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New formula neutralizes harmful free radicals and reduces oxidative stress
SAN DIEGO, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cymbiotika, a leading nutritional supplement brand known for creating pure, clinically backed supplements, today announced the launch of its Molecular Hydrogen formulation.
Antioxidants act as stabilizers in your body, countering the effects of free radical damage. Hydrogen is the most powerful antioxidant and the only molecule that can neutralize the most harmful free radical (hydroxyl), meaning it stops oxidative stress in its tracks while protecting cell integrity. Additionally, it is the smallest antioxidant, meaning that it can easily penetrate the cell and travel through the body.
"At Cymbiotika, we consistently aim to empower people to reclaim their health by filling nutritional gaps," said Cymbiotika's CEO and Co-Founder, Shahab Elmi. "We're proud that our Molecular Hydrogen does just that. Educating our consumers on the benefits of new products is key to helping them learn how to prioritize their wellness."
Cymbiotika's Molecular Hydrogen retails for $32. For suggested use, dissolve one tablet in 12-16oz of room temperature water and drink immediately. It is best taken on an empty stomach. Do not swallow the tablet directly. May repeat up to twice per day.
Cymbiotika crafts supplements with only the highest quality bioavailable,ingredients. Molecular Hydrogen is GMP, made in the USA, soy free, and gluten free. For more details, please visit: www.cymbiotika.com.
Cymbiotika is an innovative wellness brand based in San Diego. With the motto, "Your mind and body deserve the best", Cymbiotika is driven by the higher purpose of inspiring everyday people to achieve optimal health. Founded in 2017, Cymbiotika uses the most advanced bioavailable absorption technology and sources only the highest quality plant-based nutrients to resolve specific nutritional deficiencies and support healthy aging, detoxification and longevity. Cymbiotika never uses synthetics, GMOs, fillers, chemicals, preservatives, or additives in its products. For more information, visit www.cymbiotika.com.
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NEWPORT, R.I., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. ("Pangaea" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: PANL), a global provider of comprehensive maritime logistics solutions, announced today its results for the three months ended June 30, 2022.
(As compared to the Second Quarter 2021)
- Total revenue increased 34% year over year to $195.5 million; voyage revenue increased 48% year over year
- Net income attributable to Pangaea increased 30% year over year to $25.0 million, or $0.56 per diluted share
- Adjusted EBITDA increased 107% year over year to $44.2 million
- Operating cash flow increased 155% year over year to $37.2 million
- TCE rates earned by Pangaea increased 29% year over year to $27,139 per day
- Cash and equivalents increased 152% year over year to $102.2 million
For the second quarter ended June 30, 2022, Pangaea reported net income of $25.0 million, or $0.56 per diluted share, on total revenue of $195.5 million. Second quarter revenue increased by more than 34% on a year-over-year basis, due mainly to a 29% increase in daily Time Charter Equivalent (TCE) rates. Total shipping days, which include both voyage and time charter days, remained essentially flat at 4,703 in the second quarter 2022, versus 4,723 days in the prior-year period, including a 16% increase in voyage days. Vessel operating expenses, net of management fees per day, decreased 1% to $5,198 in the second quarter 2022, versus $5,254 in the prior-year period.
The TCE rate was $27,139 per day for the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to an average of $21,053 per day for the same period in 2021. During the second quarter 2022, the Company's average TCE rate exceeded the benchmark average Baltic Panamax and Supramax indices by approximately 4%, as supported by Pangaea's long-term contracts of affreightment ("COAs"), specialized fleet and cargo-focused strategy.
As of June 30, 2022, the Company had $102.2 million in cash and equivalents and total debt, including lease finance obligations, of $305 million. At the end of the second quarter 2022, the ratio of net debt to trailing twelve-month adjusted EBITDA was 1.4x. During the first half of 2022, the Company repaid $9.0 million of long-term debt and $7.8 million of finance leases and paid $5.6 million of cash dividends. The Company's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.075 per common share, to be paid on September 15, 2022, to all shareholders of record as of September 1, 2022.
Pangaea remains committed to developing a leading dry bulk logistics and transportation services company of scale, providing its customers with specialized shipping and supply chain and logistics offerings in commodity and niche markets, which drive premium returns measured in time charter equivalent per day.
Leverage integrated shipping and logistics model. In addition to operating the largest high ice class dry bulk fleet globally, Pangaea also performs stevedoring services, together with port and terminal operations capabilities. During the second quarter, Pangaea's ports and logistics group, along with joint venture partners, performed stevedoring, storage and transfer services in Sabine, Texas for a new customer transporting parts for solar arrays; provided stevedoring services for two vessels in the Mississippi River and contracted several voyages of cargo for a new customer served on the east coast of the U.S. The Company is also actively pursuing new stevedoring opportunities across multiple ports in Texas.
Continue to drive strong fleet utilization. Presently, Pangaea's ten ice class 1A panamax and post-panamax vessels are fully deployed and trading in the Arctic under ten-year contracts that utilize approximately 35% of annual available days. This is the first year of full operation of all four post-panamax ships that the Company built specifically for this service, which were delivered in 2021.
Continue to upgrade fleet, while divesting of older, non-core assets. In June 2022, Pangaea completed the renewal of its bauxite shuttle fleet, selling the vessel Bulk Pangaea after taking delivery of the Bulk Concord in the first quarter of 2022. The ships making up this shuttle fleet of three vessels, which continuously serve an important customer's industrial needs, are planned to fulfill the remaining ten years under the customer contract.
"Our strong second quarter results demonstrate continued execution on our long-term strategy, one that emphasizes profitable growth within niche, higher-margin dry bulk shipping and logistics markets," stated Mark Filanowski, Chief Executive Officer of Pangaea Logistics Solutions. "We delivered strong year-over-year growth in both revenue and net income while generating record second quarter adjusted EBITDA, driven by a significant year-over-year increase in TCE rates and strong fleet utilization."
"At a macro level, global shipping capacity remains constrained, resulting in market rates that remain well above historical averages," continued Filanowski. "We expect global capacity will be further restricted by upcoming IMO emissions requirements coming into effect in January 2023, which seek to reduce the carbon intensity of the shipping industry. For our part, the Pangaea fleet will be fully compliant ahead of the IMO 2023 mandate, positioning us to maintain a consistent level of performance during the transition. We are studying ways to make our ships even more efficient, opportunities that we expect could drive further improvements in profitability, over time."
"Entering what is typically the seasonally strongest quarter of the year for our business, we remain well-positioned to capitalize on favorable market conditions," noted Filanowski. "We will continue to provide both new and existing customers with an exceptional level of service during a period of global supply chain disruption, an approach that keeps our relationships healthy and growing. Our long-term contracting and short-term charter-in strategies have consistently generated profitability over the years. For the third quarter to date, we have booked 3,026 shipping days producing a time charter equivalent of $25,600/day."
"We have a dedicated leadership team and employee base, both ashore and aboard, who drive our performance," continued Filanowski. "Our ability to deploy capital in a prudent, yet opportunistic manner has been integral to our track record of value creation. In what remains a volatile market, we believe a balanced approach to capital deployment is appropriate, one that includes a consistent return of capital program, together with debt reduction and high-return organic growth investments, reflecting our continued confidence in the outlook for our business."
The Company's management team will host a conference call to discuss the Company's financial results on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at 8:00 a.m., Eastern Time (ET). To access the teleconference, please dial 800-343-5172 (domestic) or 785-424-1699 (international) approximately ten minutes before the teleconference's scheduled start time and reference Conference ID: PANLQ222.
A supplemental slide presentation will accompany this quarter's conference call and can be found attached to the Current Report on Form 8-K that the Company filed concurrently with this press release. This document will be available at http://www.pangaeals.com/company-filings or at sec.gov.
A recording of the call will also be available for one week following the teleconference and will be accessible by calling 800-938-2490 (domestic) or 402-220-9028 (international).
INFORMATION ABOUT NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES. As used herein, "GAAP" refers to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. To supplement our consolidated financial statements prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, this earnings release discusses non-GAAP financial measures, including non-GAAP net revenue and non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA. This is considered a non-GAAP financial measure as defined in Rule 101 of Regulation G promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Generally, a non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of a company's historical or future performance, financial position, or cash flows that either excludes or includes amounts that are not normally excluded or included in the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. The presentation of this non-GAAP financial information is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.
We use non-GAAP financial measures for internal financial and operational decision making purposes and as a means to evaluate period-to-period comparisons of the performance and results of operations of our core business. Our management believes that non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding the performance of our core business by excluding charges that are not incurred in the normal course of business. Non-GAAP financial measures also facilitate management's internal planning and comparisons to our historical performance and liquidity. We believe certain non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors as they allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management in its financial and operational decision making and are used by our institutional investors and the analyst community to help them analyze the performance and operational results of our core business.
Gross Profit. Gross profit represents total revenue less net transportation and service revenue and less vessel depreciation and amortization.
Net transportation and service revenue. Net transportation and service revenue represents total revenue less the total direct costs of transportation and services, which includes charter hire, voyage and vessel operating expenses. Net transportation and service revenue is included because it is used by management and certain investors to measure performance by comparison to other logistic service providers. Net transportation and service revenue is not an item recognized by the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, or U.S. GAAP, and should not be considered as an alternative to net income, operating income, or any other indicator of a company's operating performance required by U.S. GAAP. Pangaea's definition of net transportation and service revenue used here may not be comparable to an operating measure used by other companies.
Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS. Adjusted EBITDA represents net income (or loss), determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, excluding interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, loss on impairment, loss on sale and leaseback of vessels, share-based compensation and other non-operating income and/or expense, if any. Earnings per share represents net income divided by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. Adjusted earnings per share represents net income attributable to Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. plus, when applicable, loss on sale of vessel, loss on sale and leaseback of vessel, loss on impairment of vessel, unrealized gains and losses on derivative instruments, and certain non-recurring charges, divided by the weighted average number of shares of common stock.
There are limitations related to the use of net revenue versus income from operations, adjusted EBITDA versus income from operations, and adjusted EPS versus EPS calculated in accordance with GAAP. In particular, Pangaea's definition of adjusted EBITDA used here are not comparable to EBITDA.
The table set forth above provides a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures presented during the period to the most directly comparable financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.
Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd. (NASDAQ: PANL) provides logistics services to a broad base of industrial customers who require the transportation of a wide variety of dry bulk cargoes, including grains, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, bauxite, alumina, cement clinker, dolomite, and limestone. The Company addresses the transportation needs of its customers with a comprehensive set of services and activities, including cargo loading, cargo discharge, vessel chartering, and voyage planning. Learn more at www.pangaeals.com.
Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risk factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The Company disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise these statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes in demand for dry bulk shipping capacity, changes in our operating expenses, including bunker prices, dry-docking and insurance costs, the market for our vessels, availability of financing and refinancing, charter counterparty performance, ability to obtain financing and comply with covenants in such financing arrangements, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, potential liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international political conditions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events, vessels breakdowns and instances of off-hires and other factors, as well as other risks that have been included in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, all of which are available at www.sec.gov.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Spero Therapeutics, Inc. ("Spero" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SPRO) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and docketed under 22-cv-03125, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Spero securities between October 28, 2021 and May 2, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Spero securities during the Class Period, you have until July 25, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Spero, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on identifying, developing, and commercializing treatments for multi-drug resistant bacterial infections and rare diseases in the United States. The Company's product candidates include Tebipenem Pivoxil Hydrobromide (HBr), an oral carbapenem-class antibiotic to treat complicated urinary tract infections, including pyelonephritis for adults.
On October 28, 2021, Spero announced that it had submitted a New Drug Application ("NDA") to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for Tebipenem HBr for the Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections including Pyelonephritis (the "Tebipenem HBr NDA").
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the data submitted in support of the Tebipenem HBr NDA were insufficient to obtain FDA approval; (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the FDA would approve the Tebipenem HBr NDA in its current form; (iii) the foregoing would necessitate a significant workforce reduction and restructuring of Spero's operations; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On March 31, 2022, Spero issued a press release announcing the Company's fourth quarter and full year 2021 financial results. In the press release, Spero disclosed that "[t]he U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has notified Spero that, as part of its ongoing review of Spero's New Drug Application (NDA) for tebipenem HBr, it has identified deficiencies that preclude discussion of labeling and post-marketing requirements/commitments at this time."
On this news, Spero's stock price fell $1.59 per share, or 18.27%, to close at $7.11 per share on April 1, 2022.
Then on May 3, 2022, Spero issued a press release announcing "that it will immediately defer current commercialization activities for tebipenem HBr based on feedback from a recent Late Cycle Meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding Spero's New Drug Application (NDA) for tebipenem HBr[,]" and that, "[a]lthough the review is still ongoing and the FDA has not yet made any final determination regarding approvability, the discussion suggested that the data package may be insufficient to support approval during this review cycle." Specifically, the FDA advised the Company, in relevant part, that the FDA's separate analysis of the relevant study population had "reduce[d] the number of evaluable patients in the primary analysis population compared with those resulting from the trial's pre-specified micro-ITT population as outlined in the statistical analysis plan and [a]s a result, the FDA considers that the pre-specified non-inferiority margin of -12.5% was not met." Further, the press release advised that, "[i]n connection with this development, Spero announced that it is undertaking a reduction in its workforce by approximately 75% and a restructuring of its operations to reduce operating costs and reallocate resources."
On this news, Spero's stock price fell $3.24 per share, or 63.65%, to close at $1.85 per share on May 3, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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LONDON, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Swarovski Foundation announces the second year of Creatives for Our Future, a global mentorship and grant program designed with advisor the United Nations Office for Partnerships to identify and accelerate the next generation of creative leaders in sustainability.
Swarovski Foundation Creatives for Our Future commences with a four-week open call to all creatives worldwide aged 21 to 30 from disciplines including fashion, design, art, architecture, science, technology, and engineering – with no limit to creative medium. Successful applicants will have a keen interest in, demonstration of, or exemplary potential to use the creative process to accelerate awareness, technologies, or solutions for sustainable development. The Swarovski Foundation aims to draw in a diverse pool of applicants globally and bring new voices and perspectives to the creative process.
Selected grantees will receive financial support to further their projects and design new pathways for a better world. The funding is paired with an educational program in collaboration with top international institutions, tailored mentorship, and industry networking connections with guidance from the Swarovski Foundation. Each participating Program Advocate, leaders in their field, will represent the broadest range of creative disciplines from fashion and art to technology and science.
Throughout the program, grantees will be provided support to develop the innovations and practices outlined in their applications and drive progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The successful grantees will be invited to New York in September 2022 during the United Nations General Assembly for their first high-level industry network engagement to not only announce the Creatives for our Future program's second year but to also meet their fellow participants.
Further details on the program, application process and grants can be found on www.sfcreatives.org.
Worldwide applications will be accepted from July 11th to August 8th, 2022 (11:59pm GMT). Successful grantees and a complete list of Program Advocates will be announced in September 2022 to coincide with the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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Iowa assistant Kirk Speraw will retire after 43-year career
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa assistant Kirk Speraw will retire on June 30 after 43 years coaching college basketball. Speraw began his career as a graduate assistant under Lute Olson on Iowa’s 1980 Final Four team and ended it as a 12-year assistant under Fran McCaffery. The Sioux City, Iowa, native helped guide the Hawkeyes to 20 or more wins eight of the last 10 years. Speraw was head coach at Central Florida from 1994-2010 and at Pensacola (Florida) Junior College from 1988-90. He also made assistant coaching stops at Denver, Florida Southern and Florida. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/05/11/iowa-assistant-kirk-speraw-will-retire-after-43-year-career/ | 2022-05-11T19:33:16Z |
Letter to the editor: Support one-time ARPA funding for Ohio's creative sector
The creative industries are a critical economic driver in the state of Ohio, having supported 329,000 jobs and contributed $55 billion in economic output pre-pandemic. However, with continued closures, cancellations, and postponements over the last 26 months, this key sector has been disproportionately impacted compared to other major industries.
A new report commissioned by Ohio Citizens for the Arts and eight partners across our state, including ArtsinStark, ArtsNow, ArtsWave, Assembly for the Arts, Culture Works, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, Greater Columbus Arts Council, The Arts Commission, and Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber Foundation, quantifies this in stark numbers:
- Between 2019 and 2020, creative industry employment declined by over 41,000, while total creative industry economic output fell by over $8.6 billion.
- The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected creative industries in Ohio. Specifically, decreases in employment and economic output were four times as large compared to the overall Ohio economy.
- The decline in creative industry payroll was over seven times as large compared to the overall Ohio economy.
- In employment, creative industries in Ohio saw a decline of 12.63%, compared to a decline of 4.23% for all industries in Ohio.
- In economic output for creative industries in Ohio, there was a decline of 15.74%, compared to a decline of 4.34% for all industries in Ohio.
The creative industry is critical for helping Ohio attract and retain entrepreneurs and a highly skilled workforce through healthy, vibrant communities where people want to live, work, and play. Having endured over two years without the ability to earn substantial revenue, our arts and creative businesses need further one-time economic assistance.
Allocating $50 million of one-time ARPA relief to Ohio's creative industry will go a long way in providing much-needed support for these anchor institutions, and will allow our arts and creative businesses to play a vital role in helping kickstart Ohio's recovery.
David Mitchell, Dover | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/opinion/2022/05/24/letter-editor-support-arpa-funding-ohios-creative-sector/9857501002/ | 2022-05-24T10:28:28Z |
WEST LINN, Ore., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific West Bank (OTCPK: PWBO), today announced Erin Hubert as a new member of the Board of Directors of Pacific West Bank. The announcement is in line with the Bank's mission to service Portland's business community by providing premier banking services led by local leaders.
"We are honored to have Erin join our Board of Directors with her vast experience in leadership roles across several industries in Portland. She provides a wealth of business acumen and firsthand knowledge of this great city," stated Ed Kawasaki, Pacific West Bank's Chairman of the Board.
Erin Hubert currently holds the role of Chief of the Business Services Division for Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. As a life-long Oregonian, Erin is well-connected in the Portland community. She was previously Chief Executive Officer for Boys and Girls Club of Portland and prior to that, she was Chief Operating Officer for the Portland Trailblazers. She has served on numerous boards, including Oregon Health & Sciences University, Oregon Partnership/Lines for Life, Citizens Crime Commission, Boys and Girls Club of Portland, and Portland State University Advisory Board. Hubert holds a B.S. in business administration from Portland State University. She also maintains volunteer activities in the Portland area.
"As a founding investor in Pacific West Bank, I am excited to be part of the Bank and support its mission to serve Portland's Business community. The Bank's growth over the past few years has been incredible, and I am excited to be part of the Bank's continued growth trajectory into the future," said Erin Hubert, Pacific West Bank's newest Board Member.
About Pacific West Bank:
Pacific West Bank is a commercial bank with offices in Downtown Portland, West Linn, and Lake Oswego Oregon. Pacific West Bank provides customized banking solutions to businesses and nonprofits as well as financial and volunteer support to a variety of community, civic and charitable organizations. For more information about Pacific West Bank, please call 503-905-2222 or visit www.pacificwestbank.com. Information about the Bank's stock may be obtained through the OTC Markets at www.otcmarkets.com. Pacific West Bank's stock symbol is PWBO.
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Certain statements in this release may be deemed to be "forward-looking statements." Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about our beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current plans, estimates and projections, and therefore you should not place undue reliance on them. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we undertake no obligation to update publicly any of them in light of new information or future events. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We caution you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement.
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An Alzheimer’s Disease study is seeking participants over 60 years old with mild symptoms
BOSTON (Gray News) – Researchers with Mass General Brigham, a nonprofit hospital in Boston, are looking for participants for a study on Alzheimer’s Disease between the age of 60 and 85 years of age and showing mild symptoms.
In a release, the researchers said they are looking to see if a new nasal drug called Protollin is safe in those suffering from Alzheimer’s and whether it ultimately improves cognition.
Doses will gradually be increased in different subjects in the study to find out what the highest dose of Protollin to take is, the researchers said. They said the drug is yet to be studied nasally and they want to see if it affects the immune system and is safe to use.
The researchers said they aim to find the proper dose to use on Alzheimer’s patients and work to identify a new potential treatment for the disease.
The study is requiring participants who are:
- Between the ages of 60 and 85 who have been diagnosed with early to mild Alzheimer’s disease
- On able to be on a stable medication regimen for 8 weeks before the study and which will be stable during the study
- Not pregnant, lactating or of childbearing potential, which includes being two years post-menopausal for women or surgically sterile
- Amyloid-positive PET scan (if the other criteria are met)
- Able to understand and provide informed consent
The study will take eight visits over a 45-day period. The researchers said participants are not expected to gain any medical benefit from the study, but they will walk away with up to $400 for their time.
For more information on the study, visit the Mass General Brigham website.
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The Surfside Ad Platform now allows cannabis businesses to run ads based on SKU-level inventory data
NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Surfside Solutions Inc. ("Surfside"), an end-to-end marketing technology that aggregates first-party data across all customer touchpoints, today announced the general availability of Retail Intelligence Targeting to enterprise clients, a feature of the Surfside Platform that allows cannabis dispensaries and brands to create dynamic digital advertising campaigns based on product availability.
Made possible by Surfside's best-in-class integrations across point-of-sale systems and ecommerce platforms, Retail Intelligence Targeting offers clients an innovative way to build rule-based ad campaigns triggered by inventory levels and market trends. By setting parameters based on brand, SKU levels, product category, or competitor inventory levels, cannabis businesses can make sure every ad dynamically adjusts in real-time to what's actually in stock.
With the addition of Retail Intelligence Targeting to the Surfside Platform, advertisers can:
- Create rule-based ad campaigns automated by inventory levels. Adjust ad spend, creative, and product promotions based on real-time inventory data to increase marketing when overstocked or decrease spend when inventory is low.
- Build competitive conquesting campaigns. Target shoppers of competing retailers or brands when competitors are out of stock of a customer's favorite product to drive conversions for your store or brand.
- Personalize ads based on SKU-level availability. Match ad creative to custom built audiences tailored to specific products and categories at the store-level, offering highly relevant ads for each location depending on availability and consumer preferences.
"With Surfside's Retail Intelligence Targeting, we're giving brands and retailers a revolutionary new way to create ad campaigns that can dynamically adapt to the latest changes in product inventory, popularity, and market trends, whether at their own retail location, a partner location, or a competitor," says Michael Blanche, co-founder at Surfside. "With this new feature, Surfside continues to lead the way in giving our clients the ability to make every ad as agile and personalized as possible, driving a more engaging shopping experience for consumers and increased sales and efficiencies for clients."
Want to learn more about Retail Intelligence Targeting? Visit surfside.io to register for a free demo.
Surfside is an end-to-end marketing technology that aggregates first-party data across all customer touchpoints, allowing advertisers the ability to better understand, target, and measure how to influence current and future customers. Powered by the only cannabis-focused customer data platform (CDP) with a complete view and opinion on the cannabis consumer, Surfside enables cannabis businesses to find and attract qualified consumers through the monetization of their online and in-store audiences.
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Scott Cianciulli
The Plunkett Group
(212) 739-6753
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Mejía delivers again, Rays beat Orioles 14th straight time
By FRED GOODALL
AP Sports Writer
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Francisco Mejía homered and drove in three runs, helping the Tampa Bay Rays beat Baltimore 5-3 for their 14th straight win over the Orioles. The two-time defending AL East champions improved to 20-1 against the Orioles since the start of the 2021. The 14-game winning streak that began last July is the longest against a single opponent in Rays history. Mejía’s pinch-hit, eighth-inning sacrifice fly drove in the go-ahead run in Tampa Bay’s 2-1 season-opening victory over the Orioles. He started at catcher this time, delivering a RBI single in the second and a two-run homer off Jordan Lyles in the third. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/09/mejia-delivers-again-rays-beat-orioles-14th-straight-time/ | 2022-04-09T21:07:41Z |
Man wanted for punching Louisville, Ky., mayor in the face
LOUSVILLE, Ky. (CNN) - Louisville police are looking for the man who punched their city’s mayor in the face Saturday night.
Mayor Greg Fischer was at a popular downtown event when he was assaulted.
Louisville police released several screengrabs from surveillance video showing a man they are calling a suspect.
According to a Facebook post, investigators say the mayor is doing fine.
Fischer, a Democrat, is in his third term as mayor of Kentucky’s largest city and cannot run again due to term limits.
Craig Greenberg, the 2022 Democratic nominee to replace him, survived an apparent assassination attempt in February.
On Twitter, Greenberg sent well wishes to Fischer saying, “We cannot solve our disagreements with violence.”
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House passes bill to legalize marijuana
The bill would clear criminal penalties for the distribution and possession of cannabis.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The House of Representatives has passed a bill to legalize marijuana nationwide, by a margin of 220 yeas to 204 nays.
The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, known as the MORE act, would expunge marijuana convictions and clear criminal penalties for anyone who distributes or possesses cannabis. It would also remove marijuana from the list of federally controlled substances. Members of the Congressional Cannibis Caucus held a press conference after the vote.
“We don’t have uniformity. We don’t have opportunities to have a uniformed tax provision. We don’t have banking systems. We don’t have research. And, we have a disjointed market that’s part legal and part illegal. We can’t be able to deal with the surplus production if we don’t have a national framework,” said Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).
The bill requires a federal tax on marijuana sales that would start at 5 percent and eventually increase to 8 percent over five years.
The act passed largely along party lines. This is the second time this legislation has passed in the House. The first time was back in December of 2020. At the time, the Senate failed to take up the bill.
Congressman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) is among the lawmakers who voted against the bill as he claimed it disregards science and the nation’s drug abuse epidemic.
“Drug overdose death rates reached a historic high in America last year. This is no time to add fuel to the fire by opening the floodgates to this long-time gateway drug,” said Rogers in a statement. “Studies have long shown that marijuana directly affects memory and learning, and increases certain mental health disorders in some people. The federal government should not be investing Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars in marijuana and retroactively giving criminals a free pass.”
Marijuana is currently listed as a schedule I drug by the FDA. Schedule I drugs are defined as drugs with no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
Supporters claim legalizing marijuana will reduce mass incarcerations, expunge marijuana convictions, remove employment barriers, and generate new jobs.
The text of the bill notes, “37 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have adopted laws allowing legal access to cannabis, and 15 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam have adopted laws legalizing cannabis for adult recreational use. A total of 47 States have reformed their laws pertaining to cannabis despite the Schedule I status of marijuana and its Federal criminalization.”
The legislation now moves to the U.S. Senate for consideration. In a statement to some news outlets, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he’s working on a similar bill with Senators Booker and Wyden, saying, “the time has come for comprehensive reform of federal cannabis laws.”
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TAMPA, Fla., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the American Thyroid Association, July is Graves' Disease Awareness Month. Graves' Disease is an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid gland and is the most common cause of overproduction of thyroid hormone within the body (hyperthyroidism).
In Graves' Disease, the body's immune system for some reason turns against a part or parts of the thyroid. Graves' Disease symptoms include unexplained weight loss, heat intolerance or excessive sweating, anxiety, tremors, restlessness, difficulty sleeping at night, rapid or irregular heart rate, palpitations or chest pain, difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, goiter or thyroid mass, prominent bulging eyes, blurred vision, double vision, muscle weakness, change in menstrual periods, increased frequency of bowel movements and more.
There are several different approaches in the management of Graves' Disease. These include medical management with anti-thyroid medication, radioactive iodine therapy, and thyroid surgery.
Surgery for Graves' Disease is the only 100% effective therapy. Surgery for Grave's Disease requires total removal of the thyroid gland. When the Graves' thyroid gland is very large, thyroid surgery is widely considered the preferred treatment. It is also the best treatment option when other treatments have been ineffective or if a patient cannot tolerate another form of treatment. This surgery should only be performed by expert thyroid surgeons and managed by an expert thyroid surgery team.
"Many patients don't do well with medical therapies for Graves' Disease," said Dr. Gary Clayman of the Clayman Thyroid Center. "Often their disease becomes difficult to consistently control and they can experience roller coaster symptoms of very high thyroid hormone levels followed by periods of very low thyroid hormone production. After a period of treatment, many patients get exhausted by these roller coaster hormone rides and seek surgery for Graves' Disease."
What is most important in the treatment of Graves' Disease is choosing the right treatment that best suits each individual patient. Surgery for Graves' Disease may be the best treatment for many patients and can be accomplished through several different approaches. Surgery for Graves' Disease may include minimally invasive thyroid surgery, robotic thyroid surgery which does not produce a neck incision as well as transoral thyroid surgery which uses an incision within the mouth. The best surgery for Graves' Disease requires the safe removal of the entire thyroid gland no matter which approach is chosen.
"Just this week I saw a patient who was diagnosed with Graves' Disease several years ago," said Dr. Rashmi Roy of the Clayman Thyroid Center. "She was trying to manage her disease with several medications, none of which were working for her. While trying these medications, her thyroid grew substantially, and she developed a large Graves' goiter in her neck as well as Graves' eye disease. Because her goiter was so large, she was suffering with significant symptoms including difficulty breathing, swallowing and speaking. I removed her thyroid gland with an operation that lasted about an hour. She spent some time in recovery and was discharged the following day without any complications. If you have Graves' Disease and medical management is failing you, please consider surgery. It's the best option for your recovery."
Founded by Dr. Clayman, the Clayman Thyroid Center is widely recognized as America's leading thyroid surgery center, performing nearly 2,000 thyroid operations annually. Patients from all over the world travel to Tampa to have their operation performed by the Clayman Thyroid Center's surgeons at the brand-new Hospital for Endocrine Surgery. The Clayman Thyroid Center is a full-service thyroid surgery center, offering the most advanced forms of thyroid surgery for all types of thyroid tumors, from small thyroid nodules to large Graves' goiters and complex thyroid cancer.
The Clayman Thyroid Center's philosophy centers on a customized surgery plan for every single patient which includes:
- Complete and extensive ultrasound examination
- Ability to biopsy even the smallest nodules or lymph nodes
- Consultation regarding every option for your specific thyroid disease
- Expertise in complex thyroid diseases
- Expertise in robotic thyroid surgery that leaves no neck scar
- Surgeons work as a team to assure highest cure rates and best outcomes
- Highest volume, most experienced thyroid surgeons in America
"I am not one to fully trust testimonials, but I have to tell my story," said Carol, a recent patient at the Clayman Thyroid Center. "I was diagnosed with Graves' disease and had a long-distance phone consultation with Drs Clayman and Roy regarding my thyroid surgery. On the way to Tampa, I told my husband I was prepared to "just be a number" in the surgery process. Wow, I couldn't have been more wrong. It is amazing how individualized this treatment made me feel during this trying time. I cannot say enough amazing things about how I was made to feel and the level of treatment I was given. These people and this place are absolutely amazing. Not that I would wish this surgery on anyone, but if you need thyroid surgery, there is only one place to go."
Founded by one of the nation's best-known thyroid surgeons, the Clayman Thyroid Center is the highest volume thyroid cancer referral center in the United States. The Center boasts the most experienced thyroid surgeons in the US who provide personalized care allowing the greatest opportunity for cancer cure, wellness, and cosmetic and functional outcomes via all types of thyroid surgery from minimal incision to scarless thyroid surgery to advanced cancer care.
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BEIJING, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cheetah Mobile Inc. (NYSE: CMCM) ("Cheetah Mobile" or the "Company"), a leading Internet company, today announced that it will change the ratio of its American Depositary Share ("ADS") to Class A ordinary share ("Share") from one (1) ADS representing ten (10) Shares to one (1) ADS representing fifty (50) Shares, effective September 2, 2022 (the "ADS Ratio Change").
For Cheetah Mobile's ADS holders, the change in the ADS ratio will have the same effect as a one-for-five reverse ADS split. Effective September 2, 2022, ADS holders of Cheetah Mobile will be required on a mandatory basis to surrender their old ADS to the depositary bank for cancellation at the rate of five (5) old ADSs for one (1) new ADS. Holders in the Direct Registration System and in the Depository Trust Company will have their ADSs automatically exchanged and need not take any actions. Only whole ADSs will be distributed. The depositary bank will attempt to sell any fractional ADSs and distribute the cash proceeds. The ADS Ratio Change will have no impact on Cheetah Mobile's underlying ordinary shares.
About Cheetah Mobile Inc.
Cheetah Mobile is a leading internet company. It has attracted hundreds of millions of monthly active users through an array of internet products such as Clean Master, Security Master and several casual games. The Company provides advertising services to advertisers worldwide as well as value-added services including the sale of premium membership and in-app virtual items to its users. Cheetah Mobile is also committed to leveraging its cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies to power its products and make the world smarter. It has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since May 2014.
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ALBANY – An Atlanta resident who pleaded guilty for his role in a check-cashing scheme targeting Publix grocery stores in Georgia, Florida and Alabama has been remanded to federal custody.
Brandon Lamont Bell, 37, pleaded guilty to possession of counterfeit and unauthorized devices on June 23. Bell faces a maximum of 10 years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine. Bell was remanded to federal custody at a petition for action on conditions of pretrial release hearing before U.S. District Judge Louis Sands. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 29.
“Check-cashing schemes using stolen bank information is not a minor offense — the harm it causes people and businesses can warrant federal prosecution and will not be ignored by our office,” U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary said. “Our office is working with local, state and federal law enforcement partners to protect people and businesses from fraudsters.”
“This case is another example that clearly shows criminals are continuously looking for ways to steal from financial institutions," Clint Bush, resident agent in charge with the United States Secret Service in the Albany resident office, said. "In this case, not only were financial institutions defrauded, but United States citizens were violated by having their bank account information stolen for the purpose of committing fraud.
“The United States Secret Service, along with our state, local and federal law enforcement partners will continue to investigate, arrest and support the successful prosecution of the criminals who choose to commit this and other types of financial fraud in our community and around the nation.”
According to court documents, Georgia State Patrol and Tifton Police Department officers were conducting a road check at the Interstate 75 Northbound Exit 61 ramp (the intersection of Old Omega Road and Magnolia Drive in Tifton). During the course of the encounter with Bell and other occupants of the vehicle, and the subsequent United States Secret Service investigation, agents discovered a check-cashing scheme involving Bell and other co-defendants targeting Publix Supermarkets in Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
Inside the vehicle, officers found 114 fictitious checks printed with 19 genuine bank account routing numbers, a printer and electric cords, nine counterfeit driver’s licenses and 18 VISA gift cards. Bell admitted that he possessed with the intent to defraud more than 15 counterfeit and unauthorized access devices.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, GSP and the Tifton Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sonja Profit is prosecuting the case. | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/atlanta-man-pleads-guilty-to-publix-check-cashing-scheme/article_aadd61ec-f973-11ec-be6c-a3f7334d5032.html | 2022-07-02T12:25:48Z |
State Rep. for Manhattan files for re-election to House
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Manhattan’s state representative in the House, Sydney Carlin, has officially filed for re-election.
A spokesperson for the Kansas House of Representatives says Sydney Carlin has filed for re-election to House District 66, which includes part of Manhattan in both Riley and Pottawatomie counties, as well as part of the Wildcat township.
Rep. Carlin serves on the House Appropriations Committee and as the Ranking Member on both the Agriculture and Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget committees. She also serves on the Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight, as well as the 2021 Special Committee on the 30x30 Federal Initiative.
“My background in local government gave me the opportunity to work with local economic development issues. I am so excited about the local business investment and job growth coming this way through the efforts of our local team working with Governor Kelly and the Department of Commerce,” Rep. Carlin said.
Carlin said she understands Manhattan’s unique position as a district that serves military and collegiate needs.
In Topeka, Carlin said she consistently stands up for her constituents and Higher Education at all levels. In this session, she defended the need to expand Medicaid, increase the state’s share of special education funding, eliminate the state sales tax on food immediately, and fully fund public schools. She also helped Kansans with personal property tax relief and kept property in the hands of families and farmers.
Carlin said as she understands the role of water in agriculture and protecting Tuttle Creek and state reservoirs, she has diligently sought solutions to the state’s impending water crisis through bipartisan coalitions and innovative solutions.
“I am excited to continue working for residents of Manhattan,” Carlin concluded.
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SEATTLE, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) announced today that Erik Nordstrom, chief executive officer, and Anne Bramman, chief financial officer, will participate in a fireside chat at the Goldman Sachs Annual Global Retailing Conference on Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 9:35 a.m. EDT.
The session will be webcast live through the Events & Presentations section at investor.nordstrom.com. The archived webcast will be available until February 5, 2023, at the same location within four hours after the conclusion of the live event.
At Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN), we exist to help our customers feel good and look their best. Since starting as a shoe store in 1901, how to best serve customers has been at the center of every decision we make. This heritage of service is the foundation we're building on as we provide convenience and true connection for our customers. Our digital-first platform enables us to serve customers when, where and how they want to shop – whether that's in-store at more than 350 Nordstrom, Nordstrom Local and Nordstrom Rack locations or digitally through our Nordstrom and Rack apps and websites. Through it all, we remain committed to leaving the world better than we found it.
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Platform suite of solutions will allow its consultants to scale personal business growth
DALLAS, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pampered Chef today announced a new partnership with Project Broadcast to enhance the communication capabilities of the company's robust network of independent consultants. Project Broadcast is a software solutions developer that provides a bundled suite of app-based and platform communications tools designed to help entrepreneurs scale their individual business pursuits. The upgraded capabilities from Project Broadcast will integrate directly with Table, Pampered Chef's award-winning, industry-first digital platform that enables its consultants to host customized virtual cooking parties with their customers.
"Pampered Chef is committed to continually delivering new and innovative solutions that enable our consultants to deliver great experiences for their customers," said Shiv Dutt, vice-president of customer experience and innovation at Pampered Chef. "Pairing our best-in-class digital platform, Table, with Project Broadcast's communication tools will allow our consultants to communicate faster and more effectively with their customers and teams."
Project Broadcast's platform suite of bundled solutions allows direct sellers and network marketers to grow their individual businesses to scale in a competitive environment. They're designed to assist with customer care, education, team coaching, prospecting, follow-ups, and promotional alerts. Specific business features include enhanced text marketing capabilities, inbound and outbound calling, campaigns, keywords, landing pages, unlimited chat, company metrics, and reporting–all designed to foster efficiencies, productivity increases, and higher response rates. Project Broadcast automates each of these functions, so users can focus on what matters most–building relationships that scale their entrepreneurial ventures.
"We're extremely proud to be chosen as an enterprise-grade partner to Pampered Chef, a 40+ year veteran in the direct sales industry," said Jake Dempsey, co-founder and CEO of Project Broadcast. "The mass communication and collaboration tools we provide are field driven. Tailored for mass audience relationships, they're designed to enhance the user's capabilities, while retaining that all-important personal touch in the direct sales networking environment."
For further information, please visit Project Broadcast on the web at www.projectbroadcast.com.
About Project Broadcast
Project Broadcast is a software solutions developer that provides a bundled suite of app-based and platform communications tools designed to help entrepreneurs scale their individual business pursuits. These mass communication tools were custom designed to support the needs of direct sellers and network marketing professionals at an affordable price point. The platform suite solution and associated tools can be utilized for desktop and mobile-app usage to meet the growing needs of entrepreneurs in an ever-increasing competitive marketplace. Today, more than 50 network marketing/direct sales companies and over 50,000 entrepreneurs use Project Broadcast. Request a product demo here, visit www.projectbroadcast.com.
About Pampered Chef
Pampered Chef, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a leading provider of personalized, inspirational mealtime solutions delivered by a robust network of independent consultants. For more than 40 years, Pampered Chef has helped create countless mealtime moments with friends and family through high-quality, everyday cooking tools and inspiration, while providing each cooking consultant a flexible opportunity to build a business around his or her own lifestyle, goals and passions. For more information, visit PamperedChef.com and follow @PamperedChef on Instagram and Facebook.
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ISELIN, N.J., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hexaware has emerged as the winner in multiple categories at the 'Organisation Development Summit & Awards 2022' and the 'Future of Learning & Development Summit and Awards 2022'. It has won awards for its impactful programs and strategy.
The Organisation Development Summit & Awards are conferred to organizations that are 'human-centered' and showcase a solid level of adaptability and responsiveness. The summit aids businesses in leveraging their L&D capabilities to attain sustainable success and align their Organization Development and Design policies with overall business objectives. At the 2nd edition of these awards this year, Hexaware won awards for:
- Best Talent Development Strategy of the Year
- Best Organizational Development Program
- Best Capability Development Program of the Year
The Future of Learning & Development Summit & Awards provide a platform for industry and thought leaders to share their perspectives on the evolving learning and development domain. The summit focuses on the importance of technology to enable upskilling in organizations. At the 10th edition of these awards this year, Hexaware won:
- Digital Learning Transformation Award
- Innovation in Learning Award
Senthil Nayagam K, Chief Learning Officer at Hexaware, said, "These awards demonstrate the benchmarks that we have set for ourselves and peers across industries. It is a significant endorsement of our value propositions, and we will continue to enrich them for dependable capability building."
To know more about Hexaware's Learning & Development programs, visit Learning and Development - HexaVarsity | Hexaware.
To learn more about the awards, click here - Awards & Recognitions | Hexaware
About Hexaware
Hexaware is a global IT, BPS and consulting services company empowering businesses worldwide to realize digital transformation at scale and speed.
Learn more about Hexaware at http://www.hexaware.com. Take an immersive 360° virtual tour of our campuses worldwide at https://www.hexawareimmersive.com
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Residential Services (ARS/Rescue Rooter), the nation's largest provider of residential heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and plumbing services, announced it has acquired a family of companies including Absolute Air, Captain Electric, and OyBoy Heating and Cooling.
Absolute Air has been serving residential heating, air conditioning, electrical, and plumbing customers in Mapleton and the greater Salt Lake City area since 1997. Established in 1988, Captain Electric provides residential and commercial electrical services in the greater Salt Lake City area. OyBoy Heating and Cooling, based in Lehi, began serving South Central Utah in 2018.
"We are proud to bring our family of companies to the ARS/Rescue Rooter Network," said Tim Oyler, President. "With their support, we will be able to provide enhanced services to our valued customers, communities, and employees. We are grateful for their partnership and look forward to continued growth and success as part of the ARS brand."
"Acquiring Absolute Air, Captain Electric, and OyBoy Heating and Cooling is consistent with our strategic vision to enhance our national footprint in the West," said Scott Boose, CEO, ARS/Rescue Rooter. "Their loyal customer following, reputation for quality and integrity, and commitment to customer service make them a natural fit for our company and will help us further expand our presence in the home services area in Utah."
Based in Memphis, Tenn., privately-owned ARS operates a network of more than 70 locally-managed service centers in 24 states, with approximately 6,500 employees. ARS serves residential and light commercial customers by providing heating, cooling, indoor air quality, plumbing, drain cleaning, sewer line, radiant barrier, insulation, electrical and ventilation services. The ARS Network features industry-leading brands including, but not limited to: Air Experts™, A.J. Perri ®, Aksarben ARS™, Allgood Plumbing, Electric, Heating and Cooling ®, Andy's Statewide™, ARS ®, Aspen Air Conditioning™, Atlas Trillo ®, Beutler™, Blue Apple Electric, Air and Plumbing™, Blue Dot Services™, Blue Flame Heating Air Electric ®, Bob Hamilton™, Brothers Air and Heat™, Columbus Worthington Air™, Comfort Heating & Air™, Conway Services ®, DM Select Services ®, Efficient Attic Systems ® (EAS), Elite Air™, ESCO™, Florida Home Air Conditioning™, Greenstar Home Services ®, Hauser Heating & Air Conditioning™, McCarthy Services™, My Electric Works™, Rapid Repair Experts™, Rescue Rooter ®, Rescue Rooter / Jack Howk™, RighTime Home Services™, Roger the Plumber ®, RS Andrews of Tidewater ®, The Irish Plumber ®, The Rooter Works™, Total Comfort™, Unique Services™, Will Fix It™, and Yes! Air Conditioning and Plumbing™. Providing exceptional service and ensuring the highest quality standards, ARS has the experience to do any job right – the first time, with all work covered under ARS' Exceptional Service Guarantee. ARS: "Making it work. Making it right."® For more information, visit www.ars.com.
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Vendors selected for the "Hot Vendor" report are noteworthy, visionary and innovative
SAN FRANCISCO, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cresta, a pioneer of real-time intelligence for contact centers, today announced it has been included in the list of "Hot Vendors" in the 2022 "Hot Vendors in AI for the Contact Center" report by Aragon Research, Inc. The report emphasized Cresta's AI-driven real-time Agent Assist, and identified real-time coaching, sentiment analysis and accelerated onboarding capabilities as features that stand out among their peers.
Contact centers are increasingly embracing AI as they seek to improve every customer interaction. Cresta's AI-driven platform helps contact center teams create better customer experiences, and unlock revenue opportunities. The platform provides dynamic, live guidance to agents based on the best practices of top performers. Cresta also provides real-time visibility for managers to track agent and customer interactions, delivering key insights to improve every conversation.
According to the report, "what makes Cresta hot is its real-time agent assist features which include sentiment analysis alongside a comprehensive set of artificial intelligence features, including objection handling, intent, and knowledge base lookup." Cresta reduces onboarding time by providing agents with on-the spot learning opportunities and drives better customer service. The report also noted that Cresta provides managers with real-time visibility of all conversations, as well as real-time agent performance management.
"Being part of Aragon Research's Hot Vendor report validates the power and innovation Cresta is delivering to contact center agents and managers," said Zayd Enam, CEO and co-founder of Cresta. "This is a pivotal moment for the contact center - by pointing out the strengths of Cresta's AI-driven real-time intelligence platform, Aragon is underscoring how companies are increasingly embracing new technologies for agents and managers to stay ahead of unprecedented demand by customers for highly efficient, productive and personalized engagements."
Customers using Cresta see an increased CSAT on average by 15%, reduced ramp time by 3X, increased sales by 10%, and agents saving 3-5 hours in repetitive tasks every week. CarMax, Blue Nile, Earthlink, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Porsche, and Intuit are among the leading companies using Cresta to improve the productivity of their contact center operations.
About Aragon Research
Aragon Research delivers high-impact visual research, consulting, and advisory services to provide enterprises the insight they need to make better technology and strategy decisions. Aragon Research serves business and IT leaders and has a proven team of veteran analysts. For more information, visit https://www.aragonresearch.com.
About Cresta
Cresta makes every customer interaction excellent. Cresta turns real-time intelligence into real-time action to make the contact center smarter – and every agent and manager more productive. Powering customer experiences for companies like CarMax, Blue Nile, Earthlink, Intuit, and Porsche, Cresta is real-time AI for the real world.
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LAS VEGAS, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GBank Financial Holdings Inc. ("GBank" or the "Company") (OTCQX: GBFH), the parent company for Bank of George (the "Bank"), today reported year-to-date earnings of $5.0 million, or $0.39 per diluted share, and quarterly earnings of $1.7 million, or $0.13 per diluted share. Year-to-date earnings represent a 13% increase, compared to $4.4 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, for the year-to-date period ending June 30, 2021. Year-to-date gain on sales income increased to $8.6 million from $7.2 million for the same period in 2021, representing a 19% year-over-year increase. Net interest margin for the Bank continues to increase with second quarter 2022 at 3.62%, compared to 3.21% for the same period in 2021.
Second Quarter Financial Highlights (for the year-over-year and linked quarterly periods ending June 30, 2022)
Year-over-year comparisons:
- Year-to-date net income increased 13% to $5.0 million, compared to $4.4 million for the same period in 2021.
- Year-to-date earnings per diluted share were $0.39, compared to $0.34 for the same period in 2021.
- Return on average assets was 1.60%, compared to 1.71% for the same period in 2021.
- Return on average equity was 12.68%, compared to 13.25% for the same period in 2021.
- Allowance for loan losses was $6.8 million, compared to $5.9 million at June 30, 2021.
- Net interest margin (bank-level) was 3.36%, compared to 3.31% for the same period in 2021.
- Year-to-date net revenues (net interest income plus noninterest income) increased 18% to $19.6 million, compared to $16.6 million for 2021.
- Noninterest income increased 20% to $10.0 million, compared to $8.4 million for 2021.
- Total assets increased 17% to $635.1 million, compared to $545.0 million as of June 30, 2021.
- Total deposits increased 13% to $519.9 million, compared to $461.9 million as of June 30, 2021.
- Book value was $6.40 per share, compared to $5.66 per share as of June 30, 2021.
Linked quarter comparisons:
- Net income decreased 47.2% to $1.7 million, compared to $3.2 million for Q1 2022.
- Earnings per diluted share were $0.13, compared to $0.25 for Q1 2022.
- Return on average assets was 1.09%, compared to 2.11% for Q1 2022.
- Return on average equity was 8.59%, compared to 16.93% for Q1 2022.
- Allowance for loan losses was $6.8 million, compared to $6.1 million at March 31, 2022.
- Net interest margin (bank-level) was 3.62%, compared to 3.12% for Q1 2022.
- Total net revenues (net interest income plus noninterest income) decreased 9% to $9.3 million, compared to $10.3 million for Q1 2022.
- Noninterest income decreased 30% to $4.1 million, compared to $5.9 million for Q1 2022.
- Total assets increased 1.4% to $635.1 million, compared to $626.4 million at March 31, 2022.
- Total deposits increased 2.4% to $519.9 million, compared to $507.6 million at March 31, 2022.
- Book value was $6.40 per share, compared to $6.45 per share at March 31, 2021.
Edward M. Nigro, GBank Executive Chairman, stated "Our earnings growth over 2021 looks even brighter when we consider the combined impact of our year-to-date charges of $550,000 for our core processor conversion and the $767,000 in loan provision as a result of substantive increases in commercial loans during the quarter. When we see NIM growing, SBA production remaining strong, and Gaming Fintech clients utilizing our PPA product increasing, we feel very confident about our strategic business plan."
SBA
"The Company continues to see a strong pipeline of SBA loans. This activity is related to the investments we have made in our SBA Division, which will allow us to not only continue to build on what we have created, but also expand into additional markets to further diversify our loan portfolio and balance sheet." stated T. Ryan Sullivan, President/CEO.
Year-to-date SBA Division loan originations were at approximately $124 million through June 30, 2022, a 35% increase compared to approximately $92 million in originations for the same period in 2021. This level of performance is establishing the Bank as a long-term leader in the government guaranteed lending market, and will continue to be a significant contributor to the Company's bottom line.
A key provision of the CARES Act was the SBA Debt Relief Program, whereby the SBA made six months of principal and interest payments on qualifying existing and new SBA loans. This has been an incredibly powerful resource for SBA borrowers and, with all of the Bank's SBA 7(a) loans in regular payment status at the onset of the program, most of the Bank's SBA borrowers were able to benefit from this program. As of June 30, 2022, the Bank no longer had any loan relationships receiving support under this program. Additionally, under the Economic Aid Act, continuing SBA payment support of up to $9,000 per month provided for a significant portion of the Bank's SBA 7(a) loan portfolio. As of June 30, 2022, the Bank currently has no loan relationships receiving support under this program.
Gaming FinTech
As a result of the merger of SBTech and DraftKings, the Bank's related Oregon State Lottery Program ("OSL") sports wagering accounts began winding down during Q1 2022. Due to this winddown, year-to-date OSL load volume decreased 88% to approximately $4.7 million, compared to $38.3 million during the same period in 2021. Even with this decrease, the Bank's Play+ Program with its strategic partners, BankCard Services, LLC and Sightline Payments, experienced an increase in load volumes of 23% year-to-date through June 30, 2022 to $381.6 million, compared to $310.0 million for the same period in 2021, resulting in an overall Gaming FinTech Division load volume increase of 11% year-to-date through June 30, 2022 to approximately $386.3 million, compared to $348.3 million for the same period in 2021.
As an offset to the OSL winddown, the Bank anticipates it will receive a total of $225 thousand for the OSL Program termination.
Paycheck Protection Program
As a U.S. Small Business Administration ("SBA") PLP lender, the Bank has also been able to play a critical role in offering loans through the SBA Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP"). During the life of the program, the Bank funded approximately $85 million in PPP loans. These vital funds supported keeping nearly 7,000 employees on the payroll. PPP loans at June 30, 2022 were approximately $4.5 million.
Covid-19 Response
The Company continues to administer pandemic programs to assist its clients with their financial needs, and remains committed to helping its clients who have been affected by the declining economic activity or other challenges related to the pandemic.
Subordinated Notes Offering
On December 14, 2021, the Company completed its private placement of $20 million of 3.875% fixed-to-floating rate subordinated notes due 2031 (the "Notes") to certain qualified institutional buyers and accredited investors. The Notes have been structured to qualify as Tier 2 capital for regulatory capital purposes. The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering for general corporate operating purposes, to support organic growth, and to fund potential acquisitions.
Balance Sheet Review
GBank's consolidated liquidity and capital positions continue to perform well compared to its relative peers. Year-over-year, deposits grew by approximately $58 million. Year-over-year, gross loan balances (excluding PPP) increased by approximately $101 million due to SBA and commercial loan growth. The Bank continues to take advantage of favorable market conditions related to SBA loan sales.
Total assets increased 17% to approximately $635 million, compared to approximately $545 million at June 30, 2021. Total deposits were also up 13% to approximately $520 million, compared to approximately $462 million at June 30, 2021. Shareholders' equity increased 17% to approximately $81 million, compared to approximately $69 million at June 30, 2021.
The company adopted ASC 842 – Lease Accounting in Q3 2021, resulting in a right-of-use asset and corresponding operating lease liability of approximately $1.6 million. Certain adjustments have been made to the financial presentation for the 2021 year-to-date period and are related to this adoption for comparative purposes. We have leased branches and office space and have entered into various other agreements in conducting our business. Operating lease right-of-use assets are included within All Other Assets and the Bank's operating lease liability is included within Accrued Interest Payable and Other. Operating lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the expected lease term, subject to any changes in the lease or expectations regarding the terms. Variable lease costs such as property taxes are expensed as incurred. Lease and non-lease components are accounted for separately as the amounts are readily determinable under our lease contracts. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the balance sheet.
Operating Results
The Bank's second quarter net interest margin was 3.62%, compared to 3.21% for Q2 2021. Second quarter net revenues (net interest income plus noninterest income) decreased 9% to $9.3 million, compared to $10.3 million for Q2 2021. Second quarter noninterest income decreased 31% to $4.1 million, compared to $6.0 million for Q2 2021. These decreases are primarily related to the decrease in the sales price on SBA loans, which was partially offset by an increase in overall production. Total second quarter noninterest expense increased 17% to $6.3 million, compared to $5.4 million for Q2 2021, and increased 5% compared to $6.0 million for Q1 2022. These increases are primarily related to the Bank's continued investments in personnel and technology.
Credit Quality
The provision for loan losses during Q2 2022 reflects our current assessment of risks associated with our credit portfolios, the COVID-19 pandemic, and general economic conditions. The Company recorded a $767 thousand provision for loan losses during the second quarter of 2022, compared to a $56 thousand provision during the preceding linked quarter. This increase in provision is related to the higher level of growth in loan balances during Q2 2022. The Company held approximately $6.8 million in allowance for loan losses at June 30, 2022, compared to approximately $6.1 million at March 31, 2022. The Bank holds no balances of other real estate owned and reports loans in non-accrual status of approximately $4.7 million at June 30, 2022, up from $298 thousand in the prior quarter. Non-accrual loans were centered in one credit relationship, and include government guaranteed balances of approximately $3.5 million. The allowance for loan losses to total net loans, excluding PPP and guaranteed balances, was 2.09% at June 30, 2022. During the quarter, the Bank experienced net charge-offs of approximately $82 thousand, compared to approximately $105 thousand for the prior quarter.
Earnings Call
The Company will host its Q2 2022 quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. (PST). Shareholders will be able to listen from their home or from any remote location that has Internet connectivity. There will be no physical location for shareholders to attend.
Shareholders may participate online, via the ZOOM app on their smartphones, or by joining by telephone:
The ZOOM video conference ID is 881 5248 7104
The ZOOM meeting passcode will be available to shareholders by sending an email request to sferguson@bankofgeorge.com or by calling Shauna Ferguson at 702-851-4208.
Joining by ZOOM Video Conference
Log in on your computer at https://zoom.us/j/88152487104 or by using the Zoom app on your smartphone.
Joining by Telephone
Dial (408) 638-0968. The conference ID is 881 5248 7104.
The Company
GBank Financial Holdings Inc. ("GBank" or the "Company") (GBFH), a bank holding company with approximately $635 million in assets at June 30, 2022, conducts business through its wholly owned subsidiary, Bank of George (named in honor of George Washington). Founded in 2007, the Bank operates two full-service commercial branches in Las Vegas, Nevada, with primary lending activities focused on engaging clients in Nevada, California, Utah, and Arizona. Bank of George has key businesses in three prominent divisions: SBA Lending, Gaming FinTech, and Commercial Lending. The Bank conducts business nationally through its SBA lending activities (ranked 19th in the nation by the U.S. Small Business Administration for SBA 7(a) dollar loan volume through September 30, 2021) and its BankCard Services, LLC ("BCS") partnership. Launched in 2016, the Bank's Gaming FinTech Division, through its contract with BankCard Services, LLC ("BCS") is empowering Sightline Payments Play+ Solution (Sightline Payments) for seamless and secure pay-and-play that is enabling cashless, mobile commerce solutions for gaming, lottery, and sports betting ecosystems – positioning GBank as a financial leader in this new payments world. The Bank also provides general commercial banking services with an emphasis on serving the needs of small- and medium-sized businesses, high net worth individuals, professionals, and investors. The Bank offers a full complement of consumer deposit products and is focused on delivering a premium level of service. Bank of George has been recognized every year for each of the past five years by S&P Global Market Intelligence as a top 100 U.S. community bank under $3 billion in assets. For more information about Bank of George, please visit its website at https://www.bankofgeorge.com GBank's Common Stock is quoted on the US OTCQX Market under the symbol GBFH.
Forward-looking Statements
GBank has made forward-looking statements in this Press Release. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include information concerning possible or assumed future results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries. When words such as "believes," "expects," "anticipates," or similar expressions occur in this Press Release, the Company is making forward-looking statements. Note that many factors could affect the future financial results of the Company and its subsidiaries, both individually and collectively, and could cause those results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements contained in this Press Release. Those factors include, but are not limited to: the recent and continuing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which poses risks and may harm the Company's business and results of operations in future quarters, credit risk, changes in market interest rates, inability to achieve merger-related synergies, competition, economic downturn or recession, and government regulation and supervision. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
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Shareholders with $25,000 losses or more are encouraged to contact the firm.
LOS ANGELES, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Rivian Automotive, Inc. ("Rivian" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: RIVN).
Class Period: November 10, 2021 – March 10, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: May 6, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that Rivian had underpriced the R1T and R1S to such a degree that Rivian would be forced to raise prices shortly after the IPO; (2) the potential for significant reputational damage and cancellation of fully refundable preorders for the R1T and R1S that would result from Company's need to address its underpriced EVs by raising prices shortly after the IPO; and (3) as a result, Defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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One of Canada’s largest bakeries is moving to compostable bread clips
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TORONTO (CTV Network) — A major North American bakery is planning to replace its plastic bread bag clips with compostable cardboard ones in a move it says will eliminate 200 metric tonnes of single-use plastics annually.
Bimbo Canada announced on Monday that all its bread products will only use compostable clips by June 2022, starting at its commercial bakery in New Brunswick.
Bread clips or tags come in the form of little, hard plastic closures that are primarily used to keep plastic bags closed. They’re most often found in the form of polystyrene, a hard-to-recycle plastic that is used in packaging.
Bimbo Canada says the cardboard bread tags are made from 100 per cent recycled cardboard and are compostable in municipal systems across Canada.
This move is also in line with the federal government’s announcement to ban certain single-use plastic items sometime in 2022.
According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadians discard three million tonnes of plastic waste each year, and only nine per cent of it is recycled.
A study conducted by Deloitte and Cheminfo Services Inc. shows that the majority of plastics introduced to the Canadian market and discarded as waste in 2016 were actually packaging materials. This included plastic bags, bottles and other items commonly used in the food and beverage sector.
While bread clips aren’t mentioned in the study, these products globally remain very high in demand. They are anticipated to be valued at US$4.8 billion in 2022 and are forecast to have an annual growth rate of 6 per cent – to be valued at US$8.5 billion from 2022 to 2032.
Bimbo Canada says it partnered with Quebec-based KLR Systems, which developed the cardboard bread tags.
“We developed this product knowing some small plastics, like bread tags, cannot always be recycled,” Audrey Gagnon, general manager of KLR Systems, said in a statement on Monday.
Many retail and food stores in Canada have already started to shift from offering plastic checkout bags to recyclable alternatives.
Retail giants like Sobeys Inc., Foodland and FreshCo transitioned to reusable and paper bags in early 2021, with most of their banner stores across the country eliminating plastic bags altogether in 2022.
“It’s important we lead change and be responsible stewards of the environment and the communities that we live and work in, by delivering results,” said Joe McCarthy, president of Bimbo Canada, in a release.
“All changes, big or small, make an impact.”
By making changes to plastic waste management, it’s possible to reduce 1.8 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year, the government has said.
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UN inspectors head to Ukraine nuclear plant despite fighting
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The company that oversees Ukraine’s nuclear power plants said shelling by Russian forces triggered a shutdown at one of the reactors at the Zaporizhzhia plant, underscoring the risks faced by a team of U.N. inspectors that was heading there Thursday to assess its safety.
A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency, led by its director Rafael Grossi, set off for the Russia-held nuclear power plant — Europe’s largest — despite the heavy shelling for which Ukraine and Russia trade blame.
Ukraine’s Enerhoatom said Russian mortar shelling led to the shutdown of one of its reactors by its emergency protection system. Shelling also damaged a backup power supply line used for in-house needs, and one of the plant’s reactors that wasn’t operating was switched to diesel generators, the company said.
“There has been increased military activity, including this morning until very recently,” Grossi said, adding that after being briefed by the Ukrainian military he decided to get moving despite the inherent risks. “But weighing the pros and cons and having come so far, we are not stopping.”
He noted that the risks are “very, very high” in the so-called grey zone between Ukrainian and Russian positions, but “we consider that we have the minimum conditions to move.”
A spokesman for the IAEA later said that the mission has been delayed on the Ukrainian-controlled side of the frontline for some three hours, adding that Grossi “has personally negotiated with Ukrainian military authorities to be able to proceed and he remains determined that this important mission reaches the ZNPP today.”
The Zaporizhzhia plant has been occupied by Russian forces but run by Ukrainian engineers since the early days of the 6-month-old war. Ukraine alleges Russia is using the plant as a shield, storing weapons there and launching attacks from around it, while Moscow accuses Ukraine of recklessly firing on the area.
Fighting in early March caused a brief fire at its training complex, and in recent days, the plant was temporarily knocked offline because of damage, heightening fears of a radiation leak or a reactor meltdown. Officials have begun distributing anti-radiation iodine tablets to nearby residents.
“We have a very important mission to accomplish,” Grossi said, adding that “we are going to start immediately an assessment of the security and the safety situation at the plant.”
“I am going to consider the possibility of establishing a continued presence of the IAEA at the plant, which we believe is indispensable to stabilize the situation and to get regular, reliable, impartial, neutral updates of what the situation is there,” he said.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces unleashed an artillery barrage of the area and then sent a group of up to 60 scouts to try to seize control of the nuclear plant.
It said the Ukrainian troops arrived in seven speedboats, landing three kilometers northeast of the plant on the left bank of the Dnieper River and tried to seize it. The ministry said Russian forces “took steps to destroy the enemy,” engaging warplanes. Russia’s military said its forces also destroyed two barges carrying Ukrainian troops who attempted to land near the plant.
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“The provocation by the Kyiv regime is intended to derail the arrival of the IAEA’s group at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,” a ministry statement said.
Alexander Volga, head of the Russia-installed Enerhodar city administration, also said the Ukrainian troops that attempted to land were “blocked and destroyed.” The administration also said at least three local residents were killed and one injured early Thursday from Ukrainian shelling.
He said the fighting had since abated and no “objective obstacles” remained to prevent the visit by the IAEA team, which had crossed a checkpoint in Russia-controlled territory and was expected to soon arrive in Enerhodar.
Ukrainian authorities, meanwhile, accused Russia of shelling Enerhodar and the territory of the nuclear power plant in a false flag attack intended to derail the arrival of the IAEA’s team.
“We are demanding that Russia stop provocations and offer the IAEA unhindered access to the Ukrainian nuclear facility,” said Zaporizhzhia Gov. Oleksandr Starukh.
Neither side’s version of events could immediately be independently verified.
The fighting came as war-torn Ukraine endeavored Thursday to start the new academic year in the best way possible, with civilian areas still under threat of artillery fire and other weaponry — and children still among the victims. Just over half of schools in Ukraine were reopening to in-person education despite the risks.
In other developments:
- A U.S. intelligence assessment said Russia was facing severe manpower shortages as President Vladimir Putin’s 6-month campaign in Ukraine rages on.
- North Korea said it was considering sending construction workers to help rebuild parts of Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine that have been battered by the fighting.
- The emergencies agency under the Russia-backed separatist government in the eastern region of Donetsk said 13 emergency responders were killed and nine others were wounded Thursday by Ukrainian shelling in Rubtsi, a village to the east of the city of Izyum in neighboring Kharkiv province. Much of the fighting in recent weeks and months has centered on the area.
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Big discounts coming this holiday shopping season
(CNN) - You can expect to find more discounts this year than in previous holiday shopping seasons.
Executives at Best Buy, Ulta, Gap and other top chains have said they are expecting a shopping season packed with deals.
Walmart said Tuesday it was offering more “rollbacks,” temporary price reductions on items, than in previous years and a wider array of toys for less than $50 and $25.
In addition to toys, shoppers will likely find discounts on clothing, televisions, beauty products, sporting goods and other items.
Other companies are also ramping up promotions to offer incentives to inflation-strained shoppers who might otherwise be priced out of holiday gifts, but it is unclear whether holiday discounts will be compelling enough to spur inflation-conscious shoppers to buy.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As businesses identify areas weakened by recent events and initiate various recovery processes, outsourced information technology is a leading trend among outsourced services. In a 2022 report from The Economist Intelligence Unit, more than 1,000 survey respondents from six business sectors across nine countries, 83% believe that their organization needs to improve IT infrastructure and applications to successfully navigate future instabilities.
In response to this rising demand, EisnerAmper is offering Outsourced IT Services, the newest edition to its suite of outsourced services. Clients can now leverage firm resources and expertise to assist with:
- Cybersecurity assessments that uncover financial and IT risks.
- Software development and website security.
- Breach response and disaster recovery plans that reduce down-time costs.
- Managed technology services including behavior-based email threat protection, dark web scanning for client credentials, and artificial intelligence-based endpoint security.
- Custom staff augmentation.
"Companies are realizing that today's IT opportunities and threats require unique and specialized expertise. These organizations often aren't able to create that architecture in-house," said Rahul Mahna, Outsourced IT Services team leader. "That's why they look to outsource this key function to a leading-edge firm that offers tailored, holistic solutions that are forward looking."
"Clients are increasingly looking for outsourcing functions to save on costs and turn their attention to growing their businesses. And we believe this trend will only intensify," says Christopher Loiacono, Vice Chair of Services at EisnerAmper. "We're excited to have added IT to our already comprehensive toolbox of outsourced services."
EisnerAmper, one of the largest business consulting firms in the world, is comprised of EisnerAmper LLP, a licensed independent CPA firm that provides client attest services; and Eisner Advisory Group LLC, an alternative practice structure that provides business advisory and non-attest services in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, standards and codes of conduct. Clients are in all business sectors and leverage a complete menu of service offerings. Our combined entities include more than 200 partners and 2,750-plus employees. For more information, please visit eisneramper.com, and be sure to follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — “I’ll take a #2 meal please!”
Texas’ favorite burger place is turning 72 today: Whataburger. No matter whether you like their burgers, patty melts or breakfast the most, we can all agree that there is something delicious for everyone to enjoy at this iconic burger restaurant.
Harmon Dobson opened the first Whataburger in Corpus Christi all the way back on Aug. 8 in 1950 at the beginning of the golden age of drive-ins and the American automobile industry. Dobson opened a burger stand that was offering something the competitors didn’t; a burger so big you had to hold it with both hands when you ate it.
Now Whataburger has almost 900 different locations across the country and has expanded its menu to breakfast, chicken and signature items like Patty Melts and more.
Whataburger is celebrating the day on Twitter. “Today we turn 72 and we couldn’t be more proud of where we have come from, or where we are headed! Want to celebrate with us? Comment the reason you love Whataburger in 72 characters or less and we might hook you up with a free Whataburger reward on us,” they said. | https://cw33.com/news/local/happy-72nd-birthday-whataburger/ | 2022-08-08T22:54:18Z |
• Scania is introducing complete BEV-based solutions for regional long-haul
• With power, range and charging capacity for effortless daily operations
• Scania continues along its electrification roadmap journey to reach the set Science-Based Targets for CO2 reduction, in partnership with customers.
SÖDERTÄLJE, Sweden, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- True to its stated roadmap, Scania is now introducing solutions built upon the next level of battery-electric trucks (BEV). The new generation, available with R or S sleeper cabs, is part of a complete solution that will open the door to the electrified transport landscape wide for a vast number of customers and app-lications. With 624 kWh of batteries installed, Scania provides the means for a major shift regarding electric trucks and their operability in regional long-haul operations.
"This introduction represents a major milestone for us and for our partners," says Christian Levin, Scania's CEO. "We are now increasing our range in every dimension by offering new opportunities for a vast selection of customers and the whole transport ecosystem. These trucks are part of solutions that contain all the capabilities that a transport industry longing for electrification is asking for."
Scania's new BEV truck generation is based on classic Scania cornerstones such as modularity, sustainability and a total operating economy with the potential to match or even exceed what can be expected from conventional trucks. And the latest electric Scania trucks are accompanied by all the support with operational factors and services that make them complete solutions, with charging, finance, insurance and maintenance all in place.
"The addition of these solutions to Scania's portfolio is a major step-change for customers who want to take charge," says Fredrik Allard, Senior Vice President and Head of Electrification at Scania. "We are facilitating a transition for our customers by including important customer values such as a close partnership and zero emissions."
With the new Scania trucks, customers will be able to operate rigids or tractor-and-trailer combinations such as temperature-controlled food transports. Ranges vary with weight, configuration and topography, but a 4x2 tractor with six batteries can expect up to 350 km between each charging, with an average speed of 80 km/h on motorways. Fixed routes that provide for planned charging at the home depot or at the destination are most favourable. Opportunity charging during the driver's man-datory 45 minutes rest will of course increase the operative range.
"Scania has now reached a favourable maturity regarding our electrified offer," says Allard. "With this major addition to our existing hybrids and the BEVs for urban distribution we introduced in 2020, we can now offer a sustainable and multi-faceted portfolio of zero-emission solutions for our customers."
The new Scania BEV trucks can initially be ordered as 4x2 tractors or as 6x2*4 rigids. A 4x2 tractor will need an axle distance of 4,150 mm when carrying six batteries, thus benefiting from the Increased Vehicle Dimension regulation in Europe. Gross train weights up to 64 tons, as per the typical Nordic combination, can be specified.
The charging capability is up to 375 kW, which means that an hour of charging will add some 270 to 300 km of range, as a rule of thumb. The continuous power output level for a Scania 45 R or S is 410 kW (equivalent to some 560 hp). The next-level Scania electrified trucks can now be ordered by taking up a dialogue with Scania representatives, and production will commence in Q4 2023.
"Tackling the global CO2 challenges means that we all need to produce and consume in new ways," says Levin. "Reduce, reuse and recycle have always been important for Scania. The only thing that stands between us and a major transition to a fossil-free transport system based on electrified solutions is a complete charging infrastructure, but we are seeing great progress there too."
The availability of charging solutions is indeed crucial for European customers who want to start investing in BEV trucks on a greater scale. Scania has teamed up with global partners, and with Scania as the single point of contact, they can offer complete charging solutions that secure a seamless and future-proofed experience for BEV customers.
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Örjan Åslund, Head of Product Affairs, Scania Trucks
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Student debt is the result of poor judgment on the part of the student or fraud on the part of the schools. Why should the taxpayers cover these losses?
Interesting cartoon on the editorial page, Carlton. Also squawkers, St. Patrick’s Day is over. You need to put away the green, it’s so unbecoming.
My friends and I have asked The Albany Herald to get rid of that daddy/Trump worshiper and lying Michael Reagan editorials. They have become sickening to read knowing facts are not in the equation.
I wonder what Billy Ray Cyrus is going to do when he grows up.
Maybe your mom was right; all that candy has officially rotted your brain.
When someone comments Herschel Walker can’t beat Sen. Warnock because of Walker’s “mental history,” that’s a slap in the face to some who are winning and/or have won fights against mental health issues. Mental health stigma, especially when anonymously shared in the Squawkbox, that’s hateful and irrational mental behavior.
We got a half-page on Herschel Walker’s faults in Tuesday’s paper, so can we get at least that much space on Nancy Pelosi and her husband?
I love coconut Long Boys, too. You forgot Baby Ruths.
Interesting photo, Mr. Fletcher. You could be mistaken from the beer commercial for the most interesting man in All Benny.
I really appreciate Gerald Greene’s columns explaining the bills that were passed. It appears that many of these will benefit Georgia.
Interesting that squawkers would talk about who Stacey Abrams got her campaign money from. I’m surprised they didn’t say anything when the Herald published an article saying Herschel Walker had received contributions from all 50 states. What makes one worthy of complaint, the other business as usual?
If you like being lied to all the time, like being bullied, like high gas and food prices, high crime, like being told what to do with no freedom to think for yourselves, then continue to vote for the Democrats.
The U.S. has been late and too slow to send needed weapons to Ukraine. How can the world watch the slaughter and not send weapons?
Before the war, the 100-year-old Victorian Subway in Kiev was pristine, clean, graffiti-free, and safe. Compare that with American subways. The difference? The Ukrainians are a people. We are not.
Which picture represents the real Carlton Fletcher? Which is real, and which is the evil twin?
It’s bad enough that people crank the music up in their cars so loud that it rattles the windows. Now we get to add motorcycles to the misery.
The U.S. acknowledges that Ukrainians need to be trained on weapons needed. The U.S. is again three months late to the party. As eastern holocaust began today, political committees are sure to debate after Easter break. With depleting munitions and rising debt, it’s time for America to prepare for war with resolve, discipline and sacrifice.
Albany is spending millions on a bus and taxi transportation center. All the while, with a shortage of drivers for the buses the director said they would probably have to cut back services in the future. Can we waste more money? | https://www.albanyherald.com/features/squawkbox/article_e9c6b4a4-bb47-11ec-a4bd-ff3d436e03ef.html | 2022-04-13T22:20:50Z |
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Public University System today announced its Executive Director of the APUS Center for Cyber Defense, Dr. Kenneth L. Williams, has been appointed to The Cyber AB's Academic Advisory Council (AAC). The newly formed Council is an independent consortium of leaders and subject matter experts; it represents a diverse cross-section of academic institutions within the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) ecosystem.
"I'm excited to collaborate with other cyber experts as we study how to further reduce digital risk to the Department of Defense's contractor network in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB)," said Williams, a U.S. Army veteran who serves as Interim Department Chair for Cybersecurity at APUS and holds a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. "This is an area critical to our national security, and academia can play an increasingly important role to improve our posture and innovate."
The Cyber AB, the exclusive CMMC non-governmental implementation partner of the DoD, is the official accreditation body of the CMMC ecosystem. It is the sole authorized non-governmental partner of the U.S. Department of Defense in implementing and overseeing the CMMC cybersecurity standard.
"The Council is bringing together recognized leaders from higher education to confer with us as we support DoD in implementing CMMC," said Melanie Kyle Gingrich, Vice President for Training and Certification at The Cyber AB, who also serves as Chair of AAC.
Williams' appointment comes just four months after APUS announced its partnership with the U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) to help strengthen the country's cyber posture.
"I'm excited to be working closely with Dr. Williams and the many other innovative thinkers on our Council to focus on such a key issue that reaches across the cyber space," said Paul Michaels, Vice Chair of the Cyber AB and an alumnus of American Military University (AMU).
APUS offers a strong cyber-defense focused curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels through AMU and American Public University (APU). With online courses in intrusion, incident handling, IT security, and digital forensics, APUS's cybersecurity programs integrate multiple disciplines to ensure students gain the critical skills and management practices needed to effectively lead missions – in both government and businesses. APUS' Center for Cyber Defense provides program guidance and oversight, cyber defense information, collaboration, research, and outreach opportunities for students and faculty. The National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have designated APUS as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (CAE-C)*.
For more info on a getting a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, visit here. For more info on getting a master's degree in cybersecurity, visit here.
About American Public University System
American Public University System (APUS) delivers accessible and affordable online higher education to adult learners of all backgrounds. APUS, a five-time recipient of Online Learning Consortium's (OLC) Effective Practice Award, offers more than 200 online degree and certificate programs through American Public University as well as American Military University, the #1 provider of higher education to the U.S. military and veterans.** With over 116,000 alumni worldwide, APUS is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. APUS is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Public Education, Inc. (Nasdaq: APEI). For more information, visit www.apus.edu.
*The CAE-C designation is awarded to regionally accredited academic institutions offering cybersecurity degrees and/or certificates at the associate, bachelor's and graduate levels. This designation means that APUS has met the rigorous requirements outlined by the program's sponsor, the NSA. Designated institutions commit to producing high-quality cybersecurity professionals to safeguard the U.S. national infrastructure.
**Based on FY 2019 Department of Defense tuition assistance and Veterans Administration student enrollment data, as reported by Military Times, 2020.
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WASHINGTON, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists will discuss new research from NASA missions – on topics ranging from exoplanets to citizen science discoveries – at the 240th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The meeting began Sunday, June 12, and continues through Thursday, June 16, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California.
Agency leaders and researchers will discuss the latest developments in astrophysics during various press conferences, scientific sessions, and town halls. News conferences, highlighting results enabled by NASA missions such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, as well as NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), will stream live to the public on the AAS Press Office YouTube channel.
In addition to press conferences, NASA highlights for registered attendees include:
- NASA Town Hall: 12:45 p.m. PDT Monday, June 13
- Plenary lecture by Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate: 11:40 a.m. PDT Tuesday, June 14
- James Webb Space Telescope Town Hall: 6:30 p.m. PDT Tuesday, June 14
- SOFIA Town Hall: 6:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday, June 15
- Roman Space Telescope Town Hall: 12:45 p.m. PDT Thursday, June 16
The full of list of NASA meeting highlights is as follows:
Monday, June 13
10:15 a.m. PDT – AAS News Conference
Room 107, lower-level conference room
News from NASA's SOFIA mission will be highlighted with results from the following presentation:
- "Polarization and Dust Properties of the Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A"
12:45 p.m. PDT – NASA Town Hall
Ballroom D
Paul Hertz, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division, will provide a status update on NASA's astrophysics programs.
2:15 p.m. PDT – AAS News Conference
Room 107, lower-level conference room
News from NASA's SOFIA mission will be highlighted with results from the following presentation:
- "Large- and Small-Scale Magnetic Fields in the Cygnus-X Star-Forming Region"
Tuesday, June 14
10:15 a.m. PDT – AAS News Conference
Room 107, lower-level conference room
News from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Disk Detective citizen science program will be highlighted with results from the following presentations:
- "Disks in Nearby Young Stellar Associations Found Via Citizen Science and Virtual Reality"
- "The Largest Ultraviolet Survey of Distant Galaxies by the Hubble Space Telescope"
11:40 a.m. PDT – Plenary lecture by Thomas Zurbuchen
Hall C
Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, will present a plenary lecture: "Enabling a Decade of Great Astrophysics by Excellent Teams."
6:30 p.m. PDT – James Webb Space Telescope Town Hall
Hall C
Mission experts will provide a status update on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Webb is currently completing the months-long process of preparing for science operations, ahead of the release of its first full-color images and data, scheduled for Tuesday, July 12.
Wednesday, June 15
10:15 a.m. PDT – AAS News Conference
Room 107, lower-level conference room
News from NASA's TESS mission will be highlighted with results from the following presentation:
- "The HD 260655 System: Two Rocky Worlds Transiting a Bright M Dwarf at Just 32 Light-Years"
2:15 p.m. PDT – AAS News Conference
Room 107, lower-level conference room
News from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble will be highlighted with results from the following presentations:
- "A High Velocity Pulsar in a Galactic Supernova Remnant Measured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory"
- "Strange Abundances in a White Dwarf: Evidence for Simultaneous Accretion of Rocky and Icy Bodies"
6:30 p.m. PDT – SOFIA Town Hall
Ballroom C
The SOFIA team will provide a report on the status of the airborne observatory, which will end operations by Sept. 30, 2022, after a successful eight years of science.
Thursday, June 16
10:15 a.m. PDT – AAS News Conference
Room 107, lower-level conference room
News from a variety of missions with NASA involvement will be highlighted with results from the following presentation:
- "New Images Combine Telescopes to Reveal the Growth and Destruction of Interstellar Dust in Nearby Galaxies"
12:45 p.m. PDT – Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Town Hall
Ballroom D
Mission experts will provide a status update on the development of the Roman Space Telescope, which is planned to launch no earlier than May 2027.
For more information on the meeting, including press registration and the complete meeting schedule, visit:
https://aas.org/meetings/aas240
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The partnership will accelerate Cloud Transformation and Better Serve Its Citizens
SUNNYVALE, Calif, and JERUSALEM, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Google Cloud and Israeli judiciary, The Rabbinical Court announced a collaboration to accelerate its Cloud transformation journey. This new collaboration will see the Rabbinical Court leverage Google Cloud's infrastructure, storage and applications to better serve its Israeli citizens.
Following Google Cloud's win in the Nimbus tender for delivering cloud services to the Israeli government, the Rabbinical Courts migrated most of its workloads to Google Cloud with minimum disruption to the business and with a cost-effective deployment. Google Cloud also needed to design a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution to enable dozens of employees to work in a virtual environment, from home, safely and securely, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Google Cloud has created a partner interconnect with a high level of security that allows the customer to work directly with the VDI stations.
The Rabbinical Courts, the legal Jewish authority in Israel, deals with issues relating to divorce, property, child custody rights, wills, inheritances, confirmation of Jewish status, and conversion. There are 12 regional rabbinical courts throughout the country, with the Jerusalem High Court serving as an appellate court. President of the Rabbinical Court, heads the Great Court and serves as Chief Rabbi of Israel. The organisation is led by a CEO appointed by the Minister of Religious Affairs.
The two organisations will collaborate to:
- Further enhance citizens' experience: Leveraging many of Google Cloud's products and services—including infrastructure, applications and more—the Courts will drive operational efficiency and create more compelling experiences for its citizens. This Includes helping citizens access the documents they need to seamlessly navigate court proceedings such a divorce.
- Accelerate cloud transformation: The Courts are using Google Cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) products—like storage, networking, and compute—to more rapidly digitise its operations into the cloud.
- Strengthen the security of citizen data: The Courts are piloting Cloud Identity to help protect organisational data with a wide variety of multi-factor authentication (MFA) verification methods, such as push notifications, Google Authenticator, and phishing-resistant Titan Security Keys—all while ensuring privacy of citizens' data.
- Maintain and manage databases: The Courts are making use of Google Cloud Structured Query Language that helps the organisation set up, maintain, manage, and administer relational databases on the Google Cloud Platform.
- WideOps partnership: WideOps has been chosen by Google Cloud to perform the RBC migration. Using Google Cloud native tools, the WideOps expert migration team has managed to migrate the entirety of RBC infrastructure to Google Cloud, while adhering to high architectural and security standards—resulting in a robust, highly available, and secure environment. Due to the seamless deployment process, RBC staff can continue their work with minimal-to-no impact on the end-user experience.
"We are delighted to work with Google Cloud on the next stage of our digital transformation journey," said Chief Information Officer Mr. Uri Aharonson. "We are looking forward to this collaboration to develop applications that will make our services faster and more accessible for our Israeli citizens."
"We are thrilled to start providing services to the Rabbinical Court and improve the lives of Israelis throughout the country,'' said Shay Mor, head of Government and Public Sector, Google Cloud, Israel.
Google Cloud accelerates every organisation's ability to digitally transform its business. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ASSA ABLOY has signed an agreement to acquire VHS Plastik Metal ("VHS"), a leading manufacturer of hardware systems for windows and doors based in Turkey.
"I am very pleased to welcome VHS into the ASSA ABLOY Group. This constitutes an important next step in our strategy to grow market leadership in emerging markets," says Nico Delvaux, President and CEO of ASSA ABLOY.
"We are very excited about the acquisition of VHS. This transaction is a step change to our existing trading business in Turkey and reinforces our long-term commitment to the local market. VHS offers a strong range of window and door hardware products that will complement our offer in Turkey. VHS has a great team of people that I welcome to the ASSA ABLOY family and it gives us a local manufacturing footprint that offers great opportunities," says Neil Vann, Executive Vice President of ASSA ABLOY and Head of EMEIA Division.
VHS was established in 1997 and has some 440 employees. The main office and factory is located in Silivri, close to Istanbul.
Sales for 2021 amounted to about MTRY 150 (approx. MSEK 150) with a good EBIT margin. The acquisition will be accretive to EPS from the start.
The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2022.
For more information, please contact:
Nico Delvaux, President and CEO, tel. no: +46 8 506 485 82
Erik Pieder, CFO and Executive Vice President, tel. no: +46 8 506 485 72
Björn Tibell, Head of Investor Relations, tel. no: +46 70 275 67 68
About ASSA ABLOY
The ASSA ABLOY Group is the global leader in access solutions. The Group operates worldwide with 51,000 employees and sales of SEK 95 billion. The Group has leading positions in areas such as efficient door openings, trusted identities and entrance automation. ASSA ABLOY's innovations enable safe, secure and convenient access to physical and digital places. Every day, we help billions of people experience a more open world.
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NetEase Games is launching its first-ever first-party studio in the United States, with creative freedom and funding to create incredible new games!
GUANGZHOU, China, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetEase Games, the online games division of NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES, HKEX: 9999) announced today its first U.S. studio, Jackalope Games, based in Austin, Texas. Jackalope Games will be creating new and exciting PC and console games as a first party studio of NetEase Games.
Jackalope Games is led by industry veteran Jack Emmert, whose credits include City of Heroes, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, and DC Universe Online. Jack has worked on games based on some of the biggest media franchises in history and brings decades of MMORPG experience to this studio.
"NetEase Games is the best possible place for me and my team to thrive," said Jack Emmert. "We share the same passion-- to create engaging online universes for gamers worldwide. NetEase Games is providing the support and resources needed to build a great studio and great games."
Jackalope Games is NetEase Games' first first-party studio in the U.S., but it will operate independently and maintain creative autonomy in its game development and publishing. The first project produced by Jackalope Games is being fully funded by NetEase Games.
Jackalope Games believes that collaboration and diversity are necessary ingredients for studio success. Although based in Austin, Jackalope Games embraces the virtual office and hires talent from all over the world.
NetEase Games has brought a number of studios into the company over the past year, led by industry veterans with highly passionate and motivated teams. The founding of Jackalope Games represents NetEase Games' commitment to innovation and allowing developers to produce games that excite players globally.
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About NetEase, Inc.
As a leading internet technology company based in China, NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES and HKEX: 9999, "NetEase") provides premium online services centered around innovative and diverse content, community, communication and commerce. NetEase develops and operates some of China's most popular mobile and PC games. In more recent years, NetEase has expanded into international markets including Japan and North America. In addition to its self-developed game content, NetEase partners with other leading game developers, such as Blizzard Entertainment and Mojang AB (a Microsoft subsidiary), to operate globally renowned games in China. NetEase's other innovative service offerings include its majority-controlled subsidiaries Youdao (NYSE: DAO), China's leading intelligent learning company, and Cloud Village (HKEX: 9899), also known as NetEase Cloud Music, China's leading online music content community, as well as Yanxuan, NetEase's private label e-commerce platform. For more information, please visit: http://ir.netease.com/.
About NetEase Games
NetEase Games is the online games division of NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES and HKEX: 9999), developing and operating some of the most popular mobile and PC games in markets including China and Japan. As one of the world's largest incubators of quality online game content, NetEase Games is dedicated to supporting the growth of innovative studios around the globe and growing an international presence along the way. To complement its self-developed games and world-class R&D capabilities, NetEase Games also partners with other industry leaders including Blizzard Entertainment, Mojang AB (a Microsoft subsidiary) and other global game developers to operate some of the most popular international online games in China. For more information, please visit neteasegames.com.
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Man confesses to killing wife to end her chronic pain, police say
GREENFIELD, Wis. (WISN) - A Wisconsin man told police he killed his wife to put an end to the suffering she endured from chronic pain. However, officials say he went about it in a gruesome way.
Greenfield Police found the body of 50-year-old Jamie Ward in her condo last Wednesday.
Prosecutors say her husband, 48-year-old Braeden Ward, cut his wife’s throat in the shower then kept her body hidden for two weeks, even washing the corpse daily to avoid a smell, according to charging documents.
Braeden Ward is in custody, charged with first-degree intentional homicide with a deadly weapon. He says he killed his wife to help end her suffering.
He told investigators she “had suffered from chronic pain for 20 years,” adding that a year ago, she discussed “killing herself” with his assistance.
Then, earlier this month, Braeden Ward says his wife again asked him to “end her life,” and he agreed.
The suspect told investigators he stabbed his wife repeatedly after she was dead to “drain the blood from her body.”
After several days, Braeden Ward says the body began to smell, so he “started washing the victim’s body everyday and set up a series of fans to disperse the odor.”
Two weeks later, he says he confessed over the phone to his sister-in-law in South Dakota, who called police.
Officers arrested Braeden Ward after a brief standoff in Franklin on Highway 100 near Rawson. He was in his car, reportedly “armed with a handgun.”
The suspect is being held at the Milwaukee County Jail on $1 million cash bail. He could face life in prison if convicted.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department is teaming with actor Robert Downey Jr. to recruit up to 1,000 new workers focused on climate change and clean energy.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday released a video with the “Iron Man” actor encouraging applicants from diverse backgrounds to join the department’s “clean energy corps” and take on jobs aimed at accelerating deployment of clean energy such as wind and solar power.
Participants will help build thousands of miles of electric transmission lines to carry wind and solar power and take on other jobs to research, develop and deploy ways to produce energy while cutting planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, Granholm said. The new job corps is part of $62 billion awarded to the Energy Department under the bipartisan infrastructure law signed last year by President Joe Biden.
In the animated video, Downey says viewers may know him from one of his “many day jobs” as a billionaire superhero in “Iron Man” or “world’s greatest detective,” Sherlock Holmes.
“But now I’ve got this sweet new office over the Department of Energy, and I’ve already been putting in some crazy hours helping out the Clean Energy Corps,” Downey says. “I’ve been working with some amazing people on fantastic new solutions” to climate change.
Granholm, who also appears the video, tells Downey the Energy Department is “looking for folks to help us with pretty much everything,” from scientists to IT specialists, civil engineers, electrical engineers and more.
“My gosh, we mean everybody!” exclaims Downey, holding a coffee cup declaring him the “world’s best DOE intern.”
“So why not come work with us and help the planet while you are at it?” he adds, as Granholm extols the “nice” benefits, including a healthier Earth.
The video will be played on the Energy Department’s YouTube channel and featured on social media. | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/granholm-actor-robert-downey-jr-boost-clean-energy-jobs/ | 2022-07-06T17:29:43Z |
BOSTON (AP) — Celtics fans got under Kyrie Irving’s skin in the opening game of their first-round matchup with the Nets.
It was Boston’s defense that kept him – and Kevin Durant – off balance in Game 2.
Jaylen Brown scored 22 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter, and the Celtics rallied from 17 points down to beat Brooklyn 114-107 on Wednesday night and take a 2-0 lead in their first-round series.
Jayson Tatum added 19 points for Boston, which held Durant without a basket in the second half. Al Horford had 16 points, Daniel Theis scored 15 and Payton Pritchard had eight of his 10 in the final period.
“This was like an old-fashioned. old-school playoff game,” Tatum said. “You just have to grind it out. That’s what we did… we just just stuck with it. Proud of the guys and how we kept responding all game.”
Durant finished with 27 points but struggled from the field for the second straight game, shooting 4 of 17. Irving had just 10 points on 4-of-13 shooting a day after being fined $50,000 for directing obscene gestures and profane language at Celtics fans during Game 1.
The series shifts to Brooklyn for Game 3 on Saturday night.
“They’re doing a good job trying to cut off my scoring, limit my shot making,” Durant said. “It’s on me to figure it out.”
Durant and Irving were limited to a combined 1 for 17 in the second half. Bruce Brown finished with 23 points and Seth Curry added 16.
“They took the lead and they never looked back in that fourth quarter,” Irving said. “We don’t really have time to be disappointed, to hold our heads. This is part of playoff basketball.”
Coach Ime Udoka said the approach to Durant has been to get into his air space as much as possible.
“I think we did that,” Udoka said. “We want to make him work defensively and offensively have bodies on him the whole time and try to wear him down.”
The TD Garden faithful peppered Irving with boos throughout, beginning with the pregame introductions. The volume ratcheted up after tipoff with the addition of “Kyrie sucks! Kyrie sucks!” chants on each of Brooklyn’s first two possessions. The boos returned whenever he got his hands on the ball.
Boston trailed the entire first half but finally caught up to tie it at 79 on a short jumper by Theis. The Nets were able to settle in and took a 90-85 edge to the final period.
The Celtics tied it up again at 92 early in the fourth on a leaner by Jaylen Brown and took their first lead of the game with 7:48 left on a jumper by Pritchard.
It was part of 23-4 run that grew the Celtics’ lead to 108-96. The Nets went almost three minutes without a basket during the stretch.
“I think our intensity dropped a little bit in the second half. We also didn’t convert,” Nets coach Steve Nash said. “We had opportunities, we didn’t convert.”
Bruce Brown said the Celtics overwhelmed them defensively.
“We just weren’t scoring at the other end,” he said. “I just think our physicality took a step down in the second half.”
The barrage of boos fans aimed at Irving did little to rattle Brooklyn early. The Nets jumped out to a 9-0 lead, which led to a quick Boston timeout. Bruce Brown had all nine points, part of a 12-point quarter that helped put Brooklyn in front 33-24.
The lead increased to 45-31 in the second, prompting another Celtics timeout. During the break, Marcus Smart, who injured his left thumb minutes earlier while diving on the floor after a loose ball, could be seen grimacing as trainers attended to him on the bench.
He got the thumb taped and remained in the game, scoring six straight points.
Brooklyn settled in and got its lead as high as 15 before a late flurry by Boston helped it trim the deficit to 65-55 at half.
TIP-INS
Nets: Irving, who is observing Ramadan, came out of the game with 3:23 left in the first quarter. He went to locker room and returned with food, the sun having just set in Boston. … Curry was called for a flagrant foul in the first after he grabbed Tatum’s arm and knocked him to the ground while breaking up a sure fast-break basket.
Celtics: Had nine turnovers in the first half.
SPECIAL GUEST
Former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski sat courtside to watch a matchup that featured several of his former players. Irving, Tatum and Seth Curry are all former Blue Devils. He also coached Durant and Irving in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.
“That’s the first game he’s seen my play in person since he left Duke,” Tatum said. “Obviously, he’s got a lot of time on his hands.”
MAKING PROGRESS
Nets: Ben Simmons went through some contact work with teammates on Wednesday, which Nash called “another step” in the point guard’s rehab efforts on his injured back. But Nash said an ESPN report that Simmons could return to action as early as Game 4 was news to him.
Celtics center Robert Williams III has started participating in 3-on-3 play, Udoka said.
Though Udoka cautioned the team still isn’t anticipating him recovering from his recent knee surgery to return in time for this series.
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Woman dies after driving car over downed power lines, authorities say
HENDERSON, Ky. (WFIE/Gray News) - Authorities in Kentucky said a person has died, and another was sent to the hospital after the car they were in got tangled in downed power lines on Thursday.
The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office reports that 23-year-old Aureah Grimes was driving on Larue Road when she hit a utility pole that was leaning over from a storm.
Brice Easley, 23, Jayla Barre, 22, and Alysiana Langley, 18, were also in the car with Grimes, as reported by WFIE.
After the crash, Langley got out of the vehicle while Barre and Easley remained inside. Grimes then tried to back the vehicle up and drove over the live power lines, according to the sheriff’s office.
Authorities said Barre was injured and taken to the hospital. Easley was shocked but uninjured, while Grimes died at the scene.
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Three people were killed Wednesday when a house exploded in the southern Indiana city of Evansville, authorities said.
David Anson, chief deputy coroner for Vanderburgh County, told The Associated Press that the identities of the people who died would not be released until the next of kin has been notified.
Evansville Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Anna Gray said at least one other injury was reported and that victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Evansville Fire Department Chief Mike Connelly said a total of 39 houses were damaged by the explosion at around 1 p.m. He said the department has not confirmed how many of the houses were occupied when the explosion happened because “some were too unstable to enter.”
At least 11 of the 39 homes damaged are “uninhabitable,” Connelly told the Evansville Courier & Press.
The cause of the explosion has not been determined, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was investigating. A phone message seeking comment was left at the Evansville field office of the ATF.
“Debris is strewn over a 100-foot (30-meter) radius,” including “typical construction materials” such as wooden boards, window glass and insulation, Connelly said.
Aerial video posted on social media shows damage in a residential neighborhood with police and fire vehicles on the scene in Evansville, on the Kentucky border.
CenterPoint Energy, the local gas utility, was last called to the home in January 2018, Connelly said. CenterPoint issued a statement saying it “worked with first responders to secure the area.”
“CenterPoint Energy is working closely with the Evansville Fire Department, State Fire Marshal and other agencies as the investigation of this incident continues,” the utility said.
Jacki Baumgart, an office manager at Award World Trophies about two and a half blocks from the site of the explosion, said she and other employees in their building panicked when they heard the loud blast and saw smoke.
“We thought a tree fell on the building or a car ran into the place,” Baumgart said. “Debris from the ceiling came down.”
She continued: “Everybody here immediately ran out of the building. We thought the building was going to come down.”
It was the second house explosion in the area in just over five years. A house explosion on June 27, 2017, killed two people and injured three others.
Wednesday’s explosion also brought to mind a massive blast in 2012 that destroyed or damaged more than 80 homes on Indianapolis’ south side and killed two people. A man was convicted of tampering with a natural gas line at his then-girlfriend’s home in an attempt to commit insurance fraud, with the explosion killing two next-door neighbors. That man, his half-brother and girlfriend all received long prison sentences.
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Thousands of North Carolina felons can now register and vote
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Tens of thousands of people serving punishments for felony convictions in North Carolina but who aren’t behind bars can now register to vote and cast ballots this fall after an appeals court ruling.
Expanding the scope of those able to register and vote began Wednesday, the State Board of Elections said — the day after local elections were held in more than a dozen localities.
The change proceeds from litigation challenging a 1973 law that prevents someone convicted of a felony from having voting rights restored while they are still on probation, parole or post-release supervision.
More than 56,000 people in North Carolina were prevented from registering under the challenged law, according to evidence cited in a 2021 trial.
North Carolina has more than 7.3 million registered voters, and statewide elections in the presidential battleground state are often close affairs. So any influx of voters could make a difference this fall, when the ballot will feature statewide races for U.S. Senate and the state Supreme Court.
The voter registration expansion “means you’ve got a voice,” Daryl Atkinson, the lead attorney for civil rights groups and ex-offenders who sued over the law in 2019, said while celebrating the change at an event behind the state Legislative Building in Raleigh. “Imagine if 56,000 had something to say. But they’re going to have something to say in November.”
A panel of trial judges struck down the 1973 law in March, declaring it violates the state constitution largely because it discriminates against Black residents.
The state Supreme Court agreed in May to hear an appeal of that decision, and the case remains pending. The date for oral arguments has not been set.
But the justices didn’t touch a Court of Appeals ruling that prevented registration requests from the felons who weren’t in prison or jail from being fulfilled only through Tuesday. So these applicants — for now and unless the Supreme Court reverses the trial court ruling — will be able to vote, beginning with the November general election.
The Rev. William Barber of Goldsboro, a co-chair of the national Poor People’s Campaign, also spoke at Wednesday’s event, attended by about 100 people. A coalition of groups is organizing an “Unlock Our Vote Freedom Summer Tour” that will include voter information and registration drives, as well as other outreach efforts to potential voters.
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As natural gas expands in Gulf, residents fear rising damage
LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (AP) — The front lawn of Lydia Larce’s home is strewn with debris: Remnants of cabinets and chunks of pink shower marble lie between dumpsters. She lives in a FEMA trailer out back, her home in shambles more than a year after Hurricane Laura tore through Lake Charles.
Larce, like many in Southwest Louisiana, has what she calls “storm PTSD.” Tornado warnings trigger anxiety. She fidgets and struggles to sleep.
“The fear and the unknown — it has me on an edge,” Larce said. “I’m scared.”
A string of devastating hurricanes has torn through this region in recent years. Nationally, too, there have been more Category 4 and 5 hurricane landfalls in the past five years than in the previous 50 years combined. Larce and her neighbors know they are on the front lines of climate change.
Her region is now the epicenter of a trend that she fears will make those disasters even more destructive.
Developers plan to build a series of liquefied natural gas export facilities across Southwest Louisiana, already the heart of the industry. Even in a state with a heavy industrial base, these facilities are among the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in Louisiana.
“They’re an absolute powerhouse for greenhouse gas emissions,” said Naomi Yoder, a staff scientist at Healthy Gulf, a nonprofit that advocates for clean energy. That’s because these export facilities tend to burn off, or flare, natural gas.
Greenhouse gases are raising global temperatures and fueling extreme weather, from wildfires to violent storms like the ones that have pummeled Larce’s hometown.
“We all are living in chaos,” Larce said.
For a while, it looked as though an era of steadily expanding fossil fuel facilities might be ending. Last year, after taking office, President Joseph Biden announced his intention to fight climate change by eliminating fossil fuels from electricity generation by 2035 and by sharply reducing emissions from the rest of the economy.
Yet since Biden became president, the U.S. has become the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas as demand for the fuel, known as LNG, has escalated.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine suddenly intensified the push. It heightened demand for natural gas, especially for countries in Europe that relied on Russian energy but now need to cut those ties.
Seizing the opportunity, the natural gas industry promoted U.S.-produced LNG as a way to fill the gaps, and prices for the fuel have skyrocketed. American terminals are now exporting gas at full capacity, which is why the expansion of the terminals has accelerated.
It is along the Gulf Coast, in a line from Louisiana to Texas, where the new and proposed export terminals are clustered. Talk to some locals and government officials and you’ll hear unqualified support for the facilities in this battered region.
“It’s a significant boon to our economy, because it provides good, high-paying jobs,” said Eric Tarver, a member of the Calcasieu Parish School Board and chief financial officer of Lake Charles Toyota. “More than that, it’s a tremendous amount of tax revenue that just dwarfs what we’ve had from any other industry.”
But some long-time residents — often the ones who’ve lost the most to the storms — dispute those claims, saying that few of those coveted jobs end up going to people who grew up in the region.
REGION IN DISTRESS
Scattered across the neighborhoods of Lake Charles, blue tarps cover dozens of dilapidated roofs. Bungalows, pockmarked by gaping holes, are marred by broken siding and boarded-up windows — evidence of the damage inflicted by Hurricanes Laura and Delta more than a year ago. Yet with few other options, some residents are living here under the tarps.
“I feel Southwest Louisiana has been made a sacrificial lamb,” said Roishetta Ozane, a single mother of six and an organizer for Healthy Gulf.
An outspoken critic of the expansion of LNG facilities, Ozane warns her neighbors that the emissions worsen global warming and violent storms and impair their community’s air quality. She has raised money, organized food drives and helped neighbors navigate government agencies to obtain relief after disasters hit.
“Now is the time to get people’s attention, to open their eyes that climate change is real,” Ozane said. “They’re going to continue to bring these facilities here. We’ve already had these major hurricanes here. Where are we going to live?”
As she drives around a predominantly Black area of Lake Charles, past shuttered businesses and crumbling homes, Ozane’s phone buzzes with requests for help.
“Are you living in a FEMA trailer?” she asks one caller. “Text me what you need.”
There are other helpers here. Cindy Robertson is one of them. In her front yard bursting with daisies and ferns, she refills a pantry box that she stocks each morning to help feed homeless neighbors. By mid-afternoon, it’s nearly empty.
Her neighborhood has endured seven federally declared disasters in two years, and she’s grown increasingly concerned, even though her family worked in coal mining. Robertson, 62, runs a nonprofit to help vulnerable people recover.
From her house, with its seascape paintings and tapestries, she provides water, sleeping bags and tents. With a succession of LNG terminals opening around her, she worries that her region hasn’t yet seen the worst.
“The more we have more pollution from greenhouse gases,” she fears, “the worse our storms are going to get.”
A few miles away, Cameron LNG began exporting LNG in 2019. Further south, Venture Global Calcasieu Pass is shipping its first loads.
Still another LNG company, Driftwood, recently broke ground to build an export facility. That’s on top of more than a dozen oil, gas and chemical processing plants surrounding her community.
Robertson would much prefer increased investment in renewable energy, in line with Biden’s stated priorities when he took office.
“Instead of focusing on LNG, expanding what they already have... we need to take all that brainpower and all that money and put it into expanding our renewable resources,” Robertson said.
EXPORTS SURGING
The use of wind, solar and other renewable energy has grown as prices of solar components and wind turbines have plunged. But so has the world’s thirst for natural gas. In February, the U.S. exported 317 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas — six times times the amount five years earlier.
Investment in LNG terminals catapulted from nothing in 2011, before the U.S. export industry existed, to $63 billion over the next decade, according to Rystad Energy. The firm projects that investment could swell an additional $100 billion over the next two decades.
That’s despite warnings from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that emissions from existing fossil fuel infrastructure alone would cause global warming to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) — a level that scientists say would bring dangerous consequences.
Of the eight terminals now exporting LNG, five lie on the coast of Louisiana and Texas. At least 16 more plus four expansions are proposed or under construction, nearly all along that same stretch of Gulf coastline.
The projects are backed by Exxon Mobil, Qatar Energy, Total Energies and numerous other global energy giants. Financing for several proposed plants comes from BlackRock, Vanguard and Mitsubishi, according to Global Energy Monitor.
At Cameron LNG in Hackberry, Louisiana, storage tanks loom over the wetlands next to rows of intersecting pipes. There, gas is treated to remove impurities. Then it’s cooled to a liquid at minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit to flow onto ships. In a narrow channel, a huge French vessel called LNG Endeavor, escorted by tug boats, heads for the facility, dwarfing the homes it passes.
“We’re delivering a cleaner, more environmentally friendly fuel,” said Charlie Riedl, executive director of the Center for LNG, the industry’s lobbying group. “The U.S. can use that to help defuse some of the geopolitical issues around the world by delivering a reliable fuel source.”
Initially, Biden’s administration held off on approving requests that would expand the LNG industry. But after the war in Ukraine began, the Energy Department allowed some facilities to upgrade, increasing how much they could produce.
“The U.S. is exporting every molecule of liquefied natural gas that we can to alleviate supply issues in Europe,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in March, urging the oil and gas industry to ramp up production.
Asked whether boosting fossil fuel exports contradicts Biden’s climate goals, Granholm told The Associated Press “we have got to do both.” She said she believes the United States can help its allies, reduce the cost of fuel and transition to more sustainable options.
Since the war increased the need for alternatives to Russian gas, some European LNG import projects that had stalled are being revived, said Emily McClain, a vice president at Rystad.
“It’s really showing we’re not quite ready to table gas and move to cleaner or greener energies,” McClain said.
Riedl said he would like the administration to do even more, by approving any of the proposed LNG export terminals.
Louisiana offers a property tax break of up to 10 years to companies that build LNG terminals. Even with those tax breaks, the increased property tax income provides a windfall for the area, said Tarver, the school board member.
With Driftwood LNG beginning construction of a facility, the expected jobs are a “shot in the arm after a devastating series of disasters,” Tarver said. That the world is looking to the Gulf Coast as an energy supplier is, he said, a source of pride.
“That’s a very powerful thing to us locally, just because we’re big Pro-America, proud American people here,” Tarver said.
Others, like Ozane, argue that the tax breaks give away too much.
“We have a big homelessness problem,” Ozane said. “Our schools look horrible. If LNG is doing so much for the state, why is it like that?”
CLEANER THAN COAL?
Down the road from Cameron LNG, a new export terminal has opened about a mile from John Allaire’s beachfront home. His property, where he’s lived in an RV for 17 years since Hurricane Rita washed away his bunk house, is a refuge for spawning shrimp and diving sea birds. When his children were young, Allaire brought them fishing and hunting there.
At sunrise, the dark sky begins to crack into shades of orange and gray. A bright orb on the horizon looks like the rising sun. It’s not. It’s a flare from Venture Global’s Calcasieu Pass LNG, the latest export terminal to open. The flare, a mixture of flames and smoke that pours out when the facility burns natural gas, had been burning non-stop for a week, Allaire said.
“That’s pure profit and pollution going up the stack,” he said.
Allaire, 66, a retired environmental engineer for an oil company, doesn’t oppose oil and gas use. His property sits on a former oilfield.
But he fears the destruction of the wetlands he loves: The soft waving cordgrass where black rails hide, the pelicans diving down over the lapping water to catch fish.
Commonwealth LNG has proposed another export terminal, sandwiched between Allaire’s yard and the LNG terminal that just opened. It would cover about half the ponds that are packed with blue crabs and mud minnows.
“I’m glad there’s still places like this left — I really don’t want to see it paved over,” Allaire said.
The wetlands he loves play a beneficial role for climate, too. They absorb carbon dioxide. And they provide a buffer from storm surges.
Together, the four LNG export terminals on the Gulf Coast emitted nearly 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2020 — comparable to all of Costa Rica, according to the Global Carbon Project.
The LNG plants are tied to climate change in another way, too. Along the whole pathway to export, from the wells where companies drill to the ships getting loaded with LNG, methane — the powerful greenhouse gas that’s the primary ingredient of natural gas — can escape.
And it does, from leaky wells, pipelines, compressors and storage tanks. In the Permian Basin, one of the world’s richest oil and gas fields, well heads and pipelines are leaking far more methane than previously thought, according to a study that concluded that 9% of the gas produced in New Mexico’s side of the basin is leaking.
“That’s a shocking leakage estimate,” Rob Jackson, a professor of earth system science at Stanford University and chairman of the Global Carbon Project, an international research group, said about natural gas.
At that that rate, he said, the leaking methane alone is warming the climate more than the carbon dioxide that would be released if all the produced natural gas were burned.
Natural gas proponents say it’s better for the climate than burning coal, because it releases fewer emissions when burned. But gas isn’t substituting for coal in most places, Jackson noted. Instead, as energy demand grows globally, natural gas is being used in addition to coal and other sources.
According to projections by the Energy Information Administration, natural gas use will drive an overall increase in greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. from 2037 to 2050 as the nation’s population and its reliance on gas grow.
To show it’s trying to limit its environmental impact, Cameron LNG reduced its emissions by 10% from 2020 to 2021. It’s also built 500 acres of tidal marsh, using material it digs up when dredging the canal.
But residents who are enduring the trauma of relentless storms know any facility that adds emissions to the atmosphere magnifies the likelihood of destruction in vulnerable communities.
“In building more LNG export terminals,” Jackson said, “we’re locking in emissions for decades to come.”
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Associated Press journalists Janet McConnaughey in New Orleans and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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(The Hill) – Verizon is set to drop the right-wing One America News Network (OAN) from its channel lineup after the network and company failed to reach an agreement on a new contract.
Verizon said in a statement to The Hill that it will no longer have the rights to OAN after July 31, and the network will be removed from the television lineup.
“Our negotiation with OAN has been a typical, business as usual carriage negotiation like those that routinely happen between content distributors and content providers,” the statement reads.
Verizon said that the negotiations were based on economic considerations and that OAN did not agree to “fair terms.”
“Our company has long advocated for providing customers with the ability to choose what content they want to watch, and our Fios TV platform offers a wide and diverse choice of programming options, including a la carte options, that strive to meet our millions of customers’ various content needs and preferences,” Verizon said.
The development is a blow to OAN after DirecTV declined to renew its contract with the network in January. Verizon remained its largest distributor after the DirecTV contract expired, but OAN will now be left with more minor carriers.
OAN is also facing a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems over claims made on the network that the company’s voting machines were manipulated to support President Biden over former President Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
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PORTLAND, Ore., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- theLotter Oregon, which launched two years ago, is reporting selling a massive number of lottery tickets after the multi-state Mega Millions rolled over last Friday. The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $810 million after no one picked the right numbers for the Friday night drawing. Eager to take part in tonight's draw, a growing number of people turn to Oregon's premier online lottery service.
"A jackpot like this reminds us all of events in 2016 and 2018," says Peggy Daniel, theLotter's U.S. Managing Director. "First, in January of 2016, Powerball rose to $1.586 billion: a sum which was won and shared by 3 ticketholders in Florida, California, and Tennessee. Mega Millions itself set a record in October 2018 when a single player in South Carolina won the $1.537 billion jackpot, making this the biggest win by a single ticket in lottery history. If the $810 Million Mega Millions jackpot isn't won tonight, it is set to rise towards the billion mark once again. And there is no reason why it couldn't be won by an Oregonian this time."
theLotter Oregon provides customers with a courier service for lottery tickets, meaning that people can order an official Oregon Lottery ticket on its website. It offers further features which differentiate it from other retailers: from subscriptions to special multi-draw packages.
So how does it work? "Our service aims to make playing Oregon's lotteries convenient and safe: a client simply places an order on our site and one of our couriers buys the ticket on the client's behalf. We then upload a scan of the actual paper ticket and always notify the client after winning any prize. Wins of up to $600 are transferred directly to a client's account, bigger prizes can be collected in person at Oregon Lottery offices," clarifies Daniel.
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Covid-19 ‘superspreading’ can still happen, but now we have the tools to slow it
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
A recent outbreak of Covid-19 cases among officials in Washington, with dozens testing positive after attending the Gridiron Club Dinner, has put the concept of Covid-19 superspreading back in the spotlight.
Covid-19 superspreading, which involves the virus spreading at a single event on a larger scale than what is typically expected, is still possible and poses a risk. But in this stage of the pandemic, a large event may not necessarily be an invitation to widespread, unchecked illness — if people use tools now available to limit risk, according to public health experts.
Now, there are more tools to curb the spread of Covid-19: authorized vaccinations that limit illnesses and infections, robust supplies of at-home tests that can indicate whether someone needs to isolate, face masks to wear in high-risk situations and therapeutics that can reduce severe disease.
“We used to be concerned because these superspreading events would put a lot of people in the hospital and as a consequence, some in intensive care units, and even some people dying. This is less likely to happen now,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “Given the level of natural immunity as well as vaccination in our communities, most people infected now are going to get mild illness that doesn’t require them to be hospitalized.”
Meanwhile, it’s also more complicated to pin Covid-19 cases to specific events. Contact tracing has virtually disappeared, and people can encounter Covid-19 in any number of circumstances as workplaces, shops and restaurants reopen and masks come off.
But by using the right tools at the right times, there are hopes that Covid-19 superspreading could become a thing of the past.
‘The pandemic isn’t over’
Earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, superspreading at business conferences, political events and even choir practice helped shape understanding of just how transmissible the coronavirus could be.
In one case, a biotech conference was attended by 200 people in late February 2020 and may have been connected to about 20,000 Covid-19 cases in the Boston area, according to research from the Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard University and other institutions.
A report published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May 2020 described how a symptomatic person with Covid-19 attended a choir practice in Washington state. Afterward, about 87% of the other choir members developed Covid-19.
But those superspreading events happened before it was exactly clear how the virus spread and who was most at risk, and long before Covid-19 vaccines were made available in December 2020.
“The pandemic isn’t over. We’re still going to see cases of this virus spreading, and we have to continue to be vigilant. We have to continue to be careful,” Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s new coronavirus response coordinator, said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday.
Jha said he is not aware of anyone getting severely ill after the Gridiron dinner in Washington. “As long as people are vaccinated and boosted, we now have a lot of treatments available, put that together, and the good news is, no one out of that so far has gotten particularly sick.
“And that’s what we have to be tracking — making sure that when there are outbreaks, we can take care of people.”
Some infectious disease experts argue that despite greater access to vaccines and testing, Covid-19 superspreading events aren’t over.
“I do think this event in Washington was akin to a superspreading event. It was clearly an event where people were gathered together, and the virus attended and made itself known to a lot of people and infected people,” Schaffner said.
Covid-19 superspreading events are not “a thing of the past,” he said. “So do they still happen? Sure. How important are they? Well, they put a fair number of people out of commission for a while, at least having to isolate at home because they were infected.”
The United States is averaging more than 38,000 new Covid-19 cases per day and about 515 new Covid-19 deaths per day, according to CNN’s analysis of data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Johns Hopkins University. The Department of Health and Human Services says there are more than 14,700 people hospitalized with Covid-19.
About 66% of the US population is fully vaccinated.
“Although I don’t think superspreading events will cause surges in hospitalizations, they may continue to augment and accelerate transmission of the virus, causing milder disease in our communities,” Schaffner said.
As we transition to living with Covid-19 long-term, there will be more chances to encounter someone with a mild — but still transmissible — infection through everyday activities like going to school, the office, a neighborhood block party, church, a sporting event or happy hour.
But there are also more chances to identify them.
“We’re much more likely now to find people who are positive but asymptomatic than we were two years ago,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. But identifying several cases around the same time at the same place does not necessarily mean all of those people were infected at the same event.
“Is that a superspreading event? Some of them may have gotten infected someplace else before they came together — unless, of course, they test themselves before they go,” Benjamin said.
‘Outbreaks can happen’
The concept of a superspreading event “is not new,” said Keri Althoff, epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“In history, we identify individuals who were superspreaders,” she said. “For example, Typhoid Mary.”
The world’s understanding of superspreading events dates back to Mary Mallon, commonly known as “Typhoid Mary.” Mallon was born in Ireland in the late 1860s and emigrated to the United States, where she worked in a variety of domestic positions for wealthy households before becoming a cook. Researchers have found that Mallon unknowingly carried the bacterium Salmonella typhi, which causes typhoid fever. As a cook, she spread the illness to others — leading to an outbreak in New York.
“She infected hundreds, if not thousands, of people with typhoid because she carried it in her gallbladder and she worked as a cook. Wherever she went, people would get sick,” said Dr. Preeti Malani, chief health officer in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
The New York Health Department forced Mallon to quarantine.
“She was exiled for decades because she kept infecting others with typhoid,” Althoff said. “She was asymptomatic.”
Mallon’s case is an example of how pathogens can spread on a far-reaching scale, leading to a superspreading event. But she is also an example of how the term “superspreader” can isolate and stigmatize those carrying pathogens, even unknowingly.
In the case of Typhoid Mary, the term “superspreader” was used to describe a person, whereas more recently, the term is being used to describe an event during which many people are infected, probably from more than one infected person at the event. Many experts call the term problematic when used to blame on a person for having an illness.
Althoff thinks the United States is at a point where Covid-19 superspreading events are shifting to a thing of the past as the coronavirus circulates widely in our communities.
Events that result in a larger number of infections that wouldn’t otherwise have happened can be better described as outbreaks, Althoff said, similar to how we see outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases like measles or flu.
“Very early in the pandemic, when the case numbers were low, we saw and investigated superspreading events, and those investigations provided important information about the virus when we knew very little,” Althoff said. “Large-scale outbreaks continue to provide information about how this variant is interacting with a population that has a much higher level of population immunity now than what we had in the beginning of the pandemic.”
So now, when clusters of cases emerge, “instead of ‘superspreader,’ I think the word ‘outbreak’ is a bit more reasonable,” Althoff said. “Outbreaks can happen whenever we find ourselves in higher-risk settings.”
How Covid-19 spreads now
Though “superspreading” events were seen as drivers of Covid-19 transmission early in the pandemic, they are of “much less concern” now, according to Malani.
“A lot of transmission during the Omicron and BA.2 era has been household contact, where the entire family or your household unit gets infected. But really, what I see — and I emphasize this over and over — is that it is social gatherings that are unmasked,” Malani said.
A big difference between the social gatherings happening now and the weddings, funerals or choir practices during the pandemic’s earlier days is that many people now have some immunity against Covid-19 from getting vaccinated, being infected or both.
Based on information from blood samples, about 95% of Americans 16 and older have antibodies against Covid-19 as of December, the most recent date that data is available, according to estimates from the CDC.
The current Covid-19 vaccines are more effective at preventing severe Covid-19 leading to hospitalization or death, but they also offer protection against infection in the first place. And “staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccination also means you are less likely to spread the disease to others and increases your protection against new variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,” according to the CDC.
“What is happening at this point in the pandemic is that people are able to protect themselves differently,” Malani said, adding that people now can gauge their risk for Covid-19 before attending an event by finding out whether others have been tested or vaccinated.
Many Covid-19 outbreaks still happen in pockets of the United States where there are many unvaccinated people, Benjamin said.
“In those areas of the country, those communities where we still have people unvaccinated and numbers of people unboosted, in those cases, we’re certainly going to see bigger, larger numbers of people who test positive,” he said. Superspreading could be more likely in such communities.
Although superspreading events are no longer as much of a concern now as they were earlier in the pandemic, they “are still going to occur,” Benjamin said. “They’re definitely going to be one of the patterns we’re going to see for some time to come from the disease, as long as we still have a variant out there that’s highly infectious and a variety of people in various stages of immune protection.”
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Attorneys John Kappel, Jacob Jeffries, Christopher Lambert receive Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch honors
DALLAS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Family Law Firm Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson (ONDA) is honored to announce that 15 attorneys have been selected to the Best Lawyers in America 2023 edition. The legal guide is one of the oldest and most-respected peer review catalogs in the nation.
The 2023 guide includes partners Richard Orsinger, Keith Nelson, Scott Downing, Jeff Anderson and Brad M. LaMorgese for representation of clients in Family Law, with Mr. Anderson earning additional honors for his work in Family Law Arbitration and Mr. LaMorgese for his Appellate practice.
Firm partners William M. Reppeto III, Amber Liddell Alwais, Paula A. Bennett, David Housel, Paul Hewett, Holly Baird and R. Porter Corrigan earned Best Lawyers recognition for their representation of clients in Family Law, with Ms. Bennett also selected for her Family Law Mediation practice.
Partner John Kappel and attorneys Jacob Jeffries and Christopher Lambert received recognition in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for their knowledge and expertise in Family Law matters. Attorneys with five to nine years in practice who exemplify outstanding professional excellence receive this designation.
The selection of Best Lawyers honorees is conducted using an intensive process based on peer nominations and feedback from attorneys in the same practice areas and geographic regions. Find the complete list of the 2023 Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch honorees here: https://www.bestlawyers.com.
Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson has served families for almost 30 years. With offices in Dallas, Frisco, Fort Worth and San Antonio, ONDA is one of Texas' largest Family Law firms. Each partner is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, as well as a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Missfresh Limited.
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Van Vleuten wins women’s Tour de France for 1st time
PLANCHE DES BELLES FILLES, France (AP) — Veteran rider Annemiek van Vleuten won the women’s Tour de France for the first time on Sunday after clinching the eighth and final stage in style.
The 39-year-old Van Vleuten won the stage by 30 seconds from Dutch countrywoman Demi Vollering, who also finished the race second overall. Italian rider Silvia Persico was third in the stage, 1 minute, 43 seconds behind the winner.
In the overall standings, Movistar rider Van Vleuten was 3:48 clear of Vollering (Team SD Worx) and 6:35 ahead of Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon–SRAM) in third spot.
Van Vleuten had just about enough energy to punch the air in delight when crossing the line after the 123-kilometer (76-mile) mountain stage in the Vosges mountains of eastern France. It featured two category 1 climbs, the second ascent being the stage-ending trek up La Super Planche des Belles Filles, which finished with a daunting gradient of 23%.
She entered the final stage with a lead of 3:14 seconds over Vollering.
On Saturday’s penultimate stage, Van Vleuten rose from eighth overall to take the yellow jersey from Marianne Vos with more superb climbing in the Vosges.
Van Vleuten added this victory to a long list of achievements, including three Giro d’Italia Femminile titles, Olympic gold in time trial and two world championship golds in the same discipline.
Six years ago, her career was under threat after she sustained fractures to her spine and was placed in intensive care after crashing during the women’s Olympic road race at the Brazil Games.
Vos was among the favorites, but the three-time Giro d’Italia champion ended up in 26th place overall.
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Murad Provides Fast & Affordable Access To Skincare Specialists with Sesame Partnership
LOS ANGELES, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading clinical skincare brand, Murad, is partnering with Sesame, the health care marketplace that delivers high-quality, affordable medical care, to introduce clinical skin consultations with board-certified dermatologists and primary care clinicians. Together, they provide fast, affordable and quality dermatological care without any hidden fees or markups, all easily accessible while you shop. The partnership pays homage to Murad's heritage as it was one of the first dermatologist-developed brands.
Booking an appointment with a clinician is simple: select the Virtual Dermatologist Consult on Murad.com under Skin Services. From there, consumers choose the provider they would like to see including primary care clinicians (as low as $30) or dermatologists (~$90) - and book an appointment with them on Sesame's platform. During the video session, the Sesame clinician will assess skin concerns, answer questions and provide recommendations. Any prescriptions needed will be sent via the Sesame portal. After 3-5 days post-visit, patients will receive a promotion to Murad's product offerings with a discount and/or gift with purchase option to complete their skincare routine.
"Murad's purpose is inspired and centered around a commitment to science-backed wellness. We aim to create products and experiences not just for healthier skin but also for healthier lives. Telehealth has experienced rapid growth since the onset of COVID-19, so we wanted to provide our consumers with a platform and service that caters to the evolution of how they see and interact with wellness. As a Dermatologist-led brand, it's important for us to evolve along with our consumers and continue to provide and expand our expertise," said Paul Schiraldi, CEO of Murad.
"Sesame is committed to increasing access to high-quality medical care - without the high price tag," said Chase Knight, Vice President of Partnerships at Sesame. "It simply made sense for us to partner with Murad to deliver dermatologist appointments right alongside the shopping experience – making it easier than ever to receive physician-backed, medical support for skin care concerns."
Consumers can visit Murad.com and SesameCare.com to book their first appointment for a total out-of-pocket price of ~$30-90+. Murad and Sesame are offering an additional 20% off your first appointment. To learn more about Sesame, visit www.sesamecare.com. To learn more about Murad, visit www.murad.com and follow along with the brand on TikTok and Instagram, @muradskincare.
About Murad
In 1989, dermatologist and pharmacist Dr. Howard Murad founded Murad, Inc., the first modern doctor brand of clinical skincare products, setting a new standard for high-performance skincare. For more than 30 years, Murad has been committed to developing clinically proven, cruelty-free products that meet the meticulous standards for safety, efficacy, and care you'd expect from a doctor.
About Sesame
For the millions of Americans who pay for some or all of their own health care, Sesame is the health care marketplace that delivers convenient, high-quality, full-scope medical care at affordable prices. Replicating the digital marketplace dynamics that have defined the modern standards of customer service and quality in online retail, travel, food delivery, and more, Sesame gives consumers the most choice, convenience and quality at the best price. With a mission of "radically normal health care," Sesame offers a full range of health care services, delivered either in-person or via telehealth, and with no health insurance required. Services include acute and chronic care consults, specialty medicine, labs, imaging, and more - all for as little as $25 nationwide.
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TORONTO, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortune (Chinese Edition), one of the most influential business magazines, released the "40 Under 40" list for 2022. Jeff Li, the Founder and CEO of Shoplazza, is listed alongside Yiming Zhang, the Founder of ByteDance, Chris Xu, the Founder and CEO of SHEIN, and David Qian, the Vice-chairman of Ecovacs Group, and other entrepreneurs.
"40 Under 40" by Fortune China is one of the most authoritative awards for young leaders of the year, aiming to uncover those innovators, value creators, and game-changers. It is recognized as the "cradle of business superstars" and entrepreneurs such as Pony Ma, William Lei, and Xing Wang were listed before.
2022 is a challenging year. Fortune believes that the commercial environment is still complicated. The pandemic has not subsided, the order is being rebuilt, and the global economy urgently needs recovery. However, the desire for innovation of young Chinese business leaders, who are wise and bold to cope with the unprecedented changes in the era, isn't shaken by these factors. This year, the listed entrepreneurs by Fortune China's 40 under 40 are from various industries such as enterprise-level services, new consumer brands, artificial intelligence, intelligent driving, and more. These leaders commit to creating new value and changing the global commercial world. Among them, Jeff Li is the one and only nominee from the cross-border e-commerce SaaS industry. Founded by him, Shoplazza encourages and empowers brands to go global and achieve business success through technological innovation.
Fortune noted that:
"As a new way for cross-border e-commerce to go overseas, branded webstores have gained more and more attention from brands in recent years. Jeff Li, who once led the team to create a number of Baidu's international tens of millions of products, founded Shoplazza in 2017, which focuses on providing products and technical solutions for global B2C e-commerce. The core product is the global shopping cart SaaS. Currently, Shoplazza has served over 360,000 merchants worldwide, with consumers from 150+ countries and regions, helping dozens of brands achieve globalization. And it has become the leading SaaS platform for cross-border e-commerce and is still fast-growing.
"We will introduce more intelligent products to empower brands to achieve global business success through technological innovation," Jeff said, "thanking Fortune and its recognition, Shoplazza always stays open to more and makes online selling easier than ever." As Fortune mentioned, Shoplazza is amidst gathering the power to change the e-commerce world.
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Proposal Focuses on Commitment to New Investment in Macao over the Next Decade and Highlights Track-Record of Support for Team Members, Local Small Businesses and the Macao Community
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) and Sands China Ltd. today announced the submission of the Sands China group's application for a new 10-year gaming concession in Macao. The tender submission highlights both the unprecedented level of investment Sands China has made in Macao, specifically in non-gaming tourism amenities and attractions, as well as detailing the organization's plans for continuing to help broaden Macao's appeal as an international tourist destination.
"No one has been a bigger believer in Macao's long-term success as a leisure and business tourist destination than we have. Investments in our world-class assets, our team members and the local community are a testament to our overall commitment to Macao and this tender submission reiterates our longstanding strategy of continuous investment in Macao," said Las Vegas Sands' and Sands China's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert G. Goldstein. "On behalf of our 25,000 team members in Macao, senior management, our boards of directors and the Adelson family, we are honored to have submitted our application and look forward to continuing the wonderful partnership we have had with the people of Macao for the last two decades."
"The entrepreneurial vision of our founder, Sheldon G. Adelson, combined with the leadership of the government and the dedication of our team members, has helped lead a remarkable transformation of Macao over the past twenty years. Over the next decade we hope to play a leading effort in helping Macao attract more tourists from more parts of the world and further its efforts to be recognized as a world center of tourism and leisure," said Sands China's President and Executive Director Dr. Wilfred Wong Ying Wai.
Dr. Wong said the submission recapped the organization's industry-leading programs dedicated to assisting and supporting small and medium enterprises, as well as the strong community outreach achieved through the Sands Cares Ambassadors and a robust charitable giving program and the award-winning training and development programs that have provided Sands China's team members opportunities for new skill development and career advancement.
Mr. Goldstein said the company plans to further many of its longstanding local talent development initiatives including plans to expand its Sands China Academy offerings. He said these efforts will create even greater upward career mobility opportunities and further increase the percentage of locals in management positions. In addition, Mr Goldstein said the company was dedicated to helping Macao meet its tourism and economic diversification goals.
"Our goals have always been aligned with the government when it comes to developing the scale of amenities Macao needed to become a must-see international tourism destination. We made unmatched commitments to bringing world-class shopping and dining and quickly became the market leader in MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Exhibitions) and live entertainment. Macao is still in the early stages of establishing itself as an international tourism destination and we believe we can continue to meaningfully contribute to that effort by expanding those important drivers of tourism," said Mr Goldstein.
The company also announced that Dave Sun MinQi, who has served as Sands China's chief financial officer since 2017 and has been with the company since 2007, has been proposed to also act as the future managing director of Venetian Macau Limited. Additionally, Grant Chum Kwan Lock, who serves as chief operating officer and a member of the Sands China's board of directors, is also taking on the role of executive vice president of Asia operations for Las Vegas Sands. In that role, Mr. Chum will work across the company's properties in Macao and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. He will also lead strategies directed at increasing foreign visitation to the company's Macao properties, as well as build greater synergies between the two markets, especially as it relates to live entertainment, MICE, luxury retail and other non-gaming lifestyle attractions.
"Sands China has an unwavering commitment to the long-term success of Macao as Asia's leading leisure and business tourism destination. We have a tremendous management team, the majority of whom are local residents, with deep experience in developing and operating the largest integrated resorts in Asia. With the right strategy and team in place, we could not be more excited about our future in Macao," concluded Mr. Goldstein.
Sands is the world's preeminent developer and operator of world-class Integrated Resorts.
Our iconic properties drive valuable leisure and business tourism and deliver significant economic benefits, sustained job creation, financial opportunities for local businesses and community investment to help make our host regions ideal places to live, work and visit.
Sands' portfolio of properties includes Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and The Venetian Macao, The Plaza and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, The Londoner Macao, The Parisian Macao and Sands Macao in Macao SAR, China, through majority ownership in Sands China Ltd.
Sands is dedicated to being a leader in corporate responsibility, anchored by our core tenets of serving people, planet and communities. Our ESG leadership has led to inclusion on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for World and North America and recognition as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies. To learn more, visit www.sands.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include the discussions of our business strategies and expectations concerning future operations. In addition, in certain portions included in this press release, the words: "believe," "plan," "hope" and similar expressions, as they relate to our Company or management, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Although we believe these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you any forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other factors beyond the company's control, which may cause material differences in actual results, performance or other expectations. These factors include, but are not limited to: the uncertainty of the extent, duration and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the response of governments and other third parties, including government-mandated property closures, vaccine mandates, regular testing requirements, other increased operational regulatory requirements or travel restrictions, on our business, results of operations, cash flows, liquidity and development prospects; risks relating to our gaming license and subconcession, including the extension of our subconcession in Macao that expires on December 31, 2022, the grant of any new concession in Macao and amendments to Macao's gaming laws; general economic conditions; disruptions or reductions in travel and our operations due to natural or man-made disasters, pandemics, epidemics, or outbreaks of infectious or contagious diseases; our ability to invest in future growth opportunities, execute our previously announced capital expenditure programs in Macao, and produce future returns; new development, construction and ventures; government regulation; our subsidiaries' ability to make distribution payments to us; substantial leverage and debt service; benchmark interest rate transitions for some of our debt instruments; fluctuations in currency exchange rates and interest rates; our ability to collect gaming receivables; win rates for our gaming operations; risk of fraud and cheating; competition; tax law changes; political instability, civil unrest, terrorist acts or war; legalization of gaming; insurance; the collectability of our outstanding loans receivable; and other factors detailed in the reports filed by Las Vegas Sands Corp. with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date thereof. Las Vegas Sands Corp. assumes no obligation to update such statements and information.
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Former C-suite Executive Alain Brouhard will serve as Supersapiens' Chairman of the Board
ATLANTA, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Supersapiens, powered by Abbott's Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor, announced the appointment of five members to its board of directors: Pam Alexander, Chris Belli, Carl Bilbo, Alain Brouhard, and Phil Southerland. The directors unanimously elected Brouhard as its Chairman of the Board. The US-based company recently announced its initial funding of $13.5 million. With a cap table of investors, operators and professional athletes who reflect and inform its vision and strategy, Supersapiens is ideally positioned to expand its market in the US and worldwide.
In announcing the election of Chairman, Supersapiens' CEO and Founder Phil Southerland made the following statement:
"Alain Brouhard is a forward-thinking, experienced executive with tremendous knowledge across the full spectrum of business - from leading major corporations in the sports world to guiding start-ups from conception to notable success. His experience, skill, and vision will be invaluable to Supersapiens as we continue to educate athletes on how they can utilize our ecosystem to personalize their nutrition strategies and help them achieve their goals. In addition, Alain has challenged me to think bigger, which has compelled us to broaden our vision and strive to make Supersapiens even more impactful than our initial idea. At Supersapiens, we are dedicated to making a mark on both our individual consumer and the industry at large."
Mr. Brouhard assumes the role of Supersapiens Board Chair as the company experiences exponential growth and further fundraising to accelerate marketing expansion. In response to his appointment, he made the following statement:
"I first met Phil via the Swiss Startup Group and was emotionally touched by his personal story of resilience and performance. I was then convinced by and wanted to actively contribute to Supersapiens' vision of becoming the most important sports brand of the decade and Supersapiens' mission of getting the world active and becoming better. With leading-edge technology, a unique Abbott partnership, in-depth science knowledge and outstanding sports assets, Supersapiens has what it takes to become the leading and most innovative performance brand on the markets."
Alain Brouhard is a former C-suite Executive at Fortune 500 Companies with 35 years of international business experience and a strong track record in people leadership, sustainable growth, business turnaround and digital transformation at P&G, adidas, and Coca-Cola. Most recently, Alain was the Regional CEO and the Group CIO at Coca-Cola HBC AG.
Alain now serves on the Board of SettleMint and on the Advisory Board of Starmind Inc and the Swiss Startup Group AG. He is the Founder and CEO of ABConvergence GmbH, an ecosystem of digital business solutions & platforms.
Alain is also a qualified investor, an executive mentor, an affiliate lecturer at Audencia Business School, a member of the Gartner Research Board for Corporate Directors and a Global Ambassador of Singularity U Group.
Alain holds a Master "Grande Ecole" in Management from Audencia Business School (France) and Ohio State University (USA). He is a French national and lives in Zug, Switzerland.
Pam Alexander founded Alexander Communications, a leading technology communications firm acquired by WPP. She advises Gather Ventures, Wild Health, and Outside and consults for other wellness and endurance sports ventures.
Pam is on the Advisory Board of Next Ventures and the Boards of the Aspen Valley Ski Club, the Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation, and the Aspen Community Foundation. She founded Pace Ranch, an endurance sports facility in Tucson, Arizona, which supports cycling development non-profits for underserved youth and women.
Chris Belli is an authority at implementing streamlined solutions for complex situations. After spending over 20 years managing distribution center operations, inbound and outbound transportation, and compliance for International Paper, Dollar Tree, Rite Aid Pharmacy, and Team Novo Nordisk, Chris devoted himself full-time to ensuring that all the systems, resources, and people are in place to make Supersapiens a success and currently serves as Supersapiens' Chief Operating Officer. Additionally, Chris is the founder of TransTrust Logistics.
Chris grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned two bachelor's degrees in Logistics & Transportation and Finance from the University of Tennessee. As an avid runner, it is a goal for Chris to qualify for and run the World's Majors Marathon Series. Chris and his wife Kristy reside in Marietta, GA with their three children.
Carl Bilbo is a Life Science Executive in the Pharma and Med Tech industries. With nearly three decades of experience across commercial and marketing capabilities across multiple geographies, and mixing a deep scientific understanding of pharma, biotech, and devices, Carl brings strong commercial experience to Supersapiens.
With his commercial acumen Carl has dedicated his career to technical innovations and improving the lives of people with serious chronic conditions supported by experiences from Harvard Business School and London Business School. Carl holds a PhD from the Technical University of Denmark.
Carl currently resides in Copenhagen, Denmark with his wife Anne; they have two adult children. He enjoys long-distance running and has completed several marathons.
Supersapiens is the brainchild of Founder and CEO, Phil Southerland. Phil's life, career, and athletic successes are all thanks to CGM technology. The experienced CEO, entrepreneur, public speaker, and global diabetes ambassador founded Team Novo Nordisk, the world's first all-diabetes pro cycling team, and the non-profit Team Type 1 Foundation. Supersapiens is his newest endeavor to change the health of the world. The United Nations, WHO, and World Bank have all recognized Phil for his extraordinary commitment to improving the lives of people living with diabetes.
In addition to Supersapiens, Phil serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of Team Novo Nordisk. Throughout his career, professional highlights include speaking at the United Nations on World Bicycle Day, leading a session at SXSW, and addressing audiences at ADA and AADE.
In addition to cycling, Phil is a passionate skier and deep-water scuba diver. Phil is the author of the book 'Not Dead Yet', which chronicles his life from early diagnosis of diabetes to professional cyclist and his mission to change the face of diabetes on a global scale. Phil is a dedicated and proud father to four. Along with his wife, Dr. Biljana Southerland, and their three young boys, Phil calls Atlanta, Georgia home.
A partnership with global healthcare leader Abbott makes Supersapiens the only energy management system that directly integrates with a Bluetooth-enabled sports CGM (continuous glucose monitor) — Abbott's Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor. Supersapiens offers athletes access to truly meaningful and actionable glucose data with real-time glucose levels that can be viewed on Supersapiens app or their groundbreaking wearable device, the Supersapiens Energy Band, which is the first and only performance wearable that is capable of reading glucose data directly from the Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor. Supersapiens data interpretation tools are leading the future of energy management and human performance.
The Supersapiens system, powered by Abbott's Libre Sense, including the Supersapiens Energy Band, is now available in Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Learn more about the full line of Supersapiens products and purchase Abbott's biosensor at www.supersapiens.com.
Supersapiens is aiming to be the most influential sports brand of the decade. They develop innovative insights around glucose that drive positive changes to unlock better performance and recovery.
Abbott's Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor is intended for athletes to measure their glucose levels. When used with a compatible product, the biosensor allows athletes to correlate their glucose levels and their athletic performance.
The Supersapiens system including Abbott's Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor is not intended for medical use and is not intended for use in screening, diagnosis, treatment, cure, mitigation, prevention, or monitoring of diseases, including diabetes.
The Supersapiens system including Abbott's Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor is not for sale in the U.S. For a full list of references and FAQs, please visit our Education Hub and Knowledge Base.
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PLEASANT GROVE, Utah, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vasayo, LLC (Vasayo.com), a leading provider of nutritional and personal care products powered by Advanced Delivery Technology, has announced the appointment of Dr. Dan Gubler, Ph.D., as Vasayo's Chief Scientific Officer and head of the Vasayo Scientific Advisory Board.
Dr. Gubler is a Caltech-trained natural-product chemist and former professor who has traveled to every continent discovering and researching bioactive compounds in plants and using them to help others. An expert on how natural molecules from plants can dramatically improve human health, Dr. Gubler has 16 patents granted or pending and has developed 70 nutritional supplements that gross $500 million in annual sales.
"As a user of Vasayo products, I benefit every day from the power of its science-based formulations created with Advanced Delivery Technology," Gubler says. "The vision and leadership of our founders, as well as the experience and credentials of Vasayo's Scientific Advisory Board are second-to-none. I am honored to join a company that I believe is pioneering the future of nutrition, and I look forward to helping Vasayo continue to become a significant name in health and wellness."
Over the course of his career, Dr. Gubler has been recognized with the DSA Visionary Award, the Schering-Plough Science and Innovation Award, the American Cancer Society Fellowship, the Eli Lilly Fellowship, and the Best Educator Award from Brigham Young University–Hawaii. He has also been inducted into the London Speaker Bureau and has spoken at over 150 events in 40 countries to audiences as large as 60,000. In addition, Dr. Gubler is the founder and host of "Discover with Dr. Dan: The Proactive Health Podcast," which is ranked among the top 50 nutrition podcasts in the world. He holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Colorado State University as well as a B.Sc. in biochemistry from Brigham Young University.
"We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Gubler to Vasayo," says Daniel S. Picou, Vasayo Founder & CEO. "He has been a leading presence in scientific discovery throughout his career, and he also believes in spreading the message of direct selling as an avenue for entrepreneurial success. We believe Dr. Gubler is the right person to help ensure that our growing product line remains on the cutting edge of science and that our company remains a leading innovator of advanced delivery systems."
A strong advocate for discovering and utilizing nature's health secrets along with new compounds and novel formulations that promote health, Dr. Gubler is passionate about sharing actionable scientific information within the direct selling channel to improve individual health and transform quality of life for people around the world.
"In my thirty-plus years in direct selling, I've been fortunate to work with some exceptional scientists," says Dallin A. Larsen, Vasayo Founder & Chairman. "Dr. Dan Gubler's experience and passion for health stands alone. This partnership will prove pivotal in our mission to impact millions of lives around the globe."
Vasayo is a privately-held direct sales company headquartered in Pleasant Grove, UT, that has been acknowledged as one of the Top 50 Healthcare Companies in the World by the International Forum on Advancements in Healthcare (IFAH) in June, 2019. For passionate people who seek abundance in life, Vasayo creates products that promote wellness, enhance beauty, and support daily renewal. Through the company's science, Vasayo maximizes the delivery of nutrients to the human body using liposomal technology and other advanced delivery systems. Through the company's mission to bless one million lives, Vasayo empowers its Brand Partners to change the world. For more information, visit vasayo.com and follow Vasayo on Facebook or Instagram.
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Which flat sheet is best?
You spend a third of your life in bed, so your choice of sheets shouldn’t be an afterthought. A flat sheet is next to your skin as you sleep, so picking the best one can give you a more comfortable and relaxing night’s rest.
The material should be one of the first factors you consider, but you might also mull over the thread count, color and how easy it is to clean. If you’re looking for a quality cotton sheet, the California Design Den King Flat Sheet is an excellent choice.
What to know before you buy a flat sheet
Materials
Cotton, microfiber and polyester are perhaps the most common sheet materials, but it’s worth considering some less common options, such as flannel, linen and jersey.
- Cotton: A classic choice, cotton sheets are breathable and can feel either crisp or silky, depending on the weave.
- Cotton jersey: Jersey is a soft, stretchy type of cotton that’s similar to T-shirt or sweatshirt material. It’s soft and cozy but can feel too warm for summer use.
- Flannel: Flannel is a thick brushed material that can be made from cotton or synthetic fibers. Like jersey, it’s warm and soft but too hot for summer.
- Linen: Linen is a natural material made from flax fibers. It’s less heavily processed than cotton, which is important to some buyers. It feels soft right away and drapes beautifully, but it’s prone to wrinkling.
- Polyester: Polyester sheets are inexpensive but they aren’t breathable, which is bad if you sleep hot. They generally feel crisp but soften over time.
- Microfiber: Microfiber is a type of synthetic material that can be smooth or brushed. Either way, it’s extremely soft but not everyone likes the feeling of it.
Thread count
When you’re buying cotton sheets, most manufacturers list the thread count. This is the number of fibers per square inch of fabric. It ranges from under 200 to over 1,000, but higher isn’t always better.
A thread count of around 400-600 gives you sheets that are soft and strong but anything over 600 can feel stiff. Plus, some manufacturers twist in extra fibers to inflate the thread count without making the fabric any stronger.
What to look for in a quality flat sheet
Color or print
Most top sheets come in a range of colors, so you can pick one that matches your bedroom decor, bottom sheet or other bedding. Occasionally, you can find sheets with prints rather than solid colors.
Sets
While you can buy flat and fitted bed sheets separately, many people choose to buy sheet sets. This way you can be certain your top and bottom sheets match for a cohesive look.
Washability
All sheets are machine washable — otherwise, changing your bedding would be a huge ordeal. However, you should check the label to see at what temperature to wash them. It’s usually recommended to wash sheets on high to kill germs, but some materials require a lower temperature. Also, check if they’re suitable for tumble drying or if they must be air-dried.
How much you can expect to spend on a flat sheet
A single bottom sheet can cost as little as $5-$10 when made from polyester or microfiber or as much as $50-$80 when made from high-quality natural materials, such as linen.
Flat sheet FAQ
What is a flat sheet used for?
A. Also known as a top sheet, this type of sheet is designed to use over the top of a fitted sheet. You can tuck it in around the bottom and sides of the mattress, but it’s folded down at the top end so you can sleep underneath it but on top of the fitted sheet.
In the height of summer, you may sleep under just a sheet, but usually, it sits below a blanket or comforter. This keeps the thicker items of bedding clean so they don’t need frequent laundering.
What’s the difference between sateen and percale?
A. Sateen and percale are two types of weaves that sheet materials can have. Sateen sheets have a tight weave that makes them heavier and gives them a silky feeling and a slight sheet. Percale sheets have a crisp, matt finish that softens over time. This type of weave is more breathable than sateen, so it’s great for summer use or for hot sleepers.
What’s the best flat sheet to buy?
Top flat sheet
California Design Den King Flat Sheet
What you need to know: Soft and silky, this sateen sheet is made from 100% cotton.
What you’ll love: You can choose from 14 colors including bright white, ivory, sage green and blush pink with matching fitted sheets available. It comes in twin, full, queen, king and California king sizes. The thread count of 600 is ideal.
What you should consider: They can pill over time so be careful how you wash them.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top flat sheet for the money
What you need to know: Made from brushed microfiber, this sheet feels extremely soft to the touch.
What you’ll love: You can tumble dry this sheet for easy cleaning and it isn’t prone to wrinkling after washing, so there’s no need to iron it. There’s a choice of 10 colors, including burgundy, navy and white.
What you should consider: It’s not a good choice if you like sheets that feel crisp.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Simple & Opulence Stone Washed Linen Flat Sheet
What you need to know: This pure linen sheet looks great and is perfect for anyone looking for luxurious bedding.
What you’ll love: This sheet is extremely soft from first use and feels great against the skin. It’s breathable but still cozy enough for winter. There’s a choice of nine colors, including rust, gray and dusty blue.
What you should consider: It’s expensive and it’s prone to wrinkling.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Balance-training app helps prevent falls, reduce emergency room visits and inpatient admissions, and improve quality of life
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Shield of California's Wellvolution platform has introduced a new, easy-to-use digital training app called Nymbl that helps aging Baby Boomers improve their balance and prevent falls, so they can better maintain their mobility and independence.
Nymbl is a digital fall-prevention program that combines cognitive-behavioral education and dual-task balance training. The program is available on Blue Shield's Wellvolution platform, which offers evidence-based lifestyle medicine and behavioral-health therapeutic solutions to its members at no additional cost and is powered by Solera Health. Nymbl is available to people enrolled in Blue Shield of California's Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement plans.
"As people age, their balance reflex starts to decline, which means they cannot catch themselves quickly and prevent a fall," said Angie Kalousek-Ebrahimi, senior director of Lifestyle Medicine at Blue Shield. "We see an increasing number of incidents from members who need emergency medical services and hospital stays after falling."
Falls are the leading cause of death by injury in people 65 and older, creating fear among many seniors that result in reduced mobility, depression, and social isolation. According to Nymbl, more than 70% of seniors are worried about falling and 90% want home-based fall-prevention solutions.
"We created Nymbl to meet the primary concern of older adults – improving or maintaining their mobility so they can stay in their homes and age in place," said Ed Likovich, CEO of Nymbl. "Our patented program trains balance as a reflex, so it's there when it's needed. Older adults can access our program in the comfort of their own homes and complete their daily training in just 10 minutes."
"We are pleased Blue Shield of California has added our falls prevention program through our partnership with Nymbl," said Mary Langowski, CEO, Solera Health. "Helping aging members stave off injuries from falling helps maintain their quality of life and aligns with our mission of making the best health solutions accessible and convenient for consumers."
Nymbl has resulted in improved quality of care and results for members, according to Kalousek-Ebrahimi. These results are also included in the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey, which is part of the Medicare Star ratings. In a 2022 survey of Nymbl participants who took part in the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey:
- 72% reported discussing falls with their doctor vs. national average of 45% on the Falls Risk Management measure.
- 38% of participants reported increased moderate activity and 36% reported improvement in Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), which align with Monitoring Physical Activity and Improving or Maintaining Physical Health measures.
- 34% of members reported feeling calmer and more peaceful, 37% reported that they have more energy, and 20% reported more social engagement, impacting measures for Improving or Maintaining Mental Health.
The Medicare Health Outcomes Survey gathers valid, reliable, and clinically meaningful health data from the Medicare Advantage program. All managed-care organizations with Medicare contracts must participate in the survey.
About Blue Shield of California
Blue Shield of California strives to create a healthcare system worthy of its family and friends that is sustainably affordable. Blue Shield of California is a tax-paying, nonprofit, independent member of the Blue Shield Association with 4.7 million members, 7,800 employees, and $22.9 billion in annual revenue. Founded in 1939 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Oakland, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid, and Medicare healthcare service plans in California. The company has contributed $120 million to Blue Shield of California Foundation in the last three years to have an impact on California communities. For more news about Blue Shield of California, please visit news.blueshieldca.com. Or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.
About Nymbl Science
Nymbl Science empowers older adults to age well by improving mobility. Nymbl's evidence-based fall prevention program includes two primary components, each using clinical gold standard techniques to drive improved health outcomes. The program has demonstrated industry-winning engagement rates, improvement in older adults' confidence in their balance, addition of novel health behaviors, and a 35% reduction in fall-related claims. Visit https://nymblscience.com/ for more information about the company and its programs.
About Solera Health
Solera Health is committed to changing lives by guiding people seamlessly to better health solutions while providing payers and employers the tools to manage providers and outcomes across conditions. Solera's platform provides a marketplace of curated networks of digital and community point solutions focused on intensive, evidence-based lifestyle, behavioral and social interventions to impact the most prevalent and costly chronic conditions. Solera strategically matches consumers to their best-fit solution and helps keep them engaged for successful health outcomes. To learn more about Solera's partnerships and offerings, or how we can help member populations, contact us today at www.soleranetwork.com.
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TOKYO, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 30% increase was seen in revenue in 1Q FY 2023/02. Demand for the implementation of Shikigaku methods for improving organizational performance was strong; demand for service maintained strength.
Summary of Results
Through the cumulative consolidated first quarter of the fiscal year ending February 28, 2023, the climate surrounding Shikigaku shows the market is demonstrating strong need for improvement in organizational productivity achieved through means such as results-based employee management and rule-oriented organizational management that generates results regardless of the workplace being utilized. Accordingly, demand for the Company's services remains robust.
Under the Shikigaku Group's corporate vision, "Disseminate Shikigaku and maximize people's potential," the Company provides management consulting services; actively recruiting and training instructors and thoroughly managing instructors' quality and performance, all to realize the penetration of Shikigaku theory in clientele organizations. In Sports Entertainment, during the 2021-2022 season of the B.LEAGUE professional basketball organization which ended in May, 2022, the Company engaged in assertive efforts to secure sponsorships and marketing aimed at raising brand recognition for a locally based club while also participating in aggressive investment into the strengthening of the team for the goal of B1 rank promotion. In VC Fund Business・Hands-On Support Fund business, Shikigaku No. 2 Limited Investment Partnership decided to add four new companies while Shinsei Shikigaku No. 1 Limited Investment Partnership added one new company to invest in, along with other assertive investment activities. In addition, due to the decision for complete withdrawal from contract development the cancellation penalty for canceling outsourcing contracts totaled 30,400 thousand yen, and the expense was recorded as an extraordinary loss. Furthermore, contract development was excluded from reportable segments.
For the first quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year (1Q FY 2023/02) the Company reported net sales of 1,102 million yen, (+30.6% Year-on-Year). EBITDA (net sales + taxes + interest expense + depreciation & amortization) totaled 49 million yen (-43.7% Year-on-Year). Operating profit totaled 33 million yen (-52.9% Year-on-Year). Ordinary profit totaled 20 million yen (-65.2%Year-on-Year). Net profit attributable to owners of the parent totaled 26 million yen (compared to net profit attributable to owners of the parent for the same period of the previous year was 21 million yen).
Through its organization consulting business, the Company provides management consulting and platform services. In the management consulting service, the Company continued to conduct investments supported by vigorous marketing activities to facilitate active recruitment of consultants and expansion in its customer base. Consequently, consultant count increased to 77, up 4 consultants as of 1Q FY 2023/02. The cumulative number of contracted companies at the end of the 1Q was 3,047 (the previous consolidated FY ended with 2,873). Sales generated for the first quarter totaled 618,533 thousand yen, (+21.3% Year-to Year). During the period under review (1Q), in the category of platform services, the Company focused on expanding sales of its Shikigaku Basic Services, which provide ongoing operational support until organizational management grounded in its Shikigaku theory (corresponding service launched in September 2020) take hold. The diagnoses that accompany these services clarify organizational issues and enable support for their eventual resolution. Accordingly, the Company has been striving to improve customer satisfaction associated with Shkigaku Basic Services. The number of contracted companies for "Shikigaku Basic Services" as of the end of the consolidated 1Q was 558 (opposed to 524 of the previous consolidated FY). Meanwhile, the number of Shikigaku Cloud agreements was 99 (opposed to 115 of the previous consolidated FY), and there are a total 232 Shikigaku Basic Services Light agreements (formerly Shikigaku member clients; opposed to 479 of the previous consolidated FY). Platform services generated 383,362 thousand yen in sales (+74.2% Year-to-Year) during the consolidated 1Q. As a result of these factors, sales in the Organization Consulting business amounted to 1,001 million yen (+37.3% Year-toYear), and an operating profit of 108,371 thousand yen (-10.7% Year-to-Year).
In the Sports Entertainment business, during the consolidated 1Q the Company fulfilled its function as a community-based club by conducting initiatives aimed at stimulating and expanding interest in local sports while also striving to facilitate team strengthening in pursuit of promotion to the B1 League level. The Company expanded sales activities aimed at acquiring sponsors for the 2022–2023 season, increased the scope of its sales personnel recruitment, and strengthened its collaboration with local governments to raise tax payments made under the corporate version of Japan's hometown tax system, which has become a new revenue base. Due in part to these efforts, sponsorship orders for the consolidated 1Q were strong, increasing to 160,505 thousand yen (+64.3% Year-to-Year). However, costs took precedence over profit during the period under review as the Company continued to invest in operations aimed at achieving team strengthening.
Consequently, sales generated through the Sports Entertainment business for the 1Q totaled 87,119 thousand yen (+67.8% Year-to-Year) while operating losses totaled 44,486 thousand yen.
In the VC Fund business, the Company conducted investment focused on establishing and expanding organizational power and becoming a growth-generating organization. Meanwhile, it also operated venture capital funds that support growth by facilitating organizational improvements at companies in which they invest by implementing the Company's Shikigaku theory. Investing in four new companies under Shikigaku No. 2 Limited Investment Partnership capped off other assertive investment activities. As a result, operating loss in the VC Fund business for the 1Q totaled 28,788 thousand yen.
In the 1Q for the Hands-On Support Fund business, the Company operated hands-on support funds that provide organizational improvement and finance support and draw income from capital gains generated through investment exit (IPO, M&A, etc.). The decision was made for Shinsei Shikigaku No. 1 Limited Investment Partnership to invest in one additional company. As a result of the spending associated with these efforts, the Hands-On Support business generated an operating loss of 3,034 thousand yen for the 1Q.
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Betterware de México, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (Nasdaq: BWMX) ("Betterware" or the "Company") today announced that its controlling shareholder, Campalier, S.A. de C.V. ("Campalier"), informed the Company that it purchased 100,000 shares of the Company in the open market for approximately US$1.3 million.
As a result of such purchase, Campalier now holds approximately 53.6% of the issued and outstanding shares of Betterware.
Luis G. Campos, Executive Chairman of the Board of Betterware and controlling shareholder at Campalier, stated: "This purchase reaffirms our confidence in our advantageous business model centered on three growth pillars of product innovation, business intelligence and technology, which has us positioned to deliver on our growth objectives in the future. We believe that the current share price does not reflect the underlying value of our business. We remain focused on the successful execution of our strategic initiatives and believe this has us poised to deliver consistent long-term profitable growth and increased value for our shareholders."
Founded in 1995, Betterware de Mexico is the leading direct-to-consumer company in Mexico focused on creating innovative products that solve specific needs regarding organization, practicality, space saving and hygiene within the household. Betterware's wide product portfolio includes home organization, kitchen, commuting, laundry and cleaning, as well as other categories that include products and solutions for every corner of the household.
The Company has a differentiated two-tier network of distributors and associates that sell their products through twelve catalogues per year. All products are designed by the Company and under Betterware's brand through its different sources of product innovation. The Company's state-of-the-art infrastructure allows it to safely and timely deliver its products to every part of the country, backed by the strategic location of its national distribution center. Today, the Company distributes its products in Mexico and Guatemala, and has plans of additional international expansion.
Supported by its asset light business model and its three strategic pillars of Product Innovation, Business Intelligence and Technology, Betterware has been able to achieve sustainable double-digit growth rates by successfully expanding its household penetration and share of wallet.
This press release includes certain statements that are not historical facts but are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally are accompanied by words such as "believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "should," "would," "plan," "predict," "potential," "seem," "seek," "future," "outlook," and similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding projections, estimates and forecasts of revenue and other financial and performance metrics and projections of market opportunity and expectations. These statements are based on various assumptions and on the current expectations of the Company's management and are not predictions of actual performance. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by any investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. Many actual events and circumstances are beyond the control of the Company. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed upon the forward-looking statements.
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MASON, Ohio (AP) — Caroline Garcia generated momentum going into next week’s U.S. Open, capturing the Western & Southern Open women’s championship with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Petra Kvitova on Sunday.
Garcia, already the first qualifier to reach the tournament final, clinched the victory when Kvitova sent a second serve return into the net. Garcia dropped to her knees and lay on her back on the court after the final point.
The 28-year-old French woman went into Sunday’s match with a WTA Tour-leading 26 wins since June.
The 28th-ranked Kvitova and 35th-ranked Garcia both shook off first-round losses the previous week in Toronto to make their first appearances in a Cincinnati final.
Garcia broke her Czech opponent in the first game, and raced to a 4-0 lead. Garcia also gained an early edge with a first game break in the second set.
Kvitova, 32, left the court for treatment of an injury after falling behind 2-0 in the second set. She looked sharper after returning but couldn’t overcome the early break. | https://cw33.com/sports/ap-sports/garcia-beats-kvitova-to-win-western-southern-title/ | 2022-08-21T21:28:57Z |
New Jersey continues to refuse to release EMP cost analysis; BPU leans on sham studies to delay and obscure the findings from the public
TRENTON, N.J., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, July 15th, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities will mark the 900th day that it has failed to release a cost estimate for its Energy Master Plan (EMP).
It's been more than two years since the Murphy administration and the Board of Public Utilities (BPU) codified the Energy Master Plan, and yet they continue to leave the public in the dark. The BPU has proposed several cost and economic impact studies for the EMP without releasing any results, and continues to move forward with the proposal despite skyrocketing inflation, high cost of living in New Jersey, and the significant impacts of the pandemic on our state's economy.
"It's a disgrace that the BPU continues to hide the true cost of the EMP from New Jerseyans, instead spending its time conducting sham studies and other distractions," said Ron Morano, Executive Director of AENJ. "As energy consumption climbs in the summer and our residents and businesses continue to face rising inflation, they deserve to know just how much the EMP will cost them."
As states like California face energy insecurity issues and return to fossil fuels to meet energy needs, New Jersey is abandoning cost-effective fuels in favor of a 100% electric approach – jeopardizing the stability of our grid and the finances of our state, our businesses, and our working families.
"Everyone supports the move toward a greener energy program, but New Jersey is running at break-neck speed with an energy master plan that eliminates such sources as clean natural gas – with complete disregard for the cost to ratepayers and the availability of energy to families and businesses," added Morano.
According to AENJ's own research, the EMP will cost a family of four over $200,000 – a cost most New Jerseyans can't afford as they contend with high prices and economic insecurity. Overall, the EMP could cost the state at least $500 billion. It's no wonder the BPU won't release its own cost analyses for the public. Instead, they're weaponizing the entire process even while concerned New Jerseyans call for transparency.
"Let's face if - if the EMP costs were not a problem, the BPU would have released them long ago," said Morano. "Shortsighted policies will overwhelm New Jerseyans and threaten the viability of our economy. We need a sensible and balanced energy policy that meets our needs."
The Affordable Energy New Jersey Coalition is a dedicated group of business, labor, industry, civic and community organizations in New Jersey who have come together to ensure that families and businesses maintain access to clean and affordable energy.
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HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jason Foundation, Inc. (JFI), a nationally recognized leader in youth and young adult suicide awareness and prevention, proudly recognizes and supports September as National Suicide Prevention Month. Throughout the month, individuals and organizations around the country have plans to highlight the problem of suicide and advocate its prevention.
Almost 46,000 Americans took their own lives in 2020, making suicide one of the leading causes of death in our nation. Suicide rates in the US have climbed 33% since 2000. Even more concerning is that suicide and suicide attempts among our nation's youth (ages 10-24) are on the rise. According to information released by the CDC, 19% of high school youth had seriously considered attempting suicide, 16% had made a suicide plan, and 9% had made one or more suicide attempts. One of the ways to reduce that number is by talking about suicide and suicidal ideation, which can spur meaningful conversations about mental health and potentially save lives.
Suicide Prevention Month is a time to remember those affected by suicide, raise awareness, and focus on prevention efforts. Join the conversation and reach out to those who have been personally affected by suicide, raise awareness, and connect those struggling with suicidal thoughts to professional counselors and treatment services that can help them.
"Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in our nation, but the lack of awareness regarding the issue contributes to its magnitude," remarked Brett Marciel, Chief Communications Officer for The Jason Foundation. "Suicide is preventable, and you can have a lasting impact on those around you."
The Jason Foundation offers many different ideas on how the public can become involved. To find more information, visit their website and look for the "How to Get Involved" tab. A special section exists for Suicide Prevention Month.
The Jason Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting the "silent epidemic" of youth and young adult suicide through educational programs for young people, educators, parents, and other community groups. Since their inception, The Jason Foundation has never charged a school, family, or community for use of their programs or materials. For more information or to find the closest JFI Affiliate Office, visit their website. www.jasonfoundation.com
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Operations Temporarily Suspended as of June 28th Pending Implementation of Timely Improvement Initiatives
DENVER, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SSR Mining Inc. (NASDAQ: SSRM) (TSX: SSRM) (ASX: SSR) ("SSR Mining" or the "Company") received a delegation from Turkey's Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change ("Ministry of Environment") at the Çöpler mine in the afternoon of June 28th local time. The visit was the second from the Ministry of Environment in response to a leak of leach solution containing approximately eight kilograms of diluted cyanide at the Çöpler mine site on June 21st. As noted previously, the leak occurred from a pipeline that pumps diluted cyanide solution to Çöpler's heap leach pad and the impacted material was cleaned up immediately. SSR Mining immediately notified the relevant authorities of the event and hosted officials at site on June 23rd and 24th to review the incident.
During its visit on June 28th, the Ministry of Environment provided initial verbal guidance on expected improvement initiatives required at the Çöpler mine heap leach pad, which will be followed with a written notice in the coming days. During the implementation of these initiatives, it is expected that the Çöpler operations will remain temporarily suspended. SSR Mining expects to implement these initiatives in a timely fashion and bring the Çöpler operation back to full capacity in the coming weeks once Ministry of Environment Officials are satisfied with the implementation.
SSR Mining is providing its full cooperation to the regulators and will remain in contact with Ministry of Environment Officials. SSR Mining is committed to safe and responsible mining practices and remains focused on ensuring a lasting positive legacy for stakeholders.
SSR Mining Inc. is a leading, free cash flow focused gold company with four producing assets located in the USA, Turkey, Canada, and Argentina, combined with a global pipeline of high-quality development and exploration assets. In 2021, the four operating assets produced approximately 794,000 gold-equivalent ounces. SSR Mining is listed under the ticker symbol SSRM on the NASDAQ and the TSX, and SSR on the ASX.
F. Edward Farid, Executive Vice President, Chief Corporate Development Officer
Alex Hunchak, Director, Corporate Development and Investor Relations
SSR Mining Inc.
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Feds: Michigan man left nooses, notes mocking BLM movement
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — A retired Michigan optometrist faces federal charges for allegedly leaving nooses and notes mocking the Black Lives Matter movement inside a couple’s truck and near or inside stores as well as placing threatening phone calls. Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that 61-year-old Kenneth David Pilon, of Saginaw, is charged with six counts of interfering with federally protected activities — a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison and fines. Threatening calls were made to Starbucks stores in Michigan. An FBI special agent writes in an affidavit that the charges allege that Pilon “intimidated and attempted to intimidate citizens from participating lawfully in speech and peaceful assembly.” The Associated Press left a message Thursday for Pilon’s lawyer requesting comment. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/04/28/feds-michigan-man-left-nooses-notes-mocking-blm-movement/ | 2022-04-28T18:04:26Z |
NEW YORK, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Agrify Corporation (NASDAQ: AGFY) resulting from allegations that Agrify may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Agrify securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
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WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On December 16, 2021, during trading hours, market analyst Bonitas Research published a report regarding Agrify which alleges several issues at the Company including that "[w]e believe that Agrify created artificial demand for its product by financing undisclosed Company insiders to act as independent customers." Further the report alleges that "Agrify insiders lied to investors about the independence of its customer base in order to execute a dubious stock promotion for self-enrichment at the expense of minority shareholders[,]" and that "[e]vidence showed that five (5) of Agrify's eight (8) customer announcements in 2021 are either with undisclosed Company insiders or with unlicensed unproven operators." On this news, the price of Agrify's common stock fell $2.24 per share, or 17.8%, on December 16, 2021.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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- Proposal to transfer ALFA's share ownership of Axtel to ALFA Shareholders via spin-off
- Spin-off intended to unlock ALFA's and its Subsidiaries' high underlying value potential
- Axtel is a leading provider of managed information and communications technology solutions
- Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting to take place on July 12, 2022
SAN PEDRO GARZA GARCÍA, Mexico, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ALFA, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: ALFAA) ("ALFA" or the "Company") announced today the Company will hold an Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting to present a proposal for the spin-off of its entire ownership stake in Axtel, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: AXTELCPO) ("Axtel") to the ALFA shareholders.
Subject to the corresponding approvals, ALFA expects to execute the spin-off by forming a new entity which would be constituted as the spun-off company ("Controladora Axtel") and by listing its shares on the Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores). ALFA would transfer its entire share ownership in Axtel to Controladora Axtel, as well as certain other assets and capital.
ALFA shareholders would receive one share of Controladora Axtel for each of their ALFA shares, in addition to retaining their share ownership in ALFA's equity.
The proposal has been authorized and recommended by ALFA's Board of Directors, and is subject to approval at the Extraordinary Shareholders' Meeting that will take place on July 12, 2022.
"We are convinced that the proposed spin-off is the best step forward. ALFA shareholders continue to gain autonomy as we simplify the conglomerate's structure to unlock our Company's extraordinary value potential. Together with Nemak, Axtel would be the second ALFA subsidiary to become fully independent." noted Armando Garza Sada, Chairman of ALFA's Board of Directors.
"Axtel has a strong financial and competitive position as a leading provider of managed information and communications technology solutions. We are confident in Axtel's ability to capitalize on attractive growth opportunities as an independent business. Axtel will get full support from ALFA to ensure an orderly transition," said Alvaro Fernández Garza, President of ALFA.
As required by the applicable laws and regulations, ALFA prepared an information memorandum for this transaction, which is available at www.alfa.com.mx or at the Mexican Stock Exchange's website www.bmv.com.mx.
Contacts
Hernán F. Lozano
V.P. of Investor Relations ALFA, S.A.B. de C.V.
T. +52 (81) 8748-2521
iralfa@alfa.com.mx
Carolina Alvear
Corporate Communication Director
ALFA, S.A.B. de C.V.
T. +52 (81) 8748-2521
comunicacion@alfa.com.mx
About ALFA
ALFA manages a diversified portfolio of leading businesses with global operations: Sigma, a leading multinational food company, focused on the production, marketing and distribution of quality foods through recognized brands in Mexico, Europe, United States and Latin America. Alpek, one of the world's leading producers of polyester (PTA, PET, rPET and fibers), and the leader in the Mexican market for polypropylene and expandable polystyrene (EPS). Axtel, a provider of Information Technology and Communication (ITC) services for the enterprise and government segments in Mexico. In 2021, ALFA reported revenues of Ps. 308,060 million (US $15.2 billion), and EBITDA of Ps. 41,050 million (US $2.0 billion). ALFA's shares are quoted on the Mexican Stock Exchange and on Latibex, the market for Latin American shares of the Madrid Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit www.alfa.com.mx
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Jelenew: a new way of life, but also a form of self-expression
WILMINGTON, Del., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier, a new product line was launched by the American female avant-garde cycling brand Jelenew. Its products include the Racing Collection, based on long-lasting endurance riding, and the Comfort Collection, which retains the functionality and practicality of sportswear, combined with haute couture aesthetics, to bring cyclists to various scenarios anytime, anywhere. The brand's initial drive was to apply cycling-friendly, versatile materials and haute couture aesthetics to people's daily lives so that people could use its products both in the city and outdoors. And take this to bring sports and outdoor culture into the lives of urbanites and make more women love cycling. Once the product under this brand-new concept was launched, a whirlwind was set off by netizens on social platforms. In addition to traditional cycling distance mobilizers, many fashion KOLs, models, and artists have put on Jelenew and posted their sustainable and healthy cycling ideas on social media, igniting new fashion trends and fashion frenzy.
This phenomenon is rare in cycling brands that only emphasize sports functions in the past. Driven by social factors such as the epidemic, soaring oil prices, and "slow travel" traffic road planning and policies in various places, the cycling culture has prevailed, and cycling has changed from a competitive sport to a new way of life and culture. But most cycling jerseys on the market are all about performance and conservative style. The best jersey and shorts are about function, but only a few cyclists will wear them. Modern people live on the go and are constantly asked to make compromises, which means every kind of restriction. They want to live a life where they don't need to change clothes because of scenes and situations. And Jelenew's Comfort Cycling Collection is designed to deal with this situation. This series retains the functionality and practicability of sportswear, combined with high-definition and simple aesthetics, to bring cycling enthusiasts clothes that can cope with work, sports, and exercise scenes anytime, anywhere.
Jelenew fuses haute couture design and functionality, preserving the materials and functionality of cycling gear, delivering a durable, haute couture aesthetic based on long-lasting endurance riding. Jelenew's features a range of elusive colors and takes on a minimalist perspective in its aesthetics. The four-way-stretch fabric consists of micro-perforation yarns, increasing airflow and comfort during hot weather. Jelenew also embeds the concept of environmental protection into the brand DNA, using natural, additive-free sunscreen and extremely quick-drying fabrics to provide consumers with a healthy and comfortable riding experience. The reference to haute couture makes Jelenew's cycling clothing better fit and more wrapping, and the original three-point V-shaped structure riding saddle provides a healthy and comfortable riding experience. Jelenew said that the brand product co-creators with diverse backgrounds worldwide participate in the product design process, and all products would be repeatedly tested and modified before they are introduced to the market. They believe that cycling, like art, is a way of self-expression. Some industry insiders said that the return of leisure sports style and the cross-border style integration of Jelenew sportswear and luxury fashion is also one of the reasons for attracting young consumer groups.
Di Liu, Jelenew's creative director, said: "We have an incredibly diverse consumer base, and brands appeal to different people for different reasons, but one thing in common is that we all love cycling. The life symbol that gives value is integrated into the cyclist's life. No one can resist a healthy body and a free and full soul. Jelenew is more like a carrier, a carrier of self-discovery and self-expression, through which you'll see how people can personalize themselves according to their needs."
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NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nine new leading food businesses join the U.S. Working Group for Broiler Welfare, bringing the group to 16 members. The doubling of members demonstrates the drive of food businesses to achieve higher welfare practices for broiler chickens based on consumer and investor demand. The Working Group now includes Applegate, Aramark, Compass Group, Earth Animal, Giant Eagle, HelloFresh US, Martha Stewart & Marley Spoon, Natural Grocers, Nestlé USA, Panera Bread, Pret a Manger, Shake Shack, Sodexo, Sprouts, Target and Whole Foods. Collectively these businesses purchased over 540 million pounds of chicken in 2021.
Facilitated by Compassion in World Farming and Blue House Sustainability Consulting, the Working Group aims to support food businesses in exploring workable strategies and creative solutions for transitioning supply chains through the welfare standards outlined in the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC). Jointly, the Working Group members stand to improve the lives of over 111 million chickens annually.
The Working Group is collaborating with Perdue Farms, the fourth largest chicken producer in the U.S., to assist members in meeting their animal welfare commitments over the next few years. Since 2016, Perdue has continued to make improvements, shifting broiler chicken supply chains to improve welfare standards in alignment with the BCC as consumers increasingly desire these products. The company was the first major poultry company to install a Controlled Atmosphere Stunning unit, which provides a more humane slaughter method than traditional practices and has plans to convert other facilities.
"Many of Perdue's Animal Care practices are aligned with the Better Chicken Commitment core tenants. As part of Perdue's commitment to continuous improvement, we will continue in our collaboration with Compassion in World Farming and this Working Group to ensure that existing and future new customers can offer products from animals raised according to BCC committed standards in order to meet the demand," said Bruce Stewart-Brown, SVP Technical Services and Innovation, Perdue.
"Core to our mission is procuring high-quality and responsibly sourced ingredients but creating systemic change as an individual player that doesn't raise or process chicken can be challenging," said Jeff Yorzyk, Director of Sustainability at HelloFresh US. "As a member of this Working Group led by Compassion in World Farming, we look forward to partnering closely with our peers and engaging suppliers in ways that will accelerate the implementation of the BCC."
"The Working Group is developing needed tools to assist us in our commitments and work from communication fact sheets to auditing and labeling protocols," said Kristen Smith, Director of Sustainability, Earth Animal. "We appreciate the candid conversations with Compassion in World Farming and other members about common challenges and potential solutions, which help to inform our strategy and approach and to educate other companies in our industry as well."
The Working Group came together in 2021 to explore practical strategies and creative solutions that will enable member companies to progress toward their commitments. Compassion USA anticipates this group's ongoing efforts and learnings will continue the positive momentum and motivate widespread progress among the more than 200 U.S. brands that have committed to improving their welfare standards in alignment with the BCC.
"Bringing leading food businesses together in the Working Group allows for real collaboration, innovation and progress toward higher standards of welfare for the more than 9 billion chickens raised in the U.S. annually," said Tessa Hale, U.S. Head of Food Business, Compassion in World Farming. "The expansion of the Working Group reflects the desire for meaningful change in how we treat the planet's most-farmed animal. In addition to our many new food business partners, we are thrilled to collaborate with several top chicken producers, such as Perdue, who are leading the way in animal welfare practices."
"At Whole Foods Market, we've long maintained rigorous Quality Standards across our Meat Department and take the issue of broiler chicken welfare seriously. We sincerely appreciate the important work of Compassion in World Farming, and we're excited to join the Working Group to share what we've learned about raising the bar for broiler welfare and to join with others in pushing for systemic change," said Karen Christensen, SVP of Merchandising for Perishables, Whole Foods Market.
Compassion USA's food business managers and animal welfare specialists are working with others to dig into the research, answer questions and raise chicken welfare standards. For Working Group membership information, email Tessa.Hale@ciwf.org.
- For more information or to schedule an interview, please email Ronnika.McFall@ciwf.org.
- To learn more about Natural Grocers and their meat standards, please visit www.naturalgrocers.com/standards/meat-standards.
Notes to Editors:
Blue House Sustainability Consulting is led by Mindy Gomes-Casseres, an expert with more than 20 years of experience in helping global Fortune 500 companies craft leading sustainability strategies and communications.
Compassion in World Farming was founded in 1967 by a British dairy farmer who became horrified at the development of intensive factory farming. Today Compassion is a global movement dedicated to ending factory farming and achieving humane and sustainable food. With headquarters in the U.K., we have offices across Europe, the U.S., China and South Africa. To find out more about Compassion in World Farming, visit www.ciwf.com
The Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) is a science-based policy designed to address the four most significant welfare concerns negatively impacting broiler chickens under today's production practices. Two versions of the North American BCC developed for food companies in the U.S. and Canada address the same welfare concerns but allow flexibility in how companies roadmap their supply chains to meet the BCC and later show continued compliance. To learn about Compassion in World Farming's assessment of the progress made by leading food businesses against their commitments to source higher welfare chicken, visit www.chickentrack.com.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) is an expanding specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries, body care products, and dietary supplements. The products sold by Natural Grocers must meet strict quality guidelines and may not contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The Company sells only USDA-certified organic produce and exclusively pasture-raised, non-confinement dairy products, and free-range eggs. Natural Grocers' flexible smaller-store format allows it to offer affordable prices in a shopper-friendly, clean, and convenient retail environment. The Company also provides extensive free science-based Nutrition Education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. The Company, founded in 1955, has 163 stores in 21 states. Visit www.NaturalGrocers.com for more information and store locations
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Company Increases Quarterly Dividend by 25%; Announces Debt Redemption;
Announces Plan to Double Shareholder Returns Resulting in 2022 Returns of ~$1 billion
Highlights:
- Generated first quarter cash from operating activities of $685 million, Non-GAAP Cash Flow of $1,043 million and Non-GAAP Free Cash Flow of $592 million
- Announced plan to double shareholder returns from 25% to 50% of Non-GAAP Free Cash Flow after base dividends beginning in October of 2022
- Announced a 25% increase to quarterly dividend payments; increasing annualized dividends to $1.00 per share
- Planned 2022 shareholder returns now expected to total approximately $1 billion
- Returned $123 million to shareholders in the first quarter via share buybacks of $71 million and base dividends of $52 million; the Company expects to return approximately $200 million in the second quarter
- Issued notice to redeem the entire aggregate principal amount of its 2024 notes totaling approximately $1 billion on June 10, 2022; Company on track to achieve $3 billion Net Debt target in the third quarter of 2022
- Adjusted 2022 capital guidance to approximately $1.7 billion to $1.8 billion, reflecting current expectations for cost inflation and costs associated with maintaining high spec equipment and preferred crews through year-end
- Delivered first quarter total production of approximately 500 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day ("MBOE/d"), above the midpoint of Company guidance
- Published 2022 Sustainability Report and 2021 ESG performance metrics on the Company's Sustainability website
DENVER, May 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Ovintiv Inc. (NYSE: OVV) (TSX: OVV) ("Ovintiv" or the "Company") today announced its first quarter 2022 financial and operating results. The Company plans to hold a conference call and webcast at 9:00 a.m. MT (11:00 a.m. ET) on May 10, 2022. Please see dial-in details within this release, as well as additional details on the Company's website at www.ovintiv.com.
"Our culture of innovation and focus on capital discipline delivered substantial free cash flow generation in the first quarter," said Ovintiv CEO Brendan McCracken. "Despite the significant inflationary pressures impacting our industry, we continue to deliver top tier capital efficiency and generate superior returns. We are maintaining discipline in a volatile market and will not invest in growth in 2022. With our $3 billion Net Debt target in sight in the third quarter, we have once again increased our base dividend and we are set to double shareholder returns, beginning October 1st. This puts us on track to deliver $1 billion of cash returns to our shareholders this year."
First Quarter 2022 Financial and Operating Results
- The Company reported a net loss of $241 million in the first quarter. These results included net losses on risk management of $1,458 million, before tax.
- First quarter cash from operating activities was $685 million, Non-GAAP Cash Flow was $1,043 million and capital investment totaled $451 million, resulting in $592 million of Non-GAAP Free Cash Flow.
- First quarter total production was above the midpoint of guidance and at approximately 500 MBOE/d, including 173 thousand barrels per day ("Mbbls/d") of oil and condensate, 79 Mbbls/d of other NGLs and 1,487 million cubic feet per day ("MMcf/d") of natural gas. Production in the quarter was impacted by higher Canadian royalty rates, operational delays and weather disruptions.
- Total Costs were $15.48 per barrel of oil equivalent ("BOE"). Per unit costs were higher than the Company's $14.75 to $15.25 per BOE cost guidance due to higher commodity prices during the quarter directly impacting commodity linked cost items.
- Excluding the impact of risk management losses, first quarter 2022 average realized prices were $93.35 per barrel for oil and condensate (99% of WTI), $34.94 per barrel for other NGLs (C2-C4) and $4.64 per Mcf for natural gas (94% of NYMEX) resulting in a total average realized price of $51.62 per BOE.
- First quarter 2022 average realized prices, including risk management losses, were $82.08 per barrel for oil and condensate, $34.94 per barrel for other NGLs (C2-C4), and $2.60 per Mcf for natural gas, resulting in a total average realized price of $41.65 per BOE. Ovintiv's first quarter realized commodity-based risk management losses were $448 million, before-tax.
Revised 2022 Guidance
The Company revised its full year 2022 guidance and provided second quarter 2022 guidance as follows:
2022 Outlook
Ovintiv has raised its full year capital investment guidance to approximately $1.7 to $1.8 billion from $1.5 billion. The increase in capital is primarily due to incremental inflationary cost pressures given the higher commodity price environment. A modest portion of the additional capital has secured the Company's existing equipment, crews, and materials through year-end. Planned activity levels for the remainder of the year are largely unchanged compared to the original guidance. Capital investment is expected to be 55 to 60% weighted to the first half of the year.
The Company expects to deliver full year oil and condensate production volumes of approximately 180 to 185 Mbbls/d. This range reflects a slight decrease from previous guidance due to the impact of higher Canadian royalties resulting from higher commodity prices, first quarter operational delays, and adverse weather impacts in the first four months of the year. The Company's oil and condensate production in the second half of the year is expected to average approximately 190 Mbbls/d.
Share Buyback Program
During the first quarter, Ovintiv purchased for cancellation, approximately 1.7 million shares of common stock outstanding at an average price of $40.57 per share, for a total consideration of approximately $71 million. As of March 31, 2022, the Company had repurchased a total of approximately 4.8 million shares of common stock at an average price of $37.77 per share since its share buyback program was announced in September of 2021.
Dividend Increase
On May 9, 2022, Ovintiv's Board declared a quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share of common stock payable on June 30, 2022, to shareholders of record as of June 15, 2022. This represents an increase of 25%, or approximately $50 million on an annualized basis, to the dividend paid in the first quarter and marks the third dividend increase in the last year.
Increasing Direct Returns to Shareholders
In the second quarter of 2022, the Company plans to deliver approximately $200 million to shareholders through its newly raised base dividend of approximately $65 million and share buybacks totalling approximately $135 million. This will bring total direct shareholder returns to more than $500 million since the Company's new capital allocation framework was announced in September of 2021.
Beginning in October of 2022, Ovintiv plans to double its returns to shareholders from 25% to 50% of the previous quarter's Non-GAAP Free Cash Flow after base dividends through share buybacks and/or variable dividends. The remaining amount will primarily be allocated to continued Net Debt reduction, and small, low-cost property bolt-ons.
Continued Focus on Balance Sheet Strength and Debt Reduction
The Company announced that it has issued a notice to the trustee of its 5.625% notes due 2024 (the "2024 notes") to redeem the entire $1 billion aggregate principal amount. The Company expects to redeem the outstanding 2024 notes pursuant to their terms and conditions, on June 10, 2022.The redemption will result in approximately $55 million of annualized interest expense savings.
Ovintiv remains committed to reducing Net Debt. At the end of the first quarter, Ovintiv's Net Debt was approximately $4.5 billion, and the Company had no outstanding balances under its revolving credit facilities and commercial paper programs.
During the month of April, Ovintiv made significant progress toward further Net Debt reduction with an ending cash balance of approximately $680 million, taking Net Debt down by about $400 million to approximately $4.1 billion. The Company has a Net Debt target of $3 billion which it expects to meet in the third quarter of 2022.
Ovintiv's committed, unsecured credit facilities were recently renewed and extended through July 2026 for a total amount of $3.5 billion. The facilities have no reserve-based, cash flow, or EBITDA lending covenants or minimum credit rating requirements. The facilities' primary financial covenant is Debt to Adjusted Capitalization, which is not to exceed 60%. At the end of the first quarter, the Debt to Adjusted Capitalization ratio was 28%.
2022 Sustainability Report and Full Year 2021 ESG Performance Metrics Published
Ovintiv continues to deliver measurable progress on its ESG initiatives. The Company today published its 2022 Sustainability Report and full year 2021 ESG performance metrics on its sustainability website.
2022 Sustainability Report highlights include:
- Reduced 2021 Scope 1&2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity by 24% from 2019 levels; gross annual Scope 1&2 GHG emissions reduced by more than 2 million metric tons of CO2e;
- Achieved the Company's 33% methane emissions intensity reduction target four years ahead of schedule, decreasing emissions from 0.15 metric tons CH4/MBOE in 2019 to 0.07 metric tons CH4/MBOE in 2021, or by more than 50%;
- Reduced flaring and venting intensity from 0.7% to 0.4% of gross produced gas, or 43% year-over-year;
- Reduced total recordable injury frequency for employees and contractors by 20% year-over-year to 0.15 events X 200,000/total exposure hours;
- Reduced spill intensity by 25% year-over-year;
- In full compliance with World Bank Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 initiative – nine years ahead of the World Bank's target;
- Marked 18th consecutive year of transparent sustainability reporting; and
- Achieved the Company's 8th consecutive safest year ever in 2021
Additional details can be found on Ovintiv's Sustainability website at https://sustainability.ovintiv.com/.
Asset Highlights
Permian
Permian production averaged 114 MBOE/d (79% liquids) in the first quarter. The Company averaged three gross rigs, drilled 13 net wells, and had 18 net wells turned in line (TIL).
The Permian team is successfully executing on a longer lateral program in 2022, with the first quarter wells TIL averaging over 14,300 feet. This is 30% longer than the 2021 program average.
The Company plans to spend $650 to $700 million in the basin in 2022.
Anadarko
Anadarko production averaged 120 MBOE/d (61% liquids) in the first quarter. The Company averaged three gross rigs, drilled 13 net wells, and had 18 net wells TIL.
During the quarter, Ovintiv completed four wells with a lateral length greater than 15,000 feet in the basin.
The Company plans to spend $350 to $400 million in the basin in 2022.
Montney
Montney production averaged 213 MBOE/d (23% liquids) in the first quarter. The Company averaged two gross rigs, drilled 16 net wells and had 19 net wells TIL.
The Company plans to spend $300 to $350 million in the basin in 2022.
For additional information, please refer to the first quarter 2022 Results Presentation at https://investor.ovintiv.com/presentations-events.
Conference Call Information
A conference call and webcast to discuss the Company's first quarter results will be held at 9:00 a.m. MT (11:00 a.m. ET) on May 10, 2022. To participate in the call, please dial 888-664-6383 (toll-free in North America) or 416-764-8650 (international) approximately 15 minutes prior to the conference call. The live audio webcast of the conference call, including slides and financial statements, will be available on Ovintiv's website, www.ovintiv.com under Investors/Presentations and Events. The webcast will be archived for approximately 90 days.
Refer to Note 1 Non-GAAP measures and the tables in this release for reconciliation to comparable GAAP financial measures.
Capital Investment and Production
First Quarter 2022 Summary
Realized Pricing Summary
Total Costs
Debt to Adjusted Capitalization
Hedge Volumes as of April 15, 2022
Price Sensitivities for WTI Oil (1) ($MM)
Price Sensitivities for NYMEX Natural Gas (1) ($MM)
Important information
Unless otherwise noted, Ovintiv reports in U.S. dollars and production, sales and reserves estimates are reported on an after-royalties basis. Unless otherwise specified or the context otherwise requires, references to Ovintiv or to the Company includes reference to subsidiaries of and partnership interests held by Ovintiv Inc. and its subsidiaries.
NOTE 1: Non-GAAP measures
Certain measures in this news release do not have any standardized meaning as prescribed by U.S. GAAP and, therefore, are considered non-GAAP measures. These measures may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies and should not be viewed as a substitute for measures reported under U.S. GAAP. These measures are commonly used in the oil and gas industry and/or by Ovintiv to provide shareholders and potential investors with additional information regarding the Company's liquidity and its ability to generate funds to finance its operations. For additional information regarding non-GAAP measures, see the Company's website. This news release contains references to non-GAAP measures as follows:
- Non-GAAP Cash Flow is a non-GAAP measure defined as cash from (used in) operating activities excluding net change in other assets and liabilities, net change in non-cash working capital and current tax on sale of assets.
- Non-GAAP Cash Flow Margin is a non-GAAP measure defined as Non-GAAP Cash Flow per BOE of production.
- Non-GAAP Operating Earnings is a non-GAAP measure defined as net earnings (loss) excluding non-recurring or non-cash items that Management believes reduces the comparability of the Company's financial performance between periods. These items may include, but are not limited to, unrealized gains/losses on risk management, impairments, restructuring charges, non-operating foreign exchange gains/losses, gains/losses on divestitures and gains on debt retirement. Income taxes includes adjustments to normalize the effect of income taxes calculated using the estimated annual effective income tax rate. In addition, any valuation allowances are excluded in the calculation of income taxes.
- Total Costs is a non-GAAP measure which includes the summation of production, mineral and other taxes, upstream transportation and processing expense, upstream operating expense and administrative expense, excluding the impact of long-term incentive, restructuring and legal costs, and current expected credit losses. It is calculated as total operating expenses excluding non-upstream operating costs and non-cash items which include operating expenses from the Market Optimization and Corporate and Other segments, depreciation, depletion and amortization, impairments, accretion of asset retirement obligation, long-term incentive, restructuring and legal costs, and current expected credit losses. When presented on a per BOE basis, Total Costs is divided by production volumes. Management believes this measure is useful to the Company and its investors as a measure of operational efficiency across periods.
- Net Debt is defined as long-term debt, including the current portion, less cash and cash equivalents.
- Debt to Adjusted Capitalization is a non-GAAP measure which adjusts capitalization for historical ceiling test impairments that were recorded as at December 31, 2011. Management monitors Debt to Adjusted Capitalization as a proxy for the Company's financial covenant under the Credit Facilities which require debt to adjusted capitalization to be less than 60 percent. Adjusted Capitalization incudes debt, total shareholders' equity and an equity adjustment for cumulative historical ceiling test impairments recorded as at December 31, 2011 in conjunction with the Company's January 1, 2012 adoption of U.S. GAAP.
ADVISORY REGARDING OIL AND GAS INFORMATION – The conversion of natural gas volumes to barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) is on the basis of six thousand cubic feet to one barrel. BOE is based on a generic energy equivalency conversion method primarily applicable at the burner tip and does not represent economic value equivalency at the wellhead. Readers are cautioned that BOE may be misleading, particularly if used in isolation.
ADVISORY REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS – This news release contains forward-looking statements or information (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable securities legislation, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, except for statements of historical fact, that relate to the anticipated future activities, plans, strategies, objectives or expectations of the Company are forward-looking statements. When used in this news release, the use of words and phrases including "anticipates," "believes," "continue," "could," "estimates," "expects," "focused on," "forecast," "guidance," "intends," "maintain," "may," "opportunities," "outlook," "plans," "potential," "strategy," "targets," "will," "would" and other similar terminology is intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words or phrases. Readers are cautioned against unduly relying on forward-looking statements which, by their nature, involve numerous assumptions and are subject to both known and unknown risks and uncertainties (many of which are beyond our control) that may cause such statements not to occur, or actual results to differ materially and/or adversely from those expressed or implied. These assumptions include: future commodity prices and basis differentials; the ability of the Company to access credit facilities and shelf prospectuses; future foreign exchange rates; the Company's ability to capture and maintain gains in productivity and efficiency; data contained in key modeling statistics; availability of attractive commodity or financial hedges; benefits from technology and innovation; assumed tax, royalty and regulatory regimes; expectations and projections made in light of the Company's historical experience; and the other assumptions contained herein. Risks and uncertainties that may affect the Company's financial or operating performance include: market and commodity price volatility; uncertainties, costs and risks involved in our operations, including hazards and risks incidental to both the drilling and completion of wells and the production, transportation, marketing and sale of oil, NGL and natural gas; availability of equipment, services, resources and personnel required to perform the Company's operating activities; service or material cost inflation; our ability to generate sufficient cash flow to meet our obligations and reduce debt; the impact of a pandemic, epidemic or other widespread outbreak of an infectious disease (such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic) on commodity prices and the Company's operations; our ability to secure adequate transportation and storage for oil, NGL and natural gas; interruptions to oil, NGL and natural gas production; discretion of the Company's Board of Directors to declare and pay dividends; the timing and costs associated with drilling and completing wells; business interruption, property and casualty losses (including weather related losses) and the extent to which insurance covers any such losses; counterparty and credit risk; the actions of members of OPEC and other state-controlled oil companies with respect to oil, NGLs and natural gas production; the impact of changes in our credit rating and access to liquidity; changes in political or economic conditions in the United States and Canada; risks associated with technology, including electronic, cyber and physical security breaches; changes in royalty, tax, environmental, GHG, carbon, accounting and other laws or regulations or the interpretations thereof; our ability to timely obtain environmental or other necessary government permits or approvals; risks associated with existing and potential lawsuits and regulatory actions; risks related to the purported causes and impact of climate change; the impact of disputes arising with our partners; the Company's ability to acquire or find additional oil and natural gas reserves; imprecision of oil and natural gas reserves estimates and estimates of recoverable quantities; risks associated with past and future acquisitions or divestitures; our ability to repurchase the Company's outstanding shares of common stock; the existence of alternative uses for the Company's cash resources which may be superior to the payment of dividends or share repurchases; land, legal, regulatory and ownership complexities inherent in the U.S., Canada; failure to achieve or maintain our cost and efficiency initiatives; risks and uncertainties described in Item 1A. Risk Factors of the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q; and other risks and uncertainties impacting the Company's business as described from time to time in the Company's periodic filings with the SEC or Canadian securities regulators.
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"Until further notice, all School District students and staff will be required to wear their masks during the school and work day and while riding on school buses and vans," the Friday announcement said.
"As we've learned since the pandemic began, the coronavirus continues to evolve and so too will our response to it," Superintendent William Hite said in the announcement. "To help protect everyone's health and well-being as Covid-19 case counts continue to rise in the Philadelphia area, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) has recommended that we resume universal mask wearing."
On Monday, Philadelphia Public Health reported "400 average new cases per day," the agency said a tweet, and "142 hospitalizations as of last Wednesday."
School districts in neighboring Montgomery County have also reinstated face mask policies after the county was "designated as high risk," said a tweet from the Norristown Area School District. "NASD will require masks to be worn indoors by students, staff, and visitors," the district said. "We appreciate everyone's cooperation."
The Cheltenham School District, in Montgomery County, has scheduled "a special board meeting on Tuesday" night, according to a Sunday letter to parents. The school board "will consider amending its current health and safety plan," the letter said, "to make masks 'strongly recommended,' but not 'required,' in our buildings."
"If approved, effective Wednesday, May 25, and for so long as Montgomery County remains in a 'high' level of community transmission, masks in our buildings will be strongly recommended," said the letter.
It was a big day for MCLB-Albany on Tuesday, with Gen. David Berger, U.S.M.C. commandant and other big-name guests celebrating the base's achievement of net zero. The base is not capable of generating and pulling in other off-grid power to sustain its operations. It is the first U.S. militar… Click for more.
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An Egyptian swimmer has broken two Guinness World Records after losing his leg in 2015.
Omar Hegazy, 31, broke the record for “longest distance swam underwater with one breath” and “longest distance swam underwater with one breath with fins,” according to a statement from Guinness World Records. He first swam 185 ft and 4in (or 56.48 meters) without taking a single breath, then donned a fin and swam 251 ft and 7.68 in (76.7 meters).
“Nothing beats the journey,” wrote Hegazy in an Instagram post celebrating his records. He added he “enjoyed the friendships and the unconditional love I saw in the eyes of my friends, family and coaches.”
The swimmer faced significant challenges before setting the records. In 2015, Hegazy was a 25-year-old banker in the Sinai Peninsula when he was in a motorcycle accident, in which he was run over by a truck, Guinness reported. After several days in the hospital, he agreed to have his leg amputated. He spent several more weeks in the hospital, where he had to relearn how to perform everyday tasks, like going to the bathroom independently.
Hegazy was inspired to pursue his athletic feats after reading about Dareen Barbar, a Lebanese amputee who broke the world record for the longest static wall sit; and Faisal Al Mosawi, a Kuwaiti wheelchair user who broke the record for the fastest 10 km scuba dive.
“My source of motivation in the beginning was that I do not have much left to lose,” said Hegazy in Guinness’ statement. “I only got into swimming because I was a very angry. I found a way to I let out my anger and frustration, but it was also where I felt really free and capable.”
In addition to breaking two Guinness World Records, Hegazy has also achieved other athletic milestones, like swimming across the Gulf of Aqaba in 2017 and completing a 700 km cycling challenge, according to his website.
Outside the pool, Hegazy works as a motivational speaker and advocates for people with disabilities.
“I hope these Guinness World Records titles inspire others and serve as a reminder that amazing is somewhere near you,” he told Guinness. “You just have to open your eyes wide.”
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Boeing crew capsule launches to space station on test redo
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing’s crew capsule has blasted off on a repeat test flight to the International Space Station. Only a test dummy was on board for Thursday’s launch from Cape Canaveral. It’s Boeing’s third shot at the flight demo. Two previous attempts were marred by software flaws and stuck valves. If the capsule reaches the space station Friday and everything else goes well, NASA test pilots could strap in by the end of this year for the company’s first astronaut flight. Boeing is trying to catch up with SpaceX, which has been flying NASA crews for two years. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/19/boeing-crew-capsule-launches-to-space-station-on-test-redo/ | 2022-05-19T23:36:07Z |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Cameron Taylor was watching an illegal street race that had attracted hundreds to an intersection in Portland, Oregon, but decided to leave as the crowd got increasingly unruly. Moments later, gunfire erupted and Taylor was hit by a stray bullet as he and a friend headed to their car.
Police, who were overwhelmed with 911 calls about other shootings, couldn’t control multiple street takeovers in the city that night and had trouble finding the victims of three shootings that occurred during the chaos.
“His friend who was with him put him in the car and drove him out to get him to the hospital, but he was not able to make it and that friend called his parents” to say Taylor was dead, family friend Erin Russell told The Associated Press.
Taylor, 20, died Sunday the same day that four high-profile, public shooting rampages in Bend, Oregon, Phoenix, Detroit and Houston drew national headlines. His slaying went largely unnoticed amid the daily toll of gun violence that has come to define Portland and a number of other American cities since the pandemic.
Homicide rates appear to be dropping in some major U.S. cities, such as New York and Chicago, but in others killings are on the rise, particularly from guns. In Portland, the homicide rate surged 207% since 2019 and there have been more than 800 shootings so far this year. In Phoenix, police Chief Jeri Williams said this week the gun violence was the worst she’d seen in 33 years on the job.
“How many more officers have to be shot? How many more community members have to be killed before those in our community take a stand? This is not only a Phoenix police issue, this is a community issue,” she said after a weekend that tallied 17 shootings and 11 homicides citywide.
Now, police are on edge heading into Labor Day weekend, with its traditional end-of-summer festivities, and some are adding extra patrols as they brace for more potential violence.
In Portland, police busy with three killings and nine non-fatal shootings in 48 hours couldn’t control three illegal street races last weekend that attracted hundreds and shut down major intersections for hours. In Houston, the day after a gunman shot five neighbors, killing three, another man shot two sisters before killing himself.
In the past two weeks, authorities in Phoenix have confiscated 711 guns and made 525 gun-related arrests as part of a targeted crackdown. Nearly 90% of homicides there this year were by gun, police said. In Detroit, where a man is accused of shooting three people at random on city streets last weekend, authorities are also cracking down on gun violence in high-crime neighborhoods through Labor Day.
“Let’s stop talking about our inability to respond to crime in the community. Let’s stop advertising to criminals that they’re going to get away with it,” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said, using an expletive at a City Council meeting this week after police Chief Chuck Lovell once more asked for more officers.
“I think we should stop using the messaging at every turn, that the reason we can’t help our citizens with basic criminal justice issues is because we don’t have the personnel,” Wheeler said. “We’ve got to figure out better ways to address this crisis.”
Last weekend’s rampages — which included a heavily armed assailant who stormed a central Oregon supermarket, random shootings on Detroit streets and a Phoenix man who opened fire while wearing body armor — were shocking and scary, but they aren’t representative of the broader toll gun violence is taking on American society, experts said.
Victims killed in mass shootings make up about 1% of all those killed in gun homicides nationwide, despite headlines that instill fear in many Americans, said James Fox, a professor at Northeastern University who has created a database of mass killings stretching back to 2006 with The Associated Press and USA Today.
All four shootings last weekend didn’t even meet the database’s definition of a mass killing — four or more people, excluding the assailant, killed in a 24-hour period — but they nonetheless sowed fear because of the random nature of the violence, he added.
“Those don’t tend to make news. They don’t tend to scare people because people say, ‘Well, that’s not my family,” Fox said. “We have as many as 20,000 gun homicides a year, and most of those are one victim. Sometimes two, sometimes three, (but) rarely four or more.”
The pandemic and the social unrest it caused has also played a role. Eight million Americans became first-time gun owners between 2019 and 2021, said Jeffrey Butts, director of the research and evaluation center for the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York.
“We already had 400 million guns in circulation. So when you bump that up and include a lot of first-timers in the population, you get accidents, you get precipitous behavior, you get people reacting to small insults and conflicts with their guns because they’re in their pocket now,” he said.
Meanwhile Taylor’s friends and family mourn his death in Portland.
The car aficionado and beloved big brother who loved barbecues and spending time with his family was “at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Russell said.
“He has a lot of friends and a lot of family who love him dearly, and this is a devastating loss.”
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AnChain.AI, the engine empowering Web 3 security, is announcing an integration with the Harmony blockchain, enabling strong compliance and scam monitoring. This integration allows Harmony ecosystem participants the ability to empower compliant transactions in accordance with Virtual Asset Service Provider recommendations per the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Harmony is currently onboarding a 1-to-1 fully backed by fiat stablecoin issued via Stably and Prime Trust, a regulated trust company partner and SEC-qualified custodian, complementing its robust offering of Decentralized Exchanges, Gaming and NFT marketplaces.
"To help boost confidence in using the Harmony ecosystem, we are taking this proactive step to discourage perpetrators from harming Harmony's community while moving towards becoming a compliant platform," said Jack Chan, leading Engineering and Partnerships at Harmony.
AnChain's industry-leading capabilities have established its AI-driven platform as a foundational tool for the blockchain forensics and compliance capabilities of major financial institutions such as the US SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), digital asset exchanges, and other VASPs and leading layer 1 blockchains.
"Working with leading blockchain protocols like Harmony enables Web3 communities with our suite of essential web3 security technologies and improvements to their regulatory compliance posture," said Victor Fang, CEO & Co-founder of AnChain.AI.
The AnChain toolset will provide applications using the Harmony blockchain with the ability to quickly monitor wallet addresses for illegal or suspicious transactions. Ecosystem participants can quickly report their findings to be integrated into the tools in order to create more robust data offerings, allowing leaders at Harmony to facilitate important analysis of malicious activity in the interest of growing and protecting developers and business clients.
With AnChain's powerful AI-driven security software integrated with Harmony's uniform scaling architecture, Harmony establishes itself as a leader in the push for adoption of blockchain technology by developers and projects seeking legitimacy in the face of growing regulatory scrutiny within the blockchain industry, while aiming to reduce threats within Harmony's ecosystem.
AnChain.AI is an AI-powered cybersecurity company enhancing blockchain security, risk, and compliance strategies. AnChain.AI was founded in 2018 by cybersecurity and enterprise software veterans from FireEye and Mandiant. Backed by both Silicon Valley and Wall Street VCs, and selected in the Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator, the company is trusted by 100+ customers from over 10+ countries in these sectors: VASPs, financial institutions, and government, including the U.S. SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). Featured by CBS News, MIT Tech Review, Coindesk, and DEFCON, AnChain.AI's AML engine screens over $1 billion in daily crypto transactions.
Harmony is an open and fast blockchain. Harmony mainnet runs Ethereum applications with 2-second transaction finality and 100 times lower fees. Our secure bridges offer cross-chain transfers with Ethereum, Binance and 3 other chains.
Build on Harmony, bridge to all chains. An open platform for your assets, collectibles, identity and governance.
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INNSBRUCK, Austria, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AV-Comparatives, the independent ISO-certified security software evaluation lab, has released the latest results from the Business Main-Test Series, which evaluated a range of anti-virus products in business environments. This report is brought in the interim of the full Performance Test and product reviews, which will be released in July.
Link to test report: https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/business-security-test-march-april-2022-factsheet/
In business environments, it is usual for products to be configured by the system administrator in accordance with vender's guidelines. With the Enterprise Main-Test Series, AV-Comparatives invited all vendors to configure their respective products towards an enterprise-first environment. The applied settings are then used across all Enterprise Tests over the year. AV-Comparatives has listed all relevant deviations from default settings.
The following products (latest version available at time of testing) were tested under Windows 10 64-bit systems: Acronis, Avast, Bitdefender, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Cybereason, Elastic, ESET, G Data, K7, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, Microsoft, Sophos, Trellix, VIPRE, VMware and WatchGuard.
Ransomware and phishing are currently the biggest cyber security threats to enterprises. This makes choosing the right endpoint protection software even more important."
-- Peter Stelzhammer, co-founder AV-Comparatives
The Real-World Protection Test examines the performance of leading antivirus solutions to assess their capabilities in conditions experienced every day by users around the world. The interim results of this the Real-World Protection Test are based on a set of 373 live test cases (malicious URLs found in the field), tested from the beginning of March until the end of April. Of the 18 vendors tested, nine received a 99% and above protection rate, with Bitdefender and G Data earning the highest protection rate score of 99.7%.
The Malware Protection Test assesses a security program's ability to protect a system against infection by malicious files before, during or after execution. For this test, 1,007 recent malware samples were used. Of the 18 vendors tested, 14 received a 99% or above Malware Protection Rate, with VMware, Acronis, Bitdefender and Trellix scoring the highest.
To ensure that the tested programs do not protect the system at the expense of high false-alarm rates, a false-positives test is also run for the Malware Protection Test. False positives run on a scale of 'Remarkably High' to 'Very Low'. A Low to Very-Low rate of false positives is considered anything below 15, with the highest number of false positives being greater than 125. From this year onwards, products are required to have a false-positive rate on non-business files below the 'Remarkably High' threshold in order to be approved. As of the March-Aril Business Test, Acronis, ESET, Kaspersky, Microsoft, Avast, Bitdefender, Cybereason, Sophos, VIPRE, VMware and WatchGuard have scored either 'Low' or 'Very Low'.
The full report, including Performance Testing and product reviews, will be released in July. To be certified in July 2022 as an 'Approved Business Product' by AV-Comparatives, the tested products must score at least 90% in the Malware Protection Test, with zero false alarms on common business software, a rate below 'Remarkably High' for false positives on non-business files and must score at least 90% in the overall Real-World Protection Test over the course of four months, with less than one hundred false alarms on clean software/websites.
The full results of the March-April Business Test Factsheet are available here:
https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/business-security-test-march-april-2022-factsheet/
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AV-Comparatives are an independent organization offering systematic testing to examine the efficacy of security software products and mobile security solutions. Using one of the largest sample collection systems worldwide, it has created a real-world environment for truly accurate testing. AV-Comparatives offers freely accessible av-test results to individuals, news organisations and scientific institutions. Certification by AV-Comparatives provides a globally recognized official seal of approval for software performance.
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North America's leading provider of fertility services onboards certified genetic counselor to spearhead new program aimed to standardize genetic testing and screening processes
HOUSTON , Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Prelude Network® (Prelude), North America's largest and fastest-growing network of fertility clinics in North America, announces today the launch of its Genetic Center of Excellence, a new initiative that addresses the need for standardized genetic testing, genetic counseling and egg donor screening processes. The initial focus for the new program will be egg donor screening, which includes reviewing prospective donor family history and counseling about required genetic tests.
Egg donor screening, which follows professional guidelines from leading reproductive and other health organizations including the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, can reduce the risk of certain hereditary diseases and increase the chance intended parents will have a healthy baby at the end of the process. This information is also vital to the donor, as it provides insight into any health concerns for their own future family planning.
"Through its vast network of clinics, Prelude has given thousands of families the chance to become parents due largely to its commitment to utilizing the latest in donor-focused technologies," says TJ Farnsworth, Founder and CEO of Inception Fertility, the parent company to Prelude. "By launching the Genetic Center of Excellence program, aspiring parents can be assured that every effort is being made to help increase their chances of bringing home a baby."
Lauri Black, MS, CGC, was recently appointed as the program's Director of Genetic Services. A licensed, certified genetic counselor specializing in reproductive medicine, Black's expertise includes preimplantation genetic testing, male factor infertility genetics, fertility patient and gamete donor genetic risk assessment, and prenatal testing.
"I look forward to bringing standardized genetic screening for patients and donors, as well as genetic counseling services to support informed decision making and accurate interpretation for genetic testing, to all we serve in The Prelude Network," Black says.
The announcement of the Genetic Center of Excellence program comes on the heels of Prelude's first annual Donor Egg Summit, where leaders from donor egg programs across North America convened to discuss important topics around egg donation, including meeting patient needs, screening and stimulation protocols, and guiding principles to promote continued collaboration, growth, and consistency among the network's clinics.
About The Prelude Network®
The Prelude Network® (Prelude), the fastest-growing network of fertility clinics and largest provider of comprehensive fertility services in North America, is the clinic network of Inception Fertility™ – a family of fertility brands that touches every part of the fertility journey, including diagnostics and treatment to financial accessibility Each clinic, as part of the Prelude Network, is committed to delivering the highest level of personalized fertility care by the nation's leading reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists and practitioners by focusing on an excellence in science, medicine and the patient experience. The growing Prelude Network has over 40 total locations nationwide, offering a wide range of fertility services including egg freezing, IVF, genetic testing and egg/embryo storage, among others.
About Inception Fertility™
Inception Fertility™ (Inception) is a family of fertility brands committed to helping patients build their own families. Built by patients for patients, Inception's purpose is to achieve the highest bar in experience, science and medicine in an effort to enhance each patient's experience and achieve better outcomes.
Inception's medical experts are leading pioneers in fertility care. Our doctors are some of the first to use breakthrough assisted reproductive technologies (ART) – including in vitro fertilization (IVF), pregenetic implantation testing (PGT) and fertility preservation services – and they continue to lead the industry by building on these technologies by through development, research and thought leadership.
Through its growing family of national organizations – which includes The Prelude Network®, the fastest-growing network of fertility clinics and largest provider of comprehensive fertility services in the U.S.; Pathways Fertility, clinics that provide affordable, individualized and high quality care; MyEggBank, one of the largest frozen donor egg banks in North America; Bundl Fertility, LLC (Bundl), a multi-cycle fertility service bundling program and HavenCryo™, a long-term reproductive preservation and storage solution provider, – Inception is working to deliver on its promise to push the envelope of what is possible for exceeding patient expectations.
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2 plead guilty in scheme to manipulate Amazon Marketplace
SEATTLE (AP) — Two more defendants have pleaded guilty for their role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to manipulate the Amazon Marketplace e-commerce platform. Six people have been charged in the conspiracy, which federal prosecutors say involved paying bribes to get Amazon employees and contractors to leak confidential data and to use that data to grant certain sellers a competitive advantage on Amazon Marketplace. Joseph Nilsen and Kristen Leccese, both of New York, entered their pleas Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, acknowledging they paid more than $100,000 in bribes from 2016 to 2020. Another player was sentenced in February to 10 months in prison. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/16/2-plead-guilty-in-scheme-to-manipulate-amazon-marketplace/ | 2022-05-17T01:49:50Z |
Featuring three fruity flavors, the all-natural formula will improve workout recovery by increasing cellular hydration and electrolyte loss
SAN DIEGO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cymbiotika, a leading nutritional supplement brand known for creating pure, clinically backed supplements, today announced the launch of its Pure Hydration formulation. Pure Hydration will help to establish a healthy electrolyte balance in the body, boost hydration, and assist with recovery from physical activity.
"Our team recognizes the vital role that fitness plays in allowing individuals to achieve optimal wellness," said Cymbiotika's CEO and Co-Founder, Shahab Elmi. "As we continue to empower consumers to reclaim their health with our offerings, we wanted to make sure that we could support the physical fitness aspect of their journey. We're thrilled to introduce Pure Hydration as the second release in our sports performance line, following our Plant Protein launch earlier this year."
Cymbiotika's Pure Hydration will deliver essential vitamins and minerals such as Vitamin C, Vitamin B12, Magnesium, Sodium, and Potassium in one easy-to-use packet.
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WINNERS ALLIANCE RAISES $26 MILLION IN EQUITY TO SUPPORT OPERATIONS AND LONG-TERM GROWTH
– Funding will enable the PTPA to launch its Player Services Platform to serve professional men's and women's tennis players globally;
– Ahmad Nassar, Former OneTeam Partners Founding CEO and NFL Players Inc. President, Named PTPA Executive Director & Winners Alliance CEO;
– Bill Ackman, CEO and Portfolio Manager of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P., and Co-Trustee of The Pershing Square Foundation, Appointed Winners Alliance Chairman of the Board –
NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) – global advocates on behalf of men's and women's professional tennis players – today announced that it has launched Winners Alliance, a for-profit affiliate, to generate and maximize off-the-court commercial opportunities for players and their agents, emulating the successful model of players associations in other sports. Among its first initiatives, Winners Alliance will establish a sustainable group licensing program for video games, trading cards, collectibles, and related opportunities.
Former OneTeam Partners Founding CEO and NFL Players Inc. President Ahmad Nassar has been named the Executive Director of the PTPA and CEO of Winners Alliance. Winners Alliance Chairman Bill Ackman, via the Pershing Square Foundation, and Prysm Capital, a growth equity investment firm experienced in working with player associations, co-led the $26 million raise, alongside an investment from Mr. Nassar.
Said Ahmad Nassar: "I am excited to continue my career working to empower world-class athletes at the PTPA. Having a players association that unconditionally cares for every tennis player is incredibly important, and I am privileged to have the opportunity to take this organization to the next level."
Nassar joins after serving three years as Founding CEO of OneTeam Partners, a group licensing, marketing, and media powerhouse representing the commercial interests of women's and men's athletes across multiple sports. Prior to OneTeam, Nassar led NFL Players Inc. as President and helped grow the NFL Players Association's marketing and licensing business into one of the largest for-profit licensors in sports, doubling annual revenue and payouts to players during his tenure.
Said Vasek Pospisil, co-founder of the PTPA: "Ahmad is the perfect choice. He brings an unrivaled set of experiences and expertise working with women's and men's athletes across many sports. As we continue to build our player leadership and base, I know Ahmad's perspective, background in licensing and marketing, and success in unlocking huge value for players and their associations will be a major asset. Players want an independent voice and a real seat at the table. With the launch and funding of Winners Alliance, we are now well resourced to make a material difference in players' lives."
The Winners Alliance Board of Directors reflects leadership across industries, with the inaugural board consisting of Chairman Bill Ackman, CEO and Portfolio Manager of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P., and Co-Trustee of The Pershing Square Foundation; Christina Francis, President of Magic Johnson Enterprises and former CMO of the Orange Bowl and NFL Players Association; Jay Park, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Prysm Capital; Muhammad Mian, Prysm Capital Co-Founder & Partner; and Ahmad Nassar.
"I have had a lifelong passion for tennis, both as a player and a fan, but have long recognized the challenges that most professional tennis players experience due to the sport's inferior economics for all but the very top of the rankings ladder," said Bill Ackman. "I could not be more optimistic about the opportunity to partner with Ahmad and Vasek and the new team they are building to help revolutionize the economics of the game for the players, and to accelerate the growth and sustainability of the sport to benefit all participants in the tennis ecosystem."
"I am thrilled to join the board and continue my work on behalf of athletes," said Christina Francis. "Ahmad is best positioned to lead the association and Winners Alliance, as he and I both see the value and importance of advocating for the business interests and livelihoods of athletes. My track record throughout my career will support the PTPA, Winners Alliance and their mission."
The PTPA will launch the Player Services Platform to enhance professional players journeys in the sport by leveraging the group buying power and brand value of all the players. PSP services will include global discounts on travel, food, and accommodations and other player necessities, benefit programs, insurance options, travel and logistics support, player concierge amenities, a tax advisory and attorney network, discipline appeals support, access to financial planners, player charity support, and media and public relations counsel, among other benefits.
Co-founded in 2020 by Vasek Pospisil and Novak Djokovic, the PTPA is an independent organization dedicated to the advancement and protection of professional men's and women's tennis players across their entire professional journey. The PTPA aims to address player challenges and influence fair change within the business of professional tennis. The PTPA movement is mobilizing players to create an equitable and sustainable ecosystem for players today and for generations to come, including health and safety issues, schedules, rules, purses, benefits, and education. The PTPA will be headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area, with operations globally within the tennis community.
Ahmad Nassar built his career by dedicating himself to working with athletes to help them get more value out of their professional careers. His vision helped form OneTeam Partners in 2019 as a joint venture between the NFLPA, MLBPA, and RedBird Capital Partners. Established to maximize the collective value of athlete rights across group licensing, marketing, media and investing, OneTeam was the first company owned by athletes and capitalized by a major financial partner. Under Nassar's leadership, the sports company evolved into a multibillion-dollar company representing the commercial business interests of world-class athletes represented by the NFLPA, MLBPA, MLSPA, the USWNTPA, the NWSLPA, the WNBPA, the U.S. Rugby PA as well as men's and women's collegiate athletes.
Prior to OneTeam, Nassar spent more than a decade at NFL Players Inc., the for-profit marketing and licensing business of the NFLPA representing 2,000 NFL players. He managed operations and led commercial negotiations with the NFL and partners such as Fanatics and Electronic Arts. The organization evolved into one of the most progressive business-to-business entities in sports, generating multiple years of record revenue growth. During his tenure, Nassar led the creation and launch of ACE Media, an NFLPA-owned business focused on athlete lifestyle programming; co-founded and led the OneTeam Collective, the first athlete-driven business accelerator, engaging early-stage companies by licensing NFLPA group rights in exchange for equity. Along with founding partners from the WNBPA and USWNTPA, Nassar helped launch REP Worldwide, a landmark group player representation business that offered licensing and brand management services to athlete-driven sports properties.
The Pershing Square Foundation (PSF) is a family foundation established in 2006 to support exceptional leaders and innovative organizations that tackle important social issues and deliver scalable and sustainable global impact. PSF has committed more than $600 million in grants and social investments in target areas including health and medicine, education, economic development and social justice. Bill Ackman and Neri Oxman are co-trustees of the Foundation. For more information visit: www.pershingsquarefoundation.org.
Prysm Capital, LLC is a growth equity firm that partners with disruptive, category-leading companies in the technology, consumer, and healthcare sectors. With a long-term and company-first perspective, Prysm helps management teams achieve their next level of growth.
The PTPA conducted a global executive search process utilizing TurnkeyZRG, which recruited and vetted a diverse pool of CEO candidates from around the world.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Lucinda Williams, Chris Isaak, Brandi Carlile and the Indigo Girls are among the performers who will take the stage at the Americana Honors & Awards.
The Americana Music Association says Wednesday that Isaak and the Indigo Girls will also be honored with lifetime achievement awards at the Sept. 14 show at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, which will also celebrate the careers of Al Bell, Don Williams and the Fairfield Four.
James McMurtry, Morgan Wade, Lukas Nelson, the McCrary Sisters and the War and Treaty are also scheduled to perform.
The show will be livestreamed beginning at 7:30 p.m. Eastern on several social media platforms and NPRMusic.org. It is also slated for broadcast on the Circle Network later this year and PBS in 2023.
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Gov. Gordon urges Wyoming residents to take advantage of property tax refund opportunity
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (KIFI) – Governor Mark Gordon is reminding Wyoming homeowners they may qualify for a partial property tax refund through funding made available by legislation he signed into law in March.
The Property Tax Refund Program has a deadline of June 6, 2022, and is open to homeowners who have been Wyoming residents for the past five years that have paid their 2021 property tax in full. Homeowners must also meet income requirements specific to the county of residence and personal asset limits.
“Wyoming has not raised tax rates, and yet Wyoming citizens are feeling the pinch as their home values have risen,” Governor Gordon said. “They are seeing it in their assessed valuations on their property. Homeowners need some relief, and this program offers some.”
The legislation states that refunds shall not exceed half of your 2021 property tax bill, and includes limits based on the median residential property tax liability of the applicant’s county of residence.
Application forms and additional information are available from your local county treasurer and from the Wyoming Department of Revenue. Applications may be submitted online at https://wptrs.wyo.gov/ or mailed to the Department of Revenue. | https://localnews8.com/news/wyoming/2022/05/19/gov-gordon-urges-wyoming-residents-to-take-advantage-of-property-tax-refund-opportunity/ | 2022-05-19T19:03:44Z |
Food prices continue to soar, see biggest increase in decades
(CNN) - Food prices shot up 11.4% over the past year, marking the biggest increase since 1979.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics laid out the new numbers this week, showing everything from eggs and flour to milk and meat cost more now.
Economists say the increase in prices is not just because of inflation, which is slowing down.
Food prices are affected by global events, like the war in Ukraine, which impacts the costs of wheat and other things we buy.
They are also affected by natural disasters, like droughts that have killed crops, and the avian flu which has hit the supply of eggs and turkeys.
Additionally, it takes time for changes, like decreases in ingredient prices, to get to customers.
Furthermore, the demand for food isn’t flexible. You can skimp on a new outfit or a vacation, but you can’t stop buying food.
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MT. ANGEL, Ore., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, announced today the debut of its newest Oregon community, Wachter Meadows, an enclave of 63 new single-family homes offering the best of small town charm yet just a short drive from big city amenities.
Home shoppers are invited to celebrate the grand opening of Wachter Meadows on Saturday, September 17 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Festivities will include complimentary coffee and donuts, music courtesy of KRKT 99.9 FM, and exclusive tours of two beautiful model homes: the Jade and Cameron. Following the event, regular model home hours at Wachter Meadows will be open by appointment only.
"Wachter Meadows has floorplans for every type of buyer, from first-time homeowners and those looking to downsize, to families wanting to blend generations through our Next Gen® home design option," said Lennar Division President Ryan Selby. "It is the perfect opportunity to buy a beautiful new Lennar home in a stand-out community that is known for its annual celebrations and its stunning rural landscape – all less than 30 minutes from Salem."
Wachter Meadows offers six one- and two-story home designs ranging from 1,574 to 2,341 square feet, with three to five bedrooms and two to three baths. All homes feature generous living and kitchen spaces, and resort-style master suites. Many models offer a three-car garage. Pricing begins in the mid $400,000s.
The Cameron model at Wachter Meadows offers Lennar's multigenerational Next Gen® option – a "Home Within a Home" private suite featuring a separate entry, kitchenette, living space, bath, laundry and bedroom perfect for an aging parent or even a grown child coming back to the nest.
All homes at Wachter Meadows incorporate the latest technology with conveniences like an Eero home Wi-Fi system, Ring Pro video doorbell, myQ smart garage, Honeywell Pro thermostat and Moen smart water shut off. All homes also come with Lennar's signature Everything's Included® program, where the homebuilder's most popular options and upgrades are built into the base price of the home. At Wachter Meadows, this includes granite countertops, stainless steel appliances and a host of other carefully curated interior touches and designer fixtures.
Residents at Wachter Meadows will enjoy a neighborhood that is connected by open spaces, pedestrian paths and bridges, and surrounded by the rolling hills of Oregon's Scenic Silver Falls Tour Route. The community is close to neighborhood shopping and dining, only 18 miles from the modern conveniences of Salem and less than one hour From Portland.
It is about one hour from the Pacific Coast and is surrounded by historic sites and recreational attractions such as Fisher Memorial Park, Ebner Park and Silver Falls State Park, featuring eight stunning waterfalls. Mt. Angel is also home to the largest Oktoberfest celebration in the Pacific Northwest and the nation's largest glockenspiel, which plays four times daily.
Children living at Wachter Meadows will be served by the well-reputed Mt. Angel School District.
Wachter Meadows is located at 115 Cypress St., Mt. Angel, Oregon. For more information, call (844) 890-1311 or visit the Wachter Meadows community website or www.lennar.com.
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title and closing services primarily for buyers of Lennar's homes and, through LMF Commercial, originates mortgage loans secured primarily by commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LENX drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategic investments. For more information about Lennar, please visit lennar.com.
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MILWAUKEE, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ademi LLP is investigating Romeo (NYSE: RMO) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law in its transaction with Nikola.
Click here to learn how to join the action: https://www.ademilaw.com/case/romeo-power-inc or call Guri Ademi toll-free at 866-264-3995. There is no cost or obligation to you.
Ademi LLP alleges Romeo's financial outlook and prospects are excellent and yet Romeo holders will receive only 0 0.1186 of a share of Nikola common stock for each Romeo share, representing an equity value of approximately $144 million and 4.5% pro forma ownership of Nikola. The proposed exchange ratio implies a consideration of $0.74 per Romeo share. The transaction agreement unreasonably limits competing bids for Romeo by imposing a significant penalty if Romeo accepts a superior bid. Romeo insiders will receive substantial benefits as part of change of control arrangements.
We are investigating the conduct of Romeo's board of directors, and whether they are (i) fulfilling their fiduciary duties to all shareholders, and (ii) obtaining a fair and reasonable price for Romeo.
If you own Romeo common stock and wish to obtain additional information, please contact Guri Ademi either at gademi@ademilaw.com or toll-free: 866-264-3995, or https://www.ademilaw.com/case/romeo-power-inc.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent study on Apos®, a medical device that treats chronic knee conditions, could have significant implications on the cost, pain, and quality-of-life problems associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA). The study data was released by Heritage Provider Network (HPN), a nationally recognized physician network that provides care under financial at-risk contracts with its partner health plans, based on its pilot program with Apos®.
The study, published on April 26 in Population Health Management, found that 86% of patients eligible for total knee replacement (TKR) treated with Apos® were able to delay TKR over a two-year period.1 The Apos® System includes a revolutionary combination of proprietary gait data science and proprietary, customized foot-worn device — for the management of knee pain.
Secondary outcomes of the study, at one year, showed a significant reduction in pain and disability, an increase in quality of life, and improved gait patterns.
The findings suggest that the Apos® System is "a viable nonsurgical option" for patients who meet eligibility criteria for TKR, according to authors of the study, "The application of this intervention provides health plans and provider networks managing patient care under financial risk arrangements an opportunity to realize significant cost savings without compromising quality of care.1"
"Apos fulfills the Heritage commitment to stay on the forefront of innovative research to enhance the quality of patient care within a population health management setting," says Heritage Provider Network's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ian Drew MD, FRCP, FACP. "As the lead researcher on this study, we are impressed at how the clinical results of our study reinforce Apos' place in the knee osteoarthritis care pathway by offering patients a non-invasive treatment option."
"The results are remarkable," says Ganit Segal, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at AposHealth. "These findings further validate Apos as a viable way to delay surgery for sufferers of knee osteoarthritis, and a key solution to be added to a patient care plan."
"We're pleased, but not surprised," Segal said of the April 26 study. "Other independent, real-world studies are also showing very similar results. We're excited about these results, but are even more excited about the future considering all of the patients who will benefit from Apos' proven, non-surgical treatment. These studies give us confidence that Apos can have a positive impact from a health economics perspective, and especially in risk-based markets. We are also excited about providing patients with a non-invasive option with consistent results."
AposHealth's cutting-edge gait data science leverages biomechanics to redistribute the body's weight away from painful areas, re-educating muscles and the brain for healthier movement. Patients who wear Apos® for a short period of time each day in the comfort of their homes see a reduction in pain because the treatment addresses and corrects both its biomechanical and neuromuscular causes.
Osteoarthritis (OA) ranks as the fifteenth highest cause of the number of years lived with a disability.2 It is known to negatively impact the quality of life in older adults by causing poor functional ability, pain-related distress, depression, and feelings of social isolation.3 Both aging and rising rates of obesity are contributors to the increase in the prevalence of knee OA.4
"Given the increasing prevalence of knee OA and the additional costs that will be incurred by the health care system, and the expected exponential increase in TKR and revisions surgery and its burden on the healthcare system and society,5,6 there is a critical need to consider potential nonsurgical interventions for knee OA," as indicated by the authors of this latest Apos® study.
At AposHealth®, we are passionate about revolutionizing the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions simply, by addressing peoples' gait to help them move better, live better, and alleviate pain. Our flagship solution, Apos®, is FDA-cleared to temporarily reduce knee pain caused by osteoarthritis and has been used by over 110,000 patients. It can also be used as a general wellness device to help patients live well with chronic lower back and hip pain. With a 96% satisfaction rate,7 and over 40 peer-reviewed clinical studies, this system—consisting of gait analysis, personalized foot-worn device, and a customized treatment plan—has helped patients worldwide move, live, and thrive. For more information, visit https://www.AposHealth.com.
Email: Information@AposHealth.com
Mailing HQ Address: AposHealth® U.S. Office, C/O Studio, 300 Park Ave, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10022
Contact Number: 855-999-2767
- Ian S. Drew, Marc Hoffing, Charles Lim, David Leece, Matt Suess, and Richard Merkin. Avoidance of Total Knee Replacement in a Population Health Setting: Introducing a Noninvasive Biomechanical Intervention for Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis. Population Health Management. ahead of print http://doi.org/10.1089/pop.2021.0336
- Kiadaliri, AA; et al. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901515/
- Wylde, V; et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30237904/
- Hunter, DJ; et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30237904/
- Singh, JA; et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30988126/
- Klug, A; et al. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32671435/
- Based on data captured at 3rd follow up appointment and is based on the commercial activity with National Health Service patients in the UK treated between 2019-2020 (N=106)
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LandSouth Construction, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based, award-winning general contractor, has broken ground and started construction on Waterleaf at Salt Creek, an upscale multifamily development in Savannah, GA. The project is part of the Berwick master planned community along US Highway 17.
The developer for Waterleaf at Salt Creek is Graycliff Capital. Waterleaf at Salt Creek is scheduled for completion in Spring 2024.
"Savannah is a beautiful area that continues to grow and attract new residents," shared James Pyle, LandSouth President and CEO. "LandSouth is thrilled to work with Graycliff Capital on Waterleaf at Salt Creek to bring high-end, luxury multifamily living to the Savannah area."
Robert Kovacs will serve as the LandSouth project manager for Waterleaf at Salt Creek. Matt Wellman is the superintendent for the project. SGA Narmour Wright Design is the architecture firm for Waterleaf at Salt Creek.
Waterleaf at Salt Creek will be a garden-style development and will have 14 buildings, with a mixture of one, two, three, and four stories. Two buildings will have elevators, and the development will have a total of 252 units. Residents will be able to choose from ten different floor plans, ranging from one to three bedrooms. The units range from 833 square feet to 1,624 square feet. Waterleaf at Salt Creek will also offer several amenities to future residents, including a 5,748 square-foot clubhouse, a pool with a cabana, carwash, and dog wash areas. Waterleaf at Salt Creek is close to downtown Savannah, as well as Forsyth Park, Wormslow historic site, the Savannah Ogeechee Museum, Hunter Army Field, and Old Fort Jackson.
"We're excited to get started on Waterleaf at Salt Creek," stated Robert Kovacs, the LandSouth project manager. "This new development will offer the best that LandSouth and Graycliff Capital provides in luxury, multifamily living to the fast-growing Savannah area."
LandSouth will employ its unique integrated construction approach to build Waterleaf at Salt Creek. Service components work together to provide seamless delivery through proven procedures, systems, and technology.
LandSouth Construction, the Southeast's premier general contractor, specializing in multifamily, senior living, and mixed-use development, was named one of Engineering News Record's Top 400. Since 1998 LandSouth has transformed ideas into best–in–class communities. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla. LandSouth has completed more than 25,000 multifamily units. For more information, call LandSouth's Kaley Robinson, (904) 760-3188, or visit www.landsouth.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The “cake” was made from frozen fruit juice, sweet potatoes, carrots and sugar cane and it lasted about 15 minutes once giant panda mama Mei Xiang and her cub Xiao Qi Ji got hold of it.
The National Zoo’s most famous tenants had an enthusiastic breakfast Saturday in front of adoring crowds as the zoo celebrated 50 years of its iconic panda exchange agreement with the Chinese government.
Xiao Qi Ji’s father Tian Tian largely sat out the morning festivities, munching bamboo in a neighboring enclosure with the sounds of his chomping clearly audible during a statement by Chinese ambassador Qin Gang. The ambassador praised the bears as “a symbol of the friendship” between the nations.
Pandas are almost entirely solitary by nature, and in the wild Tian Tian would probably never even meet his child. He received a similar cake for lunch.
In addition to hailing the 1972 agreement sparked by President Richard Nixon’s landmark visit to China, Saturday’s celebration also highlighted the success of the global giant panda breeding program, which has helped bring the bears back from the brink of extinction.
Xiao Qi Ji’s birth in August 2020 was hailed as a near miracle, due to Mei Xiang’s advanced age and the fact that zoo staff performed the artificial insemination procedure under tight restrictions shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic shut the entire zoo. At age 22, Mei Xiang was the oldest giant panda to successfully give birth in the United States.
Normally they would have used a combination of frozen sperm and fresh semen extracted from Tian Tian. But in order to minimize the number of close-quarters medical procedures, zoo officials used only frozen semen.
“It was definitely a long-shot pregnancy,” said Bryan Amaral, the zoo’s senior curator for mammals.
In honor of that long shot, the now 20-month-old cub was given a name that translates as “little miracle.”His birth in mid-pandemic sparked a fresh wave of panda-mania, with viewership on the zoo’s panda-cam livestream spiking by 1,200 percent.
“I know how passionate people are about pandas,” Amaral said. “I’m not surprised by that passion at all.”
Sure enough, crowds started streaming straight for the panda section at 8 a.m. when the zoo opened. Sisters Lorelai and Everley Greenwell, age 6 and 5, ran toward the enclosure chanting “Pandas! Pandas!”
They watched the cub tumble around, try to wrestle his mom and tear the zero off the giant 50 emblazoned on the ice cake.
“They knew this was coming,” said their mother Kayleigh Greenwell of Mount Ranier, Maryland, said of her girls. “We’ve been talking about it all week.”
The zoo’s original 1972 panda pair, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, were star attractions at the zoo for decades, but panda pregnancies are notoriously tricky and none of their cubs survived.
Mei Xiang and Tian Tian arrived in 2000, and the pair has successfully birthed three other cubs: Tai Shan, Bao Bao and Bei Bei — also by artificial insemination. All were transported to China at age 4, under terms of the zoo’s agreement with the Chinese government.
Similar agreements with zoos around the world have helped revitalize the giant panda population. Down to just over 1000 bears in the 1980s, the species has since been removed from the lists of animals in danger of extinction. | https://cw33.com/news/science-technology/ap-science/pandas-devour-ice-cake-to-celebrate-50-years-at-national-zoo/ | 2022-04-17T15:14:51Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — Trevor Milton, the founder of the automaker Nikola Corp., went on trial Monday on charges that he whipped up an investor frenzy for the startup company with false claims about its ability to produce trucks that run on electricity or hydrogen fuel cells.
Nikola’s stock price crashed and many investors suffered heavy losses in 2020 after reports emerged questioning Milton’s rosy claims about the company’s ability to produce cutting-edge vehicles.
In one example, the company put out a video that appeared to show a prototype truck driving down a desert highway. Prosecutors said that in reality, the truck wasn’t operational and had been rolled down a hill for the commercial.
The company’s promotional campaign won over many smaller investors. Nikola shares reached a price of close to $66 in June of 2020, briefly giving the company a market valuation that exceeded some major, established automakers. The stock now trades at under $5.50 per share.
Milton, who lives in Oakley, Utah, was indicted last year on charges of securities fraud and wire fraud. Jury selection began Monday at a federal court in New York.
He pleaded not guilty, and has been free on $100 million bail.
Milton’s lawyers have said they intend to argue at trial that he had no intention of deceiving anyone about the company’s products or technology.
Milton started Nikola in 2015 and announced that its stock would be publicly listed in 2020. He resigned in September of that year after the company had signed a $2 billion agreement with General Motors but following a report making allegations of fraud.
At that time, Nikola said the report was filled with misleading statements and accusations.
The company paid $125 million last year to settle a civil case against it by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Nikola didn’t admit to any wrongdoing in making that agreement.
The company continues to operate from a headquarters in Arizona. It has begun delivering some vehicles to customers and says it has been ramping up toward a capacity of making thousands of trucks per year. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/ap-jury-selection-starts-in-nikola-founder-miltons-fraud-trial/ | 2022-09-12T23:46:24Z |
BOSTON, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DTiQ, a Digital Alpha Advisors portfolio company and the leading provider of next-generation video intelligence, analytics, and managed solutions for restaurants and retail locations, is announcing two solutions to help clients optimize revenue and retain loyal customers.
DTiQ enhances its customers' ability to influence operation excellence by adding new solutions such as speed of service and multi-lane drive through (MLDT).
Our speed of service solution provides real-time alerts and historic trend reports. These help your team identify what KPIs are being met and which are not. By using the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and computer vision technology, we can continue improving our solution to help you optimize revenue and customer satisfaction.
To help ensure order accuracy, DTiQ offers a MLDT solution. It provides operators with an intuitive way of confirming order accuracy. DTiQ's solution integrates POS sales day, computer vision and artificial intelligence to match orders with vehicles. With MLDT, you'll be able to increase order accuracy, improve speed of service, and retain loyal customers.
In addition to expanding its solution capabilities, the company has also invested in growing its team and strategically hiring top talent to ensure customers get the best protection of their assets. These include:
- Steve Habermas – Chief Product & Technology Officer
- Michael Grimes – VP, Marketing
- Ted Dolan- VP, Strategy & Corporate Development
- Ryan Plescia – VP, Product Marketing
- Matt Dollard – VP, Sales Operations
- Morris Porter – VP, Enterprise Sales
- Tim Pincelli – VP, Channel Partnerships and Strategic Alliances
Lastly, the company announced that Mike Coffey is stepping away day-to-day CEO of DTiQ. Coffey has been CEO since January 2018 and has guided the organization through a period of incredible transformation, including a global pandemic. He is leaving to begin the next exciting chapter of his career. Marc Litz, who has served as CFO of DTiQ since May 2018, has assumed the role of interim CEO.
"Mike's passion for this business has led us to where we are now. It's certainly a bittersweet time, but we wish Mike all the success as he embarks on a new journey," Litz said.
"Marc has been with DTiQ just as long as I have and is very well prepared for this role. He knows each of you, our customers, our lenders, our shareholders, and that will serve all of you," Mike Coffey said.
Litz said that during the transition, DTiQ would remain committed to its employees and customers, and building products that enhance client security and protection. Those values have been the company's cornerstone and will continue moving forward.
"I'm proud to be leading such a strong company with an experienced and dedicated team. We are committed to our clients, partners, and employees and will continue to provide the highest standards of service, support and technology," Litz said.
Rick Shrotri, Founder and Managing Partner of Digital Alpha, adds, "We want to thank Mike Coffey for his leadership. We are excited about the strategy, solutions, and the impressive people that make up the company. Marc Litz has also been an integral part of the DTIQ success and we are pleased to be partnering with him in his capacity as CEO."
We offer state-of-the-art video surveillance to improve loss prevention efforts for restaurants and retail locations. With over 20 years of experience, we've successfully enhanced over eight million consumer experiences a day, all while protecting trillions of dollars in assets. We work with over 45,000 businesses, including Adidas, Burger King, Dairy Queen, Golf Town, Hard Rock Café, KFC, McDonald's, Pandora, Subway, Swarovski. Taco Bell, US Polo, Vineyard Vines and Yankee Candle. For more information, visit www.dtiq.com
Digital Alpha Advisors, LLC is an investment firm focused on digital infrastructure and services required by the digital economy with total assets under management of over $1.5B. The firm has a strategic collaboration agreement with Cisco Systems, Inc. As part of this agreement, Digital Alpha has preferred access to Cisco's pipeline of commercial opportunities requiring equity financing. In addition, Digital Alpha has cultivated strategic partnerships with other Silicon Valley technology leaders, with whom it has already executed deals. Digital Alpha believes that it is the first firm focused on making private equity investments in the significant growth opportunities required to underpin the Digital Economy, including smart cities, next-generation broadband networks, and enterprise data management and communication solutions. Digital Alpha was founded in 2017 by Rick Shrotri, former Head of the Global Infrastructure Funds (GIF) team at Cisco, and closed its latest Fund – Digital Alpha Fund II, LP – in early 2021. For more information, please visit www.digitalalpha.net.
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Everything you need to know about cast iron skillets
If you could only have one piece of cookware, a cast iron skillet should be it. This is because cast iron is arguably the best material for cooking. It heats up slowly and evenly so that your food cooks evenly. It also retains heat to keep your food warm longer, and, if properly taken care of, you can pass down a cast iron skillet from one generation to the next.
This summer, after harvesting vegetables from your garden, you’ll need a way to cook them. A cast iron skillet produces excellent results on the grill, in the oven, on a stove or over a campfire.
If you’ve never used cast iron before, however, there are a few things you’ll want to learn before purchasing a skillet.
Why is cast iron good for cooking?
Cast iron is a very poor conductor of heat. Oddly enough, that is why it is such great material for cooking. It takes a long time for cast iron to heat up, which means there are no temperature spikes or drops. This allows you to cook at a very consistent temperature. It also means the heat will stay in the cast iron for longer. Because of this, you must be careful about burning your fingers. Even if the skillet has been away from a heat source for 15 minutes or more, it can still be hot enough to cause burns.
Why do you need to season cast iron?
One of cast iron’s few flaws is its imperfect surface. If you tried to cook on cast iron, you wouldn’t have much success. The uneven surface would make food stick to the skillet worse than that first pancake.
To smooth out the imperfections, you must season your cast iron cookware. This process involves coating the skillet in cast iron oil and heating it in an oven for about 30 minutes at 450 degrees. While seasoning takes time, it requires very little effort, so it is easy to do. Once you properly season your cast iron skillet, you won’t believe how “non-stick” it becomes.
The best part about seasoning your cast iron skillet is almost all models come pre-seasoned, so usually, you don’t even have to do it.
Do you ever need to reseason cast iron cookware?
Unfortunately, over time, cooking materials will build up on your cast iron skillet. When you notice rough or sticky patches on the cooking surface, you know it is time to reseason.
The only difference between seasoning and reseasoning is you first must clean the skillet. While there are many ways to remove buildup, one of the best is to use a half cup of salt and a paper towel or cloth. Scour every area of the pan until you are certain no buildup remains. Wash off the skillet, thoroughly dry it, then season it. Coat it with oil and bake it in the oven for approximately 30 minutes at 450 degrees.
How do you clean cast iron?
One of the most controversial topics regarding cast iron is cleaning. Many individuals don’t fully understand that during seasoning, polymerization occurs. This creates a smooth, resilient surface that protects the cast iron, which means your skillet is safe to clean in many ways.
The more aggressive your approach and the more abrasive your material is, the quicker you will wear away the seasoning. However, it is okay to clean with soap, water and a soft-bristled brush. Since today’s dish detergents are no longer caustic, they will not damage the seasoned surface of your skillet. You do have to make sure to dry your cast iron, as any water left on the skillet for even a short amount of time will invite rust.
How long will cast iron last?
Cast iron is very durable. If you take care of it, you can give your favorite cast iron skillet to your grandkids. But three things can shorten the lifespan of cast iron. The first is not properly seasoning it. The second is letting it stay wet or air dry. The third thing to be aware of is physical impact. Cast iron might be strong, but it is brittle. It doesn’t take much to crack it, so handle your skillet carefully.
Best cast iron skillets
Amazon Basics Pre-Seasoned Cast Iron Skillet (15 Inches)
If you are looking for a large skillet, this 15-inch model is oven safe up to 500 degrees. The pan has been pre-seasoned with vegetable oil to achieve a black patina and easier food release.
Sold by Amazon
Victoria Cast Iron Paella Frying Pan (13 Inches)
This sizable 13-inch skillet is made with two handles for easier holding. It comes pre-seasoned with non-GMO flaxseed oil and the pan retains heat to keep your food hot for 15 minutes or longer.
Cuisinel Cast Iron Skillet with Lid and Handle Cover (12 Inches)
Cuisinel’s 12-inch offering comes with a tempered glass lid to see what you’re cooking. Purchase also includes a non-slip, heat-resistant silicone handle cover that helps protect your hand while cooking or serving.
Martha Stewart Enameled Cast Iron Fry Pan (12 Inches)
Martha Stewart’s cast iron pan has a black enameled interior, so you do not have to season it. It is a rich red color, 12 inches in diameter, and has a helper handle for easier lifting.
Sold by Macy’s
Cuisinel Dual-Handle Cast Iron Skillet (12 Inches)
This durable cast iron skillet has a dual-handle design to give the user a more confident grip. Purchase includes two silicone handle covers and a scraper to make cleaning much easier. This 12-inch option arrives pre-seasoned, so it is ready to use.
Sold by Amazon
Le Creuset Enameled Cast Iron Skillet (11.75 Inches)
This shallow cast iron skillet is enamel coated, so it is ready to use and requires no seasoning. The coating is resistant to chipping, cracking, staining and dulling. It is specifically manufactured to be lightweight, so it is easier to handle but is still oven-safe up to 500 degrees.
Sold by Amazon
Lodge Cast Iron Skillet (10.25 Inches)
Lodge is one of the most popular and reliable cast iron companies. This skillet is perfectly sized at 10.25 inches and comes pre-reasoned with 100% natural vegetable oil. It can be used on the stove, in the oven, on the grill or even over a campfire.
Sold by Amazon, Home Depot, Staples and Wayfair
MegaChef Cast Iron Skillet Set with Lids
This nine-piece cast iron set from MegaChef comes with three cast iron skillets: one 10-inch, one 8-inch and one 6-inch. Each skillet has a clear lid and a red silicone handle for added protection.
Sold by Home Depot and Wayfair
Lodge Cast Iron Three-Skillet Bundle
This versatile set of cast iron skillets from Lodge comes with a 12-inch skillet, a 10.25-inch skillet and an 8-inch skillet. Each skillet is pre-seasoned with 100% vegetable oil and contains no chemicals or synthetic coating.
Sold by Amazon
Food Network Cast-Iron Mini Skillet (5-Inches)
If you just require a tiny skillet, this 5-inch model should fit your needs. It is oven-safe up to 500 degrees, arrives pre-seasoned and has two pouring spouts for convenience.
Sold by Kohl’s
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Property rezoning, mow-to-own and homeless shelter topics at city council meeting
The Jackson City Council addressed on Tuesday a number of hot-button issues after voting to lower property taxes, including rezoning property on Epperson Drive, implementing a mow-to-own program and moving forward with the long-awaited men’s homeless shelter.
Rezoning of contentious property passes—barely
A rezoning request for land on Epperson Drive was approved on second reading at Tuesday’s meeting, much to the dismay of a number of residents and city council members.
Last month, a massive turnout was seen at city council from North Jackson residents regarding a rezoning request for land at Epperson Drive.
Read this:North Jackson residents concerned over Epperson Dr. housing development, traffic
Related:City men's homeless shelter changes prospective location
The request, which concerns an 18.5-acre plot of land which has been planned as a single-family subdivision since 2001, drew public ire due to the lack of appropriate access points.
At last month’s meeting, Steve Neil, of Rockfoot Drive, presented a map to the council on behalf of the area’s homeowners association and explained the concerns of residents.
“We want our city to use responsible planning for the residents of our city and any future Jackson development,” he said.
Neil explained that a second access point was desperately needed, as the single access point currently being eyed —a looping path off of Old Humboldt Road, through Northpointe and Hanover Drive— made timely access to the recess of the proposed subdivisions impossible for first responders, and would likely overload the current residential streets that were not made for such traffic.
Kenny Sutherland, one of the developers on the project, explained that they were not against a second access point, but the point at which residents want it built is simply not feasible.
“A blue-line stream runs right beside (the proposed access point),” he said. “It makes no sense to build a road there because we could only develop on one side.”
The presence of a blue-line stream—which is a federally protected water line to help reduce area flooding—means developers cannot build within 60 feet of either side of the stream, therefore limiting the developer’s plans to one side of the stream.
At Tuesday’s passage of the rezoning, councilmembers Ross Priddy, Paul Taylor and Marda Wallace voted against the issue, with Gary Pickens later asking if he could change his vote.
The motion still passed.
Gary Pickens later expressed his concerns for the residents and explained why he asked to change his vote.
“I remembered some of the comments from the homeowners and some of their concerns—my yes vote was my mistake,” he said. “In reality, this still needs to go to the planning commission, so there’s still a chance for these issues to be ironed out.”
The rezoning will only allow the subdivision to change from Single Family Residential (RS) to Single Family Residential 1, with the only difference essentially being the size of the lots allowed on the property.
The design plans for the subdivision itself will still need to be passed by the planning commission at a later date.
Previously:Late property tax reappraisal leads to lower taxes, big shortfall in paving project
From last month:Jackson council approves higher salary for employees, new downtown director
Men’s homeless shelter takes step forward—finally
The long-awaited men’s homeless shelter, called “a long-time coming” by Conger, has finally moved to the design phase after numerous setbacks.
The project, originally proposed last year, was delayed a number of times due to funding issues.
The city originally had its eyes on a property at 236 Airways Blvd., which was chosen "due to its size and central location to other services," but was later nixed in favor of building a new facility.
The push for a men’s shelter came after a man who was homeless was found dead in downtown Jackson in 2020, prompting city officials to address the growing issue.
Issues of COVID-19 housing regulations put added pressure on the design of the facility.
However, Tuesday’s meeting saw the shelter finally move to the design-build phase, with the contract being awarded to TLM Associates.
“It’s about time!” Conger said. “Now we have a design build and so that will go through the process—the money has already been allocated, so we’ll get the contractor started on their process of designing and building the shelter.”
The shelter will not be open in time for winter, Conger says, but he hopes it could be open within the next 18 months.
“But that all depends on supply, labor and things like that,” he said. “But fingers crossed.”
Surplus property policy changes
The city also approved a new policy regarding surplus property owned by the city, opening the door for the “mow-to-own” program.
This program, which was inspired by Jackson’s sister-city Monroe, Louisiana, allows city residents whose property adjoins city-owned property to care for the property for a year and subsequently claim it as their own.
“We're trying to clean up (the policy),” said Conger.
“One interesting thing I love about this policy is the mow-to-own: so if you get one of those city-owned properties that's adjacent to an owner’s property, and they want to take care of the city-owned property, mow it for a year and we’ll do some inspections—after an application process, that property becomes theirs.” | https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/2022/08/04/jackson-city-council-property-rezoning-and-homeless-shelter-discussed/10232155002/ | 2022-08-05T17:49:59Z |
Shared high-performance computing and advanced networking funding from National Science Foundation this year aims to boost STEM education and other technology resources for minority and smaller higher education institutions in North Carolina
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Davidson College, Duke University and North Carolina Central University (NCCU), in collaboration with MCNC, today announced that the newly-created North Carolina Shared Research & Education collaborative infrastructure (NCShare) has received two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling approximately $1.4 million to provide high-speed research network capacity, support high-performance computing, and boost STEM education to at least eight minority-serving, smaller, or mid-sized institutions of higher education throughout North Carolina.
The first NSF award (Abstract #2201525 for CC* Regional: NCShare Science DMZ) is for $984,868 and spans two years in order to establish a parallel science network infrastructure to interconnect campus researchers to external sites with a speed and style of connectivity that is typically only available at large research universities. Rather than each participant needing to build their own science network infrastructure, this project builds a shared, regionally-based network operating on MCNC's existing state-wide research and education network. The result is expected to lower costs, require fewer campus support personnel, and provide fast and unrestricted data movement to multiple institutions. This virtualized approach increases accessibility of high-speed data-driven research by democratizing access to advanced cyberinfrastructure, enhancing research productivity, promoting collaboration, and reducing the time required for scientific discoveries at participating minority-serving and smaller institutions. Duke University Chief Information Officer (CIO) Tracy Futhey is the principal investigator (PI) for the project supported by co-PIs Davidson College CIO Kevin Davis, NCCU CIO Leah Kraus and Director of the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute Deepak Kumar, and MCNC President and CEO Tracy Doaks.
"The NCShare partnership is an important step towards addressing historical IT infrastructure inequities at minority-serving institutions such as North Carolina Central University and preparing a diverse STEM/high computing workforce of the future," said Deepak Kumar, Ph.D., who also serves as interim associate provost and dean of Research and Sponsored Programs at NCCU. "The proposed infrastructure will foster collaborative and multidisciplinary research in areas such as big data and high-performance computing in genomics, drug discovery, clinical care and public health."
The second NSF award (Abstract #2201105 for CC* Compute: NCShare Compute as a Service) is for $397,557 and also is a two-year grant that dovetails the work above but focuses on creating a shared computing environment supporting a common set of software and services, with priority use by Davidson, NCCU, and other North Carolina minority-serving and smaller institutions. The project leverages MCNC's high-speed, high-bandwidth network and Duke's already mature capability in automated provisioning, software containerization and advanced networking, which will accelerate implementation and make computation and powerful software environments quickly available to researchers, educators and students in the region.
As a result, faculty at participating institutions will benefit from having access to tools and services that ease the delivery of customized computing systems to meet their research needs and enable easy access to powerful tools for students. By starting from a common base environment and then supporting customizations that can meet the specific research and education demands of participating institutions, this project provides hands-on opportunities for students to use advanced science capabilities and software environments. Charley Kneifel, Chief Technology Officer at Duke's Office of Information Technology, is the PI for the project supported by co-PIs Duke's Tracy Futhey, NCCU's Leah Kraus and Davidson's Kevin Davis.
"North Carolina Central University is proud to partner with Davidson College and Duke University to enhance the overall academic experience and intellectual climate for our respective community members," said David H. Jackson, Jr., NCCU provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. "Through making our data infrastructure and software access more robust, this collaboration will assist us in fulfilling our Eagle Promise with innovative research opportunities that prepare our students to graduate on time with leadership skills, global relevance, and employment or acceptance to graduate and professional schools."
"NCShare's assistance to current and future faculty and students with teaching, learning and research will be especially important to Davidson and other small North Carolina colleges and universities like us," said Shelley Rigger, interim vice president for academic affairs at Davidson College. "We don't have the resources or the demand to invest in technology at this level for ourselves alone. The funding provided by the NSF enables us to partner with North Carolina institutions as we invest in high-power computing to turbocharge undergraduate research."
MCNC owns and operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), one of America's longest-running regional research and education networks, providing high-performance networking services for education, research, libraries, health care, public safety, and other community anchor institutions throughout state. This network is the fundamental broadband infrastructure for more than 850 of these institutions (including all public K-20 education) in North Carolina.
"This is a big moment," said MCNC's Tracy Doaks. "Our incredible minority and smaller institutions of higher education throughout North Carolina play a key role in our state's overarching digital equity and inclusion plans; they are hubs for innovation and economic opportunity in their communities. For over 40 years MCNC has been a trusted collaborator offering technology solutions and advanced networking to connect North Carolina. We are pleased to continue our long tradition of supporting important efforts such as this one."
A virtual information session is scheduled Oct. 20 for those interested in these projects and want to learn more.
About NCShare
The North Carolina Shared Research and Education (NCShare) infrastructure provides access to networking, scientific and statistical computing services to minority-serving institutions and smaller to mid-sized institutions of higher education in North Carolina, encompassing both private and public institutions. The program establishes a parallel research network infrastructure (a Science DMZ) to interconnect campus researchers to external sites. NCShare is a shared, regionally-based network operating on MCNC's existing state-wide research and education network, rather than as a separate infrastructure. The result is expected to lower costs, require fewer campus support personnel, and provide fast and unrestricted data movement to multiple institutions. NCShare is a joint effort established by Duke University, Davidson College, North Carolina Central University and MCNC. Additional information is available at www.ncshare.org.
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Galaxy Award Recognizes Bank's Community Focus and Support for Local Businesses
FAIRFAX, Va., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MainStreet Bancshares, Inc., (Nasdaq: MNSB) announced that its subsidiary MainStreet Bank has been honored as the outstanding large business of the year by the Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce.
The $1.7 billion-asset bank received the civic organization's Galaxy Award, which recognizes 2021's outstanding business with 50 or more employees. The award is given to a business that demonstrates excellence in business philosophy and support of the business community, according to the Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce.
"Since MainStreet Bank opened its doors in 2004, it has been a champion for economic advancement in and beyond our Northern Virginia communities," said John Boylan, the chamber's president and CEO. "Jeff Dick, the bank's Chairman and CEO, has shared tremendous energy with the Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce and has been personally invested in its mission from the day he joined."
During the depths of the pandemic, Boylan noted, the bank jumped into action with its participation in the federal Paycheck Protection Program. Dick has chaired and served on the chamber's board of directors and spearheaded the creation of the Dulles Regional Charitable Fund in 2020, alongside a bank client, Terra Site Constructors.
"The Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce is a vital asset to our business community, and MainStreet Bank is a proud member," Dick said. "We are humbled to be recognized for living out our mission as a community bank by providing steady support to the individuals, businesses, and other organizations that form Northern Virginia's rich tapestry."
Dick noted that the bank's parent, MainStreet Bancshares Inc., is taking these efforts to the next level with the formation of MainStreet Community Capital, a new community development subsidiary. MainStreet Community Capital's focus is to invigorate distressed, low-income communities in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area by providing capital and other financial services.
"The chamber has helped the bank since the very beginning to grow and become woven into the community," said Katie Tzitzouris, Senior Vice President and Senior Business Banker at MainStreet Bank. "Now it's coming full circle as we focus on helping the chamber get its message across." Tzitzouris, who is in her second term on the chamber's board of directors, says the bank's role in forming the Dulles Regional Charitable Fund laid the groundwork for creation of the chamber's Corporate Social Opportunity Committee, which she co-chairs.
MainStreet Bank has been committed to innovation from its earliest days, when it established itself as a pioneer of online business banking. Since then, the bank has pursued an environmentally friendly "branch-lite" strategy that gives business customers the ability to Put Our Bank in Your Office® using robust and easy-to-use online business banking technology.
ABOUT MAINSTREET BANK: MainStreet Bank will launch its proprietary Fintech Banking as a Service (BaaS) solution called Avenu™ later this year to provide a comprehensive solution for the Fintech community. Go to Avenu.bank for more information and to join the queue.
MainStreet operates six branches in Herndon, Fairfax, McLean, Leesburg, Clarendon, and Washington D.C. MainStreet Bank has 55,000 free ATMs and a fully integrated online and mobile banking solution. Its early investment in online banking means the Bank is not restricted by a conventional branching system.
MainStreet Bank has a robust line of business and professional lending products, including government contracting lines of credit, commercial lines and term loans, residential and commercial construction, and commercial real estate. MainStreet also works with the SBA to offer 7A and 504 lending solutions. From sophisticated cash management to enhanced mobile banking and instant-issue Debit Cards, MainStreet Bank is always looking for ways to improve our customer's experience.
MainStreet Bank was also the first bank headquartered in the Commonwealth of Virginia to offer CDARS – a solution that provides multi-million-dollar FDIC insurance. Further information on the Bank can be obtained by visiting its website at MainStreet.bank.
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Which golf club grips are best?
Golf is both fun and challenging. The most subtle nuances in your golf swing can make a big difference in your score. The same holds true for your golf equipment — shoes, gloves, balls and clubs.
One of the most important components of your golf clubs is the grip that wraps around each club shaft to help you securely hold it in place. Choosing the right one can improve your golfing experience. For their noticeable softness and fashionable design, the top-recommended golf grips are the Winn Dritac AVS Midsize Grips.
What to know before you buy golf club grips
The right golf club grip provides control
New grips allow for maximum control of the golf club. Your hands should not slide down the shaft while you are swinging, and they should not come off the grip after you make an impact with the ball. This can make the difference between a good and bad shot as well as a safe and unsafe shot.
The right golf club grip can increase swing speed
As golf grips wear down, the tendency is for the golfer to grip the clubs tighter to keep them from moving in their hands. However, increased pressure in the hands causes the shoulders and forearms to be tighter, which leads to decreased swing speed. A light, tension-free swing is faster and will lead to a greater distance.
The right golf club grip can address swing problems
If you are struggling with slicing or hooking the golf ball, you can employ different techniques with your overall hand grip to eliminate those problems. The right golf grips allow you to correctly position your hands and apply the correct amount of tension to counteract your previous swing flaws.
What to look for in quality golf club grips
Size
Most golf club grips range from 0.56 to 0.72 inches in diameter. Junior grips are even smaller. Undersized grips are 0.56 to 0.57 inches, while standard grips measure 0.58 to 0.60 inches. Midsize grips run 0.64 to 0.66 inches, and oversize grips are 0.70 to 0.72 inches. Most golf clubs come with standard grips. However, based on the size of your hands, or if you want to limit your wrist movement, you may prefer grips that are smaller or larger than the standard.
Material
Many golf club grips incorporate some form of rubber because of its tackiness and ability to hold up in all weather conditions. All-rubber grips are the least expensive but also tend to wear out more quickly. Synthetic materials are softer than rubber but don’t hold up as well in wet weather. Leather grips look and feel great, but they’re expensive, less durable and difficult to hold when it rains. Hybrid golf grips are growing in popularity because they combine rubber and synthetic materials to give extra moisture-wicking properties.
Grip tape
Many golf club grips come with grip tape. You can add layers of grip tape to slightly increase the overall grip width. A layer of tape usually adds 0.01 to 0.02 inches.
How much you can expect to spend on golf club grips
The most affordable grips are mainly rubber and run $4-$10 per grip, which is $40-$120 for a standard set of clubs. Synthetic and leather grips run $10-$30 each for a set total of $120-$360. Some people to choose to use grip tape to re-grip their own clubs at a cost of $5-$10 per roll.
Golf club grips FAQ
How do I know when it’s time to get new grips?
A. The golf club will feel looser in your hands as the grip wears down. Its tackiness will begin to decrease over time. Additionally, you may see cracks in the grip or faded areas where the color has worn down from continual use.
How do I know which size golf club grip I need?
A. The key to finding the right size golf club grip is the size of your golf glove. People with small- and medium-sized golf gloves typically use standard grips, while golfers with large and extra-large gloves should consider midsize or oversize grips. Younger golfers or people with small hands should consider undersize or junior grips.
How long do golf club grips typically last?
A. On average, golf grips will last 30 to 40 full rounds of golf. For active golfers, that is usually one season. Golfers who play less often may be able to play with the same grips for several years.
What are the best golf club grips to buy?
Top golf club grips
What you need to know: These golf club grips offer extra softness and are great for people with large hands or a slow golf swing.
What you’ll love: The polymer material is ideal for a nonslip feel that is equally comfortable. The extra cushioning provides shock absorption. There is variable texture in key pressure points to improve the overall grip.
What you should consider: The grips are not as tacky when the weather is extra hot or rainy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top golf club grips for the money
SAPLIZE Rubber Golf Club Grips
What you need to know: Inexpensively priced, these all-rubber grips come in a full set that is available in six bold colors.
What you’ll love: The kit comes with 13 grips and grip tape. The upper grip is integrated with velvet cotton yarn to ensure a nonslip hold. The lower grip is made from a soft rubber that brings greater comfort. The grips are designed to work well in wet weather.
What you should consider: These grips are not as soft as other models and are not intended to last a long time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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What you need to know: These grips can be fit to any golfer with a unique design that comes in multiple colors and sizes.
What you’ll love: The grip pattern is densely spaced to promote a lighter tension while providing excellent lateral traction. The proprietary rubber compound adds extra tack and reduces grip stress.
What you should consider: These grips do not come with extra grip tape.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) resulting from allegations that Uber may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Uber securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7523 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On July 10, 2022, The Guardian published an article titled, "Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." The article, based on 124,000 documents leaked by a whistleblower, alleged, among other things, that Uber broke local laws when entering new markets, lobbied politicians to intervene in investigations against Uber, and utilized "kill switches" to cut off access to company documents to thwart law enforcement raids. The article further states that Uber executives knew about the Company's illegal status in new markets, and even seemed delighted to send Uber drivers into violent areas to garner public support for the Company.
On this news, Uber's share price dropped $1.15 per share, or approximately 5.1%, to close at $21.19 per share on July 11, 2022.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BayPort Credit Union is pleased to announce it has been named to Forbes' annual list of America's Best-In-State Credit Unions for the second straight year. BayPort is ranked #1 in this year's listing and one of only five Virginia credit unions making the list.
Forbes identified its Best-In-State Credit Unions based on an independent survey of approximately 26,000 U.S. consumers who were asked to rate credit unions at which they currently have or previously had checking accounts. Credit unions were scored on overall member satisfaction, and in the following areas: Trust, Terms & Conditions, Branch Services, Digital Services, Customer Service, and Financial Advice.
Of the more than 5,000 credit unions nationwide, just 171 unique credit unions made the Forbes' list methodology. The complete list of America's Best-In-State Credit Unions is now available online.
To read more about BayPort's recent awards and designations, please visit bayportcu.org.
About BayPort
In 1928, nine shipyard workers from Newport News Shipbuilding formed an organization with a specific purpose as a low-interest source of loans and a trusted place to deposit money. Today, BayPort Credit Union is rated a Superior 5-Star credit union by Bauer Financial, managing $2.2 billion in assets and servicing nearly 148,000 individuals and businesses with 27 branch locations across the Virginia Peninsula and Southside communities. Visit us at www.bayportcu.org.
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Love ’em or hate ’em, record-setting Vols just keep winning
By ERIC OLSON
AP Sports Writer
Top-ranked Tennessee is the first SEC team to open 12-0 in league play after taking three games from Missouri over the weekend. The Volunteers have won 23 games in a row and 81 of their last 100. The Vols are not lacking for confidence. Their home run celebrations have made them a target for critics the past year. Luc Lipcius says he and his teammates don’t care. Miami is the consensus No. 2 team in the rankings following its sweep of Virginia. Oregon State posted its first-ever road sweep of Southern California. | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/04/11/love-em-or-hate-em-record-setting-vols-just-keep-winning/ | 2022-04-11T20:41:05Z |
The four-day hybrid conference, featuring in-person and virtual elements, provides an opportunity for attendees to connect with and learn from leading tech innovators and continues to redefine the technology ecosystem for women and non-binary technologists
SAN MATEO, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AnitaB.org, the global nonprofit focused on intersectional gender and pay parity in tech, is hosting its annual Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists on September 20- 23, 2022 at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando, Florida. This year's conference, presented in partnership with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), will be a hybrid event and includes a combination of exciting virtual and in-person offerings for the first time since 2019.
This year's theme, Next is NOW, is reflected in the powerful speaker lineup* of tech innovators and thought leaders. Keynote speakers include Brenda Darden Wilkerson, President and CEO of AnitaB.org, and Frances Haugen, Data Scientist and Engineer, Advocate for Accountability and Transparency in Social Media. Additional featured speakers include Princeton University Professor of African American Studies, Ruha Benjamin; Data Management Technology Executive for Bank of America, Michelle Boston; Founder and CEO of Block Party, Tracy Chou; Investor and Founder of Backstage Capital and Runner, Arlan Hamilton; Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman, Jessica Rosenworcel; Founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms, Reshma Saujani; Minderoo Research Professor at NYU and the Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute, Meredith Whittaker; and more!
*Speaker lineup in formation
"Our impact extends 365 days per year to over 70 countries and more than 47,000 AnitaB.org Members across the globe with products and services supporting women and non-binary technologists and allies," said Brenda Darden Wilkerson, President and CEO of AnitaB.org. "The time is now for businesses, organizations, institutions, and leaders to be held accountable for improving diversity within the tech ecosystem, from company values and hiring practices to retention and promotion. The time is now. Diversity is now. Innovation is now. Live in the opportunity of NOW."
Noting the significance of holding GHC in a state that is actively working to crush the rights of LGBTQIA+ people and stamp out critical race-related dialogue in education, Wilkerson continued, "Now, more than ever, we are committed to creating a safe space where all are welcomed, and we are collaborating with leaders on the ground in Florida who stand for equality, equity, and justice – values that are inherently aligned with the mission and drive of AnitaB.org."
The first Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing was held in Washington, D.C., in June 1994 to honor and amplify the legacy of tech pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper. The annual GHC continues to inspire future generations of women and non-binary technologists while bringing the interests of women in computing to the forefront and highlighting their many contributions to the world of tech.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Visit ghc.anitab.org for the latest Grace Hopper Celebration updates and to view the agenda "at-a-glance"!
Watch the sizzle reel HERE
See the speaker bios HERE
SPEAKERS
Ruha Benjamin – Ph.D., Professor, Department of African American Studies, Princeton University and Founding Director, Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab
Michelle Boston – Data Management Technology Executive for Bank of America
Tracy Chou – CEO of Block Party
Arlan Hamilton – Founder of Backstage Capital & Runner, Author & Venture Catalyst
Frances Haugen – Data Scientist & Engineer, Advocate for Accountability & Transparency in Social Media
Jessica Rosenworcel – Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman
Reshma Saujani – Founder & CEO, Marshall Plan for Moms, Founder, Girls Who Code
Meredith Whittaker – Minderoo Research Professor at NYU & Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute
Brenda Darden Wilkerson - President and CEO of AnitaB.org
To arrange press interviews with any of the speakers, submit a media request, or request media credentials, please contact Skai Blue Media at TeamAnitaB@skaibluemedia.com. Please note that a media credential request does not guarantee entry.
About AnitaB.org
At AnitaB.org, we envision a future where the people who imagine and build technology mirror the people and societies for whom they build it. We connect, inspire, and guide women technologists and organizations that view technology innovation as a strategic imperative. For more than 30 years, this community has grown and changed to become the leading organization for women in technology. Today, AnitaB.org works with women and non-binary technologists in more than 50 countries and partners with leading academic institutions and Fortune 500 companies. For more information about AnitaB.org, visit anitab.org or find us on LinkedIn at @anitab-org and Instagram at @anitab_org.
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A look at what’s happening around the majors today:
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MAX FACTOR
Mets ace Max Scherzer is pitching back in his hometown, starting a three-game series at St. Louis.
Scherzer is trying to become the first four-game winner in the majors. In his first season with New York since signing a $130 million, three-year contract, he is 3-0 with a 2.50 ERA, 12 strikeouts and one walk in 11 innings.
Scherzer is 3-2 with a 2.04 ERA in six career starts at Busch Stadium, striking out 59 in 39 2/3 innings.
In their first year under manager Buck Showalter, the Mets have opened the season by winning five straight series, matching a franchise record set in 2018.
Miles Mikolas (1-0, 1.76) starts for the Cardinals.
NO GO
Red Sox right-hander Tanner Houck will miss his turn in the rotation when Boston plays at Toronto. Houck is unvaccinated and not allowed to travel into Canada.
Houck was used in relief Sunday, retiring five straight batters in a 5-2 loss at Tampa Bay.
Nathan Eovaldi (1-0, 3.86 ERA) will start the opener of the four-game set against José Berríos (1-0, 6.35) and the Blue Jays.
PIT STOP
Joc Pederson and the San Francisco Giants (11-5) are 7-3 on a four-city road trip that wraps up with one game in Milwaukee — a matchup between 2021 division champions. The teams will play the other two games of the rescheduled series in a Sept. 8 doubleheader.
NL Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes (1-0, 2.37 ERA) starts for the Brewers (10-6), who return home from Philadelphia for a day before heading back out on the road to Pittsburgh.
CHECK HIM
The Cleveland Guardians will see how breakout rookie Steven Kwan is feeling, a day after he was pulled from a game because of tightness in his right hamstring.
Manager Terry Francona said Kwan’s removal from a 10-2 loss at Yankee Stadium was “kind of was preventative” and that the outfielder was day to day.
Kwan felt cramping in his hamstring after flying out in the third inning. The 24-year-old Kwan crashed into the outfield wall chasing a ball Saturday and was shaken up, but he remained in the game. Francona said before Sunday’s game that Kwan was “a little beat up” but well enough to play.
The 5-foot-9 sparkplug is batting .341 with a .456 on-base percentage in the first 14 games of his career.
Guardians ace Shane Bieber (1-0, 2.25) opens a four-game series at the Los Angeles Angels against Michael Lorenzen (1-1, 4.82).
SCUFFLING
Colorado’s Kyle Freeland looks for his first win since agreeing to a $64.5 million, five-year contract, taking the mound for a series opener at Philadelphia.
Freeland is 0-2 with a 7.71 ERA in three starts. Kyle Gibson (1-1, 3.57) starts for the Phillies.
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COTTONWOOD, Ariz., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Arizona Association of RV Parks & Campgrounds (Arizona ARVC) has named Verde Valley RV Resort the 2022 Large Park of the Year award winner. This marks Verde Valley RV Resort's first time winning this prestigious award, and a first for a Thousand Trails branded campground. Overall, this is the ninth season an RV resort within the network of Encore RV Resorts and Thousand Trails Campgrounds has been recognized by Arizona ARVC. Last year, Encore's Voyager RV Resort won the ARVC Mega Park of the Year award for the third time since 2014.
The Large Park of the Year Award, for parks with 251 to 500 sites, was presented to the manager of Verde Valley RV Resort, Scott Woolley, by members of the executive committee for Arizona ARVC. The annual ARVC Park of the Year Awards recognize RV resorts that deliver extraordinary guest experiences as a result of all-around excellence in operations, professionalism, marketing, customer service and industry involvement for more than 20 years.
"We offer something truly special for everyone here at Verde Valley RV, but mostly it's the friendly culture and the beautiful scenery that brings guests regularly," said Scott Woolley. "To be the first Thousand Trails RV campground recognized by Arizona ARVC makes our whole team very proud. The award recognizes the amazing efforts that the management team and our staff have made this past year in providing service that ensures our guests will have an unforgettable experience."
Located in Cottonwood, Arizona, outside of Sedona, the scenic resort sits just off the Verde River. The 300-acre resort is surrounded by mountains, with the famously beautiful Red Rocks of Sedona to the north. Guests enjoy the moderate year-round climate, the comfortable community atmosphere and hours of exploration throughout the area. Guests can bring their RVs or rent a cottage, cabin, or even a tiny house during their stay.
About Thousand Trails
Thousand Trails provides top RV resorts and campgrounds in North America with over 80 locations in 23 states and British Columbia, Canada. Thousand Trails and their affiliates offer RV and outdoor recreation enthusiasts opportunities to enjoy the outdoors in top vacation destinations, complemented with amenities and activities for the whole family. For more information, please visit ThousandTrails.com.
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