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TROY, Mich., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), acquired Concept Engineering, the leading provider of electronic system visualization software that accelerates the development, manufacture, and service of complex electrical and electronic systems.
Concept Engineering provides automatic schematic generation tools, electronic circuit and wire harness visualization platforms that provide on-the-fly visual rendering, and electronic design debug solutions.
"Concept Engineering's advanced, reactive visualization technology is a best-in-class solution to help organizations accelerate their designs that have specific design architecture requirements, as well as rigorous service needs," said James R. Scapa, founder and chief executive officer, Altair. "Integrating this technology into our electronic system design suite will offer our customers comprehensive and fast visual representations of complex system models and debug capabilities for electronic systems."
Concept Engineering's electronic system visualization and semiconductor design debug technology is available as a standalone solution and is also tightly integrated into more than 40 OEM design automation (EDA) and CAD tools to provide end users with smart debugging functionality while saving months of engineering time and support for computer aided tool development teams.
Concept Engineering has customers in three primary market segments:
- Semiconductor design – Concept Engineering provides innovative electronic design debug solutions, enhancing semiconductor design quality and time to market. These solutions cover electronic systems, register transfer level (RTL), gate, and transistor design abstractions, for both analog and digital disciplines.
- EDA and CAD tool development – Concept Engineering's family of automatic schematic generation and visualization software components help software developers create smart and high-performance debugging cockpits, shorten software tool development cycles, lower software development and maintenance costs, and increase product quality of EDA tools.
- Industries with complex electrical systems – Concept Engineering provides advanced visualization of electrical circuits, wire harnesses, and components for rapid and reliable development, manufacture, and service for industries that require highly specialized debugging and visualization mechanisms for development and post-production product maintenance. These industries include automotive, aerospace, industrial and robotics, medical, transportation and logistics, and construction and agriculture.
"With more than 30 years of experience, we are proud to have built tools and technologies that help electronic design engineers easily understand, debug, optimize, and document electronic designs," said Gerhard Angst, president and chief executive officer, Concept Engineering. "Being part of the Altair ecosystem will expand access to our tools at a time when the complexities surrounding electronic systems are greater than ever. We also look forward to continuing our deep and longstanding partnerships with our OEM clients."
Concept Engineering's software will be integrated into Altair's Electronic System Design suite and available via Altair Units, which gives customers easy access to Altair's entire portfolio of software solutions.
About Altair
Altair is a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI) that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair enables organizations across all industries to compete more effectively and drive smarter decisions in an increasingly connected world – all while creating a greener, more sustainable future. For more information, visit https://www.altair.com/.
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Lara N. DiCristina Joins New Orleans Office
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jones Walker LLP announced today that Lara N. DiCristina has joined the firm as a partner in its New Orleans office as a member of the firm's maritime litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution team.
Lara has more than 20 years of trial experience litigating a wide array of matters before juries and judges in state and federal courts in various jurisdictions. She helps clients protect their interests in matters involving maritime and land-based personal injuries and fatalities, complex commercial disputes, toxic exposures, property damage claims, contract and charter party disputes, chemical releases, vessel arrests and attachments, products liability claims, environmental exposures, oil spills, insurance coverage disputes, and subrogation matters.
"It is a pleasure to have Lara join our renowned Maritime Practice Group, and we know that her more than 20 years of litigation experience will boost the capabilities of our litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution team," said Bill Hines, managing partner of Jones Walker.
Lara brings to the firm some significant experience with incident response investigations and has guided her clients through the aftermath of offshore and land-based catastrophic losses, fatalities, personal injuries, collisions, allisions, groundings, sinkings, fires, explosions, chemical releases, and environmental spills.
Speaking on her move, Lara said, "I am incredibly proud to join the talented group of attorneys at Jones Walker and am honored to be working with the firm's well-established maritime litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution team.
Lara earned her BA from Louisiana State University and her JD from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
Jones Walker LLP (joneswalker.com) is among the largest 135 law firms in the United States. With offices in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, and Texas, we serve local, regional, national, and international business interests. The firm is committed to providing a comprehensive range of legal services to major multinational public and private corporations, Fortune® 500 companies, money center banks, worldwide insurers, and emerging companies doing business in the United States and abroad.
Contact:
Savannah Kirk
225.248.3435
skirk@joneswalker.com
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New robot combines autonomous movement, AI, voice recognition and two 27-inch displays to provide wayfinding, escorting, user engagement, interactive information and more
LAS VEGAS, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Business Solutions USA has introduced the company's first multi-purpose customer service robot, the LG CLOi GuideBot, which is designed to provide wayfinding, enhanced security, powerful advertising opportunities and valuable data on interaction times and usage. The robot's friendly digital face, responsive voice activation and two large touch screens are designed to revolutionize the customer experience virtually everywhere from museums and convention centers to movie theaters and hotels.
"The GuideBot is the latest addition to the LG CLOi family of autonomous service robots, and it's the first to tackle complex user interactions like answering voice questions, accompanying guests to their destination and tracking how many times a motion-activated advertisement is displayed in a day," said Jeffrey Weiland, B2B robotics team leader at LG Business Solutions USA. "This robot can greet, inform and entertain customers in a variety of settings and situations, from museum exhibits and movie theaters to corporate offices and hospitals, all while gathering valuable data on usage that can be used to streamline operations and improve customer experiences."
The LG CLOi GuideBot stands just under five feet tall and greets everyone with a friendly smile on a unique 9.2-inch LG LCD "face" display. Using a high-quality microphone, 3D camera and 18 sensors, the robot can navigate busy spaces and react to approaching users with visual and auditory effects. The dual 27-inch LG touch screens, located on the front and back of the robot's main body can display interactive and static digital content, like menus, maps and videos.
The customizable functionality available in the LG CLOi GuideBot makes it the ideal workplace companion for various types of businesses, from hotels and museums to corporate offices and health care facilities.
"By reducing the human workload and automating some repetitive tasks such as giving visitors simple directions, our new robot can free employees to handle more demanding tasks and provide more attentive service," Weiland said. "We can now envision museum tours being led by a friendly, responsive robot with access to vast catalogs of information and multimedia supplements to enhance exhibits and encourage deeper engagement and retention. And at shopping malls, the GuideBot can provide basic security functions as well as wayfinding by escorting customers to stores."
The flexible nature of the LG CLOi GuideBot provides many advantages for facility operators looking to create new revenue streams or enhance services. The advertisement feature can be used virtually anywhere the general public is present, so hotels can host ads for nearby attractions, or a movie theater can advertise its food and beverage offerings to people waiting in the ticket line. In conjunction with other LG CLOi robots, the GuideBot can form part of an always-on, data-rich ecosystem of autonomous assistants that lighten employee workloads and enhance safety.
The LG CLOi GuideBot is making its official debut at InfoComm 2022 at Booth #N2029 in the Las Vegas Convention Center, alongside the LG CLOi ServeBot, an autonomous indoor delivery robot to carry and deliver food, goods and supplies.
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LG Electronics USA's Business Solutions division serves commercial display customers in the U.S. lodging and hospitality, digital signage, systems integration, healthcare, education, government and industrial markets. Based in Lincolnshire, Ill., with its dedicated engineering and customer support team, LG Business Solutions USA delivers business-to-business technology solutions tailored to the particular needs of business environments. Nine-time ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year LG Electronics USA Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics Inc., a $63 billion global force in consumer electronics, home appliances and air solutions. For more information, please visit www.LGSolutions.com.
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PLANO, Texas (KDAF) — It’s Memorial Day and today is a day of rest and remembrance for the servicemen and women who lost their lives in the line of duty.
It goes without saying that plenty of things are going to be closed today, so if you’re in the Plano area, here are the services you can expect to see closed for the holiday, according to city officials:
- Plano Animal Shelter
- Day Labor Center
- Household Chemical Reuse Center
- Interurban Railway Museum
- NTMWD Transfer Station & 121 Regional Disposal Facility
- Oak Point Nature and Retreat Center
- Plano Aquatic Center, Carpenter Park Recreation Center
- Plano Municipal Offices
- Plano Public Library
- Sam Johnson Recreation Center for Adults 50+
- Texas Pure Products Regional Composting Site & Custer Road Facility
However, not everything is closed. Here is what is expected to be open today:
- Oak Point, Liberty & Tom Muehlenbeck Recreation Centers: 1 – 6 p.m.
- High Point Tennis Center: 7:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
- Jack Carter Pool: 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.
For more information, click here. | https://cw33.com/news/local/heres-which-plano-city-services-will-be-closed-open-on-memorial-day/ | 2022-05-29T19:10:15Z |
Moon may have stable temperatures for humans, researchers say
(CNN) - It is possible that humans could start living on the moon.
There are caves on the moon, or at least the makings of caves, which have steady temperatures of about 63 degrees Fahrenheit.
That is a huge difference compared to the moon’s surface, which heats up to 260 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and drops to -280 degrees Fahrenheit at night.
Research recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters shows the moon has pit craters that could be turned into caves, and the stable temperatures there could them a good place for shelter.
In other words, exploring the moon and eventually living there could be a lot safer, but being stuck in a cave or facing certain death might not sound too fun.
The study’s co-author said this new information could help NASA pick up the pace on designing a workable, permanent station on the moon, saying, “Humans evolved living in caves, and to caves we might return when we live on the moon.”
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | https://www.kxii.com/2022/08/03/moon-may-have-stable-temperatures-humans-researchers-say/ | 2022-08-03T13:40:49Z |
Award-Winning Periodontist Adds to Brass Collection of Celebrated Trumpeters
NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Peter Rosenstein, owner of the NYPOIA, a periodontal practice, an award-winning New York City periodontitis and trumpet player, has successfully purchased at auction a trumpet once owned by big band era leader Harry James. A Grammy honoree and Hollywood actor best known for his instrumental version of the 1941 song "You Made me Love You," James also led the first-ever high-profile band to feature legendary vocalist Frank Sinatra.
The James trumpet is the latest addition to Dr. Rosenstein's Manhattan office exhibit of musical paraphernalia, which now includes autographed trumpets from Grammy Award-winning musicians Herb Alpert and Wynton Marsalis, as well vintage photos and other related objects. "I have been collecting antique jukeboxes, phonographs, radios, and telephones for many years," says Dr. Rosenstein. "When I became a trumpet player, the trumpet-related articles became a natural extension of this hobby."
A passion for the trumpet began two decades ago for Dr. Rosenstein, who has earned degrees from Johns Hopkins University and New Jersey Dental School and has practiced periodontics as a gum specialist for more 30 years. His office uses state-of-the-art technology to provide the highest quality and safest dental implant, periodontal, and bone regenerative treatment for patients.
In addition to dentistry, Latin music has also been a lifelong love of Dr. Rosenstein. For several years, he studied at La Escuela de Musica y Artes in Cuba and earned a music degree. A member of a salsa band for 10 years, Dr. Rosenstein now performs the trumpet with a church choir at a Spanish-language Mass on Sundays.
Dr. Rosenstein also shares the sound of his music through social media. His most recent project has been recording his first song "Guaguanco de Alegria." The song attracted the attention of a music director at the A&E Network, who subsequently produced a video to accompany it. Since its release in the summer of 2022, the song has gained more than 100,000 followers. "I've been passionate about Latin music since I was a child listening to the music of Xavier Cugat on my parents' Wurlitzer jukebox," he says. "From then on, I always dreamed of going to Cuba to study the music further, and as such, the music and culture have become part of my soul."
Dr. Peter Rosenstein
www.nypoia.com
rosenstein@aol.com
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Integrity enhances proprietary software to help agents stay compliant by offering them a simple and convenient way to record, access and store client calls
DALLAS, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrity Marketing Group, LLC ("Integrity"), a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, today announced the addition of Call Recording to its proprietary, industry-leading MedicareCENTER software.
The powerful new solution will help agents comply with recently announced Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") regulations by offering them a simple and seamless way to record all sales calls, store the calls compliantly and download calls at any time, from anywhere. MedicareCENTER Call Recording is built exclusively for Integrity agents and will be available for them to use for free beginning this month.
"At Integrity, we're deeply committed to investing in the success of our partners and agents — and in helping them achieve their success in efficient and compliant ways," said Bryan W. Adams, Co-Founder and CEO of Integrity. "When the new call recording requirements were announced by CMS, our technology teams immediately began working on adding telephony solutions to MedicareCENTER that would make it easy for our agents to continue to connect with and serve Americans compliantly. MedicareCENTER already set the industry standard for helping agents work smarter and more effectively. Now that Call Recording is included as this new free solution in the software, that standard has been raised even higher."
"Technology plays a crucial role in Integrity's mission to help Americans plan for the good days ahead," said Harsh Singla, Chief Technology Officer of Integrity. "We also know that technology needs to be easy to use to ultimately benefit the people it's designed to help. That's why we worked to make our MedicareCENTER Call Recording feature seamless and intuitive. It offers agents more than just a compliant way to record and store calls — it also gives them the ability to automatically connect their calls to client contact records, which helps them manage their business more effectively and efficiently. Responding to changes in the marketplace with innovative solutions is part of what has made Integrity unique. We're proud to build on that legacy with MedicareCENTER Call Recording."
To learn more about how MedicareCENTER Call Recording can help agents stay compliant and focused on serving Americans, watch this brief video: www.medicarecenter.com/callrecording.
For more information about Integrity, visit www.integritymarketing.com.
Integrity, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of innovative solutions for wealth management and retirement planning. Through its partner network, Integrity helps millions of Americans protect their life, health and wealth with a commitment to meet them wherever they are — in person, over the phone and online. Integrity's cutting-edge technology helps streamline the insurance and financial planning experience for all stakeholders. In addition, Integrity develops products with carrier partners and markets them through its nationwide distribution network. Integrity's nearly 6,000 employees work with approximately 500,000 agents and advisors who serve more than 11 million clients annually. In 2022, Integrity will help carriers place almost $20 billion in new sales and oversee more than $30 billion of assets under management and advisement through its RIA and broker-dealer platforms. For more information, visit www.integritymarketing.com.
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The firm, est. 1899, earned national certification from the Women's Business Enterprise Council
PASADENA, Calif., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Under the leadership of its Managing Partner Christianne Kerns, Pasadena-based law firm Hahn & Hahn LLP has joined a select group of organizations nationwide to be recognized for its efforts to diversify its firm leadership through certification as a Women Owned Business Enterprise by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).
WBENC is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for women in business through the promotion of women-owned businesses. While Hahn & Hahn had previously been recognized as a Woman Owned Business Enterprise on a statewide level, the national recognition is considered to be the gold standard among women-owned businesses.
Kerns, the first female managing partner in the 123-year-old Pasadena-based law firm's history, said of the certification - which followed a meticulous interview and vetting process - "we are particularly pleased to receive this endorsement of our efforts to push forward on law firm diversity from such an esteemed organization as WBENC."
"We want the makeup of our firm's professionals to represent our clients and the communities we serve, and we are excited to be on the leading edge of this profession-wide imperative," said Kerns. "With this certification, we are one of a select group of law firms nationally which are well suited to help satisfy internal diversity efforts of businesses which strive to be inclusive in engaging outside counsel."
WBENC, founded in 1997, has grown to become the largest third-party certifier for businesses owned and operated by women in the U.S., and a leading advocate for women-owned businesses in corporate and government supply chains.
Hahn & Hahn LLP has been an active member of the Southern California business and legal communities since 1899. The firm represents entrepreneurs, innovators, business owners, family offices and charitable organizations in their corporate, real estate, bankruptcy, employment, estate planning and family law issues and in litigation. For more information visit https://www.hahnlawyers.com/
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Second indication for AP-SA02 which targets Staphylococcus aureus including MRSA
Potential to significantly improve PJI patient outcomes
Expands Armata's pursuit of phage therapy as a solution for difficult-to-treat infections
MARINA DEL REY, Calif., August 01, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: ARMP) ("Armata" or the "Company"), a biotechnology company focused on pathogen-specific bacteriophage therapeutics for antibiotic-resistant and difficult-to-treat bacterial infections, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Armata's Investigational New Drug (IND) application for AP-SA02 in prosthetic joint infection (PJI). The company is initiating start-up activities for the Phase 1b/2a trial that will explore the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of intravenous and intra-articular doses of AP-SA02 as an adjunct to standard of care antibiotics in subjects with PJI.
"Prosthetic joint infection is one of the most serious complications of prosthetic joint implantation," said Dr. Mina Pastagia, Armata's Senior Vice President of Clinical Development. "Staphylococcus aureus is a dominant pathogen that drives the need for surgical intervention and prolonged courses of antibiotic therapy. The ability of S. aureus to create biofilms that are refractory to standard of care antibiotics highlights the need for a novel therapy. Phage therapy may fill this need for PJI patients as phage have demonstrated the ability to disrupt biofilm and work synergistically with antibiotics."
"Armata is excited to explore AP-PA02 in patients who suffer from complicated joint infections that don't respond adequately to standard of care antibiotics. PJI is a logical extension of our diSArm trial which is targeting complicated S. aureus bacteremia," said Brian Varnum, Chief Executive Officer of Armata. "With this IND approval, Armata now has four active clinical programs. Today marks an important development milestone for Armata and its investors who set a course three years ago to transform phage therapy from a promising new technology to one that is explored in rigorous clinical settings."
In addition to evaluating AP-SA02 in PJI and bacteremia due to S. aureus, Armata has advanced AP-PA02 into the Phase 2a component of the SWARM-P.a. study which targets chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). In February, the company gained IND clearance for AP-PA02 in a second indication, non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (NCFB) targeting patients with chronic P. aeruginosa infections in a Phase 2 trial ("Tailwind" study).
About Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Armata is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of precisely targeted bacteriophage therapeutics for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant and difficult-to-treat bacterial infections using its proprietary bacteriophage-based technology. Armata is developing and advancing a broad pipeline of natural and synthetic phage candidates, including clinical candidates for Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and other pathogens. In addition, in collaboration with Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, Armata is developing proprietary synthetic phage candidates to target an undisclosed infectious disease agent. Armata is committed to advancing phage with drug development expertise that spans bench to clinic including in-house phage specific GMP manufacturing.
Forward Looking Statements
This communication contains "forward-looking" statements, including, without limitation, statements related to the use of proceeds from the securities offering, Armata's bacteriophage development programs, Armata's ability to meet expected milestones, Armata's ability to be a leader in the development of phage-based therapeutics, and statements related to the timing and results of clinical trials, including the anticipated initiation and advancement of clinical trials of AP-PA02 and AP-SA02, Armata's ability to develop new products based on bacteriophages and synthetic phages, and Armata's expectations for performance of Armata's therapeutic candidates based on Armata's recent nonclinical work. Any statements contained in this communication that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon Armata's current expectations. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Armata's actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties, which include, without limitation, risks related to the ability of Armata's lead clinical candidates, AP-PA02 and AP-SA02, to be more effective than previous candidates; Armata's ability to expedite development of AP-PA02 and AP-SA02; Armata's ability to advance its preclinical and clinical programs and the uncertain and time-consuming regulatory approval process; Armata's ability to develop products based on bacteriophages and synthetic phages to kill bacterial pathogens; the Company's expected market opportunity for its products; Armata's ability to sufficiently fund its operations as expected, including obtaining additional funding as needed; and any delays or adverse events within, or outside of, Armata's control, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional risks and uncertainties relating to Armata and its business can be found under the caption "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in Armata's filings and reports with the SEC, including in Armata's Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on March 17, 2022, and in its subsequent filings with the SEC.
Armata expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in Armata's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements are based.
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Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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REDMOND, Wash., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. will publish fiscal year 2022 fourth-quarter financial results after the close of the market on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, on the Microsoft Investor Relations website at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/. A live webcast of the earnings conference call will be made available at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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Prosecutors in Spain to seek 8-year prison term for Shakira
MADRID (AP) — Prosecutors in Spain said Friday they would ask a court to sentence Colombian pop star Shakira to eight years and two months in prison, if she is convicted in her expected trial for alleged tax fraud.
Shakira, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, is charged with failing to pay the Spanish government 14.5 million euros ($15 million) in taxes between 2012 and 2014. The prosecutors said they would also seek a fine of 24 million euros ($24 million).
The indictment details six charges against Shakira. The singer this week rejected a settlement deal offered by prosecutors, opting to go to trial instead. A trial date has yet to be set.
Her publicists in London said in a statement Friday that Shakira “has always cooperated and abided by the law, demonstrating impeccable conduct as an individual and a taxpayer.” The publicists accused the Spanish Tax Agency of violating her rights.
Shakira’s Spanish public relations team said earlier this week that the artist has deposited the amount she is said to owe, including 3 million euros in interest.
Prosecutors in Barcelona have alleged the Grammy winner spent more than half of each year between 2012 and 2014 in Spain and should have paid taxes in the country.
Shakira recently ended an 11-year-long relationship with FC Barcelona star Gerard Piqué, with whom she has two children. The family used to live in Barcelona.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/07/29/prosecutors-spain-seek-8-year-prison-term-shakira/ | 2022-07-29T18:11:15Z |
Aggieville Showdown Grand Drive brings cattle to Moro St. for 2nd year
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Competitors from across the Midwest came to Manhattan for the chance to show their cattle on Moro Street in Aggieville on Saturday.
Nearly 200 individuals competed in the Aggieville Showdown, showing cattle in one of two categories…market beef or breeding heifer.
The top six in each category moved on to the Grand Drive in Aggieville on Saturday evening.
The judges took one last look over the animals to decide who would win Grand and Reserve Champion.
Competitors receive feedback from the judges and learn a lot about hard work while preparing for shows.
“If your cow gets away, just yank the halter down and that’s mostly the important thing.” 2022 Aggieville Showdown, Shorthorn Breeding Heifer competitor, Kennedy Keatley says.
“It’s a lot of work. You’ve just got to work hard, put in the work at home and then you do it in the showring.” 2022 Aggieville Showdown, Reserve Intermediate Showman, Olivia Walrod says.
Results can be found on the Aggieville Showdown Facebook page.
Copyright 2022 WIBW. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/04/03/aggieville-showdown-grand-drive-brings-cattle-moro-st-2nd-year/ | 2022-04-03T06:12:24Z |
Despite challenges from higher inflation, households continued to spend at a healthy pace, with spending on services like travel and entertainment continuing to grow
NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bank of America Institute today released its findings from the latest Consumer Checkpoint, which aims to provide a holistic and real-time estimate of U.S. consumers' spending and their financial well-being, leveraging the breadth and depth of Bank of America proprietary data from its 67 million consumer and small business clients.
Highlights of the publication:
- Aggregated Bank of America credit and debit card spending was up 9% in May1 year-over-year; within this, credit card spending rose by 16% year-over-year, while debit card spending increased by 4%.
- Total payments growth across all channels was up 6% year-over-year in May, from sources like wire payments, Automated Clearing House (ACH), cards, Billpay, etc., while overall transaction volumes were up 8% year-over-year.
- Gasoline spending as a share of total card spending surged to 7.8% for the week ending May 28, up from 6.4% in February; lower-income consumers (<$50k/year), average share-of-gas-spending rose to 9.5%.
- Spending per household increases varied by region, with the South outpacing the rest of the country while the Midwest lags on a year-over-year basis. For example, compared to the 4.3% year-over-year increase in average of spending per household throughout May on a national basis, Miami residents' spending increased 6.8% while Chicago residents' spending increased per household rose by 1.4%.
"Our card data shows continued growth in consumer spending, but inflation is challenging households' purchasing power," said David Tinsley, senior economist for the Bank of America Institute. "That said, spending on services like travel and entertainment remained strong and households continued to have higher savings than they did before the pandemic. Overall, we still remain cautiously optimistic for the U.S. consumer."
Read the full Consumer Checkpoint for additional details.
Bank of America Institute
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1 Card spending per household data covers the first 28 days of May. All other reference to May refer to data through month-end.
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BOCA RATON, Fla., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pulte Family, known in homebuilding for Bill Pulte's experience inside of Pulte Homes now PulteGroup Inc, recently invested in Sacramento, California's leading home services company, AtticMan Heating & Air Conditioning.
This latest acquisition now takes The Pulte Family's individual platforms from the East Coast to the Southwest and now to the West Coast.
"Mario Lopez, the Founder of AtticMan, isn't afraid of hard work and can be found in the trenches with his team when they need a helping hand. These "muddy boots" qualities attracted The Pulte Family to AtticMan," said Bill Pulte, CEO of Pulte Capital and Former Director of PulteGroup Inc.
"These qualities mirror the principles that PulteGroup Founder and Patriarch of The Pulte Family, William J. Pulte (1932-2018), used to build Pulte Homes now PulteGroup Inc. With such a great start already, we feel that AtticMan will have no problems implementing parts of The Pulte Plan that William J. Pulte created as playbook to running a successful business," said a spokesperson for The Pulte Family
"We are excited to be partnered with The Pulte Family. This partnership will take AtticMan to the next level and will offer a tremendous financial and learning opportunity for all of our employees. We are looking forward to continuing to provide the best service in Sacramento and expanding our business alongside The Pulte Family," said Mario Lopez, Founder of AtticMan Heating and Air Conditioning.
The Pulte Family may or may not disclose its sale of these securities and reserves the right to acquire more or dispose of said securities without notification.
William J. "Bill" Pulte founded Pulte Homes, today PulteGroup Inc, in 1950 at age 18. Over the decades, Bill Pulte built Pulte Homes into The #1 USA Homebuilder. In 2016, after retiring the first time, William J. Pulte (1932-2018) and Bill Pulte (b. 1988), his grandson, successfully turned PulteGroup Inc around, even when non-business family members supported the failed Dugas Management Team versus the Pulte Homes Founder William J. Pulte. Mr. Pulte (b. 1988) was a PulteGroup Director from 2016-2020. Bill Pulte's Twitter Philanthropy became a giant success starting in June 2019, helping thousands of people and inspiring millions of people worldwide. Even after the passing of William J. Pulte (1932-2018), their work together continues through a collection of Pulte founded organizations, including The Bill Pulte Foundation. The Pulte Family has multiple companies and investment vehicles.
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(KTXL) — A body and a car have been found in a lake where teams have been searching for 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, who has been missing for more than two weeks.
According to a Facebook post from Adventures with Purpose, an independent group of searchers, a car believed to belong to Rodni was found upside down 14 feet down in Prosser Lake. A body believed to be Rodni was found inside.
Law enforcement has been notified, according to Oregon-based Adventure with Purpose, but has not yet confirmed the identity of the body or if the car is Rodni’s.
The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office, one of the agencies working to find Rodni, confirmed it is aware of Adventure with Purpose’s findings and had staff heading to Prosser Lake.
“We will provide additional information when it becomes available,” the Sheriff’s Office said Sunday.
Rodni was last seen shortly after midnight on Aug. 6 near the Prosser Family Campground in Truckee, California, about 100 miles northeast of Sacramento. She was reportedly at a party where more than 100 minors and young adults.
On Aug. 7, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office told KTXL they were treating Rodni’s disappearance as a possible abduction since her car, a 2013 silver Honda CRV, was also missing. The last known ping from Rodni’s cellphone was near Prosser Lake but previous searches had not turned up any signs of Kiely or her vehicle.
Over 14 agencies including, the California Highway Patrol, the FBI, Homeland Security, Truckee Police Department and the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office joined the Placer County Sheriff’s Office and the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office to help locate Rodni.
The agencies used helicopter aerial searches along with motorcycles, ATVs, K9s, and even boats, which searched nearby bodies of water. Over 100 volunteers joined the search to find her.
A $50,000 reward was offered for any information that led to finding Rodni. Family, friends, and local businesses also all donated to a GoFundMe account to increase the size of the reward, which had reached $75,000 as of Sunday.
Nexstar’s KTXL accompanied Adventures with Purpose on Saturday when they arrived at Donner Lake to start searching for Rodni or her car. The group, which travels around the country to help solve cases like Rodni’s, also searched ponds in the area and Boca Reservoir.
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ARLINGTON, Va. , June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bio-Process Systems Alliance (BPSA), an affiliate of the Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates (SOCMA), announced it has named Christopher Clark, CAE, as its new Executive Director, effective June 1. Clark succeeds Kevin Ott, who served as BPSA Executive Director from 2007-2022.
"I want to congratulate and thank Kevin Ott for his 15 years of leadership and dedication to BPSA as Executive Director. Kevin has been with BPSA since the Alliance's formation, and the organization would not be where it is today without his strategic guidance," said BPSA Board Chair Jeff Carter, PhD, Consumables Product Strategy Leader, Cytiva.
Clark has spent more than 16 years in senior roles with national trade associations. As Executive Director, Clark will assume all day-to-day responsibilities of BPSA and work closely with the board of directors, membership, and affiliate partner the Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates (SOCMA), to ensure continued growth of the organization.
"The leadership and accomplishments Chris brings in association management make him an ideal choice for BPSA's new Executive Director," said Carter. "He brings significant leadership experience advocating for members and developing association programs and I look forward to working with him as we begin the next chapter of our organization."
Clark joins BPSA most recently from the North American Millers' Association, where he served as Vice President, Communications & Administration. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Operations at the American Bakers' Association, and Vice President of Operations, Member Service & Education at the Snack Food Association (SNAC International). Clark is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) and member of the American Society of Association Executives.
"I am honored to join BPSA as its new Executive Director," said Clark. "Single-Use Technologies are transforming how bio-pharmaceutical companies produce and deliver vaccines and other vital products, and I look forward to working with the BPSA membership and staff to advance the single-use biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry," said Clark.
Formed in 2005, the Bio-Process Systems Alliance (BPSA) is an industry-led international industry association of nearly 70 member companies dedicated to encouraging and accelerating the adoption of single-use manufacturing technologies used in the production of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines. BPSA's mission is to facilitate, globally, the development and manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals through the implementation of robust, safe and sustainable Single-Use Technologies. www.bpsalliance.org
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ATIF will Receive a 5.25% Equity Stake and Form IPO Listing Team in Support of Solarever's Future Public Listing
IRVINE, Calif., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ATIF Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: ATIF, the "Company," "ATIF" or "We"), a holding company providing business and financial consulting services in Asia and North America, is pleased to announce that it has signed a definitive agreement to provide IPO advisory services to Solarever Ltd. ("Solarever"), the leading solar energy company in Mexico. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company will receive a 5.25% equity stake in Solarever and lead the IPO process by utilizing internal staff and engaging third parties in auditing, valuation, stock exchange consulting, investor relations, and other IPO services.
About Solarever:
- Leading designer and manufacturer of solar products, including photovoltaics (PV) panels, energy storage systems, electric vehicles (EV), and other zero-emission solutions operating in solar and electric vehicle sectors
- Solarever is the first and currently only domestic electric vehicle company in Mexico that has been granted electric vehicle safety certification and an EV dealer's license. Solarever is qualified to import electric vehicles to Mexico.
- Owns Latin America's largest solar panel manufacturing plant in Tecoman, Colima, Mexico, and has a total of three plants in Mexico that are considered some of the largest in Latin America
- Solarever is considered one of the largest producers of solar panels in Mexico and currently does business in over five countries, including the U.S.
- Launched its first EV in 2022 and is licensed to sell EVs in Mexico from US$14,500
- PV design facility in Chino, California, and warehouse facilities in Laredo, Texas, and San Diego, California
Why it matters:
- Solarever is seeking an initial public offering to scale production across its PV, energy storage solutions, and EV operations
- Solarever is a highly-respected leader in PV-based solar technologies and energy storage solutions and has grown revenues since its founding in 2012
- Solarever is well-positioned to operate in fast-growing industry sectors related to energy decarbonization and decentralized energy
- Solarever has begun production of the SEV e-Wan EV with sizable customer interest and purchase orders
Jun Liu, President, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of ATIF, commented, "We are very proud to deploy our IPO advisory services in support of Solarever as they pursue a public listing that will fuel their next level of growth. Solarever's business model is similar to Tesla's; they've grown to become one of the largest renewable energy solution providers in Mexico while launching several new EV models that have received significant customer pre-orders. We are excited to prepare Solarever to enter the capital market to fund its operations while providing ATIF the opportunity to invest in Solarever before its IPO, benefiting our shareholders upon a successful future IPO."
Simon Zhao, President of Solarever, commented, "We are delighted to partner with Mr. Liu and the team at ATIF to help us explore and prepare for an initial public offering. The decision of which IPO advisor to choose was one we approached with tremendous seriousness. I look forward to ATIF's extraordinary efforts and diligence that will be instrumental in helping us towards achieving our ultimate goal of entering the US capital markets."
"We believe that solar energy development and infrastructure are vital to maintaining energy security and removing harmful CO2 emissions. Solarever has been doing business in Mexico for the past ten years, growing our market share in Mexico while building our business reputation across hundreds of customers throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, and more recently, South America. Global energy markets have reached an inflection point, with consumers and investors demanding cleaner energy alternative sources independent of geopolitical events. Solarever has made tremendous efforts in global energy interconnection that addresses these concerns," concluded Mr. Zhao.
"In turbulent capital markets like we're witnessing today, experience matters more important than ever. I invite everyone to visit ipoex.com to review the companies that have successfully gone public with our IPO advisory services. Our model simply works - we provide a 'one-stop-shop' platform that allows innovative companies like Solarever to focus on growing their business. At the same time, our team helps lay the foundation for a well-received IPO and life as a publicly-traded company," concluded Mr. Liu.
About ATIF Holdings Limited
ATIF Holdings Limited ("ATIF") is a holding group with business consulting, asset management, and investment businesses, with offices in Los Angeles, California, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen, China. ATIF mainly provides IPO Advisory Services to small and medium-sized enterprises in Asia and North America. ATIF has advised several enterprises in China in their plans to become publicly listed in the United States. ATIF was awarded the "Top 10 Best Listed Companies 2019" from the "Golden Bauhinia Award," the highest award in Hong Kong's financial and securities industry. For more information, please visit https://ir.atifchina.com/.
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SHANGHAI, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trip.com Group's corporate travel arm, Trip.Biz, has released a white paper delving into the trends defining the reviving corporate travel management sector in mainland China.
The Trip.Biz white paper summarizes the recovery of corporate travel according to the latest industry data, with a focus on China - the largest corporate travel market in the world.
Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) data shows that China led the world in business travel spending in 2021, after a 38% decline in business travel spending in 2020. As the domestic market recovered, in 2021, China's business travel spending saw a growth rate of 31.7%, more than double the global growth rate.
The paper shows 16.3% more companies in China worked with a TMC (Travel Management Company) in 2021 compared to 2020, this figure rising by 24.6% in first tier cities in China such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
According to GBTA forecasts, China's business travel market is expected to recover and surpass pre-pandemic levels by 2024, with total business travel spending exceeding $400 billion.
Trip.com Group 2021 earnings data reflects the strong recovery momentum in China's business travel market, it showed hotel bookings on Trip.Biz grew by nearly triple digits in the fourth quarter and full year of 2021 compared to the same period in 2019.
Accordingly, Trip.com Group increased its corporate travel supply chain investment by 86%, product technology investment by 86% and service efficiency by 110% in comparison to 2019.
Trip.Biz currently provides travel management services to 13,000 large enterprises and 620,000 small and medium-sized enterprises, among which over 300 are Fortune 500 companies and over 10,000 are Sino-foreign joint venture businesses.
Trip.Biz, as a Trip.com Group brand, is implementing a global growth strategy based on the Group's "Local Focus, Global Vision" approach. Core to this strategy is the efficiency, product selection, service quality and services available on the Trip.Biz app.
"The biggest industry change brought on by the pandemic is the recognition by customers of the true value of TMC offerings. Specifically, the convenience and flexibility of booking, changing and refunding, having a one-stop booking experience for all products worldwide with global travel guarantee and SOS services, and 24/7 multilingual customer support. These are precisely the areas that online TMCs like Trip.Biz specialise in," commented Steven Zhang, Chief Executive Officer at Trip.Biz.
"We are actively expanding our overseas service network through partnerships, with the goal of enabling our customers to efficiently connect to our local and global business travel products through the Trip.Biz app anytime, anywhere in the world. We deliver efficiency and choice, offering competitive prices and the highest global service standards, allowing travellers to enjoy a world-class business travel experience."
Trip.Biz's international business growth plan aims to build on existing client needs, initially focusing on regional growth across North and South East Asia, supporting business clients expanding in the region and globally.
To download the Trip.Biz 2021-2022 Corporate Travel White Paper in full please contact: brandstrategy@trip.com
About Trip.com Group
Trip.com Group is a leading global travel service provider comprising of Trip.com, Ctrip, Skyscanner, and Qunar. Across its platforms, Trip.com Group helps travellers around the world make informed and cost-effective bookings for travel products and services and enables partners to connect their offerings with users through the aggregation of comprehensive travel-related content and resources, and an advanced transaction platform consisting of apps, websites and 24/7 customer service centers. Founded in 1999 and listed on NASDAQ in 2003 and HKEX in 2021, Trip.com Group has become one of the best-known travel groups in the world, with the mission "to pursue the perfect trip for a better world". Find out more about Trip.com Group here: group.trip.com
About Trip.Biz
Trip.Biz is one of China's most rapidly growing business travel management companies, and belongs to Trip.com Group.
For over 15 years,Trip.Biz has relied on its strong resources, excellent service ability, professional products, and cutting edge technology to provide services to over 13,000 large-scale corporations, including over 300 Fortune Global 500 companies and nearly 200 of the Top 500 Enterprises of China. We count over 620,000 small to medium sized enterprises among our clients. We have a combined total of over 30 million employees. We strive to help corporations lower their travel costs and increase efficiency, and save our customers up to 30% in business travel expenses.
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AMSTERDAM, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Laboratories (NYSE: "CLB US" and Euronext Amsterdam: "CLB NA") will broadcast its second quarter 2022 conference call over the Internet at 7:30 a.m. CDT / 2:30 p.m. CEST on July 28, 2022.
Larry Bruno, Chairman and CEO, Chris Hill, CFO, and Gwen Gresham, SVP Corporate Development and Investor Relations, will discuss financial and operational results. An earnings press release will be issued after market close on July 27th and may be accessed through the Company's website at www.corelab.com.
To participate in the live webcast, simply log on to www.corelab.com at least fifteen minutes prior to the start of the call. For those who are not available to listen to the live webcast, a Podcast will be available immediately following the conference call and a replay will be available on Core's website shortly after the call which will remain on the site for 10 days.
To listen to the conference call via telephone, please contact Lena Brennan at lena.brennan@corelab.com for the dial-in number.
Core Laboratories N.V. (www.corelab.com) is a leading provider of proprietary and patented reservoir description and production enhancement services and products used to optimize petroleum reservoir performance. The Company has over 70 offices in more than 50 countries and is located in every major oil-producing province in the world.
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SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vance & Hines, the most noted name in powersports performance, today announced a lineup of exhaust systems for the most popular side-by-side (SxS) UTV offerings on the market. The UTV market in the US was estimated at over $7 billion in 2020 with a projected CAGR of 6% through 2027.
The company will debut its Mojave Eliminator Series this weekend at the Sand Sports Super Show in Orange County, California.
"Style, sound and performance are the three pillars of our brand," said Vance & Hines President Mike Kennedy. "We knew we wanted to enter the side-by-side market with a bold statement about Vance & Hines. Not just great performance, not just great sound, but also a style that totally transforms the rear of the vehicle. I think our team nailed it, and I can't wait to show it to customers this weekend."
Every aspect of the new line of exhaust systems has been tailored to meet the rigorous demands of off-roading, from heavy-duty bracketry to an automotive-grade, all-mechanical muffler design that is maintenance-free. Each of the systems produces power gains along with a deeper and more satisfying growl, while still meeting SAE J1287 sound standards and complying with EPA emissions criteria. All the units are equipped with US Forest Service compliant spark arrestors.
Vance & Hines has been creating race-winning systems for the Yamaha Powersports1.com racing team since 2020, with drivers Rod and Owen VanEperen, earning four SxS championships over the past three seasons. Those learnings from the track have enabled the company to develop the Mojave Eliminator Series, testing and refining the new systems at the Vance & Hines Off Road Proving Grounds in the Mojave Desert.
All of the systems are visually striking and change the look of the rear of the unit with a laser-cut rear guard featuring the Vance & Hines logo. The 4-inch, dual-tip, center exits with CNC-machined billet end caps reaffirm to riders left in the dust that this system delivers the sound, performance and style that Vance & Hines is known for.
The initial launch of the series includes three part numbers which fit Honda, Polaris and Can-Am units dating from 2017 to today. (See below for specific fitments). Vance & Hines will begin shipment of its Mojave Eliminator Series units later in October.
Vance & Hines part number 14531 mounts to the factory header on Honda Talon units from 2019 to 2022. Retail price is $1,399.99.
The 2022 Polaris RZR Turbo R and 2020 to 2022 Polaris RZR Pro XP models use Vance & Hines part number 11015 which mounts to the factory down pipe. Retail price is $1,399.99.
Can-Am Maverick X3 from 2017 to 2022 use Vance & Hines part number 11017 which mounts to the factory down pipe. Retail price is $1,249.99.
Race Only parts for the Yamaha YXZ1000R are available through the Vance & Hines Racing Development Center in Brownsburg, IN. There are two configurations to choose from for the Yamaha, including a full system under part number 15210 with a retail price of $1,499.99 and a slip-on ideal for vehicles running a turbocharger under part number 15213 with a retail price of $699.99.
The Vance & Hines brand has always been about enhancing the exhilaration of the motorcycle ride. It started over 40 years ago, when Terry Vance and Byron Hines were two young enthusiasts in the fledgling Southern California motorcycle drag race scene. Terry always wanted to go faster, and Byron knew how to make that happen. In short order, their on-track success and innovation drew the attention of other racers, riders and motorcycle manufacturers, which ultimately translated to commercial demand for their products and services. Today, the Company's mission and activity is the same; make bikes go faster on the racetrack and take those learnings to make impactful products for riders around the world. Since the Company's inception in 1979, it has run factory race programs in partnership with Suzuki, Yamaha, Ducati and Harley-Davidson in drag racing, road racing and flat track. Vance & Hines is based in Santa Fe Springs CA and has its Racing Development Center in Brownsburg IN. Learn more about the company's history and products at www.vanceandhines.com.
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One of Canada's largest independent healthcare companies expands into the United States
MONTRÉAL, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Christie Innomed, one of Canada's largest independent healthcare companies, is pleased to announce today that it is continuing its growth with its first foray into the U.S. market with the acquisition of well-established medical imaging hardware and software solutions company, Comp-Ray. Comp-Ray offers Multi-Vendor Sales and Service (MVS) solutions and serves all the southwestern U.S. states from its headquarters in Arizona.
This acquisition will continue Christie Innomed's Mission and Vision of improving health and safety in patient care by becoming the largest independent healthcare company in their industry. The combination of these two leaders will provide their customers and suppliers with access to a broader portfolio of Multi-Vendor Solutions and Services (MVS). Both companies also share values that place people at the heart of every relationship and value respect, honesty, and integrity in business.
For more than 40 years, Comp-Ray has offered a complete range of Multi-Vendor Equipment Solutions (MVS) in the medical imaging sector with world-renowned technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), angiography (IXR) and diagnostic systems (PACS).
"This new acquisition will allow us to continue to develop our wide range of solutions, optimize our supply chain and always offer more to our customers and partners," said Martin Roy, President and CEO of Christie Innomed. "The addition of these additional expertise and teams will contribute to our "Mission and Vision" of excellence which leads us to imagine more by providing access to world-class innovations and technologies for the benefit of patients," he continued.
Founded in 1954, Christie Innomed develops, distributes, integrates, and supports innovative medical imaging and medical information management equipment that improves the performance of Canadian healthcare institutions. Christie Innomed is a leader in its two divisions, Medical Imaging Equipment Solutions & Multi-Vendor Services (MVS), as well as in Business-to-Business Imaging (PACS/RIS) & Patient Flow Management IT Solutions, with over 200 dedicated specialists serving more than 1,500 hospitals and clinics, supported by eight offices and business locations across Canada. Its goal is to empower Canadian healthcare institutions to imagine more by providing innovative technologies in the areas of medical imaging, medical informatics, health IT solutions and related services.
For nearly 40 years, Comp-Ray has been serving healthcare institutions with the primary objective of providing the best possible customer service. Their service offering is built on their 4 key strengths: leadership, stability, training, and unparalleled customer service. Comp-Ray operates out of its Arizona headquarters and provides services throughout the Southwestern United States.
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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A nationwide public sector strike in Tunisia is poised to paralyze land and air transportation and other vital activities Thursday with the North African nation already in the midst of a deteriorating economic crisis.
Tunisia’s powerful General Labour Union (UGTT) announced the walkout, which was expected to include 159 state enterprises, on the basis of pressing social and economic demands. The union is demanding wage increases and protesting the government’s planned economic reforms.
The purchasing power of Tunisian citizens has eroded since the beginning of the year amid rising prices, high unemployment and widespread poverty. The war in Ukraine has exacerbated the financial squeeze.
President Kais Saied’s government unveiled plans last week to cut its massive public wage bill and said it would progressively reduce energy and food subsidies starting next year. The government said it would replace subsidies with cash handouts for low-income families.
In July 2021, Saied abruptly dismissed the government and took on sweeping powers. While his critics accuse him of staging a coup, Saied said he had acted in response to widespread economic and social discontent.
Many are concerned Thursday’s strike could seriously impact an already fragile economy and fuel an already tense political situation. An increasingly isolated Saied has run the country alone for 10 months, ruling by decree, while key Western allies have raised concerns of democratic backsliding.
A meeting between the government and the UGTT was held Tuesday but failed to yield an agreement.
At a weekend UGTT meeting ahead of Thursday’s strike, hundreds of union members filled the Palace of Congress in Tunis , waving national flags and singing popular songs. The audience cheered as union president Noureddine Tabboubi took the stage, promising to oppose the government’s economic reforms.
Tabboubi told The Associated Press after the meeting that Thursday’s strike was a necessary response to Tunisia’s high inflation rate– which according to the Institute of Statistics, reached 7.8% in May – and to high living costs that intensified with the Central Banks’ recent decision to increase interest rates.
The union chief said the strike had the potential to set off a “social explosion” that was “normal and inevitable.”
A key issue for Saied’s government is the country’s urgent need to secure a new loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Tunisia’s fourth loan in a decade.
Ahead of negotiations that have been stalled for months, the IMF demanded that Tunisia institute economic reforms, including the reduction of the subsidies that many impoverished Tunisians are depend on.
IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice welcomed Tunisia’s proposed economic reforms and said discussions with authorities were advancing.
But union leader Tabboubi accused the government of wanting to “sell the country and impoverish the population” by imposing changes dictated by the IMF.
“The country needs leaders who show wisdom and who make reason prevail and a national project that unites and does not divide; avoids insults and confrontation” he said.
The UGTT has so far refused to participate in Saied’s proposed “national dialogue.” – a key stepping stone in his road map out of Tunisia’s political crisis. It envisions changing Tunisia’s post-revolutionary constitution. Tabboubi justified the decision Saturday, saying the process was “not transparent”.
The union leader said Thursday’s strike was not a political action but “based solely on the social demands of the working classes.”
However, Youssef Cherif, a political analyst, says that while UGTT leaders have been careful to characterize the strike as purely economic, the strike has a political message and implications.
“Politically, if the strike succeeds, this is a signal to the president that the UGTT is powerful and that he cannot bypass them, that they are an important player that cannot be ignored,” Cherif said in a telephone interview.
The strike may add to doubts among external observers such as the IMF and the World Bank that Tunisia has the ability to overcome its political and economic crisis, the analyst said.
“This is happening in the heart of the summer,” CHerif noted. “Economically, it will disrupt tourism and travelers coming into and out of the country, and will close many amenities and public transport, creating resentment among the overall population.” | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/public-workers-strike-in-tunisia-signaling-national-crisis/ | 2022-06-16T22:19:00Z |
Busted: Agents seize 250+ pounds of meth being smuggled into US
PHARR, Texas (Gray News) – Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection said they seized more than 250 pounds of methamphetamine smugglers tried to bring into the country.
“Our CBP officers relied on their experience and all available tools and resources to thwart this smuggling attempt,” Port Director Carlos Rodriguez said.
Authorities said officers found 266.75 pounds of meth concealed in a tractor-trailer arriving from Mexico. The drugs have a street value of $2.3 million, according to border patrol agents.
The case remains under investigation.
According to Field Operations Director Randy Howe, the agency has seized 2,270 pounds of meth and 72 pounds of cocaine in the past week.
He said the estimated street value of the narcotics seized is over $35 million.
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New Additions Double Size of Voting Body and Increase Diversity
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hollywood Foreign Press Association ("HFPA") today announced the addition of 103 new international voters to consider the Golden Globe Awards. This signifies the first time in the Association's history that a group of non-member voters has been added to select the nominees and awards, doubling the size of the voting body while increasing its diversity.
"After bringing in our largest member class last year with 21 diverse members, it was clear we had to find new opportunities to bring in additional voters to ensure the continued diversification and growth in the voting body," said Helen Hoehne, President of the HFPA. "The addition of new non-member voters drawn from international markets gives us the opportunity to more rapidly increase the number of voters, while preserving our international identity and maintaining the commitment to bring in qualified and experienced entertainment journalists."
The new voters were recruited from international industry organizations, as well as from active outreach to esteemed foreign film festivals and journalism professionals. The new voters are composed of 22.3% Latinx, 13.6% Black, 11.7% Asian, 10.7% Middle Eastern, and 41.7% White, with 58.3% self-identifying as ethnically diverse.
These new voters will be subject to a Golden Globe Awards Code of Conduct. Their applications were reviewed and qualified by the Credentials Committee, which is composed of a majority of outside independent journalism and entertainment industry professionals.
Combined with the current HFPA membership, the total Golden Globe Awards voting body is 52% female, 51.5% racially and ethnically diverse with 19.5% Latinx, 12% Asian, 10% Black and 10% Middle Eastern. The voting body also includes individuals who self-identify as LGBTQIA+. The total number of voters is now 200.
Geographically, the voters represent 62 countries around the world. This is the largest voting body in the history of the Association with 43.5% from Europe, 18.5% from Latin America, 17% from Asia, 9% from the Middle East and 7% from Africa.
"Our work is not complete as we will continue to identify and recruit additional members and non-member voters to expand, diversify and strengthen the Golden Globe Awards while maintaining its unique international flavor," said Neil Phillips, Chief Diversity Officer of the HFPA. "We remain committed to reshaping and growing the voting body while preserving the ability to make quality award decisions with integrity."
ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION:
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association® ("HFPA") was founded in 1943 – then known as the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association – by a group of entertainment journalists based in Los Angeles. During World War II, the non-profit organization established a cultural bridge between Tinseltown and millions around the world seeking an escape and inspiration through entertainment. The HFPA continues to do so today with a membership representing more than 55 countries. Since 1944, the group has hosted the annual Golden Globe® Awards – the premier ceremony which honors achievements in both television and film. The licensing fees from the Golden Globe Awards has enabled the organization to donate more than $50 million to more than 70 entertainment-related charities, film restoration, scholarship programs and humanitarian efforts over the last three decades. Its efforts include support for diversity programs in partnership with advocacy groups promoting greater access in Hollywood aimed at underserved communities. For more information, please visit www.GoldenGlobes.com and follow us on Twitter (@GoldenGlobes), Facebook (www.facebook.com/GoldenGlobes), Instagram (@GoldenGlobes), and in Spanish on Twitter (@globosdeoro), and Facebook (www.facebook.com/globosdeoropaginaoficial).
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the creator economy has become extraordinarily prosperous. According to a report in New York Times in July last year, more than 50 million content creators from all over the world worked in the digital space, making money online through photography, video and others; the related function applications like video editing were being developed continuously.
VivaCut is a video editing app serving creators. Launched on the global market in 2019, it is characterized by professional video editing functions such as keyframe animation and chroma key for image matting. But its popularity is not just because of its rich features. VivaCut developed the "Creator Program" in 2020, inviting the global creators to join.
Abdelrahman Gamal, a 17-year-old boy from Egypt, joined VivaCut's "Creator Program" in September, 2021; in just half a year, he created 500 short video templates, considered as the well-deserved "model". Sqmvii from the Philippines was recognized as "technical elite" after becoming the creator of VivaCut, and his video template always uses many cool, advanced and professional editing effects in VivaCut. Barisxezgizem, a girl from Turkey, ranked the first among Turkish creators; she has always been very active and creative, and the templates created by her are very popular. ANGRYCAT from Indonesia has an earlier relationship with VivaCut; she has been providing users with creative short video templates as the creator of VivaCut since 2020.
VivaCut's "Creator Program" can provide more people with a ready-made work platform. But, more importantly, it is proactively building the inclusive creative atmosphere to offer unlimited space for creators.
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SEOUL, South Korea, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KT Corporation (NYSE: KT), South Korea's largest integrated telecom and digital platform service provider, announced that it has filed its Form 20- F Annual Report on April 28th, 2022 for the year ended December 31, 2021 with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States. The report can be accessed on KT's English website at https://corp.kt.com/eng in the Investors section under Business Report as well as the SEC's Edgar database at http://www.sec.gov/. Shareholders may also request a hard copy of the Form 20-F Annual Report that includes audited financial statements of 2021, free of charge, by sending an e-mail to the Company's IR department at ktir@kt.com.
About KT Corporation (KRX: 030200;NYSE: KT)
KT Corporation is the largest integrated telecom and digital platform service provider based in South Korea. Principal services include mobile, Broadband, IPTV, B2B communications, fixed-line telephony. The Company has industry-leading market presence in Broadband, media services, and fixed-line telephony by maintaining the No.1 market share positions. Also, the Company is the No.1 player in B2B communications and offers a wide range of digital transformation services (IDC, Cloud, AI, etc.). Additionally, the Company possesses a well-balanced portfolio of diverse subsidiaries focusing on media/content, financial services, real estate developments, and commerce industries.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GOODLES™ – the new boxed mac and cheese brand known for making nutrient-packed mac and cheese with its proprietary recipe, real cheese, protein, fiber with prebiotics, 21 nutrients, has announced today a nationwide retail launch into Whole Foods Market stores. The first boxed mac and cheese to win the coveted Clean Label Purity Award will do an initial rollout of fan-favorite flavors, Cheddy Mac and Shella Good, which can be found in the prepared pasta aisle in single-serve boxes. This retail launch comes on the heels of the brand's official debut to consumers (direct-to-consumer) in November 2021 and its growing in-store presence, GOODLES mac and cheese is more than a childhood memory and exists to bring food science and nutrition to a beloved comfort food that tastes so good, the whole household can enjoy.
"When people think of boxed mac and cheese they may not think: clean ingredients, nutrients, protein, prebiotics and high fiber," said Gal Gadot, Founding Partner at GOODLES. "But that's exactly what's in our mac along with unbelievably delicious taste! Retailing our product through Whole Foods Market, we hope to make GOODLES available to more foodie, health-conscious people than ever before and further our mission of making a tastier, kinder, gooder world."
Having launched only 8 months ago, GOODLES has seen significant growth out of the gate, and has already filled over 2.5M bowls with their delicious mac and cheese. Founded by the award-winning Actress Gal Gadot, 4x CEO Jen Zeszut, former Annie's President Deb Luster, brand entrepreneur Paul Earle, and R&D leader Molly Michet, GOODLES continues to reinvent the billion-dollar prepared pasta aisle, which hasn't seen real innovation in decades, by prioritizing quality, nutrition and taste.
"GOODLES is a full circle moment back to mac and cheese and I am so excited to bring long overdue innovation and nutrition to the beloved mac and cheese category, while building an authentic community of do-gooders who also believe small acts can have a huge impact," said Deb Luster, Founding Partner and Chief Impact Officer of GOODLES.
Shella Good is aged white cheddar with shells. Cheddy Mac is the classic creamy cheddar mac. Both flavors boast 15 grams of protein per 1 cup prepared serving, six grams of fiber with prebiotics, no artificial flavors or preservatives, and 21 nutrients. Both Cheddy Mac and Shella Good are now available at Whole Foods Market nationwide.
"Creating a nutritious noodle that actually tastes good and cooks well is incredibly challenging," said Molly Michet, President of Research & Development and Founding Partner at GOODLES. "After nearly 1,000 trials, we struck gold and are so excited to have our delicious, nutrient-packed, protein mac and cheese on Whole Foods Market shelves."
"This is a pivotal time for our consumers as we roll out our first-ever natural channel retailer . We dreamed of GOODLES hitting the shelves at Whole Foods Market from the very beginning of our journey," said Paul Earle, Co-Founder and Board Director of GOODLES.
In August 2022, Cheddy Mac and Shella Good will be joined on shelves by Twist My Parm, Mover & Shaker (a cacio e pepe-inspired flavor) and GOODLES' brand new vegan mac and cheese. In fact, Whole Foods Market will be the first retailer in the US to feature Vegan Is Believin', their dairy-free, plant-based mac and cheese.
ABOUT
GOODLES are noodles, made gooder. A brand that launched in November 2021 born out of the idea that mac & cheese is the cornerstone of pleasurable eating and loved by all ages, yet often lacks nutrition and crave-worthy taste. Made with a proprietary noodle recipe that looks, tastes, cooks and chews just like the noodles we all love, GOODLES includes protein, fiber, prebiotics, is a Low Glycemic Index food, has 21 nutrients from plants, fewer calories and is the first boxed mac and cheese to win the coveted Clean Label Purity Award. GOODLES is HQ in Santa Cruz, CA and is committed to giving away at least 1% of all products sold to organizations that address food insecurity. GOODLES won a "Nextie" for being The Brand with Most Buzz.
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Calls for boardroom changes to address destruction of value at Ceragon and refusal to consider Aviat's premium acquisition proposal
Urges Ceragon shareholders to vote for directors who will protect shareholder interests and consider value creation opportunities
AUSTIN, Texas, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW) ("Aviat"), the leading expert in wireless transport solutions, today announced that it has requested an extraordinary general meeting of Ceragon Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: CRNT) ("Ceragon") shareholders for the purposes of increasing the size of the Ceragon Board of Directors to nine, removing three current directors, and electing five highly qualified and independent new directors to better represent the interests of all Ceragon shareholders. As of June 24, 2022, Aviat holds more than 5% of Ceragon's outstanding shares, making it Ceragon's third largest shareholder.
Aviat believes Ceragon's current Board has overseen destruction of shareholder value and overlooked opportunities to create greater value. In particular, the Ceragon Board has neglected its responsibility to shareholders by refusing to engage constructively with Aviat, which has sought for months to negotiate the terms of a transaction that would deliver immediate and certain value greater than the continued execution of Ceragon's standalone strategy. As announced separately today, Aviat has submitted a highly attractive nonbinding proposal to acquire all the outstanding shares of Ceragon for $2.80 per share in cash. Aviat is also open to offering a portion of the consideration in Aviat stock should Ceragon wish to provide the opportunity for its shareholders to share in the upside potential of the combined company.
Aviat seeks to replace three Ceragon directors who lack sufficient independence to make decisions in the best interests of all Ceragon shareholders. Each of the three has close ties to the company and to other companies founded, owned or formerly led by Ceragon Chairman Zohar Zisapel.
- Ira Palti served as Ceragon CEO from 2005 to 2021, during which time he oversaw the destruction of shareholder value, delivering total shareholder return of -21%, while Ceragon fell behind competitors in the development and delivery of 4G chips;
- Yael Langer is General Counsel at RAD Data Communications, founded by Zisapel and led by his brother, Yehuda Zisapel, and has served on the Ceragon Board since 2000, during which time Ceragon's stock has fallen approximately 80%; and
- David Ripstein spent nine years as CEO of RADCOM, another company founded by Zisapel and a part of the RAD Group, of which Ceragon is also a member.
"Although we are disappointed that Ceragon's Board has rejected our attempts to negotiate a transaction that would deliver compelling value to shareholders, we are pleased to give Ceragon shareholders the opportunity to vote for a Board that will consider strategic opportunities to unlock value and, most importantly, be accountable to shareholders," said Aviat President and CEO Peter Smith. "We firmly believe shareholders will recognize that Ceragon's leadership has demonstrated an inability to execute an effective business plan that drives growth and protects shareholders' investments. We urge shareholders to support our highly qualified Board candidates to drive much-needed change."
At the extraordinary general meeting, Ceragon shareholders will have the opportunity to vote for Aviat's five nominees, all of whom are seasoned leaders in their respective fields with extensive experience leading and advising companies across sectors. Aviat urges shareholders to take advantage of this opportunity to select a meaningfully refreshed and qualified Board that can address the company's dire financial underperformance, strategic deficiencies and haphazard management, substandard governance, and reverse Ceragon's continued value destruction.
Aviat's Nominees
- Michelle R. Clayman is the Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of New Amsterdam Partners LLC. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, where she also serves as Chair of the Advisory Council of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Ms. Clayman has served as President of the Society of Quantitative Analysts, as well as on the boards of the Institute of Quantitative Research in Finance and US SIF, the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing. Ms. Clayman holds an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MBA from Stanford University.
- Paul Delson serves as Vice President and General Counsel for the Troy Corporation, a leading performance chemical manufacturing company. Previously, Delson worked for First Solar, Inc., where he served as the Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. Prior to that, Delson was the Director, Legal Services at Applied Materials, Inc., where he focused on international business transactions, venture capital, corporate finance and M&A. Prior to Delson's in-house work at Applied Materials, he worked for over 10 years in private practice. Delson earned a JD and an MBA from UCLA, and a BA in Organizational Behavior & Management from Brown University.
- Jonathan F. Foster is the founder and managing director of Current Capital Partners LLC. He has served on 35 boards, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small, private and distressed companies. Prior to founding Current Capital Partners, he was a Managing Director at Lazard, where he worked on various industrial and services mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and financing transactions, EVP, COO and CFO for Toys R Us, and Managing Director and Co-Head of Diversified Industrials at Wachovia Securities. Mr. Foster holds a BBA in Accounting from Emory University and an MSc in Accounting and Finance from The London School of Economics.
- Dennis Sadlowski is an accomplished Chief Executive Officer, Board Member, and C-suite Advisor serving domestic and international businesses. He has led public and private equity companies globally, in various industrial manufacturing and services industries. Mr. Sadlowski served as the CEO of Siemens Energy and Automation, a $4 billion, 12,000-employee operating company of Siemens AG. He also served as the CEO of CECO Environmental, CEO of International Battery, and COO (North America) of LSG Sky Chefs. Mr. Sadlowski holds a BS in Chemical and Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Seattle University.
- Craig Weinstock serves as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of National Oilwell Varco (NOV). Before joining NOV, Mr. Weinstock was a partner at Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, LLP and a clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Robert Parker. He has counseled Boards of Directors, Audit Committees and management regarding securities, governance, anti-corruption, trade compliance and other matters, and has prosecuted and defended numerous cases involving complex securities and derivative issues. Mr. Weinstock holds a BA from the State University of New York at Albany and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School.
As separately announced, Aviat will host a conference call for investors and industry analysts to discuss its proposal at 7:00 p.m. ET on June 27, 2022.
To listen to the live conference call, please dial toll-free at 1-877-830-2597 or the international dial-in at +1-785-424-1877 and use the conference ID: "ANICALL" or the call title "Investor Update Call". We ask that you dial-in approximately 10 minutes prior to the start time. Accompanying slides will be available on Aviat's investor relations website at the following address: https://investors.aviatnetworks.com/.
A replay of the call will be available on the Aviat investor relations website, or by dialing 800-938-1598 (Toll Free) or 402-220-1545 (Toll).
Aviat Networks, Inc. is the leading expert in wireless transport solutions and works to provide dependable products, services and support to its customers. With more than one million systems sold into 170 countries worldwide, communications service providers and private network operators including state/local government, utility, federal government and defense organizations trust Aviat with their critical applications. Coupled with a long history of microwave innovations, Aviat provides a comprehensive suite of localized professional and support services enabling customers to drastically simplify both their networks and their lives. For more than 70 years, the experts at Aviat have delivered high-performance products, simplified operations, and the best overall customer experience. Aviat Networks is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.aviatnetworks.com or connect with Aviat Networks on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
The information contained in this document includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, without limitations, Aviat's beliefs and expectations regarding the proposed transaction between Aviat and Ceragon and the results of the requested extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of Ceragon. All statements, trend analyses and other information contained herein regarding the foregoing beliefs and expectations and other statements identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including, without limitation, "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "will," "see," "continue," "could, " "may, " "might, " "potential," "seek," "should," "delivering," "view," and "intend," or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, forward-looking statements are based on estimates reflecting the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the senior management of Aviat regarding the future of its business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should therefore be considered in light of various important factors, including those set forth in this document. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from estimates or projections contained in the forward-looking statements are discussed in our Annual Reports on Form 10-K and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The forward-looking statements included in this release are made as of the date hereof and, except as required by law, Aviat undertakes no obligation to update, amend, or clarify any forward-looking statement to reflect events, new information, or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.
This document does not constitute an offer to sell or exchange, or the solicitation of an offer to buy or exchange, any securities, nor will there be any sale of securities in any states or jurisdictions in which such offer or sale or exchange would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities will be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933 or an exemption therefrom.
In connection with any transaction between Aviat and Ceragon that involves the issuance of Aviat shares to the Ceragon shareholders, Aviat will file a registration statement with the SEC. INVESTORS ARE URGED TO READ THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT, ANY AMENDMENTS THERETO AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT MAY BE FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRANSACTION. Investors will also be able to obtain copies of the registration statement and other documents containing important information about each of the companies once such documents are filed with the SEC, without charge, at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov.
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HONG KONG, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) announced the beta launch of the BSN Spartan Network, a public infrastructure network that will provide non-cryptocurrency blockchain services to any IT system globally. The network initially launched with three non-cryptocurrency public chains, including non-crypto versions of Ethereum, Cosmos and PolygonEdge. Leading enterprises such as HSBC, Emperor Group, and Lan Kwai Fong Group presented BSN Spartan Network use cases at the BSN Spartan Global Summit, held in Hong Kong today. Known for its earlier initiatives in China, the BSN's Spartan Network is only available outside China.
"99% of the world's IT systems do not use cryptocurrency-based public chains to avoid being involved in unregulated and volatile cryptocurrencies. The BSN Spartan Network provides an infrastructure that integrates non-cryptocurrency public blockchains that can be used by any traditional IT system to leverage the capabilities of the underlying blockchain technology in an easier and more cost-effective way," said Yifan He, CEO of Red Date Technology, the technical architect of the BSN.
"We are excited about the possibilities the BSN Spartan Network opens up for Hong Kong corporates to digitize, tokenize, and automate their business processes. We look forward to exploring how our HSBC DLT Settlement Utility (HDSU) solution can streamline payment processes for business partners on the network, and help our customers benefit from this next wave of business and financial innovation," said Vincent Lau, Regional Head of International Payments for Asia Pacific at HSBC.
The BSN Spartan Network is an infrastructure to serve all traditional IT systems, not for issuing and trading cryptocurrencies, and consists of virtual data centers which are open source and free to download from GitHub. Individuals and businesses can set up data centers on the BSN Spartan Network anonymously and pay gas fees on non-cryptocurrency public chains using fiat currency or fiat-backed stablecoins such as USDC. The cost of using public chain technologies is also dramatically reduced. As an example, the cost of minting a standard ERC721 NFT on Spartan-I Chain (the non-cryptocurrency version of Ethereum) is fixed at 3 cents USD, several orders of magnitude lower than minting on cryptocurrency-based Ethereum.
"Out of the many use cases in blockchain technology, most of the general public would usually only think of those related to digital assets with the common examples of cryptocurrencies, NFT digital art, and metaverses. As one of the retail market leaders, we are keen to explore the opportunities to introduce and leverage blockchain technology for broader accessibility, in which this digital access could also create great value to our customers, the retail markets, and the general public. We are of like mind with the BSN about the ability to commercialize this technology," commented Leo Tsang, Group CIO for Emperor Group, a diversified group of businesses that includes Property, Financial Services, Watch and Jewellery, Entertainment & Culture, Hospitality, Digital Media and Home Living.
"With blockchain and Web3, I see many possibilities to enrich the LKF experience for visitors and operators alike. LKF Group's DNA for 40+ years is about embracing community and making the most out of lifestyle experiences, and BSN Spartan Network is a great enabler for the next generation," said Jonathan Zeman, CEO of Lan Kwai Fong Group, the diversified property development group.
The BSN Spartan Network is a decentralized network governed by the BSN Foundation (https://spartan.bsn.foundation/), with each member operating a governance data center that hosts all the validator nodes of non-cryptocurrency public chains. Any matters related to the governance of the BSN Spartan Network, such as adding a new chain or gas fee adjustments, will be decided by the BSN Foundation members. The BSN Foundation will start with five members, growing to 10 by the end of 2022, and 30 by the end of 2023.
"We are building the next layer of the internet, a public layer serving public IT systems that has the benefit of greater transparency, easy connectivity, and individual ownership of data compared to private IT systems today," said Tim Bailey, VP of Global Sales for Red Date Technology.
About Red Date Technology
Red Date Technology is a technology company headquartered in Hong Kong that is dedicated to building next-generation Public IT System infrastructures for internet communications, digital economies, and metaverses.
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TAMPA, Fla. and BASEL, Switzerland, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nilogen Oncosystems, a leading Oncology drug development Company; and Scailyte, a single cell AI biomarker discovery company, announced today a strategic partnership to increase the success rate of novel cancer therapies in the clinic, as well as to advance personalized cancer treatment.
This long-term strategic partnership aims at integrating Nilogen Oncosytems' proprietary 3D-EXplore Platform of fresh patient tumor tissue with Scailyte's AI Platform ScaiVision™ to develop a robust cutting-edge omics engine for personalized drug-tumor interactions to understand drug MoA and predict tumor response in patients for clinical trials enrichment.
The joint platform will unlock new paradigms in drug discovery and development thanks to Nilogen Oncosytems' unique 3D EXplore tumoroid technology retaining the intact tumor microenvironment, and to the ability of ScaiVision™ to detect complex, ultra-sensitive, and predictive molecular signatures in biological samples.
"Nilogen Oncosystems' capability to generate omics and multi-modal data from each therapeutic option and for each patient is unique. This capability in combination with Scailyte's ability to unlock molecular insights with single cell resolution creates an unprecedented level of personalized information and precision. This will not just change the way we discover and develop novel therapies, but more importantly will save more lives", said Juana Lucia Flores-Candia, VP Strategy & Business Development at Scailyte.
"We are pleased to be working with Scailyte since I believe our integrated solutions will not only support our BioPharma clients for faster, data-driven decision making throughout their drug development process but will also allow us to advance precision medicine applications for the treatment of cancer patients" said Soner Altiok, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Nilogen Oncosystems.
Founded in 2013, Nilogen Oncosystems, LLC is an Oncology drug development company with CLIA certified facilities in Tampa, FL. At Nilogen, we appreciate the complexity of cancer and use fresh patient tumor samples with intact tumor immune microenvironment in our 3D-EXplore preclinical drug testing platform. This holistic approach allows us to develop integrated solutions for a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of drug sensitivity and resistance. Our goal is to enable the development of more effective drug and drug combinations, and reduce the cost and risk associated with clinical trials. Nilogen's commitment to testing and customizing cancer drug development is proven and yields unparalleled results for its clients.
For more information, visit www.nilogen.com and connect on social media @LinkedIn.
Scailyte AG is a spin-off of ETH Zurich and combines single-cell technologies, high-quality datasets and machine learning methods to identify disease-specific biomarkers, with focus on oncology and immunology. Scailyte's proprietary best-in-class data analysis platform ScaiVision associates multimodal single-cell datasets (RNA-/TCR-/BCR-seq, proteomics, etc) with clinical endpoints, such as disease diagnosis, progression, severity, treatment response, in order to identify ultra-sensitive biomarker signatures. Thanks to the single-cell resolution and AI-driven approach, ScaiVision is the most powerful and cutting-edge approach to precise diagnosis and prediction of therapy response. Scailyte leverages a broad network of top clinicians to identify clinical indications with high unmet clinical needs and collaborates with global pharmaceutical and biotech companies to translate the novel biomarkers into ultra-sensitive companion diagnostics (CDx) or IVD assays.
For more information, visit www.scailyte.com and connect on social media @LinkedIn and @Twitter.
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‘Find of a lifetime’: 8-year-old discovers giant prehistoric shark tooth
(WGAL) - A young archaeologist made quite a find while vacationing with his family.
Riley Gracely, 8, recently unearthed a prehistoric shark tooth when the family stopped by an educational fossil-hunting expedition with Palmetto Fossil Excursions.
The 8-year-old and his family have collected hundreds of shark teeth during their annual trips.
And while the family has found some impressive artifacts in the past, Riley was on the lookout.
“When this year came along, he was thinking, ‘OK, it’s my turn, I got to get something this time,’” said Justin Gracely, Riley’s father.
And he did. Riley said he spotted a fossilized shark tooth stuck in a pile of dirt.
“As soon as I saw it, I was like, ‘I’m going to wait until everybody comes around,” Riley said.
The tooth measured nearly 5 inches, and the family believes the giant tooth is from a pretty large and ancient shark, likely dating back more than 22 million years.
“I think it predates the megalodon. It’s called an angustiden,” Justin Gracely said.
The tooth can be identified by the matching cups on each side and is likely worth around $2,000.
Palmetto Fossil Excursions congratulated Riley on its social media, calling it a “find of a lifetime.”
Riley said he’s not done yet in his fossil excursions, even after such a find.
‘I want to go back to find more big teeth so I can add them to my collection,” Riley said.
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Industrial and multi-family housing continue growth, office remains stagnant, and retail continues a slow comeback
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Summer 2022 Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Commercial Real Estate Survey shows that there is much more optimism about the next three years than the barrage of negative news about the economy might suggest. The current survey reveals that the optimism shown in last winter's survey for office and retail markets turning positive in the near-term was premature, but that the prevailing sentiment for those markets remains one of confidence in the longer-term. Meanwhile, optimism for industrial and multi-family markets remains, though at a more tempered pitch than was shown six months ago.
The biannual survey polls a panel of California real estate professionals to project a three-year-ahead outlook for California's commercial real estate industry and forecast potential opportunities and challenges affecting the office, multi-family, retail, and industrial sectors.
The continued persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed the previously optimistic trajectory of the office market as a return to the workplace for many employees continues to be delayed. With investors becoming more cautious due to the increased uncertainty about near-term economic prospects, the optimism for the office market in the previous survey shifts to a downturn in Southern California, with a more neutral view in Northern California. Office development sentiment has remained slightly optimistic in the Bay Area, though there are not yet plans in place to increase the rate of development. Though the return to the office has been delayed, there are signs that this pessimism is temporary — companies will ultimately put into place plans to return their workforce to the office, and there will eventually be a need for new office development that will provide for this new office landscape.
With industrial markets seeing consistently high occupancy rates and superior lease rate growth over the past few years, sentiment for new industrial projects has been consistently positive, including in the latest survey. This is in large part due to the fact that rapid industrial development has barely kept up with absorption, leaving plenty of demand for additional supply. Consistently high occupancy rates and superior lease rate growth have kept the optimism high for all industrial markets. The current survey predicts more of the same — that significant future increases in demand will outstrip planned and projected 2025 supply. This view of an even tighter market stems in part from the fact that demand in the last few years has driven vacancy rates to their astonishingly low levels.
Despite the pandemic-induced demand for homes in the suburbs and a continued work-from-home culture, optimism continues about the coming three years, though it is slightly less than a year ago. In this survey, it is forecast for every market that rental rates will increase faster than the rate of inflation and vacancy rates will fall between now and 2025. Although the continued waves of the pandemic delayed some return to the office, the reopening of city amenities and the creative and social value derived from urban experiences are attractors that are expected to prompt increased multi-family living in urban areas, particularly among younger workers.
Two other factors are also driving new multi-family development — the inland parts of California are experiencing growth in logistics and infrastructure construction and a series of state laws—SB8, SB9 and SB10—have superseded some local building approval processes, opened land currently zoned for single-family homes to the construction of small multi-family structures, and reduced barriers to multi-family construction in transit corridors.
Despite a looming recession and continued economic uncertainty, retail sentiment continues to rebound from the bottom of the cycle. The latest survey indicates optimism in most markets aside from San Francisco and Los Angeles, where pessimism continues due to many people continuing to work from home and a lack of foreign tourism. In the other markets, a limited return to the office has increased the demand for retail in the core of each city, while the building of new housing throughout California has created a demand for new retail close to that housing. There is also expected to be a demand for the reconfiguration of retail establishments to a more open-air, post-COVID concept that will attract consumers back to stores. The booming housing market will continue to generate demand for retail throughout the state, leading to a turnaround in retail development and a new retail building cycle that should begin before the end of 2025.
The Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Commercial Real Estate Survey and Index polled a panel of California real estate professionals in the development and investment markets, on various aspects of the commercial real estate market. The survey is designed to capture incipient activity by commercial real estate developers. To achieve this goal, the panel looks at the markets three years in the future, and building conditions over the three-year period. The survey was initiated by Allen Matkins and the UCLA Anderson Forecast in 2006, in furtherance of their interest in improving the quality of current information and forecasts of commercial real estate.
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Group Advocates for Secure Retirement and Greater Financial Resilience on Behalf of 8 Million Individual Investors and Youth
ST. LOUIS, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the 37th time, financial services firm Edward Jones' Grassroots Legislative Task Force is set to meet with US legislators on July 26-28 in Washington, D.C., to discuss and advocate for issues on the minds of individual investors and business owners. The theme for this year's meeting is "Activating our Purpose," where Edward Jones' financial advisors and branch office administrators will advocate for bipartisan retirement savings legislation to help more Americans save for a secure and dignified retirement and promote greater financial education and wellness.
"Now in our centennial year, we serve 8 million clients in 3,000 communities in a human-centered way and our nearly 19,000 financial advisors have a unique perspective on how the needs of individual investors are changing in unprecedented ways – what they need, what they value, and what it will take to help them achieve financial health and well-being," said Lamell McMorris, Edward Jones Principal, Head of Policy, Regulatory and Government Relations. "Our opportunity is to reach 40 million families in North America and our commitment is to grow the impact we're able to make. It's deeply connected to our purpose which is to partner for positive impact, to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society."
The Grassroots Legislative Task Force, a group of financial advisors and branch office administrators from all 50 states, remains the securities industry's only volunteer advocacy organization that travels to Washington, D.C., each year to speak out on issues of importance to the individual investor. The group is dedicated to being the voice of individual investors to federal and state lawmakers.
Members of the Grassroots Legislative Task Force will hear from a variety of speakers including Ken Dychtwald, Founder and CEO of Age Wave, and Lauren Bernstein, EVERFI Executive Vice President and Head of Account Management, two of the firm's strategic alliances on the topics of longevity and the new retirement and the importance of financial education and empowerment programs, respectively.
"As we look to our next 100 years, we're transforming to achieve our purpose, grow our impact and help enable every client, colleague and community we serve to achieve what's most important to them," said McMorris. "We are hyper-local and are in more communities than anyone in our industry with branch offices in 97% of Congressional districts. This uniquely positions us to advocate for the issues that are most important to individual investors and businesses and share how policies can have 'real world' impacts in terms of improving people's lives."
According to new research Edward Jones conducted with Age Wave and Harris Poll, Americans are changing the definition of retirement, and 69% say they want to live to age 100. Over the past few years, the Grassroots Legislative Task Force has focused on building momentum for bills that will strengthen millions of Americans' retirements, and this year, there is an added layer of focus on enhancing financial education and confidence.
During the meeting, McMorris will outline the group's current legislative priorities, including:
- Establishing a new catch-up contribution to help workers 60 and older who have not been able to save sufficiently for retirement.
- Increasing the required minimum distribution age from 72 to 75 to help more workers who are working and living longer to save longer.
- Enhancing the small business start-up tax credit, which will enable many small businesses across the country to provide retirement benefits to their employees.
- Permitting employers to make matching contributions with respect to student loan repayments that will help workers burdened with large student loan debt to start saving for retirement.
- Launching The Military Spouses Retirement Security Act, which helps address the unique challenges military spouses face in saving for retirement by providing a tax credit of up to $500 to small businesses to make military spouses eligible more quickly for retirement benefits.
"We know that advised individuals have more confidence and have a minimum of 25% more assets than non-advised individuals.* Therefore, we want to talk about the value our financial advisors and our industry provide to clients," McMorris added. "When we can provide financial knowledge to young people, we know they make smarter financial decisions and are more prepared to enter adulthood feeling more confident about their financial future."
In addition to this year's meeting, members of the Edward Jones Grassroots Legislative Task Force have been meeting with federal elected officials and staff to discuss the benefits of financial education to build a stable financial future for more Americans and youth.
In 2020, Edward Jones launched its Financial Fitness education curriculum in conjunction with EVERFI, which helps high school and college students understand how money works, create smart financial habits and ultimately, build financial resilience to increase financial security and freedom in the future.
"There are ways we can build new pathways to economic equality and opportunity, beginning with access to advice and services to strengthen individuals' financial futures. McMorris said. "We can start by investing in our youth. Youth education and development are key to reversing any trends that have negatively impacted communities for generations and still do today."
Edward Jones, a Fortune 500 firm, provides financial services in the U.S. and through its affiliate in Canada. The firm's nearly 19,000 financial advisors serve more than 8 million clients with a total of $1.7 trillion in client assets under care. Edward Jones' purpose is to partner for positive impact to improve the lives of its clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. Through the dedication of the firm's 50,000 associates and our branch presence in 68 percent of U.S. counties, the firm is committed to helping more people achieve financially what is most important to them. The Edward Jones website is at www.edwardjones.com, and its recruiting Web site is www.careers.edwardjones.com. Member SIPC.
*(Source: Oliver Wyman/Marsh & McLennan: "The Role of Financial Advisors in the U.S. Retirement Market")
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Federal judge blocks Arizona’s ‘personhood’ abortion law
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge in Phoenix on Monday blocked a 2021 state “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children and that abortion rights groups said put providers at risk of prosecution for a variety of crimes.
U.S. District Judge Douglas Rayes said in his written ruling that the groups that sued to block the law are right - it is “anyone’s guess,” as the state acknowledged, what criminal laws abortion providers may be breaking if they perform otherwise-legal abortions.
“And that is the problem,” Rayes wrote. “When the punitive and regulatory weight of the entire Arizona code is involved, Plaintiffs should not have to guess at whether their conduct is on the right or the wrong side of the law.”
It is unclear if abortions that have been halted in Arizona since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that women do not have a constitutional right to abortion would restart. Abortion providers stopped virtually all procedures because a pre-1901 banning all abortions that may be in effect and other laws created too much risk.
At least in Pima County, where the 1901 law remains blocked, they could be legal, although Attorney General Mark Brnovich plans to ask a court to lift that order and allow enforcement.
Rayes had refused to block the personhood law last year, but abortion rights groups renew their request after Roe v. Wade was struck down.
They argued that providers fear they could be charged with child abuse, assault or a litany of other crimes, and that the law was unconstitutionally vague.
The attorney general’s office told the judge that the personhood law created no new criminal laws, but admitted in their court filings that prosecutors and courts could have a different view.
Abortion rights groups hailed the ruling, which is almost certain to be appealed.
“The Supreme Court’s catastrophic decision overturning Roe v. Wade has unleashed chaos on the ground, leaving Arizona residents scrambling to figure out if they can get the abortion care they need. People should not have to live in a state of fear when accessing or providing essential healthcare. We will continue our fight to preserve abortion access in Arizona and across the country.”
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Democrats accuse oil companies of ‘rip off’ on gas prices
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats on Wednesday accused oil companies of “ripping off the American people” and putting profits before production as Americans suffer from ever-increasing gasoline prices amid the war in Ukraine.
“At a time of record profits, Big Oil is refusing to increase production to provide the American people some much needed relief at the gas pump,” said Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Oil executives, testifying before Congress for the second time in six months, responded that oil is a global market and that oil companies don’t dictate prices.
“We do not control the market price of crude oil or natural gas, nor of refined products like gasoline and diesel fuel, and we have no tolerance for price gouging,” said Chevron CEO Mike Wirth.
The hearing comes as President Joe Biden has ordered the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve for six months, a bid to control energy prices that have spiked after the United States and allies imposed steep sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. The national average gas price was $4.16 a gallon for regular on Wednesday, up from $2.87 a year ago, according to AAA.
Biden and other Democrats have blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin and the U.S. oil industry, citing reports that oil companies have made record profits in recent months, as prices have risen following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“This is the Biden price hike,’’ countered Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state, the committee’s top Republican.
She said prices were increasing before Russia invaded Ukraine in late February. “The American people are too smart and have not fallen for this” claim by Biden and other Democrats, McMorris Rodgers said, calling the hearing “purely political.”
ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods told the committee that his company stands with communities around the world “in deploring Russia’s aggression and the devastation it has inflicted on the Ukrainian people.’’ Exxon has halted investments in Russia and is withdrawing from operations there, Woods said.
Exxon is increasing production in the United States, Woods said, including in the oil-rich Permian Basin in New Mexico and Texas. The company also is increasing production outside the U.S., including “a world-class development in Guyana,’’ Woods said.
Biden has called on Congress to impose financial penalties on companies that lease public lands but don’t produce oil, a request that so far has been ignored. Biden also invoked the Defense Production Act to encourage mining of critical minerals for batteries in electric vehicles, part of a broader push to shift to reduce use of fossil fuels and address climate change.
“The bottom line is if we want lower gas prices we need to have more oil supply right now,” Biden said last week in announcing the release of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. “This is a moment of consequence and peril for the world, and pain at the pump for American families.”
Higher prices have hurt Biden’s approval domestically and added billions of oil-export dollars to the Russian government as it wages war on Ukraine.
The release of oil from the U.S. stockpile could reduce oil prices, although Biden has twice ordered releases from the reserves without causing a meaningful shift in oil markets. Biden said last week he expects gasoline prices could drop “fairly significantly.”
Oil companies have pledged to boost domestic production, but it is growing slowly. Executives point to supply chain and labor constraints, as well as investor demands for returns and have called for more federal permits to allow additional leases.
Under questioning from Pallone, Woods and other CEOs said oil companies have no plans to halt payments of dividends to stockholders or to restrict stock buybacks that have enriched shareholders and company executives. The six companies at the hearing recorded $77 billion in profits last year, they told Pallone.
Besides Exxon and Chevron, other companies represented at the hearing were Shell, BP, Pioneer Natural Resources and Devon Energy.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A play as unlikely as a blocked extra point with no time remaining made Florida State quarterback Jordan Travis’ highlight-filled performance stand up — and spared Seminoles coach Mike Norvell from having to endure an ignominious collapse.
Shyheim Brown’s deflection of Damian Ramos’ kick sent the ball into the crossbar and gave Florida State a 24-23 victory over LSU on Sunday night that spoiled Brian Kelly’s debut as Tigers coach.
“Obviously, there at the end, you know, we had some things that happened that we just can’t have,” said Norvell, who has Florida State off to its first 2-0 start since 2016. “But the one thing that happened on the last play is what we absolutely need.”
LSU’s improbable comeback bid came despite a slew of mistakes, including a muffed punt with 2:15 left.
Florida State’s Treshaun Ward fumbled at the LSU 1 with 1:20 to go, and Tigers quarterback Jayden Daniels drove LSU for a touchdown on a 2-yard pass to Jaray Jenkins with no time left.
With LSU fans celebrating an apparent two-touchdown comeback in the final 4:07 — and Florida State fans bracing for what could have gone down as an infamous implosion — Brown’s block sent the Seminoles streaming triumphantly onto the field.
“I just had a big smile on my face and a couple of tears thinking about how much we have been through as a football team,” said Travis, who passed for 260 yards and two touchdowns. “To end the game like that is really special. The game really shouldn’t have been that close from the jump. But a win is a win.”
Travis’ scoring passes came on a 39-yard throw to Ontaria Wilson on a flea flicker and a 27-yard pass that Wilson corralled with one hand. Travis also rushed for 31 yards on a combination of designed runs and scrambles, repeatedly leaving LSU pass rushers grasping air as he spun or darted away from pressure.
“We had him dead to rights on two or three occasions and we didn’t get him on the ground,” Kelly said. “When you don’t get that kid on the ground, he makes some really good impromptu plays.”
Tens of thousands of garnet and gold-clad spectators helped sell out the Superdome and left happy after Florida State — coming off four straight losing seasons — prolonged a promising start to Norvell’s third season.
This game was arguably more meaningful to Norvell than Kelly, who was lured from Notre Dame with a decade-long, $100 million contract designed to give him time to remake LSU football in his image.
Daniels, a transfer from Arizona State, started after a tight competition in camp with Garrett Nussmeier. He completed 26 of 35 passes for 209 yards and two TDS, both to Jenkins. Daniels also rushed for 114 yards.
Another transfer, running back Noah Cain (from Penn State), scored LSU’s first TD from a yard out on fourth down late in the third quarter to make it 17-10.
Travis marched the Seminoles right back to the end zone, highlighted by a 15-yard completion to Johnny Wilson as the elusive QB jumped away from closing defenders. DJ Lundy finished the drive with a 1-yard TD run to make it 24-10 with 9:04 to go.
LSU took its only lead, at 3-0, on its first possession. But that drive stalled shortly after Garrett Dellinger, in his first game at center, snapped the ball over Daniels’ head on second and goal from the FSU 5.
FSU’s lead was 7-3 at halftime after both teams blew red-zone opportunities.
LSU’s line didn’t look ready when the ball was snapped on a field goal attempt, and Jared Varse knifed in to block Ramos’ kick.
The Seminoles couldn’t cash in on Malik Nabers first of two muffed punts, which FSU recovered on the LSU 16. Norvell kept the offense on the field on fourth and 2 from the 8, and Travis’ pass to the far corner of the end zone fell incomplete.
TAKEAWAY
Florida State: Travis’ combination of scrambling and passing ability gave LSU’s defense fits in ways that showed up more in the Seminoles’ 392 net yards than in the final score.
LSU: The offensive line remains a work in progress and at times looked like a liability. Daniels had to scramble often and was the Tigers leading rusher by 91 yards.
INJURIES
LSU: Starting defensive end Maason Smith left the game in the first quarter after his knee appeared to buckle. He’s expected to have an MRI on Monday.
EJECTED
LSU lost a second defensive end when team captain Ali Gaye was ejected for a targeting foul against Travis as the QB released a touchdown pass in the third quarter.
NEXT UP
Florida State: Visits Louisville to open its ACC slate on Sept. 16.
LSU: Hosts Southern on Saturday night.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, August 27, 2022, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, Healthy Americas Foundation, and the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition will celebrate their 16th annual ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® event in Chicago. The event includes free health screenings, COVID-19 tests and vaccines and boosters, cooking demonstrations, health and wellness activities for the whole family, and referrals to community health services. Walkaround Elmo from Sesame Street® will be on hand to greet kids and families, while free Sesame Street in Communities resources are distributed. The 2022 event series is sponsored nationally by the Siemens Foundation.
"Prevenir es curar. Food is medicine. Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving! embraces this. Physical activity is not only important among adults, but also in children. This event stresses the importance of healthy living, good nutrition, and decreasing chronic illnesses such as obesity and diabetes. Keep your heart healthy, keep YOURSELF healthy!" said Esther Sciammarella, CEO of the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition.
"Reducing health disparities requires a multi-faceted approach, including continuous preventative care and early detection. We're honored to provide our CLINITEST® Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test to the local health fair participants as part of this effort," said Dave Pacitti, President, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.; Head of the Americas, Siemens Healthineers; and member of the Siemens Foundation Board of Directors. "We're committed to advancing health equity by promoting primary healthcare, diagnostic screening, workforce training for the healthcare sector, and capital loan support for community clinics, and thrilled to support ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® in Chicago," concluded David Etzwiler, CEO of Siemens Foundation.
"It is especially important that communities have access to health screenings, given the millions of important screenings that were missed or delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic." said Dr. Jane Delgado, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the nation's leading Hispanic health advocacy group. "We also celebrate the 16th year of ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® in Chicago with the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition as well all the efforts to support individuals and families have the best health possible."
In addition, the event will feature the All of Us Research Program, a historic effort to gather data from one million or more people living in the US to accelerate research and improve health.
What: ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® event featuring:
- Free Health Screenings: HIV/STI, mammograms, dental screenings for children, COVID-19 vaccines, Monkeypox tests
- Fitness: Zumba
- Healthy snacks: produce giveaway and nutrition education
- Family fun: Live music, raffles and much more!
- Science: Featuring the All of Us Research Program
Where: McKinley Park Fieldhouse, 2210 W Pershing Rd., Chicago, IL 60609
When: Saturday, August 27, 2022 from 10:00am to 2:00pm
Cost: FREE!
To find a ¡Vive tu vida! Get Up! Get Moving!® event in your city, please visit www.healthyamericas.org/get-up-get-moving. To learn more about the All of Us Research Program, please visit www.JoinAllofUs.org/juntos.
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Classic 1996 performance is available on triple vinyl, 2-CD & digital
LOS ANGELES, April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 10, rock icons KISS will release the next installment of their popular Off The Soundboard official live bootleg series with KISS – Off The Soundboard: Live At Donington 1996, recorded during the Monsters Of Rock Festival at Donington Park in England on August 17, 1996. This is the latest in a series of live releases by the band and will be available to stream and download, with a 3-LP standard black vinyl set, a 2-CD set, and a limited edition 3-LP set pressed on 180g red vinyl available exclusively through the Official KISS online store and can be pre-ordered, HERE.
KISS – Off The Soundboard: Live At Donington 1996 was recorded during the final year of the original run of the renowned annual music festival held at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England, and the 17-song set features powerhouse performances of classic KISS concert staples such as "Do You Love Me," "Shout It Out Loud," "God Of Thunder," and the title song from their 1976 multi-platinum Top Five album Love Gun. KISS closed the festival on this date, which was also part of the highly anticipated Alive/Worldwide reunion tour featuring Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss, making KISS – Off The Soundboard: Live At Donington 1996 a stunning sonic souvenir of this moment in KISStory.
KISS is globally recognized as one of the greatest live bands of all time and are the creators of what is universally considered the best live album ever, 1975's gold-certified and No. 9 Billboard charting Alive!. The KISS – Off The Soundboard series continues their storied legacy of groundbreaking live albums with a document of the spectacular, larger-than-life extravaganza that is a KISS concert.
Known for their trademark performances, KISS has proven for decades why they are hands down the most iconic live show in rock n roll. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers have sold more than 100 million albums worldwide and are America's #1 Gold Record Award winning group of all time in every category. Peerless as a live act, the band's illustrious legacy has been marked by record breaking global tours during a remarkable 49-year career.
2CD
CD1
- Deuce
- King Of The Night Time World
- Do You Love Me?
- Calling Dr. Love
- Cold Gin
- Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll
- Shout It Out Loud
- Watchin' You
- Firehouse
- Shock Me
CD2
- Strutter
- God of Thunder
- Love Gun
- 100,000 Years
- Black Diamond
- Detroit Rock City
- Rock And Roll All Nite
3LP
Disc 1
- Deuce (Side A)
- King Of The Night Time World (Side A)
- Do You Love Me? (Side A)
- Calling Dr. Love (Side A)
- Cold Gin (Side B)
- Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll (Side B)
- Shout It Out Loud (Side B)
Disc 2
- Watchin' You (Side A)
- Firehouse (Side A)
- Shock Me (Side A)
- Strutter (Side B)
- God of Thunder (Side B)
Disc 3
- Love Gun (Side A)
- 100,000 Years (Side A)
- Black Diamond (Side A)
- Detroit Rock City (Side B)
- Rock And Roll All Nite (Side B)
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Trust Group (RTG) partnered with leaders from The University of Tennessee (UT) Medical Center, OrthoTennessee, and UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm to develop a new orthopaedic institute in Knoxville, TN.
"This joint venture facility provides the opportunity to better serve patients in the community of Knoxville. The development of the new facility will allow the orthopaedic surgeons to expand and continue to provide high-quality orthopaedic care in a more convenient, lower-cost setting, which was an important factor in the development of this facility," said Joe Landsman, CEO UT Medical Center.
The 91,000-square-foot facility was first announced in 2018, and construction began in October 2020. The first floor of the three-story building serves as the ambulatory surgery center, which includes five operating rooms and an advanced imaging center. The second and third floors house clinical, research, and administrative areas. The facility comprehensively meets patients' clinical, surgical, imaging, and therapy needs in one location.
"From a planning standpoint, one of the unique parts of this project was that it was not only our organization that had a particular vision of this project, but it was a project that was in partnership with UT Medical Center and the UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm. All three parties had a unique vision of what they wanted to see accomplished, and RTG had to be able to navigate those things, and they did that successfully," said Jon-David Deeson, CEO OrthoTennessee.
"We were grateful that RTG took the time and walked us through a very comprehensive planning process to anticipate certain aspects of a project like this that we would not have been able to do on our own. We have continued to seek their advice and expertise around real estate matters and future development projects for our organization," said Deeson.
Fourteen orthopaedic surgeons from OrthoTennessee will practice at the new location and offer a broad array of clinical, imaging, diagnostic, surgical, rehabilitative care, and therapy services. The facility represents an ongoing partnership to collaboratively meet the changing medical needs of the greater community in East Tennessee.
To learn more about RTG's capabilities and who we serve, including real estate development for healthcare and life science facilities, visit our website.
Realty Trust Group, LLC (RTG) is a nationally recognized real estate advisory and services firm serving the healthcare and life science industry since 1998. With objective, accountable, and trusted expertise, RTG provides innovative healthcare real estate solutions through a full platform of advisory, development, transactions, operations, and regulatory compliance services.
RTG acts as an extension of healthcare leadership teams, working to leverage real estate as a strategic asset to support broader organizational objectives. In a rapidly changing healthcare industry, RTG provides real estate strategies that gain market share, enhance patient experience, and increase speed to market. These solutions include strategic planning, portfolio optimization, capital strategies, facility feasibility and development, transaction support, portfolio management, regulatory compliance, and other tailored client solutions.
For more information about RTG, visit www.realtytrustgroup.com, Facebook, and LinkedIn, or call 865-521-0630.
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OSLO, Norway, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nordic Nanovector ASA (OSE: NANOV) today provides an update on PARADIGME, its ongoing Phase 2b trial of Betalutin® (177Lu lilotomab satetraxetan) in 3rd-line relapsed rituximab/anti-CD20 refractory follicular lymphoma (3L R/R FL).
As highlighted at the recent Q1 results, reported on 13 May 2022, recruitment into PARADIGME has been slower than anticipated, and despite ongoing efforts by the company this has continued into Q2 with no additional patients enrolled in May.
As a result, the Board of Nordic Nanovector has decided to conduct a comprehensive review of all aspects of the PARADIGME study. In order to fully protect the integrity of the study an independent evaluation of the data collected to date has been commissioned and will be analysed by an Independent Expect Panel. This information will then be used to determine the best path forward for the study. PARADIGME will continue to enrol patients while the independent evaluation is ongoing.
The current guidance for delivery of initial top line data from PARADIGME in the second half of this year will be reviewed concurrently.
The Board expects to report on the findings of the review of PARADIGME no later than the Q2 results to be released on 20 July 2022 and will not be commenting further until the review is complete.
The Board believes that this review of PARADIGME is in the best interests of all shareholders and the patients who Nordic Nanovector is targeting in this study to determine the optimal path forward for Betalutin® within a timeframe that is financially and commercially viable.
For further information, please contact:
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Cell: +44 7561 431 762
Email: ir@nordicnanovector.com
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Tel: +44 203 928 6900
Email: nordicnanovector@medistrava.com
About Nordic Nanovector:
Nordic Nanovector is committed to develop and deliver innovative therapies to patients to address major unmet medical needs and advance cancer care. The Company aspires to become a leader in the development of targeted therapies for haematological cancers. Nordic Nanovector's lead clinical-stage candidate is Betalutin®, a novel CD37-targeting radioimmunotherapy designed to advance the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). NHL is an indication with substantial unmet medical need, representing a growing market forecast to be worth nearly USD 29 billion by 2026. Nordic Nanovector retains global marketing rights to Betalutin® and intends to actively participate in the commercialisation of Betalutin® in the US and other major markets.
Further information can be found at www.nordicnanovector.com.
Forward-looking statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances, since they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future and which, by their nature, will have an impact on Nordic Nanovector's business, financial condition and results of operations. The terms "anticipates", "assumes", "believes", "can", "could", "estimates", "expects", "forecasts", "intends", "may", "might", "plans", "should", "projects", "targets", "will", "would" or, in each case, their negative, or other variations or comparable terminology are used to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not historic facts. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause these differences include, but are not limited to, risks associated with implementation of Nordic Nanovector's strategy, risks and uncertainties associated with the development and/or approval of Nordic Nanovector's product candidates, ongoing and future clinical trials and expected trial results, the ability to commercialise Betalutin®, technology changes and new products in Nordic Nanovector's potential market and industry, Nordic Nanovector's freedom to operate (competitors patents) in respect of the products it develops, the ability to develop new products and enhance existing products, the impact of competition, changes in general economy and industry conditions, and legislative, regulatory and political factors. No assurance can be given that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Nordic Nanovector disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
This information is subject to a duty of disclosure pursuant to Section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
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Ryan Sanders, co-founder and outgoing CPO, remains co-chair of board of directors
LINDON, Utah, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BambooHR®, the industry's leading cloud-hosted software provider dedicated to powering the strategic evolution of human resources, today announced it has appointed Brian Crofts as its new Chief Product Officer. Co-founder and outgoing CPO, Ryan Sanders, will take a step back from daily operations after 14 years to focus his time and attention as co-chair of the company's board of directors.
"I am honored to join BambooHR as its next Chief Product Officer, and I look forward to working with our tremendous customers, partners, and product and engineering teams to continue to grow our ecosystem of innovative products," said Crofts. "In past roles, I had the opportunity to develop a deep appreciation for HR and people leaders, and I believe BambooHR has an opportunity to build solutions that address the many evolving challenges our customers face each day."
Crofts is a seasoned product expert with deep experience in bringing B2B products to market, with a focus on growing teams and businesses. He served in CPO roles at both Auditboard and Pendo. Prior to Pendo, he spent 11 years at Intuit where he developed well-known products like QuickBooks and TurboTax Personal Pro Business.
"Brian's experience has given him a rare combination of expertise and skills - he can both create and execute at a high level, while also evangelizing a vision and strategy for product development. This, along with his passion for both HR and growing businesses, makes him the perfect fit as our next CPO," said Brad Rencher, CEO of BambooHR. "As a product-led organization, he's the leader we need to drive the innovation required to build solutions to meet today's HR and business challenges. I couldn't be more excited to have him on the team."
For many small and medium-sized businesses, it can be difficult to balance day-to-day operations with an increasingly difficult talent retention environment. BambooHR fills a gap in the market for these businesses by providing an affordable HR solution that includes features they'll actually use. With more than 27,000 customers, BambooHR leads the market and will continue to build products that make the company a trusted partner to HR and business leaders.
"After fourteen years of building BambooHR, I'm proud of the work the team has done to create a product that provides solutions to HR managers' most significant challenges," said Ryan Sanders, co-founder of BambooHR. "We have an amazing opportunity in front of us to capitalize on the product we have built, and I've decided the time is right for me to step away from day-to-day product management. I strongly believe Brian Crofts is the right leader to elevate our product strategy as we focus on innovation and growth moving forward."
In the last five years, BambooHR has grown over five times to become a profitable, self-sustaining business with annual recurring revenue of more than $100 million. Crofts' appointment follows several recent executive hires including Justin Judd as CFO and Anita Grantham as head of people.
About BambooHR®
BambooHR is the world's leading HR and payroll platform for growing businesses. We're on a mission to empower the nearly three million employees across more than 27,000 organizations by giving them intuitive HR tools, insights, and support to curate an exceptional employee experience. The company was founded in 2008 by Ben Peterson and Ryan Sanders, who created a values-focused, award-winning internal culture that then provided inspiration for BambooHR's product and features. BambooHR customers include Asana, Foursquare, Stance, Change.org and Postmates. To find out more, visit bamboohr.com, follow @bamboohr or come join 30,000 other HR change agents at our annual HR Virtual Summit.
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ARLINGTON, Va., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MarginEdge, a leading restaurant management software system, announces their recognition by both the Washington Post and the Washington Business Journal as one of the top places to work in the greater Washington D.C. area for 2022. This is MarginEdge's second year in a row making it onto the Washington Post 200 Best Workplaces list out of over 7,000 nominees, and their first being recognized by the Washington Business Journal.
Both lists recognize excellence in workplace culture and community for employers of all sizes across the D.C. metro area. The rankings are determined by direct employee feedback collected by third-party surveys. MarginEdge was recognized for their collaborative working environment and exceptional employee feedback describing the pride they take in their work and being a part of the MarginEdge team.
"MarginEdge is honored to have been recognized by both the Washington Post and Washington Business Journal for our dedication to our team," said CEO Bo Davis. "Our company culture has stayed true to our five core values even after growing more than 100% in the past year, and I'm proud to lead such a powerful, passionate group. We would not be where we are today without our amazing community."
As a team of former and current hospitality professionals, MarginEdge knows what it takes to run and support successful restaurants. Employees work together to reduce pain points for restaurant operators and carry with them deep empathy for the job because so many of them have been there. The MarginEdge team understands that their success comes down to providing the same service that restaurant operators provide to their guests.
"As we've grown through the years, it's been wonderful to see our close-knit, teamwork-oriented culture remain strong," said Co-Founder Roy Phillips. "Our devotion to supporting the people in the restaurant industry comes from a deep empathy for the hard work they do, and we embody that by motivating each other to help restaurants succeed together."
MarginEdge's mission is to create a world where restaurant operators can focus on the business they love. By using best-in-class technology to eliminate unproductive paperwork and streamline the flow of operational data, MarginEdge is reimagining the back office and freeing restaurants to spend more time on their culinary offerings and guest experiences. Based in Arlington, VA and founded by industry veterans, MarginEdge serves a diverse group of operators from single units and small chains to large franchise and hospitality groups, providing a high impact product that resonates across the hospitality industry. For more information visit marginedge.com.
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Paleontologists find remains of one of the largest dinosaurs
(CNN) - One of Europe’s largest dinosaurs has been discovered in Portugal.
According to researchers from the University of Lisbon, the owner of some private property in Pombal first discovered part of the fossil in 2017. That person contacted paleontologists at the University of Lisbon.
A team from the school began excavating the land, and earlier this month, the researchers recovered remains of hips that were 6.5 feet long.
Based on the size of the hips, paleontologists say the dinosaur was nearly 40 feet tall and more than 80 feet long.
The animal was a sauropod – a group of herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by having a long neck and tail.
Paleontologists say the dinosaur lived around 135 million years ago during the upper Jurassic period.
The researchers plan to continue excavating the property to look for more parts of the skeleton.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Summertime does not mean the sweet tooth needs to go away, in fact, no time of the year means it’s time to put the sweet tooth cravings aside. You deserve to live your best life, and what better way to do so than to celebrate National Hazelnut Cake Day on June 1.
On Wednesday, it’s time to get the apron and oven prepared for a new recipe, hazelnut cake. While it might not be the most popular flavor of cake around the country, it’s sure a strong contender thanks to its delicious, rich, sweet and nutty flavor.
If you don’t want to find a new recipe to try at home, that’s perfectly fine because we want you to have the best experience possible. That’s why we took to Yelp to check out some of the best spots for a slice or whole hazelnut cake around Dallas.
- Haute Sweets Patisserie
- Henk’s European Deli & Black Forest Bakery, located in Lake Highlands
- Dallas Affaires Cake Co, located in Lakewood
- Bisous Bisous Patisserie, located in Uptown
- Deb’s Bakery, located in North Dallas
- The London Baker
- 85°C Bakery Cafe
- Emporium Pies, located in Bishop Arts District
- La Duni Latin Cafe
- Zaguan Latin Cafe and Bakery, located in Oak Lawn | https://cw33.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/where-to-buy-the-best-hazelnut-cake-around-dallas-according-to-yelp/ | 2022-06-01T17:34:57Z |
FRISCO, Texas, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allios, a national supply chain solutions provider for the telecommunications industry, has been named a company for Best Career Growth by Comparably, a workplace culture and corporate brand reputation platform.
Comparably administers surveys over a 12-month period to current employees at thousands of companies across the country. The award reflects top marks for Allios in several workplace experience categories, including compensation, leadership, work-life balance, career growth and benefits, among others.
Headquartered in Frisco, Texas, Allios is a national company that provides digitized supply chain solutions to its customers' most complex project demands. Allios enables its clients to see and manage each aspect of their projects in real-time, streamlining project variables and driving down costs.
"We are honored to be named a company for Best Career Growth," said Gaby Saliby, Chief Executive Officer of Allios. "Maintaining a culture that cultivates and rewards talented and motivated employees who seek to build their careers is central to our corporate philosophy," Saliby continued. "We have several employees, including those in leadership positions, who started with us as entry-level trainees and worked their way into upper management. Career mobility is very important to us, and we seek to provide our employees ample opportunities to advance," Saliby added.
Allios offers training programs to entry- and mid-level employees who have recently graduated or who are new to the supply chain industry, in addition to multiple culture- and team-building activities throughout the year.
"Allios' spot on our list of companies that offer the Best Career Growth nationwide is proof of the company's dedication to providing its employees an excellent opportunity to build and shape their careers," said Comparably Chief Executive Officer Jason Nazar.
The Allios team always has spots for highly motivated individuals looking to build their career in supply chain. Visit the Allios careers page for open positions in your area.
Allios is a U.S.-based supply chain company headquartered in Frisco, Texas that specializes in digital supply chain solutions and advanced logistics for the telecom industry. Allios harnesses the power of data to proactively meet customers' constantly developing demands and provide complete transparency into their projects. For more information about Allios, visit allios.io.
Comparably is a leading workplace culture and corporate brand reputation platform with over 15 million anonymous employee ratings on 70,000 companies. With the most comprehensive data on large and SMB organizations in nearly 20 different workplace categories—based on gender, ethnicity, age, experience, industry, location, education—it is one of the most used SaaS platforms for employer branding and a trusted third-party site for workplace culture and compensation. For more information about Comparably's awards, visit www.comparably.com/news.
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BENSALEM, Pa., Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Weber Inc. ("Weber" or the "Company") (NYSE: WEBR).
Class Period: August 2021 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 27, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Weber investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that Weber was reasonably likely to implement price increases; (2) that, as a result, consumer demand for Weber's products was reasonably likely to decrease; (3) that, due to the resulting inventory buildup, Weber was reasonably likely to run promotions to "enhance retail sell through"; (4) that the foregoing would adversely impact Weber's financial results; and (5) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects, were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.
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TORONTO, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Concerned shareholders of Akanda Corp. ("Akanda" or the "Corporation") have today replaced a majority of the board of directors of the Corporation, with highly-qualified and motivated directors. The concerned shareholders of the Corporation collectively own or control 16,556,779 common shares of the Corporation (representing approximately 54.1% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Akanda), and yesterday passed a written resolution of the shareholders of the Corporation pursuant to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the "Act") removing each of Louisa Mojela, Philip van den Berg, Charles Kié, Gila Jones, Gugu Dingaan and Bridget Baker as directors of the Corporation effective immediately, and electing each of Harvinder Singh, Mohsen Rahimi, Jatinder Dhaliwal and Kathryn Field to fill the vacancies created thereby, to serve the remaining terms of the outgoing directors, or until their successors are elected or appointed. Pursuant to the provisions of the Act, the removal and appointments of directors are effective immediately. Biographical information about the highly qualified and motivated individuals elected by the concerned shareholders are set forth further below.
The actions taken today follow an initial outreach to the former board of directors of Akanda by David Jenkins, a long-standing shareholder of the Corporation. Mr. Jenkins, through his wholly-owned holding company 1306077 B.C. Ltd., owns 2,100,000 common shares of the Corporation, representing approximately 6.8% of the issued and outstanding Akanda shares. Mr. Jenkins had previously communicated to the former Akanda board regarding his frustration over the apparent lack of oversight and strategic direction of the Corporation. The concerned shareholders believe that immediate change was necessary in order to prevent the potentially irreparable harm to the Corporation that may have been caused if the former directors attempted a strategy of entrenchment.
Mr. Jenkins commented: "As a long-term investor in Akanda, I wish to see Akanda managed prudently and professionally, with a view to the long-term best interests of the Corporation. I am grateful for the support of my fellow shareholders who shared my concerns, and I look forward to a brighter future for all Akanda shareholders."
It is expected that the new board of directors of Akanda will soon meet to pass necessary resolutions following the reconstitution of the board concerning certain governance matters, including with respect to the committees of the board and to attend to such other transitional matters as may be required, and that the foregoing will be announced by the Corporation in short order.
Harvinder Singh
Mr. Harvinder Singh studied at Birmingham City University where he received a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Product Design. Mr Singh's long career has spanned over 30 years where he has worked as a CEO, COO and as product director for companies such as Ergolab, Lighting Manufacturing, Transact Network, Heathrow Medical Services among many others. Mr. Singh is regarded highly as a branding expert with a focus on European and far-East markets and has shown numerous occasions the ability to increase the penetration of products into markets by honing and improving them for individual markets and users. Mr Singh has managed successful wholesale businesses and further applied these skills to create highly successful e-commerce and wholesale importer businesses working with oversea vendors to produce significant revenues in sales as well as transactions.
Mohsen Rahimi
Mr. Rahimi studied at the University of British Columbia in the department of Land and Food Systems. Mr. Rahim has management experience in a broad range of sectors, including commercial, retail and international import and export, having held senior positions at Kowsar Holdings and Tin95 Holdings, which are both private investment firms. Mr. Rahimi has accumulated vast retail experience, growing out existing health food chains with multiple locations and millions of dollars in annual gross revenue, while simultaneously operating an active online e-commerce business. In addition to now being a director of Akanda, Mr. Rahimi is a director of Modern Plant Based Foods Inc. and Peakbirch Commerce Inc., both Canadian Securities Exchange listed issuers, and Binovi Technologies Corp., a TSX Venture Exchange listed issuer.
Jatinder Dhaliwal
Mr. Jatinder Dhaliwal is a registered pharmacist, and has significant capital markets experience. Mr. Dhaliwal holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Victoria. He has served as CEO and director of multiple publicly traded cannabis companies. He has served as a director of a licensed producer and extractor. He has extensive knowledge in agricultural, medical and pharmaceutical operations. Mr. Dhaliwal is well versed in the cannabis market from seed to sale from cultivating, extracting, manufacturing, and distributing and quality control of cannabis flower, oils, and concentrates. Mr. Dhaliwal is a certified medical cannabis practitioner. He has overseen operations of numerous retail and commercial operations and implemented various health protocols and technology advances into health and wellness chains.Kathryn Field
Katharyn Field
Ms. Field is currently president of Halo Collective, Inc. (NEO: HALO) (OTCQX: HCANF) ("HALO"), a position she has held since February 2020. From April 2019 through February 2020, Ms. Field served as Chief Strategy Officer at HALO. Ms. Field's resume includes senior positions at notable companies and institutions such as The White House, The Brookings Institution, and Bain & Company. In 2014 she entered the cannabis industry and led the procurement, build out, and sale of one of five original vertically integrated companies with state licenses in Florida. Subsequently, Ms. Field operated a strategy consulting practice focused on cannabis and also worked at MariMed in 2018 as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development. Ms. FIeld holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA with honors from Stanford University. Halo, of which Ms. Field is the President, holds approximately 41% of the voting securities of Akanda.
Tej Virk, a director and the current Chief Executive Officer of Akanda will remain in his position with the Corporation.
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CNN Exclusive: ‘We need ammo. We need fraud examples. We need it this weekend.’ What the Meadows texts reveal about how two Trump congressional allies lobbied the White House to overturn the election.
By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Jamie Gangel, CNN
In the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, almost 100 text messages from two staunch GOP allies of then-President Donald Trump reveal an aggressive attempt to lobby, encourage and eventually warn the White House over its efforts to overturn the election, according to messages obtained by the House select committee and reviewed by CNN.
The texts, which have not been previously reported, were sent by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The text exchanges show that both members of Congress initially supported legal challenges to the election but ultimately came to sour on the effort and the tactics deployed by Trump and his team.
“We’re driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic,” Roy texted Meadows on January 1. That text was first released in December by the House select committee and described as being written by a House Freedom Caucus member. Roy’s authorship has not been previously reported.
When situated in the overall timeline of events between the election and January 6, the series of texts from Lee and Roy provide new details about how two Trump allies went from fierce advocates of the former President’s push to overturn Joe Biden’s win to disheartened bystanders. By January 3, Lee was texting Meadows that the effort “could all backfire badly.”
But shortly after the election, both men were encouraging Trump to keep fighting.
In a series of texts to Meadows on November 7, Lee offered his “unequivocal support for you to exhaust every legal and constitutional remedy at your disposal to restore Americans faith in our elections.”
Lee went on: “This fight is about the fundamental fairness and integrity of our election system. The nation is depending upon your continued resolve. Stay strong and keep fighting Mr. President.”
Also on November 7, Roy wrote to Meadows, “We need ammo. We need fraud examples. We need it this weekend.”
In a statement to CNN, Lee’s communications director, Lee Lonsberry, said, “I’d like to highlight that Senator Lee has been fully transparent,” pointing to how Lee had called for an investigation into claims of fraud in the 2020 election but ultimately recognized Biden as president-elect and voted to certify the electoral results on January 6.
Roy Communications Director Nate Madden told CNN the text messages “speak for themselves.”
An attorney for Meadows did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
A spokesperson for the select committee declined to comment.
A source familiar with the committee’s work tells CNN that Lee’s texts “reflect he was a cheerleader before he was against it. He uses legal language to push blatant conspiracy theorists into the Trump orbit.”
‘Can you help her get in?’
Over a few days in November, Lee lobbied Meadows to get attorney Sidney Powell access to Trump.
“Sydney Powell is saying that she needs to get in to see the president, but she’s being kept away from him,” Lee wrote to Meadows on November 7. “Apparently she has a strategy to keep things alive and put several states back in play. Can you help get her in?”
Lee then sent Meadows Powell’s cell number and her email.
On November 9, Lee again pressed Meadows about Powell, calling her a “straight shooter.”
That same day, Roy warned Meadows about Trump’s approach, texting him, “We must urge the President to tone down the rhetoric, and approach the legal challenge firmly, intelligently and effectively without resorting to throwing wild desperate haymakers or whipping his base into a conspiracy frenzy.”
Then came the now-infamous news conference on November 19, where members of Trump’s legal team — including Powell, Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis — laid out a series of false claims and conspiracy theories about alleged voter fraud.
The messages started to take on a more critical tone.
“Hey brother – we need substance or people are going to break,” Roy texted on November 19, a few hours after the news conference wrapped.
Two hours later, Lee texted Meadows with serious concerns, saying he was “worried about the Powell press conference.”
Lee told Meadows, “The potential defamation liability for the president is significant here.
“For the campaign and for the president personally.
“Unless Powell can back up everything she said, which I kind of doubt she can.”
Meadows responded, “I agree. Very concerned.”
The news conference came as Trump’s legal losses piled up in his effort to challenge the results in key swing states.
From Powell to Eastman
By late November, Lee had shifted away from Powell and started promoting right-wing lawyer John Eastman, who a federal judge in California said last month may have been planning a crime with Trump as they sought to disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the presidential election, calling it “a coup in search of a legal theory.”
Privately Roy was also texting Meadows with support for Eastman, and criticizing Giuliani.
“Have you talked to John Eastman?” Roy texted on November 22. “Get Eastman to file in front of pa board of elections…
“Get data in front of public domain.
“Frigging rudy needs to hush.”
By December, both Republican lawmakers express grave concerns to Meadows about the plan to challenge the certification of the election on January 6.
On December 16, Lee asked Meadows for guidance: “If you want senators to object, we need to hear from you on that ideally getting some guidance on what arguments to raise.
“I think we’re now passed the point where we can expect anyone will do it without some direction and a strong evidentiary argument.”
On December 31 Roy expressed even more concern in a text to Meadows.
“The president should call everyone off. It’s the only path. If we substitute the will of states through electors with a vote by congress every 4 years… we have destroyed the electoral college… Respectfully,” Roy wrote.
By this time, Trump and his allies were working behind the scenes to enlist portions of the federal government in the effort to overturn the election. That included urging Justice Department officials, including then-Attorney General William Barr, to investigate fraud even after the agency had declared there was none. Trump was also putting heavy pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the election on January 6.
In a January 3 text to Meadows, Lee argued that Trump’s effort to have states send alternate slates of electors to Congress was not legitimate.
“I only know that this will end badly for the President unless we have the Constitution on our side,” Lee texted in a note to Meadows. “And unless these states submit new slates of Trump electors pursuant to state law, we do not,” Lee wrote to Meadows.
As CNN has previously reported, the plan to replace authentic electors with fake ones in a handful of swing states was orchestrated by allies of the former President and overseen by his then-attorney Giuliani.
None of those alternate slates of pro-Trump electors received sign-off from state officials or were put before Congress.
While Lee and Roy both voted to certify the electoral results in favor of Biden, more than 100 of their GOP colleagues in both the House and Senate did not. Chief among them were Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri, both of whom Lee called out in his texts to Meadows.
“I have grave concerns with the way my friend Ted is going about this effort,” Lee wrote to Meadows. “This will not inure to the benefit of the president.”
Lee added that unless new, competing slates of electors were put forward in accordance with state law, the net effect “could help people like Ted and Josh to the detriment of DJT.”
When January 6 finally came, neither Lee nor Roy joined their colleagues in objecting to the 2020 presidential election results.
After the violence unfolded and Congress returned to session, Roy said on the House floor, “The President should never have spun up certain Americans to believe something that simply cannot be.”
He also texted Meadows, “This is a sh*tshow.
“Fix this now.”
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NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that International Business Machines Corporation made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Strategic Imperatives Revenue and growth, CAMSS and CAMSS Components' revenue and growth, and the Company's Segments' revenue and growth were artificially inflated as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives Revenue; (ii) the Company's present success and positive future growth prospects concerning its Strategic Imperative business strategy were being fueled by the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperative Revenue and, as a result (iii) the Company misled the market by portraying the Company's Strategic Imperative's financial performance and future prospects more favorable than they actually were as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in IBM you have until June 6, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting misinformation or foreign interference in U.S. elections as the November midterm vote approaches.
It’s a sharp departure from the social media giant’s multibillion-dollar efforts to enhance the accuracy of posts about U.S. elections and regain trust from lawmakers and the public after their outrage over learning the company had exploited people’s data and allowed falsehoods to overrun its site during the 2016 campaign.
The pivot is raising alarm about Meta’s priorities and about how some might exploit the world’s most popular social media platforms to spread misleading claims, launch fake accounts and rile up partisan extremists.
“They’re not talking about it,” said former Facebook policy director Katie Harbath, now the CEO of the tech and policy firm Anchor Change. “Best case scenario: They’re still doing a lot behind the scenes. Worst case scenario: They pull back, and we don’t know how that’s going to manifest itself for the midterms on the platforms.”
Since last year, Meta has shut down an examination into how falsehoods are amplified in political ads on Facebook by indefinitely banishing the researchers from the site.
CrowdTangle, the online tool that the company offered to hundreds of newsrooms and researchers so they could identify trending posts and misinformation across Facebook or Instagram, is now inoperable on some days.
Public communication about the company’s response to election misinformation has gone decidedly quiet. Between 2018 and 2020, the company released more than 30 statements that laid out specifics about how it would stifle U.S. election misinformation, prevent foreign adversaries from running ads or posts around the vote and subdue divisive hate speech.
Top executives hosted question and answer sessions with reporters about new policies. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facebook posts promising to take down false voting information and authored opinion articles calling for more regulations to tackle foreign interference in U.S. elections via social media.
But this year Meta has only released a one-page document outlining plans for the fall elections, even as potential threats to the vote remain clear. Several Republican candidates are pushing false claims about the U.S. election across social media. In addition, Russia and China continue to wage aggressive social media propaganda campaigns aimed at further political divides among American audiences.
Meta says that elections remain a priority and that policies developed in recent years around election misinformation or foreign interference are now hard-wired into company operations.
“With every election, we incorporate what we’ve learned into new processes and have established channels to share information with the government and our industry partners,” Meta spokesman Tom Reynolds said.
He declined to say how many employees would be on the project to protect U.S. elections full time this year.
During the 2018 election cycle, the company offered tours and photos and produced head counts for its election response war room. But The New York Times reported the number of Meta employees working on this year’s election had been cut from 300 to 60, a figure Meta disputes.
Reynolds said Meta will pull hundreds of employees who work across 40 of the company’s other teams to monitor the upcoming vote alongside the election team, with its unspecified number of workers.
The company is continuing many initiatives it developed to limit election misinformation, such as a fact-checking program started in 2016 that enlists the help of news outlets to investigate the veracity of popular falsehoods spreading on Facebook or Instagram. The Associated Press is part of Meta’s fact-checking program.
This month, Meta also rolled out a new feature for political ads that allows the public to search for details about how advertisers target people based on their interests across Facebook and Instagram.
Yet, Meta has stifled other efforts to identify election misinformation on its sites.
It has stopped making improvements to CrowdTangle, a website it offered to newsrooms around the world that provides insights about trending social media posts. Journalists, fact-checkers and researchers used the website to analyze Facebook content, including tracing popular misinformation and who is responsible for it.
That tool is now “dying,” former CrowdTangle CEO Brandon Silverman, who left Meta last year, told the Senate Judiciary Committee this spring.
Silverman told the AP that CrowdTangle had been working on upgrades that would make it easier to search the text of internet memes, which can often be used to spread half-truths and escape the oversight of fact-checkers, for example.
“There’s no real shortage of ways you can organize this data to make it useful for a lot of different parts of the fact-checking community, newsrooms and broader civil society,” Silverman said.
Not everyone at Meta agreed with that transparent approach, Silverman said. The company has not rolled out any new updates or features to CrowdTangle in more than a year, and it has experienced hourslong outages in recent months.
Meta also shut down efforts to investigate how misinformation travels through political ads.
The company indefinitely revoked access to Facebook for a pair of New York University researchers who they said collected unauthorized data from the platform. The move came hours after NYU professor Laura Edelson said she shared plans with the company to investigate the spread of disinformation on the platform around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which is now the subject of a House investigation.
“What we found, when we looked closely, is that their systems were probably dangerous for a lot of their users,” Edelson said.
Privately, former and current Meta employees say exposing those dangers around the American elections have created public and political backlash for the company.
Republicans routinely accuse Facebook of unfairly censoring conservatives, some of whom have been kicked off for breaking the company’s rules. Democrats, meanwhile, regularly complain the tech company hasn’t gone far enough to curb disinformation.
“It’s something that’s so politically fraught, they’re more trying to shy away from it than jump in head first.” said Harbath, the former Facebook policy director. “They just see it as a big old pile of headaches.”
Meanwhile, the possibility of regulation in the U.S. no longer looms over the company, with lawmakers failing to reach any consensus over what oversight the multibillion-dollar company should be subjected to.
Free from that threat, Meta’s leaders have devoted the company’s time, money and resources to a new project in recent months.
Zuckerberg dived into this massive rebranding and reorganization of Facebook last October, when he changed the company’s name to Meta Platforms Inc. He plans to spend years and billions of dollars evolving his social media platforms into a nascent virtual reality construct called the “metaverse” — sort of like the internet brought to life, rendered in 3D.
His public Facebook page posts now focus on product announcements, hailing artificial intelligence, and photos of him enjoying life. News about election preparedness is announced in company blog posts not written by him.
In one of Zuckerberg’s posts last October, after an ex-Facebook employee leaked internal documents showing how the platform magnifies hate and misinformation, he defended the company. He also reminded his followers that he had pushed Congress to modernize regulations around elections for the digital age.
“I know it’s frustrating to see the good work we do get mischaracterized, especially for those of you who are making important contributions across safety, integrity, research and product,” he wrote on Oct. 5. “But I believe that over the long term if we keep trying to do what’s right and delivering experiences that improve people’s lives, it will be better for our community and our business.”
It was the last time he discussed the Menlo Park, California-based company’s election work in a public Facebook post.
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Associated Press technology writer Barbara Ortutay contributed to this report.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Singer and actor Darius Campbell Danesh, who went from a British reality television show to a stage and music career, died from inhaling chloroethane and suffocating, a Minnesota medical examiner found.
The 41-year-old singer and actor was found unresponsive in his apartment in Rochester, Minnesota, on Aug. 11, the Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner’s Office said. The medical examiner ruled that the death was accidental. Investigators said there were no signs of “intent or suspicious circumstances.”
Danesh’s family said in a statement that he had taken chloroethane for chronic pain that he suffered from since a 2010 car crash in Spain that left him with a broken neck.
“The results of medical examinations have confirmed that Darius’s death was an accident caused by chloroethane, which is used to treat pain and that tragically led to respiratory arrest,” said the family.
Chloroethane, commonly known as ethyl chloride, is a colorless, flammable gas or refrigerated liquid. In addition to its medical uses, it has also been used as an inhalant street drug.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, to a Scottish mother and Iranian father, Campbell Danesh appeared on the reality show “Popstars” in 2001 and made a splash with his intense interpretation of Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time.”
He had more success later that year on “Pop Idol,” an early Simon Cowell reality-talent show hybrid that aimed to find a new singing star. He came in third place behind Gareth Gates and Will Young. In 2002, he topped the U.K. charts with the single “Colourblind,” from his debut album “Dive In.”
Campbell Danesh went on to major roles in musicals, including West End productions of “Chicago” and “Guys and Dolls.” And he starred as Rhett Butler in a musical stage adaptation of “Gone With the Wind.”
In 2010, he won the reality show “Popstar to Operastar” and later performed in a production of “Carmen” at London’s O2 Arena. | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-officials-campbell-danesh-died-of-chloroethane-inhalation/ | 2022-09-14T15:28:57Z |
CINCINNATI, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, the board of directors of First Financial Bancorp. (NASDAQ: FFBC) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.23 per common share. The dividend is payable on September 15, 2022 to shareholders of record as of September 1, 2022.
About First Financial Bancorp.
First Financial Bancorp. is a Cincinnati, Ohio based bank holding company. As of June 30, 2022, the Company had $16.2 billion in assets, $9.4 billion in loans, $12.3 billion in deposits and $2.1 billion in shareholders' equity. The Company's subsidiary, First Financial Bank, founded in 1863, provides banking and financial services products through its six lines of business: Commercial, Retail Banking, Investment Commercial Real Estate, Mortgage Banking, Commercial Finance and Wealth Management. These business units provide traditional banking services to business and retail clients. Wealth Management provides wealth planning, portfolio management, trust and estate, brokerage and retirement plan services and had approximately $3.0 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2022. The Company operated 135 full service banking centers as of June 30, 2022, primarily in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, while the Commercial Finance business lends into targeted industry verticals on a nationwide basis. Additional information about the Company, including its products, services and banking locations,
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ATLANTA — Georgia is home to three of the nation’s 100 dirtiest power plants, the Atlanta-based Environment Georgia Research & Policy Center reported Monday.
Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen near Cartersville topped the Georgia list for carbon emissions and is ranked 23rd in the country.
Two of Plant Bowen’s four coal-burning units were due to be retired by 2028 under a proposal the Atlanta-based utility filed with the Georgia Public Service Commission last January.
But a 14-page agreement Georgia Power and the PSC’s Public Interest Advocacy Staff reached last week would leave that decision up to the commission, contingent upon the “completion of necessary transmission system improvements.”
Environment Georgia’s new report ranks power plants across the U.S. by their contribution to climate change based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s latest eGRID data.
The dirtiest power plants have an outsized impact: In 2020, the 10 most climate-polluting plants in Georgia were responsible for 91.5% of global warming emissions from the power sector despite only generating 56.5% of total electricity, according to the report.
“Our changing climate affects every aspect of our lives, from the air we breathe in our neighborhoods to the food we grow in Georgia,” Jennette Gayer, Environment Georgia’s state director, said. “Dirty power plants threaten our health and the climate, yet these super-polluters have filled the skies with pollution for decades without consequence. We need to hold the worst power plants accountable for damaging our climate.”
While Plant Bowen burns coal, eight of Georgia’s 10 dirtiest power plants are fired by methane gas. New research on methane leaks finds that the emissions associated with extracting and transporting methane are a serious climate problem.
Although burning methane gas releases less carbon dioxide than burning coal, the report ranked Plant McDonough, a gas-fired plant near Smryna, as the state’s second-dirtiest.
Coal-burning Plant Scherer, near Macon, was third on Georgia’s dirtiest-plants list.
To get power plant pollution under control, the report recommends limiting emissions from power plants and accelerating Georgia’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.
Georgia Power is proposing to expand its renewable energy portfolio by 2,300 megawatts by 2029.
Environmental advocates are worried a U.S. Supreme Court ruling expected this month in a West Virginia case could hamstring the EPA’s ability to set limits on carbon emissions from power plants.
“We can repower our state more cleanly and safely with renewable energy,” Gayer said. “We hope the Public Service Commission will take steps to shut down Plant Bowen, our state’s dirtiest power plant.”
Top 10 dirtiest power plants in Georgia, 2020 (Plant, county, fuel carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in million metric tons)
♦ Bowen — Bartow, Coal, 7.93
♦ McDonough — Cobb, Gas, 6.89
♦ Scherer — Monroe, Coal, 6.86
♦ McIntosh — Effingham, Gas, 3.28
♦ Wansley — Heard, Gas, 3.14
♦ Smith Energy Facility — Murray, ,Gas, 2.84
♦ Yates — Coweta, Gas, 1.35
♦ Chattahoochee Energy Facility — Heard, Gas, 1.28
♦ Wansley — Heard, Gas, 1.21
♦ Effingham Energy Facility — Gas 1.12
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/three-georgia-power-plants-land-on-list-of-nation-s-dirtiest/article_b4381caa-f0c2-11ec-8b2f-0feadfd7e7f7.html | 2022-06-20T20:15:24Z |
NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Twitter, Inc. ("Twitter" or the "Company") (NYSE: TWTR). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Twitter and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On April 4, 2022, Elon Musk ("Musk") disclosed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") filing that he owned 9.2% of Twitter stock. On this news, Twitter's stock price rose $10.66 per share, or 27.12%, to close at $49.97 per share on April 4, 2022.
Then, on April 5, 2022, in another SEC filing, Musk disclosed that he had purchased more than 5% of Twitter stock on March 14, 2022, which, per applicable SEC rules, should have been disclosed by March 24, 2022. The same April 5, 2022 filing also indicated that Musk had acquired approximately 13.1 million Twitter shares at an average price of $39.06 per share after March 24, 2022, and before Twitter's stock price rose to $49.97 per share on April 4, 2022, thereby potentially saving him millions of dollars at the expense of other investors that could have sold their Twitter stock at a higher price, had they been similarly and timely informed of Musk's large stake in the Company.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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Scientists at Cincinnati Children's Demonstrate 'Plug-and-Play' Method to Consistently Make – And Safely Freeze – Material Needed for Large Numbers of Lab-Grown Small Intestines, Colons and Stomachs
CINCINNATI, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the idea of growing tiny human organs in lab dishes has moved in recent years from futuristic science fiction to actual bioscientific reality, the usefulness of organoids as a research tool for studying the digestive system swiftly encountered a bottleneck—these valuable tissues are quite difficult to make.
Even with highly trained teams using all the best ingredients and equipment, one batch of starting material can generate lots of tiny spheroids of organ precursor cells that can then be grown into specific organoid types. But the next batch may produce few spheroids or none at all.
As a result, lab teams often experience delays making the organoids they need for pre-clinical experiments that seek to test the safety or potency of potential medications or for basic research to delve deeper into the genetic and molecular activities that cause disease.
Now, in a paper published June 28, 2022, in Stem Cell Reports, a team of experts at Cincinnati Children's reports developing a method that overcomes this production bottleneck. The new method already is being used to advance organoid studies within the medical center. But since the materials involved can be frozen and thawed and still produce high-quality organoids, this discovery makes it possible to ship starter materials to other labs anywhere in the world—which could spark dramatically accelerated use of human gastrointestinal organoids throughout medical research.
"This method can make organoids a more accessible tool," says first author Amy Pitstick, MS, manager of the Pluripotent Stem Cell Facility at Cincinnati Children's. "We show that the aggregation approach consistently produces high yields and we have proven that precursor cells can be thawed from cyrogenic storage to produce organoids of the small intestine."
"Using this approach will make it possible for many research labs to use organoids in their experiments without the time and expense of learning how to grow induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)," says corresponding author Chris Mayhew, PhD, director of the Pluripotent Stem Cell Facility. "The ability to freeze the precursor cells also will allow labs to easily make organoids without having to start each new experiment with complicated and highly variable iPSC differentiation."
Typically, organoid production requires collecting skin or blood cells that are converted in the lab to make iPSCs. To use these to make intestinal organoids, highly trained lab staff grow a flat layer of organ precursor cells called the mid-hindgut endoderm.
Given the right conditions, early-stage organoids called spheroids spontaneously form into 3D balls of cells. These get collected and transferred into a growth medium that provides the necessary signals for the cells to form into the specific cell types of a human organ—in this case the small intestine.
But the number of spheroids generated this way has proven inconsistent. The Cincinnati Children's team determined it was possible to collect the unused precursor cell layer and use a centrifuge to drive cells into hundreds of tiny wells contained on small plastic plates. This prompts the formation of 3D cell aggregates that can be collected and used for organoid production.
Testing detailed in the paper shows that the spheroids made this way have no meaningful differences from those that grew spontaneously.
Next, the team placed samples of the precursor cells into freezers for storage. Once these cells were thawed and aggregated, they also formed viable spheroids.
The paper confirms that these spheroids can be reliably grown into more mature organoids that mimic the functions of the small intestine, the large intestine (colon) and the bottom portion of the stomach that connects to the intestines (antrum).
Even with this advance, it will require years of work to develop organoids large enough and sophisticated enough to use as replacement tissue in transplant surgery. But having lots of easy-to-produce organoids opens many doors for medical research.
- More labs will be able to make patient-specific organoids to test drug combinations for precision treatment of complex conditions or rare disease states that require customized care.
- Scientists doing basic research to learn more about the genetic factors and molecular mechanisms at work in diseases affecting the digestive tract will be able to use organoids by ordering frozen spheroid precursors for their experiments.
- Labs testing ways to grow larger organoids for potential transplantation would obtain less expensive, more-reliable supplies of large numbers of human organoids for their research.
- And a new generation of biomedical research students will have much easier access to human organoids to study without needing to learn how to grow iPSCs.
Michael Helmrath, MD, Director of Clinical Translation for the Center for Stem Cell & Organoid Medicine (CuSTOM) at Cincinnati Children's, already has started using materials made from the new process in his ongoing research to develop transplantable intestinal tissues.
"This is a great step forward for the field on many fronts," Helmrath says. "To be able to reduce the complexity of the process and provide higher yields is beneficial to our work. And to be able to translate the methods to other labs will help move regenerative medicine forward."
Jim Wells, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer for CuSTOM, led the team that achieved the first success at making a human intestinal organoid, published online in 2010 in Nature.
"The work led by Amy and Chris represents an important advance for our efforts to develop high-throughput platforms for drug discovery," Wells says.
In addition to Pitstick and Mayhew, Cincinnati Children's co-authors for this study include Wells, Helmrath, Holly Poling, BS, Nambirajan Sundaram, PhD, Phillip Lewis, PhD, Daniel Kechele, PhD, J. Guillermo Sanchez, PhD candidate, Melissa Scott-Preusse, BS, and Taylor Broda, MBA.
Funding sources for this project include the National Institutes of Health (P30 DK078392, U18 EB021780, U19 AI116491, P01 HD093363, UG3 DK119982, and U01 DK103117); the Shipley Foundation, the Allen Foundation, and Cincinnati Children's Pursuing Our Potential Together program.
Aggregation of cryopreserved mid-hindgut endoderm for more reliable and reproducible hPSC-derived small intestinal organoid generation, July 28, 2022, Stem Cell Reports. DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2022.06.011
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arma Therapeutics, a late-stage startup pharmaceutical company expediting the introduction of new, naturally derived drugs to the emerging mental health marketplace while creating a sustainable "cash crop" network suitable for trade, today announced that it will participate in the H.C. Wainwright 1st Annual Mental Health Conference to be held at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York City on Monday, June 27, 2022.
Arma Therapeutics is focused on plant-derived products made accessible in the U.S., available legally and sourced ethically and sustainably from farms around the world in three categories: love, sex and mental health. For love and sex, the company has natural formulations for sildenafil, the lead ingredient in Viagra, as well as natural contraceptives. For mental health, Arma Therapeutics is focused on natural versions of LSD, Ecstasy and DMT.
Tegan Adams, Founder and Director of Psychiatric Research at Arma Therapeutics, will present live and virtually at 3:30 p.m. ET. To attend, please find the webcasting link to register here.
For more information about the conference, or to schedule a one-on-one meeting with Arma Therapeutics, please contact your appropriate H.C. Wainwright representative directly, or send an email to info@arma-therapeutics.com.
Arma Therapeutics is positioned to expedite the introduction of new, naturally derived drugs to the emerging mental health marketplace and in the process create a sustainable "cash crop" network suitable for trade. The company's specialized operational model includes access to botanical catalogs of plants for natural medicine creation, global agricultural soil and climate mapping tools to identify areas amenable to their growth, soil conditioning materials, GMP and EU-GMP production facilities, and agricultural subsidy-trade models to support developing nation farmers; all linked together with pharmaceutical dosage control and side effect mitigation. Currently, Arma Therapeutics is focused on three product categories of efficacious plant medicines and processing them into powerful therapeutics for love, sex and mental health. Learn more at www.armatherapeutics.com.
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HANGZHOU, China, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jiuzi Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: JZXN; the "Company"), a new energy vehicles franchisor and retailer under the brand name "Jiuzi" in China, today announced that it has entered into strategic cooperation (the "Agreement") with Zhejiang Shuke Automobile Service Co. Ltd. ("Shuke"), a leading car dealer in China. The cooperation will be operated by its newly established subsidiary Hangzhou Jiuyao New Energy Automobile Technology Co. Ltd. ("Jiuyao").
According to the Agreement, Jiuyao is granted a non-exclusive right to engage in the sales of Shuke electric-vehicle (EV) cars, Shuke's car-hailing business, and financial products. Jiuyao plans to purchase 200 standard and customized models of Shuke EVs between 2022 and 2023. Shuke is prepared to provide about a financial credit line of up to 100 million yuan to Jiuyao based on Jiuyao's financing needs. Jiuyao will be able to sell Shuke's EVs directly to end users on car-hailing platforms such as T3 Mobility, Didi Chuxing, Huolala, Jiuzi Haoche, and Zhongche Chuxing, among others, according to the Agreement.
Based in Zhejiang province's capital Hangzhou city, Shuke is mainly engaged in minibus rental, auto parts trading and services, sales of EVs and other car-related after-sale services. Shuke's core management team also has extensive experience in banking and micro-lending and Shuke has a connection with a network of professional financial and investment institutions, operating as a service platform that links online to offline services, with a focus on the nationwide automotive aftermarket sector, according to the Agreement.
Mr. Shuibo Zhang, CEO of Jiuzi Holdings, Inc., commented: "We are delighted to announce major cooperation with Shuke for our recently launched new energy vehicles procurement platform Jiuyao. Shuke's brand, service network, and its distribution ability are being recognized by well-known automakers and vehicle trading companies. We would anticipate fruitful returns from our cooperation with Shuke in the following year."
About Zhejiang Shuke Automobile Service Co. Ltd.
Founded in 2020 with a registered capital of 10 million yuan, Shuke is mainly engaged in minibus rental, auto parts and services, sales of EVs and other car-related aftersale services in China. Shuke now operates in five cities including Ningbo, Jinhua, Taizhou, Huzhou and Shanghai and plans to set up subsidiaries in four other cities in China within the year.
About Jiuzi Holdings, Inc.
Jiuzi Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Hangzhou, China, and established in 2017, franchises and operates retail stores under the brand name "Jiuzi" to sell New Energy Vehicles ("NEVs") in third-fourth tier cities in China. The Company mainly sells battery-operated electric vehicles, and sources NEVs through more than twenty NEV manufacturers. It has 31 operating franchise stores and one company-owned store. For more information, visit the Company's website at http://www.zjjzxny.cn/.
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BEIJING, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RLX Technology Inc. ("RLX Technology" or the "Company") (NYSE: RLX), a leading branded e-vapor company in China, today announced that one of its subsidiaries has obtained a License for Manufacturing Enterprise from the department of tobacco monopoly administration under the State Council of the People's Republic of China (the "State Tobacco Monopoly Administration") to own the RELX brand and manufacture RELX branded e-vapor rechargeable devices, cartridge products, and products sold in combination with e-vapor rechargeable devices and cartridge products in compliance with China's Administrative Measures for E-Cigarettes. The approved manufacturing capacity is 15,050,000 units of e-vapor rechargeable devices per year, 328,700,000 units of cartridge products per year, and 6,100,000 units of disposable e-vapor products per year. The valid term for the License for Manufacturing Enterprise obtained is from July 18, 2022 to July 31, 2023.
Since the first quarter of 2022, the relevant government authorities in China have issued a series of implementing rules and guiding opinions to strengthen oversight of e-cigarette products and regulate the e-cigarette industry. These rules and opinions set forth that, among others, all e-cigarette manufacturing enterprises must apply with the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration and obtain a License for Manufacturing Enterprise.
Ms. Ying (Kate) Wang, Co-founder, Chairperson of the Board of Directors and CEO of RLX Technology, commented, "This license represents an important milestone in our strategic roadmap as we strive to comply with the new regulatory requirements in a timely manner. We believe that we are well-positioned to achieve compliance in our operations according to schedule. To adapt to the new market dynamics and ensure business development, we will, and will urge our business partners to, continue making efforts to comply with all applicable regulatory requirements, including, but not limited to, obtaining requisite licenses and regulatory approvals, developing products that meet the mandatory national standards, and processing all transactions via the National E-cigarette Transaction Platform when it is implemented. Looking forward, under regulatory guidance, as a trusted e-vapor brand for adult smokers, we will remain committed to providing high-quality products that deliver superior performance and safety in strict compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, while exploring new growth opportunities in the industry."
About RLX Technology Inc.
RLX Technology Inc. (NYSE: RLX) is a leading branded e-vapor company in China. The Company leverages its strong in-house technology and product development capabilities and in-depth insights into adult smokers' needs to develop superior e-vapor products. RLX Technology Inc. sells its products through an integrated offline distribution and retail model tailored to China's e-vapor market.
For more information, please visit: http://ir.relxtech.com.
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In China:
RLX Technology Inc.
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Email: RLX@tpg-ir.com
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The Piacente Group, Inc.
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
Email: RLX@tpg-ir.com
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meijer announced today that it's seeking submissions from local and diverse-owned businesses for its latest Supplier Diversity event focusing on general merchandise and apparel. Interested vendors must provide video submissions, describing their brand and products, by Sunday, Sept. 18 to be considered for the opportunity to pitch to Meijer merchants at a live virtual event this fall.
"While we've made great strides to ensure our vendors represent our customers in terms of both diversity and geography across our stores, we're excited to hold this event that specifically focuses on general merchandise and apparel," said Peter Whitsett, Meijer Executive Vice President of Merchandising and Marketing.
The retailer's latest supplier diversity initiative targets certified minority-, LGBTQ+-, woman-, veteran- and disability-owned businesses based anywhere in the country, as well as local Midwest vendors based within Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin.
Diverse or locally-owned brands with retail-ready products in the general merchandise or apparel categories can apply here. As part of the application process, vendors must submit brief, 3-minutes-or-less videos that provide background on their business and products. An example video can be found here. The videos can be created on smartphones and don't need to be professionally produced; however, they must include the following information:
- Introduction of themselves and their business
- Detailed descriptions of the products they offer
- Background on their production and supply chain
- Recommended retail price
Qualified businesses can submit videos by Sunday, Sept. 18 for consideration.
Once applications for the event are submitted, Meijer teams will review and select finalists. Finalists will submit additional details via the retailer's partner, RangeMe, and attend a training session before pitching their products live to Meijer merchants at a virtual event this fall.
While they may not qualify for this event, diverse or local vendors carrying services or products outside of the categories mentioned above are encouraged to submit their information for consideration through the retailer's prospective vendor page. Interested vendors can also learn more about Meijer and its commitment to supplier diversity here.
About Meijer: Meijer is a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer that operates 262 supercenters and grocery stores throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. A privately-owned and family-operated company since 1934, Meijer pioneered the "one-stop shopping" concept and has evolved through the years to include expanded fresh produce and meat departments, as well as pharmacies, comprehensive apparel departments, pet departments, garden centers, toys and electronics. For additional information on Meijer, please visit www.meijer.com. Follow Meijer on Twitter @twitter.com/Meijer and @twitter.com/MeijerPR or become a fan at www.facebook.com/meijer.
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Dog stolen over a decade ago reunited with its owner
BOSTON (WCVB) – Rex is back in his owner’s arms after 11 long years. His owner, Marzena Niejadlik admits it was hard to have any hope she would see her beloved Yorkie again.
“I was starting to lose hope,” she said. “And I counted the years and thinking that maybe he passed away.”
Niejadlik got Rex in 2010 after her brother passed away. He was a comfort to both her and her mother.
But the following year, they say someone stole the puppy from outside their home.
Now, over a decade later, Stoughton Animal Control Officer Michelle Carlos got a call that a Yorkie was running around a neighborhood.
The microchip on the dog led back to Niejadlik.
“It was linked to her old address, but her phone number was still current – which is good,” Carlos said. “She was just overjoyed.”
Niejadlik said the timing of Rex’s return is strange as her other brother also recently died.
“So [Rex] is just here to help us, I guess, during the grieving time again,” she said.
That comfort comes at just the right time, and Rex returned to meet new family members welcoming him home with open arms.
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Blake Lively transforms at the Met Gala in architecture-inspired Versace gown
Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
Blake Lively paid tribute to New York City architecture in a shimmering gown that dramatically transformed as she walked the Met Gala red carpet on Monday night.
Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds are co-hosts of the event, and while Reynolds wore a more classic tuxedo by Ralph Lauren for the theme “Gilded Glamour and White Tie,” Lively stunned in a custom Versace dress inspired by Art Deco design and the details of some of New York’s most famous landmarks.
The evening’s dress code was inspired by the Gilded Age, the 30-year period at the end of the 19th-century that saw skyrocketing wealth for industrialist families in the US and over-the-top fashion for New York City’s upper crust.
When Lively first arrived, the glittering, beaded Versace dress was wrapped by an oversized coppery satin bow. But as she ascended the stairs to the entrance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, her bow was released to reveal the rest of the sweeping ensemble: A long skirt in an aged copper tone, paying tribute to the patina of the Statue of Liberty.
“I’ve patinated,” Lively told LaLa Anthony during Vogue’s live stream. “This dress is an homage to New York City and so many of the classic, iconic buildings.” She showed off some of the dress’s subtle references: “This is detailing from the Empire State Building, some of the draping from the Statue of Liberty…(and) the constellation from Grand Central Station.”
Tiaras have shown to be the accessory of the night, and Lively was one of many who sported the accessory. Hers was an elegant band featuring seven spikes, another reference to Lady Liberty. Symbolizing the seven continents, the actor explained they represent “inclusivity, welcomeness, and freedom.” She also requested from jewelry designer Lorraine Schwartz to feature 25 stones for the 25 windows of the iconic statues.
“‘Who’s actually going to be counting the stones?'” she recalled Schwartz asking her. “‘Me, I’m a Virgo,'” she replied with a laugh.
“This year was especially nervewracking being one of the hosts,” she told Anthony. “I thought a neat perspective on the theme would be looking at the city that I love so much and the architecture, rather than just the fashion.”
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The acquisition will bring deep feed additives expertise, global presence, and more wholesome food production.
MINNEAPOLIS and ENGERWITZDORF, Austria, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer preferences for natural food production and consumption of animal-based products are growing. Plant-based feed additives have particularly high growth potential as a component of healthy animal feed. To support feed customers in this growing space, the world's leading agribusiness company Cargill today announced it has signed a binding agreement to acquire Delacon, the globally leading expert in plant-based phytogenic additives.
"After a successful five-year partnership, Cargill and Delacon will build upon their combined deep history and long-term commitment to scientifically driven, sustainable customer solutions focused on animal health, feed efficiency, and performance," said Adriano Marcon, Cargill animal nutrition president. "We're excited to expand our animal nutrition offerings with science-proven additives."
"Combining Cargill's animal health technologies with Delacon's phytogenics provides the next frontier for animal productivity and sustainable, wholesome food production," says Mike Johnson, leader of Cargill's animal health technologies business. "Joining together with Delacon's leading talent and technology to deliver improved profitability and performance for our customers."
The acquisition combines Cargill's global network and deep expertise in animal nutrition technologies with Delacon's pioneering knowledge and market experience in phytogenic feed additives, a category that uses a broad range of herbs, plants and their extracts, such as essential oils, to improve livestock and aquaculture performance and promote animal health.
The term phytogenic feed additive was coined by Delacon's founders in the 1980s. Phytogenics are standardized, specific and science-based combinations of bioactive compounds found in plants.
Specific combinations of bioactives have proven efficacy and sustainability. They can have a positive effect on nutrient digestibility, performance, support resilience, and at the same time contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. In addition, Delacon operates one of the largest industry-owned trial sites for phytogenic research.
Markus Dedl, Delacon's chief executive officer, shared his excitement, "It is my responsibility to assure the frame for Delacon's future growth, developing our ability to thrive, and taking phytogenic expertise to the next level. The acquisition will enlarge Delacon's scope for future innovations and make phytogenic feed additives more available globally. Together, Cargill and Delacon will accelerate the pace of innovation and drive strategic, long-term growth."
Upon closing, the acquisition grows the global presence and distribution of both organizations, adding nearly 150 talented people to Cargill's health technologies business in more than 25 countries around the world. The Delacon Hub in Engerwitzdorf, Austria, remains the strong center for phytogenic feed additives even after the acquisition.
With the addition of Delacon's plant-based phytogenic products, Cargill is further committed to research, innovation, sustainability and collaboration in the digestive and immune health space.
The acquisition is expected to close mid-2022, subject to customary closing conditions. The terms of the deal are not disclosed.
For more than 30 years, Delacon is dedicated to its vision to unlock the plant universe for better lives. Serving this purpose, the company manufactures plant-derived solutions for the livestock and aquaculture industry. Using the power of nature, they have proven efficacy in maximizing feed efficiency as well as a sustainable impact on animals, people, and the environment. Today, they are known worldwide under the term "phytogenics", and Delacon is recognized as the globally leading expert in this field.
Delacon has a team of about 150 people in 25 countries worldwide, 80 of them work mainly at the Delacon Hub in Engerwitzdorf, Austria. The Delacon Hub was completed in 2020 and unites production, laboratory and office building in one place. Delacon's phytogenics are exported to more than 80 countries,
For more information, visit delacon.com or phytogenius.com.
Cargill's 155,000 employees across 70 countries work relentlessly to achieve our purpose of nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. Every day, we connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.
We combine 155 years of experience with new technologies and insights to serve as a trusted partner for food, agriculture, financial and industrial customers in more than 125 countries. Side-by-side, we are building a stronger, sustainable future for agriculture. For more information, visit Cargill.com and our News Center.
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Which Mizuno iron set is best?
Mizuno may not be the best-known name among today’s golf equipment brands, but it deserves to be among them. This brand’s specialty is irons. The best Mizuno irons give golfers a great feel for shot-making, something average golfers often struggle with.
The Mizuno JPX 921 Hot Metal Custom Irons are the best option for most golfers, especially those who have a higher-than-average handicap.
What to know before you buy a Mizuno iron
How the golf iron numbering system works
Mizuno follows the traditional numbering system for golf irons. A 3-iron or 4-iron has a reduced face angle, giving players less loft on the ball but more distance. An 8-iron or 9-iron has a sharper face angle, giving players a greater loft on the ball and a shorter distance.
However, a 4-iron across golf club manufacturers, and even across various brands from within Mizuno, does not have the exact same club face angle (or loft angle). Within the various Mizuno iron model families, for example, a 4-iron could have a loft angle between 19 and 24 degrees. A 9-iron’s loft angle can range from 38 to 42 degrees. This can significantly affect the distance you receive, so pay attention to the loft angle before buying.
How golf iron length works
Irons from Mizuno adhere to the traditional length for these clubs. A 4-iron from Mizuno is nearly always 38.5 inches long. A 9-iron is nearly always 36 inches. You may be able to get custom-fit irons from Mizuno that are longer or shorter than average, however.
Clubs included in a set of irons
Golf club manufacturers, including Mizuno, may include anywhere from six to 10 irons in a set of irons. There is no specific number of irons required to call it a set of irons.
What to look for in a quality Mizuno iron set
Iron head responsiveness
Mizuno’s designs often emphasize feel at the point of impact more than competitors’ irons, so players can easily feel when they make solid contact. Having this type of feedback is important for learning how to repeat a quality swing.
Iron head size
Many Mizuno irons have a slightly smaller club head size than other irons. This gives skilled players more ability to shape their shots and to place certain spins on the ball.
However, the smaller head size is less forgiving when less-skilled, less-experienced players have a mishit. (The JPX 921 Hot Metal irons are an exception to that rule among Mizuno irons, as they have a slightly larger head that works especially well for high-handicap players.)
Chromoly face
Some Mizuno irons use a face made of a stainless steel alloy that includes chromium and molybdenum, a metal known as chromoly. This alloy — also used in aircraft fuselages, high-end bike frames and racing-car chassis — allows for an extremely thin contact point that remains durable, but that increases the feel golfers have when they make contact.
Chromoly also generates a high level of energy, meaning players do not have to sacrifice distance to achieve the feel that they want at impact.
How much you can expect to spend on Mizuno irons
Individual irons from Mizuno cost $125-$250 apiece. If you purchase a set, expect to spend $800-$2,000 for six to 10 irons.
Mizuno irons FAQ
Why does my set of Mizuno irons not have a 2-iron?
A. Some manufacturers, including Mizuno, do not include a 2-iron or even a 3-iron with their sets, because some golfers struggle to hit these clubs. Some golfers prefer hybrid clubs to a 2-iron or 3-iron, because hybrids are easier to hit.
Should I buy a set or individual Mizuno irons?
A. Having a set of irons that consist of the same brand and model is preferable. It’s easier to successfully repeat your swing when the models of irons are consistent. However, if you just need one or two Mizuno irons to supplement your set, it’s fine to buy an individual iron.
What are the best Mizuno irons to buy?
Top Mizuno irons
Mizuno JPX 921 Hot Metal Custom Irons
What you need to know: Average players and high-handicap players will appreciate the great feel and look of the heads on these irons.
What you’ll love: The flex of the irons’ chromoly faces delivers outstanding ball speed. Mizuno added extra weight at the perimeter of the clubhead to help with accuracy. The anti-glare heads look great at the address of the ball.
What you should consider: If you’re a low-handicap player, these irons probably won’t significantly help your game.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods and Amazon
Top Mizuno irons for the money
What you need to know: This set has a slightly older design, so you can save some money while still receiving great clubs.
What you’ll love: By using a slightly smaller clubhead than competitors, these give the player a precise feel at the point of contact. This club uses a copper underlay to further improve the feel.
What you should consider: The smaller clubheads are less forgiving than larger designs, so this model is not the best choice for high-handicap players.
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What you need to know: These use more traditional loft angles, making it easier to dial in the distance as you always have.
What you’ll love: This set includes a 2-iron and a 3-iron, rare in modern iron sets. Mid-handicap players will be able to easily feel when they make solid contact with the ball, thanks to the design.
What you should consider: The clubheads are smaller than those on most irons from competitors, which bothers some players.
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HENDERSON, Nev., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VolitionRx Limited (NYSE AMERICAN: VNRX) ("Volition"), a multi-national epigenetics company, announced today the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 3,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $2.00 per share. The gross proceeds to Volition from the offering, before deducting the underwriting commissions and other estimated offering expenses payable by Volition, are expected to be $6 million. In addition, Volition has granted the underwriter in the offering a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 450,000 shares of its common stock at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions, to cover over-allotments in connection with the offering. The offering is expected to close on or about August 2, 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Volition intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for research and continued product development, clinical studies, product commercialization, working capital and other general corporate purposes, including potential strategic acquisitions.
Newbridge Securities Corporation is acting as the sole book-running manager of the offering.
The securities are being offered by Volition pursuant to a "shelf" registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-259783) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on September 24, 2021 and declared effective by the SEC on November 8, 2021. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus supplement and an accompanying base prospectus, as may be further supplemented by any free writing prospectus and/or pricing supplement that the Company may file with the SEC. A preliminary prospectus supplement and an accompanying base prospectus describing the terms of the proposed offering have been filed with the SEC and are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus relating to the offering can also be obtained, when available, from Newbridge Securities Corporation, Attn: Equity Syndicate Department, 1200 North Federal Highway, Suite 400, Boca Raton, FL 33432, by email at syndicate@newbridgesecurities.com, or by telephone at (877) 447-9625. The final terms of the offering will be disclosed in a final prospectus supplement to be filed with the SEC.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About Volition
Volition is a multi-national epigenetics company that applies its Nucleosomics™ platform through its subsidiaries to develop simple, easy-to-use, cost-effective blood tests to help diagnose and monitor a range of life-altering diseases, including some cancers and diseases associated with NETosis such as sepsis and COVID-19. Early diagnosis and monitoring have the potential to not only prolong the life of patients but also improve their quality of life. The tests are based on the science of Nucleosomics™, which is the practice of identifying and measuring nucleosomes in the bloodstream or other bodily fluid—an indication that disease is present. Volition is primarily focused on human diagnostics and monitoring, but also has a subsidiary focused on animal diagnostics and monitoring.
Volition's research and development activities are centered in Belgium, with an innovation laboratory and an office in the U.S. and additional offices in London and Singapore.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release may be "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that concern matters that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or projected in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect the current beliefs and expectations of management and include statements regarding the timing, size and expected gross proceeds of the offering, the expected use of proceeds from the offering, the satisfaction of customary closing conditions related to the offering and sale of securities, the grant to the underwriter of an option to purchase additional shares, and Volition's ability to complete the offering. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Although Volition believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause Volition's actual activities or results to differ materially from those indicated or implied by any forward-looking statement, including, without limitation, due to risks and uncertainties related to market conditions and the satisfaction of closing conditions related to the proposed public offering, risks disclosed in the section titled "Risk Factors" included in the preliminary prospectus supplement filed with the SEC on July 28, 2022, and risks disclosed in other documents Volition files from time to time with the SEC, including Volition's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and its Annual Report on Form 10-K. Forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this release, and, except as required by law, Volition does not undertake an obligation to update its forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Yext between March 4, 2021 and March 8, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until August 16, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Yext, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, among other things, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; (ii) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (iii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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Huey German-Wilson has spent six years trying to get rid of piles of tires, mattresses, and other debris that have marred the streets of her Houston neighborhood.
"It steals our dignity," said German-Wilson, 58, an activist living in Houston's Trinity / Houston Gardens neighborhood. "I've seen the (neighborhood's) dignity slowly fade away with the increase of trash and the lack of city interest in our infrastructure and housing."
She and others in her neighborhood have sent countless photos of the debris to the city's 311 system but tired of not getting help, they filed a federal complaint in December accusing the city of prejudice and discrimination about its response to illegal dumping complaints in this majority Black and Latino area.
Now, the Department of Justice is investigating how city officials respond to those calls and whether their response discriminates against Black and Latino residents across Houston.
"Illegal dumpsites not only attract rodents, mosquito and other vermin that pose health risks, but they can also contaminate surface water and impact proper drainage, making areas more susceptible to flooding," US Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. "No one in the United States should be exposed to risk of illness and other serious harm because of ineffective solid waste management or inadequate enforcement programs."
Since last month, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has said the city will cooperate with the DOJ but expects the investigation to determine that Houston "does not discriminate in its responses to neighborhood health and safety issues.
In an interview with CNN, Turner said he was surprised to learn about the DOJ investigation and that "nobody" asked him whether the complaints made by residents were true. He noted illegal dumping is a systemic problem across Houston and last year, the city increased the fines against illegal dumping to the maximum allowed under state law and hired private contractors to pick up heavy trash.
Turner described the allegations of discrimination by the city as "absurd, baseless, and without merit."
"Now, if you wanna say illegal dumping is occurring, we are on the same page and if you wanna say is occurring more so in communities of color, we are all on the same page. But don't dare say, don't dare say that this administration is discriminating against communities of color," Turner said.
But residents and its legal team say their neighborhoods have long been neglected and illegal dumping is only one of its consequences.
Tires, medical waste and dead animals
For years, illegal dumping has been a top priority for residents at Trinity / Houston Gardens, a neighborhood about 5 miles northeast of the city's downtown, as piles of debris are often spotted on vacant lots, blocking sidewalks and parts of the road.
German-Wilson who is the president of Super Neighborhood 48, a nonprofit council made up of residents and stakeholders in the Trinity / Houston Gardens neighborhood, says residents volunteered to clean up for at least three years.
"It really wasn't as impactful as you might have hoped because they could not pick up 200 tires, which is what we found in several locations, sofas, beds, chairs and a plethora of things that come out of people's houses, businesses or out of their garages and that we find all piled up on the side of the road," she said.
"We have medical waste in those piles, we have dead animals in it," German-Wilson added.
In 2016, German-Wilson says she and others started driving around the area, taking photos of illegal dumping and sending them along with their locations to the 311 system by calling or using its mobile app. They also collected the information on spreadsheets and sent them via email to city officials, she said.
Despite about six years of efforts, German-Wilson says the response time to illegal dumping complaints has decreased as much as they hoped for and "people just continue to add to the pile."
When the city released a new 311 app last year, residents said the platform did not have their prior reports to 311 and the platform was not user friendly. In December, Amy Dinn, managing attorney for the environmental justice team at Lone Star Legal Aid who represents German-Wilson and other residents, sent a federal complaint alleging violations of the Title VI Civil Rights Act to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"It kind of left us with no choice because if they (city officials) say report this way, and that reporting doesn't work or results in any kind of indifference for the community. Then the system's broken and we need action to address the problem," Dinn said.
In the complaint, Dinn wrote that an analysis of data available online from 311 calls between 2013 and when the new city system was put in place last year, showed calls from Trinity / Houston Gardens are not handled as quickly as other neighborhoods.
For Dinn, the data shows it's "an issue that was intentionally ignored, under resourced as far as trying to deal effectively with the problem or they basically allow the problem to persist in some communities and not others."
Mayor Turner told CNN that city workers have picked up illegal dumping "in that area two weeks quicker than on average" in the last fiscal year and said the number of complaints have decreased.
"Those are things that DOJ didn't know, but if they had come and talked to, we could have provided that information to them," Turner said.
Illegal dumping complaint data sent to CNN by the Houston Mayor's office shows that complaints from the "Trinity Gardens" neighborhood between June 2021 and July 2022 had an average resolution time of 33.7 days -- lower than the average neighborhood wait of 78 days. The mayor's office also stated that majority Black or Hispanic neighborhoods had average resolution times of 44.9 days, which is lower than the average of 58.3 days in non-majority Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
CNN has not independently verified the data analyzed by the advocacy group or the data provided by the mayor's office but has requested illegal dumping complaints data from the city.
In their complaint, residents said the city can't rely solely on reporting through 311 and suggested the creation and enforcement of programs to combat the high concentration of trash and hazardous materials as well as federal directives that require the city to invest in infrastructure, green spaces and economic development projects for the neighborhood.
Clarke, the US assistant attorney general, has said the DOJ investigation was prompted by the complaint sent by Lone Star Legal Aid. The Justice Department has requested city documents and data from the 311 system, and a team will be interviewing residents, officials, community liaisons and other stakeholders.
While German-Wilson is applauding federal authorities for launching an investigation, she knows her work is far from over.
"I want this to be a place where our kids want to live," she said. "Both sets of my grandparents and a set of my great grandparents lived on this street. I'm not giving up on this street and therefore, I have to work on everything else that's around it."
Maybe one day in the future, she says, there will be more pictures of her four grandchildren in her cellphone than those documenting the garbage in her neighborhood.
"It's in my phone. It's in all my emails. Everywhere we go, we're dealing with it."
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Soundcore Capital Partners, LP (Soundcore) a New-York based private equity firm, is pleased to welcome Gavin Fox as an associate on the Deal Origination team.
Gavin will primarily be responsible for supporting the Partners in developing investment theses for the fund and building relationships with business owners.
Prior to joining Soundcore, Gavin was an investment advisor for high-net-worth individuals with PNC Investments. Previously, Gavin was a paraplanner for Encore Wealth Management, which collectively managed over $450 million of assets for high-net-worth families and individuals. He started his career in the audit practice of Crowe Horwath, a top-ten public accounting firm. There, he primarily worked with financial institutions including SEC-registered banks and broker dealers. Gavin has a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Bellarmine University.
"We are very excited to have Gavin on the team." Said Alex Bues, Partner at Soundcore. "His experience in working directly with business owners to understand their needs will help us tremendously as we execute our buy-and-build strategy in the lower-middle market."
Over the next 12-18 months, Soundcore will seek to grow the team significantly through the additional hires of experienced private equity professionals to create a 19‑person firm and nearly doubling the number of investment professionals.
Soundcore Capital Partners was founded in 2015 by Jarrett Turner and is based in New York, NY. Soundcore is a thesis-driven private equity firm that specializes in buy-and-build investments in the lower middle-market that are headquartered in the United States and Canada. Soundcore has completed 70 acquisitions across 9 platforms and focuses primarily on industrial services, business services, distribution and value-add manufacturing sectors.
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Penn Badgley and Leighton Meester of ‘Gossip Girl’ reunite
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
They didn’t exactly get the band back together again, but at least we got to see Penn Badgley and Leighton Meester in a photo.
Badgley shared a pic on his verified Instagram of him and his “Gossip Girl” costar.
“Best pic we took (No lie),” he captioned a photo of the two of them, standing on the sidewalk with Badgley with his arm around Meester.
He thanked her for appearing on the premiere episode of his new “Podcrushed” podcast, in which Badgley reads middle school stories submitted by listeners.
The actor portrayed Dan Humphrey, while Meester starred as Blair Waldorf in The CW teen drama, which debuted in 2007 and ran for six seasons.
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DUBAI, UAE, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Top multi-asset and comprehensive exchange XT.com opens its platform to Army Dollar Token (ARMY). In detail, ARMY token holders can now enjoy the benefits of the XT.com exchange when it comes to trading and liquidity. Trading will begin on June 9, 2022 at (UTC+7).
The ARMY/USDT trading pair can be found in the Main zone (Metaverse).
"We are excited about the listing of Army Dollar Token (ARMY)", said Anisor, Global CMO of XT.com. "With the extensive experience of XT.com in the crypto space, together we can reach new heights in expanding our reach in the whole crypto ecosystem."
On the other hand, Army Dollar Token (ARMY) is a cryptocurrency network that utilizes blockchain technology. It is a multi-platform ecosystem that includes social media offline events, metaverse and finance funding for the fans of award-winning artists BTS.
The native token of the platform – ARMY, can be used to reward its community for their participation in the network. Furthermore, concert tickets and collectible fan merchandise at the ecosystem's marketplace can be purchased using the token.
About Army Dollar Token (ARMY)
BTS Army Co. minted the Army Dollar Token (ARMY) for the exclusive purpose of financing the Armyworld.io metaverse and its BTS news site. Furthermore, the ARMY network aims to unite all the BTS fans around the world with its real-time playground powered by the platform's blockchain. Through this, it will be easier for the Army Dollar Token team to work more closely with the artist and its managing company.
About XT.com
XT.com is a top-performing exchange in the industry. It ranks one of the top 3 exchanges in CoinGecko in terms of 24-hour volume. Currently, XT.com supports over 600 tokens with almost 1000 trading pairs. Users of the exchange can enjoy various features such as currency transactions, OTC transactions, leveraged transactions, and contract transactions.
The exchange supports communities and languages from countries such as Africa, Russia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, China, and India, to name a few. Therefore, enabling more flexible trading opportunities for its users worldwide.
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Pfizer says 3 COVID shots protect children under 5
(AP) - Three doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday. Pfizer plans to give the data to U.S. regulators later this week in a step toward letting the littlest kids get the shots.
The news comes after months of anxious waiting by parents desperate to vaccinate their babies, toddlers and preschoolers, especially as COVID-19 cases once again are rising. The 18 million tots under 5 are the only group in the U.S. not yet eligible for COVID-19 vaccination.
The Food and Drug Administration has begun evaluating data from rival Moderna, which hopes to begin offering two kid-sized shots by summer.
Pfizer has had a bumpier time figuring out its approach. It aims to give tots an even lower dose — just one-tenth of the amount adults receive — but discovered during its trial that two shots didn’t seem quite strong enough for preschoolers. So researchers gave a third shot to more than 1,600 youngsters — from age 6 months to 4 years — during the winter surge of the omicron variant.
In a press release, Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said the extra shot did the trick, revving up tots’ levels of virus-fighting antibodies enough to meet FDA criteria for emergency use of the vaccine with no safety problems.
Preliminary data suggested the three-dose series is 80% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19, the companies said, but they cautioned the calculation is based on just 10 cases diagnosed among study participants by the end of April. The study rules state that at least 21 cases are needed to formally determine effectiveness, and Pfizer promised an update as soon as more data is available.
The companies already had submitted data on the first two doses to the FDA, and BioNTech’s CEO, Dr. Ugur Sahin, said the final third-shot data would be submitted this week.
“The study suggests that a low, 3-microgram dose of our vaccine, carefully selected based on tolerability data, provides young children with a high level of protection against the recent COVID-19 strains,” he said in a statement.
What’s next? FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks has pledged the agency will “move quickly without sacrificing our standards” in evaluating tot-sized doses from both Pfizer and Moderna.
The agency has set tentative dates next month for its scientific advisers to publicly debate data from each company.
Moderna is seeking to be the first to vaccinate the littlest kids. It submitted data to the FDA saying tots develop high levels of virus-fighting antibodies after two shots that contain a quarter of the dose given to adults. The Moderna study found effectiveness against symptomatic COVID-19 was 40% to 50% during the omicon surge, much like for adults who’ve only had two vaccine doses.
Complicating Moderna’s progress, the FDA so far has allowed its vaccine to be used only in adults.
The FDA is expected to review Moderna’s data on both the youngest age group, plus its study of teens and elementary-age children. Other countries already have expanded Moderna’s shot to kids as young as 6.
While COVID-19 generally isn’t as dangerous to youngsters as to adults, some children do become severely ill or even die. And the omicron variant hit children especially hard, with those under 5 hospitalized at higher rates than at the peak of the previous delta surge.
It’s not clear how much demand there will be to vaccinate the youngest kids. Pfizer shots for 5- to 11-year-olds opened in November, but only about 30% of that age group have gotten the recommended initial two doses. Last week, U.S. health authorities said elementary-age children should get a booster shot just like everyone 12 and older is supposed to get, for the best protection against the latest coronavirus variants.
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Ritchie Bros. (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) invites interested parties to participate in its second quarter 2022 earnings conference call, occurring on Friday, August 5, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time / 8:00 a.m. Pacific time / 4:00 p.m. BST. During the call, company executives will discuss Ritchie Bros.' earning results and answer questions from analysts and institutional investors. The Company's second quarter 2022 earnings results will be released after NYSE and TSX markets close the day prior, on August 4, 2022.
Analysts and institutional investors may participate via conference call, using the following dial-in information:
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Please ask to participate in Ritchie Bros.' second quarter 2022 earnings call, and quote conference ID 85600643 if prompted.
Media and other interested parties may listen to the conference call via webcast, by selecting the Second quarter 2022 earnings call webcast link at https://investor.ritchiebros.com.
Please note that there will be presentation slides accompanying the earnings call. The slides will be displayed live on the webcast, and will be available to download via the webcast player or at https://investor.ritchiebros.com/events-and-presentations the morning of the call.
A replay of the conference call can be accessed after 2:00 pm Eastern time / 11:00 am Pacific time / 7:00 pm BST until September 5, 2022, at 416-764-8677 or 1-888-390-0541 (using passcode 600643 # ).
Established in 1958, Ritchie Bros. (NYSE and TSX: RBA) is a global asset management and disposition company, offering customers end-to-end solutions for buying and selling used heavy equipment, trucks, and other assets. Operating in a number of sectors, including construction, transportation, agriculture, energy, mining, and forestry, the company's selling channels include: Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world's largest industrial auctioneer offering live auction events with online bidding; IronPlanet, an online marketplace with weekly featured auctions and providing the exclusive IronClad Assurance® equipment condition certification; Marketplace-E, a controlled marketplace offering multiple price and timing options; Ritchie List, a self-serve listing service for North America; Mascus, a leading European online equipment listing service; Ritchie Bros. Private Treaty, offering privately negotiated sales; and sector-specific solutions GovPlanet, TruckPlanet, and Kruse Energy. The Company's suite of solutions also includes Ritchie Bros. Asset Solutions and Rouse Services LLC, which together provides a complete end-to-end asset management, data-driven intelligence and performance benchmarking system; SmartEquip, an innovative technology platform that supports customers' management of the equipment lifecycle and integrates parts procurement with both OEMs and dealers; plus equipment financing and leasing through Ritchie Bros. Financial Services. For more information about Ritchie Bros., visit RitchieBros.com.
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COVERT, Mich., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Entergy today completed the sale of the subsidiary that owns the Palisades Power Plant to Holtec International to ensure a safe and timely decommissioning of the nuclear site. Palisades was permanently shut down May 20, 2022, after generating safe, secure and reliable electricity for more than 50 years. The transaction will also transfer ownership of the decommissioned Big Rock Point site in Charlevoix, Michigan from Entergy to Holtec.
The sale of the Palisades plant completes Entergy's planned exit from the nuclear merchant power business, and follows the closure and sale of the Vermont Yankee, Pilgrim and Indian Point plants and the sale of the operating James A. Fitzpatrick plant.
"We thank the excellent employees of Palisades for their dedication to safe, secure and reliable operations and we look forward to many of them continuing on with Entergy at new locations within our utility service area," said Entergy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Leo Denault. "We remain committed to our four nuclear power stations in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The clean, carbon-free energy they produce is a key part of Entergy reaching its 2050 net-zero emissions commitment."
Entergy first announced the planned closure of Palisades in 2016 in accordance with its strategic business decision to focus on its utility operations in the Gulf South. The company believes nuclear power is essential to the nation's goals for mitigating the impact of climate change.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the transfer of the license of Palisades from Entergy to Holtec for purposes of decommissioning in December 2021. The federal agency determined that Holtec possesses the required technical and financial qualifications to own and decommission Palisades safely and in accordance with regulatory requirements.
"We are pleased to be acquiring these facilities to add to our growing decommissioning fleet. We are also pleased that the talented, knowledgeable, and hard-working team at Palisades is joining the Holtec team. These team members will continue to deploy the same cutting-edge technologies that we have employed at Indian Point, Pilgrim, and Oyster Creek to ensure maximum worker safety, protection of the environment, preservation of the well-being of the local community, and to build upon the excellence achieved at other plants in our fleet," said Mr. Kelly Trice, President of Holtec Decommissioning International.
Decommissioning Palisades
Holtec filings with the NRC detail its plans to complete the dismantling, decontamination, and remediation of Palisades to NRC standards by 2041, more than 40 years sooner than if Entergy continued to own the facility and selected the maximum 60-year NRC SAFSTOR option for decommissioning. A safe and timely decommissioning is welcomed news for the plant's community, which stands to benefit from potential site reuse.
About Entergy
Entergy (NYSE: ETR), a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans, powers life for 3 million customers through its operating companies across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy is creating a cleaner, more resilient energy future for everyone with our diverse power generation portfolio, including increasingly carbon-free energy sources. With roots in the Gulf South region for more than a century, Entergy is a recognized leader in corporate citizenship, delivering more than $100 million in economic benefits to local communities through philanthropy and advocacy efforts annually over the last several years. Our approximately 12,500 employees are dedicated to powering life today and for future generations. Learn more at entergy.com and follow @Entergy on social media. #WePowerLife
About Holtec International
Holtec International is a privately held technology company with operation centers in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania in the U.S., and globally in Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, U.K. and Ukraine. Since the 1980s, Holtec has played a preeminent role in the energy industry by developing and implementing innovative solutions to overcome technical challenges faced by its clients around the world. Pioneering the technology to expand the nuclear fuel storage capacity in the wet storage pools, Holtec has increased the storage capacity on average by over 50% at over 110 reactor units worldwide. Over 130 nuclear units worldwide rely on Holtec's technology for spent nuclear fuel storage and transportation; 70 of these are located in the U.S. Highlights of Holtec's core business focus also includes the safe and efficient decommissioning of shuttered nuclear plants; the current fleet includes Indian Point, Pilgrim and Oyster Creek. Holtec's decommissioning model includes the assumption of the entire plant including the spent nuclear fuel. Holtec's approach to decommissioning is to begin and complete the physical work of decontamination and dismantlement decades sooner than if the current nuclear plant owner retains ownership of the plant. HI-STORE, the world's first below-ground Consolidated Interim Storage Facility, is currently undergoing licensing for deployment in New Mexico. Holtec's SMR-160, a 160-Megawatt small modular reactor, will provide safe, secure, dependable, affordable and carbon-free power even in the world's most arid regions. As a major supplier of special-purpose pressure vessels and critical-service heat exchange equipment, Holtec provides air-cooled condensers, steam generators, feedwater heaters, and water-cooled condensers. As a fully integrated supplier, Holtec possesses in-house capabilities to design, engineer, analyze, license, fabricate and construct these technologies.
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New platform allows traditional payment companies to capitalize on $1tn crypto market
TEL-AVIV, Israel, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TenureX, an interoperability platform that enables and streamlines correspondent banking relationships, today announces the launch of the latest version to its platform - a seamless way for payments companies to deploy a bridge between fiat and crypto while managing compliance requirements. This is an extension to TenureX's core API named Digital Transaction Certificate (DTC™) which aims to bring a new level of transparency, control, and efficiency to the laborious and risky operations of this industry.
Cryptocurrency is becoming mainstream. Despite current volatility, it's estimated that the Web 3.0 economy has the potential to become a $1 trillion market opportunity, with investors continuing to pour billions into backing innovative crypto startups.[1] It's vital, therefore, that traditional payments companies are at the forefront of the trend if they hope to capitalize on it.
TenureX currently works with five major payment institutions, processing thousands of payments in a pilot of its crypto/fiat solution.
Izhar Arieli, CEO and founder of TenureX comments, "There are over 110,000 payments companies around the world, supporting different geographies and business types. We know that many of them are looking to add support for crypto-to-fiat businesses and expand their offering to their customer-base while creating new possibilities to grow and stay relevant."
"We at TenureX have built the infrastructure necessary for any payment company to support crypto businesses, in addition to traditional fiat transactions, in a matter of days and without compromising on risk and compliance, while improving - the same level of oversight and control."
"We're excited about what this latest development represents and, in particular, the potential for cryptocurrencies to help solve real-world problems, especially outside of major markets," says Arieli. "By the end of the year, we plan to support crypto payouts in more than 120 countries."
John Philpott, General Partner at FINTOP Capital adds, "We're delighted to support TenureX as it builds its latest platform, and we look forward to working with them as they continue to unleash innovation in the fields of crypto and decentralised finance, or DeFi."
TenureX was founded in 2020 by four banking experts with a range of industry experience. Its aim is to democratize correspondent banking by moving away from subjective, rigid, bilateral relationship banking. It provides a predictive real-time data-driven solution that reduces operating expenses through automation.
The company plans to make this update fully available to the market in Q4 2022.
To request access to the beta, please contact TenureX at Info@tenurex.com. For more information on the solution and its integrations, please visit tenurex.com
About TenureX
TenureX was founded in 2020 by four banking experts with a wide variety of industry experience. We know first-hand the frustrations and missed opportunities faced by non-bank financial institutions as they struggle to work together, and we are passionate about making things simpler for everyone in correspondent banking.
Our vision is to democratize correspondent banking by moving away from subjective, rigid, bilateral, relationship banking. Instead we'll build objective, streamlined, multilateral, transaction-based relationships.
For further information:
Izhar Arieli
CEO and Co-Founder
Phone:
+972(0)-73-326-0303 (ISR)
+1-605-836-8739 (USA)
Email: izhar@tenurex.com
[1] Grayscale Research, "The Metaverse: Web 3.0 Virtual Cloud Economies", November 2021
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Trump pays $110K in fines, must submit paperwork to end contempt
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general.
Trump paid the fine Thursday but must still submit additional paperwork in order to have the contempt order lifted, the office of Attorney General Letitia James said Friday.
A message seeking comment was left Friday with Trump’s lawyer.
A Manhattan judge declared Trump in contempt of court on April 25 and fined him $10,000 per day for not complying with a subpoena in James’ long-running investigation into his business practices.
Judge Arthur Engoron agreed May 11 to lift the contempt order if, by Friday, Trump paid the fines and submitted affidavits detailing efforts to search for the subpoenaed records and explaining his and his company’s document retention policies.
Engoron also required a company hired by Trump to aid in the search, HaystackID, finish going through 17 boxes kept in off-site storage, and for that company to report its findings and turn over any relevant documents. That process was completed Thursday, James’ office said.
Engoron told Trump to pay the money directly to James’ office and for the attorney general to hold the money in an escrow account while Trump’s legal team appeals the judge’s original contempt finding.
Engoron stopped the fine from accruing May 6, when Trump’s lawyers submitted 66 pages of court documents detailing the efforts by him and his lawyers to locate the subpoenaed records. He warned that he could reinstate it, retroactive to May 7, if his conditions weren’t met.
James, a Democrat, has said her three-year investigation uncovered evidence that Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, misstated the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses on financial statements for over a decade.
Trump, a Republican, denies the allegations. He has called James’ investigation “racist” and a politically motivated “witch hunt.” James is Black. Trump’s lawyers have accused her of selective prosecution. Trump is also suing James in federal court, seeking to shut down her probe.
Last week, a lawyer for James’ office said Friday that evidence found in the probe could support legal action against the former president, his company, or both.
The lawyer, Andrew Amer, said at a hearing in Trump’s lawsuit against James that “there’s clearly been a substantial amount of evidence amassed that could support the filing of an enforcement proceeding,” although a final determination on filing such an action has not been made.
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FMC previously won the award in 2017, 2019 and 2020.
PHILADELPHIA, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC) was honored today by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) as the Responsible Care Company of the Year, an award recognizing FMC for its excellence and leadership in environmental, health, safety and security (EHS&S) performance. It is the fourth time since 2017 that FMC has been named ACC Responsible Care Company of the Year.
"I am very proud of our company and pleased to accept the Responsible Care® Company of the Year Award on behalf of our more than 6,000 employees who work every day to ensure we deliver products safely and sustainably," said FMC president and CEO Mark Douglas. "This award is an acknowledgement and validation for every FMC employee who invests their time, attention and extra effort into their work. It is theirs to celebrate."
FMC is among the safest companies in the chemical industry. In 2021, the company achieved a record-low recordable injury rate of 0.066, which can be attributed to a culture of safety that extends to non-manufacturing employees through a global program called TH!NK SAFE. The program helps all employees, whether they work in an office, lab, field or production facility, to understand and apply the fundamentals of safety.
"The Responsible Care program helps the chemical industry operate with safety as a top priority. It is the mainstay of our industry's commitment to health, safety, security and environmental protection," said ACC President and CEO Chris Jahn.
"For FMC, there is nothing more important than safety," said Douglas. "We believe the key to creating a safety culture at work is to apply the same focus, intention and dedication to safety in every aspect of our lives."
FMC has also made significant progress on its sustainability objectives. In 2021, the company committed to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035, an ambitious goal that will set aggressive reduction standards not only for FMC, but suppliers and vendors as well.
"Our sense of responsibility to people and the planet extends beyond our company walls to the communities where we operate and the farms we serve," Douglas said. "We have an opportunity to leave this world a better place for the next generation. For that to happen, we must act now and we must act boldly."
Net-zero is just one part of FMC's broader sustainability platform which, in addition to climate change, drives progress on food security, conservation and social justice. To read FMC's recently published 2021 sustainability report, please visit fmc.com/sustainability.
About FMC
FMC Corporation is a global agricultural sciences company dedicated to helping growers produce food, feed, fiber and fuel for an expanding world population while adapting to a changing environment. FMC's innovative crop protection solutions – including biologicals, crop nutrition, digital and precision agriculture – enable growers, crop advisers and turf and pest management professionals to address their toughest challenges economically while protecting the environment. With approximately 6,400 employees at more than 100 sites worldwide, FMC is committed to discovering new herbicide, insecticide and fungicide active ingredients, product formulations and pioneering technologies that are consistently better for the planet. Visit fmc.com to learn more and follow us on LinkedIn® and Twitter®.
Statement under the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This release contains forward-looking statements, which are based on management's current views and assumptions regarding future events, future business conditions and the outlook for the company based on currently available information. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by any forward-looking statement. These factors include, among other things, the risk factors and other cautionary statements included within FMC's 2021 Form 10-K filed with the SEC as well as other SEC filings and public communications. FMC cautions readers not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by the above cautionary statement. FMC undertakes no obligation, and specifically disclaims any duty, to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date on which they were made, except as otherwise required by law.
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Highly regarded CPG retail and shopping veteran to lead and deliver first-to-market client solutions
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tinuiti – the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV and the Triopoly of Google, Meta, Amazon – today announced the appointment of Shaun Brown as its first-ever EVP of Commerce, ensuring the firm's long-term commitment to reinvest in its people, tech, and standards for innovation, setting both Tinuiti and its clients up for future success.
As Head of Commerce, Brown will oversee Tinuiti's already-robust Amazon, Retail Media, and end-to-end ecommerce retail strategy, which is driven by over 170 dedicated team members and collaborates across client offerings including Analytics, Addressable Media, Acquisition Media, Earned and Owned Media, Creative, and Influencer partnerships.
Brown's elevation follows Tinuiti's 2021 acquisition of Amazon-specialist agency, Ortega Group, resulting in one of the industry's most robust full-service Amazon and marketplace programs, which has transformed Tinuiti into the largest independent retail media practice.
Earlier this year, Tinuiti achieved Amazon Ads Advanced Partner Status. The just-launched global recognition program recognizes partners that demonstrate expertise with Amazon Ads, and deliver growth for advertisers, while also driving innovation and displaying a willingness to partner with Amazon Ads through consistent and ongoing engagement. Of the thousands of companies that work with Amazon Ads, only the top 5% achieve Advanced Partner Status.
Central to Tinuiti's success partnering with Amazon has been the firm's proprietary and powerful AI-enabled e-commerce activation toolset, MobiusX, which uses product data as the foundation on which media, bid, and feed strategies are optimized across campaigns and channels for maximum profitability. This technology has directly supported additional key API partnerships, including serving as one of only eight Walmart Connect API and Target Product Ads API partners and one of only 12 Instacart Agency API partners.
Obele Brown-West, Chief Solutions Officer, Tinuiti said: "Tinuiti's deep heritage in retail media is our advantage in understanding the entire customer Commerce journey, both online and offline, having all the best integrated tools in-house and with our partners. Shaun brings an incredible depth of shopper marketing experience to our already extensive ecommerce solutions — a combination that will deliver a commerce function across shoppable experiences and one that harnesses retail strategic operations. We guide modern brands looking to accelerate their connected commerce experience across the ever expanding landscape."
Brown is a 25-plus year CPG retail and shopping marketing veteran leading Shopper strategies and customer marketing activations with some of the world's most recognized brands, including Kellogg's and Coca-Cola. He has led commerce marketing programs that drive reach, engagement and sales and is known as an agency leader focused on connecting big data and AI to create better ideas, optimized connections, and proven results. Most recently, Brown joined Tinuiti from Momentum Worldwide where he led their North America Commerce Practice and Atlanta office. He will report to Tinuiti's Chief Solutions Officer, Obele Brown-West.
"I'm excited to partner with each of Tinuiti's clients to navigate the future of connected commerce and bring new brand experiences to life across the path to purchase by thoughtfully leveraging data, tech, and digital media. While I'm thrilled to join a company known for its industry-best depth of expertise, talent, and tech, what really attracted me to Tinuiti is the agency's pronounced dedication to culture and the prioritization of its people-first values."
- Shaun Brown, EVP, Commerce, Tinuiti
In addition, Katen Johal, who has a deep background in Amazon, Marketplaces and Retail Media Commerce, has been elevated from SVP of Business Development to Chief Growth Officer. Johal will continue to build on Tinuiti's momentum of rapid growth — which has grown seven-fold over the past five years. He will leverage his unique combination of institutional knowledge of the firm and his decade-plus experience in developing and selling agency services. Former Chief Growth Officer Jesse Eisenberg was elevated to Chief Commercial Officer earlier this year.
These role updates mark a continuation in establishing the Tinuiti "E-Team" as a go-to-market team in response to the firm's accelerated business growth. As announced in January, the new composition of the leadership team will provide better positioning to engage, deliver, and elevate client experience and performance to provide connected services to clients. Most recently, Tinuiti announced Max Cheprasov as Chief Transformation Officer and Justin Manus as Chief Technology Officer.
These appointments come alongside an ongoing restructuring of Tinuiti's service lines to cement its position as the performance marketing firm of the future.
Following Obele-Brown West's elevation to Chief Solutions Officer leading the delivery of Tinuiti's client-facing solutions, Tinuiti took the opportunity to evolve the solutions structure to drive integration across channels and integrate further, which includes key Solutions Team updates:
- Crystal Duncan, a 15-year veteran, has been announced as the SVP of Influencer Marketing, where she will head the new omnichannel Performance Influencer Practice, a full-funnel solution that delivers meaningful and measurable ROI for brands. Tinuiti has merged the Affiliate group, which works across the funnel to drive more conversations through brand loyalty programs, with Influencer to form a new Partnership Marketing Group.
- Pat Hayden, a 14-year Tinuitian, elevates to SVP, Solutions Integration, from SVP, Acquisition Media, to drive integration and accountability to further our strategic growth across the organization.
- Josh Brisco, a 10-year Tinuitian, elevates to Group VP, Acquisition Media, from VP, Growth Media, to lead Paid Search and drive incremental growth, integration and innovation for large divisions including: SEM, Growth Media and Shoppable Media.
Tinuiti is continuing to hire for multiple roles across divisions to keep pace with growth. For a closer look at Tinuiti's culture, please visit https://tinuiti.com/culture/.
Tinuiti is the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV and the Triopoly of Google, Meta, Amazon, with more than $3 billion in digital media under management and over 1,200 employees. With industry-leading expertise in search, social, Amazon and marketplaces, addressable TV and mobile apps, CRM and email marketing, and more, Tinuiti understands that success requires both strategy and channel expertise. Each solution is delivered through Tinuiti's performance planning framework, GAMMA, and is enabled by a proprietary suite of marketing intelligence and media activation technology – Mobius. For more information visit http://www.tinuiti.com.
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ATLANTA, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DeKalb County has approved a $50,000 Super District 6 ARP appropriation of funding from Commissioner Ted Terry for economic development, nonprofit organization Prospera to support local Latino entrepreneurs, especially those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. All Prospera services—including individual consulting and technical assistance, business training in Spanish, and access to capital—are offered to clients at no charge, thanks to funds raised from public and private funders.
"The services that Prospera offers to Latino small business owners can be pivotal to helping overcome this ongoing crisis and preserve jobs in our community," said Super District 6 Commissioner Ted Terry. "This supports the objective of the American Recovery Plan (ARP) and I look forward to the execution of this project that supports "One DeKalb" and partnerships that aid post-pandemic recovery and restoration."
There are an estimated 81,500 Latinos in DeKalb County, equivalent to 10.5 percent of its population. Prospera's DeKalb County Latino Entrepreneurship Program will offer bilingual, culturally sensitive services to established and aspiring Latino entrepreneurs. The funding will enable Prospera to provide vital information, individual handholding, and personalized resources to help local Latino entrepreneurs survive and recover from the COVID-19 crisis, while equipping them to start, stay, and thrive in business in the long term.
Prospera counts on two local offices in Metro Atlanta. Individuals interested in Prospera's assistance for their businesses or new startup ideas can call (678) 904-0944 or email ContactGA@prosperausa.org.
Prospera is an economic development, nonprofit organization that since 1991 has specialized in providing bilingual assistance to Hispanic entrepreneurs who want to start, sustain, or grow their businesses. In the last five years, Prospera facilitated over $61 million in loans, trained over 18,000 entrepreneurs, and helped consulting clients create or retain more than 16,000 jobs. Prospera currently offers services in Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina. For more information, visit www.prosperausa.org or call (678) 904-0944.
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Which metal dice set is best?
Metal dice sets are great investments for connoisseurs of tabletop games, thanks to their precision manufacturing, durability and consistently random rolls relative to plastic dice. The stylized designs of certain metal dice sets can also add ambiance to tabletop games with matching visual themes.
The DNDND Glow-In-The-Dark Metal Dice Set is one of the best general products available for customers who want quality metal dice at an affordable price. Customers with specific tabletop gaming interests may also enjoy metal dice sets with more specialized forms, materials and qualities.
What to know before you buy a metal dice set
Advantages of metal dice
Metal dice sets hold several advantages over their plastic counterparts. They’re more resistant to the wear and tear of being dropped and tossed against hard surfaces, and their weight tends to keep them from tumbling off the edges of tables. Furthermore, metallic dice have more uniform faces, ensuring that each number has an equal chance of being rolled (in a general, statistical sense).
Picking the right dice
When shopping for metal dice sets, make sure the dice set you buy matches the games you like to play. For example, polyhedral metal dice sets are mostly made for tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. In contrast, boxes of six-sided metal dice can be used for a wider range of tabletop games, including classic board games, like backgammon, role-playing games such as Shadowrun — where players roll pools of identical dice — games of chance etc.
Metal dice accessories
Depending on how often you use metal dice, it may also be prudent to purchase certain accessories. If you’re worried about scratching up wooden surfaces, you can acquire dice trays, dice towers or dice cups to protect your furnishings. If your metal dice set comes in a flimsy package, a sturdy container with foam compartments will keep them untarnished and scratch-free.
What to look for in a quality dice set
The “feel”
When you shake the dice in your hands, do they pinch your skin? Do they make a pleasant sound when they clink together? When rolled, how far do they tumble? Make sure your metal dice are fun to shake, rattle and roll.
Easy to read
Next, see if the visual design of your dice affects their utility. For example, metal dice with a bright outer coating or exotic fonts might be lovely to look at, but if their décor makes it hard to read the numbers on each face, you might be better off picking a less “flashy” set of dice.
Randomness
Metal dice sets are generally more balanced than plastic ones, but it’s still good to test how random they really are. Roll each die multiple times and record the results to see if they’re inclined towards landing on certain numbers. If the dice are consistently unbiased, use them for tabletop games where fairness is essential.
How much you can expect to spend on a metal dice set
Most metal dice sets, polyhedral or otherwise, range from $10-$25 in price. Cheaper metallic dice are generally composed of a zinc alloy plated with an outer coating, while more expensive metal dice sets are made from a single metal such as steel, bronze or even gold.
Metal Dice Set FAQ
How are metal dice sets manufactured?
A. Most metal dice are made from a zinc alloy super-heated into a liquid, then injected at high pressure into a dice mold. After cooling, some die cast products are dipped into a metal salt solution and given an external coat through electroplating.
Why are metal dice sets more balanced than most plastic dice?
A. Freshly cast plastic dice frequently go through a tumbling process to smooth out their edges and corners. This can create uneven distributions of weight in the dice, resulting in a bias toward rolling certain numbers.
What’s the best metal dice set to buy?
Top metal mice set
DNDND Glow-in-the-Dark Metal Dice Set
What you need to know: These hefty glow-in-the-dark metal dice are well-suited for Dungeons & Dragons and similar fantasy tabletop RPG systems.
What you’ll love: This product consists of seven polyhedral metal dice in a foam-lined case and comes in seven different colors. The legible numbers, glow-in-the-dark coating and solidity of these dice make them easy to roll and read in different lighting conditions.
What you should consider: The storage tins for these glow-in-the-dark metal dice sets aren’t the most durable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top metal dice set for the money
Haxtec Antique Iron D&D Metal Dice Set
What you need to know: The archaic-looking finish of these polyhedral dice adds flair to any night of fantasy tabletop gaming.
What you’ll love: This affordable set of zinc alloy dice comes in a faux-leather drawstring bag. Each die is solid and compact, with elegant, easy-to-read lettering.
What you should consider: These hard, sturdy dice may damage certain tabletop surfaces if not rolled in a dice tray or tower.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
TitanShield Solid Gold Polyhedral D&D Dice Set
What you need to know: The golden-hued polyhedral dice in this set are flashy and stylish while still being very durable.
What you’ll love: This polyhedral dice set is stored in a sturdy tin case lined with padded foam. Each die is made of a zinc core electroplated with a golden-colored metal, giving it heft, durability and style all at once.
What you should consider: These metal dice are on the smaller side.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Supreme Court rules for GOP lawmakers in voter ID case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court gave Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win Thursday in an ongoing fight over the state’s latest photo identification voting law.
The 8-1 decision doesn’t end the more than three-year dispute over the voter ID law, which is not currently in effect and has been challenged in both state and federal court. The decision just means that Republican legislative leaders can intervene in the federal lawsuit to defend the law. A lower court had ruled the lawmakers’ interests were already being adequately represented by the state’s attorney general, Democrat Josh Stein.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that: “Through the General Assembly, the people of North Carolina have authorized the leaders of their legislature to defend duly enacted state statutes against constitutional challenge. Ordinarily, a federal court must respect that kind of sovereign choice, not assemble presumptions against it.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
North Carolina voters amended the state constitution in 2018 to include a voter ID mandate. Lawmakers then passed the law at issue in the case to implement the change. The law requires voters to show a photo ID to vote — whether it’s a driver’s license, a passport or certain student and local government identifications.
North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the measure, but lawmakers overrode his veto to pass the law. The state NAACP and several local chapters immediately sued in federal court to halt enforcement of the law, arguing that it discriminates against Black and Latino voters in violation of the Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act.
House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger, both Republican, wanted to intervene in the federal court case to defend the law alongside lawyers for the state, saying Stein wouldn’t adequately fight for the law. But a federal judge said no, that lawmakers’ interests were being adequately defended by lawyers in Stein’s agency. A three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled for the lawmakers before the full federal appeals court reversed the decision, ruling 9-6 that lawmakers should not be allowed to intervene.
As for the law itself, it was initially blocked by the judge in the case, who said it was “impermissibly motivated, at least in part, by discriminatory intent.” But the three-judge appeals panel reversed her decision and sent it back to U.S. District Court, where a trial has yet to start.
In litigation in state court, judges struck down the law as tainted by racial bias. North Carolina’s Supreme Court has said it will take up the case, but no date has been set for oral arguments.
Separately, North Carolina’s highest court has also already heard arguments in a lawsuit over whether the constitutional amendment mandating voter ID should have been allowed on the November 2018 ballot in the first place. A state judge had ruled that the GOP-controlled legislature lacked authority to put the amendment and one other on the ballot because lawmakers had been elected from racially biased districts two years earlier. That decision was later overturned on appeal before going to the state’s highest court.
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Associated Press reporter Gary D. Robertson contributed to this report from Raleigh, N.C.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/06/23/supreme-court-rules-gop-lawmakers-voter-id-case/ | 2022-06-23T15:58:20Z |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Being a bit extra weather aware on Thursday in North Texas might prove wise as some afternoon and evening storms could be in store for the region.
NWS Fort Worth explains thunderstorm chances increase during the afternoon as an upper-level disturbance moves in from the east. “The best storm chances will be across Central Texas, but there will be at least a slight chance of storms as far north as the Highway 380 corridor.”
If/when thunderstorms pop up, some of them are capable of producing strong downburst winds and brief heavy rain. “Activity will move to the southwest, eventually exiting the region around sunset. Otherwise, it will be hot and steamy with highs in the 90s to triple digits, and heat index values at or above 105.”
Those potential downburst winds will also cause increased danger for boaters on Thursday. “These strong winds can spread out over open lakes and catch boater off guard where winds rapidly increase with little notice.”
Another day, another Ozone Action day in store for parts of North Texas on Thursday as ozone concentrations will be high again. “Ozone levels steadily rise during the day and peak during the late afternoon and evening. Without sunlight, ozone no longer develops, and a separate chemical reaction reduces the ozone concentrations over the course of the night,” NWS Fort Worth explains. | https://cw33.com/news/local/what-north-texans-need-to-know-about-afternoon-evening-storm-chances-thursday/ | 2022-07-14T18:15:35Z |
LAS VEGAS, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In order to drive customer brand loyalty and engagement with existing clients and attract new ones to its family, BLUETTI recently launched an incentive loyalty program called BLUETTI Plus beginning on Apr. 5. This program will be continuously updated to bring more benefits and fun to members.
After joining the program, all members will be able to earn and redeem bucks for rewards immediately. They will also occasionally receive seasonal promotions and newly-released products with priority.
Following the idea to align the program with each member's identity, BLUETTI Plus' tiered structure is made of 4 levels:
INSIDER, CONNOISSEUR, SOLAR EXPERT, SOGEN MASTER.
BLUETTI encourages members to make a referral and offers 2 bucks per $ if the referred friend places an order.
To motivate members to repeat purchases and interactions, BLUETTI has figured out many ways to earn bucks:
Exclusive Benefits
BLUETTI Plus allows members to place their orders at a special sale. A wide array of gifts and vouchers will be available only for loyal members. BLUETTI also offer free gifts on their birthdays. Customers could redeem the bucks by different methods within 12 months of the validity.
"Our loyalty program is a brand extension of this appreciation for our community, a solution to increase the retention rate, and a way for us to show our current and future customers how much we value them," said James Ray, marketing director of BLUETTI.
Learn More About The Program
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TAMPA, Fla., May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UBS Wealth Management USA announced today that 26 Financial Advisors in the firm's Greater Florida market have been named to the Forbes/SHOOK Best-in-State Wealth Advisors list for 2022.
"We are honored to see so many of our advisors who serve affluent individuals, families and institutions throughout Florida recognized in this prestigious list again this year," said Gregory Kadet, Greater Florida Market Head at UBS Wealth Management USA. "This distinction is a tribute to the outstanding achievements and dedication of these advisors to creating and executing long-term wealth management strategies to meet their clients' financial goals."
The UBS Financial Advisors in Greater Florida named to the list are as follows:
This year's Forbes/SHOOK Research Best-In-State Wealth Advisors list is composed of more than 6,500 advisors managing a collective $10 trillion in client assets. The ranking algorithm is based on qualitative and quantitative criteria, including telephone, virtual, and in-person interviews; revenue produced; assets under management; quality of practice; regulatory record; and industry experience.
For the full list and further information, visit https://www.forbes.com/best-in-state-wealth-advisors/.
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About UBS Global Wealth Management
As the world's largest wealth manager, UBS Global Wealth Management provides comprehensive advice, solutions and services to wealthy families and individuals around the world. Clients who work with UBS benefit from a fully integrated set of wealth management capabilities and expertise, including wealth planning, investment management, capital markets, banking, lending, and institutional and corporate financial advice.
About UBS
UBS provides financial advice and solutions to wealthy, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as private clients in Switzerland. UBS's strategy is centered on our leading global wealth management business and our premier universal bank in Switzerland, enhanced by Asset Management and the Investment Bank. The bank focuses on businesses that have a strong competitive position in their targeted markets, are capital efficient, and have an attractive long-term structural growth or profitability outlook.
UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It has offices in more than 50 regions and locations, with about 30% of its employees working in the Americas, 30% in Switzerland, 19% in the rest of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and 21% in Asia Pacific. UBS Group AG employs more than 72,000 people around the world. Its shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
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German parties reach deal to move ahead with defense boost
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing coalition and the main opposition party have reached a deal to move ahead with a big increase in defense spending that Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced three months ago. Scholz said three days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine started that Germany would commit 100 billion euros ($107 billion) to a special fund for its military and raise its defense spending above 2% of GDP. It’s a measure on which it had long lagged. Scholz wanted to anchor the special fund in the constitution. That requires a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament, meaning that he needed support from the center-right opposition Union bloc. The two sides reached an agreement Sunday night. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/30/german-parties-reach-deal-to-move-ahead-with-defense-boost-2/ | 2022-05-30T10:01:24Z |
DALLAS, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday, LERMA/ was named Ad Age Gold Small Agency of the Year: 11-75 employees at the 14th Annual Ad Age Small Agency Awards. The newly independent firm has evolved from a multicultural aficionado to a cross-cultural powerhouse.
"Multicultural marketing used to be an afterthought, but our country has changed, and we have evolved with it," Pedro Lerma Founder & CEO of LERMA/ said. "As an independent certified minority-owned agency, it is exciting to be recognized for all the work we have accomplished, and we are eager to dream even bigger."
LERMA/ is innovating the industry on all fronts with the development of its Brand Inclusivity Performance Index (BIPI), a first-of-its-kind communication tool that measures brands' commitment to multiculturalism. Continuing to further its commitment to innovation and thought leadership, LERMA/ has partnered with The University of Texas to publish ongoing reports about Millennials and Gen Z, with a key focus on multicultural insights.
With over 400 entries nationally, the Ad Age Small Agency Awards recognizes standout independent agencies with fewer than 150 employees that are producing both noteworthy creative work and strong business results.
LERMA/ is a full-service branding and creative advertising agency dedicated to channeling creativity for good. Based in Dallas, LERMA/ was founded by Pedro Lerma with an emphasis on omniculturalism and a belief that they can positively affect our increasingly diverse culture by first embodying it themselves. The agency's work includes award-winning campaigns for clients such as The Home Depot, Avocados From Mexico, The Salvation Army, Interstate Batteries and He Gets Us, among others. For more information, visit www.lermaagency.com
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Chipotle Rewards members have a chance to score buy-one-get-one (BOGO) offers while watching the 2022 Men's Professional Basketball Championship Series
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) today announced it is returning to the Men's Professional Basketball Championship Series to hide up to 50,000 buy-one-get-one (BOGO) deals in its TV ads.
How It Works
Chipotle will hide a unique keyword in its TV ads that will unlock 10,000 BOGOs offers in the first four games of the series. Chipotle Rewards members will have to act fast and text the keyword to 888222 before all the BOGOs are claimed for a chance to win. To join Chipotle Rewards and earn access to free Chipotle throughout the year, fans can visit: www.chipotle.com/order/create-account.
Tip-Off Schedule
- Game 1 - Thursday, June 2
- Game 2 - Sunday, June 5
- Game 3 – Wednesday, June 8
- Game 4 - Friday, June 10
- Game 5 and beyond (if necessary)
"As a go-to restaurant for some of the top basketball players in the world, we pride ourselves on providing real food for real athletes," said Chris Brandt, Chief Marketing Officer. "Chipotle has a history of showing up during the professional basketball championship and this year is no different as the opportunity for free Chipotle is available for those with a sharp eye and quick texting reflexes."
Basketball's Biggest Stage
Chipotle has leveraged the Men's Professional Basketball Championship Series as a high-profile opportunity to spotlight brand fandom over the last few years. In 2021, the brand hid thousands of free entrée codes in ads that aired during the series. In 2019, Chipotle premiered "freeting," a first-of-its-kind activation where every time an on-air announcer said the word "free" during the official coverage of the series, @chipotletweets live tweeted a unique code good for a chance to get a free burrito. Chipotle received various awards for the campaign, including Digiday's 'Best Use of Mobile' award, Adweek's Constellation award, and was also a finalist for the 2020 North American SABRE awards, Shorty Awards, and Webby Awards.
Free Queso Mondays
To continue supercharging its superfans throughout June, Chipotle will offer a free side or topping of Queso Blanco with an entrée purchase for all digital orders every Monday this month. To redeem, fans can use the code "QUESO22" at checkout on the Chipotle app and Chipotle.com on June 6, June 13, June 20, and June 27. Chipotle will also unveil new menu hacks featuring Queso Blanco on TikTok throughout the month.
Offer valid for free small side or entrée topping of Queso Blanco with the purchase of a full-priced entrée item and use of code QUESO22 at time of order. Limit one free serving per order; redemption is subject to availability. Must be ordered with an entrée, via Chipotle websites or mobile apps only; not available on in-restaurant orders or orders via third-party delivery platforms. Valid only on each Monday in June 2022, at participating Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants in the U.S. and Canada during regular business hours. May not be combined with other coupons, promotions, or special offers. Void where prohibited; additional restrictions may apply.
Chipotle Rewards membership required to earn free Chipotle or redeem the promotional BOGO. For Chipotle Rewards terms, see chipotle.com/rewards-terms.
PROMOTIONAL BOGOS AVAILABLE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. First 10,000 mobile numbers to text the keyword that appears in each ad to 888222 receive a BOGO code redeemable only by Chipotle Rewards members. Open to residents of the 50 U.S. states & D.C., ages 13 and up only. Promotion begins at the time of airing of the applicable Chipotle ad during each 2022 Men's Professional Basketball Championship Series game telecast through Game 5 (unless extended by Chipotle in its sole discretion) and ends when each game is over or when all codes have been claimed, whichever occurs first. Limit 1 code per person. Chipotle will let winners know they've won by sending you a text. Standard text and data rates may apply. See Official Rules for complete details: chipotle.com/text.
ABOUT CHIPOTLE
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG) is cultivating a better world by serving responsibly sourced, classically-cooked, real food with wholesome ingredients without artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Chipotle had over 3,000 restaurants as of March 31, 2022, in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany and is the only restaurant company of its size that owns and operates all its restaurants. Chipotle is ranked on the Fortune 500 and is recognized on the 2022 list for Fortune's Most Admired Companies. With over 100,000 employees passionate about providing a great guest experience, Chipotle is a longtime leader and innovator in the food industry. Chipotle is committed to making its food more accessible to everyone while continuing to be a brand with a demonstrated purpose as it leads the way in digital, technology and sustainable business practices. For more information or to place an order online, visit WWW.CHIPOTLE.COM.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Zack Morris didn’t get much done as the starter for Arkansas two nights earlier, but what a finisher he was Wednesday.
Morris was called on after Mississippi loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the junior left-hander put down the threat to let the Razorbacks hang on for a 3-2 win at the College World Series.
The Hogs (46-20) forced a second bracket final against Ole Miss (39-23) on Thursday, with the winner advancing to play Oklahoma in the best-of-three championship round starting Saturday.
“Morris did a tremendous job,” Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said. “He talked to me last night after the game and said, ‘I want the ball again.’ And I said, ‘Just be ready.’
“When he came in, I just said, ‘Hey, man, can you do this?’ And he said, ‘Yes, sir.’ And I just said, ‘OK, here you go. Go get it.’”
For eight innings, Arkansas all but shut down an offense that had produced 64 runs in its first seven NCAA Tournament games. Kemp Alderman, who hit a tying homer in the second inning, was the only Ole Miss runner to advance past first base to that point.
The Rebels loaded the bases in the ninth after closer Brady Tygart hit two straight batters.
Morris, who had given up two runs and was pulled after two-thirds of an inning in the Hogs’ 13-5 loss to Ole Miss on Monday, struck out pinch-hitter Hayden Leatherwood and got TJ McCants to fly out before Justin Bench’s infield single made it a one-run game. Morris then got Jacob Gonzalez to line out to end the game.
“Zack’s been clutch for us all year long,” Brady Slavens said. “We all had faith in him. We all had belief in him. He didn’t have the best start that he wanted the other day, but he came out and proved himself tonight.”
Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said he and his players wouldn’t dwell on the loss.
“Rather than woe is us,” he said, “how about looking at what a great opportunity we have tomorrow?”
With the game tied at 1 in the fifth, Slavens blasted John Gaddis’ second pitch 436 feet to straightaway center into a light breeze.
The only other players to homer to dead center since the CWS moved to Charles Schwab Field in 2011 were Florida’s Pete Alonso (2015) and Florida State’s Dylan Busby (2017).
“I was just looking for a fastball over the plate,” Slavens said. “Luckily I got it. It might be the farthest one I’ve ever hit. I’m not sure.”
The Hogs added a huge insurance run in the eighth. Cayden Wallace sent a ball down the left-field line for a double, getting his hand onto the bag just ahead of second baseman Peyton Chatagnier’s tag attempt. The call was upheld on video review.
Michael Turner followed with a base hit that brought Wallace home, and the Hogs loaded the bases before Jack Dougherty struck out Slavens and pinch-hitter Kendall Diggs to end the inning.
Arkansas freshman lefty Hagen Smith (7-2) pitched five innings for his longest outing since he went six in an April 30 win over the Rebels. He allowed one run on two hits and four walks, and he struck out eight.
“My mental approach today was just throw the ball over the plate, just throw strikes, because I know I’ve got to throw strikes to give us a chance,” Smith said. “If I walk people, I won’t go long or help our team.”
Evan Taylor gave up two hits and fanned four in three innings, leaving after Alderman singled leading off the ninth.
Gaddis (3-2), pitching for the first time since June 6 and making his first start since April 9, allowed two runs on four hits.
The teams traded home runs in the second. Chris Lanzilli went deep for the third time in the CWS and Alderman connected for the Rebels.
Lanzilli’s homer barely cleared the fence in left center and bounced back onto the field. The homer was confirmed after a video review.
Lanzilli became the first player to hit three homers in a CWS since Michigan’s Jimmy Kerr in 2019.
Bianco and Van Horn announced they would start their aces Thursday, with Ole Miss’ Dylan DeLucia (7-2) going against Connor Noland (8-5).
“I can’t promise you the outcome of tomorrow’s game, but I can guarantee you we’re not scared, we’re not going to back down,” said Chatagnier, whose team was the last to receive an at-large bid for the NCAA Tournament. “This is nothing new to us.”
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — More than 40 years after blazing a trail for female video game characters, Ms. Pac-Man was inducted Thursday into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, along with Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Sid Meier’s Civilization.
The Hall of Fame considers electronic games of all types each year — arcade, console, computer, handheld and mobile. Inductees are recognized for their popularity and influence on the video game industry or pop culture over time.
The Ms. Pac-Man arcade game was released in 1981 as Midway’s follow-up to Pac-Man, which entered the hall as part of the inaugural class in 2015. The Pac-Man sequel reimagined the main character to acknowledge the original game’s female fans, according to the hall. After selling 125,000 cabinets within the first five years, it became one of the best-selling arcade games of all time.
There was nothing inherently gendered about early video games, said Julia Novakovic, senior archivist at the hall. But “by offering the first widely recognized female video game character,” she said, “Ms. Pac-Man represented a turn in the cultural conversation about women’s place in the arcade, as well as in society at large.”
The Class of 2022 was chosen from a field of finalists that also included Assassin’s Creed, Candy Crush Saga, Minesweeper, NBA Jam, PaRappa the Rapper, Resident Evil, Rogue, and Words with Friends. It is the eighth class to be inducted since the World Video Game Hall of Fame was established at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution, first seen in arcades in Japan in 1998, was recognized for helping to pave the way for other music-centered games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. The fast-paced game put players on a dance floor with a screen in front to direct their moves.
“Music has been an integral part of human life since prehistoric times, so it comes as no surprise that DDR enjoyed a unique popularity that spanned ages, genders, and regions,” said video game curator Lindsey Kurano.
A home version of the game followed on the Sony PlayStation in 1999.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, also first released in 1998, came out for the Nintendo 64 gaming console and defined what a 3D action video game could be, Hall of Fame officials said. The award-winning game sold more than 7.6 million copies worldwide and continues to be recognized by some players and critics as one of the best video games ever made.
“Even today, developers throughout the world credit The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as influencing the way they create games,” digital games curator Andrew Borman said. “The game’s sprawling 3D world, fluid combat, complex puzzles and time-shifting story combined to inspire a wonder in players that they have never forgotten.”
Sid Meier’s Civilization, released in 1991, was recognized as an influential simulation and strategy game. The game, which invited players to develop their own empires, launched a series of successor games, including the most recent Civilization: Beyond Earth and Civilization VI.
“The addictive nature of the game, which creator Sid Meier himself called the ‘one more turn’ quality, and its nearly unlimited choices that prevented repetitive gameplay, earned Civilization recognition from Computer Gaming World as the best video game of all time in 1996,” said Jon-Paul Dyson, director of The Strong’s International Center for the History of Electronic games. “Altogether — and given the extraordinarily long periods of play the game afforded — players have engaged with the Civilization series for more than a billion hours.”
Anyone can nominate a game for the World Video Game Hall of Fame. Final selections are made on the advice of journalists, scholars and others with knowledge of the history of video games and their role in society. | https://cw33.com/technology/ap-technology/ms-pac-man-clears-path-to-world-video-game-hall-of-fame/ | 2022-05-05T23:00:43Z |
Out of 500-plus companies that raised seed and Series A rounds over the past year, Will Reed named Rocketlane an employer of choice based on mission, culture, growth trajectory, and founding leadership
SAN MATEO, Calif. and CHENNAI, India, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rocketlane, a leader and innovator in customer onboarding, announced today that they have been named one of the Top 100 Early-Stage Companies to Work for in 2022 by executive search firm Will Reed.
Rocketlane is a leader and innovator in customer onboarding that helps accelerate value delivery and streamline customer onboarding and implementation journeys. It creates on-demand visibility, elevates the onboarding customer experience, and helps run transparent and consistent implementations.
"We've worked with hundreds of early-stage B2B tech companies who are on-mission to transform the way we live and work," said Paige Robinson, founder and CEO of Will Reed. "We believe the most successful companies are those like Rocketlane, who are committed to building human-first cultures that offer meaningful work and support the full employee experience."
"Every day, we strive to uphold our company values, and we are very proud to be recognized as one of the top 100 Early-Stage Companies to Work for in 2022", said Srikrishnan Ganesan, co-founder and CEO of Rocketlane. "For a company born in the pandemic, we have successfully solved the challenges of a remote work environment and built a leading product in customer onboarding without compromising our ethos. We are committed to a culture that encourages innovation, strives for inclusivity, and values empathy."
Since inception, Rocketlane's in-person team has successfully collaborated to reach a number of milestones, including receiving a $3 million seed round and an $18 million Series A funding round just seven months apart; their emphasis on weaving innovation into their culture has helped them gain recognition as a G2 category leader in client onboarding, as well as a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor in the Technology GTM category. It has also helped them build and release industry-first capabilities such as native forms and a Slack integration that makes project communication seamless, among others.
Rocketlane has also been investing in creating learning avenues for their domain: This year saw them launch their maiden Propel event, the first and only dedicated conference for customer onboarding and implementation which attracted 1,300 attendees and 3,000-plus registrations. They also launched well before Rocketlane Preflight.cx, a 1,900-plus member Slack community that offers opportunities to network and learn for customer onboarding leaders and practitioners.
Along the way, Rocketlane has developed a highly-connected team through fun and differentiating experiences, including a viral rap video to announce their series A funding, weekly 'Curiosity' lessons where team members share their personal passions with colleagues, participation in the Start-Up Premier League cricket tournament, off-sites, and more.
Rocketlane is a collaborative customer onboarding platform that helps you accelerate value delivery and streamline customer onboarding and implementation journeys. It creates on-demand visibility for leaders, helps you elevate CX for your onboarding, helps you run transparent and consistent implementations, and unifies the collaboration, project tracking, and communication into a single tightly knit experience.
Will Reed is the only executive search firm built exclusively for early-stage founders. Founded in 2015, the firm recruits go-to-market (GTM) and People leaders for Seed thru Series C companies backed by leading venture capital firms like a16z, Accel, Bessemer, Insight Partners, Lightspeed, New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia, etc. Will Reed believes early-stage founders are responsible for shaping our collective future, so they couple search with founder enablement curriculum and coaching to ensure their B2B tech clients can compete against the giants for top talent.
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A White judge tells an interracial couple that "Almighty God" placed the races on different continents because he "did not intend for the races to mix."
A US Senator writes a book about the dangers of interracial unions called, "Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization."
A White father is so disgusted after reading a magazine article on interracial marriage that he writes a letter to the editor saying if his daughter even thought of marrying a Black man, "I would personally kill her and then myself."
These are soundbites from an earlier era, when most White Americans were repulsed by the idea of interracial marriage. It was a time when White judges and politicians talked openly about protecting the "purity and integrity of the white race" and the evils of "race-mixing" and miscegenation -- a pejorative term for intimate relations between people of different races.
That all began to change in June of 1967 when the US Supreme Court unanimously struck down an anti-miscegenation law in the Loving v. Virginia case. The case concerned the marriage between a white man, Richard Loving, and his wife, Mildred Jeter, a woman of Black and Native American ancestry.
The Loving case did more than make interracial marriage legal nationwide -- it helped spark a mini social revolution. When a Gallup poll first asked Americans about their views on marriage between Black and White people in 1958, only 4% approved. Last year, that number was 94% — an all-time high -- with 93% of Whites saying they approved.
This dramatic shift represents a rare moment of racial progress that's equally embraced by a vast majority of White and Black Americans. But it also begs a question that's rarely, if ever, asked:
Why have Americans reached a consensus on interracial marriage when other racial issues, like affirmative action and integration, remain fiercely contested?
Interracial marriage is viewed differently than other racial issues
That question has taken on new urgency because interracial marriage is back in the news. People across the globe recently celebrated "Loving Day," the 55th anniversary of the Loving decision, which declared prohibitions on interracial marriage unconstitutional.
A recent Supreme Court decision also raised new questions about interracial marriage. Some legal experts warn the same legal rationale the high court's conservative majority recently used to overturn Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs decision could be applied to overturn Loving v. Virginia.
"To those who say Loving v. Virginia will never be overturned, be cautious and vigilant," said the American Civil Liberties Union in a statement after the Roe decision. "The United States has a long history of criminalizing, surveilling, and controlling Black and brown families and the mixing of races.''
Any concerns about the durability of interracial marriage, though, may seem far-fetched to some because it's such an entrenched part of American life.
There was a time when interracial couples and their children had to hide in shame. Not anymore.
Advertisements today routinely depict interracial couples, straight and gay, along with their children. Biracial public figures such as filmmaker Jordan Peele, NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama are heroes to millions of Americans.
The advertisers are following demographic trends. People who identity as multiracial increased by 276% over the last decade, according to the 2020 census.
When Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in last week as the first Black female justice on the Supreme Court, she did so while standing next to her husband, who is White. His race was not even noted in the stories on her swearing-in.
So how did such an enormous shift in acceptance occur?
CNN put this question to several authors and scholars who not only study race but are biracial themselves. One of them is Lise Funderburg, author of "Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity." Funderburg was born before the Loving decision to a Black father and White mother who married and raised her in Philadelphia.
Funderburg says the difference between attitudes about interracial marriage and other racial issues like voting rights is one word: proximity.
"You can dehumanize people when they are just abstract concepts to you," she says. "Affirmative action, voting rights—these are issues that you can depersonalize. But you can't depersonalize your cousin's husband at the barbecue who asks you to pass the ketchup. It's hard to dismiss or take a stance against love when it's in your face."
The importance of physical proximity in bridging racial divisions is backed up by social science. There's a name for this dynamic. It's called "contact theory." This term was coined by Gordon Allport, one of the 20th century's towering psychologists. Allport said that racial prejudice against Black people could decrease among White Americans if the two groups had interpersonal contact.
In one of his most famous studies, Allport conducted surveys of White soldiers who fought alongside Black soldiers during World War II. He discovered that in companies with both Black and White platoons, White soldiers disliked Black people far less than did White soldiers who served in segregated units.
But Allport found it was not enough for Whites and non-Whites to simply know one another. Other conditions also had to be met, such as personal interaction, equal status and both groups sharing common goals. Allport's findings, which were replicated with civilians in varying settings, proved that hatred and racism stem from lack of contact—or physical proximity.
Why many White Americans aren't threatened by interracial unions
There could be another reason why so many White Americans now accept marriage between Black and White people: They don't perceive it as a threat to their status or economic well-being, one scholar says.
Omar Wasow is one of the leading voices on race in America. An assistant professor of politics at University of California, Berkeley, he is the author of a groundbreaking paper that revealed how violent and nonviolent civil rights protests in the 1960s shaped media coverage and influenced voting patterns. Wasow is also the son of a White man and Black woman who met in college and married in 1968, a year after the Loving v. Virginia decision.
Wasow says interracial marriage is more widely accepted by White people now because many don't perceive it as a threat to their economic or political power.
By contrast, many White Americans believe their property values will decrease if "too many" Black people — usually more than a handful — move into their neighborhood. Whites move out so often when this happens that sociologists have a name for the phenomenon. It's called "racial tipping."
A similar dynamic takes place in public schools. If more than a small number of Black students enroll in a school, many White parents withdraw their children, fearing they will receive an inferior education or start making lower test scores.
These are some reasons why schools and housing remain heavily segregated in the US, despite increased racial diversity in many suburbs.
"Granting legal equality is often easier to achieve than issues that try to get at material or political equality, where there is something quite valuable that is being allocated and people feel not just a loss of some symbol but a genuine sense of a loss of power, or a threat to their material well-being," Wasow says.
An issue like affirmative action is a prime example of that dynamic, he says.
"Affirmative action is a more demanding ask of a white majority than something like interracial marriage because there's no sense of, if these people get married, I'm denying an opportunity to myself," Wasow says. "Granting people the legal right to marry has no material cost to people who had that right but were denying it to others.
"There's a sense of status loss and a change in social order, but if people of different races couldn't get married before and now they can, the person who is a bigot doesn't have their wealth threatened in any meaningful way."
Even so, many challenges remain for interracial couples
Although interracial couples are more common in the US today, challenges remain for them and their children.
In 2013, Cheerios pulled comments from its YouTube page after the cereal brand ran a TV commercial featuring an interracial family and their daughter. The ad triggered an onslaught of racist comments, including warnings of "racial genocide" and viewers who said they were so disgusted by the commercial that they "want to vomit."
And in March, a Republican senator from Indiana said he would be open to the Supreme Court overturning the Loving v. Virginia decision and leaving the question of interracial marriage to the states. The senator, GOP Sen. Mike Braun, later apologized after receiving public criticism, and said he condemned "racism in any form."
Such reactions come as no surprise to Kaitlyn Wells, an author who is biracial. Wells, 35, was born decades after the Loving decision to a Black man and White woman.
"I wouldn't exist if it weren't for Loving," she says, referring to the Supreme Court decision which paved the way for her parents to marry. "But the world didn't magically accept interracial couples on June 12, 1967, when the case was decided," Wells says. "There are still people who believe we shouldn't be here."
After she married recently, Wells posted a picture on Facebook of her father walking her down the aisle. A White Facebook user, apparently assuming she was White and her father was her husband, posted: "That is sick. Going to be one of these women with a half breed baby and divorced and trying to find probably another white person."
Wells says she constantly runs into strangers who take liberties to touch her hair or ask her intrusive questions about her racial identity.
"It's just this constant thing -- they want to put you in a box," she says. "They want to be able to figure out who you are and where you come from."
Wells was so distressed by the treatment she received that she wrote a children's book for biracial kids titled, "A Family Looks Like Love."
"If I had a book like this when I was a kid, it would have made some of those conversations with my parents a little bit easier," she says.
A question no poll has answered
Despite the experiences of people like Wells, it's hard not to be encouraged by the dramatic shift in public opinion on interracial marriage. Not long ago, a Black man could get lynched for flirting with a White woman in public. Today few raise eyebrows at interracial couples.
Could the same dynamic that occurred with interracial marriage shift to other racial issues?
Funderburg, the author, asks similar questions after looking at the recent Gallup poll and considering recent Supreme Court decisions that have gutted the Voting Rights Act and weakened gun control laws.
"I do think this statistic points to the power of personal experience to dissolve prejudice and to dismantle hate," she says. "But we're looking at this statistic right now in an era when the number of rights that I thought were solid and sacred are being reversed. That drive for a draconian dismantling of a whole range of civil rights is underway in so many realms of America."
This is a question that no contemporary poll has answered.
While more White Americans are now welcoming Black people into their families, many are still not willing to accept them in their neighborhoods or in their public schools.
As long as there is little contact between White and non-White Americans in those settings, the power of personal experience to dissolve prejudice will remain moot. Unless there are more personal relationships between White people, Black people and others in those spaces, we will continue to live with a paradox spawned by the Loving decision:
Americans' personal lives are more integrated than ever. But in the public realm — when it comes to issues like political power, housing and education — some White Americans are still living by the motto that guided their predecessors in the era before the Loving decision:
"No race-mixing allowed."
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Cease And Desist Injunction Issued Against Chemeon For All Use Of Metalast® Trademark in Commerce
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 23, 2021 the United States District Court, District of Nevada, Reno (District Court) issued a Cease and Desist Injunction and ruled against metal finishing specialty chemical company Chemeon Surface Technology, LLC (Chemeon) of Minden, Nevada. Under court order this injunction prohibits the unlawful use in commerce by anyone of the name "Metalast®", a USPTO registered trademark owned by David Semas.
Chemeon appealed the District Court order and on June 2, 2022, with a Mandate issued on June 24, 2022 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals further upheld the District Court's FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW. Any unauthorized use of the Metalast® name by Chemeon, Chemetall, a business unit of BASF, QualiChem or Chemeon's distributors after June 11, 2015 is a False Designation of Origin. All products or piece parts surface treated or processed after that date cannot be labeled, and are not, nor have even been "formerly Metalast", or "formerly known as Metalast." Any business marketing, distributing, selling or advertising any product characterized as such after June 11, 2015 does so without license or permission.
Chemeon, and its owners Dean and Madylon Meiling entered into a court approved contract promising after June 10, 2015, their business entities, therefore also Chemetall, QualiChem and their other distributors would "no longer be able to use the name Metalast® in any fashion or manner whatsoever." David Semas has not licensed or in any way otherwise or consented to the characterization of any business entity as being "Metalast®.".
Effective June 10, 2015, David Semas hereby disclaims any and all liability for any product defects, wrongful death, personal injury, or property damage in anyway attributed, or alleged to be attributed to, any product advertised, represented, distributed, or sold as a Metalast product, or under the "formerly Metalast" moniker, with or without the ® symbol. To view court orders, other relevant court documents and additional information go to www.metalastinc.com.
Founded by David Semas in 1994, Metalast® International, Inc., as Manager for Metalast International, LLC was a provider of METALAST® anodizing technologies and its chemical products were used for corrosion control and other metal finishing processes. METALAST® branded chemicals were approved and/or specified by Apple, BAE Systems, Bath Iron Works, The Boeing Company, Delphi, Ford, GE, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky and hundreds of leading manufacturers and metal finishing job shops worldwide including many Fortune 500 companies and the US Military. The company is perhaps best known for its development partnership with the US Navy and manufacturing and distribution partnership with Chemetall, a Business Unit of the global giant BASF Group, for the METALAST® TCP-HF line of products, the green chemical replacement to the harmful carcinogenic anti-corrosion chemical hexavalent chromium.
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HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — “Tiger King” star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle has been arrested in South Carolina, according to jail records.
Antle, 62, who does not have charges listed, was booked Friday at the J. Reuben Long Detention Center at about 5:40 p.m. by the FBI, according to jail records.
Authorities didn’t immediately explain why he was arrested. Kevin Wheeler with the FBI told Nexstar’s WBTW that he didn’t have any details to provide at this time, but confirmed he was arrested Friday. TMZ reports that, according to a source close to the investigation, the charges are related to alleged money laundering.
Antle owns Myrtle Beach Safari in Horry County. He told WBTW in December that allegations made against him in “Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story” were “absolutely false.”
Information in the documentary accused him of having a sexual relationship with multiple minors while he was an adult — as well as forging the signature of a 15-year-old’s father so they could be legally married. He was also accused of physically abusing women and using deceptive financial practices as it relates to a fundraising organization.
In the docuseries, allegations are made about how money that Antle has raised for the Rare Species Fund has been spent and whether much of the money goes back into his pocket. The Myrtle Beach Safari website says the fund was established in 1983 and “is a grassroots organization that provides financial support and practical training to wildlife conservation initiatives in situ.” The website goes on to say that fund’s support has primarily focused on projects in South America, Africa and Thailand.
One woman referred to Antle on the show as the “Harvey Weinstein of the animal training business”. The T.I.G.E.R.S. facility at Barefoot Landing was also mentioned several times in the new docuseries.
In January, Antle waived his right to appear in court on various wildlife trafficking charges stemming from an investigation tied to a Virginia animal park. His trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 31. His motions to dismiss the charges have been denied.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. and NAPLES, Fla., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Encompass Health Corp. (NYSE: EHC) and NCH Healthcare System today announced the intention to enter into a joint venture to operate a 50-bed, freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Naples, Florida.
Recently, the Board of Directors of NCH Healthcare System approved its investment in this collaboration with Encompass Health. The hospital is currently under construction in Naples at 14305 Collier Boulevard and scheduled to open in August 2022. When the hospital opens, NCH Healthcare System intends to relocate its existing 54-bed rehabilitation unit, The NCH Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging & Rehabilitation, to the new hospital.
Quality care and exceptional patient outcomes have been a cornerstone to NCH's mission to help its patients live longer, happier, and healthier lives. In support of that mission, this collaboration will enhance inpatient rehabilitation services in Naples.
"This joint venture combines the expertise and resources of Encompass Health, the nation's largest provider of inpatient rehabilitation services, with the trusted healthcare provider NCH Healthcare System, a multi-facility healthcare system with an excellent reputation for providing high quality care throughout Collier County and southwest Florida for over 60 years," said Lori Bedard, President of Encompass Health's Southeast Region. "We are excited to partner with NCH Healthcare System and look forward to providing patients with customized rehabilitation services that improves their quality of life."
"NCH is proud to be able to collaborate with Encompass Health to expand the scope of inpatient rehabilitation services we can offer to our community," said Paul Hiltz, President & CEO, NCH Healthcare System. "Our focus at NCH has always been on enhancing quality for an exceptional patient experience."
Complementing local acute care services like those provided by NCH Healthcare System, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals serve patients recovering from debilitating illnesses and injuries, including strokes and other neurological disorders, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, amputations and complex orthopedic conditions. In addition to 24–hour nursing care, the inpatient rehabilitation hospitals offer physical, occupational and speech therapies to restore functional ability and quality of life.
The NCH Healthcare System is a not-for-profit, multi-facility healthcare system located in Naples, Florida, and is a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. The System is more than just two hospitals (referred to as the NCH Baker Hospital and NCH North Naples Hospital) with a total of 713 beds. NCH is an alliance of 775 physicians and medical facilities in dozens of locations throughout Collier County and southwest Florida that offers nationally recognized, quality health care to our community. NCH delivers 3,500 babies and houses the only pediatric ER in Collier County serving more than 19,000 children every year. We take pride in caring for the next generation of leaders. Our mission is to help everyone live a longer, happier, healthier life. For more information, visit www.NCHmd.org.
As a national leader in integrated healthcare services, Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) offers both facility–based and home–based patient care through its network of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, home health agencies and hospice agencies. With a national footprint that includes 150 hospitals, 252 home health locations, and 99 hospice locations in 42 states and Puerto Rico, the Company provides high–quality, cost-effective integrated healthcare. Encompass Health is ranked as one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information, visit encompasshealth.com, or follow us on our newsroom, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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LEESBURG — Lee County pitcher Gaven Smith pitched a two-hitter and struck out eight batters Tuesday afternoon, but the Trojans lost the second game of a doubleheader 1-0 after falling 3-2 in Game 1 against Alexander of Douglasville.
The losses end the season for the Trojans.
Alexander's first batter of Game 2 reached on an error and scored on a single later in the inning to take a 1-0 lead. For the rest of the game, Smith allowed five or fewer batters to come to the plate. In the second inning, he struck out the side and kept the Alexander batters off stride all game, but the Trojan batters didn't have any luck against Alexander's pitcher, either.
Owen Greene and Alex Newton each doubled to lead off an inning, but Alexander pitcher Kole Orshoki got out of both innings without anyone scoring. Orshoki gave up four hits, struck out three and didn't walk a batter.
Alexander jumped on the board first in Game 1 as well, scoring in the opening inning with a walk, a sacrifice bunt and a single. It repeated that for the second run, except it was an error, a sacrifice and a single.
Down 2-0, the Trojans did the same thing in the fourth inning. Owen Greene reached on an error, Gavin Brinkley laid down a sacrifice bunt and Gavin Lacey singled to left to score the first run.
The Trojans tried to rally in the bottom of the seventh, down 3-1. With one out, Luke Powell singled and Harrison Pafford followed with a walk. The runners moved up to second and third on a wild pitch and a sacrifice fly from Peyton Tompkins scored Powell. Unfortunately, Owen Greene grounded the ball to first to end the game with Pafford in scoring position.
The Trojans end the year with an 18-14 record and will need to replace 10 seniors for next season. Alexander (17-14) moves on to the Elite Eight to face the winner of Allatoona and South Effingham.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A torrent of rain combined with a rapidly melting snowpack caused a deluge of flooding that forced the evacuation of some parts of Yellowstone National Park, cutting off electricity and forcing park officials to close all entrances indefinitely, just as the summer tourist season was ramping up.
While numerous homes and other structures were destroyed, there were no immediate reports of injuries. Yellowstone officials said they were assessing damage from the storms, which washed away bridges, caused mudslides and left small cities isolated, forcing evacuations by boat and helicopter.
It’s unclear how many visitors are stranded or have been forced to leave the park and how many people who live outside the park have been rescued and evacuated.
Some of the worst damage happened in the northern part of the park and Yellowstone’s gateway communities in southern Montana. National Park Service photos of northern Yellowstone showed a mudslide, washed out bridges and roads undercut by churning floodwaters of the Gardner and Lamar rivers.
The flooding cut off road access to Gardiner, Montana, a town of about 900 people near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Gardner rivers, just outside Yellowstone’s busy North Entrance. Cooke City was also isolated by floodwaters and evacuations were also issued for residents in Livingston.
Officials in Park County, which encompasses those cities, said on Facebook Monday evening that extensive flooding throughout the county had made drinking water unsafe in many areas. Evacuations and rescues were ongoing and officials urged people who were in a safe place to stay put overnight.
The Montana National Guard said Monday it sent two helicopters to southern Montana to help with the evacuations.
Cory Mottice, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Billings, Montana, said rain is not in the immediate forecast, and cooler temperatures will lessen the snowmelt in coming days.
“This is flooding that we’ve just never seen in our lifetimes before,” Mottice said.
Scientists say climate change is responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme events such as storms, droughts, floods and wildfires, although single weather events usually cannot be directly linked to climate change without extensive study.
The Yellowstone River at Corwin Springs crested at 13.88 feet (4.2 meters) Monday, higher than the previous record of 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) set in 1918, according the the National Weather Service.
At a cabin in Gardiner, Parker Manning got an up-close view of the water rising and the river bank sloughing off in the raging Yellowstone River floodwaters just outside his door.
“We started seeing entire trees floating down the river, debris,” Manning, who hails from of Terra Haute, Indiana, told The Associated Press. “Saw one crazy single kayaker coming down through, which was kind of insane.”
On Monday evening, Manning watched as the rushing waters undercut the opposite riverbank, causing a house to fall into the Yellowstone River and float away mostly intact.
Floodwaters inundated a street in Red Lodge, a Montana town of 2,100 that’s a popular jumping-off point for a scenic, winding route into the Yellowstone high country. Twenty-five miles (40 kilometers) to the northeast, in Joliet, Kristan Apodaca wiped away tears as she stood across the street from a washed-out bridge, The Billings Gazette reported.
The log cabin that belonged to her grandmother, who died in March, flooded, as did the park where Apodaca’s husband proposed.
“I am sixth-generation. This is our home,” she said. “That bridge I literally drove yesterday. My mom drove it at 3 a.m. before it was washed out.”
On Monday, Yellowstone officials evacuated the northern part of the park, where roads may remain impassable for a substantial length of time, park Superintendent Cam Sholly said in a statement.
But the flooding affected the rest of the park, too, with park officials warning of yet higher flooding and potential problems with water supplies and wastewater systems at developed areas.
The rains hit during the high tourism season: June, at the onset of an annual wave of over 3 million visitors that doesn’t abate until fall, is one of Yellowstone’s busiest months.
Yellowstone got 2.5 inches (6 centimeters) of rain Saturday, Sunday and into Monday. The Beartooth Mountains northeast of Yellowstone got as much as 4 inches (10 centimeters), according to the National Weather Service.
In south-central Montana, flooding on the Stillwater River stranded 68 people at a campground. Stillwater County Emergency Services agencies and crews with the Stillwater Mine rescued people Monday from the Woodbine Campground by raft. Some roads in the area are closed because of flooding and residents have been evacuated.
“We will be assessing the loss of homes and structures when the waters recede,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
The flooding happened while other parts of the U.S. burned in hot and dry weather. More than 100 million Americans were being warned to stay indoors as a heat wave settles over states stretching through parts of the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolinas.
Elsewhere in the West, crews from California to New Mexico are battling wildfires in hot, dry and windy weather.
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New :15 Digital Spot and Corporate Giving Initiative with One Warm Coat Highlight the First-Ever Hybrid Model of Kia's Longest-Running Nameplate in the U.S.
- :30-second "Downpour" – airing on broadcast – finds a Kia Sportage Hybrid helping humanitarians hang free coats for those less fortunate during a rainstorm
- :15-second digital spot announces Kia America's financial donation to One Warm Coat which will provide free coats to children and adults in need
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heralding the arrival of the first-ever Kia Sportage Hybrid, Kia America is expanding its commitment to "Make More Good" with a 30-second broadcast and :15-second digital spots and a partnership with One Warm Coat, a non-profit that has provided more than 7.3 million coats to those in need nationwide and is dedicated to promoting environmental sustainability. In April, the introduction of the all-new 2023 Sportage began when Kia partnered with Sea Turtle, Inc. to support the conservation and rehabilitation of the endangered sea turtle population.
The 30-second spot, entitled "Downpour" follows a Kia Sportage Hybrid as its occupants deliver coats to various points around an urban downtown area as an ominous weather forecast plays on the radio. The driver and passenger of the Kia Sportage Hybrid hang coats on various fences throughout the city along with signs that read, "FREE (for anyone that needs one)." As the torrential rain begins, the driver and passenger witness a man taking a coat off a fence they visited earlier in the day – as many others have clearly done given the small number of coats left hanging on the fence. The spot ends as a voiceover intones, "Have the Power to Make More Good, in the All-New Sportage Turbo Hybrid."
"Kia's push to sustainable mobility continues with the arrival of the first-ever Kia Sportage Hybrid, and our message is clear: to create a better world we need to take care of not only our planet, but also one another," said Russell Wager, vice president, marketing, Kia America. "'Make More Good' is not just a slogan; it is the driving force behind the introduction of the all-new Kia Sportage and the important charitable initiatives we've undertaken. Our partnership with One Warm Coat will extend a helping hand to those in need and hopefully shine a light on noteworthy causes that deserve attention."
One Warm Coat, is a national non-profit that provides free coats to people in need. Hosting up to 5,000 coat drives across the U.S. in a given year, One Warm Coat has provided more than 7.3 million free coats to children and adults in need since 1992. One of the organization's core values is to promote environmental sustainability by keeping more than one million pounds of clothes out of landfills through the organization's annual coat drive program.
"We are thrilled with the donation from Kia America and grateful that it will enable us to further our mission of providing warm coats to those in need while promoting volunteerism and environmental sustainability," said Beth Amodio, President & CEO, One Warm Coat. "It is because of the generosity of partners like Kia that we are able to share warmth with children and adults across the country."
Significantly larger, more capable and powerful, and targeted to be more fuel efficient, the fifth-generation Sportage debuts a number of firsts including the first Hybrid powertrain and an available dual panoramic curved digital display. Most Sportage trims will now be assembled in the U.S., alongside the award-winning Telluride, Sorento, and K5 at Kia's manufacturing plant in West Point, Georgia.
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HOUSTON and PLOVDIV, Bulgaria, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Houston-based energy investment and development company, Focal Point Energy, has agreed to form a 50/50 joint venture with Insa Oil, a leading Bulgarian energy company.
Insa Inc, as the joint venture is named, will see Focal Point Energy and Insa Oil partnering to expand Insa Oil's reach into the broader Balkan market for both their existing portfolio of refined products and to develop new clean energy opportunities in the region.
"We look forward to working together to expand our portfolio, unlocking Bulgaria's energy market potential, both domestically and regionally," said Georgi Samuilov, President of Insa Oil. "With the current shift to alternative fuel sources in our region, and the ongoing movement towards clean energy, this joint venture further positions Insa Oil as a leader in the European owned and operated producers market."
As part of the joint venture, Focal Point Energy will support the ongoing development of a new bio-ethanol production plan, in addition to Insa Oil's existing Bulgarian refinery. The joint venture will also pursue the development of sustainable, emissions-free energy projects not only to cover the refinery's needs but also to enter the broader regional green energy market.
"Our combined strengths – Focal Point's technical expertise and impact-driven mission, and Insa Oil's successful operating model – are a potent recipe for success. At its core, the partnership is driven by the shared values of both companies," said Vince Trovato, Executive Director of Focal Point Energy. "Beyond our shared mission, this joint venture will play a critical geopolitical role in diversifying regional fuel sources, a key goal of both the United States and our partners in the European Union."
Representatives from Insa and Focal Point Energy will join the Board of Directors of the new joint venture, bringing together globally recognized subject matter experts in support of Insa Inc's development efforts on the Balkan Peninsula.
About Focal Point Energy
Focal Point Energy is a US-based, impact-driven investment and development company specializing in transaction advisory and project development in the energy and infrastructure sectors. The energy investment and consulting firm focuses on opportunities across the energy spectrum, from renewable energy to traditional energy investments in globally strategic areas. Focal Point Energy is led by Executive Director Vince Trovato, a former senior U.S. Department of Energy official. For more information, visit https://focalpoint.energy.
About Insa Oil
Insa Oil is a leading Bulgarian-owned producer and distributor of petroleum products. Insa Oil operates the second-largest refinery in Bulgaria, a state-of-the-art facility near Plovdiv. On average, the refinery produces 1,000,000 metric tons of fuel annually for sale to over 200 commercial and government customers in Bulgaria. In addition to the refinery, Insa owns and operates a chain of gas stations throughout the country. For more information, visit https://insaoil.bg.
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PARIS, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
GOAT, the global platform for the past, present and future, and Paris Saint-Germain, the fastest growing world sports franchise, today announce the launch of People of Paris, a joint visual campaign that captures the style and history of PSG with unique contributions from the Paris community. The campaign is also a celebration of the new Paris Saint-Germain experience that will go live on the GOAT platform in early August.
People of Paris celebrates people of all walks of life — from decades-long PSG fans, to legends and the players themselves. Styled in iconic PSG jerseys from the past and present, as well as archival PSG apparel and accessories and fashion from GOAT's wider offering, the campaign highlights the unique identities and styles that make up the greater Parisian community.
"As we continue to invest in our global community, we're pleased to introduce our People of Paris campaign," said Sen Sugano, Chief Brand Officer of GOAT Group. "We'll showcase the Parisian community by bringing together cultural figures, players, fans and everyday people. Through this campaign, we aim to highlight the common bond that brings this diverse group together: their love for the city and PSG."
"This first GOAT x PSG campaign, featuring players and fans marks the arrival of GOAT into the PSG family," said Marc Armstrong, Chief Partnerships Officer of Paris Saint-Germain. "GOAT is an iconic next generation brand and we are proud to show our fusion of style on the streets of Paris and all over the world. Together we celebrate the uniqueness of all those who represent Paris and PSG."
The first official billboard for 'People of Paris' will be revealed at the Louvre Rivoli on August 1. To coincide with the campaign, a curated collection of new and vintage apparel will be available on GOAT's dedicated Paris Saint-Germain in-app and web experience on GOAT.com/PSG from early August. Throughout the season, new experiences and limited edition products will be released through the platform and provide a destination for customers to be inspired through content and unique products.
Photographer: Thibaut Grevet
Stylist: Georgia Pendlebury
Production company: DIVISION PARIS
Casting: IKKI Casting
GOAT is the global platform for the past, present and future. Since its founding in 2015, GOAT has become the leading and most trusted sneaker marketplace in the world, and has expanded to offer apparel and accessories from select emerging, contemporary and iconic brands. Through its unique positioning between the primary and resale markets, the company offers styles across various time periods on its digital platforms and in its retail locations, while delivering products to over 40 million members across 170 countries.
Paris Saint-Germain was founded in 1970 and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2020. Since its takeover by QSI in 2011, Paris Saint-Germain has gone on to become one of the world's top football clubs and sports brands. The club has won 28 trophies in the last 11 years and 46 since its foundation, making it the most successful in France, and has attracted many great players over the years, including Ronaldinho, David Beckham and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and latterly Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr and Kylian Mbappé, three of the best players in the world today. The club's
international popularity knows no bounds. In the last ten years, its community of social media followers has grown from zero to nearly 170 million and is now one of the largest in football. A forward-thinking club, Paris Saint-Germain added an eSports team to its men's football, women's football, handball, and judo teams in 2016. Committed to giving something back to the community, the club has significantly increased funding for its Foundation with the aim of developing far-reaching programs for disadvantaged young people.
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CALGARY, AB and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Willow Biosciences Inc. ("Willow" or the "Company") (TSX: WLLW) (OTCQB: CANSF), a leading biotechnology company focused on revolutionizing industrial manufacturing of pure, consistent and sustainable functional ingredients, is pleased to provide an update on cannabigerol ("CBG"), the Company's first commercialized functional ingredient in its portfolio.
"As we expand our portfolio of products and partnerships, we also remain committed to maximizing the value of our first functional ingredient, CBG, through continued development, operational improvements, and marketing efforts", said Dr. Peter Seufer-Wasserthal, Willow's Interim President and Chief Executive Officer. "We remain optimistic on the future opportunity for CBG and other cannabinoids and will be well-positioned to capture that value as the markets develop."
Willow previously announced the expansion of its precision fermentation manufacturing network with the signing of a Manufacturing Services Agreement ("MSA") with a second Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization ("CDMO"), increasing fermentation capacity to produce Willow's FutureGrown™ products, including CBG. Willow has completed the initial phases of technology transfer with the CDMO and anticipates running its first commercial batches in the first half of 2023. Willow continues to supply current and prospective partners through its first previously announced CDMO, Curia Global, Inc. (formerly AMRI). Willow has also refined and advanced its industry leading downstream process ("DSP"), which allows for significantly reduced costs and optionality for working with additional CDMO's in the future. As the market for biosynthetically produced CBG continues to develop, Willow will be in a strong position to deliver commercial scale volumes. When the regulatory environment permits, Willow is also well-positioned to develop additional cannabinoids beyond CBG.
Willow previously announced that it had successfully completed the initial toxicological assessment for Generally Recognized as Safe ("GRAS") for its FutureGrown™ CBG product. The Company has successfully completed the Stage 1 toxicological assessment for oral product applications. The assessment concluded that FutureGrown™ CBG caused no adverse effects and was non-mutagenic, non-clastogenic and non-genotoxic, completing the first step toward GRAS designation in the United States. Willow anticipates initiating its Stage 2 pivotal toxicological assessment in Q3 2022 and attaining an independent conclusion of GRAS in the first half of 2023.
Willow has filed 12 patent applications to-date and will continue to file patent applications relating to its proprietary genes, proteins, and microorganisms and their use for the biosynthetic production of cannabinoids and other ingredients. Willow will continue to provide CBG to potential partners worldwide to support development of their formulations in various health and wellness markets.
Willow develops and produces precision fermented functional ingredients for the health and wellness, food and beverage and personal care markets. Willow's FutureGrown™ biotechnology platform allows large-scale production with sustainability at its core. Willow's R&D team has a proven track record of developing and commercializing bio-based manufacturing processes and products to benefit our B2B partners and their customers.
This news release may include forward-looking statements including opinions, assumptions, estimates and the Company's assessment of future plans and operations, and, more particularly, statements concerning: the MSA, including the ability to accommodate new programs and to expand capabilities; the continued development of Willow's FutureGrown™ CBG, including the ability to obtain GRAS certification; the demand and market size potential of the synthetic ingredients industry; intellectual property protection; and the business plan of the Company, generally, including becoming a leader in precision fermentation, research and production of functional ingredients. When used in this news release, the words "will," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intent," "may," "project," "should," and similar expressions are intended to be among the statements that identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are founded on the basis of expectations and assumptions made by the Company which include, but are not limited to: the success of Willow's strategic partnerships, including the development of future strategic partnerships; the financial strength of the Company; the ability of the Company to fund its business plan using cash on hand and existing resources; the market for Willow's products; the ability of the Company to obtain and retain applicable licences; the ability of the Company to obtain suitable manufacturing partners and other strategic relationships; and the successful implementation of Willow's commercialization and production strategy, generally. Forward-looking statements are subject to a wide range of risks and uncertainties, and although the Company believes that the expectations represented by such forward-looking statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will be realized. Any number of important factors could cause actual results biotechnology industry in general; the success of the Company's research and development strategies; infringement on intellectual property; failure to benefit from partnerships or successfully integrate acquisitions; actions and initiatives of federal and provincial governments and changes to government policies and the execution and impact of these actions, initiatives and policies; import/export and research restrictions for cannabinoid-based operations; the size of the medical-use and adult-use cannabinoid market; competition from other industry participants; adverse U.S., Canadian and global economic conditions; adverse global events and public-health crises, including the current COVID-19 outbreak; failure to comply with certain regulations; departure of key management personnel or inability to attract and retain talent; and other factors more fully described from time to time in the reports and filings made by the Company with securities regulatory authorities. Please refer to the Company's most recent annual information form and management's discussion and analysis for additional risk factors relating to Willow, which can be accessed either on Willow's website at www.willowbio.com or under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com.
The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date hereof and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the included forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable law. The forward-looking statements contained herein are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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