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WASHINGTON, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trusted Future today released the results of a survey of nearly 1,000 parents of school-age children in the United States to better understand their views of the challenges and opportunities they face as it relates to children's privacy and safety online. The survey was designed to learn from parents about what key steps they believe would help foster greater trust in the technologies they use every day, and expand opportunities for their children tomorrow.
Key findings of the survey include:
- Parents view tech as vital and important to their children's future: 92% of parents believe being connected to the internet is important for their family.
- Parents recognize the importance of protecting their children's personal data, including their identity (90%), location (88%), health data (87%), age (85%), school records (85%), and browsing history (84%).
- A large majority of parents (86%) believe it is important to talk with their kids about digital safety and privacy. And they're actually doing it, with 79% of parents of teenagers telling us they have, and 69% of parents whose kids are 11 and under.
- A majority (75%) of parents believe having a "'tech talk" is as important for teens as having the "sex talk," rising to 79% for parents of teenagers.
- An overwhelming majority of parents (91%) want apps reviewed by experts for security and privacy prior to being made available to consumers.
- Parents' top priority for Congress is privacy, with 63% wanting Congress to adopt additional privacy protections whether for children specifically or the country as a whole, as compared to, for example, only 3% whose top priority is antitrust legislation.
"Parents view internet technologies as vital for their family's future, but also are very concerned about creating a safe environment for their children to take advantage of the benefits these technologies provide. We found that parents want to take an active role in their kid's digital lives, but that does not mean that they should have to be a Chief Information Security Officer and everyone has a role to play to protect kids' digital experiences. Parents are looking to tech innovators to provide the tools they need to keep their families' personal data private and want policymakers to prioritize additional privacy protections above any other technology policy legislation."
In addition to better privacy protections, the survey also showed a strong level of parental support for Congressional action on addressing cyberthreats like malware, federal and state funding for coding education for children at public schools, universal access to high speed broadband and connected learning tools, and increased investment in emerging technological innovation so that children can reap the benefits of the good-paying jobs in high-tech industries of the future.
The full survey is available to download here.
Trusted Future is a non-profit organization dedicated to the belief that we need smarter, better-informed efforts to enhance trust in today's digital ecosystem in order to expand opportunities for tomorrow. We believe we deserve a vibrant digital ecosystem that is trusted, responsible, inclusive, and safe -- one where you can trust that your privacy will be protected, your data will be secured, your safety can be protected, that leads to a more just, equitable and inclusive society, and that fosters previously unthinkable opportunities to improve your life. We bring together experts, advance new research, highlight common sense best practices, policies and recommendations, and explore new ways to foster and enhance the basic trust we need to support and sustain a healthier digital ecosystem. For more information, visit www.trustedfuture.org and follow us on Twitter @atrustedfuture.
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NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE: TUP) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: November 3, 2021 to May 3, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 15, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in TUP:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Tupperware Brands Corporation made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Tupperware was facing significant challenges in maintaining its earnings and sales performance; (ii) accordingly, Tupperware's full-year 2022 guidance was unrealistic and/or unsustainable; (iii) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Tupperware's financial condition; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Tupperware you have until August 15, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Tupperware securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the TUP lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/tupperware-brands-corporation-loss-submission-form-2?id=29928&from=4.
ABOUT KLEIN LAW FIRM
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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July's foot traffic is down year-over-year across the U.S. according to data from ShowingTime, reflective of last summer's incredible surge in buyer demand
- Home showing activity across the U.S. rebalanced in July to more normal levels, with a 16.8% year-over-year drop in buyer foot traffic
- Burlington, Vt. remained the only market to see double-digit showings per listing in July, compared to 40 markets at the same time last year
- The West's 44% dip in showing activity was again the largest in the country, continuing its downward trend this year
CHICAGO, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Home showing traffic softened throughout the U.S. in July as the real estate market continues to normalize after last year's record surge, according to the latest data from the ShowingTime Showing Index®.
The year-over-year dip in buyer activity follows a general market rebalancing that's taking place across the country as available inventory increases while fewer buyers actively shop for homes. Both factors have eased competition compared to last summer's multiple-offer environment. The Northeast again saw the smallest dip in buyer demand in July, recording a 9.9% drop, followed by the Midwest's 13.5% decrease. The South's 24.2% drop came next, with the West again claiming the largest year-over-year decline at 44%. The U.S. overall saw a 16.8% dip in showing traffic in July.
Burlington, Vt. again led all markets in showings per listing with an average of 12.1, marking the third consecutive month it claimed the top spot. Burlington was one of only four markets in the top 25 to see a year-over-year increase in the number of showings per listing, with Hartford, Conn., Appleton, Wis., and Syracuse, N.Y., also seeing modest increases.
Trenton, N.J., recorded an unusual month-over-month increase of 4%, the only market in the top 25 with a gain in traffic compared to June. Among the top 50 busiest markets, just two other cities, El Paso, Texas, and Bremerton, Wash., recorded month-over-month gains, 2% and 4%, respectively.
"The slowdown in showings tracks with the overall market rebalancing that's taking place across the country," said ShowingTime Vice President and General Manager Michael Lane. "Conditions for buyers are less competitive than they were last year at this time, while a general increase in available inventory in most markets has not only given buyers more options to consider, but more time to consider them."
ShowingTime is an industry leader in home touring technology and a proud affiliate of Zillow Group, Inc. ShowingTime's technology and services simplify the tour scheduling process for buyers, sellers and agents across the industry. ShowingTime products are used in hundreds of MLSs representing more than one million real estate professionals across the U.S. and Canada.
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TSX / NYSE American
Symbol: TMQ
VANCOUVER, BC, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Trilogy Metals Inc. (TSX: TMQ) (NYSE American: TMQ) ("Trilogy Metals" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the detailed voting results on the items of business considered at its Annual Meeting of the Shareholders ("Meeting") held in Vancouver on Friday, May 13, 2022. All proposals were approved and the nominees listed in the management proxy circular for the meeting were all elected as directors. A total of 118,263,353 or 81.30% of the Company's issued and outstanding shares were represented at the Meeting.
Shareholder Voting Results
The Shareholders voted on the following matters at this year's Meeting. Other than Proposals 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6, which represents votes by ballot, the results presented below represent votes accordingly to proxies received.
Proposal 1: Election of Directors
Proposal 2: Appointment of the Auditor
Proposal 3: Approval of amendments to and unallocated entitlements under the Restricted Share Unit Plan
Proposal 4: Approval of amendments to and unallocated entitlements under the Deferred Share Unit Plan
Proposal 5: Approval of a non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the Company's Named Executive Officers
Proposal 6: Approval of non-binding vote on the frequency of a non-binding vote on the compensation of the Company's Named Executive Officers
Detailed results of all items of business are also available in the Report of Voting Results filed under the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com ("SEDAR") and on the Form 8-K filed under the Company's EDGAR profile at www.sec.org ("EDGAR").
About Trilogy Metals
Trilogy Metals Inc. is a metal exploration and development company which holds a 50 percent interest in Ambler Metals LLC which has a 100 percent interest in the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects ("UKMP") in Northwestern Alaska. On December 19, 2019, South32, a globally diversified mining and metals company, exercised its option to form a 50/50 joint venture with Trilogy. The UKMP is located within the Ambler Mining District which is one of the richest and most-prospective known copper-dominant districts in the world. It hosts world-class polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulphide ("VMS") deposits that contain copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver, and carbonate replacement deposits which have been found to host high-grade copper and cobalt mineralization. Exploration efforts have been focused on two deposits in the Ambler Mining District – the Arctic VMS deposit and the Bornite carbonate replacement deposit. Both deposits are located within a land package that spans approximately 181,387 hectares. Ambler Metals has an agreement with NANA Regional Corporation, Inc., an Alaska Native Corporation that provides a framework for the exploration and potential development of the Ambler Mining District in cooperation with local communities. Trilogy's vision is to develop the Ambler Mining District into a premier North American copper producer.
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Hook LeRoy Butler to a Bungee cord and let him Lambeau Leap into the Hall of Fame crowd?
LeRoy Butler wasn't Brett Favre, the breathing caricature of a charismatic QB.
He wasn't Reggie White, the GOAT who butted Green Bay over the hump and was too soon gone to the great beyond.
He wasn't Mike Holmgren, the commander with Hall of Fame credentials.
And he wasn't Ron Wolf, the GM with the bronze bust Holmgren has yet to attain.
These were the face men — of the offense, the defense, the sideline, and the think tank — in the land of green and cheese.
Who then, was LeRoy Butler, the latest face from Green Bay's comeback decade to be designated for a bronze bust in Canton?
Let's start here: Butler is/was as good as any of the above at putting a finger on the pulse of what the Packers of the 1990s were.
That is reflected by a 2022 tale Butler told to Hall of Fame voter Clark Judge on Talk of Fame Network.
In 1992, Mike Holmgren had just replaced Lindy Infante as head coach.
"I was sitting at my locker," Butler said, "just minding my business, when Holmgren walks in. He's a big guy, 6-foot-5, and he looks down at me. I look up. He sees I'm wearing a Michael Jordan shirt. ... M.J. ... The GOAT.
"Mike Holmgren says, 'Why don't you wear YOUR shirt. I say, 'Coach, I don't have a shirt.' He says, 'Exactly. Go do something. Make some Pro Bowls. Get a damn shirt.'"
Butler did better than a shirt. He invented the Lambeau Leap.
It happened on that day after Christmas in Holmgren's second season. At that point, Favre was a wild colt who wouldn't listen. The Packers had gone to the playoffs once in 20 years. Reggie White was just arriving as a free agent.
Wolf came first, arriving as general manager in 1991, sticking with head coach Lindy Infante for the time being, then firing him after a 4-12 year. Holmgren replaced Infante, and, in keeping with recent Packer tradition, was out of the playoff race after a 3-6 start.
Butler was just a safety without a shirt, a fourth-year pro whose Florida State days of playing alongside Deion Sanders were a fading memory.
White was still in his prime, Wolf and Holmgren believed, after giving the Philadelphia Eagles 124 sacks in eight seasons. They surprised White by showing up at his house, asking him to lunch.
That went well, and Holmgren, aware that White talked frequently about his Christian faith, placed a telephone call.
White: "Hello."
Holmgren: "Reggie, this is God. I want you to come to Green Bay."
White took the jest as Holmgren hoped he would, and eventually, as Wolf always points out, also took a nice payday.
Holmgren regards White as "arguably the best defensive player all-time." He joined an interesting cast of characters on the '93 Packers.
Linebacker Johnny Holland had an ostentatious nickname, "Mr. Everywhere." Nose tackle John Jurkovic was a tough customer who later brought grit to the expansion Browns in 1999. Linebacker Bryce Paup jumped to the Bills in 1995 and became NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Cornerback Terrell Buckley, like Butler from Florida State, arrived as a Round 1 pick in '92.
Butler was a work-in-progress safety, a competitive talker with a million-dollar smile. He even bragged about his smile.
The Packers were 8-6 when the Raiders arrived on Dec. 26, 1993. Green Bay needed a win to clinch its first playoff berth since 1982, and 1982 didn't really count, since it was poisoned and shortened by a strike. In the 15 seasons between Vince Lombardi's finale in 1967 and '82, the Packers' postseason record was 0-1.
So, being in contention in '93 felt like a roaring party.
Favre led the league in interceptions but also made exciting plays under an offensive staff that included Jon Gruden, Andy Reid and Steve Mariucci.
Packers vs. Raiders was played in cold that was brutal even by Green Bay standards. The Packers led 14-0 in the fourth quarter when Butler sniffed out a pass from QB Vince Evans to running back Randy Jordan. Butler arrived like a lightning bolt and lit up Jordan, who fumbled. White scooped up the ball and began to run. He was getting dragged from behind by guard Steve Wisniewski when he pitched to Butler, who raced for a touchdown.
As momentum carried Butler through the end zone to the stands, he and a fan in a thick brown coat pointed to each other, prompting Butler to jump the rail and go up and in for a bear hug.
A fellow from two seats down, wearing a fat blue coat and a stocking camp, surfed the rail to where he got his mitts on Butler. The little group party was over in three seconds but lives in perpetuity as The Lambeau Leap.
So does Butler's admiration for Reggie White.
"Before he came in," Butler said recently, "I was an average player. But after he came in ... All-Decade, All-Pro, Pro Bowl, Super Bowl champion. Thank you."
Holmgren's message to Butler - "thank YOU" - is echoed by Wolf. Wolf weighed in immediately after Butler's election to the Hall of Fame was announced in February:
"It is wonderful that the premier safety of the 90s is getting his just reward. His passion for the game, his dedication to the Packers and his superb play make it well earned.
"He could cover, he could tackle, he could get after quarterbacks, he had good hands. He was a terrific vocal leader who did things that safeties before him simply couldn't do."
White died the day after Christmas, 2004, 11 years to the day after the Lambeau Leap. Those two went to the playoffs together six straight years (9-5 record).
Favre was league MVP in 1995, '96 and '97.
The '95 team took a 27-24 lead in the NFC Championship Game at Dallas but lost 38-27. The '96 team went 13-3 en route to winning Super Bowl XXXI. The '97 team played superb defense during a stretch capped by a 23-10 win at San Francisco in the NFC title game, then fell to Denver 31-24 in Super Bowl XXXII.
John Elway outplayed Favre in the latter game, signaling the end of the glorious union of Favre (didn't return to a Super Bowl in 10 subsequent Packer seasons), White (played for the Packers one more year), Holmgren (left for Seattle in 1999) and Wolf (retired after the 2000 season).
Butler, who gave the Packers four more years after the Super Bowl loss, recalls Favre as a timeless.
He shared a favorite Favre story upon going into the Packers Hall of Fame in 2015.
Favre had just taken his shoe off after getting his ankle mangled in a 1995 game against the Vikings.
"That thing was yellow, green, orange and brown," Butler said. "I said, 'Dude, you can't play next week.'
"He looked at me and said, 'Roy Lee — that's what he called me — there ain't a damn thing wrong with my arm.
"I don't think he's human. Whenever it's his time to leave this earth, I want to see the X-rays. The guy was a mixture of Wolverine, RoboCop and Superman."
Butler was a Packer before Wolf, Holmgren, Favre and White. He was a Packer after all but Favre departed, and even Favre left amid a family feud tied to the rise of Aaron Rodgers.
There is no split identity about Butler. He takes the Hall of Fame stage as a wall-to-wall Packer.
He was there as a rookie in 1990, when a former Canton GlenOak player, Mark Murphy, was in the late stages of his long career as a Packers safety.
He was there on Nov. 18, 2001, making a couple of tackles at Lambeau, leaving the game with an injury, in what turned out to be his last game.
Butler is back as a member of the Hall of Fame Class of 2022. The Lambeau Leap rides again.
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Watching Your Wallet: Loans, grants could help with rising college costs
Apply for federal aid every year, not just as a freshman
InvestigateTV - Around 1.3 million high school graduates are expected to enroll in a four-year university in 2022 and 42% of those students are expected to take on student loans, according to a new study by NerdWallet.
Elizabeth Renter, a data analyst with the company, said $39,500 is what a graduating senior could borrow in pursuit of their bachelor’s degree over the next four years.
“What’s important to note is this is a conservative estimate,” Renter said. “We looked only at public four-year universities, which are generally more affordable than private institutions. We based this estimate on what students are taking out right now, which isn’t the entire cost of attendance.”
She said each year all students should fill out FAFSA, the free application for federal student aid. Renter said FAFSA opens the door to not only federal grants and student loans, but many states and institutions use this data to determine additional potential aid.
“Grants and scholarships are free money,” Renter said. “They don’t come with interest, you don’t have to pay them back, so they’re definitely a priority when it comes to scholarships.”
She said your applications shouldn’t stop freshman year.
“Also, upperclassmen should remember that they need to keep looking, too,” Renter said. “There are often scholarships for sophomores, juniors, and seniors.”
She said if you need student loans, look at federal student loan options first over private loans and explore federal work study options as well. Your FAFSA application will ask if you’re interested in the program.
The FAFSA application period opens on October 1st for the coming school year and is open now for the 2022 - 2023 college year.
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UNION, N.J., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) today announced the successful completion of its previously disclosed financing agreements.
The Company has secured more than $500 million of new financing, including its newly expanded $1.13 billion asset-backed revolving credit facility ("ABL facility") and a new $375 million "first-in-last-out" facility ("FILO facility"). The refinancing of the ABL facility was led by J.P. Morgan, and Sixth Street Partners is serving as the Lender and Agent for the Company's FILO facility. The enhanced liquidity is expected to be utilized to support immediate strategic priorities to drive traffic and sales and gain back customer relevance, including rebalancing the assortment and inventory position.
Sue Gove, Director & Interim Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Together with Sixth Street, J.P. Morgan and our banking partners, this new financing will bolster our liquidity and strengthen our balance sheet. We are pleased to announce this critical step in moving Bed Bath & Beyond in a positive direction by strengthening our financial positioning. We are committed to utilizing our resources to better serve our customers, drive growth, and recapture market share to deliver returns for all stakeholders."
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") is an omnichannel retailer that makes it easy for our customers to feel at home. The Company sells a wide assortment of merchandise in the Home, Baby, Beauty and Wellness markets. Additionally, the Company is a partner in a joint venture which operates retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond.
The Company operates websites at bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, buybuybaby.com, buybuybaby.ca, harmondiscount.com, and facevalues.com.
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MEDELLIN, Colombia, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Green Coffee Company (GCC), a Legacy Group portfolio company, is pleased to announce the acquisition of an additional 1,389 acres of coffee farmland, making GCC Colombia's new #1 largest coffee producer.
This purchase is GCC's second key acquisition during 2022 and solidifies the company's position as Colombia's new #1 largest coffee producer. The acquisition brings GCC's total landholdings to 6,372 acres, with a total coffee tree count of 7.2 million.
Located in Salgar, Colombia adjacent to the Green Coffee Company's current farms, this new acreage will allow the business to further benefit from economies of scale through lower cost of production, greater ease of farm management and optimization of existing infrastructure capacity. The company has grown exponentially since its inception less than five years ago to reach this #1 position, and has a goal of becoming the world's largest producer of arabica coffee within the next 2-3 years.
GCC is appropriately positioned to execute on its upcoming Series C equity funding round, which is expected to be formally announced in Q3 2022. Proceeds from the capital raise will be used to (a) further expand operations in Colombia, building on its dominant market position, and (b) build a U.S.-based coffee roasting operation to expand its value chain.
The investment offering will be open to accredited individual investors, institutional investors and coffee industry participants. If you would like to participate in GCC's upcoming Series C offering, please contact Legacy Group, the company's asset manager, at investor.relations@legacy-group.co, or visit their website at https://legacy-group.co/ for more information and to be added to our mailing list.
The Green Coffee Company is a consolidated coffee farming operation headquartered in the U.S. with operations based in Medellin, Colombia. The company's innovative business model allows for complete control of the supply chain: from cultivation, through processing, to direct trade with end-clients. GCC's holistic approach to the coffee sector and commitment to best environmental practices not only establishes the long-term profitability and sustainability of the business, but also improves the quality of the coffee produced on the farms.
Follow Legacy Group on Linkedin for communications related to the Green Coffee Company and other alternative investment opportunities: at https://www.linkedin.com/company/legacygroup/.
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ORLANDO, Fla., April 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Cheer Union (ICU), the international governing body for cheerleading, is pleased to announce its return to Orlando, USA to host the 2022 ICU Junior World and World Cheerleading Championships for the first time since 2019. The World Championships took place on April 20-22, 2022, at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at The Walt Disney World® Resort and were the first in-person ICU Junior World and World Cheerleading Championships since granting full International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognition to the ICU.
The ICU Junior World and World Cheerleading Championships are the pinnacle of cheerleading championships globally. The 2022 championships hosted over 2,500 national team athletes from 51 countries. Teams performed in an exclusive performance at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in the HP Field House, Visa Athletic Center or The AdventHealth Arena – the first ever building dedicated to exclusively hosting cheer and dance events. The ICU's mission is to positively advance cheerleading throughout the world. The organization has steadily built its membership and now has 117 National Cheer Federation members. The ICU has developed educational training programs for athletes, coaches and officials and has been instrumental in creating standardized rules, as well as safety programs and regulations.
"We are thrilled to be back safely hosting this event in person where we can recognize and reward these athletes for their hard work, dedication and contribution to their sport and to their countries," said Jeff Webb, President of the International Cheer Union. "The return of this championship represents an important opportunity to continue working to evolve cheerleading on a global scale."
Founded in 2004 and headquartered in the United States, the International Cheer Union (ICU) began its journey to be recognized in 2010 when it first applied to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), receiving IOC provisional recognition in 2016. On July 20, 2021, the ICU and Cheerleading became fully eligible in ICU's efforts to be included in the 2028 Olympic Games, as well as inclusion in a variety of Olympic multi-sport Games. This also provides greater support and funding for Cheerleading development in all countries around the world.
World Champions include:
- Coed Premier: USA
- All Girl Premier: Finland
- Coed Elite: Ecuador
- All Girl Elite: Austria
- Jazz: USA
- Hip Hop: USA
- Freestyle Pom: USA
- Junior Coed Elite: USA
- Junior All Girl Elite: USA
- Junior Coed Advanced: England
- Junior All Girl Advanced: Czech Republic
- Junior Freestyle Pom: USA
- Junior Hip Hop: USA
- Youth All Girl Advanced: USA
- Youth Coed Advanced: USA
- Youth Coed Median: Mexico
- Youth All Girl Median: England
- Youth Pom: USA
- Youth Hip Hop: USA
- Adaptive Abilities Unified Coed Advanced: Wales
- Adaptive Abilities Freestyle Pom: Scotland
- Adaptive Abilities Unified Median: Canada
- Special Abilities Traditional Pom: USA
- Special Abilities Unified Pom: USA
- Special Abilities Traditional Cheer: USA
- Special Abilities Unified Cheer: USA
- Doubles Hip Hop: Thailand
- Doubles Freestyle Pom: Japan
Learn more about the International Cheer Union, including the 2022 ICU Junior World and World Cheerleading Championships, event information and full results listings on cheerunion.org,
The International Cheer Union (ICU) was formed as the non-profit international governing entity whose mission is to advance cheerleading on a global scale. With over 100 member nations, the ICU represents all geographical areas where cheerleading exists. The ICU promotes healthy competition, rule development and education for athletes, coaches, and parents. More information can be found on www.cheerunion.org. Photography and b-roll video available upon request.
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Manchin, Republican lawmakers grill Interior chief over oil and gas drilling plans amid high prices
By Ella Nilsen and Liz Stark, CNN
Interior Sec. Deb Haaland squared off with lawmakers on Thursday at a contentious Senate hearing that addressed high gas prices, oil and gas drilling and delays in the department’s plan to hold more drilling lease sales.
Haaland told the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that her agency plans to release a proposal for its next five-year plan for offshore oil and gas leasing by the end of June — a timeline that would likely lead to a gap between the current plan and a new one.
Sen. Joe Manchin and Republicans on the committee expressed concern that the Department of Interior appeared to be delaying holding more oil and gas lease sales just as gasoline prices are surging in the US.
“The President says he wants his administration to encourage more American energy,” said Sen. John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming. “Instead your department, Madam Secretary, stalls, postpones and kills oil and natural gas lease sales. Your department is undermining domestic energy production, not expediting it.”
Energy experts have told CNN that high gas prices cannot be solved by drilling more oil in the US.
Haaland told the committee the department has no deadline to start leasing under a new program, which will likely lead to a gap between the current program and the new one, during which the federal government cannot hold offshore oil and gas lease sales.
Both she and Deputy Interior Secretary Tommy Beaudreau told lawmakers that the process of drafting a five-year plan is taking longer as the department tries to be “deliberate.”
“It is appropriate for us to take a step, be deliberate as we think about future potential leasing described in the 5-year program,” Beaudreau told Manchin, the committee’s chair. “By the end of June, we’ll take step number two in a three-step process. No decisions about leasing will be made until step number three.”
That answer didn’t appear to satisfy Manchin, the senator from West Virginia who is Democrats’ swing vote on energy and climate legislation.
Manchin told Interior officials they were taking “a lot longer than the deadline” to get their new five-year plan done.
“We’re getting this at the last possible day, the last possible minute, knowing that there’s other steps to go through,” Manchin said. “The timing is not right that you’ve taken as long as you possibly could.”
Haaland said even after the program proposal comes out by June 30, it will take another 150 days to complete public comment and environmental review before lease sales can be held.
“I don’t think there is an actual deadline” to begin new offshore leasing, she told Sen. James Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma.
“That’s the concern all of us have, actually that there’s no deadline,” Lankford responded. “That the proposal to talk about it is coming on the date it should be done, and that this is going to stretch out for the next 2-3 years of talking about it. We’re trying to figure out when’s the deadline to actually start leasing.”
The Biden administration announced last week it would cancel three upcoming offshore oil and gas leases — two in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska — over a lack of industry interest and legal delays.
The cancellation of the previously planned Cook Inlet sale in Alaska, as well as the lease sales in the Gulf, ensures that millions of acres of offshore waters will not be developed for oil and gas — a significant victory for climate advocates. While the administration announced it would restart a dramatically smaller area of onshore oil and gas leases in April, the offshore cancellations threw the future of the federal government’s offshore oil and gas leasing this year into doubt.
The move rankled Republicans and Manchin, who expressed his displeasure at Thursday’s hearing.
“I’m sorry to say it has become crystal clear that the ‘pause’ is in fact a ‘ban,'” Manchin said of the department’s initial temporary pause on new oil and gas leasing, which has since ended.
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"Not yet. We've been a little bit too busy. So, not yet," Biden said to NBC's "Today" in a sit-down interview that aired Tuesday morning but was prerecorded Monday in Knoxville, Tennessee. "But, I'm sure it will be a discussion."
The first lady's remarks are the first time she has publicly indicated there has not been a determination between her and her husband about a second White House term.
The White House has constantly indicated Biden intends to run for reelection 2024, though more recently there have been concerns among some Democrats as to whether a second-term campaign is a fait accompli. Biden's advanced age and low approval numbers have raised questions about his viability with voters.
CNN reported in August that a campaign is a heavy lift that not everyone in the family longs for, say two people with knowledge of internal family conversations.
"The President intends to run and if he does, I will be his ticket mate. We will run together," Harris said.
Jill Biden's admission that a discussion remains to be had between the first couple on President Biden's political future is a sign the decision may not be locked in.
"It is taxing," said the first lady in the same interview, answering whether a long presidential campaign is something she and President Biden were ready to face. "But, you know, look at all Joe has done. He has kept true to what he said he would do. And, so, I think he just needs to keep going," she said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — If this was about trading insults, Gervonta Davis might not be the better man this time.
Rolando Romero can talk and has been doing plenty of it leading into their match Saturday night, profanely poking fun at everything from the quality of Davis’ resume to the size of his head.
When it comes to trading punches, Davis insists it will be a different story in a heated lightweight title matchup of unbeatens in Brooklyn.
“I feel as though the talking is over. The time is now,” Davis said.
He has been doing this much longer, not just at the highest levels of boxing, but in the sport itself. When it’s time to stop jabbering and start jabbing, he believes there will be a big difference against a fighter who’s had only about half as many professional fights.
The bout headlines a Showtime pay-per-view card and the first big boxing event back in Brooklyn since the pandemic started more than two years ago. Barclays Center is where Davis (26-0, 24 KOs) won his first title in 2017, and he has gone on to draw big crowds from coast to coast while winning titles in three different weight classes.
At 27, he has built himself into one of the biggest names in boxing, though Romero (14-0, 12 KOs) contends he did it by beating up on smaller fighters, or carefully chosen opponents who lack his power.
Romero has boasted that he will knock out Davis in one round. He didn’t back away from that when asked what he envisions happening Saturday night.
“Tank flatlined on the ground,” he said.
Davis seems alternately annoyed and amused by the antics of the 26-year-old Romero, who is on the brink of the biggest night of a boxing career that isn’t even 10 years old. He only took up the sport after switching from judo at 17, giving Davis a significant advantage in ring rounds.
Davis seemed frustrated enough by Romero to push his opponent off the stage at their weigh-in Friday, forcing the fighters to be separated.
“There’s definitely different levels when you come to the sport of boxing,” Davis said. “There’s people that play with boxing and there’s people that’ve been doing this since they were kids. You’ve got somebody that’s been doing this since they were 7 and somebody that’s been doing this since they were 17. Like, come on, bro. It’s time to show that I’m one of the ones.”
They were scheduled to fight in December before Romero was taken off the card while authorities investigated accusations of sexual assault against him. No charges were filed.
Romero claims they were supposed to share the ring before that, but Davis twice backed out of plans to spar with him. He said Davis is scared of him and believes he saw more fear against Isaac Cruz, the replacement opponent Davis fought in Los Angeles.
Davis won that fight by unanimous decision, ending a streak of stoppages that began in 2015. Romero said Cruz hit Davis easily and believes the Baltimore native will be target practice for his power punches.
“There’s no way I can miss,” Romero said. “He has a big-ass head.”
Both fighters are promoted by Mayweather Promotions, where Davis has long been the big star, considered a worthy successor to Floyd Mayweather. He’ll have to make room — or move out of the way — for Romero if the challenger fights as good as he talks.
Romero’s martial arts background has given him a reputation of an awkward fighter in the way he punches, but Davis just sees an undeveloped one. Mastering the microphone helped Romero land a spot in the main event of a pay-per-view after just 14 fights, but experience isn’t required to hype a fight.
It makes a big difference when the words stop and the punching starts. Once that’s done, Davis is confident there won’t be anything left for Romero to talk about.
“What we’re going to find out on Saturday night is that, the person who’s dishing it, can they take it?” Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe said.
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BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it is expanding the capabilities of its affordable housing platform with the creation of a dedicated affordable investment sales team. The eleven-member team, led by Managing Directors Aaron Hargrove and Eric Taylor, formerly of Greystone Real Estate Advisors, brings invaluable experience and relationships in the affordable housing space and will play a strategic role in helping Walker & Dunlop further its mission of empowering clients to create, preserve and revitalize affordable communities.
"We are excited and proud to join a company that believes in this mission and is making it an integral part of their business by investing in and expanding their platform to better serve stakeholders. We look forward to collaborating with the entire affordable team and adding our expertise in affordable investment sales," said Aaron Hargrove.
The new team of tenured affordable housing experts has experience that spans the full scope of affordable housing programs including Section 8, Section 42 LIHTC, and Rural Development. Drawing on their diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise, as well as their experience transacting in almost every state plus Puerto Rico, they are known to provide unmatched analysis and brokerage services for property owners in any situation, including disposition, refinancing, partnership dissolution, partnership buyout, asset repositioning, resyndication, and qualified contract execution.
"We are thrilled to welcome Aaron, Eric, and the team to Walker & Dunlop. The addition of investment sales to our existing suite of affordable services ensures our ability to further our mission of creating and maintaining the nation's affordable housing stock by elevating the ways in which we can support our clients," said Sheri Thompson, Walker & Dunlop's Executive Vice President for Affordable Housing & Investment Management/Proprietary Capital. "The team will also play an important role in helping Walker & Dunlop achieve its goal of originating $60 billion of affordable and workforce housing loans by 2025."
The creation of this investment sales team broadens Walker & Dunlop's affordable-specific capabilities to now include debt financing and LIHTC equity, affordable housing preservation, appraisals, development support and construction management, affordable compliance software solutions, and investment sales and advisory. This full suite of services, combined with unparalleled affordable experience, exceptional expertise in transaction execution, and industry-leading technology positions Walker & Dunlop to continue to be a leader and set the standard in affordable housing.
Eric Taylor added, "Our team is eager to join forces with Walker & Dunlop's existing affordable platform to provide an investment sales solution to our combined client base. We are encouraged by the cross-collaboration between teams and how we can use W&D's technology to enhance our processes, and by the opportunity to help build something special."
Walker & Dunlop is a leader in multifamily property sales, having completed $19.3 billion in property sales volume in 2021 alone, up 214% from 2020. The firm was also the third largest provider of capital to the U.S. multifamily market, originating $49 billion in transactions and lending over $42 billion for multifamily properties in 2021. Additionally, the affordable team financed $10B of affordable financing in 2021 through HUD, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and capital markets sources. To learn more about our capabilities and financing options, visit our website.
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Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is one of the largest providers of capital to the commercial real estate industry in the United States, enabling real estate owners and operators to bring their visions of communities — where Americans live, work, shop and play — to life. Our people, brand and technology make W&D one of the most insightful and customer-focused firms in our industry. 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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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLP, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
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James Franco as Fidel Castro has at least one advocate.
Alina Fernández, daughter of the former Cuban dictator who died in 2016, has told Deadline she supports Franco playing her father in the forthcoming independent film "Alina of Cuba."
James Franco as Fidel Castro has at least one advocate.
Alina Fernández, daughter of the former Cuban dictator who died in 2016, has told Deadline she supports Franco playing her father in the forthcoming independent film "Alina of Cuba."
"James Franco has an obvious physical resemblance with Fidel Castro, besides his skills and charisma," she told the publication.
There had been public outcry from some over Franco's casting, including from actor John Leguizamo, because the actor is not Latino.
"How is this still going on? How is Hollywood excluding us but stealing our narratives as well?" Leguizamo posted on his verified Instagram account.
"No more appropriation Hollywood and streamers! Boycott! This F'd up!," he wrote. "Plus seriously difficult story to tell without aggrandizement which would b wrong! I don't got a prob with Franco but he ain't Latino!"
The film tells the story of Fernández, who was born as the result of a love affair between Cuban-born socialite Natalia "Naty" Revuelta and Castro.
"I'm sure that Mía Maestro, an actress I admire, will understand and interpret Naty, my mother, in a unique way and I can't wait to see her building her character," Fernández told Deadline.
"The project is almost entirely Latino, both in front and behind the camera," she added.
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President Biden hosts the Summit of the Americas with top priority of stemming illegal immigration
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The US is hosting the Summit of the Americas, back after a four year hiatus. The summit brings together leaders from the Western Hemisphere to discuss issues facing the region. Gray White House Correspondent Jon Decker met with Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas before he left for the event.
Decker asked Sec. Mayorkas about President Biden’s top priority of the summit, addressing illegal immigration. Said Mayorkas, “The promise of America is something that shines throughout the world. But most people don’t want to leave their homes.” He added, “They feel they must do so because of economic despair, because of corruption, because of violence... That is what we’re trying to address, together, with the countries throughout the region.”
Sec. Mayorkas has been working directly with Panama and Costa Rica over the last two months to secure cooperation in managing borders and providing humanitarian relief.
Meanwhile in the United States a legal battle is raging over Title 42. Enacted at the urging of the Center for Disease Control at the beginning of the pandemic, Title 42 allowed federal workers to turn back migrants and asylum seekers to prevent the spread of COVID. President Biden now wishes to roll it back. Opponents are concerned this would clog US borders with increased immigrants.
Mayorkas answered the concerns with a plan to have asylum officers hear cases instead of immigration judges. He said, “There are about 1.6 million, 1.7 million cases ending in immigration court. It takes about six to eight years between the time of an asylum claim and the time an immigration judge actually is able to make a final ruling. This would allow immigration officers, people in the Department of Homeland Security to make those judgments, and we could make them in less than a year. It’s really a dramatic change, and one that frankly will improve the system and its efficiency.”
Biden is expected to release a signed declaration of immigration with the support of hemisphere leaders by the end of the summit, which will wrap June 10th.
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Jan. 6 panel postpones hearing with ex-Justice Dept. officials
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol has postponed a hearing that was to feature Trump-era Justice Department officials.
The hearing had been set for Wednesday, but the committee on Tuesday morning said that it had been postponed. It did not give a reason or a new date for the hearing.
The next hearing is set to take place on Thursday.
The witnesses at Wednesday’s hearing were to include Jeffrey Rosen, who was the acting attorney general at the time of the Capitol insurrection, as well as two other former top officials, Richard Donoghue and Steven Engel. Lawyers for all three men did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
They were expected to testify about a tense Jan. 3, 2021 meeting at the White House in which then-President Donald Trump weighed whether to replace Rosen with a lower-ranking official, Jeffrey Clark, who had expressed a willingness to champion Trump’s bogus claims of voting fraud. Trump abandoned the idea when multiple Justice Department and White House lawyers told him that they would resign if that happened.
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Formula One has multiple inquiries from potential team owners who have taken a more behind-the-scenes approach than Michael Andretti, who has been “quite vocal” in his desire to expand the current grid, F1’s CEO said Wednesday.
Andretti has petitioned to expand the current F1 grid to 22 cars to accommodate Andretti Global, which he’s billing as a true American team. Andretti has taken that route after attempts to purchase an existing F1 team fell apart late last year.
He said this week he’s building a 575,000 square-foot facility on roughly 90 acres in Fishers, Indiana, to house Andretti Global. But he’s still no closer to landing an F1 team and Domenicali offered very little update specific to Andretti.
“The status of Formula One, it is not a problem of quantity,” Domenicali said. “It’s a matter of understanding not only the ones who have a bigger, louder voice, but there will be other people because Andretti was quite vocal about his request.
“But there are others that have done the same in a different way. So we will listen not only to Andretti, but to others that are respecting the silence on trying to be more productive on proving who they are and respecting the protocol.”
At issue is what value — if any — comes with expanding the current 20-car grid.
Mercedes head Toto Wolff has been vehemently against expansion and argued it will only decrease profits as the pot would be split between 11 teams instead of 10. But McLaren boss Zak Brown has argued adding the Andretti name would increase North American interest and signing U.S.-based sponsors based on Andretti’s participation would compensate for any dilution to the purse.
Wolff has dismissed the notion the Andretti name brings any value to F1. Mario Andretti is the 1978 F1 world champion; Michael Andretti spent one unremarkable season driving in the series.
And even though Andretti has had discussions with Renault about entering F1, Wolff has only been supportive of a potential Audi-backed effort.
“Andretti is a great name, and I think they have done exceptional things in the US,” Wolff recently said. “But this is sport and this is business and we need to understand what is it that you can provide to the sport.”
The resistance has irritated Mario Andretti, who on Twitter responded to a question asking if Wolff is too powerful for F1 with: “This needed to be said; it’s about time.”
Domenicali on Wednesday said that Wolff has earned his respect in F1 and is a credible voice in the series. He also indicated all the back-and-forth on the Andretti issue is a moot point because the decision will be made by a governing body and not Wolff and the current team principals.
“Mario, I know him very, very well, and he is trying to present his idea in a way that he thought is the right way to do that,” Domenicali said. “But I do believe there is a governance in place and the decision has to follow the process and the protocol that is in place.
“Mario is very vocal, Michael is, too. We need to respect that we may have a difference of opinions, but at the end of the day it is a matter of following the protocol and there is someone that is to make the final decision.”
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Additional trackers and enhanced features are now available
CHICAGO, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rand McNally, a leader in commercial transportation and innovative fleet technology, today launched an expanded asset tracker lineup – all now available on the company's flexible Rand Platform.
Along with a solar-powered tracker and a battery-driven version, the company is now offering a wired option for customers who require constant location tracking with alerts/pings every two minutes.
"We have customers who transport very high-value cargo and need to know where it is at all times," explained Adam Ricketts, V.P. of Product at Rand McNally. "We were able to develop this wired solution and get it running on the Rand Platform, which enables even more access to key information such as external temperature and humidity readings."
The wired tracker, the TrueTrack® W110, connects and supplies pings every two-minutes as a standard offering. The industries' average ping rates on wireless trackers can range anywhere from once every 30 minutes to once per day – depending upon need and situation.
Voyager Express, a Detroit-based trucking firm with close ties to the automotive industry, has been using the Rand McNally's wired trackers on the new, best of class Rand Platform. The company uses drop-and-hook trailers that transport high-value automotive parts so it's critical to know where the trailers are – not just the trucks pulling them – at all times.
"We're 100% installed and it's pretty sweet – it lets me know where all my assets are and whether they are tracking to plan," said Tim Reilly, V.P. at Voyager Express.
Using the Rand Platform, Reilly is able see not only where his trailers are at any time, but also whether they are on schedule for their deliveries.
"The asset trackers are doing work in the background – letting me know if a trailer isn't going to get to its destination, because of traffic," he explained. "If everything is running on time, the asset on the screen shows green. If there's a change, it goes to yellow. So, now I just need to focus on the assets that are red."
All Rand McNally trackers are in stock and available for shipment.
In June, Rand McNally announced that its Rand Video Telematics (RVT) solution was available on the company's new platform. An API-first solution, the Rand Platform features technology that reduces risks, accelerates development, allowing for flexibility and quick innovation.
Fleets that use both asset tracking and the RVT package, which includes road-facing and cab-facing cameras, can view drivers, assets, and vehicles on the same screen, via a single sign on.
With the added features that the Rand Platform offers, customers have access to:
- The platform's innovative and easy drag-and-drop workflow tool that can be anything the customer needs – no need to select from prescribed metrics, reports, or alerts.
- Enhanced reporting and dashboard views of advance fleet tracking features such as details from vehicle "breadcrumb" trails, geofences, and more.
- The ability to create a freeform geofence unconstrained by "polygon" shapes.
More current products, as well as new Rand McNally solutions, will be integrated into the platform in coming months, simplifying vehicle, asset, and driver management for fleets.
Launch of the Rand Platform and the TrueTrack® W110 wired asset trackers were enabled by TELEO Capital, which acquired Rand McNally in Q4 2020 with a pledge to significantly increase its investment in best-in-class solutions for the transportation and logistics market.
To learn more about Rand McNally's Asset Trackers, Rand Video Telematics (RVT) and the Rand Platform, contact Rand McNally at +1-800-789-6277 or visit https://fleet.randmcnally.com/.
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Authorities are searching for at least two gunmen after nine people were injured in a shooting in downtown Cincinnati early Sunday, police said.
The shooting in the city's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood occurred shortly before 2 a.m., when more than a dozen shots were fired into a large crowd after two separate groups were involved in a "physical altercation," Assistant Police Chief Michael John of the Cincinnati Police Department said at a news conference Sunday.
Nine gunshot victims -- eight men and one woman -- were taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries, John said. The victims' ages range from 23 to 47.
One Cincinnati police officer identified as Joe Shook was on scene at the time and shot at one suspect, John said, but it's unclear whether that suspected gunman was hit. More shots were fired after the first shooter fled, he said, so police believe at least two gunmen are on the run.
"There is no question that the actions of Officer Joe Shook and his partner saved lives," John said.
Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval called the shooting "an absolute tragedy."
"What took place last night is completely and totally unacceptable," Pureval said. "The gun violence we are seeing in our communities cannot and will not persist, and we will continue to work hard to prevent gun violence in the future."
Cincinnati council member Scotty Johnson called on any witnesses to come forward. "If you see something, say something," he said. "It is not snitching, it's a matter of everybody in Cincinnati being safe and enjoying our great city."
"We want everybody to come downtown and have a good time, but personal accountability has to trump these ridiculous outlandish beefs that are going on in our city," Johnson added.
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Latest version of Galen™ transforms diagnosis of prostate, breast and gastric cancer and includes expanded detection, user-interface, and workflow integration capabilities
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ibex Medical Analytics, the leader in AI-powered cancer diagnostics, today announced the launch and roll-out of Galen™ 3.0, a transformative solution offering new detection capabilities and a broad set of features to support pathologists in the diagnosis of multiple tissue types across various digital pathology workflows. Galen 3.0 is CE-Marked, approved in additional countries and now generally available to Ibex customers.
Creating a new modality for cancer diagnosis, Galen is the first and most widely deployed AI technology in pathology and used in routine clinical practice at laboratories, hospitals, and health systems worldwide. Galen supports pathologists across numerous diagnostic tasks during the review of breast, prostate, and gastric biopsies and helps improve the quality of cancer diagnosis, reduce turnaround time, boost productivity and improve user experience for pathologists. Galen demonstrated outstanding outcomes across clinical studies performed in multiple pathology labs and diagnostic workflows1,2,3,4,5.
Galen 3.0 incorporates the very latest evolution of Ibex's AI algorithms for detecting cancer and other clinically relevant features in prostate, breast, and gastric biopsies. To ensure very high accuracy and generalizability, Ibex trained the Deep Learning networks on huge, enriched data sets from laboratories worldwide that were digitized by multiple scanning systems, including rare prostatic malignancies such as intraductal carcinoma, neuroendocrine tumor, colorectal adenocarcinoma, lymphoma, and urothelial carcinoma. Galen also calculates a Gleason score, tumor size and percentage for each cancer slide, potentially enabling pathologists to save review time and reduce subjectivity.
"With an estimated 1.9 million new cancer cases diagnosed in the United States alone this year, we are excited to bring Galen 3.0 to pathology labs worldwide, providing clinically validated, automated decision-support tools that help pathologists diagnose cancer more rapidly and more accurately to support the high demand," said Issar Yazbin, Vice President of Product Management at Ibex. "Keeping our customers' needs central to our research and development, we are proud to deploy Galen 3.0, bringing enhanced detection capabilities, improved user experience, increased interoperability tools and ease of implementation into existing clinical workflows."
Galen 3.0 features an open API (Application Programming Interface) accelerating interoperability and seamless integration with image management solutions, lab information systems and digital pathology workflow solutions. The Ibex API is already used in multiple collaborations between Ibex and leading digital pathology partners where Ibex's AI findings are seamlessly integrated to the partners' solutions. Version 3.0 also includes new customizable reporting modules, enabling every customer site to tailor the slide and case reports according to their own needs.
Ibex Medical Analytics presents at the European Congress of Pathology which takes place in Basel, Switzerland, between September 3-7 (booth no. 1).
About Ibex Medical Analytics
Ibex is transforming cancer diagnostics with world-leading, clinical grade AI-powered solutions, empowering physicians to provide accurate, timely and personalized cancer diagnosis for every patient. Our Galen™ suite of solutions is the first and most widely deployed AI-technology in pathology and used as part of everyday routine, supporting pathologists and providers worldwide in improving the quality and accuracy of diagnosis, implementing comprehensive quality control, reducing turnaround times and boosting productivity with more efficient workflows. Ibex's Artificial Intelligence technology is built on Deep Learning algorithms trained by a team of pathologists, data scientists and software engineers. For additional company information, please visit https://ibex-ai.com/ and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Summerfest lawns get the first mow of the season courtesy of Briggs & Stratton
MILWAUKEE, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ahead of the June 23 kick-off of Milwaukee's famous Summerfest Music Festival, the lawns of Henry Maier Festival Park got their first cut of the 2022 season thanks to festival sponsor Briggs & Stratton®.
"The first mow of the season, whether it's at home or the festival grounds, marks a sense of renewed growth and energy," said Christin Wam, Briggs & Stratton's senior director of marketing for turf and consumer products. "Briggs & Stratton has been a long-term sponsor of Summerfest and we're proud that our Ferris® and Simplicity® brand mowers are getting the lawns ready for Summerfest and all of the other exciting events at Henry Maier Festival Park this season."
The 75 acres were mowed by a premium Simplicity Contender™ XT zero-turn tractor and a Ferris SRS™ Z1 stand-on commercial zero-turn mower. Both of these brands offer patented suspension systems which allow homeowners and landscapers alike to feel comfortable, even mowing large lawns at Henry Maier Festival Park, home to Summerfest. In addition, a Ferris Hurricane blower took care of cleaning leaves and other debris from the lawn and walkways.
About Briggs & Stratton
Briggs & Stratton, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides innovative products and diverse power solutions to help people get work done. Briggs & Stratton is the world's largest producer of engines for outdoor power equipment, and is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of lithium-ion battery, standby generator, energy storage system, lawn and garden, turf care and job site products through its Briggs & Stratton®, Vanguard®, Ferris®, Simplicity®, Snapper®, Billy Goat®, Allmand®, SimpliPhi®, Branco® and Victa® brands. Briggs & Stratton products are designed, manufactured, marketed and serviced in more than 100 countries on six continents.
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Amid increasing changes in online behavior and expanding data privacy regulations, the report reveals why customer data should be at the core of every businesses' future plans.
SAN DIEGO, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tealium, the most trusted and world's largest independent customer data platform (CDP), today released an "Organization of the Future" report outlining how companies can organize their teams to drive optimal customer experiences. The report includes ten different org charts showcasing varying departmental structures for companies to consider.
Companies across the globe are looking for ways to better gather, organize, and activate customer data effectively so they can improve business outcomes. They require scalable solutions they can trust with a quick path to value. CDPs help brands achieve this by connecting customer data, unifying and improving it with overlaid machine learning predictions to create the best possible customer experiences, all in real time.
"The evolution of data will only continue to grow from here. Smart data management is no longer just a benefit for organizations, it's a necessity," said Heidi Bullock, Chief Marketing Officer at Tealium. "We are excited to launch the 'Organization of the Future' report and help companies make a seamless transition for both people and processes."
The report highlights many factors the interviewed companies considered when successfully implementing a CDP. Establishing open lines of communication across your company in advance and widely broadcasting successes quickly following the implementation are some of these. "One major reason to publicize success [from your CDP] is to get other departments to come on board and use the CDP. They have to collect the success metrics to show these teams how it benefits their own interests," said David Raab, Founder and CEO of the CDP Institute.
The "Organization of the Future" report provides companies with the tools needed to structure teams around customer data, including:
- 5 Reasons Why Customer Data and CDPs Are Critical Now
- Preparing to Bring a Customer Data Platform Into Your Organization
- 10 Organizational Charts for a Maximized Customer Data Platform
- Factors That Impact the Structure of the CDP Teams
- How to Get Started Building Your Team and Tips for Finding Talent
To inform this report, Tealium interviewed analysts, agency partners and more than ten global organizations, including companies from different industries and sizes to incorporate a variety of business optimizations.
The full "Organization of the Future" report can be found here.
Tealium connects customer data – spanning web, mobile, offline, and IoT devices — so brands can connect with their customers. Tealium's turnkey integration ecosystem supports more than 1,300 client-side and server-side vendors and technologies, empowering brands to create a unified, real-time customer data infrastructure. The Tealium Customer Data Hub encompasses tag management, an API hub, a customer data platform with machine learning, and data management solutions that make customer data more valuable, actionable, and secure. More than 850 businesses worldwide trust Tealium to power their customer data strategies. For more information, visit www.tealium.com.
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SINGAPORE, April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Binance, the global blockchain ecosystem behind the world's largest ecosystem, today announced it has appointed Rohit Wad, former Corporate VP at Microsoft, as its CTO, and Mayur Kamat, former Agoda VP of Product, as Head of Product.
Wad will be responsible for engineering scalable, compliant and fast Web3 services and solutions. He will also be responsible for ensuring the continued security, stability, and liquidity of the exchange while meeting the evolving regulatory compliance requirements across regions where the platform is available. In addition, Wad will focus on significantly expanding the engineering team to accelerate the organization's progress.
Kamat will lead every aspect of Binance's product strategy, roadmap and development. He will guide the team to build products that will bring mass adoption to crypto and lower the barrier to entry to Web3 technology. Both Wad and Kamat will focus on making Web3 services more accessible and usable to everyday people and driving innovation within the Binance ecosystem.
"My career has been focused on improving everyday life with the power of technology," said Kamat. "Less than 10 percent of the addressable internet population owns crypto assets. Our goal is to bring the benefits of Web3 technology to the masses by making the product simple enough that anyone in the world can use them, including those who are new to it. I am humbled to play a small part in providing financial freedom and supporting inclusion to billions of people."
"We are working on many Web3 experiences and solutions that will be transformative to billions of people, starting with the freedom of money," said Wad. "I am excited to be able to bring the amazing advances and potential of Web3 technology to everyone."
Wad joins Binance with over 30 years of experience in engineering and development. Prior to Binance and Microsoft, Wad served as an Engineering Director at Facebook and Google. Wad was one of the key players behind the development of Microsoft Teams and Skype.
Kamat brings to Binance 20 years of experience in tech and product. Previously, Kamat served as the VP of Product at Agoda where he was in charge of the company's supply, finance and marketplace products. Prior to that, he led product teams at Hiya and Google. Kamat was behind the product team that developed Gmail for mobile, Android for Work, Hangouts, Google Voice, and Windows DRM.
About Binance
Binance is the world's leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider with a financial product suite that includes the largest digital asset exchange by volume. Trusted by millions worldwide, the Binance platform is dedicated to increasing the freedom of money for users, and features an unmatched portfolio of crypto products and offerings, including: trading and finance, education, data and research, social good, investment and incubation, decentralization and infrastructure solutions, and more. For more information, visit: https://www.binance.com
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Area roundup: Alliance boys track and field downs Minerva; Lions girls track and field defeats Aviators
AREA ROUNDUP
TRACK AND FIELD
Fairless boys complete PAC-7 regular season sweep
Fairless finished off another unbeaten PAC-7 dual meet season with an 80-57 win at CVCA on Tuesday.
The Falcons have won 12 straight dual meets dating back to the start of the 2021 season. They will aim for their second straight PAC-7 Championships team title next week at Northwest.
CVCA beat Fairless 92-45 in the girls meet. The Falcons and Royals finished atop the PAC-7 with 5-1 dual meet records.
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McKinley 4, Field 1
Singles: Diuk (McK) d. Bedont 6-1, 6-0; Welden (McK) d. Wells 6-2, 6-1; Cunningham (F) d. Mi. Bliese 6-4, 4-6, (12-10). Doubles: C. Patterson-S. Patterson (McK) d. Simmons-LeMasters 6-3, 4-6, (10-8); Ma. Bliese-Shaheen (McK) d. Tosenberger-Murray 6-4, 4-6, (10-7).
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BOYS TRACK AND FIELD
Alliance 83, Minerva 44
Shot put: J. Lewis 44-8.25. Discus: Davis (M) 106-5. High jump: Miles (A) 5-8. Long jump: Nicholson (A) 19-5. 3,200-meter relay: Minerva 9:49.6. 110 hurdles: Zurbrugg (A) 15.25. 100: Davis (A) 11.5. 800 relay: Alliance 1:38.1. 1,600: Rettig (M) 4:49. 400 relay: Alliance 45.2. 400: Colbert (A) 54.7. 300 hurdles: Zurbrugg (A) 39.9. 800: Rettig (M) 2:13.6. 200: Miles (A) 24.03. 3,200: Stelle (M) 10:39. 1,600 relay: Alliance 3:54.9. Records: Alliance 5-0, 5-0
More:Central Catholic baseball beats Lake; Marlington softball remains unbeaten in EBC
GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD
Minerva 82, Alliance 46
Shot put: Edwards (A) 32-7.5. Discus: Edwards (A) 119-0. High jump: Wheeler (M) 5-6. Long jump: Frank (A) 16-6.5. 3,200-meter relay: Minerva 11:21.3. 100 hurdles: Kaisman (M) 20.9. 100: Frank (A) 12.6. 800 relay: Alliance 1:53. 1,600: Hopple (M) 5:22. 400 relay: Alliance 51.16. 400: Sanor (M) 1:05.7. 300 hurdles: S. Crissman (M) 58.31. 800: Crissman 2:42. 200: Wheeler (M) 27.9. 3,200: Hopple (M) 12:46. 1,600 relay: Minerva. Records: Alliance 2-3, 2-3.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY
HIGH SCHOOL
BASEBALL
McKinley at Perry, 5
Lake at Hoover, 5
Louisville at Boardman, 5
Kirtland at Massillon, 5
West Branch at Marlington, 5
Carrollton at Canton South, 5
Alliance at Minerva, 5
Orrville at Northwest, 5
Tuslaw at Triway, 5
East Canton at Tusc. CC, 5
Firestone at Lake Center, 5
Green at Jackson, 6
SOFTBALL
Green at Jackson, 5
Perry at Lake, 5
McKinley at Hoover, 5
Marlington at Alliance, 5
BOYS TENNIS
Massillon at Perry, 4
Wadsworth at GlenOak, 4
Alliance at Lake, 4
Ellet at McKinley, 4:30
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
Brecksville at Jackson, 7
BOYS LACROSSE
Hoover at Walsh Jesuit, 7
GIRLS LACROSSE
CVCA at GlenOak, 6
Louisville at Lake, 7
TRACK AND FIELD
Lake at Jackson, 4:30
Green at Hoover, 5
COLLEGE
MEN’S LACROSSE
Great Midwest Athletic Conference Tournament: Walsh at Mercyhurst, 4
OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD
Malone, Walsh at Great Midwest Athletic Conference Championships (Owensboro, Ky.)
WOMEN’S GOLF
Malone, Walsh at NCAA Division II East Regional (Kansas City, Mo.)
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
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Project would build upon prior research to blend electrolytic hydrogen into existing pipelines
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) today announced a proposed collaboration to demonstrate how electrolytic hydrogen can be safely blended into existing natural gas infrastructure on the university's campus. The project aims to help better understand how clean fuels like renewable hydrogen could be delivered at scale through California's existing natural gas system, either to existing customers connected to the gas grid, or to generate clean electricity in zero-emissions fuel cells. The demonstration is an important next step in establishing a statewide injection standard for renewable hydrogen that would promote California's clean energy and resiliency goals. If approved, SoCalGas could begin testing hydrogen blending at UCI as soon as 2024.
"The use of existing natural gas networks to transport renewable hydrogen is actively being pursued around the world because clean fuels like hydrogen can do many of the critical jobs that natural gas does today," said Neil Navin, vice president for clean energy innovations at SoCalGas. "This demonstration project offers a real-world environment to better understand how clean fuel blends can be delivered to customers connected to the gas grid today. It can also help us assess how to more quickly deploy advanced technologies key to the state's climate and clean air goals such as neighborhood micro-grids that promote reliability and resiliency."
"Research at UCI has shown that we cannot achieve high renewable power use without the features of hydrogen," said Jack Brouwer, UCI professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the UCI-based National Fuel Cell Research Center. "The massive storage and resilient underground transmission and distribution of renewable energy that will be enabled by transformation of the gas system to renewable and clean hydrogen use will be investigated and advanced in this important effort."
"The current heat wave we are experiencing makes clear the urgency of decarbonizing our economy as quickly as possible," said Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine). "I'm proud to represent UC Irvine, which has been a leading research hub for new green technologies, including in the important area of hydrogen fuel. UCI is an ideal location for this demonstration project, which should help us make significant progress in fighting climate change and restoring a bright future for our children and grandchildren."
SoCalGas' collaboration with UCI is part of a hydrogen blending demonstration application jointly filed with San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) and Southwest Gas yesterday with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
The demonstration project builds upon the California Public Utilities Commission "Hydrogen Blending Impacts Study," performed by University of California, Riverside (UCR). The study recommended testing hydrogen blending in a real-world environment as an important step toward establishing a California hydrogen blending standard, which could accelerate the state's clean energy and resiliency goals.
As proposed, UCI would use an electrolyzer to convert water into hydrogen for blending into the existing gas grid on sections of the UCI campus. The demonstration would power existing residential and light commercial equipment, including water heaters, boilers, furnaces, and ovens in academic buildings, student amenities, and housing. The project would initially blend 5 percent hydrogen, with a goal of gradually increasing the hydrogen blend up to 20 percent, resulting in potentially significant CO2 emissions reductions.
"Hydrogen will play an important role in reducing CO2 emissions while also enabling access to clean energy in various sectors of our economy," said Kristine Wiley, vice president of the Hydrogen Technology Center at GTI Energy. "Advancing how we integrate hydrogen into our energy system is critical to the scale up and implementation of this technology. This project will be a proving ground for how we leverage our existing infrastructure to transport and supply clean hydrogen."
"The establishment of a statewide renewable hydrogen blending standard could help scale green hydrogen production, which in turn can drive down costs for its widespread adoption across the state," said Navin. "A 20% clean hydrogen blend in a system as large as Southern California's could reduce CO2 emissions in an amount equivalent to removing more than a million passenger vehicles from the road for a year."
"Hydrogen blending provides real and meaningful opportunities for participation in the clean energy economy for the tens of thousands of highly skilled southern California union members who build, operate, and maintain the natural gas utility infrastructure today," said Jon Preciado, business manager for the Southern California District Council of Laborers.
SoCalGas is at the forefront of sustainability having announced its aim to have net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. It is the first large natural gas utility in the United States to do so.
SoCalGas' net zero strategy demonstrates the potential of innovative clean fuels like renewable hydrogen. More than a dozen hydrogen pilot projects are currently in progress within SoCalGas. These projects include testing a technology designed to separate out hydrogen blended into natural gas pipelines. The technology could allow quick access to pure hydrogen which could be transported as a blend in existing natural gas pipelines.
SoCalGas is also constructing a renewable hydrogen microgrid and home as part of its [H2] Innovation Experience. The renewable hydrogen microgrid for the [H2] Innovation Experience is a proof-of-concept project for resilient, clean energy using an electrolyzer to convert solar energy to hydrogen and a fuel cell to supply electricity to a home, neighborhood, or small business. The project was named a World-Changing Idea in North America by Fast Company.
Additionally, earlier this year SoCalGas proposed developing the Angeles Link, a dedicated green hydrogen energy infrastructure system for delivering clean reliable energy to the Los Angeles Basin to serve hard to electrify sectors of the economy like electric generation, heavy-duty transportation, and heavy industry and manufacturing.
SoCalGas is a recognized industry leader in hydrogen innovation. The company first partnered with UCI's National Fuel Cell Research Center in 2016 for the first successful green hydrogen blending project in the United States.
More information about SoCalGas' hydrogen innovation can be found at socalgas.com/hydrogen.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, SoCalGas® is the largest gas distribution utility in the United States. SoCalGas delivers affordable, reliable, and increasingly renewable gas service to 21.8 million consumers across 24,000 square miles of Central and Southern California. Gas delivered through the company's pipelines will continue to play a key role in California's clean energy transition—providing electric grid reliability and supporting wind and solar energy deployment.
SoCalGas' mission is to build the cleanest, safest and most innovative energy company in America. In support of that mission, SoCalGas aspires to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 and to replacing 20 percent of its traditional natural gas supply to core customers with renewable natural gas (RNG) by 2030. Renewable natural gas is made from waste created by landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. SoCalGas is also committed to investing in its gas delivery infrastructure while keeping bills affordable for customers. SoCalGas is a subsidiary of Sempra (NYSE: SRE), an energy infrastructure company based in San Diego.
For more information visit socalgas.com/newsroom or connect with SoCalGas on Twitter (@SoCalGas), Instagram (@SoCalGas) and Facebook.
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These risks and uncertainties are further discussed in the reports that the company has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These reports are available through the EDGAR system free-of-charge on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov, and on Sempra's website, www.sempra.com. Investors should not rely unduly on any forward-looking statements.
Sempra Infrastructure, Sempra Texas, Sempra Mexico, Sempra Texas Utilities, Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC (Oncor) and Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (IEnova) are not the same companies as the California utilities, San Diego Gas & Electric Company or Southern California Gas Company, and Sempra Infrastructure, Sempra Texas, Sempra Mexico, Sempra Texas Utilities, Oncor and IEnova are not regulated by the CPUC.
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ATLANTA – Gov. Brian Kemp announced that 80 Acres Farms, an industry-leading vertical farming company, will create 150 new jobs in Newton County. The $120 million investment in Covington will help the company meet growing consumer demand for local, fresh produce.
“We are excited to welcome 80 Acres Farms to Georgia as we continue finding new, exciting ways to support and grow our state's No. 1 agriculture industry,” Kemp said in a news release. “I look forward to seeing the difference that 80 Acres Farms will make in Covington as they employ hard-working Georgians and pour into the local community and surrounding region.”
The 80 Acres Farms facility is already under construction in Covington, with expected completion by August. The farm will be distributing to retailers by early 2023. When fully operational, it will generate four times as much food as the company’s current largest and most productive farm, in Hamilton, Ohio. It will be capable of growing leafy greens, microgreens, vine crops, and fruit year-round. As the farm’s opening date approaches, the company will hire across a variety of roles, from hourly growing and harvesting jobs to salaried management positions to support functions in finance, sales and more. Interested individuals can learn more at www.80AcresFarms.com.
“It’s no coincidence that our first next-generation production farm outside the Midwest will be in the heart of Georgia,” 80 Acres Farms CEO Mike Zelkind said. “We went looking for another community where government officials and business leaders were prioritizing the future of farming, and we found that in Covington. This new farm allows us to give consumers in the Atlanta region what they truly want: fresh, local, pesticide-free food.”
“The city of Covington continues to be at the forefront for business success, and we are honored to partner with 80 Acres Farms, another environmentally sustainable business joining our community,” Covington Mayor Steve Horton said. “Many thanks to our development authority, NOW Covington.”
80 Acres Farms operates super-efficient vertical farms that can produce up to 300 times as much food per square foot as traditional farms, using 95 percent less water per pound of produce and minimizing food miles and waste. Currently, 80 Acres Farms operates eight farms in the United States, built by the company’s technology group, Infinite Acres.
Senior Project Manager Kristen Miller represented the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Global Commerce team on this competitive project in partnership with the city of Covington and NOW Covington.
“80 Acres Farms is an exciting and innovative addition to Georgia’s agriculture community, which embraces sustainable farming solutions that push the industry forward,” GDEcD Commissioner Pat Wilson said. “Vertical farming technology uses cutting-edge techniques to better manage land and resources, increase crop yields, and reliably produce a diverse selection of crops year-round. Georgia’s rich farming history, our innovative AgTech ecosystem, and our strategic geographic location ensures 80 Acres Farms will find all the support it needs to flourish in Georgia.” | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/vertical-farming-company-to-put-down-roots-in-newton-county/article_8b50e5f8-ec10-11ec-abcb-cb9ce08da7bb.html | 2022-06-14T19:57:11Z |
Tell me the odds! Suncoast professor shares lottery tips ahead of big drawing
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - There’s a lot on the line with more than a billion in the Mega-Millions jackpot, so what numbers should you bank on this week?
The Mega-Millions lottery is swelling into one of the largest in history, $1.28 billion now in the pot after several rounds of drawings have failed to produce a winner. As many Suncoast residents are buying up tickets while the game is hot, a mathematics professor is sharing some insight on how to improve your--let’s face it--very slim odds.
With millions of people around the country snatching up tickets, the odds are not looking good.
“Your chances of winning are 1 in 302,575,350,” Dennis Runde, a mathematics professor with the State College of Florida, said.
So, what’s the best strategy for picking out numbers? Your lucky number or your anniversary might be a tempting pick for the romantic among us, but Runde recommends you steer clear of those temptations.
The best bet, he says, is keeping it random. That may sound straightforward, but it’s very unnatural for people to blind themselves willingly.
“Truly random is very difficult for the human being to do without help,” Runde said.
Luckily, we don’t have to rely on our own intuition.
To generate truly random numbers, Runde advises using the “random” feature on a calculator or perhaps use the quick pick option when buying your lottery ticket. Another way, for fans of old-fashioned methods, is to draw up a table of numbers, look away and slap your finger on the chart.
Runde demonstrated with a table listing numbers 1 through 25, letting his finger sail onto the white board.
“So, I just picked the number three,” Runde said. “So, if I went to buy a ticket today maybe that’d be a good way for me to pick my Powerball number.”
The professor wants everyone to keep in mind our brains are apt to trick us by making us second-guess what a random set of numbers looks like. For instance, he said, most people won’t pick 1 as their first number or allow themselves to select the same number twice in a row. That’s because neither of those choices feel random, but the truth is those outcomes are just as likely as any other.
He showed us an example, holding up a lottery ticket.
“So, 11 followed by 12,” he said tracing the numbers with a finger. “Sure, that’s random.”
His advice could sway your odds slightly, but Runde emphasized again and again, you had better not get your hopes up. Even with the purchase of several tickets, you have a better shot at getting a royal flush on your first poker hand.
Analyzing lottery odds isn’t an exact science, he said. If it were, well, he wouldn’t be standing in a classroom interviewing with a local news station.
“I’d be winning lotteries on a regular basis,” Runde said with a chuckle.
Although so much of his life has been built around numbers, Runde admits mathematics isn’t the most jaw-dropping subject for many students walking the halls of his school. However, he notices ears always perk up when discussions on betting inevitably make their way into his lectures.
So, while he doesn’t want to see his students blow tons of money on lottery tickets, he said seeing young minds drawn to a math lesson is a jackpot in his eyes.
“In math class whenever you can get something to spark interest or imagination in students, it’s a good thing” he said.
The next Mega-Millions drawing is at 11 p.m. ET.
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AdCellerant makes quality digital marketing accessible to every business.
DENVER, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. Magazine revealed today that AdCellerant is No. 2,418 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious running of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. AdCellerant ranked in the top 0.07 percent of all companies in growth. This list represents a unique look at successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment–independent small businesses. Companies like Sugarwish, Casely, Eon, Bluestaq, and many other well-known names, gained their first bit of exposure as honorees or served as repeat honorees on this year's Inc. 5000 list.
"When we started the company in 2013, one of our early goals was to make the Inc. 5000 list, and after nine years, we're humbled to post 240% growth, especially with a pandemic year during the period," said Brock Berry, CEO, and Co-Founder of AdCellerant. "To be here on the Inc. 5000 list for the fifth consecutive year in a row is an honor we never thought possible, but it proves our goal to make Madison Avenue level digital marketing solutions available to Main Street businesses resonates with the market."
AdCellerant's core business model provides digital advertising solutions to small and medium-sized businesses through white-label channel sales partners. Through even the toughest of circumstances like a global pandemic and economic downturn, AdCellerant shifted our focus to creating sustainable business models that gave local businesses the tools they needed to succeed beyond the most challenging times.
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list are competitive within their markets, and among this list, only 276 honorees have made it on the list five times in a row, AdCellerant being one of them.
Among the list, the average three-year growth rate soared to 230 percent, and median revenue reached $317.6 billion. These companies, on average, had grown since 2016 during a stretch when the economy only increased by 15 percent. Together, those companies added more than 1,179,282 jobs over the last few years. The final ranking results for AdCellerant:
- 79 in Colorado
- 210 in Advertising and Marketing
- 56 in Denver
- 2,418 overall rank
"My biggest high five goes to our team who built a technology and product platform with a 98.5% retention rate. We wouldn't be here without them and what they've built for our clients," Berry said. "Our team is honored to see the success we're driving for our partners and their small-to-medium-sized business advertisers, which is an even greater achievement. The success we drive for them drives our team."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc., which will be available on newsstands on August 16, 2022.
AdCellerant provides businesses access to high-quality digital marketing technology and solutions through partnerships with media companies and agencies. Focused on generating results and growth for businesses of all sizes, AdCellerant offers best-in-class technology and software, award-winning customer service, expert education, and exceptional operational support to ensure customer campaign performance.
Leveraging proprietary technology Ui.Marketing, AdCellerant effectively connects businesses with their ideal customer at the right time. Harnessing an easy-to-use and nimble digital advertising tool, users can manage the entire buyer's journey from quick and accurate comprehensive proposal creation, campaign launch, and campaign performance. All within a single platform.
For more information or to book a demo, visit www.adcellerant.com.
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Caught stealing: Man arrested with 26 stolen catalytic converters
TOLEDO, Wash. (KPTV/Gray News) - Authorities in Washington have arrested a man on theft and burglary charges after being caught with dozens of stolen catalytic converters.
The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports deputies responded to reports of someone entering a business and stealing 26 catalytic converters off of new trucks during the overnight hours on July 13.
As reported by KPTV, surveillance footage showed a man, later identified as 38-year-old Jesse Vaidabid Jr., leaving the business through a fence with the converters in a garbage can.
Authorities said the Washington State Patrol later identified a vehicle similar to the one seen in Lewis County in Cowlitz County and found Vaidabid Jr. cutting another catalytic converter off a car.
According to the sheriff’s office, Vaidabid Jr. was taken into custody, and a search warrant for his vehicle led to the recovery of the 26 stolen catalytic converters.
Authorities report the 38-year-old is facing charges of second-degree burglary and first-degree theft.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Tuya Inc. ("Tuya" or the "Company") (NYSE: TUYA) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Tuya investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Tuya American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
TUYA investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (a) a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (b) prior to the initial public offering, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, inter alia, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (c) as a result of (a) and (b) above, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (d) as a result of (a)-(c) above, the registration statement's representations regarding Tuya's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities and expected growth did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and such statements were materially false and misleading and lacked a reasonable factual basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Tuya during the relevant time frame, you have until October 11, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon on Monday once again denied a request from the District of Columbia seeking National Guard assistance in dealing with thousands of migrants being bused to the city from Texas and Arizona.
According to a copy of a letter to the city reviewed by The Associated Press, the Defense Department said use of the D.C. National Guard would be inappropriate and would hurt the overall readiness of the troops, forcing some to cancel or disrupt military training.
The letter said the department also is concerned about putting uniformed military members in direct contact with migrants to provide food, sanitation or other support, saying the troops have no real experience or training for that mission.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rejected a similar D.C. request earlier this month, and Mayor Muriel Bowser had said she would send an amended, “more specific” proposal. Bowser had initially asked for an open-ended deployment of 150 National Guard members per day as well as a “suitable federal location” for a mass housing and processing center, mentioning the D.C. Armory as a logical candidate. The revised request asked that the help be provided for just 90 days.
The Pentagon also denied the use of the armory, saying it is not air conditioned and would have to undergo costly changes and repairs to make it suitable for overnight stays.
When the Defense Department rejected the first request, officials said the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s food and shelter program has provided funding for the problem, and has indicated those funds are sufficient at this point. The latest letter said the city should continue to work with non-government groups to address the issue.
During the spring, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans, announced plans to send busloads of migrants to Washington, D.C., in response to President Joe Biden’s decision to lift a pandemic-era emergency health order that restricted migrant entry numbers by denying them a chance to seek asylum. The rule remains in effect under court order.
As of Aug. 5, Texas had bused more than 7,000 migrants to Washington, D.C., and more than 900 to New York City, according to the governor’s office. As of Aug. 22, the state of Arizona has sent 1,516 migrants to D.C., in 41 trips, according to the governor’s office. Two to three buses leave each week, and each can hold a maximum of 40 migrants.
The governors call the practice a voluntary free ride – paid for by state taxpayers — that gets migrants closer to family or support networks.
But Bowser has argued that the asylum-seekers are being “tricked,” as many don’t get close enough to their final destinations and some are ditched at Union Station near the U.S. Capitol and the White House. Often they arrive with no resources and no clue what to do next.
Ducey, who began the program in May, has said everyone on the bus trips is going voluntarily to the nation’s capital with intended final destinations in East Coast cities. They leave from Arizona’s western Yuma County, a small border county without a shelter or other infrastructure needed to house and process the large number of asylum seekers now arriving.
When her initial request was turned down, Bowser said she expects the problem to only get worse and that if D.C. were a state, she would have already used the Guard for assistance.
State governors control the use of their Guard troops for any state duties. But, as the D.C. mayor, Bowser does not have the authority to personally order a National Guard deployment, an issue that has become emotionally charged in recent years as a symbol of the district’s entrenched status as less than a state.
Her limited authority played a role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. When it became clear that Capitol Police were overmatched by the crowds, Bowser couldn’t immediately deploy the district guard. Instead, crucial time was lost while the request was considered inside the Pentagon, and protesters rampaged through the building.
A coalition of local charitable groups has been working to feed and shelter the migrants, aided by a $1 million grant from FEMA. But organizers have been warning that both their resources and personnel were nearing exhaustion. Bowser has said relying on the groups is not sustainable because they are overwhelmed and underfunded.
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Associated Press writers Bob Christie in Phoenix, Az., and Paul Weber in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/pentagon-rejects-dc-request-for-national-guard-migrant-help/ | 2022-08-23T12:59:22Z |
66-year-old rescued from trench collapse in Leawood
LEAWOOD, Kan. (KCTV) – A construction worker is recovering after first responders rescued him from a trench collapse near Meadow Lane and 103rd Terrace in Leawood, Kansas.
Joe Odom, who is 86, says his 66-year-old son was working on a sewer line when a trench collapsed on him. His son was taken to the hospital in stable condition after a two-hour rescue.
Firefighters were called around 2:50 p.m. When they arrived, they found the worker trapped by dirt.
“About 10 feet deep, buried from his waist down, conscious and communicating with us,” Leawood Fire Department Deputy Chief Jarrett Hawley said.
Odom said he and another worker tried to start digging him out.
“He was in pain,” Odom said.
Specialized units from the Olathe Fire Department, Consolidated Fire District 2, and Johnson County MedAct assisted the Leawood Fire Department. Leawood Public Works also sent a vacuum truck and several employees to help remove dirt from the collapse.
“It is much quicker doing that than bringing it out a bucketful at a time,” Hawley said.
Working carefully while monitoring the man’s health, first responders successfully freed the worker around 5 p.m.
“I’m real grateful,” Odom said.
A representative from OSHA was on-scene Friday evening. Leawood Codes Administration was also notified. The incident is under investigation.
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CHICAGO, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, today celebrates the grand opening of its new trading floor in Chicago at 141 W. Jackson Boulevard. Cboe's new trading floor returns to the same space where it was founded in 1973 as the first listed options exchange in the U.S.
Cboe's leadership team and associates, alongside members of the Cboe trading floor community and other industry guests, will gather on-site for a special celebration, including an Opening Bell ceremony at 8:30 am C.T. and a Closing Bell ceremony at 3:15 pm C.T., to commemorate the first day of trading on the new floor.
"Today marks a historic occasion for Cboe Global Markets and our entire trading floor community, as we return to the place of our origins where Cboe – and the U.S. listed options market – began," said Ed Tilly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cboe Global Markets. "With Cboe's founding nearly fifty years ago, we created a brand new market that has transformed the way the world manages market volatility and risk. Our trading floor has since symbolized Cboe's relentlessly innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, and embodied the strength and vigor of Chicago as the financial derivatives capital of the world. We couldn't be more excited to begin the next chapter in the ongoing story of Cboe, as we open the doors to our new trading floor to begin a new era of open outcry."
Defining the Trading Floor of the Future
Located in the historic Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Building, Cboe's new trading floor spans the seventh and eighth floors, occupying more than 40,000 square feet, with double-height floor to ceiling windows that overlook Chicago's historic LaSalle Street financial district.
The new floor offers state-of-the-art infrastructure, enhanced technology capabilities, and a flexible, open and dynamic environment to facilitate more seamless and efficient interaction between traders.
"Our customers continue to find value in open outcry trading, especially for executing larger, more complex orders, and rely on the floor for price discovery and the deep liquidity provided by our market-makers and floor brokers," said Chris Isaacson, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Cboe Global Markets. "Our new and enhanced trading floor offers a vibrant, technology-driven environment that seamlessly integrates both open outcry and electronic trading mechanisms to provide our customers a truly unrivaled, world-class trading experience. We believe this dynamic new space will serve our customers and investors well – now and for years to come."
Cboe's new trading floor houses a total of 10 trading pits, including S&P 500 Index (SPX) options, Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) options, Russell 2000 Index (RUT) and SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) options pits. Significantly, the floor provides market-makers and brokers with more space, including expanded capacity to meet demand from firms looking to support additional floor-based traders. More than 330 individual kiosks, equipped with top-of-the-line technology, are available on the floor to enable traders to plug in and use their devices with greater ease and flexibility.
In addition, the floor features a bell-ringing platform overlooking the trading pits and state-of-the-art media broadcasting capabilities that include a ceiling-mounted camera track system. Visitor and employee amenities are located on the eighth floor and include a guest experience center, office and meeting spaces, and an observation deck that offers commanding views of the trading floor below.
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Honoring Historic Roots, Reaffirming Commitment to Chicago
Cboe's first trading floor began in the CBOT's former smoking lounge, a 4,000 square-foot space located on the fourth floor of the building. Cboe later expanded its trading floor to the seventh floor in response to growing demand for U.S. listed options trading.
The CBOT Building continued to house Cboe's trading pits in the late '70s and early '80s, until Cboe moved its headquarters to 400 S. LaSalle Street in 1984. In 2021, in a reflection of its continued commitment to Chicago, the company opened its new global headquarters in the city's historic Old Post Office building on 433 W. Van Buren Street.
David Howson, Executive Vice President and Global President of Cboe Global Markets, said: "Cboe has played an important role in helping to build Chicago into a key financial center in the global economy, and continues to draw a community of traders, clearing firms and other market participants to the city. As Cboe cements itself as one of the world's leading global market infrastructure providers, we remain deeply connected to Chicago and are proud to reaffirm our commitment to the city."
The Holly Duran Team at Colliers is Cboe's primary real estate advisor for this transaction. Colliers is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company with operations in 62 countries. The firm's enterprising professionals work collaboratively to provide expert real estate and investment advice to its clients while maximizing the potential of property and real assets to accelerate the success of its clients and investors.
Cboe commissioned CannonDesign as its design firm for the new trading floor. Consistently recognized by Fast Company as one of the most important and innovative design companies in the world, CannonDesign helped Cboe with design, workplace strategy, change management and engineering services.
Pepper Construction is the general contractor for the build of Cboe's new trading floor space, and JLL provided project management services. Cboe is represented by outside counsel Jenner & Block. 141 W. Jackson is owned by a partnership between Glenstar and Oaktree Capital, and leased and managed by Glenstar.
About Cboe Global Markets
Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world. The company is committed to operating a trusted, inclusive global marketplace, providing leading products, technology and data solutions that enable participants to define a sustainable financial future. Cboe provides trading solutions and products in multiple asset classes, including equities, derivatives and FX, across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. To learn more, visit www.cboe.com.
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SHENZHEN, China, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 15, an event themed "Chinese with the Same Root; Carnival of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Hand-in-hand" was held in Qianhai, South China's Guangdong province, and live-broadcast in Hong Kong and Macao simultaneously. Attended by Hong Kong female entrepreneurs from Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneur Hub (QSHKYIEH), the event was to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, according to Authority of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone.
"Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Development Strategy-National Women Entrepreneur and Innovation Base" was established by QSHKYIEH in 2019 and up until now, the base has incubated a total of 41 female entrepreneurial teams.
To date, the female entrepreneurs from Hong Kong are playing an important role among the Qianhai youth entrepreneurs. An example is Sisley Cheng, vice president of the Qianhai's Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce and a leader of the QSHKYIEH-National Women Entrepreneur and Innovation Base. She started living in Qianhai in 2018. "What attracts me here is the beautiful environment, pleasant greenery and modern cityscape. It's also easy to get around. My company in Hong Kong is very close to Qianhai, normally a half-hour drive."
In 2020, Sisley Cheng moved her career to Qianhai as well. At the Hub, she launched the "Bays Work Accelerator Program", which helps Hong Kong companies quickly land in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area by reducing operating costs. "When starting a business, you always have this or that confusion. At the National Women Entrepreneur and Innovation Base, training and exchange activities can provide Hong Kong entrepreneurial women in Qianhai with ideas to get over their confusion," said Sisley Cheng.
Hong Kong women entrepreneurs in Qianhai are busier than one can imagine. Ruby Fang is among these busy bees.
From studying law overseas to making a complete career change to becoming a professional fashion designer, Fang has never lacked a halo: Hong Kong's Ten Outstanding Young Persons, founder of Ruby Fang haute couture clothing brand, etc. However, she still does not dare slacken on the road of entrepreneurship in Qianhai. As she depicted, "As soon as I open my eyes, competition begins."
This is the actual state of the entrepreneurial women in QSHKYIEH. Like Ruby Fang, many other Hong Kong female entrepreneurial teams are looking for more possibilities here.
Qianhai is magnetizing more and more ladies to start up for its constantly optimized business environment. "What Qianhai impresses me most is its 'youthfulness' and 'service,'" said Sisley Cheng. "The female entrepreneurial friends around me all like Qianhai's atmosphere."
To better serve Hong Kong entrepreneurial women, Qianhai is said to improve its business environment constantly. Lately, it has carried out the "Talent Service and Support Program," integrating 451 services for international talents in government, business and life, forming a full coverage of public talent services in Qianhai. "Whatever difficulties the female entrepreneurs may have, in work or life, we can get a quick response after communicating with Qianhai Administration or QSHKYIEH," said Sisley Cheng.
Qianhai's benign business environment and friendly atmosphere give Hong Kong businesswomen who have come to make their dreams bigger more confidence and thinking about the future. Just like Ruby Fang said, as an entrepreneurial woman, how to live and work meaningfully in the new era is a worthy subject to study. The prospect of "She-Power" is promising in Qianhai.
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Managers fired from Twitter amid Musk buyout turmoil
By BARBARA ORTUTAY
AP Technology Writer
In the latest sign of turmoil inside Twitter amid Elon Musk’s planned buyout of the company, a Twitter general manager, Kayvon Beykpour, is leaving after 7 years. In a series of tweets Thursday, Beykpour said CEO Parag Agrawal “asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take the team in a different direction.” Beykpour, was general manager of consumer Twitter, leading design, research, product, engineering and customer service and operations teams, according to his Twitter bio. A co-founder of the live streaming app Periscope, Beykpour joined Twitter when the social media company bought his startup in 2015. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/12/managers-fired-from-twitter-amid-musk-buyout-turmoil/ | 2022-05-12T19:41:14Z |
FRANKLIN, Tenn., June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PowerNation Studios and Nashville Superspeedway have partnered to present the inaugural POWER NATIONALS sponsored by Summit Racing Equipment on Saturday & Sunday, September 3-4, 2022 at the Superspeedway, located in Lebanon, TN.
PowerNation Studios, based in Franklin TN, is the production company for some of the most popular how-to programs for auto enthusiasts such as Detroit Muscle, Music City Trucks, Engine Power, and Carcass.
"The Nashville area is home to a huge, passionate car enthusiast community, and we couldn't ask for a better partner to host PowerNation Studio's first ever live event than the Nashville Superspeedway." said Matthew Hawkins, president of PowerNation.
Nashville Superspeedway, the home of NASCAR Cup Series racing and live entertainment in Middle Tennessee, is a 650-acre motorsports and event venue. The facility reopened in late 2020 and has since hosted a growing number of family-friendly and motorsports events, highlighted by the 100% capacity, sold-out inaugural Ally 400 NASCAR Cup Series Race in June 2021.
"We have thousands of car enthusiasts visit our facility each year, so naturally we are thrilled about this partnership and the opportunity to present the inaugural POWER NATIONALS event," said Erik Moses, Nashville Superspeedway's President and GM. "The goal from the first day of our rebirth has been to transform our facility into a regional center for all kinds of entertainment options, and this partnership further demonstrates our commitment to hosting first-class events for the residents and visitors of Middle Tennessee."
POWER NATIONALS will feature events and attractions for attendees of all ages. A car, truck and exotic vehicles show will run all day both Saturday and Sunday. All vehicles entered in the shows will have a special opportunity to exit the Superspeedway by driving the 1.33-mile D-shaped oval racetrack.
The world-famous monster truck that started it all, the original BIGFOOT, will be present all weekend. And several other members of the BIGFOOT family will be on site, including BIGFOOT #5, the truck with 10' tires and the new BIGFOOT ride truck.
Driving competitions include the Carcass Auto Cross on Saturday and a Drifting exhibition on Sunday. Attendees can also participate in skills challenges like the Engine Power Bolt-on competition. Demos and guest interviews will take place at the center of the action on the Live stage.
Throughout the weekend, producers from PowerNation Studios will be on-site at Nashville Superspeedway capturing video for the POWER NATIONALS television special which will premiere on Saturday, September 17th at noon and again at 8 p.m. ET. Katie Osborne and the PowerNation show hosts will lead the event coverage.
Doors will open at 9 a.m. and the event will close at 5 p.m. on both days. Parking will be free. For tickets and all event details are available at www.PowerNationals.com.
PowerNation Studios is wholly owned by Gray Television (NYSE:GTN), one of the largest television broadcast companies in the country, whose portfolio includes 80 markets with the top-rated television station and 100 markets with the first and/or second highest rated television station. Gray also owns Raycom Sports, Tupelo Honey, Third Rail Studios, and Assembly Atlanta.
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American College of Cardiology NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Platinum Award recognizes sustained, high level performance in quality care
NEW BERN, N.C., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CarolinaEast Medical Center has received the American College of Cardiology's NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award for 2022. CarolinaEast is one of only 240 hospitals nationwide to receive this honor. The award recognizes CarolinaEast's commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for heart attack patients and signifies that CarolinaEast has reached an aggressive goal of treating these patients.
The Centers for Disease Control estimates that over 800,000 Americans suffer a heart attack each year. A heart attack occurs when a blood clot in a coronary artery partially or completely blocks blood flow to the heart muscle. Treatment guidelines include administering aspirin upon arrival and discharge, timely restoration of blood flow to the blocked artery, smoking cessation counseling and cardiac rehabilitation, among others.
"It is an honor to award CarolinaEast with the Platinum Performance Award for their valuable national leadership and dedication to meeting comprehensive performance measures in patient care," said Michael C. Kontos, MD, FACC, chair of the NCDR Chest Pain – MI Registry Steering Subcommittee, and cardiologist at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. "The receipt of this award indicates that CarolinaEast remains committed to providing top quality, guideline-driven care for heart attack patients. Their success ensures patients are receiving the highest quality cardiovascular care."
To receive the Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award, CarolinaEast has demonstrated sustained achievement in the Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry for two consecutive years (2020 and 2021), and performed at the highest level for specific performance measures. Full participation in the registry engages hospitals in a robust quality improvement process using data to drive improvements in adherence to guideline recommendations and overall quality of care provided to heart attack patients.
Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry empowers health care provider teams to consistently treat heart attack patients according to the most current, science-based guidelines and establishes a national standard for understanding and improving the quality, safety and outcomes of care provided for patients with coronary artery disease, specifically high-risk heart attack patients.
"We are very pleased to have obtained this exemplary distinction due to the continued integrative efforts of our cardiovascular team," said Dr. Laurance Farmer, Cardiologist and Chest Pain Center Medical Director at CarolinaEast. "This recognition demonstrates CarolinaEast's dedication to providing high quality, evidenced-based care to all members of our community."
CarolinaEast also boasts an American College of Cardiology accredited Chest Pain Center, HeartCARE Center, Cath Lab and Heart Failure program. For more information, visit acc.org.
About CarolinaEast Medical Center
CarolinaEast Health System has been serving the growing needs of the coastal North Carolina community since 1963. In addition to the system's flagship, 350 bed CarolinaEast Medical Center, CarolinaEast includes a rehabilitation hospital, free- standing surgery center, the SECU Comprehensive Cancer Center, and numerous CarolinaEast Physician practices providing primary and specialty care for all phases of life from offices in four counties.
Contact:
Brandy Popp, Director, Public Relations
CarolinaEast Health System
252-633-8154
bpopp@carolinaeasthealth.com
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Fort Riley student’s good grades win her $1,500
FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) - One sixth-grade student at Fort Riley’s good grades have won her an international sweepstake prize of $1,500, which will most likely go toward new books.
The Army & Air Force Exchange Service says sixth-grader Reilani Perez received a warm welcome to Fort Riley, as well as a $1,500 gift card for her academic success.
AAFES said Reilani and her family recently came to Fort Riley from U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys. Just after their arrival, it said the family learned Reilani was the second-place winner in the Exchange’s You Made the Grade sweepstakes.
“Reilani loves school and is really studious,” Sujeiry, Reiliani’s mom, said. “Her dad and I are super proud of her hard work.”
The Exchange said its program rewards students in first through 12th grades for above-average academic achievement to inspire them to continue to strive for excellence. It said military children who maintain a B average or higher can take report cards to the local Exchange for a gift card and other prizes.
AAFES said students can enter their report cards for a chance to win a $2,000, $1,500, or $500 Exchange gift card.
According to the Exchange, Reilani has participated in the program since she was in third grade and was randomly chosen from more than 850 qualifying entries across the world.
“My favorite subjects are math and English language arts,” said Reilani, who will start at Fort Riley Middle School next month. “I want to study space and maybe work for NASA.”
The Exchange noted that Garrison Commander Col. Michael Foote, Command Sgt. Maj. Jason Poulin, and Deputy to the Garrison Commander Mr. Steve Crusinberry all joined Fort Riley Exchange General Manager Jermaine Wilson to present Reiliani with her award at the PX on Wednesday, July 27.
“Military children have extra challenges because of the lifestyle,” Wilson said. “Anything the Exchange can do to encourage and reward our military students, we’re honored and thrilled to do. Students like Reilani deserve recognition for their accomplishments.”
According to the Exchange, Reilani has not yet decided how she will use her winnings, but as an avid reader, some of the money will likely go towards books.
“The program is awesome and a good incentive for kids,” Sujeiry said. “They all love going to the PX and walking up to the customer service desk to show their grades and get the gift card, which they usually spend right away.”
The Exchange said the next You Made the Grade sweepstakes drawing will be held in December.
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DALLAS, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dallas employment boutique Clouse Brown is building its roster of executive employment lawyers with the addition of Megan Dixon, an attorney with experience handling a broad range of litigation matters for employers and employees before administrative agencies, state and federal courts, and arbitration tribunals.
Ms. Dixon has represented clients in claims of discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, breach of contract, wage and hour disputes, non-compete matters, and other employment-related tort claims. She also has significant appellate experience and has obtained favorable appellate rulings on behalf of her clients in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and other state appellate courts.
In addition to the Fifth Circuit, Ms. Dixon's other admissions include the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western federal District courts in Texas.
"With Megan joining the firm, we're able to offer our clients additional talent and support when it comes to litigation and alternative dispute resolution," said Clouse Brown partner Alyson Brown. "She is a welcome addition to our employment law team."
Ms. Dixon is a member of the Dallas Bar Association Labor and Employment Section, the Texas Employment Lawyers Association, and the National Employment Lawyers Association – DFW Chapter.
Recognized by her peers for her work in the profession, Ms. Dixon has been selected to the Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars list for her work in employment law every year since 2016, and she has been selected to the Top Women Attorneys in Texas Rising Stars by Super Lawyers every year since 2020.
A cum laude graduate of Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, Ms. Dixon has served on her alma mater's employment law panel, as well as on a similar panel at Texas A&M School of Law. She also authored Working Together to Eliminate Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, published in the UNT Dallas Accessible Law Journal.
About Clouse Brown PLLC
Clouse Brown is a Dallas-based employment law boutique. The firm represents senior executives, business owners, physicians, corporations, and others in a variety of complex employment litigation, arbitration, and negotiation matters. For more information, visit ClouseBrown.com.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PHX Minerals Inc. (NYSE: PHX) ("PHX" or the "Company"), a natural gas focused mineral and royalty company, today announced that Chad Stephens, President and CEO, and Ralph D'Amico, Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Stifel 2022 Cross Sector Insight Conference at 3:35 p.m. EDT, on Thursday, June 9, 2022, at the InterContinental Hotel in Boston.
You may access the webcast on the Investor Relations section of www.phxmin.com under Events, or by clicking here: Webcast Link
PHX Minerals Inc. (NYSE: PHX) Oklahoma City-based, PHX Minerals Inc. is a natural gas and oil mineral company with a strategy to proactively grow its mineral position in its core areas of focus. PHX owns approximately 75,000 net leased mineral acres principally located in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, North Dakota, and Arkansas. Additional information on the Company can be found at www.phxmin.com.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — At over $1 billion, the Mega Millions jackpot is among the largest lottery prizes ever up for grabs, making it the latest focus of lotteries that have been conducted in the U.S. and around the world for centuries.
Only two prizes have grown larger than the massive jackpot that could be won Friday night. Other lotteries elsewhere around the globe offer smaller payouts, though in other ways they are more integrated into life in their countries.
“There are a ton of lotteries throughout the world,” said Bill Coley, president of the Institute of Responsible Gaming, Lotteries and Sports at Miami University. “It’s the mystiques of mathematics. You can take a nominal fee and give a chance to build a revenue stream of a billion dollars for potentially one individual. It’s pretty exciting.”
Lotteries in the U.S. initially mirrored similar games in Europe, and in 1776 one was created to help fund the Revolutionary War.
Lotteries remain popular in Europe. The Eurojackpot game paid a $120 million euro ($121.9 million) prize just last week to someone in Denmark, and a player in the United Kingdom recently won a $230 million euros ($233.6 million) Euromillions prize.
Arjan van’t Veer, the secretary general of the European Lotteries Association, noted there also are numerous national lotteries.
Among the most celebrated is Spain’s El Gordo (The Fat One).
Although it isn’t held until Dec. 22, a large promotion campaign began July 5. The effort always includes promotional videos, such as one this summer featuring a know-it-all who is exposed as a know-nothing because he doesn’t know where tickets are sold.
The U.S. Mega Millions and Powerball games can offer bigger individual prizes, but El Gordo’s 2.4 billion euros ($2.4 billion) is the biggest game for total prizes. About 70% of the lottery’s proceeds pay for prizes, with the remainder going to the government.
The top-prize is 4 million euros ($4 million). But the standard ticket bought by people is 20-euro “decimo,” or one-tenth of a full ticket, so that people with the winning number on their décimo get 400,000 euros ($406,340), or about 330,000 euros ($335,268) after taxes.
Spain established the national lottery as a charity in 1763 during the reign of King Carlos III. Despite wars and other political and economic crises, the lottery has never been suspended.
Purchasing and sharing decimos — especially in the run-up to Christmas — is a tradition among families, friends, co-workers and in bars and sports and social clubs. People line up, even in the cold and rain, outside lottery offices, especially those that have sold winning tickets in the past.
After the winning numbers are announced, televised street and bar celebrations follow, with people dancing and singing with uncorked bottles of sparkling wine.
There also are numerous large lotteries in Asia, such as the Japan Jumbo Draw as well as Japan’s Loto 6 and Loto 7, and the Ultra Lotto in the Philippines.
David Schwartz, a professor and gaming historian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, noted that lotteries have long histories throughout the world, in part because they are simple to play and offer rare but potentially huge winnings.
“The driving force behind lotteries is that one ticket isn’t that expensive but you have a chance for a huge, huge payoff,” Schwartz said. “I think people have an understanding there are pretty slim odds, but on the other hand, somebody has to win.”
Visitors to the U.S. are welcome to play lottery games like Mega Millions, and for years residents of Canada and Mexico who live along the borders have made the short trip to buy tickets. There also are options to buy tickets online through private companies, but U.S. lottery officials says people do so at their own risk.
And keep in mind, Ohio Lottery spokesman Michael Bycko said, that people who aren’t U.S. residents are still on the hook for federal and possibly state taxes, depending on where they play.
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Giles reported from Madrid. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/1-1b-mega-millions-jackpot-latest-in-history-of-lotteries/ | 2022-07-29T02:45:10Z |
TORINO, Italy, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pininfarina is unveiling a stunning NFT Collection focused on one of the most iconic and futuristic automotive designs of all time – the Pininfarina Modulo concept car.
The Pininfarina Modulo NFTs, in collaboration with 1of1, the luxury NFT specialists - powered by ARTM Technologies – in the development of solutions for the Metaverse, and with the iconic musician, Sasha Sirota, will be offered as a series of five pieces of art, which will then be auctioned by RM Sotheby's within a dedicated online auction on 24-26 May, 2022, please click HERE.
The NFT Collection is inspired by the original "one-off" sketches of the Modulo, preserved till now in Pininfarina's private archive, and developed with the active collaboration of the Pininfarina design Team.
Each unique NFT comprises a package of artistic and experiential components that allow NFT owners to become part of the Pininfarina's iconic legacy by having access to a range of benefits and extra-ordinary contents.
Each NFT will be characterized by an artistic video-animation featuring original soundtracks and a unique period setting with each NFT presenting Modulo in a different context, respectively set within five distinct decades ranging from the 1970s through to 2020.
Each NFT will furthermore showcase original content such as the sketches of the original and rare drawings and real-world exclusive experiences (including a reserved visit to the company museum accompanied by Pininfarina's Chairman, Paolo Pininfarina) and private sessions with the design team. In addition, NFT owners will possess a unique digital replica of the Pininfarina Modulo – the very first Pininfarina car ready for life in the Metaverse. The owners will also be presented with framed, physical artworks of the Modulo relating to each of the NFT packages.
"We are proud that our first NFT Collection is dedicated to give a new life to the Modulo. The concept car designed in 1970 is a manifesto of Pininfarina vision: beauty and innovation to design the future", Chairman Paolo Pininfarina.
"We enter the NFT world with the intention of exploring its boundaries and opportunities. The metaverse is an area we can make a significant contribution to by having been producers of cutting-edge creativity for 90 years. Our immense creative archive, the ability to imagine the future of design using the most advanced technologies open up new avenues for the further economic enhancement of our brand", Silvio Angori, Pininfarina CEO.
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How a teen with an assault-style rifle walked into an unlocked Texas elementary school and stayed nearly an hour -- turning a classroom into a killing field as desperate parents begged officers outside to let them in -- has emerged as a key horrifying question about the police response to the deadliest US school shooting in almost a decade.
Nineteen students and two teachers were slaughtered Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde before a federal tactical team killed the gunman. But there were no officers outside the school to try to stop Salvador Ramos, 18, Victor Escalon of the Texas Department of Public Safety said Thursday, contradicting authorities' earlier claim Ramos was "engaged" by a school resource officer as he entered.
At least seven officers rushed into Robb Elementary within four minutes of the shooter's arrival, DPS spokesperson Chris Olivarez told CNN. But why it then took nearly an hour for rescuers to breach the classroom where the gunman barricaded himself also isn't clear.
"We deserve to know what happened. These parents deserve to know what happened," state Sen. Ronald Gutierrez, whose district includes Uvalde, told CNN on Thursday.
"I know there was a failure here," Gutierrez added, noting he has seen video of law enforcement entering the building and the standoff. "And I feel in this situation, standing back was not the thing to do."
11-year-old played dead to stay alive
To survive the nightmare, Miah Cerrillo, 11, smeared her friend's blood all over herself and played dead, she told CNN.
Miah and her classmates were watching the movie "Lilo and Stitch" when teachers Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia got word of a shooter in the building. One teacher went to lock the door, but the shooter was right there -- and shot out the door's window, Miah said.
As her teacher backed into the classroom, the gunman followed. He then looked a teacher in the eye, said "Goodnight," and shot her, the girl recalled.
And then he opened fire, shooting the other teacher and many of Miah's friends. Bullets flew by her, Miah said, and fragments hit her shoulders and head.
The gunman next went through a door into an adjoining classroom. Miah heard screams and more gunshots. When the firing stopped, the shooter started playing music that was "sad, like you want people to die," the girl said.
Scared he would come back to kill her and her few surviving friends, Miah put her hands into the blood of a slain friend lying next to her and smeared herself with it, she said.
The girl and a friend managed to grab a dead teacher's phone and call 911 for help, she said. She told a dispatcher, "Please send help because we're in trouble."
The pair then lay down and played dead.
As they kept still and gunman holed up, chaos and confusion reigned outside the school. Fraught parents showed up and implored law enforcement to let them go in. One father asked officers to give him their gear, he said.
"I told one of the officers myself, if they didn't want to go in there, let me borrow his gun and a vest and I'll go in there myself to handle it. And they told me no," Victor Luna told CNN. His son Jayden survived.
Instead, officers held parents behind yellow police tape, refusing to let them enter as crying and screaming echoed around them, several videos show. After about an hour, a US Border Patrol tactical team forced its way into the classroom and fatally shot the gunman, Escalon said.
The shooting in Uvalde is the deadliest school shooting since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre and at least the 30th shooting at a K-12 school in 2022. The attack came less than two weeks after a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, and has left Americans grieving yet again and many renewing calls for gun law reform.
What we know about the shooting timeline
Investigators are still piecing together a timeline of the carnage, Escalon, DPS' South Texas regional director, said during a news conference. "With all the different agencies that are involved, we're working every angle that's available," Escalon said. "We won't stop until we get all the answers that we possibly can."
After shooting his grandmother in her home, Ramos drove to Robb Elementary, where he crashed his truck in a nearby ditch, DPS Sgt. Erick Estrada said. It's unclear why he crashed.
The shooter then fired at two witnesses across the street before walking toward the school and shooting at the building, according to Escalon.
There were no officers outside the school to stop Ramos, who "walked in unobstructed initially," Escalon said Thursday. Earlier information about a school resource officer engaging the gunman was "not accurate," he said.
Ramos got into the building through an apparently unlocked door at 11:40 a.m., Escalon said. That door is normally locked, "unless you are leaving to go home on the school bus," former principal Ross McGlothlin told CNN.
Inside the school, the shooter barricaded himself inside two adjoining classrooms and fired more than 25 times, Escalon said.
At 11:44 a.m., law enforcement arrived and entered the school. Three officers went in the same door the shooter used and four used a different entrance, Olivarez told CNN.
When they confronted the shooter, he fired at them and they took cover. Two responding officers were shot; their injuries were not life threatening, said Uvalde Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez.
"It is important for our community to know that our officers responded within minutes" alongside school resource officers, he said.
Officers then called for more tactical teams and resources, such as body armor, while they worked to evacuate teachers and students, Escalon said. About an hour later, a US Border Patrol tactical team entered and killed Ramos, he said.
When asked for more details at a news conference about what exactly responding officers were doing in the hour-long period, Escalon declined to provide further information.
Grieving community reckons with aftermath
Days after the massacre, the residents of Uvalde are still saturated in grief. The final victims' remains were returned Thursday night to families. Six people were still hospitalized Thursday, including the shooter's grandmother, who was shot in the face.
And the devastating news continued to pour in Thursday as word spread that the husband of a slain teacher died of a heart attack brought on, his family said, by a broken heart.
Joe Garcia's death was confirmed by the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Irma Garcia was a fourth-grade teacher and had been married to Joe for over 25 years, according to a GoFundMe campaign posted by her cousin.
For survivors, trauma is sinking in. Edward Timothy Silva, a second grader who hid behind desks in the dark at the school as he heard loud noises in the distance now wonders: "Does he have to go to school next year," his mother Amberlynn Diaz said.
"And I just don't want him to be afraid of school," she said. "I want him to continue learning and not be scared of going back to school. I want him to have a normal life again."
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Feds for Medical Freedom President Marcus Thornton released the following statement today after the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held an en banc hearing in the case of Feds for Medical Freedom, Et Al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Et Al., Appellants. The suit, in which Feds for Medical Freedom is a plaintiff, argues that the Biden Administration exceeded its Constitutional authority in attempting to require that all federal employees and contractors take a COVID vaccination.
"There are hundreds of thousands of public servants who do not want to get a COVID vaccine for personal, religious, or medical reasons. There are hundreds of thousands more who, regardless of their vaccination status, do not believe the government has the right to compel fellow Americans to inject something they do not want in their body. This hearing, and our year-long legal struggle, is about standing up for our inalienable rights and giving a voice to colleagues who have been heavily censored by those in positions of power.
"Regardless of the court's ruling, Feds for Medical Freedom has won a great victory by taking a stand, speaking truth to power, and making sure the American people know how outrageously their fellow Americans are being treated. Federal workers who stood up for their rights have been subjected to personal and professional ridicule, disciplinary actions, threats of termination, and a generally hostile work environment. These are proud Americans who are being told by this administration that their God-given freedoms do not matter. That is profoundly wrong.
"We continue to call on this this administration to rescind its unscientific and unconstitutional executive orders mandating Americans to choose between jobs or jabs – a heart-stopping overreach and abuse of power. Furthermore, the administration should apologize to the men and women who have been subjected to harassment and abuse, withdraw all COVID vaccination requirements, reverse all disciplinary actions taken regarding vaccination status, and commit itself to upholding individual liberty and medical autonomy.
"We are proud of our members who have taken a stand for freedom and liberty, often at great personal and professional cost, and we will continue to fight this government overreach through every legal means available to us." – Marcus Thornton, President, Feds for Medical Freedom
About Feds for Medical Freedom:
Feds for Medical Freedom is a grassroots coalition of over 8,000 federal employees and contractors who do not believe the U.S. government can or should compel them to get vaccinated or to disclose their vaccination status. For more information, visit feds4medfreedom.org.
Media Contact: Alex Weintz; 914.282.3229; aweintz@amberintegrated.com
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SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Payroll Association is celebrating payroll professionals and offering scholarship opportunities, paycheck maximizing tips, and a chance to win an extra paycheck during National Payroll Week®, September 5-9. National Payroll Week recognizes the contributions of America's 150 million workers and the payroll professionals who ensure they're paid accurately and on-time, every time.
"For National Payroll Week we celebrate payroll and its tremendous impact on our country," said APA Executive Director, Dan Maddux. "The partnership of America's workers, government agencies, and payroll professionals creates the very foundations of the American way of life."
Individuals are invited to take the annual "Getting Paid In America" survey at www.nationalpayrollweek.com. This survey provides insight on evolving payroll and wage payment trends. One randomly selected participant will win the NPW grand prize of a bonus paycheck and a vacation for two.
The APA and its members also provide money-saving payroll education during National Payroll Week. Visitors to the NPW website can access tools and resources to help them get the most out of their paychecks. A simple step like reevaluating your Form W-4 can result in more money in your pocket each payday.
In addition, through NPW's Money Matters National Education Day (MMNED) initiative, the APA and sponsor Paychex will award three scholarships for individuals pursuing continuing education in colleges, universities, and other venues. Each year MMNED connects hundreds of payroll professionals with local schools, community organizations, and youth groups. Payroll professionals teach young adults about the payroll withholding system and the basics of how their paycheck is calculated, through an interactive presentation.
"Many people don't realize that making a few small changes can greatly impact their take-home pay," said Maddux. "National Payroll Week provides an opportunity for payroll professionals to share valuable payroll knowledge with workers of all ages."
For more information about NPW and how you can get involved, visit www.nationalpayrollweek.com.
National Payroll Week is sponsored by Diamond Sponsor ADP; MMNED Sponsor Paychex; Platinum Sponsors Ceridian, DailyPay, Fintwist by Comdata, Money Network, Netspend, rapid!, UKG, and Workday; and Media Partners Jobing.com and Symmetry Software.
The American Payroll Association (APA) is the nation's leader in payroll education, publications, and training. Visit APA online at www.americanpayroll.org.
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Nashville tops Montreal 2-1, ups home unbeaten streak to 23
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Hany Mukhtar scored the deciding goal to spark Nashville to a 2-1 victory over CF Montreal, upping Nashville’s home unbeaten streak to 23 straight. Nashville’s run at home ties the LA Galaxy (2014-15) for the third longest streak in MLS history. The Houston Dynamo (2011-13) hold the record with 30. Real Salt Lake had a 29-match run in 2009-11. Mukhtar’s game-winner came in the 51st minute to put Nashville (5-4-3) on top 2-0. C.J. Sapong assisted the goal. Alex Muyl staked Nashville to a 1-0 lead with a goal in the 28th minute. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/18/nashville-tops-montreal-2-1-ups-home-unbeaten-streak-to-23/ | 2022-05-19T04:43:43Z |
The analytics-led digital marketing company has once again made it to the list of America's fastest-growing private companies.
JERSEY CITY, N.J., August 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine today announced that iQuanti is on the 2022 Inc.5000 list of the nation's fastest-growing private companies, for the eighth time. The list represents the most successful companies in the American economy's most dynamic segment - independent small businesses.
"iQuanti's achievement of being on the list of fastest-growing companies eight times is a testament to the trust our clients' repose on us, and to iQuantians who have relentlessly focused on delivering value to our clients," shared Viswanatha Sastry Rachakonda, CEO.
Founded in 2008, iQuanti helps firms drive stronger performance in digital marketing through deep data analytics. Its offerings include managing digital acquisition programs like SEO, Paid Search and Social, strategic consulting, and digital analytics. iQuanti is also unique in that it has built proprietary products and frameworks to help optimize digital marketing for global brands. Over the years, iQuanti has found success through its focus on developing innovative, industry-leading digital programs and solutions for niche verticals like banking and financial services and ecommerce.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Inc's editor-in- chief Scott Omelianuk . "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
iQuanti ignites powerful and predictable digital marketing performance for global brands with an approach rooted in data science and deep vertical knowledge.
iQuanti has 500+ employees across New York, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Mexico City, London, Toronto, Bangalore, and Singapore. The company was also previously recognized in the inaugural 'AdWeek 100: Fastest Growing Agencies' and the Fast 50 Asian American Business List. For more information, visit iQuanti.com.
Founded in 1979, Inc. is the only major brand dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies, with the aim to deliver real solutions for today's innovative company builders. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
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VAUGHAN, ON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CannTrust Holdings Inc. (the "Company" or "CannTrust") (unlisted), minority investor in Phoena Holdings Inc.("Phoena", formerly CannTrust Equity Inc.) today announced that it is seeking an order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the "Court") extending the time for the Company to call the next annual meeting of its shareholders. The Company also provided an update concerning its board of directors' (the "Board") review of strategic alternatives.
The Court previously issued an order extending the time for the Company to call the next annual general meeting ("AGM") of its shareholders to a date no later than 120 days following the completion of the Company's proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act ("CCAA"). The Company emerged from its CCAA proceedings on March 15, 2022 and is currently required to call the next annual meeting of shareholders on or before July 13, 2022. The Company requires additional time to prepare certain audited financial statements and other information which are required to be presented to the shareholders at each annual meeting. It has been working with its auditors, MNP LLP, to complete these audited financial statements but will be unable to do so before July 13, 2022. It is therefore requesting an extension from the Court to a date no later than November 30, 2022.
The motion is scheduled to be heard by the Court on July 7, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. EST. In support of the motion, the Company will today file with the Court the following materials (collectively, the "Court Materials"): a Motion Record containing the Notice of Motion, affidavits from Greg Guyatt, David Blair and Dan Hogan and a draft Order. The Court Materials are available at https://ln5.sync.com/dl/3460270d0/8szhn4iv-8tiac58r-f6b2rwde-v2iwj2q6. The Company will post a Zoom link for the hearing at the same location once it is provided by the Court.
The Company previously announced that it intends to explore alternatives for either applying to the Ontario Securities Commission ("OSC") for an order revoking the OSC's "failure-to-file" Cease Trade Order dated April 13, 2020 ("CTO") and listing the Company's common shares on a Canadian stock exchange or for taking steps to exchange the Company's common shares for common shares of Phoena and obtaining a Canadian stock exchange listing for Phoena's common shares. The Company is working closely with its advisors to devise a corporate structure that will be aimed at delivering modest incremental value to its shareholders, but in a manner that appropriately balances the constraints imposed by its cash position, accounting requirements and applicable Canadian and United States securities and tax laws. The Board's deliberations are ongoing and progressing, but there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to execute successfully on either strategic alternative.
The Board anticipates being in a position to complete its review, obtain any requisite audited financial statements and disclose its findings, and any related recommendations for approval by the Company's shareholders, before the Company's next shareholders meeting to be held by November 30, 2022, subject to the Court providing the relief noted above.
CannTrust is a holding company and its primary asset is comprised of an approximate 10% equity interest in Phoena. Although CannTrust is a reporting issuer under the laws of each of the Canadian provinces except for Quebec, it remains subject to the CTO and its common shares have been delisted by the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
Phoena is an award-winning, federally regulated licensed cannabis producer, with locations in Vaughan and Fenwick, Ontario. Phoena operates a portfolio of well-known brands, including estora, Liiv, SYNR.G and Xscape.
Phoena is committed to providing exceptional consumer experience, quality products and consistency. Phoena's greenhouse produces Grade A cannabis flower, which is sold in a variety of dried flower and extract formats.
Phoena creates cannabis products that meet the diverse needs of patients and consumers, promoting positivity, supporting creativity, and inspiring confidence.
Phoena, empowering you every day.
Learn more at Phoena.com
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of Canadian securities laws and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other applicable United States safe harbor laws, and such statements are based upon CannTrust's current internal expectations, estimates, projections, assumptions and beliefs and views of future events.
Forward-looking information and forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes", "expect", "likely", "may", "will", "should", "intend", "anticipate", "potential", "proposed", "estimate" and other similar words, including negative and grammatical variations thereof, or statements that certain events or conditions "may", "would" or "will" happen, or by discussions of strategy.
The forward-looking information and statements in this news release include statements relating to the Company's efforts to resolve certain securities regulatory and stock exchange issues, some of which have not been finalized and remain subject to completing further analyses, obtaining shareholder and creditor approval and satisfying the requirements of securities regulators and a stock exchange. Forward-looking information and statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks, including, without limitation: the risk that, if Phoena requires additional equity, the Company's investment in Phoena could be diluted further; the risk that Phoena or its affiliates could default under its credit facilities from Cortland Credit Lending Corporation or Marshall Fields International B.V., which are secured against substantially all of Phoena and the Company's assets; the risk that the Company will not be able to cure its disclosure defaults under securities laws and obtain an order from the OSC to revoke the CTO, on commercially reasonable terms, or at all; the impact of any regulatory and other investigations or proceedings; the risks associated with general economic conditions and/or adverse industry events; the risk of loss of markets; the risk of future legislative and regulatory developments in Canada, the United States and elsewhere; the state of the cannabis industry in Canada generally; the ability of the Company to attract and retain suitable directors, officers and employees; the risks that, even if the CTO can be revoked, the Company will be unable to obtain a stock exchange listing for the Company's common shares; the risk that neither the Company nor Phoena will be able to satisfy the requirements of such exchange; and the ability of Phoena to successfully implement its business strategies.
Any forward-looking information and statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and, except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information or statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict all such factors. When considering these forward-looking information and statements, readers should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements in the Company's Annual Information Form dated March 28, 2019 (the "AIF") and filed with the applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and filed as an exhibit the Company's Form 40-F annual report under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on EDGAR at www.sec.gov (the "March 2019 Form 40-F"). The risk factors and other factors noted in the AIF could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those described in any forward-looking information or statements. Readers are also reminded that the Company remains in default of its periodic disclosure requirements under applicable securities laws and stock exchange requirements, that its most recent AIF, Form 40-F and other disclosures do not reflect all risk factors that currently face the Company, and that the Company has not completed or filed the restatements of the financial statements included in the AIF or the March 2019 Form 40-F or otherwise filed an amendment to such Form 40-F, and that the Company was permitted by the Initial Order of the Superior Court of Justice to not to correct its prior filings or make any further filings in respect of periodic disclosure requirements under applicable securities laws and stock exchange requirements. None of the Company's securities is listed for trading on any stock exchange in any jurisdiction and, in Canada, trading in the Company's securities is subject to a cease-trade order issued on April 13, 2020 by the Ontario Securities Commission for CannTrust's failure to comply with its disclosure obligations under applicable securities laws.
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NEW YORK, June 14, 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 Steel Connect, Inc. (STCN), relating to its proposed merger with Steel Partners Holdings LP. Under the terms of the agreement, STCN shareholders will receive $1.35 in cash and one contingent value right to receive a pro rata share of net proceeds per share they own. Click here for more information: https://www.monteverdelaw.com/case/steel-connect-inc. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.
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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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BEIJING, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berry Oncology, a leading company in the global industry for genetic testing and early screening of tumors, recently launched a HIFI system.
The HIFI system consists of HIFI-det liquid biopsy technology and the corresponding HIFI-cal series of algorithms.
With the commercial application of NGS technology, billions of DNA molecules can be simultaneously sequenced, and the changing characteristics of cancer-related biological information can be observed in different omics and different dimensions, which overcomes the deficiency of limited information obtained from previous single omics studies. Combining different information multi-omics methodology can improve the overall performance of cancer detection products.
The advantage of the HIFI system is that it can maintain the iterativeness and scalability of the core model through iterative optimization of biomarkers. This helps continuously optimize performance, reduce technical costs, and avoid cost increases due to increased omics and dimensions, thus making the cost of early screening technology affordable.
Currently, multi-omics cancer research based on NGS technology platforms has become the mainstream method used by leading early cancer screening companies in the world. The massive amount of biological information derived from different omics has also brought new challenges to its analysis, and corresponding algorithms have emerged as needed.
Since its establishment, Berry Oncology has selected cancer biomarkers through multi-omics based on NGS platform, and combined with the corresponding deep learning model. We has developed products covering every cancer processes, including early screening and early diagnosis, minimal residual disease, and recurrence monitoring.
Starting from the first liver cancer early screening product "Liver Screening" launched in August 2020, Berry Oncology has built early cancer screening models from multi-omics and multi-dimensional data, which leads to the emergence of the HIFI system.
Currently, based on the HIFI system, Berry Oncology has published performance data of early screening for liver cancer and multi tumor types (liver cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer): sensitivity and specificity of early screening for liver cancer reached 95.42% and 97.91%, respectively, and sensitivity and specificity of early screening for multi tumor types reached 87.58% and 99.09%, respectively. The data all reached the top level within the global industry.
Leveraging the HIFI system, Berry Oncology plans to launch one-time early cancer screening product for detecting six major tumor types in 2022, and expects increasing the detected tumor types in the next few years, while improving screening performance, and optimizing the HIFI technology. The ultimate goal is that successfully detecting "20+" tumor types through one-time blood draw.
Dr. Jiayan Wu, Head of Berry Oncology Institutes, said that multi-omics cancer research based on NGS platform has become a global technology trend. "The HIFI system, which continuously optimized in the past few years, has demonstrated superior performance, and we designed early cancer screening products through this system, and even serving the needs of every cancer process".
To our best knowledge, Berry Oncology has reached a global-leading level in NGS multi-omics cancer research. Zhou Jun, CEO of the company, said, "As a Chinese enterprise, Berry Oncology not only focuses on the development and transformation of more cutting-edge technologies, but also seeks solutions for the optimal mix of cost and performance. We are looking forward to cooperate with all relevant stakeholders - such as insurance companies and Internet healthcare platforms - to create a truly innovative and accessible ecosystem for cancer prevention".
About Berry Oncology
Berry Oncology is a leading company in the global industry for oncology genomic testing and early cancer screening. With a mission to "diagnose all cancers early, treat all patients precisely", we are committed to providing molecular detection products and services to benefit high-risk groups and patients at all stages of cancer, and collaborating with upstream and downstream partners such as pharmaceutical companies to explore innovative diagnosis and treatment options. Our clinical laboratories in Beijing and Fuzhou have completed the CAP certifications, and we have built 3 centers consisting of laboratories, supercomputing and R&D centers. Our diversified products and services range across genetic susceptibility, early cancer screening, companion diagnosis (CDx), efficacy assessment and prognosis monitoring. We have served more than 900 hospitals, helping hundreds of thousands of cancer patients and high-risk groups. In the field of early cancer screening, Berry Oncology took the lead in completing a large-scale prospective cohort study on early screening of liver cancer based on its independently-developed technology platform, and has achieved breakthrough research results in early screening for lung cancer and multiple cancers.
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DUBLIN, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Endo International plc (NASDAQ: ENDP) today announced top-line results from its Phase 2 study of Collagenase Clostridium Histolyticum (or "CCH") in participants with adhesive capsulitis (AC) of the shoulder, commonly known as "frozen shoulder." While Phase 2 study participants receiving up to three doses of CCH showed some improvement in the change from baseline in the adapted American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) Standardized Shoulder Form composite score for the affected shoulder at the Day 95 visit, the difference compared to those study participants receiving placebo was not statistically significant. The safety profile of CCH in the Phase 2 study was consistent with the known safety profile from other studies. Most treatment-emergent adverse events were of mild to moderate severity with the most common events following treatment with CCH being injection site bruising, arthralgia, injection site pain, injection site swelling and contusion.
"We are disappointed in the study outcome, and based on these data, we will be reevaluating our path forward for CCH for the treatment of adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder. We will continue focusing on our pipeline, including with respect to other potential CCH indications," said James P. Tursi, M.D., Executive Vice President, Global Research & Development at Endo. "We are committed to advancing our strategic priority of expanding and enhancing our portfolio for growth."
The Phase 2 trial enrolled 198 participants with unilateral idiopathic AC of the shoulder with restricted range of motion (ROM) and function in the affected shoulder. Participants were randomized 1:1 to receive CCH or placebo administered by ultrasound-guided injection. Participants received up to 3 injections separated by a minimum of 21 days. Participants completed standard home exercises and received physical therapy at designated time points during the study.
The Phase 2 trial's primary endpoint was the change from baseline in the adapted American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) Standardized Shoulder Form composite score for the affected shoulder at the Day 95 visit. This adapted scale measures pain and function parameters of the shoulder. Secondary endpoints included measures of passive and active range of motion improvement (PROM and AROM respectively).
About Adhesive Capsulitis
Adhesive capsulitis (AC) is characterized by a painful and gradual loss of active and passive shoulder motion resulting from fibrosis and contracture of the joint capsule. It is a specific pathologic entity in which chronic inflammation of the joint capsule produces thickening and fibrosis. Patients typically present with pain of insidious onset of several months' duration.1 AC is believed to affect from 3% to 5% of the U.S. general population with an incidence of up to 20% in those with diabetes.2
Treatment options include a range of conservative and potentially even surgical measures. Oral and intra-articular corticosteroids have been shown to have a limited benefit in reducing pain and increasing ROM in AC. Physical therapy (PT) to the limit of pain is widely accepted as part of the management of AC, commonly in the early stages of the disease.3 More invasive management options include nerve blocks, a variety of injection options with varying degrees of efficacy demonstrated and ultimately, hydrodilatation or manipulation under anesthesia (MUA) may be required. Arthroscopic capsular release has also been used to treat AC often as a last resort, with the associated risks of postoperative pain, recurrent postoperative AC, and axillary nerve damage, as well as the risks associated with general anesthesia.3
About Endo
Endo (NASDAQ: ENDP) is a specialty pharmaceutical company committed to helping everyone we serve live their best life through the delivery of quality, life-enhancing therapies. Our decades of proven success come from passionate team members around the globe collaborating to bring the best treatments forward. Together, we boldly transform insights into treatments benefiting those who need them when they need them. Learn more at www.endo.com or connect with us on LinkedIn.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain information in this press release may be considered "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and any applicable Canadian securities legislation including, but not limited to, the statements by Dr. Tursi and any statements relating to clinical trials or studies, potential treatments or indications, future research, portfolio growth, timelines or expectations. Statements including words or phrases such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "plan," "will," "may," "look forward," "intend," "future," "potential" or similar expressions are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release reflect Endo's current expectations of future events based on existing trends and information and represent Endo's judgment only as of the date of this press release. Actual results may differ materially and adversely from current expectations based on a number of factors affecting Endo's businesses, including, among other things, the following: the outcome of our strategic review, contingency planning and any potential restructuring; the timing, impact or results of any pending or future litigation, investigations, proceedings or claims, including opioid, tax and antitrust matters; actual or contingent liabilities; settlement discussions or negotiations; the impact of competition including loss of exclusivity and generic competition; our ability to satisfy judgments or settlements or to pursue appeals including bonding requirements; our ability to adjust to changing market conditions; our inability to maintain compliance with financial covenants and operating obligations which would expose us to potential events of default under our outstanding indebtedness; our ability to incur additional debt or refinance our outstanding indebtedness; a significant reduction in our short-term or long-term revenues which could cause us to be unable to fund our operations and liquidity needs; the performance of and consumer and physician acceptance of our products; the impact that known and unknown side effects may have on market perception and consumer preference; the effectiveness of advertising and other promotional campaigns; and our ability to develop products and our pipeline of products. The occurrence or possibility of any such result has caused us to engage and may result in further engagement in strategic reviews that ultimately may result in our pursuing one or more significant corporate transactions or other remedial measures, including on a preventative or proactive basis. Those remedial measures could include a potential corporate reorganization, restructuring or bankruptcy filing involving all or a portion of our business, asset sales or other divestitures, cost-saving initiatives, corporate realignments or strategic partnerships. Some of these measures could take significant time to implement and others may require judicial or other third-party approval. Any such actions may be complex, could entail significant costs and charges or could otherwise negatively impact shareholder value, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to accomplish any of these alternatives on terms acceptable to us, or at all, or that they will result in their intended benefits. Therefore, the reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. Endo expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements, except as required to do so by law. Additional information concerning risk factors, including those referenced above, can be found in press releases issued by Endo, as well as Endo's public periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and with securities regulators in Canada, including the discussion under the heading "Risk Factors" in Endo's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Real-Time and Addressable NPI-Level Insights Enables Smarter Marketing, Media and Sales Strategies
NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PulsePoint, a technology company using real-time data to accelerate health marketing, today announced the self-service application of HCP365, a comprehensive, intelligence and analytics solution designed to help healthcare companies understand HCP brand interactions in the moment, across digital events and channels, including website, search, and media. With HCP365's streamlined user-interface, health marketers and their agencies can easily access HCP insights on their own, and seamlessly create Smart Lists for personalized targeting.
Marketers are also able to plug HCP365 into their CRM, sales automation, or programmatic platforms to trigger personalized outreach, or perform advanced analytics for strategic planning via its interactive dashboard. The insights surfaced by HCP365 can then be used to personalize sales approaches, refine strategies, target, and engage HCPs differently.
"Before HCP365 it was much harder for our business to define the stages or journey that HCPs took while engaging with our brand," said Shannon Lee Smith, Associate Director, aTTP Marketing of Sanofi. "Now, we're able to identify and segment which specific HCPs are responding to different media and search campaigns, visiting branded websites, and consolidate micro-insights at an unprecedented level of granularity in real-time."
A key differentiator of HCP365 is its data foundation: it is the only measurement and insights platform with its own authenticated, first-party dataset, the result of integrating PulsePoint's first-party data graph with highly trusted HCP data from Medscape. HCP365 is now powered by a database of over 3.2M verified HCPs with active and named opt-in consent, resulting in higher quality, more accurate, more immediate insights than other measurement solutions. Data sets are refreshed every 24 hours to account for any physicians opting out.
"At a time when digital has become the primary way to communicate with HCPs, and reaching individual HCPs with syndicated data sets has shown inaccuracies, health marketers require real-time strategies that can constantly evaluate multiple data signals," said Chris Neuner, Chief Strategy Officer of PulsePoint. "By combining first-party authenticated HCP data sets with real-time measurement and data technology like HCP365, marketers can feel confident that the insights they're getting are addressable to the NPI, actionable in real-time, compliance-driven and privacy-safe."
Launched as a managed service application in 2020, customers have seen great success with HCP365 prompting market demand for a self-service application. 79% of surveyed customers reported that HCP365 enabled smarter spending strategies; 71% reported the solution easily demonstrates channel performance/ROI and almost one third have seen total return on ad spend increase up to 24% (source: TechValidate. TVID: FB7-FFE-02D and 13E-D1D-13C).
PulsePoint is a leading technology company that uses real-world data in real-time to optimize campaign performance and revolutionize health decision-making. Leveraging proprietary datasets and methodology, PulsePoint targets healthcare professionals and patients with an unprecedented level of accuracy—delivering unparalleled results to the clients we serve. The company is now a part of Internet Brands, a KKR portfolio company and owner of WebMD Health Corp. For more information, visit pulsepoint.com.
Media Contact: Maria Simeone msimeone@pulsepoint.com
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CHICAGO, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Katten announced today that New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dr. Eric Cervini joined firm attorneys and business professionals in a virtual fireside conversation about the history of LGBTQ+ politics in the United States and the continued battle for LGBTQ+ rights.
"What history provides us is a guidebook, not just of what worked, for example activists organizing in California, recruiting unlikely allies like Ronald Reagan to come out against the bill [to ban gay teachers and administrators from working in the state's public schools], and so many ways that we were able to be successful, but also how we failed," said Cervini, a historian of LGBTQ+ politics who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and was a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he received his PhD.
The event, held June 30, was moderated by Katten Financial Markets Litigation and Enforcement partner J Matthew W. Haws, a member of the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago and the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association.
With more than 300 anti-LGBTQ+ bills proposed this year across the country, Cervini acknowledged that it is a "dark time." He added, "But as I remind people, we have been through much worse. We have survived the inquisition, the Lavender Scare, the AIDS crisis, and Anita Bryant [who successfully pushed for the repeal of a gay rights ordinance in Florida in the 1970s]. We can certainly get through this. But we need to be studying up, how we were successful and how we failed in the past and then also be recruiting new allies, just as Frank Kameny recruited the ACLU, we need to be recruiting new allies today."
Kameny, an astronomer who lost his federal job because of his sexual orientation, is a central character in the nonfiction book Cervini wrote titled The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, which is being adapted into an Amazon limited series.
"Discussing the past and current challenges faced by LGBTQ+ persons is important to remind us all of the progress made, as well as the discrimination, hardships and threats to personal liberty that are ongoing for the LGBTQ+ community," said Brandon D. Hadley, co-chair of Katten's LGBTQ+ Coalition. "Now is the time to support one another, use your voice and be an ally to the LGBTQ+ community and every other person facing similar social, political and legal challenges, through continued learning, understanding, empathy and discussion."
As an authority on 1960s gay activism, Cervini serves on the advisory board of the Mattachine Society of Washington, DC, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of LGBTQ+ history. He also is the creator and executive producer of the history docuseries The Book of Queer, which premiered in June on the Discovery+ streaming service.
"The reason why I made this show was to prove that actually, if there's anything that queer history teaches us, it's not just how to fight back but also to find joy and love and community despite so much of that darkness," he said.
Throughout the year, Katten supports the LGBTQ+ community in a number of ways, such as through the pro bono work of attorneys representing LGBTQ+ individuals as well as charitable contributions to the National LGBTQ+ Bar Foundation and LeGaL Foundation, which provides legal services to the LGBTQ+ community. The firm recently adopted a firm-wide "opt-in" gender pronoun policy to include gender pronouns in signature blocks as one way to promote LGBTQ+ inclusion and maintain an environment built on acceptance of individualization.
In June, Katten offered "pop-in" sessions to learn more about topics at the forefront for the LGBTQ+ community, including gender pronouns, trans identity and allyship. The firm also sponsors the annual Lavender Law Conference & Career Fair, the largest LGBTQ+ legal conference in the country, and hosts a biennial LGBTQ+ retreat for its attorneys participating at the conference.
Katten is honored to have earned the designation as one of the Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality by receiving a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index, the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and annual report measuring corporate policies and practices addressing LGBTQ+ workplace equality.
Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm's core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals. For more information, visit katten.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The major league batting average was .242 in June, down from .245 in May, and home runs are down 9% from last season at this point, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
The season batting average began Friday at .242.
Batting average was an especially low .231 through April. Last year, it rose steadily from .232 through April and .239 through June to finish the season at .244. the lowest since 1972.
Runs per team per game have averaged 4.34, down from 4.44 per game through June 30 last year.
Home runs averaged 1.07 per team per game, down from 1.18 at this point last season. Long balls in June averaged 1.19, down from 1.28 in June 2022.
Strikeouts have dropped to 8.33 per team each game through June from 8.89 at a similar point last season, and walks declined from 3.32 to 3.12.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), the open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world's capacity to deliver software with security and speed, today announced it is hosting the CDEvents project, a vendor-neutral specification for defining the format of event data to provide interoperability across services, platforms and systems.
Today's CI/CD systems do not talk to each other in a standardized way. Defining a standard set of specifications is critical in solving the interoperability issues across the continuous delivery (CD) ecosystem. Having a common format for events in the CD space will enable an ecosystem of tools to collect, store, visualize and analyze events across CD platforms. This will cover use cases like measuring DevOps metrics and performance and visualizing end-to-end workflows, from the initial development all the way to operations and remediation flows.
The current release of the CDEvents specification is available here: https://github.com/cdevents
"The modern software factory relies on several components that power the development, building, testing, deployment and monitoring of complex applications. CDEvents facilitates interoperability between these systems by providing a shared dictionary for describing artifacts and their metadata," said Andrea Frittoli, Open Source Developer Advocate at IBM, co-creator of the CDEvents project and member of the CDF Technical Oversight Committee. "CDEvents open the doors to scalable and decoupled integrations within the software supply chain and create the potential for greater visibility and measurability of continuous delivery workflows."
The lack of a common way of describing events means developers must constantly re-learn how to consume events. This also limits the potential for libraries, tooling and infrastructure to aid the delivery of event data across environments, like SDKs, event routers or tracing systems.
"The Continuous Delivery Foundation is actively improving the developer experience. CDEvents increases interoperability between CI/CD tools and enables greater automation and observability within CI/CD systems. The CDEvents specification has broad applicability and is a great example of how the Continuous Delivery Foundation aims to help practitioners of CI/CD, regardless of industry or company," said Kara de la Marck, Senior Ecosystem Advocate for the CD Foundation. "Help us build better tools. Test the CDEvents specification for yourself!"
CDEvents has received a large amount of industry interest with contributors from many of the major CI/CD tools providers as well as from end-user companies. There exists a Proof of Concept implementation proving that Tekton and Keptn can communicate over a common event protocol.
Supporting Quotes:
"CDEvents specification, based on CloudEvents, provides the CI/CD ecosystem with a unified way to send and receive events happening inside the modern system that may potentially include dozens of different tools and implementations. It is a great step towards Interoperability of the components in this space, and also towards Open Observability and transparency of software supply chain. On behalf of the CDF Technical Oversight Committee, I would like to thank the CDF Events SIG, and all contributors to the specification and to the implementation. We are looking forward to adopting the standard in Keptn and Jenkins communities."
– Oleg Nenashev, CDF TOC Chair, Jenkins and Keptn maintainer
DeployHub
"Imperative CD Pipelines have become the bottleneck for teams managing thousands of independently deployed services in a component-driven architecture. CDEvents disrupts this model. It brings us closer to a fast and easy way to stand up a pipeline for each independent component using a declarative 'listener' model. CDEvents is driving a new way to orchestrate thousands of services flowing through the pipeline process in a cloud-native architecture."
– Tracy Ragan, CEO DeployHub, Inc.
Ericsson
"The introduction of new technologies/methodologies results in tremendous changes in the industries, and telecommunications is not an exception. The openness and disaggregation enable new ways of how products and services are developed, delivered, and deployed. This results in increased complexity when it comes to large scale end-to-end software flows, involving thousands of developers, which could start from the vendor and end in an operator's network, requiring a fresh approach to CI/CD as well. CDEvents is a key initiative to enable establishing software flows that allows deployments of new products and services to public and private clouds as well as on-premise hardware, which potentially use different CI/CD tools and technologies in which interoperability is a key concern."
– Kristofer Hallén, CI Tools Architect, Ericsson
Dynatrace
Building complex day one and day two application orchestration is challenging by itself. Having to deal with a lot of different API and data formats simply adds to this challenge. At Dynatrace we started to standardize around events as part of the Keptn project. CDEvents is now taking this to the next level, by establishing an industry-wide standard. Dynatrace is committed to supporting this from day one.
– Alois Reitbauer, Chief Product Officer Cloud Automation Dynatrace, Co-Chair CNCF TAG App Delivery
doWhile/VolvoCars
"Many industries are introducing more and more software into their previously mostly-hardware products and ecosystems. Autonomous vehicles are a good example of this, with both highly complex and safety-critical software spread out over embedded systems, in-vehicle computers and cloud services. Finding a 'one CI/CD tool fits all' solution for such a wide variety of needs and processes is not the way forward, interoperability between different solutions is. CDEvents will enable interoperability, observability and collaboration between both systems and teams, and will help high-complexity development projects keep track of everything that has been built, how it has been verified and what the current operational status is."
– Erik Sternerson, CI Specialist, Volvo Cars / Volvo Autonomous Solutions / doWhile
For more information on the CDEvents project, see https://cdevents.dev/
Additional CDEvents Resources
- Main repo
- Main CDEvents site
- CDEventsCon, May 17, 2022, in Valencia, Spain
- How to contribute to CDEvents via issues and pull request
Additional CD Foundation Resources
About the Continuous Delivery Foundation
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) seeks to improve the world's capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The CDF is a vendor-neutral organization that is establishing best practices of software delivery automation, propelling education and adoption of CD tools, and facilitating cross-pollination across emerging technologies. The CDF is home to many of the fastest-growing projects for CD, including Jenkins, Jenkins X, Tekton, and Spinnaker. The CDF is part of the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about the CDF, please visit https://cd.foundation.
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McDonald’s employee in custody for allegedly killing co-worker, statement says
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV/Gray News) - A 19-year-old is in custody after a shooting left one man dead in St. Louis City.
Terrance King, 19, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action following the shooting outside the McDonald’s on the 1400 block of Hampton Avenue Tuesday around 8:30 p.m.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said Kevyn Henderson, 23, was shot in the chest during the incident.
He was not conscious or breathing when officers found him and later died from his injuries.
A probable cause statement says King and Henderson, who both worked at the McDonald’s, got into an argument inside the store.
A manager then escorted King outside and another argument erupted, which is when police say King shot Henderson and killed him.
The statement says there were multiple witnesses to the shooting.
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ramaco Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ: METC) ("Ramaco Resources" or the "Company") today announced the appointment of four senior executives into newly created positions at the Company. Paul Horn will serve as Senior Vice President and Ramaco's Chief Mine Development Officer, Scott Kreutzer will join as Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Tim Chatting will serve as Director of Financial Reporting, and Katie Monroe will serve as Director of Land Administration.
The hires are an integral part of Ramaco's ongoing growth and production expansion. Ramaco has recently announced plans to nearly triple its annual production of metallurgical coal from 2021 levels over the coming years and is also surveying its potential to mine its rare earth element reserves in Wyoming.
"We are building on our already strong bench to help us transition to the next level of growth for our company," said Randall Atkins, Ramaco Resources' Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "In our first five years we basically grew from scratch to become a 2 million ton a year production operation. Over the next few years, we intend to triple that size to produce over 6.5 million tons annually. To effectively execute to reach these levels we are bringing onboard additional senior management in a variety of operational, financial and administrative disciplines to round out our very effective existing team."
Paul Horn brings with him almost 30 years of experience as one of the most senior mining executives in the Central Appalachian market. He served for over twenty years for the privately held Booth Energy Group with ten years as the President and Chief Operating Officer. In those roles he oversaw numerous large scale underground and surface mining complexes in both Kentucky and West Virginia. He began his career in operations at Alliance Coal and has also served as the past Chairman of the Kentucky Coal Association.
Horn's role at Ramaco will be to spearhead and oversee the development and expansion of all the Company's existing and new mining complexes.
"Paul is true proven mining professional with a deep knowledge of our business. We look forward to having him play a critical role as we execute on our growth plans to bring several new mine complexes and infrastructure production facilities on-line," said Chris Blanchard, Ramaco's Chief Operating Officer. "Speaking for myself and the rest of the operations team, we are excited to work with Paul and quickly integrate him into our growing operational and development efforts."
Scott Kreutzer comes to Ramaco with over 25 years of experience in operational, strategic, legal and land administration matters. He had served as an Executive Vice President and both Chief Operating Officer as well as Chief Strategy Officer at Contura Energy. He also previously served as Senior Vice President for Land Administration at both Contura and Alpha Natural Resources. He has also worked at Eagle Specialty Materials as General Counsel and TECO Coal as Head of Business Development.
In his role as Chief Administrative Officer he will provide senior oversight on Ramaco's administrative and related legal functions, as well as coordination between operations and marketing on strategy. He will also oversee development efforts and work with our new Director of Land Administration.
"We are in growth mode to become a substantial presence in the US metallurgical coal space, and Scott's multi-talented experience at a number of large coal groups will allow him to play a key role in the evolution of our administrative, operational, and marketing functions and strategy," said Jeremy Sussman, Ramaco's Chief Financial Officer. "On behalf of our entire senior management team, we are excited to welcome Scott to Ramaco."
Tim Chatting comes to Ramaco from Lexmark International in Lexington where he held high-level financial accounting and SEC reporting roles for over 25 years. Most recently he served as Senior Manager overseeing complex accounting processes and emerging topics, such as carbon offset programs. When Lexmark was publicly traded, Tim was the Senior Manager of SEC Reporting responsible for the preparation and review of SEC filings. Tim will oversee SEC related accounting matters at Ramaco.
Katie Monroe comes to Ramaco from the land and tax practice groups at Jackson Kelly in Charleston, West Virginia focusing on all aspects of land management and administration. Prior to that she led the Land Management division at Columbia Gas Transmission LLC overseeing a large team that administered the company's land rights. She has also served as a title specialist/title attorney for EQT Production Company.
About Ramaco Resources, Inc.
Ramaco Resources, Inc. is an operator and developer of high-quality, low-cost metallurgical coal in southern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania. Its executive offices are in Lexington, Kentucky, with operational offices in Charleston, West Virginia and Sheridan, Wyoming. The Company currently has three active mining complexes in Central Appalachia and one mine not yet in production near Sheridan, Wyoming. Contiguous to the Wyoming mine it operates a research and pilot facility related to the production of advanced carbon products and materials from coal. In connection with these activities, it holds a body of roughly 50 intellectual property patents, pending applications, exclusive licensing agreements and various trademarks. For more information about us, please visit our website at www.ramacoresources.com.
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- Ownership of ErisX provides Cboe with entry to digital asset spot and derivatives markets, including clearing and settlement
- Opportunity to build comprehensive digital asset market data offering, create indices and explore further derivative products
- Network of industry partners, intermediaries and market participants of all types expected to contribute to ongoing development of client-driven solutions to increase adoption of digital assets and further mature the market
CHICAGO, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Eris Digital Holdings, LLC (ErisX), an operator of a U.S. based digital asset spot market, a regulated futures exchange and a regulated clearinghouse. Ownership of ErisX allows Cboe to enter the digital asset spot and derivatives marketplaces through a digital-first platform developed with industry partners to focus on robust regulatory compliance, data and transparency.
"Adding ErisX to the Cboe network is another exciting chapter in Cboe's growth story. We see enormous potential in the digital asset market and are excited to apply our blueprint of success to this burgeoning asset class," said Ed Tilly, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cboe Global Markets. "Tom Chippas and the entire ErisX team have made significant progress bringing the regulatory framework and transparency of traditional markets to the digital asset space, and I look forward to working together, with our industry partners, to grow the digital asset market on a global scale."
Cboe plans to operate the ErisX business as a subsidiary with Thomas Chippas, Chief Executive Officer of ErisX, remaining as head of the digital asset business, reporting to Chris Isaacson, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Cboe. In addition to operating the existing spot, derivative and clearing platforms, Cboe also intends to develop and distribute a range of digital asset data products1. Using robust market data based fundamentally on actionable bid and offer prices from the spot crypto market, Cboe Digital plans to develop a benchmark data stream to help market participants evaluate the appropriateness of crypto execution prices.
"I am incredibly proud of the ErisX team for their relentless pursuit of innovation in the digital asset space. From the beginning, our vision was to advance the digital asset spot, data, derivatives and clearing ecosystem by making regulatory compliance and operational integrity the foundation of the ErisX business," said Thomas Chippas, Chief Executive Officer of ErisX. "I couldn't be more excited for the future as we join forces with Cboe and our industry partners to leverage their collective market expertise and global resources to not only grow ErisX, but also to develop global regulatory and compliance standards that have a lasting impact on the entire digital asset space."
With Cboe, ErisX aims to be a digital asset market rooted in the exchange principles of transparency and regulatory compliance, supported by a network of intermediaries, providing client-driven solutions that help institutions fully embrace this emerging asset class. Digital assets are globally recognized and are expected to continue to benefit from a regulated derivatives market and central clearing to help mitigate counterparty risk—providing more efficient price formation, additional hedging tools, enhanced transparency, and deeper liquidity. Cboe believes meeting the demand for trading digital assets with the advantages of exchange trading is beneficial for all investors, and intermediaries have a key role to play in the ongoing development of Cboe Digital spot and derivatives markets.
"Increased retail participation has fueled record trading across equities, derivatives and digital assets, demonstrating how investors of all types want access to sustainable financial solutions," said Chris Isaacson, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Cboe Global Markets. "Cboe is uniquely positioned to help the growing segment of retail investors access traditional and new financial markets through product innovation, education and collaboration with our industry partners and intermediaries—and now we can leverage the regulatory framework, transparency, infrastructure and data solutions of those trusted markets to further mature and expand digital asset trading and clearing for a broader user base."
Market participants, including a growing number of institutional firms, have continued to request exposure to digital assets. The ErisX platform was built with the traditional exchange principles of transparency, price discovery and regulatory controls, laying the foundation for institutional trading of digital assets. ErisX's intermediary-friendly model has brought resiliency and security to the digital asset space with physically delivered futures contracts traded at and cleared through a CFTC regulated Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO). ErisX futures contracts trade alongside its spot market on an innovative and unified platform, bringing price transparency and collateral efficiency.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, however the company noted that the purchase price is not material from a financial perspective. ErisX is positioned to be a long-term leader as regulation is expected to play an increasingly prominent role in digital assets, and Cboe plans to make the early investments necessary to help maximize revenue growth potential over the medium and long term. Cboe anticipates ErisX will reach EBITDA profitability within two to three years, benefiting from a diversified stream of revenue drivers.
Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world. The company is committed to operating a trusted, inclusive global marketplace, providing leading products, technology and data solutions that enable participants to define a sustainable financial future. Cboe provides trading solutions and products in multiple asset classes, including equities, derivatives and FX, across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. To learn more, visit www.cboe.com.
ErisX Futures are offered through Eris Exchange, LLC, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) registered Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Eris Clearing, LLC, a registered Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO). The CFTC does not have regulatory oversight authority over virtual currency products including spot market trading of virtual currencies. ErisX Spot Market is not licensed, approved or registered with the CFTC and transactions on the ErisX Spot Market are not subject to CFTC rules, regulations or regulatory oversight. ErisX Spot Market is offered through Eris Clearing, LLC, which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the New York State Department of Financial Services and holds licenses in other U.S. states and territories. https://www.Erisx.com/disclaimer/
ErisX offers individuals and institutions a single, innovative platform to access crypto spot and futures markets. By combining professional tools, advanced technology, sophisticated regulatory oversight, and a diverse product set, ErisX offers compliant, capital markets friendly workflows to digital market participants. Backed by some of the world's largest trading firms and financial institutions, ErisX brings transparency and reliability to the digital asset class. ErisX, Eris Exchange, and the ErisX and Eris Exchange logos are trademarks of the Eris Exchange group of companies.
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We operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time, and it is not possible to predict all risks and uncertainties, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.
Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the loss of our right to exclusively list and trade certain index options and futures products; economic, political and market conditions; compliance with legal and regulatory obligations; price competition and consolidation in our industry; decreases in trading or clearing volumes, market data fees or a shift in the mix of products traded on our exchanges; legislative or regulatory changes or changes in tax regimes; our ability to protect our systems and communication networks from security risks, cybersecurity risks, insider threats and unauthorized disclosure of confidential information; our ability to attract and retain skilled management and other personnel; increasing competition by foreign and domestic entities; our dependence on and exposure to risk from third parties; fluctuations to currency exchange rates; factors that impact the quality and integrity of our indices; the impact of the novel coronavirus ("COVID-19") pandemic; our ability to operate our business without violating the intellectual property rights of others and the costs associated with protecting our intellectual property rights; our ability to minimize the risks, including our credit and default risks, associated with operating a European clearinghouse; our ability to accommodate trading and clearing volume and transaction traffic, including significant increases, without failure or degradation of performance of our systems; misconduct by those who use our markets or our products or for whom we clear transactions; challenges to our use of open source software code; our ability to meet our compliance obligations, including managing potential conflicts between our regulatory responsibilities and our for-profit status; our ability to maintain BIDS Trading as an independently managed and operated trading venue, separate from and not integrated with our registered national securities exchanges; damage to our reputation; the ability of our compliance and risk management methods to effectively monitor and manage our risks; our ability to manage our growth and strategic acquisitions or alliances effectively; restrictions imposed by our debt obligations and our ability to make payments on or refinance our debt obligations; our ability to maintain an investment grade credit rating; impairment of our goodwill, long-lived assets, investments or intangible assets; the accuracy of our estimates and expectations; litigation risks and other liabilities; and operating a digital asset business. More detailed information about factors that may affect our actual results to differ may be found in our filings with the SEC, including in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other filings made from time to time with the SEC.
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VIDEO: Woman smashes cars, objects with child in car in frightening gas station incident
DETROIT (WXYZ) - Video from a gas station near Detroit caught a frightening encounter that put an infant’s life in danger.
Van Buren police report the incident started with an argument between two women, but it quickly escalated to involve one of them smashing items with her car.
Surveillance video from the gas station shows a woman appearing to go on a tirade smashing into not one but two cars with a 7-month-old infant in her back seat.
The child was able to be rescued from one of the cars, but the incident wasn’t over.
One of the women, who police later identified as 26-year-old Ariyah Bennet, grabbed a bat out of the trunk of her car and smashed a windshield.
But what led up to the attack?
Van Buren police said the two women involved knew each other, and were meeting up for a child’s clothing exchange.
However, Bennett was allegedly called “a burnt piece of toast” by the other woman, and the two got into a physical fight. But it wasn’t long before fists weren’t enough.
Kim Lulow, a witness, was caught questioning what she was seeing.
“How somebody can do that with a baby in their car, I just cannot believe it,” Lulow said.
But she’s thankful no one was seriously hurt.
Van Buren police arrived at the scene, and Bennett was arrested and is facing three felonies.
The other woman involved in the altercation has not been charged, and police confirmed the 7-month-old child was not injured.
If Bennett is convicted, officials said she could face up to 14 years in prison.
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Meta announces plans to slow hiring following challenging quarter
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business
Meta said Thursday it is cutting back on hiring. The move is one of several shifts the Facebook parent company is making following a period of slower-than-usual growth.
“We regularly re-evaluate our talent pipeline according to our business needs and in light of the expense guidance given for this earnings period, we are slowing its growth accordingly,” said a statement provided by Meta spokesperson Andrea Beasley. The company still plans to “grow our workforce to ensure we focus on long term impact,” the statement said.
The company does not currently have plans for layoffs, but the hiring slowdown marks a reversal from aggressive workforce growth during the first three months of 2022. As of March 31, the company’s headcount was 77,805, up 28% year-over-year with 5,800 net new employee adds during the first quarter. Meta plans to slow or halt hiring for most mid- to senior-level positions, and recently also paused hiring early-career engineers. Business Insider first reported Meta’s plan to slow hiring.
Meta shares fell nearly 7% Thursday.
The announcement comes a week after Meta posted its slowest revenue growth in years during the first three months of 2022, and profits down 21% from the same period in the prior year. It is projecting revenues from the current quarter to be between $28 billion to $30 billion, which would be nearly flat compared to the $29 billion it brought in during the prior-year quarter.
Meta is in the midst of attempting to shift its strategy to focus on its plans for an augmented and virtual-reality-enabled future. The company is also facing steep competition from rivals like TikTok, lost business in Russia, difficulties monetizing crucial video content and challenges to its advertising business from privacy changes by Apple. Meta reported last week that its average price-per-ad decreased 8% year-over-year during the first quarter.
Although the company last week lowered its estimate for its full-year expenses by about $3 billion, Zuckerberg warned investors that Meta planned to slow the pace of some investments because of its current challenging growth prospects.
“After the start of Covid, the acceleration of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth, but we’re now seeing that trend back off,” Zuckerberg said on an earnings call with analysts. “Based on the strong revenue growth we saw in 2021, we kicked off a number of multi-year projects to accelerate some of our longer-term investments … but with our current business growth levels, we are now planning to slow the pace of some of our investments.”
On the call, Zuckerberg discussed how the company would be focusing on several key areas of investment, such as short-form video and the immersive, future form of the internet the company calls the “metaverse.”
“We’re shifting the bulk of the energy inside the company toward those high priority areas,” he said. “We have a lot of awesome people here and a lot of the decisions we get to make on a day-to-day basis are: how do we direct the really talented people that are already at the company … rather than always relying on just getting more and more new people from the outside.”
Zuckerberg also said Meta hopes in the coming years to generate sufficient operating income growth from its family of apps to fund its investments in Reality Labs while still growing the company’s overall profitability, but warned about short-term challenges.
“Of course, our priority remains building for the long-term, so while we’re currently building our plans to achieve this, it is possible that prolonged macroeconomic or business uncertainty could force us to trade off against shorter-term financial goals,” Zuckerberg said. “But we remain confident in our long-term opportunities.”
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BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese-born Canadian tycoon is being put on trial in China, Canada’s government said Monday, five years after he vanished from Hong Kong during an anti-corruption crackdown.
Xiao Jianhua was due to stand trial Monday, a government statement said. It said Canadian diplomats were “monitoring this case closely” and provided unspecified services to Xiao’s family. It said no other information would be released due to privacy considerations.
Xiao, the founder of Tomorrow Group, vanished from a Hong Kong hotel in January 2017 amid an upsurge of prosecutions of Chinese businesspeople accused of bribery and other misconduct. Authorities have never confirmed whether Xiao was detained or disclosed possible charges.
A foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said Monday he wasn’t aware of the situation.
Xiao’s disappearance came as the ruling Communist Party was stepping up efforts to pressure people wanted in corruption cases to return from abroad to stand trial. It fueled fears Beijing might be abducting people abroad. At that time, Chinese police were prohibited from operating in Hong Kong, which has a separate legal system.
The government of Chinese President Xi Jinping has tightened control over Hong Kong since then, prompting complaints it is violating the autonomy promised when the territory returned to China in 1997. The ruling party imposed a national security law in 2020 and has imprisoned pro-democracy activists.
In 2015, five people connected with a Hong Kong publishing company that sold books critical of Chinese leaders vanished from the territory and reappeared on the mainland.
Before his disappearance, Xiao had a fortune estimated at $6 billion, according to the Hurun Report, which follows China’s wealthy.
An official of China’s securities regulator said in February 2017 that Chinese people abroad who were accused of misconduct would be “captured and returned.”
Hong Kong police investigated Xiao’s disappearance and said the subject crossed the border onto the mainland. But an advertisement in the Ming Pao newspaper in Xiao’s name the same week denied he was taken against his will. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/canadian-government-tycoon-in-china-due-to-stand-trial/ | 2022-07-04T19:30:46Z |
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II (NYSE: PRPB) ("CC Neuberger"), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company formed through a partnership between CC Capital and Neuberger Berman, announced that at its Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on July 19, 2022, CC Neuberger shareholders voted to approve and adopt the previously announced business combination with Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace.
The formal results of the vote are included in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed by CC Neuberger with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").
The business combination is expected to close on July 22, 2022, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of customary closing conditions. Upon closing of the business combination, the combined company will change its name to Getty Images Holdings, Inc., and common stock and warrants of the combined company are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on July 25, 2022, under the symbol "GETY" and "GETY WS," respectively.
Craig Peters, CEO of Getty Images, said: "We are pleased the shareholders approved our merger with CC Neuberger, and we look forward to returning to public markets. As a public company we will continue moving the world with content that we believe can't be found anywhere else, advanced technology, exclusive partnerships with some of the best visual creators in the world, and an archive dating back to the beginning of photography and videography."
About CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II
CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II is a special purpose acquisition company that completed its initial public offering in July 2020, raising $828 million in proceeds. Formed and led by Chinh E. Chu, Douglas Newton, Jason K. Giordano, Matthew Skurbe, Charles Kantor and other senior professionals of CC Capital and Neuberger Berman, CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II is a blank check company formed for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.
About Getty Images
Getty Images is a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace that offers a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer around the globe, no matter their size. Through its Getty Images, iStock and Unsplash brands, websites and APIs, Getty Images serves customers in almost every country in the world and is the first-place people turn to discover, purchase and share powerful visual content from the world's best photographers and videographers. Getty Images works with over 488,000 contributors and more than 300 premium content partners to deliver this powerful and comprehensive content. Each year Getty Images covers approximately 160,000 news, sport and entertainment events providing depth and breadth of coverage that is unmatched. Getty Images maintains one of the largest and best privately-owned photographic archives in the world with millions of archive images dating back to the beginning of photography.
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In connection with the business combination (the "Business Combination"), among Griffey Global Holdings, Inc. (the "Company"), CC Neuberger, Vector Holding, LLC ("New CCNB") and the other parties to a definitive business combination agreement (the "Business Combination Agreement"), New CCNB has filed a registration statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-262203) (as may be amended from time to time, the "Registration Statement") that includes a proxy statement and a prospectus of New CCNB, which was declared effective on June 30, 2022, and CC Neuberger mailed a definitive proxy statement/prospectus relating to the Business Combination to CC Neuberger's shareholders. The Registration Statement, including the proxy statement/prospectus contained therein, contained important information about the Business Combination and the other matters that were voted upon at a meeting of CC Neuberger's shareholders held to approve the Business Combination (and related matters). New CCNB and CC Neuberger may also file other documents with the SEC regarding the Business Combination. CC Neuberger shareholders and other interested persons are advised to read the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed in connection with the Business Combination, as these materials contain important information about New CCNB, CC Neuberger, the Company and the Business Combination.
Shareholders may also obtain copies of the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC by CC Neuberger through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov, or by directing a request to CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II, 200 Park Avenue, 58th Floor, New York, New York 10166.
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CC Neuberger, the Company and their respective directors and officers may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies of CC Neuberger shareholders in connection with the business combination. CC Neuberger shareholders and other interested persons may obtain, without charge, more detailed information regarding the directors and officers of CC Neuberger and a description of their interests in CC Neuberger is contained in CC Neuberger's final prospectus related to its initial public offering, dated July 30, 2020 and in CC Neuberger's and New CCNB's subsequent filings with the SEC. Information regarding the persons who may, under SEC rules, be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies to CC Neuberger shareholders in connection with the business combination and other matters that were voted upon at the Shareholder Meeting are set forth in the Registration Statement for the business combination. Additional information regarding the interests of participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the business combination has been included in the Registration Statement that CC Neuberger filed with the SEC. Shareholders are able to obtain copies of the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC without charge at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or by directing a request to: CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II, 200 Park Avenue, 58th Floor, New York, NY.
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This report may contain a number of "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include information concerning CC Neuberger's or the Company's possible or assumed future results of operations, business strategies, debt levels, competitive position, industry environment, potential growth opportunities and the effects of regulation, including whether the business combination will generate returns for shareholders. These forward-looking statements are based on CC Neuberger's or the Company's management's current expectations, estimates, projections and beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions concerning future events. When used in this report, the words "estimates," "projected," "expects," "anticipates," "forecasts," "plans," "intends," "believes," "seeks," "may," "will," "should," "future," "propose" and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside the Company's or CC Neuberger 's management's control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors include, but are not limited to: (a) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of negotiations and any subsequent definitive agreements with respect to the business combination; (b) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against CC Neuberger, the combined company or others following the announcement of the business combination and any definitive agreements with respect thereto; (c) the inability to complete the business combination due to the failure to satisfy the conditions to closing; (d) changes to the proposed structure of the business combination that may be required or appropriate as a result of applicable laws or regulations or as a condition to obtaining regulatory approval of the business combination; (e) the ability to meet the applicable stock exchange listing standards following the consummation of the business combination; (f) the inability to complete the private placement transactions contemplated by the Business Combination Agreement and related agreements and the transactions contemplated by the forward purchase agreement or backstop agreement or close the sale of the forward purchase securities or backstop securities, as applicable; (g) the risk that the business combination disrupts current plans and operations of the Company or its subsidiaries as a result of the announcement and consummation of the transactions described herein; (h) the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the business combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the combined company to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its management and key employees; (i) costs related to the business combination; (j) changes in applicable laws or regulations, including legal or regulatory developments (such as the SEC's statement on accounting and reporting considerations for warrants in special purpose acquisition companies) which could result in the need for CC Neuberger to restate its historical financial statements and cause unforeseen delays in the timing of the business combination and negatively impact the trading price of CC Neuberger's securities and the attractiveness of the business combination to investors; (k) the possibility that the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (l) the Company's estimates of expenses and profitability and (m) other risks and uncertainties indicated from time to time in the final prospectus of CC Neuberger, including those under "Risk Factors" therein, and other documents filed or to be filed with the SEC by CC Neuberger. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and the Company and CC Neuberger assume no obligation and, except as required by law, do not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Neither the Company nor CC Neuberger gives any assurance that either the Company or CC Neuberger will achieve its expectations.
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Getty Images
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CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II
CC Capital
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Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
215-355-4449
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About 70 percent of American helmet buyers are unaware of rotational motion, a key contributor to traumatic brain injuries
STOCKHOLM, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey suggests a large disconnect in Americans' education around concussions and how to reduce the risk of them using helmets.
In the United States, the prevalence of traumatic brain injuries (TBI), especially in sports, has been called a crisis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 64,362 TBI-related deaths in 2020 and 223,135 TBI-related hospitalizations in 2019. – more than 611 TBI-related hospitalizations and 176 TBI-related deaths per day1. In 2020, the CDC also reported that 7 percent of U.S. children suffered a TBI2, and that each year in the U.S., about 3.8 million concussions occur from sports-related injuries3.
The survey, which was conducted by Nielsen, a consumer survey company, and commissioned by Mips, a helmet safety technology company, polled a representative sample of 1,000 Americans, split evenly between male and female, ranging 18-65 years old. All survey subjects have either bought a helmet in the past three years or plan to buy a helmet in the next six months for any of the following applications: cycling, rock climbing, horse riding, motorcycling, skiing, snowboarding, team sports, and safety equipment.
Among the most significant findings of the survey is that 70 percent of American helmet buyers are unaware of the term rotational motion. Lack of understanding of rotational motion, a key contributor to TBIs, appears to correlate with Americans' helmet purchasing decisions; 7 out of 10 American helmet buyers did not consider at all how well the helmet protects against rotational motion when buying a helmet.
Rotational motion is a common cause for concussions and more severe brain injuries in oblique hits to the head. In most instances when you fall while moving and hit your head, you don't hit your head in a straight 90-degree angle towards the surface. Instead, you often fall and hit your head at an angle, similar to how a tennis ball makes contact with the ground after being hit with a racket. When your head hits something at an angle, it typically exposes your head to rotational motion, which studies have shown can be more dangerous than linear motion.
Pioneering studies from the mid-20th century have shown that rotational motion is a key component in some traumatic brain injuries such as concussions and diffuse axonal injury4,5,6. The rotational motion causes shearing of the brain tissue, which can cause traumatic brain injuries. After these pioneering studies, more recent studies have supported the prevalence of rotational motion in diffuse traumatic brain injuries7,8,9,10. Despite this evidence, today there are only two helmet testing standards that account for rotational motion (FIM and ECE22.06), both of which pertain only to motorcycle helmets in the EU.
The survey also found that about 40 percent of American helmet buyers have suffered a concussion in the past, 60 percent of which were not wearing a helmet at the time of the concussion. Additionally, comfort and fit are the most important criteria that Americans consider when purchasing a helmet, followed by perceived protection against head injuries, meeting specific safety regulations, and price.
"Around the world, traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are often poorly understood," says Peter Halldin, Co-Founder of Mips. "Improving safety and helping increase education around TBIs – there is nothing more important to us than that. Think of a parent for example, when buying a
helmet for their child, or you buying a helmet for yourself or a loved one. If people aren't equipped with relevant information, how can they make informed decisions?"
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics: Mortality Data on CDC WONDER. Accessed 2022. [LINK]
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Concussions and Brain Injuries in Children: United States, 2020. Accessed 2022. [LINK]
- University of Michigan Health, Neurosciences – Concussion in Athletes. Accessed 2022. [LINK]
- Holbourn, A. H. S. (1943). Mechanics of Head Injuries. The Lancet, 9, 438–441.
- Ommaya, A. K., Yarnell, P., Hirsch, A. E., & Harris, E. H. (1967). Scaling of Experimental Data on Cerebral Concussion in Sub-Human Primates to Concussion Threshold for Man. 11th Stapp Car Crash Conference, 47-52.
- Margulies, S. S., & Thibault, L. E. (1992). A Proposed Tolerance Criterion for Diffuse Axonal Injury in Man. Journal of Biomechanics, 25(8), 917–923.
- Browne, K. D., Chen, X. H., Meaney, D. F., & Smith, D. H. (2011). Mild traumatic brain injury and diffuse axonal injury in swine. Journal of Neurotrauma, 28(9), 1747–1755.
- Gennarelli, T. A., Thibault, L. E., & Ommaya, A. K. (1972). Pathophysiologic Responses to Rotational and Translational Acclerations of the Head. 16th Stapp Car Crash Conference, 296–308.
- Kleiven, S. (2007). Predictors for Traumatic Brain Injuries Evaluated through Accident Reconstructions. Stapp Car Crash Journal, 51, 81–114.
- Kleiven, S. (2013). Why Most Traumatic Brain Injuries are Not Caused by Linear Acceleration but Skull Fractures Are. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 1, 1–5.
Mips specializes in helmet-based safety and is a market leader in this field. The Mips® safety system is based on an "ingredient brand" model and is sold to the helmet industry worldwide. The Mips® safety system is patent protected and based on 25 years of research, testing and development in cooperation with the Royal Institute of Technology and Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. The company's headquarters are also located here, with more than 60 employees working in research and development, sales, marketing and administration, and the test center.
Currently, Mips works with 143 helmet manufacturers, the safety system is used in 833 models and was integrated into 12.6 million helmets worldwide in 2021 alone. For more information, visit mipsprotection.com.
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HAIKOU, China, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JX Luxventure Limited (Nasdaq: LLL) (the "Company"), a company delivering comprehensive products solutions to global elite families serviced by our business customers with business segments covering menswear, cross-border merchandise and tourism, announced today that that on June 2, 2022, it received a nomination for "Best Software Solution Provider" award at the 2022 Fifth Annual Global Cross-border E-Commerce Forum.
Ms. Sun "Ice" Lei, Chief Executive Officer of the Company commented: "Other nominees for this award are all well-known software and cross-border merchandise providers in the world, including Oracle China, Shoplazza and GiiMall. We are truly honored that the Company, being the only early-stage company, was nominated for this award. This is the affirmation of the professional work done by our technology team, led by our CTO, Liu Ze, an expert in Artificial Intelligence, Internet of All Things and Block Chain. We have identified technology consulting as a new business segment and on June 1, 2022, we signed the first Technology Consulting Agreement with a value of USD1,000,000. This is a great beginning of our technology consulting business and paved a solid foundation for the future."
About JX Luxventure Limited
Headquartered in Haikou, China, JX Luxventure Limited is a company delivering comprehensive products solutions to global elite families serviced by our business customers with business segments covering menswear, cross-border merchandise and tourism. To learn more about the Company, please visit its corporate website at en.jxluxventure.com.
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COQUITLAM, BC, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fuse Cobalt Inc. ("the Company" or "Fuse") (TSXV: FUSE) (OTCQB: FUSEF) (FRA:43W3) is pleased to announce that effective August 9, 2022 , the Company has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") regarding a Cobalt Raw Material Supply Agreement with Electra Battery Materials Corporation ("Electra"). This agreement is focused primarily on Fuse's Teledyne and Glencore Bucke Cobalt Exploration Projects located in Cobalt, Ontario in close proximity to Electra's cobalt sulfate refinery in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario.
Mr. Robert Setter, Fuse CEO comments, "This MOU is the first step towards a potential Definitive Agreement to supply cobalt raw material for Electra's nearby cobalt refinery and sets out the terms by which we will exchange information with Electra to advance a potential transaction to involving the supply of cobalt raw materials. The end result of this collaboration will be the execution of a Definitive Agreement to provide cobalt feed stock to the Electra Cobalt Refinery which is roughly a stone's throw away from our two cobalt exploration properties in Ontario."
Trent Mell, Electra's CEO stated, "Having a domestic source of cobalt raw material produced ethically and with low-carbon emissions will help us to better address the demand for onshore EV battery materials. We look forward to working with Fuse Cobalt as they advance development of their projects and begin production."
The Transaction contemplates the supply of cobalt raw material from either one or both of the Company's Glencore Bucke and Teledyne mining projects located in northeastern Ontario, Canada. The transaction is expected to provide a 'Made in North America', low greenhouse gas emissions cobalt sulfate solution, capable of supplying the continent's growing lithium-ion battery supply capacity.
This MOU is anticipated to lay the framework for a future Transaction contemplating the following elements:
- Electra commits to purchase up to 2 kpta (kilo tonnes) per annum of cobalt contained in raw material from Fuse Cobalt's 'Glencore Bucke' and/or 'Teledyne' operations to Electra's Cobalt Camp Refinery.
- Fuse Cobalt will use commercially reasonable efforts to achieve commercial production on or before January 1, 2028, which may be extended by agreement of the parties for up to 12 months following which Electra has a right to terminate the agreement and Fuse Cobalt may elect to sell to other parties.
- The purchase price to be paid by Electra for cobalt in raw material will be linked to Fastmarkets MB's standard-grade metal price multiplied by a payable mechanism to be agreed prior to completion of the Transaction.
- Electra and Fuse Cobalt agree to collaborate on ways to extract copper by-product on a profit share basis.
The Transaction is subject to a Definitive Agreement which is in turn subject to the following conditions:
- Fuse to develop a processing flowsheet designed to produce a cobalt material which is suitable for further processing to battery grade cobalt sulfate at Electra's refinery.
- Fuse to align with and abides by Electra's Supply Chain Policy, Environmental Policy, Sustainability Policy, and Human Rights Policy, as outlined in Appendix A of this MOU. Within 12 months of first production, furthermore, Fuse Cobalt commits to starting the process to become Responsible Minerals Initiative certified through the Responsible Minerals Assurance Process.
- Fuse to successfully complete a bankable feasibility study of either or both of the aforementioned primary cobalt projects.
About Fuse Cobalt Inc. https://fusecobalt.com/
Fuse Cobalt Inc. is a Canadian based exploration company that trades under the symbol FUSE on the TSX Venture Exchange. The Company's focus is on exploration for high value metals required for the manufacturing of batteries.
Ontario Cobalt Properties:
Fuse owns a 100% interest its Glencore Bucke Property, situated in Bucke Township, 6 km east-northeast of Cobalt, Ontario, subject to a back-in provision, production royalty and off-take agreement. The Glencore Bucke Property consists of 16.2 hectares and sits along the west boundary of Fuse's Teledyne Cobalt Project. The Company also owns a 100% interest, subject to a royalty, in the Teledyne Project located near Cobalt, Ontario. The Teledyne Property adjoins the south and west boundaries of claims that hosted the Agnico Mine.
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Robert Setter, President & CEO
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Two children in U.S. diagnosed with monkeypox, officials say
NEW YORK (AP) — Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the U.S., health officials said Friday.
One is a toddler in California and the other an infant who is not a U.S. resident, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The children were described as being in good health and receiving treatment. How they caught the disease is being investigated, but officials think it was through household transmission. Other details weren’t immediately disclosed.
Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, but this year more than 15,000 cases have been reported in countries that historically don’t see the disease. In the U.S. and Europe, the vast majority of infections have happened in men who have sex with men, though health officials have stressed that anyone can catch the virus.
In Europe, there have been at least six monkeypox cases among kids 17 years old and younger.
This week, doctors in the Netherlands published a report of a boy who was seen at an Amsterdam hospital with about 20 red-brown bumps scattered across his body. It was monkeypox, and doctors said they could not determine how he got it.
In Africa, monkeypox infections in children have been more common, and doctors have noted higher proportions of severe cases and deaths in young children.
One reason may be that many older adults were vaccinated against smallpox as kids, likely giving them some protection against monkeypox, said Dr. James Lawler, an infectious disease doctor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Smallpox vaccinations were discontinued when the disease was eradicated about 40 years ago. So, children since then have not been vaccinated against smallpox and wouldn’t have any such protection against the related monkeypox virus, Lawler said.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An official said Thursday that at least eight inmates have died at an overcrowded prison in Haiti that ran out of food two months ago, adding to dozens of similar deaths this year as the country’s institutions crumble.
Hunger and oppressive heat contributed to the inmates’ deaths reported this week by the prison in the southwest city of Les Cayes, Ronald Richemond, the city’s government commissioner, told The Associated Press. He said the prison houses 833 inmates.
“Whoever can help should help immediately because the prisoners are in need,” he said.
The United Nations Security Council released a report last week saying 54 prison deaths related to malnutrition were documented in Haiti between January and April alone in the country of more than 11 million people.
It urged Haiti’s government “to take the necessary measures to find a long-lasting solution to the prison food, water and medicine crisis.”
The country’s severely overcrowded prison system has long struggled to provide food and water to inmates. It blames insufficient government funds and the problem has worsened in recent months, leading to a new rise in severe malnutrition and deaths.
By law, prisons in Haiti are required to provide inmates with water and two meals a day, which usually consist of porridge and a bowl of rice with fish or some type of meat.
But in recent months, inmates have been forced to rely solely on friends or family for food and water, and many times they are unable to visit because gang-related violence makes some areas impassable, said Michelle Karshan, co-founder of the nonprofit Health through Walls, which provides health care in Haiti’s prisons.
The nonprofit joined three other organizations this year to feed the roughly 11,000 inmates in Haiti’s 20 prisons for three months, helping at a time when the country was increasingly unstable following the July 7 killing of President Jovenel Moïse.
But the situation has since deteriorated.
“These deaths are very painful,” she said. “The internal organs start to fail one by one. … It’s a horrible thing to witness.”
Health through Walls has launched several programs to target the problem long term, including starting a garden at a prison in northern Haiti that produces spinach and other crops, along with a chicken coop and a fish farm.
“But that’s one prison,” Karshan said. “The bottom line is the prison system has to take responsibility. They can’t sit back. … They’re the government.”
Les Cayes and other cities in Haiti’s southern region also have been affected by a spike in gang violence that has blocked the main roads leading out of Haiti’s capital, making it extremely difficult to distribute food and other supplies to the rest of the country, said Pierre Espérance, executive director of Haiti’s National Human Rights Defense Network.
In addition, a water pump that the Les Cayes prison relies on has long been broken, forcing relatives and friends of inmates to carry buckets of water from long distances, Richemond said.
Les Cayes, like surrounding cities, is also still struggling to recover from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck southwest Haiti in August, killing more than 2,200 people and destroying or damaging thousands of buildings.
Richemond said some of the prison cells were destroyed and have not been rebuilt, forcing authorities to cram even more people into a smaller space.
The cell occupancy rate in Haiti stands at more than 280% of capacity, with 83% of inmates stuck in pretrial detentions that in some cases can drag on for more than a decade before an initial court appearance, according to the U.N. Many prisoners take turns sleeping on the floor while others simply stand or try to make hammocks and attach them to cell windows, paying someone to keep their spot.
In January 2010, some 400 detainees at the prison in Les Cayes rioted to protest the worsening conditions. Authorities said police killed at least 12 inmates, and up to 40 others were wounded.
Espérance, with the National Human Rights Defense Network, blamed the current situation on the government and said officials need to impose rule of law.
“The situation is getting worse every day,” he said. “They can only fix the problem for one or two weeks. After that, the problem will continue. Today, it’s Les Cayes. Tomorrow, it could be somewhere else.”
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Coto reported from San Juan, Puerto Rico. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/official-8-more-die-as-haiti-prisons-lack-food-water/ | 2022-06-24T15:04:48Z |
SEATTLE, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quark Expeditions, the global Leader in Polar Adventures, has introduced The Quark Protection Promise, the most flexible and consumer-friendly booking policy in the expedition industry—and it's permanent!
"The pandemic dramatically impacted the travel industry, ultimately challenging companies to enrich their booking terms with greater flexibility," said Wendy Batchelor, Vice-President of Marketing for Quark Expeditions. "Many travel operators, Quark Expeditions included, have provided guests with that much-needed flexibility over the past two years. Today, we're especially proud to announce we've introduced further enhancements that are now permanently embedded in our new Quark Protection Promise. Those guest benefits are here for good!"
Unpacking The Quark Protection Promise: Our five-fold commitment to our guests:
- 15-Day Free Cancellation Free cancellation if travelers change their mind within 15 days. No questions asked.
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About Travelopia: Travelopia is one of the world's leading specialist travel groups. A pioneer in the experiential travel sector with a portfolio consisting of more than 50 independently operated brands, most of which are leaders in their sector. From sailing adventures, safaris and sports tours, to Arctic expeditions, each brand is diverse and focused on creating unforgettable experiences for customers across the world.
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STN news publishers will continue to have distribution rights to PGA TOUR video content including:
- Over 100 Official PGA TOUR highlights per round for every PGA TOUR event including THE PLAYERS Championship and FedExCup Playoffs, round and event previews and recaps, shots of the day, golfer interviews, features and other fan-centric content
- Official highlights and coverage from the PGA TOUR Champions, Korn Ferry Tour, PGA TOUR Canada, and PGA TOUR Latinoamérica
NEW YORK, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - STN Video is pleased to announce the multi-year renewal of their exclusive partnership with the PGA TOUR to distribute digital video highlights to news publishers. STN partners with every major sports league and organization in the United States and Canada, bringing exclusive, premium sports videos to digital publishers in both countries. STN has been the PGA TOUR's online video distribution platform for local & regional news outlets since 2014.
The PGA TOUR provides STN with one of the largest golf video content offerings in all of digital sports. Over the course of this partnership with the PGA TOUR, STN Video has delivered hundreds of millions of video views to engaged golf fans. This premium golf video offering, which includes over 100 highlights per event round, player interviews, and expert analysis, is made available to the top digital publishers across the U.S. and Canada to extend the TOUR's brand and sponsors to their avid golf fans.
"STN Video is a first-rate partner for distributing our digital video content to news outlets and golf fans," said Chris Wandell, Vice President, Media Business Development at the PGA TOUR. "Since 2014, our partnership has successfully allowed the TOUR's digital video content to reach more golf fans through STN's publishing partners while creating more opportunities for TOUR sponsors and advertisers."
"The PGA TOUR produces the very best in professional golf content," states STN's CEO Matthew Watson. "We are extremely pleased to provide one of the largest digital distribution platforms in all of sports to not only display this world-class content, but to offer unique and incremental opportunities for the premier brands supporting the PGA TOUR."
Publishers leverage STN's turnkey online video platform (OVP) for premium video content, world-class technology, and sophisticated revenue delivery at no cost. From in-content video embed links to fully responsive, advanced video players, STN's publishing partners have a range of options, including STN's artificial intelligence-powered Smart Match® player which enables publishers to integrate premium video into every article at scale. STN's video player takes only minutes to install to quickly enable desktop and mobile viewing.
To learn how you can add PGA TOUR highlights and video content to your website, please visit stnvideo.com or email publishers@stnvideo.com for more info.
STN Video is North America's largest independent online video platform, helping digital publishers, content providers and advertisers thrive with online video. STN Video delivers brand safe video from more than 200 providers, including MLB, Rolling Stone, Variety, Associated Press, the NBA, and Bloomberg and in contextually relevant environments across 1,900+ trusted, local publishers, including the New York Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald and more.
STN Video has a library of 1 million videos and counting, spanning sports, business, technology, entertainment, lifestyle and more. Using Smart Match® AI-powered technology, publishers simply place one single embed code on their website and relevant video content is matched with their articles.
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PITTSBURGH, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) announced today that Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer William S. Demchak and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert Q. Reilly will discuss business performance, strategy and banking at 10 a.m. (ET) Thursday, June 2, at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York City.
The following will be accessible at www.pnc.com/investorevents: a link to the live webcast; related materials, including cautionary statements regarding forward-looking information, available prior to the start of the webcast; and a webcast replay available for 30 days.
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. is one of the largest diversified financial services institutions in the United States, organized around its customers and communities for strong relationships and local delivery of retail and business banking including a full range of lending products; specialized services for corporations and government entities, including corporate banking, real estate finance and asset-based lending; wealth management and asset management. For information about PNC, visit www.pnc.com.
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VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — A lone suspect fired on a small group meeting at a suburban church near one of Alabama’s major cities Thursday evening, fatally wounding two people and injuring a third before being taken into custody, authorities said.
The attack occurred at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills, Police Capt. Shane Ware said. He said officers rushed to the church after dispatchers got a call reporting an active shooter at the church at 6:22 p.m.
“From what we’ve gathered from the circumstances of this evening, a lone suspect entered a small church group meeting and began shooting. Three people were shot. Two people are deceased. One person is being treated for an unknown injury at a local hospital,” Ware said at a late Thursday news briefing.
He added that a suspect was in custody and that there was “no threat to the community at this time.”
At an earlier briefing, Ware had initially said one person died and two others wounded in the shooting had been hospitalized.
Meanwhile, police declined to identify the suspect or the victims or provide further details of the attack, adding another briefing was planned Friday.
The FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives dispatched agents to the scene. Investigators remained hours past nightfall, with yellow police tape cordoning off the church complex and emergency police and fire vehicles with flashing lights blocking the route to the church. Nearby, people huddled and prayed.
The Rev. Kelley Hudlow, an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Alabama, told broadcast outlet WBRC that the church and the community at large were stunned by the shooting.
“It is shocking. Saint Stephen’s is a community built on love and prayers and grace and they are going to come together,” she said in a live interview with the station. “People of all faiths are coming together to pray to hope for healing.”
She added that the church was receiving supportive messages from all over the U.S. and the world. “We need everybody out there. Pray, think, meditate and send love to this community because we are going to need all of it,” she said.
The church’s website had listed a “Boomers Potluck” for Thursday night. “There will be no program, simply eat and have time for fellowship,” the flyer read.
Thursday’s shooting was the latest of several high-profile shootings, including a racist attack last month that killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, and the shooting deaths May 24 of 19 children and two adults at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school in which the gunman was killed. In Southern California, one person was killed and five injured May 15 after a man authorities say was motivated by hatred of Taiwan opened fire on Taiwanese parishioners.
On Saturday thousands of people rallied in the U.S. and at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to renew calls for stricter gun control measures. Survivors of mass shootings and other incidents of gun violence also lobbied legislators and testified on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a statement late Thursday lamenting what she called the shocking and tragic loss of life at the church. Though she said she was glad to hear the suspect was in custody, she wrote: “This should never happen — in a church, in a store, in the city or anywhere.”
Vestavia Hills is a residential community just southeast of Birmingham, one of Alabama’s two most populous cities. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/police-multiple-people-shot-at-alabama-church-suspect-held/ | 2022-06-17T22:15:17Z |
Uvalde Police Chief Pete Arredondo on May 24. A special school board meeting scheduled for Saturday morning in Uvalde, Texas, to consider whether to terminate the employment of the district's police chief is canceled, the district announced July 22.
A special school board meeting scheduled for Saturday morning in Uvalde, Texas, to consider whether to terminate the employment of the district's police chief is canceled, the district announced Friday.
"In conformity with due process requirements, and at the request of his attorney, the meeting to consider the termination of Chief Arredondo will be held at a later date which has yet to be determined," said the written statement from the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.
In the meantime, Chief Pedro "Pete" Arredondo will be on unpaid administrative leave, according to the district.
Arredondo has come under withering criticism from both state officials and the public over his conduct during the Robb Elementary school massacre, in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Responding authorities who arrived at the school waited more than an hour at the school before confronting and killing the gunman -- a move that some law enforcement experts say could have cost lives.
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw has called the law enforcement response to the attack an "abject failure," adding the only thing stopping officers from entering the rooms where the gunman was in "was the on-scene commander, who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children."
State authorities have identified Arredondo as that commander, but he has said that did not consider himself the incident commander.
The 77-page report described a " lackadaisical approach" by the nearly 400 officers who responded to the scene, saying, "The entirety of law enforcement and its training, preparation, and response shares systemic responsibility for many missed opportunities."
In that report, Arredondo said that his approach was "responding as a police officer."
"I didn't title myself. But once I got in there and we took that fire, back then, I realized we need some things. We've got to get in that door. We need an extraction tool. We need those keys ... As far as I'm talking about the command part...the people that went in, there was a big group of them outside the door. I have no idea who they were and how they walked in or anything kind of -- I wasn't given that direction," the chief said in the report.
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The AI-driven Vectra platform recognized for its leading detection capabilities that span across network, hybrid and multi-cloud attack surfaces.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vectra AI, the leader in AI-driven cyber threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, today announced that the company has been named a winner in two categories of the prestigious 2022 SC Awards. The Vectra platform was recognized with the "Best Threat Detection Technology" and "Best Threat Intelligence Technology" in this year's awards. Vectra optimizes Security AI to understand attacker behaviors across public cloud, identity, SaaS applications, and networks, enabling security teams to detect, prioritize, investigate and respond to threats in real-time.
Now in its 25th year, the SC Awards are the cybersecurity industry's most prestigious and competitive honor, recognizing the solutions, organizations, and people driving innovation and success in information security. Vectra applies patented Security AI to surface and prioritize threats while integrating seamlessly into existing security stacks. Organizations that deploy Vectra gain the coverage, clarity and control required to get ahead and stay ahead of evasive attacks across today's threat landscape. The Vectra platform enables:
- Coverage: Vectra's AI-driven detections provide visibility and deep context about attacker methods (TTPs) for over 90% of the defined MITRE ATT&CK techniques across attack surfaces including public cloud, SaaS, identity, network, and endpoints.
- Clarity: Security teams receive a high-quality attack signal along with AI triage and AI prioritization of threats. This eliminates the need for triage filters, reduces alert noise by more than 80% and enables the prioritization of the threats that matter most—requiring less time to investigate and respond to attacks.
- Control: Security teams see and stop attacks with less tools, less rules and less work through seamless integrations with existing technology stacks for context, workflow and response—further enabling operations at speed and scale.
"Organizations that prioritize AI detection and response are giving themselves a leg up on today's attacks, especially when the right approach to AI is leveraged," said Kevin Kennedy, SVP Product Management, Vectra. "There are just too many unknowns that security teams are up against—from expanding attack surfaces, evasive and evolving attacker methods and overwhelming alert noise—Vectra's approach to AI detection and response can neutralize those challenges and turn the tables on attackers. We're honored to be recognized by SC Media in these two categories as threat detection and threat intelligence remain at the core of everything we do."
The recognition comes two months after Vectra was recognized in the 2022 SC Media Awards Europe as the winner in the Best Behaviour Analytics / Enterprise Threat Detection category along with being listed as "highly commended" in three additional categories.
"The last year brought distinct challenges for the customer community, who are still struggling to manage the impact of the pandemic while transitioning to a new security standard," said Jill Aitoro, senior vice president of content strategy at CyberRisk Alliance and editor in chief of SC Media. "Winners of our Trust Awards answered the call by delivering technology that could help manage the evolving threat landscape."
This year's SC Award winners will be celebrated at InfoSec World 2022, taking place between September 26-28. For more information about the SC Awards and for a full list of 2022 winners, please visit: https://www.scmagazine.com/sc-awards.
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Vectra® is a leader in cyber threat detection and response for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises. The Vectra platform uses AI to detect threats at speed across public cloud, identity, SaaS applications, and data centers. Only Vectra optimizes AI to detect attacker methods—the TTPs at the heart of all attacks—rather than simplistically alerting on "different." The resulting high-fidelity threat signal and clear context enables cybersecurity teams to respond to threats sooner and to stop attacks in progress faster. Organizations worldwide rely on Vectra for cybersecurity resilience in the face of dangerous cyber threats and to prevent ransomware, supply chain compromise, identity takeovers, and other cyberattacks from impacting their businesses. For more information, visit vectra.ai.
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Financial institutions must tune into consumer expectations and meet them where they are to retain and attract loyal customers
SAN ANTONIO, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vericast's latest research revealed how consumers' relationships with financial institutions are changing, and in some surprising ways.
Nearly half of respondents say they seek financial advice from friends or family, while less than a third are seeking it from a bank, credit union or financial advisor. Thirty-four percent of Gen Z consumers obtain financial advice from TikTok and 33% get it from YouTube, while only 24% of this age group seek advice from financial advisors.
To uncover insights on the current state of financial perceptions and priorities, Vericast, a leading marketing solutions company, conducted the survey of 1,000 adults in the U.S. and found that people are increasingly turning to alternate sources for financial information and advice.
"It is clear that financial institutions have a critical need to innovate quickly and reimagine their approach to retain customers," said Stephenie Williams, Vice President, Financial Institution Marketing Product and Strategy at Vericast. "Banks and credit unions need to meet customers where they are, not only positioning themselves as a go-to, trusted resource providing education through traditional strategies, but also using new channels and platforms to reach younger generations."
Furthermore, there is opportunity to deliver on evolving expectations to help banks and credit unions acquire and retain customers amid market volatility. According to the survey, consumers expect financial institutions to accommodate them during widespread financial hardships, like the unprecedented inflation we are experiencing today. Seventy-nine percent expect flexibility on rates and fees, such as waiving overdraft or late fees, while 66% say they expect it to be easier to obtain new lines of credit. An additional 69% said notifications about lines of credit available to them and promotions on special rate offers, such as low interest balance transfers, are also expected during times of financial instability.
- There is a correlation between mental wellbeing and banking
- Mobile banking, interest rates and sign-up incentives factor into choosing a financial institution
- Financial priorities for 2022 show opportunity
Vericast is reimagining marketing solutions one business-to-human connection at a time. By influencing how over 120 million households eat, shop, buy, save and borrow, Vericast fuels commerce, drives economic growth and directly accelerates revenue potential for thousands of brands and businesses. While its award-winning portfolio of products, technology and solutions are part of the Vericast story, its people are the true differentiators; trailblazers in data intelligence, marketing services, transaction solutions, campaign management and media delivery.
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Dear Annie: As a longtime reader, I want to say that I love your column. I am writing now to ask for your advice.
I have a wonderful marriage with someone I met when we were teenagers. We have a beautiful family with two boys and some pets, and almost everything is good. However, my wife becomes obsessed with causes at times, and for the past year or so, she is so intensely invested in feral cats. She got involved with a local group, and just about every day, sometimes twice a day, they go check their traps to see if a new cat has wandered in. They then have a relationship with a vet to rapidly spay/neuter the cats, and then our family and a few others foster them for a few days until it’s time to release.
I am the breadwinner, and I can’t tell you how much money has gone into spaying and neutering all these cats. She leaves me to cook for the kids when she checks the traps in the evenings, and the bottom line is that I don’t like having a part-time wife, and my kids are confused why Momma leaves for a few hours every night.
I have tried talking to her, but it just starts a fight since she claims I “hate animals” because I refuse to become a vegan as well. Plus, I feel like all sentient creatures have the right to their own choices, and by forcibly kidnapping and spaying these cats, they are taking their choices and natural rights away. Should I just hope to sweat this out and wait until she moves on to the next cause? I am open to counseling, but she isn’t. What would you suggest?
— Done With Cats
Dear Done With Cats: It’s not the cats that you are done with; it’s the feeling of being second fiddle to all of your wife’s causes. What your wife is doing is very admirable and important. Without organizations that trap, spay, neuter and release feral cats, cities would be overrun with them. What is not admirable is your wife’s distribution of time.
Bringing up the fact that you are the breadwinner and expect dinner on the table is a bit dated, but expecting a partner and mother of your children to be around and put the family as her priority is not. It is always important. It does sound like she is running from something, albeit running to a good cause — but still running. Seek the help of a professional counselor for yourself to sort out why you two are having a hard time connecting.
Sometimes it’s easier to constantly stay busy and on the move to avoid sitting down for quality family time. As you progress in therapy, you will gain insights into approaching this subject without having it devolve into a fight, and she might even join you for counseling together. | https://www.tdtnews.com/life/advice_columns/article_79527b5c-01e9-11ed-adb5-d3ad94fdaeba.html | 2022-07-13T08:16:18Z |
Court says indictments invalid in Flint water scandal
DETROIT (AP) — A judge had no authority to issue indictments in the Flint water scandal, the Michigan Supreme Court said Tuesday in an extraordinary decision that wipes out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and seven other people.
It’s an astonishing defeat for Attorney General Dana Nessel, who took office in 2019, got rid of a special prosecutor and put together a new team to investigate whether crimes were committed when lead contaminated Flint’s water system in 2014-15.
State laws “authorize a judge to investigate, subpoena witnesses, and issue arrest warrants” as a one-person grand jury, the Supreme Court said.
“But they do not authorize the judge to issue indictments,” the court said in a 6-0 opinion.
The attorney general’s office was reviewing the decision and had no immediate comment, spokeswoman Lynsey Mukomel said.
In a money-saving move, Flint managers appointed by Snyder switched the city’s water source to the Flint River. State regulators said the river water didn’t need to be treated to reduce its corrosive qualities. That was a ruinous decision: Lead from old pipes flowed through the system for 18 months in the majority-Black city.
Snyder was charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty. Ex-health chief Nick Lyon and Michigan’s former chief medical executive, Dr. Eden Wells, were charged with involuntary manslaughter for nine deaths related to Legionnaires’ disease when Flint’s water system might have lacked enough chlorine to combat bacteria in the river water.
Six others were also indicted on various charges: Snyder’s longtime fixer, Rich Baird; former senior aide Jarrod Agen; former Flint managers Gerald Ambrose and Darnell Earley; former Flint public works chief Howard Croft; and Nancy Peeler, a state health department manager.
Nessel assigned Fadwa Hammoud to lead the criminal investigation, along with Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, while the attorney general focused on settling lawsuits against the state.
Hammoud and Worthy turned to a one-judge grand jury in Genesee County — a century-old, rarely used method — to hear evidence in secret and get indictments against Snyder and others.
“There are no velvet ropes in our criminal justice system,” Hammoud proudly declared in 2021 when charges were filed. “Nobody — no matter how powerful or well-connected — is above accountability when they commit a crime.”
But she and her team, acting on Worthy’s recommendation, didn’t follow a traditional process. Hammoud still hasn’t publicly explained why.
Prosecutors in Michigan typically file charges after a police investigation. A one-judge grand jury is extremely rare.
“It seems that the power of a judge conducting an inquiry to issue an indictment was simply an unchallenged assumption, until now,” the Supreme Court said Tuesday.
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PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 10x Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TXG), a life sciences leader focused on mastering biology to advance human health, today announced the company will be participating in the upcoming Morgan Stanley 20th Annual Global Healthcare Conference in New York, New York.
10x Genomics' management is scheduled to participate in a fireside chat on Tuesday, September 13, at 10:35 a.m. Eastern Time. Interested parties may access a live and archived webcast of the presentation on the "Investors" section of the company's website at: https://investors.10xgenomics.com/.
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10x Genomics is a life science technology company building products to interrogate, understand and master biology to advance human health. Our integrated solutions include instruments, consumables and software for analyzing biological systems at a resolution and scale that matches the complexity of biology. 10x Genomics products have been adopted by researchers around the world including in all of the top 100 global research institutions as ranked by Nature in 2021 based on publications and all of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies by 2021 research and development spend and have been cited in over 3,800 research papers on discoveries ranging from oncology to immunology and neuroscience. Our patent portfolio comprises more than 1,500 issued patents and patent applications.
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LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Joanne Moore, an acclaimed educator, university administrator, and film industry executive, will be the next dean of Loyola Marymount University's top-ranked School of Film and Television, the university announced today.
Moore brings to LMU decades of leadership experience spanning higher education and Hollywood. Most recently, she served as associate professor and chair of the Producing Department in the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
"We're excited that Dean Moore will be bringing her record of accomplishments in higher education and the film industry to LMU," said Executive Vice President and Provost Tom Poon. "Her passion for developing 'citizen artists' aligns with our LMU School of Film and Television's mission to educate the next generation of filmmakers, and her industry connections and insights will propel our students and programs to new heights."
At UNCSA, Moore oversaw the academic and administrative operations of the Producing Department and taught numerous courses about production and development. In 2020, the university honored her with its Excellence in Teaching Award.
Before her career in higher education, Moore was a producer, executive, and consultant in the movie and television industries, notably as vice president of Yorktown Productions, the filmmaker Norman Jewison's production company. She developed and oversaw production on several features, including the Academy Award-nominated "The Hurricane," and the remakes of "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Rollerball," among others.
Moore also served as an executive for several other production companies, where she developed feature films and television pilots that were eventually sold to Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, HBO, Showtime, ABC, NBC, F/X, Nickelodeon, and USA Network. While president of scripted production for VDB Productions, she created the company's graphic novel and comic division and was its co-editor in chief.
She was president of Punch Productions, Dustin Hoffman's production company, where she oversaw development and production of "The Devil's Arithmetic," and "A Walk on the Moon." Her earlier credits include producing the 1994 independent film "Swimming with Sharks," a festival favorite that has since earned a cult following.
Dean Moore's appointment at LMU brings her back to Southern California, where she also earned her juris doctorate, from UCLA Law School, and her bachelor's degree in political science from UC Riverside.
"I am excited to join LMU in these extraordinary times for education, when we are called to reimagine how best to help students navigate and thrive in an ever-changing industry," Moore said. "I look forward to partnering with LMU's world-class faculty and staff in developing new opportunities for collaboration, interdisciplinary cross-pollination, and global interconnectedness in LMU School of Film and Television."
Dean Moore's first day at LMU will be June 27, 2022.
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Loyola Marymount University is an elite top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top five Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 6,500 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 60 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 49 master's degree programs, three doctorate programs and 14 credential/authorization programs. LMU's intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 20 Division I and varsity sports.
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‘1932’ adds Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford to the cast
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
“Yellowstone’s” next origin story is getting some major star power.
Paramount+ announced Tuesday that Oscar winner Helen Mirren and Academy Award nominee Harrison Ford will star in “Yellowstone’s” prequel series, “1932.”
The news comes after the success of another prequel, “1883.”
“Yellowstone,” which follows the lives and drama of the Dutton family, owners of the largest ranch in Montana, has been a massive hit for Paramount+ and stars another movie star, Kevin Costner.
“1883” stars real-life spouses Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, along with Sam Elliott. It tells the story of how the family came to own Yellowstone ranch.
The new series “will introduce a new generation of the Dutton family and explore the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition, and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home,” according to a press release.
“1932” is set to premiere in December.
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BENSALEM, Pa., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against MINISO Group Holding Limited ("MINISO" or the "Company") (NYSE: MNSO).
Class Period: October 2020 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 17, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their MINISO investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Defendants and other undisclosed related parties owned and controlled a much larger amount of MINISO stores than previously stated; (2) as a result, MINISO concealed its true costs; (3) the Company did not represent its true business model; (4) Defendants, including the Company and its Chairman, engaged in planned unusual and unclear transactions; (5) as a result of at least one of these transactions, the Company is at risk of breaching contracts with PRC authorities; (6) the Company would imminently and drastically drop its franchise fees; and (7) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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Child welfare and social services leader will oversee clinical and housing services
LOS ANGELES, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tony Weaver has joined Wayfinder Family Services as vice president of clinical and housing services. In this role he will be responsible for The Cottage, Wayfinder's temporary shelter care program for children removed from their homes for abuse or maltreatment, as well as mental health and medical services. He will oversee over 100 staff members based in the greater Los Angeles area.
"We are thrilled to welcome Tony to our dynamic leadership team. His engaging leadership skills and commitment to our community will enhance Wayfinder's multi-faceted programs for children, youth and adults," said Wayfinder president and chief operating officer Jay Allen.
With over 10 years of experience in the child welfare field and extensive experience in homelessness and mental health programs, Weaver served in previous leadership positions at St. Anne's Family Services and Skid Row Housing Trust in Los Angeles.
"I have spent my entire career serving children, youth and adults who have been marginalized. Wayfinder is both a refuge and a place of empowerment for those very people. Wayfinder's values are reflected in every aspect of the organization—from the beautiful main campus, the quality of every single program, commitment to equity, inclusion, diversity and accessibility—to its very name. I am honored to be a Wayfinder," said Weaver.
Weaver earned his master's degree in social work from Hunter College in New York City and a bachelor's degree from the University of North Alabama. He is a licensed clinical social worker. Prior to his career in social services, Weaver spent several years in Tanzania as a Peace Corps volunteer, engaging in community health education.
Formerly known as Junior Blind, Wayfinder Family Services is the place to turn for people facing the greatest challenges. The organization provides expert, individualized support and services to children, youth, adults and families—from people with vision loss and developmental disabilities to children in need of temporary shelter, foster care and adoption.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California launched a publicly funded website Tuesday to promote the state’s abortion services, listing clinics, linking to financial help for travel and lodging and letting teenagers in other states know they don’t need their parents’ permission to get an abortion in the state.
The website is part of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pledge to make California a sanctuary for women seeking abortions now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade — the landmark 1973 decision that said states could not ban abortion.
The state budget includes $200 million to strengthen access to abortion in California, including $1 million to build a website promoting the state’s abortion services. That website went live Tuesday, following an announcement from Newsom.
“Abortion is legal, safe and accessible here in California — whether or not you live here, know that we have your back,” Newsom said in a news release.
The website — abortion.ca.gov — includes information on different types of abortion and how to get one. The site has sections devoted to people who live outside of California and immigrants who are living in the country without legal permission, saying federal policies keep immigration officials away from health care facilities.
There is a map showing the location of 166 abortion clinics statewide. People can click to see an entire map, or they can enter a city and get a list of clinics nearby. It says people who live in California might be able to get abortion medication by mail, foregoing the need to visit a clinic.
Anti-abortion advocates have lamented the use of public funds to boost such services, arguing California has a myriad of other problems more deserving of public funding. But they haven’t been able to stop it in a state that is dominated by Democratic lawmakers and where public polls show a majority of voters support abortion rights.
Newsom announced the website the same day Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina introduced a bill that would ban abortions nationwide after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Graham portrayed his bill as a “responsible alternative” to what he says are the permissive laws favored by Democrats.
In a post to his Twitter account, Newsom juxtaposed Graham’s bill with California’s new website, saying Democrats are helping women while Republicans want to control them.
“That’s their agenda,” Newsom tweeted. “CA’s fighting back.” | https://cw33.com/health/ap-health/ap-california-launches-website-promoting-abortion-services/ | 2022-09-14T15:29:24Z |
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — When you’re watching a movie, you might not know where a lot of that comes from.
“We did Salt, Eagle Eye, Hawaii Five-0, Army Wives, Jack Reacher, Transformers, all the Mission Impossibles, but we have Mission Impossible 5 coming out. Oh, NCIS,” Super Thin Ribbons Meghon Lowder said.
And even the number one movie in the country.
“Yes, Top Gun Maverick,” Meghon said.
But for the Lowders, it’s just another day on the job at Super Thin Ribbons.
“The movies are fun, even though I have seen none of them, but everyone says the ribbons and medals look really good,” Marci Lowder said.
So how does a family in Wichita Falls get this connected with Hollywood?
Well between Marchi’s husband Chris and his dad, they both had extensive military backgrounds and Chris being a movie buff, couldn’t stand seeing easy mistakes made.
“So when he saw things on TV… he was like that is wrong, this is wrong,” Marci said.
“He would see things and say ‘why aren’t we doing those?’ and that’s what kind of made me start making calls initially,” Meghon said.
Meghon made calls and calls and some more calls until they made connections and the rest you can see on the big and small screens!
“You wouldn’t think that the movies or the ribbons and medals in a movie that’s going to gross a million or billions of dollars, not millions but billions, that they came from here. Certain components of it came from here in little Wichita Falls, Texas. It’s just kind of one of those fun fact things, little did you know,” Marci said.
But for this family, it means so much more off the screen.
“The movies would not get made without their stories, the true stories, and I think all of us have to remember that,” Meghon said.
Having met three prisoners of war and countless veterans with touching stories, the ribbon and medal work they do for past and present military takes on an even more important feeling.
“I take great pride in that. That we can serve the best military in the world and I think that gets lost a lot, especially in today’s society,” Marci said.
One that really can’t be matched.
“I don’t want anyone to ever think that it gets lost, that we are here because of the military and not because of the movies,” Marci said. | https://cw33.com/news/super-thin-ribbons-makes-top-blockbuster-movies/ | 2022-06-08T17:10:10Z |
Walgreens, Best Buy are First Retailers to Implement Trainings
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AARP announced the launch of two new training courses and other intervention resources aimed at equipping major U.S. retail employees with the tools needed to spot and stop gift card and wire-transfer exploitation. Walgreens and Best Buy have both signed on as inaugural retailers utilizing the AARP BankSafe training. The trainings are available at no cost to all retailers in the United States.
"Retailers can serve as a crucial line of defense to protect consumers from scams," said Debra Whitman, AARP's Executive Vice President and Chief Public Policy Officer. "By collaborating with major U.S. retailers like Walgreens and Best Buy, AARP's BankSafe program gives frontline employees information and tools they need to stop scams and protect consumers – especially seniors – from losing their hard earned money due to financial exploitation."
Gift card sales have rapidly increased over the past few years, with market projections estimating that sales will reach $221 billion by 2024. With this rapid growth, the Federal Trade Commission has seen the number of reported gift card scams increase every year since 2018. In 2021 alone, consumers reported losing $233 million to scams using gift cards. The average loss has also increased from $700 per victim in 2018 to $1,000 in 2021.
A new AARP report identifies consumer education, employee training and point-of-sale system advancements as the keys to addressing the problem. Retail employees serve as a critical last line of defense for consumers. AARP recently found that one in four consumers that were in the process of buying gift cards in a scam, had a retail employee warn them. Because more than half the time a third-party intervenes in an attempted financial exploitation, the potential victims are able to avoid losing money (AARP/Virginia Tech, 2019 & DeLiema, et al., 2019), U.S. retailers that adopt the training could potentially stop tens of millions of dollars a year from being stolen from consumers.
"Our frontline team members are one of our greatest assets and they have an incredible and unique advantage in addressing this issue because of the relationships they forge with their older customers who regularly visit our stores for their prescriptions and other needs," said Maria Smith, Vice President of Payment and Financial Services at Walgreens.
"Gift card fraud scams are a serious issue and, without knowing the facts, anyone can become a victim," said Kia Hakimi, Best Buy's Vice President of Global Threat Detection and Response. "In retail, these scams often begin outside of a physical store. The BankSafe training helps employees with the knowledge and skills they need to spot the signs and help stop gift card fraud from harming others."
AARP's highly interactive BankSafe training is built on the same award-winning framework that has empowered bank, credit union and investment firm employees to stop a projected $112 million from being stolen from older adults. The gift card and wire transfer iterations of the training are 15-minute courses comprised of 11 activities that include interactive videos, gamified elements, a resource library full of tools and assets, and much more.
More information about AARP's BankSafe courses and resources, including how to sign up for the training, can be found at aarp.org/banksafe.
AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence and nearly 38 million members, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also produces the nation's largest circulation publications: AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org, www.aarp.org/espanol or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspanol and @AARPadvocates, @AliadosAdelante on social media.
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Himalayan salt wall: Restaurant guests are encouraged to lick the walls while dining
Published: Jun. 3, 2022 at 5:26 PM CDT|Updated: 45 minutes ago
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (CNN) - Patrons at a restaurant in Arizona are welcome to lick the walls while they dine.
The Mission restaurant is gaining attention in Old Town Scottsdale after its owners said guests could lick the walls while enjoying their food or a drink, as the walls are made of Himalayan rock salt.
Representatives with the trendy dining spot said the head chef brought the rocks in to add to the overall ambiance and help customers with their tequila shots.
Himalayan rock salt has natural sanitary properties, but restaurant staff said they regularly wipe them down.
According to the restaurant, the walls have already seen a lot of action.
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Future of MHK Parks and Rec being evaluated
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Starting with Fall 2022 sports, the Manhattan Parks and Recreation Department, along with City Management are determining what youth sports programming the Parks and Rec Department will be able to offer.
According to city officials limited staffing for scorekeepers, referees and facility supervisors are among the deciding factors for which programs can be offered.
As of June 23rd, the City of Manhattan and the Parks and Rec Department plan to offer fall volleyball and flag football, along with other programs. However, these programs may be modified or suspended depending on available resources throughout the scheduled program dates.
City staff may start accepting youth league registrations and would schedule games, with the contingency that parents or other volunteers would have to serve as referees or scorekeepers.
“We simply are not able to recruit, hire, or retain employees like we did pre-pandemic,” said City Manager Ron Fehr. “We understand Manhattan residents take pride in and have supported improvements to many of our parks and recreational facilities. However, we have been challenged with workforce shortages and reduced revenues that may not allow us to continue to provide the same recreational opportunities that we historically have offered.”
City officials plan to maintain a high quality of life for residents while continuing to offer modified services dependent on availability of staff or volunteers along with the resources and funding needed to continue the programs.
“Over the last year, we have shifted to volunteer-led programming in adult sports as well as youth soccer, which has been a successful transition,” said Assistant Director of Parks and Recreation Wyatt Thompson.
“The City provides and manages sports facilities, fields, and certain equipment to accommodate these programs. City staff, in some cases, manages online registration, reserves facilities, and assists with scheduling, while community groups and volunteers coordinate management of the programs, including scorekeeping, refereeing, and coaching duties. This model has reduced City expenses, allowing us to continue facilitating these programs that our community enjoys.”
If the City cannot provide staffing or funding for other youth programs and activities, programs with low enrollment will be suspended.
The City plans to evaluate the parks and recreational facilities programs and activities throughout 2022 to determine the position and future of the Parks and Recreation Department.
More information about the City can be found online at www.cityofmhk.com, or by following the City on Facebook @cityofmanhattan or Twitter @cityofmhk.
The Parks and Recreation Department website is www.mhkprd.com. Find the latest information about Rec programs on Facebook @manhattanparksandrec or Twitter @ManhattanPRD.
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CenTrak partners with healthcare facilities to optimize IoT technology for greater operational efficiency, higher safety standards, and the ultimate patient experience
NEWTOWN, Pa., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CenTrak today announced the launch of CenTrak EngageSM, new expert-led consulting and training services providing a tailored, multi-tiered assessment and transformation program to healthcare systems. Through practical guidance, healthcare facilities can maximize real-time technologies and drive meaningful change throughout their enterprise. After a comprehensive and collaborative review of current processes, CenTrak Engage provides practical recommendations on ways to enhance asset management, staff workflow optimization, and patient throughput while increasing productivity and reducing operating costs through the thoughtful application of Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS).
The 2021 acquisition of Infinite Leap expanded CenTrak's expertise by adding the industry's most knowledgeable location technology consultants and comprehensive on-site support services in-house. CenTrak is well-positioned to help customers address the resource and staffing challenges facing healthcare by offering a robust managed services program and driving substantial value and ROI.
"As CenTrak continues to grow beyond its origins as a technology vendor and further establish itself as an end-to-end strategic solutions provider, our team is excited to support healthcare organizations in their efforts to enhance the patient experience, improve staff satisfaction, and gain operational efficiencies at such a crucial time," said Scott Hondros, CenTrak's vice president of professional services. "We've found the best way to achieve this is through a personalized approach that combines expert consulting and workflow redesign customized to the unique needs and goals of each facility. With this methodology, our team helps healthcare leaders fully leverage location services while driving user adoption and change management."
CenTrak Engage uses a proprietary, three-phased framework for change management. Upon assessing the facility and its current needs and goals, CenTrak experts ensure the right technology is deployed, the right processes are in place to leverage the investment, and adequate resources are available to those running the program.
- Assess: This initial stage utilizes CenTrak's experienced clinical consultants, hospital operations experts, and business analysts to provide use case assessments and develop a strategic roadmap, deployment plan, operational model, and budget summary.
- Readiness: During this phase CenTrak's consultants ensure that staff is ready to leverage the power of location technologies by reviewing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and assisting with redesigning facility processes in a data-driven and patient-focused way. The readiness phase also includes creating communication plans and training tools, and monitoring post-go live activities to identify process gaps and any need for additional training to drive toward program success.
- Transformation: Lastly, the consultants assist with deriving actionable intelligence from the location system to transform the healthcare enterprise. This includes implementing process changes, sending notifications about system anomalies for proactive action, and identifying and monitoring ongoing metrics for success. The process also includes documenting ROI and value measurements and developing management reports.
The launch of CenTrak Engage is the next milestone in the company's evolution from a leading provider of IoT devices to a strategic technology and solutions partner. CenTrak unveiled its first end-to-end solutions in September 2020 and continues expanding its offerings to address the ongoing challenges faced throughout the healthcare industry and strengthen its position in the global market.
CenTrak will be presenting additional insights on Engage services during an upcoming webinar on July 14 at 1 p.m. ET, led by the company's vice president of professional services. For more information and registration details, visit https://centrak.com/engage-webinar.
About CenTrak
CenTrak empowers healthcare leaders with actionable data to increase productivity, reduce operating costs, and transform patient care via market-leading locating and sensing IoT solutions. Founded in 2007, CenTrak is trusted by more than 2,000 healthcare organizations around the world. For more information, visit CenTrak.com.
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- The PAES is an open-label Phase 3 study to further investigate the long-term graft survival in 50 highly sensitized patients who have undergone kidney transplantation after Idefirix® administration in the EU1
- The PAES is an obligation under the conditional marketing authorization for Idefirix® granted by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in August 20202
- The study will provide further important insights to the Idefirix® desensitization treatment of highly sensitized kidney transplant patients
LUND, Sweden, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hansa Biopharma AB, "Hansa" (Nasdaq Stockholm: HNSA), pioneer in enzyme technology for rare immunological conditions, announces today that the first patient has been treated in the PAES for Idefirix® as a desensitization treatment for highly sensitized people undergoing a kidney transplant.
"The European approval of Idefirix® was an important milestone for people across Europe who need a kidney transplant and yet have highly sensitized immune systems that make it more likely that their bodies will reject the donor organ," says Dr Oriol Bestard, Chair of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona and treating physician of the PAES first patient. "Although our allocation system in Spain, being amongst the World's best systems, has improved access to transplantation, also for (very) highly sensitized patients, many are still disadvantaged and in urgent need of more personalized and innovative options. We can now happily report that our patient was the first to receive an Idefirix® -enabled kidney transplant as part of this important study. I am really thankful to all in the team that has been in charge of this dificult-to-treat patient, as it requires an exquisit and coordinated management."
This open-label Phase 3 study will enroll 50 highly sensitized adult kidney transplant patients with positive crossmatch against an available deceased donor to confirm the long-term efficacy and safety of Idefirix®. The PAES is an obligation under the conditional marketing authorization for Idefirix® granted by EMA in August 2020, in order to complete a full marketing authorization for the European Union.
"Idefirix® is the first and only treatment approved to enable kidney transplantation for highly sensitized patients that provides patients access to an effective, rapid and predictable desensitization treatment whose only option is an incompatible deceased kidney organ," says Christian Kjellman, Chief Scientific Officer at Hansa Biopharma. "This truly international European study will help centers accommodate Idefirix®-enabled transplantation, alongside our launch under conditional approval, as Idefirix® becomes increasingly available to patients across Europe following positive reimbursement decisions in the region."
The PAES will enrol patients across multiple countries and centers in Europe and the study will include 50 highly sensitized and crossmatch positive patients to be treated with Idefirix®. The aim of the study is to confirm the long-term efficacy and safety of Idefirix® and the primary objective of the study is to determine the 1-year graft failure-free survival of the Idefirix® treated and transplanted patients. In addition, a total of 50-100 patients undergoing compatible kidney transplantation at the participating centers will be included and serve as a non-comparative concurrent reference cohort, with no formal comparison, to contextualize the 1-year graft failure-free survival of the Idefirix® treated patients.1
"As of 2022, 10-15% of all of kidney patients on waiting lists in the U.S. and Europe are considered highly sensitized," says Vincenza Nigro, Kidney Transplant Franchise Lead at Hansa Biopharma. "Although allocation systems and prioritization programs have improved access to transplantation for highly sensitized kidney patients, many are still disadvantaged and in urgent need of more personalized and innovative options. We must keep striving for equity to address the medical needs of all, including highly sensitized kidney patients, no matter the challenges."
Further details of the trial (EudraCT number 2021-002640-70) can be found on the EU Clinical Trials Register.
For more information:
Klaus Sindahl, Head of Investor Relations
M: +46 (0) 709 298 269
E: klaus.sindahl@hansabiopharma.com
Katja Margell, Head of Corporate Communications
M: +46 (0) 768 198 326
E: katja.margell@hansabiopharma.com
About Idefirix® (imlifidase)
Imlifidase is an enzyme derived from the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes and has the ability to specifically target and cleave all classes of immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies.3
Imlifidase is a promising new strategy for desensitization of transplant patients with donor-specific anti-HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigens) antibodies (DSAs).4 Highly sensitized patients have high levels of these preformed antibodies that can bind to the donor organ and damage the transplant.5 Once they are inactivated with imlifidase, there is a window of opportunity for the transplant to take place. By the time the body starts renewing the depleted antibodies, the patient will be receiving immunosuppressive therapy to reduce the risk of organ rejection.
The efficacy and safety of imlifidase as a pre-transplant treatment to reduce donor-specific IgG was studied in four phase 2 open-label, single-arm, six-month clinical trials.4,6,7,8
Hansa is now collecting further clinical evidence and will submit additional efficacy and safety data based on one observational follow-up study and one post-approval efficacy study. Imlifidase was reviewed as part of the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) PRIority MEdicines (PRIME) program, which supports medicines that may offer a major therapeutic advantage over existing treatments or benefit patients without treatment options.9
Imlifidase was granted conditional European Marketing Authorization from the EMA in August 2020 for the desensitization treatment of highly sensitized adult kidney transplant patients with a positive crossmatch test against an available deceased donor. The use of imlifidase should be reserved for patients who are unlikely to be transplanted under the available kidney allocation system, including prioritization programs for highly sensitized patients.3 Conditional approval allows the Agency to recommend a medicine for marketing authorization in cases where the benefit of a medicine's immediate availability to patients outweighs the risk that not all the data are available yet.
About kidney failure
Kidney disease can progress to kidney failure or End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), identified when a patient's kidney function is less than 15%.10 ESRD poses a significant health burden, affecting nearly 2.5 million patients worldwide.7 A kidney transplant is the treatment of choice for suitable patients with ESRD because it offers improved survival and quality of life benefits compared to long-term dialysis. There are approximately 80,000 kidney patients on transplant waiting lists across the European Union.11
Full product information can be accessed via the initial Summary of Product Characteristics found here.
About Hansa Biopharma
Hansa Biopharma is a pioneering commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company on a mission to develop and commercialize innovative, lifesaving and life-altering treatments for patients with rare immunological conditions. Hansa has developed a first-in-class immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody-cleaving enzyme therapy, which has been shown to enable kidney transplantation in highly sensitized patients. Hansa has a rich and expanding research and development program based on the Company's proprietary IgG-cleaving enzyme technology platform, to address serious unmet medical needs in transplantation, autoimmune diseases, gene therapy and cancer. Hansa Biopharma is based in Lund, Sweden, and has operations in Europe and the U.S. The Company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm under the ticker HNSA. Find out more at www.hansabiopharma.com.
References
1. EU Clinical Trials register. EudraCT 2021-002640-70. Available at: https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/ctr-search/trial/2021-002640-70/ES#P. Last accessed July 2022.
2. Summary of risk management plan for Idefirix® (imlifidase). European Medicines Agency. August 2020. Available at: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/rmp-summary/idefirix-epar-risk-management-plan-summary_en.pdf. Last accessed July 2022.
3. Hansa. Idefirix® Summary of Product Characteristics
4. Lorant T, et al. Am J Transplant 2018; 18(11):2752–2762
5. Eurostam Report (A Europe-wide strategy to enhance transplantation of highly sensitized patients on the basis of acceptable HLA mismatches.) Available at https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/305385/reporting. Last accessed July 2022
6. Jordan SC, et al. N Engl J Med 2017; 377(5):442–453
7. Jordan SC, et al. Transplantation 2021; 105(8):1808-1817
8. Winstedt L, et al. PLoS One 2015; 10(7): e0132011
9. European Medicines Agency. Available at: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/new-treatment-enable-kidney-transplant-highly-sensitised-patients. Last accessed July 2022
10 NIH (2018). What is kidney failure? Available at: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/kidney-disease/kidney-failure/what-is-kidney-failure. Last accessed July 2022
11. Newsletter Transplant 2020. pp 58–60.
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Awarded Top Ratings as High Performer in: Low-Code Development Platforms, Application Development Platforms, Digital Experience Platforms and Rapid Application Development
OSLO, Norway, April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neptune Software today announced that it's leading low-code, SAP-centric enterprise app development platform Neptune DXP has been identified as a High Performer on G2, the world's leading business solutions review website. This recognition, based on its high levels of customer satisfaction and likeliness to recommend ratings from real users, marks the very first quarter in which Neptune Software has earned High Performer status as one of the top-rated solutions on G2's Low-Code App Development Grid, as well as Application Development Grid. In all, Neptune Software received four badges for its performance across four Spring 2022 G2 reports and indexes.
"We are very excited about our customers sharing their positive experiences with Neptune Software on G2." says Matthias Steiner, Chief Product Officer at Neptune Software. "Given the impact low-code and digital experience platforms have on enabling companies to deliver business solutions at higher velocity and quality, it's important to get the word out. Neptune DXP being recognized in not one – but four – categories underline the wide range of use-cases in which our platform can add value to our customers."
Neptune DXP achieved high performer on the Grid® Report for Low-Code Development Platforms, Spring 2022 by receiving reviews from verified users compared to similar products in the Low-Code Development category. For inclusion in the report a product must have received ten or more reviews.
Neptune DXP's G2 Relationship Index Report ratings were highlighted by 'Quality of Support', which scored 95%, and Neptune DXP's 'Ease of Doing Business With' was 95% compared to the category average of 92%.
Neptune Software's leading low-code, SAP-centric, enterprise app development platform –– Neptune DXP –– digitizes and optimizes business processes and user interfaces at scale and with ease. The platform gives IT professionals the right tools to build the apps they need. Neptune DXP provides a fast, cost-effective, and future-proof way to industrialize the development of custom applications, turning IT organizations into app factories.
According to Tom Pringle, Vice President, Research at G2, "It is the authentic voice of the customer that powers our reports at G2 - ranking B2B software founded on users' experience in buying, implementing and using it. We are delighted to highlight the tangible achievements of software solutions ranked on our site as they showcase the voice of the user while delivering valuable, actionable insights to other potential buyers and users."
The G2 Grid® Report is based on ratings by business professionals. Neptune DXP received ten or more reviews to be included in the Spring 2022 report. Learn more about what real users have to say (or leave your own review of Neptune DXP on G2's Neptune DXP review page! https://www.g2.com/products/neptune-dxp/reviews
Read the G2 Spring 2022 reports here:
Grid® Report for Low-Code Development Platforms | Spring 2022
Grid® Report for Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) | Spring 2022
Grid® Report for Application Development Platforms | Spring 2022
Grid® Report for Rapid Application Development (RAD) | Spring 2022
About Neptune Software
Neptune Software is a rapid application development platform vendor with more than 650 enterprise customers and over 3.5 million licensed end users globally that empowers IT departments to deliver tangible business outcomes. Neptune Software offers with its Neptune DXP, a leading low-code, SAP-centric, enterprise app development platform to digitize and optimize business processes and user interfaces – at scale and with ease.
Neptune DXP provides a fast and cost-effective way to industrialize the development of custom applications - saving companies time and money on development, integration, and operations.
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British Open champion Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann are among six players to leave the PGA Tour for Saudi-funded LIV Golf, which returns this week for a fourth tournament, this time outside of Boston.
The signing of Smith, who had been deflecting questions about his imminent departure since the day he won the claret jug, gives Greg Norman his first player from the top 10 in the world.
Smith, a 29-year-old from Australia, rose to No. 2 in the world ranking after winning at St. Andrews. He could have reached No. 1 with a victory at the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs. Now, that opportunity is gone. LIV Golf does not get ranking points, though it filed an application last month.
The PGA Tour is suspending members as soon as they put a ball in play at LIV Golf events.
Others to sign are Marc Leishman, a six-time PGA Tour winner from Australia who at age 38 has dropped out of the top 50 in the world, and three others who leave without ever having won on the PGA Tour — Americans Harold Varner III and Cameron Tringale and Anirban Lahiri of India.
Smith and Niemann, who is from Chile, were among the eight qualifiers for the International team at the Presidents Cup, which will be played in a month at Quail Hollow. Leishman and Lahiri previously have played in the matches.
Because the PGA Tour exclusively operates the Presidents Cup — unlike the Ryder Cup, which Europe operates on home soil — players who join LIV Golf are not eligible.
Niemann, 23, considered joining the rival league in February until Phil Mickelson’s disparaging comments about the Saudis and the PGA Tour stalled the launch of LIV Golf. Niemann then won the Genesis Invitational at Riviera and cited the competition and history as reasons he wanted to stay on the PGA Tour.
But all his best friends in golf have joined the rival series — Carlos Ortiz and Abraham Ancer of Mexico, Sergio Garcia of Spain — and they often shared a house and brought in their own chef for the week. His manager, Carlos Rodriguez of GSE Worldwide, said Niemann still had not signed a LIV Golf deal when he flew to Boston on Monday.
Along with winning the British Open for his first major, Smith won The Players Championship in March by one shot over Lahiri. Paul Casey was two shots behind, and now all three players have joined LIV Golf.
Along with big signing bonuses — The Daily Telegraph reported $150 million for Smith — players complete for $25 million in prize money at each of the LIV Golf Invitational events.
The Boston event is at The International, which about 45 minutes west of Boston. LIV Golf takes off next week because of the European tour flagship event at Wentworth in England, and then returns Sept. 16-18 to the Chicago suburbs.
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Newest release introduces performance and usability improvements, and marks welcome of O3DCon speaker proposals and discussion suggestions due July 15
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Open 3D Foundation (O3DF), home of a vibrant, diverse community focused on building a first-class, open source engine for real-time 3D development, has released 22.05, the latest version of the Open 3D Engine, with a focus on performance, stability and usability enhancements.
With over 1,460 code merges, this new release offers several improvements aiming to make it easier for developers to build 3D simulations for AAA games and various applications across robotics, AI, metaverse, digital twin, automotive, healthcare, and more. Significant advancements include core stability, installer validation, motion matching updates, user-defined property (UDP) support for the asset pipeline, and automated testing advancements.
Artists can focus on bringing their visions to life using the tools they feel most comfortable with, such as Blender or Autodesk® Maya®. The Open 3D Engine (O3DE) can now integrate user-defined properties (UDP) metadata into its asset pipeline from source assets so that scene-building and asset-processing logic can be customized using this metadata. UDP metadata can be assigned in content creation tools to store custom properties for mesh, light, animation, and other elements to power asset generation workflows for O3DE.
Animation artists can now utilize motion matching, a data-driven animation technique that synthesizes motions based on existing animation data and current character and input contexts to deliver photorealistic experiences. This feature, introduced as an experimental gem, includes a prefabricated character example that can be controlled using a gamepad.
Other improvements include:
- Simpler customization of the render pipeline is now possible using a new set of APIs. Examples of gems that currently exploit this capability include Terrain, LyShine and TressFx.
- Developers can now re-use Material Types much more easily.
- Developers can now control the spawning of player-controlled, networked entities using an improved interface, a capability that is essential for building multiplayer games.
- Automated tests now verify that an installer build is valid, and ensures that all of the steps within the build are successfully executed. These tests are run nightly for O3DE, and have been designed so that anyone can plug them into their quality verification process.
The 22.05 Release marks the Open 3D Engine's first major release of 2022. Releases occur on a bi-annual cadence, in the first half and second half of each year. The next release is scheduled for October 2022, which will coincide with the Open 3D Foundation's flagship conference, O3DCon.
To learn more about this release and all of its features, read the release notes, or join the community on Discord. You can download the 22.05 Release today.
O3DCon Call for Proposals Now Open
The Open 3D Foundation also announced the call for proposals (CFPs) for its annual flagship conference, O3DCon. On October 18-19, 2022, in Austin, Texas, technology leaders, independent 3D developers, and the academic community spanning the 3D landscape will come together to share ideas, discuss hot topics and help shape the future of open 3D development across a variety of industries and disciplines. O3DCon will be presented as a hybrid event—attendees can join and participate in person or virtually. Workshops and pre-registration will be held on October 17, a day ahead of the actual conference events.
With over 25 member companies since its public announcement in July 2021, the Open 3D Foundation boasts a healthy, thriving community, adding Microsoft as its latest member. Other premier members include Adobe, AWS, Huawei, Intel and Niantic. The O3D Engine averages up to 2 million line changes and 350-450 commits monthly from 60-100 authors across 41 repos.
"I'm proud of the O3DE community's focus on core stability while delivering new capabilities aimed to simplify and enhance 3D development for developers around the globe," said Royal O'Brien, Executive Director of O3DF and General Manager of Games and Digital Media at the Linux Foundation. "I'm also incredibly excited about the opportunity O3DCon offers in bringing together diverse minds to collaborate on advancing the state of open 3D development across so many industries."
Proposals to speak at O3DCon are being accepted now through Friday, July 15, 2022, at 11:59 pm PDT. All those interested are invited to submit proposals. Those who have submitted proposals will be notified of a decision by Tuesday, August 2. Learn more and submit your proposal today.
Submission types requested include:
- Lightning talks
- Session presentations
- Birds-of-a-feather discussions
- Panel discussions
- Hands-on workshops/training
Suggested topics include:
- 3D Development & Open 3D Engine 101
- Building & Sustaining Open Source in 3D Development
- Game Development
- Metaverse
- AI
- Robotics
- Digital Twin
- Automotive
- Healthcare
Sponsors have the unique opportunity to demonstrate their leadership in this burgeoning arena, forge valuable connections and help shape the future of 3D development. O3DCon offers multiple sponsorship levels for your consideration. To explore all of the sponsorship benefits, please click here. The sponsorship deadline is September 2, 2022. O3DF Members receive a 3% discount on all exhibitor packages. For questions about sponsorships and contract requests, or to become a sponsor, please contact us.
Visit the O3DF website and follow O3DE on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for all the latest O3DCon updates and announcements.
About the Open 3D Engine Project
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is the flagship project managed by the Open 3D Foundation (O3DF). The open source project is a modular, cross-platform 3D engine built to power anything from AAA games to cinema-quality 3D worlds to high-fidelity simulations. The code is hosted on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. To learn more, please visit o3de.org. To get involved and connect with the O3DE community, please join us on Discord and GitHub.
About the Open 3D Foundation
Established in July 2021, the mission of the Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) is to make an open-source, fully-featured, high-fidelity, real-time 3D engine for building games and simulations, available to every industry. The Open 3D Foundation is home to the O3D Engine project. To learn more, please visit o3d.foundation.
About the Linux Foundation
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation's projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.
The Linux Foundation Events are where the world's leading technologists meet, collaborate, learn and network in order to advance innovations that support the world's largest shared technologies.
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(The Hill) – Two Florida deputies have been suspended for sharing the news of comedian Bob Saget’s death before his family was alerted, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to The Hill on Sunday.
Deputies Emiliano Silva and Steven Reed were both suspended for more than three days for their missteps. Silva reportedly told his brother about the late “Full House” star’s death shortly after responding to the scene, the news of which the brother then shared on social media. Silva’s brother’s tweet remained up for about 45 minutes before it was deleted.
Reed, who was not involved in the investigation and was off-duty at the time, reportedly informed his neighbors of Saget’s passing.
Both actions took place before Saget’s family was notified, and before the sheriff’s office’s public information officer publicly announced the death, thus violating the department’s dissemination of information directive.
“This case highlights how important it is to allow detectives in death investigations the time to ensure next of kin notifications are made before that information is disseminated to the public,” Orange County Sheriff John Mina said in a statement.
He added, “The deputies acknowledged their wrongdoing and were disciplined for their actions.”
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Handguns used in most firearm-related violent crime in Canada
By Michael Lee
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TORONTO (CTV Network) — After falling for several years, rates of firearm-related violent crime are on the rise in Canada, the majority of which involve handguns, a recent report from Statistics Canada shows.
Released on Friday, the report compares instances of firearm-related violent crime in two periods ranging from 2009 to 2014, and 2015 to 2020.
The report shows that the rate of firearm-related violent crime in 2009 stood at 29 per 100,000 people. This number dropped to 19 in 2013 as violent crime also fell overall, before returning to 29 in 2020.
In 2020, police reported 8,344 victims of a crime where a firearm was present, representing 2.8 per cent of all victims of violent crime in Canada that year.
Handguns remain the most serious weapon used in the majority of firearm-related violent crimes in Canada at 59 per cent.
This was the case for both periods analyzed by StatCan, which the federal agency said means handguns are not disproportionately contributing to the overall growth in firearm-related crime.
What has changed, however, is the type of firearm-related violent crimes that police are reporting, namely discharging a firearm with intent, pointing a firearm and use of a firearm in an indictable offence, the report says.
The number of victims of these offences increased from eight per cent of all firearm-related violent crimes in 2009 to 21 per cent in 2019 and 22 per cent in 2020.
The report comes following the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas last week, which resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two teachers. The federal government also plans to table new firearms legislation on Monday.
It remains to be seen exactly what will be in the bill, but a number of gun-control measures promised by the Liberals remain outstanding, including the federal government’s program to buy back banned firearms. GAPS IN DATA
Despite the figures, StatCan stresses that there are gaps in its reporting.
“It is important to recognize that there are limitations in our knowledge about firearms used in crime,” the report says.
One of these gaps is the limited information collected on the details of particular firearms, such as their exact type, who owned it, how it was stored or whether the owner is licensed, the agency says.
There also is no consistent definition of a shooting among police services in Canada, nor is there consistent criteria to determine whether a shooting actually occurred.
As well, there are gaps in the nature of firearm-related violence in Canada, including the extent to which organized crime is involved, and whether there are any patterns in ethnicity, Indigenous identity except in the case of homicide data, and socioeconomic factors involved.
Provinces also do not require investigators to send guns used in crime for tracing, although even this process has varying success rates, StatCan says.
“Of particular concern, there is currently little information available to determine the source of firearms used in crime: for example, whether a gun used in a crime was stolen, illegally purchased or smuggled into the country,” the report says.
“This information is sometimes not recorded by police services, recorded inconsistently or, in some cases, the information is simply not available.” HANDGUNS
The majority of firearm-related violent crime in 2020 was robbery, at 29 per cent, or major assault, at 23 per cent.
Handguns were more commonly used in urban areas, where they made up 63 per cent of firearm-related violent crime in 2020.
Rifles and shotguns, meanwhile, tend to be more commonly used in rural areas, including 46 per cent in the rural south and 39 per cent in the rural north.
In 2020, handguns accounted for 75 per cent of all firearm-related robberies. Handguns were also involved in 60 per cent of homicides, other violations causing death and attempted murder involving a firearm, as well as 54 per cent of firearm-related sexual offences.
Firearm-like weapons such as a pellet gun or flare gun accounted for 23 per cent of all firearm-related violent crime in Canada in 2020.
Police reported 743 homicide victims in Canada in 2020 for a rate of 1.95 per 100,000 people.
Of those, 277 cases involved a firearm for a rate of 0.73 homicides per 100,000 people.
The proportion of homicides involving a firearm rose from 26 per cent in 2013 to 37 per cent in 2020.
Gang activity was confirmed or suspected in 39 per cent of all firearm-related homicides in 2020. Overall, gang-related homicides involving a firearm dropped from 20 per cent of all homicides in 2019 to 14 per cent in 2020. CITIES WITH THE HIGHEST RATES
The cities with the highest proportions of violent crime where a firearm was present in 2020 were Regina, Brantford, Ont., Toronto, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Windsor, Ont.
While Toronto reported a relatively low rate of firearm-related violent crime, StatCan says it still accounted for a relatively high proportion of all violent crime.
How police report victim information will also affect the results. StatCan says the Toronto Police Service, for example, made improvements to its reporting system, which partly explains the increase seen in the city in 2015.
Rates of firearm-related violent crime in 2020 were higher in rural areas than urban centres in most provinces, which StatCan said might be due to higher rates of firearm ownership in rural communities, where it may be required for hunting or farming.
The 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia, in which 22 people were killed, also had an effect on the homicide rate in the province and nationally. VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS
Males accounted for two-thirds of all victims of firearm-related violent crime in 2020.
Most male victims of firearm-related violent crime do not know the perpetrator, at 55 per cent, compared to 41 per cent of female victims.
This is largely the case in urban areas, with victims in rural communities more likely to report knowing the perpetrator.
Among female victims of firearm-related violent crime, a current or former spouse, or other intimate partner, was responsible for one-in-four cases, compared to 2.2 per cent of cases involving male victims.
The majority of firearm-related violent crimes involving a victim are solved, with at least one accused person identified. This is more likely the case in the rural north and south, at 83 and 72 per cent, respectively, compared to 54 per cent in urban areas.
In 2020, 5,955 people were accused of firearm-related crimes. Of those, 87 per cent were male.
Rates of firearm-related violent crime are highest among young men between 18 and 24 years old, with 110 accused per 100,000 people, and those aged 12 to 17, with 75 per 100,000 people.
With files from CTVNews.ca Online Politics Producer Rachel Aiello
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Seven years later, still no trial for Texas AG Ken Paxton
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Not many people charged with felony crimes go seven years without ever standing trial. One of them is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The twists and turns of how the Republican, who is on the cusp of winning the GOP nomination for a third term Tuesday, has yet to have his day in court after being indicted on securities fraud charges in 2015 has little comparison in American politics. And along the way, it has upended what it means to be a compromised officeholder in Texas.
Four different judges have overseen his case at some point. Where a trial would happen — if it ever does — has ping-ponged from Dallas to Houston to Dallas again. All the while, other clouds have gathered over Paxton: the FBI is investigating him over separate accusations of corruption, and the State Bar of Texas is weighing possible reprimands over his attempts to baselessly overturn the 2020 election.
Once, nearly a year passed with no movement in the case at all.
No single reason explains the delays. But altogether, Paxton has become an example of how powerful allies and acts of God can drag out career-threatening criminal charges and allow a politician to rise above being written off as a political goner.
“I mean, this one is crazy,” said Andrew Wheat, a leader of the watchdog Texans For Public Justice. His group in 2014 filed a complaint with prosecutors over Paxton’s failure to register as a securities adviser, one of the criminal charges the Republican is battling.
Wheat is dubious that a trial will ever happen. “And by the time it does, if it ever does, will it have any significance left to it?” he said.
Paxton, who faces five to 99 years in prison if convicted, has pleaded not guilty. His attorneys point out that Paxton invoked his right to a speedy trial and blame the holdup on special prosecutors, who have spent years in a protracted battle over how much they’re getting paid and where the case should be tried.
How much the case matters is a question Texas Republicans have, arguably, already answered.
Paxton was reelected in 2018 when the felony charges were still making front pages. He is now in reach of winning the nomination again Tuesday in a runoff against Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, who finished second in a four-way primary in March but still 20 percentage points behind Paxton.
Bush, the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the last of his famous family still in office, has staked a comeback on TV ads that splash the indictments across the screen and call Paxton unfit for office. Paxton has mostly ignored the attacks while flaunting former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. Most top Texas Republicans have been restrained in voicing any concerns, but a rare exception came just days ahead of the runoff, when U.S. Sen. John Cornyn called the unresolved case an “embarrassment.”
“Obviously the voters will have access to that information,” Cornyn said last week. “They’ll make their own decision and I can’t predict what the outcome will be.”
The indictments accuse Paxton of defrauding investors in a Dallas-area tech startup by not disclosing he was being paid by the company, called Servergy, to recruit them. The indictments were handed up just months after Paxton was sworn in as Texas’ top law enforcement officer.
Not long after, allies of Paxton spearheaded attacks on special prosecutors’ $300 hourly rate, calling it an abuse of taxpayer money. Local leaders in Paxton’s hometown of Collin County, which is controlled by Republicans, agreed and voted to slash the pay.
Since then, the criminal case has inched along. A court system brought to a standstill by a 2017 hurricane and then the coronavirus pandemic slowed the pace even more. As it stands now, special prosecutors are waiting on Texas’ top criminal court to rule on an appeal to address payment issues and keep Paxton’s case in Houston.
“The trial’s extended delay was in no way attributable to improper influence of Mr. Paxton,” said Philip Hilder, one of Paxton’s attorneys, pointing the finger instead at prosecutors for challenging their pay and other pretrial rulings.
“In fact, Mr. Paxton invoked his right to speedy trial. Mr. Paxton is innocent of these charges and sought to have his day in a proper court long ago,” he said in a statement.
In the intervening years, Paxton has drawn new scrutiny after eight of this top deputies accused him in 2020 of allegedly abusing his office to help a wealthy donor, Nate Paul, resist an earlier FBI investigation of the developer.
Both federal probes continue, with investigators in recent months collecting Paul’s business records and asking how the developer might have been paying Paxton, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Paul, whose lawyers did not respond to requests for comment, has denied bribing Paxton. The attorney general has broadly denied wrongdoing and his lawyers declined to comment on the FBI investigation.
In New Jersey, a two-year corruption indictment against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat, ended with a hung jury in 2017. In Texas, attorneys and legal experts struggled to recall a case that has stretched as long as Paxton’s without a resolution.
State Rep. Gene Wu, a Democrat and attorney who spent three years as a prosecutor in Houston, described the delays as unheard of, saying even high-level cases in Texas’ largest county go to trial in two or three years.
“There is a legitimate criminal violation, and justice is not being served because the people being charged have money and they have power,” Wu said.
There is no time limit in which the charges against Paxton would expire. “But as a practical matter, the courts are going to get concerned. People’s memories fade and the like,” said David Kwok, co-director of the Criminal Justice Institute at the University of Houston Law Center.
The case hasn’t outlasted Wheat’s watchdog group but they’ve scaled back: He says financial support for their nonprofit, which also filed the complaint that led to former Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s indictment in 2014, has been challenging in recent years.
After being forced into a runoff, Paxton’s campaign raised more than $2 million in about three months.
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Bleiberg reported from Dallas.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Watermelon Sugar High. Watermelon Sugar High. Watermelon Sugar High.
Summer is here and you know what the season calls for? Watermelons. In the spirit of summer, Dallas-based Orange Leaf is throwing a summer-long Watermelon Festival.
The company is releasing two new, limited-time-only watermelon items: Watermelon Twist Smoothie and Watermelon Sorbet.
“Nothing says summer like watermelon, and there’s no better way to kick off the season than with a cold, sweet treat,” says David Ellis, Chief Marketing Officer of Orange Leaf. “With our new watermelon flavors, we hope to make life a little sweeter for our customers.”
Also in celebration of summer, loyal customers can enjoy a $1 off smoothie discount for Memorial Day.
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- Peraton will provide operational balloon flight support as well as engineering services
- Peraton has assisted NASA with over 60 launches
HERNDON, Va., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Peraton has been selected by NASA to continue operating the agency's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) in Palestine, Texas. The NASA Balloon Operations Contract (NBOC) II awarded to Peraton is worth up to $339.1 million over seven years.
Each year, 10-15 missions are launched worldwide through NASA's scientific balloon program in support of experiments, technology development, and education across all of NASA's science disciplines. Under NBOC II, Peraton will operate facilities to maintain the CSBF and provide engineering services and balloon flight support, including launching, tracking, and recovery of scientific balloons and payloads, as well as operational support, quality control, and balloon research and development.
Peraton employees have supported NASA's balloon operations for more than five years. Through this partnership, Peraton achieved an exceptional record of mission success by exceeding requirements, including a 100% mission success run over the past 12 months. Peraton also introduced many improvements and processes to transform NBOC into a more reliable and disciplined program.
"Peraton's selection to continue supporting NBOC is an affirmation that our capabilities and expertise are helping NASA deliver on its mission to discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity. We are proud to support this critical program to advance our nation's innovations within space," said Roger Mason, Ph.D., president, Space & Intelligence sector.
About Peraton
Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, citizen security, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can't be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit Peraton.com/News and follow Peraton on LinkedIn for news and updates.
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