. Mays broke the school record three times throughout the season. “[Breaking the school record] feels surreal,” Mays told VYPE. “I remember when I first started triple jump in 7th grade. I would have never thought I would’ve broken a record.”
State Champion
Sometimes you have a good outing and you just feel it in your bones that what you did was not only great by your standards, but it was great across the board. At the state meet, Mays knew before his last jump that gold was as good as his. “I was the very last jumper,” Mays began. “Right before my last jump I saw that the guy before me scratched (meaning his jump wasn’t going to count). That’s when I knew I was a state champ. My last jump was really just for fun.”
“It feels amazing [to be a state champion],” said Mays. “Some people can only dream about winning state and I’ve been blessed to do it in two sports.” Being able to claim the top spot has been a whirlwind for the athlete. Mays has been sharing his excitement about the victory on his Instagram account- posting photos with his medal as well as his football championship ring:
One of the things that helps Mays stay at the top of his game is the fact that he is a dual-sport athlete and is active throughout the year. “I don’t really get an offseason due to the fact that football starts right after track season ends,” Mays told VYPE. “So my focus shifts at the end of each sport’s seasons. I have to prepare for the next season. It’s really just a mindset, to be honest. When football ends, I take a week off for my body to recover then I prepare for track. I choose to push myself to be great because I can’t rely on there to be someone to do it for me.”
By being an accomplished athlete with Parish athletics, Mays has been able to form bonds with teammates and make many memories- some he is still yet to make as he has his entire senior year ahead of him- but he was able to pick out a favorite memory from his time so far with Panthers track and field. “My favorite track memory has got to be the moment I found out I won state in triple jump. My friends and coaches were going crazy.”
So far, in his time at Parish, Mays feels as though the school as a whole is doing a great job preparing him for the next level of sports and academics. “It’s been very helpful.”
A Bright Future
Although Mays has not committed to a college just yet, the path is laid out before him. He’s keeping his options open while he looks for a school that will be the perfect fit. “I am looking for a program who welcomes me into the family and has a diverse atmosphere,” Mays said.
Mays hopes to major in journalism or education.
For now, Mays is focused on getting better for next year. “I’m looking forward to another chance at a state title. Summer track and training is how I plan on preparing for next season. Really, anything Wariner feels like could help me, I will try to do.”
Fun Questions
Who do you look up to as an athlete?
“I look up to my coach, Jeremy Wariner.I feel like he’s the perfect example- with him winning a couple gold medals in the Olympics.”
Who is your favorite professional sports team?
“Probably the Dallas Cowboys. I don’t really have a favorite team in the NBA. I just watch a bunch of games.”
If you could go to dinner with one person (dead or alive) who would it be? What would you want to talk about?
“Definitely Kobe Bryant. I loved the way he carried himself and praised his work ethic. I strive to be as great as him as I continue down my athletic career- whether it’s for track or football.” | https://cw33.com/sports/high-school-sports/dual-sport-state-champ-parish-episcopals-cedric-mays-ii-wins-tapps-6a-triple-jump-title/ | 2022-05-11T21:17:03Z |
ALBANY — As not-for-profit hospitals, each of Phoebe’s hospitals undertake a community health needs assessment every three years to identify needs Phoebe should take an active leadership role in trying to solve. To help identify health needs important to the community, Phoebe is encouraging citizens to take the newly launched community health needs survey.
“This is a very important step in our process that helps us determine what our community health focus will be over the next three years in the primary areas served by out hospitals,” Phoebe Putney Health System Chief Medical Officer Dr. Dianna Grant said. “The survey takes about 5 to10 minutes to complete and gives everyone in our service area the opportunity to weigh in on important health topics.”
The anonymous survey includes questions about health services, housing, transportation and personal well-being. The results from the survey will give the community information on health status, needs and issues. Some of the other benefits include:
♦ Improved organizational and community coordination and collaboration;
♦ Increased knowledge about public health and the interconnectedness of activities;
♦ Stronger partnerships;
♦ Better health in the community.
Counties included in the survey are Dougherty, Lee, Macon, Marion, Mitchell, Schley, Sumter, Terrell and Worth.
“Working alongside our community partners, we will use the survey data to evaluate and develop programs that meet the needs of the communities we serve,” Grant added.
To take the survey, go to phoebehealth.com. A link to the survey is located on Phoebe’s homepage.
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WINTER PARK, Fla., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lyons Wealth Management, LLC's flagship separately managed account strategy - Lyons Tactical Allocation Portfolio (LTAP) - reached the milestone 10-year track record during the 2nd quarter of 2022 with a 5-star Morningstar™ Rating for its performance during the ten years ended March 31, 2022.
"Sticking to our core strategy has paid off for our investors, while at the same time being flexible and willing to make adjustments and improvements along the way has worked well for the strategy's continuity." says Sander Read, CEO of Lyons Wealth Management and co-Portfolio Manager of the LTAP strategy.
The LTAP strategy most notably sidestepped the market crash at the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The strategy's maximum drawdown through March 2020 was less than 1%, providing investors with a 42.45% return net of fees for calendar year 2020.
The Lyons Tactical Allocation Portfolio offers an offense-first, bullish approach to tactical investing that seeks to optimize upside capture while offering potential capital preservation during sustained bear markets. Full equity allocations are maintained for the long-term, while addressing downside risk with separate and distinct solutions for different levels of market risk. Lyons employs a systematic tactical model - the Quantitative Risk Indicator (QRI) - to identify periods of heightened equity market risk, with a goal of minimizing exposure to significant market declines.
"Being relatively passive when passive works, but proactive when active investing is needed, has benefited our clients tremendously." continued Mr. Read.
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Former 100 Thieves executive focused on profitability across their apparel, content creators and esports teams as XSET celebrates its 2nd anniversary
BOSTON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XSET, the world's fastest-growing gaming and lifestyle organization, announced the new hire of sales expert, Tim Mulligan, to their team as XSET's new Head of Sales.
Mulligan is joining XSET with a plan to develop forecasts and strategies to achieve sales at price levels to ensure profitability across their apparel, content creators, and esports teams, including its VALORANT team who was recently crowned North American champions beating FaZe Clan and OpTic at the VCT NA Stage 2 Challengers Grand Final. XSET has curated a platform that is the perfect combination of esports and cultural content for everyone to enjoy on a global scale.
"I'm beyond thrilled to join XSET as this is a huge opportunity to work with one of the best up-and-coming lifestyle/esports organizations in the world!" said Tim Mulligan. "I joined XSET, specifically, to have the opportunity to work with one of the most exciting lifestyle/gaming companies that truly is shaping and redefining pop culture -- which is focusing on inclusion, equality, creative expression, and cultural diversity. XSET is at the forefront of elevating that messaging."
With over two decades of experience in the lifestyle and gaming industry, Mulligan comes from 100 Thieves where he was the Head of Strategic Accounts. At 100 Thieves Mulligan led the charge in securing long and short-term partnerships for the esports teams and content creators. He secured their first gaming apparel collection with Halo: Infinite, created a campaign with Vistaprint focused on helping small businesses rebrand at the peak of the pandemic, and has worked on partnerships with celebrities like Channing Tatum. Mulligan has a vast amount of experience in PR, marketing, and sales that will help to elevate XSET as they continue to grow their organization as the leading lifestyle and gaming brand.
"Since starting XSET two years ago, we have been putting business decisions into play to help further the growth of the XSET brand." Said Clinton Sparks, Co-Founder and CBDO of XSET. "We are on a mission to build a culturally inclusive and diverse community and are bringing like minded people to our team to help build on that mission. Tim's presence and experience in the gaming world is important to the development of XSET and we are excited to bring on such a valuable player."
"XSET is growing and reaching completely new heights coming into its second year," said Co-Founder and CEO of XSET, Greg Selkoe. "With brand growth, comes team growth. We are excited for Tim to join our team and bring his ability to create profitable growth to help our development as a brand that is breaking down barriers in the esports industry."
About XSET
Founded in 2020 in Boston by gaming and pop culture veterans Greg Selkoe, Marco Mereu, Clinton Sparks and Wil Eddins, XSET is the fastest growing gaming organization and lifestyle brand in history. XSET fields some of the world's top competitive esports teams in titles including Valorant, Rocket League, Rainbow Six, Fortnite, Warzone, Apex Legends, eNASCAR and more. Built on a foundation of a diverse and inclusive gaming culture, XSET is building the preeminent brand for today's growing Gen Z audience of gamers. The organization continues to grow at a breakneck pace, partnering with high-profile brands such as Ghost Lifestyle, SCUF Gaming, Roots Canada, HyperX, Quality Control Music, Respawn, Fanshark and Wahlburgers and is working with socially positive causes including Big Brother Big Sister of America. Since its launch, XSET has attracted top-tier, world famous talent across music, sports and entertainment to its shared vision, including Grammy-nominated hip-hop artists Swae Lee and Ozuna, NFL superstar Ezekiel Elliot, BMX legend Nigel Sylvester, Rapper and GTA streamer Tee Grizzley, 14-year-old female Olympic skateboarding phenom Minna Stess, and professional athletes such as NFL star Ezekiel Elliot of the Dallas Cowboys. Sitting at the intersection of gaming and culture, XSET's robust merchandise offerings are some of the most sought-after in the industry, featuring high-profile collaborations and exclusive pieces fans can't find anywhere else. XSET is defining what it means to be cultural leaders in the space for future generations to come. For more information visit XSET.com #reptheset
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DXRacer releases Immortals-branded Craft series chair, designed to enhance player performance
DETROIT, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Lakes-based gaming and esports organization, Immortals, and the leader of premium gaming chair brands, DXRacer, have officially announced the start of a three-year partnership. As part of the agreement, DXRacer will become the Official Gaming Chair of Immortals and will be used by all Immortals competitive teams, including League of Legends (LCS), Wild Rift and Valorant.
DXRacer is conveniently headquartered in Whitmore Lake, Michigan, within the Great Lakes Region (GLR), where Immortals is the leading esports organization. Both companies plan to activate across the region in 2022 and beyond, hosting multiple opportunities for fan engagement, including chair giveaways.
Immortals and DXRacer also developed an Immortals-branded gaming chair as part of the DXRacer Craft Series. The chair has been distributed to all Immortals players, competitive staff and influencers and is available for preorder at the DXRacer website.
"Working with DXRacer, a pioneer in the gaming chair space, to provide Immortals-branded chairs to our players and influencers underscores our commitment to creating a first class experience for our talent," said Brett McGrew, Immortals' VP, Partnerships & Activation. "We're excited to be enhancing our performance with DXRacer."
"The DXRacer x Immortals Craft Series commemorates the beginning of a unique partnership between two brands both located within the Great Lakes Region," Said Tim Wu, DXRacer CEO. "With this partnership, we hope to bring a memorable gaming experience to the Great Lakes community."
DXRacer is a trailblazer in their industry, known for being the creator of the first-ever gaming chair in 2006. Today, they continue to innovate and provide high-quality chairs for amateur and professional gamers.
Immortals is a U.S.-based professional esports organization representing the Great Lakes Region, with a mission to serve as the region's gateway to all things gaming. Immortals is dedicated to using gaming as a connective force linking its players, influencers and creators, fans, staff and the broader gaming community. Immortals competes across multiple premier esports titles, including League of Legends (LCS), VALORANT and Wild Rift.
For more information, please visit www.Immortals.gg and follow Immortals on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Snap.
Founded in 2001, DXRacer is a pioneer in gaming chairs, starting off as a manufacturer of car seats for luxury sports cars. In the past 21 years, the company has been at the forefront of gaming chair technology. DXRacer leveraged experience and innovations to provide technology that delivers deep comfort and targeted support right where you need it. Quality and design are core values, and the company is always striving to go further in these domains. DXRacer prides itself on using nothing but high-quality materials and maintaining the high standard set for all products. All products are manufactured with precision in strict high-quality management.
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Goodman Draws Upon Over 25 Years of Successful Leadership in Some of the Most Impactful Brands in Financial Services and Technology Industries; Will Oversee Global Growth Amidst Increased Market Demand
NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smarsh, the global leader in digital communications compliance and intelligence, announced today that its board of directors has appointed Kim Crawford Goodman as the company's new chief executive officer. Goodman, a recognized financial services and technology industry leader with more than 25 years of experience, will succeed Brian Cramer and lead the company into its next stage of global growth. Cramer will join the Smarsh board of directors.
Prior to joining Smarsh, Goodman was Head of Payments and Risk Solutions at Fortune 500 company Fiserv, Inc. Previously, Goodman was Chief Executive Officer of Worldpay US, and president of Global Business Travel and Merchant Services Americas for American Express. She has also held executive leadership roles at Dell Inc. and began her career in management consulting with Bain & Company, where she ascended to the role of partner. Goodman is a member of the Board of Directors of Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) and has served on the boards of Alcatel-Lucent, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., and National Life Insurance Company.
"With the unprecedented demand for our cloud-native, AI-enabled solutions and our team's strong execution, we are confident that Smarsh is well-positioned for its increased global growth and look forward to drawing upon Kim's proven track record of success with top brands in financial services and technology," said Steve Marsh, Founder and Chairman of Smarsh.
Goodman is a graduate of Stanford University with a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She also earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School where she was a Baker Scholar. Goodman was previously named one of the Most Powerful Black Executives in America by FORTUNE® magazine. In 2019, she was honored for her leadership by Finovate as Executive of the Year and was recognized among the Top 25 Women Leaders in Financial Technology by the Financial Technology Report.
"I'm honored to have the opportunity to lead the Smarsh team," said Goodman. "Smarsh has created the category of communications intelligence – leveraging Artificial Intelligence to surface risk and business insights in your data – and there is a growing global demand for it. Organizations face a volatile regulatory landscape and the real challenges of supervising work from home as employees use many more digital channels," said Goodman. "The Smarsh team has shown extraordinary vision and leadership in helping protect many of the largest global financial firms and government agencies from regulatory and reputational risk."
Goodman's arrival comes on the heels of two major acquisitions in 2022, and the company's positioning as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving (EIA) for the seventh consecutive year1. In February, Smarsh announced the acquisition of the Digital Safe product line from Micro Focus; in May, Smarsh announced the acquisition of TeleMessage, a global leader in mobile messaging and voice capture and archiving across new channels like WhatsApp, WeChat, Signal and Telegram.
Cramer joined Smarsh in 2016 and served as CEO from 2018-2022. "On behalf of the board, I want to thank Brian Cramer for his innumerable contributions and dedicated years of service to the company," said Marsh. "Brian has led Smarsh through critical product and business transformations along with multiple acquisitions —including Actiance, Digital Reasoning, Entreda, Privva, Digital Safe and TeleMessage— and the company is the leading SaaS platform for global digital communications compliance."
The announcement of the new CEO coincides with SmarshCONNECT, the premier event for the broad range of Smarsh customers, which includes a keynote from Gen. David Petraeus, a retired military commander and former director of the CIA, along with Peter Wannemacher, a principal analyst at Forrester, and Gary Sorrentino, the Co-CIO of Zoom. Attendees will learn about the latest Smarsh technology and product advancements to address the remote supervision challenges that have resulted from the rapid expansion of new communications and collaboration tools.
1 Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving", Michael Hoeck, Jeff Vogel, and Chandra Mukhyala, January 24, 2022.
About Smarsh:
Smarsh enables companies to transform oversight into foresight by surfacing business-critical signals in more than 80 digital communications channels. Regulated organizations of all sizes rely upon the Smarsh portfolio of cloud-native digital communications capture, retention, and oversight solutions to help them identify regulatory and reputational risks within their communications data before those risks become fines or headlines.
Smarsh serves a global client base spanning the top banks in North America, Europe, and Asia, along with leading brokerage firms, insurers, and registered investment advisors and U.S. state and local government agencies. To discover more about the future of communications capture, archiving and oversight, visit www.smarsh.com.
Media contact: Victoria Lewis, victoria.lewis@walkersands.com
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Two long-time agency leaders promoted to expand client service and future growth opportunities
CHICAGO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Colman, Brohan & Davis, Inc. (CBD Marketing), an award-winning integrated B2B marketing agency, has announced the promotion of two of its longstanding executives, Mary Olivieri and Mark Shevitz.
"In their decade-long tenures at CBD Marketing, both Mark and Mary have made enormous contributions to the agency, and I am incredibly proud to announce their well-deserved promotions," said Liz Brohan, CEO at CBD Marketing.
"Mary brings a highly unique viewpoint and innovative techniques to drive customer and end-user insights that help clients Market What's Meaningful® and grow their business," continued Brohan. "She's also been instrumental in building CBD Marketing's culture and making us one of the best places to work."
"Mark has spearheaded all research, brand development and marketing strategy to assist clients in exceeding their performance goals," added Brohan. "Together, these two dedicated leaders offer the kind of employee- and client-first thinking that is sure to contribute to the agency's continued success."
Oliveri, the Direct Marketer of the Year (2018), has been promoted from EVP, Executive Creative Director to President of CBD Marketing. As the agency's new President, she will guide the agency and the creative department to further nurture and innovate their clients' exciting vision and unique brand identities.
"My goal is to continue the growth trajectory of both CBD Marketing and our clients and provide new opportunities for our entire staff to rise to new levels within their own careers," explained Olivieri. "We have an incredible group of deeply creative people. With Liz, Mark, and I at the helm, we are situated for an extremely exciting future."
Shevitz, an esteemed strategic branding expert and frequent presenter at industry conferences, moves from his role as EVP, Director of Client Strategy into that of Chief Strategy Officer. In his new position, Shevitz looks to further guide business, marketing, and strategy for the agency's wide variety of clients.
"It's a really interesting time in the economy, workforce, and the agency world. There are a lot of cultural and economic forces at play that could provide us with new paths for taking an even more client- and industry-centric approach to what we do," said Shevitz. "Being elevated alongside Mary, who I have been partnering with for over 10 years, is makes this all the more meaningful. I'm excited to continue working with Liz and Mary to help write the next chapter of the agency."
For over a decade, Olivieri and Shevitz's expertise has allowed them to help evolve the agency's proven approach to B2B marketing and expand its service offerings designed to meet the needs of clients ranging from education and financial services to manufacturing, building products, and food ingredients. With complementary perspectives and insights into effective collaboration on exponential growth opportunities, Olivieri and Shevitz's promotions will result in continuing the agency's track record for innovative strategic practices and creative campaigns.
Colman Brohan & Davis, Inc. (CBD Marketing) is a Chicago-based integrated marketing and advertising agency that builds strong connections between brands and the hearts and minds of their customers. Founded in 1988, CBD serves national and global clients in manufacturing, energy, appliances, building products, education, retail, financial services, food, food ingredients and other industries. Companies and organizations count on CBD to Market What's Meaningful®, building more intimate and profitable relationships in emotional and rational ways.
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Brett Gerrish
CBD Marketing
Bgerrish@cbdmarketing.com
312-661-1050
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Gainesville Leopards
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - Change is in the air at Gainesville High School, but yet it is so very familiar.
The Leopards will be led by one of their own. Former Leopards star Neil Searcy is back on campus, as the head coach to try and get Gainesville turned around. Searcy is very impressed with the team he inherits and is ready to build a winner.
“I know from when I came in here at the end of May, I came into a group of kids that were really hungry,” head coach Neil Searcy said. “They were really ready to fight, ready to change the outcome of what their season was last year. They have worked hard every single day to be able to do that.”
After a rough 2-8 season, the Leopards are hoping to make a fast turnaround. Searcy has this team buying in to the new system. And everyone is fired up about what this group could be.
“The main difference is going to be our energy,” linebacker Tate Rains said. “I think our coaches have instilled a lot of energy in us. They make us work a lot harder. I think they care a lot about the program.”
“All the new coaches are from big schools and they know how to win,” receiver Jesse Luna said. “Most of them are from Gainesville. They were here when Gainesville was winning big. They know how to win and know what it is about.”
“To be able to come out as a Gainesville Leopard again, is going to be really exciting,” Searcy said. “The kids are fired up and excited. The community is fired up and excited. We want to get Gainesville Leopard football back on the map. I think everybody understands that and the importance of that. I think they are ready for the challenge.”
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U) between March 5, 2021 and May 10, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important September 6, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Unity 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 Unity class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7381 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 September 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (2) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on Unity's revenues; (3) accordingly, Unity had overstated its commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; (4) as a result, Unity was likely to have to reduce its fiscal 2022 guidance; and (5) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Unity class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7381 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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Automatic tennis ball launcher for dogs
Though you may wish you could spend every day just playing with your dog, work and other responsibilities often don’t allow for it. That said, there is no reason your dog has to be bored simply because you don’t have the time to play with them. With an automatic dog ball launcher, they can keep themselves entertained.
These machines will continuously launch the ball again and again as long as your dog keeps fetching it and returning it to the funnel. Depending on the model, it may run on battery or AC power, and many can use either. With one of these in the house, you’ll hopefully never come home from work again to find that Fido has chewed up another couch cushion.
Automatic ball launchers vs. manual ball launchers
Dog ball launchers come in both automatic and manual varieties, and each offers some benefits over the other. Automatic launchers are very convenient because they allow your dog to entertain themselves. This means your dog can wear itself out while you are at work, relaxing and reading a book or doing some chores around the house. However, they are expensive, which may put them out of reach for some consumers. They also require a good amount of space, so if you have a small home or don’t have a backyard, you may have to take your dog to the park to use one.
Manual launchers are generally very budget-friendly, so practically anyone can afford one. They also make for better bonding time with your dog because you will actually be playing with them rather than letting them entertain themselves.
Manual launchers come in several styles, but models like the Franklin Pet Supply Dog Fetch Toy and Chuckit! Sport Dog Ball Launcher are often the most popular. These are simply flexible sticks with cups at the end for holding the ball that allow you to easily throw it a far distance without requiring much arm strength. Gun launchers, like the Hyper Pet K9 Kannon K2 Ball Launcher and the Nerf Dog Tennis Ball Blaster Dog Toy, are another fun style of ball launchers.
The best automatic dog ball launchers
iFetch Interactive Ball Launcher
This launcher has three distance settings of 10, 25 and 40 feet, making it suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. There is also a random option, which should keep your dog entertained for longer because it will keep them guessing.
iDOGMATE Rechargeable Automatic Pet Ball Launcher
Thanks to a large funnel on the top of the iDOGMATE, most dogs can figure out quickly how to drop the ball inside of the machine for launching. Plus, because it includes a remote control, you can periodically adjust the throw distance without ever having to get up out of your seat.
Pet Prime Automatic Ball Launcher
Conveniently, this launcher works on battery or AC power so you can use it anywhere. It was designed specifically with small dogs in mind and comes with three mini tennis balls that are easy for them to pick up.
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A versatile option, the GoDogGo Inc. Fetch Machine G4 allows you to adjust the throw distance and the launch interval. It is rechargeable, so you don’t have to worry about constantly buying disposable batteries, and, to ensure safety, it launches balls with a high upwards arc.
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Franklin Pet Supply Ready Set Fetch
The small build of the Franklin Ready Set Fetch makes it easy to store and take to and from the park. Despite that, it still has a wide funnel on the top to make it easy for your dog to reload. Adjustable feet allow you to change the launch angle as needed.
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Great indoor toys for dogs
Automatic dog launchers are a great way to keep your dog occupied without you having to constantly entertain them. Unfortunately, many of them aren’t great for use indoors. Unless you have a large home, they may shoot the tennis balls too far. Also, there is always the chance the ball may hit a decoration or some other item and break it.
If you are looking for a way for your dog to work off some of that excess energy while indoors, you’ll want to check out these toys. Some stimulate their brain, while others are for chewing and chasing, but they will all be fun for your canine companion.
PETGEEK Automatic Dog Bone Toy
This USB-rechargeable faux bone quickly spins and rolls around the house to stimulate your dog’s prey drive. It has several textures to help remove plaque as your dog chews on it, and it disassembles so the various parts can be easily cleaned.
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A popular toy for owners of heavy chewers, Kongs can withstand all kinds of abuse, and the Extreme is even more durable than the classic model. You can load it up with treats or smear the inside with peanut butter to make it more engaging. And when you have the time to play with your furry friend, it’s great for fetch because of its unpredictable bounce.
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Wickedbone Store Cheerble Wicked Ball
The Cheerble Wicked Ball has three activity settings depending on how much stimulation your dog needs to keep their attention. It is waterproof so it can also be used in the pool; however, it can’t stand up to heavy chewers.
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If you have a bully breed, you need a nearly indestructible toy like the LIDLOCK. It vibrates and rolls, and its rechargeable battery lasts for 90 minutes. For added engagement, you can fill it with small treats.
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Every time the Giggle Ball is rolled, nudged or shaken, it makes funny sounds that will entice your dog to play with it. It doesn’t require batteries, so it will never run out of juice and leave your dog bored. It has six holes that make it easy for dogs to grip it with their teeth.
This puzzle toy is mentally challenging for your dog, which can actually tire them out nearly as much as physical activity. They have to roll the ball around to dispense the treats, and you can increase the difficulty as they get better at it.
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Salary study, vice mayor elections and downtown director focus of July council meeting
The long-awaited salary compensation study, as well as the election of a new vice mayor and the hiring of a downtown director were key topics at the Jackson City Council agenda review meeting Thursday evening.
“The council approved the salary compensation study to make us more competitive in the market, so we’ve been working with a consultant for the past several months,” Jackson City Mayor Scott Conger said previously.
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According to Conger, the plan has been completed and will be presented by the consultant at Tuesday’s meeting.
The budget line item for the raises is around $1.9 million, with an additional $500,000 for employee benefits.
After the presentation, the council will vote on whether to adopt the plan.
Some concern was expressed at the meeting from councilmembers about whether the plan took into account the staffing levels of the city, which has seen its fair share of hiring difficulties in the past few months, and about the clarity of the changes.
“I think my hesitation is not whether we should get raises or not, but rather the process and lack of information,” said councilmember Ross Priddy. “I don’t have a full understanding of what’s about to happen and what’s being implemented.”
Vice mayor elections
The election for vice mayor—who is elected via city council vote—will be held on Tuesday, with District 7 Councilmember Marda Wallace expressing interest in the position.
Currently, Councilmember Paul Taylor of District 6 serves the position, which he was elected to in July 2021.
“I think she’d do a good job,” Taylor said at the agenda review meeting.
Downtown director position
The council will also be voting on the creation of a new position for a downtown director, at the cost of $60,000.
The position, according to Taylor, would be “instrumental” in the continuing development of downtown Jackson.
“Recently, downtown Jackson has been going through a lot of changes,” he said. “Jackson Downtown Development Corporation was kind of the primary contact for downtown, but they’ve gone through some staffing changes and such. I came in about nine months ago and helped them clean up their operation—through them, I reached out to The Co, from my experience as the former chair of the organization.
“What I saw was a maxed-out staff that really couldn’t handle all the things we asked of them,” he said. “So I talked to The Co, and looked at a collaboration with them. Through that … I have been working to reestablish JDDC as a sub-component of The Co.”
Taylor said the partnership was an obvious choice, given Jackson’s trend towards small business revitalization lately.
“This seemed like a good partnership, as the primary focus of downtown development in recent years has been entrepreneurship, and attracting small businesses to downtown where they can grow and fill vacant store-fronts,” he said.
“Imagine having someone wake up every day with the goal of helping downtown Jackson? We need that.”
The meeting will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday, July 5, in the Jackson City Hall. The meeting can also be livestreamed from the City of Jackson's Facebook page.
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SHENZHEN, China, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, META Pharmaceuticals, China's first immunometabolism-based small-molecule drug discovery company, announced two consecutive Seed and Pre-A funding rounds totaling 15 million USD. Investors include Forcefield Ventures, XtalPi Inc., IMO Ventures, and Tiantu Capital. In combining cutting-edge discoveries in immunometabolism and artificial intelligence (AI), META Pharmaceuticals has built an AI-powered metabolic target discovery platform and aims to develop the next generation of safer and more effective autoimmune disease medicines based on new biological mechanisms.
The therapeutics market for autoimmune disease is the second-largest segment after cancer treatments, with an estimated 350-450 million patients worldwide. However, currently available medications are developed with biological mechanisms and drug targets with inherent drawbacks that lead to risks of severe side effects, low patient response rates, and many other problems.
Founded by a group of researchers in the emerging field of immunometabolism, META Pharmaceuticals is developing first-in-class drugs with a new mechanism that effectively regulates the immune system by modulating cell metabolism. This strategy that holds the promise of delivering treatment options with stronger potency and fewer side effects for a variety of chronic diseases. It has built a AI-enabled, multi-omics-based target discovery platform for metabolic pathways, dubbed META-Map, that can sift through thousands of metabolic proteases for specific therapeutic effects. The team has identified a series of new druggable targets with first-in-class potential and developed a pipeline with three first-in-class small molecule inhibitors, one of which is a candidate for a broad spectrum of autoimmune diseases and is expected to file for IND in both the US and China as early as 2024.
To accelerate drug discovery, META Pharmaceuticals as formed a close partnership with XtalPi, an AI drug discovery and development platform company. The two AI platforms can create a fast and reliable analytic and validation loop for new therapeutic targets and their mechanisms of action, thus accelerating the translation of new targets into patents and pipeline assets.
The new funding will help META accelerate its three candidates toward clinical trials and further expand its proprietary META-map platform to cover more disease areas as it continues to grow its pipeline. META Pharmaceuticals will also expand its team and establish its first biology laboratory in Shenzhen, China, to further strengthen the company's research capabilities in immunometabolism and drive target discovery.
Dr. Ke Xu, Co-founder & CEO of META Pharmaceuticals, said, "Thanks to the support of our investors and partners, we were able to reach significant R&D milestones and raise two rounds of financing in just six months. META Pharmaceuticals aspires to become a global leader in immunometabolic drug discovery and expedite the advent of next-generation autoimmune treatments that are safer and more effective for patients worldwide."
Dr. Shuhao Wen, Co-founder and Chairman of XtalPi said, "META's ability to discover highly promising autoimmune disease targets offers both exciting challenges and valuable insights for our AI drug discovery platform. We look forward to working closely with this team of brilliant scientists and helping them develop a fruitful pipeline of revolutionary immunometabolism-based drugs. "
"Since our seed round investment, Meta has made progress that defied our expectations," Said Thomas Yao, Partner of IMO Ventures. "Its innovative approach to immune-metabolism-based drug discovery may soon translate a whole new mechanism of action into first-in-class drugs that could transform the way autoimmune diseases are treated."
Guoxing Wei, Partner at Tiantu Capital who led the Pre-A round investment, said, "META Pharmaceuticals' approach of combining cutting-edge biological discoveries with AI technology has the potential to drive breakthroughs in immunometabolic drug R&D and fundamentally improve the quality of life for millions of patients. "
About Meta Pharmaceuticals
Meta Pharmaceuticals Inc. is an innovative drug discovery company focused on autoimmune diseases. The name META derives from the word metabolism and symbolizes the company's focus on the emerging cross-disciplinary field between metabolism and immunology to address the unmet needs of patients worldwide. Founded by a team of biomedical doctors from Weil Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, META Pharmaceuticals is incubated by Forcefield Ventures and XtalPi, a leading AI-powered drug R&D platform company. Based on cutting-edge biology theories, META Pharmaceuticals has identified a series of autoimmune disease targets that can safely and effectively regulate immune system functions by manipulating the vitality of cellular metabolism.
META Pharmaceuticals is partnering with XtalPi to develop these targets into first-in-class therapeutics. Through the fusion of fundamental science, AI, and fast experimental validation, this collaboration leverages AI + biomedical research to create a fast and reliable analytic and validation loop for new therapeutic targets and their mechanisms of action, accelerating target discovery and their translation into new therapeutics.
About XtalPi Technologies:
XtalPi Technologies is a quantum physics and AI-enabled drug discovery company dedicated to revolutionizing the drug discovery industry by improving the speed, scale, innovation, and success of drug discovery. As a US and China-based company serving the global market, XtalPi is committed to exploring optimal solutions to leverage cutting-edge R&D and computational resources to maximize the needs of our customers and collaborators.
XtalPi's intelligent drug discovery platform integrates cloud-based supercomputing digital R&D tools with advanced experimental capabilities to form an R&D system where high-accuracy predictions and targeted experiments corroborate and guide each other. As one of the world's pioneering AI drug discovery companies, XtalPi has established a set of R&D iterative processes that closely integrate quantum physics dry labs and advanced wet labs, challenging the efficiency bottleneck of traditional R&D and empowering new drug discovery to achieve breakthroughs in innovation speed and scale.
About IMO Ventures and Forcefield Ventures:
IMO Ventures is dedicated to early-stage investment in early-stage projects in emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, innovative consumer goods, healthcare, and financial technology, and to walking with the best entrepreneurs. IMO Ventures has invested in China, the U.S., Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, etc. The IMO Ventures team has entrepreneurial experience, understands the sweet and sour of entrepreneurship, and believes that science and technology will change the world. IMO currently has three USD funds and one RMB fund, and manages several SPV funds. We have made early investments in dozens of disruptive and innovative startups in their respective tracks, including Guazi Used Car, XtalPi Technologies, Deepview Technology, Paytm, Conflux, Lime, etc.
Forcefield Ventures is the sub-fund under IMO ventures specializing in early-stage investment and incubation in the biomedical sector.
About Tiantu Capital:
Founded in 2002, Tiantu Capital is an active investment management company headquartered in Shenzhen, China. With over 8 billion Yuan in assets under management, our firm's business focuses on providing capital to leading companies in consumer products and healthcare industry in China. The expertise of our firm's investment team and Advisory Boards are unparalleled in breadth and depth. Tiantu has helped to accelerate growth and development for numerous startup companies in China, including Ciming Healthcare Center, Xbiome Co, Signet Therapeutics, Phoenix Healthcare Group.
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Tom Hanks says 'Philadelphia' wouldn't get made today with a straight actor in a gay role
Tom Hanks, who won an Oscar for his role as a gay man with AIDS in the film "Philadelphia," said that if the film were made today, a straight actor wouldn't be cast in that role, and "rightly so."
The "Elvis" actor reflected on the role in an interview this week with the New York Times' David Marchese. The journalist asked Hanks about two of his most famous films -- 1993's "Philadelphia" and 1994's "Forrest Gump," in which he plays a character with undefined intellectual disabilities.
Hanks called both films "timely movies, at the time, that you might not be able to make now."
After Marchese argued that neither film would be made today with Hanks in the same roles, Hanks agreed that a straight actor shouldn't be cast in the "Philadelphia" role he played nearly 30 years ago.
"One of the reasons people weren't afraid of that movie is that I was playing a gay man," Hanks said. "We're beyond that now, and I don't think people would accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy."
At the time of "Philadelphia's" release, it was the first major Hollywood film to depict the AIDS crisis. The year after it premiered, AIDS would become the leading cause of death for Americans ages 25 to 44, according to the American Psychological Association. Today, more than 1.2 million Americans live with HIV, the virus that can cause AIDS if left untreated.
"It's not a crime, it's not boohoo, that someone would say we are going to demand more of a movie in the modern realm of authenticity," he said.
Hanks also went on to defend "Forrest Gump," a film he said was written off as a "sappy nostalgia fest" after it won the Oscar for best picture, mentioning the "moment of undeniable heartbreaking humanity" when the character of Lieutenant Dan, a Vietnam War amputee, walks on prosthetic legs.
"I might get weepy thinking about it now," Hanks said.
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- First AAA GameFi MMORPG: THE NEXT CHAPTER
- Tigon Mobile P2E Game Bless Global Pre-Registration Begins — "Expanding the P2E Ecosystem"
- Introducing P2E into the Bless IP, announcing a new AAA GameFi MMORPG
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Tigon Mobile, a subsidiary of Longtu Korea, revealed its latest entry to the Bless franchise — Bless Global, the world's first AAA GameFi MMORPG that combines the Bless IP with P2E (Play to Earn) mechanisms. The pre-registration event of Bless Global begins on August 12, 2022. Players can visit the pre-registration page (http://bless.tigonmobile.com/) or follow the official Twitter of Bless Global to join the event.
Published by Tigon Mobile, the subsidiary of the Korean listed company Longtu Korea, Bless Global will be the company's first AAA attempt in the Web3 world.
Longtu Korea is said to have several AAA games for future releases. The company's signature titles, Sword and Magic and Yulgang Mobile, have received the love and support of over 10 million users worldwide. As a game publisher, Longtu Korea has been servicing more than 200 million users over the past decade.
Since its launch, the GameFi title Yulgang Global published by Longtu Korea has been well-received by over 5 million users. Bless Global, the company's latest title to be published, far exceeds Yulgang Global in terms of development scale and economic model. Therefore, the game is expected to serve a larger player base.
To bring a seamless Web3 experience to game users, PocketBuff, the collaboration effort between Tigon Mobile and Game Space, will be the platform to support NFT transactions of Bless Global.
The original PC game Bless, a medieval fantasy MMORPG developed by Neowiz, has received unanimous media accolades for its stunning visual presentation since the launch. Powered by UE4, Bless Unleashed, the 2021 remake of the original Bless by Neowiz, became another global hit on major platforms.
The original Bless has also gained widespread recognition in Asia. Longtu Game, the parent company of Longtu Korea, is the developer and publisher of Bless: Ember Storm, a newly released mobile game based on the Bless IP. Since its launch on Sept. 23, 2021, the game has ranked No.12 among the top grossing games in App Store.
Optimized for mobile devices, Bless Global also inherits the lore and story of the original Bless on PC. This medieval fantasy game perfectly illustrates a breathing magic world through the combination of grand stories and console-level graphics. The game features responsive battle feedback and an unfettered mobile combat experience, bringing an immersive and epic adventure to all players!
Aside from battles, players can mine in-game resources through the game's P2E system and trade them with other players on the platform.
According to a spokesperson from Tigon Mobile, Bless Global will be launched on multiple platforms, including mobile and PC, to ensure accessibility and continuous enjoyment for all users. As far as the P2E system is concerned, Tigon Mobile says they are dedicated to expanding the platform's ecosystem and further integrating the game's features into the platform.
Bless Global is now available for pre-registration. If you want to know more about the game, please visit the official website (http://bless.tigonmobile.com/) for more details.
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HANGZHOU, China, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yunji Inc. ("Yunji" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: YJ), a leading membership-based social e-commerce platform, today announced that the Company's ongoing development of innovative technology is yielding positive results. The recently-launched second generation of Yunji's megahit product, fruit and vegetable pressed candy from its private label Qingziyang, reached the milestone of five million sales within one minute and ten million sales within twenty minutes during its launch day on June 14, 2022.
The second-generation pressed candy product leverages technological innovation to deliver a superior taste with a better product design and an enhanced product formula. The product has garnered widespread acclaim and received the Gold Award at the World Genius Convention & Education Expo 2022. After more than a year of research and development, Yunji enriched the product's formula and improved its efficacy by including additional patented ingredients sourced from multiple countries. Retaining the original elements that aid digestion and block fat absorption, the second generation of the product adds new health-boosting ingredients that deliver a wide range of benefits, such as blocking glucose absorption. The launch of the second-generation pressed candy demonstrates Yunji's commitment to continuous development of its private labels. These efforts have received international recognition, with Qingziyang's collagen peptide solid beverage winning a Gold Medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in Switzerland in March 2022.
In addition to its application of cutting-edge technology in product development, Yunji also collaborated with a smart factory in Zhejiang to produce its Qingziyang brand multimineral calcium supplements. Yunji's innovative use of technology allows users to monitor the product's manufacturing process through 24/7 livestreaming in key locations such as workshops, warehouses, and food testing laboratories simply by scanning a QR code. Users are able to track manufacturing dates, supply sources, and inspection and operation personnel, and can watch the production process at any time online thanks to Yunji's use of the latest IOT technology.
Shanglue Xiao, Founder and CEO of Yunji, commented, "We are partnering with a number of top-tier suppliers to further expand and develop our Qingziyang brand. By working closely with our world-class partners, we have incorporated state-of-the-art technology into our research and development and manufacturing processes, better enabling us to fulfill our mission to provide the best quality health products to our customers. We are dedicated to providing comprehensive health solutions to our customers and helping them to pursue healthy lifestyles."
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About Yunji Inc.
Yunji Inc. is a leading social e-commerce platform in China that has pioneered a unique, membership-based model to leverage the power of social interactions. The Company's e-commerce platform offers high-quality products at attractive prices across a wide variety of categories catering to the day-to-day needs of Chinese consumers. In addition, the Company uses advanced technologies including big data and artificial intelligence to optimize user experience and incentivize members to promote the platform as well as share products with their social contacts. Through deliberate product curation, centralized merchandise sourcing, and efficient supply chain management, Yunji has established itself as a trustworthy e-commerce platform with high-quality products and exclusive membership benefits, including discounted prices.
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Fan-Favorite Sandwich Chain Recognized for High Levels of Employee Satisfaction
LAS VEGAS, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Capriotti's Sandwich Shop, the award-winning chain known for their extraordinary sandwiches, has been named a Top Workplace in Nevada in 2021, for the third year running.
The accolade is a huge honor for Capriotti's CEO Ashley Morris because employee satisfaction is the sole factor determining award-winning companies. Conducted by Energage and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, employees across Nevada participated in a survey measuring workplace culture and satisfaction. Results of the survey were tallied and Capriotti's is thrilled to be once again named a top workplace in the state.
"If the past few years have taught us anything, it is that workplace culture and employee engagement are critical to our teams' collective success," said Morris. "We are really purposeful about organizational health, ensuring employees are aligned with Capriotti's company's vision to be the best, are challenged by a high-performance culture and feel that they are valued, and their voices heard. Amid the 'great resignation' we are proud that we have been able to retain and continue to attract so many amazing employees."
Capriotti's was founded in 1976 in Wilmington, Delaware. In 1991, the business began franchising. Today, the company has more than 150 locations in 27 states.
The award comes less than two months before Capriotti's 46th birthday celebration. For Morris, the recognition serves to validate the restaurant company's core values, including passion, family, integrity, profitability, and authenticity. "Capriotti's expanded into a nationwide chain by applying our core values," said Morris. "As we continue to evolve and expand our reach throughout the country, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse, award-winning workforce."
About Capriotti's Sandwich Shop
Founded in 1976, Capriotti's Sandwich Shop is an award-winning national franchised restaurant chain that remains true to its 45-year tradition of slow-roasting whole, all-natural turkeys in-house every day. Capriotti's famous subs are available at more than 150 locations across the United States. Capriotti's signature sub, The Bobbie®, was voted "The Greatest Sandwich in America" by AOL.com. The group plans to grow to over 500 locations by 2025 and was ranked #47 on Fast Casual's Top Movers & Shakers List for 2021. For more information, visit capriottis.com.
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Canadian-based TELUS implements Ivalua's EPS solution to digitize the entire end-user buying process
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ivalua - a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, and Optis Consulting - a trusted implementation partner, announced that world-leading Canadian communications technology company, TELUS, has successfully implemented their electronic procurement solution (EPS) to digitize TELUS' entire end-user buying process.
Implementation of the project was led by Optis' expert consulting team with support from Ivalua professional services, allowing TELUS to streamline their procurement processes through a simplified system that manages spend, ensures compliance, provides a rich catalog of products and services, and creates a full digital record of purchases.
"We are delighted to further grow our business in the Canadian market. This exciting project provides TELUS' employees with the ability to purchase everything they need to support their business through an easy-to-use and optimized procurement experience," said Dan Amzallag, COO of Ivalua.
TELUS' procurement team set out to reduce off-contract buying in order to avoid the erosion of negotiated pricing and service levels of its suppliers. By deploying Ivalua as an improved central purchasing system for employees, TELUS will now have a guided buying capability, allowing users to be routed to compliant buying channels through shopping-like user experiences.
"An important aspect of our digital transformation journey is to provide our customers with an improved experience to maximize adoption and spend in support of corporate business performance targets," said Lloyd Switzer, Chief Procurement Officer at TELUS. "To achieve this we needed to move beyond our legacy systems and choose a long-term collaboration model that is flexible enough to grow and extend to additional source-to-pay processes."
"We created a buying experience that is tailored, elegant, and most importantly, has been adopted across a complex organization. It could not have happened without our forward-thinking collaborators at TELUS and Ivalua," said Adam Fischer, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Optis Consulting.
About Ivalua
Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management solutions. Our complete, unified platform empowers businesses to effectively manage all categories of spend and all suppliers, increasing profitability, lowering risk and improving employee productivity. Trusted by hundreds of the world's most admired brands and recognized as a leader by Gartner and other analysts, Ivalua maintains the industry's leading 95%+ customer retention rate. Learn more at www.ivalua.com.
About Optis Consulting
Optis Consulting is a Source-to-Pay consultancy providing independent advice, precision implementations, and sustainable results to clients. Since 2011, Optis Consulting has served Fortune-level and high-growth clients across North America since 2011 in pursuit of Source-to-Pay excellence. Optis Consulting was named Ivalua's 2021 North American Partner of the Year. To learn more, please visit www.optisconsulting.com.
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Barnette said she was leading buses to DC for ‘our 1776 moment’ on January 6, 2021
By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN
Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Kathy Barnette said she was bringing three buses of “pissed off patriots” for the January 6, 2021, “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the US Capitol riot.
Calling it “our 1776 moment,” Barnette promised those attending the rally would make their voices heard, according to previously unreported comments from the time reviewed by CNN’s KFile. In another interview before the rally, Barnette said she helped bring three buses to Washington.
Barnette, best known as a conservative political commentator who recently surged in the polls for Tuesday’s GOP primary, has seen renewed interest in her attendance at the rally after photos of her marching toward the Capitol began circulating on social media on Sunday. CNN’s KFile verified the videos.
“You’re gonna see a bunch of pissed off patriots that are like, ‘We’re not having this anymore,'” Barnette told radio host and conservative activist Ed Martin on January 5, 2021. “You’re gonna have to hear our voices. And so I’m so very grateful that Americans are not rolling over. Democrats are used to, you know, being loud, whining, calling us names and then our side of the aisle, simply roll over and play dead. I am so proud that there are an innumerable number of Americans who are just like, no, we are not rolling over. We’re not going back to sleep. You’re gonna have to hear us.”
“I believe most people realize that this is our 1776 moment,” she later added. “And I’m so grateful to God that back then we had a number of people who were not wimps, weenies and punks, and they stood up against some insurmountable odds. And right now I think a lot of people are looking back to that and recognizing that we are not wimps, weenies or punks, we’re gonna stand up to some — what seems like insurmountable odds. And they’re gonna have to listen to our voices.”
In a since-deleted tweet from the day before the Capitol riot, Barnette boasted of her upcoming attendance at the rally. “Democrats are Demons in Drag… They look like fellow Americans,” she wrote. “But, those Democrats who believe the voices of MILLIONS of Americans should be forced, shamed & bullied into silence carry an agenda straight from the pit of hell. PERIOD #Resist #WildProtest #Jan6th #DCProtests.”
Barnette attended the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Capitol riot, but a spokesperson has said she did not enter the Capitol building. A spokesperson for Barnette campaign told CNN she did not participate in any destruction of property.
In the videos that circulated on social media by extremism researcher Chad Loder, Barnette appears to march close to the Capitol near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Constitution Avenue NW.
“Kathy was in DC to support President Trump and demand election accountability,” her spokesman Bob Gillies told CNN in a text message. “Any assertion that she participated in or supported the destruction of property is intentionally false. She has no connection whatsoever to the proud boys [sic]. There is no doubt that 2020 had unprecedented irregularities. America deserves transparency to restore faith in our system.”
Barnette has repeatedly spread the lie that the results of the 2020 election were fraudulent, including those in her own congressional race that she lost that year. She has campaigned alongside Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, a state representative and fellow election denier who was also seen outside of the Capitol on January 6. He was subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating January 6 in February.
CNN’s KFile previously reported Barnette has a history of bigoted statements against Muslims and the LGBTQ community and that she falsely spread the conspiracy that former President Barack Obama is Muslim.
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MIAMI (NewsNation) — As one of the busiest travel weekends of the year approaches, recent issues with the nation’s top airline carriers could make for a bumpy ride for millions of passengers.
So far Monday, more than 650 domestic flights have been canceled, according to Flight Aware.
It comes as AAA predicts 47.9 million Americans will hit the road or take to the skies over the Independence Day long holiday weekend from June 30 to July 4. It’s a 3.7% increase from last year, bringing travel volumes just shy of those seen in 2019.
“The volume of travelers we expect to see over Independence Day is a definite sign that summer travel is kicking into high gear,” said Paula Twidale, senior vice president of AAA Travel. “People are ready for a break and despite things costing more, they are finding ways to still take that much-needed vacation.”
Tens of thousands of passengers spent their weekend at the airport on standby waiting in long lines to hear whether or not they’d make it to their final destination.
Flight delays cost both passengers and airlines a lot of money. Delays cost an airline around $74 a minute, according to airlines.org. That’s about $4,500 an hour, which doesn’t include if the plane gets stuck on the tarmac for three or more hours.
Airlines that defy the tarmac delay rules can be fined up to $27,500 for each passenger on board the affected flight. So, if there’s an average of 200 people on a flight, that would cost the airline around $5.5 million.
When it comes to passengers, it costs about $47 an hour of their time. To put it in perspective, passengers lost nearly $28 billion in 2018, and that was before the pandemic and the recent travel chaos.
The Department of Transportation says that airlines are not required to compensate passengers for a delay or cancellation, but most will book passengers on their next available flight, let them reschedule, or issue a refund for the inconvenience.
It’s not only delays and cancellations that are upsetting. Passengers say the airlines are understaffed and customer service is being affected.
Airlines across the U.S. warned customers that service would be cut by 10% to 15% this summer. Airlines blamed COVID-19-related pilot shortages and lately pointed the finger at the Federal Aviation Administration, saying there aren’t enough employees to man the airports or the control towers.
The FAA released this statement defending itself: “People expect when they buy an airline ticket that they’ll get where they need to go safely, efficiently, reliably, and affordably. After receiving $54 billion in pandemic relief to help save the airlines from mass layoffs and bankruptcy, the American people deserve to have their expectations met.”
Meanwhile, some passengers say it took them too long to get home and the stress isn’t worth it.
“We’ll just deal with the gas prices and gas it up and just travel that way because I don’t think I’ll be catching another flight anytime soon,”
Even with the national average for gas prices topping $5 per gallon, AAA expects car travel volume will break the previous record, with 42 million people planning to drive over the holiday weekend.
Recent issues with air travel and concerns of cancelations and delays could be pushing people to hop in a vehicle, AAA said. The share of people traveling by air is forecast to be the lowest since 2011.
Independence Day will be the second busiest since 2000 as travel volumes continue to climb with no signs of slowing down, AAA said.
Travel experts said drivers should expect the longest travel delays heading into the holiday weekend, particularly during the afternoons on Thursday, June 30, and Friday, July 1, as commuters leave work early and mix with holiday travelers.
NewsNation affiliate WTNH contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/nearly-48m-americans-to-travel-july-4th-weekend-as-flight-chaos-continues/ | 2022-06-27T22:32:28Z |
Funding will support programs addressing mental health, economic opportunity, and social determinants of health across Texas
RICHARDSON, Texas, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) announced today $2.1 million in Healthy Kids, Healthy Families® (HKHF) grants to 54 community-based organizations statewide that focus on health and wellness and target impacts of socio-economic and social determinants of health. The funding also includes $200,000 earmarked for economic opportunity.
The 2022-2023 HKHF grantees were selected following an extensive evaluation process. While the primary focus of the HKHF program remains predicated on four key pillars – disease prevention and management, nutrition, physical activity, and safe environments – this year also includes economic opportunity grants aimed at removing barriers and supporting pathways to employment. These reinforce BCBSTX's focus on health equity and its core purpose to stand with its members and the communities, in sickness and health.
Therefore, the 2022-2023 HKHF grant cycle called for an emphasis on programs that create measurable results to address social factors impacting health inequalities and social determinants of health such as housing, food deserts, education, jobs, and mental health.
"In partnership with, and through the funding provided by HKHF grants, we are able to continue our focus on our four key pillars, while also addressing equity in economic opportunity such as job training, scholarships, transportation and education," said Sheena Payne, BCBSTX's director of Community Affairs. "The 2022-2023 HKHF grantees that were selected demonstrated inventiveness and focus in putting together impactful programs that target mental health, disease prevention and management and nutrition, among other health and socio-economic issues. We are confident their efforts will generate great results while helping vulnerable Texans."
Toward that goal, the 2022-2023 Healthy Kids, Healthy Families® grantees are:
- Alliance for Children
- American Red Cross
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Baylor Scott & White – Dallas Foundation
- Best Buddies
- Bexar County Community Health Collaborative
- Caring Foundation of Texas
- Community Family Centers
- El Paso Children's Hospital Foundation
- Equest
- Forefront Living Foundation
- Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas
- Grant Halliburton Foundation
- Health Code
- Hope and Healing Center & Institute
- Houston Area Women's Center
- Kids Meals
- Los Barrios Unidos Community Clinic
- Marathon Kids
- March of Dimes, Harris County
- Memorial Hermann Foundation
- Methodist Justice Ministry
- Metrocrest Services
- My Possibilities
- NestQuest Houston
- Northwest Assistance Ministries
- New Friends New Life
- Out Teach
- Paul Quinn College
- Prevent Blindness Texas
- Project Transformation North Texas
- Rainbow Days
- San Antonio Sports Foundation
- Santa Maria Hostel
- SIMS Foundation
- Sistema Infantil Teleton USA (CRIT)
- Special Olympics Texas
- Texas CASA
- Texas Tech Foundation
- Texas Women's Foundation
- The Concilio
- The Montrose Center
- The Rose Center for Breast Health Excellence
- The Salvation Army of North Texas
- The Samaritan Inn
- Today's Youth
- Undies for Everyone
- United Way of Metropolitan Dallas
- University of Houston Foundation
- University of Texas Foundation
- University of North Texas Health Science Center Foundation
- Urban Harvest
- Visiting Nurse Association of Texas
- Young Women's Christian Association El Paso del Norte Region
A decade ago, the HKHF program was launched as a three-year initiative designed to improve the health and wellness of at least one million children through community investments. The program was extended as BCBSTX's ongoing commitment to the health and well-being of children and families in Texas. The program has touched the lives of millions of Texas children and families through the more than $20 million in grants awarded by BCBSTX to community organizations statewide.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) – the only statewide, customer-owned health insurer in Texas – is the largest provider of health benefits in the state, working with nearly 80,000 physicians and healthcare practitioners, and 500 hospitals to serve more than 6 million members in all 254 counties. BCBSTX is a Division of Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) (which operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Texas, Illinois, Montana, Oklahoma and New Mexico), the country's largest customer-owned health insurer. Health Care Service Corporation is a Mutual Legal Reserve Company and an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Swit Technologies (CEO Josh Lee), an enterprise collaboration software for streamlined communication and project management, has been selected by S&I Corp. (CEO Hyung Won-Jun), a property management firm, as their SaaS of choice for use across the entire company.
S&I Corp., which implements IT and hi-tech software for safer and more efficient construction and maintenance of a property, sought an all-inclusive solution that would allow for higher quality, real-time customer service, and internal collaboration.
S&I Corp. ultimately decided on Swit to serve as their front-end hub for MS365.
Won-jun Hyung, took office as the new CEO of S&I Corp. in March, having previously worked as the Chief Digital Innovation Officer (CDO) of Doosan Group and the CEO of SAP Korea. Mr. Hyung said, "Through Swit, we plan to adopt a lateral mode of communication that is more transparent and convenient. We want to change the way we work with agile methods and design thinking, and strengthen the collaboration capabilities of all our employees."
Swit's co-founder and CEO, Josh Lee said, "Mr. Hyung, an expert on the workings of enterprise companies, is well aware of the capabilities and potential of Swit. Many companies will adopt remote and hybrid work moving forward, and our goal is to help businesses that are struggling with company-wide collaboration improve work management."
Swit is a global SaaS collaboration solution selected by G2, the world's largest enterprise software marketplace, as the 'Best Software' in the project management field for the second year in a row, and as an 'Innovative and New App' by Google Marketplace.
Swit, which has been adopted by over 40,000 teams and enterprise customers worldwide, will release game-changing plug-ins including OKR, Agile, and Project Management updates later this year, and provide support for 13 languages with local currency payment options, targeting the global market more aggressively.
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FOSTER CITY, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OrthoTrophix, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the Company will present the latest clinical data and registration plan of TPX-100 in knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients at BIO 2022 (San Diego, CA for June 13 – 16).
The presentation will be made by the company's CEO, Yoshi Kumagai, in Theater 2 at 1:45pm on Tuesday, June 14th. The presentation will include clinical data demonstrating the robust improvements of function, long term pain, and joint structure by TPX-100 treatment, as well as the strong associations between the clinical and structural effects.
"These data are persuasive that TPX-100 affects the critical pathophysiology of knee OA and that it results in striking clinical benefits to the patients," commented Yoshi Kumagai. "I look forward to presenting the breakthrough to the pharmaceutical and investment communities at BIO."
"It has been nearly four years since the FDA revised its OA therapy guidance, removing articular cartilage thickness that had been the agency's 'endorsed' OA biomarker for decades. The clinical results of TPX-100 align with the FDA's latest draft guidance for DMOAD approval," commented Dr. Dawn McGuire, OrthoTrophix' Chief Medical Officer. "We anticipate that TPX-100 will help many of the over 500 million OA patients worldwide who currently have no compelling disease modifying therapy."
OrthoTrophix, Inc., based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, is a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on development and commercialization of a first-in-class Disease Modifying Osteoarthritis Drug (DMOAD). Founded by three co-founders in 2011, the primary focus of OrthoTrophix has been regeneration and repair of cartilage and underlying bones in the knee and other joints with its novel proprietary compounds.
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. The forward-looking statements include statements regarding product development and cannot be guaranteed. OrthoTrophix undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Forward-looking statements in this press release should be evaluated together with the many uncertainties that affect OrthoTrophix' business.
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NEW YORK, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. f/k/a Peridot Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: LICY, PDAC) between February 16, 2021 and March 23, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important June 20, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Li-Cycle 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 Li-Cycle class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=4885 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 June 20, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Li-Cycle's largest customer, Traxys North America LLC, is not actually a customer, but merely a broker providing working capital financial to the Company while Traxys tries to sell Li-Cycle's product to end customers; (2) the Company engaged in highly questionable related party transactions; (3) the Company's mark-to-model accounting is vulnerable to abuse and gave a false impression of growth; (4) a significant portion of the Company's reported revenues were derived from simply marking up receivables on products that had not been sold; (5) the Company's gross margins have likely been negative since inception; (6) the Company will require an additional $1 billion of funding to support its planned growth (which is a figure greater than the Company raised via the merger); and (7) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Li-Cycle class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=4885 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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In addition, independent wealth management firm announces 6 new hires and multiple open positions
MCLEAN, Va., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bogart Wealth, an independent, fee-only wealth management and Registered Investment Advisory firm, was recently listed in Financial Advisor Magazine's 2022 RIA Survey and Ranking, listing the top 534 Registered Investment Advisory firms in the U.S. by assets under management (AUM). Bogart Wealth ranked #241 in the list of largest RIAs, with year-end 2021 assets totaling over $1.9B. Bogart Wealth also ranked #34 in their list of the Top 50 Fastest Growing RIA Firms, with a 46.76% growth in assets from 2020 to 2021 and a 22.44% growth in assets per client. Bogart Wealth has been included in the Financial Advisor RIA rankings every year since 2019.
"It's an honor to yet again be featured in Financial Advisor Magazine's RIA rankings," said James Bogart, President and CEO of Bogart Wealth. "We are extremely pleased to also be featured in the list of fastest growing firms, as we're very proud of our growth in the past year and since the start of the pandemic."
To see Financial Advisor Magazine's full RIA rankings, please click here. To see their full list of the fastest growing firms, please click here.
In addition, Bogart Wealth was included in SmartAsset's list of the Top 50 Fastest-Growing Financial Advisor Firms, ranking #2 in their 2022 list. The report notes that Bogart has experienced 3-year growth of 157% and 1-year growth of 47% in AUM, as well as 3-year growth of 135% and 1-year growth of 38% in client accounts.
To identify the fastest-growing financial advisor firms in the U.S., SmartAsset eliminated RIAs that took part in mergers or acquisitions during the time period considered, comparing a total of 729 RIAs across four metrics: one- and three-year percentage change in number of client accounts and one- and three-year percentage change in AUM.
Bogart Wealth recently announced that they surpassed $2B in AUM, sitting at just above $2B as of July 19, 2022 – despite all of the recent market volatility. Bogart Wealth has more than doubled its AUM organically since the start of the pandemic and continues to add new clients and households as the firm experiences rapid growth in all facets of the business (1,131 clients as of July 2022).
"I'm very proud to announce that we are now managing over $2 billion for our clients," said Bogart. "It was only a matter of time, but it's a huge milestone for our firm. It's also a testament to our team, who pride themselves on serving our clients at the highest level. A big thank you to our whole team, as well the many clients who have referred us to friends, family, and colleagues."
In order to properly serve all their new clients, Bogart Wealth continues to hire new employees and add to their team. In Q2 2022, Bogart Wealth hired six new team members:
- Misty Garza, CFP®, MBA, Vice President, Financial Advisor
- Brian Windsor, CFP®, Vice President, Financial Advisor
- Morgan Veth, CFP®, Vice President, Financial Advisor
- Jung Seh, Financial Advisor
- Adam Platt, Junior Portfolio Analyst
- Chaz Billak, Client Service Associate
"We are very excited to welcome these six professionals to the team at Bogart Wealth, all of whom bring their own unique talents and skills to our organization," said Michelle Dubay, Chief Operating Officer at Bogart Wealth. "However, our growth doesn't stop here – we are actively hiring and looking to fill open positions in our offices in McLean, Virginia and The Woodlands, Texas."
Bogart Wealth is currently looking for team players and hard workers that are willing to go above and beyond expectations to fill eight open positions in the McLean office and three open positions in The Woodlands office. Open positions include Financial Advisor, Director of Client Services, Advisory Manager, Associate Financial Advisor, Financial Planning Associate, Client Service Associate, and more.
To learn more about the open positions and careers at Bogart Wealth, please click here. To learn more about all of the employee benefits at Bogart Wealth, please click here.
Bogart Wealth is an independent, fee-only wealth management firm guiding corporate executives, professionals, and families on their paths to and throughout retirement. Led by President and CEO James Bogart, their mission is to help clients achieve financial peace of mind by preserving and maximizing intergenerational wealth. As a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA), Bogart Wealth is held to a fiduciary standard, which gives clients confidence in knowing that everything the firm does is always in their best interest. Clients of Bogart Wealth enjoy an extremely high level of service, and the firm's boutique size enables multiple advisors to become familiar with each client and their financial plan. At Bogart Wealth, everyone is a part of the team, and they have taken great care to build a collegial and cooperative culture, as well as a diverse set of skills, experience, qualifications, and credentials. The team works together to apply their combined experience, expertise, and knowledge to each client account. To learn more, visit www.BogartWealth.com.
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With a megadrought draining water reserves in the West, states are looking for alternatives to handle water rights, many of which were set more than 100 years ago when water supplies were far more abundant.
Back then, just posting a sign next to a water diversion was enough to be considered a right, one which could still be honored now. But the climate crisis is now straining those rights. There just isn't enough water in California to satisfy what's been allotted on paper.
For years, debate has raged in California about the best way to fix the water rights system for life in the modern era. Many of the senior water rights held in the state were set before 1914 when the permit system was established and when mining was big business.
"It's an old water system that many perceive isn't set up to deal with current climatic and hydraulic conditions," Nathan Metcalf, a water rights attorney for California law firm Hanson Bridgett, told CNN. "It's just not really set up to deal with climate change and the changing needs for water both from an environmental standpoint, and then there's also the rub between agriculture and municipal."
Recognizing the dour effect of climate change on the state's hydrology, Democrats in California's Senate have proposed using $7.5 billion in state and federal funds to "build a climate-resilient water system."
Of those funds, $1.5 billion would be used to buy land with senior water rights from holders willing to sell them voluntarily in prioritized waters. The Democrats argue "fundamental changes" to the state's water system are "needed to realign demand, supply, and the flexibility of the system."
The proposal, which has yet to work its way through the legislature, would look to "retire water use incrementally from multiple water uses in a basin and across wide geographies" which would help provide clean drinking water while also improving fish habitats and wildlife refuge conditions.
"The problem with trying to regulate the senior water rights is that it's a property interest, so you always run the risk of a takings claim by taking that property," Metcalf said.
A takings claim could be brought by property owners against the government if it seizes private property for public use. Owners could also make a takings claim if regulations go too far in restricting their use of the land.
But Metcalf said there could be situations where it's mutually beneficial for a property owner to cede his or her water rights.
"If it's economically advantageous for both the farmer and the state to purchase those water rights to put to another use, I think that's a possibility," Metcalf said. "I could also see certain agricultural sectors being opposed to that because you never know when or how you're going to use that water right in the future."
Metcalf said the government could simply buy senior water rights, which might be an easier option than trying to regulate those rights, which often leads to years of litigation.
A novel approach
In Northern California, the State Water Board is trying something it has never tried before: a voluntary water sharing agreement for water rights holders in the Upper Russian River watershed in Mendocino and Sonoma Counties.
For months, rights holders met once a week to come up with an agreement in anticipation of another supply shortage. It's an effort to avoid curtailments spurred by the severe drought conditions last year, which led to water demand outstripping supply.
"Conditions deteriorated so quickly, there weren't really alternative options. We had to move forward with the curtailment process. We developed an emergency regulation," said Sam Boland-Brien, a supervising engineer with the State Water Board. "That resulted in all kinds of surface water users ... in the upper part of this watershed having to stop diversions."
In fact, water levels got so low, "there was this really concrete risk that Lake Mendocino up near Ukiah was going to run empty," Boland-Brien said, adding the storms rolling through in October last year kept the lake from running dry before the end of winter.
Coming too close to running out of water was the catalyst to find a better way to share water, he said.
The State Water Board said more than half of the total eligible water rights holders have signed up for the program, including municipalities along the river which hold the oldest rights in the watershed dating back to the late 1800s as well as local water districts and some larger institutional wineries.
The more rights holders involved, the better. By enrolling in the program, rights holders committed to a water use reduction of up to 20% to 30% for senior holders. Due to the oppressive drought, cities are also enforcing water conservation. Those water savings are incorporated into what can be shared with other rights holders in the community as well, Boland-Brien noted.
All the agreements create a pool of water available for more junior rights holders who would have otherwise had their water curtailed. Participants can also do further transfers or exchanges among each other, creating an added level of flexibility.
"What the program achieves is, it smooths out that 'all or nothing' aspect of the appropriative system," Boland-Brien explained. He said a better-managed, voluntary system is more likely to get buy-in from rights holders than state regulatory actions alone.
"Those who still have water rights, produce a little bit," Boland-Brien said. "They reduced their usage ... so those that [have more junior rights] can make it through the irrigation season on a reduced amount."
An emergency curtailment regulation remains in place as a backstop for those rights holders who did not join in the program. As water levels continue to drop, curtailments will kick in based on seniority.
The program went into effect July 1 and will expire at the end of the year, but there's hope that it could be expanded into the future.
"The idea is that this would continue in future years and so each year there would be a slightly different mix of water supplies and people signed up so that even if you're a junior some years, you could still benefit from the flexibility," Boland-Brien said.
A court rules in favor of deviating from the law
The Upper Russian River program is in line with what Mike Young, a professor at the University of Adelaide and a specialist in water policy reform, says is needed to equitably handle water rights in drought-stricken areas, except, he argues, every rights holder needs to be included in any water-sharing program.
"Everybody has a percentage share of whatever is available and that goes up and down," Young said to CNN. "Have boards that make decisions in the interest of everybody, and everybody has an incentive to make the system work. The board makes the final decision, and the profits are allocated to shareholders ... You run a water accounting system that looks like your bank account."
In Nevada, a fight over Diamond Valley's groundwater rights ended up at the Nevada Supreme Court, which set a precedent when it ruled 4-3 the state engineer can deviate from Nevada's water laws, which are based on water rights seniority, to regulate Diamond Valley's water under a new groundwater management plan approved by those water users when supplies are depleting.
About four years ago, Young spent time with farmers in Diamond Valley, an area in Eureka County which relies heavily on groundwater; too heavily, Young said. According to the court's ruling, "the Diamond Valley Hydrologic Basin is over-appropriated and over-pumped, such that groundwater withdrawals from the Basin exceed its perennial yield."
"The thing about rivers and groundwater resources is they don't lie," Young said, adding in one day, he helped the farmers draft the new groundwater management plan.
"Someone's got to write the rule book down and the problem is that America doesn't have a decent rulebook for playing the game called water use," Young said. He argues developing water accounting systems where the resource is scarce should be basic.
"Every irrigator in the west should have a water account that says how much water they may take from the system," Young said. "Taking water that is not in your account is seen by everyone as bad as going next door and harvesting their crop."
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Leading Denver home service company has been providing area with premium services for a decade
DENVER, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- High 5 Plumbing, a family-owned and operated plumbing company serving residents in the greater Denver metropolitan area, has been providing Denver homeowners will high-quality plumbing solutions for a decade. This year, they are celebrating their 10-year anniversary.
"Doing business in Denver for the past 10 years has been an amazing experience," said Levi Torres, co-owner of High 5 Plumbing. "We wouldn't have been able to do it without our amazing community and our great High 5 team. Since we opened in 2012, we've seen substantial growth. We now have two locations, made several key leadership hires, and developed our Freedom Truck to help with nonprofit donations."
In late 2021, High 5 Plumbing opened its second location in Littleton, which offers the same services as its Denver location. In January, they introduced their Freedom Truck to the fleet after purchasing their 20th truck.
High 5 Plumbing offers a multitude of plumbing solutions to residents in the Denver area, including repair and installation, drain cleaning, pump plumbing, piping, garbage disposal services, sewer line repair, gas plumbing, water heater installation and much more. In addition, the company offers 24/7 emergency services.
High 5 Plumbing is also extremely dedicated to giving back to the community through the High 5 Cares program. Started in 2018, the mission of High 5 Cares is to provide financial support to reputable trusted charity organizations in the community. The company spotlights a different nonprofit each month and donates a set amount of $500. In addition, the nonprofit receives $10 for every High 5 Club Membership that's sold during the month and receives 100% of the proceeds from the company's High 5 clothing line.
"The community is an extension of our High 5 family," said Cassi Torres, co-owner of High 5 Plumbing. "We believe that you should give back to those who are detrimental to your success. The community is the key to our growth over the past 10 years. Our High 5 Cares program gives us an avenue to give back to those who have given so much to us."
For more information on High 5 Plumbing, visit https://www.high5plumbing.com/.
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Founded in 2012, High 5 Plumbing is a local, family-owned company serving residents in the greater Denver metropolitan area. With a professional team that has extensive experience and a commitment to service, High 5 Plumbing offers comprehensive plumbing, sewer and drain services. The company was built on the values of solving plumbing problems and serving every customer with professionalism and respect. For more information about High 5 Plumbing, visit https://www.high5plumbing.com/.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conagra Brands, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) will host a webcast and conference call to review its fiscal 2023 first quarter results on Thursday, October 6, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. ET. The company's news release will be issued at approximately 7:30 a.m. ET.
The live audio webcast and presentation slides will be available on conagrabrands.com/investor-relations under Events & Presentations. The conference call may be accessed by dialing 1-877-883-0383 for participants in the U.S. and 1-412-902-6506 for all other participants and using passcode 2011887. Please dial in 10 to 15 minutes prior to the call start time. Following the company's remarks, the conference call will include a question-and-answer session with the investment community.
A replay of the webcast will be available until October 13, 2022.
Conagra Brands, Inc. (NYSE: CAG), headquartered in Chicago, is one of North America's leading branded food companies. Guided by an entrepreneurial spirit, Conagra Brands combines a rich heritage of making great food with a sharpened focus on innovation. The company's portfolio is evolving to satisfy people's changing food preferences. Conagra's iconic brands, such as Birds Eye®, Marie Callender's®, Banquet®, Healthy Choice®, Slim Jim®, Reddi-wip®, and Vlasic®, as well as emerging brands, including Angie's® BOOMCHICKAPOP®, Duke's®, Earth Balance®, Gardein®, and Frontera®, offer choices for every occasion. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.
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(NEXSTAR) – Don’t worry. You aren’t ordering Whoppers in your sleep, despite what Burger King’s emails may lead you to believe.
An “internal processing error” is responsible for a bunch of blank receipts that were sent from an official Burger King email account on overnight into Tuesday morning, a representative for Burger King confirmed to Nexstar. It’s unclear how many of these receipts were sent, but The Verge had previously reported on “thousands” had received the emails in error.
“Thank you for ordering from Burger King!” reads a message included with the receipt. “Your order will be ready to be picked up at Burger King located at [blank].”
The order information listed within the emailed receipt was also completely blank.
Hundreds of recipients flocked to Twitter on Tuesday morning to share their confusion over the emails, with some expressing concern that they were the target of a scam.
“Burger King had me tripping in the wee hours of the morning — thinking someone had stole my credit card due to a receipt that I had received through my email,” one user wrote. “App deleted.”
“Did anyone get a blank Burger King receipt in their email?” another asked. “I’m just confused, I never eat there.”
Others, meanwhile, appeared convinced that Burger King sent the emails intentionally as part of a marketing tactic.
“Loving the free publicity #burgerking is getting from accidentally sending everyone a blank receipt. Very clever marketing,” wrote one skeptical Twitter user.
A representative for Burger King declined to comment on whether the emails were sent only to customers who signed up for the BK app, or perhaps a wider email database. It did not immediately appear as if any of the email recipients had been charged, or their information had been compromised. | https://cw33.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/get-a-confusing-burger-king-email-overnight-heres-what-that-was-all-about/ | 2022-08-09T21:56:40Z |
New brand and breakthrough demos coming to IBC 2022
TORONTO, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Firstlight Media, which catapulted from its Quickplay Media roots to the industry's first cloud-native and cloud-agnostic OTT platform, today announced that it is rebranding the company as Quickplay® at a time of pivotal technology and business success.
The company will leverage the Quickplay name as it previews a new generation of cloud-native capabilities and announces major client wins around IBC 2022 next month in Amsterdam. The shift capitalizes on the instantaneous and lasting recognition of the Quickplay brand as emblematic of streaming innovation.
"As we've extended our leadership in cloud-native streaming, it's become clear to the market that the platform we've created is truly differentiated from anything that has come before it," said Andre Christensen, CEO and Co-Founder of Quickplay. "Just as it did more than a decade ago, Quickplay today is making huge technology leaps that are enabling operators to capture leadership positions in an increasingly crowded streaming environment."
The new logo combines the existing flame icon with the Quickplay brand to signify the startup agility, technology innovation, and market momentum that have been hallmarks of the company over the past two years, while leveraging Quickplay's longstanding market awareness, pioneering leadership, and unparalleled track record as a trusted provider.
The Google Cloud Industry Solution Media & Entertainment Partner of the Year and Microsoft Media & Communications Partner of the Year Finalist, Quickplay is previewing at IBC 2022 tools that can help accelerate OTT's shift to cloud-native platforms, including:
- Personalized FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) channels running on Google Cloud and ready for scalable CTV monetization via pre-integration with Google Ad Manager across client and server side environments.
- Analytics dashboards built on a proprietary, unified data model, bringing together user engagement, content performance, and quality of experience metrics to help drive the business. Leveraging the Quickplay analytics platform, built on top of Google BigQuery and Looker, media companies can identify and target users at risk of churn to improve retention and identify new revenue opportunities.
- Linear streaming through HLS and DASH on Google Cloud Media CDN, with an early version of low latency streaming using the LL-DASH protocol.
Quickplay's OTT platform is designed to build and run scalable applications in the cloud using cloud-native technologies, including containers, microservices, a service mesh, APIs, and immutable infrastructure. The OTT technology stack provides significantly better performance, a modular approach for feature expansion, continuous delivery for rapid iteration, and built-in scalability, observability and security. Forward-looking OTT providers such as Canada's Sportsnet SN NOW, India's aha 2.0, PLDT's Smart in the Philippines and others are using the Quickplay platform to deliver services with the flexibility and the agility of the cloud, while equaling or exceeding the reliability and high performance of broadcast.
Quickplay is leading cloud transformations of OTT and in-home experiences for pay-TV, telcos, and MVPDs. The company's cloud-native platform leverages a transformative fifth generation architecture for unparalleled performance in delivering premium video, handling complex use cases, and scaling to millions of viewers. Founded by a team that has built and operated dozens of Tier 1 OTT services worldwide, Quickplay is powering immersive sports, live experiences and personalized entertainment on any screen. The company is headquartered in Toronto and has additional locations in Los Angeles, San Diego and Chennai, India. Quickplay is the winner of the 2021 Google Cloud Industry Solution Partner of the Year Award for Media & Entertainment and a Microsoft Media & Communications 2022 Partner of the Year Award finalist. For more information, visit quickplay.com.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 12th time, New York corrections officials said Monday.
Mark David Chapman, 67, appeared before a parole board at the end of August, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
Chapman shot and killed Lennon on the night of Dec. 8, 1980, as Lennon and Yoko Ono were returning to their Upper West Side apartment. Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a copy of his recently released album, “Double Fantasy,” earlier that day.
State officials have yet to make transcripts of Chapman’s latest board interview available, but he has repeatedly expressed remorse in previous parole hearings. Chapman called his actions “despicable” during his hearing in 2020, and said he would have “no complaint whatsoever” if they chose to leave him in prison for the rest of his life.
“I assassinated him … because he was very, very, very famous and that’s the only reason and I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory. Very selfish,” Chapman said then.
Chapman is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility, north of New York City, according to online state corrections records.
He is next due to appear before the parole board in February 2024. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/john-lennons-killer-denied-parole-for-12th-time/ | 2022-09-13T13:21:36Z |
- New ultra premium car and EV mobility brand AEHRATM adds further talent and experience to existing highly accomplished design team
- Appointments bolster AEHRA's mission to redefine the automotive travelling experience by exploiting EV platform technology and setting new standards in emotional design and aerodynamic efficiency
- Alessandro Salvagnin and Marco Quamori named Senior Designers
- Salvagnin's previous roles include Lamborghini Design Manager and Transportation Design Professor at SPD Milan
- Marco Quamori relinquishes role as Exterior Designer at Italdesign
- Two initial AEHRA models – an elegant SUV and a sophisticated Sedan – to be revealed later this year, with first customer deliveries in 2025
MILAN, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AEHRA, a new global ultra premium electric automotive brand, has announced the appointment of two additional key personnel to its design department. The new signings bolster AEHRA's formidable design resources and further strengthens the company's vision to synthesize the elegance of Italian design, global engineering, and American customer service with the future of EV monobodied manufacturing.
Prior to its launch in June 2022, AEHRA had already secured the services of Filippo Perini, former Chief Designer at Lamborghini, as Chief Design Officer, and Alessandro Serra, former Lamborghini Head of Exterior Design, as Head of Design. The AEHRA design team has now been strengthened further with the appointment of two Senior Designers, Alessandro Salvagnin and Marco Quamori.
With degrees in engineering and design, Alessandro Salvagnin brings almost two decades of experience delivering visionary mobility concepts to production reality. He joins AEHRA from Lamborghini, where he was Design Manager, thus reuniting with Filippo Perini and Alessandro Serra. Salvagnin also served as Transportation Design Professor at Milan SPD (School Polytechnic of Design).
Commenting on his appointment, Alessandro Salvagnin, AEHRA Senior Designer, said: "The automotive industry is undergoing a revolution in electric vehicle mobility technology, yet virtually all emerging designs are the product of legacy ICE era thinking. As a startup with an agile mindset, AEHRA has the freedom, passion, and talent to unlock the full design potential afforded by cutting-edge EV platform technology in a manner not yet seen before, and that is tremendously exciting."
Marco Quamori joins AEHRA as Senior Designer from Italdesign, where he was Exterior Designer. Having developed a passion for drawing cars as a child, Quamori graduated with an MA in Transportation and Automobile Design.
Commenting on his appointment, Marco Quamori, AEHRA Senior Designer, said: "To work on something as unique and beautiful as what AEHRA will deliver, and to have the opportunity to collaborate with the company's exceptional design talent, under the guidance of Filippo Perini is beyond perfect for me."
Commenting on the latest appointments, AEHRA Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hazim Nada, said: "I am delighted to welcome Alessandro and Marco to AEHRA. Both have exemplary reputations within the global automotive design industry. Having shared AEHRA's unique vision to synthesize the elegance of Italian design, global engineering, and American customer service with the future of EV monobodied manufacturing with Alessandro and Marco, it is clear both are enthused with the energy and passion to help deliver it. I am honored that prodigious talents have once again chosen to relinquish key positions to join AEHRA on its journey to create and deliver vehicles that redefine the ultra premium EV sector."
With substantial private funding in place, AEHRA has established a clear roadmap to deliver its unique, transformative business model. The Italian-based brand will unveil the design and names of its elegant SUV and a sophisticated Sedan later this year, with deliveries expected to start in 2025. A strategic model roll out is planned for key markets, including North America, Europe, China, and the Gulf States.
For more information on AEHRA and to register interest in one of their forthcoming models, see www.aehra.com.
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AEHRA has been created to deliver a step-change in the design, customer, and ownership experience of ultra premium electric vehicles (EVs). Headquartered in Milan, AEHRA is a privately funded global company that disrupts the existing automotive ecosystem by distilling the values of Italian design, world-class engineering and American customer service to leverage the advantages of next-generation EV powertrain packaging and technology.
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Special Director's Cut of The Second Installment in the Star Trek Movie Franchise Comes to Theatres Nationwide September 4, 5 & 8 ONLY
DENVER, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHAT: One of the most celebrated and essential adventures from the STAR TREK universe, STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN celebrates 40 years with the director's cut on the big screen!
On routine training maneuvers, Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) seems resigned that this may be the last space mission of his career. But an adversary from the past has returned with a vengeance. Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan (Ricardo Montalban)—brilliant renegade of 20th century Earth—has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen the top-secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation starship, and now schemes to set a most deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk... with the threat of a universal Armageddon. The film is rated PG in U.S. for violence and language.
Fans will also be able to see Nichelle Nichols as the franchise's beloved Lt. Uhura. Nichols passed away on July 30, 2022 at age 89. The radiant, ebullient actress embraced Star Trek, her role and the fans. Her legacy will outlive her for centuries.
WHO: Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies and Paramount Pictures
WHEN: September 4, 5 & 8 ONLY
WHERE: Tickets for the event can be purchased at www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theatre box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will be able to enjoy the event in select movie theatres; for a complete list of theatre locations visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change). Please contact your local theatre for individual safety precautions.
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Jurors weigh case of Colorado man in wife’s death in Africa
By COLLEEN SLEVIN
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DENVER (AP) — Jurors will pick up deliberations next week after a lawyer for a wealthy dentist accused of shooting his wife at the end of an African safari urged them Friday to acquit his client in what he said was a government case built on gossip and innuendo. Prosecutors say Larry Rudolph killed Bianca Rudolph with a shotgun to be with his longtime girlfriend. Defense attorney David Markus told jurors that federal prosecutors failed to prove that she didn’t shoot herself accidentally while packing quickly to return home. U.S. Assistant Attorney Bryan Fields told jurors the fatal shot could not have been caused by her accidentally dropping the gun. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/07/29/jurors-weigh-case-of-colorado-man-in-wifes-death-in-africa/ | 2022-07-30T08:45:05Z |
BLOOMINGTON, Minn., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ConvergeOne, the preeminent services-led provider of cloud, collaboration, and digital modernization solutions, today announced that Deanna Davenport, Senior Director, Lifecycle Services, and Wendy Munnell, Director of Marketing and Strategic Partnerships, WrightCore, a ConvergeOne Company, have been named to the prestigious 2022 Women of the Channel list, compiled by CRN. Davenport and Munnell were further distinguished as Power 70 Solution Providers.
The Women of the Channel list is an annual ranking of top female executives across the IT channel, including vendors, distributors, and solution providers. CRN recognized Davenport and Munnell for driving success through their leadership, insight, and expertise. CRN also selected Davenport and Munnell as two of 70 female executives to be featured on the Power 70 Solution Providers, a list that highlights women who prioritize customer relationships and develop innovative technology solutions that meet and exceed customer needs.
Davenport leads ConvergeOne's Lifecycle Services team, with responsibility for adoption services, Cisco renewals, and Cisco lifecycle selling enablement and go-to-market. She has been in the Cisco channel for over 12 years and has spent the past six years helping Cisco partners and customers transform their journey in alignment with the shift to recurring revenue.
Since joining ConvergeOne, Davenport has successfully brought adoption and renewal teams together to drive innovative solutions to address customer needs. She has also helped ConvergeOne maintain its Cisco CX Advanced Specialization designation, leveraging her extensive industry experience to support partner and customer transitions to annuity-based offers. Davenport's leadership in Lifecycle Services led to ConvergeOne receiving Cisco's Global Award for Customer Experience Partner of the Year in 2021.
Munnell leads Marketing and Strategic Partnerships for WrightCore, a ConvergeOne Company, acquired by ConvergeOne in November 2021. In her role, Munnell is responsible for the marketing vision, channel development and sales enablement. By building strong channel alliances with distributors and manufacturers, Munnell has helped the Company to achieve year-over-year growth and build a strong portfolio of providers and offerings.
Davenport's inclusion in the 2022 Women of the Channel is featured on the CRN website at https://www.crn.com/rankings-and-lists/wotc2022-details.htm?w=285 and Munnell's inclusion is featured at https://www.crn.com/rankings-and-lists/wotc2022-details.htm?w=861.
About ConvergeOne
ConvergeOne is a proven, services led cloud and applications solution provider that utilizes its intellectual property and unique methodologies to create value for customers and develop progressive solutions that connect people with purpose. Over 14,000 enterprise and mid-market customers trust ConvergeOne to achieve their business outcomes with cloud, collaboration, enterprise networking, data center and cybersecurity solutions. Our investments in cloud infrastructure and professional and managed services provide transformational opportunities for customers to achieve financial and operational benefits with leading technologies. Our 2021 NPS of 80, placing us in the World Class category for the fourth consecutive year, is a testament to our ability to provide customers with the highest level of customer satisfaction, responsiveness and expertise. ConvergeOne has partnerships with more than 300 global industry leaders, including Dell Technologies, AWS, Avaya, Cisco, IBM, Genesys, and Microsoft to customize specific business outcomes. We deliver solutions with a total lifecycle approach, including strategy, design and implementation with professional, managed and support services. ConvergeOne holds more than 5,600 technical certifications across hundreds of engineers throughout North America, including three Customer Success Centers. More information is available at convergeone.com.
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Bank Director Announces That Its Corporate Board Of Directors Has Elected A New Independent Director.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. , July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DirectorCorps, Inc., a privately-held media company that includes Bank Director and FinXTech, today announced that its corporate board of directors has elected James J. McAlpin, Jr. as a new independent director, effective July 11, 2022. The new DirectorCorps board consists of six members, three from the company's executive leadership group, and three independent directors.
Jim McAlpin is a partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP and has over thirty years experience advising leaders of private and public companies in the areas of corporate and business law, strategic matters and dispute resolution. His deep experience in banking and financial services, and particularly with the governance and regulatory issues facing that industry, has made him a frequent speaker at financial industry events. In addition to his work in financial services, Mr. McAlpin counsels private companies, families and family owned businesses on the breadth of issues encountered by closely held entities. He has nationally recognized expertise in the duties, responsibilities and fiduciary obligations of corporate directors and regularly represents boards of directors and special committees of boards. Mr. McAlpin served as Chairman of Powell Goldstein LLP from March 2004 until its combination with Bryan Cave LLP in January 2009. He subsequently served on the Executive Committee of Bryan Cave until October 2014 and was the leader of the firm's Banking Practice Group from 2011 until 2021.
"We are pleased to have Jim join our board. His deep expertise in corporate governance, regulatory issues, and capital and acquisition strategy, as well as his well-respected career distinguished by his commitment to the financial industry, makes Jim the perfect fit for our board and the future growth of our business," said Michelle King, President of Bank Director. "Jim's commitment to our industry represents our company's efforts to continue to strengthen our resources and serve the U.S. financial industry and members of their board. Further his industry knowledge allows our board to grow and innovate further as we seek to support those growth efforts of banks across the country."
Mr. McAlpin said, "I am honored to join the board of DirectorCorps and be part of the continued growth of Bank Director and FinXTech. I'm excited about the growing amount of board and CEO consulting being done by Bank Director and I look forward to playing a role in the expansion of those services."
Bank Director magazine, together with its related conference and training businesses, has for over thirty years been the nation's leading provider of education, training, and consulting services for the board members of American financial institutions. Bank Director magazine readers and clients include over 4,900 of the nation's banks and 20,000 members of their boards of directors.
For more information, please contact Bank Director's Director of Marketing, Deahna Welcher, at dwelcher@bankdirector.com.
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With new checking, savings, and cash management solutions for businesses across the Greater Philadelphia region along with competitive commercial lending – Citadel Business Banking has officially launched; complete with new digital experience and a marketing campaign: "Better Business Banking Has Arrived"
EXTON, Pa., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Citadel Credit Union has officially launched its new Business Banking division – complete with a full suite of products, a new team, and the kickoff of a multichannel marketing campaign – "Better Business Banking Has Arrived."
In January, Citadel, which recently reached $5 billion in assets, onboarded a team of business banking experts to build the new division and establish partnerships with clients around the region. In addition, a large group of existing employees participated in a robust certification program – becoming the region's "Financial Champions." This internal development program was part of the pilot phase over the past four months. The pilot phase also included partnering with new business clients for large commercial loans and customized packages with the new products.
"We couldn't be more excited to bring this suite of products to market and have optimal solutions and support for businesses of any size," said Phil Sutliff, Head of Business Banking, who has built the new team. "Our talented employees, who have been serving Citadel members for years, have now benefited from a rigorous training and development program with our newly hired, seasoned Relationship Managers. So, the Citadel personal service and level of detail – coupled with the highly specific training from our new industry experts – sets us all up for success."
Prior to this launch, Citadel offered a variety of business loans and credit cards, in addition to commercial lending products, supporting businesses across the area with financial guidance. The success of its business lending arm and financial partnership to businesses has paved the way for the organization to fully expand its offering for business clients.
Better Business Banking
During the pandemic, many businesses throughout Greater Philadelphia experienced significant challenges and the "aftershocks" – including capital, labor, and supply chain issues – which still remain, according to recent data from Pew Research.
To help provide a solution to those challenges, Citadel Business Banking offers a full suite of dynamic products and services for businesses of all sizes in the Philadelphia region. The primary difference in Citadel's approach to business banking will be the level of personal service a business will receive. With the assistance of a dedicated advisor championing their business, each new client can customize a premium product mix tailored to their needs, in addition to being scalable for future growth.
"As a not-for-profit, member-owned credit union, Citadel is uniquely positioned to support businesses with the guidance they need," said Jeff March, President and CEO, Citadel. "It's our commitment to build community prosperity – and partnering with businesses to strengthen their future will ultimately help our region thrive."
Since the company rebranded in 2020, Citadel has focused on its mission of Building Strength Together and the launch of Business Banking is one of the bigger milestones in Citadel's overall strategic plan. With decades of deep expertise in the Greater Philadelphia region and a firm commitment to the community, Citadel's relationship-based approach for service establishes and maintains meaningful, ongoing connections that companies can depend upon throughout the life of their business.
"Many business owners reported frustration and lack of personal attention by their financial institution during a time of unprecedented turbulence. With our commercial lending in place and the goal to expand, the optimal timing to launch more supportive business banking presented itself." Said Phil, "We know the challenges aren't over, but we're here to ensure prosperity."
What is New?
Comprehensive new options include a variety of flexible checking and savings accounts, certificates, business loans, commercial mortgages, online banking tools, and cash management solutions such as merchant services, remote deposit, HR, and payroll services. The team will also offer banking specialization for private medical, veterinary, and dental practices.
"We've been able to structure products that we know businesses need and want and build our teams and processes to meet demand with quality service," said Mike Schnably, Senior Vice President and Head of Member Experience, Citadel. "Taking the time and the right steps to create a competitive offering has made all the difference – and we know the market will be impressed."
For more information or to join, visit CitadelBanking.com/Business.
About Citadel Credit Union
Citadel Credit Union is a not-for-profit, member-owned financial institution that provides banking, investments, and insurance services to more than 240,000 members. At $5 billion in assets, it is one of the Greater Philadelphia area's largest credit unions, proudly serving residents of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties. Citadel is recognized as a Forbes 2022 Best-in-State Credit Union and a certified 2022 Great Place to Work. In addition, Citadel has been named one of the best performing credit unions in the nation by SNL Financial. For more information, visit CitadelBanking.com.
Citadel · 520 Eagleview Boulevard · Exton, PA 19341 · (800) 666-0191 · CitadelBanking.com
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Worried about interest rate increases, Canton approves $14 million project early
CANTON – City Council has approved ordinances to fund improvements to the City Service Center and relocate road salt domes for an estimated total of $14.1 million.
The city will issue 15-year bonds to pay for the work. The council was scheduled to vote on the bond and contract authorizations April 25, but members asked for an early vote Monday because of concerns about the Federal Reserve Board raising interest rates to combat inflation.
"We've already been hit with one increase that probably cost us a couple of million already," Councilman Frank Morris, D-9, said during a committee meeting prior to the regular council session.
Public Service Director John Highman presented plans to move road salt storage from the City Service Center at 2436 30th St. NE to property the city purchased last year near Ninth Street and Marion Motley Boulevard NE. The dilapidated storage facility on 30th Street also is above an aquifer, posing a risk to a city water source.
Highman estimated that $1.5 million in renovations were needed to prepare the Ninth Street building for salt storage before this coming winter. Additional work would include the demolition of the current storage facility, expansion of Canton's impound lot and relocation of the city's auction lot for $2.5 million.
"We will be moving all of those operations to the front of the Service Center and no longer inviting folks into the working area of the Service Center," Highman said.
The last of the series of projects, which resulted from a master planning process with the Akron-based consultant GPD Group, would be a building for the Sanitation Department. City employees responsible for waste removal currently operate out of a small area with only a men's locker room at the Service Center, where vehicles stay outside.
"On the site of the former salt domes, when they're demolished as part of project two, we're looking to build an approximately 37,000-square-foot facility for the sanitation building that will serve to house all of our vehicles," Highman said. "It will house all of our offices. It will have locker rooms. It will have meeting space and everything that, basically, all of our other departments have."
The building's design is expected to cost $781,836 with construction estimated at $8.8 million. Work is expected to start in early 2023, and customer rates will not increase beyond "cost of living adjustments," according to the service director's memo to City Council.
ARPA funding awarded
City Council approved American Rescue Plan Act funds for several community programs. Awards include:
- $492,447 for youth summer learning and work programs led by En-Rich-Ment, Stark County Community Action Agency, and Simply Youth. Canton City Schools is expected to contribute $164,450 for the programs.
- $632,327 for summer camp programs in partnership with area agencies.
- $381,905 for community partners to provide family support and year-round educational youth programs.
- $300,500 for facility and equipment expenses at the Domestic Violence Project, United Way of Greater Stark County, StarkFresh, and the Stark Community Support Network.
New city engineer introduced
James Benekos was introduced Monday as the new city engineer. He succeeds Dan Moeglin, who was hired as executive director of Stark Parks.
Benekos previously was the city engineer for North Canton and Massillon and has been the facilities engineer for the Canton Water Department the past four years. His salary as city engineer is $123,235.
Highman said Benekos was "by far" the best candidate of about a half dozen applicants. The current market for engineers is challenging, he added, but Benekos has the experience to lead the department and mentor potential successors.
"We're very fortunate to have it work out this way," Highman said.
'Justice for James'
Several people attended the council meeting to decry the city's response to the fatal police shooting of James Williams.
Williams, 46, was shot and killed by Canton officer Robert Huber on Jan. 1 while Williams was firing an AR-15 into the air from his fenced-in patio.
Nine people who spoke during the council's public speaking period referenced the shooting and again called for accountability and transparency.
His wife Marquetta Williams read a list of demands, which included the release of 911 calls for shots fired on New Year's Eve, the firing of the officer, and the return of her home security cameras. She ended with a refrain repeated throughout the evening, "Justice for James."
Many of the people present then walked out shouting "Justice for James" and other remarks as the council proceeded to vote on a resolution that commended Police Chief Jack Angelo on his retirement and service to the city. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/canton/2022/04/12/interest-rate-fears-prompt-canton-approve-14-million-project-early/7280425001/ | 2022-04-12T13:01:29Z |
Portfolio presence in key markets continues to attract growing brands with four expanding retailers opening ten stores
PHILADELPHIA, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PREIT (NYSE: PEI), today announced that a list of growing retailers are set to join the lineup at key properties in dynamic markets.
Part of the allure of PREIT's portfolio is its presence in and around the Philadelphia and Washington DC suburban markets as well as its "Winner Take All" properties in smaller markets that have eliminated local competition. As tenants expand their brick-and-mortar presence, densely populated East Coast markets are attractive for gaining market share. At the same time, bringing new tenants to markets enhances repeat visits from customers seeking an evolving fresh tenant mix.
PREIT has a history of bringing new tenants to these key markets. Among the new tenants it has attracted for their first locations in the Philadelphia suburbs are: Legoland Discovery Center at Plymouth Meeting Mall, HomeSense at Moorestown Mall, Zara's first suburban Philadelphia location and A|X's only market location at Cherry Hill Mall, one of two Bloomingdale's stores in the market and the only Tilted 10 family entertainment experience at Willow Grove Park (opening Fall 2022).
Today PREIT highlights three retailers choosing to expand within its strong portfolio.
Rose & Remington, a contemporary and affordable lifestyle brand founded by a mother-daughter duo with a goal to create a fun and vibrant atmosphere where mother and daughter can shop together, will open three new locations in PREIT's portfolio after opening its first location with PREIT at Woodland Mall last year. These stores will mark the popular retailer's foray into greater Philadelphia. The retailer is expected to open at Willow Grove Park, Capital City, and Cherry Hill Malls later this year.
Lovisa describes itself as a fashion-forward jewelry brand that caters to every woman, with 150 new styles being delivered to stores each week. The retailer opened its first store with PREIT last year at Woodland Mall, last week at Springfield Town Center and is expected to open another location at Capital City Mall this fall.
BoxLunch, a division of Hot Topic, is a civic-minded specialty retailer offering a curated collection of licensed and non-licensed merchandise. The retailer will open new stores throughout PREITs portfolio at Capital City Mall, Patrick Henry Mall and Springfield Town Center this summer and Willow Grove Park this fall.
"As we look forward to welcoming new Rose & Remington, BoxLunch, Lovisa and Tilt locations throughout our footprint, it is clear that our presence in top markets in the densely populated mid-Atlantic provides PREIT with an opportunity to attract top tenants to our entire portfolio leveraging our strong portfolio allowing for synergistic regional retailer rollouts," said Joseph F. Coradino, Chairman and CEO of PREIT. "As we continue to strengthen our portfolio with additional dining, entertainment, apartments, hotels and fitness options, our tenants should benefit from improved sales and traffic and our investors should benefit from improving valuations in a one-of-a-kind setting with everything our customers need."
About PREIT
PREIT (NYSE: PEI) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that owns and manages innovative properties developed to be thoughtful, community-centric hubs. PREIT's robust portfolio of carefully curated, ever-evolving properties generates success for its tenants and meaningful impact for the communities it serves by keenly focusing on five core areas of established and emerging opportunity: multi-family & hotel, health & tech, retail, essentials & grocery and experiential. Located primarily in densely-populated regions, PREIT is a top operator of high quality, purposeful places that serve as one-stop destinations for customers to shop, dine, play and stay. Additional information is available at www.preit.com or on Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that can be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "may" or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements relate to expectations, beliefs, projections, future plans, strategies, anticipated events, trends and other matters that are not historical facts. These forward-looking statements reflect our current expectations and assumptions regarding our business, the economy and other future events and conditions and are based on currently available financial, economic and competitive data and our current business plans. Actual results could vary materially depending on risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances that may affect our operations, markets, services, prices and other factors as discussed in the Risk Factors section of our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While we believe our assumptions are reasonable, we caution you against relying on any forward-looking statements as it is very difficult to predict the impact of known factors, and it is impossible for us to anticipate all factors that could affect our actual results. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the effectiveness of our financial restructuring and any additional strategies that we may employ to address our liquidity and capital resources in the future; our ability to achieve forecasted revenue and pro forma leverage ratio and generate free cash flow to further reduce indebtedness; the COVID-19 global pandemic and the public health and governmental response, which have created periods of significant economic disruption and also have and may continue to exacerbate many of the risks listed herein; changes in the retail and real estate industries, including bankruptcies, consolidation and store closings, particularly among anchor tenants; changes in economic conditions, including unemployment rates and its effects on consumer confidence and spending, supply chain challenges, the current inflationary environment, and the corresponding effects on tenant business performance, prospects, solvency and leasing decisions; our inability to collect rent due to the bankruptcy or insolvency of tenants or otherwise; our ability to maintain and increase property occupancy, sales and rental rates; increases in operating costs that cannot be passed on to tenants, which may be exacerbated in the current inflationary environment; the effects of online shopping and other uses of technology on our retail tenants; risks related to our development and redevelopment activities, including delays, cost overruns and our inability to reach projected occupancy or rental rates; social unrest and acts of vandalism or violence at malls, including our properties, or at other similar spaces, and the potential effect on traffic and sales; our ability to sell properties that we seek to dispose of, which may be delayed by, among other things, the failure to obtain zoning, occupancy and other governmental approvals and permits or, to the extent required, approvals of other third parties; potential losses on impairment of certain long-lived assets, such as real estate, including losses that we might be required to record in connection with any disposition of assets; our substantial debt and our ability to remain in compliance with our financial covenants under our debt facilities; our ability to raise capital, including through sales of properties or interests in properties, subject to the terms of our credit agreements; and potential dilution from any capital raising transactions or other equity issuances.
Additional factors that might cause future events, achievements or results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements include those discussed herein, and in the sections entitled "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. We do not intend to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, future events or otherwise.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson must say whether he had sex with 18 massage therapists who supported him last year following criminal complaints, a judge in Texas ruled Tuesday.
USA Today reported that Watson has 30 days to comply. He previously would not address his past with the therapists. Watson also has to provide other information about his massage history since 2019, including any language in his contract with the Texans about massages.
One of the NFL’s top quarterbacks, Watson was traded last month from Houston to Cleveland.
He has been accused by 22 women of sexual misconduct during therapy sessions, many of which he arranged by contacting the therapists on social media in 2020 and 2021.
To this point, two grand juries have declined to indict Watson on 10 criminal complaints filed to Houston police. He still faces the civil suits and has been giving depositions on those for several weeks.
As part of those civil lawsuits, the women’s attorneys want Watson to answer written “requests for admission” about whether he had sex with the 18 therapists who backed him after the first lawsuits against him were filed in March 2021.
The plaintiffs’ attorneys say the answers would demonstrate a pattern and motives for setting up the massages.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Harris County District Court Judge Rabeea Sultan Collier ruled in the plaintiff’s favor, USA Today said. Watson’s attorney asked for the reasoning but Collier didn’t explain.
“The objection is overruled,” the judge said in response. “Thank you.”
Watson, a three-time Pro Bowler, did not play last season after asking the Texans to trade him. When the first grand jury chose not to indict Watson, it triggered a bidding war by the Browns and several NFL teams.
Watson initially turned down the Browns before changing his mind, waiving his no-trade clause and signing a record five-year, $230 million fully guaranteed contract with Cleveland.
Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam said they initially struggled with the decision to pursue Watson, knowing it would not be popular with many fans. However, they said they became more comfortable with signing him after meeting with Watson and learning more about him.
When introduced by Cleveland late last month, Watson told the media: “I’ve never assaulted or disrespected or harassed any woman in my life. I’ve never done these things people are alleging.” It was the first time he had answered direct questions about the allegations.
Watson still faces likely discipline by the NFL.
Last week, Commissioner Roger Goodell said there was no timetable on the league’s investigation into Watson’s off-field behavior. An independent arbitrator will determine whether Watson violated the league’s personal-conduct policy before Goodell issues any penalty.
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CHICAGO, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Basis, a global insight consultancy headquartered in London – also having established highly successful offices in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago – is looking to further expand its ambitious growth in the United States to support clients and internal teams.
To serve these growth efforts, Basis has hired brand insights and strategy expert Laurie Visee as Head of U.S. Quantitative Offering. Visee most recently held the position of Partner at Hall & Partners, an insight agency specializing in brand strategy, brand performance measurement, and campaign performance research. She has worked in insights for more than 20 years, working with clients across industries and audiences to answer their strategic questions and help drive their businesses forward.
"I'm thrilled to be joining Basis at such an exciting time," Visse said. "The chance to be a part of a strategic agency that pushes boundaries on how to design and leverage research is inspirational and aligns with my own beliefs and passion for uncovering insights. The Basis team is an amazing group of people from different backgrounds and specialties that are dedicated to delivering the very best, ensuring we're helping our clients thrive."
Katie Buckley, Managing Partner of Basis in the US, said: "We are ecstatic that Laurie has joined the team. Over the past few years, we've experienced high levels of growth and want to continue to offer the most thoughtful and strategic guidance to our clients. Bringing Laurie on enables us to do that with ambition and confidence and continued added value for our clients.
Basis, an independent insight consultancy, headquartered in London, with offices in LA and New York and Chicago.
It delivers custom qual and quant, ad hoc and tracking solutions for clients across a wide range of sectors and audiences, including media, entertainment, arts, retail, financial services, professional services, CPG, fashion and health.
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Darby Dame
269-870-5956
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Integration with leading billing and operations system providers Innovative Systems and Azotel automates provisioning, setup, and eliminates swivel chair management
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Alianza Inc. announced an expansion of its Technology Ecosystem Partner Program that helps service providers streamline their back-office operations, accelerate time to revenue, and reduce the cost of delivering cloud communications. By introducing integrations with two leading billing and back-office solutions — Innovative System's eLation and Azotel's SIMPLer — Alianza strengthens its commitment to making voice simple for service providers. Leveraging Alianza's powerful API suite, these integrations enable service providers to streamline management of communications services, safeguard customer data integrity, and eliminating the inefficiencies of swivel chair provisioning by automating the time-consuming and routine tasks typically associated with account provisioning and setup.
Alianza's integrations with Innovative Systems and Azotel benefit the companies' joint communications service provider customers by enabling their personnel to enter, update, and retrieve customer information in a single back-office platform that seamlessly integrates with Alianza's cloud communications platform. Additionally, the integrations provide data and insights within the billing systems, enabling service providers and broadband operators to resolve customer issues faster and easier, improving the end-user experience.
The integration with these billing and provisioning systems allow operators to:
- Streamline customer account setup and management in the Alianza Admin Portal, including phone number ordering, feature changes, end user password resets, and more.
- Check and change account status in the billing system.
- Automate device provisioning with the SIP credentials for the embedded phone ports on optical network terminals (ONTs) and residential gateways from leading broadband vendors.
Availability
Alianza's new integrations with Azotel and Innovative Systems are available for joint service provider customers. These build upon Alianza's existing billing system partnerships with GLDS, ETI Software, and NISC,
"At Alianza, we are committed to teaming up with industry leaders as well as start-ups to accelerate innovation, simplify operations, and drive revenue growth for our joint customers," said Kevin Mitchell, Vice President of Alliances and Partners for Alianza. "Our innovative, API-rich platform makes it easy to work with outstanding partners like Innovative Systems and Azotel, who share our focus on integration, to introduce world-class solutions for our service provider and broadband operator customers."
"Like us, Alianza has a keen focus on providing service providers and broadband operators with operational simplification," said John O'Hare, CEO for Azotel. "Their flexible APIs made the integration process easy and quick, and our combined solution will enable our joint customers to scale up their operations quickly and efficiently while providing an overall better customer experience to their end users."
"Innovative Systems is happy to unite eLation with Alianza for seamlessly managing VoIP services for our customer base," said Nathan Knuth, Vice President of Engineering for Innovative Systems. "As service providers are faced with additional regulatory and maintenance costs, using a cloud-based VoIP solution gives operators a convenient approach to providing voice services while reducing the burden on their IT, administrative, and technical staff."
Additional Information
About Alianza
Alianza delivers the only true cloud-native, carrier-grade communications platform built for service providers. Our proprietary full-stack cloud communications platform offers wholesale residential and business communications services, including voice, video conferencing, collaboration, text messaging, and standalone UC softphones. Our team of experts are passionate about transforming communications delivery and ensuring first-rate customer experiences for more than 200 service providers worldwide. As a result of the platform's exceptional quality and always-on availability, our service providers can innovate quickly and address the evolving demands of their end user customers in a way that is easy to manage, easy to consume, and highly profitable. Learn more about our solutions at alianza.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About Azotel Technologies
Azotel Technologies develops integrated customer and network management solutions that help Fiber and Wireless Internet Service Providers improve their business operations, services, and profitability. Azotel has its headquarters in Cork, Ireland with deployments across 22 countries. For more information on Azotel products and services please contact your local Azotel distributor/reseller or visit www.azotel.com.
About Innovative Systems
Innovative Systems is a mission-critical enterprise software solution that enables independent service providers to seamlessly manage their business, deliver modern network services, and enhance existing offerings. Innovative's core products include eLation™, a market-leading Billing & Operations Support System (BSS/OSS), IPTV, a live streaming and cable television solution suite, and APMAX™, a hardware and software Voice over IP (VoIP) platform. Based in Michell, South Dakota, Innovative Systems is proud to support connectivity across the country, including delivering outstanding service to its Telecom, Cable, Municipality, Power, and Utility customers and their constituents. For more information, please visit www.innovsys.com.
Contacts
Hanna Miller
Vice President, Marketing
(778) 372-5557
pr@alianza.com
Kathleen Keith for Alianza
(707) 529-4507
kkeith@redshift.com
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BEIJING, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kuke Music Holding Limited ("Kuke" or the "Company") (NYSE: KUKE), a leading classical music service platform, today announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
- Total revenue was RMB54.4 million (US$8.1 million), compared to RMB84.1 million in the same period of 2021.
- Total gross profit was RMB28.9 million (US$4.3 million), compared to RMB49.7 million in the same period of 2021.
- Net profit was RMB3.4 million (US$0.5 million), compared to net loss of RMB11.4 million in the same period of 2021.
- Non-IFRS net profit[1] was RMB16.9 million (US$2.5 million), compared to a Non-IFRS net loss of RMB18.3 million in the same period of 2021.
Second Quarter 2022 Business Developments
- During the second quarter of 2022, the Company added nearly 4,000 tracks of traditional classical music. The Company's copyrighted classical music content included over 2.9 million music tracks as of June 30, 2022. This is comprised of more than 2 million tracks of traditional classical music, more than 360 thousand tracks of jazz, world, folk and other genres of music, as well as over 1000 video titles, more than 470 thousand spoken content tracks and more than 5000 volumes of sheet music. These contents span across more than 95 thousand musicians, more than 2 thousand musical instruments and more than 200 countries and regions.
- In addition, the company has added more long-form videos including opera, live concert, ballet, documentary, master class, international competition, live streaming to further enrich its classical music library and capture the growth opportunities in the market.
- With regard to the subscription business segment, the aggregated institutional subscribers increased to 812 from 809 across China.
- The 25th Beijing Music Festival ("BMF") will commence in the month of September, 2022
Mr. He Yu, Chief Executive Officer of Kuke, commented, "Despite, firstly, the negative impact of local COVID-19 resurgence and subsequent lockdowns in certain cities in China, including where our clients are based, secondly, the smart music learning business is in the process of transiting from private kindergarten subscription model to public school model, which has impacted our revenues and revenue mix, we still recorded a total of revenues of RMB54.4 million during the second quarter of 2022, and achieved IFRS-based positive net income of RMB3.4 million.
Going forward, in view of the challenges presented by macroeconomic environment during the second quarter, we will continue to focus on strengthening our existing product and service portfolio, and executing cost saving initiatives to help us achieve a more optimized cost structure going forward."
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Total Revenue
Total revenue decreased by 35.2% to RMB54.4 million (US$8.1 million) from RMB 84.1 million in the same period of 2021.
- Total licensing and subscription segment revenue decreased by 14.2% to RMB33.9 million (US$5 million) from RMB39.6 million in the same period of 2021. Specifically, licensing revenue decreased by 15% to RMB29.0 million (US$4.3 million) from RMB34.2 million in the same period of 2021, due to the adverse impact from the COVID-19. Subscription revenue decreased to RMB4.9 million (US$0.7 million) from RMB5.4 million in the same period of 2021, mainly due to the decrease in sales of hardware products.
- Total smart music learning solutions segment revenue decreased by 59% to RMB8.5 million (US$1.3 million) from RMB20.7 million in the same period of 2021. Specifically, smart music learning solutions sales revenue from public schools and commercial clients decreased by 71.5% to RMB4.1 million (US$0.6 million) from RMB14.4 million in the same period of 2021, mainly due to the decreased sales to commercial clients. Smart music learning solutions subscription revenue from kindergarten students decreased by 30.1% to RMB4.4 million (US$0.7 million) from RMB6.2 million in the same period of 2021, due to the strategic contraction of our private kindergarten business starting from 2022.
- Total live music events segment revenue decreased to RMB11.9 million (US$1.8 million) from RMB23.8 million in the same period of 2021, due to the decreased revenues of live music events service due to the adverse impact by COVID-19.
- Total one-time disposal of obsolete inventory revenue was RMB0.1 million, as a result of the strategic contraction of our private kindergarten business.
Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Gross profit in the second quarter of 2022 decreased to RMB28.9 million (US$4.3 million) from RMB49.7 million in the same period of 2021, which was largely attributable to the decreased revenues. Gross margin was 53.1%, compared to 59.1% in the same period of 2021.
- The gross margin of classical music licensing and subscription segment was 81.7%, compared to 86% in the same period of 2021. Specifically, the gross margin of classical music licensing slightly improved to 89.1% from 87.4% in the same period of 2021. The gross margin of classical music subscription decreased to 37.6% from 77.4% in the same period of 2021, due to the higher linear amortization costs of royalty payments.
- The gross margin of smart music learning solutions segment was (5.0)%, compared to 63.8% in the same period of 2021. Specifically, the gross margin of smart music learning solution sales decreased to 43.0% from 89.0% in the same period of 2021, due to lower-margin business representing a larger percentage of our revenue mix compared to the prior quarter. The gross margin of smart music learning solution subscriptions from private kindergarten students was (50.3)%, compared to 5.5% in the same period of 2021 due to higher depreciation costs as a result of the strategic contraction of the private kindergarten subscription business.
- The gross margin of live music events segment increased to 15.9% compared to 10.4% in the same period of 2021.
- The gross margin of one-time disposal of obsolete inventory was (287.7)%, due to the strategic contraction of the private kindergarten business.
Operating Expenses
Total operating expenses in the second quarter of 2022 decreased by 53.2% to RMB27.8 million (US$4.2 million) from RMB59.5 million in the same period of 2021.
- Selling and distribution expenses in the second quarter of 2022 decreased by 53.9% to RMB6.0 million (US$0.9 million) from RMB13.0 million in the same period of 2021. The decrease was mainly due to decreased expenses in relation to kindergarten business.
- Administrative expenses in the second quarter of 2022 decreased by 48.5% to RMB19.3 million (US$2.9 million) from RMB37.5 million in the same period of 2021, due to the deceased stock-based compensation costs that incurred in the second quarter of 2021.
- Impairment losses on financial assets in the second quarter of 2022 decreased by 75.5% to RMB2.2 million from RMB9million in the same period of 2021. This was mainly due to increased impairment losses on accounts receivable.
Operating Profit
Operating profit in the second quarter of 2022 was RMB4.4 million (US$0.65 million), compared to operating loss of RMB8.4 million in the same period of 2021.
Net Profit for the Period
Net profit was RMB3.4 million (US$0.5 million), compared to net loss of RMB11.4 million in the same period of 2021.
Non-IFRS Net Profit for the Period
Non-IFRS net profit was RMB16.9 million (US$2.5 million), compared to non-IFRS loss of RMB18.3 million in the same period of 2021.
Net Profit per ADS and Non-IFRS Net Profit per ADS
Basic and diluted net profit per American Depositary Share ("ADS") were both RMB0.13 (US$0.02) in the second quarter of 2022, compared to basic and diluted net loss per ADS of RMB0.42 in the same period of 2021. Basic and diluted non-IFRS net profit per ADS were both RMB0.57 (US$0.09) in the second quarter of 2022, compared to basic and diluted non-IFRS net loss per ADS of RMB0.62 in the same period of 2021. Each ADS represents one Class A ordinary share of the Company.
Balance Sheet
As of June 30, 2022, cash and cash equivalents were RMB18.8 million (US$2.8 million).
About Kuke Music Holding Limited
Kuke is a leading classical music service platform in China encompassing the entire value chain from content provision to music learning services. By collaborating with its strategic global business partner Naxos, the largest independent classical music content provider in the world, the foundation of Kuke's extensive classical music content library is its unparalleled access to more than 900 top-tier labels and record companies. Leveraging its market leadership in international copyrighted classical music content, Kuke provides highly scalable classical music licensing services to various online music platforms and classical music subscription services to over 800 universities, libraries and other institutions across China. In addition, it has hosted the Beijing Music Festival ("BMF"), the most renowned classical music festival in China, for 24 consecutive years. Through KUKEY, the Company's proprietary AI music learning system, Kuke aims to democratize music learning via technological innovation, bring fascinating music content and professional music techniques to more students, and continuously improve the efficiency and penetration of music learning in China.
For more information about Kuke, please visit https://ir.kuke.com/
Exchange Rate Information
This announcement contains translations of certain RMB amounts into U.S. dollars ("US$") at specified rates solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise stated, all translations from RMB to US$ were made at the rate of RMB6.6981 to US$1.00, the noon buying rate in effect on June 30, 2022, in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board. The Company makes no representation that the RMB or US$ amounts referred could be converted into US$ or RMB, as the case may be, at any particular rate or at all. For analytical presentation, all percentages are calculated using the numbers presented in the financial statements contained in this earnings release.
Forward-looking Statements
This announcement contains forward looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "aims," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident," "potential," "continue" or other similar expressions. Statements that are not historical facts, including but not limited to statements about Kuke's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including those in Kuke's registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in Kuke's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and Kuke undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
Use of Non-IFRS Financial Measures
The Company uses non-IFRS profit for the period, which is a non-IFRS financial measure, in evaluating its operating results and for financial and operational decision-making purposes. The Company believes that non-IFRS profit helps management to analyze trends in the Company's business that could otherwise be distorted by the effect of certain expenses that the Company includes in its profit or loss for the period.
Non-IFRS profit for the period should not be considered in isolation or construed as an alternative to net profit for the period or any other measure of performance or as an indicator of its operating performance. Investors are encouraged to review non-IFRS profit for the period and the corresponding footnote explaining the calculation of such measure together. Non-IFRS profit for the period presented here may be different to similarly titled measures presented by other companies. Other companies may calculate similarly titled measures differently, and should not be compared to the measure adopted by the Company's data. The Company encourages investors and others to review its financial information in its entirety and not rely on a single financial measure.
Non-IFRS profit for the period represents profit or loss for the year excluding the combined effect of amortization and depreciation, share-based compensation, impairment losses on financial assets, net, and the corresponding income tax effects of these non-IFRS adjustments.
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California claims to know how much climate-warming gas is going into the air from within its borders. It’s the law: California limits climate pollution and each year the limits get stricter.
The state has also been a major oil and gas producer for more than a century, and authorities are well aware some 35,000 old, inactive oil and gas wells perforate the landscape.
Yet officials with the agency responsible for regulating greenhouse gas emissions say they don’t include methane that leaks from these idle wells in their inventory of the state’s emissions.
Ira Leifer, a University of California Santa Barbara scientist said the lack of data on emissions pouring or seeping out of idle wells calls into question the state’s ability to meet its ambitious goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.
Residents and environmentalists from across the state have been voicing concern about the possibility of leaking idle or abandoned wells for years, but the concerns were heightened in May and June when 21 idle wells were discovered to be leaking methane in or near two Bakersfield neighborhoods. They say that the leaking wells are “an urgent public health issue,” because when a well is leaking methane, other gases often escape too.
Leifer said these “ridealong” gases were his biggest concern with the wells.
“Those other gases have significant health impacts,” Leifer said, yet we know even less about their quantities than we do about the methane.
In July, residents who live in the communities nearest the leaking wells protested at the California Geologic Management Division’s field offices, calling for better oversight.
“It’s clear that they are willing to ignore this public health emergency. Our communities are done waiting. CalGEM needs to do their job,” Cesar Aguirre, a community organizer with the Central California Environmental Justice Network, said in a statement.
Robert Howarth, a Cornell University methane researcher, agreed with Leifer that the amount of methane emissions from leaking wells isn’t well known and that it’s not a major source of emissions when compared with methane emissions from across the oil and gas industry.
Still, he said, “it’s adding something very clearly, and we shouldn’t be allowing it to happen.”
A ton of methane is 83 times worse for the climate than a ton of carbon dioxide, when compared over twenty years.
A 2020 study said emissions from idle wells are “more substantial” than from plugged wells in California, but recommended more data collection on inactive wells at the major oil and gas fields throughout the state.
Robert Jackson, a Stanford University climate scientist and co-author on that study, said they found high emissions from some of the idle wells they measured in the study.
In order to get a better idea of how much methane is leaking, the state of California is investing in projects on the ground and in the air. David Clegern, a spokesperson for CARB, said the agency is beginning a project to measure emissions from a sample of properly and improperly abandoned wells to estimate statewide emissions from them.
And in June, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a budget that includes participation in a global effort to slash emissions called the Methane Accountability Project. The state will spend $100 million to use satellites to track large methane leaks in order to help the state identify sources of the gas and cap leaks.
Some research has already been done, too, to find out how much methane is coming from oil and gas facilities. A 2019 Nature study found that 26% of state methane emissions is coming from oil and gas. A new investigation by the Associated Press found methane is billowing from oil and gas equipment in the Permian Basin in Texas and companies under report it.
Howarth said even if methane from idle oil and gas wells isn’t a major pollution source, it should be a priority not just in California, but nationwide, to help the country meet its climate pledges.
“Methane dissipates pretty quickly in the atmosphere,” he said, “so cutting the emissions is really one of the simplest ways we have to slow the rate of global warming and meet that Paris target.”
A new Senate proposal would provide hundreds of millions dollars to plug wells and reduce pollution from them, especially in hard hit communities.
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Zacatecas Silver Corp. ("Zacatecas" or the "Company"), (TSXV: ZAC) (OTC: ZCTSF) (FSE: 7TV) is pleased to announce that it has commenced its work plans to prepare a current resource estimate at the advanced stage Esperanza Gold Project, located in Morelos State, Mexico.
Immediate steps to confirm resource estimate include:
- Extensive verification through sampling at least 10% of the historical drill core
- New metallurgical test work by SGS Minerals
- Additionally, team at Esperanza to commence work to identify and prioritize expansion and exploration targets throughout the project
The advanced stage Esperanza Gold Project has a historical resource estimate of a measured and indicated resource of 34,352,000 tonnes at 0.98 g/t gold and 8.09 g/t silver for 1,083,366 ounces of gold and 8,936,201 ounces of silver and an inferred resource of 718,000 tonnes at 0.80 g/t gold and 15.04 g/t silver for 18,375 ounces of gold and 347,192 ounces of silver (historical measured and indicated resource of 1.22 million ounces AuEq at 1.11 g/t AuEq). See information on the historical resource estimate under "About Zacatecas Silver Corp." set forth below.
Significant core and reverse circulation drilling occurred, prior to this historical resource calculation (98% of the historic resource was in the M+I category), at the Esperanza Gold Project resulting in a total of 389 drill holes for 69,716 metres.
Zacatecas Silver's team is now onsite carrying out an extensive verification resampling program of the historical drill core. Re-sampling will be completed on approximately 10% of the remaining half-cut core, RC chips, and crush and pulp rejects. This data will form the backbone of a remodelled resource estimate.
Zacatecas is also planning further metallurgical test work including grind-size and agglomeration tests and further column leach tests. The Company's geologists will collect several 500 kg composite bulk samples as part of the verification resampling program. Previous metallurgical tests at the Esperanza Gold Project have indicated that recoveries increase with lower crush size. However, in order to maintain permeability and integrity of heap leach pads at finer crush sizes, it is necessary to agglomerate the particles into larger pellets. The test work now commenced seeks to increase previous metallurgical recoveries.
Once a current resource is established, the Company intends to use the resource as the foundation for a Pre-Feasibility Study ("PFS") on the project. A Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") was previously completed on the project based on a historical (then current) resource.
Dr. Chris Wilson, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Zacatecas , comments "Our technical team is excited to have commenced verification and bulk sampling of historical core and RC chips. The core and RC chips have been stored in a secure facility and is of excellent quality. All original historical drill logs, geotechnical data and sample data is available and is also of a very high standard. Mineralization at the Esperanza Gold Project is associated with an oxidised skarn and some of the highest grade material occurs at, or very close to, the current land surface. The deposit is amenable to open pit mining and heap leach gold-silver recovery. We look forward to moving the project forward towards production."
The technical content of this news release has been reviewed, verified and approved by Dr. Chris Wilson, B.Sc (Hons), PhD, FAusIMM (CP), FSEG. Chief Operating Officer and Director of Zacatecas Silver, a qualified person as defined by NI 43-101.
Zacatecas is a mineral resource company with the gold focused advanced stage Esperanza Gold Project and the silver focused advanced stage Zacatecas Property. The Zacatecas Property is located in Zacatecas State, Mexico, within the highly prospective Fresnillo Silver Belt, which has produced over 6.2 billion ounces of silver. The Company holds 7,826 ha (19,338 acres) of ground that is highly prospective for low and intermediate sulphidation silver-base metal mineralization and potentially low sulphidation gold-dominant mineralization. On December 15, 2021, Zacatecas Silver announced a mineral resource estimate at the Panuco Deposit consisting of 2.7 million tonnes at 187 g/t AgEq (171 g/t Ag and 0.17 g/t Au) for 16.4 million ounces AgEq (15 million ounces silver and 15 thousand ounces gold) (see Company's news release dated December 15, 2021).
The Zacatecas Property is 25 km south-east of MAG Silver Corp.'s Juanicipio Mine and Fresnillo PLC's Fresnillo Mine. The Zacatecas Property shares common boundaries with Pan American Silver Corp. claims and El Orito which is owned by Endeavour Silver Corp. There are four main high-grade silver target areas within the Zacatecas Property concessions: the Panuco Deposit, Muleros, El Cristo and San Manuel-San Gill. The Zacatecas Property also includes El Oro, El Orito, La Cantera, Monserrat, El Peñón, San Judas and San Juan silver-base metal vein targets, and such targets are relatively unexplored and will be the focus of rapid reconnaissance.
The advanced stage Esperanza Gold Project, comprising 14,337.83 hectares, is located in Morelos State, Mexico. To date, significant core and reverse circulation drilling has occurred at the Esperanza Gold Project resulting in a total of 389 drill holes for 69,716 metres.
Alamos Gold Inc. reported in its most recent annual information form a resource estimate of a measured and indicated resource of 34,352,000 tonnes at 0.98 g/t gold and 8.09 g/t silver for 1,083,366 ounces of gold and 8,936,201 ounces of silver and inferred resource of 718,000 tonnes at 0.80 g/t gold and 15.04 g/t silver for 18,375 ounces of gold and 347,192 ounces of silver. The Company considers this to be an historical resource for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101. Resource blocks were defined using with dimensions of 10 metres (m) by 10 m by five m. The estimation of grades was performed with the ordinary kriging method on capped composites. An added step in the estimation strategy was the utilization of the dynamic anisotropy technique in Vulcan's unfolding options. This added capability allows for a more realistic outcome of the estimated grade's spatial distribution as it follows the folded shape of the deposit. Assumptions used in the resource include the following metal prices: gold price of $1,400 (U.S.) per ounce (oz) and silver price of $22 (U.S.) per oz. The resource assumed the following economic assumptions: recovery of 60.4 per cent at 0.2 g/t to 71.9 per cent at 1.6 g/t for gold, 25 per cent for silver, $2.60-per-tonne mining costs, 64-cents-per-tonne general and administrative costs, $4.20-per-tonne milling costs and a pit slope of 45 degrees. The Company considers the resource relevant due to its identification and modelling of the Esperanza deposit.
The Company has not done sufficient work to classify the resource as a current mineral resource or mineral reserves and the Company is not treating the historical estimate as current mineral resources or mineral reserves. Although the resource estimate is considered reliable, the Company will resample a portion of the drill core for the purpose of carrying out a new resource estimate. Furthermore, additional data verification, including resurveying of select diamond drill holes collars; review of graphic drill core logs, comparison of these logs with remaining half-cut core and a cross check of select geological logs agonist database entries; and a check of original assay certificates against the assays and drill hole database.
On behalf of the Company
Bryan Slusarchuk
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions as of the date of this news release. These statements reflect management's current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations. They are not guarantees of future performance. Zacatecas Silver cautions that all forward looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by many material factors, many of which are beyond their respective control. Such factors include, among other things: risks and uncertainties relating to Zacatecas Silver's limited operating history, its proposed exploration and development activities on its mineral propertiesand the need to comply with environmental and governmental regulations. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or implied in the forward-looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, Zacatecas Silver does not undertake to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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CLEVELAND, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Preformed Line Products Company (NASDAQ: PLPC) today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
Q1 2022 Highlights:
- Net sales increased 18%
- Diluted EPS of $2.49, an increase of 72%
- Results included a gain of $4.4 million from life insurance death benefits
- Charge of $1.0 million incurred to wind-down PLP-Russia
- Completed two acquisitions
The Company posted net income for the first quarter of 2022 of $12.3 million, or $2.49 per diluted share, compared to $7.2 million, or $1.45 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2021. First quarter 2022 net income included a non-taxable gain of $4.4 million from life insurance death benefits. The first quarter of 2022 also included charges of approximately $1.0 million related to the wind-down of the Company's subsidiary in Russia, which include a $0.4 million charge to write-down inventory balances. Currency translation rates had an unfavorable effect on net income of $0.2 million.
Rob Ruhlman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, "We are pleased with our strong start to 2022. We enjoyed strong volume growth and incremental sales from our newest acquisitions and benefitted from selling price adjustments made necessary by the significant levels of inflation experienced last year and so far this year. The pace of inflationary increases on our raw material inputs and freight expense coupled with additional costs associated with supply chain disruption continue to negatively impact our gross profit percentage and earnings generation. As a result, we have instituted additional selling price increases. All regions except for Asia-Pacific reported an increase in net sales versus Q1 2021. PLP USA continues to lead the increase driven by growth in the communications product family as well as the significance of our U.S. based manufacturing and distribution facilities. Additional investments are well underway within our PLP USA operations to support this growth both today and into the future. While we have seen reductions in revenue in certain operations that rely more heavily on government-sponsored infrastructure projects that have been delayed due to COVID-19, our strength in other markets has more than offset the shortfalls to allow for both top-line and bottom-line growth. Customer satisfaction remains our primary goal – accomplished by providing high-quality products and services that meet or exceed expectations."
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 regarding the Company, including those statements regarding the Company's and management's beliefs and expectations concerning the Company's future performance or anticipated financial results, among others. Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties which may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in those statements. Among other things, factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements include the uncertainty in business conditions and economy due to COVID-19 including the severity and duration of business disruption caused by the pandemic, the strength of the economy and demand for the Company's products and the mix of products sold, the relative degree of competitive and customer price pressure on the Company's products, the cost, availability and quality of raw materials required for the manufacture of products, the impact of global economic conditions (such as social unrest, acts of war, military conflict (including the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine), international hostilities, terrorism and changes in diplomatic and trade relationships) on profitability and future growth opportunities; the Company's ability to identify, complete, obtain funding for and integrate acquisitions for profitable growth; and the Company's ability to continue to develop proprietary technology and maintain high quality products and customer service to meet or exceed new industry performance standards and individual customer expectations, and other factors described under the headings "Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors" in the Company's 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 4, 2022 and subsequent filings with the SEC. The Annual Report on Form 10-K and the Company's other filings with the SEC can be found on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events.
ABOUT PLP
PLP protects the world's most critical connections by creating stronger and more reliable networks. The company's precision-engineered solutions are trusted by energy and communications providers worldwide to perform better and last longer. With locations in over 20 countries, PLP works as a united global corporation, delivering high-quality products and unparalleled service to customers around the world.
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A mudslide trapped multiple drivers in Southern California as storms drenched the region and brought flash flood warnings Sunday evening.
Several motorists were rescued after their vehicles became stuck in a mud and debris flow on Pine Canyon Road in the Lake Hughes area, about 65 miles north of Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Rescuers responded to the area shortly before 8 p.m., the agency said in a tweet.
A total of 24 vehicles became stuck on the road with 53 people accounted for, according to a preliminary storm report from the National Weather Service.
Earlier, maintenance crews responded to reports of a mudslide blocking all lanes on Lake Hughes Road, Los Angeles County Public Works tweeted.
Aerial video from CNN affiliate KCAL/KCBS showed thick mud blanketing a roadway, where several vehicles appeared to be trapped.
The mudslide came as the area was experiencing scattered rainfall from post-tropical cyclone Kay as it pulled away from the region. Lingering showers and thunderstorms were expected though Monday, with flooding possible in the mountains overnight, according to the National Weather Service.
A Flash Flood warning was in effect for northwestern Los Angeles and Ventura counties until 10:45 p.m. Sunday, with the weather service warning about flash flooding in small creeks and streams, urban areas and highways, as well as other low-lying areas.
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Letter Comes as Brazil Holds Crucial Presidential Election
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In light of the upcoming 2022 presidential election in Brazil, more than 90 companies and organizations—employing over 435,000 people in Brazil—signed an open letter yesterday urging Brazil's presidential candidates to recognize and commit to public policies and concrete actions that support LGBTQI+ inclusion in the Brazilian workplace.
The letter, titled the "Open Letter in Support of Diversity, Respect and Inclusion for LGBTQI+ People in the Workplace in Brazil," represents a coalition of Brazilian and multinational companies and organizations that value diversity, respect, and inclusion of LGBTQI+ people in Brazilian workplaces. The letter affirms the value and commitment of companies to create work environments where people feel welcome, where they belong, and can contribute to their fullest potential and thrive.
"We are in awe seeing such strong, unwavering, and growing support in Brazil for workplaces where LGBTQI+ people feel like they can bring their full and authentic selves to the workplace, be accepted, and feel a sense of belonging among colleagues and teams – which is good not only for employees, but for the business, and for society broadly," said Erin Uritus, CEO at Out & Equal, the premier organization working to advance LGBTQI+ equality in the workplace. "As evidenced by the number of signatories, businesses in Brazil understand the value of a sound and steady commitment to LGBTQI+ inclusion. More than double the number of companies that signed a similar letter in 2018. LGBTQI+ inclusion not only keeps companies competitive in the global marketplace and positively impacts their bottom lines, but it greatly impacts the communities and societies in which these businesses operate."
The letter was organized by Out & Equal and two Brazilian organizations working towards LGBTQI+ itos LGBTI+orkplace inclusion—Fórum de Empresas e Direitos LGBTI+ and Instituto Mais Diversidade.
"This is a time when most organizations are looking at human rights, diversity, and the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) agenda," said Ricardo Sales, Founding Partner of Mais Diversidade and President of the Council of Instituto Mais Diversidade. "There is no ESG without democracy. It is only in democracy – guaranteeing fundamental rights, policies of inclusion, distribution of opportunities and respect – that we advance in the agenda. The world already has a different outlook on ESG and Brazil has the opportunity to lead and drive the matter. As such, it is necessary that all governments are committed to this issue."
While the letter is not addressed to a specific presidential candidate or political party, its objective is to encourage anyone running for office to recognize the importance of diversity, respect, and inclusion of all people in the workplace, including LGBTQI+ people, in line with the companies' values.
"This initiative goes beyond political parties," said Reinaldo Bulgarelli, Executive Secretary of the Fórum de Empresas e Direitos LGBTI+. "We recognize how important it is for the world of politics and democracy to support diversity and human rights. You have a set of big brands positioning themselves. It is an initiative that mobilizes the presidents of these organizations to demonstrate their support and focus on diversity in the corporate environment and, consequently, helps to mobilize the political environment."
The first Statement of Support was signed in 2018 by more than 30 corporations and non-governmental organizations that together employed more than 110,000 people in Brazil, reaffirming the belief in and commitment to initiatives that drive diversity and support inclusion of all people in the workplace, including LGBTQI+ people.
Signatories will join to celebrate the release of this year's Open Letter today at a Dow sponsored in-person event at São Paulo's Amcham Brasil.
Fórum de Empresas e Diretos LGBTI+Business and Rights Forum
Created in March 2013, the Fórum de Empresas e Direitos LGBTI+ (LGBTI+ Business and Rights Forum) is a business movement with ongoing efforts to bring together large companies around the" 10 Commitments" to respect and promote LGBTI+ human rights. The purpose of the Forum is to help companies and all business environments put into practice, for LGBTI+ people, the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "All people are born free and equal in dignity and rights". The Forum carries out daily activities involving signatory companies and allied and partner organizations to improve management practices, eradicate LGBTI+phobia and strengthen the movement, the "10 Commitments for the Promotion of LGBTI+ Rights", and to express understanding of the role of companies and a work agenda. More information: www.forumempresaslgbt.com
Instituto Mais Diversidade
Instituto Mais Diversidade (More Diversity Institute) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote decent work and income generation for all LGBTI+ people. The projects under our responsibility aim to generate professional opportunities for the LGBTI+ community throughout Brazil. We are the social arm of Mais Diversidade Consultoria, which supports private companies on issues of diversity, equity and inclusive culture. More information: www.institutomaisdiversidade.com.br
Out & Equal Workplace Advocates:
Out & Equal is the premier global organization working towards the inclusion of LGBTQI+ people in the workplace. Using cutting-edge resources, global programming, partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, and the annual Workplace Summit (registration:outandequal.org) Out & Equal helps LGBTQI+ people thrive in the workplace and supports organizations that seek to create cultures of belonging for all. More information: www.outandequal.org
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Former Sen. Orrin Hatch, longest-serving GOP US senator, dies at 88
By Sara Murray and Rachel Janfaza, CNN
Former Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving US senator in Utah history, died in Salt Lake City on Saturday at the age of 88, according to a Hatch Foundation release.
Hatch, the former Senate president pro tempore, served in the chamber for 42 years from 1977 to 2019. The release did not include a cause of death.
“A man of wisdom, kindness, character, and compassion, Orrin G. Hatch was everything a United States Senator should be,” said A. Scott Anderson, chairman of the Hatch Foundation. “He exemplified a generation of lawmakers brought up on the principles of comity and compromise, and he embodied those principles better than anyone. In a nation divided, Orrin Hatch helped show us a better way by forging meaningful friendships on both sides of the aisle.”
Hatch announced in January 2018 that he wouldn’t seek re-election, clearing the way for Mitt Romney to return to elected office by running for and winning his seat. Romney was and remains a critic of former President Donald Trump.
Ahead of the Hatch’s retirement announcement, then-President Trump urged him to stay in Washington. During a 2017 event in Utah, Trump called Hatch “a true fighter” and said he hoped the Republican would continue to serve “in the Senate for a very long time to come.”
At the time of Hatch’s retirement announcement, then-White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump was “very sad to see Senator Hatch leave.” Trump had the “greatest and deepest respect” for Hatch, particularly for the role he played in passing tax reform, Sanders said.
Hatch spoke at the time of his retirement about growing partisanship in Congress.
“My heart is heavy because it aches for the times when we actually lived up to our reputation as the world’s greatest deliberative body. It longs for the days in which Democrats and Republicans would meet on middle ground rather than retreat to partisan trenches,” Hatch said in a farewell speech on the Senate floor in December 2018.
Political legacy
Hatch served through the administrations of seven US Presidents and worked with nine Senate Majority Leaders. During his time in office, he served as chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Finance Committee.
His tenure on the Judiciary Committee included the confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991. During Thomas’ controversial Senate confirmation hearings, Hatch suggested that Anita Hill, who had testified that Thomas sexually harassed her when he was her boss, had concocted some of her claims. (President Joe Biden was chair of the Judiciary Committee at the time.)
The late former lawmaker was the chairman emeritus of the Hatch Foundation, which focuses on civic engagement and political discourse and is home to his legislative records. The Utah Republican authored and co-authored several pieces of historic legislation such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Americans with Disabilities Act, the release said.
“Senator Orrin G. Hatch personified the American Dream,” Matt Sandgren, executive director of the Hatch Foundation, said in the release.
“Born the son of a carpenter and plaster lather, he overcame the poverty of his youth to become a United States Senator. With the hardships of his upbringing always fresh in his mind, he made it his life’s mission to expand freedom and opportunity for others—and the results speak for themselves. From tax and trade to religious liberty and healthcare, few legislators have had a greater impact on American life than Orrin Hatch,” Sandgren said.
Elected officials and fellow Republicans responded to the news of Hatch’s death Saturday.
Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee called Hatch “a giant of the Senate and a pillar” in their state.
“Orrin was a friend, a mentor, and an example to me and countless others. I saw countless times how his brilliant mind, quick wit, and care for his nation, his state, and his colleagues turned pernicious problems into clear paths forward,” Lee said on Twitter. “His example of dedicated, principled statesmanship and consistent collegiality is missed but will never be forgotten.”
“This breaks my heart,” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, said in a tweet. “Abby and I are so grateful for the opportunities we had to spend time with this incredible public servant. He was always so kind and generous with his time and wisdom. Utah mourns with the Hatch family.”
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel called Hatch a “cherished friend.”
“Devastated to learn of the loss of Sen. Orrin Hatch,” McDaniel said. “I met my husband while he worked for the Senator. We will miss him dearly. He was a statesman that represented the best our country has to offer. Please pray for his family.”
Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives Brad Wilson, a Republican, said of Hatch: “There are few examples of greater devotion to public service than that of Sen. Orrin G. Hatch. While deeply saddened by his passing, his legacy will live in the impact he had on the lives of Utahns and the friendship he showed to those around him.”
Hatch is survived by his wife, Elaine, and their six children.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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ATLANTA and NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine has revealed that West Physics has made its' annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. Appearing on this list nine previous times (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2020 and 2021) this marks the 10th time West Physics appears on the Inc. 5000 with a 3-year revenue growth rate of 84 percent.
The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment—independent small and medium-sized businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on this distinguished list.
"Of about 7 million small businesses in the U.S., only 5,000 make this list every year and multiple years is even more rare. In fact, there are only about 150 companies in the United States to have demonstrated the consistency of growth needed to achieve 10 years of being on this list since they started these rankings in 1982," stated Dr. Geoffrey West, President of West Physics. Dr. West continued: "Appearing on this list would not be possible without the tireless effort of our dedicated & loyal staff and leadership, and the trust and faith that our amazing customers bestow in us every single day. All of us at West Physics know that our success comes from remaining focused on helping our clients succeed; helping them achieve and maintain high levels of safety, ensure regulatory compliance and maintain accreditation in a highly complex, regulated industry."
West Physics, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading global provider of integrated diagnostic medical and health physics testing and radiation safety consulting services. West Physics serves over 5,000 client sites, including hospitals, freestanding imaging centers, mobile imaging providers, and physician offices throughout the 50 U.S. states, federal territories, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. West Physics specializes in assisting healthcare providers in maintaining their accreditation with organizations such as The Joint Commission, the American College of Radiology, the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission, RadSite, and in radiation regulatory compliance with state and federal agencies. For more information, please visit www.westphysics.com.
Companies on the 2021 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2017 to 2020. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2017. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2020. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2017 is $100,000; the minimum for 2020 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to three decimal places. There was one tie on this year's Inc. 5000. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.'s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including web sites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Vision Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
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GRAPHIC: Ukraine digs in to fight Russia’s looming eastern offensive
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces dug in and Russia’s military lined up more firepower Sunday ahead of an expected showdown in eastern Ukraine that could become a decisive period in a war that has flattened cities, killed untold thousands and isolated Moscow economically and politically.
Experts say a full-scale offensive in the east could start within days, though questions remained about the ability of Russia’s depleted and demoralized forces to conquer much ground after Ukraine’s inspired defenders repelled their push to capture the capital, Kyiv.
Britain’s Defense Ministry reported Sunday that Russia’s armed forces were trying to compensate for mounting casualties by boosting troop numbers with personnel who had been discharged from service since 2012. Ukraine has the bulk of its military forces in the east: estimates vary, but they are believed to number in the tens of thousands.
Russia-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine since 2014 and control parts of the Donbas, a mostly Russian-speaking, industrial region. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, its troops have bombarded government-held territory. The anticipated offensive in the east and south could end up excising a vast swath of land from Ukraine.
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On Sunday, Russian forces shelled Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in the northeast and sent reinforcements toward Izyum to the southeast in attempts to break Ukraine’s defenses, the Ukrainian military command said. The Russians also kept up their siege of Mariupol, a key southern port that has been under attack and surrounded for nearly 1 ½ months.
A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said Russia’s military used air-launched missiles to hit Ukraine’s S-300 air defense missile systems in the southern Mykolaiv region and at an air base in Chuhuiv, a city not far from Kharkiv.
Russia’s sea-launched cruise missiles also destroyed the headquarters of a Ukrainian military unit stationed farther west in the Dnipro region, Konashenkov said. Neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian military claims could be independently verified.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed for stronger military and political support from the West, including NATO members that have funneled weapons and military equipment to Ukraine since Russia invaded but denied some requests for fear of getting drawn into the war.
In a late night video message, Zelenskyy argued that more than Ukraine’s future was at stake: Russia’s aggression “was not intended to be limited to Ukraine alone” and the “entire European project is a target,” he said.
“That is why it is not just the moral duty of all democracies, all the forces of Europe, to support Ukraine’s desire for peace,” Zelenskyy said. “This is, in fact, a strategy of defense for every civilized state.”
Zelenskyy thanked the president of the European Union’s executive commission and Canada’s prime minister for a global fundraising event Saturday that brought in more than 10 billion euros ($11 billion) to help Ukrainians who have fled the war.
The U.N. refugee agency reported Sunday that more than 4.5 million people have left the country since the invasion started Europe’s worst ground conflict since World World II. As of Friday night, the U.N.’s human rights commissioner had confirmed 1,766 civilian deaths from more than six weeks of fighting - - 630 of them in the Donbas - while acknowledging the toll was likely a vast undercount.
After British Prime Minister Boris Johnson went to Kyiv on a Saturday trip that the U.K. government did not announce in advance, Zelenskyy said they had decided “what help the United Kingdom will provide to the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine” and that it includes a “patronage” to rebuild the Kyiv region.
Ukrainian authorities have accused Russian forces of committing war crimes against thousands of civilians during the invasion. The alleged crimes took place during airstrikes on hospitals, a missile attack that killed 52 people at a train station in eastern Ukraine on Friday and as Russian soldiers withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv.
Zelenskyy said that when he and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke by phone Sunday, “we emphasized that all perpetrators of war crimes must be identified and punished.”
Ukraine has blamed Russia for alleged atrocities against civilians in Bucha and other towns outside the capital where hundreds of bodies, many with their hands bound and signs of torture, were found after the Russian troops retreated. Russia has denied engaging in war crimes and falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged.
After the Russian forces pulled out from the north this week to regroup for the push in the east, firefighters combed through the rubble of buildings to search for victims or survivors. Maria Vaselenko, 77, a resident of Borodyanka, said her daughter and son-in-law were killed, leaving her grandchildren orphaned.
“The Russians were shooting. And some people wanted to come and help, but they were shooting them. They were putting explosives under dead people,” Vaselenko said. “That’s why my children have been under the rubble for 36 days. It was not allowed” to remove bodies.
In Mariupol, Russia was deploying Chechen fighters, reputed to be particularly fierce. Capturing the city on the sea of Azov would give Russia a land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukriane eight years ago.
Residents have lacked food, water and electricity since Russian forces surrounded the city, making evacuations hard and supplying emergency relief even harder.
Zelenskyy has said he expects more evidence of atrocities to be found once Mariupol no longer is blockaded; Ukrainian authorities think an airstrike on a theater where civilians were sheltering killed hundreds.
“I am in shock. I don’t understand what is happening. I have a hole in my garage billowing smoke,” Mariupol resident Sergey Petrov told The Associated Press, describing a brush with death. “A shell flew in and broke up into two parts, but it did not explode. … My mother told me that I was born again on that day.”
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said more civilians were expected to leave Mariupol in their personal vehicles Sunday, while more evacuations were planned for a number of towns in the south and east.
The Institute for the Study of War, an American think tank, predicted Russian forces would focus their assault on the northern edge of a sickle-shaped arc of eastern Ukraine where the pro-Russia separatists and Russian forces have seized territory.
Russian forces will “renew offensive operations in the coming days” from Izyum, a town southeast of Kharkiv, to try to reach Slovyansk, even further southeast, the institute’s analysts said. But in their view, “The outcome of forthcoming Russian operations in eastern Ukraine remains very much in question.”
Ukrainian officials have pleaded with Western powers almost daily to send more arms and further punish Moscow with sanctions, including the exclusion of Russian banks from the global financial system and a total EU embargo on Russian gas and oil.
In an interview with The Associated Press inside his heavily guarded presidential office complex on Saturday, Zelenskyy said he was committed to negotiating a diplomatic end to the war even though Russia has “tortured” Ukraine.
He also acknowledged that peace likely will not come quickly. Talks so far have not included Putin or other top Russian officials.
“We have to fight, but fight for life. You can’t fight for dust when there is nothing and no people. That’s why it is important to stop this war,” the president said.
In the interview with AP, Zelenskyy noted the increased support but expressed frustration when asked if weapons and equipment Ukraine has received from the West is sufficient to shift the war’s outcome.
“Not yet,” he said, switching to English for emphasis. “Of course it’s not enough.”
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Anna reported from Bucha, Ukraine. Yesica Fisch in Borodyanko and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RemotePC™, an award-winning remote access service provider, has added a new Share Computer feature that allows users to share a remote desktop with others, enabling teams to have access to a single computer for access to critical files, collaborating, troubleshooting, and more.
For small teams that are working remotely, having the ability to share a remote computer from wherever they are can be very beneficial, whether it's for solving technical issues, having access to important files, working together on projects, or giving presentations or demos to colleagues.
With this new feature, RemotePC™ account administrators can provide multiple users within their account with access to the desired desktop, and the users will then be able to only access the computer, files, and applications while not being allowed to make any changes to computer settings.
In situations where multiple users need to access the same machine, the Shared Computer feature is an ideal solution. Administrators can provide permanent access for their users, and the user will be able to access the computer at any time from anywhere until access is revoked by the account administrator.
Sharing a computer with a single user is very simple, with admins simply needing to click share next to the corresponding desktop, then enter the email address of the intended user and they will immediately have access to the device.
RemotePC™ is one of the most affordable remote access solutions for individual users, large businesses, and everything in between.
This feature is available for RemotePC Soho and Team plans, which both offer regular first year discounts off of the regular yearly subscription prices which are:
- SOHO - $79.50/year for unlimited user licenses and access to 10 computers
- Team - $299.50/year for unlimited user licenses and access to 50 computers
When it comes to remote access, security is critical, which is why RemotePC™ uses TLS v 1.2/AES-256 encryption for transferring user authentication data between a remote computer and local computer. For an extra layer of protection, a Personal Key is available that offers a unique password set for each computer.
RemotePC is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux on desktop, and the viewer application is available to iOS and Android mobile devices as well.
IDrive Inc. is a privately held company specializing in cloud storage, online backup, file sharing, remote access, compliance and related technologies. Core services include IDrive®, RemotePC™ and IBackup.The company's services help over 4 million customers back up over 500 Petabytes of data.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crunch Fitness today announced the upcoming winter launch of Crunch Fayetteville, a franchise club located in a spacious, $5 million, 55,000-square-foot fitness facility, with $1 million in state-of-the-art equipment and amenities. Crunch Fayetteville will be located at the Northwest Arkansas Mall on 4201 N Shiloh Drive. This will be the first Crunch location in Arkansas.
Crunch Fayetteville is owned by partners John Armatas and Brian Hibbard, Chief Executive Officer for Fitness Ventures LLC, which owns and operates Crunch Fitness locations across the U.S. Crunch Fayetteville will be Fitness Ventures' 27th location nationwide.
"We are excited to bring the Crunch brand to Fayetteville, Arkansas," said owner Brian Hibbard. "Crunch is for everyone, from the first-time gym-goer to the seasoned athlete. Add in a high-energy and fun environment, and with memberships starting at $9.99 per month we have options to meet everyone's goals and budget."
Crunch is known for its exciting group fitness programming and Crunch Fayetteville will offer a wide range of classes every week, including BodyWeb with TRX®, Zumba®, Cardio Tai Box, Yoga Body Sculpt and Fat Burning Pilates. Members looking for additional guidance or motivation can utilize the HIITZone™, a proprietary high-intensity interval group training program.
Crunch offers top-quality cardio and strength training equipment, circuit training, personal training, a functional training area with indoor turf, a dedicated group fitness studio, a dedicated ride studio, Kids Crunch, tanning beds and sunless spray options, HydroMassage® beds, and more.
Prospective Crunch Fayetteville members can visit https://www.crunch.com/locations/fayetteville or call 479-309-0399 to purchase memberships beginning at $9.99 per month.
Crunch is a gym that believes in making serious exercise fun by fusing fitness and entertainment and pioneering a philosophy of 'No Judgments.' Crunch serves a fitness community for all kinds of people, with all types of goals, exercising all different ways, working it out at the same place together. Today, we are renowned for creating one-of-a-kind group fitness classes and unique programming for our wildly diverse members. Headquartered in New York City, Crunch serves over 1.9 million members with over 400 gyms worldwide in 34 states and the District of Columbia, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and Spain. Crunch is rapidly expanding across the U.S. and around the globe.
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Headmaster, Daniel Gibson, taking the reins of new school effective immediately
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of parents and community members in Columbus, Ohio plan to open Columbus Classical Academy (CCA), a private classical school in Columbus, Ohio, in the fall of 2023.
As a Hillsdale College Curriculum School, CCA plans to open as a K-8 tuition-based private school, adding one grade annually, until it serves all grades K-12. The school will focus on K-8 instruction that is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, offers a firm grounding in civic virtue, and cultivates moral character.
Hillsdale College has worked with, and has been integral in the starting of, dozens of classical public charter schools throughout the U.S., and, in recent years, has expanded operations by supporting the opening and continued operation of private classical schools, like CCA. Through its affiliation with Hillsdale College, the CCA Board of Directors receives support from Hillsdale in the form of its world-class, K-12 curriculum and access to model bylaws and best practices for school administration. Long term, CCA intends to pursue an even more robust relationship with Hillsdale College that could provide ongoing board training, assistance with hiring needs, and regular pedagogical and curricular training for faculty.
"Today, there is an urgent need to return to time-tested principles in the education of our children, while teaching them to be model citizens in contemporary America. We believe that a classical liberal arts curriculum is the best way to achieve the true purpose of K-12 education, which is to develop virtuous citizens capable of personal and political achievement and self-governance and devoted to what is eternally good," said Mike Gross, President of the Columbus Classical Academy founding group. "Nearly all education in America was classical until recent generations, and it served our nation and our children well. CCA will offer an option that restores education to its original purpose, methods, and subject matter, and we believe that parents in Columbus will embrace it."
CCA will faithfully implement the Hillsdale College curriculum to provide a content-rich course of study with emphasis upon the four core disciplines of math, science, literature, and history, an attention to music, art, physical education, and foreign languages, and the strong conviction that classical and civic virtues are necessary in the formation of the American citizen.
The Hillsdale College K-12 initiative was started because, although there are numerous educational options available to families, very few are grounded in the classical model that emphasizes liberal arts learning and personal virtue. Hillsdale has created an exceptional curriculum that soon will be available to families in Central Ohio.
In addition, CCA has tapped Daniel Gibson to serve as the founding headmaster of the school. Gibson, a graduate of Davidson College and Stanford Law School, was a partner at the Columbus law firm, Bricker & Eckler LLP, and left his position at the firm to take on the role of headmaster at CCA.
"I am so blessed to be part of the founding of Columbus Classical Academy," said Gibson. "I truly believe in the mission of a classical education to instill in students the knowledge and virtue upon which independent, responsible, and joyful lives are built and am grateful to the CCA board for entrusting me with the leadership of this good and necessary work."
CCA is in the process of finalizing a location for the school.
To learn more, visit https://columbusclassical.org.
About Columbus Classical Academy
Columbus Classical Academy is a classical K-8 private school located in Columbus, Ohio. As a Hillsdale College Curriculum School, CCA instills in students, through a genuine and rigorous classical education in the liberal arts and sciences, the knowledge and virtue upon which independent, responsible, and joyful lives are built, in the firm belief that such lives are the foundation of a free and flourishing republic. CCA plans to serve students in grades K-8, starting in the Fall of 2023, and to add one grade each year until it includes grades K-12. Learn more at https://columbusclassical.org.
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2022 best cities for freelancers
By TINA OREM of NerdWallet
Using recent metro-area data from the U.S. Census Bureau and state-level data from the Federation of State Tax Administrators, NerdWallet’s list of the 10 best cities for freelancers includes places where housing and income taxes tended to be relatively more affordable, freelancer culture was vibrant and there were signs of growing demand for goods and services. Business experts say freelancers, independent contractors and the self-employed should do three things when contemplating a move: understand the tax effects, know the new market’s licensing and zoning rules, and remember that relocation can’t solve every problem. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/29/2022-best-cities-for-freelancers/ | 2022-04-29T11:58:09Z |
"One-for-one" Initiative Dedicated To Planting More Trees
ODGEN, Utah, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HAWX, a national pest control company, today announced a partnership with One Tree Planted to make a positive impact for nature, wildlife & people. Every new Hawx customer signed up equals another tree in the ground that contributes to a cleaner, greener, healthier planet.
"Working with One Tree Planted is a natural extension of our work," said President, Matt Mehr. "Healthy yards and healthy homes are at the core of our business model, and while we're working hard everyday to maintain the health of the people in those homes, it's great to have even another way to make a difference."
Service professionals at Hawx are skilled at identifying pest infestations throughout the yard and around the home. They work hard and train hard to understand the right formulas and treatment schedules to protect neighborhood yards, homes (and trees!) to leave the property pest free.
On top of making sure existing trees have prime environments for health, Hawx is partnering with One Tree Planted to prioritize:
- Supporting important and needed reforestation efforts
- Empowering everyday consumers with simple sustainable actions
- Raising awareness about the importance of ecosystem restoration
Planting trees is one of the best ways to combat the ever-present and growing damage that the environment endures. Trees are a huge part of nature's own effort to clean the air we breathe, filter the water we drink, and provide habitat to over 80 percent of the world's terrestrial biodiversity. Trees also provide tremendous social impacts by providing jobs to over 1.6 billion people, empowering women in underdeveloped nations, and supporting communities devastated by environmental damage. Trees matter and Hawx wants to make a difference!
To get involved, become a HAWX customer here.
About Hawx
Hawx Pest Control serves customers in ten states across the country, and they offer specialized, local knowledge of the pests that are impacting your life. From the smallest problems to the biggest and most complex, they take care of them all. They offer extermination for your current problems and preventative treatments to eliminate threats before they happen and keep them away for good.
About One Tree Planted
One Tree Planted is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a mission to make it simple for anyone to help the environment by planting trees. Their projects span the globe and are done in partnership with local communities and knowledgeable experts to create an impact for nature, people, and wildlife. Reforestation helps to rebuild forests after fires and floods, provide jobs for social impact, and restore biodiversity. Many projects have overlapping objectives, creating a combination of benefits that contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. To learn more, visit onetreeplanted.org
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Calls for boardroom changes to address destruction of value at Ceragon and refusal to consider Aviat's premium acquisition proposal
Urges Ceragon shareholders to vote for directors who will protect shareholder interests and consider value creation opportunities
AUSTIN, Texas, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW) ("Aviat"), the leading expert in wireless transport solutions, today announced that it has requested an extraordinary general meeting of Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: CRNT) ("Ceragon") shareholders for the purposes of increasing the size of the Ceragon Board of Directors to nine, removing three current directors, and electing five highly qualified and independent new directors to better represent the interests of all Ceragon shareholders. As of June 24, 2022, Aviat holds more than 5% of Ceragon's outstanding shares, making it Ceragon's third largest shareholder.
Aviat believes Ceragon's current Board has overseen destruction of shareholder value and overlooked opportunities to create greater value. In particular, the Ceragon Board has neglected its responsibility to shareholders by refusing to engage constructively with Aviat, which has sought for months to negotiate the terms of a transaction that would deliver immediate and certain value greater than the continued execution of Ceragon's standalone strategy. As announced separately today, Aviat has submitted a highly attractive nonbinding proposal to acquire all the outstanding shares of Ceragon for $2.80 per share in cash. Aviat is also open to offering a portion of the consideration in Aviat stock should Ceragon wish to provide the opportunity for its shareholders to share in the upside potential of the combined company.
Aviat seeks to replace three Ceragon directors who lack sufficient independence to make decisions in the best interests of all Ceragon shareholders. Each of the three has close ties to the company and to other companies founded, owned or formerly led by Ceragon Chairman Zohar Zisapel.
- Ira Palti served as Ceragon CEO from 2005 to 2021, during which time he oversaw the destruction of shareholder value, delivering total shareholder return of -21%, while Ceragon fell behind competitors in the development and delivery of 4G chips;
- Yael Langer is General Counsel at RAD Data Communications, founded by Zisapel and led by his brother, Yehuda Zisapel, and has served on the Ceragon Board since 2000, during which time Ceragon's stock has fallen approximately 80%; and
- David Ripstein spent nine years as CEO of RADCOM, another company founded by Zisapel and a part of the RAD Group, of which Ceragon is also a member.
"Although we are disappointed that Ceragon's Board has rejected our attempts to negotiate a transaction that would deliver compelling value to shareholders, we are pleased to give Ceragon shareholders the opportunity to vote for a Board that will consider strategic opportunities to unlock value and, most importantly, be accountable to shareholders," said Aviat President and CEO Peter Smith. "We firmly believe shareholders will recognize that Ceragon's leadership has demonstrated an inability to execute an effective business plan that drives growth and protects shareholders' investments. We urge shareholders to support our highly qualified Board candidates to drive much-needed change."
At the extraordinary general meeting, Ceragon shareholders will have the opportunity to vote for Aviat's five nominees, all of whom are seasoned leaders in their respective fields with extensive experience leading and advising companies across sectors. Aviat urges shareholders to take advantage of this opportunity to select a meaningfully refreshed and qualified Board that can address the company's dire financial underperformance, strategic deficiencies and haphazard management, substandard governance, and reverse Ceragon's continued value destruction.
Aviat's Nominees
- Michelle R. Clayman is the Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of New Amsterdam Partners LLC. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, where she also serves as Chair of the Advisory Council of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Ms. Clayman has served as President of the Society of Quantitative Analysts, as well as on the boards of the Institute of Quantitative Research in Finance and US SIF, the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing. Ms. Clayman holds an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MBA from Stanford University.
- Paul Delson serves as Vice President and General Counsel for the Troy Corporation, a leading performance chemical manufacturing company. Previously, Delson worked for First Solar, Inc., where he served as the Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. Prior to that, Delson was the Director, Legal Services at Applied Materials, Inc., where he focused on international business transactions, venture capital, corporate finance and M&A. Prior to Delson's in-house work at Applied Materials, he worked for over 10 years in private practice. Delson earned a JD and an MBA from UCLA, and a BA in Organizational Behavior & Management from Brown University.
- Jonathan F. Foster is the founder and managing director of Current Capital Partners LLC. He has served on 35 boards, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small, private and distressed companies. Prior to founding Current Capital Partners, he was a Managing Director at Lazard, where he worked on various industrial and services mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and financing transactions, EVP, COO and CFO for Toys R Us, and Managing Director and Co-Head of Diversified Industrials at Wachovia Securities. Mr. Foster holds a BBA in Accounting from Emory University and an MSc in Accounting and Finance from The London School of Economics.
- Dennis Sadlowski is an accomplished Chief Executive Officer, Board Member, and C-suite Advisor serving domestic and international businesses. He has led public and private equity companies globally, in various industrial manufacturing and services industries. Mr. Sadlowski served as the CEO of Siemens Energy and Automation, a $4 billion, 12,000-employee operating company of Siemens AG. He also served as the CEO of CECO Environmental, CEO of International Battery, and COO (North America) of LSG Sky Chefs. Mr. Sadlowski holds a BS in Chemical and Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Seattle University.
- Craig Weinstock serves as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of National Oilwell Varco (NOV). Before joining NOV, Mr. Weinstock was a partner at Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP and a clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Robert Parker. He has counseled Boards of Directors, Audit Committees and management regarding securities, governance, anti-corruption, trade compliance and other matters, and has prosecuted and defended numerous cases involving complex securities and derivative issues. Mr. Weinstock holds a BA from the State University of New York at Albany and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School.
As separately announced, Aviat will host a conference call for investors and industry analysts to discuss its proposal at 7:00 p.m. ET on June 27, 2022.
To listen to the live conference call, please dial toll-free at 1-877-830-2597 or the international dial-in at +1-785-424-1877 and use the conference ID: "ANICALL" or the call title "Investor Update Call". We ask that you dial-in approximately 10 minutes prior to the start time. Accompanying slides will be available on Aviat's investor relations website at the following address: https://investors.aviatnetworks.com/.
A replay of the call will be available on the Aviat investor relations website, or by dialing 800-938-1598 (Toll Free) or 402-220-1545 (Toll).
Aviat Networks, Inc. is the leading expert in wireless transport solutions and works to provide dependable products, services and support to its customers. With more than one million systems sold into 170 countries worldwide, communications service providers and private network operators including state/local government, utility, federal government and defense organizations trust Aviat with their critical applications. Coupled with a long history of microwave innovations, Aviat provides a comprehensive suite of localized professional and support services enabling customers to drastically simplify both their networks and their lives. For more than 70 years, the experts at Aviat have delivered high-performance products, simplified operations, and the best overall customer experience. Aviat Networks is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.aviatnetworks.com or connect with Aviat Networks on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
The information contained in this document includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, without limitations, Aviat's beliefs and expectations regarding the proposed transaction between Aviat and Ceragon and the results of the requested extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Ceragon. All statements, trend analyses and other information contained herein regarding the foregoing beliefs and expectations and other statements identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including, without limitation, "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "will," "see," "continue," "could, " "may, " "might, " "potential," "seek," "should," "delivering," "view," and "intend," or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, forward-looking statements are based on estimates reflecting the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the senior management of Aviat regarding the future of its business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should therefore be considered in light of various important factors, including those set forth in this document. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from estimates or projections contained in the forward-looking statements are discussed in our Annual Reports on Form 10-K and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The forward-looking statements included in this release are made as of the date hereof and, except as required by law, Aviat undertakes no obligation to update, amend, or clarify any forward-looking statement to reflect events, new information, or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.
This document does not constitute an offer to sell or exchange, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or exchange, any securities, nor will there be any sale of securities in any states or jurisdictions in which such offer or sale or exchange would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities will be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933 or an exemption therefrom.
In connection with any transaction between Aviat and Ceragon that involves the issuance of Aviat shares to the Ceragon shareholders, Aviat will file a registration statement with the SEC. INVESTORS ARE URGED TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, ANY AMENDMENTS THERETO AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT MAY BE FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRANSACTION. Investors will also be able to obtain copies of the registration statement and other documents containing important information about each of the companies once such documents are filed with the SEC, without charge, at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov.
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UpHealth, Inc. Stockholders urged to look for the BLUE Proxy Card for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
HOLLADAY, Utah , June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jeffery R. Bray, Dr. Mariya Pylypiv, Syed Sabahat Azim, Richa Sana Azim, Dr. Azfar Malik, Alfonso Gatmaitan, Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria and other stockholders (collectively, the "UpHealth Concerned Stockholders") announced today that they issued an open letter urging stockholders of UpHealth, Inc. (NYSE: UPH) (the "Company") to STOP, LOOK and LISTEN before taking any action in response to the Company's solicitation of proxies for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders set for 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time, on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 (the "Annual Meeting"). The complete text of the letter to stockholders is available at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001930960/000119312522169689/d365467ddfan14a.htm.
The UpHealth Concerned Stockholders strongly urge stockholders NOT to return the white proxy card or voting instruction form from the Company and NOT to allow the Company to take their vote over the telephone or by internet, but to wait until they receive and review the UpHealth Concerned Stockholders' definitive proxy materials and BLUE proxy card, which will be sent to UpHealth stockholders soon, before voting. If UpHealth stockholders have already voted the Company's white proxy card or voting instruction form or had their vote taken by the Company over the telephone or by internet, a later-dated BLUE proxy card will revoke their previously cast vote.
When the UpHealth Concerned Stockholders' proxy solicitation materials are available, they will be seeking the vote of UpHealth stockholders because they believe that the Company needs to act now in order to restore stockholder value and do not believe that the Board, as currently constituted, and as currently proposed by the Board to be constituted following the Annual Meeting, is in the best position to achieve that objective. The Board has proposed a slate of three existing directors, adding no new viewpoints or expertise.
The UpHealth Concerned Stockholders intend to solicit proxies from UpHealth stockholders to (i) permit them to withhold the voting of their shares at the Annual Meeting to prevent the Annual Meeting from being held until a Special Meeting of Stockholders can be held to amend the Bylaws to allow them to nominate a slate of three highly qualified independent directors and (ii) then vote those shares to elect those director nominees who the UpHealth Concerned Stockholders believe will help to enhance the value of the Company and better align the Board with the objectives of its stockholders.
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The UpHealth Concerned Stockholders intend to file a definitive proxy statement and an accompanying BLUE proxy card with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") to be used to solicit votes for the election of its nominees at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of UpHealth, Inc.
THE Uphealth Concerned Stockholders STRONGLY ADVISE ALL STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY TO READ THEIR PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER PROXY MATERIALS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. SUCH PROXY MATERIALS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE ON THE SEC'S WEB SITE AT WWW.SEC.GOV. IN ADDITION, THE Uphealth Concerned Stockholders WILL PROVIDE COPIES OF THE PROXY STATEMENT WITHOUT CHARGE, WHEN AVAILABLE, UPON REQUEST. REQUESTS FOR COPIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE Uphealth Concerned Stockholders' PROXY SOLICITOR, OKAPI PARTNERS, AT ITS TOLL-FREE NUMBER: (888) 785-6707 OR AT INFO@OKAPIPARTNERS.COM.
The participants in the UpHealth Concerned Stockholders' proxy solicitation and the number of shares of common stock of the Company beneficially owned by them is as follows: Jeffery R. Bray (72,437,807 shares beneficially owned, including 4,088,170 shares owned directly, 951,008 shares beneficially owned as custodian and 72,437,807 shares beneficially owned as a result of an irrevocable proxy granted to him under the Voting Agreement), Jeffery R. Bray, as custodian of the Samantha Josephine Bray UTMA (475,504 shares beneficially owned), Jeffery R. Bray as custodian of the Anais Alexandra Bray UTMA (475,504 shares beneficially owned), Alexandra Bray (475,504 shares beneficially owned), John Parsons, Trustee of The Anais Bray Protective Irrevocable Trust, The Bray Descendants Trust and The Samantha Bray Protective Irrevocable Trust (6,478,997 shares beneficially owned as trustee), The Anais Bray Protective Irrevocable Trust (2,699,582 shares beneficially owned), The Bray Descendants Trust (1,079,833 shares beneficially owned), The Samantha Bray Irrevocable Trust (2,699,582 shares beneficially owned), Jacque Butler (1,403,804 shares beneficially owned), Chirinjeev Kathuria (43,182,294 shares beneficially owned), Mariya Pylypiv (7,595,270 shares beneficially owned), Alfonso Gatmaitan (1,183,460 shares beneficially owned), Azfar Malik, M.D. (962,458 shares beneficially owned through AM Physicians LLC), AM Physicians LLC (962,458 shares beneficially owned) Syed Sabahat Azim (6,116,842 shares beneficially owned), Richa Sana Azim (6,116,842 shares beneficially owned), Kimberlite Social Infra Private Limited (684,981 shares beneficially owned), and Eligere Limited Liability Company (6,116,842 shares beneficially owned).
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Retired park ranger saves boy, 9, after family truck sinks
SUMMIT COUNTY, Utah (KSTU) - A 9-year-old boy is on the road to recovery after nearly drowning in a Utah reservoir, if not for a retired park ranger who rescued him.
Paxton, 9, was at Smith and Morehouse Reservoir near Oakley, Utah, on Monday with family members. As the family was unloading kayaks from their truck, the vehicle, with Paxton and two other kids inside, rolled into the water.
“We’re not sure what happened at that point. The truck started to roll down. They tried to get the kids out of the car,” said Paxton’s aunt, Kelley Carpenter.
Two of the kids, a 9-year-old boy and 2-year-old girl, got out safely, but Paxton was still in the truck when it sank.
Joe Donnell, a retired park ranger who was kayaking nearby, made several attempts to get to the boy before he was able to rescue him, according to Carpenter.
“We’ve heard that the gentleman had to dive down about seven times before he finally grabbed some clothing and was able to get Paxton out,” Carpenter said.
Paxton was underwater for more than 10 minutes. He was airlifted to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, where he was placed on life support in the intensive care unit. His aunt went to visit him Tuesday.
“The doctors say that he is doing well and is able to respond to some of their tasks. They did not think that he would survive,” Carpenter said. “Every time I spoke to him, he responded to me, whether that be squeezing my hand, shaking his head ‘yes’.”
Before the incident, Carpenter says Paxton had just started fourth grade at New Hope Academy in Lehi. She describes him as funny, energetic and loving.
“He’s very outgoing, loves to be around all his nieces and nephews, loves playing ‘Fortnite’ with us,” she said.
Carpenter is optimistic Paxton will continue making progress in his recovery.
“He’s going to keep fighting, as long as all of us,” she said.
The family is hoping that when Paxton feels up to it, he can be reunited with the retired park ranger who saved his life.
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ESG Book rebrands from Arabesque S-Ray as part of growth plans to meet demand for sustainability solutions.
- Incubated by Arabesque in 2018, ESG Book combines cutting-edge technology and research to make sustainability data more widely accessible across financial markets.
- ESG Book's cloud-based sustainability solutions are used by many of the world's leading financial organisations, which collectively manage over $120 trillion.
- The company's range of analytics, data, regulatory and scoring products will now be delivered through ESG Book's platform using secure SaaS technology.
LONDON, May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ESG Book, a global leader in sustainability data and technology, today announced the rebrand of the company from Arabesque S-Ray as it scales its services worldwide to meet fast-growing demand for sustainability solutions.
Incubated by Arabesque in 2018, ESG Book combines cutting-edge technology and research to make sustainability data more widely accessible across financial markets. ESG Book's range of sustainability solutions are used by many of the world's leading financial organisations, which collectively manage over $120 trillion.
Processing over 15 million data points daily, ESG Book provides sustainability data for over 25,000 companies worldwide. Its cloud-based technology makes ESG data more widely available and comparable for market stakeholders, enables companies to be custodians of their own data, provides framework-neutral sustainability information in real-time, and promotes transparency.
The company's suite of analytics, regulatory and scoring products are available as data solutions, or can be delivered through ESG Book's platform using secure SaaS technology.
Dr Daniel Klier, CEO of ESG Book, said: "Six months ago, we launched ESG Book with a mission to fix a fundamental problem. Financial markets lack access to quality ESG data. Without transparent, consistent, and accessible data, capital cannot be directed towards more sustainable, higher impact assets."
"With over one hundred of the world's leading financial organisations today using ESG Book data, together with thousands of practitioners using our digital platform daily, it's clear that markets are ready for a new approach. That is why we are excited to unveil our new brand, and announce we are rebranding from Arabesque S-Ray to ESG Book. This decision reflects the evolution and growth of our company, as well as changing client demand, with ESG Book becoming the central marketplace for all our products."
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Arabesque S-Ray GmbH, now also trading as "ESG Book", is a global leader in sustainability data and technology. Incubated by Arabesque in 2018, ESG Book combines cutting-edge technology and proprietary research. ESG Book's wide range of cloud-based sustainability products and solutions are used by many of the world's leading financial organisations which collectively manage over $120 trillion. The company has offices in London, Frankfurt, Boston, Singapore, Delhi and Tokyo and serves clients worldwide from offices in Asia, Europe and North America. www.esgbook.com
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Russian authorities accused of ‘abducting’ Crimean human rights activist
By Ivana Kottasová and Oleksandra Ochman, CNN
Iryna Danylovich’s family and friends have no idea where she is.
The Crimean human rights activist and nurse disappeared on her way home from work in the Russian-annexed peninsula more than a week ago. She has not been seen since.
Danylovich is believed to have been detained by Russian authorities, but they have refused to say whether, where or by whom she is being held. “We assume that she is still in jail,” Danylovich’s lawyer Aider Azamatov told CNN.
Danylovich’s father Bronislav told the news site Krym.Realii, a Radio Liberty affiliate, that his daughter planned to take public transport home on the morning of April 29, after finishing her shift at a medical facility in Koktebel, south-eastern Crimea.
Azamatov said the nurse stopped answering her phone at that point.
At around the same time, Azamatov said, balaclava-clad officials from the Russian special police unit came to the house Danylovich shares with her parents in the village of Vladislavovka, near Feodosiya. Vladislavovka is about 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Koktebel.
He told CNN that the officials who searched the family’s house told her father she had been sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest for “the transfer of unclassified information to a foreign state.”
But the authorities have refused to hand over a copy of the decision, according to Azamatov. He has still not seen any official documents regarding Danylovich’s arrest. He has not been allowed access to his client.
“Iryna does not have a procedural status, which is why they hide her from me,” he said.
Azamatov, Danylovich’s family and several human rights organizations have been searching for her at detention centers in multiple cities in Crimea ever since her disappearance.
Azamatov said he has checked seven pre-trial detention centers and special detention centers across the region himself, with no luck.
Crimean authorities have refused to comment. The officer on duty at the prosecutor’s office for Russian-occupied Crimea referred CNN to authorities in Danylovich’s hometown.
When CNN reached the police station in Feodosiya on Tuesday, the person who answered the call said they knew nothing about the case and hung up.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russian-occupied Crimea did not respond to a written request for comment. A phone number listed on its website is not reachable.
On May 6 — Danylovich’s 43rd birthday — human rights activists left gifts outside one of the detention centers, even as they were told she was not being held there.
Through her work as a citizen journalist, Danylovich has exposed problems in Crimea’s health care system, including in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. She has written for a number of Ukrainian media outlets and has published her findings on Facebook.
“The abduction of Iryna Danylovich has signs of enforced disappearance under the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance,” Zmina, a Ukrainian human rights NGO, said in a statement.
The term enforced disappearance describes disappearances either perpetrated by state actors or by others acting on behalf of, or with the support of, state authorities, followed by a refusal to disclose the person’s fate and whereabouts.
Because the authorities refuse to acknowledge detention, the victim doesn’t have any legal protection and perpetrators are rarely prosecuted, according to the UN.
The UN says the practice is often used as a strategy to spread terror within the society.
Other than telling Danylovich’s father verbally during the search that his daughter was arrested, the authorities have never officially acknowledged her detention or provided any reason for her to be held.
“As of May 7, the ninth day after she went missing, [nothing is known] about where Iryna Danylovich stays and in what status,” Zmina added.
Danylovich’s case is the latest in a string of disappearances of activists, journalists and ordinary citizens reported over the last decade in Crimea.
According to a report published in March 2021, the UN Human Rights Office documented at least 43 cases of enforced disappearances in Crimea between 2014 and 2018.
The UN said they were mostly abductions and kidnappings and that some of the victims — 39 men and four women — had been subjected to ill treatment and torture. Eleven of the men remained missing, and one man remained in detention at the time of the report.
The UN said they had not been able to document any prosecutions in relation to any of the cases.
Azamatov said Danylovich’s parents told him that the people who entered their home were wearing civilian clothes; none of them introduced themselves or showed ID. Instead they read out the warrant and began searching different rooms at the same time, the couple said.
They said the officials confiscated all electronic equipment, including three phones that no longer work, and several books, including a publication by Viktor Suvorov.
Suvorov, whose real name is Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun, is a former Soviet spy who defected to the UK and reinvented himself as an author of books about World War II.
Danylovich’s parents told Azamatov that the officers refused to leave them a copy of the list of seized items or a copy of the report of the search.
On May 2, Azamatov appealed to the authorities and Danylovich’s parents filed a statement to the police.
“My appeals to the Prosecutor’s Office of Crimea, to the Military Prosecutor’s Office, to the Military Investigative Committee and to the Investigative Committee of Russia have not yet been answered. There is an appeal to the police from the father, there is no answer yet,” Azamatov said.
Bronislav Danylovich said he had seen a security video which appeared to show the moment his daughter was abducted.
He told Krym.Realii that he saw CCTV footage from one of the gas stations on the way out of Koktebel showed a woman, in clothes similar to the ones Danylovich was wearing when she disappeared, standing at a bus stop.
He said the clip showed a black car drive up, several people in civilian clothes jump out and — despite the woman’s resistance — push her into the vehicle.
Azamatov told CNN the gas station refused to hand over the footage and that after seeing the video, Bronislav Danylovich filed a new statement with the police demanding that a criminal case be opened.
“Now we are waiting for a video from the place of her abduction, they promised to provide it so that I could study it,” Azamatov said.
Meanwhile, a group of 19 human rights institutions is appealing to agencies and officials at the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union to help in Danylovich’s case.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Russian authorities in Crimea to “immediately come forward with any information regarding Danylovich’s whereabouts and let the media work freely.”
Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator, said in a statement. “Iryna Danylovich’s alarming disappearance prompts fears of yet another clampdown on independent reporting in Russian-occupied Crimea, which is already an extremely restrictive environment for the press.”
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LONDON (AP) — Russia’s war in Ukraine and the energy and food crises it worsened will severely drag down global economic growth and push up inflation this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday.
China’s “zero-COVID” policies, which have further scrambled manufacturing supply chains, also are weighing on a world economy that was just starting to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Paris-based OECD said, becoming the latest institution to slash its growth forecast and underscoring the dimming economic outlook.
The OECD, a club of largely wealthy nations, expects the global economy to expand 3% in 2022, down from the 4.5% that it predicted in December.
Inflation is forecast at nearly 9% for the OECD’s 38 member countries, which include the United States, United Kingdom and many European nations, nearly double the previous estimate.
The World Bank, the United Nations, and the International Monetary Fund have made similar downgrades to their economic forecasts recently.
“Russia’s war is indeed imposing a heavy price on the global economy,” OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said at a press conference in Paris. He urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “stop this atrocious, senseless war now.”
The organization released its forecast as it gears up for a two-day annual meeting starting Thursday, attended by government ministers and featuring video remarks by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The OECD warned that the economic turmoil will hit the poor the hardest. The war is disrupting supplies of food staples like wheat and energy, of which Russia and Ukraine are major global suppliers, fanning inflation that eats away at disposable income and living standards, it said.
The war is hurting economic growth in European nations the most because they are more exposed to the war through trade and energy links. But the OECD also raised the alarm about poor countries farther afield facing food shortages.
“We’re very concerned about the food situation in low-income countries. The war is really sending shockwaves all the way to Africa and the Middle East,” OECD chief economist Laurence Boone said. “The war could spark starvation. It could cause social unrest and political turmoil.”
She said China, long an engine of global growth, has become a source of economic volatility by “gumming up supply chains” already snarled by the pandemic.
China’s pandemic-fighting policies involving draconian lockdowns in Shanghai and other cities brought economic life to a standstill. That’s left a backlog of container ships waiting to dock at Chinese ports and companies worldwide facing problems with deliveries of their goods, highlighting supply chain bottlenecks that threaten to raise prices for consumers, Boone said. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/oecd-slashes-global-economic-outlook-on-russia-ukraine-war/ | 2022-06-08T23:33:00Z |
Daunte Wright’s mother was approached and grabbed by police while trying to film a traffic stop
By Omar Jimenez, CNN
Katie Wright, the mother of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, is calling for the firing of a Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who she says tried to arrest her for filming a traffic stop.
Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter in April 2021 during a traffic stop. Potter was convicted of first and second-degree manslaughter in Wright’s killing and sentenced in February to two years in prison.
Less than three months after the sentence, Katie Wright says she saw a “high police presence” for a vehicle on Wednesday that was pulled over with at least one person in it. She estimated the person to be 20 or 25 years old. So she pulled onto the highway shoulder and began to film on her cell phone.
According to the ACLU of Minnesota, “You have the right to record police actions as long as you do not interfere with their activities and are not breaking any other law.”
“All I was doing was my civic duty to pull over and make sure that those babies got home safe to their families because I don’t want what happened to me to happen to any other families,” Wright said during a press conference on Thursday.
Wright posted the video on Facebook. Body camera video of the incident was also released Thursday by the city of Brooklyn Center.
The body camera video shows an officer helping arrest a suspect and place them into a police vehicle. Then the officer turns his attention across the street toward Wright and is heard saying “she’s getting a ticket” as another officer says, “Nah, don’t worry about it. Come on!”
Moments earlier, the person being arrested is heard telling officers, “I don’t wanna be on that camera over there. She’s recording over there, I don’t want my face on camera because I don’t know what the f**k’s going on.”
It’s not immediately clear if the person being arrested says that in reference to Wright or someone else.
The officer continues toward Wright across multiple lanes of traffic and asks for her driver’s license.
Mayor: ‘I’m really sad to see how Ms. Wright was treated’
“You’re going to give me your driver’s license or I’m going to take you to jail for obstruction,” the officer says to Wright, who at this point is sitting in the driver’s side of her car with the door open filming the officer with her cell phone.
The officer then puts his hand on Wright’s wrist to pull her up and then takes the cell phone out of her hands.
He begins to lead Wright away from the car before she says, “You know who I am right?”
“You guys killed my son and I’m gonna videotape it,” she says and points in the direction of the traffic stop. “And if you take me to jail, I’m going to sue you.”
“You can’t sit on the side of the road!” the officer tells Wright.
“Do not ever touch me again,” she responds.
“I’ll send you a ticket in the mail,” the officer eventually says, to which Wright responds, “then send me a ticket.”
During Thursday’s press conference, Wright questioned why the officer chose to say he would give Wright a ticket even though another officer told him not to do so.
“I’m really sad to see how Ms. Wright was treated,” Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott told CNN.
It “seemed unnecessary to approach Ms. Wright,” Elliott said, adding that, “whatever was happening in the police situation that they were dealing with, had largely subsided.”
He also noted Wright is helping lead the city’s efforts in alternatives to 911 and the reason she, like many others across the country, decide to film police interactions is a “reflection of the level of mistrust that people have in law enforcement.”
A statement released by the city of Brooklyn Center Thursday read in part, “While assisting another agency on a high-risk stop as part of a homicide investigation, there was an encounter between Katie Wright and Brooklyn Center officers.” The city released the body camera footage “in an effort to promote public safety and dispel widespread rumor or unrest.”
Wright is calling for the officer to be fired.
“I don’t want a police officer like that patrolling our community,” Wright said. “He escalated a situation that didn’t need to be escalated.”
“I was only doing what was right and what everyone else should do,” she added.
The officer’s actions are still under review and any disciplinary decisions are “forthcoming,” the mayor told CNN.
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North’s bid of three spades was minor-suit Stayman. However, usually it guarantees enough at least to be thinking about a slam, not just 4 high-card points. So, South showed amazing restraint in passing over five diamonds. However, note that here three no-trump would have been hopeless after the spade-king lead.
Taking the trump suit in isolation, it is normal to lead low toward the queen on the first round. Here, though, that line of play contains a hidden risk.
If East can win the trick with the diamond ace and shift to a heart, declarer will go down whenever the heart finesse fails and he loses another trump trick.
Instead, there is an almost-guaranteed line of play. After winning with the spade ace, South ruffs a spade on the board. Then he makes the strange-looking play of a diamond to his 10. West is welcome to win with the jack because he cannot attack hearts. After driving out the trump ace, declarer can discard his heart losers on dummy’s club suit. With the given layout, South collects an overtrick.
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Addition of Barilla marks the company's fifth new CPG partnership in 2022
MADISON, Wis., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fetch Rewards, America's No. 1 consumer-rewards app, today announced a partnership with Barilla following a strong pilot program. Barilla chose to engage in a full program partnership with Fetch as a result of the platform's ability to increase loyalty and frequency of purchases, enrich data sets, and support innovation of its premium brands.
Over the course of an eight-month pilot program, Barilla saw a 3.6% increase in household penetration amongst Fetch Rewards users, a 9.9% increase in spend per household and saw an overall 13.8% incremental sales lift.
"At Barilla, we are incredibly enthusiastic about the success we saw from the pilot program as it showed more Fetch users were able to try and enjoy our delicious products across our portfolio of pasta and sauce brands," said Melissa Tendick, Vice President of Marketing, Barilla Americas. "We look forward to gaining valuable insights about our consumers and growing our brand loyalty through the Fetch Rewards platform."
Fetch's partnerships with consumer-packaged goods (CPG) companies, retailers, and restaurants rewards users with every purchase they make. By submitting purchase receipts into the app, both physical receipts and receipts from online purchases, shoppers are awarded points based on what they purchase. Every receipt counts, and over time, users can redeem the points across hundreds of reward options such as gift cards, merchandise or donations to charity.
"Barilla was a perfect fit to add to our growing list of partnerships with the top CPG brands that consumers know and love," said David Sommer, Chief Customer Officer of Fetch Rewards. "Through our work together, Barilla will form deeper relationships with their consumers and be able to enter a new generation of digital marketing to drive real, measurable results through purchasing decisions."
Fetch has amassed the largest coalition of brand partners ever to come together on one platform – and the momentum is growing. Already in 2022, Fetch has announced partnerships with Pernod Ricard, E. & J. Gallo Winery, Sargento and Kodiak following positive results from each respective pilot program. Existing partners like Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, PepsiCo are also choosing to renew with Fetch due to the platform's ability to drive long-term results.
Fetch captures more than $100 billion in annual gross merchandise value, making the platform equivalent to the nation's seventh-largest and fastest-growing retailer. This flow of data provides the backbone for a new generation of advertising tools that drive real, measurable purchasing decisions.
Find more information about Fetch's brand partnerships here.
Founded in Madison, Wis., Fetch Rewards is the fastest-growing consumer rewards app in the U.S. Since launching in 2017, the Fetch app has amassed more than 14 million active users who have submitted more than 2 billion receipts and earned more than $300 million in rewards points. A top-ranked app in the App Store and Google Play Store, Fetch Rewards has more than two million five-star reviews from happy shoppers. To learn more, visit www.fetchrewards.com.
Barilla is a family company, not listed on the stock exchange, chaired by brothers Guido, Luca and Paolo Barilla. It was founded by their great-grandfather, Pietro Barilla, who opened a bakery in Parma in 1877. Now, Barilla is famous in Italy and throughout the world for the excellence of its food products. With its brands – Barilla, Vero Gusto, Mulino Bianco, Pan di Stelle, Gran Cereale, Harrys, Pavesi, Wasa, Filiz, Yemina and Vesta, Misko, Voiello and Cucina Barilla – it promotes a tasty, joyful and healthy diet, inspired by the Mediterranean Diet and the Italian lifestyle. When Pietro opened his store more than 140 years ago, his overriding aim was to make good food. Today, that principle has become Barilla's way of doing business: "Good for You, Good for the Planet," a slogan that expresses the daily commitment of the over 8,000 people who work for the company, and of a supply chain that shares its values and passion for quality. "Good for You" means constantly improving the product offering, encouraging the adoption of healthy lifestyles and facilitating people's access to food. "Good for the Planet" means promoting sustainable supply chains and reducing CO2 emissions and water consumption. To learn more: www.barillagroup.com
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BROOMALL, Pa., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Factor4, LLC, a leading provider of gift card and loyalty solutions, announces their gift card integration and platform certification with CHARGE ANYWHERE, an award-winning payment solutions provider of secure payment software, proven gateway solutions and Android smart payment terminals.
The integration enables CHARGE ANYWHERE to deliver a best-in-class omnichannel gift card solution that allows merchants to seamlessly process gift card transactions in-store and online.
"We are pleased to announce our integration with CHARGE ANYWHERE," said Dan Battista, Factor4 CEO. "We have had overwhelming demand for it and have already begun boarding merchants. We are happy to provide merchants with the ability to process gift card transactions on these high quality, affordably priced terminals as consumers return to in-store shopping; and to enable them to process eCommerce, mobile and card present transactions on one platform as well."
"With Factor4 being a leading gift card provider, we couldn't be more pleased their platform is integrated with CHARGE ANYWHERE's ComsGate gateway" said Paul Sabella, CEO of CHARGE ANYWHERE. "The CHARGE ANYWHERE line up of Android smart payment terminals enables Factor4 gift card processing with a real time push to the QuickSale payment application and that is a great experience for every merchant and merchant service provider." Mr. Sabella added.
To learn more about Factor4's integration with CHARGE ANYWHERE or their omnichannel gift card and loyalty programs, contact: 484-471-3963 or sales@factor4gift.com.
About Factor4
Factor4, LLC was formed by four payment service experts to provide the premier gift card and loyalty solution. The founders' strength comes from their combined industry expertise and extensive network. Factor4's strength is from its best-in-class proprietary platform, technology, integrations, and team. The RewardOS API provides effortless, feature-rich integration to a wide range of point-of-sale devices. Factor4 boasts the most integrations of all gift and loyalty providers. Factor4 serves over 16,000 customers and growing. For more information, visit www.factor4gift.com.
About CHARGE ANYWHERE
CHARGE ANYWHERE, LLC is a financial technology company providing solutions to banks, payment processors, merchant acquirers and merchants in need of contact and contactless EMV card present payment products and e-commerce solutions. Our QuickSale® Payment Suite and ComsGate® Payment Gateway Services provide integrators, developers and enterprises the applications, APIs and SDKs to enable in-store and e-commerce payments that meet PCI security standards worldwide.
CHARGE ANYWHERE offers the most secure and robust selection of industry specific payments solutions and services, including Payment Gateway, QuickSale Secure Payment Applications, POS Software, End to End Encryption, Semi-Integration, White Label options, Data Security services, Closed Loop Card Management and Merchant Billing Services. For more information visit CHARGE ANYWHERE at http://www.chargeanywhere.com, or (800) 211-1256.
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DC films have a reputation for being a little too self-serious. They’ve made significant strides to chip away at that dark and dour image in recent years, but it lingers even with things like “The LEGO Batman Movie.” Sometimes it’s even easy to forget that when it comes down to it, superheroes are for kids.
This makes “DC League of Super-Pets,” a straightforward cartoon with a sense of humor about itself and an all-star voice cast, somewhat refreshing. It also could be viewed as a shameless early advertisement to get impressionable young minds hooked on the Justice League so that several years from now when it’s inevitably rebooted, they’ll have a youthful, built-in audience. But we’ll take the charitable route here considering it does come from director Jared Stern and his “LEGO Batman” co-writer John Whittington, who have managed to find joy and humor within cynical toy-hawking, fan-recruiting constructs.
After all, this is a film that gives us Kevin Hart as a shelter pup, Marc Maron as Lex Luthor, Kate McKinnon as a murderous guinea pig named Lulu, Natasha Lyonne as an ancient, libidinous turtle named Merton and Keanu Reeves as Batman. It’s impossible to top Will Arnett as the caped crusader, but Reeves makes a good case for himself delivering lines like “Batman works alone. Except for Gordon. And Alfred... and whoever Morgan Freeman played” in a way only he could.
Wearing its heart on its sleeve, “DC League of Super-Pets” opens on the planet Krypton where a cherubic baby Kal-El is being sent to earth. But he’s not alone. A puppy named Krypto (Dwane Johnson) goes along for the ride and signs up to be the future Superman’s (John Krasinski) lifelong watcher and crimefighting pal. Krypto takes his mission very seriously. In his eyes, he’s not just Superman’s best friend, he’s his only friend and things start to get a little tense when Lois Lane (Olivia Wilde) enters the picture. In his jealous rage one night (eating ice cream, watching “The Great British Bake Off” and listening to Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood”), Krypto doesn’t notice that Superman is in distress. His beloved owner is captured along with the rest of the Justice League by Lulu the guinea pig.
It is McKinnon who really makes the movie as Lulu, a displaced Lex Luthor science experiment who has been biding her time in an animal shelter, building a device to wield the powers of orange kryptonite waiting for the right moment to strike at the Justice League. Her compatriots in the shelter are Hart’s Ace, a pig named PB (Vanessa Bayer), a squirrel Chip (Diego Luna) and Lyonne’s Merton, none of whom are ever selected for adoption (it’s always a kitten on their first day). But at least they get their freedom when Lulu’s plan works and suddenly they all have superpowers. You can guess what happens from there.
The visuals, though, are less inspired. These CG characters, especially the Justice League, are smooth and dull creatures, computer generated to the point of blandness. Wonder Woman in particular even veers into uncanny Cocomelon territory with her minimally expressive face and unfocused eyes. Perhaps the superheroes were an afterthought to their animal counterparts.
Johnson and Hart seem to have fun, too, but a fair amount of their charm as a comedic duo is lost without their physical presence — not that the audience of kids will know this or care. Parents might just be wishing they were watching this cast in live-action instead.
“DC League of Super-Pets,” a Warner Bros. release in theaters Friday, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association for “action, mild violence, language and rude humor.” Running time: 106 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four. | https://www.tdtnews.com/entertainment/article_09676d9e-0db9-11ed-80d2-b72044b09963.html | 2022-07-28T07:07:32Z |
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lambert, a public relations, investor relations, and integrated communications agency, today announced that Katie Barnes joined the company as Director in its Crisis and Reputation Management group. Barnes will be critical to helping grow the business and supporting client strategies specific to crisis and issues management, crisis planning, and media and executive training.
"Crises come in all shapes and sizes, and Katie's concentrated experience in strategic communications and expert counsel are what clients require when reputations are on the line," stated Lambert Managing Director Jeff Gaunt. "Her experience leading proactive and reactive global communications strategies will be advantageous in supporting our clients across the agency."
Barnes has over 10 years of public relations experience spanning automotive, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, direct selling, and telehealth industries, with the latter half of her career dedicated to brand reputation, corporate issues and crisis management for global organizations. She has led proactive reputation-related efforts in the areas of sustainability, community relations, change management and online community building. Her crisis expertise includes, but is not limited to, product and supply chain issues, technology failures, legal and regulatory issues, misinformation, environmental issues and COVID-19.
Before joining Lambert, Barnes was the Brand Reputation Manager with SmileDirectClub, a Nasdaq-listed international oral care company. Before that, she spent over six years on the global communications team at Amway in positions of increasing responsibility. She concluded her tenure at Amway as Assistant Brand Manager of Reputation, leading proactive and reactive global reputation efforts, including communications planning for the company's first official sustainability platform. Barnes also worked with Ford Motor Company to support internal labor and manufacturing communications during the launch of the 50th anniversary Mustang and national UAW contract negotiations. She started her career on the agency side with MSL supporting the General Motors account. Barnes earned her Reputation Management Certification from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and bachelor's degree in business and public relations from Ferris State University.
"Companies with great reputations often receive the benefit of the doubt in times of crisis," said Barnes. "Managing a crisis requires agility, creativity and a plan, and I am thrilled to join Lambert in helping organizations develop their plans while advocating for a more holistic approach to managing reputations during the good times and the bad."
About Lambert
Founded in 1998, Lambert invented the PR and IR integrated agency model with over 20 years of continuous growth attributed to the firm's laser focus on strategic communications and bottom-line results in the achievement of client goals. The award-winning national agency is a top-40 PR and top-15 IR firm with top-5 specialties in automotive and mobility, education, and M&A/private equity, alongside robust practice areas in consumer packaged goods, healthcare and biotech, and tourism and hospitality. The firm's reach spans six major talent hubs, including Grand Rapids, Detroit, New York, St. Louis, Houston, and Phoenix. Lambert is a founding partner of TiiCKER, a shareholder loyalty, marketing, and perks platform, and an equity partner in minority-owned independent marketing agency 9th Wonder. Lambert's Founder and Chairman Jeff Lambert is the global board chair of PROI Worldwide, the world's largest and most diverse partnership of PR firms, and named 2021 Ally of the Year, the top diversity award in public relations issued by Diversity Action Alliance.
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WEED, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of people remained under evacuation orders Saturday after a wind-whipped wildfire raged through rural Northern California, injuring people and torching an unknown number of homes.
The fire that began Friday afternoon on or near a wood-products plant quickly blew into a neighborhood on the northern edge of Weed but then carried the flames away from the city of about 2,600.
Evacuees described heavy smoke and chunks of ash raining down.
Annie Peterson said she was sitting on the porch of her home near Roseburg Forest Products, which manufactures wood veneers, when “all of a sudden we heard a big boom and all that smoke was just rolling over toward us.”
Very quickly her home and about a dozen others were on fire. She said members of her church helped evacuate her and her son, who is immobile. She said the scene of smoke and flames looked like “the world was coming to an end.”
Suzi Brady, a Cal Fire spokeswoman, said several people were injured.
Allison Hendrickson, spokeswoman for Dignity Health North State hospitals, said two people were brought to Mercy Medical Center Mount Shasta. One was in stable condition and the other was transferred to UC Davis Medical Center, which has a burn unit.
Rebecca Taylor, communications director for Roseburg Forest Products based in Springfield, Oregon, said it is unclear if the fire started near or on company property. A large empty building at the edge of company property burned she said. All employees were evacuated, and none have reported injuries, she said.
The blaze, dubbed the Mill Fire, was pushed by 35-mph (56-kph) winds, and quickly engulfed 4 square miles (10.3 square kilometers) of ground.
The flames raced through tinder-dry grass, brush and timber. About 7,500 people in Weed and several nearby communities were under evacuation orders.
Dr. Deborah Higer, medical director at the Shasta View Nursing Center, said all 23 patients at the facility were evacuated, with 20 going to local hospitals and three staying at her own home, where hospital beds were set up.
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for Siskiyou County and said a federal grant had been received “to help ensure the availability of vital resources to suppress the fire.”
At about the time the blaze started, power outages were reported that affected some 9,000 customers, and several thousand remained without electricity late into the night, according to an outage website for power company PacifiCorp, which said they were due to the wildfire.
It was the third large wildfire in as many days in California, which has been in the grip of a prolonged drought and is now sweltering under a heat wave that was expected to push temperatures past the 100-degree mark in many areas through Labor Day.
Thousands also were ordered to flee on Wednesday from a fire in Castaic, north of Los Angeles, and a blaze in eastern San Diego County, near the Mexican border, where two people were severely burned and several homes were destroyed. Those blazes were 56% and 65% contained, respectively, and all evacuations had been lifted.
The heat taxed the state’s power grid as people tried to stay cool. For a fourth day, residents were asked to conserve power Saturday during late afternoon and evening hours.
The Mill Fire was burning about an hour’s drive from the Oregon state line. A few miles north of the blaze, a second fire erupted Friday near the community of Gazelle. The Mountain Fire has burned more than 2 square miles (6 square kilometers) but no injuries or building damage was reported.
The whole region has faced repeated devastating wildfires in recent years. The Mill Fire was only about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of where the McKinney Fire — the state’s deadliest of the year — erupted in late July. It killed four people and destroyed dozens of homes.
Olga Hood fled her Weed home on Friday as smoke was blowing over the next hill.
With the notorious gusts that tear through the town at the base of Mount Shasta, she didn’t wait for an evacuation order. She packed up her documents, medication and little else, said her granddaughter, Cynthia Jones.
“With the wind in Weed everything like that moves quickly. It’s bad,” Jones said by phone from her home in Medford, Oregon. “It’s not uncommon to have 50 to 60 mph gusts on a normal day. I got blown into a creek as a kid.”
Hood’s home of nearly three decades was spared from a blaze last year and from the devastating Boles Fire that tore through town eight years ago, destroying more than 160 buildings, mostly homes.
Hood wept as she discussed the fire from a relative’s house in the hamlet of Granada, Jones said. She wasn’t able to gather photos that had been important to her late husband.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state history.
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Associated Press reporters Olga R. Rodriguez and Janie Har in San Francisco and Stefanie Dazio and Brian Melley in Los Angeles contributed to this article. | https://cw33.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-thousands-flee-several-hurt-as-wildfire-scorches-california/ | 2022-09-03T18:16:33Z |
BRENTWOOD, Tenn., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The current cost trajectory of healthcare has created an urgent need for improved care delivery. The Commonwealth Fund's Mirror, Mirror 2021, comparing the performance of healthcare systems of high-income countries, found the United States trails far behind on measures of healthcare affordability, administrative efficiency, equity, outcomes and overall care delivery. This need has led hospitals and health systems to rethink operational management practices.
Adapted from the manufacturing industry, Lean is a system-wide strategy to eliminate waste of resources and time through an ongoing system of improvement. Using Lean principles, employees and members of the organization continually strive to identify areas of waste and eliminate anything that does not add value for patients.
"The approach offers a competitive advantage, leading hospitals to implement a Lean management philosophy," said Erika Sundrud, Vice President, Care Transformation, QHR Health. "When well executed, Lean transforms a hospital's operational capacity to sustain high levels of quality and safety and improve care outcomes."
In a recent article, QHR Health, a leading shared service solutions provider strengthening independent, community healthcare, shared five insights to implement a Lean transformation including:
- Understand what Lean is and what it's not.
An understanding of the Lean philosophy is essential to successful transformation and sustained improvements in patient care and staff satisfaction.
- Lead the transformation from the top.
Lean is a people transformation and requires passionate senior leaders at the forefront to engage and empower employees.
- Build a core of internal Lean leaders.
Because Lean is a management philosophy, it is imperative internal leaders are aligned around expectations and strategy to lead transformation.
To read the article, 5 Proven Tips for Making Lean Work in Your Hospital, click here.
At QHR Health, our focus is strengthening independent community healthcare. For more than 40 years, QHR Health has collaborated with independent hospitals and health systems to ensure that people in communities ranging from small towns to larger population centers, have local access to quality healthcare services. Through our portfolio of tech-enabled shared services, QHR Health helps independent hospitals outperform their peers in financial, operational and quality metrics through leverage and economies of scale. To learn how, visit QHR.com (https://qhr.com) or connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former Fort Worth police officer will face his murder trial next month in the city where he fatally shot a Black woman through a window of her home in 2019, a Texas judge ruled Wednesday.
Judge David Hagerman denied a motion by the lawyers for Aaron Dean, who were seeking to move his trial for the killing of Atatiana Jefferson to another county because of media coverage that they claimed had tainted the jury pool against the 37-year-old. But he agreed to their request to postpone the case, moving it back a month.
The decision means Dean will go on trial in June a few miles from where he shot Jefferson through a rear window while responding to a call about the front door being open. The 28-year-old Black woman’s killing shattered already fragile relations between the city’s police department and its Black community.
After nearly three days of hearings, Hagerman ruled that news coverage about the shooting had not been inflammatory and that Dean’s case will proceed in Tarrant County, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Dallas, according to theFort Worth Star-Telegram.
Dean’s trial has been delayed for years as the COVID-19 pandemic ground courts across the country to a standstill. It had been set to begin on May 16, but the former officer’s lawyers asked for further delay Wednesday because one of them is in poor heath.
Hagerman set the trial for June 23 and said it will proceed with or without the attorney, KXAS-TV reported.
Dean resigned after he was charged with murderin Jefferson’s Oct. 12, 2019, death.
Jefferson was watching her 8-year-old nephew when a neighbor called a nonemergency police line to report that a door was ajar. Police have said that Dean opened fire from outside through a window after “perceiving a threat.”
Hagerman has issued a gag order has been issued that prevents prosecutors and defense attorneys from speaking publicly about the case. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-u-s-headlines/ex-cops-murder-trial-to-remain-in-fort-worth-judge-rules/ | 2022-05-05T05:04:09Z |
24/7 Channel Honors Timeless Moments from the Iconic Show
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The Ed Sullivan Show channel launches exclusively on Pluto TV. Housed within the Classic TV category, the 24/7 channel dedicated to the television icon will feature an array of content with over 75 hours of memorable performances that shaped the pop cultural zeitgeist.
Now 51 years after its last broadcast, audiences can experience the excitement of these once-in-a-lifetime performances in one historic collection on the newly launched channel, The Ed Sullivan Show, on Pluto TV. The collection includes Ed Sullivan's Rock 'N' Roll Classics (Rock `N' Roll Hall Of Fame, Rock Legends, The British Invasion, Psychedelic Sixties, Top Hits Of 1965, Top Hits Of 1970, West Coast Rock, Lennon & McCartney Songbook, Sounds Of The Cities, Gone Too Soon, Motortown Review and First Women Of Rock).
The channel will also run TV specials and documentaries including The Best Of The Ed Sullivan Show which comprises 80 edited episodes of original programs that feature groundbreaking performing artists across music, comedy, novelty, dance and opera.
Nearly every Sunday from June 1948 to March 1971, families gathered in their living rooms for more than 1,000 Sundays to see the artists who would later become superstars performing for the first time on television or performing their beloved #1 hits on The Ed Sullivan Show. From the worlds of pop and R&B music, Broadway, opera, dance, comedy, sports, and more, Ed Sullivan showcased them all on his unforgettable weekly Sunday night variety show.
"We're thrilled to be launching a dedicated streaming channel for fans to enjoy a wide range of episodes and specials of The Ed Sullivan Show 7 days a week," adds Josh Solt, CEO of SOFA Entertainment.
"Pluto TV is bringing its audiences another television icon. The exclusive dedicated channel showcases historic performances– like The Beatles first appearance in front of an American audience– that continue to shape our culture and spotlights the lasting impact of The Ed Sullivan Show," says Amy Kuessner, Senior Vice President of Content Strategy & Global Partnerships, Paramount Streaming.
Featuring footage and extended performances from its 23-year run of hosting a broad range of 10,000 performers, the channel will spotlight the most spectacular ensemble of show business stars including Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Mamas & The Papas and The Jackson 5 alongside celebrated comedians such as Joan Rivers, Flip Wilson, Alan King, Stiller & Meara, and Rodney Dangerfield.
Some of the biggest names in comedy, Broadway theatre, rock and pop music captured live in the prime of their careers will now entertain audiences again. Nostalgic favorites including children's puppet figure Topo Gigio, plate spinner Erich Brenn, variety-sketch idols The Muppets and the magical Señor Wences will be highlighted amongst countless talented acts.
Pluto TV is available anywhere you stream - across all major mobile, CTV and web devices.
For more information, go to: EdSullivan.com
The Ed Sullivan Show is the most popular primetime variety show in American history. For nearly a quarter century, Ed Sullivan hosted the greatest array of talent on television, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley and Motown artists such as The Supremes, The Temptations and The Jackson 5. Every Sunday night at 8pm on CBS from 1948-1971, The Ed Sullivan Show showcased a wide variety of pop culture from the worlds of music, comedy, novelty and much more. The library of 1,000 hours includes over 10,000 performances.
In 1990, Andrew Solt founded SOFA Entertainment Inc. and acquired The Ed Sullivan Show from the Sullivan family. In 2020 Josh Solt left Google to lead SOFA as CEO of the company. The Ed Sullivan Show is the most revered variety show in American television history. SOFA Entertainment is the copyright holder of the original Ed Sullivan programs and over 150 hours of newly created programming.
Pluto TV, a Paramount Company, is the leading free streaming television service delivering hundreds of live linear channels and thousands of titles on-demand to a global audience of nearly 70 million monthly active users. The Emmy ® award-winning service curates a diverse lineup of channels, in partnership with over 400 international media companies, offering a wide array of genres, languages and categories featuring movies, television series, sports, news, lifestyle, kids and much more. Pluto TV can be easily accessed and streamed across mobile, web and connected TV devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Pluto TV's growing international footprint extends across three continents and over 30 countries and territories.
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STURGIS, S.D., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The annual, historic Sturgis Motorcycle Rally has arrived and 2LaneLife is excited to announce meet-and-greet events and also a new line of products in collaboration with Thrashin Supply.
The mission of 2LaneLife's content series that's featured on YouTube® and other platforms is to open your eyes to exploring the unknown, traveling to distant places, and enjoying the journey along the way while riding Harley-Davidson® motorcycles.
2LaneLife will be hosting meetups at the following locations:
Legend Suspensions Headquarters in Sturgis, SD
August 6th from 10-12pm
Klock Werks booth at Black Hills Harley-Davidson
August 6th from 2-4pm
Featured in Harley-Davidson's booth on Lazelle St
August 8th from 10-12pm
Additionally, 2LaneLife is excited to launch a new line of motorcycle gloves in collaboration with Thrashin Supply that are available now on the company's website. This is another step towards the big picture and where 2LaneLife is going in the future.
To watch 2LaneLife's coverage of Sturgis 2022 be sure to visit their YouTube channel and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/2lanelife
For more information on the company, from press or sponsor inquiries to questions about products found on the website, visit the following link: https://2lanelife.com
2LaneLife is a team of motorcycle enthusiasts that decided to pursue their passion full-time while sharing their experiences with the world. What began as a simple YouTube channel has grown into a media and product company as well as a leading online store for motorcycle parts/gear.
Contact:
2LaneLife
info@2lanelife.com
(818) 340-0540
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EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynavax Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: DVAX), a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative vaccines, will report first quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, May 5, 2022, after the U.S. financial markets close.
Dynavax will host a conference call and live audio webcast on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. (ET)/1:30 p.m. (PT).
The live audio webcast may be accessed through the "Events & Presentations" page on the "Investors" section of the Company's website at https://investors.dynavax.com/events-presentations. Alternatively, participants may dial (866) 420-4066 or (409) 217-8237 and refer to conference ID 4282730. A replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days following the live event.
Dynavax is a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing innovative vaccines to help protect the world against infectious diseases. The Company has two commercial products, HEPLISAV-B® [Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant), Adjuvanted], which is approved in the U.S. and the European Union for prevention of infection caused by all known subtypes of hepatitis B virus in adults age 18 years and older, and CpG 1018 adjuvant, currently used in multiple adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccines. Dynavax is advancing CpG 1018 adjuvant as a premier vaccine adjuvant through global research collaborations and partnerships. Current collaborations are focused on adjuvanted vaccines for COVID-19, plague, shingles, Tdap, seasonal influenza and universal influenza. For more information about our marketed products and development pipeline, visit www.dynavax.com and follow Dynavax on LinkedIn.
Contacts:
Nicole Arndt, Senior Manager, Investor Relations
narndt@dynavax.com
510-665-7264
Derek Cole, President
Investor Relations Advisory Solutions
derek.cole@IRadvisory.com
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First Annual HRX Meeting to Assemble Cardiovascular Innovators Focused on Transforming Patient Care
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PaceMate, one of the nation's fastest-growing cardiac rhythm management and remote patient monitoring companies, announced two of its co-founders have been chosen to speak at HRX 2022, the Heart Rhythm Society's cardiovascular digital health summit on September 8-10, 2022, in San Diego, California.
The first annual innovation-focused digital cardiovascular summit brings together 500 national innovators, including clinicians, engineers, product developers, investors, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and patient advocacy groups, to examine transformative digital health trends and solutions to improve cardiovascular patient care.
HRX 2022's lineup of speakers includes Tripp Higgins, Chief Executive Officer of PaceMate, who will explore the "CIED Remote Monitoring Landscape" on September 9 at 3 pm PST. In this session, Mr. Higgins will discuss the future of remote cardiac patient monitoring (RPM) and its critical role in enabling device clinics to scale in support of larger patient populations as cardiovascular care shifts to more risk-bearing, value-based care models.
"I am honored to be selected to speak at the Heart Rhythm Society's HRX digital health summit," said Tripp Higgins, CEO of PaceMate. "I look forward to sharing how cardiac remote patient monitoring and digital health innovations will continue to create opportunities to improve patient outcomes for cardiovascular practices and device clinics, primary care providers as well as healthcare systems, and payors."
Noemi Ray, PaceMate Co-Founder & Vice President of Product Operations for PaceMate, has also been invited to serve as a panelist during two sessions, "The Healthcare Professional Perspective: What Are Our Challenges with RPM?" and "Can Healthtech Fix Afib?" on September 9 at 10:30 am and 2 pm PST, respectively.
And Curt Harper, CCDS, BSE, Director of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships for PaceMate, and the lead architect of PaceMateLIVE, will serve as a panelist on September 9 at 2:00 pm PST during a session focused on "Group Chat, Data Connectivity, Cybersecurity and Interoperability."
Visit ExperienceHRX.com to learn more and follow #HRX2022 on Twitter and LinkedIn for real-time updates and emerging news from the meeting.
About PaceMate™
Recognized as a 'Top 100 Healthcare Technology Company' by Healthcare Technology Report, PaceMate™ is one of the nation's fastest-growing in cardiac rhythm management and remote patient monitoring. Combining state-of-the-art cloud-based software, research-grade data, and seamless integrations, PaceMateLIVE, the company's flagship RPM platform, is the de facto choice of electrophysiologists, device clinics, and healthcare systems.
With PaceMate, leading healthcare organizations can significantly improve patient outcomes, reimbursements, productivity, and population health with better point-of-care decision-making and alert management. For more information about PaceMate, visit PaceMate.com or call 1-844-4VIPMED.
About HRX 2022
The mission of HRX is to annually convene all cardiovascular stakeholders to accelerate innovation and transform patient care. For more information, visit www.ExperienceHRX.com.
About The Heart Rhythm Society
The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) is a 501(c)(3) international nonprofit organization and the preeminent leader in science, education, and advocacy for cardiac arrhythmia professionals and patients. HRS continues to be the primary information resource on heart rhythm disorders with a mission to improve the care of patients by promoting research, education, and optimal health care policies and standards, and a mission to eliminate death and suffering due to heart rhythm disorders. Incorporated in 1979 and based in Washington, D.C., it has a membership of more than 7,500 heart rhythm professionals in more than 90 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.HRSonline.org.
Media Contact
Lou Hughes
Moving Minds
561.508.0128
lou.hughes@movingminds.io
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CEDARHURST, N.Y., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of C3.ai, Inc. ("C3" or the "Company") (NYSE:AI), if they purchased the Company's securities between December 9, 2020 and February 15, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period") and/or purchased or otherwise acquired the Company's shares pursuant to the Company's December 2020 initial public offering (the "IPO"). Shareholders have until May 3, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
Shareholders are encouraged to contact us at https://kclasslaw.com/cases/securities/nyse-ai/https://kclasslaw.com/cases/securities/nyse-hmlp/, by calling toll-free at 1-833-835-1495 or by email (dk@kclasslaw.com).
Kuznicki Law PLLC is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a Company lead to artificial inflation of the Company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
Kuznicki Law PLLC
Daniel Kuznicki, Esq.
445 Central Avenue, Suite 344
Cedarhurst, NY 11516
Email: dk@kclasslaw.com
Phone: (347) 696-1134
Cell: (347) 690-0692
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Although the San Diego Padres made plenty of noise at the trade deadline, it’s already been drowned out by the relentless drumbeat of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ march toward October.
Will Smith homered and drove in three runs, and the Dodgers continued to pull away from the rest of the NL West with their seventh consecutive victory, 8-3 over the second-place Padres on Saturday night.
Max Muncy hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning for the Dodgers, who boosted their division lead to a season-high 14 1/2 games with their 16th win in the last 18 meetings with San Diego. A few days after the Padres signaled their World Series intentions by adding Juan Soto, Josh Bell and Brandon Drury to the lineup, Los Angeles has calmly outscored San Diego 16-4 in back-to-back big victories at Chavez Ravine.
“Tonight was a clinic, (a) team offensive clinic,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. ”Using the entire field, situationally, it’s as good as you can draw it up. … Just a good, professional way to approach a game in every facet.”
The Dodgers have won six consecutive series against the Padres, whose bold trade deadline moves haven’t yet overcome their powerhouse rivals’ everyday excellence. Los Angeles improved the majors’ best record to 74-33 with its 14th win in 17 games since hosting the All-Star Game last month.
“We’re a really, really good lineup,” said Muncy, who is on an upward surge after a largely dismal season. “Kind of seems like our lineup has been forgotten with some of the things that have been happening, and it feels good to go out and prove we have a really good lineup.”
Drury had an RBI double during a three-run fourth inning for the Padres, who have lost three straight. San Diego is 1-3 since adding three shiny new bats, and manager Bob Melvin is eager to see a return on his team’s big investments.
“We’ll play better than this, (but) unfortunately we didn’t get off to a good start,” said Melvin, whose club has 19 hits and no homers in its three straight defeats. “The first day was great, and we haven’t followed it up yet. These guys, we’ve got to solve (the Dodgers) at some point.”
Soto has a hit in every game with San Diego, but he managed only a soft single Saturday night. Bell went 0 for 4, while Drury’s double was his only hit.
“We brought (the new hitters) in here late in the season to do it now,” Melvin said. “After the first game, we haven’t been as good as we should be.”
Mike Clevinger (3-4) yielded seven hits and five runs while pitching into the fifth inning for San Diego. The Padres took a 3-2 lead into the fifth, but Muncy chased Clevinger by driving his 11th homer into the visitors’ bullpen.
“They’re good at capitalizing on mistakes, and I feel like two pitches cost us the ballgame,” Clevinger said.
Andrew Heaney lowered his ERA to 0.66 while pitching 4 2/3 innings of four-hit ball in his sixth start of the season for the Dodgers, his third since returning from three injury-plagued months. San Diego went ahead with three unearned runs in a rally abetted by second baseman Gavin Lux’s error on Bell’s easy one-out grounder.
Chris Martin (3-0) ended the fifth by striking out Manny Machado, earning his second victory in four games with his new club.
Smith led off the second with his 16th homer, extending his hitting streak to nine games. The slugging catcher, who had three hits in Friday’s series opener, then drove in Mookie Betts with a two-out single in the third.
Freddie Freeman and Smith had sacrifice flies in the seventh. Betts started the rally with a single before Machado made a key error — to the delight of the Dodgers fans who boo their former infielder relentlessly.
Cody Bellinger added an RBI double off the wall in the eighth.
KERSH’S HEALTH
Clayton Kershaw had an epidural injection for his lower back pain, and an MRI exam revealed nothing new, Roberts said. The team hasn’t decided when Kershaw will pick up a baseball again, but Roberts thinks “it’s going to be shorter-term, rather than longer-term.”
BIG TICKET
Dodger Stadium was packed for the second straight night, with 52,124 fans watching the Southern California rivals. One night earlier, the Dodgers’ celebration of Vin Scully was one of the hottest tickets in recent LA history.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Padres: RHP Robert Suárez returned from the 60-day injured list and yielded two hits and a run in the eighth. He had been out since June 5 after knee surgery.
Dodgers: Dodgers relievers Blake Treinen (shoulder) and Brusdar Graterol (shoulder) both threw an inning in a simulated game, and both came out “really good,” Roberts said. Graterol is still about 10 days from returning, and Treinen isn’t expected back until September.
UP NEXT
Dodgers All-Star Tyler Anderson (12-1, 2.89 ERA) looks to remain unbeaten since June in the series finale. Yu Darvish (10-4, 3.30) takes the mound against his old team for San Diego after going 6-1 in his last 10 starts.
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LAKEWOOD, Colo., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) today announced that the Company will release its third quarter fiscal year 2022 financial results after the market close on Thursday, August 4, 2022. Following the release via the wire services, the Company will host a conference call with financial analysts and investors at 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time). To participate in the conference call, dial 1-888-347-6606 (U.S.); 1-855-669-9657 (Canada); or 1-412-902-4289 (International). The conference ID is "Natural Grocers Q3 FY 2022 Earnings Call." Please dial in at least five minutes before the start of the conference call.
Investors and other parties may listen to the webcast of the conference call by logging on via the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://investors.naturalgrocers.com/ or directly at https://app.webinar.net/Q19Va1maNDq.
An audio recording of the conference call will be archived for a minimum of 20 days on the Company's website at http://investors.naturalgrocers.com/.
About Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) is an expanding specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries, body care products and dietary supplements. The products sold by Natural Grocers must meet strict quality guidelines and may not contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The Company sells only USDA certified organic produce and exclusively pasture-raised, non-confinement dairy products, and free-range eggs. Natural Grocers' flexible smaller-store format allows it to offer affordable prices in a shopper-friendly, clean and convenient retail environment. The Company also provides extensive free science-based nutrition education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. The Company, founded in 1955, has 162 stores in 20 states.
Visit www.NaturalGrocers.com for more information and store locations.
Investor Contact:
Reed Anderson, ICR, 646-277-1260, reed.anderson@icrinc.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Sema4 Holdings, Corp..
Shareholders who purchased shares of SMFR during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CONTACT US HERE:
CLASS PERIOD: March 14, 2022 to August 15, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) there was a significant risk that Sema4 would reverse a material amount of previously recognized revenue that it could not recoup from third party payors; (2) the Company was experiencing declining selling prices for its reproductive health segment; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Sema4's financial results would be adversely affected; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: November 7, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/sema4-holdings-corp-loss-submission-form/?id=31661&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of SMFR during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is November 7, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union citizens may be able to claim damages from governments if their health has been affected by excessive air pollution, a top court adviser said Wednesday.
In her opinion, Advocate General Juliane Kokott said that “an infringement of the limit values for the protection of air quality under EU law may give rise to entitlement to compensation from the State.”
Advocates General routinely provide legal guidance to the European Court of Justice. Their opinions aren’t binding on the Luxembourg-based court, but are followed in most cases.
The court looked at the matter after a Parisian plaintiff requested €21 million in damages from the French state, claiming that the growing air pollution in the French capital had damaged his health. He said the French state was liable for that harm because it did not ensure that EU limits were respected.
The Administrative Court of Appeal in Versailles, France, which is hearing the dispute, asked the Court of Justice if, and under what conditions, individuals can claim compensation from the state for health damage caused by infringement of the EU limit values.
In 2019, the Court of Justice found that France had “systematically and persistently” exceeded the annual limit for nitrogen dioxide since 2010. In addition, France’s top administrative court last year fined President Emmanuel Macron’s government a record 10 million euros for failing to reduce air pollution to acceptable levels.
Kokott considered that the conditions for state liability applied in this case, although establishing a “direct causal link” between the serious breach of the rules on air quality and specific damage to health might be difficult to prove.
The Advocate General also pointed out “that even if a direct link between a serious infringement of the limit values and damage to health were proved, the matter would not end there.”
“Rather, the Member State may exonerate itself by proving that such exceedance of the limit values would also have occurred if it had adopted in good time air quality plans which satisfy the requirements of the directive.” the court said in a press release. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/eu-governments-may-be-liable-for-harmful-pollution-levels/ | 2022-05-05T22:52:34Z |
- First-Quarter 2022 Financial Results
- Bausch + Lomb Commenced Trading Under "BLCO" Ticker
- Reported Revenues Grew 1%, and Organic Revenues1,2 Grew 5%
VAUGHAN, ON, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch + Lomb Corporation, (NYSE/TSX: BLCO) ("Bausch + Lomb" or the "Company" or "we"), a leading global eye health company dedicated to helping people see better to live better, today announced its first-quarter 2022 financial results.
"In the first quarter, Bausch + Lomb delivered organic revenue1,2 growth, driven by our two largest segments, Vision Care and Surgical," said Joseph C. Papa, chairman and CEO, Bausch + Lomb. "Bausch + Lomb has always stood at the forefront of cutting-edge scientific and technological optical advancements, and today we are more focused than ever on developing and offering new treatments to meet unmet eye health needs."
"As we look to the future as a publicly traded company, we believe we are well positioned for growth in large, durable markets, driven by new products and megatrends, and we see many attractive opportunities for a pure-play eye health company," continued Mr. Papa.
Bausch + Lomb Is Now Trading Under the Ticker "BLCO"
Bausch + Lomb began trading on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker "BLCO" on May 6, 2022 and closed its initial public offering ("IPO") on May 10, 2022. Bausch Health Companies Inc. ("Bausch Health" or "BHC") expects to complete the spinoff of Bausch + Lomb following the expiry of customary lock-ups related to the IPO, achievement of target net leverage ratios and subject to market conditions and receipt of applicable shareholder and other necessary approvals.
Select Company and Pipeline Highlights
- Launched XIPERE®3 (triamcinolone acetonide injectable suspension), a therapy that uses the suprachoroidal space to treat patients suffering from macular edema associated with uveitis, in the United States
- Bausch + Lomb INFUSE®/ULTRA® ONE DAY daily disposable silicone hydrogel contact lenses are now available in 24 countries, including recent launches in several European countries and in Malaysia
- VYZULTA® (latanoprostene bunod ophthalmic solution), 0.024%, is now approved in 18 countries, including recent approvals in Bahrain and Lebanon
- LUMIFY® (brimonidine tartrate ophthalmic solution 0.025%) is now approved in 6 countries, including recent approvals in Canada, Jordan and Lebanon
- Launched Biotrue® Hydration Plus Multi-Purpose Solution in the United States
First-Quarter 2022 Revenue Performance
Total reported revenues were $889 million for the first quarter of 2022, as compared to $881 million in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of $8 million, or 1%. Foreign exchange had an unfavorable impact on revenues by $29 million in the first quarter of 2022. Revenue increased organically1,2 by approximately 5% compared to the first quarter of 2021.
Revenues by segment were as follows:
First-Quarter 2022
Vision Care Segment
Vision Care segment revenues were $560 million for the first quarter of 2022, as compared to $556 million for the first quarter of 2021, an increase of $4 million, or 1%. Excluding the unfavorable impact of foreign exchange of $19 million, the segment increased organically1,2 by approximately 4% compared to the first quarter of 2021, primarily due to higher sales of LUMIFY® (brimonidine tartrate ophthalmic solution 0.025%), Biotrue® solutions franchise and Ocuvite® + PreserVision®, partially offset by decreased sales in the Contact Lens business driven by COVID-19 lockdowns in China that began in the first quarter of 2022.
Surgical Segment
Surgical segment revenues were $174 million for the first quarter of 2022, as compared to $162 million for the first quarter of 2021, an increase of $12 million, or 7%. Excluding the unfavorable impact of foreign exchange of $6 million and the impact of divestitures and discontinuations of $3 million, the segment increased organically1,2 by approximately 13% compared to the first quarter of 2021, primarily due to increased sales of implantables, consumables and intraocular lenses.
Ophthalmic Pharmaceuticals Segment
Ophthalmic Pharmaceuticals segment revenues were $155 million for the first quarter of 2022, as compared to $163 million for the first quarter of 2021, a decrease of $8 million, or 5%. Excluding the unfavorable impact of foreign exchange of $4 million, the segment decreased organically1,2 by approximately 3% compared to the first quarter of 2021, primarily due to generic erosion and a decrease in net realized pricing in the United States, partially offset by higher sales of key promoted brands and an increase in international sales.
Operating Results
Operating income was $54 million for the first quarter of 2022, as compared to $85 million for the first quarter of 2021, an unfavorable change of $31 million. The change was primarily driven by the Company's investment in Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses and R&D spending, as well as an increase in Cost of goods sold, partially offset by a decrease in amortization of intangible assets and an increase in revenues.
Net Income
Net income for the first quarter of 2022 was $20 million, as compared to $27 million for the first quarter of 2021, an unfavorable change of $7 million. The change was primarily due to the decrease in operating results noted above, partially offset by a favorable change in the Provision for income taxes.
Adjusted net income (non-GAAP)1 for the first quarter of 2022 was $85 million, as compared to $93 million for the first quarter of 2021, a decrease of $8 million.
Cash Flow from Operations
Cash flow from operations for the first quarter of 2022 was $3 million, as compared to $188 million for the first quarter of 2021, a decrease of $185 million. Cash flow from operations was negatively impacted in the first quarter of 2022 primarily by the timing of the settlement of certain intercompany balances between Bausch + Lomb and BHC that were collected by BHC in the first quarter of 2022 on behalf of Bausch + Lomb. The Company does not anticipate that these factors will have such a significant impact on cash flow from operations in future quarters.
Earnings Per Share
GAAP Earnings Per Share ("EPS") and Adjusted EPS (non-GAAP)1 for the first quarter of both 2021 and 2022 have been calculated on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the IPO.
GAAP EPS Basic and Diluted for the first quarter of 2022 was $0.06, as compared to $0.08 for the first quarter of 2021. Adjusted EPS (non-GAAP)1 for the first quarter of 2022 was $0.24, as compared to $0.27 for the first quarter of 2021.
Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP)1
Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP)1 was $170 million for the first quarter of 2022, as compared to $198 million for the first quarter of 2021, a decrease of $28 million, primarily due to foreign exchange headwinds and the impact from the COVID-19 lockdown in China, partially offset by strong organic2 revenue growth.
2022 Financial Outlook5
Bausch + Lomb provided guidance for the full year of 2022 as follows:
- Full-year revenue range of $3.75 – $3.80 billion, reflecting anticipated 4-5% organic1,2 growth
- Full-year Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP)1 range of $740 – $780 million, reflecting approximately 5% base performance growth6
Other than with respect to GAAP Revenues, the Company only provides guidance on a non-GAAP basis. The Company does not provide a reconciliation of forward-looking Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP)1 to GAAP net income (loss) or of forward-looking organic growth1,2 to reported revenue growth, due to the inherent difficulty in forecasting and quantifying certain amounts that are necessary for such reconciliations. These amounts may be material and, therefore, could result in the projected GAAP measure or ratio being materially different or less than the projected non-GAAP measure or ratio. These statements represent forward-looking information and may not represent a financial outlook, and actual results may vary. Please see the risks and assumptions referred to in the Forward-looking Statements section of this news release.
Balance Sheet Highlights
- Bausch + Lomb's cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash were $190 million at March 31, 2022
- Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding for the first quarter of 2022 were 350 million shares on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the IPO
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About Bausch + Lomb
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.
Forward-looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking information and statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking statements"), which may generally be identified by the use of the words "anticipates," "hopes," "expects," "intends," "plans," "should," "could," "would," "may," "believes," "estimates," "potential," "target," or "continue" and variations or similar expressions and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results may, could, should or will be achieved, received or taken, or will occur or result, and similar such expressions also identify forward-looking information. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding Bausch + Lomb's future prospects and performance, including the Company's 2022 full-year guidance, the anticipated spin off of Bausch + Lomb from BHC and the timing thereof, details of the Company's product pipeline and expectations on factors which may or may not impact cash flow from operations in future quarters. These forward-looking statements, including the Company's full-year guidance, are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of management and are provided for the purpose of providing additional information about such expectations and beliefs, and readers are cautioned that these statements may not be appropriate for other purposes. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risks and uncertainties discussed in Bausch + Lomb's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and the Canadian Securities Administrators (the "CSA") (including the Company's final prospectus as filed with the SEC on May 5, 2022 pursuant to Rule 424(b)(4) under the Securities Act of 1933 relating to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 and the Company's supplemented PREP prospectus as filed with the CSA on May 5, 2022), which factors are incorporated herein by reference. They also include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties relating to the proposed plan to separate Bausch + Lomb from BHC, including the expected benefits and costs of the separation transaction, the expected timing of completion of the separation transaction and its terms (including the expectation that the separation transaction will be completed following the expiry of customary lock-ups related to the Bausch + Lomb IPO and achievement of targeted net leverage ratios, subject to receipt of applicable shareholder and other necessary approvals), the ability to complete the separation transaction considering the various conditions to the completion of the separation transaction (some of which are outside the Company's and BHC's control, including conditions related to regulatory matters and applicable shareholder and other approvals), the impact of any potential sales of the Company's common shares by BHC subject to expiry of lock-ups, that market or other conditions are no longer favorable to completing the transaction, that applicable shareholder, stock exchange, regulatory or other approval is not obtained on the terms or timelines anticipated or at all, business disruption during the pendency of or following the separation transaction, diversion of management time on separation transaction-related issues, retention of existing management team members, the reaction of customers and other parties to the separation transaction, the qualification of the separation transaction as a tax-free transaction for Canadian and/or U.S. federal income tax purposes (including whether or not an advance ruling from the Canada Revenue Agency and/or the Internal Revenue Service will be sought or obtained), the ability of the Company and BHC to satisfy the conditions required to maintain the tax-free status of the separation transaction (some of which are beyond their control), other potential tax or other liabilities that may arise as a result of the separation transaction, the potential dis-synergy costs resulting from the separation transaction, the impact of the separation transaction on relationships with customers, suppliers, employees and other business counterparties, general economic conditions, conditions in the markets the Company is engaged in, behavior of customers, suppliers and competitors, technological developments and legal and regulatory rules affecting the Company's business. In particular, the Company can offer no assurance that any separation transaction will occur at all, or that any separation transaction will occur on the terms and timelines anticipated by the Company and BHC. They also include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties caused by or relating to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, the fear of that pandemic, the emergence of variant and subvariant strains of COVID-19 (including the Delta and Omicron variants), the availability and effectiveness of vaccines for COVID-19 (including current or future variants and subvariants), COVID-19 vaccine immunization rates and the potential effects of that pandemic, the severity, duration and future impact of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, and which may have a material adverse impact on the Company, including but not limited to its supply chain, third-party suppliers, project development timelines, employee base, liquidity, stock price, financial condition and costs (which may increase) and revenue and margins (both of which may decrease). In addition, certain material factors and assumptions have been applied in making these forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, assumptions regarding our 2022 full-year guidance with respect to expectations regarding base performance growth and organic growth, currency impact, run-rate dis-synergies and inflation, expectations regarding adjusted gross margin (non-GAAP), adjusted SG&A expense (non-GAAP) and the Company's ability to continue to manage such expense in the manner anticipated and the anticipated timing and extent of the Company's R&D expense; and the assumption that the risks and uncertainties outlined above will not cause actual results or events to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements. Management has also made certain assumptions in assessing the anticipated impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company and its results of operations and financial conditions, including: that there will be no material restrictions on access to health care products and services resulting from a possible resurgence of the virus and variant and subvariant strains thereof on a global basis in 2022; there will be increased availability and use of effective vaccines; that the strict social restrictions in the first half of 2020 will not be materially re-enacted in the event of a material resurgence of the virus and variant and subvariant strains thereof; that there will be an ongoing, gradual global recovery as the macroeconomic and health care impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic diminish over time; that the largest impact to the Company's businesses were seen in the second quarter of 2020; that, to the extent not already achieved, our revenues will likely return to pre-pandemic levels during 2022, but that rates of recovery will vary by geography and business unit, with some regions and business units expected to lag in recovery possibly beyond 2022; and no major interruptions in the Company's supply chain and distribution channels. If any of these assumptions regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are incorrect, our actual results could differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any of these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Bausch + Lomb undertakes no obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this news release or to reflect actual outcomes, unless required by law.
Non-GAAP Information
To supplement the financial measures prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), the Company uses certain non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP ratios, including: (i) EBITDA, (ii) Adjusted EBITDA, (iii) Adjusted Net Income, (iv) organic growth/change, (v) organic revenue, (vi) constant currency and (vii) Adjusted EPS. Management uses these non-GAAP measures and ratios as key metrics in the evaluation of the Company's performance and the consolidated financial results and, in part, in the determination of cash bonuses for its executive officers. The Company believes these non-GAAP measures and ratios are useful to investors in their assessment of our operating performance and the valuation of the Company. In addition, these non-GAAP measures and ratios address questions the Company routinely receives from analysts and investors, and in order to assure that all investors have access to similar data, the Company has determined that it is appropriate to make this data available to all investors.
However, these measures and ratios are not prepared in accordance with GAAP nor do they have any standardized meaning under GAAP. In addition, other companies may use similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures and ratios that are calculated differently from the way we calculate such measures and ratios. Accordingly, our non-GAAP financial measures and ratios may not be comparable to such similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures and ratios used by other companies. We caution investors not to place undue reliance on such non-GAAP measures and ratios, but instead to consider them with the most directly comparable GAAP measures and ratios. Non-GAAP financial measures and ratios have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation. They should be considered as a supplement to, not a substitute for, or superior to, the corresponding measures calculated in accordance with GAAP.
The reconciliations of these historic non-GAAP financial measures and ratios to the most directly comparable financial measures and ratios calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP are shown in the tables below.
Specific Non-GAAP Measures
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
EBITDA (non-GAAP) is Net income attributable to Bausch + Lomb Corporation (its most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure) adjusted for interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) is EBITDA (non-GAAP) further adjusted for the items described below. Management believes that Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP), along with the GAAP measures used by management, most appropriately reflect how the Company measures the business internally and sets operational goals and incentives. In particular, the Company believes that Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) focuses management on the Company's underlying operational results and business performance. As a result, the Company uses Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) both to assess the actual financial performance of the Company and to forecast future results as part of its guidance. Management believes Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) is a useful measure to evaluate current performance. Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) is intended to show our unleveraged, pre-tax operating results and therefore reflects our financial performance based on operational factors. In addition, cash bonuses for the Company's executive officers and other key employees are based, in part, on the achievement of certain Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) targets.
EBITDA (non-GAAP) is Net income attributable to Bausch + Lomb (its most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure) adjusted for interest income, income taxes, depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) is EBITDA (non-GAAP) further adjusted for the following items:
- Asset impairments: The Company has excluded the impact of impairments of finite-lived and indefinite-lived intangible assets as such amounts are inconsistent in amount and frequency and are significantly impacted by the timing and/or size of acquisitions and divestitures. The Company believes that the adjustments of these items correlate with the sustainability of the Company's operating performance. Although the Company excludes impairments of intangible assets from measuring the performance of the Company and its business, the Company believes that it is important for investors to understand that intangible assets contribute to revenue generation.
- Restructuring and integration costs: The Company has incurred restructuring costs as it implemented certain strategies, which involved, among other things, improvements to its infrastructure and operations, internal reorganizations and impacts from the divestiture of assets and businesses. With regard to infrastructure and operational improvements which the Company has taken to improve efficiencies in the businesses and facilities, these tend to be costs intended to right size the business or organization that fluctuate significantly between periods in amount, size and timing, depending on the improvement project, reorganization or transaction. The Company believes that the adjustments of these items provide supplemental information with regard to the sustainability of the Company's operating performance, allow for a comparison of the financial results to historical operations and forward-looking guidance and, as a result, provide useful supplemental information to investors.
- Acquisition-related costs and adjustments excluding amortization of intangible assets: The Company has excluded the impact of acquisition-related contingent consideration non-cash adjustments due to the inherent uncertainty and volatility associated with such amounts based on changes in assumptions with respect to fair value estimates, and the amount and frequency of such adjustments are not consistent and are significantly impacted by the timing and size of the Company's acquisitions, as well as the nature of the agreed-upon consideration.
- Share-based compensation: The Company excludes the impact of acquisition-related contingent consideration non-cash adjustments due to the inherent uncertainty and volatility associated with such amounts based on changes in assumptions with respect to fair value estimates, and the amount and frequency of such adjustments are not consistent and are significantly impacted by the timing and size of the Company's acquisitions, as well as the nature of the agreed-upon consideration. There were no adjustments for Acquisition-related costs and adjustments excluding amortization of intangible assets for any of the periods presented.
- Separation costs and separation-related costs: The Company has excluded certain costs incurred in connection with activities taken to: (i) separate the Bausch + Lomb business from the remainder of BHC and (ii) register the Bausch + Lomb business as an independent publicly traded entity. Separation costs are incremental costs directly related to effectuating the separation of the Bausch + Lomb business from the remainder of BHC and include, but are not limited to, legal, audit and advisory fees, talent acquisition costs and costs associated with establishing a new board of directors and audit committee. Separation-related costs are incremental costs indirectly related to the separation of the Bausch + Lomb business from the remainder of BHC and include, but are not limited to, IT infrastructure and software licensing costs, rebranding costs and costs associated with facility relocation and/or modification. As these costs arise from events outside of the ordinary course of continuing operations, the Company believes that the adjustments of these items provide supplemental information with regard to the sustainability of the Company's operating performance, allow for a comparison of the financial results to historical operations and forward-looking guidance and, as a result, provide useful supplemental information to investors.
- Other Non-GAAP adjustments: The Company also excludes certain other amounts, including IT infrastructure investment, litigation and other matters, gain/(loss) on sales of assets and certain other amounts that are the result of other, non-comparable events to measure operating performance if and when present in the periods presented. These events arise outside of the ordinary course of continuing operations. Given the unique nature of the matters relating to these costs, the Company believes these items are not routine operating expenses. For example, legal settlements and judgments vary significantly, in their nature, size and frequency, and, due to this volatility, the Company believes the costs associated with legal settlements and judgments are not routine operating expenses. The Company has also excluded certain other costs, including settlement costs associated with the conversion of a portion of the Company's defined benefit plan in Ireland to a defined contribution plan. The Company excluded these costs as this event is outside of the ordinary course of continuing operations and is infrequent in nature. The Company believes that the exclusion of such out-of-the-ordinary-course amounts provides supplemental information to assist in the comparison of the financial results of the Company from period to period and, therefore, provides useful supplemental information to investors. However, investors should understand that many of these costs could recur and that companies in our industry often face litigation.
Adjusted Net Income (non-GAAP)
Adjusted net income (non-GAAP) is net income (loss) attributable to Bausch + Lomb Corporation (its most directly comparable GAAP financial measure) adjusted for asset impairments, restructuring and integration costs, acquisition-related contingent consideration, acquired in-process research and development costs, separation costs and separation-related costs and other non-GAAP adjustments, as these adjustments are described above and further adjusted for amortization of intangible assets, as described below:
- Amortization of intangible assets: The Company has excluded the impact of amortization of intangible assets, as such amounts are inconsistent in amount and frequency and are significantly impacted by the timing and/or size of acquisitions. The Company believes that the adjustments of these items correlate with the sustainability of the Company's operating performance. Although the Company excludes the amortization of intangible assets from its non-GAAP expenses, the Company believes that it is important for investors to understand that such intangible assets contribute to revenue generation. Amortization of intangible assets that relate to past acquisitions will recur in future periods until such intangible assets have been fully amortized. Any future acquisitions may result in the amortization of additional intangible assets.
Adjusted net income (non-GAAP) excludes the impact of these certain items that may obscure trends in the Company's underlying performance. Management uses Adjusted net income (non-GAAP) for strategic decision making, forecasting future results and evaluating current performance. By disclosing this non-GAAP measure, it is management's intention to provide investors with a meaningful, supplemental comparison of the Company's operating results and trends for the periods presented. Management believes that this measure is also useful to investors as such measure allows investors to evaluate the Company's performance using the same tools that management uses to evaluate past performance and prospects for future performance. Accordingly, the Company believes that Adjusted net income (non-GAAP) is useful to investors in their assessment of the Company's operating performance and the valuation of the Company. It is also noted that, in recent periods, our GAAP net income (loss) was significantly lower than our Adjusted net income (non-GAAP).
Organic Growth/Change and Organic Revenue
Organic growth/change, a non-GAAP ratio, is defined as a change on a period-over-period basis in revenues on a constant currency basis (if applicable) excluding the impact of recent acquisitions, divestitures and discontinuations (if applicable). Organic growth/change is a change in GAAP Revenue (its most directly comparable GAAP financial measure) adjusted for certain items, as further described below, of businesses that have been owned for one or more years. Similarly, organic revenue, a non-GAAP measure, is GAAP revenue (its most directly comparable GAAP financial measure) adjusted for these same items. Organic revenue growth/change is impacted by changes in product volumes and price. The price component is made up of two key drivers: (i) changes in product gross selling price and (ii) changes in sales deductions. The Company uses organic growth/change and organic revenue to assess the performance of its reportable segments, and the Company in total, without the impact of foreign currency exchange fluctuations and recent acquisitions, divestitures and product discontinuations. The Company believes that such measures are useful to investors as they provide a supplemental period-to-period comparison.
Organic growth/change and organic revenue reflect adjustments for: (i) the impact of period-over-period changes in foreign currency exchange rates on revenues and (ii) the revenues associated with acquisitions, divestitures and discontinuations of businesses divested and/or discontinued. These adjustments are determined as follows:
- Foreign currency exchange rates: Although changes in foreign currency exchange rates are part of our business, they are not within management's control. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates, however, can mask positive or negative trends in the business. The impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates is determined as the difference in the current period reported revenues at their current period currency exchange rates and the current period reported revenues revalued using the monthly average currency exchange rates during the comparable prior period.
- Acquisitions, divestitures and discontinuations: In order to present period-over-period organic revenue (non-GAAP) growth/change on a comparable basis, revenues associated with acquisitions, divestitures and discontinuations are adjusted to include only revenues from those businesses and assets owned during both periods. Accordingly, organic revenue and organic growth/change exclude from the current period, revenues attributable to each acquisition for twelve months subsequent to the day of acquisition, as there are no revenues from those businesses and assets included in the comparable prior period. Organic revenue and organic growth/change exclude from the prior period, all revenues attributable to each divestiture and discontinuance during the twelve months prior to the day of divestiture or discontinuance, as there are no revenues from those businesses and assets included in the comparable current period.
Constant Currency
Changes in the relative values of non-U.S. currencies to the U.S. dollar may affect the Company's financial results and financial position. To assist investors in evaluating the Company's performance, we have adjusted for foreign currency effects. Constant currency impact is determined by comparing 2022 reported amounts adjusted to exclude currency impact, calculated using 2021 monthly average exchange rates, to the actual 2021 reported amounts.
Adjusted EPS (non-GAAP)
Adjusted earnings per share or Adjusted EPS (non-GAAP) is calculated as Diluted income per share attributable to Bausch + Lomb Corporation ("GAAP EPS") (its most directly comparable GAAP financial measure), adjusted for the per diluted share impact of each adjustment made to reconcile Net income to Adjusted net income (non-GAAP) as discussed above. Like Adjusted net income (non-GAAP), Adjusted EPS (non-GAAP) excludes the impact of certain items that may obscure trends in the Company's underlying performance on a per share basis. By disclosing this non-GAAP measure, it is management's intention to provide investors with a meaningful, supplemental comparison of the Company's results and trends for the periods presented on a diluted share basis. Accordingly, the Company believes that Adjusted EPS (non-GAAP) is useful to investors in their assessment of the Company's operating performance, the valuation of the Company and an investor's return on investment. It is also noted that, for the periods presented, our GAAP EPS was significantly lower than our Adjusted EPS (non-GAAP).
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Saturday forecast: Kicking off Memorial Day Weekend on the warmer side
80s and 90s with breezy south winds through Monday
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - We are tracking a warm, muggy and breezy Memorial Day Weekend. Temperatures Saturday will get into the upper 80s and some low 90s with south winds at 10 to 20 mph with gusts around 30 mph. There is a slight chance for rain showers this morning, then skies will be partly cloudy this afternoon.
Today: Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s and low 90s. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph gusting to 30 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Lows near 70. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy and warm. Highs near 90. Winds S at 20 to 30 mph gusting to near 40 mph.
Memorial Day is expected to be dry, warm, muggy and breezy with skies being mostly sunny and temperatures in the upper 80s. Winds Monday will be windy from the south at 20 to 30 mph pumping in a lot of humidity. Chances for rain and storms increases after 5pm Monday. There is a potential for severe weather with these storms. The main hazards Monday evening are large hail and tornadoes, especially in central Kansas. Oddly enough, the risk for widespread damaging wind is low for now. The tornado risk is highest in Central Kansas where one or two tornadoes are certainly possible Monday evening before 10pm.
After the severe weather risk Monday night, we hold onto rain chances through Wednesday. The best chances for rain and storms at the start of next week is Monday night and Tuesday night. There are additional chances Tuesday and Wednesday during the day, but confidence is lower for how widespread rain will be on those days. The rain should begin to clear out Wednesday night and leave us dry most of the day Thursday.
Temperatures next week will begin warm for Monday and Tuesday both being in the mid to upper 80s before a cold front finally crosses through Kansas Tuesday night. Behind the front we are expecting cooler temperatures in the low to mid 70s for the second part of next week before gradually warming back up to 80 b next weekend.
Taking Action:
- The AC will need to be turned on this weekend: It will be hot, windy and muggy with heat indices 2-5 degrees warmer than the actual air temperature.
- Keep an eye on the forecast over the holiday weekend because we are tracking a severe weather risk Monday evening.
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BETHESDA, Md., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The ASCII Group, a large membership-based community of independent North American MSPs, MSSPs and Solution Providers, is pleased to announce a new initiative with Sandler Partners, a leading distributor of Connectivity and Cloud services.
By collaborating with Sandler Partners, ASCII members will have access to their unique, and competitive portfolio of telecom, technology, and Cloud solutions. This engagement will allow ASCII members to broaden their technology portfolios with over two hundred telecom and Cloud Provider solutions, while further increasing their ability to serve their clients.
"We are pleased to be working with Sandler Partners and recognize the emerging synergies between the telecom and IT industries," said Alan Weinberger, Chairman & CEO, The ASCII Group. "We are delighted to present another benefit to members of the ASCII community that will yield additional revenue opportunities for their businesses."
"Being independent and private, we can work a little differently than most technology distributors," states Alan Sandler, Founding Partner. "We're free to concentrate on the relationships we build with our community –educating and empowering technology professionals with impartial solutions, not driven by quota's or agendas, providing ironclad contracts, and support that allows customer service, everyone's holy grail, to always be the first and last consideration. We are grateful to welcome The ASCII Group to our community, the Sandler Partners team is ready to help you succeed."
The ASCII Group is committed to helping its members meet the increasing demand for telecom solutions for their SMB clients. This new initiative with Sandler Partners will provide members an additional opportunity to expand their service offerings.
To learn more about becoming a member of The ASCII Group, please visit www.ascii.com.
About The ASCII Group, Inc:
The ASCII Group is the premier community of North American MSPs, MSSPs and Solution Providers. The Group has members located throughout the U.S. and Canada, and membership encompasses everyone from credentialed MSPs serving the SMB community to multi-location solution providers with a national and international reach. Founded in 1984, ASCII provides services to members including leveraged purchasing programs, education and training, marketing assistance, extensive peer interaction and more. ASCII works with a vibrant ecosystem of leading and major technology vendors that complement the ASCII community and support the mission of helping MSPs to grow their businesses. For more information, please visit www.ascii.com.
About Sandler Partners
Sandler Partners is America's fastest-growing technology solutions brokerage and distributor of connectivity and cloud services. In 2021, Sandler Partners was included on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies for the 12th straight year. Over the years, they've expanded beyond their telecom roots to deliver best-in-class cloud, colocation, mobility, continuity, and security solutions from 200+ suppliers through a network of 9,000+ expert technology sales partners — agents, VARs, and MSPs — to thousands of small, medium, and enterprise organizations nationwide.
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6 fire crew members in 1 department expecting children this year
Published: Aug. 12, 2022 at 2:40 PM CDT|Updated: 27 minutes ago
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) – Six crew members at a fire department in Kansas are expecting children by the end of the year.
According to KWCH, the McPherson Fire Department posted a photo on Facebook of the firefighters’ wives showing off their baby bumps while wearing their husbands’ gear.
The first of the six babies is due Sept. 27, with one other due in October, two in November and two in December.
“The joy of welcoming a baby has multiplied by six,” the fire department said in the social media post. “We feel blessed.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Hours after the Mets learned Max Scherzer will join fellow ace Jacob deGrom on the injured list, Pete Alonso kept New York rolling with a two-run homer in the 10th inning for a 7-6 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday.
Paul Goldschmidt tied the score 5-all with two outs in the ninth off Mets closer Edwin Díaz with his fourth RBI of the game. Albert Pujols hit a run-scoring double play grounder in the 10th of the Cardinals’ first-extra inning game this year.
With the automatic runner on second, Alonso drove the second pitch from Giovanny Gallegos (0-2) into the left field second deck for his third career game-ending home run. It was the 10th home run of the season for Alonso, who leads the major leagues with 33 RBIs.
Colin Holderman (1-0), who made his big league debut last weekend, got his first big league decision as the Mets moved a season-high 12 games over .500 by winning three of four from the Cardinals.
This was the first time since 2014 that the Mets won the season series against St. Louis.
Jeff McNeil had a tiebreaking, two-run single and three RBIs and two snazzy catches for New York.
The Mets said during the game that Scherzer had been diagnosed with a strained oblique muscle in his left side after leaving Wednesday night’s win following a pitch. Scherzer is expected to be sidelined for six to eight weeks, another blow to a team that leads the NL East at 26-14 despite missing deGrom, No. 5 starter Tylor Megill and catcher James McCann to injuries, along with relievers Sean Reid-Foley and Trevor May.
Goldschmidt hit a tying home run in the third, a go-ahead double in the fifth and a sacrifice fly in the seventh. He tied it with an infield hit off the foot of shortstop Eduardo Escobar with with two outs in the ninth as Díaz blew a save for the second time in 11 chances.
Harrison Bader had reached on an infield hit leading off the ninth for his third single, stole second for the second time on the day and advanced to third on a groundout.
McNeil used his right foot to push off against the wall in left field foul territory on Goldschmidt’s sacrifice fly. McNeil landed in position to throw to second and nabbed Brendan Donovan, who tried to tag up from first.
Then with a runner on first in the eighth, McNeil made a sliding catch on a soft liner to deny Dylan Carlson and threw to second from his back.
New York took a 5-3 lead with a three-run fifth. Mark Canha scored on Brandon Nimmo’s grounder, just beating a high throw from first baseman Albert Pujols that was dropped by catcher Yadier Molina.
Nick Wittgren relieved Dakota Hudson, gave up a single to Lindor and loaded the bases with a four-pitch walk to Alonso that sent the NL RBIs leader sprawling. The ball whizzed just over the head of Alonso, who has been hit on the helmet twice this season.
McNeill, who drove in the Mets’ first run with an infield grounder in the first, followed with a drive to shallow center ticked off the glove of Bader, a speedy Glove Glove winner who nearly made a sliding grab.
McNeil is hitting .313, including .400 with runners in scoring position.
Juan Yepez had a second-inning home run and his first three-hit game for Cardinals. He took a called third strike that stranded the bases loaded in the ninth.
OUCH!
Cardinals right-hander Andre Pallante took a 111 mph liner from Alonso off his left shoulder in the seventh that went for an infield single, McNeil, the next batter, hit a 99 mph comebacker off the pitcher’s left foot, and Pallante retrieved the the ball to throw to first for the out.
LAST TRIP IN
The Mets honored Pujols and Molina before their last regular-season games at Citi Field and presented them with checks for their charities.
RETURNING
Mets OF Starling Marte likely will be activated Friday after returning from the Dominican Republic, where he traveled following the death of a grandmother
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: C Andrew Knziner left in the middle of the fifth inning after taking a pair of foul tips off his mask earlier in the game. … INF Edmundo Sosa didn’t start after straining his left ankle while sliding into second when he was caught stealing in the fifth inning Wednesday.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: RHP Ada Wainwright (4-3, 3.15) takes the moind on Friday in a series opener at Pittburgh, which starts RHP Zach Thompson (2-3, 5.47).
Mets: RHP Carlos Carrasco (3-1, 3.73) starts Friday’s series opener at Colorado and RHP Germán Márquez (1-3, 6.16).
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The measure -- which supporters call "constitutional carry" -- passed the legislature April 1 and allows anyone who was previously eligible for a concealed carry license in Georgia to begin carrying a concealed handgun without a permit.
The new law allows Georgia citizens "to protect themselves without having to have permission from your state government," Kemp said at a signing ceremony.
Georgia is now one of more than 20 states that allow permitless carry, according to data compiled by Everytown for Gun Safety, a non-profit that focuses on gun violence prevention.
Georgia's law does not apply to people who are barred from handgun ownership for other reasons, such as minors and convicted felons who have not had their civil rights restored. It still bans guns in airports and secured government buildings.
Controversial permitless carry laws have gained momentum during this year's legislative sessions in several states, including Wisconsin, South Carolina, Indiana and Nebraska. In March, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a similar bill, and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation that will allow adults to carry a concealed handgun without a license or training.
Kemp, who is running for reelection this year amid criticism from former President Trump, used the concealed carry law Tuesday to put his conservative credentials on display.
"I have no doubt that the Left will come out against us like they have before," Kemp said.
Law enforcement officials and advocacy groups nationwide have been sounding the alarm about the policy's safety risks.
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BEIJING (AP) — Two Chinese astronauts went on a spacewalk Saturday from a new space station that is due to be completed later this year.
Cai Xuzhe and Chen Dong’s installed pumps, a handle to open the hatch door from outside in an emergency, and a foot-stop to fix an astronaut’s feet to a robotic arm, state media said.
China is building its own space station after being excluded by the U.S. from the International Space Station because its military runs the country’s space program. American officials see a host of strategic challenges from China’s space ambitions, in an echo of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry that prompted the race to the moon in the 1960s.
The latest spacewalk was the second during a six-month mission that will oversee the completion of the space station. The first of two laboratories, a 23-ton module, was added to the station in July and the other is to be sent up later this year.
The third member of the crew, Liu Yang, supported the other two from inside during the spacewalk. Liu and Chen conducted the first spacewalk about two weeks ago.
They will be joined by three more astronauts near the end of their mission in what will be the first time the station has six people on board.
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NEW YORK, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. ("Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp." or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LILM) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between March 30, 2021 and March 14, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
LILM 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) Lilium materially overstates the design and capabilities of the Lilium Jet, an electric vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft for use in a new type of high-speed air transport system for people and goods; (2) Lilium materially overstates the likelihood for the Lilium Jet's timely certification; (3) Lilium misrepresents its ability to obtain or create the necessary batteries for the Lilium Jet; (4) the special purpose acquisition company merger would not and did not generate enough cash to commercially launch the Lilium Jet; (5) Qell Acquisition Corp. did not engage in proper due diligence regarding its merger with Lilium GmbH; and (6) as a result, Defendants' public statements and statements to journalists were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. during the relevant time frame, you have until June 17, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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WETHERBY, England, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Proactis, the leading Source-to-Pay software solution provider for mid-market organisations, today announced that it has achieved £22m of Total Contract Value ('TCV') during the last 12 months to 30 June 2022. This is up by more than 100% against the comparative period and is in addition to a 42% increase in active pipeline since November 2021.
Since being taken private in July 2021 by growth investors, Pollen Street Capital and DBAY Advisors, the company has invested strongly in its Commercial and Technical teams with additions to Marketing, Sales, Customer Success and Product Management to drive growth in each of its market-facing territories - UK, North America, France, DACH, Benelux, New Zealand and Australia.
"Proactis has a clear strategic opportunity to become the international mid-market leader, and I am extremely pleased with the progress that we have made during this period. Mid-market organisations require a specific solution because they face unique challenges, and this level of growth shows that our message and offering resonates strongly with this important market segment that we serve," stated Tim Sykes, CEO at Proactis.
"Our new business, cross-sell and upsell performance and trajectory is extraordinarily good in both volume and value and the progress is testimony to our team's expertise and the positioning of our offer. Whilst progress is clearly significant, we do not stop here. Our investment and growth in key territories puts us in a very strong position but we will be adding more as we seek to realise the full potential we have, and I am confident of further growth in the coming months and years."
About Proactis
Proactis is a leading Source-to-Pay software solution provider for mid-market organisations across a range of service-led industries.
Proactis' end-to-end modular platform enables customers to control spend and manage supply-chain risk; improve compliance and governance of their purchasing activities; reduce the cost of goods and services; and deliver efficiencies, all through process digitisation and automation.
Proactis serves a rapidly growing client base of over 1,100 corporate and public sector organisations and 2 million suppliers, with over 3 million users in 100+ countries across the UK, Europe, North America, New Zealand and Australia.
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Exclusive Software Streamlines Installer Workflow and Accelerates Business Growth
SINGAPORE, April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxeon Solar Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MAXN), a global leader in solar innovation and channels, announced today a partnership with leading software provider, OpenSolar, to provide its trusted installer network with Maxeon's SunPower Design, an exclusive software tool with unmatched design accuracy and speed. As a result, Maxeon's installer network can design the industry's most accurate proposals in a matter of minutes, providing their customers with optimal customer service while maximizing their workflow efficiencies. Maxeon's SunPower Design complements the new suite of tools available to installers affiliated with Maxeon. In addition to Maxeon's SunPower Design, the first release of this new suite includes advanced education programs, integrated online ordering including logistics updates, as well as marketing tools and branded merchandise.
"The new digital tools are the cornerstone of our customer-centric business transformation, focused on providing a better experience as well as simplifying the buying process for our trusted channel partners," said Mark Babcock, Chief Revenue Officer of Maxeon Solar Technologies. "We are working hard to deliver a comprehensive, easy-to-use platform to service our channel partners' most pressing needs and solve their pain points so that they can focus on their core business. We expect our digital toolkit to become, release after release, a true virtual assistant for our installers, delivering the right information at the right time to gain efficiency in their sales, procurement and installation processes."
Highlighting OpenSolar partnership strengths, Ralf Elias, Chief Product Officer of Maxeon Solar Technologies, said, "The combined effort with OpenSolar in particular allows us to offer industry-leading software specifically customized to emphasize the value that our premium panel technology can deliver to end customers in the long term, further helping our partners to differentiate from the competition. We expect OpenSolar capabilities to enable us to quickly deploy a new powerful tool to hundreds of installers globally and help them to scale fast in such a pivotal time for the energy transition."
Andrew "Birchy" Birch, Co-Founder at OpenSolar said, "The strength and market-leading accuracy of the OpenSolar platform is perfectly suited to support Maxeon and its network of installers. The customization capabilities we've built ensure that all the benefits of SunPower technology from Maxeon can be accurately modeled and presented to the end customer."
Maxeon's SunPower Design will be initially available to its SunPower-branded channel partners in Europe as well as Australia, and Mexico. To learn more about the new tool and how it can add value to any solar project, please visit our website.
About Maxeon Solar Technologies
Maxeon Solar Technologies (NASDAQ: MAXN) is Powering Positive Change™. Headquartered in Singapore, Maxeon designs and manufactures Maxeon® and SunPower® brand solar panels, and has sales operations in more than 100 countries, operating under the SunPower brand in certain countries outside the United States. The company is a leader in solar innovation with access to over 1,000 patents and two best-in-class solar panel product lines. Maxeon products span the global rooftop and solar power plant markets through a network of more than 1,400 trusted partners and distributors. A pioneer in sustainable solar manufacturing, Maxeon leverages a 35-year history in the solar industry and numerous awards for its technology. For more information about how Maxeon is Powering Positive Change™ visit us at www.maxeon.com, on LinkedIn and on Twitter @maxeonsolar.
About OpenSolar
OpenSolar launched in 2019 with a mission to scale solar globally by providing installers with innovative software technology and an equally innovative business offering – the world's first entirely free-to-use design and sales platform. Solar installers can use OpenSolar's end-to-end platform to manage and grow their businesses all in one place with class-leading solar design accuracy, interactive custom proposals, and a portfolio of fully integrated financing options, products, and services. Instead of charging a licensing fee, OpenSolar provides its software free of charge and instead derives revenue from its hardware and finance partner affiliates. By utilizing OpenSolar, installers can avoid costly software licensing fees and instead, invest more money into other areas of their businesses, confident they are using the very best design and sales tools available in the market, all for free. OpenSolar is based in Sydney, Australia, with remote offices in the U.S. For more information, visit www.opensolar.com.
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Leading Residential Cleaning Brand Sees Major Sales and Opens 100th Franchise Location
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Maids, the leading residential cleaning franchise, announced today a record-breaking sales month with a network-wide revenue total of over $4.68 million. This mega-month marks another success for the franchise concept as they continue to expand their footprint across the United States including recently opening their 100th franchise location.
In addition to the impressive overall revenue of over $4.68 million, Two Maids saw an average daily revenue of $213K marking a 21% increase from June 2021. Franchisees and the maids themselves are benefiting from the uptick in sales numbers as dozens of franchise locations are exceeding their BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) – a Two Maids revenue goal set annually by the corporate team – and June saw a positive spike in tips for workers clocking in at 4.02% of corporate revenue.
"Our Two Maids team is powered by an intense work ethic that drives sales success and this year has been a blockbuster for us," said Paul Ebert, president of Two Maids. "The proof of our hard work is in the numbers as our Two Maids family works hard every day to ensure customer satisfaction and deliver the top results in every space we clean. We look forward to opening additional locations and continuing to serve communities around the country."
In addition to sales success, Two Maids opened the doors of their 100th franchise location in the United States. A seasoned franchisee with a successful history alongside the Two Maids brand, Anthony Truong opened the newest franchise in Winter Garden, Florida after successful Two Maids ventures in Orlando and Oviedo, Florida.
The record-shattering sales numbers and major franchise milestone bodes well for the cleaning franchise concept in the coming months and the increasing number of franchise openings is nearing a 20% increase from the same time last year. More locations are set to open before the end of 2022 in markets including Denver, Colorado; Mesa, Arizona; and Miami, Florida.
"We are excited to open the doors to our newest franchise location within our Two Maids family and look forward to seeing the team further grow in the Florida region," added Ebert. "Since our beginning in 2003 we have strived for success in everything we do and that success is powered by our strong family of franchisees."
To learn more about the brand and franchise development opportunities with Two Maids, visit https://www.twomaidsfranchise.com/.
Founded in 2003 in Pensacola, Florida, Two Maids™ currently operates in more than 80 markets across the United States. Designed to provide greater flexibility for customers, the brand offers multiple cleaning packages ranging from one-time cleans to routine services and takes pride in providing safe and reliable professional-grade cleaning supplies and products. Two Maids™ has received numerous accolades including being ranked on the 2021 Entrepreneur Franchise 500 list, for the third consecutive year, and named 2020's fastest-growing cleaning company in America by Inc. Magazine for the fifth time in the past seven years. For more information, visit www.twomaidsandamop.com.
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Leading code and application security provider achieves three-year revenue growth of 157%, doubles global headcount, expands executive leadership team and rolls out new product offerings
LOS ALTOS, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Contrast Security (Contrast), a fast growing company in cybersecurity, today announced its debut on Inc. magazine's annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. Contrast debuted at No. 3080 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 after reporting 157% revenue growth over the last three years. Following a $150M Series E fundraise in November 2021, the company doubled its global headcount, expanded its executive leadership team and introduced several new product offerings designed to empower developers with modern application security tools.
The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"We are honored to be recognized as a fast growing company by one of the most prestigious awards in the nation," said Alan Naumann, Chairman & CEO at Contrast Security. "We want to thank our customers for trusting us as cyberattacks continue to accelerate and organizations look to protect their business critical applications. I also want to give a shout out to our employees who strengthen those relationships on a daily basis."
Company highlights from the last 12 months include:
- $150M in Series E funding to fuel global expansion, led by Liberty Strategic Capital (founded by former Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin).
- Increased partnership with industry titans, including Amazon, GitHub, Red Hat and Microsoft. Partnership platform integrations with GitHub Actions and Red Hat OpenShift. Recognition from Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a partner in achieving the AWS DevOps Competency for DevSecOps. Expansion of application security solutions for the financial sector, in partnership with Backbase.
- Expansion of leadership team, with the additions of Tara Ryan, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Jeff Tworek, Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Ben Goodman, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Alliances.
- Industry analyst recognition, named a "Visionary" in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant ™ for Application Security Testing and a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Application Security 2022 Vendor Assessment.
- Winner of prestigious awards, with highlights including two Gold 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for Serverless Security and Application Security, a Publisher's Choice DevSecOps and Market Leader Software Development Lifecycle Security Award by Global InfoSec Awards at RSA Conference 2022, SC Media 2022 Trust Award Finalist for Best Web Application Security Solution and ranking in the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™.
- New products and solutions designed to empower developers with security as they code. CodeSec is a suite of free code security testing tools launched in June 2022 that includes the fastest scanner on the market, modern software composition analysis (SCA) and security for cloud-native environments. Contrast Serverless, launched in late 2021 and built on the Contrast Secure Code Platform, provides application security for cloud-native and serverless environments.
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
Contrast Security secures the code that global business relies on. It is the industry's most modern and comprehensive code security platform, removing security roadblock inefficiencies and empowering enterprise developers to write and release secure application code faster. Embedding code analysis and attack prevention directly into software with instrumentation, the Contrast platform automatically detects vulnerabilities while developers write code, eliminates false positives, and provides context-specific how-to-fix guidance for easy and fast vulnerability remediation. Doing so enables application and development teams to collaborate more effectively and to innovate faster while accelerating digital transformation initiatives. This is why a growing number of the world's largest private and public sector organizations rely on Contrast to secure their applications in development and extend protection to cloud and on-premise applications in production.
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Banana Boat recalls scalp sunscreen spray for cancer risk
Published: Jul. 31, 2022 at 7:41 PM CDT|Updated: 16 minutes ago
(AP) – The maker of Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling a scalp spray because it contains trace amounts of benzene, a chemical which can cause cancer with repeated exposure.
Edgewell Personal Care Co. says benzene was detected in internal reviews of Banana Boat Hair and Scalp Spray SPF 30.
Three batches of the spray are included in the recall, with lot codes 20016AF, 20084BF and 21139AF.
Edgewell says no other batches and no other Banana Boat products are included in the recall.
The company has directed retailers to remove the spray from their shelves. It’s also offering to reimburse customers who bought the spray.
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The chief of police in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Monday identified Christopher Schurr as the officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya earlier this month.
Lyoya's shooting took place on April 4 after Schurr pulled him over for an allegedly unregistered license plate.
Police Chief Eric Winstrom previously declined to release Schurr's name, arguing the city had a long-standing policy not to release the names of employees under investigation even as the officer's name was circulating publicly. Winstrom said he decided to identify Schurr "in the interest of transparency, to reduce ongoing speculation, and to avoid any further confusion."
Winstrom said Schurr remains on administrative leave and has been stripped of his policing powers, pending a criminal investigation by Michigan State Police and an internal Grand Rapids Police Department investigation that will determine if he violated department policies.
The release of Schurr's identity comes three days after the Rev. Al Sharpton, while speaking at Lyoya's funeral, demanded the release of the officer's name.
"How dare you hold the name of a man who killed this man?" Sharpton said Friday at a crowded Renaissance Church of God in Christ in Grand Rapids. "Every time a young Black man or woman is arrested in this town, you put their name all over the news. Every time we're suspected of something, you put our name out there."
CNN has attempted to reach out to Schurr for comment, but did not hear back. CNN also reached out to the Grand Rapids Police Officers Association for comment, but did not hear back.
Video shows 2-minute interaction and altercation
Grand Rapids police released several forms of video footage capturing the approximately two-minute-and-40-second interaction.
The footage begins with the officer walking toward Lyoya's car.
The video shows Lyoya, 26, turning his back to the officer and appearing to walk toward the front of the car. The officer puts his hands on Lyoya's shoulder and back, saying "no, no, no, stop, stop," and Lyoya is seen resisting the officer's touch and backing away from the officer.
The officer tackles him to the ground. Video shows Lyoya getting up and standing, and the officer drawing and deploying a Taser. Police said the Taser's prongs didn't hit Lyoya.
The two end up physically struggling on the ground, where the officer shot Lyoya, who wasn't armed at the time of the shooting, according to a family attorney.
The officer who shot Lyoya is heard saying "Let go of the Taser" before firing the fatal shot.
An autopsy commissioned by Lyoya's family determined he was shot in the back of the head.
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Global Leading Kombucha Brand Expands Distribution to National Retailers Albertsons and Safeway and Grows Presence at Walmart and Target Stores
LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Remedy Drinks, the makers of delicious and gut-friendly no sugar, live-cultured drinks, announced today the expansion of its U.S. presence across national retailers and multiple distribution channels. In addition, the brand has announced a new flavor, Mango Passion, to its refreshing range of sparkling kombucha drinks that are small-batch, craft-made, and all authentically brewed.
In the U.S., Remedy Drinks now has a nationwide presence at all Albertsons and Safeway stores and banners across the country. This is Remedy's first launch into a national retailer with availability in more than 2,000 Albertsons and Safeway stores. Additionally, Remedy increased its store count across popular mass grocery retailers, Walmart and Target. With this expansion, Remedy is currently in more than 6,000 retail doors in the U.S. and is set to reach 10,000 by the end of 2022. Remedy's domestic revenue in 2022 is forecasted to be at least five times what it was in 2021, due largely to the brand's accelerated growth and retail expansion this year alone.
Remedy Drinks is also making headway in regional retailers across the country with its expansion in California into Erewhon, Savemart, Lucky, Raleys, Berkeley Bowl, Rainbow Grocery, and Bristol Farms. On the East Coast and in the Midwest, Remedy is now available at Hyvee, LIDL, Cub, Tops, and Weis. Remedy is also available via online marketplaces like Imperfect Foods, Misfit Market, Boxed.com, Snack Magic and Hive, among others. As nontraditional retail channels have proven to be successful platforms for the brand, Remedy has also expanded its presence with Vistar, Dot Foods, Carnival Cruise Lines, and other food and delivery services. By the end of the year, Remedy will also expand its Kroger footprint into Ralphs stores.
"Our greatest appeal to distributors, retailers, and customers alike has been Remedy's price point, no sugar platform, shelf-stable capabilities, and our incredible flavor profile. Reaching 10,000+ retail doors in the U.S. in one year has been a tremendous milestone delivered by a small, but best-in-class sales team," said Dan Leja Senior Vice President of Sales at Remedy Drinks. "There is a large and growing demand in the market for shelf-stable and gut-healthy products. Even nontraditional channels are beginning to increase their functional drink assortments, which makes the timing of our expansion impeccable. This growth phase will continue to rapidly heighten our consumer recognition."
In addition to its impressive roster of new distributors and retailers, Remedy has added an all-new flavor to its lineup of tasty Kombucha drinks, with the introduction of Mango Passion, launching just in time for National Mango month in June. The new no sugar, fizzy and fruity flavor is all-natural, with an added pinch of passionfruit for a tangy, ripe and ready taste. Like all Remedy Drinks, Mango Passion is made using the brand's conventional technique of a 30-day brewing process to improve its flavor and strength of living cultures and organic acids, creating a light, and refreshing better-for-you beverage. Each can of Mango Passion is only five calories and is available for purchase on remedydrinks.com, just in time for summer.
Remedy Drinks are available for purchase on the Remedy Drinks website, Amazon, Target, Walmart, Albertsons, Safeway, and through online sites such as Instacart, Imperfect Foods and Boxed.com. For more information on Remedy, please visit www.remedydrinks.com.
Remedy Drinks was launched in 2012 by fermentation fanatics Sarah and Emmet Condon in their Melbourne, Australia kitchen. With the vision to make healthy beverages tasty and convenient, and just overall better, Remedy offers delicious and healthy no sugar, live-cultured drinks, chock full of organic acids, and antioxidants. No sugar means Remedy's raw and unpasteurized, strong cultures are able to stay live throughout shelf life, with no risk of fermentation, allowing them to be stable both in or out of the fridge. Remedy is the delightfully unexpected side of better-for-you beverages, with their refreshing range of gut-friendly offerings, including six fruit-inspired Kombucha flavors, Mixers, Sparkling ACV, and clean energy drinks. For more information on Remedy, please visit www.remedydrinks.com.
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Honor highlights GuideWell's efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation ("GuideWell"), the parent to a family of forward-thinking companies focused on advancing healthcare, has been named a Top Three Healthcare Diversity Organization by the National Diversity Council. This honor recognizes GuideWell's innovative efforts in promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging among its employees, customers, partners and communities.
"We are honored to be recognized for our efforts to build an inclusive culture that embraces the unique differences of our employees, customers and the diverse communities we serve," said Pat Geraghty, president and CEO of GuideWell. "This recognition reminds us that we must remain committed to being a leading force in driving a more equitable healthcare system and society where everyone has an opportunity to thrive."
The Healthcare Diversity Council, an initiative of the National Diversity Council, recognizes three healthcare organizations each year that demonstrate their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The council looks for organizations that take bold steps to foster an inclusive workplace, support diverse communities, display high ethical standards, develop and retain employees from varied backgrounds and have a longstanding record of accomplishments in healthcare.
Below are just some of the actions GuideWell has taken to lead the way in diversity, equity and inclusion:
- GuideWell Equity Alliance: In 2020, GuideWell launched the Equity Alliance, an initiative focused on addressing systemic racism and health inequities in the communities GuideWell serves.
- Investments: In 2020, GuideWell pledged to invest $25 million over five years to address racial injustice and health inequities. To date, GuideWell has invested nearly half of that through business initiatives and grants to nonprofit organizations devoted to advancing health equity.
- Ensuring Equitable Practices Among Suppliers and Partners: GuideWell has embarked on a conscious effort to work with more diverse businesses. Through the launch of an internal supplier database, the company is tracking diverse supplier spend and its network of diverse suppliers.
- Inclusion as a Core Value: To promote diversity of thought and experience, GuideWell, recently strengthened its core company values by adding "inclusion."
- Recruiting Diverse Talent: GuideWell believes in hiring people who represent the communities it serves. The composition of the workforce reflects that with 71% of the workforce being female, 20% of the executive leaders identifying as LGBTQ+ and 60% of the Board of Directors being female or minority.
- Embracing ERGs: GuideWell has 14 employee resource groups (ERGs), known as GuideWell Communities, that serve to encourage everyone to go beyond their job roles and contribute to the organization's mission. These affinity-based groups help employees develop leadership skills and put their interests and passions to work, while being strategic partners for the business in the workforce, marketplace and community.
- Employee Forums: GuideWell holds frequent discussion forums for its employees, giving them space to speak candidly about topics that can help build empathy, understanding and connectedness between team members.
- National Health Equity Pledge: In 2021, GuideWell joined 40 leading organizations to sign on to a national health equity pledge, committing to collect data about race, ethnicity, language and sex, which will be used to develop best practices for the industry.
"Diversity and inclusion in healthcare organizations are critical to achieving health equity and it must start internally," said Dr. Kelli Tice, chief health equity officer of GuideWell. "By fostering diversity and equity among our team members, we can work more effectively to build culturally-relevant solutions to reduce health disparities in Black and other minority populations."
More information about GuideWell's inclusive business practices can be found at www.guidewell.com/social-impact.
About GuideWell
GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation (GuideWell) is a not-for-profit mutual holding company and the parent to a family of forward-thinking companies focused on transforming healthcare. The GuideWell organization includes Florida Blue, the leading health insurance company in Florida; Triple-S Management, a leading healthcare services company in Puerto Rico; GuideWell Health, a portfolio of clinical delivery organizations; GuideWell Venture Group, a portfolio of companies including Onlife Health and PopHealthCare focused on creating human-first and innovative health solutions for health plans; GuideWell Source, a provider of administrative services to state and federal healthcare programs; and WebTPA, a market leading administrator of self-funded employer health plans. In total, GuideWell and its affiliated companies serve more than 46 million people in 45 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information, visit www.guidewell.com.
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Hallmark to debut romance with lead character who has Down Syndrome
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries is reportedly diversifying its content.
According to “Entertainment Tonight,” the cable channel is set to feature a romance with a lead who has Down Syndrome.
“Never Have I Ever” actress Lily D. Moore is set to star in “Color My World With Love” as Kendall, “a talented artist with Down syndrome who creates beautiful paintings in the impressionist style that reflect the reality of her subjects as she sees them.”
Things take a romantic turn when she meets Brad, played by David DeSanctis, in a cooking class.
“Everyone has a dream to fall in love and get married one day, even people with disabilities,” Moore told “ET” in a statement. “I hope viewers take away that ‘Color My World With Love’ is about painting your own story through your emotions and that we all have endless possibilities.”
CNN has reached out to Hallmark for comment.
“Color My World With Love” is set to air later this year.
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NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Royce Micro-Cap Trust, Inc. (NYSE: RMT) has declared a quarterly distribution of $0.23 per share on its Common Stock. The distribution, optionally payable in additional shares of Common Stock, or in cash by specific stockholder election, is to be paid on June 24, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 13, 2022 (ex-dividend on June 10, 2022). The price of shares issued for reinvestment will be determined on June 20, 2022.
The Fund has adopted a Distribution Policy of paying quarterly distributions on its Common Stock. Distributions are being made at the annual rate of 7% of the rolling average of the prior four calendar quarter-end net asset values (NAVs), with the fourth quarter distribution being the greater of 1.75% of the rolling average or the minimum distribution required by IRS regulations. The policy, including the annual rate, is subject to change at the discretion of the Fund's Board of Directors.
The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and net realized capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with 'yield' or 'income'.
The Fund's estimated sources of the distribution to be paid on June 24, 2022 and for 2022 year-to-date are as follows:
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of the current distribution or from the terms of the Fund's Distribution Policy. The amounts and sources of distributions reported herein are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes.
1 Average Annual Total Return in relation to NAV represents the compound average of the Annual NAV Total Returns of the Fund for the five year period ended May 31, 2022. Annual NAV Total Return is the percentage change in the Fund's NAV over a year, assuming reinvestment of distributions paid.
2 The Annualized Current Distribution Rate is the current fiscal period's distribution rate annualized as a percentage of the Fund's NAV as of May 31, 2022.
3 Cumulative Total Return is the percentage change in the Fund's NAV from December 31, 2021 to May 31, 2022 assuming reinvestment of distributions paid.
4 The Cumulative Fiscal Year Distribution Rate is the dollar value of distributions for the fiscal year period (January 1, 2022 to May 31, 2022), as a percentage of the Fund's NAV as of May 31, 2022.
About Royce Micro-Cap Trust, Inc.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust, Inc. is a closed-end diversified management investment company whose shares of Common Stock are listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The Fund's investment goal is long-term capital growth, which it seeks by investing primarily in equity securities of companies that, at the time of investment, have market capitalizations of $750 million or less.
For further information on The Royce Fundssm, please visit our web site at: www.royceinvest.com.
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VALLETTA, Malta, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kindred Group plc (Kindred) has taken notice of the statement issued by Corvex Management earlier today regarding its investment in Kindred. Kindred is recognised as a leading operator in the global online gambling sector and the Board and management are fully committed to the Group's current strategic direction.
"We are confident about the long-term opportunities for the company and value creation potential for all our shareholders. We welcome and look forward to continuing a constructive dialogue with all our shareholders going forward", comments Evert Carlsson, Chairman of the Board at Kindred Group.
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Premiere Event to be a Celebration of International Fans' Love of Anime;
Global Fans of Anime Will Vote for the Content and Creators That Have Captured Their Collective Hearts
CULVER CITY, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crunchyroll, the global leader in bringing fans the ultimate anime experience everywhere, is announcing today that the seventh edition of the yearly, leading awards program for anime globally, the Crunchyroll Anime Awards, will take place in Japan for the first time ever for 2023.
The Anime Awards live ceremony will be held on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo and will bring together the studios, creators, musicians and voice actors behind the anime community's favorite series, film and music. The event will also be streamed on many of Crunchyroll social channels. Crunchyroll will work with Sony Music Solutions, part of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., to execute the event.
Crunchyroll also announced that the 2023 edition will be a premier event full of fans, celebrities, creators, musicians, performances and more in a style that is as unique as the artform of anime. Crunchyroll's intention is to create a spectacular event that is an international outpouring of affection for anime.
"There is no better place to celebrate the Anime Awards than the birthplace of anime itself," said Rahul Purini, President of Crunchyroll. "Anime is a rich storytelling medium, capturing the hearts and minds of fans all over the world. We can't wait to showcase how much love the global anime fanbase has for the studios, creators, and our trusted partners behind anime."
The Crunchyroll Anime Awards celebrate fan-favorite anime series, characters, and creators across streaming, film and music – voted for by fans and judges from across the globe. Last year, a record 16.9 million votes were cast for nominees representing nearly 40 anime studios across a record-high eight streaming platforms.
Nominees and voting will open early next year. More information will be shared across the Anime Awards website and across Crunchyroll social channels.
Crunchyroll connects anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories with the content and experiences they love. In addition to free ad-supported and subscription premium content, Crunchyroll serves the anime community across events, theatrical, games, consumer products, collectibles, and manga publishing.
Anime fans have access to one of the largest collections of licensed anime through Crunchyroll and translated in multiple languages for viewers worldwide. Viewers can also access simulcasts — top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast.
The Crunchyroll app is available on over 15 platforms, including all gaming consoles.
Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Sony Group Corporation.
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