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PITTSBURGH, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a portable device that would enhance the experience of listening to music, watching movies/videos and playing games," said an inventor, from Laurinburg, N.C., "so I invented the M T M (MORE THAN MUSIC). My design can be used to provide entertainment anywhere in the home or on-the-go."
The patent-pending invention provides an innovative new mobile entertainment device. In doing so, it offers an alternative to using a smartphone or tablet computer. As a result, it enables the user to watch movies, take photographs, listen to music and play games and it enhances audio quality. The invention features a compact and portable design that is easy to use and transport so it is ideal for the general population.
The original design was submitted to the Long Island sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-LGI-2868, 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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NAPA, Calif., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Doctors Company, the nation's largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, is pleased to announce the appointment of Megan Mahoney, MD, MBA, to its Board of Governors. Dr. Mahoney is Chief of Staff for Stanford Health Care and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. In this role, she oversees the quality, safety, and professionalism activities of the 3,000 physicians within Stanford Health Care.
Dr. Mahoney is known for her passion for both teams and technology in healthcare. She is leading initiatives in team-based healthcare and precision health. The initiatives bring together the latest science and technology to enhance the understanding of each patient, from lifestyle to DNA, and customize their healthcare on an individual basis.
"We are pleased to welcome Dr. Mahoney to our board," said Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP, Chairman and CEO of The Doctors Company and TDC Group. "Her background is extraordinary, and her expertise in precision health and practice transformation, in large healthcare systems, further strengthens The Doctors Company on our mission to advance the practice of good medicine."
Before joining Stanford, Dr. Mahoney served in leadership capacities in clinic operations, medical education, and research as a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco, for 10 years. She was a Visiting Professor at Aga Khan Medical College of East Africa and served on the family medicine committee of the Kenya Ministry of Health. In addition, she was selected as one of The Top 100 Women Leaders in Medicine of 2021 by Women We Admire.
"I am excited to bring my background in developing transformative approaches to proactive and personalized team-based care that empowers patients, healthcare providers, and communities to this organization dedicated to innovation," said Dr. Mahoney. "I see my work throughout my career as an ideal complement to The Doctors Company and look forward to helping build upon TDC Group's position as the preeminent organization for service to healthcare."
Dr. Mahoney earned her MD at the University of California, San Francisco, and her MBA at Brandeis University. She received her undergraduate degree in molecular and cellular biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
About The Doctors Company
Founded and led by physicians, The Doctors Company (thedoctors.com), the nation's largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, is relentlessly committed to advancing, protecting, and rewarding the practice of good medicine. The Doctors Company helps physicians manage the complexities of today's healthcare environment—with expert guidance, resources, and coverage. The Doctors Company is part of TDC Group (thetdcgroup.com), the nation's largest physician-owned provider of insurance, risk management, and healthcare practice improvement solutions. TDC Group serves the full continuum of care, from individual physicians to academic medical systems—over 100,000 healthcare professionals and organizations nationwide—with annual revenue of $1 billion and over $6.5 billion in assets. To learn more about our data-driven insights and to stay up to date on industry trends, follow and subscribe to The Doctors Company on Twitter (@doctorscompany), YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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Nick Fouquet introduces the Reishi™ Collection, comprised of three new hat styles made with Reishi™ by MycoWorks, now available to shop on NickFouquet.com.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today biomaterials innovator MycoWorks announced the commercial launch of the first fashion items made with its flagship mycelium material, Reishi™. The Reishi™ Collection by luxury hatmaker Nick Fouquet includes the Reishi™ Boletus, Coprinus, and Morchella hats, now available in limited runs on NickFouquet.com.
"We are elated that consumers can now wear and enjoy designs made with Reishi™," said Sophia Wang, MycoWorks Co-Founder & Chief of Culture. "MycoWorks partners with craftspeople and brands with whom we share artistic values, which is why we've partnered with famed hatmaker, Nick Fouquet. This Reishi™ collection exhibits the unique hand feel and versatility of our material."
Unlocking new design possibilities for brands, MycoWorks' Fine Mycelium™ technology engineers mycelium – the infinitely renewable root structure of mushrooms – as it grows to designers' exact specifications for hand feel, texture, strength, and functionality. The result, Reishi™, is a luxury, natural material that matches the performance of the highest quality animal leathers with lower environmental impact.
For the Reishi™ Collection, Nick Fouquet leveraged all-natural, 100% plastic-free Reishi™ as the base material for the Reishi™ Boletus and as decorative details and trims for the Coprinus and Morchella.
"Our clients want luxury made from materials that feel good and that they feel good about," said Nick Fouquet. "MycoWorks' Reishi™ is the only leather alternative we've seen that matches the beauty, quality, and functionality of traditional leather. Reishi™ feels organic and rich, and has a beautiful, worn patina that we showcase through the distinct styles of our Reishi™ Collection."
The commercial availability of Reishi™ represents a major leap for fashion, which has long been seeking plastic-free, animal-free leather alternatives that meet the quality needs of high-end fashion with a lower environmental footprint.
This year, MycoWorks will continue commercializing Reishi™ with a range of carefully selected brands, spanning heritage brands and new, independent designers.
Reishi™ Collection Hi-Res Imagery: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hyr6r1gd45m66s0/AABllGaxraFum7SCOLL--PYTa?dl=0
Reishi™ Collection Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PEsKByJ8eI&feature=youtu.be
In 2013, co-founders Philip Ross and Sophia Wang formed MycoWorks, a San Francisco-based biomaterials company dedicated to bringing new mycelium-grown materials to the world. MycoWorks' patented Fine Mycelium technology, an advanced manufacturing platform and breakthrough in materials science, engineers mycelium during growth to form proprietary, interlocking cellular structures for unparalleled strength and durability. For more information, please visit mycoworks.com and madewithreishi.com.
Nick Fouquet is a French American designer known for his iconic hat styles. Fouquet has reinvented the headwear category by bringing a modern aesthetic to classic silhouettes, grounded in superior craftspersonship. Reflecting his European American roots, the brand infuses whimsical, California-inspired elements with bespoke European detail. Fouquet started the brand in a Los Angeles garage studio in 2013, has since expanded headquarters to a 5,000 square feet space in Venice including a design studio, manufacturing facility, and the retail flagship. In December of 2020, Fouquet opened his second retail store in Aspen Colorado, featuring collections designed exclusively for the Colorado market. The collection expanded into ready-to-wear in 2021 and is currently sold at nickfouquet.com and in luxury retail locations worldwide.
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Stellantis making Indiana announcement; may be battery plant
DETROIT (AP) — Stellantis has scheduled an announcement for Tuesday in Kokomo, Indiana, for what could be the company’s second North American electric vehicle battery factory. The company says it will give an update on the future of its Kokomo operations Tuesday afternoon. Stellantis, formed last year with the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA Peugeot, has said it will build two electric vehicle battery factories in North America. In March it announced plans to spend $4.1 billion in a joint venture with LG Energy Solution of South Korea to build one of them in Windsor, Ontario. That plant will employ about 2,500 people. The other North American location has not been disclosed. Company spokeswoman Shawn Morgan would not comment on what will be announced Tuesday in Kokomo. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/23/stellantis-making-indiana-announcement-may-be-battery-plant/ | 2022-05-24T00:35:33Z |
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 29, 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.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 22, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery does not require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased CareDx common stock, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit CareDx, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
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NEW YORK, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. f/k/a Peridot Acquisition Corp..
Shareholders who purchased shares of LICY during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CONTACT US HERE:
https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/li-cycle-holdings-corp-f-k-a-peridot-acquisition-corp-loss-submission-form/?id=26677&from=4
CLASS PERIOD: February 16, 2021 to March 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) Li-Cycle's largest customer, Traxys, is not actually a customer, but merely a broker providing working capital financial to the Company while Traxys tries to sell Li-Cycle's product to end customers; (2) the Company engaged in highly questionable related party transactions; (3) the Company's mark-to-model accounting is vulnerable to abuse and gave a false impression of growth; (4) a significant portion of the Company's reported revenues were derived from simply marking up receivables on products that had not been sold; (5) the Company's gross margins have likely been negative since inception; (6) the Company will require an additional $1 billion of funding to support its planned growth (which is a figure greater than the Company raised via the merger); and (7) as a result, Defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: June 20, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/li-cycle-holdings-corp-f-k-a-peridot-acquisition-corp-loss-submission-form/?id=26677&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of LICY during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is June 20, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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WATCH: Black bear sneaks inside car
CORNWALL, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) - A Connecticut man encountered a black bear after it sneaked into his mother-in-law’s car over the weekend.
The man tells WFSB he was inside his house when he noticed his mother-in-law’s car headlights were on.
When he went outside to check it out, he was shocked by what he saw.
“I was like, ‘Something’s not right here,’” said Cody Gillotti.
Gillotti said his truck door was wide open. The bear had apparently rummaged through it, too.
“And my daughter’s car seat was on the ground next to it. And I thought, ‘That’s real weird,’” he said.
He went to investigate.
He saw a black bear hanging out in the front seat of his mother-in-law’s Subaru.
“I went down and saw fog all over the window, and sure enough, there was a bear in there,” Gillotti said. “Wow, I see bears all the time but never in the car.”
He called the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
“[A responding officer] loaded up his 12 gauge with bean bag shells. I tied a rope to the car handle and ran the rope up the hill and started yanking on the rope,” Gillotti said.
Seeing the door move seemed to scare the bear.
“It freaked the bear out big-time, and the bear just kind of exploded with energy. And the door went swinging open,” said Gillotti.
The bear ran away, but he left behind quite a bit of damage.
“I’m sure the Subaru’s going to be toast. You can’t turn power off the vehicle without disconnecting the battery. You take the key out, lights still turn on. The interior’s completely destroyed,” Gillotti said.
The back seat of Gillotti’s truck was also damaged, but not as badly.
Now he’s thinking about giving his truck a new nickname.
“The ‘Bear Trap’ or something,” he said.
The state’s environmental management department says spring is a busy time for black bears as they come out of their winter rest.
The department is sharing these tips to stay safe:
- Never feed bears.
- Take down bird feeders by late March and wait until late fall to put them back up.
- Store garbage in secure containers.
- Keep grills clean and store them inside a garage or shed.
They also say if you see a bear, you should report the sighting.
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL; NYSE: EC) announces that the Agencia Nacional de Licencias Ambientales (ANLA) notified on May 3rd, 2022 through Resolution 881 that Ecopetrol had been declared responsible of undertaking during the construction phase of the hydrocarbon transportation Poliducto Andino project, works that were not covered by the environmental license.
Consequently, ANLA confirmed the penalty initially imposed to Ecopetrol with Resolution 754 of 2021 in an amount of one billion three hundred and eight million six hundred and sixty thousand eight hundred and fifty-four Colombian pesos (COP$1,308,660,854). Such confirmation constitutes a final and definite decision within the environmental sanctioning process. Ecopetrol S.A. abides by and respects the decisions of ANLA; however, the company's actions have always been framed in compliance with current regulations, and it will evaluate the possibilities of opposing legal actions against this sanction.
Ecopetrol is the largest company in Colombia and one of the main integrated energy companies in the American continent, with more than 18,000 employees. In Colombia, it is responsible for more than 60% of the hydrocarbon production of most transportation, logistics, and hydrocarbon refining systems, and it holds leading positions in the petrochemicals and gas distribution segments. With the acquisition of 51.4% of ISA's shares, the company participates in energy transmission, the management of real-time systems (XM), and the Barranquilla - Cartagena coastal highway concession. At the international level, Ecopetrol has a stake in strategic basins in the American continent, with Drilling and Exploration operations in the United States (Permian basin and the Gulf of Mexico), Brazil, and Mexico, and, through ISA and its subsidiaries, Ecopetrol holds leading positions in the power transmission business in Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, road concessions in Chile, and the telecommunications sector. This press release contains business prospect statements, operating and financial result estimates, and statements related to Ecopetrol's growth prospects. These are all projections and, as such, they are based solely on the expectations of the managers regarding the future of the company and their continued access to capital to finance the company's business plan. The realization of said estimates in the future depends on the behavior of market conditions, regulations, competition, the performance of the Colombian economy and the industry, among other factors, and are consequently subject to change without prior notice.
This release contains statements that may be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All forward-looking statements, whether made in this release or in future filings or press releases or orally, address matters that involve risks and uncertainties, including in respect of the Company's prospects for growth and its ongoing access to capital to fund the Company's business plan, among others. Consequently, changes in the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those included in the forward-looking statements: market prices of oil & gas, our exploration, and production activities, market conditions, applicable regulations, the exchange rate, the Company's competitiveness and the performance of Colombia's economy and industry, to mention a few. We do not intend and do not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
For further details, please contact:
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Tatiana Uribe Benninghoff
Correo electrónico: investors@ecopetrol.com.co
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Email : mauricio.tellez@ecopetrol.com.co
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Louisiana State Police senior officer on leave over phone data in Ronald Greene’s death
By Nick Valencia, Jade Gordon and Alta Spells, CNN
The second in command in the Louisiana State Police (LSP), who was accused of erasing data from his work cellphone after the death of Ronald Greene, has been placed on administrative leave nearly three years after the Black motorist’s death.
On Friday, the head of the law enforcement agency, Superintendent Col. Lamar Davis, said he “placed Lt. Col. Doug Cain on paid administrative leave pending the ongoing administrative investigation into the sanitization of his department cellular device,” in a statement issued by LSP.
“The decision to place him on leave was made in the best interest of the department to eliminate any questions into the integrity of the investigation. I am confident the investigation will be conducted in a fair and unbiased manner leaving no concerns of its findings,” said Davis in the statement.
Greene died on May 10, 2019, while in the custody of the Louisiana State Police after a vehicle chase.
The decision to place Cain on administrative leave comes a day after Davis, while testifying in front of a special committee of the Louisiana State legislature investigating Greene’s death, was pressed by lawmakers as to why Cain was still on the job. They also wanted to know why Cain had not yet been placed on leave.
Davis testified he appointed Cain to the number two position within LSP and acknowledged the public might have concerns about Cain still being on the job.
In the hearing, lawmakers expressed Cain’s presence at work could make some troopers uncomfortable and unwilling to come forward with information about potential wrongdoing.
Cain has been implicated as part of an ongoing internal probe by the LSP into Greene’s death and the LSP’s subsequent handling of it.
While Cain was not at the scene of the incident involving Greene, his work phone is alleged to have been sanitized in the wake of Greene’s death.
According to Davis’ testimony, Cain has not been interviewed by internal affairs.
Cain testified before the same committee on March 22. During his testimony, state Rep. Debbie Villio asked him why his cellphone had been sanitized, Cain responded, “I can’t speak to that ma’am.”
After being pressed, he went on to say, “I can’t speak to my cellphone ma’am. I notified the chairman that there’s an internal investigation underway, to ensure transparency by Colonel Davis he’s looking into that matter.”
As the questioning about the phone and transparency continued, Cain told the committee chairman he had been ordered not to speak to it.
CNN reached out to Cain for a comment after he was placed on paid administrative leave but has not heard back. It is unclear whether Cain has an attorney.
The move comes one day after District Attorney John Belton, who has jurisdiction over the town where Greene died, told state lawmakers he plans to convene a special grand jury and pursue criminal charges against the troopers involved in Greene’s death.
Testifying before a special committee of the Louisiana State Legislature investigating Greene’s 2019 death, Belton said a “criminal act” occurred and plans to “move swiftly” to convene a grand jury.
Speaking with CNN after the committee hearing adjourned, Belton reiterated his position, saying, “I have already stated that crimes have been committed.”
The troopers involved have maintained Greene’s death “was caused by crash-related blunt force chest trauma that resulted in a fractured sternum and ruptured aorta,” and have maintained they had to use force to restrain him “for their own personal safety and for the safety of the public,” according to court documents.
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The company also announced new executive hires as it continues to expand following the closure of its $5.4M seed round in May
BOSTON, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Salient Predictions, a Boston-based technology company that creates the world's most accurate subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) weather forecasts and analytics, today announced the launch of a new suite of weather metrics that will provide agribusiness and food producers with data to make faster, smarter decisions.
"Agriculture businesses are experiencing first-hand the effects of our changing climate," said Matt Stein, CEO of Salient. "Having more accurate, long-term weather metrics that go far beyond what's possible today gives them a critical advantage for resource planning and preparedness in the face of increasing climate disruptions."
The company's new agriculture metrics incorporate hyper-localized forecast data that's relevant to the agriculture sector. This data is based on Salient's industry-leading ocean and land-surface forecasting technologies developed from decades of research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and MIT. Localized parameters, including soil moisture, surface runoff, and frost and drought risk indices, will enable agribusiness and food producers to better prepare for future weather conditions and potential supply chain disruptions.
"These new and enhanced metrics enable agribusinesses to better anticipate the impacts of weather on their operations," said Janet Lee, Chief Product Officer at Salient.
"By contextualizing the forecast in the local environment, Salient can answer the question, 'What does this forecast mean for me?'," noted Anthony Atlas, Salient's Head of Agriculture and Supply Chain. "This helps agribusinesses better anticipate the needs of their customers and proactively place the right products at the right time to maximize the benefits realized."
Salient's new agriculture solutions build on the company's success in the agriculture sector. In 2021, Salient and BASF announced an agreement that provided BASF customers with accurate long-range, seasonal weather forecasting data to enable precise agronomic decisions. Salient's recent research has focused on the intensification of the global water cycle and the role that ocean salinity has in predicting subseasonal-to-seasonal weather events for agriculture, energy, insurance, and supply chain and logistics businesses. A recent paper discovered remote salinity predictors for heavy rain in the Midwest, which should help farmers and businesses adapt to increasingly volatile weather conditions.
To further bolster its agronomic and technology expertise, Salient also announced the addition of three new employees to its team, Janet Lee, Anthony Atlas and Karl Critz.
Lee joins Salient as Chief Product Officer, with a 25-plus year track record of building award-winning technology products for companies that include FirstFuel, Oracle and Lattice Engines. Atlas is Salient's new Head of Agriculture and Supply Chain, offering substantial experience in climatetech and agtech startups, most recently at ClimateAI and Ceres Imaging. Finally, Critz joins Salient as Chief Technology Officer and brings extensive experience in renewable energy and cleantech as an engineer, consultant and executive leader who, most recently, served as the Chief Technology Officer for REsurety, Inc.
"The addition of Janet, Anthony and Karl reflects the significant momentum we're experiencing here at Salient, following the closure of our $5.4M seed round in May," said Stein. "I couldn't be more excited about Salient's future. Having these three talented individuals on our team will make a huge impact on the work we do for all of our clients."
Salient combines novel ocean and land-surface data with machine learning and climate expertise to deliver the world's most accurate subseasonal-to-seasonal weather forecasts and industry insights—2 to 52 weeks in advance. Bringing together world-leading experts in physical oceanography, climatology and the global water cycle, machine learning, and industry, Salient helps enterprise clients improve resiliency, increase preparedness, and make better decisions in the face of a rapidly changing climate. Learn more at www.salientpredictions.com.
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WASHINGTON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, RiskExec®, a subsidiary of Asurity Technologies LLC ("Asurity"), announced it has been selected by Yamaha Motor Finance Corporation, U.S.A. ("Yamaha Motor Finance") to provide its software to assist in the Fair Lending Analysis of Yamaha Motor Finance's retail portfolios. Yamaha Motor Finance is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA, offering captive financing solutions to support Yamaha Dealers and Yamaha Customers nationwide. Yamaha Motor Finance has offices in Cypress, CA and Marietta, GA.
RiskExec will provide Yamaha Motor Finance with its out-of-the-box fair lending analysis through RiskExec's proxies, geocoding, and mapping features, as well as through its disparity testing, regression, and match pair analytics. RiskExec's Fair Lending solution has been adopted by a variety of auto and consumer lenders looking to increase efficiency across very broad loan portfolios, making it the industry-leading SaaS solution for Fair Lending Compliance.
"Our team felt that the RiskExec Fair Lending software would assist in our analysis of our retail portfolios and dealer network across all of our strategic markets. RiskExec, with its BISG Proxy and out of the box fair lending model, is robust yet extremely easy to use and provides actionable intelligence," said Kevin Duck, SVP and Chief Risk Officer.
"We are very excited and fortunate to have Yamaha join our growing community of RiskExec users," said Dr. Anurag Agarwal, RiskExec's president. "With a regulatory environment that is evolving so quickly, our clients need solutions that are innovative to better serve their customers, remain compliant, and enhance their competitive edge in the marketplace."
For more information on RiskExec or Asurity, contact us at info@asurity.com or (202) 765-2150.
Asurity delivers compliance-focused solutions to the mortgage, retail banking, and consumer lending industries. RiskExec is one of Asurity's leading SaaS-based products, combining the best of compliance expertise with state-of-the-art software for reporting and analytics to help lenders meet demanding regulatory requirements and business objectives. RiskExec is embraced by financial institutions to analyze their data for compliance or other uses in mortgage, retail banking, auto lending, student lending, and other forms of credit and deposit products. Asurity also offers Propel™, a leading solution for the dynamic preparation of compliance mortgage document packages, and RegCheck® which provides comprehensive compliance checks against loan-level data pulled from any integrated LOS. For additional information Asurity and its leading software solutions, please visit www.asurity.com
Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA (YMUS), is a recognized leader in the outdoor recreation industry. The company's ever-expanding product offerings include Motorcycles and Scooters, ATV and Side-by-Side vehicles, Snowmobiles, WaveRunner Personal Watercraft, Boats, Outboard Motors, Outdoor Power Equipment, Power Assist Bicycles, Golf Cars, Power Assist Wheelchair Systems, Surface Mount Technology (SMT) and Robotic Machines, Unmanned Helicopters, Accessories, Apparel, Yamalube products, and much more. YMUS products are sold through a nationwide network of distributors and dealers in the United States.
YMUS has a corporate office in California, two corporate offices in Georgia, facilities in Wisconsin and Alabama, and factory operations in Tennessee and Georgia. Additional U.S.-based subsidiaries include Yamaha Marine Systems Company (YMSC) with divisions Bennett Marine (Florida), Kracor Systems (Wisconsin) and Siren Marine, Inc. (Rhode Island), Skeeter Boats (Texas), with division G3 Boats (Missouri), and Yamaha Precision Propeller (Indiana).
Yamaha Motor Finance Corporation, U.S.A., located in Cypress, CA and Marietta, GA, established in 2015, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. offering captive financing solutions to support Yamaha dealers and Yamaha customers nationwide with retail and commercial financing as well as protection products for all of Yamaha's diverse line of motor products. https://www.yamaha-motor-finance.com/
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NEW YORK, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Teladoc Health, Inc. ("Teladoc") (NYSE: TDOC) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between October 28, 2021 and April 27, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Teladoc, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/teladoc-health-inc-loss-submission-form-2?prid=30139&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Teladoc includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) increased competition, among other factors, was negatively impacting Teladoc's BetterHelp and chronic care businesses; (ii) accordingly, the growth of those businesses was less sustainable than Defendants had led investors to believe; (iii) as a result, Teladoc's revenue and adjusted EBITDA projections for FY 2022 were unrealistic; (iv) as a result of all the foregoing, Teladoc would be forced to recognize a significant non-cash goodwill impairment charge; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
Aggrieved Teladoc investors only have until August 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Cappfinity's expanded portfolio stands out with recruiters and Gen Z talent
NEW YORK, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Strengths-based talent acquisition and management solutions provider, Cappfinity today announced its newly expanded suite of immersive virtual reality experiences designed to help talent acquisition leaders recruit and retain strong candidates.
The new VR experiences are the latest addition to Cappfinity's suite of recruitment and development solutions that evaluates behaviors and provides role-specific insights for hiring managers. Cappfinity's end-to-end talent solutions will be on display and demonstrated June 7-9, 2022 at the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Conference and Expo in Booth 300, Portland, Oregon.
Nicky Garcea, Co-founder and Head of America Sales at Cappfinity, explained: "From an employer's perspective our new VR solutions and digital work simulations offer unforgettable candidate experiences and transformative unbiased insights that support informed hiring decisions.
"Observing a candidate's behavioral strengths is the catalyst to identifying potential, discovering untapped talent pools, harnessing adjacent skills, and reducing bias in hiring. With Cappfinity's newly expanded suite, talent leaders can look to accurate predictors of success for a particular role which is critical to fast and fair hiring, as well as high impact onboarding and employee retention."
Competitive hiring environment
38% of Americans landing jobs since January 2021 quit within a year, according to a survey conducted for The Wall Street Journal by pollsters YouGov and Cappfinity. Also importantly, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), the top skills employers are seeking today include problem-solving skills (85% of respondents), analytical/quantitative skills (78.6%), and the ability to work in a team (76.3%). But the skills shift over time, which is why it's important to leverage accurate predictors of success to a specific role.
Job Seekers want to showcase their strengths too
According to Cappfinity's Candidate Driven Job Market report, Gen Z and Millennial job seekers want to showcase their abilities. One in four respondents said they would like to show how they would approach tasks associated with the job they are applying for. This can be achieved via realistic job previews and virtual work simulations.
To date, talent acquisition leaders across the U.S. have come to rely on behavioral science central to Cappfinity's forward-looking job analysis, standardized behavioral interviews, realistic job previews, virtual assessment centers, and candidate preparation solutions.
Cappfinity's full suite of talent acquisition and management tools which now includes VR experiences, will be demonstrated at NACE 2022 in Booth 300 and can be found online at www.cappfinity.com
About Cappfinity
Cappfinity is the global leader in strengths-based and science-backed recruiting, hiring, and talent development solutions. Since 2005, Cappfinity has assisted forward-looking organizations with diversifying and revitalizing their workforces through recruiting, onboarding, talent development, VR experiences, and more. With teams in the U.S., UK, Ireland and Australia, Cappfinity is proud to be working with 250+ organizations and millions of individuals in service of our shared purpose – Strengthening the World.
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Which stoneware mug is best?
A stoneware mug is recognizable for its memorable style, with a textured surface and a handmade feel that gives it a personal, intimate and cozy vibe. What could be better for warm, comforting beverages such as coffee, tea and hot chocolate? It’s not just for looks, either. Stoneware is durable, too.
Whether you’re looking for a full set or just one special mug you can rely on, there are plenty of colorful stoneware options. Check out the Denby Halo Mug for a simple yet beautifully crafted stoneware mug with a lovely color palette.
What to know before you buy a stoneware mug
How it’s made
A stoneware mug is shaped from clay and fired at very high temperatures until it is vitrified, which means that the materials are transformed into glass. This provides the mug with a sheen while making the clay less porous and hard to chip. Stoneware is less prone to staining than your average ceramic and holds heat for longer. The finished product often has an artisanal look to it.
Care and use
Stoneware is durable and versatile. It can go in the oven, microwave and freezer. Most stoneware mugs are officially dishwasher-safe but retain their original look better if you hand-wash them. Use warm water and a nylon scrubbing brush to remove unwanted residue but stay away from abrasive chemicals. Don’t use a citrus-based dish soap, as it can harm the mug’s exterior.
Stoneware mug shapes
While there are dozens of stylish differences when it comes to types of stoneware mugs, the mug’s purpose is usually dictated by its general shape and how many ounces it holds.
- Standard mug: Available in a variety of shapes and sizes, this is your traditional everyday mug for tea, coffee, hot chocolate and even ice cream. It holds around 8-16 ounces, but extra-large versions hold up to 21 ounces.
- Tea cup: Smaller and daintier than a tea mug, this cup is usually patterned with a matching saucer. It holds about 6 ounces.
- Espresso mug: This is very small, and looks like a cross between a coffee mug and a tea cup, almost like a mug for children or dolls. It holds about 3 ounces.
- Travel mug: This is a tall mug that comes with a lid to prevent spills. It usually has a large handle, but the ones without handles are more convenient for slim cupholders. It holds 12-18 ounces.
What to look for in a quality stoneware mug
Rich color
Stoneware mugs are known for their heft, texture and deep colors. A stoneware mug should have rich, beautiful color that looks custom. The color should work with the texture to create a tactile beauty, eye-catching from a distance. One of the most noticeable facets of stoneware is how colors bleed into each other, often creating a gradient effect or lovably imperfect lines that look hand-drawn.
Consistency
One of the great things about stoneware is how each piece looks a little different, but there should be consistency when it comes to quality. Every stoneware mug produced by a manufacturer or artist should be durable, attractive and chip-free. If you are considering a custom mug and are unsure, look at reviews to confirm that buyers are consistently happy with the quality.
Comfortable grip
A stoneware mug should have a handle wide enough to be held securely without being so large or wide that it’s heavy or awkward in your hands. The handle needs to be durable but also stylish. A decorative handle with finely crafted detailing or flourishes can elevate an ordinary mug into one that stands out from the rest.
How much you can expect to spend on a stoneware mug
A single stoneware mug costs $12-$30. A set of two costs $18-$40 and a set of four costs $25-$120.
Stoneware mug FAQ
How is stoneware different from earthenware?
A. Stoneware is a high-fired clay that is hard and non-porous, while earthenware is a low-fired clay that comes out a little coarser and more porous because it has not been vitrified.
How is stoneware painted?
A. Stoneware is fired in the kiln before it is painted with an underglaze that provides the color. Then it is placed back in the kiln and fired until it is vitrified.
How long does a stoneware mug last?
A. A stoneware mug can last for years. It is more likely to break through human error, such as dropping it on the floor, than by wearing out from use.
What’s the best stoneware mug to buy?
Top stoneware mug
What you need to know: This practical, earth-toned mug has a decorative handle and gradient rim. It holds 10 ounces.
What you’ll love: The blues and browns are rich and textured. It’s well-made, lead-free and comfortable to hold. It’s microwave-, oven- and freezer-safe.
What you should consider: There aren’t other color options in this design.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s and Wayfair
Top stoneware mug for the money
Bosmarlin Large Geometry Stoneware Coffee Mug
What you need to know: This geometrically patterned mug is available in green, blue, grey and red. It holds 21 ounces.
What you’ll love: It’s durable with a simple, yet stylish modern pattern. It’s microwave- and dishwasher-safe. It’s lead- and calcium-free.
What you should consider: The pattern is only available in one size.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This is a set of four mugs, all matching in off-white with brown lips. It holds 13 ounces.
What you’ll love: The set is beautiful and costs the same as some single stoneware mugs. The mugs are large and durable, with a vintage look. They are microwave- and dishwasher-safe.
What you should consider: They are a little heavier than you’d expect.
Where to buy: Sold by Kohl’s
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ARLINGTON, Mass., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leader Bank is proud to announce that it has been named an honoree in the 2022 Boston Business Journal Corporate Citizenship Awards with more than $250,000 donated to Massachusetts charities, non-profits, local municipalities, and community groups in 2021.
This marks the sixth year in a row Leader Bank has been recognized by the publication as one of the Commonwealth's top charitable contributors for donations made by the Bank directly as well as through the Leader Bank Charitable Foundation. The Bank will be honored for the recognition at an award ceremony in September.
"Leader Bank is proud to have been recognized by the Boston Business Journal as one of the most charitable companies in the Commonwealth," said Sushil Tuli, Chairman and CEO of Leader Bank. "Supporting the charitable organizations that serve our communities both financially and through our team members volunteering their time remains an integral part of Leader Bank's mission and values."
The Boston Business Journal Annual Corporate Citizenship Awards showcase companies that promote and prioritize giving back to their communities by donating at least $100,000 to Massachusetts-based charities – a feat that is even more important during times of hardship such as those we continued to experience throughout 2021.
"We are proud to celebrate these organizations who give both money and time to make Boston a stronger and better place for all," said Boston Business Journal Market President and Publisher Carolyn Jones.
Founded in 2002, Leader Bank is a Massachusetts-based entrepreneurial financial institution that approaches banking differently. The core tenets of Leader Bank include world-class client service, exemplary products, and innovation to meet the needs of its clients. At its founding, Leader Bank had $6.5 million in assets – in the two decades since, the Bank has grown into one of the most successful financial institutions in the Commonwealth with $3.7 billion in assets. Leader Bank's team members have been at the forefront of supporting the Bank's rapid growth and client-oriented solutions over the last two decades as the Bank has expanded its commercial and retail products and solutions. Leader Bank is a committed corporate citizen and prides itself on partnering with and supporting philanthropic organizations. More information on Leader Bank can be found at www.LeaderBank.com.
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Newest innovator in beverage space blending up Clean-Pressed™ shelf-stable smoothies
NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phyll, the newest innovator in the beverage space, today introduced first of its kind shelf-stable, ready-to-drink fruit and greens smoothies in three delicious flavors. Phyll provides a healthy option for consumers on-the-go, with each of their smoothies packed with three servings of fruits and veggies, 15 grams of plant-based protein and a clean nutrition label including no added sugars or sweeteners–all in an eco-friendly, recyclable paperboard carton.
Phyll's ready-to-drink smoothies require zero prep, making getting your daily servings of fruits and vegetables easier than ever. Their Clean-Pressed™ process allows for long-lasting shelf life without the need for refrigeration while preserving the fresh flavors and essential nutrients, resulting in delicious plant-based nutrition that can be enjoyed whenever, wherever.
"Growing up on a farm I always had access to fresh produce," said Jeff Goodman, Co-Founder of Phyll. "I quickly realized how hard that was to maintain while balancing a hectic work schedule, and wanted an easier way to get nutritious fruits and veggies when pressed for time." Jeff teamed up with his long-time best friend Sam Dickstein to create Phyll.
Today, Phyll's smoothies are available in three delicious flavors: Greenfest, Mixed Berry and Chocolate with 11 oz per container and retail at under $5 per bottle, providing juice bar quality without the price tag.
"With Phyll, we wanted to bring the experience of a healthy, homemade smoothie to consumers without the hassle," says Dickstein. "Our three delicious flavors deliver fresh-from-the-blender quality in a convenient, grab-and-go format." Phyll's mission is to make healthy eating easier and more widely accessible by offering convenient options to get nutritious fruits and veggies.
Phyll's 100% natural smoothies are both high in protein and a good source of fiber, and are made with no artificial ingredients or preservatives. All flavors provide three servings of fruits and veggies (including an entire serving of veggies). Phyll's smoothies are available at phyll.com, and retail for $29.99 for a pack of six.
About Phyll
Phyll provides convenient options to get healthy and nutritious fruits and vegetables on the go. Founded by long-time best friends Jeff Goodman and Sam Dickstein, Phyll's smoothies are the first of their kind ready-to-drink fruit and greens smoothies containing three servings of fruit & veggies and 15g of plant protein per bottle, with a clean nutrition label including no added sugars or sweeteners. Phyll's plant-based smoothies come in three flavors: Greenfest, Mixed Berry and Chocolate. With Phyll, you can enjoy the straight-from-the-blender flavor on your schedule. For more information, visit phyll.com.
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Traackr's 2022 "Influencer Marketing Impact Report" Reveals How Influencers, Content and Platforms Drive Consumer Purchase Behavior
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- When the pandemic forced brands to pivot to a digital-first strategy, marketers relied on social commerce as a key driver of sales – and they're seeing positive results. According to new research from influencer marketing platform Traackr, despite having very young influencer marketing programs (1-4 years old), 82% of marketers report that influencer marketing has driven sales for their brand.
Traackr today released the 2022 Influencer Marketing Impact Report, which surveyed 500 marketing leaders and 1,000 consumers to reveal the impact of influencers, social content and platforms on engagement and purchase behavior. The survey found that more than 70% of consumers at least somewhat agree they are more likely to buy a product from a brand if they collaborate with an influencer they know and trust.
"Influencers really became a fundamental gateway for brands to reach their customers during the pandemic," said Pierre-Loïc Assayag, CEO and co-founder, Traackr. "Clearly, even brands that were nascent in influencer marketing are seeing the value influencers bring to the table when curating authentic collaborations. We expect to see even more spend going toward influencer marketing as measurement on influencer campaigns gets more sophisticated to demonstrate the impact on the bottom line."
YouTube is the most popular social media platform, with 73% of consumers reporting using it at least once a week, followed by Instagram (66%), Facebook (65%) and TikTok (56%). However, when looking at preferences between generations, Millennials are more likely to report using Facebook weekly than Gen Z (81% vs 48%, respectively). Gen Z is also slightly more likely to use TikTok and Snapchat at least once a week than Millennials.
In addition, short videos were found to be most engaging with both Millennials and Gen Z, but Gen Z was 2x more likely to find long videos most engaging, showing that attention spans of younger generations might not be as short as we assume.
Overall, Instagram and Facebook were the top two platforms where respondents are most likely to purchase products, followed by YouTube. However, Gen Z was more likely to purchase on Instagram and YouTube, followed by TikTok – dropping Facebook to the fourth spot. Millennials on the other hand, ranked Facebook as their top social shopping destination, followed by Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
Most marketers (37%) have only had an influencer marketing program in place for one to two years, followed by 31% who have had one for three to four years – yet they are investing heavily in practice.
Thirty percent of brands spend $500,000 or more each year on influencer marketing; with 25% spending between $200,000 and $500,000; and another 25% spending between $50,000 and $200,000 a year.
No matter the longevity or budget of the program, more than 80% of brands at least somewhat agree that influencer marketing has both successfully increased brand awareness and driven sales for their business.
To read the full report with additional insights from brands and consumers, visit http://www.traackr.com/influencer-marketing-impact-report.
To learn more about Traackr, visit http://www.traackr.com.
Two surveys were conducted for this report using the online survey platform Pollfish. The sample of 500 individuals in the United States was surveyed between May 9, 2022 and May 10, 2022. The margin of error is ±4.38% and no additional weighting was done to the initial sample. The sample of 1000 individuals in the United States was surveyed between May 9, 2022 and May 10, 2022. The margin of error is ±3.1% and no additional weighting was done to the initial sample. Pollfish's survey platform delivers online surveys globally through mobile apps and the mobile web along with the desktop web.
Traackr is the data-driven influencer marketing platform, providing the intelligence and tools needed to run impactful programs at scale. The platform enables marketers to optimize investments, streamline campaigns, and orchestrate global programs. Traackr powers the most advanced influencer marketing programs in the world for brands including L'Oréal, Shiseido, Revlon, Diageo and Samsung. Traackr has hubs in San Francisco, New York, Boston, London, Paris and Singapore. Learn more at www.traackr.com.
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Family-Friendly Arts and Entertainment, Food and Drink
STOCKTON, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Visit Stockton is a travel destination that combines culture, rich history, shopping, and global culinary delights. With an abundance of summer activities and restaurants, visitors will experience an action-packed summer in Stockton with family.
Arts & Entertainment
- Pixie Woods enchanted forest is now open for the 2022 season. From Jun. 2 – Jul. 31 Th – Sun, and Aug. - Oct. Sat - Sun, the park will be open Thursday through Sunday. The amusement park will be open for children of all ages to attend. Adults must accompany children to the park.
- Children's Museum of Stockton is open for the summer. It provides an educational experience for young visitors and features hand-on, play-based exhibits.
- Limitless Axes and Ales is open for visitors to experience and welcomes all ages 10 and up to participate. It offers a unique activity for friends, coworkers, date nights, reunions and more. Minors must be accompanied by an adult and have a waiver signed.
- H2O Excursions is a family-owned and operated business that offers watersport rentals on the San Joaquin Delta. It currently offers charter cruises, pontoon boat rentals, kayak rentals, jet skis, hydro bike rentals and towable inner tube rentals.
- Concerts In the Park is a free concert series happening in Victory Park every Wednesday now through mid-August. Visitors can enjoy an evening with good company, a picnic, and live music.
- StocktonCon will be back for its annual celebration Aug. 13 – 14, 2022, at the Stockton Arena. Visitors can enjoy a star-studded event with cosplay costume contests, gaming tournaments, panels, exhibitors, vendors, and more.
- Stockton Brew Fest will take place Sept. 10, 2022, at Stockton's Weber Point Event Center. The 21+ event will include unlimited tastings of local and regional craft beers and ciders, live music, games, giveaways, along with artist and food vendors. Proceeds from the festival will benefit the Stockton Sports Foundation.
Food & Drink
- Al Fresco Dining can be found at various restaurants throughout Stockton. Restaurant's include Midtown Creperie and Café, Garlic Brothers Restaurant and Bar, Squeeze Burger & Brew, and more.
- David's Pizza – Qual Lakes Drive is a new family-owned restaurant that offers hand tossed pizzas topped with the freshest ingredients. Visitors can choose from a menu of signature pizzas, ice cold beer, or delicious appetizers.
- Dream Ice Cream Parlor, a delicious ice cream shop that offers an array of unique flavors, invites visitors to stop by and enjoy flavors such as Cookies-N-Cream, Rocky Road, and more. More information on ice cream shops in Stockton can be found at visitstockton.org/blog.
- Ibiza Lounge & Tapas, located on Miracle Mile, invites visitors to enjoy an evening of tasty tapas and a wide selection of wine and cocktails. It features a full bar, outdoor dining, and happy hour deals.
- Lao, Der!, a new locally owned and operated family restaurant that serves authentic Lao cuisine and flavors, is now open. Visitors can enjoy dishes like Imperial Rolls, Fried Pork Ribs, Crispy Prawns, and more.
- Lovotti Pizza Pub, a new locally owned and operated American restaurant, is brought to you from the owner of Lovotti Inc. It serves burgers, pizza, tacos, and beer. This family-friendly restaurant encourages visitors to play a game of darts or enjoy a song on the jukebox while enjoying delicious food.
- Pho Island is a new Vietnamese restaurant on Miracle Mile that serves authentic Vietnamese cuisine. Visitors can choose from meals with eggs, pork, beef, chicken, vegetables and seafood. Pho Island welcomes all looking for a great date night or evening out with friends.
For more information about Visit Stockton, including lodging, dining, wine tastings, shopping and things to do, visit visitstockton.org.
Visit Stockton is the official destination marketing organization for Stockton, California, promoting meetings, events, and travel. Founded in 1979 as a 501(c)6 non-profit trade organization, its mission is dedicated to enhancing the region's Quality of Life by collaboratively leading the promotion of its richly diverse community and advocating for initiatives that will enhance the city's Quality of Place. Visit Stockton is funded in partnership with local hotel properties through the Stockton Tourism Business Improvement District. More information can be found at visitstockton.org.
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XIAMEN, China, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 14th Straits Forum unveiled in East China's Fujian Province on July 12. The main venue was set in Xiamen, and the plenary session was held on the 13th.
On the previous day of the opening, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, encouraged young people across the Taiwan Straits to jointly strive for the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation.
This year, the Straits Forum carried on the theme of "Promoting people-to-people exchanges and deepening integrated development". It combined on-line and on-site events together, and organized general meetings and breakout sessions.The forum set one plenary session and organized 43 events for the four major topics: youth exchanges, grassroots exchanges, cultural exchanges and economic exchanges. 12 events were held at the district and city level, and about 2,000 guests from Taiwan attended the forum on-site, according to the Office of the Straits Forum Organizing Committee.
The Straits Forum is widely regarded as the "forum for the ordinary people" by compatriots on both sides of the Straits. It has built up a bridge that connects the heart between compatriots from across the Straits, and paved a road that benefits all. This forum will continue to focus on the grassroots and the youth, and serve their best interests, joining hands with Taiwan compatriots to carry forward the traditional Chinese culture, taking the initiative in sharing development opportunities with Taiwan compatriots, and driving the integrated development of economic advancement and social prosperity on both sides of the Straits.
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Late-breaking Hot Line Oral Presentation on FOURIER-OLE Data Represents Longest Trials of a PCSK9i to Date
New HEYMANS, HAUSER Data to be Presented
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today announced the presentation of eight cardiovascular (CV) scientific research abstracts, including long-term and real-world evidence studies that add to the robust body of evidence demonstrating the efficacy and safety profile of Repatha® (evolocumab). Notable abstracts include data from the open label extension (OLE) studies to the Phase 3 FOURIER cardiovascular outcomes study, which will be presented as a late-breaking Hot Line Oral Presentation. The data will be presented at European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022, Aug. 26-29 in Barcelona, Spain.
The FOURIER-OLE studies are the longest trials with a proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitor (PCSK9i) to date, with patients receiving Repatha for a median of 5 years and some patients receiving Repatha continuously for up to 8.5 years across the FOURIER and OLE study period. The FOURIER extension studies were conducted to provide additional insights regarding the long-term safety of Repatha. Additional Repatha data from the HEYMANS study, generated in Europe, will be presented.
"The depth and breadth of the cardiology data we are sharing with the scientific community reflects our commitment to developing transformative medicines that improve the lives of patients," said David M. Reese, M.D., executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen. "Through our work on Repatha, we've shown the world that patients at high-risk for CV events benefit from their LDL-C being driven to much lower levels than were previously assumed. The FOURIER-OLE data now proves that significant LDL-C reductions can be achieved and sustained long-term."
A list of Amgen-sponsored abstracts at ESC Congress 2022 can be found online and below:
Repatha data
- HEYMANS evolocumab associated with early and sustained reductions in low-density cholesterol (LDL-C) over 30 months
Oral Presentation, Friday, Aug. 26 - Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol reduction with evolocumab and its use in clinical practice: evidence from Swedish national register data
Oral Presentation, Friday, Aug. 26 - HEYMANS high long-term persistence to evolocumab treatment regimens in European clinical practice
Moderated Poster, Saturday, Aug. 27 - HAUSER-RCT evolocumab in pediatric patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia
Oral Presentation, Sunday, Aug. 28 - FOURIER-OLE long-term safety and major adverse clinical events with evolocumab in patients with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Oral Hotline Presentation, Monday, Aug. 29
Cardiovascular disease state and treatment studies
- Recurrent atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events preventable with guideline recommended lipid-lowering treatment following myocardial infarction
Moderated Poster, Friday, Aug. 26 - Long-term assessment and target achievement of LDL-C and systolic blood pressure in primary care after acute coronary syndrome
Moderated Poster, Friday, Aug. 26 - Potential barriers in lipid-lowering treatment with PCSK9 inhibitors from a health-system perspective: Comparative evidence from ten countries
Moderated Poster, Saturday, Aug. 27
About Amgen in the Cardiovascular Therapeutic Area
Building on more than three decades of experience in developing biotechnology medicines for patients with serious illnesses, Amgen is dedicated to addressing important scientific questions to advance care and improve the lives of patients with cardiovascular diseases, which are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide.1 Amgen's research into cardiovascular disease, and potential treatment options, is part of a growing competency at Amgen that utilizes human genetics to identify and validate certain drug targets. Through its own research and development efforts, as well as partnerships, Amgen is building a robust cardiovascular portfolio consisting of several approved and investigational molecules in an effort to address a number of today's important unmet patient needs, such as high LDL cholesterol, elevated LP(a) and obesity.
About Amgen
Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.
Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.
Amgen is one of the 30 companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also part of the Nasdaq-100 index. In 2021, Amgen was named one of the 25 World's Best Workplaces™ by Fortune and Great Place to Work™ and one of the 100 most sustainable companies in the world by Barron's.
For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen.
About Repatha® (evolocumab)
Repatha is approved in more than 75 countries, including the U.S., Japan, Canada and in all 28 countries that are members of the European Union. Applications in other countries are pending.
Important EU Product Information2
In Europe, Repatha is approved for use in:
Hypercholesterolaemia and mixed dyslipidaemia
Repatha is indicated in adults with primary hypercholesterolaemia (heterozygous familial and non–familial) or mixed dyslipidaemia, as an adjunct to diet:
- in combination with a statin or statin with other lipid-lowering therapies in patients unable to reach LDL–C goals with the maximum tolerated dose of a statin or,
- alone or in combination with other lipid-lowering therapies in patients who are statin-intolerant, or for whom a statin is contraindicated.
Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia
Repatha is indicated in adults and adolescents aged 12 years and over with homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia in combination with other lipid-lowering therapies.
Established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Repatha is indicated in adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL-C levels, as an adjunct to correction of other risk factors:
- in combination with the maximum tolerated dose of a statin with or without other lipid-lowering therapies or,
- alone or in combination with other lipid-lowering therapies in patients who are statin-intolerant, or for whom a statin is contraindicated.
Posology
Primary hypercholesterolaemia and mixed dyslipidaemia in adults
The recommended dose of Repatha is either 140 mg every two weeks or 420 mg once monthly; both doses are clinically equivalent.
Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia in adults and adolescents aged 12 years and over
The initial recommended dose is 420 mg once monthly. After 12 weeks of treatment, dose frequency can be up–titrated to 420 mg once every 2 weeks if a clinically meaningful response is not achieved. Patients on apheresis may initiate treatment with 420 mg every two weeks to correspond with their apheresis schedule.
Established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in adults
The recommended dose of Repatha is either 140 mg every two weeks or 420 mg once monthly; both doses are clinically equivalent.
Important Safety Information
This medicinal product is subject to additional monitoring. This will allow quick identification of new safety information. Healthcare professionals are asked to report any suspected adverse reactions.
Contraindications: Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients.
Special Warnings and Precautions: Renal impairment: There is limited experience with Repatha in patients with severe renal impairment (defined as eGFR < 30 mL/min/1.73 m2). Repatha should be used with caution in patients with severe renal impairment. Hepatic impairment: In patients with moderate hepatic impairment, a reduction in total evolocumab exposure was observed that may lead to a reduced effect on LDL-C reduction. Therefore, close monitoring may be warranted in these patients. Patients with severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh C) have not been studied. Repatha should be used with caution in patients with severe hepatic impairment. Dry natural rubber: The needle cover of the glass pre-filled syringe and of the pre-filled pen is made from dry natural rubber (a derivative of latex), which may cause allergic reactions. Sodium content: Repatha contains less than 1 mmol sodium (23 mg) per dose, i.e. it is essentially 'sodium-free'.
Interactions: No formal drug-drug interaction studies have been conducted for Repatha. No studies on pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics interaction between Repatha and lipid-lowering drugs other than statins and ezetimibe have been conducted.
Fertility, Pregnancy and Lactation: There are no or limited amount of data from the use of Repatha in pregnant women. Repatha should not be used during pregnancy unless the clinical condition of the woman requires treatment with evolocumab. It is unknown whether evolocumab is excreted in human milk. A risk to breastfed newborns/infants cannot be excluded. No data on the effect of evolocumab on human fertility are available.
Undesirable Effects: The following common (> 1/100 to < 1/10) adverse reactions have been reported in pivotal, controlled clinical studies: influenza, nasopharyngitis, upper respiratory tract infection, rash, nausea, back pain, arthralgia, injection site reactions. Please consult the SmPC for a full description of undesirable effects.
Pharmaceutical Precautions: Store in a refrigerator (2 degrees C – 8 degrees C). Do not freeze. Keep the pre-filled syringe or the pre-filled pen in the original carton in order to protect from light. If removed from the refrigerator, Repatha may be stored at room temperature (up to 25 degrees C) in the original carton and must be used within 1 month.
Important U.S. Product Information3
Repatha is a PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9) inhibitor antibody indicated:
- in adults with established cardiovascular disease to reduce the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, and coronary revascularization
- as an adjunct to diet, alone or in combination with other low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLC)-lowering therapies, in adults with primary hyperlipidemia, including heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), to reduce LDL-C
- as an adjunct to diet and other LDL-C-lowering therapies in pediatric patients aged 10 years and older with HeFH, to reduce LDL-C
- as an adjunct to other LDL-C-lowering therapies in adults and pediatric patients aged 10 years and older with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), to reduce LDL-C
The safety and effectiveness of Repatha have not been established in pediatric patients with HeFH or HoFH who are younger than 10 years old or in pediatric patients with other types of hyperlipidemia or HeFH.
Important U.S. Safety Information3
Contraindication: Repatha is contraindicated in patients with a history of a serious hypersensitivity reaction to evolocumab or any of the excipients in Repatha. Serious hypersensitivity reactions including angioedema have occurred in patients treated with Repatha.
Hypersensitivity Reactions: Hypersensitivity reactions, including angioedema, have been reported in patients treated with Repatha. If signs or symptoms of serious hypersensitivity reactions occur, discontinue treatment with Repatha, treat according to the standard of care, and monitor until signs and symptoms resolve.
Adverse Reactions in Adults with Primary Hyperlipidemia: The most common adverse reactions (>5% of patients treated with Repatha and more frequently than placebo) were: nasopharyngitis, upper respiratory tract infection, influenza, back pain, and injection site reactions.
From a pool of the 52-week trial and seven 12-week trials: Local injection site reactions occurred in 3.2% and 3.0% of Repatha-treated and placebo-treated patients, respectively. The most common injection site reactions were erythema, pain, and bruising. Hypersensitivity reactions occurred in 5.1% and 4.7% of Repatha-treated and placebo-treated patients, respectively. The most common hypersensitivity reactions were rash (1.0% versus 0.5% for Repatha and placebo, respectively), eczema (0.4% versus 0.2%), erythema (0.4% versus 0.2%), and urticaria (0.4% versus 0.1%).
Adverse Reactions in the Cardiovascular Outcomes Trial: The most common adverse reactions (>5% of patients treated with Repatha and more frequently than placebo) were: diabetes mellitus (8.8% Repatha, 8.2% placebo), nasopharyngitis (7.8% Repatha, 7.4% placebo), and upper respiratory tract infection (5.1% Repatha, 4.8% placebo).
Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HoFH): The adverse reactions that occurred in at least two patients treated with Repatha and more frequently than placebo were: upper respiratory tract infection, influenza, gastroenteritis, and nasopharyngitis.
Among the 16,676 patients without diabetes mellitus at baseline, the incidence of new-onset diabetes mellitus during the trial was 8.1% in patients treated with Repatha compared with 7.7% in patients that received placebo.
Adverse Reactions in Pediatric Patients with HeFH: The most common adverse reactions (>5% of patients treated with Repatha and more frequently than placebo) were: nasopharyngitis, headache, oropharyngeal pain, influenza, and upper respiratory tract infection.
Adverse Reactions in Adults and Pediatric Patients with HoFH: In a 12-week study in 49 patients, the adverse reactions that occurred in at least two patients treated with Repatha and more frequently than placebo were: upper respiratory tract infection, influenza, gastroenteritis, and nasopharyngitis. In an open-label extension study in 106 patients, including 14 pediatric patients, no new adverse reactions were observed.
Immunogenicity: Repatha is a human monoclonal antibody. As with all therapeutic proteins, there is potential for immunogenicity with Repatha.
Please contact Amgen Medinfo at 800-77-AMGEN (800-772-6436) or 844-REPATHA (844-737-2842) regarding Repatha® availability or find more information, including full Prescribing Information, at www.amgen.com and www.Repatha.com.
Amgen Forward-Looking Statements
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Our results may be affected by our ability to successfully market both new and existing products domestically and internationally, clinical and regulatory developments involving current and future products, sales growth of recently launched products, competition from other products including biosimilars, difficulties or delays in manufacturing our products and global economic conditions. In addition, sales of our products are affected by pricing pressure, political and public scrutiny and reimbursement policies imposed by third-party payers, including governments, private insurance plans and managed care providers and may be affected by regulatory, clinical and guideline developments and domestic and international trends toward managed care and healthcare cost containment. Furthermore, our research, testing, pricing, marketing and other operations are subject to extensive regulation by domestic and foreign government regulatory authorities. Our business may be impacted by government investigations, litigation and product liability claims. In addition, our business may be impacted by the adoption of new tax legislation or exposure to additional tax liabilities. If we fail to meet the compliance obligations in the corporate integrity agreement between us and the U.S. government, we could become subject to significant sanctions. Further, while we routinely obtain patents for our products and technology, the protection offered by our patents and patent applications may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented by our competitors, or we may fail to prevail in present and future intellectual property litigation. We perform a substantial amount of our commercial manufacturing activities at a few key facilities, including in Puerto Rico, and also depend on third parties for a portion of our manufacturing activities, and limits on supply may constrain sales of certain of our current products and product candidate development. An outbreak of disease or similar public health threat, such as COVID-19, and the public and governmental effort to mitigate against the spread of such disease, could have a significant adverse effect on the supply of materials for our manufacturing activities, the distribution of our products, the commercialization of our product candidates, and our clinical trial operations, and any such events may have a material adverse effect on our product development, product sales, business and results of operations. We rely on collaborations with third parties for the development of some of our product candidates and for the commercialization and sales of some of our commercial products. In addition, we compete with other companies with respect to many of our marketed products as well as for the discovery and development of new products. Further, some raw materials, medical devices and component parts for our products are supplied by sole third-party suppliers. Certain of our distributors, customers and payers have substantial purchasing leverage in their dealings with us. The discovery of significant problems with a product similar to one of our products that implicate an entire class of products could have a material adverse effect on sales of the affected products and on our business and results of operations. Our efforts to collaborate with or acquire other companies, products or technology, and to integrate the operations of companies or to support the products or technology we have acquired, may not be successful. A breakdown, cyberattack or information security breach could compromise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our systems and our data. Our stock price is volatile and may be affected by a number of events. Our business and operations may be negatively affected by the failure, or perceived failure, of achieving our environmental, social and governance objectives. The effects of global climate change and related natural disasters could negatively affect our business and operations. Global economic conditions may magnify certain risks that affect our business. Our business performance could affect or limit the ability of our Board of Directors to declare a dividend or our ability to pay a dividend or repurchase our common stock. We may not be able to access the capital and credit markets on terms that are favorable to us, or at all.
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References
- World Health Organization. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) fact sheet. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs317/en/. Accessed August 2022.
- Repatha® EU Prescribing Information; Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2018.
- Repatha® U.S. Prescribing Information; Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2021.
CONTACT: Amgen, Thousand Oaks
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The technology company builds upon collaboration with the luxury development firm by signing four iconic new projects
MIAMI, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- YUPIX, a powerfully immersive technology platform that is revolutionizing the real estate industry, announces new partnerships with nationwide developer Property Markets Group (PMG) following unparalleled sales in their first project together, E11EVEN Hotel & Residences, co-developed by E11EVEN Partners. This second phase in the ongoing partnership puts four exclusive new residential towers across Miami in front of high-net-worth buyers through multisensory meta-reality tours before construction begins.
Data from YUPIX's meta-reality tours with PMG have shown a high sales conversion rate above 90 percent in multi-million dollar residences. A testament to the technology's power to influence decision making, over $700 million were generated in direct sales over a 5-month period as a result of the YUPIX tours for E11EVEN Residences.
"Our partnership with YUPIX has been extremely successful and we are excited to expand it to our other projects," said Ryan Shear, Managing Partner of PMG. "YUPIX's immersive experience is one of the many reasons why E11EVEN Residences Beyond has been so well received. Virtual Reality and meta technology are tools that help us as developers work more efficiently and help buyers make more informed decisions."
YUPIX's cutting-edge technology will be on display in each building's sales gallery and pop-up activations, allowing prospective buyers to interact with meta-reality simulations of a tower's opulent amenities, panoramic views, and high-design residences. Using high-definition headsets and an acute attention to detail, the tours allow participants to gain a deeper perception of each development - like walking through various unit layouts and visualizing customized finishes. With Miami a booming market for international buyers, YUPIX showcases projects to a global audience by offering tours in cities around the world - from Dubai and New York to Mexico City and Nassau.
"Our technology's hyper-realistic content offers users the opportunity to experience a product from anywhere in the world before construction even begins," said Patricio Navarro, CEO of YUPIX. "It disrupts the industry's traditional sales process; allowing developers to sell the most expensive units and penthouses before breaking ground, which is historically unheard of."
The YUPIX Arena is located at 2811 NW 5 Ave., Miami, FL 33127, and offers tours by appointment only via email yupix@yupix.com or calling 786-362-5368. For more information, please visit YUPIX.com.
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LAS VEGAS, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) ("MGM Resorts" or the "Company") will release its financial results for the second quarter 2022 after the market closes on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. MGM Resorts will host a conference call that day at 5 p.m. EDT, which will include a brief discussion of the results followed by a question and answer session. In addition, supplemental slides will be posted prior to the start of the call on MGM's Investor Relations website at http://investors.mgmresorts.com.
The call will be accessible via the Internet through http://investors.mgmresorts.com/investors/events-and-presentations/ or by calling 1-888-317-6003 for domestic callers and 1-412-317-6061 for international callers. The conference call access code is 9563121.
A replay of the call will be available through August 10, 2022. The replay may be accessed by dialing 1-877-344-7529 or 1-412-317-0088. The replay access code is 2455831.
MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) is an S&P 500® global entertainment company with national and international locations featuring best-in-class hotels and casinos, state-of-the-art meetings and conference spaces, incredible live and theatrical entertainment experiences, and an extensive array of restaurant, nightlife and retail offerings. MGM Resorts creates immersive, iconic experiences through its suite of Las Vegas-inspired brands. The MGM Resorts portfolio encompasses 33 unique hotel and gaming destinations globally, including some of the most recognizable resort brands in the industry. The Company's 50/50 venture, BetMGM, LLC, offers U.S. sports betting and online gaming through market-leading brands, including BetMGM and partypoker. The Company is currently pursuing targeted expansion in Asia through the integrated resort opportunity in Japan. Through its "Focused on What Matters: Embracing Humanity and Protecting the Planet" philosophy, MGM Resorts commits to creating a more sustainable future, while striving to make a bigger difference in the lives of its employees, guests, and in the communities where it operates. The global employees of MGM Resorts are proud of their company for being recognized as one of FORTUNE® Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies®. For more information, please visit us at www.mgmresorts.com. Please also connect with us @MGMResortsIntl on Twitter as well as Facebook and Instagram.
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BRANCHVILLE, N.J., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seventy-seven percent of U.S. homeowners plan to take at least one vacation between July and December 2022, according to a new study commissioned by Selective Insurance, with 44% planning to travel for a week or longer. While 59% of U.S. homeowners have a home security system or device, less than half (49%) use one to protect their unoccupied home when they are on vacation. These findings are part of an online survey of more than 1,400 U.S. homeowners The Harris Poll conducted for Selective.
Locking all their windows (68%) is the most common home security measure vacationing U.S. homeowners use to protect their vacant homes. Additional safety precautions include having someone check their home (61%), setting lights on a timer (39%), shutting off water (21%), and hiring a house sitter (13%).
"Vacations are a great time to create new memories, but they are quickly forgotten if you return to a damaged or burglarized home. Taking sensible home safety preparations before leaving is as important as packing the right items in your suitcase," said Allen Anderson, Senior Vice President of Personal Lines at Selective Insurance. "Our research shows that home security systems and devices are widely under-used across the country, but they are powerful mitigation defenses against unoccupied home theft, fire, and water leaks."
The study also revealed that younger U.S. homeowners, aged 18-34 (60%) and 35-44 (64%), are more likely to use a security system or device to keep their home safe while vacationing compared to those aged 55-64 (41%) and 65+ (34%). In addition, significantly more U.S. homeowners residing in urban areas (63%) use a security system or device when vacationing than those in suburban (49%) or rural (31%) communities.
Regional Insights
Selective's study found geographic differences in U.S. homeowners' vacation plans and use of security systems or devices while away:
- Half of Northeast homeowners (50%) plan to take a week or longer vacation between July and December compared to just 38% of Midwest homeowners.
- Homeowners in the South (51%) and West (58%) are more likely to use a security system or device when they are away on vacation than those in the Northeast (40%) and Midwest (42%).
Home Security with SimpliSafe®
SimpliSafe® and Selective Insurance recently partnered to offer Selective's eligible homeowner policyholders a complimentary 7-piece security system. The package also includes two months of SimpliSafe's most comprehensive professional monitoring. Eligible homeowner policyholders who choose to receive and activate a SimpliSafe security system with monitoring within sixty days of delivery get an automatic discount on their Selective insurance policy. Visit here for details and limitations.
Survey Methodology:
This survey was conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Selective Insurance from June 23 – June 27, 2022, among 2,053 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, of whom 1,444 are homeowners. Harris online polls' sampling precision is measured using a Bayesian credible interval. For this study, the sample data is accurate to within +2.8 percentage points using a 95% confidence level. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables and subgroup sample sizes, please contact Katelyn Leondi.
About Selective Insurance
Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIGI) is a holding company for 10 property and casualty insurance companies rated "A+" (Superior) by AM Best. Through independent agents, the insurance companies offer standard and specialty insurance for commercial and personal risks and flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program's Write Your Own Program. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including the Fortune 1000 and being certified as a Great Place to Work® in 2022 for the third consecutive year. For more information about Selective, visit www.Selective.com.
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - PODA HOLDINGS, INC. ("PODA" or the "Company") (CSE: PODA) (FSE: 99L) (OTC: PODAF) is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated May 13, 2022 in respect of the proposed sale of all or substantially all of the Company's assets to Altria Client Services LLC ("ALCS"), a subsidiary of Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO), it has filed a management information circular (the "Circular") in connection with the upcoming meeting of the holders of the Company's shares (the "Shareholders") called for June 22, 2022 (the "Meeting"). The Circular is available on the Company's profile on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) at www.sedar.com well as on the Company's website at poda-holdings.com.
The Company's board of directors (the "Board") has set May 18, 2022 as the record date for determining the Shareholders entitled to receive notice and vote at the Meeting. The Meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. (Pacific time) at the offices of DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Suite 2800, Park Place 666 Burrard St, Vancouver, British Columbia. The deadline for returning proxies for the Meeting is Monday June 20, 2022 at 1:30 p.m (Pacific Time).
As previously announced, the Company, Ryan Selby and Ryan Karkairan (together, the "Owners"), and ALCS entered into an asset purchase agreement dated May 13, 2022 (the "Asset Purchase Agreement"), pursuant to which the Company and the Owners have each agreed to sell to ALCS substantially all of the assets and properties used in the Company's business of developing, manufacturing and marketing multi-substrate heated capsule technology, including, without limitation, the Owners' patents related to such technology and the Company's exclusive, perpetual license of certain of those patents pursuant to an amended and restated royalties agreement dated April 12, 2019 (the "Royalties Agreement"), for a total purchase price of US$100.5 million ("Purchase Price"), subject to certain adjustments and holdbacks (the "Transaction"). The Company carries on its business pursuant to the Royalties Agreement and the Company and the Owners have agreed to allocate US$55,275,000 of the Purchase Price to the Company (being 55% of the Purchase Price), with the balance to the Owners. Provided the Transaction is completed, the Company expects to make a cash distribution to Shareholders (the "Distribution") equal to approximately CDN$0.40 per subordinate voting share of the Company ("SVS") and CDN$400 per multiple voting share of the Company ("MVS"), representing a 167% premium to the closing share price of the Company's SVS as of May 12, 2022, being the day prior to the announcement of the proposed Transaction.
The Transaction has been unanimously recommended by a special committee of the Board, comprised entirely of independent directors (the "Special Committee"). The Board, after receiving the unanimous recommendation of the Special Committee, has unanimously determined that the Transaction is in the best interests of the Company and that the consideration to be received by the Company pursuant to the Asset Purchase Agreement is fair to the Company. Accordingly, the Board approved the Asset Purchase Agreement and recommended that Shareholders vote in favour of the resolution approving the Transaction, with the Owners having declared their interests and abstaining.
At the Meeting, Shareholders will be asked to consider, and if deemed advisable, to pass, with or without variation, special resolutions approving the following:
- the sale of all or substantially all of the undertaking of the Company in accordance with the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) pursuant to the Transaction, as contemplated by the Asset Purchase Agreement;
- the alteration of the Company's Articles to vary the special rights and restrictions with respect to participation in returns of capital and dividends attached to the SVS to facilitate matters in connection with the Distribution (the "SVS Amendment");
- the reduction in the capital of the SVS to facilitate the distribution of a portion of the net proceeds received by the Company from the Transaction as a return of capital in connection with the Distribution (the "SVS Capital Reduction");
- the alteration of the Company's Articles to vary the special rights and restrictions with respect to participation in returns of capital and dividends attached to the MVS to facilitate matters in connection with the Distribution (the "MVS Amendment"); and
- the reduction in the capital of the MVS to facilitate the distribution of a portion of the net proceeds received by the Company from the Transaction as a return of capital in connection with the Distribution (the "MVS Capital Reduction").
To be adopted: (i) the resolution approving the Transaction must be approved by at least 66⅔% of the votes cast by Shareholders, present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote at the Meeting, voting together as a single class, (ii) the resolutions approving the SVS Amendment and the SVS Capital Reduction must each be approved by at least 66⅔% of the votes cast by holders of SVS, and (iii) the resolutions approving the MVS Amendment and the MVS Capital Reduction must each be approved by at least 66⅔% of the votes cast by holders of MVS, in each case present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote at the Meeting.
Each of the directors and senior officers of the Company, together with certain other Shareholders, holding shares carrying in aggregate approximately 38.91% of the votes which may be cast at the Meeting, have entered into voting agreements with ALCS pursuant to which they have agreed to cast such votes in favour of the resolution approving the Transaction.
Your vote is important. Whether or not you plan to attend the Meeting, we encourage you to vote promptly.
The Circular contains important information regarding the Transaction and the other matters to be put forward to Shareholders at the Meeting, how Shareholders can vote their shares at the Meeting, the background to the Transaction and the rationale for the recommendations made by the Special Committee and the Board. All Shareholders are urged to read the Circular as it contains important information.
Further details regarding the terms of Asset Purchase Agreement are set out in the Asset Purchase Agreement, a copy of which is available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. In addition to Shareholder approval, the Transaction is subject to receipt of consents and approvals from certain governmental authorities and other parties, as well as other closing conditions customary in transactions of this nature.
PODA has developed a multi-substrate heated capsule technology that uses proprietary biodegradable single-use capsules, which are both consumer and environmentally friendly. The innovative design of the technology prevents cross-contamination between the heating devices and the capsules which eliminates cleaning requirements and provides users with a convenient and enjoyable experience. PODA's technology is fully patented in Canada and is patent pending in over 60 additional countries, covering almost 70% of the global population.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release contains "forward-looking information" which may include, but is not limited to, information with respect to the activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future. Such forward-looking information is often, but not always, identified by the use of words and phrases such as "plans," "expects," "is expected," "budget," "scheduled," "estimates," "forecasts," "intends," "anticipates," or "believes" or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results "may," "could," "would," "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. Such forward-looking information includes, among other things, information regarding: the anticipated timing of the Meeting, the Company's ability to obtain shareholder approval at the Meeting, the Company's expectations regarding its ability to complete, and the anticipated results of, the Transaction, the anticipated distribution of CDN$0.40 per share, and the parties' ability to satisfy closing conditions and receive necessary approvals. Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to the Company. Although such statements are based on assumptions management considers reasonable, there can be no assurance: (i) that the Transaction will be completed; (ii) if the Transaction is completed, that it will be completed on the terms described above; (iii) that the proposed cash distribution will be made; or (iv) if the proposed cash distribution is made, as to the amount or terms of such distribution. .
Forward-looking information contained in this news release is based on certain factors and assumptions regarding, among other things, the receipt of all necessary governmental and Shareholder approvals and satisfaction of other conditions to the completion of the Transaction and other similar matters. While the Company considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available to it, they may prove to be incorrect. Forward looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other risk factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such risks include risks that the Transaction does not close on the anticipated timeline, or at all, risks related to increased competition and current global financial conditions, access and supply risks, reliance on key personnel, operational risks, regulatory risks, financing, capitalization and liquidity risks, and risks relating to the potential failure to receive all requisite shareholder and regulatory approvals. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company undertakes no obligation, except as otherwise required by law, to update these forward-looking statements if management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors change.
The Transaction cannot close until the required Shareholder and governmental approvals are obtained. There can be no assurance that the Transaction will be completed as proposed or at all. The Transaction could be modified, restructured or terminated. Investors are cautioned that, except as disclosed in the Circular and in the Asset Purchase Agreement itself, copies of each of which are or will be filed under the Company's profile at www.sedar.com, any information released or received with respect to the Transaction may not be accurate or complete and should not be relied upon.
The Canadian Securities Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the content of this news release.
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Hires banking executive Shawn J. Thompson to build Colorado team as part of Mountain West expansion
PORTLAND, Ore., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Umpqua Bank, a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: UMPQ), today announced the expansion of its middle market banking division into Colorado with the addition of Shawn J. Thompson as market director. One of Colorado's leading banking executives, Thompson brings more than 25 years of experience building high-performing teams and advising some of Colorado's most prominent mid-size companies.
According to Umpqua's Head of Middle Market Banking Richard Cabrera, today's announcement marks Umpqua's latest Western US-expansion and reflects its commitment to build best-in-class banking teams across the Mountain West region, led by Jonathan Dale, EVP – Oregon & Mountain West Regional Director. The addition of Thompson gives the bank immediate market access and capacity to fully support the banking needs of mid-size companies across the greater Denver Metro, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins.
"Our commitment to Colorado and every market we serve starts with proven leaders who know the region and embrace our expertise-driven and personalized, team-based approach to customer relationships," said Cabrera. "Shawn is an exceptional hire on both fronts. We're thrilled to have someone of his caliber and reputation on board to help establish our presence and have an immediate impact in the market."
Thompson has spent his entire career in Colorado building top middle market banking teams that support the complex financial needs and growth of mid-size companies. His expertise spans numerous industries critical to the region's economy, including nonprofits, food and beverage, healthcare, government contracts, auto dealer and commercial real estate. Most recently, Thompson led PNC Bank's commercial banking group in Colorado following eight years as market president of BBVA Compass, which was acquired by PNC in 2021. Compass Bank initially tapped Thompson to establish and lead its entrance into Colorado and help build its commercial banking presence prior to being acquired by BBVA USA.
"Denver has a vibrant business community that supports a great quality of life across Colorado and beyond," said Umpqua Bank President Tory Nixon. "As a Western US-based bank, we're thrilled to join that community and see the opportunity here under Shawn's leadership as a natural extension of our commitment to become a trusted banking partner in the great commercial centers across our region."
Thompson currently serves as board chairman for Rocky Mountain Healthcare Services and has been actively involved in board leadership with the YMCA of the Pikes Peak region. He holds a Food System Economics & Finance degree from Michigan State University and graduated from the BBVA School of Management Program at the University of Texas.
Umpqua Bank, a Western US regional bank with more than $30B in assets, now operates in seven Western states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
About Umpqua Bank
Umpqua Bank, headquartered in Roseburg, Ore., is a subsidiary of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, and has locations across Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Umpqua Bank has been recognized for its innovative customer experience and banking strategy by national publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Fast Company and CNBC. The company has been recognized for eight years in a row on FORTUNE magazine's list of the country's "100 Best Companies to Work For," and was recently named by The Portland Business Journal the Most Admired Financial Services Company in Oregon for the 17th consecutive year. In addition to its retail banking presence, Umpqua Bank owns Financial Pacific Leasing, Inc., a nationally recognized commercial finance company that provides equipment leases to small businesses.
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A withering report on sexual abuse and cover-up in the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.
A viral video in which a woman confronts her pastor at an independent Christian church for sexually preying on her when she was a teen.
A TV documentary exposing sex abuse of children in Amish and Mennonite communities.
You might call it #ChurchToo 2.0.
Survivors of sexual assault in church settings and their advocates have been calling on churches for years to admit the extent of abuse in their midst and to implement reforms. In 2017 that movement acquired the hashtag #ChurchToo, derived from the wider #MeToo movement, which called out sexual predators in many sectors of society.
In recent weeks #ChurchToo has seen an especially intense set of revelations across denominations and ministries, reaching vast audiences in headlines and on screen with a message that activists have long struggled to get across.
“For us it’s just confirmation of what we’ve been saying all these years,” said Jimmy Hinton, an advocate for abuse survivors and a Church of Christ minister in Somerset, Pennsylvania. “There is an absolute epidemic of abuse in the church, in religious spaces.”
Calls for reform will be prominent this week in Anaheim, California, when the Southern Baptist Convention holds its annual meeting following an outside report that concluded its leaders mishandled abuse cases and stonewalled victims.
The May 22 report came out the same day an independent church in Indiana was facing its own reckoning.
Moments after its pastor, John B. Lowe II, confessed to years of “adultery,” longtime member Bobi Gephart took the microphone to tell the rest of the story: She was just 16 when it started, she said.
The video of the confrontation has drawn nearly 1 million views on Facebook. Lowe subsequently resigned from New Life Christian Church & World Outreach in Warsaw.
In an interview, Gephart said she’s not surprised that so many cases are now coming out. She has received words of encouragement from all over the world, with people sharing their own “heartbreaking” stories of abuse.
“Things are shaking loose,” Gephart said. “I really feel like God is trying to make things right.”
For many churches, she said, “It’s all about covering up, ‘Let’s keep the show going.’ There are hurting people, and that’s not right. I still don’t think a lot of the church gets it.”
Hinton — who turned in his own father, a former minister now imprisoned for aggravated indecent assault — said the viral video demonstrates the potency of survivors telling their own stories.
“Survivors have far more power than they ever think imaginable,” he said on his “Speaking Out on Sex Abuse” podcast.
#ChurchToo revelations have emerged in all kinds of church groups, including liberal denominations that preach gender equality and depict clergy sexual misconduct as an abuse of power. The Episcopal Church aired stories from survivors at its 2018 General Convention, and an archbishop in the Anglican Church of Canada resigned in April amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
But many recent reckonings are occurring in conservative Protestant settings where a “purity culture” has been prominent in recent decades — emphasizing male authority and female modesty and discouraging dating in favor of traditional courtship leading to marriage.
On May 25 reality TV personality Josh Duggar was sentenced in Arkansas to more than 12 years in prison for receiving child pornography. Duggar was a former lobbyist for a conservative Christian organization and appeared on TLC’s since-canceled “19 Kids and Counting,” featuring a homeschooling family that stressed chastity and traditional courtship. Prosecutors said Duggar had a “deep-seated, pervasive and violent sexual interest in children.”
On May 26 the Springfield (Missouri) News-Leader reported on a spate of sex abuse cases involving workers at Kanakuk Kamps, a large evangelical camp ministry.
Emily Joy Allison, whose abuse story launched the #ChurchToo movement, said the sexual ethic preached in many conservative churches — and the shame and silence it breeds — are part of the problem. She argues that in her book, “#ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing.”
Allison told The Associated Press that addressing abuse requires both a change in church policy and theology. But she knows the latter is unlikely in the SBC.
“They need to undergo a transformation so radical they would be unrecognizable at the end. And that will not happen,” Allison said. Reform work focused on “harm reduction” is a more realistic approach, she said.
Some advocates hope the front-burner focus on abuse could lead to lasting reforms — if not in churches, then in the law.
Misty Griffin, an advocate for fellow survivors of sexual assault in Amish communities, recently launched a petition drive seeking a congressional “Child’s Rights Act.” As of early June, it had drawn more than 5,000 signatures.
It would require that all teachers, including those in religious schools and homeschool settings, be trained about child abuse and neglect and subject to reporting mandates, and would also require age-appropriate instruction on abuse prevention for students. Griffin said such legislation is crucial because in authoritarian religious systems, victims often don’t know help is available or how to get it.
“Without that, nothing’s going to change,” said Griffin, a consulting producer on the documentary “Sins of the Amish.”
The two-episode documentary, which premiered on Peacock TV in May, examines endemic abuse in Amish and Mennonite communities, saying it is enabled by a patriarchal authority structure, an emphasis on forgiving offenders and reluctance to report wrongdoing to law enforcement.
The Southern Baptist Convention, whose doctrine also calls for male leadership in churches and families, has been particularly shaken by the #ChurchToo movement after years of complaints that leadership has failed to care for survivors and hold their abusers accountable.
At its annual meeting, the SBC will consider proposals to create a task force that would oversee a listing of clergy credibly accused of abuse. But survivors criticized that proposal and are calling for a more powerful and independent commission to perform that task and also review allegations of abuse and cover-up. They’re also seeking a “survivor restoration fund” and memorial dedicated to survivors.
Momentum for change grew as survivors such as Jules Woodson, who went public in 2018 with a sexual assault accusation against her former youth pastor, were emboldened to tell their stories.
“I felt like, ‘Thank God there’s a space where we can tell these stories,’” Woodson said.
Such accounts led to the independent investigation, whose 288-page report detailed how the SBC’s Executive Committee prioritized protecting the institution over victims’ well-being and preventing abuse.
The committee has apologized and made public a long-secret list of ministers accused of abuse.
Woodson said seeing her abuser’s name on it felt like a double-edged sword.
“It was in some ways validating that my abuser was on there, but it was also devastating to see that they knew and yet nobody in the SBC spoke up to warn others,” she said.
Woodson added that she is still waiting for meaningful change: “They have offered minimal words acknowledging the problem, but they have offered zero reform and true action which would show genuine repentance or care and concern for survivors or the vulnerable people who have yet to be abused.”
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The partnership integrates Krisp's best-in-class audio capabilities with Twilio Video best-in-class solution.
BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, global software company Krisp announced a new partnership with Twilio (Inc.). The new integration partnership will allow Twilio Video customers to achieve high-quality audio when building video experiences through Twilio Video. With Krisp's background noise cancellation capabilities, environmental distractions are no longer a concern for developers building video applications using Twilio Video. Krisp will help Twilio Video customers create an exceptional audio experience, enhancing the video solution they are building through Twilio Video.
"Krisp is a natural technology fit within Twilio's solutions. Twilio customers will now have advanced voice and audio quality with their market-leading Twilio Video for both desktop and mobile devices." Robert Schoenfield
Krisp's technology helps create a distraction-free virtual environment even if your call participants have noisy physical work environments thanks to bi-directional noise cancellation. In a study with over 400 participants, 78% of respondents agreed that background noise from people on the other end of the call distracts them from the conversation taking place in their online meeting. By bringing Krisp to Twilio Video, developers now have the capability to build and launch video solutions for a post-Covid world where remote and hybrid interactions have changed the expectations of virtual communications platforms.
We are thrilled to partner with the Krisp team, who are leading the way in AI-based noise cancellation technology. Together we can provide exceptional audio quality to the billions of conversations on the Twilio Video platform, allowing customers to build engaging and personalized virtual experiences across telehealth, education, remote work, and more. - Gaurav Agarwal, GM at Twilio
Krisp is a global software company that develops audio solutions to empower everyone to communicate with clarity and confidence. Its AI-powered Noise, Voice, and Echo Cancellation technology has been recognized as an industry leader, named one of the Time 100 "Best Inventions of 2020" in the Artificial Intelligence category and one of "America's Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies" by Forbes. Krisp supports more than 150 million users across the world and thousands of small businesses, enterprise organizations, contact centers, and business process outsourcers to create clearer communication—regardless of where they work—and is trusted by some of the world's largest and most prominent organizations. Visit krisp.ai to learn more.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Idemitsu Renewables, the U.S.-based renewable energy business of Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd., announced today it has completed funding of tax equity and debt financing for its 73 megawatt Luciana Solar Project in Tulare County, California.
Morgan Stanley Renewables Inc. provided the tax equity. Rabobank provided the debt financing.
The 73 megawatt Luciana project began commercial operation in May 2022, and is owned and operated by Idemitsu Renewables. This project adds to the company's operating assets within California and Colorado regions and complements the extensive development pipeline spanning WECC, PJM, MISO, and CAISO service areas.
"This project continues our team's legacy of execution from greenfield, financing, construction to operations of utility scale solar projects. Given the dynamics of the last few years, this project is a testament to the expertise and dedication of the team. Securing financing from top-tier financial partners, Morgan Stanley and Rabobank was critical to the success of this project," said Cary Vandenberg, CEO of Idemitsu Renewables Americas.
"We are delighted to partner again with Idemitsu on the Luciana project, and to continue supporting the transition of the U.S. energy industry with more renewable solar electricity generation," said Jorge Iragorri, Head of the Alternative Financing Group at Morgan Stanley.
"We are pleased to have supported Idemitsu Renewables on this milestone transaction that will provide clean energy to Northern California and look forward to partnering further with Idemitsu as they expand their portfolio," said Greg Hutton, Managing Director and Regional Head of Project Finance, Americas at Rabobank.
The renewable power generated by Luciana will serve Northern California generating clean and affordable power equivalent to the needs of over 20,000 homes, furthering its commitment to being a leader in the U.S. renewable energy space.
About Idemitsu Renewables
Idemitsu Renewables, the U.S. based renewable energy subsidiary of Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd., is a leading solar and energy storage developer and independent power producer. The company acquires, develops, owns, and operates utility-scale solar power generation plants throughout North America and has offices in California and Nevada. Learn more at www.idemitsurenewables.com.
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FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced that it has completed its spinoff of Embecta Corp. (embecta) (NASDAQ: EMBC), which holds BD's former Diabetes Care business and is now one of the largest pure-play diabetes management companies in the world.
"The completion of this spinoff is a significant achievement for both BD and embecta," said Tom Polen, chairman, CEO and president of BD. "While BD is proud of its heritage in the diabetes care category, we are just as excited to see our legacy advanced by embecta as a newly independent, publicly-traded corporation. Moving forward, each of our organizations will be able to focus on investment and innovation in our respective core businesses, support our customers and the patients they serve, drive strategic growth and enhance long-term shareholder value."
The spinoff of embecta demonstrates BD's ongoing commitment to the company's BD 2025 strategy, which includes its three strategic pillars of Grow, Simplify and Empower. The strategic rationale for the spinoff was to create two, independent companies with attractive long-term value for BD shareholders and enhanced strategic, operational and financial characteristics. Each company will focus on its core business and product portfolios, with BD maintaining its category leadership positions across its BD Medical, BD Life Sciences and BD Interventional segments.
embecta will focus on building on its solid foundation as the leading producer of diabetes injection devices, investing in both organic and inorganic growth opportunities and improving the lives of people living with diabetes.
Shareholders will receive one share of embecta common stock for every five common shares of BD that they held as of the close of business on March 22, 2022, the record date for the spin-off, with cash in lieu of any fractional shares of embecta common stock.
BD retains no ownership interest in embecta, which will begin trading today on the NASDAQ under the symbol EMBC on a "regular way" basis.
Perella Weinberg Partners LP, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Baker McKenzie, and PricewaterhouseCoopers are acting as advisors to BD in connection with the transaction.
Please visit investors.bd.com for additional information regarding the spinoff, including links to filings with the SEC.
About BD
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. The company supports the heroes on the frontlines of health care by developing innovative technology, services and solutions that help advance both clinical therapy for patients and clinical process for health care providers. BD and its 75,000 employees have a passion and commitment to help enhance the safety and efficiency of clinicians' care delivery process, enable laboratory scientists to accurately detect disease and advance researchers' capabilities to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics. BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues. By working in close collaboration with customers, BD can help enhance outcomes, lower costs, increase efficiencies, improve safety and expand access to health care. For more information on BD, please visit bd.com or connect with us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/bd1/ and Twitter @BDandCo.
Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains certain forward-looking statements (as defined under Federal securities laws) regarding BD and the spinoff of embecta, including the anticipated benefits of the spinoff. All such statements are based upon current expectations of BD and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. With respect to forward-looking statements contained herein, a number of factors could cause actual outcomes to vary materially. These factors include, but are not limited to, risks associated with the impact or terms of the spinoff, as well as other factors discussed in BD's filings and embecta's filings with the SEC. We do not intend to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof except as required by applicable laws or regulations.
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WASHINGTON, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RCB Fund Services LLC, the Fund Administrator for the General Electric Company ("GE") Fair Fund (the "GE Fair Fund"), announces the opening of the claims process for the GE Fair Fund. The GE Fair Fund was established by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to distribute $200 million in civil money penalties paid by GE to compensate investors harmed by GE's failure to disclose material information relating to its power and insurance businesses. The GE Fair Fund will compensate certain investors who purchased GE's common stock between October 16, 2015 and January 16, 2018. A copy of the Distribution Plan (the "Plan"), which contains a description of eligibility and all conditions concerning participation in the distribution, can be found at: GEfairfund.com or sec.gov.
Any person or entity that purchased GE common stock on a U.S. exchange during the period from October 16, 2015 and January 16, 2018 is eligible for compensation from the GE Fair Fund subject to certain other eligibility limitations described in the Plan.
General Electric Common Stock – (GE) CUSIP: 369604103
The amount of compensation will be determined in accordance with the Plan and will vary based on the dates of transactions in GE common stock, the number of shares purchased and/or sold, and the total dollar value of eligible claims submitted to GE Fair Fund.
You must submit a completed claim form and supporting documentation on or before the claims deadline. The easiest way to participate is to file a claim online through the GE Fair Fund website: GEfairfund.com. If you are not able to utilize the online filing, you may download a copy of the claim form from the website and mail the completed claim form to the GE Fair Fund at the address shown below. You may also request a claim form by calling us toll free at (800) 511-6120, or by sending an email request to info@GEfairfund.com.
Claim forms must be postmarked no later than midnight on October 19, 2022.
GE Fair Fund, P.O. Box 6978, Syracuse, NY 13217-6978.
Toll free number: (800) 511-6120.
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Grants will help organizations provide housing for local communities
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Housing Affordability Trust (HAT) today, on June 25, 2022, announced the 22 recipients of its 2022 grants. The HAT Board of Trustees was inspired by the submissions from organizations working to improve housing and quality of life in Birmingham. This year's grants total $3.9 million.
The 2022 recipients are:
Amid skyrocketing inflation and rising interest rates, the U.S. economy has impacted countless individuals throughout the state of Alabama and the organizations supporting at-risk communities in and around Birmingham. With housing being one of the most significant expenses for Americans, HAT has distributed annual grants since 2017 to more than 60 local organizations, totaling nearly $23 million for housing-related projects and groups.
One example, AIDS Alabama, continuously supports programs like The Way Station – Birmingham's first shelter for homeless youth. The HAT grants not only keep programs such as this operational but will ultimately assist in building new housing for at-risk homeless people between 18 and 24.
ABOUT THE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY TRUST (HAT): Based in Birmingham, Alabama, the Housing Affordability Trust was established by the Jefferson County Housing Authority and Navigate Affordable Housing Partners. Board members are Chairman Sam Parker, Vice-Chairman Hugo Isom, Michael Davis, and Perry Shuttlesworth. For more information, visit housingaffordabilitytrust.com.
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- Dr. Christopher Kellner from Mount Sinai Health System successfully enrolled the first patients in the DIVE (Deployment of Irrigating Intraventricular Catheter System) study.
- DIVE is designed to measure the effectiveness of IRRAflow to treat intraventricular hemorrhage versus standard EVD treatment.
- The Neurosurgery and Neurology Departments at The Mount Sinai Hospital were recently ranked 9th in the US, according to U.S. News and World Report.
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IRRAS, a commercial-stage medical technology company with a comprehensive portfolio of innovative products for neurocritical care, today announced the initial patient treatments with the company's IRRAflow system within Mount Sinai Health System in New York, NY, one of the United States' largest and most respected hospital groups. Thus far, two patients suffering from intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) have been enrolled in the Deployment of Irrigating Intraventricular Catheter System (DIVE) clinical trial for patients. The DIVE study will assess the IRRAflow system's ability to more effectively treat patients experiencing IVH than traditional treatment with an external ventricular drain (EVD).
The DIVE study is a retrospective and prospective cohort, controlled, single-center, phase 1 study with a primary objective of evaluating the safety and radiographic outcomes associated with using IRRAS' IRRAflow system compared to the current standard of care with external ventricular drains. Dr. Christopher Kellner, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Intracerebral Hemorrhage program at Mount Sinai, is the Principal Investigator of the study, which will compare retrospective EVD data from Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai West Hospital to prospective data collected from future patients treated with IRRAflow in up to 140 patients (70 EVD versus 70 IRRAflow).
"We are excited to enroll our first patients in the DIVE study," said Dr. Kellner. "We believe that the combination of irrigation and drainage has the potential to be a more efficient and cost-effective means to treat intraventricular hemorrhage than traditional passive drainage. Our first patient was successfully treated in just 67 hours, a significant reduction from our historic data for ICU and hospital length of stay. This study will continue to enroll patients and assess outcomes."
"Our growing partnership with Mount Sinai is another exciting step toward IRRAS becoming a leader in the treatment of intracranial bleeding," said Will Martin, President and CEO of IRRAS. "Working closely with such a prestigious institution and closely tracking the outcomes of their patients within the DIVE study will be an important piece of the growing pool of clinical evidence to support improved outcomes with IRRAflow for this critically ill group of patients."
The Mount Sinai Health System is an internationally recognized leader in clinical neurosurgery, neurosurgery education, and neurosurgery research. For 2021-2022, Neurosurgery and Neurology at The Mount Sinai Hospital rank 9th in the United States, according to U.S. News and World Report.
About IRRAS
IRRAS is a global medical care company focused on delivering innovative medical solutions to improve the lives of critically ill patients. IRRAS designs, develops, and commercializes neurocritical care products that transform patient outcomes and decrease the overall cost of care by addressing complications associated with current treatment methodologies. IRRAS markets and sells its comprehensive, innovative IRRAflow and Hummingbird ICP Monitoring product lines to hospitals worldwide through its direct sales organization in the United States and select European countries as well as an international network of distribution partners.
IRRAS maintains its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, with corporate offices in Munich, Germany, and San Diego, California, USA. For more information, please visit www.irras.com.
IRRAS is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (ticker: IRRAS).
For more information, please contact:
Sten Gustafsson
Director, Investor Relations
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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and government members said they are “sad and sorry” for 2,700 Liverpool fans who had a ticket but couldn’t get into the stadium amid disorder and chaos at the Champions League final in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, where Liverpool lost to Real Madrid 1-0.
The issue was discussed at the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Elysee presidential palace on Wednesday, French government spokesperson Olivia Grégoire said.
“Could we have done things better or could it have been better handled? Yes,” she told reporters. “Can we improve things, especially in view of the future sports events? Certainly.”
Saturday’s events prompted concerns in France and abroad about the country’s ability to host major sporting events. France will host the Rugby World Cup next year and the 2024 Olympics.
In the wake of the chaos, Liverpool fans’ leadership groups complained about heavy-handed policing and poor organization on a troubling night that saw children and elderly people among those getting sprayed by tear gas.
Repeated allegations of brutality have been made against French police in recent years, notably during the Yellow Vests protests against the government, amid calls for police to exercise greater restraint. French police have also struggled to get a grip on fan violence at domestic soccer matches this season.
Liverpool said it has already collected more than 5,000 testimonies from supporters who traveled to France to attend the final. Liverpool chief executive Billy Hogan has reviewed some of the information and said he was “horrified by the way some men, women, children — able bodied, less able bodied — have been indiscriminately treated,” both before and after the match.
According to the French Football Federation (FFF), 35,000 people without tickets or with “fake” tickets made their way to the Stade de France. It said they created disorder by blocking access to the stadium and preventing fans who had real tickets from getting into the venue.
European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, has also started to gather evidence about issues outside the Stade de France that marred one of the world’s biggest games in sports.
Grégoire expressed sympathy for 2,700 Liverpool fans, “fathers, mothers with their children disgusted they couldn’t attend a sports event they were waiting for. The President of the Republic and all the government were sad and sorry for these people.”
Grégoire said that interior and sports ministers will provide further details as they answer questions at a Senate’s commission on Wednesday afternoon.
Hogan also drew attention to what happened after the match.
“I do think it’s important to recognize we’ve all been rightly focused on the access issues at Stade de France,” he said. “I think it’s also important we don’t lose sight of what happened after the match. I think we’ve all seen videos, photos, I’ve read a number of stories of (fans’) absolutely horrific experiences leaving the stadium as well – crimes being committed, muggings taking place.”
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Better rain chances today and tomorrow
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A slight shift in winds and a return of moisture will increase rain chances today.
The day starts with some cloud cover but stays dry. Clouds will begin to part and most of the midmorning and afternoon will be partly to mostly sunny with temperatures climbing into the 80s. The sea breeze will build by afternoon and move inland, triggering showers and a thunderstorm or two east of the interstate.
Late in the afternoon and into the evening, the sea breeze from the east coast of the state will move into Suncoast territory and collide with our sea breeze. At that point, the sea breeze collision will trigger larger storms and heavier rain east of the interstate. As the sea breeze collapses the east wind will win out and storms will drift toward the coast as they die out.
There will be fewer storms around tomorrow and even fewer on Thursday. By Friday the winds will shift to the southwest and push the sea breeze to the east coast, where most of the showers will build. This will keep the rain chances to near zero on Friday for the Suncoast.
Rain chances go up on Saturday as another cold front approaches.
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MILWAUKEE, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ademi LLP is investigating Hanger (NYSE: HNGR) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law in its transaction with Patient Square Capital.
Click here to learn how to join the action: https://www.ademilaw.com/case/hanger-inc or call Guri Ademi toll-free at 866-264-3995. There is no cost or obligation to you.
Ademi LLP alleges Hanger's financial outlook and prospects are excellent and yet Hanger holders will receive only $18.75 in cash per share, with a total enterprise value for Hanger of approximately $1.25 billion. Upon completion of the transaction, Hanger will become a privately held company, and its common stock will no longer be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction agreement unreasonably limits competing bids for Hanger by imposing a significant penalty if Hanger accepts a superior bid. Hanger insiders will receive substantial benefits as part of change of control arrangements.
We are investigating the conduct of Hanger's board of directors, and whether they are (i) fulfilling their fiduciary duties to all shareholders, and (ii) obtaining a fair and reasonable price for Hanger.
If you own Hanger common stock and wish to obtain additional information, please contact Guri Ademi either at gademi@ademilaw.com or toll-free: 866-264-3995, or https://www.ademilaw.com/case/hanger-inc.
We specialize in shareholder litigation involving buyouts, mergers, and individual shareholder rights throughout the country. For more information, please feel free to call us. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blueprint Medicines Corporation (Nasdaq: BPMC), a precision therapy company focused on genomically defined cancers, rare diseases and cancer immunotherapy, today announced that, effective September 1, 2022, the Compensation Committee of Blueprint Medicines' Board of Directors granted non-qualified stock options to purchase an aggregate of 18,170 shares of its common stock and an aggregate of 9,083 restricted stock units (RSUs) to thirteen new employees under Blueprint Medicines' 2020 Inducement Plan.
The 2020 Inducement Plan is used exclusively for the grant of equity awards to individuals who were not previously an employee or non-employee director of Blueprint Medicines, as an inducement material to such individual's entering into employment with Blueprint Medicines, pursuant to Rule 5635(c)(4) of the Nasdaq Listing Rules.
The options have an exercise price of $73.83 per share, which is equal to the closing price of Blueprint Medicines' common stock on September 1, 2022. Each option will vest as to 25% of the shares underlying such option on the first anniversary of the grant date and as to an additional 1/48th of the shares underlying the option monthly thereafter, in each case, subject to each such employee's continued employment on each vesting date. Each RSU will vest as to 25% of the shares underlying the RSU award on the first anniversary of the grant date and as to an additional 25% of the shares underlying the RSU award annually thereafter, subject to each such employee's continued employment on each vesting date. The options and RSUs are subject to the terms and conditions of Blueprint Medicines' 2020 Inducement Plan, and the terms and conditions of the stock option and RSU agreement covering the grant.
About Blueprint Medicines
Blueprint Medicines is a global precision therapy company that invents life-changing therapies for people with cancer and blood disorders. Applying an approach that is both precise and agile, we create medicines that selectively target genetic drivers, with the goal of staying one step ahead across stages of disease. Since 2011, we have leveraged our research platform, including expertise in molecular targeting and world-class drug design capabilities, to rapidly and reproducibly translate our scientific innovation into a broad pipeline of important approved and investigational precision therapies aimed at addressing difficult-to-treat cancers and blood disorders. Today, we are delivering our approved medicines to patients in the United States, Europe, and in other geographies ourselves or through our partners. In addition, we are globally advancing multiple programs for systemic mastocytosis, lung cancer, breast cancer, and other genomically defined cancers, and cancer immunotherapy. For more information, visit www.BlueprintMedicines.com and follow us on Twitter (@BlueprintMeds) and LinkedIn.
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phanes Therapeutics, Inc. (Phanes), an emerging leader in innovative discovery research and clinical development in oncology, announced today that the first patient has been dosed in the phase 1 clinical study (NCT05431270) of PT199, an anti-CD73 monoclonal antibody (mAb) for the treatment of multiple advanced solid tumors.
PT199 is an anti-CD73 mAb with a differentiated mechanism of action and is designed to counter the adenosine-mediated immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). PT199 fully inhibits both soluble and membrane-bound CD73, unlike some other CD73 inhibitors which exhibit incomplete inhibition. Moreover, at higher concentrations, no loss of inhibition or "hook effect" is observed with PT199. Hence, PT199 addresses the limitations of current CD73 inhibitors and is expected to increase antitumor immune activation, and potentially offer a new treatment option for cancer patients.
"The CD73 pathway represents a very promising target for addressing the immunosuppressive TME and we are pleased to open this study and bring this potential best-in-class mAb to cancer patients who have few treatment options." said Dr. Ming Wang, Founder and CEO of Phanes Therapeutics.
The multi-center Phase I clinical trial of PT199 is evaluating the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and preliminary efficacy of PT199, alone and in combination with a PD-1 inhibitor, in patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors that have progressed after all available standard therapy or for which standard therapy has proven to be ineffective, intolerable, or is considered inappropriate. Enrollment in the trial is open to individuals aged 18 years and older who have measurable disease with at least 1 lesion amenable to response assessment per RECIST 1.1 criteria, adequate organ function, and an ECOG performance status of 0 to 1.
For more information on the study please visit ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05431270).
Phanes Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotech company focused on innovative drug discovery in oncology. Based in San Diego, California, the company's management team members previously held senior managerial and R&D positions in leading global pharmaceutical and biotech companies with extensive experience in R&D and commercialization. The company's bispecific antibody platform is PACbody™, a proprietary approach for constructing native IgG-like bispecific antibodies, SPECpair™, which allows mAb-like manufacturability of bispecific antibodies with native IgG-like structures, and ATACCbody™, a proprietary technology for targeting solid tumors using immuno-oncology molecules with modulated activities and thus minimal risk of cytokine release syndrome.
For more information, please visit www.phanesthera.com.
For business development or media inquiries please contact bd@phanestx.com or media@phanestx.com, respectively.
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CARLSBAD, Calif., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Axxcess Wealth is pleased to announce the addition of Danielle Fasse to the Axxcess team. Danielle has spent the last 3 years working at Orion Advisor Technology. Over her career with Orion, Danielle was a key team member within several technical areas of Orion. Danielle formerly managed the reconciliation service team, responsible for remediation of a variety of escalation issues. She also spent a year on the Professional Services team, where she was responsible for overseeing transaction reporting for all types of direct and held away assets, including private equity, hedge funds, and direct held real estate.
In announcing the move to Axxcess, COO Jon Brackmann, MBA CIMA said, "Danielle's understanding of Orion technology, and her work in assisting firms in ensuring a quality outcome overseeing data, reporting, and performance analytics, add to Axxcess' depth in supporting our TAMP and direct business. Danielle has an incredible ability to communicate and solve technical problems and Axxcess is delighted to add additional depth and expertise to our team."
Axxcess Platform is a leading TAMP platform serving accredited investors and the Advisors that serve them. Learn more at https://axxcessplatform.com/.
Axxcess Wealth Management, LLC ("Axxcess") is a registered investment advisor. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where Axxcess and its representatives are properly licensed or exempt from licensure.
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Depp-Heard jury still sorting through weeks of dirty laundry
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A jury has resumed deliberations after a sensational six-week trial to resolve defamation claims by Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard over their volatile and unhappy marriage.
The seven-person civil jury heard closing arguments Friday and deliberated for about two hours before leaving for the long Memorial Day weekend. Jurors resumed deliberations in Fairfax County Circuit Court just after 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Depp is suing Heard for $50 million, accusing her of libeling him with a 2018 op-ed she wrote describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Heard filed a $100 million counterclaim against the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star after his lawyer called her allegations a hoax. Each accuses the other of destroying their career.
Testimony featured a litany of lurid details of their short marriage. Heard testified that Depp physically or sexually assaulted her more than a dozen times. During his testimony, Depp testified that he never struck Heard, that she concocted the abuse allegations, and that she was the one who physically attacked him, multiple times.
During closing arguments, both sides told the jury that a verdict in their favor would give their clients their lives back.
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Platinum sustainability rating places company in top 1% of all companies measured
FORT MILL, S.C., May 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nation Ford Chemical (NFC) has been recognized by achieving a Platinum sustainability rating from EcoVadis, the world's largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings.
The platinum rating is the highest rating offered and is only achieved by 1% of companies assessed through the program. Nation Ford Chemical has been manufacturing specialty chemicals for nearly 45 years with a sustained commitment to the environment, employees, and community. These efforts paved the way for the company to achieve this prestigious certification.
Nation Ford Chemical has earned numerous third-party certifications in environmental, health, safety, quality, and now sustainability. "To have achieved the highest rating offered on our first assessment speaks volumes to the commitment of the company to act responsibly regarding social and environmental concerns," said Nation Ford Chemical COO, Phillip McCarter. "NFC was able to achieve this rating based on our existing operating practices, which confirms to the company's stakeholders that corporate social responsibility is part of our standard business operations."
EcoVadis, a global sustainability rating agency, assessed the company on the 21 criterial categories under four key themes - environment, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement. The evaluation is based on policies, actions, and results, including public information. Nation Ford Chemical performed well above average in all four of the categories evaluated.
About Nation Ford Chemical
Founded in 1978, Nation Ford Chemical is one of America's most respected custom manufacturers of specialty organic chemicals. NFC's products, including Sulfanilic Acid (CAS#121-57-3) and PANA (N-Phenyl-1-naphthylamine, CAS#90-30-2), are sold worldwide through offices in the United States, Europe, China, and Japan. Nation Ford Chemical is also North America's leading distributor of aniline. NFC has a diverse background in toll manufacturing custom chemicals with production at our 27-acre site in Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA. For more information, visit www.nationfordchem.com.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former Trump administration official now running for Congress in New Hampshire voted twice during the 2016 primary election season, potentially violating federal voting law and leaving him at odds with the Republican Party’s intense focus on “election integrity.”
Matt Mowers, a leading Republican primary candidate looking to unseat Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, cast an absentee ballot in New Hampshire’s 2016 presidential primary, voting records show. At the time, Mowers served as the director of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign in the pivotal early voting state.
Four months later, after Christie’s bid fizzled, Mowers cast another ballot in New Jersey’s Republican presidential primary, using his parents’ address to re-register in his home state, documents The Associated Press obtained through a public records request show.
Legal experts say Mowers’ actions could violate a federal law that prohibits “voting more than once” in “any general, special, or primary election.” That includes casting a ballot in separate jurisdictions “for an election to the same candidacy or office.” It also puts Mowers, who was a senior adviser in Donald Trump’s administration and later held a State Department post, in an awkward spot at a time when much of his party has embraced the former president’s lies about a stolen 2020 election and has pushed for restrictive new election laws.
The issue could have particular resonance in New Hampshire, where Republicans have long advocated for tighter voting rules to prevent short-term residents, namely college students, from participating in its first-in-the-nation presidential primary.
“What he has done is cast a vote in two different states for the election of a president, which on the face of it looks like he’s violated federal law,” said David Schultz, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who specializes in election law. ”You get one bite at the voting apple.”
Mowers’ campaign declined to make him available for an interview. In a brief statement that did not address the double-voting, campaign spokesman John Corbett cited Mowers’ work for Trump’s 2016 campaign.
“Matt was proud to work for President Trump as the GOP establishment was working to undermine his nomination,” Corbett said. “Matt moved for work and was able to participate in the primary in support of President Trump and serve as a delegate at a critical time for the Republican Party and country.”
There is little chance Mowers could face prosecution. The statute of limitations has lapsed, and there is no record of anyone being prosecuted under this specific section of federal election law, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, which tracks the issue.
Mowers is just the latest former Trump administration official to draw scrutiny for potentially violating voting laws.
Mark Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman who served as Trump’s chief of staff, was registered in two states and listed a mobile home he did not own — and may never have visited — as his legal residence weeks before casting a ballot in the 2020 election. North Carolina state officials are investigating.
Not everyone agrees Mowers’ situation is a clear-cut case of voter fraud. For starters, it’s an undeveloped area of law. Any court would have to contend with complicated issues such as whether a primary could be viewed as a public election or as an event held by a private organization that is administered with government help.
“With the right set of facts, it could be construed as a violation, but it’s just not at all obvious to me that it is,” said Steven Huefner, an Ohio State University law school professor who specializes in election law. “It is a pretty murky question.”
Charlie Spies, a Republican election lawyer who contacted the AP at the request of Mowers’ campaign, called the matter “silly.” He said the double-voting was “at worst a gray area” of the law and “not the sort of issue anybody would spend time on.”
That may not matter in a congressional primary that has drawn a half-dozen Republican candidates, some of whom stepped their criticism of Mowers on Tuesday.
Karoline Leavitt, a former Trump White House assistant press secretary, said Mowers owed voters “an honest answer.” She said he “potentially violated election law and his initial reaction is to hide behind his attorney.”
Gail Huff Brown said Republicans “cannot nominate someone who has engaged in voter fraud and expect to be taken seriously on the topic.” She is married to Scott Brown, a former Massachusetts senator who was Trump’s ambassador to New Zealand.
State Rep. Tim Baxter jabbed at “Jersey Mowers” and said the double-vote was “the exact election fraud problem voters across America are sick of.”
Mowers’ campaign website features a section dedicated to “election integrity,” stating that new laws are needed to “provide every American citizen with the certainty that their vote counts.”
He also echoes the long-standing Republican criticism about out-of-state voters, endorsing an efforts by the state’s legislature to make sure “only legal residents of New Hampshire are entitled to vote.”
This isn’t the first run Mowers, who is in his early 30s, has made for the seat, which is a top Republican target in the 2022 midterm elections. In 2020, he earned Trump’s endorsement and won the Republican nomination before losing to Pappas by 5 percentage points.
This time could be different, though. Biden’s flagging approval rating has made Republicans bullish on their prospects. And thanks to a once-in-a-decade redrawing of congressional districts, Republicans who now control the state legislature and governor’s office, are poised to approve more advantageous maps.
Mowers promotes his time living in New Hampshire with his wife and young child. But he is not a native to the state, spending much of his life in New Jersey.
A graduate of Rutgers, he came up through New Jersey politics, working for Christie’s gubernatorial administration, as well as Christie’s reelection campaign. That led to an appearance in the 2016 “Bridgegate” trial, where Mowers testified about his unsuccessful attempts to prod a Democratic mayor to endorse Christie, which resulted in acts of retribution and ultimately two convictions of close Christie allies. Mowers was not accused of wrongdoing in the case.
He moved to New Hampshire in 2013 to take on a role as the executive director of the state Republican Party. He resumed working for Christie in 2015 to lay the groundwork for a presidential campaign.
After Christie’s White House run, Mowers moved back to New Jersey, taking a job with the lobbying firm Mercury. He joined the Trump campaign in July 2016, and ultimately relocated to Washington after landing a spot in the administration.
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Slodysko reported from Washington. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/trump-aide-seeking-nh-house-seat-voted-in-2-states-in-2016/ | 2022-04-05T18:51:56Z |
Updated name reflects long-standing sub-advisor relationship with Ares
CINCINNATI, April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Touchstone Investments, a Distinctively Active mutual fund company, announced today that the Touchstone Credit Opportunities Fund is now the Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund (the "Fund"). The updated name reflects the long-standing, successful sub-advisor relationship of the Touchstone Fund with Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) ("Ares")1, a leading global alternative investment manager with offices in the North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
The Fund seeks to provide current income and capital appreciation by opportunistically investing across multiple credit asset classes with flexibility aimed at capitalizing on market inefficiencies and relative value opportunities. Portfolio risks, including credit risk and interest rate risk, are actively managed. The investment strategies and current investment process of the Fund are unchanged.
"Ares is a leading, global alternative asset manager and we wanted to bring it to the forefront via the name of the Fund," said Blake Moore, president and chief executive officer of Touchstone Investments. "As market conditions continue to evolve, especially in this interest rate environment, it is important to consider an active manager such as Ares. Its dedicated investment team, deep fundamental credit research, integrated operating platform and broad perspective of relative value have helped produce a track record of strong risk-adjusted returns through varying market conditions."
Touchstone incorporates a sub-advisor model that offers investors access to institutional asset managers whose strategies are typically not available to the average investor. The Fund seeks to generate absolute returns by investing primarily in global debt instruments, identifying opportunities believed to offer attractive relative value when compared to their fundamental credit risk. Ares incorporates a flexible investment strategy with the ability to allocate between high yield bonds, syndicated loans, CLO securities and liquid special situations.
"We look forward to continuing our long-standing relationship with Touchstone and to delivering upon our objective of providing our Fund investors access to institutional quality investment opportunities," said Kapil Singh, partner and portfolio manager of U.S. Liquid Credit at Ares. "We plan to continue leveraging the global Ares platform, including our leading credit investment experience and integrated and collaborative approach, to support our investors' long-term financial objectives."
The Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund's tickers—TMARX for Class A Shares, TMACX for Class C Shares, TMAYX for Class Y Shares, and TARBX for INST Shares — will remain the same.
In addition to the updated name, beginning April 2022 the Fund will declare and pay dividends on a monthly, rather than quarterly, basis2.
Learn more at Touchstone Ares Credit Opportunities Fund.
1. Ares Management Corporation is the parent company of the Fund's sub-advisor, Ares Capital Management II LLC.
2.There is no guarantee dividends will be paid.
About Touchstone Investments
Touchstone's commitment to being Distinctively Active has purposeful intent. Recognizing that not all mutual fund companies are created equal, we actively apply an integrated and rigorous approach for identifying and partnering with highly-skilled asset managers who act in a sub-advisory capacity. Their expertise, disciplined investment processes and employment of active management provide the differentiation required for robust portfolio construction. Touchstone offers a full breadth of investment options across styles and asset classes, including U.S. equity, international/global equity, income and multi-asset funds. The Touchstone Funds are advised by Touchstone Advisors, Inc., a registered investment adviser, and are distributed nationally through intermediaries including broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, institutions and others by Touchstone Securities, Inc., a registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. Touchstone, Touchstone Funds and Touchstone Investments are federal service mark registrations and applications owned by IFS Financial Services, Inc. Touchstone Securities, Inc., Touchstone Advisors, Inc., and IFS Financial Services, Inc., are members of Western & Southern Financial Group. For more information, please visit TouchstoneInvestments.com.
About Ares Management Corporation
Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, private equity, real estate and infrastructure asset classes. We seek to provide flexible capital to support businesses and create value for our stakeholders and within our communities. By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to generate consistent and attractive investment returns throughout market cycles. As of December 31, 2021, Ares Management Corporation's global platform had approximately 2,100 employees operating across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East and approximately $314 billion of assets under management, including Ares Management's acquisition of AMP Capital's Infrastructure Debt platform which closed February 10, 2022. For more information, please visit www.aresmgmt.com.
Contacts:
Touchstone Investments
Sharon Karp 513.362.8026
sharon.karp@touchstonefunds.com
Ares Management
Carl Drake, 888.818.5298
or
Jacob Silber, 212.301.0376
media@aresmgmt.com
Investment return and principal value of an investment in a Fund will fluctuate so that investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.
Please consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the Fund carefully before investing. The prospectus and the summary prospectus contain this and other information about the Fund. To obtain a prospectus or a summary prospectus, contact your financial professional or download and/or request one at TouchstoneInvestments.com/resources or call Touchstone at 800.638.8194. Please read the prospectus and/or summary prospectus carefully before investing.
Touchstone Funds are distributed by Touchstone Securities, Inc.*
*A registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC
Not FDIC Insured | No Bank Guarantee | May Lose Value
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ACCRA, Ghana, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Or Foundation, a U.S. and Ghana-based not-for-profit organization at the intersection of environmental justice, education and fashion development, and SHEIN, an online retailer of fashion, beauty and lifestyle products, today announced a groundbreaking, multi-year agreement which will launch SHEIN's Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Fund. The Fund will help advance the design and implementation of ecological and social sustainability strategies focused on clothing that has entered the global secondhand clothing trade and often leaves the secondhand trade as waste.
The agreement between The Or Foundation and SHEIN is the first of its kind, establishing an annual commitment from the brand to support waste management efforts in communities deeply impacted by textile waste. The agreement is part of SHEIN's newly announced EPR Fund, to which the company will dedicate $50 million over the next five years. The funds will go toward global causes aligned with SHEIN's commitment to addressing global textile waste management and furthering the development of a circular economy, as well as any other EPR obligations.
Liz Ricketts, Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Or Foundation, states, "We have been calling on brands to pay the bill that is due to the communities who have been managing their waste, and this is a significant step toward accountability. What we see as truly revolutionary is SHEIN's acknowledgement that their clothing may be ending up here in Kantamanto, a simple fact that no other major fashion brand has been willing to state as yet."
Adam Whinston, Global Head of ESG at SHEIN, said: "SHEIN has set an ambitious impact agenda, and we are thrilled to be partnering with The Or Foundation, the initial recipient of SHEIN's trailblazing fund, for the next step in our journey. Addressing secondhand waste is an important part of the fashion ecosystem that is often overlooked. We have an opportunity to make change in this space and we look forward to working with The Or Foundation on this first of its kind effort."
As the initial grant recipient, receiving $5 million annually for three years from the overall Fund, The Or Foundation will utilize the resources to expand their Mabilgu (sisterhood) Apprenticeship Program for young women carrying bales of secondhand clothing on their heads, incubate community businesses transforming textile waste into new products, pilot fiber-to-fiber initiatives with Ghanaian textile manufacturers and to upfit Kantamanto Market through a community-based vision to ensure that the world's largest secondhand clothing market is a safe and dignified place to work. The Or Foundation will also redistribute a portion of the initial grant to allied organizations in Ghana. SHEIN will work with The Or Foundation to identify additional grant recipients in other countries impacted by fashion's waste problem this year and in coming years.
Daniel Mawuli Quist, Board Member of The Or Foundation, states, "This is an empowering contribution for The Or Foundation, as we hope it will be for other organizations around the world, and we must not lose sight of the value that Kantamanto and communities like it bring to the movement toward circularity. We hope other brands will follow suit to focus on the people making a real difference."
Both SHEIN and The Or Foundation are committed to supporting work on the ground to keep clothing in circulation, to reduce waste and to clean up and regenerate areas impacted by textile waste. Earlier this year, SHEIN announced it is a signatory to global partnerships and initiatives to address product reuse and recycling.
Beyond this, The Or Foundation continues to be dedicated to a vision of ecological and economic prosperity that inspires global citizens to form a relationship with fashion extending beyond their role as consumer. Until now, The Or Foundation has been propelled forward by the goodwill of individual citizens and small business owners, most of whom are not directly contributing to fashion's waste crisis itself. This EPR Fund marks a turning point.
The Or Foundation is a USA and Ghana-based not-for-profit organization that has been working between the two countries at the intersection of environmental justice, education and fashion development since 2011. The Or Foundation has brought global awareness to fashion's waste crisis through extensive research and action around the secondhand clothing trade as it manifests in Accra, Ghana, home to the largest secondhand clothing market in the world. To learn more about The Or Foundation, visit www.theor.org.
SHEIN is a global fashion and lifestyle e-retailer committed to making the beauty of fashion accessible to all. We use on-demand manufacturing technology to connect suppliers to our agile supply chain, reducing inventory waste and enabling us to deliver a variety of affordable products to customers around the world. In April 2022, the company announced evoluSHEIN, a purpose-driven collection made with preferred materials such as recycled polyester and forest-friendly viscose. From our global offices, we reach customers in more than 150 countries. To learn more about SHEIN, visit www.SHEIN.com.
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Ivalua research shows organizations struggle to collaborate with suppliers, impacting their ability to ensure resilience, improve sustainability and drive innovation
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Research from Ivalua, a leading global spend management cloud provider, has revealed that 66% of organizations believe better collaboration with suppliers is needed to help increase supply chain resilience. The growing number of Black Swan supply chain events, such as the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, has led many organizations working to minimize the impact of disruptions. However, key barriers remain, including an inability to assess risk and collaborate with suppliers, as well as inadequate technology for defining and triggering a response to supply chain disruption.
The "Chain Reaction – Holistic Supplier Management is Key to Business Success'' study, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Ivalua, outlines strategies being followed by organizations to minimize the frequency and impact of supply disruptions. Over half (56%) of organizations have implemented automated risk monitoring to notify them of disruption, while 54% have increased inventory levels. A further 46% have turned to on / nearshoring, while 44% negotiated preferred supplier access to key goods.
"In an age when Black Swan events are becoming more commonplace, collaborating with your suppliers has never been more critical," comments Alex Saric, smart procurement expert at Ivalua. "Procurement teams are tasked with minimizing the impact of supply chain disruptions, but all too often they're unable to do so because of a lack of visibility into direct and sub-tier suppliers and an inability to collaborate efficiently and at scale. More needs to be done to digitalize procurement to unlock the power of supplier collaboration and ensure supply chain resilience."
ESG a priority but inadequate technology impedes sustainability gains
According to the study, 71% of organizations say that supply chain sustainability has increased in priority since the pandemic began. As such, organizations have incorporated sustainability in procurement KPIs and have begun setting minimum sustainability thresholds for suppliers to achieve.
While organizations are prioritizing ESG initiatives such as recycling materials, reducing their carbon footprint and supporting diverse businesses, many are facing barriers to success. More than four-in-ten organizations (43%) are lacking systems that enable efficient collaboration with suppliers to improve sustainability, 41% lack the ability to measure progress on ESG goals and 40% are unable to engage sub-tier suppliers.
Organizations turning to suppliers to drive innovation
The study also shows respondents believe the most significant opportunity to increase organizational value through better collaboration with suppliers is in improving product innovation, with 70% of respondents ranking it highly. However, this is being hindered by an inability to assess supplier capabilities, a lack of supplier willingness to share innovations, and a lack of systems to enable collaboration with suppliers.
To overcome these barriers, organizations are looking to incorporate product / service innovation into procurement KPIs (57%), give suppliers more flexibility in how they meet requirements (56%) and reduce the pressure on cost savings (52%). Almost six-in-ten (58%) of organizations are also looking to implement systems that allow them to collaborate with suppliers on product innovations.
"A lack of collaboration has become a running theme for organizations, which is impeding them from realizing greater value from suppliers – whether it's driving innovation, achieving sustainability goals or improving supply chain resilience," added Saric. "A smarter, more holistic approach to procurement and supplier management is needed. By digitalizing procurement processes, organizations can effectively discover, assess, engage, and monitor suppliers, enabling them to measure progress against key business priorities such as supply continuity, ESG performance and innovation."
To download the Ivalua "Chain Reaction – Holistic Supplier Management is Key to Business Success" study, please visit: https://info.ivalua.com/forrester-holistic-supplier-management
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The study was conducted by Forrester Consulting in March 2022 on behalf of Ivalua. It is based on a survey of 462 procurement decision makers at companies with 1,000 or more employees in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
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Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management solutions. Our complete, unified platform empowers organizations to effectively manage all categories of spend and all suppliers, increasing profitability, lowering risk and improving employee productivity. Trusted by hundreds of the world's most admired brands and public sector leaders and recognized as a leader by Gartner and other analysts. Learn more at www.ivalua.com.
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Ashton Kutcher revealed Monday he had battled a serious autoimmune disease that affected his hearing, sight and ability to walk for more than a year.
"Like two years ago, I had this weird, super-rare form of vasculitis," Kutcher said in an exclusive video clip released to "Access Hollywood" from an upcoming episode of National Geographic's "Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge."
"Knocked out my vision, knocked out my hearing, knocked out like all my equilibrium. It took me like a year to like build it all back up," Kutcher told adventurer and presenter Bear Grylls as they hiked through brambles and trees.
"You don't really appreciate it until it's gone, until you go, 'I don't know if I'm ever gonna be able to see again. I don't know if I'm gonna be able to hear again, I don't know if I'm going to be able to walk again," Kutcher said. "I'm lucky to be alive."
CNN has reached out to Kutcher's representative but has not yet received a response.
Complications from vasculitis took the life of actor-director Harold Ramis in 2014, Ramis' agents said. Ramis, who directed "Caddyshack," "National Lampoon's Vacation" and "Groundhog Day," and costarred in "Ghostbusters" and "Stripes" died at 69, four years after contracting the condition.
Symptoms of vasculitis
Vasculitis occurs when the body's immune system attacks veins, arteries and small capillaries. The resulting inflammation narrows those blood vessels and restricts the flow of blood or even cuts blood flow off entirely, possibly causing organ damage or creating aneurysms (a bulge in the wall of a blood vessel), according to the National Institutes of Health. If an aneurysm bursts, it can cause internal bleeding which can lead to death.
Depending on the specific type and severity of the condition and which organs are targeted, symptoms of vasculitis vary and can be mild, moderate or life-threatening. Common symptoms include loss of appetite, weight loss, fatigue, rash, aches, pains and fever.
Age, ethnicity, family history and lifestyle factors such as smoking and illegal drug use can contribute to the risk for vasculitis. Certain medications for high blood pressure, thyroid disease and infections can contribute as well, the NIH noted.
Vasculitis can occur alone or in conjunction with other rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus or scleroderma. Having a hepatitis B or C infection can also be a trigger, as can blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma.
Treatment is aimed at reducing inflammation. For mild cases, over-the-counter pain medicines can help. For more severe cases, doctors may prescribe steroids, monoclonal antibodies, and immunomodulators or immunosuppressive medications, to name a few.
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(The Hill) — Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and his Republican challenger, former NFL player Herschel Walker, are deadlocked in the Senate race in Georgia, while Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is leading his Democratic rival, Stacey Abrams, according to a new poll.
The poll from Easter Carolina University’s Center for Survey Research found Warnock and Walker tied at 46 percent, while only 6 percent of voters remain undecided.
Among Black voters, Warnock has a significant edge. Eighty-three percent said they support the Democratic incumbent, compared to only 7 percent who are backing Walker. When it comes to white voters, however, Walker has the advantage. Sixty-five percent support him, while 29 percent support Warnock.
The Senate race in Georgia is among the most competitive in the country and could very well determine which party controls the upper chamber next year.
Warnock, who was elected last year in a hotly contested runoff, is vying for his first full term in the Senate. But unlike his last campaign, he’s now running in a significantly tougher political environment for Democrats; President Biden’s approval rating is underwater, inflation is on the rise and gas prices have reached an average of $5 a gallon nationally.
Walker, meanwhile, clinched the Republican Senate nomination last month and is heading into the general election with the support of former President Trump. While Democrats argue that Walker is a damaged candidate with no political experience and a tumultuous personal history, he also has broad name recognition in Georgia and a favorable political environment to run in.
In the race for governor, Kemp has a 5-point advantage over Abrams, scoring 50 percent of the vote to her 45 percent, according to the poll.
The poll suggests that Kemp, who overcame a Trump-backed primary challenge last month, has the advantage heading into his general election campaign against Abrams, a superstar among Democrats nationally and the party’s 2018 nominee for Georgia governor.
Abrams came close to beating Kemp in 2018, losing the general election by fewer than 55,000 votes.
But like Warnock, Abrams is heading into her general election bid facing a far less favorable political landscape than she did the last time she was on the ballot. While Kemp faced opposition in the primary, he easily won renomination last month and remains deeply popular among Georgia conservatives.
The poll surveyed 868 registered voters in Georgia from June 6 to 9. It has a credibility interval — similar to a poll’s margin of error — of 3.9 percentage points. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/warnock-walker-tied-in-georgia-senate-race-kemp-leads-abrams-for-governor-poll/ | 2022-06-15T14:57:08Z |
HANGZHOU, China, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BEST Inc. (NYSE: BEST) ("BEST" or the "Company"), a leading integrated smart supply chain solutions and logistics services provider in China, today announced that it will release its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022, after the U.S. market closes on Wednesday, June 8, 2022.
The Company will hold a conference call to discuss the financial results at 9:00pm U.S. Eastern Time on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, or 09:00am Beijing Time on Thursday, June 9, 2022.
Participants may access the call by dialling the following numbers:
A replay of the conference call will be accessible through June 15, 2022 by dialling the following numbers:
Please visit the Company's investor relations website http://ir.best-inc.com/ to view the earnings release prior to the conference call. A live and archived webcast of the conference call and a presentation will also be available at the same site.
ABOUT BEST INC.
BEST Inc. (NYSE: BEST) is a leading integrated smart supply chain solutions and logistics services provider in China. Through its proprietary technology platform and extensive networks, BEST offers a comprehensive set of logistics and value-added services, including freight delivery, supply chain management, and global logistics services. BEST's mission is to empower business and enrich life by leveraging technology and business model innovation to create a smarter, more efficient supply chain. For more information, please visit: http://www.best-inc.com/en/.
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The insights-as-a-service provider drives deeper understanding for users of Cadmium's learning and event platform
FOREST HILL, Md., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadmium announced today that they have partnered with Bear Analytics to strengthen the digital product and service offerings of both organizations in the learning and event technology industry.
The partnership, which facilitates the connection between users of Cadmium technology and Bear Analytics' Bear IQ platform, enables data-driven decision making for organizations evaluating the effectiveness of their online learning and event programs.
Cadmium is an event and learning software provider offering continuing education, professional development, and content management solutions. Bear Analytics is a leading data analytics firm that delivers insights to meeting planners and continuing education professionals through their flagship product, Bear IQ.
"We are excited to be partnering with Cadmium and surfacing insights from their award-winning software. We share in the common thesis that powerful analytics drive better event outcomes and empower organizers to answer their most pressing questions," says Joe Colangelo, co-founder and CEO of Bear Analytics. "Bear IQ was designed to showcase the value centers of events easily, across exhibits, content, and audience."
The Bear Analytics platform offers numerous advantages to Cadmium's customers in the live event and online learning industries. Bear IQ synthesizes more than 100 metrics to deliver clear insight into audience, exhibitors, content performance, and more. The partnership thus helps meeting planners and continuing education professionals evaluate the efficacy of their events and educational initiatives in order to maximize efficiency and revenue.
"We are delighted to partner with Bear Analytics," says Paul Zickert, Vice President of Partnerships at Cadmium. "Bear IQ will help our customers make the most of Cadmium technology and achieve new levels of insight into the impact of their live and on-demand content."
Together, Cadmium and Bear Analytics will help their customers drive greater impact with their events, online education, and—ultimately—their audience.
Bear Analytics empowers the events industry to be more data-driven. Our founding team of event professionals build tools for the world's leading events to address the pain points of quantifying attendee engagement, audience composition, and growing revenue. Bear IQ is the industry-leading event analytics platform for live, hybrid and virtual events. These include clients such as the National Association of Home Builders, National Confectioners Associations, and RE+ Events. Learn more at www.bearanalytics.com.
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Cadmium simplifies the production of live, hybrid and virtual events and maximizes the value of online learning with a single, flexible platform designed to capture the chemistry of people, ideas and knowledge. The company's software products are trusted by more than 1000 content-driven organizations worldwide to generate revenue, drive customer retention, and lower operational costs for their events and education initiatives. For more information, visit https://gocadmium.com.
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Lawmaker: Officer in Uvalde video husband of slain teacher
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A Uvalde police officer criticized over video of him checking his phone during the massacre at Robb Elementary School is the husband of a teacher who was killed in the classroom and had contacted him after after being shot, according to a Texas lawmaker investigating the shooting.
Texas state Rep. Joe Moody came to the defense of Ruben Ruiz after the officer was singled out by some users on social media as an example of the bewildering inaction by law enforcement during the May 24 attack.
Roughly 80 minutes of surveillance video published this week by the Austin American-Statesman showed Ruiz as one of the first officers to arrive in the hallway after the shooting began. He checks his phone moments before officers closer to the classroom run back down the hallway after shots are fired.
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Moody tweeted Wednesday that the officer was the husband of Eva Mireles, one of two teachers killed along with 19 children in the fourth-grade classrooms. Moody is part of a Texas House committee that has spent weeks investigating the shooting and plans to release its findings Sunday.
“I’d not planned to speak publicly until the report was released, but I couldn’t say nothing seeing this man, who’s lost everything, maligned as if he was indifferent or actively malicious. Context matters,” Moody tweeted.
The hallway video shows Ruiz quickly glancing at his phone around 11:36 a.m. while holding a position at the end of the hallway. Three minutes earlier, the gunman is seen walking down the hallway and entering the classroom.
Authorities have previously said that body camera footage later showed Ruiz at 11:48 a.m. entering the building through the west door and telling officers, “She is shot.”
“What happened to (Ruiz) is he tried to move forward into the hallway, he was detained and they took his gun away from him and they escorted him from the scene,” Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw told lawmakers at a hearing on June 21.
McCraw has called it an “abject failure” that police ultimately waited more than an hour before confronting the gunman.
“We’ll have much to say about the police response, but no criticism of this officer,” Moody tweeted.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Wildfires in California and Montana exploded in size overnight amid windy, hot conditions and were quickly encroaching on neighborhoods, forcing evacuation orders for over 100 homes Saturday, while an Idaho blaze was spreading.
In California’s Klamath National Forest, the fast-moving McKinney fire, which started Friday, went from charring just over 1 square mile (1 square kilometer) to scorching as much as 62 square miles (160 square kilometers) by Saturday in a largely rural area near the Oregon state line, according to fire officials.
“It’s continuing to grow with erratic winds and thunderstorms in the area and we’re in triple digit temperatures,” said Caroline Quintanilla, a spokeswoman at Klamath National Forest.
Meanwhile in Montana, the Elmo wildfire nearly tripled in size to more than 11 square miles (about 28 square kilometers) within a few miles of the town of Elmo. Roughly 200 miles (320 kilometers) to the south, Idaho residents remained under evacuation orders as the Moose Fire in the Salmon-Challis National Forest charred more than 67.5 square miles (174.8 square kilometers) in timbered land near the town of Salmon. It was 17% contained.
A significant build-up of vegetation was fueling the McKinney fire, said Tom Stokesberry, a spokesman with the U.S. Forest Service for the region.
“It’s a very dangerous fire — the geography there is steep and rugged, and this particular area hasn’t burned in a while,” he said.
A small fire was also burning nearby, outside the town of Seiad, Stokesberry said. With lightning predicted over the next few days, resources from all over California were being brought in to help fight the region’s fires, he said.
McKinney’s explosive growth forced crews to shift from trying to control the perimeter of the blaze to trying to protect homes and critical infrastructure like water tanks and power lines, and assist in evacuations in California’s northernmost county of Siskiyou.
Deputies and law enforcement were knocking on doors in the county seat of Yreka and the town of Fort Jones to urge residents to get out and safely evacuate their livestock onto trailers. Automated calls were being sent to land phone lines as well because there were areas without cell phone service.
Over 100 homes were ordered evacuated and authorities were warning people to be on high alert. Smoke from the fire caused the closure of portions of Highway 96.
“We’re asking residents all over the area to be ready,” Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Courtney Kreider said. “Last night we were pushing out evacuations about every hour, and there are large portions of the county that are in warning areas.”
Moments later, she said, “Oh — we just added another zone to the evacuation warning.”
The Pacific Coast Trail Association urged hikers to get to the nearest town while the U.S. Forest Service closed a 110-mile (177-kilometer) section of the trail from the Etna Summit to the Mt. Ashland Campground in southern Oregon.
Oregon state Rep. Dacia Grayber, who is a firefighter, was camping with her husband, who is also in the fire service, near the California state line when gale-force winds awoke them just after midnight.
The sky was glowing with strikes of lightening in the clouds, while ash was blowing at them, though they were in Oregon, about 10 miles (about 16 kilometers) away. Intense heat from the fire had sent up a massive pyrocumulonimbus cloud, which can produce its own weather system including winds and thunderstorms, Grayber said.
“These were some of the worst winds I’ve ever been in and we’re used to big fires,” she said. “I thought it was going to rip the roof top tent off of our truck. We got the heck out of there.”
On their way out, they came across hikers on the Pacific Coast Trail fleeing to safety. They offered rides, but one hiker said he would just take a beer, which they gave him, she said.
“The terrifying part for us was the wind velocity,” she said. “It went from a fairly cool breezy night to hot, dry hurricane-force winds. Usually that happens with a fire during the day but not at night. I hope for everyone’s sake this dies down but it’s looking like it’s going to get worse.”
In western Montana, the wind-driven Elmo fire forced evacuations of homes and livestock as it raced across grass and timber, according to The National Interagency Fire Center, based in Idaho. The agency estimated it would take nearly a month to contain the blaze.
Smoke shut down a portion of Highway 28 between Hot Springs and Elmo because of the thick smoke, according to the Montana Department of Transportation.
Crews from several different agencies were fighting the fire on Saturday, including the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Fire Division. Six helicopters were making drops on the fire, aided by 22 engines on the ground.
In Idaho, more than 930 wildland firefighters and support staff were battling the Moose fire Saturday and protecting homes, energy infrastructure and the Highway 93 corridor, a major north-south route.
A red flag warning indicated that the weather could make things worse with the forecast calling for “dry thunderstorms,” with lightning, wind and no rain.
Meanwhile, crews made significant progress in battling another major blaze in California that forced evacuations of thousands of people near Yosemite National Park earlier this month. The Oak fire was 52% contained by Saturday, according to a Cal Fire incident update.
As fires raged across the West, the U.S. House on Friday approved wide-ranging legislation aimed at helping communities in the region cope with increasingly severe wildfires and drought — fueled by climate change — that have caused billions of dollars in damage to homes and businesses in recent years.
The legislative measure approved by federal lawmakers Friday combines 49 separate bills and would increase firefighter pay and benefits; boost resiliency and mitigation projects for communities affected by climate change; protect watersheds; and make it easier for wildfire victims to get federal assistance.
The bill now goes to the Senate, where California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein has sponsored a similar measure.
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Boone reported from Boise, Idaho. | https://cw33.com/news/ap-top-headlines/wildfires-in-west-explode-in-size-amid-hot-windy-conditions/ | 2022-07-31T00:50:39Z |
MANCHESTER, N.H., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MegaFood®, a B-Corp crafting quality supplements, expands their collection of digestive health products with the launch of its new Digestive Health Water Enhancers now available on Amazon.
In three delicious fruit flavors – Pineapple Mango Kombucha, Guava Passion Fruit Kombucha, and Lemon Ginger Kombucha – MegaFood Digestive Health Water Enhancers deliver refreshing gut support with prebiotics & probiotics.†
These probiotic powders contain 2 billion CFU of DE111® – a probiotic strain clinically studied to be shelf-stable and resistant to stomach acid so it can survive the journey and keep doing its job.† They also includes kombucha powder, apple cider vinegar, green tea extract, and prebiotic fiber from Jerusalem artichoke. Plus, they are Certified Glyphosate Residue Free, vegetarian, and formulated without 9 food allergens: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, wheat, fish, shellfish, and sesame.
As consumer demand for functional beverages is on the rise, with a recent study showing 73% of adults consume drinks promoting added functional benefits, this new innovation from MegaFood offers an on-the-go format that is both convenient and supportive.1
"Staying well hydrated and including probiotics in our diet are two pillars of health for overall wellness and healthy digestion." states Erin Stokes, Naturopathic Doctor and Medical Director at MegaFood. "I'm excited about the launch of our new Digestive Health Water Enhancers, as they make these healthy habits easy to build into your everyday routine, whether at home or on-the-go!"
The new line is available in travel-friendly stick packs for on-the-go consumption. Simply add to water, stir well, and enjoy. It's a simple way to get that good gut feeling wherever you go.
MegaFood exists to grow a healthier world and believes in the power of plants to make people & the planet happier & healthier. MegaFood expertly crafts supplements that pair essential vitamins & minerals with real food, and partners with farmers who share a commitment to nutrient-dense food and soil health through regenerative agriculture. Obsessed with quality, MegaFood offers 9 product certifications, like Non-GMO Project Verified and also tests for 125+ pesticides & herbicides. As a B Corporation, the company believes in doing things the right way to sow a strong foundation of health that helps people thrive. Learn more at megafood.com or follow @megafood on Instagram & @megafoodfans on Facebook.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
1. Mintel-Functional Drink US, August 2021
DE111® is a registered trademark of Deerland Probiotics & Enzymes, Inc
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The international standard for IT service management reinstates CIGNEX's adherence to the guidelines of IT service management system delivery
LIVONIA, Mich., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CIGNEX, a leading provider of Digital Transformation through Open Source, Cloud and Automation technology solutions today announced that they have successfully completed their recertification audit for ISO 20000:2018.
The external audit for ISO 20000:2018, i.e. IT service management was conducted by the certification body ISOQAR (India) Private Limited on 27th & 28th July, 2022.
ISO 20000:2018 IT service management standards are acknowledged and accepted globally. The standard enables organizations to implement risk-based thinking structure to effectively manage their service lifecycle. The recertification reconfirms that CIGNEX has established a robust technology service management system which supports increasing complexity of risk to provide better service & enhanced customer experience.
The certification represents CIGNEX's ability to provide & manage end-to-end delivery of IT services with utmost efficiency. The audit by ISOQAR (India) Private Limited reassures CIGNEX's strong alignment with the IT service management compliance norms which enables them to bid and manage large projects.
CIGNEX has been operating according to the industry recognized best practices for quality and during the external audit, the compliance related standard requirements and controls implemented were verified.
"The recertification of CIGNEX's IT management system, quality, and shared services showcases our commitment towards our management systems. We are committed to continual improvement. With the help of our team of driven experts, we will continue to make significant progress towards our shared objective of delivering unparalleled customer satisfaction," said Srinivas Tadeparti – Global Delivery Head, CIGNEX.
CIGNEX ensures that surveillance audit is conducted on yearly basis by an external certification agency to ensure that the quality standards are corroborated.
About CIGNEX (https://www.cignex.com/)
CIGNEX is a Michigan based global consulting company offering solutions & services on Open Source, Cloud & Automation. Since 2000, CIGNEX has been delivering enterprise class solutions that enable organizations achieve unparalleled results.
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'Come on! Talk to me!' Residents demand Stark Board of Elections change polling location
CANTON – Moving a polling location more than a mile away has stirred anger and suspicion of voter suppression among some Black residents in the city's Fourth Ward.
About 3,500 registered voters in one precinct in Canton's Ward 2 and three precincts in Ward 4 were notified of the change in late March or early April from the Stark County Board of Elections.
The mailed notice said that they would no longer vote at the former Antioch Baptist Church at 1844 Ira Turpin Way NE, a roughly 20-minute walk from Tuscarawas Street E. The church was on the northern boundary of Ward 4 where it adjoins Ward 2. It had been a polling location since at least 2012.
Instead, the residents would vote May 3 in Ward 6, about 1.3 miles away at the Canton Harbor High School, a charter school at 1731 Grace Ave. NE. It's a 42-minute walk from Tuscarawas Street E and Belden Avenue NE near where many of the polling site's voters live.
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While at the school to cast their ballots Tuesday, two Ward 4 voters who are Black objected to the change.
"Some of these folks don't even drive, so how are they going to get here to vote?" Shelly Showalter asked. "They don't want Black people to vote."
"It's too far to come (here) when you're an older person or you need a ride," said Joe Wood, 61. "Come on! Talk to me! Talk to everybody and find out if there's closer places to go."
What are the rules for choosing a polling location?
Ward 4 resident Henry Mack, 84, lives 1.4 miles from the prior polling location and 2.4 miles from the new Grace Street voting site.
On April 7 in an email to the Board of Elections, he called it "voter suppression of primarily African-American voters. ... This location is inconvenient and clearly designed to suppress the 4th Ward vote."
"We're the biggest ward in town. We shouldn't have to go across town to vote in another ward," he said later.
Stark County election officials, both Democrats and Republicans, deny any effort to suppress any turnout.
Board of Elections Member Kody Gonzalez, a Democrat, said once he and other elections officials learned last month of people's dissatisfaction with the new location, it was too late to legally change it for the May 3 primary.
"It was the closest building we could find that was workable at the time we had," Gonzalez said.
He and board Chairman Samuel Ferruccio, a Democrat, said they would consider any suggestions for future polling locations.
"If they want to move it to a different location, we'll try to find a different location that'll make everyone happy," said Gonzalez, who added staff also chose Canton Harbor because it's by a public bus line.
Travis Secrest, administrative assistant for the Board of Elections and a Republican, said that a polling location must comply with federal laws requiring accessibility for people with disabilities. It has to have enough square footage to host as many as 20 voting machines. It has to have enough parking.
Secrest said state law does not set a maximum distance a polling location can be from a voter's home. And it does not require a polling location be in the voter's precinct, city or township.
In 2010, Stark County had 180 polling locations. The county has consolidated to about 111, reducing the number of paid poll workers required and significantly cutting costs. But increasing the distance means more travel for some voters.
"We try to keep it close to the former polling location as much as possible. If people could get to Antioch then I'm assuming they can go one mile more," Secrest said.
And the board staff sent out the notices of the poll location change in late March rather than February because "you don't want people to forget, so you send it as close to the election as we can," Secrest said.
Impact of Canton church closure
On Jan. 20, Antioch Baptist Church notified the Board of Elections that it could no longer host the Ira Turpin polling site. The church had to move because it could not reach an agreement with its landlord to continue using the building.
Board of Elections staff worked to move the polling location to St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church on Cherry Ave NE in Ward 2. But the church said on Feb. 8 that it had to decline hosting voters due to preparations for its 100th anniversary.
The Board of Elections without much discussion approved the change to Canton Harbor High School on Feb. 14, three days after board staff made their initial site visit to the school. It was one of two changes. The other was in Perry Township due to the doors of a church not being wide enough for voting machine storage cages.
More:Two Canton churches make a deal... and a "covenant"
'No one asked us.'
Members of the local neighborhood group Affairs of the Community said the new location was inconvenient and raised concerns about what they perceived as voter suppression in a mostly Black community. The members also were disappointed that the Board of Elections staff did not seek feedback from the public, which the law does not require.
At a meeting Monday of the association at Union Baptist Church in Ward 4, all of the 17 members present objected to having to vote at Canton Harbor High School.
The association's president, Theodore Johnson, said the optics of the situation look horrible.
"We vote. We pay taxes. No one asked us," said Johnson, who invited Board of Elections staff to the association's meeting on June 6. "When stuff like this happens, the hair on the back of our necks is raised."
Vetting process
Jeff Matthews, director of the Board of Elections, a Republican, and Regine Johnson, the deputy director, a Democrat issued a statement Thursday.
They wrote that 297 people for the four precincts served by Canton Harbor High School cast ballots for the primary Tuesday, not including late-arriving ballots and provisional ballots. That's an increase from the 283 who voted in the May primary in 2018 for those same precincts, before they were consolidated from five precincts.
Board staff considered nine locations, including Union Baptist Church. Board staff checked out the church on Google Street View. It seemed too small so they never visited the church.
However, the Google Street View image dates back to 2011. Johnson said around 2019, the church more than doubled in size as part of a remodeling.
"Why would you just sit there, and do that without getting up, and looking to see?" asked Councilwoman Chris Smith, D-4, who questioned why board staff did not ask her for suggestions.
One venue said no. Another, the Canton Memorial Civic Center would not be available for a possible August primary due to Pro Football Hall of Fame festivities.
Board staff eliminated Crenshaw Middle School, AIM Academy Belden School and JRC Learning Center because they lacked direct access between parking spaces for people with disabilities and their gymnasiums.
The statement said the heat at St. Paul AME Church, a former polling site, wasn't working and a person at the church indicated the church might soon sell its building.
It's not clear why St. Benedict Catholic Church on Tuscarawas Street E and Belden Elementary, which were proposed by Affairs of the Community, were not considered. But Secrest said the board tries to avoid schools because school staff use most of the parking spots and the challenges of keeping voters in an area separate from students.
Canton Harbor has high school students who are away from campus much of the day for work and it has a large gymnasium separate from the rest of the school that can host 20 voting machines.
Gonzalez, the elections board member, said as far as he's aware no past polling location change — which can range from none to five a year — has sparked this many objections.
"Lesson learned," he said. "Obviously, it's going to be a question I ask next time if we decide to move polling locations. .... I'll have to ask if they've reached out."
Reach Robert at (330) 580-8327 or robert.wang@cantonrep.com. Twitter: @rwangREP. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/2022/05/06/church-closure-leads-new-polling-location-angers-residents/9624729002/ | 2022-05-06T16:26:38Z |
Family of children who disappeared in Miss. River heartbroken as search continues
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - A terrifying night turned into a tearful morning as family members began to realize their little ones may not come home, WVUE reported.
Dozens of family members stayed near the Algiers levee hoping for good news from crews searching overnight and into the morning. Dive teams also combed the river bottom.
Nedra Berry says they had just buried another family member the night before when she got a call from her brother.
“My brother called me screaming, ‘Nedra I need you, my babies are in the water, I can’t get to my babies. Come.’ I’ve never heard a man cry out for his children the way my brother cried out for his children. Never,” Berry said.
They say this was the first time they let 14-year-old Brandy Wilson, her 8-year-old sister Ally Berry Wilson, and a 15-year-old male friend venture off from home believing they were playing near the river when they slipped in.
As the family waited through the rain, the girls’ mother, Octavia Wilson, rushed to the levee hoping for a better outcome.
“They said that my 14-year-old went under first and then her friend tried to save her and my 8-year-old tried to help her sister and went under. I need them,” said Wilson.
The family says their hearts are breaking.
“This is the hardest thing my family has ever had to deal with, to bury two of my nieces at one time. I just hope that we all can come back from it. I know they’re not breathing in that water, I just hope they can get their bodies out of there so we can do the proper things to give them a proper service. That’s the only hope we have,” said Sharon Johnson, the aunt of the two girls.
They say they’ll lean on each other and their family’s faith as they wait.
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Senior Technology Leader Brings Deep Expertise in Digital Transformation for Wealth Management
OAKS, Pa., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SEI® (NASDAQ: SEIC) today announced that Jonathan Brassington has been appointed to its Board of Directors. He joins Chairman and CEO Alfred P. West, Jr.; current directors Sarah Blumenstein, William Doran, Carl Guarino, Kathryn McCarthy, and Carmen Romeo; and Ryan Hicke, future director and SEI's next CEO, effective June 1. In addition to his board responsibilities, Brassington will serve as a member of the Audit, Compensation, and Nominating Committees.
As Executive Vice President and Digital Customer Experience (DCX) Business Line Leader of Capgemini, Inc. in North America, Brassington focuses on DCX transformation for Global 1000 clients. From March 2018 to December 2019, he led Capgemini Invent in North America, the management consulting division of Capgemini, Inc. Prior to Capgemini, Brassington was the CEO, Partner, and Co-founder of LiquidHub, a digital transformation company focused on re-imagining customer engagement.
West commented:
"We're thrilled to welcome Jonathan to SEI's Board of Directors. His deep expertise in the use of digital technologies to transform the wealth management sector will provide great insight into the opportunities that lie ahead for SEI. We're confident he will be a significant asset to the board, and we will benefit from his experience providing strategic advisory to asset and wealth management firms. We look forward to working with him, as SEI continues to deliver technology and investment solutions that connect the financial services industry."
Brassington said:
"SEI has a rich history of innovation in the fintech and asset management spaces that has always stood out to me, and I'm excited to join during an energizing time of change for the company. The financial services landscape is in a state of constant evolution, creating challenges and opportunities for SEI's markets. I have admired Al and Ryan for some time, and I look forward to using my experience to support Ryan and the board with a continued focus on strategic growth and building brave futuresSM for SEI, our clients, and communities."
Brassington is a member of the Board of Overseers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science. He also serves on the board and Executive Committee of Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technology and on the Board of Trustees at Misericordia University. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from Misericordia University and a master's degree in telecommunications from the University of Pennsylvania.
About SEI®
SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) delivers technology and investment solutions that connect the financial services industry. With capabilities across investment processing, operations, and asset management, SEI works with corporations, financial institutions and professionals, and ultra-high-net-worth families to solve problems, manage change, and help protect assets—for growth today and in the future. As of Dec. 31, 2021, SEI manages, advises, or administers approximately $1.3 trillion in assets. For more information, visit seic.com.
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New industry-leading ADS Engineering & Technology Center to add jobs, and expand state-of-the-art capabilities in
materials science, manufacturing technologies and stormwater and onsite septic wastewater management
solutions
HILLIARD, Ohio, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (ADS) (NYSE: WMS), a leading provider of innovative water management solutions in the stormwater and onsite septic wastewater industries and the largest plastic recycler in North America, today announced plans to invest a total of approximately $65 million in Hilliard, Ohio, near the company's existing headquarters. This investment will fund the development of a nearly 110,000-square-foot industry-leading Engineering & Technology Center.
"The ADS Engineering & Technology Center will be the most advanced stormwater engineering center in the world dedicated to product engineering, material science –– including recycled plastics –– and manufacturing technologies. This new facility will accelerate our development of products designed to capture, convey, store and treat our most precious resource: water," said ADS President and CEO Scott Barbour. "In this new center, our team of engineers, scientists, and technicians will build sustainable solutions that utilize recycled plastics to improve quality of life in communities across North America."
The company plans to break ground in October at a 17-acre site at Lyman Drive and Davidson Road. The site is located west of ADS' Trueman Blvd. headquarters and will have a frontage on I-270. Barbour said the new facility is expected to open in late 2023.
"Clean water is critical to our economy and quality of life, and with talent from Ohio, ADS is not only protecting our water supply but also strengthening its position as the largest plastic recycler in North America," said Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. "The new, cutting-edge facility that ADS is bringing to Ohio will advance technologies that preserve our natural resources and improve our environment while creating 200 new jobs in Hilliard."
The expansion to ADS' engineering and technology operations at the center will allow the company to consolidate all of the current product development and testing operations and manufacturing engineering development into one central location. It will include:
- A product development lab focused on the full range of a product's life cycle including:
- A hydraulics lab that supports ADS' water treatment businesses including separation, traditional filtration, and low-impact development filtration.
- An advanced technology lab for manufacturing and engineering prototyping.
- Materials science laboratories providing:
The Ohio Tax Credit Authority also announced today it will provide ADS with tax credit assistance to continue the company's expansion in Hilliard. In return, the company must invest at least $10.8 million into the project, retain 322 existing jobs currently in Hilliard, and create 200 new jobs that would result in $20 million of new payroll to the state. All told, ADS plans to invest approximately $65 million in construction and equipment for the new engineering center.
ADS also received significant assistance from JobsOhio, Ohio's unique private economic development corporation, and One Columbus, its regional economic development partner, in site selection and connecting ADS with the appropriate economic development and city partners to ensure successful completion of the project.
"ADS is an Ohio-headquartered company that is an industry leader in stormwater solutions and plastics recycling in the North American market," said JobsOhio President and CEO J.P. Nauseef. "These new, state-of-the-art labs will develop innovations that will sustain our environment, reduce plastic in our landfills, and create high-demand jobs in the Columbus Region."
"ADS has proudly called Hilliard its home for two decades. The development of its new Engineering & Technology Center demonstrates the company's continued investment and commitment to our city," said Hilliard City Manager Michelle Crandall. "ADS is an ideal corporate citizen as a top employer, leader in sustainability and community partner. We look forward to supporting the company's growth over the coming years."
Barbour said the building and property will facilitate LEED Silver certification and be a showpiece for ADS employees, customers and investors.
"As the largest plastics recycler in North America, utilizing LEED building techniques supports our commitment to sustainability and advances progress to meeting ADS' 10-year sustainability goals," said Barbour. "The design of this facility will also enable safe observation of the exciting products and technologies that make ADS the world's leading stormwater and on-site septic wastewater solutions provider."
Advanced Drainage Systems is a leading manufacturer of innovative stormwater and onsite septic wastewater solutions that manages the world's most precious resource: water. ADS provides superior drainage solutions for use in a wide variety of markets and applications including commercial, residential, infrastructure, and agriculture. ADS delivers tremendous service to its customers with the industry's largest company-owned fleet, an expansive sales team, and a vast manufacturing network of approximately 70 manufacturing plants and 38 distribution centers. ADS is the largest plastic recycling company in North America, ensuring over half a billion pounds of plastic is kept out of landfills every year. Founded in 1966, ADS' water management solutions are designed to last for decades. To learn more, visit the company's website at www.adspipe.com.
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Offers Genuine Connection and Earning Opportunities Through
Real-Time Micro-Expression Mirroring
NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asia Innovations Group (AIG) announced today the official release of a new avatar feature on Uplive that uses real-time micro-expression mirroring, enabling anyone with a basic smartphone to enter the metaverse. This new feature will enhance the user experience on Uplive, which is already the world's #1 Independent Global Live Social video platform with over 300 million users globally.
Uplive's new high-fidelity, full-body 3D live avatars are completely customizable, allowing users to adjust over 200 individual facial features to create any virtual look they want. Users can create their avatar in their own likeness by using AIG's proprietary expression capturing technology to mirror one's face in real time or they can take the route of shrouding their "in real life" (IRL) identities with their avatar. Users can then immediately show their avatar in a live video stream to the world via Uplive.
This accessible onramp to the metaverse will ensure that all races, ethnicities, shapes, and sizes are represented no matter their personal or societal circumstances. Uplive's avatar functionalities will transform how people communicate online by bringing state-of-the-art, real-time expression mirroring technology previously available only on expensive, dedicated equipment to any smartphone.
"With Uplive's avatars, we have unveiled the first truly accessible metaverse," said Andy Tian, CEO of AIG. "Human beings need self-expression and genuine connection, both of which we are offering the world through this cutting-edge new product."
To fully showcase AIG's new avatar product and its conceptual views of the metaverse, AIG has released a full white paper outlining its approach, available at The Economist (https://impact.economist.com/projects/uplive-avatar-accessible-metaverse/). The white paper includes results from a never before released survey, revealing that emerging market users seek a metaverse that is accessible "anytime and anywhere" and that contains ample opportunities to earn an income.
According to a report recently issued by the Analysis Group, the metaverse could contribute $40 billion to the GDP of Sub-Saharan Africa in the next decade. The report also noted that if adoption starts this year, which the Uplive Avatar is making possible, the metaverse could lead to a $3-trillion contribution to global GDP by 2031. The report estimates that the metaverse could contribute 2.8% to global GDP in its first decade if its adoption mirrors that of other mobile technologies.
"The pandemic has widened the digital divide between people in wealthier and still emerging countries," Tian continued. "We at AIG aim to help people at the bottom of the income spectrum by narrowing that digital divide. The opportunities for Uplive creators to use avatars to their advantage are endless and we are extremely excited to see the creative directions they take."
More information about Uplive's avatars and how to get one is available at Up.Live.
About Asia Innovations Group
Asia Innovations Group (AIG) is a leading live social company with over 500 million registered users located in over 150 regions worldwide. It has built a comprehensive and diverse portfolio as it seeks to achieve its mission of enriching people's lives worldwide through innovative and enjoyable live social products that foster meaningful human connection. AIG operates in eighteen offices around the globe that offer deep local market knowledge across all major emerging markets to augment the company's cutting-edge technology and scalable global infrastructure. AIG's portfolio includes leading apps such as Uplive, the global live video platform, CuteU and Lamour, the dominant dating apps in global emerging markets, as well as other fast-growing voice and game-based live social apps.
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SHENZHEN, China, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- vivo today announced the global launch of the flagship X80 series, bringing users the next level of premium mobile experience with new cinematic photography features in collaboration with ZEISS. Building on vivo X series' professional mobile photography foundations, X80 series, featuring X80 and X80 Pro, continues to demonstrate the relentless pursuit of the perfect user experience in photography and videography with the smartphones' artistic cinematic mode, flagship performance, and technological innovations.
Outstanding Professional Imaging Features with ZEISS
"X80 series demonstrates vivo's constant pursuit of user-oriented innovation and premium mobile imaging technology. In successive collaboration with ZEISS, a global leader in optics and opto-electronics, we are once again delivering excellent experiences to users who can capture memories and create quality photographs and videos with more dynamics and perspectives," said Spark Ni, Senior Vice President and CMO of vivo.
vivo's X80 series features extensive upgrades that go beyond the unmatched mobile photography experience, and, for the first time, delivers cinematic style video modes in collaboration with ZEISS. The new ZEISS Cinematic Video Bokeh feature creates oval bokeh in film-standard 2.39:1 aspect ratio, creating a widescreen cinematic lens effect that can capture highly aesthetic and expressive videos. Users can also choose regular lens video bokeh, creating portrait videos with bokeh in one tap. The bokeh effect varies to match the focal length, aperture, and shooting distance, and the bokeh balls are round, in a 16:9 regular frame.
On top of that, new effects have been added to the ZEISS Superb Portrait feature, such as ZEISS Cinematic Style Bokeh, enabling users to recreate classic Hollywood aesthetics by adding a film-like bokeh effect with a 2.39:1 widescreen aspect ratio combined with artistic long oval bokeh, similar to ZEISS Cinematic Video Bokeh. The overall effects can also be enhanced with vivo's cinematic lens simulation algorithm and a dual-camera depth-of-field technology that combines flare rendering and processing. By recognizing highlight points, the brightest point in the picture is identified and artistic blue light trails can be created, similar to the blue streak in cinema lenses.
vivo continues to maintain its outstanding night scene effects in conjunction with the ZEISS Superb Night Camera. With upgraded features such as Pure Night View, X80 series is able to capture city night scenes while retaining the original look and feel of the scene. In addition, the X80 Pro supports XDR Photo that can improve clarity for backlit images and improve tones that better reflect what the human eyes can see. The XDR Photo feature can optimize the X80 series display capabilities through highlighting contrasting tones in photos to fully showcase the high-quality HDR effect on photos. With rear cameras on all devices having achieved compliance to ZEISS T* Coating, night scene performance remains first-rate. ZEISS T* Coating enhances light transmission and helps to reduce night reflectivity such as flare and ghosting.
To better optimize the ultimate mobile photography experience, vivo's X80 series also includes ZEISS Natural Color 2.0 aided by the series' first AI Perception Engine to improve color accuracy and facilitate color changing and brightness during a shoot. ZEISS Natural Color can reproduce natural colors and automatically optimize both the accurate exposure and white balance, thus allowing the image to best reflect what the human eyes can see. This feature upgrade includes the ability to adjust tone brightness, capturing experiences that appear more life-like, refined, and natural.
Premium Mobile Photography Experience
The X80 series contains top-of-the-line photography upgrades while maintaining the classic flagship features that make vivo the go-to brand for mobile photography. Users can continue to create photography and videography masterpieces with ease through vivo's user-oriented innovations.
X80 Pro has a 32MP front camera and a rear four-camera system consisting of a 50MP ultra-sensing camera with GNV sensor and optical image stabilization (OIS), a 48MP wide-angle camera, a 12MP gimbal portrait camera, and an 8MP periscope camera. The 12MP gimbal portrait camera is the core upgrade that allows for video enhancement and stability, while X80 Pro's main camera also includes an exclusively customized ultra-sensing GNV sensor to optimize reflectivity and reduce stray light paired with a High Transmittance Glass Lens for low dispersion and temperature drift to reduce glaring. Meanwhile, the X80 model has a 32MP front camera and a rear camera system consisting of a 50MP ultra-sensing main camera, a 12MP portrait camera, a new 12MP wide-angle camera. The X80 model features a new ultra-sensing IMX866 sensor that improves the camera performance in dark and low-light scenarios.
Furthering the pursuit of premium photography and videography experience, X80 series is equipped with the latest iteration of vivo's imaging chip, the vivo V1+ chip, delivering an elevated experience to users with a built-in AI system for professional-level visual enhancement. The X80 Pro includes an added feature; an AI Video Enhancement feature that allows the device to automatically identify the right mode for the light conditions, prompting users to choose between video HDR and night mode depending on the scenario. Furthermore, the vivo V1+ chip enhances the X80 series visual experience in display and gaming.
Camera Panning is a new and exclusive feature that further enhances this flagship series' dynamic capabilities. This feature has portrait motion tracking technology, which can reduce motion blur caused by shaky hands. In addition, its Night Sports Mode in the X80 Pro allows users to take outstanding, dynamic images, as it can capture clearer photos even during extreme scenarios with its improved motion detection abilities.
Outstanding Flagship Performance
vivo's groundbreaking technologies in mobile photography and top performance drive X80 series to be a powerhouse device designed based on an understanding of user demands.
X80 Pro is configured with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, while the X80 model runs on the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 platform for efficient performance without straining battery usage. Compared to its predecessor, X80 Pro has improved CPU performance. Furthermore, the entire series is equipped with enhanced LPDDR5 and enhanced UFS3.1 for high running and storage speed.
X80 Pro is decked with an Ultra Large Liquid Cooling Vapor Chamber that allows for maximum cooling surface area, which can help maintain stability when using high-performance features such as large-scale games and video recording. Furthermore, the X80 device contains the largest Vapor Chamber among the X series with over 23 heat dissipation layers for optimal cooling effects.
Designed with the consumer's needs in mind, the new X80 series has significant battery upgrades that can accommodate the lifestyles of all users. The entire series supports with 80W FlashCharge, while X80 Pro also supports 50W wireless FlashCharge with a 4700 mAh large battery, and the X80 has a 4500 mAh large battery. With such a sizeable battery, X80 Pro can get a full charge in just 35 minutes compared to its predecessor, the X70 Pro+, in 56 minutes, X80 can be fully recharged in 35 minutes.
X80 series is equipped with enhanced privacy controls and features. With the Screen Pinning feature, users can freeze the screen when they let others use the phone. Microphone and camera indicators, increased control in location approximation, and a privacy dashboard can be used to further control app accessibility. In addition, X80 Pro is equipped with a brand-new 3D Ultrasonic Large Fingerprint Sensor that can unlock the phone within 0.2 seconds.
Experience Immersive Gameplay
X80 series introduces new upgrades enabling enjoyable and immersive gaming experiences.
X80 series is equipped with a large X-Axis Linear Motor, supported by vivo's self-developed vibration algorithm that allows for quiet but powerful scene-based vibration. X80 Pro's response speed, referring to the start-stop time, has increased by 20% while X80's response speed has increased by 41.2% with more vivid vibration for enjoyable gaming.
The Dual Stereo Speaker in both models provides a Dual Stereo Speaker balanced with powerful bass to improve the overall sound effect, bringing dual speakers to X series for the first time.
The X80 device, in conjunction with the MediaTek Dimensity 9000 platform, offers a solution to tackle the issue of shortened battery life and unstable frame rate under heavy load games —the AI Gaming Super Resolution. This feature can compress heavy load gaming resolution as a way to reduce the CPU and GPU workload, then re-upload the compressed images through the AI Gaming Super Resolution. This cutting-edge feature has been tested to reduce battery consumption by 10%[1].
Sleek Waterproof Design with Refreshing Aesthetics
Inspired by the look of professional cameras, the square and circle aesthetic that forms the lens and base is incorporated within the exterior design concept of X80 series, to call to mind the series' professional photography capabilities. By encasing the lens within a circle motif, the visual design invites users to see the world through the camera and highlights ZEISS's Professional Imaging power within.
X80 series is available in two colors: Cosmic Black and Urban Blue. The X80 Pro model only comes in Cosmic Black, and the X80 model comes in both colors. Cosmic Black represents the broad and profound nature of the night sky, along with the vitality and the everlasting power of the universe. Urban Blue is designed with the color of the light blue sea away from the hustle and bustle of urban life while evoking feelings of relaxation, ease, and joy.
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a design-driven value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Xi'an, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by more than 400 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
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Arsenic found in water at New York housing complex
NEW YORK (WCBS) - Arsenic has been detected in the tap water at a major New York City Housing Authority complex.
City health officials are scrambling to address the problem that affects thousands of people in the East Village.
Loading up on water from stands right outside the Jacob Riis Houses, tenants are being urged to cook and bathe with the bottled water instead of what’s in their apartment.
“Everybody is worried. The whole development is worried,” resident Mary Cannon said.
Stacey Jones said she felt something was wrong on Aug. 2.
She noticed how cloudy the water was while cleaning her fish tank, and as soon as she put the fish back in it, it died.
She said she also noticed her and her children’s skin have been irritated.
“On my stomach, around my neck and my foot was really irritated and red, like patches and red spots,” Jones said.
She called New York City Housing Authority. A rep came out, but she said they told her the water was fine.
On Saturday, a month later, Mayor Eric Adams said the housing authority started testing immediately after getting multiple complaints of cloudy water in early August.
“It’s affecting the whole development because nobody has any real answers for us, and we don’t know what’s going on.” Mary Cannon said.
A spokesperson from the mayor’s office says additional testing on Friday showed arsenic levels higher than the federal standard for drinking water.
There’s concern damage may have already been done.
“The question is how long have the people at Riis houses been bathing and drinking arsenic-based water.” public advocate Jumaane Williams said.
The mayor’s office says the issue is only limited to Jacob Riis Houses and that it is safe for New York City at large to continue drinking tap water.
Free bottled water is being provided to residents until the problem is resolved.
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Deputies arrest Tampa man who threatened a school shooting
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Detectives have arrested an 18-year-old Florida man after receiving a tip that he threatened a mass shooting at a school in a social media post.
Corey Anderson’s post showed him with a handgun, a rifle and a tactical-style vest along with a caption that said, “Hey Siri, directions to the nearest school,” Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a news release.
Anderson was arrested at his home near Tampa on Sunday, and charged with a written or electronic threat to conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism.
“This type of threat is unacceptable. This man intentionally instilled fear into our community as a sick joke, but be warned, this is no laughing matter,” Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a statement.
The sheriff said his agency will “do everything within our power” to track down anyone who makes school threats.
“Protecting our students is our greatest priority,” Chronister said. We take school threats very seriously, if you see something suspicious, please contact us immediately.”
The arrest came days after an 18-year-old entered an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and fatally shot 19 children and two teachers. The gunman was eventually killed by law enforcement officers some 80 minutes after he entered the classroom in the predominantly Latino community that sits among vegetable fields halfway between San Antonio and the U.S.-Mexico border.
In the Florida case, deputies discovered that the weapons in the photo were airsoft guns, the news release said.
Anderson was booked into jail and later released on bond, jail records show.
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Justices seem poised to hear elections case pressed by GOP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems poised to take on a new elections case being pressed by Republicans that could increase the power of state lawmakers over races for Congress and the presidency, as well as redistricting, and cut state courts out of the equation.
The issue has arisen repeatedly in cases from North Carolina and Pennsylvania, where Democratic majorities on the states’ highest courts have invoked voting protections in their state constitutions to frustrate the plans of Republican-dominated legislatures.
Already, four conservative Supreme Court justices have noted their interest in deciding whether state courts, finding violations of their state constitutions, can order changes to federal elections and the once-a-decade redrawing of congressional districts. The Supreme Court has never invoked what is known as the independent state legislature doctrine, although three justices advanced it in the Bush v. Gore case that settled the 2000 presidential election.
“The issue is almost certain to keep arising until the Court definitively resolves it,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in March.
It only takes four of the nine justices to agree to hear a case. A majority of five is needed for an eventual decision.
Many election law experts are alarmed by the prospect that the justices might seek to reduce state courts’ powers over elections.
“A ruling endorsing a strong or muscular reading of the independent state legislature theory would potentially give state legislatures even more power to curtail voting rights and provide a pathway for litigation to subvert the election outcomes expressing the will of the people.” law professor Richard Hasen wrote in an email.
But if the justices are going to get involved, Hasen said, “it does make sense for the Court to do it outside the context of an election with national implications.”
The court could say as early as Tuesday, or perhaps the following week, whether it will hear an appeal filed by North Carolina Republicans. The appeal challenges a state court ruling that threw out the congressional districts drawn by the General Assembly that made GOP candidates likely victors in 10 of the state’s 14 congressional districts.
The North Carolina Supreme Court held that the boundaries violated state constitution provisions protecting free elections and freedoms of speech and association by handicapping voters who support Democrats.
The new map that eventually emerged and is being used this year gives Democrats a good chance to win six seats, and possibly a seventh in a new toss-up district.
Pennsylvania’s top court also selected a map that Republicans say probably will lead to the election of more Democrats, as the two parties battle for control of the U.S. House in the midterm elections in November. An appeal from Pennsylvania also is waiting, if the court for some reason passes on the North Carolina case.
Nationally, the parties fought to a draw in redistricting, which leaves Republicans positioned to win control of the House even if they come up just short of winning a majority of the national vote.
If the GOP does well in November, the party also could capture seats on state supreme courts, including in North Carolina, that might allow for the drawing of more slanted maps that previous courts rejected. Two court seats held by North Carolina Democrats are on the ballot this year and Republicans need to win just one to take control of the court for the first time since 2017.
In their appeal to the nation’s high court, North Carolina Republicans wrote that it is time for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the elections clause in the U.S. Constitution, which gives each state’s legislature the responsibility to determine “the times, places and manner” of holding congressional elections.
“Activist judges and allied plaintiffs have proved time and time again that they believe state courts have the ultimate say over congressional maps, no matter what the U.S. Constitution says,” North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger said when the appeal was filed in March.
The Supreme Court generally does not disturb state court rulings that are rooted in state law.
But four Supreme Court justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh — have said the court should step in to decide whether state courts had improperly taken powers given by the U.S. Constitution to state lawmakers.
That was the argument that Thomas and two other conservative justices put forward in Bush v. Gore, although that case was decided on other grounds.
If the court takes up the North Carolina case and rules in the GOP’s favor, North Carolina Republicans could draw new maps for 2024 elections with less worry that the state Supreme Court would strike them down.
Defenders of state court involvement argue that state lawmakers would also gain the power to pass provisions that would suppress voting, subject only to challenge in federal courts. Delegating power to election boards and secretaries of state to manage federal elections in emergencies also could be questioned legally, some scholars said.
“Its adoption would radically change our elections,” Ethan Herenstein and Tom Wolf, both with the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program at the New York University Law School, wrote earlier this month.
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Crews search river for 2 missing men who tried to save boy
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Recovery crews are searching for two men who were swept away by fast-moving water in a rain-swollen drainage ditch in Milwaukee after jumping in to try to save a 10-year-old boy.
Officials say a volunteer helping to search the shoreline found the boy’s body Tuesday in the conjoining Kinnickinnic River, more than a mile from where he fell in.
The youngster was identified by family as Mohammad Arman, who would have turned 11 on July 4.
Family members say the child’s father and a family friend followed him into the drainage ditch Monday evening.
Witnesses say the men and the child were swept into a tunnel that runs under a road.
Crews are searching the river Wednesday for the missing men.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper sat out a third straight game as he recovers from a platelet-rich plasma injection in his right elbow and the Phillies slugger may not play right field again until late July.
The reigning NL MVP, Harper said he was hopeful of returning at some point in the Philadelphia’s three-game series against the Padres. He did not play in Tuesday’s 3-0 loss. The Phillies and Padres wrap the series Thursday afternoon.
Harper had the injection Sunday because of a small tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of his throwing elbow that’s forced him into the role of designated hitter. He hasn’t played right field since April 16 and will remain as DH whenever he returns.
Phillies manager Joe Girardi said Wednesday that doctors said Harper should not throw for at least six weeks.
“I think he has some real clarification. I think it kind of put him at peace, actually,” Girardi said. “I think knowing that he has to wait, there’s not much he can do until six weeks anyway. He’ll just focus on hitting. I think the concern for the player is when it comes closer to actually trying something out.”
The 29-year-old star is batting .305 with nine home runs, 14 doubles, 27 RBIs, and an .634 slugging percentage. Harper likely would have spent a chunk of the season on the injured list had the National League not adopted the designated hitter this season. Girardi said there was a chance the Phillies might have carried him on the roster as a pinch hitter.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney announced Monday night they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic elevation to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s nominee a burst of bipartisan support and all but assuring she’ll become the first Black female justice.
The senators from Alaska and Utah announced their decisions ahead of a procedural vote to advance the nomination and as Democrats pressed to confirm Jackson by the end of the week. GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine announced last week that she would back Jackson.
All three Republicans said they did not expect to agree with all of Jackson’s decisions, but that they found her well qualified. Romney said she “more than meets the standard of excellence and integrity.”
With three Republicans supporting her in the 50-50 split Senate, Jackson is on a glidepath to confirmation and on the brink of making history as the third Black justice and only the sixth woman in the court’s more than 200-year history. Beyond the historic element, Democrats have cited her deep experience in nine years on the federal bench and the chance for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
Both Collins and Murkowski said they believed that the Senate nomination process has become broken as it has become more partisan in the past several decades.
Murkowski said her decision partly rests “on my rejection of the corrosive politicization of the review process for Supreme Court nominees, which, on both sides of the aisle, is growing worse and more detached from reality by the year.”
Biden nominated Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. Biden has sought bipartisan backing for his pick, making repeated calls to senators and inviting Republicans to the White House.
The Senate’s 53-47 vote Monday evening was to “discharge” Jackson’s nomination from the Senate Judiciary Committee after the panel deadlocked, 11-11, on whether to send the nomination to the Senate floor.
The committee vote, split along party lines, was the first deadlock on a Supreme Court nomination in three decades.
“Judge Jackson will bring extraordinary qualifications, deep experience and intellect, and a rigorous judicial record to the Supreme Court,” Biden tweeted earlier Monday. “She deserves to be confirmed as the next justice.”
The Judiciary committee’s top Republican, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, said he was opposing Jackson’s nomination because “she and I have fundamental, different views on the role of judges and the role that they should play in our system of government.”
The committee hadn’t deadlocked since 1991, when Biden was chairman and a motion to send the nomination of current Justice Clarence Thomas to the floor with a “favorable” recommendation failed on a 7-7 vote. The committee then voted to send the nomination to the floor without a recommendation, meaning it could still be brought up for a vote.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky set the tone for most of his party last week when he said he “cannot and will not” support Jackson, citing GOP concerns raised in hearings about her sentencing record and her backing from liberal advocacy groups.
Republicans on the Judiciary panel continued their push Monday to paint Jackson as soft on crime, defending their repeated questions about her sentencing on sex crimes.
“Questions are not attacks,” said Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, one of several GOP senators on the panel who hammered the point in the hearings two weeks ago.
Jackson pushed back on the GOP narrative, declaring that “nothing could be further from the truth.” Democrats said she was in line with other judges in her decisions. And on Monday they criticized their GOP counterparts’ questioning.
“You could try and create a straw man here, but it does not hold,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
The questioning was filled with “absurdities of disrespect,” said Booker, who also is Black, and he said he will “rejoice” when she is confirmed.
Derrick Johnson, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP, expressed disappointment with the tie, even as he noted that Jackson had cleared an important hurdle. He said “history will be watching” during the full Senate vote later this week. | https://cw33.com/news/murkowski-romney-back-jackson-all-but-assure-supreme-court-confirmation/ | 2022-04-05T18:18:22Z |
Strong Cost Management and Higher Production For the Quarter
Results in Solid Revenues and Lower Cash Costs
VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX: ASM) (NYSE American: ASM) (FSE: GV6) ("Avino" or "the Company") released today its consolidated financial results for the Company's second quarter 2022. The Financial Statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) can be viewed on the Company's website at www.avino.com, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
"We delivered steady financial and operating results for the second quarter of 2022, highlighted by solid revenues and mine operating income," said David Wolfin, President and CEO. "Even with global inflationary pressures, we have demonstrated strong operational achievements at Avino that have generated $9.4 million in revenues and $3.9 million in mine operating income, with earnings per share of $0.02, operating cash flow and adjusted earnings per share of $0.02, and free cash flow of $1.2 million. Our cash costs and AISC were lower this quarter as a result of greater ounces sold, and higher production in Q2 compared to Q1, 2022. We were also thrilled to announce promising drill results from the Oxide Tailings project and the Avino ET area below the Level 17 mining area. It has been an eventful quarter and, we are looking forward to continued progress during the second half of the year."
2nd Quarter 2022 Highlights
Strong Q2 2022 Financial Performance with Solid Revenues and Mine Operating Income
- Solid revenues and mine operating income, with revenues of $9.4 million and mine operating income of $3.9 million, earnings per share of $0.02, and adjusted earnings and operating cash flow generated (pre-working capital adjustments) per share of $0.02.
Avino ET Area Drill Results Confirms Continuity at Depth and Significantly Higher Copper Mineralization
- On June 13, 2022, the Company announced the assay results from six drill holes that were completed below the current Level 17 mining area, including 206 AgEq g/t over 41.0 metres, including 4,527 AgEq g/t over 0.19 metres. These results confirm that mineralization continues at depth and contains significantly higher copper mineralization. A second drill has been added to this program and will include a further 13 drill holes for a total of 7,000 metres
Advanced the Oxide Tailings Project
- With the release of the results from a total of 127 drill holes that continue to highlight the potential to expand resources, the Company is moving forward with a comprehensive metallurgical test work program to advance this project to the next phase of development.
Working Capital & Liquidity at June 30, 2022
- The Company's cash balance at June 30, 2022, totaled $12.8 million compared to $24.8 million at December 31, 2021. Working capital totaled $14.3 million at June 30, 2022, compared to $31.6 million at December 31, 2021. Cash and working capital have increased on a net basis by $3.3 million and $3.0 million, respectively, following the upfront consideration payment of $15.3 million and addition of $5 million note payable to Coeur for the acquisition of La Preciosa.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
- Revenues of $9.4 million
- Mine operating income of $3.9 million, $4.4 million net of non-cash depreciation and depletion
- Net income of $2.3 million, or $0.03 per share
- Cash costs per silver equivalent payable ounce sold1 - $8.39 per ounce
- All in sustaining cash cost per silver equivalent payable ounce sold1 - $15.95 per ounce
- Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA")1 of $4.1 million
- Adjusted earnings1 of $2.5 million, or $0.03 per share
- Operating cash flows (before working capital changes) of $2.5 million, or $0.02 per share1
- Free cash flow1 of $1.2 million
Financial Highlights
Cash capital expenditures company-wide for the first half of 2022 were $3.3 million compared to $1.0 million in the first half of 2021. Expenditures relate to exploration drilling costs on the Avino property and on TSF #1, which contains the Oxide Tailings Resource, and costs related to the construction of the dry-stack tailings facility. The Company also added an additional $1.3 million in leased capital equipment, including a new underground scooptram and dozer.
Operating Highlights and Overview
During Q2 2022, underground mining operations continued to ramp up with consolidated production for the quarter of 649,569 silver equivalent ounces consisting of 225,537 ounces of silver, 1,350 ounces of gold, and 1,644,343 pounds of copper.
Underground mining operations are now hauling between 1,800 and 2,400 tpd to surface on a daily basis, with the mill operating at a similar capacity. The Company is working towards achieving nameplate capacity of 2,500 tpd.
Exploration Update – 2022 Drill Program
In the second half of 2022, the Company's exploration programs will continue at Avino below the current Elena Tolosa production area, as well as at La Potosina. All holes at the Oxide Tailings project have been completed and metallurgical testwork is underway. Further results from all aspects of the exploration program will be released throughout Q3 and Q4 2022.
During Q2 2022 and as mentioned above, the Company announced drill results from the ET area of the Avino mine, as well as the Oxide Tailings project. To view the news releases in their entirety, please visit our website here.
Avino Receives ESR Award
We are very pleased to announce that Avino has received for the first time, the ESR "Empresa Socialmente Responsible ESR 2022" Award granted by the Mexican Center for Philanthropy (El Centro Mexicano para la Filantropia or Cemefi, and the Alliance for Corporate Social Responsibility (Alizanza por la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial or (AliaRSE)).
The ESR® Award is obtained through a diagnostic process based on indicators reviewed and endorsed annually by a committee of experts in the various CSR areas, supported with documentary evidence, an assessment differentiated by company size and by maturity levels, and an external verification process.
This is an extremely prestigious award in the Mexican business world, granted each year to a select group of enterprises in recognition of "the effort to make a voluntary and public commitment to implementing socially responsible management and ongoing improvement as part of the business culture and strategy".
"We are thrilled to receive the ESR award, as this is a great accomplishment for Avino" said David Wolfin, President and CEO. "I would like to express my congratulations to the entire Avino team, with special thanks to the ESG team in Durango, led by Oscar Lara, Avino's Superintendent of Corporate Social Responsibility, whose proactive approach to governance was a top priority since joining the Company just over a year ago."
ESG Initiatives
Avino continues to create value for all stakeholders and supports the communities that host the Avino mine, with the new Dry Stack Tailings project, the continued replacement of mineral resources, and the strengthening of local partnerships as part of our long-term commitment to the country. In line with Avino's policy of local employment, Mexican nationals account for 100% of the mine work force. In addition, Avino is actively increasing its workforce diversification by hiring more women for historically male-dominated roles through targeted recruitment and development programs. Currently at site, 10 – 15% of our labor force is female.
We continue to invest in sustainable economic community projects such as road construction and maintenance, an upgraded well for drinking water, cleaning and maintenance of landfills and classroom renovations, to name only a few of the initiatives currently ongoing.
Qualified Person(s)
Peter Latta, P.Eng, MBA, VP Technical Services, Avino who is a qualified person within the context of National Instrument 43-101 has reviewed and approved the technical data in this news release.
Non-IFRS Measures
The financial results in this news release include references to cash flow per share, cash cost per silver equivalent ounce, all-in sustaining cash cost per silver equivalent ounce, EBITDA, adjusted earnings/losses, and free cash flow, all of which are non-IFRS measures. These measures are used by the Company to manage and evaluate operating performance of the Company's mining operations, and are widely reported in the silver and gold mining industry as benchmarks for performance, but do not have standardized meanings prescribed by IFRS, and are disclosed in addition to the prescribed IFRS measures provided in the Company's MD&A.
Conference Call and Webcast
In addition, the Company will be holding a conference call and webcast on Thursday, August 11, 2022, at 8:00 am PDT (11:00 am EDT). Shareholders, analysts, investors, and media are invited to join the webcast and conference call by logging in here Avino Second Quarter 2022 Webcast and Conference Call or by dialing the following numbers five to ten minutes prior to the start time.
Toll Free Canada & USA: 1-800-319-4610Outside of Canada & USA: 1-604-638-5340
About Avino
Avino is primarily a silver producer from its wholly owned Avino Mine near Durango, Mexico. The Company's silver, gold and copper production remains unhedged. The Company's mission and strategy is to create shareholder value through its focus on profitable organic growth at the historic Avino Property and the strategic acquisition of mineral exploration and mining properties. We are committed to managing all business activities in a safe, environmentally responsible, and cost-effective manner, while contributing to the well-being of the communities in which we operate. We encourage you to connect with us on Twitter at @Avino_ASM and on LinkedIn at Avino Silver & Gold Mines. To view the Avino Mine VRIFY tour, please click here.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"David Wolfin"
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David Wolfin
President & CEO
Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd.
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (together, the "forward looking statements") within the meaning of applicable securities laws and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including the amended mineral resource estimate for the Company's Avino Property located near Durango in west-central Mexico (the "Avino Property") with an effective date of January 13, 2021, and as amended on December 21, 2021, and the Company's updated mineral resource estimate for La Preciosa with an effective date of October 27, 2021, prepared for the Company, and references to Measured, Indicated, Inferred Resources referred to in this press release.. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and the dates of technical reports, as applicable. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, as there can be no assurance that the future circumstances, outcomes or results anticipated in or implied by such forward-looking statements will occur or that plans, intentions or expectations upon which the forward-looking statements are based will occur. While we have based these forward-looking statements on our expectations about future events as at the date that such statements were prepared, the statements are not a guarantee that such future events will occur and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which could cause events or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors and assumptions include, among others, the effects of general economic conditions, the price of gold, silver and copper, changing foreign exchange rates and actions by government authorities, uncertainties associated with legal proceedings and negotiations and misjudgments in the course of preparing forward-looking information. In addition, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Known risk factors include risks associated with project development; the need for additional financing; operational risks associated with mining and mineral processing; the COVID-19 pandemic; volatility in the global financial markets; fluctuations in metal prices; title matters; uncertainties and risks related to carrying on business in foreign countries; environmental liability claims and insurance; reliance on key personnel; the potential for conflicts of interest among certain of our officers, directors or promoters with certain other projects; the absence of dividends; currency fluctuations; competition; dilution; the volatility of the our common share price and volume; tax consequences to U.S. investors; and other risks and uncertainties. Although we have attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. We are under no obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statements except as required under applicable securities laws. For more detailed information regarding the Company including its risk factors, investors are directed to the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F and other periodic reports that its files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Neither the TSX nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Cautionary Note Regarding Non-GAAP Measures
This news release includes certain terms or performance measures commonly used in the mining industry that are not defined under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"). Non-GAAP measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed under IFRS and, therefore, they may not be comparable to similar measures reported by other companies. We believe that, in addition to conventional measures prepared in accordance with IFRS, certain investors use this information to evaluate our performance. The data presented is intended to provide additional information and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. Readers should also refer to our management's discussion and analysis available under our corporate profile at www.sedar.com or on our website at www.avino.com.
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Boy, 9, injured Tuesday evening in likely accidental shooting in Junction City
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) - A 9-year-old boy suffered serious injuries Tuesday evening in what police were calling a likely accidental shooting on the north side of Junction City.
The JC Post reports the incident occurred just after 7 p.m. Tuesday outside a house in the 2000 block of Northwind Drive.
Junction City Police Capt. Cory Odell told the JC Post that two brothers, ages 9 and 11, ”were messing around in some capacity with a loaded firearm and it appears that one accidentally shot the other.”
Odell said the firearm was a handgun and that the 9-year old boy suffered a wound to the body.
The JC Post said the injured boy was taken by Emergency Medical Services to Geary Community Hospital in Junction City before being life-flighted to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita for treatment.
Odell said that the shooting occurred outside the house where the boys lived at 2007 Northwind Drive.
The name of the 9-year old boy hasn’t yet been released by authorities. The boy’s condition wasn’t available early Wednesday.
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Prominent Members of the U.S.-China Business Community Discuss How to Benefit the Local Economy and Environment by Investing in Sustainability
NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Encouraged by the positive momentum for benefiting both the economy and the environment, from May 5th to May 6th, 2022, China General Chamber of Commerce - USA (CGCC) led a delegation of member companies to visit Sun Fiber in Richburg, South Carolina, a leading manufacturing company that recycles plastic bottles into polyester staple fibers. The visit kicked off the CGCC 2022 Member Company Visits series, which aims to engage members of the U.S.-China business community with game-changing organizations and their pioneering practices.
Jointly organized by CGCC and Sun Fiber, the visit featured a business forum highlighting the power of sustainability endeavors to create business opportunities and unleash strategic benefits for local economies. About 100 distinguished guests from across the U.S. joined the event both in person and virtually.
Suosheng Li, Vice-Chair of CGCC and General Manager of China Construction Bank New York, highlighted that "promoting the idea of how sustainable strategies advance the economic, social and environmental 'Triple Bottom Line' would help businesses better understand the benefits of sustainability initiatives." Wei Hu, President, and CEO of Bank of China U.S.A. thoroughly introduced BOCUSA's strategic emphasis on ESG efforts and its strong commitment to the green finance transformation.
Chinese companies have heavily invested in South Carolina across industries and created enormous jobs and opportunities for the local economy. South Carolina Governor Henry McMasters, South Carolina Secretary of Commerce Harry Lightsey, and Director of Chester County Economic Development Robert Long reiterated the importance of these investments in the region and the importance of China as one of the state's largest trading partners during their remarks.
The forum also touched upon the Recycling and the Application Market and included remarks from Alasdair Carmichael, Program Director of NAPCOR; Mary McClellan, Executive Director of Carolina Recycling Association; Anna DeLage, Recycling Market Development of SC Department of Commerce; Robert Taylor, COO of Stein Fiber LTD, and Charles Thompson, President of Arden Companies.
CGCC sincerely thanks Sun Fiber for its support and truly admires its success as a socially responsible company operating in the U.S. CGCC looks forward to more member companies participating in future company visits.
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VANCOUVER, BC, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Metallis Resources Inc. (TSXV: MTS) (OTCQB: MTLFF) (FSE: 0CVM) (the "Company" or "Metallis") is pleased to release its initial 3-dimensional (or "3D") geological model, providing breakthrough insights into both the mineralized porphyry and enriched-gold zones at the Cliff-Miles Porphyry Corridor (or "Cliff-Miles") lying within Metallis' 100%-owned Kirkham Property (the "Property"), situated in the prolific Eskay Camp of the Golden Triangle, northwestern British Columbia. It is located approximately 30 km west of Seabridge's world class KSM porphyry deposits, and Newcrest Mining's producing Brucejack gold mine. The Golden Triangle is a district known worldwide for the past producing Eskay Creek and Snip gold mines.
Nickolas Dudek, Metallis' Chief Geologist, stated "It is incredibly rewarding for the Company to achieve this critical milestone in the continued development of the Cliff-Miles porphyry corridor. Through this geological 3D Model, the team is finally able to highlight the true scale of the system and demonstrate the dominant controls on grade within the well-mineralized Medium-Grained Porphyry ("MP") and the later gold-enriched zones. We are now also able to explain most of the copper/gold distribution at Cliff-Miles". He went on to add "This year, the goal of the technical team is to evaluate and refine this updated geological model and utilize the information to guide us, through drilling, to increasing the average grade of the system."
- Metallis geologists have built a 3D model for each of the porphyry phases and gold-enriched zones at the Cliff-Miles to help demonstrate the distribution of high-grade intercepts;
- The highest porphyry grades can be tied to a semi-continuous Medium-Grained Porphyry ("MP") composed of a single dike-like feeder (or "trunk") and two sill-like branches. These grades are found in the Southern end of the Cliff target (See Schematic Figure 1 Below); and
- The best gold-enrichment grades have a North-South trending and steeply dipping tabular form that runs along the East margin of the well-mineralized MP.
The current distribution of gold and copper mineralization is divisible into porphyry-related and late-gold related allotments.
The MP porphyry phase, composed of feeders (dikes) and sill-like bodies, can be further subdivided into well-mineralized and poorly mineralized MP variants based on respective copper, molybdenum, and vein content (See Figure 2 Below).
The feeder of the well-mineralized MP variant ranges between 20 meters ("m") and 150 m thick, has only been tested as deep as 660 m below surface, and can be semi-continuously traced 2,500 m from far-south holes at Cliff all the way to the North end of Miles. Representative intercepts are listed below to show the dimensions of this very lengthy mineralized zone (See Figure 3 Below).
- Far-south Cliff example intercepts include 0.8 g/t AuEq* over 118 m in KH18-16; and
- Far-north Miles example intercepts include 0.34 g/t AuEq over 84.5 m in KH19-27 (located 2500 m to the north of Cliff)
The sub-horizontal sill-like geometries are most apparent between holes KH20-34 and MD09-05 and occur in two bodies:
- A semi-continuous shallow sill tracked over approximately 950 m from North to South and which is highly variable in thickness (70 m to 250 m thick). It is still open to the South (beyond KH18-13), to the East, and potentially to the North beyond MD09-03
- A deeper sill tracked over 720 m from North to South, that pinches (>40 m) and swells (<170 m) along its length and is still open to the North (beyond KH21-42), South (beyond KH20-36), and to the East.
Petrographic, geochemical, and geostatistical reviews are currently underway to establish new strategies to help the geological team distinguish this new well-mineralized MP variant in-field as well as to further refine the model. A simplified view of the grade-bearing MP model and how it fits with the gold-equivalent ("AuEq") distribution can be seen in Figures 2 and 3. All the zones are still considered open to the North and South with multiple infill and extension opportunities situated near surface as well as at depth. All analytical data was completed at independent certified laboratories and have previously been reported.
Though challenging to identify texturally, the gold-enrichment event can be empirically identified from high Gold-to-Copper ratios along with silicification and can be traced along the dominant structures of Cliff-Miles (Adam Fault and block faulting) (See Metallis News from February 1st, 2022).
The 3D model shows a North-South ribbon-like feeder, approximately 2,400 m long, present on the East margin of the newly identified grade-bearing MP and which extends across the Adam Fault (380 m to 830 m deep) into the graphitic siltstone footwall. Example intercepts include:
- North-South feeder example intercepts include 1.24 g/t AuEq over 32 m in KH20-37 and 0.33 g/t AuEq over 27 m in KH18-16
Alongside, loosely constrained, are the fault-bound Northwest-Southeast feeders.
- Northwest-Southeast feeder example intercepts include 0.63 g/t AuEq over 30 m in KH21-42
Additionally, two dominant stratabound mineralized zones can be partially traced from Miles South to Cliff.
- Stratabound mineralized zones identified at Miles include 1.05 g/t AuEq over 43 m in KH21-45 and 1.24 g/t AuEq in KH20-37; and
- At Cliff with 0.82 g/t AuEq over 32.4 m in KH21-40
*Gold equivalent ("AuEq") grades are for comparative purposes only. Calculations use metal prices of US$1,700/oz gold, US$20/oz silver, US$3.0/lb. copper, and US$9.0/lb. Molybdenum. **Lengths are meters of downhole drilled core lengths. Drilling data to date is insufficient to determine true width of mineralization. Intervals are calculated using a notional cut-off of 0.20 g/t AuEq, a maximum of ten meters of internal dilution for porphyry-style mineralization and no top cut is applied. Recovery is assumed to be 100% as no metallurgical data is available.
In addition to a better understanding of the grade-bearing MP, 3D models of the other MP variants, two phases of Course-Grained Porphyry (or "CP"), and multiple feldspar porphyry sills have been produced. The Company's planned drilling this upcoming 2022 exploration season will focus on targeting the grade-bearing MP variant and gold-enriched mineralization with systematic step outs and undercuts, with a view to constraining geology and orientations, and avoiding the now identified and historically-poorly mineralized CP phases.
Future news will pull all the latest results together to guide the geological team and help evaluate and prioritize the Company's targets for 2022 field work and drilling.
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David Dupre, P.Geo, Vice President - Exploration and the Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed, and approved the technical information contained in this release.
The wholly owned 106 sq. km Kirkham Property is located about 65 km north of Stewart, B.C., in the heart of the Golden Triangle's prolific Eskay (Sulphurets) Camp. The Property is prospective for multiple mineral deposit types and is located along a strategic geological boundary – the "Red-line" exposed on the Western margin of the Eskay Rift system in the Golden Triangle, Northwestern British Columbia.
The Kirkham Property is contiguous to Garibaldi Resources Corp.'s E&L Nickel Mountain Project in the North and Eskay Mining Corp. to the East. The property is within 12 km of the Eskay Creek mine while the Eastern border is within 12 – 20 km of Seabridge Gold's KSM deposits and Pretium Resources' Brucejack mine.
Metallis Resources Inc. is a Vancouver-based company focused on the exploration of gold, copper, nickel, and silver at its 100%-owned Kirkham Property situated in northwest British Columbia's Golden Triangle. Metallis trades under the symbols MTS on the TSX Venture Exchange, MTLFF on the OTCQB Exchange, and 0CVM on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The Company currently has 52,839,878 common shares issued and outstanding.
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The American Heart Association presented Highland Hospital with Get With The Guidelines and Mission: Lifeline awards for proven dedication to best practices and life-saving care.
ALAMEDA, Calif., June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alameda Health System's Highland Hospital has received two American Heart Association achievement awards for delivering the latest, research-based treatments of heart disease and stroke, ultimately leading to more lives saved, shorter recovery times and fewer readmissions to the hospital.
Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a stroke or heart attack, and heart disease and stroke are the number-one and number-five causes of death in the United States, respectively. Studies show patients can recover better when providers consistently follow treatment guidelines.
Get With The Guidelines and Mission: Lifeline are programs that put the expertise of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association to work for hospitals nationwide, helping ensure patient care is aligned with the latest evidence and research-based guidelines. As a participant in both programs, Highland Hospital qualified for the Get With The Guidelines and Mission: Lifeline awards by demonstrating how their organization has committed to improving quality care.
"Highland Hospital is exemplary at adhering to the latest treatment guidelines and implementing smooth processes to ensure timely and proper care for heart attacks and strokes," said Felicia Tornabene, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Alameda Health System. "The Mission: Lifeline and Get With The Guidelines programs make it easier for our team to use knowledge and evidence-based practices every day, which helps us save lives in the East Bay."
This year, Highland Hospital received these achievement awards:
o Mission:Lifeline STEMI Receiving Gold Plus
o Mission:Lifeline NSTEMI Gold
"We are pleased to recognize Highland Hospital for its commitment to caring for those in their community who need cardiovascular care," said John Warner, M.D., FAHA, past president of the American Heart Association and executive vice president for health system affairs at UT Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas. "Hospitals that follow the American Heart Association's quality improvement protocols often see improved patient outcomes, fewer readmissions and lower mortality rates – a win for health care systems, families and communities."
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM (AHS) is a leading public health care provider dedicated to caring, healing, teaching and serving all. AHS is a haven for the most vulnerable among us and an advocate for equitable, compassionate and culturally sensitive care regardless of social and financial barriers. AHS is a vanguard of medical excellence, with a teaching hospital that draws the nation's best medical students. As one of Alameda County's 15 largest employers, AHS is a major economic power providing more than 5,100 jobs and contributing nearly $560 million annually in salaries, wages and benefits. AHS is also home to more than 1,100 physicians across the nine facilities within the health system. Since 1864, AHS has served the East Bay's health care needs. For more information, visit AlamedaHealthSystem.org.
The American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline program helps hospitals and emergency medical services develop systems of care that follow proven standards and procedures for STEMI patients. The program works by mobilizing teams across the continuum of care to implement American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Foundation clinical treatment guidelines. For more information, visit heart.org.
Get With The Guidelines® is the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's hospital-based quality improvement program that provides hospitals with the latest research-based guidelines. Developed with the goal of saving lives and hastening recovery, Get With The Guidelines has touched the lives of more than 12 million patients since 2001. For more information, visit heart.org.
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Partnership with Universal Pictures Offers Exclusive Menu and Brings an Epic Restaurant Experience Inspired By the New Film To Life
Jurassic World Dominion arrives in theaters June 10, 2022
FRANKLIN, Tenn., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc., parent company of Carl's Jr.® and Hardee's®, and Universal Pictures are teaming up to give fans a chance to experience a taste of the highly anticipated release of Jurassic World Dominion, the epic conclusion to the $5 billion franchise from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, which arrives in theaters June 10, nationwide.
Already known for innovative and craveable menu items, Carl's Jr. and Hardee's are introducing one of their most flavorful, meatiest burgers, burritos and biscuits to date with the all-new Primal Menu. Available now, the menu features a variety of savory offerings, fit for carnivores craving slow-cooked prime rib including the mouthwatering Primal Angus Thickburger™, the Primal Burrito and the Primal Biscuit with Fried Egg. For the herbivores, Carl's Jr. will offer the Beyond™ Wraptor Burger as well as the Double Beyond™ Wraptor Burger made with Plant-based Beyond Burger® Patties. And of course, these menu items wouldn't be complete without the tangy Amber BBQ Sauce, an homage to the iconic Jurassic World amber resin.
"Jurassic World is such an iconic franchise, just like our menus, that we wanted to make sure we were doing the films justice and pulled a lot of inspiration from them when we were creating these innovative menu items," said Owen Klein, vice president of global culinary innovation of CKE Restaurants. "The culinary team had a lot of fun with this and when consumers bite into these big, meaty items, we want them to be instantly transported to the world of Jurassic."
To build excitement leading up to the film's release, CKE is bringing the movie to life by turning two Carl's Jr. and Hardee's locations into the biggest dinosaur bite magnet the world has ever seen. These Jurassic World Dino Takeovers in Los Angeles and Nashville will feel as if they could almost be part of the movie itself -- there may even be a Jurassic T. rex at the Los Angeles location. Fans should go at their own risk because this summer, Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurants are the most thrilling places to be.
"We're giving guests the opportunity to experience the world of Jurassic with unforgettable bites, as well as an innovative, extensive 360 marketing campaign," said Chad Crawford, chief brand officer of CKE Restaurants. "From TikTok to Waze, the brands invested in unique partnerships as well as captivating billboards to showcase this compelling collaboration. On top of all that, we're excited for movie fanatics and foodie lovers alike to have the opportunity to explore our Dino Takeovers in Nashville and Los Angeles."
The partnership and menu will be complemented by a full creative campaign launching on May 23, with a mix of local and national media across traditional and digital channels, including television, cinema, radio, out-of-home, social media and print. With custom co-branded creative, guests will feel transported into the film with unique digital media including an Augmented Reality Lens through Snapchat, custom rich media with Yahoo!/Kargo, a branded digital game experience in Uber and Lyft via Octopus and much more.
The Primal Menu offerings are available now for a limited time at participating Carl's Jr. and Hardee's locations in the US. The Dino Takeovers will run June 1-8, at one restaurant in Los Angeles and one restaurant in Nashville, ahead of the film's June 10 debut. The partnership is also going global, with promotions being executed on the local levels in the Middle East and Canada with their own Jurassic Menu offerings.
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About CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc.
CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc. ("CKE"), a privately held company based in Franklin, Tennessee, in the United States, runs and operates Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, two beloved regional brands, known for one-of-a-kind premium and innovative menu items such as 100 percent Black Angus Thickburgers®, Freshly Baked Biscuits and Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders™. With both a US and international footprint, Carl's Jr. Restaurants LLC and Hardee's Restaurants LLC have nearly 4,000 franchised or company-operated restaurants in 44 US states and over 35 international markets and U.S. overseas territories. For more information about CKE, please visit https://ckefranchise.com/ or its brand sites at www.carlsjr.com and www.hardees.com.
About Jurassic World Dominion
This summer, experience the epic conclusion to the Jurassic era as two generations unite for the first time. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are joined by Oscar®-winner Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill in Jurassic World Dominion, a bold, timely and breathtaking new adventure that spans the globe.
From Jurassic World architect and director Colin Trevorrow, Dominion takes place four years after Isla Nublar has been destroyed. Dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures.
Jurassic World Dominion, from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, propels the more than $5 billion franchise into daring, uncharted territory, featuring never-seen dinosaurs, breakneck action and astonishing new visual effects.
The film features new cast members DeWanda Wise (She's Gotta Have It), Emmy nominee Mamoudou Athie (Archive 81), Dichen Lachman (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Scott Haze (Minari) and Campbell Scott (The Amazing Spider-Man 2). The film's returning cast includes BD Wong as Dr. Henry Wu, Justice Smith as Franklin Webb, Daniella Pineda as Dr. Zia Rodriguez and Omar Sy as Barry Sembenè.
Jurassic World Dominion is directed by Colin Trevorrow, who steered 2015's Jurassic World to a record-shattering $1.7 billion global box office. The screenplay is by Emily Carmichael (Battle at Big Rock) & Colin Trevorrow from a story by Derek Connolly (Jurassic World) & Trevorrow, based on characters created by Michael Crichton. Jurassic World Dominion is produced by acclaimed franchise producers Frank Marshall p.g.a. and Patrick Crowley p.g.a. and is executive produced by legendary, Oscar®-winning franchise creator Steven Spielberg, Alexandra Derbyshire and Colin Trevorrow.
Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment present, in association with Perfect World Pictures, a Colin Trevorrow film.
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Universal Pictures is a division of Universal Studios (www.universalstudios.com) Universal Studios is part of NBCUniversal. NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group and world-renowned theme parks. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
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- GIST is a pioneering impact data and analytics company that provides investors and companies with science-based, comparable and verifiable measures of corporate impact and performance.
- FNZ's investment follows the launch of its market-leading sustainable investment solution, FNZ Impact, which enables financial institutions to provide their clients with hyper-personalized, transparent information around the environmental and social impacts of investments, offering the ability to optimise portfolios quickly and easily.
- The investment is part of a wider partnership which sees GIST's data integrated within FNZ Impact, adding to the world leading ESG data currently available within the solution.
- The partnership builds on the companies' shared ambition to open-up wealth by making sustainability data more accessible and transparent so that investors can invest in the things they care about, on their own terms.
BOSTON and LONDON, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FNZ, the leading global wealth management platform, today announced that it has made a strategic investment in GIST, the pioneering impact data and analytics company that provides investors and companies with quantitative, comparable, and verifiable measures of corporate impact and performance across all four capitals: natural, human, social, and produced.
As well as supporting GIST's rapid growth and mission, FNZ's investment will build on the existing collaboration between the two companies and forms part of a wider partnership which sees GIST's sustainability data integrated into its market-leading sustainable investment solution, FNZ Impact. The integration builds on the world leading ESG data currently available within FNZ Impact and accelerates the companies shared ambition to open-up wealth by making sustainability data more accessible and transparent so that investors can invest in the things they care about, on their own terms.
FNZ Impact, a solution integrated into the wider FNZ wealth management platform, which supports over 650 of the world's leading financial institutions and 8,000 wealth management firms in 21 countries, helps financial institutions to provide their clients with hyper-personalized, transparent information around the environmental and social impacts of investment portfolios, and offers the ability to optimise portfolios based not just on risk appetite, goals and tax but also by personal preferences and values.
This means retail investors, their advisers and wealth managers can better understand the issues that matter most to them and address these by allocating capital accordingly, making investment part of the solution to global challenges.
There is growing awareness and scrutiny of corporate ESG credentials from investors. However, current ESG ratings and rankings can pose challenges due to biases and a lack of standardisation, transparency, independence and credible information.
GIST addresses this challenge by using a science-based approach to measure and value corporate impacts in monetary terms based on the 'Four Capitals' framework (natural capital, human capital, social capital and produced capital). This consistent and universal framework is used by the United Nations and a growing number of investors and corporates to evaluate performance and report on impact. GIST's monetized impact values can also be mapped to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), providing clarity and insight on the extent to which a company's activities have contributed to each of the SDGs.
In doing so, GIST (founded in 2011, and employing over 100 people across its offices in Geneva, London, Mumbai and Singapore) provides a complete and consistent picture of materiality, highlights hidden risks, allows meaningful comparisons between companies and across sectors, and supports evidence-based decision making.
Dr Vian Sharif, Head of Sustainability at FNZ, said: "The imperative for robust, science-based impact data has never been stronger, particularly ahead of a number of global regulatory changes, which require investment firms and advisers to incorporate clients' ESG preferences into their suitability assessments.
"The allocation of capital is critical to driving the change required to transition to net-zero and building a more sustainable economy and society. By democratising information on the impact of portfolios, FNZ Impact empowers investors, their advisers and wealth managers to contribute to a sustainable future for the next generation through their investment decisions.
"In GIST, we believe we've found not only one of the most rigorous and transparent methodologies in the market, but a company and team with a mission aligned strongly to our own and whose growth we are excited to support."
Pavan Sukhdev, Founder & CEO of GIST, said: "We are delighted to have FNZ as a strategic investor and a partner in our mission. FNZ and GIST have shared goals and we believe that, together, we can drive real, measurable change in the investment landscape by empowering investors with the impact data they need to make better informed decisions at all stages of investment life cycles, from asset selection to risk management to exits.
"Our shared mission is to embed GIST impact methodology and algorithms into every responsible investor's toolkit. There has never been greater urgency for investors and corporations to recognise and quantify all dimensions of investment impacts, and in doing so, to redefine corporate performance.
"FNZ's support will boost GIST's objective to mainstream our solutions, enabling more and more investors and corporations to measure performance across all value dimensions, manage material risks, and make better decisions in the interest of shareholders as well as other significant stakeholders."
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FNZ is a diamond sponsor of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Annual Operations Conference & Exhibition, taking place in Phoenix, Arizona from 16 until 19 May. FNZ's North America CEO, Tom Chard, will be one of the speakers on a breakout panel session on sustainable finance. To register, please click here.
About FNZ
FNZ is the global platform provider in the wealth management sector, partnering with over 650 of the world's leading financial institutions and over 8,000 wealth management firms. With over 4,500 employees in 21 countries, FNZ's mission is to open-up wealth, empowering all people to create wealth through personal investment, aligned with things they care about the most, on their own terms.
FNZ combines technology, infrastructure, and investment operations in a single state-of-the-art platform that frees its institutional customers to create hyper-personalised and innovative products and services, that are seamlessly aligned with the needs of their clients.
To date, FNZ has enabled over 20 million people, from all wealth segments, to invest in an effective, simple, and transparent way, making wealth management accessible to everyone.
About GIST
GIST is a pioneering data and analytics company that brings together world-renowned sustainability expertise with technology and big data to help investors and companies measure, value, and benchmark business impacts across all four capitals: Natural, Human, Social, and Produced. GIST's data and software solutions provide analytics and insights that make it easy for investors and companies to measure performance across all value dimensions, manage material risks, and make informed decisions.
Founded by Pavan Sukhdev (UN Goodwill Ambassador, and winner of the 2020 Tyler Prize for the Environment), GIST is at the cutting edge of measuring impacts using a scientifically sound and economically rigorous methodology that provides unique and unparalleled insight into how companies impact society and the environment. GIST has been measuring and quantifying impact for over 16 years, and the GIST team brings a depth and breadth of experience in sustainability, science and economics that is unmatched in the market. To learn more, please visit www.gistimpact.com.
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STOCKHOLM, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) continues to work closely with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States as it reviews its proposed acquisition of Vonage Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: VG). The merger has cleared all other requisite foreign and US regulatory approval requirements, and the parties are working to conclude the regulatory process as expeditiously as possible. Ericsson and Vonage remain fully committed to this transaction and are working towards closing before end of July, 2022.
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Senators propose changes to electors law after Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators agreed Wednesday on proposed changes to the Electoral Count Act, the post-Civil War-era law for certifying presidential elections that came under intense scrutiny after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Long in the making, the package introduced by the group led by Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Joe Manchin of West Virginia is made up of two separate proposals. One would clarify the way states submit electors and the vice president tallies the votes in Congress. The other would bolster security for state and local election officials who have faced violence and harassment.
“From the beginning, our bipartisan group has shared a vision of drafting legislation to fix the flaws of the archaic and ambiguous Electoral Count Act of 1887,” Collins, Manchin and the other 14 senators said in a joint statement.
“We have developed legislation that establishes clear guidelines for our system of certifying and counting electoral votes,” the group wrote. “We urge our colleagues in both parties to support these simple, commonsense reforms.”
Both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell have signaled support for the bipartisan group, but the final legislative package will undergo careful scrutiny.
Votes are not likely before fall. But with broad support from the group of 16 senators, eight Democrats and eight Republicans, who have worked behind closed doors for months with the help of outside experts, serious consideration is assured.
In a statement, Matthew Weil, executive director of the Democracy Program at the Bipartisan Policy Center, called the framework a “critical step” in shoring up ambiguities in the Electoral Count Act.
After Trump lost the 2020 election, the defeated president orchestrated an unprecedented attempt to challenge the electors sent from battleground states to the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, when the vice president presides over certification.
Under the proposed changes, the law would be updated to ensure the governor from each state is initially responsible for submitting electors, as a way to safeguard against states sending alternative or fake elector slates.
Additionally, the law would spell out that the vice president presides over the joint session in a “solely ministerial” capacity, according to a summary page. It says the vice president “does not have any power to solely determine, accept, reject, or otherwise adjudicate disputes over electors.”
That provision is a direct reaction to Trump’s relentless efforts to pressure then Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electors being sent from certain battleground states as a way to halt the certification or tip it away from Joe Biden’s victory.
The bill also specifies the procedures around presidential transitions, including when the election outcome is disputed, to ensure the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next.
That’s another pushback to the way Trump blocked Biden’s team from accessing some information for his transition to the White House.
The second proposal, revolving around election security, would double the federal penalties to up to two years in prison for individuals who “threaten or intimidate election officials, poll watchers, voters or candidates,” according to the summary.
It also would seek to improve the way the U.S. Postal Service handles election mail and “provide guidance to states to improve their mail-in ballot processes.” Mail-in ballots and the role of the Postal Service came under great scrutiny during the 2020 election.
An Associated Press review of potential cases of voter fraud in six battleground states found no evidence of widespread fraud that could change the outcome of the election. A separate AP review of drop boxes used for mailed ballots also found no significant problems.
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Crown Achieves the List for the 9th Time
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine has revealed that Crown is No. 1305 on its 2022 Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. Crown is again honored to be included on the list. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"To make this list for the ninth time is just remarkable and is recognition of our global workforce efforts," said Jeff Bedard, Crown's President and CEO. "Our team continuously outperforms expectations, resulting in our ability to leverage significant business opportunities that lead to product portfolio and revenue growth. We are committed to skin science for life, bringing innovation and best in class technology to the market. It is because of our amazing employees and loyal customers that we find ourselves again a member of the Inc. 5000 list today."
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
About Crown Laboratories, Inc.
Crown, a privately held, fully integrated global skincare company, is committed to developing and providing a diverse portfolio of aesthetic, premium and therapeutic skincare products that improve the quality of life for its consumers throughout their skincare journey. An innovative company focused on skin science for life, Crown's unyielding pursuit of delivering therapeutic excellence and enhanced patient outcomes is why it has become a leader in Dermatology and Aesthetics. Crown has been listed on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies List for nine years and has expanded its distribution to over 38 countries. For more information, visit www.crownlaboratories.com.
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NEW YORK, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The messaging developed in our two new Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) Public Service Announcements (PSAs), "Sobriety in A.A.: My Drinking Built a Wall" and "…When Drinking is no longer a party" share our experience that we in A.A. believe alcoholism is a disease that is no respecter of age, varying abilities, gender, creed, race, wealth, occupation or education. Our experience shows that anyone can be an alcoholic. And, beyond question, anyone who wants to stop drinking is welcome in A.A.
If you are drinking too much, if your drinking is causing problems, if you want help — A.A. offers a solution. Though not the only way to find sobriety, we in A.A. offer a no-cost solution that many recovering alcoholics have found works for them. While in many places in-person meetings are available, in recent years virtual groups have flourished, creating many new channels to connect with A.A.'s message of recovery.
The two new PSAs (:60, :30 and :15 lengths) are available to Broadcast stations in English, Spanish and French Canadian.
For additional information, visit www.aa.org. To view a Public Service Announcement, click here. To find an A.A. meeting, download the A.A.W.S. Meeting Guide app or contact a local A.A. Central office or Intergroup Office.
Whether in person or online — if you have a drinking problem, A.A. may be able to help.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Families in Ukraine as well as those who have already fled the country will soon receive additional and much-needed assistance on behalf of Pilot Company, its team members and guests who came together to raise a total of $1,153,000 for Save the Children's Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund.
This amount includes 100% of the donations collected from guests who rounded up their purchase* at more than 650 participating U.S. travel centers and restaurants, and an additional $100,000 gift from Pilot Company.
"The devastation in Ukraine is heartbreaking," said Shameek Konar, CEO of Pilot Company. "We've seen how our round-up giving campaigns can quickly make a difference thanks to the support of our team members and guests, and we are again in amazement of their generosity and compassion. This $1 million will help Save the Children meet the urgent and growing needs of children and families in Ukraine and the region. Thank you to everyone who joined us in this critical effort and to Save the Children for providing lifesaving assistance to the people fleeing the conflict in Ukraine."
Save the Children is providing relief for children and families inside Ukraine as well as in neighboring countries through delivering food, water, hygiene kits, voucher assistance, and other humanitarian programs. The organization aims to reach 10 million children and their families impacted by the Ukraine crisis. Donations to Save the Children help make possible their ability to provide essential assistance, such as:
- $50 can provide 10 warm, cozy blankets to children displaced from their homes
- $100 helps supply a month's worth of nutrition food to a family in crisis
- $175 can provide five families with emergency shelter materials
"Save the Children is extremely grateful for Pilot Company's support in response to the devastating crisis in Ukraine," said Luciana Bonifacio, Chief Development Officer, Save the Children. "The funds raised will enable us to distribute critical emergency supplies and where possible, establish safe spaces for children, ultimately helping protect impacted children and families in Ukraine and neighboring countries."
More information on Save the Children is available at https://www.savethechildren.org/. To learn more about Pilot Company and its longstanding commitment to giving back, visit pilotcompany.com/about.
*Certain purchases (including, without limitation, fuel and fuel additives and purchases made on fleet cards or direct bill programs) are not eligible for round-up contributions.
Pilot Travel Centers LLC ("Pilot Company") keeps North America's drivers moving as one of the leading suppliers of fuel and the largest operator of travel centers. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Pilot Company has grown its network to more than 800 retail and fueling locations and as the third largest tanker fleet in North America, supplies more than 14 billion gallons of fuel per year to the market. Its energy division also supplies DEF, bio and renewable fuels and provides hauling and disposal services to the oil field sector. Pilot Company serves 1.5 million guests per day and provides over 70,000 fleet customers with solutions for fuel, credit, factoring, services and rewards. Its Pilot Flying J Travel Center network includes over 750 locations in 44 states and five Canadian provinces with more than 790 restaurants, 75,000 truck parking spaces, 5,300 deluxe showers, 6,200 diesel lanes and offers truck maintenance and tire service with Southern Tire Mart at Pilot Flying J. The One9 Fuel Network connects a variety of fueling locations to provide smaller fleets and independent professional drivers with everyday value, convenience, credit and perks. More information on locations and rewards are available in the myRewards PlusTM app.
Pilot Company is currently ranked No. 7 on Forbes' list of America's Largest Private Companies. For additional information about Pilot Company, its 28,000 team members and commitment to giving back, visit www.pilotcompany.com.
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. Since our founding more than 100 years ago, we've changed the lives of more than 1 billion children. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
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COLCHESTER, Vt., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vernal Biosciences, a technology-leading mRNA manufacturer and formulator of LNP-mRNA, announced today the completion of a $21 million financing to fully integrate its mRNA manufacturing solutions. The round was led by Ampersand Capital Partners and Dynamk Capital, with existing investors Alloy Therapeutics and ATUM participating. The round also included a new investment from Charles River Laboratories, Inc. Vernal offers a complete range of mRNA-related services and products ranging from sequence design and screening support, scaled-down and scaled-up manufacturing of high purity mRNA and LNP-mRNA, platform process development technologies, and ultimately GMP manufacturing.
"We are excited to offer an advanced staging ground of platform processes and analytical technologies to our clients for all of their projects, clinical included," said Christian Cobaugh, Vernal CEO and Founder. He emphasized, "While quality and capabilities matter more than ever, huge gaps remain in the capacity of high purity mRNA products and services. Our deep expertise and proven abilities in mRNA technologies, along with the wealth of experience in building success stories in the CRO and CDMO space that our investors bring, will enable Vernal to successfully transform this field, from concept to clinical trials. It is time to usher in a new era where under a single contract, we can design sequences, manufacture plasmid templates and mRNA, formulate LNP-mRNA, and provide release testing of drug products."
Christian will be joined on Vernal's board by existing board member, Errik Anderson of Alloy Therapeutics, and new board members, David Anderson of Ampersand, and Gustavo Mahler of Dynamk. Under the leadership of Dr. Cobaugh, Vernal is equipped with a singular focus on mRNA. The funds from this financing will support Vernal's growth including the construction of full GMP capabilities scheduled to become operational in late 2023.
David Anderson, General Partner with Ampersand added, "Ampersand is excited to partner with Christian and the Vernal team to help bring Vernal to the next level as a full-service CDMO servicing the mRNA field. Our recent experiences building advanced therapy CDMOs such as BrammerBio, ArrantaBio and Vibalogics, position Ampersand as an excellent partner for Vernal at this stage in the company's growth."
"There is a strong market demand for fully integrated providers of mRNA products and services," said Gustavo Mahler, Venture Partner at Dynamk Capital. "Dynamk looks forward to supporting the Vernal team in growing into one of the leading CDMOs in the mRNA space."
Vernal Biosciences provides mRNA and LNP-mRNA manufacturing services to democratize the use of mRNA for all use cases ranging from drug discovery to clinical development across all use cases such as gene editing and regulation, cellular programming, vaccines, mRNA replacement, oncology, autoimmune, and protein degradation. Please visit www.vernal.bio for more information.
About Ampersand Capital Partners
Founded in 1988, Ampersand is a middle market private equity firm with more than $2 billion of assets under management dedicated to growth-oriented investments in the healthcare sector. With offices in Boston and Amsterdam, Ampersand leverages its unique blend of private equity and operating experience to build value and drive superior long-term performance alongside its portfolio company management teams. Ampersand has helped build numerous market-leading companies across each of the firm's core healthcare sectors. Additional information about Ampersand is available at ampersandcapital.com.
Dynamk Capital is a growth equity and venture capital firm focused on life sciences industrials. Dynamk's investment strategy is centered on identifying companies developing disruptive technologies, tools, and services that enable the full biopharma continuum across discovery, development, and manufacturing of biotherapeutics, including cell & gene therapies and vaccines. Please visit www.dynamk.vc for more information.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are going to hold onto the House after November’s midterm elections. They will pick up as many as four seats in the Senate, expanding their majority and overcoming internal dissent that has helped stifle their agenda.
As the challenges confronting President Joe Biden intensify, his predictions of a rosy political future for the Democratic Party are growing bolder. The assessments, delivered in speeches, fundraisers and conversations with friends and allies, seem at odds with a country that he acknowledged this week was “really, really down,” burdened by a pandemic, surging gas prices and spiking inflation.
Biden’s hopeful outlook tracks with a sense of optimism that has coursed through his nearly five-decade career and was at the center of his 2020 presidential campaign, which he said was built around restoring the “soul of America.” In a lengthy Oval Office interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Biden said part of his job as president is to “be confident.”
“Because I am confident,” he said. “We are better positioned than any country in the world to own the second quarter of the 21st century. That’s not hyperbole. That’s a fact.”
While presidents often try to emphasize the positive, there is a risk in this moment that Biden contributes to a dissonance between Washington and people across the country who are confronting genuine and growing economic pain.
Few of Biden’s closest political advisers are as bullish about the party’s prospects as the president. In interviews with a half-dozen people in and close to the White House, there is a broad sense that Democrats will lose control of Congress and that many of the party’s leading candidates in down-ballot races and contests for governor will be defeated, with Biden unable to offer much help.
The seeming disconnect between Biden’s view and the political reality has some in the party worried the White House has not fully grasped just how bad this election year may be for Democrats.
“I don’t expect any president to go out and say, ‘You know what, ‘We’re going to lose the next election,’” said Will Marshall, president and founder of the Progressive Policy Institute, which is in regular contact with the White House’s policy team. What might serve Biden well instead, Marshall said, would be “a sober sense of, ’Look, we’re probably in for a rough night in November and our strategy should be to remind the country what’s at stake.’”
The White House is hardly ignoring the problem.
After years in which Democrats have operated in political silos, there is a greater focus on marshaling resources. Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s 2020 campaign manager who now serves as one of his deputy chiefs of staff, runs the political team from the West Wing along with Emmy Ruiz, a longtime Texas-based Democratic political consultant.
O’Malley Dillon coordinates strategy among the White House, the Democratic National Committee and an array of outside party groups. Cedric Richmond, a former Louisiana congressman who co-chaired Biden’s 2020 campaign and was one of his closest White House advisers, left for a job with the DNC in April. He characterized the move as underscoring the administration’s full grasp of the importance of the midterms.
“We understand that you cannot govern if you can’t win,” Richmond said in an interview. “We are treating it with that sense of urgency.”
The president’s political message is being honed by Mike Donilon, a longtime Biden aide who is a protector of Biden’s public image, and veteran party strategist Anita Dunn, who is returning to the White House for a second stint.
Richmond praised Dunn’s political instincts and said he believes she will team with O’Malley Dillion, White House chief of staff Ron Klain and others to promote messaging that many in their own party may underestimate.
“If I had a penny for every time Democrats counted Joe Biden or Kamala Harris out, I’d be independently wealthy,” Richmond said.
Biden turned to Dunn during an especially low political moment in February 2020, giving her broad control of his then-cash strapped presidential campaign as it appeared on the brink of collapse after a disastrous fourth-place showing in the Iowa caucus.
Barely a week later, Biden left New Hampshire before its primary polls had even closed, ultimately finishing fifth. But he took second in Nevada, won South Carolina handily and saw the Democratic establishment rally around him at breakneck speed in mere days after that. O’Malley Dillon then joined the campaign and oversaw Biden’s general election victory.
A similar reversal of political fortune may be necessary now.
But where White House officials last year harbored hopes that voters could be convinced of Biden’s accomplishments and reverse their dismal outlook on the national direction, aides now acknowledge that such an uphill battle is no longer worth fighting. Instead, they have pushed the president to be more open about his own frustrations — particularly on inflation — to show voters that he shares their concerns and to cast Republicans and their policies as obstacles to addressing these issues.
Though he has increasingly expressed anger about inflation, Biden has publicly betrayed few concerns about his party’s fortunes this fall. opting instead for relentlessly positivity.
“I think there are at least four seats that are up for grabs that we could pick up in the Senate,” the president told a recent gathering of donors in Maryland. “And we’re going to keep the House.”
Biden meant Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with potential longer shots in North Carolina or Florida possibly representing No. 4. Some aides admit that assessment is too optimistic. They say the president is simply seeking to fire up his base with such predictions. One openly laughed when asked if it was possible that Democrats could pick up four Senate seats.
The party’s chances of maintaining House control may be bleaker. Still, Tim Persico, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is charged with defending the party’s narrow majority, said Biden remains an asset.
“We love when the president is speaking to the country,” Persico said. “There’ll always be frustrations. I totally get that. But I think he’s his own best messenger.”
Biden has traveled more since last fall, promoting a $1 trillion public works package that became law in November, including visiting competitive territory in Minnesota, Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan and New Hampshire. During a trip to Democratic Rep. Cindy Axne’s Iowa swing district, the president declared, “My name is Joe Biden. I work for Congresswoman Axne.”
But Bernie Sanders, the last challenger eliminated as Biden clinched the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, is making his own Iowa trip this weekend to rally striking workers at construction and agriculture equipment plants.
The 80-year-old Vermont senator has not ruled out a third presidential bid in 2024 should Biden not seek reelection. That has revived questions about whether Biden, 79, might opt not to run — speculation that has persisted despite the White House political operation gearing up for the midterms and beyond.
“I do think a lot of folks in the Democratic Party, rightfully, are concerned about what’s going to happen in 2024. That doesn’t have to be mal intent,” said Linn County Supervisor Stacey Walker, whose district includes Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and who was a high-profile Sanders supporter during the last campaign. “I think folks are putting the question to the Democratic Party, ‘Is Joe Biden going to run again? Is he not going to run again?’”
Walker noted that other Democrats who could seek the White House in 2024 if Biden does not, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, joined Sanders in signing a letter supporting 1,000-plus plant workers who have been striking for better pay and benefits for more than a month.
“It is responsible, I think, for those folks within the Democratic Party, who have the profile, who have the infrastructure, to make sure it’s all still in good working condition should they have to dust off the playbook,” Walker said.
Asked if Biden was running again in 2024, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president has responded to such queries repeatedly and “his answer has been pretty simple, which is, yes, he’s running for reelection.”
The more immediate question of Biden’s midterm appeal could be even trickier. He campaigned for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia last November, after winning the state easily in 2020. McAuliffe lost by 2 percentage points, a potentially bad omen for the 16 governorships Democrats are defending this fall.
“We know there are going to be national headwinds, there always are,” Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia, said recently. But she insisted she would be happy to campaign with Biden or top members of his administration: “I welcome anyone willing to lift Georgia up, to come to Georgia and help me get it done.”
That was a departure from Democrat Beto O’Rourke, running for governor in Texas, who told reporters, “I’m not interested in any national politician — anyone outside of Texas — coming into this state to help decide the outcome of this race.”
Biden political advisers say a possible Supreme Court ruling overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, as well as recent mass shootings spurring renewed debate over gun violence, could give Democrats two issues that could energize voters. But they also acknowledge that one or both might help party candidates clinch already close races — not remake the political landscape nationwide.
In the meantime, Biden’s overall approval rating hit a new low of 39% last month. Even among his own party, just 33% of respondents said the country is headed in the right direction, down from 49% in April. The president’s approval rating among Democrats stood at 73%, falling sharply from last year, when Biden’s Democratic approval rating never slipped below 82%.
White House political advisers are already playing down the possibility that some of the party’s most vulnerable candidates may carve out identities distinct from the president’s. As a former senator, Biden understands such maneuvers, they say.
The White House also notes that the president and his party are in far better shape now than before the 2010 midterms, when a tea party wave saw Republicans win back Congress. Since taking office, Biden’s political team has invested significantly in the DNC and state parties, and all sides are cooperating.
The DNC says it has never been larger, with 450 staff members on state party payrolls, or sported a more robust ground operation. It also raised $213 million so far, a midterm record. But DNC Chair Jaime Harrison nonetheless appeared to be trying to head off concerns donors’ contributions might be going to waste, saying, “We’re not promoting it all over the place.”
“When you’re in the Super Bowl, do you think the coach puts all their plays up on Twitter, and says, ‘Here’s what we’re going to run?,” Harrison said at a Los Angeles fundraiser with Biden last weekend. “No. We don’t put all of our stuff out there.”
He said the group is building out an operation “to make sure that, when those close elections happen November, we win them.” | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/bidens-optimism-collides-with-mounting-political-challenges/ | 2022-06-18T19:28:29Z |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris, embracing her role as one of the administration’s most outspoken defenders of abortion rights, spoke Thursday with abortion providers from states with some of the country’s strictest restrictions, saying they are “on the front lines of this war on women’s rights.”
The virtual conversation, which Harris hosted from the White House complex, came weeks after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion suggesting that justices are on the brink of overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
Justices are expected to issue their final ruling in the next six weeks, but some states with Republican leaders are already laying the groundwork to ban abortion outright if the court allows individual states to set their own rules for the procedure.
Shortly before Harris began her meeting, Oklahoma lawmakers passed what might be the most restrictive abortion ban in the country, preventing the procedure in all cases except to save the life of a pregnant woman or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest that has been reported to law enforcement.
“It’s outrageous, and it’s just the latest in a series of extreme laws from around the country,” Harris said. She said the rules were designed to “punish and control women.”
In addition to Oklahoma, the abortion providers who participated in the meeting were from Kansas, Texas, Missouri and Montana. Other states with less restrictive laws are preparing for a potential influx of patients if more bans going into effect.
Much as President Joe Biden has done, Harris said other court rulings that allowed access to contraception and legalized same sex marriage could also be at risk.
“It would be a direct assault on the fundamental right of self determination, to live and love without interference from the government,” she said.
The Biden administration has few options available to protect abortion, especially since legislation to safeguard access failed in the Senate last week. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/harris-to-meet-with-abortion-providers-as-court-ruling-looms/ | 2022-05-20T02:32:47Z |
Delivering proton therapy to patients seated upright improves access to care
FLINT, Mich. , July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The McLaren Proton Therapy Center is poised to become the first in the world to deliver proton therapy to patients with Leo Cancer Care's ground-breaking upright treatment technology. In a landmark agreement, Leo Cancer Care will install two upright units at the McLaren Proton Therapy Center in Flint, Michigan, with the first patients set to receive care via the innovative treatment delivery system within the next two years upon receipt of FDA's clearance for the technology.
"The goal of Leo Cancer Care and McLaren Proton Therapy Center's collaboration is to bring proton therapy to more patients, and we know there are clear advantages with proton therapy," said Stephen Towe, CEO, Leo Cancer Care. "The McLaren Proton Therapy Center is well positioned to become the first to potentially treat patients with the revolutionary Leo Cancer Care technology."
Towe noted research highlighting that upright positioning results in less organ movement during treatment. It also creates better communication channels between the patient and clinician. Proton therapy delivers highly targeted doses of radiation to cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue, reducing side effects, and resulting in successful outcomes. Benefits of delivering radiation therapy to patients seated in an upright position include comfort and a better patient experience compared to laying down on a table.
The McLaren Proton Therapy Center, part of the Karmanos Cancer Institute at McLaren Flint, is already the largest proton center in Michigan. The new Leo Cancer Care technology will increase patient throughput, improving access to proton therapy for patients afflicted with cancer in Michigan and beyond.
"McLaren and Karmanos are committed to delivering world-class, comprehensive cancer care right in Genesee County," said Chris Candela, president and CEO of McLaren Flint. "The aim of our innovative partnership with Leo Cancer Care is to provide greater access to proton therapy for patients throughout Michigan and around the globe." The inclusion of the LEO Cancer Care Technology and expansion of the McLaren Proton Therapy Center is part of a larger project to grow and improve McLaren Flint's Comprehensive Cancer Program.
McLaren has ordered two 'Marie™' units from Leo Cancer Care, with both fitting into an area earmarked for a single conventional rotating gantry (where patients lay horizontally) at its existing proton center.
Towe explained: "Once we saw the site, we explained we could add a dividing wall through the middle of the room and put two of our treatment devices in the same space that they were originally going to have one conventional gantry. It effectively doubles patient throughput from the same footprint."
With the equipment taking up half the space, and effectively half the cost of conventional radiotherapy units, the agreement has important commercial and economic benefits for the healthcare provider.
Marie, Leo's comprehensive solution for upright particle therapy, is named after physicist and chemist Marie Curie, who spearheaded research into radioactivity.
It features dual-energy diagnostic quality CT at the treatment isocenter to enable state of the art adaptive therapy; a stationary fixed beam delivery system that will improve reliability, beam parameters and accuracy while at the same time reducing maintenance costs; and a sophisticated patient positioning system, allowing for imaging, and treating of all particle therapy-specific anatomical sites in the upright position.
In addition, less shielding is required and there are advantages in terms of installation, maintenance and running costs.
The installation will help increase patient flow through McLaren's existing proton therapy center as part of its routine care delivery and treatment of patients with lung, breast and prostate cancers.
The technology brings a new dimension to cancer treatment by keeping the radiation beam fixed and slowly rotating the patient while seated in an upright position.
This means the units – which are a quarter the size of conventional proton therapy machines - have a significantly smaller footprint to make optimum use of healthcare space.
The shift away from rotating a large radiation generation source around a patient, to keeping the radiation source fixed and slowly rotating the patient, also reduces cost of equipment and construction.
"McLaren will realize a sizable capital cost reduction by implementing the LEO Cancer Care upright positioning and imaging system instead of our present three story, one hundred plus ton, rotating gantry solution" said Daniel Medrano, Co- Director of Research and Development for the McLaren Proton Therapy System.
Underlining the benefits of the Marie system, which has previously been used in research applications, Towe said: "What this shows very clearly is that you can utilize space more effectively with a fixed beam and fit more of these treatment rooms into the same space, and as a result have more beam time to treat patients."
"Two treatment rooms double the patient throughput; it is great for the hospital and great for patients because it will deliver more patient capacity at the McLaren Proton Therapy Center."
With the building planning and project delivery schedule now under way, the aim is to be treating patients with these upright machines within two years upon receipt of FDA's clearance for the technology.
The equipment does not currently have a CE mark in the EU, or an FDA 510k clearance in the US, but Leo is in the process of acquiring those regulatory approvals, which will be in place prior to the installation at the Flint site.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Abortion rights proponents scored a surprising victory in Nebraska by derailing a bill that would have automatically outlawed abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court ever overturns its 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized the procedure throughout the country.
The vote on Wednesday frustrated abortion rights opponents, who usually win fights over the issue in the conservative Legislature. More than a dozen other conservative states have passed similar measures already, but abortion rights backers in Nebraska managed to block it using a filibuster in the single-chamber Legislature.
The bill’s supporters fell two votes short of the 33 they needed to end the filibuster and force a vote. The 31-15 vote left the proposal essentially dead for the rest of the year, even though a majority of lawmakers supported it. The vote largely fell along party lines in the ostensibly nonpartisan Legislature.
In 2010, Nebraska became the first state to ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, and the state outlawed a second-trimester abortion procedure in 2020 despite fervent protests from abortion rights supporters.
The latest bill, however, faced a tougher path because of the current makeup of the Legislature, where Republicans are one seat short of the supermajority needed to overcome filibusters. One Republican and Democrat each crossed party lines, effectively canceling the other’s vote. One Republican and two Democrats were absent.
Supporters argued that the majority of Nebraska voters oppose abortion, based on who the state consistently elects.
“We envision a Nebraska where every life is celebrated and protected,” said state Sen. Joni Albrecht, the bill’s sponsor.
Opponents assailed it as an intrusion on women’s autonomy and vowed not to budge in their opposition.
“In state by state, legislatures are taking a sledgehammer to women’s freedom,” said state Sen. Anna Wishart, of Lincoln.
The debate turned personal at times, with abortion rights supporters railing against the bill’s backers for supporting it even though it doesn’t include exceptions for rape or incest.
“Proponents of this bill have no shame left,” said state Sen. Megan Hunt, of Omaha, adding that she was offended as both a mother and a sexual assault survivor. “I will cherish the time that I have worked here forever, but when I am term limited (out of office), I will probably not talk to most of you ever again.”
The debate came ahead of an expected June ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which concerns a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Both sides have told the court there’s no middle ground in the case. In anticipation of the ruling, 13 states have passed so-called trigger laws to automatically ban abortions if the court sides with abortion opponents. Ohioand Oklahomaapproved their trigger laws last year.
On Thursday, Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, filed a lawsuit asking a court to recognize the right to get an abortion under the state constitution and to overturn the state’s 176-year-old ban, which might take effect again if Roe v. Wade ruling is vacated.
The Roe v. Wade ruling allows states to regulate but not ban abortions up to the point of fetal viability, which is around the 24th week of a pregnancy. Justices reaffirmed the decision in 1992.
The Nebraska vote drew promises of political retribution against some elected officials. Jim Pillen, a top Republican candidate for governor, said Thursday that he would work to unseat some lawmakers who are up for reelection and who voted to block the bill.
“Last night, the Legislature failed the people of Nebraska in voting to keep abortion legal,” Pillen said. “Abortion is murder, and as a pro-life state, the majority of Nebraskans realize we need to outlaw it.”
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EXPLAINER: Why US inflation is so high, and when it may ease
WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation’s relentless surge didn’t merely persist in June. It accelerated.
For the 12 months ending in June, the government’s consumer price index rocketed 9.1%, the fastest year-over-year jump since 1981.
And that was nothing next to what energy prices did: Fueled by heavy demand and by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, energy costs shot up nearly 42% in the past 12 months, the largest such jump since 1980.
Even if you toss out food and energy prices — which are notoriously volatile and have driven much of the price spike — so-called core inflation soared 5.9% over the past year.
Consumers have endured the pain in everyday routines. Unleaded gasoline is up 61% in the past year. Men’s suits, jackets and coats, 25%, Airline tickets, 34%. Eggs 33%. Breakfast sausage, 14%.
Under Chair Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve never anticipated inflation this severe or persistent. Yet after having been merely an afterthought for decades, high inflation reasserted itself with ferocious speed as shortages of labor and supplies ran up against a propulsive rise in demand for goods and services across the economy.
In February 2021, the consumer price index was running just 1.7% above its level a year earlier. From there, it accelerated — past 2% in March, past 4% in April and 5% in May. By December, consumer prices hit the 7% year-over-year barrier. And on and on it went: 7.5% in January, 7.9% in February. And the increases have topped 8% every month since March.
The United States has endured worse inflation before, but not in many decades. The post-World War II inflation peak reached nearly 20% in 1947, a result of the lifting of wartime price curbs, supply shortages and pent-up consumer demand. The inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s peaked at 14.8% in March 1980 before the Fed exorcized high prices with aggressive rate hikes that caused brutal back-to-back recessions in 1980 and 1981-1982.
For months, Powell and some others characterized high inflation as merely a “transitory” phenomenon while the economy rebounded from the pandemic recession faster than anyone had anticipated. No longer. Now, most economists expect inflation to remain painfully elevated well after this year, with demand outstripping supplies in numerous areas of the economy.
So the Fed has radically changed course by imposing a succession of large rate hikes. The central bank is making a high-risk bet that it can slow the economy enough to rein in inflation without weakening it so much as to trigger a recession.
The overall economy looks healthy for now, with a robust job market and extremely low unemployment. But many economists warn that the Fed’s steady credit tightening will likely cause a downturn.
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WHAT’S CAUSED THE SPIKE IN INFLATION?
Good news — mostly. When the pandemic paralyzed the economy in the spring of 2020 and lockdowns kicked in, businesses closed or cut hours and consumers stayed home as a health precaution, employers slashed a breathtaking 22 million jobs. Economic output plunged at a record-shattering 31% annual rate in 2020′s April-June quarter.
Everyone braced for more misery. Companies cut investment and postponed restocking. A severe recession ensued.
But instead of sinking into a prolonged downturn, the economy staged an unexpectedly rousing recovery, fueled by vast infusions of government aid and emergency intervention by the Fed, which slashed rates among other things. By spring of last year, the rollout of vaccines had emboldened consumers to return to restaurants, bars, shops, airports and entertainment venues.
Suddenly, businesses had to scramble to meet demand. They couldn’t hire fast enough to fill job openings or buy enough supplies to meet customer orders. As business roared back, ports and freight yards couldn’t handle the traffic. Global supply chains seized up.
With demand up and supplies down, costs jumped. And companies found that they could pass along those higher costs in the form of higher prices to consumers, many of whom had managed to pile up savings during the pandemic.
Critics blamed, in part, President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, with its $1,400 checks to most households, for overheating an economy that was already sizzling on its own. Many others assigned a greater blame to supply shortages. And some argued that the Fed kept rates near zero far too long, lending fuel to runaway spending and inflated prices in stocks, homes and other assets.
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IS HIGH INFLATION AFFECTING JUST THE UNITED STATES?
Not by a long shot. Prices are rising just about everywhere in the world, in part a consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has elevated energy and food prices, and in part because of the supply chain bottlenecks that have driven U.S. prices up.
Eurostat, the statistical service of the European Union, says it expects year-over-year inflation to hit 8.6% last month from a year earlier in the 19 countries that share the euro currency, and up from an annual increase of 8.1% in May.
The International Monetary Fund has forecast that consumer prices in the world’s advanced economies will jump 5.7% this year, the most since 1984. The IMF foresees 8.7% inflation in poorer emerging market and developing countries, the highest such rate since 2008.
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HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?
No one knows for sure. Elevated consumer price inflation could endure as long as companies struggle to keep up with consumers’ demand for goods and services. A recovering job market — employers added a record 6.7 million jobs last year and a healthy average of 457,000 a month so far this year — means that Americans as a whole can afford to keep spending.
The Fed foresees inflation staying above its 2% annual target into 2024. But relief from higher prices might be coming. Oil prices have been tumbling on fears of an economic downturn. Jammed-up supply chains are showing some signs of improvement, at least in industries like transportation. Commodity prices have begun to fall. Pay increases have slowed. And surveys show that Americans’ expectations for inflation over the long run have eased — a trend that often points to more moderate price increases over time.
What’s more, the Fed’s pivot toward an aggressively anti-inflationary policy could eventually reduce consumer demand. Inflation itself is eroding purchasing power and might force some consumers to shave spending.
At the same time, new COVID variants could cloud the outlook — either by causing outbreaks that force factories and ports to close and further disrupt supply chains or by keeping more people home and reducing demand for goods.
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HOW ARE HIGHER PRICES AFFECTING CONSUMERS?
The strong job market is boosting workers’ pay, though not enough to offset higher prices. The Labor Department says that after accounting for higher consumer prices, hourly earnings for private-sector employees fell 3.6% last month from a year earlier, the 15th straight drop.
There are exceptions: After-inflation wages rose more than 4% for hotel workers and 3% for those working in bars.
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British girl Madeleine McCann still missing after 15 years
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The parents of Madeleine McCann, a British toddler who vanished from an apartment during her family’s vacation in Portugal 15 years ago and captured global interest, say they remain hopeful that efforts by police in three countries to solve the mystery will eventually bring answers.
Kate and Gerry McCann, both British doctors living in England, said in a statement to mark Tuesday’s anniversary of their daughter’s disappearance that “a truly horrific crime” was committed on May 3, 2007.
They said on the website created to help find Madeleine that “our need for answers, for the truth, is essential.”
They thanked British, Portuguese and German police who continue to work on what happened when the 3-year-old disappeared from her bed in southern Portugal’s Algarve region. She was in the same room as her 2-year-old twin brother and sister while her parents had dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant.
Last month, Portuguese prosecutors formally accused the latest suspect in the investigation.
They didn’t name the suspect, in line with Portuguese privacy laws, but said they were acting on a request by German authorities and in coordination with British investigators.
In mid-2020, Germany’s police identified Christian Brueckner, a 45-year-old German citizen who was in the Algarve in 2007, as a suspect in the case. Brueckner has denied any involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance.
The Portuguese accusation prevents the statute of limitations expiring in the case. The expiry would have occurred 15 years after the alleged crime took place, but accusing a suspect halts that count.
Madeleine’s disappearance stirred worldwide interest, with public claims of having spotted her stretching as far away as Australia, and brought the publication of books and television documentaries about the case.
Rewards for finding Madeleine reached several million dollars.
The case involved sensational developments. In one dramatic twist, Madeleine’s parents were briefly named as official suspects after police found traces of blood in their vacation rental car.
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House to vote on semi-automatic gun ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is preparing to vote Friday to revive a ban on semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootings ripping through communities nationwide.
Once banned in the U.S., the high-powered firearms are now widely blamed as the weapon of choice among young men responsible for many of the most devastating mass shootings. But Congress allowed the restrictions first put in place in 1994 to expire a decade later, unable to muster the political support to counter the powerful gun lobby and reinstate the weapons ban.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed the vote toward passage in the Democratic-run House, saying the earlier ban “saved lives.”
The House legislation is shunned by Republicans, who dismiss it as an election-year strategy by Democrats. It will likely stall in the 50-50 Senate.
The bill comes at a time of intensifying concerns about gun violence and shootings — the supermarket shooting in Buffalo, N.Y.; massacre of school children in Uvalde, Texas; and the July Fourth shootings of revelers in Highland Park, Ill.
Voters seem to be taking such votes seriously as Congress splits along party lines and lawmakers are forced to go on the record with their views. A recent vote to protect same-sex marriages from potential Supreme Court legal challenges won a surprising amount of bipartisan support.
President Joe Biden, who was instrumental in helping pass the first weapons ban as a senator in 1994, encouraged passage, promising to sign the bill if it reached his desk. In a statement before the vote, his administration said “we know an assault weapons and large-capacity magazine ban will save lives.”
The Biden administration said for 10 years while the ban was in place, mass shootings declined. “When the ban expired in 2004, mass shootings tripled,” the statement said.
Congress passed a modest gun violence prevention package just last month in the aftermath of the tragic shooting of 19 school children and two teachers in Uvalde. That bipartisan bill was the first of its kind after years of failed efforts to confront the gun lobby, including after a similar 2012 mass tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
That law provides for expanded background checks on young adults buying firearms, allowing authorities to access certain juvenile records. It also closes the so-called “boyfriend loophole” by denying gun purchases for those convicted of domestic abuse outside of marriages.
The new law also frees up federal funding to the states, including for “red flag” laws that enable authorities to remove guns from those who would harm themselves or others.
But even that modest effort at halting gun violence came at time of grave uncertainty in the U.S. over restrictions on firearms as the more conservative Supreme Court is tackling gun rights and other issues.
Biden signed the measure two days after the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down a New York law that restricted people’s ability to carry concealed weapons.
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Conversation with Craig Melvin of 'Today' Show, Article on What It Means to Raise Free Black Children, Story on Juneteenth Traditions of Black Families Around the U.S., Among Other Features, Debut on Kindred By Parents Today
NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dotdash Meredith's Parents announces the official debut of Kindred, a first-of-its-kind digital destination and community created for the parents and caregivers who are raising the next generation of free Black children, providing a safe place for empathetically sharing wisdom and solutions-based news, and honoring the parenting cultures and familial traditions of previous generations.
Kelly Glass, Editorial Director of Kindred by Parents, said, "Culturally, we parent differently, and we do family differently. There's so much nuance in the Black family experience that parenting publications don't capture. Kindred is filling that gap. We're also inviting the entire village of people into the fold because we know firsthand how important the aunties, the grandparents, and those key figures in Black families are to the lives of Black children. All of us who take seriously the responsibility to raise Black children with a radical sense of freedom and joy are going to find community here in the news, stories, and experiences we share on Kindred."
With more than 175 articles and features available now and new content created daily, Kindred by Parents centers and celebrates the voices and experiences of Black families from a multitude of communities. Kindred by Parents reports news and covers topics through an intersectional lens, highlighting stories from Black parents; providing ideas, solutions and practical advice from experts in their fields; and offering lifestyle features that honor Black cultures and traditions while carving paths for new ones.
New features debuting on Kindred by Parents today include:
- What Does It Mean to Raise Free Black Children?
- The Juneteenth Traditions of Black Families Around the U.S.
- The Policy Changes That Would Really Make Black Families Free, According to Experts
- Do Black Families Still Live In Multigenerational Households?
- Black Girls Are Stereotyped By Their Natural Hair, New Study Confirms
- 'Today' Show's Craig Melvin Says Reconciling with His Dad Helped Him Break Unhealthy Parenting Patterns
Kindred by Parents has four original video series created by Senior Video Producer, Kareema B. Partin, with episodes that are available on parents.com, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook:
- Kickback with Kindred: In this interview series, Kelly Glass and members of the Kindred team have real conversations with people from all walks of life to discuss the Black family experience. Interviews have featured Garcelle Beauvais, Jaime Foxx, Anthony Anderson, and Kyla Pratt, among many others.
- We Live & We Learn: In this series, Black family members across generations unpack a parenting topic and connect with and learn from each other in a sometimes light-hearted yet always meaningful way. See an episode here: The Family Dinner Is Back, But the Tradition Looks a Little Different for Black Families These Days.
- Our Family Portrait: This docu-series follows the vibrant lives of Black families seen through an atypical lens. The first episode is titled "Black People Will Swim: Meet the Lamoniers."
- Dear (Expert): In each episode, an expert from a given field answers the concerns of Black parents. Episodes include: Anti-Racist Birth Work Is Key In Changing Birth Outcomes for Black Birthing People, For Black Parents, Deciding on Therapy For a Child Can Be Difficult, and How To Advocate for School Accommodations for Black Children, among others.
Kindred by Parents is on Instagram and YouTube and has a digital newsletter. To learn more, check out this introductory video and Q&A with Kelly Glass.
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ABOUT KELLY GLASS
Kelly Glass is Editorial Director of Kindred by Parents, the newly launched digital destination and community from Dotdash Meredith dedicated to Black families. A first-of-its-kind offering, Kindred centers the village of people raising the next generation of free Black children. Before joining the Parents team to lead Kindred, Kelly was contributing editor for Romper and Parents. A respected editor and journalist, Kelly has reported stories for a range of notable media outlets over the years, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic and Men's Health. She's also planned and guest edited in-depth Parents series such as American Birth Story and the award-winning series Anti-Racist Curriculum. She's also the author of the young adult racial literacy book Looking at Power and Privilege. Kelly is a founding co-chair of the Parenting Journalists Society, a member of the NPR Illinois advisory board, and resides in Illinois with her two children and their rescue dog, Winston.
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FCA Reports Second-quarter 2022 US Sales
Published: Jul. 1, 2022 at 12:04 PM CDT|Updated: 33 minutes ago
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- U.S. total sales decline 16%; retail sales down 24%
- Chrysler brand total U.S. sales increase 95% versus same quarter last year
- Total U.S. sales for the Jeep® Compass rise 54% over same quarter last year
- Total U.S. sales for the Jeep Grand Cherokee rise 12% over same quarter last year
- Jeep Wrangler 4xe remains the best-selling plug-in hybrid vehicle in the U.S.
- Dodge Charger total U.S. sales rise 3% versus same quarter last year
- Ram brand's commercial shipments rise 9% over same period last year
- Total commercial shipments in Q2 2022 rise 13% versus same quarter last year
FCA US LLC had sales of 408,521 vehicles in this year's second quarter. Overall, total U.S. and retail sales for the second quarter declined 16% and 24%, respectively. Total commercial shipments in the second quarter rose 13% versus the same quarter last year.
"We continue to see strong demand for our vehicles. While there are certainly industry supply constraints, our dealers are working hard to satisfy the needs of every customer," said U.S. Head of Sales Jeff Kommor. "The Grand Wagoneer and Wagoneer have successfully launched with sales continuing to grow, sales of the all-new Jeep® Grand Cherokee, Jeep Compass continue to see high sales volumes CYTD, and Ram brand's retail and fleet demand for its commercial products remains incredibly strong."
Total sales of the Jeep Grand Cherokee were up 12% and retail sales up 13%. Total U.S. sales for the Jeep Compass rose 54% and its retail sales increased 54% year over year.
The Jeep Wrangler 4xe, the best-selling plug-in hybrid vehicle in the U.S., accounted for 10,861 (20%) of total Jeep Wrangler sales. The Chrysler brand's total U.S. sales rose 95%, with the Chrysler Pacifica up 143% versus the same quarter last year. The Chrysler brand and Pacifica Q2 sales increase was driven by increased fleet sales due a backlog of orders. Pacifica plug-in hybrid accounted for 4,095 (13%) of total Chrysler Pacifica sales.
Total U.S. sales of the Dodge Charger rose 3% versus the same quarter last year.
Ram brand's total commercial shipments are up a combined 9% versus the previous second quarter.
FCA US LLC is a North American automaker based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It designs, manufactures, and sells or distributes vehicles under the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, FIAT and Alfa Romeo brands, as well as the SRT performance designation. The company also distributes Mopar and Alfa Romeo parts and accessories. FCA US LLC is a subsidiary of Stellantis N.V.
For the methodology of determining FCA US LLC monthly sales click here. These statements are based on current expectations and projections about future events and, by their nature, are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. They relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur or exist in the future and, as such, undue reliance should not be placed on them. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in such statements as a result of a variety of factors, including: volatility and deterioration of capital and financial markets, changes in commodity prices, changes in general economic conditions, economic growth and other changes in business conditions, weather, floods, earthquakes or other natural disasters, changes in government regulation, production difficulties, including capacity and supply constraints, and many other risks and uncertainties, most of which are outside of our control.
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Segway Robotics and DriveU.auto's joint offering of a robotic platform with remote operations-enabled "out-of-the-box" will allow last mile delivery service operators to rapidly deploy large fleets of delivery robots
BOSTON and RAANANA, Israel, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Segway-Ninebot, a leading global enterprise in the fields of intelligent short-distance transportation and service robots, and DriveU.auto, developer of a software-based connectivity platform for robots and autonomous vehicle teleoperation, announced today their partnership, under which the DriveU.auto remote operation platform will be integrated into Segway's robot platform, thereby creating a first-of-its-kind unique joint offering for the booming last mile delivery robots market. Segway Robotics is the service robots brand under the Segway-Ninebot group.
The use of robots for last mile delivery has been fast growing in the US, Asia and Europe. According to Allied Market Research, the global delivery robot market was valued at $3.53 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach $30.05 billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of 24.5% from 2021 to 2030. With its field-proven robotic platform already deployed operationally, Segway Robotics is poised to capture the lionshare of this market.
The smaller form factor, electrically powered and slower moving robot is ideal for rapid, cost-efficient, safe and green deliveries within dense urban areas. Such robots can be fully autonomous, semi-autonomous or remotely driven by a human operator. Whatever the operational model of delivery robots, having a human in the loop is imperative — whether for supervision, assisting the autonomous robot in edge cases, or to fully operate the delivery. The DriveU.auto connectivity platform provides the high quality, low latency connectivity required for safe teleoperation in all of these cases.
Remote operations rely on public cellular networks to transmit the communication between the moving robot and the remote operator. Cellular networks can be highly unstable and unpredictable; Therefore, for remote operations to be safe and effective, consistent high quality video connectivity with low latency is required. When connectivity isn't stable, video quality suffers and latency increases, which is simply unacceptable for teleoperation.
DriveU.auto's software-based connectivity platform supports both cloud and hybrid architecture, allowing it to support large scale robot deployments. It is already in commercial use on sidewalks in the US and Europe.
The parties also announced that their joint offering is already in advanced deployment stages with customers in the last mile delivery space.
"We see delivery robots as a massive growth opportunity for Segway Robotics," said Tony Ho, Vice President of Segway Robotics. "We are happy to join forces with DriveU.auto, creating a compelling joint offering of the market's 'best of breed' robotic platform and remote operations in a single fully integrated package, to enable rapid deployment by last mile delivery companies around the globe."
"Partnering with Segway Robotics is an important milestone for DriveU.auto as we continue our expansion into the delivery robot space," said Alon Podhurst, CEO of DriveU.auto. "Segway Robotics and DriveU.auto's joint offering is a compelling integrated product for last mile delivery companies who wish to rapidly deploy services."
About Segway-Ninebot
Segway-Ninebot is a global enterprise in the fields of intelligent short-distance transportation and service robots. Segway was established in 1999 in Bedford NH, US, and is the world leader of commercial-grade, electric and self-balancing personal transportation. Ninebot is an intelligent short-distance transportation equipment operator integrating R&D, production, sales, and service, established in Beijing, 2012. As Segway and Ninebot completed a strategic merge in 2015, Segway-Ninebot came into being. At present, the company's businesses span all over the world, with subsidiaries in Beijing, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, Amsterdam, Seoul, Paris, Barcelona, Munich, Shanghai, Changzhou, Shenzhen and Hangzhou. Its products are sold in more than 225 countries and regions. With its world-renowned intellectual property, Segway-Ninebot will create more products, leading users and the entire industry into the future.
Segway Robotics is the delivery robot and service robot brand under the Segway-ninebot group.
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About DriveU.auto
DriveU.auto - an Israel-based startup - developed and is deploying a software-based connectivity platform for teleoperation of robots and autonomous vehicles.
The DriveU.auto solution enables both remote driving (direct drive) or high-level commands (remote assistance), at very low latency and high reliability based on proprietary cellular bonding and dynamic video encoding technologies. DriveU.auto customers and partners – Autonomous Vehicles' developers (cars, trucks and shuttles), makers of delivery robots, OEMs, Tier 1s, developers of autonomous delivery robots – have been using the DriveU platform on roads in the EU, US, China, Japan and Israel.
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Kaiser Permanente study finds vaccinated surgical patients had no elevated risk of complications after COVID-19
OAKLAND, Calif., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente researchers have good news for patients, surgeons, anesthesiologists, and hospital administrators who have had to put off elective surgery because of a positive COVID-19 test. Among fully vaccinated patients, there may not be an elevated risk with surgery soon after COVID-19.
Their study was published July 15 in Annals of Surgery and found no greater risk of post-surgery complications for these patients in the weeks and months after a COVID-19 illness than in surgery patients who didn't have a history of COVID-19.
"Current guidelines recommend avoiding elective surgery until 7 weeks after a COVID-19 illness, even if a patient has an asymptomatic infection," said lead author Sidney Le, MD, a former Clinical Informatics and Delivery Science research fellow with the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and surgeon with the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.
"But as the pandemic continues, there is concern that delaying surgeries could cause more harm than benefit to some patients," Dr. Le added. "If we are able to identify certain patients who can proceed with surgery despite a recent coronavirus infection, that would be a big relief to health systems and their patients."
The news could return a welcome sense of predictability for hospitals that have had to make last-minute accommodations if a scheduled surgery patient tests positive for COVID-19, even if that person is asymptomatic, said co-author Bradley Cohn, MD, an anesthesiologist, intensivist, and chair of Perioperative Medicine for The Permanente Medical Group. "We have been delaying up to 10% of our surgeries, or canceling them on short notice, because previous evidence suggested we could be putting patients at increased risk from the stress of surgery in combination with COVID-19 illness," he said.
During the pandemic, surgery and anesthesia guidelines have relied on studies carried out before COVID-19 vaccines were widely available, Dr. Cohn said. "There was a tremendous gap in the literature on what the risk to patients might be in the current environment, in the context of an increasingly vaccinated population. This is the first study that I'm aware of that demonstrates vaccination mitigates the risk of harm in a patient who has recently had COVID-19 and has recovered by the time of their surgery."
The findings could have an immediate impact on Kaiser Permanente's perioperative guidelines in Northern California and may influence national and international professional guidelines as well, Dr. Cohn said.
The study is an example of Kaiser Permanente's ability to identify key medical and operational questions and apply data and research resources to them quickly, said Smita Rouillard, MD, associate executive director of The Permanente Medical Group. "Our findings underscore the importance of continuous learning during this unprecedented time of the pandemic," Dr. Rouillard said.
The researchers analyzed records for 228,913 Kaiser Permanente scheduled surgeries in Northern California between January 2020 and February 2022, 4.8% of which involved a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the weeks before or just after surgery. They compared complication rates for patients who had COVID-19 prior to surgery with control groups of patients who did not.
The rate of postoperative complications was about 5% and, overall, there was not a higher rate of complications between fully vaccinated patients who had COVID-19 within 4 weeks prior to surgery and those who did not.
The study authors said guidelines for elective surgery could be loosened, particularly for patients with previous asymptomatic or mild COVID-19, taking into account vaccination status and whether general anesthesia is being used. Longer delays for elective surgery could still be warranted for patients with previously severe infections or persistent symptoms, Dr. Le said, though this study did not specifically investigate this population.
Researchers will need to revisit the topic as conditions evolve, Dr. Le said.
"We are proud to bring current data to critically important questions that inform the delivery of surgical care, though we recognize that the pandemic is a scientific roller coaster: the virus itself, the context in which it is spread, and treatments all changing. These questions will need to be revisited over and over again with contemporary data and rapid analysis."
Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente has a mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We currently serve 12.6 million members in 8 states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal Permanente Medical Group physicians, specialists, and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the-art care delivery, and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations, clinical research, health education, and the support of community health. For more information, go to about.kp.org.
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Tencent shuts down its rival to Amazon’s Twitch as China’s crackdown on tech continues
By Laura He, CNN Business
Tencent is shutting down its game streaming service, the latest retreat by Big Tech in the face of a sweeping crackdown by Chinese regulators that has sharply slowed growth at some of the country’s most powerful internet companies.
The streaming platform, Penguin Esports, announced Thursday that it would terminate all services on June 7, citing changes in “business development strategy.” Just nine months ago, anti-trust regulators prevented Tencent merging the company with its other interests in live streaming.
Penguin Esports was established by Tencent in 2016 and is similar to Amazon’s Twitch service. It owns streaming rights to several of Tencent’s hit games in the country, such as Honor of Kings and League of Legends, as well as esports competitions.
But Penguin Esports hasn’t come close to becoming a dominant market player. Nasdaq-listed Huya and Douyu are currently leading China’s video game streaming wars, accounting for more than 70% of the market, according to the country’s antitrust regulator. Tencent also owns a major stake in Huya and Douyu separately.
In 2020, Tencent planned to sell Penguin Esports to Douyu for $500 million, and then merge Douyu and Huya into a new company that would streamline its shares in the platforms. The deal was valued at nearly $6 billion based on each firm’s stock prices at the time.
But the merger deal was blocked. The State Administration of Market Regulation said in a statement in July that Douyu and Huya’s merger would strengthen Tencent’s dominance in the video game streaming market, giving the company too much market power and potentially deterring fair competition.
The termination of Penguin Esports came as an unprecedented government crackdown has sharply slowed revenue growth at the country’s most powerful internet companies, pressuring them to lay off employees and look for ways to reduce operating costs. Since late 2020, Chinese authorities have launched a sweeping campaign in an effort to rein in big players in industries ranging from tech and finance to gaming, entertainment and private education.
Last month, Tencent reported its slowest revenue growth since its listing in 2004.
The shutdown of the video game streaming service also comes amid an intensifying crackdown on tax evasion in the country’s booming live streaming sector.
Last month, the State Taxation Administration said it will start requiring online platforms to report live streamers’ personal information and incomes every six months.
Authorities have already targeted some livestreaming stars for tax evasion, such as internet celebrity Viya, who was fined 1.34 billion yuan ($211 million) in December for concealing personal income.
Tencent’s co-founder Pony Ma and president Martin Lau said in an earnings call in March that the new regulations have led to “fundamental changes and challenges” in the internet industry, hitting Tencent’s financial performance.
The company would “proactively embrace changes” to better align with a new industry paradigm, Lau said.
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Wates Group's Wates Innovation Network (WIN), a network of green innovations designed to help companies transition to net zero, now includes WINT's groundbreaking water management solutions
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WINT Water Intelligence, a leader in cutting-edge water management and leak-prevention solutions for construction, has been selected for Wates Group's exclusive Wates Innovation Network (WIN), a curated marketplace of premium sustainable technology solutions for construction, development and facilities management professionals.
The first-of-its-kind WIN marketplace connects companies with select innovative partners approved by a screening panel of environmental thought leaders. The network is designed to accelerate the transition to net zero by showcasing best-in-class solutions for designing, constructing and maintaining buildings.
"We're grateful to Wates Group for including us in this veritable toolbox for companies seeking ways to cut water consumption and lower their carbon emissions," said Yaron Dycian, WINT's chief product and strategy officer. "Eliminating waste is a critical step on the journey to net zero, and unfortunately most companies are not aware of the significant carbon impact of water. We aim to help those leading the way in the built environment take action."
WINT's inclusion into the portal comes on the heels of their recently published study uncovering the staggering impact that wasted water has on carbon emissions. The research illustrated that every 1,000 gallons of water used or wasted accounts for 85 pounds of carbon, and 25% of all water in the built environment is wasted.
"WINT is an ideal solution for the WIN portal, which connects organizations across the construction, real estate and facilities industries with the innovators driving sustainable technology opportunities for that space," said Zainab Dangana, Ph.D., head of sustainable technology for the Wates Group. "We're committed to supporting cutting-edge technology such as WINT that helps contractors, building owners, and developers meet their sustainability goals and achieve net zero."
The Wates Innovation Portal stemmed from more than eight years of experience helping companies find the right tech-led solutions through Wates Sustainable Technology Services. This portal streamlines access to offerings and encourages other innovators to join the growing number of green tech solutions for the built environment.
WINT uses AI and machine learning to conduct real-time water-flow analysis to identify leaks, cut waste and risk, and reduce carbon emissions. It has been adopted by the world's leading net-zero organizations including Microsoft, PepsiCo, Empire State Building and many other commercial, residential and construction companies.
For more information about WINT, visit https://wint.ai.
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WINT is dedicated to helping businesses reduce their environmental footprint by prevent the hazards, costs, waste and environmental impact associated with water leaks and waste. Utilizing the power of artificial intelligence and IoT technology, WINT provides a solution for commercial facilities, construction sites and industrial manufacturers looking to cut water waste, reduce carbon emissions and eliminate the impact of water-leak disasters. WINT has been recognized by Fast Company and CB Insights as one of the world's most innovative AI companies and has won multiple awards including "Next Big things in Tech" and Insurance Times' claims prevention technology award. For more information about WINT, visit https://wint.ai.
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YEARWOOD'S DOTTIE'S YARD FUND TO RAISE FUNDS FOR 27 ANIMAL SHELTERS IN 27 STATES ON JULY 27TH AT 6PM C
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Trisha Yearwood's animal fund, Dottie's Yard, Yearwood is hosting a live virtual event with TalkShopLive on Wednesday, July 27, at 6PM C to benefit Empty the Shelters and help animal shelters across the country. Fans and animal lovers can participate in the live event at TalkShopLive. Yearwood's mission is to help every dog find their forever home. As shelters never have enough essential supplies to accommodate over 6.5 million surrenders and strays surrendered annually at shelters, they always need support.
"There are so many shelters across the country, a lot of them are volunteer, a lot of them rely on people to donate money, or to foster or to adopt or to give supplies and we just want to shine a light on rescue and the need and to be able to help as many animals as we possibly can." says Yearwood.
For the first time, the Trisha Yearwood Paw Hoodie will be available for purchase exclusively for 24 hours with all proceeds going directly to Dottie's Yard. Fans may also donate directly to Dottie's Yard. Donations over $25 will receive a special Dottie's Yard magnet.
All donations and proceeds from the special hoodie during TalkShopLive will go to 27 participating Empty the Shelters in 27 different states. In addition, each shelter will receive 27 leashes and 27 collars from the Trisha Yearwood Pet Collection. Also, all 27 shelters will each receive 27 5lb bags of Trisha Yearwood Dog Food.
The 27 participating shelters are in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner of the class action firm Monteverde & Associates PC (the "M&A Class Action Firm"), a national securities firm rated Top 50 in the 2018-2021 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report and headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating Cowen Inc. (COWN), relating to its proposed acquisition by TD Bank Group. Under the terms of the merger, COWN shareholders are expected to receive $39.00 in cash per share they own. Click here for more information: https://www.monteverdelaw.com/case/cowen-inc. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.
We are a national class action securities litigation law firm that has recovered millions of dollars and is committed to protecting shareholders from corporate wrongdoing. We were listed in the Top 50 in the 2018-2021 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report. Our lawyers have significant experience litigating Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Class Actions. Mr. Monteverde is recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in Securities Litigation in 2013, 2017-2019, an award given to less than 2.5% of attorneys in a particular field. He has also been selected by Martindale-Hubbell as a 2017-2021 Top Rated Lawyer. Our firm's recent successes include changing the law in a significant victory that lowered the standard of liability under Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act in the Ninth Circuit. Thereafter, our firm successfully preserved this victory by obtaining dismissal of a writ of certiorari as improvidently granted at the United States Supreme Court. Emulex Corp. v. Varjabedian, 139 S. Ct. 1407 (2019). Also, in 2019 we recovered or secured six cash common funds for shareholders in mergers & acquisitions class action cases.
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PITTSBURGH, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to ensure that your voice is clear and easy to understand while wearing a protective face mask," said an inventor, from Lehigh Acres, Fla., "so I invented the SPEAKER MASK. My design could help to prevent confusion and misunderstandings caused by voices being muffled behind face masks."
The patent-pending invention provides an effective way to communicate when wearing a face mask. In doing so, it helps to prevent the voice from sounding muffled. As a result, it eliminates the need to lower the mask to talk and it provides added protection and peace of mind during the current pandemic. The invention features a compact design that is easy to use with disposable or reusable masks so it is ideal for the general population.
The original design was submitted to the Naples sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-NPL-396, 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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NEW YORK, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of CareDx, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNA).
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Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until July 22, 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, CareDx, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements 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 Company's RemoTraC service for remote, home-based, blood-drawing; (2) these practices, and others, subjected CareDx to an undisclosed risk of regulatory scrutiny; (3) these practices rendered the Company's testing services revenue reported throughout the class period artificially inflated; and (4) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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Bucks downplay dominance of Bulls as teams meet in playoffs
By STEVE MEGARGEE
AP Sports Writer
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The defending champion Milwaukee Bucks are downplaying their recent domination of the Chicago Bulls as they open the playoff portion of their title defense. Milwaukee has won 16 of its last 17 meetings with the sixth-seeded Bulls heading into their Eastern Conference first-round series beginning Sunday at Fiserv Forum. The Bulls’ lone victory came in the 2020-21 regular-season finale with the Bucks resting all their starters. The Bucks won by at least 21 points each of the two times they faced the Bulls within the last month. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/04/16/bucks-downplay-dominance-of-bulls-as-teams-meet-in-playoffs/ | 2022-04-16T21:12:08Z |
(KTLA) — A man in California is without a bicycle after another man took the bike he claimed was his in a violent altercation Sunday.
In video shared with KTLA, one man can be seen riding a bike around midday and pulling a cart loaded down with luggage in an alley in Venice.
As the cyclist hears another man yell, “Give me my bike!” he slows down and stops to refute the other man’s assertion.
As the cyclist begins to make his case, the other man, who is armed with what appears to be a stick or pipe, strikes the luggage with his weapon.
As the armed man repeatedly shouts “Give me my bike!” along with profanities, he grabs at the bike’s handlebars, causing the cyclist to fall to the ground.
The man with the weapon then pulls the bike away from the cyclist and begins to walk away with it as passersby try to intervene on behalf of the man on the ground.
As the confrontation exits the screen, the cyclist remains lying on the ground, appearing confused.
It remains unclear if the cyclist got the bicycle back or if the second man was correct in asserting that the bike was his.
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Sacramento police are asking the public's help in finding whoever opened fire downtown Sunday morning, killing six people.
Another 10 people were injured in the melee near 10th and K streets, Sacramento Police Chief Katherine Lester said.
"9th St to 13th St is closed between L St & J St as officers investigate a shooting with multiple victims," Sacramento police tweeted. "Conditions unknown at this time. Please avoid the area as a large police presence will remain and the scene remains active."
A large crowd was gathered in the area when gunfire erupted around 2 a.m., Lester told reporters Sunday morning.
But it was unclear whether the crowd was connected to a particular venue or event, Lester said.
The shooting scene is within a few blocks of several notable landmarks: the California State Capitol, Sacramento City Hall and Golden 1 Center, where the Sacramento Kings are scheduled to play Sunday night.
Lester said the area around the scene of the shooting is now secure, but police did not have a description of the suspect.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg shared his grief about the mass shooting.
"Words can't express my shock & sadness this morning," the mayor tweeted. "The numbers of dead and wounded are difficult to comprehend. We await more information about exactly what transpired in this tragic incident."
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ROOT is a nutritional supplement company that has a mission to support and enhance overall health, wellness, and greatness globally. Root is founded on the dedication to provide everyone with the knowledge and solutions to tackle some of the biggest health challenges we face today. Root combined the most brilliant minds with a philanthropic purpose to create a unique journey towards health and happiness for everyone worldwide. Root's mission as a health and wellness company is to provide simple, yet effective solutions for getting to the "root" of your health problems. Root is committed to providing alternative approaches that help people feel empowered and capable to take charge of their health.
Belonging to world-renowned organizations, the founder and formulator of Root have developed global, world-class success in the health and wellness industries in over 67 countries.
With over 25 years of experience in health and wellness, Clayton Thomas, founder of Root, has acquired a unique background in integrative therapies and research science, focused on detoxification and supplementation formulations. Now leading as an architect, Clayton continues to inspire the health wellness community through an entirely new method of business with Root.
Formulator of Root, Dr. Christina Rahm, is an internationally known scientific formulator and innovator in health and wellness. Dr. Rahm has gained years of experience in the fields of nanotechnology bioscience engineering, counseling, psychology, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical clinical research and development, and nutrition. Dr. Rahm has channeled her passion as a visionary and her own hardships with health into creating a multitude of provisional patents and proprietary formulations, including BSCG.
Root's inspiration and core values stems from the different needs of humanity apparent in our world today. Founded on four core values: respect, authenticity, integrity, and education, Root's products use patent-pending technologies and trade secret ingredients developed Dr. Christina Rahm. Through extensive third-party testing, they have accumulated a multitude of certifications for many of the ingredients in the proprietary formulations. Root believes in inspiring the community to improve their own lives through authentic, honest solutions, and more in-depth knowledge of natural wellness. As a company, Root has a common goal to act, exceed expectations, and fulfill the promise of equal opportunity for our customers and everyone associated with the brand. Root is helping to a create sustainable, balanced lifestyle globally by harnessing the power of nature, helping you live healthier, happier, and empowered lives.
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BETHESDA, Md., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Walker & Dunlop, Inc. has been named one of The Washington Post's 2022 Top Workplaces in the Washington, D.C. area every year since the award's founding. Selection is based solely on employee feedback gathered through an anonymous third-party survey administered by research partner Energage, LLC.
"The Post's Top Workplaces list is now in its ninth year and continues to highlight the companies in the Washington-area that employees deem to be leaders in company satisfaction and engagement," said Washington Post Top Workplaces editor Dion Haynes. "Each year, the leaders at these companies are commended for their leadership and collegiality, qualities which have increased in importance to employees with the last few years of heightened transition and change."
"It is an honor to be named as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post once again. This award is in recognition of the collaborative and caring environment our employees cultivate each day," said Walker & Dunlop Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Paula Pryor. "The past year has continued to present challenges to our employees and in the ways we work together, and it means a great deal that our positive and collaborative culture continues to shine through during these unprecedented times. Our commitment to our culture is unwavering, and we remain focused on supporting our employees and their experiences at Walker & Dunlop every day."
Walker & Dunlop's commitment to culture extends beyond the computer screen, as a recent investment in the company's new headquarters has resulted in a new back-to-work environment for nearly 270 employees in the Wilson Building, a premier high-rise building in Bethesda, MD. The space is a reflection of the company's brand, culture and community, tailored specifically to give employees the space in which they can collaborate and connect with each other. Get a glimpse inside our new headquarters here.
At Walker & Dunlop, employees find their hard work recognized, their ambition matched by opportunity, and a place to build their future. Walker & Dunlop currently has over 35 job openings in the DMV area as well as more than 75 openings nationwide. Check out available opportunities here.
About Walker & Dunlop
Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is one of the largest providers of capital to the commercial real estate industry, enabling real estate owners and operators to bring their visions of communities — where Americans live, work, shop and play — to life. The power of our people, premier brand, and industry-leading technology makes us more insightful and valuable to our clients, providing an unmatched experience every step of the way. With more than 1,400 employees across every major U.S. market, Walker & Dunlop has consistently been named one of Fortune's Great Places to Work® and is committed to making the commercial real estate industry more inclusive and diverse while creating meaningful social, environmental, and economic change in our communities.
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The Washington Post is an award-winning news leader whose mission is to connect, inform, and enlighten local, national and global readers with trustworthy reporting, in-depth analysis and engaging opinions. It combines world-class journalism with the latest technology and tools so readers can interact with The Post anytime, anywhere.
About Energage, LLC
Headquartered in Exton, Pa., Energage (formerly known as WorkplaceDynamics) is a leading provider of technology-based employee engagement tools that help leaders to unlock potential, inspire performance, and achieve amazing results within their organizations. The research partner behind the Top Workplaces program, Energage has surveyed more than 47,000 organizations representing well over 16 million employees in the United States.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCT) and the Jacksonville Jaguars are teaming up to help divert over half a million pieces of plastic waste at TIAA Bank Field from being landfilled or flowing into waterways. The Jacksonville Jaguars are the first professional sports team in Florida to implement PureCycle's PureZero TM waste program, a first-of-its-kind plastic waste program geared toward stadiums and entertainment venues. Through this partnership, PureCycle becomes the Proud Plastic Recycling Partner of the Jaguars. Part of the efforts in the first year of the partnership with the Jaguars will be focused on understanding the positive impact of the program on the Jacksonville area.
Mike Otworth, CEO, PureCycle, said, "PureCycle teamed up with the Jacksonville Jaguars to recycle more than 500,000 pieces of plastic waste to help end the single-use plastic cycle at TIAA Bank Field. With the PureZero TM Program, the Jacksonville Jaguars can help bring plastic waste full circle, helping stop gameday plastic trash from being landfilled or flowing into our rivers and oceans."
No. 5 plastic (polypropylene) is a common plastic found at almost every stadium across America and it mostly goes unrecycled because leftover food and liquid make it difficult and costly to recycle. Through game-changing technology, PureCycle will collect and effectively recycle and remove impurities from souvenir stadium cups and food containers to create an ultra-pure recycled (UPR) plastic that can be recycled over and over again.
"Whether it's a Jaguars game day or a sold-out concert, we welcome big crowds to TIAA Bank Field," said Ryan Prep, vice president of facilities for the Jaguars. "Alongside City Wide Facility Solutions and other stadium partners of the Jacksonville Jaguars, we're eager to get the PureCycle program implemented in Jacksonville and do our part to reduce plastic waste. We hope our fans will join us this season by seeking out recycling containers around the stadium."
PureCycle's partnership with the Jacksonville Jaguars aims to reduce the amount of plastic waste generated at the more than 50 games and events, and will help stock concessions with No. 5 plastic products, creating a truly circular recycling system and an innovative sustainability plan for the team.
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PureCycle Technologies LLC., a subsidiary of PureCycle Technologies, Inc., holds a global license for the only patented solvent-driven purification recycling technology, developed by The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), that is designed to transform
polypropylene plastic waste (designated as No. 5 plastic) into a continuously renewable resource. The unique purification process removes color, odor, and other impurities from No. 5 plastic waste resulting in an ultra-pure recycled (UPR) plastic can be recycled and reused over and over again, changing our relationship with plastic.
About the Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional football team, one of 32 member clubs of the National Football League (NFL), aligned in the South Division of the American Football Conference (AFC). Founded on Nov. 30, 1993, the team began play as an expansion team in 1995 and will compete in its 28th season in 2022. The team is owned by Shahid Khan, who purchased the franchise in January 2012. The club plays its home games at TIAA Bank Field, located near the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville, Fla. Since their inaugural season in 1995, the Jaguars have won three division titles and made seven playoff appearances, playing in 14 postseason games.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the financial condition, results of operations, earnings outlook and prospects of PCT. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "plan," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "outlook," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "continue," "could," "may," "might," "possible," "potential," "predict," "should," "would" and other similar words and expressions, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of PCT and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of the Quarterly Report to be filed on Form 10-Q. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described in the section of PCT's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 entitled "Risk Factors," those discussed and identified in public filings made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") by PCT and the following:
- PCT's ability to meet, and to continue to meet, applicable regulatory requirements for the use of PCT's UPR resin in food grade applications (both in the United States and abroad);
- PCT's ability to comply on an ongoing basis with the numerous regulatory requirements applicable to the UPR resin and PCT's facilities (both in the United States and abroad);
- expectations and changes regarding PCT's strategies and future financial performance, including its future business plans, expansion plans or objectives, prospective performance and opportunities and competitors, revenues, products and services, pricing, operating expenses, market trends, liquidity, cash flows and uses of cash, capital expenditures, and PCT's ability to invest in growth initiatives;
- PCT's ability to scale and build the Ironton facility in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- PCT's ability to complete the necessary funding with respect to, and complete the construction of the Augusta facility, its first U.S. cluster facility located in Augusta, Georgia, in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- PCT's ability to sort and process polypropylene plastic waste at its plastic waste prep ("Feed PreP") facilities;
- PCT's ability to maintain exclusivity under the Procter & Gamble Company license;
- the implementation, market acceptance and success of PCT's business model and growth strategy;
- the success or profitability of PCT's offtake arrangements;
- the ability to source feedstock with a high polypropylene content;
- PCT's future capital requirements and sources and uses of cash;
- PCT's ability to obtain funding for its operations and future growth;
- developments and projections relating to PCT's competitors and industry;
- the outcome of any legal or regulatory proceedings to which PCT is, or may become a party, including the recently filed securities class action case;
- the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the previously announced business combination consummated on March 17, 2021;
- unexpected costs related to the business combination;
- geopolitical risk and changes in applicable laws or regulations;
- the possibility that PCT may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors;
- changes in the prices and availability of labor (including labor shortages), transportation and materials, including significant inflation, and PCT's ability to obtain them in a timely and cost-effective manner;
- the potential impact of climate change on PCT, including physical and transition risks, higher regulatory and compliance costs, reputational risks, and availability of capital on attractive terms;
- operational risk; and
- the risk that the COVID-19 pandemic, including any new and emerging variants and the efficacy and distribution of vaccines, and local, state, federal and international responses to addressing the pandemic may have an adverse effect on PCT's business operations, as well as PCT's financial condition and results of operations.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made by the management of PCT prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.
All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements or other matters attributable to PCT or any person acting on their behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this press release. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, PCT undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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