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Caroline Wynne to lead the continuous development of marketing strategies for the organization
IRVINE, Calif. , July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MIND Research Institute (MIND) has hired Caroline Wynne as Vice President of Engagement to lead marketing strategies and brand awareness. Wynne brings more than 17 years of marketing experience to the role.
At MIND, Wynne will be responsible for managing the organization's marketing plans and activities that promote and enhance the organization's initiatives, which include the visual instructional ST Math® program, the MathMINDs initiative, which brings math out of the classroom, as well as future research and development projects.
"We are excited to have Caroline join the MIND team," said Jim Kirchner, Chief Revenue Officer of MIND. "I appreciate her passion and look forward to the fresh perspective that her vast marketing experience will bring to our engagement efforts."
Wynne has spent most of her marketing career at edtech organizations working closely with K-12 school districts and state departments of education. Most recently, she built and led a successful marketing team at Lexia Learning. Previously, as a marketing leader at Voyager Sopris and Performance Matters, she launched new edtech products, acted as a brand steward, implemented impactful thought leadership programs, and managed customer communications.
"MIND has a unique opportunity to prepare all students to solve the world's most challenging problems," said Wynne. "I'm excited to be a part of the collaborative leadership team and I look forward to leading the engagement team as we scale our impact towards accomplishing the mission."
Wynne holds a Bachelor of Arts in business marketing from Queens University of Charlotte.
MIND Research Institute is a neuroscience and education social impact organization dedicated to ensuring that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world's most challenging problems. MIND is the creator of ST Math®, a PreK-8 visual instructional program that leverages the brain's innate spatial-temporal reasoning ability to solve mathematical problems. ST Math's unique, patented approach provides students with equitable access to learning through challenging puzzles, non-routine problem solving, and informative feedback. Visit mindresearch.org.
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NHL playoffs full of lopsided scores, lacking comebacks
By AARON BEARD
AP Sports Writer
The NHL playoffs are missing the close games and comebacks that seemingly comes annually with all the postseason intensity. Excluding games with empty-netters increasing the margin, 10 of the 20 first-round games through Friday night have been decided by three or more goals. By comparison, there had been only four one-goal games with two reaching at least one overtime session. Saturday’s slate included Washington’s 6-1 win against Presidents’ Trophy winner Florida. Sunday’s Game 4 action includes Carolina at Boston, Minnesota at St. Louis, Toronto at Tampa Bay and Edmonton at Los Angeles. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/07/nhl-playoffs-full-of-lopsided-scores-lacking-comebacks/ | 2022-05-07T22:33:48Z |
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — The NASCAR Cup Series drivers are facing challenges a whole lot tougher than a right turn Sunday in their final race before the brief midseason break.
They’ve got to figure out how to navigate Sonoma Raceway’s normal elevation changes, along with the return to the old road course layout in wine country — and they’re doing it all in the still-unfamiliar Next Gen car. Many drivers on Saturday said they felt uncomfortable in the new car on the old course, and they’re all hoping it will lead to exciting racing.
“There’s just a lot more unknowns, and you don’t get a lot of time for adjustments,” Michael McDowell said. “It’s tight and twisty, so it’s easy to get off track here. This is the short course version of a road course, so it’s tough.”
Road course proficiency is more important than ever in the Cup Series, which has six such circuits on its schedule this season. But Sonoma is only the second road course of the season, which means the teams are still trying to understand the details of the new car’s handling and setup for the challenges of the more complete racing presented on these tracks.
And they didn’t learn a whole lot that will be useful from the early-season race at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, which was the first Next Gen experience on a road course.
“It’s really tight and narrow for a road course,” Chase Briscoe said of Sonoma Raceway. “Totally different from COTA. Most of the guys have raced here before … but the cars are so different now, it’s hard to really (compare) apples to apples. I’m excited to run this layout, because this is the course I watched growing up.”
Defending champion and five-time pole sitter Kyle Larson claimed he didn’t notice a huge difference between the road course challenges of COTA and Sonoma, other than deeper braking zones. Martin Truex Jr. was among several drivers worried about the slickness of the track and the challenges of readying the car for both left and right turns.
“I think the new car changes everything (on road courses),” said Truex, who has won on both course layouts at Sonoma. “The track has so much to say about how you can make passes and how much you can pass. … You have to work hard to set your car up to go left and right equally.”
DOWN THE CHUTE
Sonoma Raceway is fully open for the first time since before the coronavirus pandemic, and Northern California’s fans are packing a renovated track that is welcoming the return of a familiar layout.
The course is back to the Chute, which was used from 1998-2018 before Sonoma went with the longer Carousel setup in its past two editions. Briscoe is among the drivers who haven’t run a Cup Series race on the Chute configuration.
“Personally, I enjoyed the carousel,” Larson said. “It added a left-hander, more normal-feeling corner to me. … I don’t know the reasoning behind changing it back. Maybe it’s just better viewing for the fans or something. But it doesn’t really matter a whole lot. We know what to expect because we’ve raced on this layout for a long time. It should be fine.”
THE BIG PAYBACK
Ross Chastain met with Denny Hamlin and Chase Elliott to air their differences after their eventful race last week at Gateway.
Chastain sent Hamlin into the barriers with a tap from behind midway through the race, and he later sent Elliott skidding sideways on the track with another tap from behind when he attempted to split two cars in a three-wide situation.
While Chastain was remorseful for his recklessness, Hamlin publicly promised payback will be coming for the 29-year-old Trackhouse Racing driver.
“We’re big boys, and they can handle it as they see fit,” Chastain said Saturday. “And I’ll try to be better. … I unplugged from social media this week, and that was good. I should probably do that more often. We all should.”
None of the three drivers shared many details of their conversations, but Elliott appeared to be more publicly conciliatory than Hamlin.
“I tried to talk to him as I would have wanted somebody to talk to me,” Elliott said, noting that Chastain reached out to him first. “He can take my opinion or not, and I’m fine with it.”
ODDS AND ENDS
Elliott unsurprisingly is FanDuel Sportbook’s 11-to-2 favorite at Sonoma, given his road course acumen. Larson is right behind him at 13 to 2 on the track closest to his hometown in the Sacramento suburbs, while Truex is going off at 9 to 1.
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MIAMI, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jills Zeder Group, a powerhouse team of Coldwell Banker Global Luxury Ambassadors with Coldwell Banker Realty, have once again been ranked as the No. 1 large team in the entire United States, as announced in the 2022 RealTrends "The Thousand" list published in The Wall Street Journal. Per RealTrends, a large team ranges from 11 to 20 members.
RealTrends ranked The Jills Zeder Group No. 1 on the list, based on achieving $2,250,764,707 in closed sales volume in 2021 and 367.60 closed transaction sides in 2021. Affiliated with Coldwell Banker Realty's offices in Miami Beach and Coral Gables, Florida, the sales team, which specializes in luxury real estate, including luxury estates, condominiums, waterfront properties, and highly complex assemblages, achieved more sales volume than any other small, medium or large team from any brokerage or company nationwide.
"Year over year, The Jills Zeder Group not only sets the bar for the industry standard of excellence, but they surpass their own benchmark. The team's ingenuity, dedication to client service, extreme market intelligence and fierce business acumen has resulted in another outstanding recognition this year," said Ryan Gorman, CEO of Coldwell Banker. "It is a true privilege to have the opportunity to serve this top-performing, legendary team as part of Coldwell Banker."
"I'm honored to once again congratulate The Jills Zeder Group for their distinguished achievement earning the No. 1 spot on the prestigious RealTrends list, solidifying them as the very best real estate team in the country," said Duff Rubin, president of Coldwell Banker Realty in Florida. "This well-earned recognition reconfirms what we already know about the team, that they offer their clients incomparable professionalism and real estate knowledge, as well as a superior understanding of the complex and evolving market of South Florida."
The RealTrends "The Thousand" ranking consists of all real estate agents and teams throughout the United States who took part in residential real estate transactions in 2021. The individual rankings are divided into two top 250 categories, based on closed transaction sides and closed sales volume. To qualify, an individual agent had to close at least 50 transaction sides or $20 million in sales volume in 2021. For real estate teams, the minimum was 75 transaction sides or $30 million in closed sales volume.
About The Jills Zeder Group: The Jills Zeder Group, affiliated with Coldwell Banker Realty, is comprised of three families, all of whom are major players in the luxury residential real estate business. These families include Jill Hertzberg, Jill Eber and Felise Eber; and Hertzberg's children Danny Hertzberg and Hillary Hertzberg; and Judy Zeder and her children, Nathan Zeder and Kara Zeder Rosen. Prior to The Jills Zeder Group's formation in 2019, the families closed a combined total of more than $8 billion in real estate sales, including collaborating on multiple luxury sales in the Coral Gables market. With offices in Miami Beach and Coral Gables, The Jills Zeder Group specializes in high-end, multimillion-dollar luxury properties in South Florida's most elite enclaves, representing celebrities, Fortune 500 executives, and a diverse international clientele. They offer incomparable knowledge and services to luxury real estate clients. For more information and to contact The Jills Zeder Group, visit JillsZeder.com.
About Coldwell Banker Realty: Coldwell Banker Realty in Florida is a leading residential real estate brokerage company with approximately 73 offices and 8,106 affiliated sales associates. Coldwell Banker Realty is owned by a subsidiary of Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE:HOUS), the largest full-service residential real estate services company in the United States. Visit ColdwellBankerHomes.com. Coldwell Banker Global Luxury and the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury logo are service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. Visit ColdwellBankerLuxury.com
*Sales data according to MLS records from 1/1/2021–12/31/21.
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- Unity Rd. Opens Four Cannabis Retail Stores Throughout Colorado, Oklahoma and South Dakota
- Pending Canadian Retail Acquisition Puts Company on Track To Become One of the World's Largest Cannabis Retail Franchisors
PHOENIX, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Item 9 Labs Corp. (OTCQX: INLB) (the "Company") — a vertically integrated cannabis dispensary franchisor and operator that produces premium, award-winning products — continues to make significant headway toward solidifying its spot as a leader in the North American cannabis retail landscape with its cannabis retail franchise, Unity Rd.
With Item 9 Labs Corp.'s merger and acquisition activities ramping up and expansion into new cannabis markets underway, the Company anticipates its development pipeline will remain strong through the end of the year. It expects to open additional new stores across the country, in addition to assisting its franchisees in acquiring existing dispensaries across the U.S.
"Our highly scalable retail model offers local entrepreneurs expert guidance and a roadmap to operating compliantly in cannabis. On a corporate level, we can rapidly expand our Unity Rd. dispensary footprint with low capital expenditure since franchisees own and operate their locations. As the Unity Rd. retail footprint develops, we are building significant value for our shareholders with the additions of multiple ongoing revenue streams," said Item 9 Labs Corp. CEO Andrew Bowden.
Unity Rd. is the first national cannabis dispensary franchise in the U.S., to offer eager entrepreneurs seeking to enter the complex $25 billion industry with the proven guidebook and ongoing support needed to successfully open and operate a compliant dispensary in their local community.
The Company opened its first Unity Rd. franchised location in June 2021 with a father-son entrepreneur duo in Boulder, Colorado, and has since grown to four stores in operation as well as a development pipeline packed with more than 20 groups who are expanding the brand across 10-plus states. The marijuana franchise's second store is currently being rebranded to Unity Rd. in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and its third location opened in July 2022 in North Denver.
Riding the wave of new openings, this past July, the Company also worked with local entrepreneurs to open the first non-tribal, state-licensed medical cannabis establishment in South Dakota – bringing the Unity Rd. footprint to four locations open in the last 13 months. Item 9 Labs Corp. anticipates entering the following markets next with its Unity Rd. cannabis franchise: New Jersey, Maine, Virginia, Michigan and New Mexico, among other states.
Item 9 Labs Corp. is also continuing to develop its Colorado Unity Rd. footprint with recent license approval to open a dispensary in the Cherry Creek neighborhood of Denver. Item 9 Labs Corp. has build-out plans already in place for the retail storefront and anticipates the location to be fully operational by the end of 2022. Further, earlier this year, the Company signed an Asset Purchase Agreement ("APA") for a medicinal and recreational dispensary and cultivator, The Herbal Cure, in the up-and-coming Washington Park near Denver, and is continuing to progress on the acquisition. The dispensary generated revenues of $5.4 million in 2021 and will be Unity Rd.'s first future flagship location.
Bowden continued, "Our recent momentum on the retail front exemplifies our strong depth of bench across the Company. Over the past year, we have made it a focus to bring in top talent that can handle a fast-paced environment as well as the necessary skillset to achieve our projected growth plan, and our team has done a phenomenal job proving that they can execute."
In May, Item 9 Labs Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sessions Cannabis ("Sessions"), one of Canada's largest cannabis retail franchisors. Sessions currently has 44 stores throughout the Province of Ontario with multiple openings planned for the rest of 2022. The franchisor, which generates approximately CA$70 million in annual systemwide sales, has a franchise system comprised of 15-plus franchisees with Sessions stores located in prime retail shopping centers.
The transformative acquisition will fast-track Item 9 Labs Corp.'s entry into the world's second-largest cannabis market. Industry experts expect Canadian cannabis sales to climb to CA$4.7 billion by the end of 2022. The future combined retail footprint will exponentially increase Unity Rd.'s shop count across North America to nearly 50 locations. Once the Company closes the acquisition in the coming months, it will become the largest global and publicly traded cannabis franchise company and one of the largest cannabis retailers.
For more information about the Company and its brands, visit item9labscorp.com.
Item 9 Labs Corp. (OTCQX: INLB) is a vertically integrated cannabis operator and dispensary franchisor delivering premium products from its large-scale cultivation and production facilities in the United States. The award-winning Item 9 Labs brand specializes in best-in-class products and user experience across several cannabis categories. The company also offers a unique dispensary franchise model through the national Unity Rd. retail brand. Easing barriers to entry, the franchise provides an opportunity for both new and existing dispensary owners to leverage the knowledge, resources, and ongoing support needed to thrive in their state compliantly and successfully. Item 9 Labs brings the best industry practices to markets nationwide through distinctive retail experience, cultivation capabilities, and product innovation. The veteran management team combines a diverse skill set with deep experience in the cannabis sector, franchising, and the capital markets to lead a new generation of public cannabis companies that provide transparency, consistency, and well-being. Headquartered in Arizona, the company is currently expanding its operations space by up to 640,000-plus square feet on its 50-acre site, one of the largest properties in Arizona zoned to grow and cultivate flower. For additional information, visit https://investors.item9labscorp.com/.
Unity Rd. is bridging the two previously disconnected worlds of cannabis and franchising. The industry trailblazer is the first to bring the cannabis dispensary franchise model to the United States—with duality of prowess in both industries to back it up. Built up from a collective 200 years in the legal cannabis industry and franchising, the company helps eager operators enter the complex industry with ease. The marijuana franchise pioneer offers its partners the knowledge, resources and ongoing support needed to compliantly and successfully operate a dispensary. Launched in 2018, Unity Rd. has signed multiple agreements with 20 entrepreneurial groups across the country who are developing the brand across 10-plus states. In 2021, Unity Rd. became the first member of its kind to join the International Franchise Association (IFA), solidifying its position as the first true cannabis dispensary franchise in the U.S. The franchise was also named one of the "Best Cannabis Companies to Work For" in the dispensary category for Cannabis Business Times' 2022 and 2020 lists. For more information, visit unityrd.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, risks and effects of legal and administrative proceedings and governmental regulation, especially in a foreign country, future financial and operational results, competition, general economic conditions, proposed transactions that are not legally binding obligations of the company and the ability to manage and continue growth. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual outcomes may vary materially from those indicated. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements we make in this news release include the introduction of new technology, market conditions and those set forth in reports or documents we file from time to time with the SEC. We undertake no obligation to revise or update such statements to reflect current events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Venture Capital Firm Led by Veteran Investor Yida Gao to Pursue Investments in Early-Stage Digital Asset Projects
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shima Capital ("Shima"), a global venture firm that invests in early-stage blockchain companies across all market cycles, today announced that it has launched its debut fund, Shima Capital Fund I ("Fund I" or the "Fund") and has collectively raised $200 million. The Fund received significant support from notable investors including Dragonfly Capital, Bill Ackman, Animoca, OKex, Mirana Ventures, Republic, and Andrew Yang, among others.
Founded in 2021 by veteran investor Yida Gao, Shima Capital supports blockchain startups in their earliest stages (i.e. pre-seed and seed) by providing hands-on oversight to help maximize each company's value. Shima's inaugural fund aims to consistently deploy capital when founders need it the most in addition to helping hire talent, build community, amplify narratives, and foster the acceleration of technical research and development. The Shima team is composed of seasoned investors, accomplished operators, and former founders who align on a mission to help daring teams build and scale their companies.
"Yida Gao and Shima Capital exemplify the early stage venture capital that's needed in Web3. Shima's strong focus on supporting founders and willingness to bash through walls for their sake resonates well with Animoca Brands' ethos," said Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands. "It's a great honor to partner with Shima Capital, especially given the fund's high conviction in the global proliferation of digital property rights and an open metaverse."
"We at OKX Blockdream Capital believe that Shima Capital has shown promising results in being able to identify paradigm shifts in the cryptocurrency industry," said Jeff Ren, Head of Investment at OK Group. "We are looking forward to establishing a working relationship with Shima Capital alongside its other LPs."
Shima invests in the earliest rounds of blockchain startups across all verticals with check sizes of $500,000 to $2,000,000. Areas of focus include but are not limited to consumer (e.g. decentralized identity, social media, content ownership, DAO's), gaming & metaverse, composable financial systems (e.g. sustainable DeFi, regenerative finance, payments & settlement), decentralized infrastructure (e.g. data platforms, blockchain automation, cross-chain communication), and next-generation blockchain technology (e.g. Layer 1/2, zero-knowledge proofs, security).
"As crypto-focused VC's continue to raise massive billion dollar plus funds, we identified a pocket of opportunity to support Web3 founders with their first institutional checks that are considered too small for other Tier 1 investors," said Gao, Founder and Managing Partner of Shima Capital. "We also observed that early-stage funds usually do not provide extensive value-adds for founders given limited resources. At Shima, we take the opposite approach and spend the necessary resources to provide our portfolio companies with surgical support typically found only with larger funds. We firmly believe this strategy of focusing on the earliest funding rounds and delivering a full suite of value-adds will yield strong returns for LPs and align incentives the most with founders."
The Fund's investment strategy will be led by Gao who previously served as Co-Founder and General Partner of Divergence Digital Currency, a $100m+ crypto hedge fund that has grown over 15x since inception in 2017. Gao was also previously General Partner of Struck Capital, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm. Prior, he held roles as a technology investor at New Enterprise Associates, a $25Bn+ venture capital fund, and as an M&A investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Gao graduated from MIT with degrees in mathematics and computer science and briefly attended Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He teaches the 15.492: Crypto Finance course at MIT.
Gao is joined by a team of investors and professionals who possess proven track records of sourcing talent and driving successful investments at some of the top technology companies. These include:
- Carl Hua, who serves as Investment Partner and Chief Technology Officer, was formerly the Chief Architect of Celsius and Head of DeFi at Ripple where he is still an advisor. Hua also previously served as Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Logos Network, which was acquired by Ripple in 2019. He has also held engineering positions at JPL NASA and Northrop Grumman.
- Alex Lin, who serves as Head of Research, was previously a Venture Partner at Old Fashion Research, a multi-strategy Web3 fund managed by former Binance executives. Lin has served as a Fund Manager at Big Red Ventures, Cornell University's student-run, early-stage venture capital fund, and as Co-Founder of Tether Health, an early-stage digital health startup. Lin's career also includes roles as Product Manager of two successfully exited startups (i.e. Teads, Concertiv) and as a Deloitte consultant.
- Chris Adams, who serves as Head of Talent, was formerly the Head of Talent at Atomic VC where he helped scale teams from seed to series C and rolled out talent programs for early teams. Adams served as the first hiring lead at Uber and personally hired 300 candidates while leading a team of 20. He also led recruiting efforts for various teams at Google and Pinterest.
Shima Capital's core team consists of investors, researchers, software engineers, and other industry experts who are passionate about growing the future of the crypto and Web3 ecosystem. To learn more about open roles at Shima and across its portfolio, please visit jobs.shima.capital.
About Shima Capital
Shima Capital is a leading early stage VC firm investing in disruptive blockchain companies. The fund is deeply focused on taking a hands-on approach and working closely with its portfolio companies to provide the most sweat equity per dollar invested. As teams in Web3 push the frontier of innovation, Shima helps hire talent, build community, amplify narratives, and foster the acceleration of technical research and development. Shima is composed of seasoned investors, accomplished operators, and former founders who align on a mission to support all-star teams with building and scaling generational companies.
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FINDLAY, Ohio, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MPLX LP (NYSE: MPLX) today announced the redemption of (i) all of the $500 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of MPLX's 3.500% senior notes due Dec. 1, 2022 (including the portion of such senior notes issued by Andeavor Logistics LP and Tesoro Logistics Finance Corp.) and (ii) all of the $500 million outstanding aggregate principal amount of MPLX's 3.375% senior notes due March 15, 2023.
The 2022 senior notes are expected to be redeemed on or about Aug. 25, 2022 at a price equal to the greater of par or the make-whole payment calculated in accordance with the terms of the 2022 senior notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the redemption date.
The 2023 senior notes are expected to be redeemed on or about Sept. 15, 2022 at a price equal to the greater of par or the make-whole payment calculated in accordance with the terms of the 2023 senior notes. The regular semiannual interest payment due on the 2023 senior notes on Sept. 15, 2022, will be paid in the usual manner to holders of record at the close of business on Sept. 1, 2022.
This news release is for informational purposes only and is neither an offer to buy nor a solicitation to sell any of the 2022 senior notes or the 2023 senior notes. The foregoing does not constitute a notice of redemption under the indentures governing the 2022 senior notes and the 2023 senior notes and is qualified in its entirety by the redemption notices distributed to the holders of the 2022 senior notes and 2023 senior notes under such indentures.
About MPLX LP
MPLX is a diversified, large-cap master limited partnership that owns and operates midstream energy infrastructure and logistics assets and provides fuels distribution services. MPLX's assets include a network of crude oil and refined product pipelines; an inland marine business; light-product terminals; storage caverns; refinery tanks, docks, loading racks, and associated piping; and crude and light-product marine terminals. The company also owns crude oil and natural gas gathering systems and pipelines as well as natural gas and NGL processing and fractionation facilities in key U.S. supply basins.
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Man arrested after girl, 4, killed in Panama City Beach parking lot collision
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (Gray News) - Police have arrested a man accused of leaving the scene of a collision that killed a 4-year-old girl in a parking lot.
Panama City Beach police told WJHG that Kenneth Ray Martinez, 62, was arrested after witnesses gave officers a description of the vehicle involved in the collision in the popular Florida vacation city on Tuesday.
The 4-year-old was from the area of Nashville, Tennessee, and police chief J.R. Talamantez said the girl was right next to her family when she was hit by the vehicle at the Breakfast Point Marketplace shopping center.
Martinez is charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury or death.
Police executed a search warrant at his home, and officers found a receipt from Publix, which is located in the same shopping center as where the collision occurred. Investigators said the receipt was printed minutes prior to the crash.
Martinez refused a blood draw when asked by officers, police said.
Records show he remains in the Bay County Jail on Wednesday after being booked Tuesday night.
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PHOENIX, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CopperPoint Insurance Companies, a western-based super regional commercial insurance company, announced today that Ms. LoriAnn Lowery-Biggers and Mr. Marc Schmittlein have been re-elected to the Board of Directors of CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Holding Company, and that Mr. Michael Mathias and Ms. Marita Zuraitis have been elected to initial terms on the board.
The results of this election were announced at the board meeting held on June 8, 2022. Ms. Lowery-Biggers and Mr. Schmittlein will serve three-year terms, while Mr. Mathias and Ms. Zuraitis will serve one-year terms. Survey & Ballot Systems, an independent election administrator, conducted the voting process.
"This powerful combination of talent, coupled with our existing board leadership, provides a refreshed perspective and even greater capabilities supporting our dynamically growing company," said Ken Kirk, Board Chair.
Founded in 1925, CopperPoint Insurance Companies, www.copperpoint.com, is a leading provider of workers' compensation and commercial property and casualty insurance solutions. With an expanded line of insurance products and a growing 26-state footprint, CopperPoint is in a strong position to meet the evolving needs of its agents, brokers, and customers. It has $5.1 billion in total assets and an enterprise surplus of approximately $1.6 billion.
CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Holding Company is the corporate parent of CopperPoint Insurance Companies, Pacific Compensation Insurance Company and Alaska National Insurance Company. All companies are rated A (Excellent) by AM Best.
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IRVINE, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Habit Burger Grill, the California-based restaurant company renowned for its award-winning Charburgers grilled over an open flame, signature sandwiches, fresh salads and more announces the grand opening of a new location in Las Vegas, NV. Located at 4434 N. Rancho Drive, the fast-casual restaurant will serve up its 'Habit Hospitality' beginning June 5th.
The restaurant will offer dine-in, takeout and drive-thru ordering. Curbside pick-up and delivery will be available via The Habit Mobile App and online at order.habitburger.com. Guests also have additional convenient ordering options including state-of-the-art indoor self-serve kiosks and delivery through DoorDash, Postmates and Uber Eats.
"We're thrilled to be partnering with Pinnacle Management Group LLC to expand our presence in Southern Nevada," said Iwona Alter, Chief Brand Officer at The Habit Burger Grill. "We look forward to serving up our award-winning Charburgers grilled over an open flame, signature sandwiches, delicious sides and more to our Las Vegas fans."
"We are so excited to open our fourth Habit Burger Grill drive-thru and eighth restaurant in Las Vegas! Our team can't wait to fire up our grills and serve the Northwest Las Vegas community," said Cesar Shih, Pinnacle Management Group LLC.
The Habit Burger Grill was named in Thrillist's list of "Underrated Burger Chains that Need to be in Every State!" With its cooked-to-order mantra, The Habit Burger Grill's open flame sears a distinctive smoky flavor into their famous Charburgers, fresh marinated chicken, sushi-grade ahi tuna and tenderloin steak. Guests at The Habit Burger Grill can always count on freshly-made, handcrafted quality served up with genuine hospitality.
This Habit Burger Grill restaurant's dining room will be open Sunday – Thursday from 10:30am – 9:30pm with the drive-thru remaining open until 10:00pm and Friday – Saturday from 10:30am – 10:00pm with the drive-thru remaining open until 11:00pm.
Connect with The Habit Burger Grill on social media at facebook.com/habitburgergrill, instagram.com/habitburgergrill, twitter.com/habitburger, tiktok.com/@habitburgergrill, and youtube.com/habittube.
About The Habit Restaurants, Inc.
Born in Santa Barbara, California in 1969, The Habit Burger Grill is a burger-centric, fast-casual restaurant concept that specializes in preparing fresh, cooked-to-order chargrilled burgers and handcrafted sandwiches featuring grilled tenderloin steak, grilled chicken and sushi-grade ahi tuna cooked over an open flame. In addition, it features fresh handcrafted salads and an appealing selection of sides and shakes. The Habit Burger Grill was named the "best tasting burger in America" in July 2014 in a comprehensive survey conducted by one of America's leading consumer magazines, named in Thrillist's list of "Underrated Burger Chains that Need to be in Every State!" and featured in Newsweek's "America's Favorite Restaurant Chains 2022." The Habit Burger Grill has since grown to over 330 restaurants in 14 states throughout Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Washington as well as 13 international locations, seven in China and six in Cambodia. More information is available at www.habitburger.com.
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Ukraine: Russian missile strike kills 12 south of Kyiv
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russian missiles struck the city of Vinnytsia Thursday, killing 12 people and wounding 25 more in what Ukraine’s president called “an open act of terrorism” on the country’s civilian population in areas with no military value.
Ukraine’s national police said three missiles hit an office building and damaged nearby residential buildings in the city located southwest of the capital Kyiv. The missile strike ignited a fire that expanded to engulf 50 cars in an adjacent parking lot.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a child was among the dead. He suggested the attack was deliberately aimed at terrorizing civilians.
“Every day Russia is destroying the civilian population, killing Ukrainian children, directing missiles at civilian objects. Where there is no military (targets). What is it if not an open act of terrorism?” Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
The Vinnytsia strike came after Ukraine’s presidential office reported the deaths of five civilians and the wounding of another eight in Russian attacks over the past day.
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Shawnee Co. Parks and Rec close to connecting trails from SW 29th to Lake Shawnee
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Shawnee County’s Deer Creek Trail is almost complete which is one step closer to connecting miles of trails in Topeka.
The extension is largely funded through a Transportation Alternatives Grant with the county being responsible for a small portion according to Parks and Recreation Communications and Public Information Supervisor Mike McLaughlin.
“You’ll eventually be able to go from Southwest 29th and McClure by right around where advisors excel is located, all the way to and around Lake Shawnee and back,” he said.
Construction is underway to extend the Deer Creek Trail from SE 10th Street to SE 25th Street at Dornwood Park. He said that could happen before or in the month of June. Once that’s completed, they’ll have just more than a half a mile of trail on SE 29th Street to connect them.
“A really important part of our 2014 master plan for Shawnee County Parks and Recreation was trail connectivity.”
McLaughlin said they’ve been working with the Kansas Department of Transportation for years to get to this stage.
“The nicest thing about trail system is it takes you across some main roads but it takes you underneath the main roads, it takes you across bridges. Very seldom do you actually have to cross streets in this whole 20-30 mile stretch.”
He said it gives riders the safety they need while encouraging all to explore the areas around them.
“When bicyclists find out they can ride 20 to 30 miles on a safe trail going underneath streets instead of across streets and through busy intersections, they’re going to love this,” he said. “I think it’ll make more people aware of the trail and more people who live in different areas of town will catch on to the trail and start using it for fitness, not just cyclists that want to go a long way on it, but families who want to come out and take a walk before or after dinner. It’s a great improvement for the health of the community as well.”
McLaughlin said Commissioner Bill Riphahn is working on a funding source for another trail that goes from the Kansas river-weir to around the Great Overland Station, extending to the Soldier Creek Trail and connecting those north of the river.
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DALLAS, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Taco Bueno expands again in Texas by adding a new location at 310 This Way, Lake Jackson, TX 77566. This new restaurant emphasizes the brand's fresh and high quality Tex-Mex with its bold colors.
In addition to bright colors, energy-efficient led lighting, and authentic décor, there is also colorful accent lighting and high-top bar seating so guests can use laptops and tablets. Digital menu boards and promotional signage are also featured. The contemporary Tex-Mex flavors, ingredients, and items offered by modernized restaurants and frequent menu changes will continue to drive growth in 2022.
Guillermo Perales, a Dallas restaurant franchise owner (Sun Holdings, Inc.), purchased Taco Bueno in 2019. The company was founded in 1967 in Abilene, Texas and now operates over 145 locations throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Mr. Perales expects that Taco Bueno will continue to grow and gain momentum with over twenty new locations opening within the next year, marking a milestone in the brand's history as it celebrates 55 years later this year. "While other chains in the category are looking to cut food cost with processed foods, we've stayed true to our roots by crafting authentic recipes in each of our kitchens. We do things the Bueno way, and you're sure to taste the difference" stated Mr. Perales. "Taco Bueno is reinvesting in exciting new limited time offers with top-grade proteins, such as fresh-never-frozen ground beef, grilled chicken and brisket, as well as salsas, guacamole, and beans made fresh, from scratch, in house daily" continued Perales.
Iconic menu items like the Muchaco®, which is a taco in a soft pita-like shell, is among Taco Bueno's most popular choices. Additionally, Taco Bueno offers a variety of "Big Freakin®" options, which are top selling favorites, but twice their size.
About Sun Holdings
Sun Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1997 by Guillermo Perales, funded by an SBA loan. Sun's portfolio is ranked as the second-largest franchisee group in the U.S. by Mega 99 in its 2021 Rankings. Mr. Perales has developed a portfolio of companies that own and operate more than 1,300 locations in 12 states, creating more than 28,000 jobs. He has also overseen the development across different brands of over 200 new stores and completed 200 store remodels in the last three years. Today, his companies own and operate Taco Bueno and also operate Burger King, Popeyes, Arby's, Applebee's, T-Mobile, McAlister's, IHOP, GNC and several airport restaurant locations. Mr. Perales' organization has been awarded the MUFSO Golden Chain Award and Nation's Restaurant News' Top 10 Power List. He has also been named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, IFA's Entrepreneur of the Year, Dealmaker of the Year and Latino Executive of the Year by D CEO Magazine and Nation's Restaurant News' Most Influential CEO for 2021, as well as appearing on Latino Leaders Magazine's 101 Most Influential Latinos for several consecutive years.
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The Brand will be releasing a collection of 1,994 generative NFTs ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, enabling owners to claim an iconic Flag Tee while supporting Boys & Girls Clubs of America
NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Old Navy – the global apparel and accessories brand, has announced the launch of a digital collectibles campaign based on its beloved mascot, Magic the Dog, to commemorate the Fourth of July holiday in partnership with Sweet, a consumer-first NFT platform delivering officially licensed NFTs on behalf of brands.
The retailer, part of Gap Inc., is famed for its annual Flag Tee collection, offered each year since the brand's inception in 1994. This year, Old Navy is bringing its cult-favorite offering into the metaverse with the first drop of generative digital collectibles. The profile picture collectibles will feature the brand's Magic the Dog mascot sporting the iconic flag tee design mixed with other accessories. The NFT campaign will kick-off on Wednesday, June 29th, featuring 1,993 common NFTs at the accessible price of $0.94 and a special auction featuring an epic 1-of-1 Magic the Dog NFT. Old Navy collaborated with the youth arts community at Boys & Girls Clubs of America, its longtime charitable partner, to co-design the unique attributes for Magic with up to 800,000 possible combinations.
The digital collectibles will be available at www.oldnavy.com/nft dropping Wednesday, June 29th at 9:00am PST, with the special auction running for 24-hours, ending June 30th at 9:00am PST. 100% of the proceeds generated from the auction and common NFT sales will benefit Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Any future sales of a Magic the Dog NFT in the secondary market will generate a 10% donation to the nonprofit.[1]
"As an iconic American brand, we're so excited to bring our beloved Flag Tee design, signature to Old Navy, into the metaverse," said Kelly Blumberg, Head of Graphics at Old Navy. "We know our customers and employees are passionate about community, so we're thrilled to offer another dimension of belonging in web3 with this super fun, inclusive collection of digital collectibles that are truly accessible to all."
In partnership with Sweet, Old Navy's Magic the Dog generative NFT collection will not only provide owners with a keepsake of Old Navy's 28-year-old annual flag tee tradition, but each NFT will grant its owner the ability to claim a physical Old Navy flag tee. NFT holders can use redemption codes delivered along with their NFT to claim a classic flag tee from any Old Navy store or from www.oldnavy.com from Wednesday, June 29th through Saturday, July 30th.[2] The brand's 2022 Flag Tee design, available for the family, demonstrates Old Navy's commitment to inclusivity and unity, featuring the names of the five U.S. territories in addition to the 50 states and the phrase "United States of All."
The NFTs will be minted on the energy-efficient Tezos blockchain, which features a low carbon footprint that aligns with Old Navy's ethos of sustainability and environmental consciousness.
Tom Mizzone, CEO of Sweet, said: "Fourth of July is one of the biggest dates in the American calendar, and Old Navy has long been a part of the celebrations. The launch of this affordable and fun generative NFT collection will allow anyone and everyone to purchase and own an NFT and get introduced to web3 at the same time. We're really excited to see what the introduction of NFTs to the Old Navy brand will bring to this Independence Day celebration and beyond."
About Old Navy
Old Navy is a global apparel and accessories brand that makes current American essentials accessible to every family. Originated in 1994, the brand celebrates the democracy of style through on-trend, playfully optimistic, affordable and high-quality products. A division of San Francisco-based Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS), Old Navy brings a fun, energizing shopping environment to its customers in more than 1,200 stores around the world. For more information, please visit www.oldnavy.com.
About Sweet
New York-based Sweet is a highly flexible, Non-Fungible Token (NFT) platform and marketplace used by top creators, sports, entertainment, and consumer brands worldwide. Sweet delivers immersive NFT programs driving revenue, consumer engagement, and gamified experiences reaching both sophisticated and novice NFT collectors in ways never before possible. For more information, please visit sweet.io.
[1] Boys & Girls Clubs of America to receive 10% donation from secondary sales through June 29, 2023.
[2] Each code offers a $5 off Old Navy Classic Flag Tee coupon and one Free Ship coupon. Each code is one-time use, valid in-store and online. Free Ship coupon applied to online orders only. Offer valid in-store 6/29 through 7/30, and for online orders placed on 6/29 through 7/30 from 12:00 AM PDT to 11:59 PM PDT. Offer valid only in the U.S. Limited time only and while supplies last.
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Your good friends may be able to help you get out of a jam. They may be good listeners and they may be good at keeping you company over a meal or drink. But they are decidedly not good at keeping you from getting sick with Covid-19, new research shows.
A study published Thursday found that while people in the friend zone are good for your mental health, when it comes to an infectious disease like Covid, your friends might make you even more vulnerable to it. It's what two scholars who happen to be BFFs found with the five studies they published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. Hyunjung Crystal Lee and Eline De Vries are assistant and associate professors and marketing specialists who specialize in consumer behavior and business psychology in the Department of Business Administration at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
It's long been known that friendship, while psychologically beneficial, can warp a person's perception of risk. Risk perception comes from a person's ability to judge the severity and probability of a negative outcome. Past studies have shown people tend to feel safer when they have a close relationship with someone, and that can lead them to make emotional rather than rational decisions.
The researchers showed this through five different experiments with a wide variety of people throughout the course of the pandemic.
Lee said she and De Vries were interested in the work because as they were living through the pandemic, they started wondering what makes people take risks and what conditions would make people feel vulnerable or invulnerable.
"And then we went down the rabbit hole," De Vries added.
It's what they call the "friend shield effect."
"The idea was that we perceive our friends like a shield. We feel safe when Covid-19 is associated with friendship," De Vries said -- even if we shouldn't.
The first experiment involved junk food. The professors divided up participants into two groups. One was asked to think about a close friend. The other group was asked to think about a distant acquaintance. Both wrote down memories of those people. Then they were given an article that argued eating unhealthy snacks could increase a person's risk to develop severe Covid. The article also mentioned that hand sanitizers and masks were protective.
The groups were then allowed to shop online from a store that offered travel-size hand sanitizer and masks and Cheez-Its and king-size Twix bars and Mars bars. The group that thought about their close friends first were much more likely to buy junk food than protective items, despite the warnings.
A second experiment divided participants into three groups. None had ever had Covid. They then were told to imagine that they had been infected by a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. Then they were asked how much they would spend on health protection in the next couple of months. Those who imagined they got sick from strangers or people that they weren't close to planned to buy about the same amount. Those who got sick from friends planned to spend half as much. The experiment confirmed that "positive emotions can make people relatively oblivious to risks and likely engage in risky behavior," the study said.
A third experiment involved people who had Covid-19 at one point in the pandemic and knew how they got sick after being exposed to Covid. Those who were exposed by a friend or family member were much less likely to think that they'd get it again when compared to those who got sick after exposure by an acquaintance or stranger.
The fourth study compared how people with a strong sense of boundaries felt about their risk of catching Covid when visiting a favorite burger joint. Those who clearly categorized others into a friend or acquaintance category were less hesitant to go out to eat with a friend rather than an acquaintance. Those with blurrier boundaries -- whether the person was a friend or an acquaintance -- didn't have their choice to dine indoors impacted in this kind of risky situation.
The fifth experiment looked at people's friendships and factored in political ideology. Earlier research has shown that politically conservative people draw sharper distinctions between who is a friend and who is an acquaintance.
In that experiment, people were asked to imagine going to a favorite coffee shop by themselves, with a close friend or an acquaintance. They were asked how crowded they thought the coffee shop would be and how likely they thought they'd get sick after being exposed to someone there. They were also asked how they would describe themselves politically. Conservatives thought the coffee shop would be less crowded and they'd be less likely to get sick if they were going with a friend rather than if they were going with an acquaintance.
"The people who had the clearest boundaries of who is a close friend and who they are distant from show the greatest friend shield effect and feel more invulnerable to Covid," De Vries said.
In total, these studies repeatedly seem to show that people just aren't good at perceiving risks when friends are involved, even if the risk was beyond this person in their social circle. This is what the study called an "irrational potentially dangerous bias," since limited interaction with others is the most protective behavior in a pandemic.
Kaileigh Angela Byrne, who did not work on these studies but has conducted research on risk taking in the pandemic, said these experiments made "really interesting reading" and build on work that shows "when trust is high, risk perception is low."
"Risk seems less threatening when it's associated with something positive, like a friend or friends, so it makes sense that going to a favorite coffee shop with friends, even in the height of a pandemic, would feel okay, even if it really isn't," said Byrne, an assistant professor of psychology at Clemson University.
Byrne's research has also found that people who identify as conservatives have a decreased perceived risk for engaging in social activities during the pandemic. In part, she said, this is because the pandemic was politicized, and their strong sense of boundaries about who is a friend further reduces their perceived risk.
The studies, she said, seemed to create realistic scenarios, and while they are experiments, "there is a fair connection between intention and actual behavior."
Byrne believes the designers of public health campaigns should keep this research in mind. It's good for people's mental health to stay connected with friends, but people should be encouraged to meet in safer spaces such as at a park or some other outdoor venue, she said.
"I think it is certainly possible to maintain social interaction in a pandemic, while still making efforts to reduce the risk of infection," Byrne said.
Some public health guidance encouraged people to limit interaction to close circles of friends, but De Vries and Lee hope their study will inform public health policy going forward. People should be reminded to be careful even with close friends.
"We would like a more holistic response," Lee said. "Risk perception was more neglected in the current pandemic strategy."
"Hopefully, we will never need this information in the future and we won't have another pandemic, but if we do, we should take this into account. Perception matters," Lee added.
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- Emily Paxhia, Scott Swid, and Joseph Hinrichs purchase approximately 60,352 Class A Common Shares in aggregate -
NEW YORK, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Ascend Wellness Holdings, Inc ("AWH", "Ascend", or the "Company") (CSE: AAWH.U) (OTCQX: AAWH), a multi-state, vertically integrated cannabis operator, announced that Directors, Emily Paxhia, Scott Swid, and Joseph Hinrichs, each made individual purchases of Class A Common Shares "Shares" in the open market totaling 60,352 shares between July 5th and July 6th. This follows an announcement by AWH that Abner Kurtin, CEO, Chairman, and Founder, and Frank Perullo, President and Co-Founder, made purchases of AWH Shares earlier this week.
"Although the fundamentals remain dislocated from valuations, the Board is confident in the trajectory of the Company and the industry as a whole and remains dedicated to supporting Ascend," said Emily Paxhia, Lead Independent Director for Ascend Wellness Holdings.
AWH is a vertically integrated multistate cannabis operator with licenses and assets in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. AWH owns and operates state-of-the-art cultivation facilities, growing award-winning strains and producing a curated selection of products for retail and wholesale customers. AWH produces and distributes its in-house Simply Herb, Ozone, and Ozone Reserve branded products. For more information, visit www.awholdings.com.
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange, nor its Regulation Services Provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release includes forward-looking information and statements, which may include, but are not limited to, information and statements regarding the plans, intentions, expectations, estimates, and beliefs of the Company. Words such as "expects", "continue", "will", "anticipates" and "intends" or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current projections and expectations about future events and financial trends, and on certain assumptions and analysis made by the Company in light of experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments and other factors management believes are appropriate.
Forward-looking information and statements involve and are subject to assumptions and known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause actual events, results, performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future events, results, performance, and achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking information and statements herein. Such factors include, among others: the risks and uncertainties identified in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and in the Company's other reports and filings with the applicable Canadian securities regulators and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Although the Company believes that any forward-looking information and statements herein are reasonable, in light of the use of assumptions and the significant risks and uncertainties inherent in such information and statements, there can be no assurance that any such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, and accordingly, readers are advised to rely on their own evaluation of such risks and uncertainties and should not place undue reliance upon such forward-looking information and statements. Any forward-looking information and statements herein are made as of the date hereof, and except as required by applicable laws, the Company assumes no obligation and disclaims any intention to update or revise any forward-looking information and statements herein or to update the reasons that actual events or results could or do differ from those projected in any forward-looking information and statements herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or results, or otherwise, except as required by applicable laws.
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PITTSBURGH, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a comfortable surface to support a baby, books or sewing supplies on my lap," said an inventor, from Nashville, Tenn., "so I invented the LAP PILLOW. My design would be lightweight, compact and easy to transport to various locations."
The patent-pending invention provides a practical and portable pillow for the lap. In doing so, it offers an effective way to support a variety of items. As a result, it enhances comfort and convenience and it could provide therapeutic benefits. The invention features a versatile design that is easy to use so it is ideal for the general population. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Nashville sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-NAM-107, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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The Five-Year Partnership Will Provide Community Support In All Areas Of Campus Life Including Financial Education, Internships, Scholarships, & Athletics.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- University Credit Union (UCU) is excited to announce its newest partnership with UC San Diego. The partnership will seek further success within the California higher education sector by directly supporting students, employees, alumni and retirees of UC San Diego through community-oriented financial services and access to the full-range of benefits provided to all members of UCU.
"As an organization that prioritizes the success of all higher ed institutions in California, we are honored to have this opportunity to partner with another important institution," Dr. David Tuyo II, CEO & President of UCU, says. "The values between UCU and UC San Diego are perfectly aligned and I believe that we can make a real difference in meeting the financial needs of our Triton community."
The five-year partnership will help support the UC San Diego community by providing one-on-one consultations on campus, financial education and workshops, student internships, sponsorship of athletic and alumni events, and the establishment of the Staff Association Scholarship Fund to provide financial aid to employees pursuing professional development activities. The partnership will also include the opening of a UCU advisory center in the Price Center, six new ATMs across campus, as well as co-branded UC San Diego credit cards and UC San Diego Athletics debit cards.
"Finding a banking partner capable of providing state-of-the-art products and services, while meeting the needs of stakeholders from across an institution of our size, is no small feat," says Pierre Ouillet, Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer of UC San Diego. "Partnering with University Credit Union, a not-for-profit financial cooperative founded by members of the higher-ed community, allows us to develop a model for what a partnership between universities and financial institutions can look like."
About University Credit Union: University Credit Union, a federally-insured financial cooperative, was founded in 1951 on UCLA's campus by faculty and staff. Serving more than 50,000 members, UCU has become a leading credit union in the United States. UCU is guided by a board of directors, comprised only of faculty, staff, and alumni of the university community. UCU's core purpose is to give members a financial advantage in life, and with their promise to advocate, educate and innovate, UCU is an industry-leading financial partner to university communities.
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How to start a vegetable garden from scratch
Whether trying to find a new hobby, looking to spend more time outdoors or wanting to create your own supply of fruits and vegetables, gardening is a beneficial and fun activity for people of all ages. Gardening is something that anyone can do because it’s easy to get started with minimal tools and only a small amount of space.
In the long run, a well-functioning and properly maintained garden can help you cut down on the cost of food. Even those just getting started can benefit, for a simple $5 investment can yield $30 worth of vegetables over the duration of a season. And the taste and quality of the produce you grow in your garden can be better than that commonly found in the grocery store.
Gardening may be simple, but it’s still a skill that requires knowledge and a deft touch, so you want to learn the basics before investing money and time. There is a process you want to follow to help ensure the best results.
Vegetable garden location
Much of the success of your garden depends on your location, and there are multiple factors to consider when selecting a plot of land to plant your crops.
Accessibility
You want to find a location that you can easily access and watch over. Ideally, you want your garden to be in a location that you walk by every day, so you can’t help but check on your crops.
Sunlight
Make sure that the plot of land you select receives enough sunlight throughout the day. Photosynthesis is the process that turns sunlight into glucose. That creates cellulose and starch. Plants require sunlight to survive. For frame of reference, quick-growing vegetable gardens require between six and eight hours of sunlight per day.
Water
Water is another necessity that your crops will need to survive, so you want to make sure that your garden is near an easily accessible water source. A handheld watering can will only last you so long, so an investment in a hose and spray nozzle will be much more effective for larger gardens. It will also cut down on your maintenance time.
Size
Start small. Most first-time gardeners feel comfortable with a garden that is 10×10. However, size is relative because a well-maintained 10×10 garden can still produce more quality crops than a much larger garden that is not properly cared for.
Selecting the proper soil
Soil provides the nutrients needed for your garden to thrive. Soil should be easy to dig and allow for proper drainage so water can reach the roots of the plants. You want soil to be rich and dark. It should crumble in your fingers. You want to avoid clay soils, as they are too densely packed. They don’t retain moisture or allow pockets of air needed for vegetable roots.
If your gardening area doesn’t have healthy soil, higher quality soil should be purchased. Additional soil amendments, such as compost leaf mold or well-aged manure, can help create the healthy ecosystem necessary for your plants to thrive.
Selecting your vegetables
Certain plants grow better in certain areas. If any neighbors have gardens, they most likely have similar soil and weather conditions, so learning what crops they plant can give you an idea of what crops work well in your area.
Start with five of your favorite vegetables and learn how much they each produce. For example, tomatoes, squash and peppers will continue to flourish throughout the season, while vegetables like corn and carrots produce only one crop.
Vegetable garden tools
Hoe
To prepare your soil and weed your garden, a durable garden hoe is a must-have.
Rake
If you don’t want to get your hands dirty, a garden rake allows you to level your soil, clear leaves and cover new seedlings.
Trowel
When transplanting crops, a steel blade garden trowel is your best bet. Find one with a sturdy handle that fits comfortably in your hand.
Gloves
Every gardener should have at least one pair of gloves to protect their hands. It would be in your best interest to have both a light-weight cotton pair of gloves and a heavy-duty pair of gardening gloves depending on the job required.
How to start a small vegetable garden
Planting from seeds
Before you do anything to your garden, lay your mulch. This will help to prevent weeds and save you work down the road. Plan to plant your vegetable garden from north to south so it can obtain maximum sun exposure. When ready, push the mulch away and plant your seeds.
Popular types of vegetables to plant from seeds include lettuce, carrots, swiss chard, pumpkins and cucumbers.
Transplant planting
You may begin by growing your veggies in containers before transferring them to your garden once they have started to develop. This allows you to give them more care and attention in a controlled environment. It’s a good practice to shake up the root systems of these plants before transferring them into the garden to shock the system into quick growth.
Popular types of vegetables that benefit from transplant planting are tomatoes, peppers, broccoli and artichokes.
Maintaining your garden
Mulch will help limit how much you need to water your crops, but watering more thoroughly and less often, especially when the vegetables are starting to grow, is imperative to health. When in doubt, test your water levels to ensure your garden is getting the right amount of water.
Pulling weeds when your plants are young will reduce weed growth over time.
Utilize supports and stakes to help vegetables like tomatoes and beans grow tall.
Bugs and diseases can cause major problems for your veggies. For edible plants, use only insect spray that is labeled safe. And to prevent small animals from feasting on your crops, you can layout fencing and netting to protect your garden.
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Services for Deborah Ann Gagne, 66, of Temple will be 1-4 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Elks Lodge in Omaha, Neb.
Mrs. Gagen died Thursday, July 21.
She was born Dec. 27, 1955, to Jerry and Katherine “Kitty” Moran Krivolavek in China Lake, Calif. She grew up in a military family, moving from Hawaii to Nebraska. She graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She earned a degree in nursing. She later worked in mortgage lending. In 1996, she married Robert Gagne.
Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Dana “Tweet” Burke and Danielle Lee Spiller; her father; a brother, Steven Krivolavek; three sisters, Susan Green, DeeAnn Crowdy and Donna Incontro; and a grandchild.
Young’s Daughters Funeral Home and Bereavement Center of Temple is in charge of arrangements. | https://www.tdtnews.com/obituaries/article_5b12c588-2675-11ed-8b27-735a855101f8.html | 2022-08-28T04:02:51Z |
IRVING, Texas, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The North Texas Commission has announced recipients of the organization's 2022 Regional Leadership. The awards recognize North Texas organizations and individuals who have had a lasting impact shaping the region.
The North Texas Commission's Regional Awards Selection Committee convened in early August to determine who would receive the awards. Out of more than 50 nominees, nine recipients were selected to receive the Awards, including business leaders, elected officials, civic leaders, and organizations. Honoring the memory of the organization's former president/CEO Dan Petty, the North Texas Commission also established the Dan Petty Regional Visionary Award, announced for the first time during the Commission's 51st Annual Members' Luncheon.
"These nine unique awards represent the significance of our region's public and private sector leaders and the importance of collaboration in North Texas. These past few years have reminded us that we are better together as we work as one, unified region to tackle our challenges and work on future growth opportunities," said Chris Wallace, the NTC's President and CEO.
Recipients of the 2022 Regional Leadership Awards are:
Civic Leadership Award: Dr. Susan Bohn, Aledo ISD – In addition to serving as Superintendent of Aledo ISD, Dr. Bohn is an engaged and active member of her North Texas community. By forging meaningful relationships with leaders in the region, she has created strategies to help boost economic development and collaboration.
Corporate/Organization Leadership Award: DFW International Airport – DFW Airport serves as a major economic generator for the North Texas region. The organization supports over 200,000 full-time jobs, promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion through programs like their Capacity Building Program Series, and works to enhance infrastructure development through various sustainable design projects such as the Terminal D expansion, which incorporated sustainable approaches and products to reduce energy usage.
Diversity Leadership Award: Wendy Lopez, AECOM – As one of the most significant female leaders within AECOM, Wendy Lopez has had the power to influence positive change across the region. As a gay female in a male-dominated industry, Wendy has worked with her peers and colleagues to help grow AECOM's diversity, equity, and inclusion focus. As a top female executive in North Texas, Wendy has been able to encourage members of the LGBTQ community and young engineers to be themselves.
Education Leadership Award: Dr. James Hurley, Tarleton State University – Since becoming president of Tarleton State University in 2019, Dr. Hurley has shown his commitment to education. Through the creation of partnerships with regional school districts and two-year colleges, he has deepened the university's commitment to educational attainment and affordability for all North Texas students.
Elected Official Leadership Award: Councilmember Adam McGough, City of Dallas – Throughout time as a Dallas City Councilmember, Adam McGough has made significant contributions to the North Texas region. McGough has served on the City of Dallas's Public Safety committee, Regional Transportation Council, and TEX-21. During his time as an elected official, Councilmember McGough has championed the voice of the underrepresented and has been known to bridge gaps, provide solutions, and mitigate disagreement and dissension inside of his council.
Philanthropy Award: Anthony Mbroh, Mbroh Engineering – Anthony Mbroh, PE, is an advocate and a leader who has devoted his time to supporting various North Texas non-profit organizations over the past 25 years. Tony's philanthropic endeavors include mentoring disadvantaged students, donating his time to help small businesses grow, and supporting the ongoing education at the University of Dallas.
Social Impact Award: University Crossroads, The University of Texas at Arlington – For more than three decades, University Crossroads has been helping students navigate the road to higher education by providing services that focus on college awareness, readiness, and access; career exploration; and financial literacy. Through the help of community partners, the organization is able to offer these services free of charge to more than 40,000 students annually across North Texas.
Rising Star Award: Kyle Riley, HNTB – Kyle Riley has not only become a leader in the HNTB organization but as a rising leader in the Dallas-Fort Worth community. Kyle currently leads the HNTB Fort Worth office, has been appointed to the Downtown FTW Inc. board, is an Leadership North Texas Alumnus, and participates in several local chambers. As he continues to rise in his career, Kyle will continue to make a positive impact in the region.
Dan Petty Regional Visionary Award: Victor Vandergriff – Recognizes a visionary leader who has demonstrated a history of pioneering solutions across a wide spectrum of sectors and needs.
Established in 1971, the North Texas Commission is a unique public-private partnership that drives large impactful projects and legislative issues benefiting a robust 13-county region, and tackles the region's greatest challenges with board and staff subject matter experts who provide resources to market the region and educate future leaders. The Commission also manages the region's unified advocacy voice at the state and federal levels.
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CEOs Report Slowdown in Hiring and Investment Plans Amid Steep Decline in Economic Conditions
SAN DIEGO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Small and midsize business (SMB) CEO confidence declined more than 36% in the second quarter of 2022 when compared to the year prior, per the latest CEO Confidence Index from Vistage, a CEO coaching and peer advisory organization.
Vistage's CEO Confidence Index, which has measured SMB leaders' sentiment regarding a variety of economic and business factors each quarter since 2003, dropped to 69 in Q2, down from 84.3 in Q1 2022 and 108.8 in Q2 2021, but still above the pandemic shutdown in Q2 2020 (65.5) and the Index's all-time-low during the Great Recession in Q4 2008 (48.7).
The marked drop in confidence is accompanied by a sharp increase in concern about current and future economic conditions: 64% anticipate worsening economic conditions in the year ahead and 68% believe that the national economy has already worsened.
"The only thing that remains certain for small business CEOs in the year ahead is more uncertainty," said Joe Galvin, Vistage's chief research officer. "With concerns of potential recession or stagflation on the horizon, we anticipate CEOs' confidence will continue to diminish in the months ahead. However, we do see a bright light in the form of hiring; while it has slowed from the white hot, post-pandemic surge, an overwhelming majority are either still looking to hire or keep headcount the same, regardless of widespread pessimism about economic conditions."
- Just 8% of SMB CEOs believe the overall economic conditions in the U.S. will improve in the next year; only 14% feel economic conditions have improved over the last year
- 52% expect increased revenues in the year ahead (down from 68% in Q1 2022 and 74% in Q4 2021)
- 32% anticipate higher profits in the year ahead, which equals the all-time low first recorded at the height of the Great Recession at the close of 2008.
- Meanwhile, 76% plan to increase prices for their product/service in the next year
- 52% of SMB CEOs plan to increase their total number of employees in the next 12 months (down from 65% one quarter ago and 76% two quarters ago); 40% say their headcount will remain the same
- 65% report hiring challenges are impacting their ability to operate at full capacity
- For those having trouble hiring: 80% have already boosted wages, 63% have refined their recruitment strategies, 62% have offered flexible hours/schedules, 62% are allowing remote work options, 40% have created apprentice and internship programs
- 38% of SMB CEOs plan to increase their investments in plants and equipment in the next 12 months (down from 45% last quarter and 52% two quarters ago)
- When asked about which effects of inflation are impacting their business:
- 50% of SMB CEOs report their current workforce is hybrid; 7% say it's all-remote
See the full results for the Q2 2022 Vistage CEO Confidence Index.
The Vistage CEO Confidence Index, established in 2003, is a quarterly survey of small to midsize business CEOs, presidents, and business owners about the U.S. economy. The Q2 2022 Vistage CEO Confidence Index includes responses from 1,680 U.S. CEOs, surveyed between June 6 and 13, 2022. Since its establishment in 2003, the Index has proven to be a reliable indicator for changes in GDP and employment, two to three quarters hence.
Vistage is the world's largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize businesses. For more than 60 years, we've been helping CEOs, business owners and key executives solve their greatest challenges through confidential peer groups and one-to-one executive coaching sessions. Today, more than 27,000 members in 26 countries rely on Vistage to help make better decisions for their companies, families and communities. The results prove it: Vistage CEO members grew their annual revenue on average by 4.6% in 2020, while non-members with comparable small and midsize businesses saw revenue decrease by 4.7%, according to a study of Dun & Bradstreet data. Learn more at vistage.com.
SOURCE Vistage | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/06/30/small-midsize-business-confidence-plummets-recession-fears-grow/ | 2022-06-30T11:13:13Z |
"Save The Children"
Music Video Created Using Winning Submissions
from a Fiverr Design Contest
Arriving May 20, the Video features Acclaimed Producer SaLaAM ReMi's
Recently Released "Save The Children" Remix
LOS ANGELES, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the grand finale of the year-long celebration for Marvin Gaye's landmark What's Going On album, Motown and UMe turned to his fans to help create a unique video of Grammy®-nominated producer SaLaAM ReMi's remix of the album track "Save The Children."
In April, Universal Music Enterprises and Fiverr, an online marketplace for professional freelance services, held the Fiverr x Marvin Gaye: "Save the Children" Design Challenge, which asked Fiverr artists to listen to SaLaAM ReMi's "Save the Children" remix and then illustrate a 2D child character inspired by their interpretation of the song. The submissions revealed a remarkable range of animated creativity that included traditional cartoons, graffiti, anime, doodles, abstract sketches, and more.
The winning entries have been imaginatively integrated into the vibrant "Save The Children" video, with all the contributing artists being mentioned on a credits screen. The video, now live on the Marvin Gaye YouTube Channel, follows on the heels of the recent 2022 Webby Awards victory of the "What's Going On" animated video in the Diversity & Inclusion Video Category.
SaLaAM ReMi's "Save the Children" remix is part of his Save The World: Remix Suite. This 2021 digital EP also contains his new auditory imaginings on "Sad Tomorrows" (the B-side to "Save The Children"), "No Need" (a previously unreleased Gaye instrumental from the "Sad Tomorrows" sessions), and the holiday single, "I Want to Come Home for Christmas." Motown and UMe also teamed with Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) on a new animated video for the latter track to honor America's veterans and servicemen and servicewomen last year on Veterans Day.
The new "Save The Children" video also caps an amazing 50th anniversary year for What's Going On, which Rolling Stone placed at #1 on its most recent list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Kicking it off in January 2021 were a trio of digital titles: the 21-track What's Going On: Deluxe Edition/50th Anniversary, a recent winner of Outstanding Anthology at the Detroit Music Awards, which includes rare mixes, mono single versions and outtakes; a standalone version of What's Going On: The Detroit Mix (previously available only on What's Going On's 2001 Deluxe Edition); and Funky Nation: The Detroit Instrumentals, a collection of sublime jam tracks Gaye recorded in 1971 in the aftermath of the album's success that have never been issued on their own.
The anniversary year brought a CNN special, What's Going On: Marvin Gaye's Anthem for the Ages special, featuring interviews by artists like Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Maxwell, Sheila E., and Spike Lee, who were all influenced by Gaye's masterpiece. ESPN also created a mini doc on the album's connection to the NFL, as Gaye dreamed of playing for the Detroit Lions and invited two of their players to sing on "What's Going On." UMe also launched the launch of the official Marvin Gaye TikTok channel, which already has attracted more than 80,000 followers.
The international influence of What's Going On was exemplified by a magnificent 16-foot mural, created by the London-based visual artist Dreph, that not only honored the album but also the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Brixton Uprising, a historic event for race relations in the United Kingdom. Painted on a wall near a Brixton police station, the massive, inspiring artwork was unveiled on May 21, 2021, to coincide with What's Going On's original release date.
Motown and UMe closed out the anniversary year with the exquisite What's Going On: 50th Anniversary Edition. This premium 180g 2LP vinyl release boasts a direct-to-analog mastering by acclaimed engineer Kevin Gray from the original primary album tape reels, one of the first times this has been done since 1971. The bonus LP features four rare cuts making their vinyl debut, including a previously unreleased "stripped" version of the title song, along with mono mixes of the singles on vinyl for the first time since they came out on 45s. Enhancing the original gatefold packaging are printed sleeves with detailed track histories, a brief essay about the arranger David Van De Pitte by Dr. Andrew Flory, and a main essay by author/poet Hanif Abdurraqib, a 2021 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant.
Although a half-century has passed since the arrival of R&B's first seamless concept album, Marvin Gaye's powerful music, insightful lyrics, and profound vision still delivers a poignant plea that we might organize to address often-overlooked issues of inequality and ecological distress. With What's Going On, Marvin Gaye opened the door musically, culturally, and politically for countless musicians to address the injustices of our world. The groundbreaking album has proven its evergreen relevance, and its legacy will continue to influence and shape the music of future generations.
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ARLINGTON, Va., June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation (BHOF) proudly announces the publication of its recently revised "Clinician's Guide to Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis". The Clinician's Guide offers concise recommendations regarding prevention, risk assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and men aged 50 years and older.
BHOF, formerly the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), first published the Clinician's Guide in 1999 with updates made in 2014 to provide accurate information on osteoporosis prevention and treatment. This year, a panel of bone health experts published this updated Clinician's Guide which highlights the latest research and improvements in diagnostic technologies, and treatments. BHOF's goal is to offer useful and accurate recommendations for healthcare providers to utilize when detecting, diagnosing, and treating this debilitating disease. Yet, despite many current advances, a treatment gap continues to persist in patient care of osteoporosis.
Approximately 54 million Americans have low bone mass or osteoporosis, which increases their risk of fractures," said Meryl LeBoff, MD, lead author of the updated Clinician's Guide and former BHOF Trustee. "The newly released Clinician's Guide is for healthcare professionals. It provides clinical guidance on how to prevent and treat osteoporosis and broken bones, summarizes the latest research and provides practical approaches to care of women and men with osteoporosis."
It is important for healthcare providers and patients to better understand osteoporosis, referred to as a "silent disease", which is often not diagnosed until a fracture occurs. There is a very high incidence of osteoporotic fractures nationwide, which impacts both the medical and personal burden on patients – especially older individuals. In addition, bone fractures have extremely high associated medical costs. The Clinician's Guide includes the positive findings that even after the first fracture has occurred, there are successful medical treatments to lower the risk of further fractures and disability. Prevention, detection, and treatment of osteoporosis should be routine practice in all adult healthcare settings.
Established in 1984, the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation is the nation's leading health organization dedicated to promoting strong bones for life, preventing osteoporosis and broken bones, and reducing human suffering through programs of awareness, education, advocacy, and research. For more information on the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation, visit http://www.bonehealthandosteoporosis.org
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LAKE MARY, Fla., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FARO® (Nasdaq: FARO), a global leader in 4D digital reality, today announced the expansion of its Board of Directors to nine members and the appointment of Rajani Ramanathan to its Board of Directors.
Ms. Ramanathan has held numerous senior executive leadership positions at Salesforce.com, concluding her nearly 14-year tenure as Salesforce's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Technology & Products.
"Rajani's experience in building one of the pioneers of the SaaS industry at Salesforce.com, will be invaluable as FARO seeks to capitalize on the digitalization of the physical world. Our recent FARO Sphere launch has laid the foundation for accelerated SaaS growth, and we're pleased to have Rajani join us as we continue the transformation of FARO," commented Yuval Wasserman, Chairman of FARO's Board of Directors.
"Innovation for sustainable smart city development and solving urban challenges is an area of focus for me. I am excited to join FARO's Board and have the opportunity to work with the management team as the company increases its focus on SaaS offerings that target eliminating waste and improving process efficiencies for builders, owners and operators of the world's buildings," said Ms. Ramanathan.
Ms. Ramanathan's appointment became effective on July 25, 2022. She will be included in the slate of nominees for election to the Board of Directors at FARO's 2023 annual shareholders meeting.
FARO serves the 3D Metrology, AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction), O&M (Facilities Operations & Maintenance), and Public Safety Analytics markets. For over 40 years, FARO has provided industry-leading technology solutions that enable customers to digitize their world, and then use that data to make smarter decisions faster. FARO continues to be a pioneer in bridging the digital and physical worlds through data-driven accuracy, precision, and immediacy. For more information, visit www.faro.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as statements about FARO's investments in its cloud-based 3D software platform and transition to providing combined hardware-software solutions. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of the following words (among others): "believes," "expects," "may," "will," "plan," "should" or "anticipates," or comparable words and their negatives. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees but are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations contained in these statements. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, please see Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 that was filed on February 16, 2022. FARO assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release in the event of changing circumstances or otherwise, and such statements are current only as of the date they are made.
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Event Experience leader leverages technology from recent acquisition to meet increased demand for in-person and hybrid events
NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bizzabo, the Event Experience Operating System (OS), has launched an updated onsite check-in solution, bringing an enhanced, data-driven experience to power in-person events.
The new solution builds on Bizzabo's 10-plus years of experience supporting in-person events and leverages innovative technology from Klik, Bizzabo's most recent acquisition. The new solution is designed to provide Event Experience Leaders with greater flexibility and an elegant user experience for event organizers, their attendees, their speakers and their sponsors.
Bizzabo fast-tracked development for its new onsite offering and the broader Klik technology integration amid strong demand for in-person and hybrid events. The number of in-person and hybrid events held on Bizzabo's Event Experience OS increased 255% between Q4 2021 and Q2 2022, while the volume of virtual events remained steady, according to analysis of aggregated data.
"Today's in-person events have evolved from those of the past. By adding our upgraded onsite offering to our Event Experience OS, we're arming Event Experience Leaders with the tools they need to create immersive experiences that blend the most dynamic elements of virtual and in-person experiences," said Eran Ben-Shushan, co-founder and CEO of Bizzabo.
The refreshed onsite offering enables event organizers to create a consistent brand experience from registration onward with a promotional website, check-in, badges, lanyards and kiosks. Its intuitive check-in process eliminates waiting in line and empowers attendees to immediately start learning and networking.
Bizzabo's updated onsite offering includes:
- Self-serve or full-service delivery.
- Easy set-up and deployment.
- Fully branded check-in screen.
- Touchless check-in experience.
- Custom consent forms for attendees.
- On-demand badge printing.
- Instantaneous QR code scanning.
- Real-time event data in Bizzabo Command Center, no manual downloads or uploads of files between systems.
- Easy and automated lead retrieval for sponsors.
For more information about Bizzabo and the Event Experience Operating System, visit www.bizzabo.com
About Bizzabo:
Bizzabo powers immersive in-person, virtual, and hybrid experiences. The Bizzabo Event Experience OS is a data-rich open platform that allows Event Experience Leaders to manage events, engage audiences, activate communities, and deliver powerful business outcomes — all while keeping attendee data private and secure. As a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: B2B Marketing Events Management Solutions, Q1 2021 Report, we are trusted by world-leading brands to power their events — from Fortune 100 enterprise organizations and financial institutions to creative agencies and scaling tech companies. Bizzabo was founded by Boaz Katz, Alon Alroy, and Eran Ben-Shushan, and has more than 400 employees in its New York, Tel-Aviv, Kyiv, London and Montreal offices, as well 15+ remote locations around the world.
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A unique Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up that helps marketers, solopreneurs, and influencers create Social Media content effortlessly.
PUNE, India , May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Social media has brought about a revolutionary change in the way of life and Predis.ai wants to add more to it — in ways never imagined before.
Predis.ai brings a revolutionary AI-based social media assistant to individuals and businesses to get content inspiration and create unique personalized content for different social media platforms, without spending a lot of time and effort.
Predis.ai is a cloud-based AI-SAAS platform where users can get multiple Social Media Content options in just a few clicks. The users can also customize the platform to ensure their social media posts are in-sync with their brand language.
The process is simple and starts with entering a one-line description of the product, business, or campaign and asking the AI to generate multiple post ideas. The users need not take any step further — let the AI work for them as it will execute the post ideas and make Image creatives, captions, and hashtag options immaculately suggested to suit their brand. The users can then edit these generated posts and post them on the social platforms of their choice through Predis.ai.
Predis.ai's co-founder Tanmay Ratnaparkhe, who previously built a SAAS company and successfully sold it to the largest digital media company in India said, "The Idea of building an AI-based social media Assistant partially came from our frustrations of not being able to be active on Social Media in my last start-up. Though we were growing fast, we never had the time to be active on social media and hence did not claim the additional traffic and business social media could generate. I spoke to a few entrepreneurs and realized everyone was sailing in the same boat. Everyone wants to grow their business and be seen on social media but no one has the time for it."
"We saw a lot of products in the market that generate text copy but visual content is of utmost importance for social media. Thinking of good ideas to post on one's handles and making eye-catching creatives is a very difficult skill to master. It also takes a lot of time to keep executing regularly. This is where Predis.ai was born. We are seeing great traction with our user base has grown 80x in the last 4 months since the launch."
Predis.ai's co-founders Akshay Karangale and Aakash Kerawat, who both are alumni of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, added, "We are trying to solve one of the biggest issues faced by millions of small and medium businesses and marketers across the globe. Our AI can generate personalized and almost ready-to-use social media post options for any given business in just a few clicks. To top it up, our AI also gives objective suggestions like the best time to post so that you can have better performance for your posts. These are all critical elements for any business to grow, flourish and sustain on social media. Our solutions are for all the brands that want to improve and nurture social media for business development."
About Predis.ai:
Predis.ai is a cloud-based SAAS product to help marketers, brands, and influencers communicate better on social media by providing AI-powered content generation and competitor analysis. The platform helps design and publish posts based on the inputs given by the users. For more information visit: https://predis.ai/
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New Rise Renewables Reno Deploys Breakthrough Technology to Turn Renewable Feedstocks into Diesel that Burns Clean; Project Funded by USDA-Guaranteed Loans Arranged by Greater Commercial Lending
RENO, Nev., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the country's most advanced renewable fuel plants will officially launch operations at Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in Storey County, Nevada. New Rise Renewables Reno will produce 44 million gallons per year of renewable diesel made from triglyceride oils from sources such as corn.
The renewable diesel produced by New Rise Renewables Reno is completely interchangeable with diesel derived from petroleum and can efficiently power diesel engines, such as semi-trucks and large-scale emergency generators. The fuel burns with clean emissions. Phillips 66 is under contract to supply all of the feedstock for New Rise Renewables Reno and will purchase 100% of the renewable diesel product for use and sale nearby in California, according to New Rise Renewables Reno, which is owned by Nevada-based RESC Renewables Holdings.
Representatives from Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak, Nevada Congressman Mark Amodei and Nevada Senators Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen inaugurated the facility at an on-site event today along with Storey County officials.
"New Rise Renewables and its proven technology represent the future. Renewable diesel is emerging as the renewable fuel of choice as the world begins to move away from fossil fuels. Notably, unlike ethanol or biodiesel, renewable diesel does not, and is not, mixed with petroleum products in order to perform," said Jeremy Gilpin executive vice president of Reno-based Greater Commercial Lending (GCL), which facilitated $112.6 million in government-guaranteed credit for the development of New Rise Renewables Reno.
"GCL is proud to have helped assemble the loan package that made New Rise Renewables Reno possible. It is one of only a few significant renewable diesel plants in the U.S., though there are certainly more on their way. A notable fact about the facility is that once it is in full operation, it will require minimal external energy. It will use its own internal energy recovery system to power the production of renewable diesel," Gilpin added.
Eighty percent of the GCL-arranged financing for New Rise Renewables Reno is guaranteed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) via its 9003 Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical and Biodiesel Production Manufacturing Assistance Program. The financing structure includes participation by GCL parent Greater Nevada Credit Union, other credit unions, insurance companies and secondary market groups.
Said Randy Soule, leader of the New Rise Renewables Reno facility, "The USDA-guaranteed financing was what enabled the project. The favorable, flexible terms of the government guaranteed loan package were essential. With flexible financing, the financials may not have worked out, and our team wouldn't have been able to maintain complete oversight and control."
"Congratulations to New Rise Renewables Reno, and thanks to Greater Nevada Credit Union for supporting quality industries in Nevada," said Nevada Congressman Mark Amodei.
Nevada U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto added, "Northern Nevada's clean energy companies are helping us combat the climate crisis while fueling our economy and creating good-paying jobs for Nevadans. Businesses like New Rise Renewables are proof of what's possible with government-guaranteed loans, and when we all come together at a federal, state, and local level to foster innovation and growth. I'm proud to see this facility come online, and I'll keep working to support our clean-energy economy throughout Nevada."
"Nevada is a leader in clean energy, and I'm proud to continue fighting to bring more good-paying, clean energy jobs to our state," said Nevada U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen. "Renewable diesel plants like New Rise Renewables will help create jobs while helping our country move towards a cleaner energy future. I'm thankful to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for helping clean energy companies like this one in our state."
The New Rise Renewables Reno plant, which was developed by retrofitting an existing fuel plant, is projected to save nearly 880 million pounds of carbon emissions, the equivalent of removing 88,000 vehicles from the roads. The primary plant has been completed, and a pre-treatment and energy recovery system, designed to increase output and operational efficiency, will be fully operational in early 2023. The facility uses the most advanced renewable diesel technology in the U.S.
Renewable diesel is made by causing chemical reactions through the addition of hydrogen to the natural fats and oils. New Rise has deployed proven state-of-the-art efficient and cost-effective technology methods, which involves hydrogenating the triglycerides. The process uses hydrogen, pressure, catalyst and heat in an efficient manner, allowing reactions to be uniform and controlled – increasing yield, lowering operating costs and allowing for feedstock flexibility.
The fuel plant is located in the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, the largest industrial park in the world. Other occupants include Tesla, Walmart, Google, FedEx, Switch and Panasonic.
Greater Commercial Lending (GCL) is a credit organization that brings together credit unions and community lenders from around the U.S. to provide government-guaranteed loans to businesses and initiatives in rural and under-served markets throughout the U.S. and its territories. It helps finance key infrastructure services, like power, renewable energy, transportation and fiber optic, as well as schools, hospitals, restaurants, agriculture, hotels and manufacturers. GCL partners with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which guarantee loans, to arrange credit at favorable terms. GCL is a subsidiary of Greater Nevada Credit Union (GNCU).
Greater Nevada Credit Union (GNCU) is headquartered in Carson City, Nevada and has been helping Nevadans with their financial needs since 1949. The credit union serves more than 82,200 consumers and small businesses and has over $1.73 billion in assets. GNCU's subsidiaries include Greater Nevada Mortgage, Greater Commercial Lending and Greater Nevada Insurance. GNCU is a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), and has been consistently recognized as a Best Financial Institution in many of its service areas and as a top employer by the Reno/Tahoe Best Places to Work Awards and is the USDA Lender of the Year. GNCU is also the title sponsor of Greater Nevada Field in Reno. For more information, call (800) 421-6674 or visit www.gncu.org.
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Precisely controlling nutrients to starve cancer is supported by research from academic founders, including Lew Cantley, Scott Lowe, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Greg Hannon, and Karen Vousden
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Faeth Therapeutics, a cancer metabolism company, today announced the closing of a $47 million Series A round of private financing led by S2G Ventures, bringing total funding to date to $67 million. The proceeds of the financing will be used to advance Faeth's clinical trials that combine nutrient control, therapeutics and digital tools to inhibit cancer metabolism. Seed round co-lead investors Khosla Ventures and Future Ventures also participated in the Series A, along with additional support from Digitalis, KdT Ventures, AgFunder, and Cantos.
"We believe Faeth has an unprecedented opportunity to introduce a completely new way of treating cancer by overcoming the chronically misguided advice given to patients for 100 or more years – that diet is irrelevant in treating cancer," said Anand Parikh, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Faeth Therapeutics. "Like neurological, endocrine, metabolic and autoimmune diseases, cancer can be treated through diet, but until now, scientific research into cancer nutrition patterns has lacked in-depth mechanistic understanding, contributing to potentially harmful advice for cancer patients."
Faeth Therapeutics was formed after three leading research teams separately converged on one big idea – that controlling metabolism through a combination of drugs and nutrient availability can beat cancer. Discoveries in systemic metabolism, functional genomics and tumor metabolism from, respectively, Lew Cantley, former Director of the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and now a professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Greg Hannon, Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, and Karen Vousden, Chief Scientist at CRUK, have collectively shown the power of targeted nutrient control to starve tumors. Faeth's founding team also includes Scott Lowe, chair of cancer biology and genetics at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Sid Mukherjee, a Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist and professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Faeth's trio of foundational research papers, published in Nature, suggest that precisely controlling nutrients can enhance the efficacy of approved cancer therapeutics. "We intend to 'feed the fight' using this work and create the fourth pillar of cancer treatment, alongside surgery, drugs, and radiotherapy," Parikh said.
"Cancer treatments have greatly evolved over the past decade, but the nutritional advice given to cancer patients, who are often simply told to keep their weight up, hasn't changed," said S2G Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director Sanjeev Krishnan, who joined Faeth Therapeutics' board. "The right nutrients are as important to survival as the right intervention, whether that's surgery or a therapeutic. Faeth has the data to support that targeted nutrient control can reprogram tumor metabolism to deprive it of the nutrients it needs to grow and resist treatment."
Preclinical studies in organoid and mouse models demonstrate that precise control of molecules, including amino acids and sugar, can reduce tumor size and suppress growth to a similar extent as standard-of-care chemotherapies, and combining nutrient control with drugs is significantly more efficacious than either intervention alone. The Faeth Therapeutics approach comprises precisely targeted nutrient control, therapeutics, and digital tools to support both the patient and clinician. The company has now moved to first-in-human clinical trials looking at pancreatic, colon, endometrial and ovarian cancers.
"The proceeds of the round will be used to support early phase clinical trials focusing on the safety of our approaches in cancer patients. Additionally, the funds will support development of our novel preclinical pipeline with our discovery platform, MetabOS™, which combines machine learning and functional genomics to uncover the precise nutrient vulnerabilities for a tumor based on genotype, organ of origin, and therapy," said Oliver Maddocks, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Faeth Therapeutics.
"Patients always want to know how they can change their diet to improve their outcomes with cancer, but until the work of this team, the science has been very limited. We are seeing early evidence that Faeth's approaches to altering the inputs of metabolism may be as effective as other more traditional treatments, and can be combined on top of current therapies," said Alex Morgan, Partner at Khosla Ventures. "We continue to invest in companies with bold ambitions for a large positive impact on society, leading Faeth's early seed investment and continuing to support its growth."
"We are impressed by Faeth's urgency to move from preclinical data to first-in-human trials. When some of the most preeminent cancer researchers independently reached the same conclusions about nutrient control, then came together to do something about it, we knew we had to back the company," said Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director at Future Ventures.
Faeth Therapeutics is a cancer metabolism company developing clinically-tested nutrition control, therapeutics, and digital tools for the treatment of cancer. Founded in 2019 by leading researchers in Europe and the United States and backed by leading investors, the company is pioneering its work in cancer metabolism to support a radically new way to treat cancer. Faeth's research, published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, shows that tailoring the right diet to the cancer patient can significantly impact the efficacy of clinically tested therapeutics for cancer. Feed the fight. For further information: www.faeththerapeutics.com
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HONG KONG, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CLPS Incorporation (the "Company" or "CLPS") (Nasdaq: CLPS), today announced the appointment of Mr. Srustijeet Mishra as the CEO of CLPS Technology (California) Inc. ("CLPS California"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. He will be fully responsible for the development and management of business activities in the U.S. market, and will continue to serve as the CEO of the Company's business entities in the Southeast Asia region (referred to collectively as "CLPS SEA").
Mr. Mishra was the founder of Ridik, a Singapore-based IT services provider. He officially joined the Company upon initial acquisition of 80% of Ridik's equity stake in September 2019. Its increased financial returns and growing potential for business development led the Company to acquire the remaining 20% equity stake in Ridik, and at the same time, appointed him as the CEO of CLPS SEA in December 2020. Following the Company's global expansion strategy, he was appointed as the director and president of CLPS Philippines when it was established in September 2021.
Mr. Mishra has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry with expertise in providing professional IT services to financial and IT institutions across Southeast Asia and Europe. He holds an MBA degree from IILM Institute for Higher Education in New Delhi, India and a master's degree in Physics from Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, India.
Mr. Raymond Lin, Chief Executive Officer of CLPS, said, "Mr. Mishra is a seasoned and accomplished industry veteran who is well suited to lead our U.S. business to new heights. With his extensive industry experience and management skills, we are optimistic that our overseas business will achieve greater success under his leadership."
Established in January 2020, CLPS California has been providing IT services to some of the Fortune 100 companies in industries such as e-commerce, fintech, IT consulting, and IT services. Its team size has grown by 85%, and it has begun to generate revenue since fiscal year 2021. At present, the Company has set up delivery teams in India and Singapore, mainly focusing on providing IT consulting services to clients in North America. Further, it plans to utilize various engagement models with its existing and new clients in the U.S., including fixed-price model, turn-key financial solution, client specific Center of Excellence (CoE), offshore development center (ODC), service-level agreement (SLA), hybrid (onshore-offshore) model, build-operate-transfer (BOT) model, and managed services, among others.
"The last few years have been challenging for companies around the world. The recurrent COVID-19 outbreaks have forced many business organizations to halt strategic initiatives and goals in favor of maintaining operations. For companies and entrepreneurs, restarting businesses and adopting the concept of the 'new normal' have opened up new perspective and ideas. It is a great opportunity for us as many companies start to develop long-term strategies for digital transformation, adopt emerging technologies, or move to new business model," said Mr. Mishra. "We are currently delivering most of the offshore projects for our U.S. clients from China. In addition, as we reposition CLPS as a global brand, we plan to extend our overseas operations from Asia to North America, further expanding our delivery network and delivery model. As a result, it will create a unique advantage for us in the U.S. market."
He added, "With our extensive industry experience and long term working relationships with most of the big foreign banks and insurance companies in China and Singapore, we are confident of building a strong client base in the U.S. Geographically, we have grown across the SEA region with subsidiaries in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, as well as in India with an ODC. By offering a variety of delivery approaches combined with the convenience of IT talent policy in these countries, we are not only able to give our clients across the globe with high standards of services, but also provide flexibility to meet their specific needs. For instance, Singapore is a preferred location for fintech projects, whereas semiconductor industry prefers India for embedded software projects. Therefore, having strategic locations allows us to maintain a favorable and long-term relationship with our clients. In addition, we have increased our investment in a range of products, including a new generation of loan system, CAKU credit card system and digital asset solutions for financial institutions, which will open up new opportunities and will enable us to quickly enter the North American market. Accordingly, we anticipate that our business in North America is poised to enter the next phase of growth."
About CLPS Incorporation
Headquartered in Hong Kong, CLPS Incorporation (the "Company") (Nasdaq: CLPS) is a global leading information technology ("IT") consulting and solutions service provider focusing on the banking, insurance, and financial service sectors. The Company serves as an IT solutions provider to a growing network of clients in the global financial service industry, including large financial institutions in the US, Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong SAR, and their PRC-based IT centers. The Company maintains 19 delivery and/or research & development centers to serve different customers in various geographic locations. Mainland China centers are located in Shanghai, Beijing, Dalian, Tianjin, Baoding, Xi'an, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Hainan. The remaining eight global centers are located in Hong Kong SAR, USA, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, India, and the Philippines. For further information regarding the Company, please visit: https://ir.clpsglobal.com/, or follow CLPS on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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Certain of the statements made in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning and protections of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements include statements with respect to the Company's beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future performance. Known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may be beyond the Company's control, may cause the actual results and performance of the Company to be materially different from such forward-looking statements. All such statements attributable to us are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary notice, including, without limitation, those risks and uncertainties related to the Company's expectations of the Company's future growth, performance and results of operations, the Company's ability to capitalize on various commercial, M&A, technology and other related opportunities and initiatives, as well as the risks and uncertainties described in the Company's most recently filed SEC reports and filings. Such reports are available upon request from the Company, or from the Securities and Exchange Commission, including through the SEC's Internet website at http://www.sec.gov. We have no obligation and do not undertake to update, revise or correct any of the forward-looking statements after the date hereof, or after the respective dates on which any such statements otherwise are made.
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The inaugural Sex Toy Challenge, presented by Women's Health Interactive and Adam & Eve — celebrating National Masturbation Month — included seven people sharing what it's like to use a different sex toy every day for one week.
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Women's Health Interactive, one of the largest online publishers exclusively focused on fearless conversations about sex and sexuality, has teamed up with Adam & Eve, America's most trusted source for adult products, to conduct a first-of-its-kind Sex Toy Challenge for National Masturbation Month which kicked off this week.
Experience the interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/8945452-womens-health-interactive-adam-eve-sex-toy-challenge
Over the course of one week, seven diverse participants recruited by Women's Health Interactive (over 18) used seven different sex toys curated by Adam & Eve's resident sex therapist, Dr. Jenni Skyler, Ph.D., LMFT, and CST, and provided by Adam & Eve.
Those participating in this unique and fun challenge (Kayla, Vanessa, John, Zoë, Kailin, Megan, and Wednesday) shared their individual experiences using each sex toy in a full video and written review that will be released daily over the course of seven days, starting May 3, with a final wrap-up launching on May 10.
In celebration of National Masturbation Month, Women's Health Interactive and Adam & Eve encourage everyone to take part in this challenge on their own as a way of normalizing masturbation and the conversations surrounding the topic.
"National Masturbation Month is a perfect time to explore new ways to practice self-love and we're looking forward to learning more from each person about their unique experiences," said Jenni Skyler, PhD, LMFT, and CST.
"What better way to kick off National Masturbation Month and normalize conversations about sex, sexuality, and self-love than with the most unique 'challenge' you've ever seen – asking seven different people to try seven different sex toys over seven days to learn more about themselves and share their experiences courageously with the entire world," added Chris Fernandez, CEO of Women's Health Interactive.
Quick Stats From The Sex Toy Challenge:
- 49 different sex toys were tried for a test run
- 39 orgasms were achieved (not counting multiples!)
- The average participant reached climax on five out of seven days during the challenge
- One participant reached climax every day of the challenge
- All seven challengers tried at least one style of sex toy that was brand new to them
By participating in the annual Sex Toy Challenge, people can become more comfortable with taking their sexual pleasure into their own hands — not just during National Masturbation Month, but throughout the entire year.
About Women's Health Interactive
Women's Health Interactive is an inclusive and passionate team of sex-positive writers and industry professionals who are dedicated to having open, honest, and fearless conversations about sex, sexual health, and relationships. They advocate for sexual pleasure without shame and through their work, encourage sexuality as something to be embraced — and celebrated.
For interviews/press contact with participants, please contact Women's Health Interactive Editor-In-Chief Alison Huff at 330.503.2655 or AlisonH@womens-health.com.
About Adam & Eve
Adam & Eve is the nation's leading and most trusted internet adult retailer, having served more than 15 million customers through its website and catalog. With its longstanding "sex-positive" stance, Adam & Eve products have been delivering excitement to bedrooms and enticing lovers for 50 years. Adam & Eve sells only the highest quality products for individuals and couples looking to engage in a consensual and sex-positive experience. Find out more at adameve.com or please contact Adam & Eve Public Relations Director Katy Zvolerin at 919.644.8100 x 3121 or katy@adameve.com.
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COMPANY ADDS TENURED ENGINEERING & FINANCE LEADERS
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tesorio, an A/R Cash Flow Performance Platform, today announces two new executive hires. Yogesh Bhumralkar joins as the company's new VP of Engineering and Max Dame as its new VP of Finance & Operations.
"Since raising our Series B earlier this year we've been focused on building out an exec team with deep SaaS and CFO software expertise. I'm thrilled to welcome Yogesh and Max to Tesorio, who complete our executive team, bring seasoned industry perspective, and allow us to spring forward on our R&D and finance operations," said Tesorio's CEO & Co-Founder Carlos R. Vega.
Tesorio's platform helps the world's best finance teams at companies like Slack, Box, Veeva Systems, Twilio and Domo turn revenue into cash and reinvest capital tied up in balance sheets to grow more efficiently. These strategic new hires come on the heels of the company's recent addition of GTM execs and fundraise while it expands to focus on product development that drives the future of cash flow performance.
"I've spent most of my career building software products that improve customers' lives through technology and I look forward to applying that knowledge at Tesorio. I admire Tesorio's strong culture and I'm really excited to work with its incredible team," said Yogesh Bhumralkar, Tesorio's new VP of Engineering.
Yogesh is an engineering leader with 15+ years of experience developing and managing mission-critical SaaS applications and high-performing engineering businesses that deliver great products to customers. Prior to Tesorio, Yogesh served in engineering leadership roles at Bill.com, Intuit and Samsara. His responsibilities at Tesorio will include leading all engineering and product development activities.
"It was a natural fit for me to join Tesorio because our finance customers are also my peers, so I understand the challenges they face. Tesorio has a proven product market fit and I'm excited to help grow the company to the next level," said Max Dame, Tesorio's new VP of Finance and Operations.
Max is an experienced finance and accounting executive with a history of working in SaaS and marketing technology at startups and large corporations. He previously held managerial roles at Formation, Schneider Electric and Kenandy. At Tesorio, Max will focus on scaling the finance and operations functions, while also bringing his expertise to help advance the product and serve as a voice for finance leaders.
To learn more about Tesorio, visit https://www.tesorio.com/live-demo
Tesorio is revolutionizing the way mid-market businesses manage their Accounts Receivables. In a world where it's all about cash flow, Tesorio's A/R Cash Flow Performance Platform turns revenue into cash now. Improving cash flow performance is critical in a time of inflation and rising interest rates—Tesorio helps businesses accelerate their collections and put them at the front of the line to get paid first. Tesorio is trusted by the world's best finance teams at companies like Slack, Box, Veeva Systems, Twilio, Domo, and others. The company has raised a total of $37.6 million in funding to date from investors such as BAMCAP, First Round Capital, Floodgate, Madrona Venture Group, and Y Combinator.
For more information, visit https://www.tesorio.com.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FaZe Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: FAZE) ("FaZe Clan"), the lifestyle and media platform rooted in gaming and youth culture, today announced that it will hold a webcast and conference call on Monday, August 15, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) to review its business strategy and financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Event: FaZe Holdings Inc. Second Quarter Business Update
Date: Monday, August 15, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time)
Webcast: https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/243466355
Toll Free Dial-In: 1 (888) 440-6928
Toll Dial-In: 1 (646) 960-0328
Dial-In Conference ID: 1341513
Management will also respond to pre-submitted investor questions on the webcast. To submit a question, please email ir@fazeclan.com.
An archived webcast of the conference call will also be accessible on FaZe Holdings Inc.'s Investor Relations page, https://investor.fazeclan.com.
FaZe Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: FAZE) is a digital-native lifestyle and media platform rooted in gaming and youth culture, reimagining traditional entertainment for the next generation. Founded in 2010 by a group of kids on the internet, FaZe Clan was created for and by Gen Z and Millennials, and today operates across multiple verticals with transformative content, tier-one brand partnerships, a collective of notable talent, and fashion and consumer products. Reaching over 500 million followers across social platforms globally, FaZe Clan delivers a wide variety of entertainment spanning video blogs, lifestyle and branded content, gaming highlights and live streams of highly competitive gaming tournaments. FaZe Clan's roster of more than 85 influential personalities consists of engaging content creators, esports professionals, world-class gamers and a mix of talent who go beyond the world of gaming, including NFL star Kyler "FaZe K1" Murray, Lebron "FaZe Bronny" James Jr., Lil Yachty aka "FaZe Boat," Offset aka "FaZe Offset," and Snoop Dogg aka "FaZe Snoop." Its gaming division includes 11 competitive esports teams who have won 35 world championships. For more information, visit www.fazeclan.com, investor.fazeclan.com and follow FaZe Clan on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch. The content of any website referenced or hyperlinked in this communication is neither incorporated into, nor part of, this communication.
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Damon Parker advocates for mental health awareness amongst teens
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Washburn Rural wrestling coach Damon Parker is no stranger to struggles with one’s mental health. So now, he’s using his life experiences to help kids who may be in similar situations.
”I’ve seen just through my own personal experience, how important having your mental health in a good place is, cause for a long time I wasn’t in a good place,” said Parker.
As Executive Director of The Jones Project, named after the late Josh Jones, Parker is dedicated to promoting hope, help and healing to middle and high schoolers.
“The sooner that we can get kids to realize this, the better off that they’re gonna be,” added Parker.
He’s spent a lot of time fighting his own battles, but he’s now taken the fight to the road, speaking to thousands of students across Kansas. He started at Council Grove on Friday afternoon.
“One of my skillsets is working with high school kids and being on stage, so this is kind of a perfect storm,” Parker said. “We’re very happy to be doing this work. It’s hard to be around kids every day and not want to help them in any way that you can.”
A week before his first visit, he embarked on the journey of a lifetime, conquering the climb in Utah. Over 36 hours, he climbed over 30 miles with 29,029 feet of elevation gain. That’s the equivalent of Mount Everest.
“Man, the hiking trip was one of the more challenging and terrible and rewarding and incredible experiences of my life,” he said.
The trip helped raise $100,000 for The Jones Project, a nonprofit.
“Right now our job is to spread this message, and get kids to a place where if they’re already in a position where they’re getting help from somebody, to realize that is not abnormal.”
He wants kids to know that it’s ok to not be ok, but also to know they can and should reach out for help. He’s more than happy to be the one who provides that help.
“Everybody has their own story, and everybody’s story is unique, and mine is no different,” he said. “You learn from adversity, right and you grow from adversity, and I’ve been through a good bit. And some of that was self-inflicted adversity and some of it was external. But we fought through it, and we’re trying to teach kids how to do the same.”
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NEW YORK, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 5WPR, one of the largest independently-owned PR firms in the U.S., announces today the continued expansion of their Parent, Child, & Baby PR practice area due to increased interest in the services offered to clients as current events continue to affect families globally.
The specialty practice, led by a team of seasoned professionals and boasting multiple moms on the team, combines the industry-leading capabilities of 5WPR's wellness practice with its long history of expertise within the consumer and parenting brand space.
"Over the past two years, the parenting space has been upended with extraordinary challenges that parents and caregivers have had to adapt to, including recent ongoing shortages that have left parents struggling to fill baby bottles," said 5WPR CEO, Dara A. Busch. "Our specialty parenting practice possesses a unique passion for the clients we represent, tapping into their personal parenting experiences to execute authentic work that will make a difference to support the challenges of today's parents. It is clear how deeply the team cares for the clients they work with, and our client partners appreciate being able to use them as a resource."
5W Public Relations helps brands in this space link to culturally relevant trends and present them in ways that resonate with consumers and the media alike. Services offered to Parent, Child, & Baby clients include media relations, thought leadership, executive profiling, product placement, digital marketing, events, and influencer and celebrity partnerships. Through key industry relationships with influencers, bloggers, and celebrities and of course, media, the team executes full-service campaigns and ensure maximum coverage for their clients.
5W Public Relations is a full-service PR agency in NYC known for cutting-edge programs that engage with businesses, issues and ideas. With more than 250 professionals serving clients in B2C (Beauty & Fashion, Consumer Brands, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Travel & Hospitality, Technology, Nonprofit), B2B (Corporate Communications and Reputation Management), Public Affairs, Crisis Communications and Digital Marketing (Social Media, Influencer, Paid Media, SEO). 5W was awarded 2020 PR Agency of The Year and brings leading businesses a resourceful, bold and results-driven approach to communication.
Dara A. Busch
dbusch@5wpr.com / 212-999-5585
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Widow asked to repay husband’s unemployment from before marriage
BOONE, Iowa (KCCI) - An Iowa woman still mourning the loss of her husband to cancer says she is being asked to pay back some of his unemployment claims.
Lori Harvey lost her husband, Thomas Harvey, to cancer in April. But she says last month, a letter addressed to him arrived at their home. It read that he owed Iowa Workforce Development $467 in overpaid unemployment wages.
“Typed up a letter to send back to them, saying that he had deceased and included a copy of his death certificate, and I thought that was the end of it,” Lori Harvey said.
But it wasn’t the end.
Lori Harvey was then notified she would have to appear in person for an appeal hearing over the money. She’s kept a record of who she’s called and emailed in hopes IWD will understand her circumstances.
“I feel like I am running into bureaucratic red tape all over the place and hitting every wall,” she said.
Thomas Harvey was on unemployment in 2019. His widow says they weren’t married at that time, so this burden shouldn’t fall on her.
She adds she doesn’t have the money to pay now.
“Between this and Blue Cross denying almost $50,000 in medical claims, that they’re saying weren’t medically necessary for his treatment and they were ordered by doctors, it’s like, ‘How can you say that?’” Lori Harvey said.
The hearing was scheduled for Friday morning. Lori Harvey was hoping it would get canceled, as her husband is now longer around to pay the debt.
IWD refused to comment on the story, saying it wasn’t able to comment on an individual case.
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NEW YORK, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz Llp announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Okta, Inc. ("Okta" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: OKTA) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and docketed under 22-cv-02990, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired otherwise Okta securities between March 5, 2021 and March 22, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Okta securities during the Class Period, you have until July 19, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Okta provides identity solutions for enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses, universities, non-profits, and government agencies in the United States and internationally. The Company offers a variety of cybersecurity products and services. Following its completed merger with Auth0, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Auth0"), on May 3, 2021, Okta began providing additional Auth0 products related to cybersecurity and login solutions.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Okta had inadequate cybersecurity controls; (ii) as a result, Okta's systems were vulnerable to data breaches; (iii) Okta ultimately did experience a data breach caused by a hacking group, which potentially affected hundreds of Okta customers; (iv) Okta initially did not disclose and subsequently downplayed the severity of the data breach; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Okta's business, financial condition, and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On or around March 21, 2022, hackers known as LAPSUS$ posted screenshots on their Telegram, a cloud-based instant-messaging service, channel showing what they claimed was Okta's internal company environment. Thereafter, on March 22, 2022, the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Defendant Todd McKinnon ("McKinnon"), posted a statement on his Twitter account, disclosing that, "[i]n late January 2022, Okta detected an attempt to compromise the account of a third party customer support engineer working for one of our subprocessors" (emphasis added); that "[t]he matter was investigated and contained by the subprocessor"; that "[w]e believe the screenshots shared online are connected to this January event"; and that, "[b]ased on our investigation to date, there is no evidence of ongoing malicious activity beyond the activity detected in January."
On this news, Okta's stock price fell $2.98 per share, or 1.76%, to close at $166.43 per share on March 22, 2022.
Later, on March 22, 2022, during after-market hours, in a statement on Okta's website, the Company's Chief Security Officer, Defendant David Bradbury ("Bradbury"), disclosed, inter alia, that "[a]fter a thorough analysis of [the LAPSUS$] claims, we have concluded that a small percentage of customers – approximately 2.5% – have potentially been impacted and whose data may have been viewed or acted upon."
Following Okta's updated statement, multiple news outlets reported that hundreds of the Company's clients were potentially affected by the January 2022 data breach. For example, on March 23, 2022, CNN published an article entitled "Okta concedes hundreds of clients could be affected by breach[,]" noting that, despite the Company's statement that "a small percentage of customers – approximately 2.5% – have potentially been impacted[,]" the Company "has over 15,000 customers, according to its website." That same day, Reuters and others published similar reports.
Separately, Okta was downgraded by Raymond James from "strong buy" to "market perform," noting, among other things, that "[w]hile partners were willing to trust Okta's track record, the handling of its latest security incident adds to our mounting concerns."
Following Okta's after-market update and Raymond James downgrade, the Company's stock price fell $17.88 per share, or 10.74%, to close at $148.55 per share on March 23, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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NEW YORK, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Celsius Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CELH).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Celsius between August 12, 2021 and March 1, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until May 16, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Celsius Holdings, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company had improperly recorded expenses for non-cash share-based compensation for second and third quarters of 2021; (2) as a result, the Company's financial statements for those periods would be restated, including to report a net loss for the third quarter of 2021; (3) there was a material weakness in Celsius's internal controls over financial reporting; 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.
Jakubowitz Law is vigorous in pursuit of justice for shareholders who have been the victim of securities fraud. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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LEXINGTON, Mass., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From major research universities to state university systems, to community colleges and small, medium and large institutions, Christie Campus Health is partnering with a diverse group of schools across the country to deliver the industry's only complete continuum of mental health services - from self-guided apps to online tools; from in person and virtual clinician visits to personalized concierge services - for college and university students.
Christie Campus Health welcomes Rhodes College, New England Conservatory of Music and Southwestern Law School to its rapidly expanding roster of college and university partners. Christie Campus Health serves well over 575,000 students on 150+ campuses across the country.
Christie Campus Health works with colleges and universities to expand existing capacity in student counseling services in a diverse and inclusive way, fulfilling its singular mission of reaching and supporting every student in need.
According to a Spring 2021 study from the Healthy Minds Network, 82 percent of college students – a record number – reported at least one day in the past month when their mental health impaired their academic performance.
"While the acute phase of the COVID pandemic has waned, it left in its wake an unprecedented need for mental health services on campus, even for some of the best-resourced institutions," said Kate Begley, CEO, Christie Campus Health. "Through these challenging times, we remain steadfastly committed to forming true partnerships with our college and university clients to provide access to care when and where students need it most."
Christie Campus Health's full continuum of services includes:
- 24/7 clinical support line staffed exclusively by licensed mental health professionals for unlimited, in-the-moment support and referrals to next steps, whether the student is home or abroad.
- Virtual and in-person counseling, regardless of the student's location, through a broad network of diverse clinicians.
- Navigators who function as a personal mental health concierge for students, eliminating barriers and ensuring students are connected to the care and resources they need, when they need it.
- Self-directed wellness and resiliency tools featuring Headspace, a leading meditation and mindfulness app that helps students build coping and resiliency skills, and SilverCloud, an online cognitive behavioral therapy program.
- Psychiatric prescribing clinics that provide dedicated access to psychiatric assessment and medication management
- The Wellness Hub, an online portal and app of student-curated content, online tools and self-assessments.
Partnering with on-campus counseling teams and administrators, Christie is a seamless extension of existing mental health programs offered on campus. The complete continuum of care meets the students wherever they are on their mental health journey, whether they are interested in self assessments and self-guided apps or speaking to a clinician right away. The services appeal to students who may be reluctant to access the college counseling service due to concerns about stigma, or who are looking for additional counselor diversity. Christie Campus Health's offerings are free to the student, increasing access for underserved or lower-income students, a critical benefit given growing concerns about income and health inequities.
About Christie Campus Health
Christie Campus Health is led by a team with decades of experience in college student health, solely focused on partnering with colleges and universities to deliver efficient, high-quality mental health services to students. In response to the campus mental health crisis, Christie Campus Health's team of experts in public health, clinical psychology, student health insurance and higher education policy together created CONNECT@College, a comprehensive solution that expands counseling center capacity and helps colleges reach and support students in need.
Christie Campus Health is the proud founding and lead sponsor of the Mary Christie Institute, a national non-profit think tank dedicated to improving the emotional well-being of college students. Through convening, research, journalism and advocacy, it is on the leading edge of initiatives and new ideas in college-age behavioral health.
Contact: Sonya Hagopian, shagopian@christiecampus.com
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- W. P. Carey Inc. (W. P. Carey, NYSE: WPC) reported today that its Board of Directors increased its quarterly cash dividend to $1.061 per share, equivalent to an annualized dividend rate of $4.24 per share. The dividend is payable on October 14, 2022 to stockholders of record as of September 30, 2022.
W. P. Carey Inc.
W. P. Carey ranks among the largest net lease REITs with an enterprise value of approximately $25 billion and a diversified portfolio of operationally critical commercial real estate. Having completed its merger with CPA:18 on August 1, 2022, W. P Carey's portfolio includes 1,390 net lease properties covering approximately 170 million square feet and a portfolio of 84 self-storage operating properties (on a combined company basis as of June 30, 2022 and after certain planned dispositions of CPA:18 properties). For nearly five decades, the company has invested in high-quality single-tenant industrial, warehouse, office, retail and self-storage properties subject to long-term net leases with built-in rent escalators. Its portfolio is located primarily in the U.S. and Northern and Western Europe and is well-diversified by tenant, property type, geographic location and tenant industry.
Institutional Investors:
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1 (212) 492-1110
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Individual Investors:
W. P. Carey Inc.
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1 (212) 492-1166
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Ready for Itineraries this Summer, Travelers' Choice Best of the Best "Things to Do" Awards Feature Vacation Activities for All
NEEDHAM, Mass., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the summer travel season heats up to be the busiest since pre-pandemic years, and appetites for jet-set adventures soar, Tripadvisor®, the world's largest travel guidance platform, today announces the next in its coveted Travelers' Choice® Award series: The Best of the Best Things to Do. Revealing all the must-do activities in travel hotspots around the world, this accolade also includes hidden gems in off the beaten path locations: from Oahu's chilled-out North Shore to Reykjavik's foodie enclaves, and much more. As part of this next iteration of Travelers' Choice Awards, Tripadvisor outlines subcategories corresponding with the wants and needs of every traveler.
With high demand for travel, vacationers want to make up for lost time, desperately seeking those trips of a lifetime. The Travelers' Choice Awards are the ultimate resource of tried-and-true experiences, curated by travelers within Tripadvisor's community, ready to bring holiday itineraries to the next level.
An Elevated Way to Travel
Travelers across all ages indicated (60%) in a 2021 Tripadvisor survey that emerging from the pandemic they intend to book a local experience to get to know more about the destinations they plan to visit on their next trip, with interest rising further for millennial travelers*. Whether it's an adrenaline-pumping ATV tour through the red dunes of Dubai or a relaxing sunset cruise with a glass of local wine along the gorgeous Lisbon harbor, Tripadvisor has an unmatched inventory of over 300,000 bookable activities to help all travelers - from adventure lovers to beach bums - discover the best things to do.
To this end, Tripadvisor's second annual "Things to Do" Awards celebrate travelers' favorite experiences and the attractions they love to visit around the world. As priorities evolve for many travelers since the pandemic, vacations are much more than just booking a flight, selecting a hotel room and sitting poolside within a resort. It's the experiences travelers have on a trip that leave lasting impressions, frequently retold stories and unforgettable memories.
How does Tripadvisor determine the best?
For all Travelers' Choice Awards, Tripadvisor analyzes the authentic feedback from its community to identify and rank the best in travel. With over one billion reviews and opinions from real, global travelers, Tripadvisor has the authority and guidance on what to book to truly experience the best of a destination. The Travelers' Choice Best of the Best Things to Do Awards are based on the reviews and ratings of experiences, tours, attractions and activities over the past 12 months from Tripadvisor travelers, celebrating a vast array of travelers' most highly recommended activities of 2022.
Tripadvisor is awarding top things to do in 11 subcategories, ranging from quintessential favorites like the best Food Experiences and Nature & Outdoor Activities to new and exciting areas like Pop Culture Tours and Bucket List Experiences. For the thrill seekers, Tripadvisor is also recognizing the Top Amusement & Water Parks and celebrating everyone's favorite Attractions.
Kate Urquhart, General Manager, Experiences at Tripadvisor, says: "We hear from travelers year-round that the experiences and activities found on Tripadvisor are the highlights of their trips. Today, I'm thrilled to announce the winners of the 2022 Travelers' Choice Things to Do Awards, celebrating the past year's most amazing tours and activities. The awards bring well-deserved recognition to the hard-working and skilled tour operators who have managed to provide exceptional experiences to their guests while still navigating the pandemic. From a luxurious food-filled evening to a long-haul trek, there is something for every traveler on this list, and we know Tripadvisor offers an unparalleled platform to find and book things to do. So, check out this year's winners to discover the tours and activities travelers say you can't miss!"
Outdoor activities dominated the 2021 awards, and they made another strong showing this year, as beach and nature spots in Florida and Hawaii are home to the most U.S. winners. But city tours are increasingly popular this year as well, as travelers have begun gaining confidence to return to big tourist destinations.
Among all the different types of activities, the No. 1 Top Experience in the world for 2022 is an Amsterdam Open Boat Canal Cruise. This is a scenic cruise along Amsterdam's stunning canals that passes iconic spots like the Anne Frank House, the Jordaan, the Houseboat Museum, Leiden Square, Rijksmuseum, De Duif and much more. With nearly 10,000 reviews, this tour has travelers raving about its guides, as well as the accompanying wine and cheese.
In the U.S., it's Hawaii's Tour of North Shore (70%) and Sightseeing (30%), hosted by North Shore Beach Bus, at No. 1. Skip the hassle of renting a car and see the highlights of Oahu's North Shore with this awesome tour. Along the way, a guide shares details about the island that you would likely miss if traveling on your own. Plus, enjoy time to swim, shop, paddleboard, kayak or do a waterfall hike while getting to know the island.
The Top 10 Experiences in the World for 2022
- Amsterdam Open Boat Canal Cruise - Live Guide - from Anne Frank House - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Red Dunes Quad Bike, Sandsurf, Camels & BBQ at Al Khayma Camp from Dubai - Dubai, UAE
- Tour of North Shore (70%) and Sightseeing (30%) - Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
- Natural Pool & Indian Cave Jeep Safari - Aruba
- Clear Kayak Tour of Shell Key Preserve and Tampa Bay Area - Tierra Verde, Florida, U.S.
- Classic Inca Trail Trek 4D/3N to Machu Picchu - Cusco, Peru
- Reykjavik Food Walk - Local Foodie Adventure in Iceland - Reykjavik, Iceland
- High-Speed Thames River RIB Cruise in London - London, U.K.
- Rafting - Sprouts - Rio Jacaré Pepira by Wild Canoe Territory - Brotas, Brazil
- City & Beatles Tour - BLUE ROUTE - Liverpool, U.K.
The Top 10 Experiences in the U.S. for 2022
- Tour of North Shore (70%) and Sightseeing (30%) - Honolulu, Hawaii
- Clear Kayak Tour of Shell Key Preserve and Tampa Bay Area - Tierra Verde, Florida
- Little Havana Food and Walking Tour in Miami - Miami, Florida
- Half-Day Mojave Desert ATV Tour from Las Vegas - Las Vegas, Nevada
- Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, 7 Magic Mountains Small Group Day Tour from Las Vegas - Las Vegas, Nevada
- 3 Hour Guided TomCar ATV Tour in Sonoran Desert - New River, Arizona
- Pearl Harbor City Tour - Honolulu, Hawaii
- 5 Island Maui County -Private- Discovery Flight, for up to 3 people: See it All! - Maui, Hawaii
- Little Toot Dolphin Adventure at Clearwater Beach - Clearwater, Florida
- Party Bike Private Party Up To 15 People in Old Town Scottsdale - Scottsdale, Arizona
Food Experiences: Tours and experiences that are known for their great taste (literally).
- No. 1 in the world: Reykjavik Food Walk - Local Foodie Adventure in Iceland - Reykjavik, Iceland
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Undiscovered Charleston: Half Day Food, Wine & History Tour with Cooking Class - Charleston, South Carolina
- See all the winners here
Nature & Outdoor Activities: Fresh air, new heights, wildlife sightings—the greatest outdoor adventures start here.
- No. 1 in the world: Clear Kayak Tour of Shell Key Preserve and Tampa Bay Area - Tierra Verde, Florida (also No. 1 in the U.S.)
- See all the winners here
Sailing & Day Cruises: Get out on the open water with traveler-loved expeditions.
- No. 1 in the world: Amsterdam Open Boat Canal Cruise - Live Guide - from Anne Frank House - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Little Toot Dolphin Adventure at Clearwater Beach - Clearwater, Florida
- See all the winners here
Cultural & Historical Tours: Discover a new city on foot, bike, even Vespa(!) with the best guides in the game.
- No. 1 in the world: Renaissance & Medici Tales - Explore Florence with the best storytellers - Florence, Italy
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Pearl Harbor City Tour - Honolulu, Hawaii
- See all the winners here
Snorkeling & Water Sports: From snorkeling and scuba diving to kayaking and surfing, these are the best things to do under—and over—the sea.
- No. 1 in the world: Rafting - Sprouts - Rio Jacaré Pepira by Wild Canoe Territory - Brotas, Brazil
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Manatee Snorkeling Tours - Crystal River, Florida
- See all the winners here
Wine, Beer, and Spirits Experiences: Sip your way through these top-rated tours and tastings.
- No. 1 in the world: St. Augustine's Wine, Cocktail and Food Experience - St. Augustine, Florida (also No. 1 in the U.S.)
- See all the winners here
Bucket List Experiences: Unique things to do that'll make your trip—and give you the best stories for later, too.
- No. 1 in the world: Premium Red Dunes, Camel Safari & BBQ at Al Khayma Camp™️, Dubai - Dubai, UAE
- See all the winners here
Pop Culture Tours: Go behind the scenes of your favorite movies, shows, and artists with fan-favorite experiences.
- No. 1 in the world: Full-Day Iconic Sights of LA, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Beaches and More - Los Angeles, California (also No. 1 in the U.S.)
- See all the winners here
Top Attractions: Loved by travelers, they're the iconic landmarks you simply have to see to believe.
- No. 1 in the world: Basílica de la Sagrada Familia - Barcelona, Spain
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Empire State Building - New York City, New York
- See all the winners here
Amusement Parks: The best places to scream, splash, and get your adrenaline fix, according to travelers who love a good thrill.
- No. 1 in the world: Siam Park - Adeje, Spain
- No. 1 in the U.S.: Dollywood - Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
- See all the winners here
See all the winners across subcategories here.
Note to editor
*From Tripadvisor consumer sentiment survey, Q4 2021
Methodology
Travelers' Choice Best of the Best Things to Do Awards are determined based on the quality and quantity of traveler reviews and ratings for experiences, tours, activities and attractions on Tripadvisor over the 12-month period from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2022, specific to each award subcategory, as well as an additional editorial process.
Tripadvisor is proud to serve a broad and diverse community of travelers from all over the world. As such, Tripadvisor reserves the right to determine the eligibility of any property, business, destination or point of interest listed on Tripadvisor for an award based on additional factors that reflect Tripadvisor corporate policies and values. For more details on Tripadvisor's awards policy, see here.
Experiences are classified as bookable tours and activities on Tripadvisor. Non-bookable experiences, or attractions, are activities on Tripadvisor that travelers can visit without booking any ticket. Nine of the Best of the Best Things to Do subcategories are limited to experiences, except Top Attractions and Amusement & Water Parks, where attractions are included, for a bigger picture of travelers' favorite things to do.
About Tripadvisor
Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel guidance platform*, helps hundreds of millions of people each month** become better travelers, from planning to booking to taking a trip. Travelers across the globe use the Tripadvisor site and app to discover where to stay, what to do and where to eat based on guidance from those who have been there before. With more than 1 billion reviews and opinions of nearly 8 million businesses, travelers turn to Tripadvisor to find deals on accommodations, book experiences, reserve tables at delicious restaurants and discover great places nearby. As a travel guidance company available in 43 markets and 22 languages, Tripadvisor makes planning easy no matter the trip type.
The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIP), own and operate a portfolio of travel media brands and businesses, operating under various websites and apps, including the following websites:
www.bokun.io, www.cruisecritic.com, www.flipkey.com, www.thefork.com, www.helloreco.com, www.holidaylettings.co.uk, www.housetrip.com, www.jetsetter.com, www.niumba.com, www.seatguru.com, www.singleplatform.com, www.vacationhomerentals.com, and www.viator.com.
* Source: SimilarWeb, unique users de-duplicated monthly, March 2022
** Source: Tripadvisor internal log files
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Consulting firm scores highly for diverse recruiting practices, flexible work and culture
MENLO PARK, Calif., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global consulting firm Protiviti has been named for the third year to Seramount's 'Top 75 Companies for Executive Women' list, recognizing its ongoing support of women's advancement in the workplace. Protiviti achieved exceptionally high scores for its diverse recruiting practices, flexible work program and company culture.
"Diversity is one of our core values at Protiviti and we work hard to make sure that all our people feel supported, nurtured and included," said Protiviti Executive Vice President, Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Susan Haseley. "We know that a diverse range of perspectives is key to our growth as an organization and critical for the success of our clients."
Protiviti offers a range of employee programs designed to support women, including multiple women-focused employee network groups, gender-neutral paid parental leave and a back-up dependent care program. Protiviti employees have access to its extensive Employee Assistance Program and Protiviti leaders encourage and support a flexible work environment to help meet its peoples' personal and professional needs. The firm also has a strong culture of mentoring and provides new hires with a network of advisors to help launch and further their careers with Protiviti.
The Top Companies for Executive Women survey evaluates companies on every aspect of women's advancement, including succession planning, profit-and-loss roles, gender pay parity, advancement and support programs, and work-life programs.
Additionally, Protiviti Senior Consultant Madison Ong Urech has been recognized as one of Seramount's 2022 'Women of Excellence' in the Rising Star category.
In 2021, Protiviti was named to Seramount's '100 Best Companies,' 'Best Companies for Dads' and 'Best Companies for Multicultural Women' lists and to the Seramount Inclusion Index.
On June 29, Haseley will join a panel of speakers during Seramount's virtual conference for a session titled "P&L Leadership Success" on how to ensure women have the training, experience and support needed to advance into profit-and-loss roles within their organizations.
About Protiviti
Protiviti (www.protiviti.com) is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration to help leaders confidently face the future. Protiviti and its independent and locally owned Member Firms provide clients with consulting and managed solutions in finance, technology, operations, data, digital, legal, governance, risk and internal audit through its network of more than 85 offices in over 25 countries.
Named to the 2022 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, Protiviti has served more than 80 percent of Fortune 100 and nearly 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies. The firm also works with smaller, growing companies, including those looking to go public, as well as with government agencies. Protiviti is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half (NYSE: RHI). Founded in 1948, Robert Half is a member of the S&P 500 index.
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Protiviti is not licensed or registered as a public accounting firm and does not issue opinions on financial statements or offer attestation services.
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s former No. 2 official John Lee said Wednesday he had formally registered his candidacy in the election for the top job after securing 786 nominations to enter the race.
Lee, who resigned as chief secretary last week before declaring he would run for chief executive, is the only candidate formally entered so far for the May 8 vote. He is considered Beijing’s favored candidate and a sign of the central government further tightening its control over the territory.
Lee’s 786 nominations are well over 50% of the 1,454-member Election Committee that will select the next chief executive. The nomination period ends Saturday and the committee will elect the winner by absolute majority.
“It is not easy, as I have been working very hard to explain to various members what my election platform will be like,” Lee told reporters.
He reiterated that he will focus on a results-oriented approach to solve problems, keeping Hong Kong competitive and setting a firm foundation for the development of Hong Kong.
Current Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is not seeking a second term, following a rocky five years in power that spanned the COVID-19 pandemic, a crackdown on political freedoms and Beijing’s rapid and growing influence over the territory.
Hong Kong’s leader is chosen every five years, although the selection process is carefully orchestrated behind the scenes by Beijing. The four chief executives selected since Hong Kong’s handover have all been candidates seen as favored by Beijing.
Lee told reporters Tuesday that enacting Article 23 of the Basic Law — which stipulates that Hong Kong enacts its own security law — will be a “priority.” Enacting such a law was temporarily shelved after mass protests against the government in 2003.
Hong Kong’s own security law should prohibit acts of treason and the theft of state secrets, as well as other offences including secession, sedition and subversion.
Beijing in 2020 imposed its own national security law in Hong Kong. Lee is a staunch advocate of the national security law, which has been used against pro-democracy activists, supporters and media, diminishing freedoms promised to Hong Kong during Britain’s handover to China in 1997.
Lee, 64, rose in the civil service ranks after years in the police force. He previously said he was running for the No. 1 position out of his loyalty and love for Hong Kong, as well as a “sense of duty to the Hong Kong people.”
He also said loyalty was the “basic requirement” to run as a leader of the city — comments made after Hong Kong’s electoral laws were amended last year to ensure that only “patriots” loyal to Beijing can hold office.
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NEW YORK, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Vertiv Holdings Co.
Shareholders who purchased shares of VRT during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: April 28, 2021 to February 23, 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) the Company could not adequately respond to supply chain issues and inflation by increasing its prices; (2) as a result of the increasing costs, Vertiv's earnings would be adversely impacted; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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JERSEY CITY, N.J., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The transition of CarePoint Health into a non-profit has been greeted with widespread community and political support in Hudson County and across the state of New Jersey by a number of key leaders. CarePoint is overwhelmed with the impressive number of positive statements in favor of CarePoint's decision and path forward.
CarePoint's hospitals were standout safety net hospitals during COVID and saved thousands of lives using both standard and cutting-edge technology, which were not available in the past in community hospitals. The need for these hospitals to thrive and support the community has been recognized universally. As the system adds additional services through partnerships like Rothman Orthopedic, Columbia Heart Source, opening an Innovation Center, moving to be fully in-network, and direct hiring, rebuilding the support from the leaders of the state has been timely.
As such, CarePoint will be thanking these essential community leaders and stakeholders for their support during the pandemic and the recent non-profit transition with a number of ads across the region expressing its gratitude.
Comment of State Senator Sandra Cunningham:
"I am relieved to see the transfer of our three Hudson County hospitals to a non-profit entity. This transition brings us one step closer to solidifying the continuity of care for our residents and ensuring equitable access to health services for our diverse communities. Ensuring that all our residents have access to quality healthcare services is our greatest priority."
Comment of State Senator Brian Stack:
"I fully support the non-profit transfer of the CarePoint system and am confident the hospitals will thrive once the transfer is complete. This step comports with the positive developments I have observed under the leadership of Dr. Moulick in the past two years through COVID. He has brought the system in network with all major payers, established critical partnerships with major players and launched much needed new service lines. I look forward to supporting the system continue to grow and evolve and serve the citizens of this great County".
Comment of Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop:
"We couldn't be more excited about this formal transformation to non-profit for CarePoint and it underscores their long commitment to serve the most diverse citizenry in the United States with quality and equitable health care. There is no question that CarePoint has been a crucial part of Jersey City and Hudson County and we applaud their commitment to work with the community and constantly re-imagine how to better deliver outstanding healthcare to our residents. This change will strengthen CarePoint in New Jersey and will provide more opportunities for growth. We are thankful for the leadership at CarePoint for making this bold decision and we know the residents of Jersey City are excited about this next chapter for CarePoint and the vital services they provide to Hudson County"
Comment of Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis:
"I am very comfortable with the new, non-profit model that the CarePoint hospitals have adopted. This new approach of the hospital management will keep the funds that they generate right here in Hudson County. In the past, Bayonne Hospital operated as a non-profit organization that served the community well. Our residents will welcome the return of non-profit, service-oriented healthcare."
Comment of State Assemblyman Raj Mukherji
"I extend my congratulations on the CarePoint Health System's transition to nonprofit governance, which we hope will improve the prospects of avoiding any hospital closures in Hudson County and associated disruptions in the delivery of acute care services to our citizens. Together with going in-network with all major insurers and establishing new partnerships with nationally renowned organizations like Columbia and Rothman, I am encouraged by the progress made under Dr. Moulick's leadership. Hudson County residents deserve the peace of mind that the future of their hospitals is secure and that the community's healthcare needs – rather than return on investment – are the singular focus of our healthcare systems."
Comment of State Assemblywomen Angela McKnight
"I fully support CarePoint's transition to a non-profit and believe that it is in the best interest of the communities the system serves. My district desperately needs quality hospital care and I am encouraged that the system is heading in the right direction , with new services, new partnerships and a renewed commitment to patient experience. I look forward to watching the system continue to evolve into the health care provider our residents deserve under Dr. Moulick's leadership."
Comment of State Assemblywomen Annette Chaparro:
"I am happy to receive the news that the CarePoint Health System is finalizing its transition to a non-profit run system, with the recent donation of a former majority owner's assets. This is another positive step the system has taken in recent years following actions such as going in network with all the major insurers in our state, establishing new partnerships with nationally renowned entities like Columbia and Rothman, and now restructuring in a form that truly brings the community into the fold. Hudson County residents deserve the peace of mind that the future of their hospitals is secure. This newly formed non-profit board will ensure the community's healthcare needs are the singular focus of the system and that the progressive work being done under Dr. Moulick's leadership will continue to grow and evolve."
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NEW YORK, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bureau Veritas, a world leader in testing, inspection and certification (TIC) services, today announced the opening of its third US microbiology laboratory located in Reno, Nevada. The new laboratory offers rapid pathogen testing as well as microbiology indicator analyses to ensure the safety of food and agriculture commodities.
The facility is an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory, ensuring the laboratory is technically proficient and that the data it produces is both accurate and precise. Bureau Veritas' Reno laboratory is a part of its broader network of agri-food accredited microbiology and chemistry laboratories in North America. These laboratory activities support the agri-food market in combination with other services such as agriculture commodities inspection, grading and testing, as well as its suite of GFSI certification and training services.
"Our newest food laboratory in Reno, Nevada continues our expansion in the US and supports our commitment to servicing our customers consistently across North America," said Waylon Sharp, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Food and Agri North America, Bureau Veritas. "We remain committed to expanding our geographic scope and offering unique services to the agri-food market to support their demand for reliable food product verification".
Whether customers are involved in catering, hospitality, retail, manufacturing, processing, or producing––Bureau Veritas' testing and certification services support regulatory compliance, safety, and quality across the full food chain, shaping a world of trust for communities. Learn more about Bureau Veritas' Food and Agri services at: https://www.bvna.com/food-agriculture.
About Bureau Veritas
Bureau Veritas is a world leader in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services. Created in 1828, the Group has close to 80,000 employees located in nearly 1,600 offices and laboratories around the globe. Bureau Veritas helps its 400,000 clients improve their performance by offering services and innovative solutions in order to ensure that their assets, products, infrastructure and processes meet standards and regulations in terms of quality, health and safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.
Bureau Veritas is listed on Euronext Paris and belongs to the CAC 40 ESG, CAC Next 20 and SBF 120 indices.
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Tech24 Completes Tenth & Eleventh Add-on Acquisitions
GREENVILLE, S.C., Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech24, backed by HCI Equity Partners, today announced that it acquired AmeriCold and Arrowhead Commercial Equipment ("Arrowhead") on August 19, 2022, and August 10, 2022, respectively. Tech24 is a national provider of repair and maintenance services for foodservice and commercial HVAC equipment. Arrowhead and AmeriCold represent Tech24's tenth and eleventh add-on acquisitions in the highly fragmented foodservice repair and maintenance market. Financial terms were not disclosed.
AmeriCold is a leading provider of cold-side repair and installation services to customers in the New York metro area, Washington DC, and Southeast Florida. The company has a wide range of customers across the restaurant, grocery store, and institutional end markets, from New York City's premier restaurants and hotels to fast-casual dining facilities, hospitals, and universities. This acquisition expands the Tech24 platform's cold-side refrigeration services and increases its market share in key MSAs.
Based in Phoenix, Arizona, Arrowhead is a provider of repair services, preventative maintenance, and installation for foodservice and refrigeration equipment. Arrowhead provides both hot and cold-side service for customer segments including restaurants, grocery stores, country clubs and senior care facilities. The acquisition increases Tech24's market share in the fast-growing Phoenix market and brings a talented team and technicians experienced in all types of equipment.
Tech24's CEO Dan Rodstrom, said, "We are excited to welcome both Americold and Arrowhead to the Tech24 organization. AmeriCold brings valuable scale and cold-side service exposure to the large New York market. Arrowhead helps us improve density and diversification in the fast-growing Phoenix market. Both companies come with a long history of strong performance, with accomplished leaders who are excited to develop future growth opportunities for their respective businesses."
"We are very proud of Tech24's continued ability to partner with great companies that expand the broader organization's service areas and customer base," said Doug McCormick, Managing Partner at HCI. "The pace of acquisitions completed is a testament to the team we have built at Tech24, and we look forward to continue supporting them in their M&A strategy."
Quarles and Brady served as legal counsel to Tech24.
HCI Equity Partners is a lower market private equity firm focused on partnering with family and founder-owned distribution, manufacturing and service companies. HCI is headquartered in Washington, DC. For more information, please visit www.hciequity.com.
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Which Sun Joe dethatcher is best?
Lawn care seems simple on the surface — just trim it when it gets long and keep it watered. But suddenly, you have to combat weeds, pests and diseases. On top of that comes thatch that can strangle your yard to death. Most of these issues are complicated to handle, but at least dethatching can be easy with a Sun Joe dethatcher.
The best Sun Joe dethatcher is the Sun Joe AJ805E Electric Dethatcher And Scarifier. It has a large head and collection bag so you can clear medium-sized yards in one go.
What to know before you buy a Sun Joe dethatcher
What is thatch?
Thatch is a collection of natural and artificial materials that settle on top of your yard. In a perfect yard, thatch decays as fast as it accumulates to provide valuable nutrients to your soil. In an average yard, thatch accumulates faster than it decomposes — eventually blocking the nutrients your soil needs to thrive. Some of the most common causes of thatch accumulation are using chemicals, poor drainage and cold temperatures.
Once your yard has too much thatch, a dethatcher comes in to slice it up so you can easily remove it. Most Sun Joe dethatchers use collection bags and its special AirBoost technology to gather most of the thatch as you go.
Types of dethatcher
Sun Joe dethatchers fall into the electric category. There are also manual and towing dethatchers. Each category best serves certain yard sizes.
- Manual dethatchers are for the smallest yards only and are effectively just extra-sharp rakes.
- Electric dethatchers are generally best for medium-sized yards, but they can also handle small-ish and large-ish yards depending on the power source.
- Towing dethatchers are best for the largest yards. They are typically dragged or pushed by a tractor, and so are most often used commercially. They’re also expensive.
Power source
Sun Joe dethatchers come cord- or battery-powered.
- Cord-powered Sun Joe dethatchers are best used for small-ish and medium yards. Be extra careful not to run over the cord. You can handle larger yards with the help of an extension cord, but double-check that the extension cord is compatible with the dethatcher.
- Battery-powered Sun Joe dethatchers are best used for medium and large-ish yards. There’s no need for cables but the battery life is rarely longer than 20-30 minutes.
What to look for in a quality Sun Joe dethatcher
Head width
The best Sun Joe dethatchers have wider heads, but they cost more and may be overkill for the size of your yard. Most have 12- to 15-inch heads.
Scarifier head
The best Sun Joe dethatchers are also able to scarify thanks to a special head that can be swapped with the dethatching head. Scarifying is essentially a more intense dethatching for yards in dire shape.
How much you can expect to spend on a Sun Joe dethatcher
Sun Joe dethatchers typically cost $150-$350, though most cost no more than $200. Sun Joe dethatchers above $200 typically include extra functions and accessories.
Sun Joe dethatcher FAQ
How do I know when I have too much thatch?
A. First, know that having a little thatch is beneficial to your yard’s health. It helps maintain healthy temperature and moisture levels. Typically, you don’t want more than half an inch of thatch. The easiest way to check your thatch thickness is to cut out a small slice of your yard with a trowel and measure it. If it’s longer than half an inch, go ahead and dethatch.
When should I dethatch my lawn?
A. The short answer is once it’s too thick. This can be as often as once or twice a year to as infrequently as once every several years.
Additionally, you should dethatch your yard when it’s in its growing season. This is so the damage a dethatcher can do is able to grow somewhat back before your yard goes dormant again. Otherwise, it could never grow back.
What’s the best Sun Joe dethatcher to buy?
Top Sun Joe dethatcher
Sun Joe AJ805E Electric Dethatcher And Scarifier
What you need to know: Grab this dethatcher if you have a medium-to-large yard.
What you’ll love: Its head is 15 inches wide with a five-height depth control knob and it includes a dethatching and scarifying head. The detachable collection bag holds up to 13.2 gallons of thatch. Everything is covered by a two-year warranty.
What you should consider: A few consumers had issues with the collection bag — one bag came loose and got sucked into the dethatcher and another’s plastic hinge broke.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top Sun Joe dethatcher for the money
Sun Joe AJ801E Electric Dethatcher And Scarifier
What you need to know: Save a little money with this dethatcher if you have a small yard.
What you’ll love: Its head is 12.6 inches wide with a five-height depth control knob and it includes a dethatching and scarifying head. The detachable collection bag holds up to 8 gallons of thatch. It propels itself forward for breezy dethatching.
What you should consider: A few customers reported the bag filled up fast. It requires some assembly. Yards that are medium-sized and up may need an extension cord.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Sun Joe 24V-X2-DTS15 Scarifier And Dethatcher Kit
What you need to know: This kit is a great choice for those with large yards.
What you’ll love: The kit includes a 15-inch wide base unit with a five-height depth control knob, dethatching and scarifying heads, a 10.6-gallon detachable collection bag, two batteries and a battery charging base that charges both batteries at once. Sun Joe’s AirBoost technology makes collecting thatch easier.
What you should consider: You need to use both batteries at once and the best battery life is only 20 minutes. Purchasers in colder climates had worse battery life.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Four million people have been impacted by flooding in northeastern Bangladesh, according to Dr. Enamur Rahman, the country's State Minister for the Ministry of Disaster Management. The situation could soon worsen, with heavy rain forecast in the next 24 hours.
Rahman told CNN on Sunday that at least two people had died due to flooding in Bangladesh. News agency reports suggest the toll is much higher, with Reuters reporting 25 deaths over the weekend, citing local officials.
A lack of telecommunication services has made it difficult to fully assess the extent of the damage, particularly in the hard-hit districts of Sylhet and Sunamganj, Rahman said.
He noted that 90% of the district of Sunamganj is underwater and is almost entirely cut off from the rest of the country.
Nearly six million people have been displaced due to the floods, the news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) reported Saturday.
The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society plans to help with resettlement efforts and will "provide cash assistance to the flood-affected families," the organization wrote on Twitter late Saturday.
Meanwhile, the eastern Indian state of Assam, which neighbors Bangladesh, has also been impacted by the flooding.
At least eight people were killed there in the last 24 hours, according to the Assam Disaster Management Authority in a statement released on Sunday. Floods and landslides have killed at least 62 people in Assam since April, the agency also said.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — CitySquare is giving out free meals this summer in North Texas.
According to Arlington Public Library, these meals will be given out at the libraries in Downtown Arlington, East Arlington and Southeast Arlington. They will be available from June 6 to Aug. 12.
Here are the following dates and locations meals will be available:
George W. Hawkes Downtown Library
- Monday – Friday: 11 – 11:40 a.m.
Southeast Branch Library
- Monday – Friday: 10:10 – 10:50 a.m.
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NEW YORK, April 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Vir Biotechnology, Inc. ("VIR" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VIR). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether VIR and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On March 25, 2022, the United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") announced that it was limiting the use of VIR's monoclonal antibody, Sotrovimab, to treat COVID-19 in some U.S. regions due to the BA.2 Omicron sub-variant. On this news, VIR's stock price fell $3.42 per share, or 13.5%, to close at $21.81 per share on March 25, 2022.
Then, on April 5, 2022, the FDA announced that "Sotrovimab is no longer authorized to treat COVID-19 in any U.S. region due to increases in the proportion of COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron BA.2 sub-variant." Specifically, the FDA stated that "[d]ata included in the health care provider fact sheet show the authorized dose of sotrovimab is unlikely to be effective against the BA.2 sub-variant. Due to these data, sotrovimab is not authorized in any U.S. state or territory at this time." On this news, VIR's stock price fell sharply during intraday trading on April 5, 2022.
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NEW YORK, July 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: ARQQ, ARQQW, CENH, CENHU, CENHW): (i) between September 7, 2021 and April 18, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"); and/or (ii) all holders of Centricus securities as of the record date for the special meeting of shareholders held on August 31, 2021 to consider approval of the merger between Arqit and Centricus (the "Merger") and entitled to vote on the Merger, of the important July 5, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Arqit 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 Arqit class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5481 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 5, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period and in the Proxy Statement issued in connection to the Merger made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose: (1) Arqit's proposed encryption technology would require widespread adoption of new protocols and standards of for telecommunications; (2) British cybersecurity officials questioned the viability of Arqit's proposed encryption technology in a meeting in 2020; (3) the British government was not an Arqit customer but, rather, providing grants to Arqit; (4) Arqit had little more than an early-stage prototype of its encryption system at the time of the Merger; and (5) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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Meat Protein delivers strong top-line growth and Adjusted EBITDA Margin of 9.0% for the first quarter
Plant Protein targeting neutral or better Adjusted EBITDA in the latter half of 2023
TSX: MFI
www.mapleleaffoods.com
MISSISSAUGA, ON, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Maple Leaf Foods Inc. ("Maple Leaf Foods" or the "Company") (TSX: MFI) today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
"Our team's perseverance and resiliency during the past two years has been nothing short of remarkable," said Michael H. McCain, President and CEO of Maple Leaf Foods. "As fully expected, intense Omicron impacts, including high levels of absenteeism, inflation, and supply chain disruptions, challenged us operationally, yet we achieved exceptional business performance in these extreme conditions. Revenue grew 7% and we remain on target to achieve our goal of 14 to 16% Adjusted EBITDA margin in Meat Protein this year."
"In Plant Protein, we showed a modest 5% growth rate and are continuing our methodical work to adjust the business investment model to match our new outlook for long-term category growth. We will rightsize our manufacturing footprint and SG&A structure to deliver our goal of breakeven Adjusted EBITDA or better in the latter half of 2023," said Mr. McCain.
First Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Total Company sales grew 7.0% to $1,126.6 million, with an Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization ("EBITDA")(i) Margin of 5.9%.
- Meat Protein Group sales grew to $1,089.4 million, an increase of 7.5% year over year. Adjusted EBITDA was $97.5 million, and Adjusted EBITDA Margin was 9.0%.
- Plant Protein Group sales were $44.9 million, an increase of 5.2% excluding the impact of foreign exchange.
- Capital expenditures were $89.4 million and consisted mainly of Construction Capital(i) of $54.8 million, primarily related to the London, Ontario poultry facility.
Outlook
- Meat Protein: Expect mid-to-high single digit sales growth with Adjusted EBITDA Margin expansion near the lower end of the 14% - 16% target by the end of 2022.
- Plant Protein: Targeting to deliver neutral or better Adjusted EBITDA in the latter half of 2023.
Financial Highlights
Sales for the first quarter of 2022 were $1,126.6 million compared to $1,053.1 million last year, an increase of 7.0%, driven by higher sales in the Meat Protein Group and in the Plant Protein Group. For more details on sales performance by operating segment, please refer to the section entitled Operating Review.
Net earnings for the first quarter of 2022 were $13.7 million ($0.11 per basic share) compared to $47.7 million ($0.39 per basic share) last year. Net earnings were impacted by COVID-19 operational and supply chain disruptions, inflationary and feed cost increases and higher start-up expenses(i), partly offset by higher sales.
Adjusted Operating Earnings for the first quarter of 2022 were $16.1 million compared to $51.5 million last year, and Adjusted Earnings per Share for the first quarter of 2022 were $0.03 compared to $0.27 last year due to similar factors as noted above.
For further discussion on key metrics and a discussion of results by operating segment, refer to the section titled Operating Review.
Response to COVID-19
As an essential service, Maple Leaf Foods is focused on protecting the health and well-being of its people, maintaining business continuity and broadening its social outreach. To manage through this unprecedented environment, the Company has taken a number of measures in its business and operating practices that include heightened safety policies and procedures, adopting a vaccination mandate for all employees and contractors, and close communication and collaboration with public health authorities, including hosting on-site vaccination clinics in 2021. The measures enacted to protect the health and safety of employees have increased the Company's current cost structure due to higher labour, personal protective equipment, sanitation and other expenses associated with the pandemic.
Overall, the Company believes its proactive and comprehensive efforts have, and should continue to mitigate adverse operational impacts. As the COVID-19 situation evolves, Maple Leaf Foods will continue to adapt and adopt best practices that prioritize the health and safety of its employees and the stability of the food supply. As part of Maple Leaf Foods' broader social responsibility since the pandemic began, the Company has provided extensive support to front-line staff, emergency food relief efforts and health care providers.
COVID-19 continues to have an impact on the global economy, leading to increased inflation, labour shortages and disruptions in the global supply chain. To date, the Company's leading brands, revenue management capabilities and robust supply chain have enabled it to mitigate these impacts. Maple Leaf Foods continues to monitor the ongoing environment and believes it is well-positioned to face these headwinds.
Operating Review
The Company has two reportable segments. These segments offer different products, with separate organizational structures, brands, financial, and marketing strategies. The Company's chief operating decision makers regularly review internal reports for these businesses: performance of the Meat Protein Group is based on revenue growth, Adjusted Operating Earnings and Adjusted EBITDA, while the performance of the Plant Protein Group is based predominantly on revenue growth rates, gross margin optimization and controlling SG&A investment levels, which generate high revenue growth rates.
The following table summarizes the Company's sales, gross profit, SG&A, Adjusted Operating Earnings, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EBITDA Margin by operating segment for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and March 31, 2021.
Meat Protein Group
The Meat Protein Group is comprised of prepared meats, ready-to-cook and ready-to-serve meals, value-added fresh pork and poultry products that are sold to retail, foodservice and industrial channels, and agricultural operations in pork and poultry. The Meat Protein Group includes leading brands such as Maple Leaf®, Maple Leaf Prime®, Maple Leaf Natural Selections®, Schneiders®, Schneiders® Country Naturals®, Mina®, Greenfield Natural Meat Co.®, and many leading regional brands.
Sales for the first quarter of 2022 increased 7.5% to $1,089.4 million compared to $1,013.7 million last year. Sales growth was driven by pricing action implemented in prior quarters to mitigate inflation and structural cost increases, a favourable mix-shift in product sales, including growth in sustainable meats, branded products and growth in sales to the United States, partially offset by lower hog volumes processed and the impact of foreign exchange.
Gross profit for the first quarter of 2022 was $131.0 million (gross margin of 12.0%) compared to $166.1 million (gross margin of 16.4%) last year. Gross profit was negatively impacted by COVID-19 operational and supply chain disruptions, inflationary cost increases and higher feed costs, partially offset by pricing action. Gross profit for the first quarter included start-up expenses of $8.7 million (2021: $0.6 million) associated with Construction Capital projects, which are excluded in the calculation of Adjusted Operating Earnings.
SG&A expenses for the first quarter of 2022 were $88.6 million compared to $87.1 million last year. The increase in SG&A was largely driven by a normalization of discretionary spending levels and donations to support the relief efforts in Ukraine.
Adjusted Operating Earnings for the first quarter of 2022 were $51.0 million compared to $79.6 million last year, driven by factors noted above.
Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 2022 were $97.5 million compared to $123.9 million last year, driven by factors consistent with those noted above. Adjusted EBITDA Margin for the first quarter was 9.0% compared to 12.2% last year, also driven by factors consistent with those noted above.
Plant Protein Group
The Plant Protein Group is comprised of refrigerated plant protein products, premium grain-based protein, and vegan cheese products sold to retail, foodservice and industrial channels. The Plant Protein Group includes the leading brands Lightlife® and Field Roast™.
Sales for the first quarter of 2022 were $44.9 million compared to $42.6 million last year, representing an increase of 5.3%, or 5.2% after excluding the impacts of foreign exchange. The sales increase was driven by higher volumes as well as pricing action implemented to mitigate inflation and structural cost increases.
Gross profit for the first quarter of 2022 was a loss of $6.3 million (gross margin loss of 14.0%) compared to a gross profit of $0.1 million (gross margin of 0.3%) last year. The decrease in gross profit was driven by inflationary costs and strategic investments in capacity ahead of anticipated demand, which has resulted in increased overhead and transitory costs. This was partially offset by pricing action and higher volumes. Gross profit for the quarter also included start-up expenses of $2.2 million (2021: $0.6 million) associated with Construction Capital projects which are excluded in the calculation of Adjusted Operating Earnings.
SG&A expenses for the first quarter of 2022 were $30.8 million (68.7% of sales) compared to $28.8 million (67.6% of sales) last year. The increase in SG&A was mainly attributable to higher consulting and people costs, partially offset by reduced advertising expenses.
Adjusted Operating Earnings for the first quarter of 2022 were a loss of $34.9 million compared to a loss of $28.1 million last year. The decline in Adjusted Operating Earnings is consistent with the factors noted above.
Other Matters
On May 3, 2022, the Board of Directors approved a quarterly dividend of $0.20 per share (an increase of $0.02 per share from the 2021 first quarter dividends), $0.80 per share on an annual basis, payable June 30, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business June 8, 2022. Unless indicated otherwise by the Company at or before the time the dividend is paid, the dividend will be considered an eligible dividend for the purposes of the "Enhanced Dividend Tax Credit System".
Conference Call
A conference call will be held at 8:00 a.m. ET on May 4, 2022, to review Maple Leaf Foods' first quarter financial results. To participate in the call, please dial 416-764-8650 or 1-888-664-6383. For those unable to participate, playback will be made available an hour after the event at 416-764-8677 or 1-888-390-0541 (Passcode: 924743#).
A webcast of the first quarter conference call will also be available at: https://www.mapleleaffoods.com.
The Company's full unaudited consolidated interim financial statements ("Consolidated Interim Financial Statements") and related Management's Discussion and Analysis are available on the Company's website.
An investor presentation related to the Company's first quarter financial results is available at www.mapleleaffoods.com and can be found under Presentations and Webcasts on the Investors page.
2022 Outlook
Maple Leaf Foods is a leading consumer protein company, supported by a portfolio of market leading brands, a solid balance sheet and capital structure that provide financial flexibility. Over the last several years, the Company has developed a foundation to pursue compelling growth vectors across its business and to create value for all stakeholders.
Meat Protein Group
In Meat Protein, the Company's strategy is to drive profitable growth. In 2017, Maple Leaf Foods articulated its target to reach an Adjusted EBITDA Margin of 14% - 16% in 2022.
Based on the current operating environment, Maple Leaf Foods expects that its Meat Protein Group will achieve the following in 2022:
- Mid-to-high single digit sales growth, driven by continued momentum in sustainable meats, leveraging brand leadership, and growth into the U.S. market.
- Adjusted EBITDA Margin expansion, reaching the lower end of the 14% - 16% target by the end of the year, driven by mix-shift benefits in prepared meats resulting from growth in sustainable meats and brand renovation, as well as operational efficiencies, and assuming pork complex conditions evolve in-line with the 5-year average.
Plant Protein Group
- In late 2021, the Company announced that it was re-evaluating its outlook for the Plant Protein Group and launching a comprehensive review of the overall plant protein category. This decision was driven by a pronounced slowdown in growth rates in the category, particularly in the second half of the year, which fueled the Company's imperative to identify and thoroughly assess the causes, near and long-term trends, and overall implications. While the Company's analysis is ongoing, the results to date confirm that the very high category growth rates previously predicted by many industry experts are unlikely to be achieved given current customer feedback, experience, buy rates and household penetration. Based on this new information, the Company believes that the category will continue to grow at more modest, but still attractive rates. Current estimates suggest that the category will grow at an average annual rate of 10% to 15%, making it a $6 to $10 billion market by 2030. Accordingly, the Company is pivoting its strategy and investment thesis for the Plant Protein Group and is setting a new goal to deliver neutral or better Adjusted EBITDA in the latter half of 2023. Work is ongoing to build out the strategy to support this pivot, as the Company recalibrates the investment to align with the market opportunity. Given the current size of the Plant Protein Group of approximately US$150 million of annual revenue in 2021, the expected resultant business model from this strategy would deliver a 30% gross margin, with less than US$50 million in SG&A, to achieve the stated Adjusted EBITDA target.
Capital
- The Company's capital expenditure estimate for the full year of 2022 remains unchanged and in the range of $400 million to $500 million, with approximately 50% to be comprised of Construction Capital attributable to the construction of the London, Ontario poultry facility and the remainder largely relating to other projects to add growth and capacity in the Prepared Meats business and to expand hog production.
- The Company expects the London, Ontario poultry facility to start to deliver approximately $100 million annually of additional Adjusted EBITDA once fully ramped up which is expected to be by the end of 2023. Additionally, the Company expects the Bacon Center of Excellence to contribute approximately $30 million annually of additional Adjusted EBITDA once fully ramped up which is expected to be in the second half of 2023.
The ongoing effects of COVID-19 induced supply chain disruptions and the war in Ukraine are unpredictable and may impact a number of factors that drive growth in the business, including:
- Agricultural commodity and foreign exchange markets;
- Inflationary cost pressures;
- Disruptions in the global supply chain;
- Availability of labour; and
- The balance between retail and foodservice demand.
For more information on the impact of COVID-19 on the business and the associated risks, refer to the section titled Response to COVID-19, and for more information on the factors that may influence our future performance, see the section titled Forward-Looking Statements in this news release.
The execution of the Company's financial and operational priorities are embedded in a commitment to deliver shared value for the benefit of all stakeholders. The Company's guiding pillars to be the "Most Sustainable Protein Company on Earth" include Better Food, Better Care, Better Communities, Better Planet and are core to how Maple Leaf Foods conducts itself. To that end, the Company's priorities include:
- Better Food - leading the real food movement and transitioning key brands to 100% "raised without antibiotics".
- Better Care - further advancement of animal care, after achieving our transition of all sows under management to open housing systems in 2021.
- Better Communities - investing approximately 1% of pre-tax profit to advance sustainable food security.
- Better Planet - continuing to amplify its commitment to carbon neutrality, while focusing on eliminating waste in any resources it consumes, including food, energy, water, packaging, and time.
Non-IFRS Financial Measures
The Company uses the following non-IFRS measures: Adjusted Operating Earnings, Adjusted Earnings per Share, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin, Construction Capital, Net Debt, Free Cash Flow and Return on Net Assets. Management believes that these non-IFRS measures provide useful information to investors in measuring the financial performance of the Company for the reasons outlined below. These measures do not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and therefore they may not be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other publicly traded companies and should not be construed as an alternative to other financial measures determined in accordance with IFRS.
Adjusted Operating Earnings, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin
Adjusted Operating Earnings, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin are non-IFRS measures used by Management to evaluate financial operating results. Adjusted Operating Earnings is defined as earnings before other income, income taxes and interest expense adjusted for items that are not considered representative of ongoing operational activities of the business and items where the economic impact of the transactions will be reflected in earnings in future periods when the underlying asset is sold or transferred. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as Adjusted Operating Earnings plus depreciation and intangible asset amortization, adjusted for items included in other expense that are considered representative of ongoing operational activities of the business. Adjusted EBITDA Margin is calculated as Adjusted EBITDA divided by sales.
The table below provides a reconciliation of earnings (loss) before income taxes as reported under IFRS in the Consolidated Interim Financial Statements to Adjusted Operating Earnings and Adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended March 31, 2022 as indicated below. Management believes that these non-IFRS measures are useful in assessing the performance of the Company's ongoing operations and its ability to generate cash flows to fund its cash requirements, including the Company's capital investment program.
Adjusted Earnings per Share
Adjusted Earnings per Share, a non-IFRS measure, is used by Management to evaluate financial operating results. It is defined as basic earnings per share and is adjusted on the same basis as Adjusted Operating Earnings. The table below provides a reconciliation of basic earnings per share as reported under IFRS in the Consolidated Interim Financial Statements to Adjusted Earnings per Share for the three months ended March 31, as indicated below. Management believes this basis is the most appropriate on which to evaluate financial results as they are representative of the ongoing operations of the Company.
Construction Capital
Construction Capital, a non-IFRS measure, is used by Management to evaluate the amount of capital resources invested in specific strategic development projects that are not yet operational. It is defined as investments and related financing charges in projects over $50.0 million that are related to longer-term strategic initiatives, with no returns expected for at least 12 months from commencement of construction and the asset will be re-categorized from Construction Capital once operational. The current balance of construction capital includes investments in the London, Ontario poultry production facility. The expansion of the Bacon Centre of Excellence in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was completed in the fourth quarter of 2021 and recategorized. Investments in plant protein capacity at the Walker Drive facility in Brampton, Ontario, and the plant protein production facilities in Indiana were completed in the first quarter of 2022 and have been recategorized. The following table is a summary of Construction Capital activity and debt financing for the periods indicated below.
Net Debt
The following table reconciles Net Debt to amounts reported under IFRS in the Company's Consolidated Interim Financial Statements as at March 31, as indicated below. The Company calculates Net Debt as cash and cash equivalents, less long-term debt and bank indebtedness. Management believes this measure is useful in assessing the amount of financial leverage employed.
Free Cash Flow
Free Cash Flow, a non-IFRS measure, is used by Management to evaluate cash flow after investing in the maintenance or expansion of the Company's asset base. It is defined as cash provided by operations, less cash additions to long-term assets and capitalized interest. The following table calculates Free Cash Flow for the periods indicated below:
Return on Net Assets
Return on Net Assets ("RONA") is calculated by dividing tax effected earnings from operations (adjusted for items which are not considered representative of the underlying operations of the business) by average monthly net assets. Net assets are defined as total assets (excluding cash and deferred tax assets) less non-interest bearing liabilities (excluding deferred tax liabilities). Management believes that RONA is an appropriate basis upon which to evaluate long-term financial performance.
Forward-Looking Statements
This document contains, and the Company's oral and written public communications often contain, "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities law. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, projections, beliefs, judgments and assumptions based on information available at the time the applicable forward-looking statement was made and in light of the Company's experience combined with its perception of historical trends. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to objectives and goals, in addition to statements with respect to beliefs, plans, targets, goals, objectives, expectations, anticipations, estimates, and intentions. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "anticipate", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "may", "will", "project", "should", "could", "would", "believe", "plan", "intend", "design", "target", "undertake", "view", "indicate", "maintain", "explore", "entail", "schedule", "objective", "strategy", "likely", "potential", "outlook", "aim", "propose", "goal", and similar expressions suggesting future events or future performance. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict.
By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. The Company believes the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct and such forward-looking statements should not be unduly relied upon.
Specific forward-looking information in this document may include, but is not limited to, statements with respect to:
- implications of COVID-19, including implications for supply chain, workforce availability and consumption patterns;
- future performance, including future financial objectives, goals and targets, category growth analysis, expected capital spend and expected SG&A expenditures for the Company and each of its operating segments;
- the execution of the Company's business strategy, including the development and expected timing of business initiatives, brand expansion and repositioning, plant protein category and investment thesis analysis, and other growth opportunities, as well as the impact thereof;
- the impact of international trade conditions and markets on the Company's business, including access to markets, implications associated with the spread of foreign animal disease (such as African Swine Fever ("ASF") or Avian Influenza), and other social, economic and political factors that affect trade, including the war in Ukraine;
- competitive conditions and the Company's ability to position itself competitively in the markets in which it competes;
- capital projects, including planning, construction, estimated expenditures, schedules, approvals, expected capacity, in-service dates and anticipated benefits of construction of new facilities and expansions of existing facilities;
- the Company's dividend policy, including future levels and sustainability of cash dividends, the tax treatment thereof and future dividend payment dates;
- the impact of commodity prices on the Company's operations and financial performance, including the use and effectiveness of hedging instruments;
- expected future cash flows and the sufficiency thereof, sources of capital at attractive rates, future contractual obligations, future financing options, renewal of credit facilities, and availability of capital to fund growth plans, operating obligations and dividends;
- operating risks, including the execution, monitoring and continuous improvement of the Company's food safety programs, animal health initiatives and cost reduction initiatives;
- the implementation, cost and impact of environmental sustainability initiatives, as well as the anticipated future cost of remediating environmental liabilities;
- the adoption of new accounting standards and the impact of such adoption on the financial position of the Company;
- expectations regarding pension plan performance, including future pension plan assets, liabilities and contributions; and
- developments and implications of actual or potential legal actions.
Various factors or assumptions are typically applied by the Company in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts, projections, predictions or estimations set out in the forward-looking statements. These factors and assumptions are based on information currently available to the Company, including information obtained by the Company from third-party sources and include but are not limited to the following:
- expectations regarding the impact and future implications of COVID-19 and adaptations in operations, supply chain, customer and consumer behaviour, economic patterns and international trade;
- the competitive environment, associated market conditions and market share metrics, category growth or contraction, the expected behaviour of competitors and customers and trends in consumer preferences;
- the success of the Company's business strategy, including execution of the strategy in the Meat Protein Group and the outcome of the category analysis related to the strategy for the Plant Protein Groups;
- prevailing commodity prices, interest rates, tax rates and exchange rates;
- the impact of the war in Ukraine on international relations, trade and markets, as well as the economic condition of and the sociopolitical dynamics between Canada, the U.S., Japan and China, and the ability of the Company to access markets and source ingredients and other inputs in light of global sociopolitical disruption;
- the spread of foreign animal disease (including ASF and Avian Influenza), preparedness strategies to manage such spread, and implications for all protein markets;
- the availability of capital to fund future capital requirements associated with existing operations, assets and projects;
- expectations regarding participation in and funding of the Company's pension plans;
- the availability of insurance coverage to manage certain liability exposures;
- the extent of future liabilities and recoveries related to legal claims;
- prevailing regulatory, tax and environmental laws; and
- future operating costs and performance, including the Company's ability to achieve operating efficiencies and maintain high sales volumes, high turnover of inventories and high turnover of accounts receivable.
Readers are cautioned that these assumptions may prove to be incorrect in whole or in part. The Company's actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from the results expressed, implied, or projected in the forward-looking statements contained in this document include, among other things, risks associated with the following:
- implications of COVID-19 on the operations and financial performance of the Company, as well the implications for macro socio-economic trends;
- competition, market conditions and the activities of competitors and customers, including the expansion or contraction of key categories (including plant protein);
- the health status of livestock, including the impact of potential pandemics;
- international trade and access to markets and supplies, as well as social, political and economic dynamics, including the war in Ukraine;
- availability of and access to capital;
- decision respecting the return of capital to shareholders;
- the execution of capital projects, including cost, schedule and regulatory variables;
- food safety, consumer liability and product recalls;
- cyber security and the maintenance and operation of the Company's information systems and processes;
- climate change;
- strategic risk management, including the outcome of the analysis of the plant protein category;
- acquisitions and divestitures;
- fluctuations in the debt and equity markets;
- fluctuations in interest rates and currency exchange rates;
- pension assets and liabilities;
- cyclical nature of the cost and supply of hogs and the competitive nature of the pork market generally;
- the effectiveness of commodity and interest rate hedging strategies;
- impact of changes in the market value of the biological assets and hedging instruments;
- the supply management system for poultry in Canada;
- availability of plant protein ingredients;
- intellectual property, including product innovation, product development, brand strategy and trademark protection;
- consolidation of operations and focus on protein;
- the use of contract manufacturers;
- reputation;
- weather;
- compliance with government regulation and adapting to changes in laws;
- actual and threatened legal claims;
- consumer trends and changes in consumer tastes and buying patterns;
- environmental regulation and potential environmental liabilities;
- consolidation in the retail environment;
- employment matters, including complying with employment laws across multiple jurisdictions, the potential for work stoppages due to non-renewal of collective agreements, recruiting and retaining qualified personnel, reliance on key personnel and succession planning;
- pricing of products;
- managing the Company's supply chain;
- changes in International Financial Reporting Standards and other accounting standards that the Company is required to adhere to for regulatory purposes; and
- other factors as set out under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Management Discussion and Analysis for the year ended December 31, 2021.
The Company cautions readers that the foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive.
Readers are further cautioned that some of the forward-looking information, such as statements concerning future capital expenditures, Adjusted EBITDA Margin growth in the Meat Protein Group, expected sales and growth margin targets in the Plant Protein Group and SG&A spend, may be considered to be financial outlooks for purposes of applicable securities legislation. These financial outlooks are presented to evaluate potential future earnings and anticipated future uses of cash flows and may not be appropriate for other purposes. Readers should not assume these financial outlooks will be achieved.
More information about risk factors can be found under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Management's Discussion and Analysis for the year ended December 31, 2021, that is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The reader should review such section in detail. Additional information concerning the Company, including the Company's Annual Information Form, is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
All forward-looking statements included herein speak only as of the date hereof. Unless required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. All forward-looking statements contained herein are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
About Maple Leaf Foods Inc.
Maple Leaf Foods is a carbon neutral company with a vision to be the most sustainable protein company on earth, responsibly producing food products under leading brands including Maple Leaf®, Maple Leaf Prime®, Maple Leaf Natural Selections®, Schneiders®, Schneiders® Country Naturals®, Mina®, Greenfield Natural Meat Co.®, Lightlife® and Field Roast™. The Company employs approximately 13,500 people and does business primarily in Canada, the U.S. and Asia. The Company is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario and its shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (MFI).
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Spain signs off on plans to temper volatile energy prices
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government has approved a new plan aimed at reining in soaring energy prices. It signed off Friday on a temporary cap on natural gas prices that it said would immediately reduce the cost of energy for a third of domestic consumers and 70% of industry. As energy prices surge across Europe, exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine, Spain and Portugal asked the European Union’s executive arm earlier this year to allow them to skirt the EU’s common-market rules. The European Commission agreed to allow a price cap on gas for power generation. The Portuguese government also is expected to approve the same measures Friday. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/13/spain-signs-off-on-plans-to-temper-volatile-energy-prices/ | 2022-05-13T14:46:39Z |
"EMILY AND KELSEY'S TEXAS TOUR" CONTINUES GRASSROOTS EFFORT TO AMPLIFY RESTAURANT VOICES AND ENGAGE LAWMAKERS ACROSS TEXAS
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, August 29, Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) President and CEO Emily Williams Knight and Chief Public Affairs Officer Kelsey Erickson Streufert will resume Emily & Kelsey's Texas Tour, a grassroots initiative that the TRA launched earlier this year to further connect with each of the TRA's 23 chapters and dozens of elected officials. April's visits covered seven chapters throughout Central and East Texas, connected by a thousand-mile road trip. Now the tour continues with another five stops along 850 miles of North Texas, plus events in West and South Texas scheduled for later this year.
Once again Emily and Kelsey's Texas Tour will include public town halls, private roundtables, and listening sessions to raise awareness of the extraordinary contributions Texas restaurants make to communities across the state. With the next Texas legislative session scheduled to begin in January 2023, upcoming events will also prioritize strengthening relationships between restaurant operators and their local and state elected officials. These events will drive greater understanding of the challenges local businesses continue to face with inflation, supply chain disruptions, and labor shortages, as well as the public policy reforms that can help restaurants overcome these challenges.
The TRA encourages restaurant operators and allied businesses across Texas to attend the public town halls to engage directly with elected officials, have their voices heard, and learn about the latest data and resources that can help them grow their business.
The upcoming leg of the tour will feature public events in Amarillo, Lubbock, and Buffalo Gap near Abilene. Event details below.
Tuesday, August 30, 3 p.m. – Amarillo
Restaurant Town Hall featuring Texas Representative Four Price, Texas Representative Ken King, and Amarillo Mayor Ginger Nelson
Skyline Room, 410 S Taylor St., 16th Floor, Amarillo, TX 79101
Wednesday, August 31, 5:30 p.m. – Lubbock
Restaurant Town Hall featuring Texas Representative Dustin Burrows
Table 82, 4210 82nd St., #240, Lubbock, TX 79423
Thursday, September 1, 4:30 p.m. – Buffalo Gap
Restaurant Town Hall
Supper Club by Perini Ranch, 2701 FM 89, Buffalo Gap, TX, 79508
These events will be open to the public and local media, as noted, and all food and beverage business operators and allied partners are encouraged to come, participate in the conversation, and share their real-world experience.
This leg of the tour will also feature a fundraiser for the TRA Political Action Committee (TRA PAC) in Fort Worth and a roundtable discussion in Wichita Falls. These events are closed to media but open to TRA members and prospective members who want to learn more about the TRA's efforts to strengthen Texas' foodservice industry. Details and RSVP links are below.
Monday, August 29, 11:30 a.m. – Fort Worth
Luncheon fundraiser for the TRA PAC, which pools the industry's funds to make a bigger impact in state elections.
Reata Restaurant, 310 Houston St., Fort Worth, TX 76102
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* Suggested minimum contribution: $100 per person. The TRA PAC supports candidates of any party, as long as they support restaurant and business growth. The TRA PAC cannot accept corporate contributions. For more information about the TRA PAC, please visit our website here.
Monday, August 29, 5 p.m. – Wichita Falls
Restaurant Roundtable featuring Texas Senator Drew Springer and Wichita Falls Mayor Stephen Santellana
Pelican's, 2301 Midwestern Pkwy., #103, Wichita Falls, TX 76308
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"The first leg of the Texas Tour underscored how meaningful it is to connect with our business operators and elected officials in the communities they serve," said Emily Williams Knight, Ed.D., President & CEO of the TRA. "Texas restaurants continue to navigate a rollercoaster ride created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the global economic challenges that it set into motion over two years ago. Now is the perfect time to come together as an industry in communities throughout Texas, learn from each other, and speak with our elected officials about the reforms we can work on together to make the food and beverage industry more resilient than ever."
Media opportunities will be available all along the route as well. Additional legs of the tour are planned for West Texas (early October) and South Texas (early November) to ensure the TRA hears from a broad and diverse set of industry voices before the next legislative session.
Formed in 1937, the Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) serves as the advocate and indispensable resource for the foodservice industry in Texas. As a leading business association, the TRA represents the state's $70 billion restaurant industry, which comprises approximately 50,000 locations and a workforce of 1.3 million employees. Along with the Texas Restaurant Foundation, the workforce development arm of the TRA, the association proudly continues to protect, advance, and educate a growing industry as the TRA enters its 85th anniversary year. For more information, please visit www.txrestaurant.org.
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Fog hazard and more clouds today
Chilly start with frost and fog and heading into the upper 50's and lower 60's. SW winds 5-10mph and increasing cloudiness. Ridge pushes in and we'll have moderate warm up for Tuesday with temperatures around 67, which is our seasonal average for late May. Then 10 degree jumps for Wednesday and Thursday. Dry conditions with variable cloudiness into the week and 75 for Wednesday and mid 80's. | https://localnews8.com/weather/local-forecast/2022/05/23/fog-hazard-and-more-clouds-today/ | 2022-05-23T16:01:48Z |
Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct the name of the victim.
(WJET/WFXP) — An Ohio man is dead after scuba diving in some of the deepest waters of Lake Erie.
The man was identified by the Erie County Coroner as 31-year-old Tyler Cullinan of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Cullinan was part of a group that left Barcelona Harbor in New York on Saturday, and was diving about 15 miles off shore.
The divers were exploring a shipwreck at a depth of 190 feet.
According to Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook, Cullinan signaled that he was in distress to the other divers and then became unconscious. Cullinan was then brought to shore by a Border Patrol boat. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
The death has been ruled accidental, but the cause is still pending from the results of the autopsy that was performed on Monday.
Scuba diving fatalities occur at a rate of about 2 per 100,000 dives, according to Divers Alert Network. The group, which tracks diving deaths, found in its 2019 report, the most common cause of death in diving fatalities is “drowning,” as reported by medical examiners. Drowning can result from any number of underwater incidents, such as an equipment malfunction or running out of oxygen while diving.
Heart disease was the second-most common cause of death in diving fatalities, Divers Alert Network found. A medical examiner might rule heart disease the cause of death if someone appears to have suffered a heart attack while underwater.
DCS, or decompression sickness, can also lead to death when severe. Also known as “the bends,” decompression sickness can occur when a diver ascends too rapidly, creating small gas bubbles in your blood vessels. Those bubbles can cause blocks, clots or ruptures. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/scuba-diver-dies-exploring-lake-erie-shipwreck/ | 2022-06-14T01:08:30Z |
Six longtime partners form SEC Registered Investment Adviser and financial planning firm to bring expanded financial services and fiduciary-driven wealth management to clients in Kansas City and beyond
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tax Favored Benefits, Inc. (TFB), a 40-year old, third-generation financial services firm headquartered in the Kansas City area, today announced the formation of a sister company and new business entity, TFB Advisors, LLC. TFB Advisors is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) and wealth management firm driven by fiduciary standards that will offer a new suite of solutions to current and prospective clients. The current leadership team remains in place at TFB, an established brand and respected firm that has been serving business owners, families and individuals since 1978. The newly-established TFB Advisors leadership team includes six partners who have worked together as colleagues and peers for many years: David B. Wentz, J.D., Bill Stapp, J.D., Josh Selzer, J.D., Tim Gaigals, CFP®, Dan Dolan, ChFC®, CLU®, LUTCF, and Adam Bettis, AIF®.
"We've been working together for many years now," said Wentz, "but it was time to formalize our partnership. This new entity, TFB Advisors, will allow us to best serve our clients. The decision to form TFB Advisors, LLC as a new sister company to Tax Favored Benefits, Inc. was driven by the desire to enhance the client experience."
"We will be announcing new services, investment offerings, financial planning solutions, and technology as we continue our ever-evolving journey and quest to enhance all aspects of the client experience," added Selzer. We have been growing together under the TFB brand since 2005. We're headed in a great direction and plan to continue our growth trajectory through new staff hires and advisor recruiting efforts."
"Once the transition of fee-based assets has been completed, TFB Advisors expects total assets under management (AUM) to be approximately $2 billion," said Gaigals. "The creation of this partnership between highly experienced and proven, long tenured advisors establishes the opportunity to grow in the future. The new RIA structure will allow us to offer new investment and financial planning solutions to clients."
Custodial services will be provided by Schwab Advisor Services and AssetMark, Inc. Schwab is one of the nation's largest providers of custody, trading, and support services for independent investment advisors. Independent investment advisors are not owned by, affiliated with, or supervised by Schwab. AssetMark is a leading provider of extensive wealth management and technology solutions that help financial advisors meet the ever-changing needs of their clients.
Over the past 40 years, TFB has provided financial advice, business planning, insurance and brokerage services to individuals, families and business owners. Business owner clients include professional law firms, CPAs, medical and dental associations, farm implement and supply dealers, technology companies, institutions, and endowments. Individuals and families also make up a large component of the firm's clientele.
"At Tax Favored Benefits (TFB), we serve as a partner in helping individuals, families and business owners achieve financial success," said Wentz. "Headquartered in Kansas City, we are driven by our Midwestern values and work ethic and powered by a wide range of resources. Our experienced professionals provide a full suite of wealth, investment, and retirement planning services to clients across the country. We can help them achieve their version of personal and professional success because we put their best interests first, at all times and in all situations. It's that simple."
TFB Advisors may also offer 3(38) ERISA services. This special type of fiduciary is specifically appointed to have full discretionary authority and control to make the actual investment decisions. This means that for its corporate plan sponsor services, the firm serves as an investment fiduciary, lifting the majority of investment responsibilities from the plan sponsor to TFB, which then becomes responsible for the investment selection, monitoring and replacement of plan options. The plan sponsor is informed before any changes are made. This allows plan sponsors to focus their time and energy on other business matters while outsourcing their fiduciary responsibility to TFB.
"We love working with our clients, helping them grow, finding affordable retirement solutions, and meeting their needs over time," said Jeff Pytlinski, President of both Tax Favored Benefits, Inc. and TFB Advisors, LLC. "We are proud of the long-term relationships we've built with our clients and our advisors. We've worked hard to build a great company culture."
Advisors who are seeking an independent business model are invited to contact Jeff Pytlinski for a confidential exploratory conversation. "When an advisor joins our firm, they know they are not in it by themselves. We work as their partner to help them grow and realize success," said Pytlinski. "We have created a great place for entrepreneurial advisors to thrive and grow. We welcome inquiries from advisors who are looking for a new, dynamic team and business structure."
Tax Favored Benefits, Inc. (TFB) is a 40 year old company and specializes in retirement plans, employee benefit programs, personal planning, and investments. Headquartered in Kansas City, and serving clients nationwide, they are driven by their strong work ethic, and powered by a wide range of professional resources and work force that includes J.D.s, MBAs, CFPs®, and a CFA®. TFB is a third-generation firm, founded by R. David Wentz, J.D., ChFC®. His son, David B. Wentz, J.D., now runs the business as CEO, and his son Vance Wentz is now in the business serving clients as an advisor.
TFB Advisors, LLC (TFB Advisors), the newly formed business entity, and their experienced professionals provide a full suite of wealth, investment and retirement planning services to clients across the country. The teams work together to serve as a partner in helping individuals, families and business owners achieve financial success.
To learn more about how they help clients succeed today, visit: TaxFavoredBenefits.com.
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ROME (AP) — For travelers heading to Europe, summer vacations just got a whole lot easier.
Italy and Greece relaxed some COVID-19 restrictions on Sunday before Europe’s peak summer tourist season, in a sign that life was increasingly returning to normal.
Greece’s civil aviation authority announced that it was lifting all COVID-19 rules for international and domestic flights except for the wearing of face masks during flights and at airports. Previously, air travelers were required to show proof of vaccination, a negative test or a recent recovery from the disease.
As of Sunday, visitors to Italy no longer have to fill out the EU passenger locator form, a complicated online ordeal required at airport check-in.
Italy also did away with the health pass that had been required to enter restaurants, cinemas, gyms and other venues. The green pass, which showed proof of vaccination, recovery from the virus or a recent negative test, is still required to access hospitals and nursing homes.
.Some indoor mask mandates in Italy also ended, including inside supermarkets, workplaces and stores. Masks are still required on public transport, in cinemas and in all health care facilities and nursing homes.
“It was needed,” said Claudio Civitelli, a Rome resident having his morning coffee at a bar near the Trevi Fountain. Until Sunday, patrons had to wear a mask to enter bars and restaurants, though they could remove them to eat and drink. “We have waited more than two years.”
At a nearby table, Andrea Bichler, an Italian tourist from Trentino Alto-Adige, sat with friends, all without masks.
“It’s much better,” Bichler said. “Let’s say it’s a return to life, a free life.”
In Greece, where tourism accounts for about 20% of its GNP, enforcing the rules had already fallen off prior to Sunday. On the tourist island of Mykonos, revelers flooded beaches, bars and restaurant the previous weekend for the Orthodox Easter holiday. Some owners said business was the best they had seen in years and expected that to continue for the long May Day weekend.
Vaccination certificates in Greece were abolished, not permanently, but from May 1 to August 31 and it will be determined in August whether to bring them back. Also suspended were restrictions on the number of customers in indoor spaces. But masks are still required indoors and in vehicles in Greece, and experts recommend using them outdoors in crowded situations like concerts.
Business owners said many unvaccinated people were among those enjoying the end of COVID-19 restrictions.
“We saw again old customers whom we hadn’t seen since November,” when vaccination certificates first became mandatory, Michalis Epitropidis, general secretary of the association of restaurant, cafe and bar owners in Thessaloniki, told the Associated Press. “By punishing the unvaccinated, the state was punishing us.”
Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, was a hotbed of militant vaccine denialism and protests against COVID-19 restrictions.
Like Italy, Greece saw tourism revenues plunge in 2020 and only partially rebound in 2021. Greece is now hoping for a record tourism year in 2022 — and so does neighboring Albania, where restrictions were also lifted Sunday.
Public health officials say masks still remain highly recommended in Italy for all indoor activities, and private companies can still require them.
Given that the virus is still circulating, “we should keep up the vaccine campaign, including boosters, and keep up behavior inspired by prudence: wearing masks indoors or in crowded places or wherever there’s a risk of contagion,” said Dr. Giovanni Rezza, in charge of prevention at the health ministry.
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Nellas reported from Athens, Greece. Francesco Sportelli contributed from Italy, Costas Kantouris from Thessaloniki, Greece and Llazar Semini from Albania.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of the United Nations said Ukraine has become “an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain” — a description underscored a short time later by the first Russian strike on the capital since Moscow’s forces retreated weeks ago.
Russia pounded targets all over Ukraine on Thursday, including the attack on Kyiv that struck a residential high-rise and another building and wounded 10 people, including at least one who lost a leg, according to Ukraine’s emergency services.
The bombardment came barely an hour after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a news conference with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who toured some of the destruction in and around Kyiv and condemned the attacks on civilians.
Meanwhile, explosions were reported across the country, in Polonne in the west, Chernihiv near the border with Belarus, and Fastiv, a large railway hub southwest of the capital. The mayor of Odesa, in southern Ukraine, said rockets were intercepted by air defenses.
Ukrainian authorities also reported intense Russian fire in the Donbas — the eastern industrial heartland that the Kremlin says is its main objective — and near Kharkiv, a northeastern city outside the Donbas that is seen as key to the offensive.
In the ruined southern port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian fighters holed up in the steel plant that represents the last pocket of resistance said concentrated bombing killed and wounded more people. And authorities warned that a lack of safe drinking water inside the city could lead to outbreaks of deadly diseases such as cholera and dysentery.
In Zaporizhzhia, a crucial way station for tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing Mariupol, an 11-year-old boy was among at least three people wounded in a rocket attack that authorities said was the first to hit a residential area in the southern city since the war began. Shards of glass cut the boy’s leg to the bone.
Vadym Vodostoyev, the boy’s father, said: “It just takes one second and you’re left with nothing.”
In Lyman town near Slovyansk, where Russian forces are reportedly trying to advance as part of their Donbas push, another tragedy unfolded on Monday when shelling rained on Tatiana Maksagory’s home.
“There was such a blast and then smoke; you couldn’t hear anything,” she said, crying outside a hospital with a wound in her neck. “You couldn’t see anything in front of your eyes, and then I see that my grandson is lying on the ground.”
Maksagory’s 14-year-old grandson, Igor, was declared dead after emergency services drove him to the hospital. Her daughter was in serious condition and her son-in-law was also killed.
“Grandma, will I live?“ she said Igor asked her when they were in the basement waiting for help. “I said that he would live. But look what happened, I betrayed him. I am alive and he is not. I wish I had died and he had survived. I lived much more than him. I will never forgive myself for it.”
Ukraine’s military said Russian troops have subjected several places in the Donbas to “intense fire” Thursday and that over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces had repelled six attacks in the region.
Four civilians were also killed in heavy shelling of residential areas in the Luhansk region of the Donbas, according to the regional governor.
Columns of smoke could be seen rising at different points across the Donetsk region of the Donbas, and artillery and sirens were heard on and off.
The fresh attacks came as Guterres surveyed the destruction in small towns outside the capital that saw some of the worst horrors of the first onslaught of the war.He condemned the atrocities committed in towns like Bucha,where evidence of mass killings of civilians was found after Russia withdrew in early April in the face of unexpectedly stiff resistance.
“Wherever there is a war, the highest price is paid by civilians,” the U.N. chief lamented.
In the attack on Kyiv, explosions shook the city and flames poured out the windows of the residential high-rise and another building. The capital had been relatively unscathed in recent weeks since Moscow refocused its efforts on the Donbas.
The explosions in northwestern Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky district came as residents have been increasingly returning to the city. Cafes and other businesses have reopened, and a growing numbers of people have been out and about, enjoying the spring weather.
It was not immediately clear how far the attack was from Guterres.
Getting a full picture of the unfolding battle in the east has been difficult because airstrikes and artillery barrages have made it extremely dangerous for reporters to move around. Several journalists have been killed in the war, now in its third month.
Also, both Ukraine and the Moscow-backed rebels fighting in the east have introduced tight restrictions on reporting from the combat zone.
Western officials say the Kremlin’s apparent goal is to take the Donbas by encircling and crushing Ukrainian forces from the north, south and east.
But so far, Russia’s troops and their allied separatist forces appear to have made only minor gains — a senior U.S. defense official described them as covering several kilometers a day — taking several small towns as they try to advance in relatively small groups against staunch Ukrainian resistance.
As of Thursday, Russia had launched about 1,900 missiles into Ukraine – the vast majority fired from outside Ukraine’s borders, the U.S. official said. Most are strikes on Mariupol and the Donbas.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said Friday that the limited Russian territorial gains have been achieved at significant cost to their forces.
Russian military units were mauled in the abortive bid to storm Kyiv and had to regroup and refit. Some analysts say the delay in launching a full-fledged offensive may reflect a decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to wait until his forces are ready for a decisive battle, instead of rushing in and risking another failure that could shake his rule amid worsening economic conditions at home because of Western sanctions.
Many observers suspect Putin wants to be able to claim a big victory in the east by Victory Day, on May 9, one of the proudest holidays on the Russian calendar, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II.
Many of the Russian troops who were in Mariupol have been leaving and moving to the northwest, the U.S. defense official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the U.S. military assessment, didn’t have exact figures but said a “significant number” of the roughly one dozen battalion tactical groups that were in the city were moving out.
In Mariupol, video posted online by Ukraine’s Azov Regiment inside the steel plant showed people combing through the rubble to remove the dead and help the wounded. The regiment said the Russians hit an improvised underground hospital and its surgery room, killing an unspecified number of people. The video couldn’t be independently verified.
An estimated 100,000 people remained trapped in Mariupol.
“Deadly epidemics may break out in the city due to the lack of centralized water supply and sewers,” the city council said on the messaging app Telegram. It reported bodies decaying under the rubble and a “catastrophic” shortage of drinking water and food.
Ukraine has urged its allies to send even more military equipment to fend off the Russians. U.S. President Joe Biden asked Congress for an additional $33 billion to help Ukraine.
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Associated Press journalists Jon Gambrell and Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Mstyslav Chernov in Kharkiv, Yesica Fisch in Sloviansk, and AP staff around the world contributed to this report.
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Watching Your Wallet: How to put the brakes on rising car insurance costs
Inflation impacting auto insurance rates
InvestigateTV - Auto insurance rates are not immune to inflation, as experts are predicting the price will rise for many in 2022.
Several major auto insurers, including Allstate, Progressive, Geico and State Farm, already increased rates in early 2022 in many states, according to Bankrate.
Rod Griffin, a senior director of consumer education and advocacy with Experian, says 1 in 4 Americans is increasingly worried about inflation.
”With the gas pump and the groceries and everything that we’re spending money on, it’s true for car insurance as well because the price of bumpers and vendors and cars themselves are increasing and that’s going to be passed on to us as consumers.”
So how do you work to cut auto insurance costs? Griffin has two suggestions: don’t get in any accidents and shop around.
You can ask your insurance company directly for available discounts for things like bundling auto and home or customer loyalty. There are also tools like Experian’s auto insurance comparison tool, which helps you find quotes from 40 different auto insurance providers.
Improving your credit score could also lead to lower costs.
Finally, another option would be to increase your deductible if you can afford it. Moving your $500 dollar deductible to a $1,000 deductible will likely reduce your rates.
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MIAMI, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 26 Capital Acquisition Corp. ("26 Capital") (NASDAQ: ADER), today announced that the registration statement on Form F-4 (the "Registration Statement") filed by UE Resorts International, Inc. ("UERI") in connection with the previously announced proposed business combination (the "Business Combination") of 26 Capital with UERI, the holding company of Okada Manila, one of the premier casino resorts in Asia and the largest integrated resort in the Philippines, has been declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). The Registration Statement provides important information about 26 Capital, UERI, and the Business Combination.
26 Capital also announced a record date of June 3, 2022 (the "Record Date") and a meeting date of June 28, 2022, for the special meeting of its stockholders (the "Special Meeting") to approve the Business Combination. If the proposals at the Special Meeting are approved, the parties anticipate that the Business Combination will close shortly thereafter, subject to the satisfaction of all other closing conditions.
Upon closing, the combined company is expected to be listed on Nasdaq with its common shares and warrants trading under the new ticker symbols "UERI" and "UERIW", respectively.
The Special Meeting will be held on June 28, 2022, at a time to be determined. Additionally, it will be available via live webcast and participants have the option to listen to the Special Meeting by dialing-in. The webcast link and dial-in number will be forthcoming.
26 Capital recommends all stockholders vote in advance of the Special Meeting by telephone, via the Internet or by signing, dating, and returning the proxy card upon receipt.
Your vote for all proposals is important, no matter how many or how few shares you own. If you have any questions or need assistance voting, please contact D.F. King & Co., Inc., 26 Capital's proxy solicitor, by calling (866) 342-4883 (shareholders) or (212) 269-5550 (banks and brokers), or by emailing ADER@dfking.com.
About 26 Capital Acquisition Corp.
26 Capital Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: ADER) is a Nasdaq-listed blank check company formed for the purpose of creating stockholder value by identifying an acquisition target with significant growth opportunities that the 26 Capital team can enhance by utilizing its experience and track record of creating and unlocking value, with particular focus in gaming, gaming technology, lodging, and entertainment. 26 Capital is led by Jason Ader of SpringOwl Asset Management. Mr. Ader has over 26 years of experience as an institutional investor, asset manager, and research analyst, with particular expertise in the gaming and hospitality industries. SpringOwl Asset Management has raised more than $1 billion in capital since it was founded in 2013.
About UE Resorts International, Inc.
UE Resorts International, Inc. is the holding company of Okada Manila, the premier casino and integrated resort in Entertainment City, Manila. Okada Manila is the largest integrated resort in the Philippines and amongst the largest in the world. Located in one of the fastest-growing gaming markets in Asia, Okada Manila sits on over 50 acres of land, and upon final completion will have licensed capacity to operate 974 gaming tables and 6,890 electronic gaming machines and have 993 luxury hotel rooms.
Participants in the Solicitation
26 Capital Acquisition Corp. and certain of its directors and executive officers may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from 26 Capital Acquisition Corp.'s stockholders with respect to the proposed business combination transaction. A list of the names of those directors and executive officers and a description of their interests in 26 Capital Acquisition Corp. is set forth in 26 Capital Acquisition Corp.'s filings with the SEC (including 26 Capital Acquisition Corp.'s final prospectus related to its initial public offering (File No. 333-251682) dated as of January 14, 2021), and are available free of charge at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov, or by directing a request to 26 Capital Acquisition Corp., 701 Brickell Avenue, Miami, Florida 33131, attention: Jason Ader. Additional information regarding the interests of such participants will be contained in the prospectus/proxy statement for the proposed business combination transaction when available.
Okada Manila and certain of their directors and executive officers may also be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of 26 Capital Acquisition Corp. in connection with the proposed business combination transaction. A list of the names of such directors and executive officers and information regarding their interests in the proposed business combination transaction will be included in the registration/proxy statement for the proposed business combination transaction when available
No Offer or Solicitation
This press release shall not constitute a solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the proposed business combination transaction. This press release shall also not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any states or jurisdictions in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Okada Manila's actual results may differ from their expectations, estimates, and projections and, consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as "expect," "estimate," "project," "budget," "forecast," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "could," "should," "believes," "predicts," "potential," "continue," and similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, 26 Capital Acquisition Corp.'s and Okada Manila's expectations with respect to future performance and anticipated financial impacts of the business combination transaction.
These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially, and potentially adversely, from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Most of these factors are outside 26 Capital Acquisition Corp.'s and Okada Manila's control and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against 26 Capital Acquisition Corp. and/or Okada Manila following the consummation of the business combination transaction; (2) the impact of COVID-19 and related regulatory responses (such as local community quarantine and international travel restrictions) on Okada Manila's business; (3) the dependence of Okada Manila's business on its casino gaming license; (4) the inability to maintain the listing of Okada Manila's common shares on the Nasdaq following the consummation of the business combination transaction; (5) the risk that the business combination transaction disrupts current plans and operations; (6) the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the business combination transaction, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of Okada Manila to grow and manage growth profitably, and retain its key employees; (7) costs related to the business combination transaction; (8) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (9) the possibility that Okada Manila may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and (10) any plans to expand operations outside of the Philippines. The foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning 26 Capital Acquisition Corp. or Okada Manila, the transactions described herein or other matters and attributable to 26 Capital Acquisition Corp., Okada Manila or any person acting on their behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements above. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Each of 26 Capital Acquisition Corp. and Okada Manila expressly disclaims any obligations or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in their expectations with respect thereto or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any statement is based, except as required by law.
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Services for Howard Wayne Straw, 79, of Belton will be 10 a.m. Tuesday in North Belton Cemetery.
Mr. Straw died Wednesday, July 27, at his residence.
He was born Aug. 26, 1942, in Gatesville to James and Lois Straw. He worked for the city of Killeen. He married Willie Fern Straw on April 23, 1986, and she preceded him in death.
Survivors include a daughter, Robbie Nidositko of Temple; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
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PITTSBURGH, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Botox is one of the fastest growing aesthetic treatments, and for good reason: Its wrinkle-reducing effects are far more impressive than any topical skincare cream can offer. Botox is FDA-approved to treat stubborn frontalis (forehead) lines, glabellar lines between your brows (aka "frown" or "eleven" lines) and lateral canthi lines (aka "crow's feet") around your eyes. Botox is also commonly used in other capacities to smooth nasalis lines (aka "bunny lines") and reduce pore size, for example. Results usually kick in around two weeks after your treatment and last for about three months.
"Botox works by temporarily relaxing the targeted facial muscles, which softens the look of wrinkles," says Debra Thomas, a certified aesthetic nurse provider at The Skin Center, which has six medical spas across the Pittsburgh region. The company's newest state-of-the-art clinic just opened in Murrysville last month.
"The #1 question I get from first-time Botox clients is: Will my face look frozen?" says Thomas. "Think about it this way: Every bottle of Botox is the same—it's a regulated drug. So the critical factor in getting natural-looking results is all about the provider who is injecting the Botox," explains Thomas, who is also a Botox national trainer and travels the country teaching injection techniques.
You probably already have several Botox devotees in your friend circle singing its praises. According to Allergan Aesthetics, the makers of Botox, 2.4 million Botox treatments have already been administered this year. And don't think Botox is only for women: The Skin Center has seen a 67% increase in male Botox patients this past year.
If you're considering Botox, here are the safety measures Thomas recommends:
- Experience matters. Go to a medical spa that has an established reputation. "At The Skin Center, we've been doing Botox for 20 years, since it was first approved by the FDA," says Thomas. "This means that not only do you have tenured providers with great experience, but that new providers coming on board are getting the best training and supervision as well." Always ask questions like: How long has the provider been doing Botox? How many patients has he or she treated?
- Beware of counterfeit Botox. On treatment day, before you start, ask your provider to show you the bottle of Botox first. "It's scary to think that there is counterfeit Botox out there, but there is. If you see Botox advertised at a ridiculously cheap price, double check you are getting the real thing first," cautions Thomas.
- Don't get it at a Botox party. Just because Botox has become as popular as tupperware doesn't mean you should get it anywhere else than in a medically supervised, safe and clean clinic.
- Do ask for emergency contact information. A reputable provider will give you instructions on what to do if you have any questions or concerns outside of business hours.
You're in safe hands at The Skin Center. Out of over 30,000 medical spas in the country, The Skin Center is recognized as a Top 10 Botox Provider in the Nation by Allergan Aesthetics. The company always offers complimentary Botox consultations and don't miss its first-time patient special: $100 OFF your first treatment.
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Investment to Accelerate Growth of Revolutionary RTSM Platform
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atreo, Inc., a Clinical Development SaaS company focused on modernizing and simplifying the clinical trials process, has announced closing of a $4 million Series Seed Preferred financing round, bringing Atreo's total funding to $5.75 million.
"With the launch of Atreo's next generation RTSM platform, we've fulfilled our goal of building a product that delivers a new level of speed, agility, and quality to the clinical space by leveraging modern engineering and testing methods," said Ryan Harrison, Atreo's CEO. "Our team has consulted with numerous RTSM and clinical leaders, many of whom chose to invest in Atreo. Their investment reaffirms the benefits of our approach and commitment to fuel continued adoption of our new, game-changing solution."
Atreo's Executive Team includes RTSM and clinical development experts who have drawn from their deep industry experience to modernize the clinical development process. "Our reinvestment in Atreo was an easy decision," said Jon Dole, Lead Investor & Strategic Advisor. "I've spent over 20 years in RTSM and have been amazed by Atreo's progress towards creating the next generation RTSM solution. Legacy providers have struggled to innovate in recent years, leading to quality and scalability challenges. Atreo's experienced, tech forward team has directly addressed these challenges and built a platform that simplifies the RTSM experience for clinical teams–it's so much faster, more agile and more scalable than existing solutions."
Atreo's Lead Investors include RTSM & clinical supplies founders and life sciences executives. In addition to industry experts, Atreo is thrilled to welcome Slack Co-Founders Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson to our investor team. "Modern technology is at the core of Atreo's RTSM product and advantages," said Jon Ball, COO of Atreo. "Our team has specifically sought innovative leaders to help support our growth. Stewart and Cal created an industry leading collaboration tool in Slack, while maintaining focus on putting the customer first and providing an invigorating environment for their employees. Their model and support of Atreo has been invaluable."
To learn more about Atreo, please visit: https://atreo.io/
Atreo is a clinical technology company, comprised of experienced clinical technology experts, that has created the next generation of RTSM platform. Atreo helps clinical teams to modernize the RTSM experience with unmatched agility and simplicity by leveraging advanced technology and testing methods. Atreo has addressed all common RTSM pain points. Our solution offers numerous advantages, with a specific emphasis on:
- Speed: 1 - 2 week RTSM build from Kickoff to Go-Live
- Quality Quantified: Modern testing practices mitigating RTSM risk
- Agility: Simplified system changes at no cost and unmatched quality
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Panacea to offer banking and lending services to eligible GDA members
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Panacea Financial (Panacea), which provides financial services for physicians, dentists, and veterinarians through all stages of their training and practice, has partnered with the Georgia Dental Association (GDA), the premier dental association in the state, with over 3,600 members, to provide preferred dental-specific student loan refinancing to GDA members.
Tyler Stafford, CFA, CEO and Co-Founder of Panacea said, "We know that it is extremely difficult to become a dentist and that the cost to train can be burdensome to many. That is why it is vital for us to provide the dental community with options for their student loans that make sense for them. At Panacea we are able to allow dentists and dentists-in-training to refinance their student loans in a way that is both accessible and understanding of the sacrifices dentists make in training and practice."
Panacea is a financial services company created for doctors, by doctors that provides tailored product offerings and service delivery designed specifically for physicians, dentists, and veterinarians throughout their career: from school, through training, and into practice. Panacea's products cover the full suite of banking needs for this unique population, including PRN personal loans, student loan refinancing, and practice loans.
"We are pleased to partner with Panacea Financial to offer dental student loan refinancing options to our members," said GDA President Dr. Zach Powell. GDA Executive Director, Frank J. Capaldo, adds, "The financial cost of becoming a dentist can be daunting, with new dentists today starting their careers owing over $300,000 in educational debt. Offering innovative solutions to our members is critical in addressing the burden of student debt faced by today's dental school graduates."
Panacea President and Co-Founder, Michael Jerkins, MD, added, "As a doctor-founded company, we are on a mission to make financing more accessible to doctors and doctors-in-training across the country. We couldn't be more thrilled to partner with GDA to bring dentists in Georgia unique offerings to potentially make their financial lives a little less stressful."
For more information, please visit www.panaceafinancial.com.
About Panacea Financial
Panacea Financial, a Division of Primis Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: FRST), is a nationwide financial services company offering products in all 50 states as well as Washington, D.C. Panacea offers a full suite of banking solutions specifically built for doctors, by doctors. Follow Panacea Financial on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
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The Georgia Dental Association is the premier professional organization of dentists in the state committed to improving oral health in Georgia and continuously promoting the highest standards of dentistry through education, advocacy, and professionalism.
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Lawmakers are under pressure to avert a rail worker strike as soon as this week that would batter the nation’s economy just before November’s midterm elections.
Republican senators introduced a resolution to impose a new contract if negotiations between railroads and unions collapse, while Democrats say they would pass legislation to block a rail shutdown if necessary.
More than 115,000 rail workers will be legally allowed to strike on Friday.
The cooling-off period expires 30 days after the White House-appointed Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) released contract recommendations that call for 24 percent raises, back pay and cash bonuses.
The two largest railroad unions say their members won’t vote for a contract based on those guidelines, which don’t address concerns about strict attendance policies. Railroads haven’t budged from their push to ratify the PEB proposal, arguing that it’s a fair compromise.
The stalemate raises the odds of a strike, which would bring the transport of grain, fuel, lumber, car parts and other key products to a halt, likely damaging the nation’s fragile supply chains and sending prices soaring.
Some railroads are already shutting down their operations in advance of Friday’s deadline — a move that forced Amtrak to cancel some routes — putting pressure on lawmakers to intervene sooner than expected.
President Biden, who has pushed the parties to strike a deal, is attempting to craft a contingency plan to transport goods if railroads shut down.
“We are working with other modes of transportation, including shippers and truckers, air freight, to see how they can step in and keep goods moving in case of this rail shutdown,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday.
Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) on Monday night unveiled a joint resolution that would impose the PEB contract recommendations, the outcome railroads and their customers are pushing for.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Monday that Congress would “pass legislation if needed” to stop a strike.
Some Democrats have privately floated proposals that would enact a more worker-friendly contract, according to people with knowledge of the discussions, but party leaders are hoping Congress won’t have to intervene at all.
Democrats face a familiar dilemma: Any resolution would require 60 votes to pass the Senate, meaning 10 Republicans would need to sign on to the deal, and some GOP lawmakers have already signaled that they’ll side with railroads.
“The PEB recommendations are a fair and appropriate solution to a years-long negotiation process, but labor unions are continuing to hold the entire nation’s rail system hostage as they demand more,” Burr said in a statement.
Congress last voted to end a railroad strike 30 years ago. If they cannot agree on contract terms, lawmakers could simply extend the cooling off period to prevent a walkout.
Ten of 12 rail unions have reached tentative agreements with railroads, or are close to doing so, to implement the PEB recommendations.
But the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and the SMART Transportation Division, which together represent 57,000 conductors and engineers, are holding out for better terms.
They’re demanding that the contract allows workers to take unpaid time off for routine medical appointments or family emergencies without being penalized under railroads’ attendance policies. Workers have complained for years that they struggle to secure time off and are subject to unpredictable schedules.
The unions say that railroads are refusing to negotiate over the issue, knowing that Congress would likely give railroads the terms they want in the event of a strike. They’re accusing railroads of disrupting service before a strike has been approved to force Congress’s hand.
“Our unions will not cave into these scare tactics, and Congress must not cave into what can only be described as corporate terrorism,” the railway unions said in a statement.
The Association of American Railroads said in a statement that workers are not penalized if they maintain adequate availability and noted that the PEB report advised workers and supervisors to address scheduling issues on a local level rather than in a national contract.
The railroads group estimates that a national rail shutdown would cost the U.S. economy $2 billion per day, adding that trucks and other forms of transportation do not have the capacity to make up for the loss of railroads.
A separate analysis from the Michigan-based Anderson Economic Group found that a shutdown would inflict serious damage on the auto manufacturing, food and energy industries if it lasts for more than a few days but downplayed the impact of a short-lived strike.
Lobbying groups from all corners of corporate America are pushing Congress to intervene and implement the PEB recommendations this week.
Business Roundtable CEO Joshua Bolten said Tuesday that the big business group is “deeply concerned about the potential for economic catastrophe” if talks are not resolved by Thursday night.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wrote in a letter to congressional leaders that it is “not confident” that additional time to negotiate will lead to a breakthrough between unions and railroads.
“The negative impact of uncertainty is already being felt, and even a short strike or disruption would be disastrous,” said Brian Dodge, president of the Retail Industry Leaders Association, which represents big box stores. “Jobs will be lost, and costs will go up as shortage of raw materials and consumer goods ripples throughout the economy — it will be a double whammy.” | https://cw33.com/hill-politics/congress-prepares-to-act-on-rail-strike-amid-fears-of-economic-catastrophe/ | 2022-09-14T15:14:35Z |
Court upholds death sentence for murder, rape of woman
By Kristy Kepley-Steward
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North Carolina (WLOS) — A Federal Appeals Court has upheld the death sentence for a Buncombe County man convicted of raping and killing a woman in the Pisgah National Forest in 1994.
Richard Allen Jackson was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering Karen Styles, of Candler, by a federal jury in 2001.
On October 31, 1994, Styles had gone for a run in the Bent Creek area of the Pisgah National Forest. Jackson was convicted and sentenced to death for committing violence with a gun on federal land.
On appeal, Jackson contended that the Government failed to prove he committed a “crime of violence.”
The Crime In 1994, Jackson confessed that he kidnapped 22-year-old Karen Styles as she went for a run in the Pisgah National Forest.
Jackson told authorities he duct-taped Styles to a tree and raped her. He then shocked her with a stun gun multiple times.
When Styles began to scream after the duct tape Jackson had placed on her mouth became loose, Jackson shot her once in the head, killing her.
Her body was found nearly a month later after an extensive search, still duct-taped to the tree.
The Punishment In 1995, a North Carolina state jury convicted Jackson of first-degree murder, first-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping.
The court, consistent with the jury’s recommendation, imposed the death penalty.
In 1998, the Supreme Court of North Carolina vacated Jackson’s convictions and sentence after determining that the police violated his Miranda rights when interrogating him.
In March 2000, just before a second trial was set to begin, Jackson pled guilty to second-degree murder and related offenses.
A state court sentenced him to 25-35 years’ imprisonment.
Jackson appealed the decision, citing new Supreme Court decisions on crimes of violence.
On April 20, 2022, a three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled unanimously against an appeal by Jackson. The court concluded Jackson should face the death penalty for the murder.
“He contends that the Government failed to prove that he committed a “crime of violence.” He is wrong,” said aid Judge Diana Gribbon Motz in the 4th Circuit. “The jury unanimously found Jackson guilty of federal premeditated first-degree murder, which constitutes a qualifying “crime of violence.” Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s denial of Jackson’s successive 2255 motion.”
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Figure's Banking in a Box Platform is Built on the Provenance Blockchain
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Figure Technologies, Inc., a leader in transforming financial services through the power of blockchain technology, announced a new collaboration with Visa to provide issuing processor services via Figure's blockchain-based Banking in a Box platform.
Visa DPS, used by financial institutions around the globe, will be a key component of Figure's online banking service, known as Banking in a Box, which allows Figure Pay customers to add eligible deposit accounts, payments, and cards to any existing online retail, fintech, or banking offerings. Through Figure Pay, companies can rapidly get to market with innovative payment, banking, and card solutions, leveraging the Provenance Blockchain, a production blockchain built specifically for the financial services industry.
"Having worked in this space for many years, I knew that there was an opportunity to build a streamlined issuing processor product, with better commercial terms," said Tony Morosini, General Manager of Figure Pay. "We have everything a partner needs, including the technology, banking relationship, and operational components to make some noise in this industry. Today's collaboration with Visa will help anchor our Banking in a Box offerings for consumers, small businesses, and community banks."
"Visa DPS believes the right payment strategy has the ability to go far beyond processing payments and can help improve efficiencies, increase revenue and help a company become more differentiated in their category," said Todd Brockman, SVP and Global Head of Issuing Solutions at Visa. "Through a strategic collaboration with Figure, we're excited to leverage the value of blockchain to deliver more efficient financial services to their retail, banking and fintech clients."
Banking in a Box is a platform built on the Provenance Blockchain, an open-source blockchain. The blockchain replaces a traditional core banking system, providing Figure's customers with zero cost core system economics, while the Banking in a Box platform easily integrates with Visa, ACH, and rewards platforms.
The platform also provides dynamic authorization routing, which allows a partner's customers to authorize against cash balances, reward balances or invoke Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) on any transaction when approved for credit, all invisible to the merchant who still receives fiat at settlement for no additional costs.
For more information, please visit www.figurepay.com
Figure is transforming financial services through blockchain, bringing speed, efficiency, and savings to both consumers and institutions. Figure continues to unveil a series of fintech firsts across the capital markets, investment management and banking and payments sectors. Figure leverages Provenance for loan origination, servicing, financing, and now private fund services.
The company was founded by serial technology entrepreneur Mike Cagney, who also founded SoFi and built the company into a multi-billion-dollar business under his leadership as CEO. Learn more about https://www.figure.com/.
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BEIJING, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the epidemic starts to slow down in China, Beijing and Shanghai, the major cities for luxury goods, begin to open up. Li Rixue, the founder and the CEO of Secoo, points out that during this year's 618 sales campaign, the ATV increases by 70% than that of last year. According to the statistics, individual users buy more intensively in this year's 618 sales campaign. Rare bags and watches are popular with consumers, some starting to invest in luxury goods.
In recent year, a rare handbag or a watch is not only a display of social status, but also serves as an investment method for those who purchase high-end luxuries. The money invested in luxuries is also believed not to be lost. Users can kill two birds with one stone. Bain&Company predicts that China is expected to be the largest luxury goods market by 2025.
Comparing to past years' 618 sales campaign, the conversation rate of high-end users purchasing rare goods increases significantly this year, considering the purchasing period drops from one week in the past to one day now and the consumers spread from tier 1 and tier 2 cities to tier 3, tier 4 and tier 5 cities.
Ms. Wang, being the user of Secoo for 11 years and a super vip of Secoo, tells that she originally buys luxury goods for her own use, but later finds out that people around her start to treat luxury goods purchase as an investment method. As the price of luxury goods goes up and down, Ms. Wang starts to get the hang of price fluctuation rules of luxury goods. Once the price achieves her expectation, she sells them on Secoo online platform. The whole process is quick and easy.
Secoo finds out that users like Ms. Wang are not uncommon since the beginning of the year. They are more like a group. The number of users inquiring about the the maintenance of value and the increase of value of luxury goods grows bigger. In order to meet the demands of these high-end users, Secoo has set up a high-end steward department to search rare goods for Secoo's high-end users, provide the latest information of fashion trend and the price fluctuation, as well as to provide home delivery service for high-end users, ensuring the quality of goods and at the same time making them feel they are served with Secoo's full attention.
As a world-famous cross-border luxury goods purchasing platform, Secoo has dedicated itself to serving high-end users around the world who pursue extreme life experience. As of now, Secoo has more than 50 million registered high-end users, covering over 4000 high-end brands of clothing, shoes and boot, bags, watches, jewelry and accessories. In the future, Secoo will keep improving and perfecting itself to meet the demands of high-end users through expanding its presence in luxury goods industry and integrating more famous luxury bands.
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Fortis wins API Set Award for the second year in a row
NOVI, Mich., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortis, an integrated commerce and payments technology leader, is proud to be honored by The Strawhecker Group (TSG) in its 2022 "Best of Breed" API Awards. The annual Best of Breed API Report, powered by TSG's Gateway Enterprise Metrics (GEM) platform, ranks payment gateways' overall API experience across two key assessments to provide insights and benchmarks on their developer integration experience.
Fortis received first place for API Set due to its robust performance across APIs offered, response codes and versioning. The Fortis platform provides competitive APIs, descriptive and logical formatting, appropriately categorized response codes and offers revision history.
"TSG's assessment of our API has helped the Fortis team visualize the developer journey, make impactful adjustments, and understand where we are versus the market," says Greg Cohen, CEO at Fortis. "We are honored to win the API Set Award for the second year in a row."
Fortis is determined to continue transforming its API set to further improve the overall experience for its software and platform partners. Fortis' set of APIs unlock an arsenal of solutions that partners can take advantage of as they create their embedded commerce experiences. Seamless payment transaction enablement in any/all channels is at the core of the solution, but the unified API further empowers software partners with automated digital onboarding, robust reporting, easy implementation and quick testing all within the platform. This allows for a positive developer experience, as well as a smooth-running and high-performing platform.
Details about the "Best of Breed" API Awards and the list of winners are available here.
Fortis delivers comprehensive payment solutions and commerce enablement to software partners and developers, processing billions of dollars annually. The company's mission is to forge a holistic commerce experience, guiding businesses to reach uncharted growth and scale. As the solution of choice for the future of payments, Fortis moves commerce closer to invisible with a proprietary platform that supports and strengthens the commerce and payments capabilities of software partners. For more information, visit www.fortispay.com.
The Strawhecker Group (TSG) is a globally recognized analytics and consulting firm that supports the entire payments ecosystem, serving over 1,000 clients from Fortune 500 leaders to more than a dozen of the world's most valuable brands. Trusted by industry leaders, TSG's strategic services, market intelligence, and analytics merge to empower clients with actionable and accessible information. Please visit www.TheStrawGroup.com.
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BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Insmed Incorporated (Nasdaq:INSM), a global biopharmaceutical company on a mission to transform the lives of patients with serious and rare diseases, today announced the granting of inducement awards to 11 new employees. In accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4), the awards were approved by Insmed's Compensation Committee and made as a material inducement to each employee's entry into employment with the Company.
In connection with the commencement of their employment, the employees received options on August 1, 2022 to purchase an aggregate 53,570 shares of Insmed common stock at an exercise price of $20.88 per share, the closing trading price on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on the date of grant.
The options have a 10-year term and a four-year vesting schedule, with 25% of the shares subject to the option vesting on the first anniversary of the relevant grant date and 12.5% of the shares subject to the option vesting every six months thereafter through the fourth anniversary of the relevant grant date, subject to the relevant employee's continued service with Insmed on the applicable vesting date.
About Insmed
Insmed Incorporated is a global biopharmaceutical company on a mission to transform the lives of patients with serious and rare diseases. Insmed's first commercial product is a first-in-disease therapy approved in the United States, Europe, and Japan to treat a chronic, debilitating lung disease. The Company is also progressing a robust pipeline of investigational therapies targeting areas of serious unmet need, including neutrophil-mediated inflammatory diseases and rare pulmonary disorders. Insmed is headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, with a footprint across Europe and in Japan. For more information, visit www.insmed.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The dogs get the spotlight, but the upcoming Westminster Kennel Club show is also illuminating a human issue: veterinarians’ mental health.
In conjunction with a first-time Veterinarian of the Year award that will be presented on the show’s final day Wednesday, the club is giving $10,000 to a charity focused on veterinary professionals’ psychological welfare.
It’s new emotional territory for the 145-year-old event at a point when the coronavirus pandemic, and a changing culture, have bared the internal struggles of people from schoolchildren to health care workers to college athletes and professional sports stars.
For veterinarians, too, the pandemic added new strains — wrung-out clients, soaring caseloads and more — and amplified longstanding ones.
“We love what we do, and there’s a certain mystique about working with animals — a lot of people think we play with puppies all day long. But there’s a lot behind this,” said American Veterinary Medicine Association President José Arce of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He hopes Westminster’s award will educate people about vets’ wellbeing.
The show began with an agility competition Saturday and continues Monday through Wednesday, with the best in show prize awarded live on Fox Sports’ FS1 channel Wednesday night. For the first time, some action will also appear on the Spanish-language FOX Deportes.
Nearly 3,500 canines — the most since the 1970s — are expected at the historic Lyndhurst estate in Tarrytown, New York, show co-chairman David Haddock said. The 200-plus breeds and varieties include two newcomers, the mudi and the Russian toy.
It’s the second year in a row that pandemic concerns shifted the United States’ most storied dog show to its June date and suburban outdoor venue, rather than New York City’s Madison Square Garden in winter.
Westminster has given scholarships to veterinary students since 1987, but the new award recognizes a practicing vet. Inaugural winner Dr. Joseph Rossi has treated many show dogs at North Penn Animal Hospital in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, and his and his wife’s Norwich terrier Dolores won the breed at Westminster in 2020.
Co-sponsored by pet insurer Trupanion, the honor comes with a contribution to MightyVet, which offers mentors, courses and other support on topics including work-life balance, handling tough conversations with clients and looking for signs that colleagues might be in serious distress.
“We want to make sure that our animals are taken care of, but to do that, we need to make sure that our vets are taken care of,” Westminster spokesperson Gail Miller Bisher said.
Concerns and research about burnout, depression and suicidality among veterinarians have percolated for decades in the field.
But the issue got wider attention after a 2019 study in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medicine Association showed that a higher proportion of deaths due to suicide among U.S. veterinarians than in the general population. Various other occupations have above-average suicide rates, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As in human medicine, veterinarians feel the strain of handling emergencies, caring for the sick — and, often, starting out a career with six-figure student debt.
Veterinary doctors, however, also confront the responsibility of advising pet owners about euthanasia and carrying it out.
There are emotionally painful, ethically trying moments when people can’t let go of a suffering pet — or, conversely, can’t afford treatment that could be life-saving. (Some charities and veterinary facilities provide financial help.) Even when euthanasia isn’t under discussion, there are the challenges of communicating with anguished pet owners and coming to terms with cases that don’t go as hoped.
“As the veterinarian, it hits us hard,” Rossi said. “We love animals, and that’s why we do this.”
In an average week, several veterinarians or other staffers seek out one-on-one guidance for a problem — job-related or not — from veterinary social worker Judith Harbour, who also works with pet owners at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center in New York.
Veterinarians need to be able to move from crisis to crisis at AMC, which treats more than 50,000 animals a year and has a 24-7 emergency room and highly specialized care.
“But then there needs to be a time when the difficult experiences are dealt with,” says Harbour. She aims to help vets and other staffers talk though those experiences “in a productive way that’s not just a venting session.”
She advises them to focus on their inner motivations and values, be kind to themselves and remember that that many situations don’t have perfect solutions.
The American Veterinary Medicine Association also offers help, ranging from free suicide prevention training to a “workplace wellbeing certificate” program that engages entire veterinary practices in learning about such subjects as giving feedback, navigating conflict and fostering diversity and inclusion.
The pet-owning public has a role to play, too, Arce says.
“We understand how passionate people are about their pets and the health of their pets, but treating your veterinarian roughly because you’re under stress, because your pet is ill, is not the way to go,” he said.
“We’re trying to help you with everything we can.” | https://cw33.com/sports/ap-sports/at-westminster-dog-show-new-focus-on-veterinarians-welfare/ | 2022-06-18T19:31:47Z |
- Second edition of 50 Next list features people from 30 territories across 6 continents
- Unranked list includes individuals ranging in age from 22 to 37
- Seven categories recognise those working across gastronomy: Gamechanging Producers; Tech Disruptors; Empowering Educators; Entrepreneurial Creatives; Science Innovators; Hospitality Pioneers and Trailblazing Activists
- More than 400 candidates were considered from applications, nominations and talent directly scouted by the Basque Culinary Center, 50 Next's Academic Partner
BILBAO, Spain, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The organisation behind The World's 50 Best Restaurants and The World's 50 Best Bars has today unveiled the second edition of 50 Next – a list, but not a ranking, of young people shaping the future of gastronomy. This year marks the first-ever live event to celebrate 50 Next, held at the Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. Designed to inspire, empower and connect the next generation of leaders, 50 Next celebrates people aged 35 and under from across the wider food and drink scene. The list also considers applicants over the age of 35 who have recently set out on a new career path.
Building on the first edition of the list revealed in 2021, the second edition of 50 Next aims to reflect the diversity of the global gastronomic scene. The Class of 2022 includes a wide range of ground-breaking individuals including: innovative thinkers Anusha Murthy and Elizabeth Yorke, who are sparking conversation around Indian food systems; Dinara Kasko, the Ukrainian cake-maker who started a pastry revolution; Mmabatho Molefe, the chef empowering Black women and challenging misconceptions of indigenous cuisine, and Lefteris Arapakis, the fisherman tackling ocean pollution in Greece. Full information about each person can be found on the 50 Next website here.
William Drew, Director of Content for 50 Best, says: "We are delighted to announce the 50 Next Class of 2022 at a live ceremony, where we can celebrate the next generation of gastronomic leaders together and pay tribute to their incredible achievements."
To celebrate the unveiling of the Class of 2022, as well as to honour the Class of 2021, a one-day 50 Next event was hosted in partnership with the Biscay region and Basque Government, which culminated in the announcement of the 2022 list.
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The beauty brand will take over the streets of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn to celebrate Black moms and their village, as part of their 'Love Delivered' initiative
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bump Day was created to raise awareness and support around the need for equitable care for every mom, everywhere. Since maternal mortality rates continue to disproportionately impact the Black community, Brooklyn's own, Carol's Daughter is hosting a community block party as part of its Love Delivered initiative to celebrate Black mothers and birthing people while generating awareness around Black Maternal Health. "The Bump Day Block Party" will take place on Thursday, July 21st from 5-8pm on 372 Tompkins Avenue in Brooklyn. This event is family-friendly, free, and open to everyone, please register (here).
The block party will include local Black-owned vendors, many with a focus on motherhood and children and feature live entertainment from DJ and music producer DJ Fulano and the dynamic Brooklyn United Marching Band. Registered attendees will be entered into a raffle and be eligible to receive additional prizes, free products, and access to maternal health and wellness resources on-site. Additionally, beauty pioneer and Carol's Daughter founder, Lisa Price will deliver remarks, alongside the Mama Glow Foundation's founder, world-renowned doula, Latham Thomas.
In honor of Bump Day, Carol's Daughter is also committing additional funds to the Mama Glow Foundation for doula grants. The grants will continue to help Black families by funding doula services. The next cycle of applications is now open through August 1st. Individuals and families in need of Birth or Postpartum Doula Support, located in New York (Metro Area), Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles can apply online here. You can also learn more at the Mama Glow Foundation's tent on-site at the block party.
Love Delivered is the Black Maternal Health initiative by Carol's Daughter and its founder, Lisa Price, in partnership with the Mama Glow Foundation and its founder, Latham Thomas. It was created to empower, support, and equip Black women and birthing people and the greater community to advocate for their health and wellness by providing expanded access to doula services, trainings for doulas, and resources for families, birth workers, partners, and allies to be well-informed in supporting positive birthing experiences.
To join Carol's Daughter in the fight for Black Maternal Health, head to www.carolsdaughter.com/lovedelivered. Also, follow @CarolsDaughter and @MamaGlow on Instagram for program announcements and information.
In 1993, encouraged by my mother, Carol, I began creating high-quality products made with love in my Brooklyn kitchen. As family and friends experienced how these products transformed their hair and skin, I knew that I was onto something good. I needed a name for my company, so I made a list of everything I was and everything I wanted to be, and I realized that the most special thing that I am is Lisa, Carol's Daughter.
- Lisa Price, Carol's Daughter Founder
Mama Glow Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization committed to advancing reproductive justice and birth equity through Education, Advocacy and The Arts. The Mama Glow Foundation was founded by the dynamic world-renowned doula and Oprah Super Soul 100 member, Latham Thomas. www.mamaglowfoundation.org
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novogene at the forefront of cutting-edge next-generation sequencing (NGS) services, has officially announced Falcon II, a superpowered robot scientist for autonomously intelligent NGS delivery.
Falcon, the precursor of Falcon II, launched in March 2020, and is the first fully optimized, automated, and intelligent delivery system in high-throughput NGS industry. Novogene's ground-breaking effort realizes the substitution of manual operations by standardized Intelligent automation, and Falcon is applied into sample extraction, sample Quality Control, library preparation, library Quality Control, library pooling and all the way to bioinformatics analysis
The first generation of Falcon has been received extensive attention over past 2 years of launch, shattering the conventional collaborative isolation of various processes and allowing the synchronous operations of multi-product services (i.e. RNA sequencing, Whole Genome Sequencing,Whole Exome Sequencing, Amplicon sequencing and library construction).
The deployment of Falcon offers clients with intelligent, efficient and robust services to satisfy their diverse sequencing requirements.
Falcon II, as the compact version of Falcon, is more advanced with cost-effectiveness, space-effectiveness and high flexibility. It extends the superiorities of Falcon in unprecedented intelligent automation, incomparable production efficiency, stability, and accuracy, as well as express delivery cycle. With small footprint of 10m2 and its modular construction, Falcon II tailors to all sorts of lab layouts and diverse experimental scenarios.
Falcon II integrates with 16 sets of precision instruments. The evolvement ensures the fully intelligent and automated end-to-end process from sample QC to pooling and enables the concurrent operation of three NGS services simultaneously (i.e. RNA Sequencing, WGS and WES).
The launch of Falcon II in Novogene America's sequencing center helps to upgrade the services quality with more efficient, accurate and consistent data delivery, and it accelerates the ultimate accomplishment of the glocalization strategy of Novogene's NGS services.
Efficient 24/7/365 continuous operation
Process up to 384 samples per day maximally
Reduce overall production cycle by an average of 60%
Reduce manual handling by up to 70%
Increase monthly production capacity by 200%
No deviation with smart solution (i.e.dynamic optimization & standardization of all production units) offered by the automated task scheduler of the system (i.e. machine recognition & diagnosis)
Double system's output stability
Cross contamination-free without human intervention
Two quality control steps in sample extraction and library construction respectively
Precise control and real-time remote monitoring by unique tracking code
In RNA-seq, it takes 16 days from library construction to data delivery traditionally for 300 standard samples, whereas Falcon II does it in 90 hours as ultimate turnaround time, with 5% increased pass rate of library construction.
Novogene owns complete intellectual property rights of Falcon II from its integration of programmable hardware installation to intelligent software. Falcon II's launch consolidates the commitment to bring innovative advantages and unrivalled NGS services to Novogene's clients in all dimensions to the maximum extent possible.
As quoted from Dr. Li Ruiqiang, founder and CEO of Novogene, "Novogene's customer-focused approach is at the core of our commitment to become the world's leading provider of genomic solutions and services. We always strive to enhance the customer experience through innovation. Falcon II is an example of how Novogene leads the industry to optimize operations in digitalization and automation which leads to extraordinary services, reduced turnaround time and greater accuracy."
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Employer defense firm Hudock Employment Law Group announced today that Founding Attorney Robert Hudock has been named to the 2022 Lawdragon 500 "Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers Guide."
While the guide is heavy with names from the biggest "BigLaw" firms from across the nation, Hudock was among less than a handful from boutique employment litigation firms to be recognized as a "top advisor to businesses, universities, nonprofits, and other organizations dealing with the mind-bending matrix of today's global workforce," according to the publication. Hudock said the honor is a testament to the fact that the best boutique employment defense firms stand just as tall as their best BigLaw colleagues.
"This recognition is a tribute to the model of efficiency and client centric focus on results a boutique litigation law firm in the employment law space can provide to employers," said Hudock. "Our firm is intensely centered on the results that matter most to our clients, taking into account their long-term employee-relations and business goals."
Hudock is a deeply experienced litigator with more than two decades in practice. The majority of his career has been devoted to employment law for businesses, where he handles all aspects of employment litigation. Recently named an "Elite Boutique Trailblazer" by the National Law Journal and a "Legal Visionary" by the Los Angeles Times, Hudock is also a frequent contributor on topics related to hybrid and remote work issues in a variety of publications including the Daily Journal, TechCrunch and Law360.
Hudock founded Hudock Employment Law Group in 2015 to deliver tailored legal services to California companies that thrive in vibrant, creative work environments. The firm's clients are often companies looking at new markets and competitive opportunities, that want to recruit the best talent available, while avoiding distracting workplace issues or lawsuits.
Hudock earned his JD from the University of San Diego School of Law and his BA from the University of Connecticut. He is involved in several professional associations and community organizations. Hudock is the past Chair of the San Fernando Valley Counseling Center Board of Directors, and he regularly volunteers for charity events, such as the Special Olympics and Challenged Athletes programs. He is an active member of ACG-LA, SHRM, and PIHRA-LA.
Hudock Employment Law Group provides employment litigation and counseling services to growth-minded companies in California, helping them protect their reputations and attract top talent. The firm has achieved successful results for clients in the areas of Wage & Hour, Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation, Wrongful Termination, Employee Leave, Workplace Management, Employment Agreements. For more information, please visit https://hudockemploymentlaw.com/
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Spray, rub, play: Babyganics' sunscreen range consists of six products made from minerals.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Babyganics knows applying sun protection on little bodies can be messy work, which is why its adding two new sunscreen products to its range, specifically designed for easy application on toddlers and kids. Spending fun-filled days outdoors without proper protection is no fun for anyone and Summer 2022 should be defined by grass-stained knees, sandy hands, and salty smiles – not sunburned skin.
When it comes to protecting babies and kids across all ages and stages, there's no shortage of choices for parents. The full range includes six products made with an all-mineral active ingredient formula, free-from parabens, phthalates, PABA, fragrances or nanoparticles, making the products tough on the sun and soft on skin. Each product offers a broad spectrum SPF 50 UVA/UVB protection and is water and sweat resistant (up to 80 minutes), as well as dermatologist and pediatrician tested, tear-free, non-allergenic and not tested on animals.
Two new products join the range, both boasting unique formats to ensure busy parents and caregivers can give little ones the protection they need. A non-aerosol spray makes applying full body coverage easier than ever, and a roll-on helps sun protection glide onto typically trickier body parts.
b Kids SPF 50 non-aerosol sunscreen spray:
Perfect for older kids who can't sit still, Babyganics' non-aerosol spray features a continuous mist to cover up your little ones while they're on the go. Designed for larger body parts such as arms, backs and legs, the easy-on spray glides on effortlessly, making sunscreen application a breeze.
Babyganics Kids Roll On, 50 SPF:
Getting your youngster to put on sunscreen before they jump in the pool or go outside to play can feel like mission impossible. Enter: Babyganics Kids Roll On, 50 SPF. Ideal for all those itty-bitty-tricky-to-reach places, such as ear lobes and tops of feet, allowing the rollerball to rub in easily and provide smooth coverage that reaches all the body's little nooks and creases.
The mineral sunscreen range includes:
- SPF 50+ Sunscreen (2oz, 6oz)
For babies who want to play everywhere under the sun.
- b Kids SPF 50 non- aerosol sunscreen spray (6oz)
We've got you covered baby. Put it on wherever the sun's gonna shine.
- SPF 50+ sunscreen stick (0.47oz, 0.47oz — 2 pk)
Offering easy application and targeted protection.
- SPF 50+ sunscreen spray (6oz, 8oz)
Just gently rub on and send kids off on their next big adventure.
- Babyganics Kids Roll On, 50 SPF, Totally Tropical (3oz)
Made with kids in mind, the SPF 50 roll-on sunscreen is the perfect companion for every adventure under the sun.
- b Kids SPF 50+ sunscreen lotion (6oz and 12oz)
Providing broad spectrum protection, it goes on smoothly minimizing the risk of sunburns.
Babyganics is the perfect companion for kids who want to stay safe in the sun. That's why it has created its Sunscreen 101 page for parents containing handy information on product ingredients, a glossary of sunscreen terms and application guidance. The Sunscreen 101 can be viewed at: babyganics.com/sunscreen-101.
Available at babyganics.com and at retailers nationwide. For more information, visit www.babyganics.com.
About Babyganics
Babyganics was founded in 2002 by two dads who loved watching their little ones explore and get messy. Born from the belief that family life is not always clean – or perfect – they set out to build a brand that stood up for real parenting and empowered parents and caregivers to realize that their best is more than enough. This thinking comes alive in its recent campaign: "Here's to Perfectly Imperfect Parenting", which defies the concept of parental perfection and presents new brand commitments rooted in support and action.
Today, Babyganics provides essentials for whatever is thrown at parents, spanning Bath & Body, Diapers, Outdoors and Home Care. It favors effective, plant-derived and organic ingredients wherever possible, and its products are not tested on animals or created using certain ingredients – sulfates, phthalates, parabens or synthetic fragrances to name a few.
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New mini bars deliver six grams of protein in tasty Berry Vanilla and Brownie Sundae flavors
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summertime often means more time spent out and about enjoying outdoor activities, taking kids to and from camp, or simply basking in the warm weather with friends with few opportunities to stop and pause. For those days that don't seem to be slowing down, Kellogg's® Special K® has introduced new Protein Snack Bars. Small but mighty, with 6 grams of protein and 90 calories per bar, they make it easy to refuel on the go with something delicious, for those times you need to reenergize and just take a moment for yourself.
Special K Protein Snack Bars are equal parts delicious and satisfying. With 6 grams of protein and available in two delectable flavors, sweet Berry Vanilla and rich chocolatey Brownie Sundae, the new 90-calorie Special K Protein Snack Bars provide an easy on-the-go protein pick-me-up without compromising on amazing taste.
"Sometimes you just need a second to pause and do something for yourself that's going to energize you. At Special K, we love to offer that special combination of indulgent-tasting flavors plus functional ingredients like protein in a portable snack that's perfect for stashing in your bag, car or desk drawer," said Heidi Ray, Senior Director of Brand Marketing for Kellogg's Portable Wholesome Snacks. "Our new Special K Protein Snack Bars are a delicious mini option you can feel good about enjoying, so you're able to take a moment and get a little boost of energy to help fuel you for whatever your day has in store."
Special K Protein Snack Bars are available now at grocery retailers nationwide for a suggested retail price of $4.29 for a five-count package.
For more information on Special K Protein Snack Bars and other offerings in the lineup, visit www.SpecialK.com. Plus, follow along on social for all the latest Special K news, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
About Kellogg Company
At Kellogg Company (NYSE: K), our vision is a good and just world where people are not just fed but fulfilled. We are creating better days and a place at the table for everyone through our trusted food brands. Our beloved brands include Pringles®, Cheez-It®, Special K®, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes®, Pop-Tarts®, Kellogg's Corn Flakes®, Rice Krispies®, Eggo®, Mini-Wheats®, Kashi®, RXBAR®, MorningStar Farms® and more. Net sales in 2021 were nearly $14.2 billion, comprised principally of snacks as well as convenience foods like cereal, frozen foods, and noodles. As part of our Kellogg's® Better Days ESG strategy, we're addressing the interconnected issues of wellbeing, climate and food security, creating Better Days for 3 billion people by the end of 2030. Visit www.KelloggCompany.com.
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Tennis star Naomi Osaka ‘petrified’ after seeing panicked people flee Brooklyn’s Barclays Center
By Michelle Watson, CNN
No shots were fired at the Barclays Center during a disturbance that sent people, including tennis star Naomi Osaka, running for their lives early Sunday, said the New York City Police Department.
“After investigating the incident at the Barclays Center this morning, we determined that no shots were fired,” the NYPD 78th Precinct, which serves the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, said in a tweet on Sunday.
An NYPD spokesman told CNN there was a “sound disturbance” at the indoor arena that people mistook for gunfire. Eighteen people suffered injuries, and nine were transported to area hospitals, according to an NYPD spokesperson.
The disturbance followed a boxing match between Devonte Davis and Rolando Romero at the center, and comes as the nation remains on edge following recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.
Osaka, who was at the event, said she was “petrified” when she saw the commotion.
“I was just in the Barclays center and suddenly I heard shouting and saw people running, then we were being yelled at that there was an active shooter and we had to huddle in a room and close the doors,” Osaka said on Twitter.
In a follow-up tweet, the four-time tennis Grand Slam champion said: “I really hope everyone made it out safely, since I’m tweeting this we made it out ok.”
NYPD Detective Adam Navarro told CNN in a phone call that there was no shooting at the Barclays Center. Rather, Navarro said, it was a “sound disturbance” that caused people to panic and run.
The source of the sound is unclear, police said.
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PASADENA, Calif., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Sienza Energy, a Caltech-incubated battery company backed by Los Angeles-based philanthropist Patrick Soon-Shiong, unanimously approves Samuel Kang as its Chief Operating Officer.
In announcing Mr. Kang appointment, the Company stated: "Mr. Kang will serve at the Company headquarters in California and help build, operate and maintain Sienza's battery pilot plants and manufacturing across the world with the goal of supplying innovative batteries to the EV and Consumer Electronics markets."
Dr. Matthew Tasooji, Sienza CEO stated: "As we enter a new global paradigm for state-of-the-art green battery solutions in energy storage, electric vehicles, and consumer electronics, we see a massive opportunity for Sienza's unique batteries across North America, Asia and the EU."
"Coming from the world's largest EV and 3rd largest battery manufacturer in the world, Sam brings exceptional operation skills and a global perspective that will help expedite Sienza's goal to become a major player in the global battery market" said Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong.
Dr. Mory Gharib, Chairman of the Board of Sienza Energy went on say: "Kang is a leader in the green tech space and will help guide the Company's drive to create a green and sustainable supply chain that can generate, store, and use zero-emission energy to power the world."
"I am so excited to join Sienza. This amazing company and its exceptionally talented scientists and engineers have already positioned the Company to deliver a pilot at 1000 Wh/L. Our Gen Two will soon deliver at 1400 Wh/L" said Kang.
Kang, who is also a Councilman and Mayor of Duarte, Calif., most recently served as the Head of Total Solutions and Head of School Buses for BYD. He is completing his Doctoral in Organizational Leadership from the University of Southern California.
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Did you lose money on investments in CareDx? If so, please visit CareDx, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common stock of CareDx, Inc. ("CareDx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CDNA) between February 24, 2021, and May 5, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
CareDx is a diagnostics company that offers diagnostic testing services, products, and digital healthcare software for organ transplant patients and care providers. Testing services for kidney and heart transplant recipients represented at least 85% of CareDx's total revenues, and the Company's AlloSure blood test for transplant recipients was the Company's primary source of revenue. Additionally, the higher reimbursement payment rates for its Medicare-approved tests drove growth of the Company's average sale price ("ASP"), an important metric for investors. Throughout the Class Period, CareDx reported growing revenue and strong demand in the Company's testing services segment. Defendants also emphasized to investors the success of the Company's RemoTraC service – a remote, home-based, blood-drawing service that the Company launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Plaintiff alleges that during the Class Period Defendants misled investors and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Defendants had engaged in a variety of improper and illegal schemes to inflate testing services revenue and demand, including pushing a surveillance protocol through inaccurate marketing materials, offering extravagant inducements or kickbacks to physicians and other providers, and improperly bundling expensive testing services with other blood tests as part of the RemoTraC service; (2) these practices, and others, subjected CareDx to an undisclosed risk of regulatory scrutiny; and (3) these practices rendered the Company's testing services revenue reported throughout the Class Period artificially inflated.
The truth began to emerge on October 28, 2021, when CareDx revealed for the first time that it was the subject of at least three government investigations related to its "accounting and public reporting practices." In response to this news, CareDx's stock price fell 27%, from a closing price of $70.34 per share on October 28, 2021, to a closing price of $51 per share on October 29, 2021.
On April 15, 2022, CareDx's former Head of Community Nephrology, Dr. Michael Olymbios, filed a complaint in California Superior Court that provided extensive detail about: (1) Defendants' misconduct, including the use of RemoTraC to improperly bundle the Company's most expensive testing services, including AlloSure, with other blood tests, that led to the government investigations; (2) Defendants' knowledge of the misconduct throughout the Class Period; and (3) their attempts to conceal the misconduct. In response to this filing, CareDx's stock price fell an additional 8% the next trading day.
Finally, after the markets closed on May 5, 2022, CareDx issued a press release announcing financial results for the first quarter of 2022, reporting a near 5% decline in the ASP of the Company's testing services. In response to this news, CareDx's stock price fell 18.5%, from a closing price of $31.66 per share on May 5, 2022, to a closing price of $25.87 per share on May 6, 2022.
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Groundbreaking bilingual public health campaign continues countering misinformation and helping Latino families keep up-to-date on COVID-19, flu vaccinations
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UnidosUS, formerly the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, announced today the return of Esperanza Hope for All, an institution-wide initiative to mitigate the health, economic, and education effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Latinos. This year's campaign objectives include vaccinating the unvaccinated, encouraging families with children to get vaccinated, providing accurate information about boosters, tracking and addressing misinformation among the Latino community, and working with UnidosUS Affiliates to provide overall COVID-19 care and information. Now in the third year of the organization's institutional response to the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery, the campaign includes a mobile marketing tour across multiple cities to bring information about the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters directly to Hispanic neighborhoods
"Latinos were hit harder than most communities by the COVID-19 pandemic, and many are still grappling with the long-term health and economic effects of this virus. UnidosUS, our Affiliates, and the Esperanza Hope for All campaign serve as trusted voices on the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, which continue to give our community and the nation our best chance at protecting our health. It is critically important that Latino families receive accurate, trusted health care information to guide their decisions. Doing so will help put our community and our country on the path to a sustainable recovery," said Sonia Pérez, UnidosUS Chief Operating Officer.
"The COVID-19 vaccines have helped bring back shared moments and connections. They are still the best protection we have against severe disease and death from COVID-19 and its existing variants. But we know that the pandemic is not over, and the impacts on our community require long-term investments and commitments. This includes ensuring continuing access to COVID-19 tests, vaccines, treatment and health coverage for all, regardless of insurance, ability to pay, or immigration status. We will also continue calling for investments to close vaccination gaps and expand prevention efforts to all populations including children and adolescents. Closing these gaps depends on having the right data, so investments must also be made to strengthen the collection and disaggregation of race and ethnicity data, including at the state level," said Rita Carreón, UnidosUS Vice President of Health.
UnidosUS's national and broad reaching multimedia communications campaign includes:
- Mobile Marketing Tour: UnidosUS will deploy a mobile educational tour across multiple cities that will take information about the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters directly into Hispanic neighborhoods, including those living in rural and urban environments where health resources are lacking or difficult to access. It will engage local Affiliates, partners and influencers, and will include on-site activities to increase education and awareness and direct families to vaccination sites. The tour is scheduled for July 1 – October 31 and will visit six markets (Philadelphia, PA; Denver, CO; the Fort Myers-Naples, FL area; Albuquerque/Santa Fe, NM area; and Tucson and Phoenix, AZ).
- Multimedia Advertising: UnidosUS will continue its bilingual COVID-19 vaccines and boosters education advertising campaign, including a robust dual-language advertising effort to reach Latinos through digital platforms, radio, out-of-home, and large-scale print advertising throughout key regions.
- Countering Misinformation: UnidosUS will deploy both an online and offline approach to combat misinformation targeting Latinos.
- Influencer Engagement: UnidosUS will engage trusted Latino and expert micro and macro social media influencers to shape the messaging and the conversation around COVID-19 vaccines, boosters confidence, and vaccines in general.
UnidosUS will collaborate with its Affiliate Network—essential partners in this effort—to lead on culturally responsive education and outreach by training local trusted messengers; informing through dual-language communications; providing resources for local COVID-safe outreach and vaccination events and engaging local provider and community partners. Building on last year's efforts, this year UnidosUS is deploying more than $2.2 million in subgrants to 29 Latino-serving community-based organizations including our network of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).
Esperanza Hope for All's vaccines and booster equity efforts are backed by funding from a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UnidosUS, and between HHS's Office of Minority Health and Morehouse School of Medicine's National COVID-19 Resiliency Network (NCRN), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Additionally, UnidosUS has served as a national partner in collaborative efforts and taskforces leading comprehensive and coordinated action to curb the spread of COVID-19, including:
- Partnering for Vaccine Equity (P4VE) Learning Community
- National COVID-19 Resiliency Network (NCRN)
- COVID Collaborative and Ad Council
- Advancing Racial Equity in COVID-19 Response and Beyond Ad-Hoc Coalition
- COVID 19 Prevention Network
- NIH's Community Engagement Against Covid-19 Disparities (CEAL Alliance)
- COVID-19 Latinx Task Force
- Health Action Alliance
About Esperanza Hope for All
Since the start of the pandemic, UnidosUS has been at the forefront of efforts to support Latinos who have been disproportionately impacted due to long-standing systemic health inequities and over-representation in the health and service sectors. In April 2020, UnidosUS established its Esperanza/Hope Fund to support the UnidosUS Affiliate Network and community partners' response and resiliency in crisis. In 2021 the campaign expanded as a fully integrated public communications and marketing campaign called Esperanza Hope for All. With the ongoing need, UnidosUS continues to raise resources for Affiliates to respond to the pandemic, including their direct support to families for food and housing assistance.
About UnidosUS
UnidosUS, previously known as NCLR (National Council of La Raza), is the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization. Through its unique combination of expert research, advocacy, programs, and an Affiliate Network of nearly 300 community-based organizations across the United States and Puerto Rico, UnidosUS simultaneously challenges the social, economic, and political barriers that affect Latinos at the national and local levels. For more than 50 years, UnidosUS has united communities and different groups seeking common ground through collaboration, and that share a desire to make our country stronger. For more information on UnidosUS, visit www.unidosus.org or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Orthopaedic surgeons offer ways to prevent fireworks injuries this Fourth of July
ROSEMONT, Ill., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Community parades and hometown Independence Day celebrations are back in full swing following cancellations due to pandemic restrictions. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) is reminding Americans to celebrate safely and take caution when handling fireworks. From small-scale sparklers to larger firework displays, at-home safety measures are key to avoiding injuries to the hands, eyes and face.
"Backyard fireworks last for a moment, yet fireworks-related injuries can have long-term and sometimes devastating effects," said Gregory G. Gallant, MD, FAAOS, orthopaedic hand surgeon and spokesperson for the AAOS. "Common fireworks, such as bottle rockets and hand sparklers, may seem tame, but the high temperatures of these devices can result in third-degree burns down to the bone or even loss of limbs. Other common fireworks injuries include fractures, traumatic amputations and soft tissue injuries. With a few simple precautions, you can stay safe this season."
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), an estimated 15,600 people required emergency room treatment in U.S. hospitals due to accidents involving fireworks in 2020, up from approximately 10,000 in 2019. By comparison, the total number of fireworks injuries recorded just over a decade earlier – in 2008 – came to about 7,000. The CPSC 2020 Annual Fireworks Safety Report found that around 66% of all annual fireworks injuries occurred between June 21 and July 21, with firecrackers and sparklers the main culprits.
Stay safe this season by following some safety tips from the AAOS:
- Check with your local police department to determine if fireworks are legal in your area. If so, find out which types, and verify that there is not a burn ban in effect in your community that might create hazardous fire conditions.
- Never purchase or use illegal fireworks. Their quality cannot be assured.
- Only adults should light fireworks.
- Always have water close by in case of a fire, such as a hose hooked to a faucet or a nearby bucket of water.
- Wear safety eyewear when using fireworks.
- Soak used fireworks in water before discarding to prevent setting unintentional fires.
- Never try to relight a firework.
- If you are injured using fireworks, seek immediate medical attention.
- Never allow young children to play with or go near fireworks, including sparklers. Some sparklers can reach temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees.
- Never handle fireworks if you are under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
To schedule an interview with an AAOS expert about common orthopaedic hand or trauma injuries resulting from fireworks, email media@aaos.org. For additional information about fingertip injuries and amputations, visit OrthoInfo.org.
About the AAOS
With more than 38,000 members, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is the world's largest medical association of musculoskeletal specialists. The AAOS is the trusted leader in advancing musculoskeletal health. It provides the highest quality, most comprehensive education to help orthopaedic surgeons and allied health professionals at every career level to best treat patients in their daily practices. The AAOS is the source for information on bone and joint conditions, treatments and related musculoskeletal health care issues and it leads the health care discussion on advancing quality.
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TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accusoft, a software development company specializing in content processing, conversion, and automation solutions, and Snowbound, a leader in document viewing and conversion SDK solutions, announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Accusoft will acquire Snowbound. In the largest acquisition in its 30-year history, the transaction will significantly expand Accusoft's presence and product portfolio.
Snowbound's VirtualViewer® technology, supported by its powerful RasterMaster® SDK, supports numerous formats including PDF, MS Office, AFP, DWG, TIFF, email, video, audio files, and more within one universal interface. Its REST API and RESTful content handler provide a more flexible development and deployment capability enabling it to be easily integrated into most applications. In addition, the company offers connectors for IBM FileNet, Alfresco, and Pega. This acquisition will enable Accusoft to expand into new viewing and collaboration technologies offering customers a more robust web-based document viewing experience.
"Today, we celebrate the joining of two companies who have both driven significant innovation for web-based viewing, conversion, and imaging SDK technologies. I have always had the utmost respect for Snowbound's leadership team and their employees as we have competed against one another for sales opportunities over the decades. I am honored to bring Snowbound into the Accusoft family," said Jack Berlin, CEO of Accusoft.
"We were incredibly selective as we looked for the right acquisition partner. We were deliberate in selecting an organization with a leadership team and product portfolio that would be compatible with our own, and that would continue to grow, develop and nurture what we have built at Snowbound. We have proudly driven 26 years of innovation in the way that companies securely share, collaborate, and process documents and images. With the acquisition, our technology will expand RasterMaster's and VirtualViewer's Java-based feature set and allow continued empowerment to customers as they navigate the ever-changing world of digital transformation and the complexities of document management," Simon Wieczner, CEO Snowbound.
While the acquisition is complete, Accusoft will wait until January 2023 to take full operational control of Snowbound. In the meantime, the two leadership teams will partner to close out a strong 2022 and transition the team and its assets.
For more information about Accusoft, please visit https://www.accusoft.com/.
Founded in 1991, Accusoft is a software development company specializing in content processing, conversion, and automation solutions. From out-of-the-box and configurable applications to APIs built for developers, Accusoft software enables users to solve their most complex workflow challenges and gain insights from content in any format, on any device. Backed by 40 patents, the company's flagship products, including OnTask, PrizmDoc™ Viewer, and ImageGear, are designed to improve productivity, provide actionable data, and deliver results that matter. The Accusoft team is dedicated to continuous innovation through customer-centric product development, new version release, and a passion for understanding industry trends that drive consumer demand. Visit us at www.accusoft.com.
About Snowbound
For over two decades, Snowbound Software has been the independent leader in document viewing and conversion technology. It plays an integral role in enhancing and speeding company workflows for the Fortune 2000, including insurance claims processing, financial transactions, and more. Snowbound excels in providing customers with powerful solutions for capturing, viewing, processing, and archiving hundreds of different document and image types. Thanks to its pure Java technology and multi-environment support, Snowbound's products operate across all popular platforms and can be integrated into new or existing enterprise content management systems. Nine of the 10 largest banks in the United States (seven of 10 in the world), as well as some of the biggest healthcare providers, government agencies, and insurance companies rely on Snowbound for their mission-critical needs. For more information, contact us at 617-607-2010 or info@snowbound.com, or visit www.snowbound.com
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PITTSBURGH, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there needs to be an alternative to wearing a mask," said the inventor from Raymond, Miss. "I thought of this idea to help protect lives by restricting the inflow of airborne agents through the nostrils."
He created the patent-pending BREATHABLE NOSE INSERTS (FILTERED) to fulfill the need for breathing filtered air to avoid sickness and disease. This device provides an alternative to wearing a mask and peace of mind for safety-conscious citizens venturing out in public places. Additionally, this device is compact, affordable, lightweight, comfortable to wear and disposable.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-JTK-123, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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The alleged driver of a tractor-trailer where sweltering conditions led to the death of 53 migrants this week in San Antonio didn't realize the truck's air conditioning unit had stopped working, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Wednesday in the investigation into the deadliest human smuggling incident in US history.
The driver's acknowledgment was revealed to a federal informant by an alleged conspirator in the case, the complaint states.
The suspected conspirator, Christian Martinez, had been in contact by cell phone about the apparent smuggling scheme with the truck's driver, Homero Zamorano Jr., the Department of Justice has said.
The men were exchanging pictures, including one of a "truck load manifest," and discussing whether the driver should go to the "same spot," the complaint states, adding Martinez sent GPS coordinates to a place in Laredo, Texas.
Martinez "initiated a conversation about the death of several individuals inside a tractor trailer" and admitted to being involved, according to the complaint, citing information shared by a confidential informant in communication with Martinez, who was already the subject of a Homeland Security Investigations probe.
Martinez said the semitruck's driver was unaware the air conditioning unit had stopped working, the informant told investigators, the complaint states.
The truck's discovery came as US federal authorities launched what they described as an "unprecedented" operation to disrupt human smuggling networks amid an influx of migrants at the US-Mexico border. More than a dozen were rescued alive from inside the vehicle -- with many hospitalized for heat-related ailments -- as 48 people were initially found dead; five have died since then.
Among the survivors, two were in critical condition Friday, with another in serious condition and another in good condition, officials at University Hospital in San Antonio and Methodist Hospital Metropolitan said. Six more migrants from the truck had been in treatment Tuesday at Baptist Medical Center in San Antonio and CHRISTUS Health's Children's Hospital of San Antonio and its Santa Rosa Hospital.
Martinez, 28, and Zamorano, 45, have been arrested and charged with crimes that carry the death penalty as potential punishment. CNN has contacted Martinez's attorney for comment, while Zamorano's attorney declined to comment. Two others have also been arrested and charged in the case.
The refrigerator tractor-trailer had no visible working air conditioning unit, and there was no sign of water inside, San Antonio's fire chief has said, adding it wasn't immediately clear how long people inside the truck had been dead. High temperatures Monday in the San Antonio area ranged from the high 90s to low 100s.
"None of these people were able to extricate themselves out of the truck," Fire Chief Charles Hood said. "So, they were still in there, awaiting help, when we arrived ... meaning just being too weak -- weakened state -- to actually get out and help themselves."
The case is "the worst human-smuggling event in the United States," said Craig Larrabee, the Homeland Security Investigations San Antonio acting special agent in charge.
"In the past, smuggling organizations were mom-and-pop," Larrabee told CNN. "Now, they are organized and tied in with the cartels. So, you have a criminal organization who has no regard for the safety of the migrants. They are treated like commodities rather than people."
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NEW YORK, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. (NYSE: FHS).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
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This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased FHS American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until July 11, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) the new rules, regulations and policies to be implemented by the Chinese government following the Two Sessions parliamentary meetings were far more severe than represented to investors and posed a material adverse threat to the Company and its business; (b) contemplated Chinese regulations and rules regarding private education were leading to a slowdown of government approval to open new educational facilities which would have a negative effect on FHS's enrollment and growth; and (c) as a result, representations made in connection with the Company's initial public offering regarding FHS's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, and financial results and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and were materially false and misleading and lacked a factual basis.
Jakubowitz Law is vigorous in pursuit of justice for shareholders who have been the victim of securities fraud. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Available at no cost to students or schools, Ukrainian refugee students in Poland will receive access to Istation's literacy and math programs
DALLAS, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Istation, a leader in educational technology, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Poland's Ministry of Education and Science to provide its digital reading and math curriculum to students in Poland. The initiative is specifically designed to support Ukrainian refugee students currently residing in Poland. Students will receive Istation's services and programs at no cost to the student.
The Memorandum of Understanding between Istation and The Ministry of Education and Science was signed during the 31st Economic Forum, titled "Europe in the Face of New Challenges," held September 6-8 in Karpacz, Poland.
"The Istation program provides a service to Poland that we can see great benefit from implementing," said Arkadiusz Mularczyk, a member of the Polish Parliament since 2005. "Istation has a leading reputation for helping students learn and find joy in their learning. We are delighted to partner with Istation and its people for a successful implementation in Poland."
Under the terms of the agreement, Istation will provide access credentials for Istation Reading and Istation Math to all students included in the program and will develop online tutorials to help students use the program and understand the benefits of their learning.
"Driven by scientific evidence and comprehensive research, Istation has been helping educators improve students' core skills for almost 25 years," said Istation CEO Richard Collins. "We are honored to be selected by the Ministry of Education and Science to support the needs of Ukrainian refugees, and we look forward to serving as a collaborative partner to Poland throughout this implementation."
Founded in 1998 and based in Dallas, Texas, Istation (Imagination Station) has become one of the nation's leading providers of richly animated, game-like educational technology. Winner of several national educational technology awards, the Istation program puts more instructional time in the classroom through small-group and collaborative instruction. Istation's innovative reading, math and Spanish programs immerse students in an engaging and interactive environment and inspire them to learn. Additionally, administrators and educators can use Istation to easily track the progress of their students, schools and classrooms.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Dingdong (Cayman) Ltd. (NYSE: DDL).
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Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until October 24, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to the filed complaint, the registration statement and prospectus used to effectuate the Company's initial public offering misstated and/or omitted facts concerning Dingdong's so-called commitment to ensuring the safety and quality of the food it distributes to the market. For example, despite claiming that it applies "stringent quality control across [its] entire supply chain to ensure product quality to [its] users," Dingdong sold food past its sell-by date. Consequently, Dingdong was, in fact, no better at providing or assuring access to "fresh" groceries than the supermarkets, traditional Chinese wet markets, or traditional e-commerce platforms it repeatedly claimed to be displacing. Moreover, the foregoing conduct subjected Dingdong to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement, all of which, once revealed, were likely to negatively impact Dingdong's business, operations, and reputation.
Jakubowitz Law is vigorous in pursuit of justice for shareholders who have been the victim of securities fraud. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ZentrumHub, a leading Hotel aggregator API specialist, and WIHP, the Hotel marketing specialists, today announced a strategic partnership that will enable ZentrumHub' customers to get an easy access to metasearch channels and engines like Google Hotel Ads, TripAdvisor, Trivago, Bing Hotel Ads, etc. With WIHP's Meta I/O solution, ZentrumHub customers will now be able to better monitor and control their Metasearch distribution.
ZentrumHub, as a start-up, is trying to make an impact in this space by providing its customers more and additional access to technologies that will add value to its clients business. This partnership is a great testimony of this core belief of the company and as next steps, will continue to add more partnerships in its kitty. ZentrumHub now offers more than 900,000 hotel inventory API to its customers with unique properties across the world, enabling their clients to provide a wide choice of hotels to their customers.
ZentrumHub CEO Sachin Singh Said, "With the ever-growing demand for hotels, today's travellers want hotel searches to be quick and painless. With this partnership travel agencies using ZentrumHub Hotel API will be able to position their ads in metasearch engines and increase traffic to their reservation system driving more business."
Julio Selva, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at WIHP, said, "Metasearch plays an important role in distributing hotels since 70% of users connect to them during a purchase journey. With Meta I/O, ZentrumHub can help their clients sell more on metasearch."
About ZentrumHub:
ZentrumHub turned its dream into reality in 2021 by accelerating its travel-tech venture and on a mission to be the fastest and smartest travel API hub in the world. ZentrumHub offers pre-integrated hotel booking API to over 50 leading hotel content suppliers.
About WIHP:
World Independent Hotels Promotion (WIHP) is a leading hotel marketing agency drawing on more than 20 years of experience and tracking. Having built over 5000 hotel websites and tracked the most efficient ones. With high-end marketing campaigns, WIHP provides global marketing services to the hospitality industry. To learn more, visit wihphotels.com
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Reports reveal details on grandmother accused of torturing, murdering grandson
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) - Reports show a grandmother in Arizona who is accused of torturing and murdering her grandson was investigated multiple times by the state before the boy’s death.
According to Arizona’s Family, the Arizona Department of Child Safety shared reports about the department’s interactions with Stephanie Davis and her two grandsons dating back to 2017 that showed a pattern of abuse.
According to one of the reports, Davis’ grandson Chaskah Davis Smith had a severe black eye in May 2017. The boy told DCS officials that Davis, who he referred to as his mom, hit him and kicked him in the face. Her husband, Thomas Desharnais, reportedly told DCS that no one in the home used physical discipline. Officials then closed the investigation, with caseworkers determining the claims were unsubstantiated.
Chaskah later died in a hotel room in Scottsdale in January of this year. Authorities said he was sharing a room with his younger brother, Davis and Desharnais.
“There seem like there were a lot of missed opportunities here to protect this child,” David Lujan with Children’s Action Alliance said. “DCS’s priority is always to keep children with the family or with family members.”
According to court documents, authorities found a shock collar for a dog in the room, but the family didn’t have a dog. A paring knife and wrench were also recovered that had blood on them. Chaskah was found with cuts and bruises in various stages of healing. Court documents also showed he was starved.
Attorney Michael Girgenti, who specializes in family law, said investigators are looking for evidence to present in court.
“These investigators can’t just plow ahead. They want to have some kind of evidence to point to move forward in court,” Girgenti said. “The DCS took the third claim more seriously, but the case was closed because the family moved back to Minnesota.”
According to court documents, Davis had an active arrest warrant from 2016 out of Minnesota.
“There were at least three governmental agencies across two states who looked into this family and closed the cases out,” Darcy Olsen, the CEO of Gen Justice, a child advocacy group, said.
Davis was eventually taken into custody by Scottsdale police and is facing murder and child abuse charges. Her husband has also been arrested in the case.
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Upscale, Fast Casual Dining Powerhouse with House-Crafted Menu to Open in Manhattan
NEW YORK, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Capriotti's Sandwich Shop, known for its award-winning, hand-crafted cheese steaks, turkey subs and more, has debuted a new location in Manhattan at 300 E 61st St. on July 5. Capriotti's will bring the Manhattan community its 45-year tradition of slow-roasting whole, all-natural turkeys in-house and hand-pulling them every morning. Other favorites include made-from-scratch meatballs, all made with fresh, premium ingredients.
Capriotti's is known for its wide array of sandwiches including 'The Bobbie,' made with fresh oven-roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing and mayo; 'The Capastrami,' made with hot pastrami, Swiss cheese, Russian dressing and homemade coleslaw; and cheese steak varieties made with premium steak, chicken or Impossible™ plant-based meat with melted cheese and peppers. The Manhattan Capriotti's will offer a convenient order-ahead option, in addition to third-party delivery services. The new shop will also provide over 20 new jobs to the Manhattan community.
The new location is owned by the local entrepreneur Ashok Israni, who will run the location with the help of his wife and son. Originally from Africa, Israni was working for a fishing company. Having always wanted to own his own business, he came to the U.S. for his family and decided to look into franchising. Once he tried Capriotti's for the first time, he knew that this was something worth pursuing. Motivated by passion and a strong worth ethic, the family has managed to have their first location consistently ranked in the top ten Capriotti's nationwide.
"We are excited to provide a product we are passionate about to the community, and it's even better that we get to do it as a family," said Israni. "New York has truly become home for my family and I, and I am ready to contribute to the city in a new and exciting way."
Manhattan Capriotti's fans can download the CAPAddicts Rewards app on iOS and Android to earn and redeem rewards—the most valuable of course being free, delicious subs and salads. The restaurant also features online ordering. Capriotti's in Manhattan offers catering for any event - from corporate functions to birthday parties - with items such as party trays with cold subs, box lunches, or a hot homemade meatball bar.
Capriotti's is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day of the week. For additional information, visit www.capriottis.com or call the location at (786) 629-9225.
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 40-year tradition of slow-roasting whole, all-natural turkeys in-house every day. Capriotti's cold, grilled, and vegetarian subs, cheese steaks and salads are available at more than 170 locations across the United States. Capriotti's signature sub, The Bobbie®, was voted "The Greatest Sandwich in America" by thousands of readers across the country, as reported by AOL.com. Capriotti's fans can also download the CAPAddicts Rewards app for iOS and Android, where they can earn and redeem rewards. Capriotti's plans to grow to over 500 locations by 2025 and was ranked on Fast Casual's Top Movers & Shakers List each of the last two years (2020-21). For more information, visit capriottis.com. Like Capriotti's on Facebook, follow on Twitter or Instagram.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Much like many local businesses, Pawlicious Cookies in Dallas, began out of a personal need.
When co-owners Yolonda Herrera and Lola Rodriguez couldn’t find healthy dog treats for their own little pups, they got the idea to make their own.
“During COVID when everyone was confined and they couldn’t really go out, when I would go out to find treats at a local grocery store, it was hard to find something that was good for him [her dog],” Yolanda said.
Today, Pawlicious Cookies has amassed hundreds of Instagram followers and are making a name for itself in North Texas. Yolonda and Lola joined Fun on the Run to showcase a few of their items. WATCH the video player for more information about those items
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SHANGHAI, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dingdong (Cayman) Limited ("Dingdong" or the "Company") (NYSE: DDL), the leading and fast-growing fresh grocery e-commerce company in China, with advanced supply chain capabilities, today announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
First Quarter 2022 Highlights:
- GMV for the first quarter of 2022 increased by 36.0% year over year to RMB5,851.3 million (US$923.0 million) from RMB4,303.5 million in the same quarter of 2021.
- Total revenue for the first quarter of 2022 increased by 43.2% year over year to RMB5,443.7 million (US$858.7 million) from RMB3,802.1 million in the same quarter of 2021.
- Total number of orders for the first quarter of 2022 increased by 15.6% year over year to 80.6 million from 69.8 million in the same quarter of 2021.
Mr. Changlin Liang, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dingdong, stated, "During the first quarter of 2022, we maintained solid growth momentum in revenue, order numbers and average order value, while our net loss margin further narrowed substantially. Our strategy of prioritizing product capabilities as our primary growth driver has proven successful, and we believe that Dingdong is on a solid path to profitability."
Ms. Le Yu, Chief Strategy Officer of Dingdong, stated, "Since we changed our strategy last August to 'efficiency first, with due consideration to scale', our non-GAAP net loss margin in the previous four quarters decreased sequentially from 37.2% to 31.9%, 18.9% and finally 7.8%. We expect our net loss margin to further narrow and bring us to profitability in the future."
First Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Total revenues were RMB5,443.7 million (US$858.7 million), representing an increase of 43.2% from the same period of 2021, primarily driven by the robust growth in the Company's GMV with a higher conversion ratio from GMV to revenue.
- Product Revenues were RMB5,375.1 million (US$847.9 million), an increase of 43.1% from RMB3,757.2 million in the same quarter of 2021, primarily driven by the increase in the number of orders and average order value.
- Service Revenues were RMB68.6 million (US$10.8 million), an increase of 52.7% from RMB44.9 million in the same quarter of 2021, primarily driven by the increase in the number of customers subscribing to Dingdong's membership program.
Total operating costs and expenses were RMB5,892.3 million (US$929.5 million), an increase of 14.7% from RMB5,136.0 million in the same quarter of 2021, with a detailed breakdown as below.
- Cost of Goods Sold was RMB3,879.3 million (US$611.9 million), an increase of 25.8% from RMB3,082.8 million in the same quarter of 2021, primarily driven by the increase in total revenue. Gross margin was 28.7%, which significantly improved from 18.9% in the same quarter of 2021.
- Fulfillment expenses were RMB1,484.1 million (US$234.1 million) in consistent with the same quarter of 2021. Fulfillment expenses as a percentage of total revenue decreased from 39.0% to 27.3%, as we further improved our supply chain efficiency.
- Sales and marketing expenses were RMB176.1 million (US$27.8 million), a decrease of 44.7% from RMB318.3 million in the same quarter of 2021, as product capabilities became our primary growth driver and we attracted customers more efficiently.
- General and administrative expenses were RMB118.7 million (US$18.7 million), an increase of 25.9% from RMB94.3 million in the same quarter of 2021, mainly due to the increased business scale of the Company.
- Product development expenses were RMB233.9 million (US$36.9 million), an increase of 49.5% from RMB156.5 million in the same quarter of 2021, mainly due to the increased investments in product development capability and technology.
Loss from operations was RMB448.6 million (US$70.8 million), compared with operating loss of RMB1,333.9 million in the same quarter of 2021.
Net loss was RMB477.4 million (US$75.3 million), compared with net loss of RMB1,384.7 million in the same quarter of 2021.
Non-GAAP net loss, which is a non-GAAP measure that excludes share-based compensation expenses, was RMB422.2 million (US$66.6 million), a significant improvement from non-GAAP net loss of RMB1,375.6 million in the same quarter of 2021. In addition, our non-GAAP net loss margin, which is our non-GAAP net loss as a percentage of revenues, narrowed to 7.8% from 36.2% in the same quarter of 2021.
Basic and diluted net loss per share were RMB1.48 (US$0.23), compared with RMB22.36 in the same quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP net loss per share, basic and diluted, was RMB1.31 (US$0.21), compared with RMB22.22 in the same quarter of 2021. The weighted average number of ordinary shares used to compute the basic and diluted net loss per share and non-GAAP net loss per share were 64,908,700 and 324,443,234 in the first quarter of 2021 and 2022, respectively. All outstanding redeemable convertible preferred shares were not included in the computation until July 2021, when they were converted into ordinary shares upon the completion of the Company's initial public offering.
Cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments were RMB4,852.7 million (US$765.5 million) as of March 31, 2022, compared with RMB5,231.1 million as of December 31, 2021.
About Dingdong (Cayman) Limited
We are the largest and fast-growing fresh grocery e-commerce company in China, in terms of average MAU in 2021, according to the report of China Insights Consultancy ("CIC"). We directly provide users and households with fresh produce, meat, seafood, prepared food, and other food products through a convenient and excellent shopping experience supported by an extensive self-operated frontline fulfillment grid. With fresh groceries as our core product categories, we have successfully expanded to providing prepared food and other food products to grow into a leading one-stop online shopping destination in China for consumers to make purchases for their daily lives. At the same time, we are working to modernize China's traditional agricultural supply chain through standardization and digitalization, empowering upstream farms and suppliers to make their production more efficient and tailored to actual demand. Furthermore, leveraging our longstanding cooperation with upstream farms and suppliers, we have further expanded to developing and producing private label products to enrich our offerings to all consumers.
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Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company uses non-GAAP measures, such as non-GAAP net loss, non-GAAP net loss margin, non-GAAP net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders and non-GAAP net loss per share, basic and diluted, in evaluating its operating results and for financial and operational decision-making purposes. The Company believes that the non-GAAP financial measures help identify underlying trends in its business by excluding the impact of share-based compensation expenses, which are non-cash charges and do not correlate to any operating activity trends. The Company believes that the non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information about the Company's results of operations, enhance the overall understanding of the Company's past performance and future prospects and allow for greater visibility with respect to key metrics used by the Company's management in its financial and operational decision-making.
The non-GAAP financial measures are not defined under U.S. GAAP and are not presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools, and when assessing the Company's operating performance, cash flows or liquidity, investors should not consider them in isolation, or as a substitute for net loss, cash flows provided by operating activities or other consolidated statements of operations and cash flows data prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The Company's definition of non-GAAP financial measures may differ from those of industry peers and may not be comparable with their non-GAAP financial measures.
The Company mitigates these limitations by reconciling the non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable U.S. GAAP performance measures, all of which should be considered when evaluating the Company's performance.
For more information on the non-GAAP financial measures, please see the table captioned "Unaudited Reconciliation of GAAP and Non-GAAP Results" set forth at the end of this announcement.
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 RMB6.3393 to US$1.00, the exchange rate on March 31, 2022 set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board. The Company makes no representation that the RMB or US$ amounts referred could be converted into US$ or RMB, as the case may be, at any particular rate or at all.
Safe Harbor Statement
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. Among other things, business outlook and quotations from management in this announcement, as well as Dingdong's strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements. Dingdong may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its interim and annual reports to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including but not limited to statements about Dingdong'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 but not limited to the following: Dingdong's goals and strategies; Dingdong's future business development, financial conditions, and results of operations; the expected outlook of the on-demand e-commerce market in China; Dingdong's expectations regarding demand for and market acceptance of its products and services; Dingdong's expectations regarding its relationships with its users, clients, business partners, and other stakeholders; competition in Dingdong's industry; and relevant government policies and regulations relating to Dingdong's industry, and general economic and business conditions globally and in China and assumptions underlying or related to any of the foregoing. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this announcement and in the attachments is as of the date of the announcement, and the Company undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
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Malomo now supports new, growing and scaling Shopify brands to delight their customers post purchase.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Malomo, the leader in post-purchase shipping experience for Shopify brands like Olipop and True Classic Tees, has expanded their product-line to enable all Shopify brands to build a premium post-purchase shipping experience for their customers. Malomo's 3 new offerings—Malomo Starter, Malomo Plus and Malomo Growth—give Shopify brands the option to choose a shipping experience that fits with their customer needs and development resources.
Until today, marketers have found it difficult to optimize the post-purchase customer experience. Marketers saw the need to prioritize post-purchase marketing tactics, but were met with limited, expensive and resource-intensive applications that didn't solve their unique needs. While the post-purchase experience is only part of the entire customer journey, it's the period when customers are most engaged. In fact, customers check their shipment tracking an average of 4.6 times per order after a purchase. There was a clear gap in the space between customer's expectations after purchase and the reality of what a brand could provide.
Malomo's first-of-its-kind offerings now give Shopify brands the ability to create beautifully designed tracking pages, automate and personalize shipping notifications, and reduce their customer support tickets for any Shopify business.
- Malomo Starter - Created for Shopify brands on Shopify 2.0 that want to quickly and easily add order tracking through their Shopify theme on their own time.
- Malomo Plus - Created for Shopify brands that need a fully customizable tracking experience and have their own resources to build one.
- Malomo Growth - Created for Shopify brands that need a partner to build and improve their entire post-purchase experience.
"Buyers today are anxious and frustrated post-purchase. We're thrilled to offer all Shopify brands the ability to turn those anxious and frustrated buyers into repeat purchasers by providing them a premium post-purchase experience," said Yaw Aning, CEO of Malomo. "We're incredibly excited to offer all Shopify brands a real way to drive additional revenue when customers are excited about their brand."
One Shopify brand that's seen dramatic results from utilizing the Malomo platform is Bokksu, who produces and sells authentic Japanese snacks, candies, and teas sourced directly from centuries-old family businesses across Japan to customers around the world. "I believe Malomo is a must-have for any brand that uses Klaviyo and wants to enrich their customer experience post purchase. We can now communicate with our customers via flows when carrier mistakes happen while also increasing sales at the same time," said Danny Taing, Founder and CEO at Bokksu. "After implementing Malomo, we turned shipment tracking from a cost center to a profitable marketing channel—generating a 19x return on investment in just our first month."
To learn more about Malomo's new offerings and how Malomo is improving the post-purchase shipping experience for every Shopify store, please visit gomalomo.com.
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Erez to Help Grow PixCell's Business Across the Globe and Support Strategic Planning
YOKNEAM ILLIT, Israel , June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PixCell Medical, innovator of rapid hematology testing solutions at the point-of-care, announced today that Mr. Mark Erez has been appointed the company's new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Erez will oversee financial planning in support of PixCell's continued commercial expansion across the globe.
Mark Erez joins PixCell with two decades of significant experience as a financial executive. Erez has extensive financial expertise in a range of settings and industries, including over six years as CFO of the beauty-tech device manufacturer Home Skinovations, where he led the global financial teams and strategic expansion of the company into new markets and global territories. His previous roles also include serving as financial controller at the dual-listing pharmaceutical company Protalix Biotherapeutics and over 5 years at PWC Israel as auditing manager. Erez holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and economics from the University of Haifa and an Executive MBA from Bar-Ilan University with honours.
"I'm extremely excited to join a company that not only offers such a phenomenal and disruptive diagnostic product, but is also situated at a stepping stone for significant growth in the coming years," said Erez. "We have amazing opportunities ahead of us both financially and commercially, and it's a great privilege to have the opportunity to support and serve PixCell's customers, teammates and commercial stakeholders."
"Following a rigorous search process, we are thrilled to welcome Erez onboard our growing team," stated Avishay Bransky, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of PixCell Medical. "With well-honed operating skills and methodical, strategic planning mindset, Mark will be a significant partner in improving our operating results, supporting our commercial growth, and creating long-term value for the organization."
About PixCell Medical
PixCell Medical, an innovator of rapid hematology testing solutions at the point-of-care, has developed the only 5-part differential Complete Blood Count (CBC) analyzer that is FDA-cleared, CE-marked and TGA-approved for point-of-care use – HemoScreen™. The portable, easy to use platform offers clinically proven, lab-accurate readings of 20 standard blood count parameters within five minutes, with just one finger-prick of blood. This facilitates fast diagnostic results and data-driven disease management decisions. Leveraging a patented, disposable cartridge preloaded with all necessary reagents, the company's unique Viscoelastic Focusing technology and AI-powered machine vision, HemoScreen enables improved medical outcomes and patient quality of life, and reduces costs for healthcare providers.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards agreed on Wednesday to a request from Louisiana lawmakers that he and his top attorneys testify before a bipartisan committee investigating allegations of a cover-up in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene.
The request came just days after The Associated Press reported that Edwards and his lawyers privately watched a long-withheld video showing Greene taking his final breaths during his fatal arrest — yet did not act urgently to get the crucial footage into the hands of those with the power to charge the white Louisiana State Police troopers seen stunning, punching and dragging the man.
The video, which showed critical moments and audio absent from other footage that was turned over, didn’t reach prosecutors until nearly two years after Greene’s May 10, 2019, death on a rural roadside near Monroe. Prosecutors and detectives have said they were not even aware the 30-minute clip existed until six months after the governor viewed it in October 2020.
State Rep. Clay Schexnayder, the Republican House speaker, cited “serious questions that can only be answered by” the Democratic governor and his staff.
“This committee will do its job and see this through no matter where the evidence leads,” Schexnayder said in a statement asking the governor to appear before the committee June 16.
Edwards’ top lawyer, Matthew Block, wrote in a public letter to the committee that he, another lawyer and the governor will all appear to testify.
“We are confident that this testimony will demonstrate that neither the governor nor anyone on his staff had any role in any attempt to cover up the facts related to Mr. Greene’s death,” Block wrote to Rep. Tanner Magee, the Republican who chairs the panel.
Block previously had told the AP that there was no way for the governor to have known at the time that the video he watched had not already been turned over to prosecutors, and there was no effort by the governor or his staff to withhold evidence.
The legislative committee for weeks has sought to reconstruct the state’s response to Greene’s death, interviewing a long list of law enforcement officials and even subpoenaing the handwritten journals of a former state police superintendent.
Lawmakers are now pivoting to what the governor knew, when he knew it and what he did about an in-custody death that troopers initially blamed on a car crash. The legislative inquiry comes amid ongoing federal and state investigations that have not resulted in any charges.
At issue is the 30-minute body-camera footage from Lt. John Clary, the highest-ranking trooper to respond to Greene’s arrest. It is one of two videos of the incident, and captured events not seen on the 46-minute clip from Trooper Dakota DeMoss that shows troopers swarming Greene’s car after a high-speed chase, repeatedly jolting him with stun guns, beating him in the head and dragging him by his ankle shackles.
Clary’s video is perhaps even more significant to the investigations because it is the only footage that shows the moment a handcuffed, bloody Greene moans under the weight of two troopers, twitches and then goes still. It also shows troopers ordering the heavyset, 49-year-old to remain face down on the ground with his hands and feet restrained for more than nine minutes — a tactic use-of-force experts criticized as dangerous and likely to have restricted his breathing.
The governor’s attorneys didn’t mention seeing the Clary video in a meeting days later with state prosecutors, who wouldn’t receive the footage until a detective discovered it almost by accident six months later. But state police say they showed the Clary video to Greene’s family days after the governor viewed it.
Several members of Greene’s family denied they had seen the video, but one of their attorneys wrote lawmakers an email this week confirming they had, in fact, seen Clary’s video, citing contemporaneous notes.
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