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NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA) between May 29, 2020 and May 9, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important July 18, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased PEGA securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the PEGA class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6286 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than July 18, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) PEGA had engaged in corporate espionage and misappropriation of trade secrets to better compete against Appian; (2) Defendants' product development and associated success was, in significant part, not the result of its own research and product testing but rather the result of such corporate espionage and trade secret theft; (3) Defendants had engaged in a scheme to steal Appian trade secrets, which was not only known to, but carried out through the personal involvement of PEGA's CEO; (4) PEGA's CEO and other officers and employees did not comply with PEGA's written Code of Conduct; (5) PEGA was "unable to reasonably estimate damages" in the Appian Litigation; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' statements about PEGA's business, operations, prospects, legal compliance, and potential damages exposure in the Appian Litigation were materially false and/or misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis when made.
The truth regarding PEGA's fraudulent conduct was revealed after the close of the markets on May 9, 2022, when PEGA issued a press release announcing that the jury in the Appian Litigation had awarded Appian more than $2 billion for PEGA's misappropriation of trade secrets. In response to this news, PEGA's stock price fell 21%, from a closing price of $65.93 per share on May 9, 2022, to a closing price of $52.25 on May 10, 2022. As the market continued to digest the verdict, PEGA's stock price dropped another 8% to close at $48.07 per share the following day.
To join the PEGA class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6286 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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- Johnson Matthey announces the sale of part of its Battery Materials business to EV Metals Group, a global battery chemicals and technology business, for £50 million cash
- Johnson Matthey will also receive a minority equity stake in EV Metals Group
- Completion expected Summer 2022
- EV Metals Group committed to investing in the business to commercialise CAM technology and preserve skilled jobs in UK
LONDON, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Matthey Plc (JM), a global leader in sustainable technologies, today announces that it has entered into an agreement for the sale of part of its Battery Materials business to EV Metals Group, a global battery chemicals and technology business.
The sale includes Johnson Matthey's assets at the Battery Technology Centre in Oxford & Battery Technology Centre and pilot plant in Billingham, a research centre in Moosburg, Germany and the partly constructed site in Konin, Poland. The sale does not include Johnson Matthey's LFP facility in Canada, which will be acquired by Nano One®, a clean technology innovator in battery materials, as announced yesterday – see more here
The sale also includes Johnson Matthey's eLNO® technology, underpinned by the GEMX® and CAM-7® cathode platforms that the company licensed from CAMX. EV Metals Group will continue to develop eLNO, building on the successful customer testing programme that Johnson Matthey had undertaken.
The Battery Materials business will be sold for a total consideration of £50 million in cash and Johnson Matthey will receive a minority equity stake in EV Metals.
In our interim results we fully impaired the carrying value of our battery materials assets as at 30th September 2021, resulting in a charge of £314 million, and announced on 12th January 2022 that we anticipated additional cash costs up to £150m. After taking into account the proceeds of this sale these net additional cash costs are now expected to be no more than £50m. The transaction is expected to complete over Summer 2022.
Liam Condon, Chief Executive of Johnson Matthey, says: "Johnson Matthey made the decision to exit Battery Materials due to insufficient returns, increased commoditisation of battery materials combined with the need for very high capital investments to remain competitive. With EV Metals Group vision and capability to be a fully integrated battery chemicals business, I am very confident that they are the right owner for the Battery Materials business going forward.
This important divestment means Johnson Matthey can now focus on our core portfolio and today I've outlined our new strategy, which explains how Johnson Matthey will create more value and help accelerate societal progress towards net zero."
Michael Naylor, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of EV Metals Group, says: "The acquisition of the Battery Materials Business is a strong strategic fit for EV Metals Group. It includes world class, leading technology for the production of cathode active materials. With our unique upstream, midstream and downstream business model, EV Metals is well positioned to drive the successful commercialisation of JM's CAM technology, taking full advantage of the Group's 'mine to OEM' integrated supply chain, which addresses the long-term market challenge of both surety of raw materials and the supply of processed materials."
"EV Metals is committed to protecting all high-value, specialist jobs within JM's battery materials business and to driving further job creation by building out a UK EV supply chain. We are pleased to welcome the technology team in the UK and Germany who developed the Johnson Matthey Battery Materials business to the EV Metals team. We look forward to working with them to commercialise cathode active materials technology through the development of cathode active materials plants for electric vehicle and battery cell manufacturers in the UK and Europe, where demand is forecast to significantly outpace supply. We are also pleased to welcome Johnson Matthey as a shareholder of EV Metals Group."
Johnson Matthey is a global leader in sustainable technologies that enable a cleaner and healthier world. With over 200 years of sustained commitment to innovation and technological breakthroughs, we improve the performance, function and safety of our customers' products. Our science has a global impact in areas such as low emission transport, energy, chemical processing and making the most efficient use of the planet's natural resources. Today about 15,000 Johnson Matthey professionals collaborate with our network of customers and partners to make a real difference to the world around us. For more information, visit www.matthey.com
Inspiring science, enhancing life
About EV Metals Group
EV Metals Group plc (EVM) is building a global battery chemicals and technology business for a clean energy future. EVM is focused on production of high purity chemicals and cathode active materials required in rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. The business model and strategy of EVM is based on integration of upstream, midstream and downstream supply chains and global processing facilities to produce high purity chemicals and cathode active materials containing lithium, nickel cobalt and manganese for electric vehicle and battery cell manufacturers in UK, Europe and USA. For further information on EVM, please visit www.evmetalsgroup.com.
About CAMX
CAMX Power, a major lithium-ion battery material and design company in the U.S., matures promising technologies in targeted domains to be de-risked, IP-protected and scaled-up; then licenses them, with deep technology transfer, to large manufacturing partners. Its leading offer, developed across several decades, is the globally patented GEMX® cathode platform which improves all Nickel based cathodes thus significantly enhancing emobility™ and eportability™ energy storage products by cell and material makers. Samsung SDI and LG Energy Solution are among the other GEMX licensees.
For more information: www.camxpower.com
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NEW YORK, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Dentsply Sirona Inc. (NASDAQ: XRAY).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
https://claimyourloss.com/securities/dentsply-sirona-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=29415&from=4
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased Dentsply's common stock between June 9, 2021, and May 9, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until August 1, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to the filed complaint, defendants orchestrated a scheme to inflate Dentsply's revenue and earnings by manipulating the Company's accounting for a distributor rebate program so that senior executives would be eligible for significant cash and stock-based incentive compensation. In order to facilitate this scheme, Dentsply and its executives made numerous false and misleading statements to investors during the class period. As a result of defendants' misrepresentations, Dentsply's common stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the class period.
Jakubowitz Law is vigorous in pursuit of justice for shareholders who have been the victim of securities fraud. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco will host a webcast with J.P. Morgan and Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Security and Collaboration businesses, to discuss Cisco's solutions for Hybrid Work. Interested parties can find more information on Cisco's Investor Relations website at https://investor.cisco.com/.
No new financial information will be discussed on this conference call.
Date:
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Time:
8:00 am PT / 11:00 am ET
Cisco Speaker:
Jeetu Patel, EVP and General Manager, Security and Collaboration
Moderator:
Samik Chatterjee, CFA, Equity Analyst, Telecom & Networking Equipment / IT Hardware, J.P. Morgan
This event will be webcast and a replay will be available for one month after the event. Interested parties can view this event on Cisco's Investor Relations website at investor.cisco.com.
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. Cisco inspires new possibilities by reimagining your applications, securing your data, transforming your infrastructure, and empowering your teams for a global and inclusive future. Discover more on The Newsroom and follow us on Twitter.
Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco's trademarks can be found at www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company.
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NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading communications consultancy Ketchum today announced the elevation of three senior leaders to expanded global leadership roles: Jo-ann Robertson, CEO, UK, adds the role of president, global markets to her responsibilities; Kelly Sauter, previously senior vice president and director of business development, assumes the role of executive vice present and managing director, global growth; and Michael O'Brien, previously president of client experience, assumes the role of chief strategy officer. All appointments are effective immediately.
"These appointments serve to reinforce our global growth and connectivity, our exceptional client experience offering and our commitment to creating new opportunities for the very talented colleagues in our network," said Mike Doyle, Ketchum president and CEO. "Each of these leaders has contributed tremendously to Ketchum's growth, but equally important is how they have mentored, recruited and developed their teams, creating opportunities across the agency for exceptional talent to thrive."
Robertson, who joined Ketchum in 2011, will add responsibilities for business performance and employee communities across Europe, Brazil and Canada. She will serve as executive sponsor of the firm's global influencer strategy, a key growth area for the firm, and will continue to serve as executive sponsor for Ketchum's global diversity, equity and inclusion strategy.
"To be part of this agency during a time of transformation and growth is a great honor," said Robertson. "Together, we are more focused than ever on ensuring that Ketchum is the global powerhouse of choice for the world's most amazing brands and delivering work that matters to our people, our clients and society. This has been underpinned by a people-first approach that has supported and empowered our talented colleagues to grow and deliver outstanding work."
In the role of global head of growth, Sauter will partner closely with key market leaders to drive worldwide growth across the agency. Sauter has led the U.S. growth team for four years and is a 17-year Ketchum veteran. She will work closely with Heather Blundell, Ketchum's recently-appointed chief growth officer for Europe.
Sauter commented, "As excited as I am to take on this global role, I'm even more excited about the opportunity this creates for my team, allowing us to provide existing and prospective client partners with the very best of Ketchum at every moment of our relationship."
O'Brien will focus on the firm's immediate and long-term global business strategies in his role as chief strategy officer. He will continue to lead client experience globally in addition to his role as engaged counselor to many Ketchum leaders and client teams. O'Brien began his agency career at Ketchum, left for a short while, and is one of many "Ketchum boomerangs," having returned in 2011.
"Ketchum is going from strength to strength," said O'Brien. "As we plan our future, we have an opportunity to define the communications industry for the next decade."
About Ketchum
The winner of 131 Cannes Lions, Ketchum is the most creatively awarded firm in our industry. We're equal parts human-centered and business-focused, empathetic and intelligent. As a global communications consultancy, we combine the deep industry and specialty expertise of boutique firms with global reach to find unexpected connections that lead to lasting relationships and work that matters. For more information on Ketchum, a part of Omnicom Public Relations Group, visit www.ketchum.com.
About Omnicom Public Relations Group
Omnicom Public Relations Group is a global collective of three of the top global public relations agencies worldwide and specialist agencies in areas including public affairs, language strategy, global health strategy and change management. As the largest group of communications professionals in the world, our employees provide expertise to companies, government agencies, NGOs and nonprofits across a wide range of industries. Omnicom Public Relations Group delivers for clients through a relentless focus on talent, continuous pursuit of innovation and a culture steeped in collaboration. Omnicom Public Relations Group is part of the Communications Consultancy Network, a division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC).
About Omnicom Group Inc.
Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com) is a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, digital and interactive marketing, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to over 5,000 clients in more than 70 countries. Follow us on Twitter for the latest news.
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TORONTO, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Today, Manulife announced its first quarter of 2022 ("1Q22") results. Key highlights include:
- Net income attributed to shareholders of $3.0 billion in 1Q22, up $2.2 billion from the first quarter of 2021 ("1Q21")
- Core earnings1 of $1.6 billion in 1Q22, down 4% on a constant exchange rate basis from 1Q212
- LICAT ratio3 of 140%
- Core ROE4 of 11.8% and ROE of 23.0% in 1Q22
- NBV5 of $513 million in 1Q22, down 14%6 from 1Q21
- APE sales5 of $1.6 billion in 1Q22, down 9% from 1Q21
- Global Wealth and Asset Management ("Global WAM") net inflows5 of $6.9 billion in 1Q22, compared with net inflows of $1.4 billion in 1Q21
- Global WAM average AUMA5 increased by 8% in 1Q22 from 1Q21
- Closed the U.S. variable annuity reinsurance transaction and released $2.4 billion of capital.7 We commenced share buybacks under our Normal Course Issuer Bid ("NCIB"), and as of March 31, 2022 purchased for cancellation approximately 14.4 million common shares for $377 million
- Embedded value5 of $64.8 billion or $33.35 per share, as of December 31, 2021, an increase of $3.7 billion from December 31, 2020
"Our diversified footprint, operational resilience, and proven digital capabilities enabled us to deliver solid results in the first quarter, despite a challenging operating environment caused by the resurgence of COVID-19 and global market volatility," said Manulife President & Chief Executive Officer Roy Gori.
"Global WAM generated another quarter of strong net inflows of $6.9 billion, and our Canada and U.S. insurance businesses achieved double-digit NBV growth, benefiting from ongoing strong customer demand," Mr. Gori continued. "While the rapid and unprecedented resurgence of COVID-19 disrupted new business activities in multiple markets in Asia, our diversified, digitally-enabled, and well-established distribution channels delivered double digit growth in APE Sales and NBV relative to the average levels during the first wave of the pandemic in the first and second quarters of 2020."
"Looking to the future, we believe the importance of insurance and wealth management solutions is more visible than ever before and we are encouraged to see signs of stronger customer demand as containment measures relax in some markets. I am confident in our ability to capture this rebound as those markets recover from these temporary disruptions." Mr. Gori added.
"Our U.S. variable annuity reinsurance transaction with Venerable Holdings Inc. closed during the quarter, resulting in the release of $2.4 billion of capital. We commenced share buybacks and purchased 0.74% of our common shares in the first two months following the transaction, demonstrating our commitment to deliver shareholder value and neutralize the impact of the transaction on Core EPS," said Phil Witherington, Chief Financial Officer. "We also delivered in-force business growth of 7% after excluding the impact of the transaction1, and achieved net favourable policyholder experience amid continued impacts from COVID-19, reflecting the diverse nature of our business."
"We are pleased to be providing an update on the expected impacts of IFRS 17 on our financial reporting and targets as we look towards its upcoming adoption. IFRS 17 will impact where, when and how specific items are recognized in the financial statements; however, it will not impact the fundamental economics of our business, our financial strength, claims paying ability, or the dividend capacity of the Company. We are committed to our medium-term financial and operating targets under IFRS 17, and upon transition our core ROE target will be increased to 15%+ and dividend payout ratio2 target range will be increased to 35% – 45% as a result of expected changes in equity and core earnings," added Mr. Witherington.3
BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS:
In Asia, we commenced offering insurance solutions to VietinBank's 14 million customers, as part of our new 16-year exclusive bancassurance partnership in Vietnam. In the U.S., we closed the transaction to reinsure over 75% of the legacy variable annuity block. The transaction resulted in the release of $2.4 billion of capital. In Global WAM, we announced the launch of the Real Asset Investment Strategy in Canada, which provides investors access to a mix of global private and public real asset investments, combining the benefits of broad private asset exposures with the liquidity benefits of allocating to public markets.
In addition, we continued to make progress on our digital journey in 1Q22. In Asia, greater than 10% of APE sales resulted from leads generated using advanced analytics to identify additional needs from existing customers. In Canada, we launched an enhanced Manulife Vitality mobile app experience for our individual insurance business, giving the app a new look and feel with easier navigation to further drive customer engagement. In the U.S., we reduced the time to onboard a producer in our digital brokerage channel from three weeks to just five days, by implementing automated background checks. In our Global WAM Retirement business, we enabled registration directly through the mobile app in Canada, resulting in approximately 50,000 customers using our mobile applications by the end of the quarter.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS:
PROFITABILITY:
Reported net income attributed to shareholders of $3.0 billion in 1Q22, up $2.2 billion from 1Q21
The increase in net income attributed to shareholders was driven by gains from the direct impact of markets compared with losses in the prior year quarter, a gain related to the U.S. variable annuity reinsurance transaction, and a larger gain from investment-related experience compared with the prior year quarter. Investment-related experience in 1Q22 reflected the favourable impact of fixed income reinvestment activities, higher-than-expected returns (including fair value changes) on alternative long duration assets primarily driven by fair value gains on private equity and real estate as well as favourable credit experience. The gain from the direct impact of markets in 1Q22 reflected the flattening of the yield curve in the U.S. and Canada and widening corporate spreads in the U.S., partially offset by unfavourable equity market performance and losses on the sale of available-for-sale bonds.
Delivered core earnings of $1.6 billion in 1Q22, a decrease of 4% compared with 1Q21
The decrease in core earnings was driven by lower new business gains in Asia, unfavourable impact of markets on seed money investments in new segregated and mutual funds (compared with gains in the prior year quarter) and lower in-force earnings in U.S. Annuities, primarily due to the variable annuity reinsurance transaction. These items were partially offset by experience gains, in-force business growth in Canada and Asia, higher yield on fixed income investments and lower cost of external debt in Corporate and Other, and higher new business gains in Canada and the U.S.
BUSINESS PERFORMANCE:
New business value ("NBV") of $513 million in 1Q22, a decrease of 14% compared with 1Q21
In Asia, NBV decreased 28% to $340 million, reflecting lower sales volumes in Hong Kong and several markets in Asia Other1 due to the impact of COVID-19, lower corporate-owned life insurance ("COLI") product sales in Japan, and unfavourable product mix related to lower critical illness sales in mainland China. In Canada, NBV of $104 million was up 33% from 1Q21, driven by higher margins across all business lines. In the U.S., NBV of $69 million was up 57% from 1Q21, driven by higher sales volumes and interest rates, and favourable product mix.
Annualized premium equivalent ("APE") sales of $1.6 billion in 1Q22, a decrease of 9% compared with 1Q21
In Asia, APE sales decreased 17% due to continued adverse impacts from COVID-19 in Hong Kong and several markets in Asia Other and lower sales in Japan. In Japan, APE sales declined 48%, primarily due to a decrease in COLI product sales. In Hong Kong, APE sales decreased 23% driven by tighter containment measures following an outbreak of COVID-19 during the quarter. Asia Other APE sales decreased 8%, as higher sales in bancassurance in Singapore were more than offset by lower agency sales, which were adversely impacted by a resurgence of COVID-19 in markets such as Vietnam and Indonesia, and lower critical illness sales in mainland China. In Canada, APE sales increased 2%, primarily driven by increased customer demand for our lower risk segregated fund products and higher mid-size group insurance sales, partially offset by variability in the large-case group insurance market. In the U.S., APE sales increased 32%, driven by our differentiated domestic product offerings which include the John Hancock Vitality feature and higher customer demand for insurance protection in the current COVID-19 environment of greater consumer interest in improving baseline health, and strong international sales, which are reported as a part of the U.S. segment results.
Reported Global Wealth and Asset Management net inflows of $6.9 billion in 1Q22, compared with 1Q21 net inflows of $1.4 billion
Net inflows in Retail were $4.0 billion in 1Q22 compared with net inflows of $6.5 billion in 1Q21, reflecting lower gross flows, mainly in fixed income products and higher mutual fund redemptions in Canada. This was partially offset by Asia Retail, as higher gross flows in mainland China and Japan were partially offset by Indonesia. U.S. Retail net inflows remained robust and were in line with prior year. Net inflows in Retirement were $2.0 billion in 1Q22 compared with net inflows of $2.1 billion in 1Q21, reflecting higher plan redemptions, partially offset by growth in member contributions and new plan sales, as well as lower member withdrawals. Net inflows in Institutional Asset Management were $0.9 billion in 1Q22 compared with net outflows of $7.2 billion in 1Q21, driven by the non-recurrence of a $9.4 billion redemption in Asia in 1Q21, partially offset by lower sales of fixed income mandates.
UPDATE ON IFRS 17:2
IFRS 17 "Insurance Contracts" will replace IFRS 4 "Insurance Contracts" beginning on January 1, 2023 and will materially change the recognition and measurement of insurance contracts and the corresponding presentation and disclosures in the Company's financial statements. The establishment of a Contractual Service Margin ("CSM") on our in-force business is expected to lead to an increase in insurance contract liabilities and, together with other measurement impacts on our assets and liabilities, to decrease equity by approximately 20% upon transition. The deferral of new business gains via the CSM and the amortization of CSM on our in-force business into income as services are provided, and to a substantially lesser extent the timing of investments results, are expected to result in a net reduction of 2022 core earnings, on transition, of approximately 10% under IFRS 17 compared with IFRS 4.
The CSM will be treated as available capital under LICAT1, and our capital position will remain strong under IFRS 17. We are also confirming our medium-term financial and operating targets under IFRS 17, and upon transition our core ROE target will be increased to 15%+ (from 13%+ currently) as a result of the expected changes to core earnings and equity, and our dividend payout ratio target range will be increased to 35% – 45% (from 30% – 40% currently) as a result of the expected changes to core earnings. Given that CSM is an objective metric that illustrates the growth and future earnings capability of an insurance business, we will be introducing two new medium-term targets: new business CSM growth of 15% per year and CSM balance growth of 8% – 10% per year.
QUARTERLY EARNINGS RESULTS CONFERENCE CALL
Manulife Financial Corporation will host a First Quarter 2022 Earnings Results Conference Call at 8:00 a.m. ET on May 12, 2022. For local and international locations, please call 416-340-2217 or toll free, North America 1-800-806-5484 (Passcode: 9778458#). Please call in 15 minutes before the call starts. You will be required to provide your name and organization to the operator. A replay of this call will be available by 11:00 a.m. ET on May 12, 2022 through August 12, 2022 by calling 905-694-9451 or 1-800-408-3053 (Passcode: 7780836#).
The conference call will also be webcast through Manulife's website at 8:00 a.m. ET on May 12, 2022. You may access the webcast at: manulife.com/en/investors/results-and-reports. An archived version of the webcast will be available on the website following the call at the same URL as above.
The First Quarter 2022 Statistical Information Package is also available on the Manulife website at: www.manulife.com/en/investors/results-and-reports.
Any information contained in, or otherwise accessible through, websites mentioned in this news release does not form a part of this document unless it is expressly incorporated by reference.
EARNINGS:
The following table presents net income attributed to shareholders, consisting of core earnings and details of the items excluded from core earnings:
NON-GAAP AND OTHER FINANCIAL MEASURES:
The Company prepares its Consolidated Financial Statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board. We use a number of non-GAAP and other financial measures to evaluate overall performance and to assess each of our businesses. This section includes information required by National Instrument 52-112 – Non-GAAP and Other Financial Measures Disclosure in respect of "specified financial measures" (as defined therein).
Non-GAAP financial measures include core earnings (loss); pre-tax core earnings; core earnings available to common shareholders; core general expenses; and assets under management and administration ("AUMA").
Non-GAAP ratios include core return on common shareholders' equity ("core ROE"); diluted core earnings per common share ("core EPS"); expense efficiency ratio; common share core dividend payout ratio ("dividend payout ratio"); and percentage growth/decline on a constant exchange rate basis in any of the above non-GAAP financial measures.
Other specified financial measures include assets under administration; embedded value; NBV; APE sales; gross flows; net flows; average assets under management and administration ("average AUMA"); and percentage growth/decline in such other financial measures.
Non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP ratios are not standardized financial measures under GAAP and, therefore, might not be comparable to similar financial measures disclosed by other issuers. Therefore, they should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for any other financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP. For more information on non-GAAP financial measures, including those referred to above, see the section "Non-GAAP and other financial measures" in our 1Q22 MD&A, which is incorporated by reference.
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MOLINE, Ill., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) will hold its third quarter 2022 earnings call on Friday, August 19, beginning at 9:00 a.m. central time. During the call, the company's financial and operating performance will be discussed with analysts, investors and other members of the financial community.
The earnings call can be accessed at www.JohnDeere.com/earnings. The recorded call will be available on the Deere website for a period of time afterward. The Deere earnings release, other financial information and earnings call presentation can be accessed at the link above.
Deere & Company (www.JohnDeere.com) is a global leader in the delivery of agricultural, construction, and forestry equipment. We help our customers push the boundaries of what's possible in ways that are more productive and sustainable to help life leap forward. Our technology-enabled products including John Deere Autonomous 8R Tractor, See & Spray™, and E-Power Backhoe are just some of the ways we help meet the world's increasing need for food, shelter, and infrastructure. Deere & Company also provides financial services through John Deere Financial.
For more information on Deere & Company, visit us at www.deere.com/en/news/.
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Afghanistan’s new poor line up for aid to survive as food crisis bites
By Jo Shelley, Christiane Amanpour and Ahmet Mengli, CNN
Two long lines — one of men, another of women — wind around a World Food Programme (WFP) aid distribution site in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in the heat of the mid-morning sun.
Many of the people waiting for support in Khwaja Rawash, a middle-class neighborhood near the Kabul International Airport airport, are Afghanistan’s new poor. They used to have decent jobs; now they lean on international aid to survive. The 3,800 Afghanis (just over $40) they receive from the WFP will help them make it through the month.
It’s calmer than it was on the first day of handouts this month in this district, Khalid Ahmadzai, a WFP coordinating partner at the site, tells CNN. Back then, on May 11, people clambered over the walls to get in. The WFP says it helped 3,000 households in that district on the first day, with each household having an average of seven people in it.
Last Sunday, around 700 people waited patiently for up to two hours before their IDs were checked and the money was handed over.
Ahmadzai says people are desperate. “A few days ago, one woman came to me and told me: ‘I want to give you my son for 16,000 Afghanis,”’ he says, a sum amounting to about $175. “She was crying. It was the worst feeling I have had in my life.”
He added: “Her son was maybe three or four years old… The feeling that she had about his hunger and the economical situation they had, she was at a stage to ask to sell her son.”
Armed fighters from the Taliban, who once attacked Afghanistan’s capital, now provide security at the food distribution center.
Their presence highlights a cruel irony articulated by Azima, a teacher in the queue, who is receiving aid for the first time in her life. She says the security situation has got better since the Taliban seized Kabul last year: “Suicide bombings have stopped. But people’s economic situation couldn’t be worse.”
Afghanistan’s economic crisis has loomed for years; the result of poverty, conflict and drought. But after the Taliban seized power in August 2021, the US and its allies froze about $7 billion of the country’s foreign reserves and cut off international funding. The move crippled an economy already heavily dependent on aid.
Millions of Afghans are out of work. Government employees haven’t been paid. And the price of food has soared. Almost half the population — 20 million people — are experiencing acute hunger, according to a United Nations-backed report released this week.
There are fears the crisis could kill more Afghans than 20 years of war.
“Farmers … have told me that, through decades of war, they have never had to stand in line for humanitarian assistance — until now,” Mary-Ellen McGroarty, WFP country director for Afghanistan, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in Kabul.
“I met many, many women, even female heads of households, widows, who were able to fend for themselves and it’s all just imploded for them… The drought and the economic crisis… it’s that whole collision of factors coming together.”
‘There’s no work anymore’
In Kabul and other cities, some people are experiencing hunger for the first time.
Waiting in line, we met Fatima, whose husband can’t find work as a security officer, Aziza who lost her job as a cleaner at the Labor Ministry, and Azima, the teacher.
Azima had never been out of work until a Taliban decree shuttered girls’ secondary schools. She now teaches primary school classes to try and make ends meet — but her salary hasn’t yet been paid.
“I do work,” she says. “My students were high school students in the 11th and 12th grade. They are on vacation at the moment so I’m teaching primary school classes. But our salaries are not paid on time.”
Khotima, a widow whose husband was killed in a suicide bombing four years ago, hopes the money she received from the WFP will help her feed her six children.
“I used to clean people’s houses but there’s no work anymore. Any house you go to and ask for work says: ‘No. No money,'” she tells CNN.
“I can’t feed my children anymore… We don’t have cooking oil for tonight and I owe six months’ rent… I don’t have a man to help me and my children. They should let me work so I can buy bread.”
People here are angry about the lack of jobs which leave them with little choice but to rely on handouts. “We want to work with our own hands so we can eat food we have bought with our own money,” says Haji Noor Ahmad.
Behind him in line is Allah Noor, a computer science student at Kabul University, who insists: “We don’t want to grow old as a beggar. We want jobs. We ask the world and our government to help people into work.”
The West is under mounting pressure to ease economic restrictions on Afghanistan.
The UN envoy to Kabul, Deborah Lyons, urged the Security Council in March to reengage with the Taliban and prevent the collapse of Afghanistan’s economy.
“The crisis in Afghanistan is evolving into a catastrophe of choice as the policies of international donors — designed to economically isolate the Taliban — are simultaneously collapsing the Afghan economy and pushing nearly 20 million Afghans into a state of acute food insecurity,” Vicki Aken, Afghanistan director for the International Rescue Committee, said in a statement.
Malnourished mothers, children
It’s a precarious situation for Kabul’s poorest, who must scrape together a few hundred Afghanis each day to feed their families.
In a warren of low, mud-walled houses on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Basmina prepares an evening meal of eggs, a small bowl of beans and two flatbreads. She, her husband Waliullah and their six children ate the same for lunch — the leftovers are their dinner.
“We don’t have any other food,” she says. “Maybe once a week or every 10 days we will have meat as well.”
Her children are always hungry, Basmina says. The oldest two, aged 8 and 10, are out polishing shoes and scavenging waste paper to sell. They bring home the family’s only income since Waliullah injured his back, leaving him unable to work as a day laborer.
Basmina says the couple’s 10-month-old baby is malnourished. “We don’t have enough food to feed the children and there is no work. I tell them, ‘God will be kind to us one day.'”
Malnourishment is a threat to children across Afghanistan. Hospitals have been overwhelmed with starving children, even as medical supplies run short.
At the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul, the wards are crammed with mothers and babies.
Two-year-old Mohammad lies in a small bed, his emaciated body showing the signs of severe malnutrition. His mother, Parwana, says she’s had little but breast milk to feed him; now she says she can’t afford to eat enough to keep producing milk.
Shazia’s seven-month-old baby Angela has severe pneumonia and malnutrition. “They gave me rice and other food because I have less milk to breastfeed my child,” she says.
“Back home we don’t have this kind of food, unfortunately. If we eat at lunch, we don’t eat at dinner.”
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Kim Kardashian, Pete Davidson end relationship, report says
Published: Aug. 5, 2022 at 8:34 PM CDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
(CNN) - Celebrity couple Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are no more.
According to CNN, a source said the pair broke up this week because of distance and schedules.
Kardashian and Davidson have been romantically linked since October of last year after the pair met when Kardashian hosted “Saturday Night Live.”
Davidson was a cast member on the comedy sketch show for eight years. He left last season.
While the couple was dating, Kardashian was going through a contentious divorce with her estranged husband Kanye West.
Kardashian was legally declared single in March.
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NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dfinity Foundation today filed a lawsuit against The New York Times, Times reporters Andrew Ross Sorkin and Ephrat Livni, Arkham Intelligence, Inc, Arkham's founder and Chief Executive Officer Miguel Morel, and other current or former Arkham officers, agents and employees, for defamation and unfair business and trade practices. It is expected that additional defendants will also be added to the lawsuit as the situation evolves.
The Dfinity Foundation is a Swiss not-for-profit organization, headquartered in Zürich, with additional research centers in California and remote teams around the world. It currently employs a team of more than 270 people, which consists primarily of senior engineers, research scientists, and cryptographers, many of whom are famous in their respective fields, and who have earned more than 86,000 research citations. The organization's purpose is to advance technology that supports the "Internet Computer", advocate for its wider use, and assist thousands of entrepreneurs and developers currently using the platform to build Web3 online services and decentralized applications ("dapps"), including next-generation social media, gaming and metaverse ventures, and millions of end users.
The Internet Computer is one of the most disruptive innovations in tech. It is a public compute platform that provides an open alternative to centralized traditional IT, such as Amazon Web Services cloud computing, server computers, databases and web servers. This compute platform is in fact an advanced blockchain, powered by revolutionary mathematics, that runs at web speed, with web-levels of efficiency, that is capable of processing almost any amount of data and computation. Using this open platform, entrepreneurs and developers can build almost anything exclusively using next-generation blockchain code ("smart contracts") that directly serves interactive content to end users over the World Wide Web. The use and management of the blockchain network involves its ICP token, which enables participation in network governance, and produces fuel that powers computation. ICP tokens were made publicly available in February 2017, and became transferrable when the blockchain underwent "genesis" on May 10th, 2021 – whereupon the blockchain transitioned into full production mode and became part of the public internet.
The lawsuit alleges that wealthy and powerful individuals used the Times and the willingness of its star business reporter, Andrew Ross Sorkin, who together knowingly published, with actual malice, a false and defamatory story about a "hit piece" report (the "Arkham Report") on June 28th 2021—a report that was secretly bought and paid for by wealthy elites who sought to personally profit from the scheme. As a direct result of the Times publishing the story, which relied upon and promoted the bought-and-paid-for Arkham hit piece, the scheme harmed the Internet Computer ecosystem's operations and reputation. The lawsuit also alleges that the defamation scheme involves unfair business and trade practices, because it was motivated by a desire to reduce the threat that the Internet Computer poses to competitive blockchains. The lawsuit resulted from recent revelations made by Crypto Leaks (https://cryptoleaks.info).
According to the Dfinity Foundation's Founder and Chief Scientist, Dominic Williams, who has been working on the Internet Computer for many years: "After the Internet Computer network underwent genesis May 10th last year, a large number of vicious attacks were directed towards us. Most of these were motivated by a desire to harm and undermine the Internet Computer's ecosystem to reduce the threat it poses to competitive blockchains. One of the worst attacks was Arkham Intelligence's hit piece report, which made many false and baseless claims, which I believe was carefully crafted to defame the project and cause maximum harm. Arkham was an unknown outfit, with no track record, which had never produced a report before, and has never produced a report since, which would have gone unnoticed had the New York Times not published and promoted it with malice. I am grateful for the Crypto Leaks case investigation that shed light on the real goings-on, which has spurred us to seek a remedy by pursuing the perpetrators. We at Dfinity will use all means to defend the Internet Computer, the thousands of entrepreneurs and developers building on the network, the end users of services and applications they build, and the incredible and brilliant teams of engineers, computer science researchers and cryptographers that work tirelessly on supporting technology."
A copy of the lawsuit can be found here: https://dfinity.org/complaint.pdf
The lawsuit was filed by renowned defamation and media attorney Charles Harder of Harder LLP.
According to the lawsuit:
"This action shows how wealthy and powerful individuals specifically used the Times and the willingness of its star reporter, Andrew Ross Sorkin, to knowingly publish with actual malice, a false and defamatory story about a "hit piece" report (the "Arkham Report")—a report that was secretly bought and paid for by the wealthy elites who sought to personally profit from the scheme. As a direct result of the Times, through its celebrity reporter Sorkin, publishing the story which relied solely on the false Arkham bought-and-paid for hit piece, the scheme worked and Dfinity suffered extraordinary damages.
"The Times Defendants' actual malice in publishing the Arkham Report is demonstrated by a number of facts, including:
a. "Arkham is a self-proclaimed "crypto analysis" firm that has released only one single report—the Arkham Report—in the entire duration of its existence. Arkham and its purported founder and CEO, Morel, were previously completely unknown within the world of cryptocurrency analysis.
b. "Arkham's Twitter account has a total of seven (7) tweets, the first one dated on June 28, 2021—all of them concern the Arkham Report.
c. "Like Morel, the other authors of the Arkham Report all appear to be in their 20's with zero experience reporting on the blockchain industry, but many of whom have connections to Dfinity's competitor, Reserve Protocol ("Reserve").
d. "On information and belief, one of Arkham's investors is a billionaire who has significant investments in competing crypto projects. On information and belief, the Times Defendants consciously disregarded that Arkham was paid by an as-yet- unidentified individual or individuals to produce the defamatory Arkham Report hit piece.
e. "Simply stated, even minimal journalistic diligence would have demonstrated that the Arkham Report was created for only one purpose: to cause reputational and financial damage to Dfinity and the Internet Computer Protocol.
f. "The article published in the Times does not include any facts relating to the unknown status and inexperience of Arkham, even though such information was surely known to Times reporters. Nor does the article contain any significant information about Arkham's motives, or who was funding Arkham, even though the Times reporters surely had suspicions or obvious reasons to suspect such motives and funding.
g. "The Times Defendants decided not to disclose to Dfinity the existence or contents of the Arkham Report when it sought comment from Dfinity on the Sunday night before the article was published the next day on Monday, June 28, 2021.
h. "Before publication, Dfinity provided detailed information to the Times refuting key aspects of the article. Rather than take the time to investigate the claims made by Dfinity to determine whether the article could still be published or would need to be substantially modified or spiked, the Times Defendants went ahead and published the article based on the defamatory Arkham Report, complete with false statements of fact, the next day. In maliciously publishing the article, the Times Defendants knew that the article would have an immediate, negative impact on the infancy of the decentralized Web3 technology that Dfinity is pioneering. And, in fact, that is precisely what happened as alleged herein.
"Despite what clearly was almost no due diligence into Arkham, the Article cites Arkham's CEO Morel and the Arkham Report as its primary sources... The Article relies on Morel and Arkham even though both were completely previously unknown in the crypto industry and plainly unreliable sources with ulterior motives.
"Notably, the Arkham Report itself states that Morel is the co-founder of Reserve. The Article states this important fact in passing but does not mention that as of the date of publication of the Arkham Report and the Article, Reserve was a wannabe competitor of Dfinity in the cryptocurrency industry or the inherent unreliability of a competitor's statements about another crypto company. Nor does the Times mention the fact that Arkham has, as its "angel" investor, a noted billionaire investor in other crypto projects—or that an undisclosed third party paid to commission the defamatory Arkham Report. And of course, the Article does not mention that Arkham had no previous existence covering the crypto industry, or any of the other dubious facts about the Arkham Defendants, their lack of experience and qualifications, and malicious ulterior motives in attacking and defaming Dfinity.
"(I)t can be reasonably inferred that Arkham was founded and capitalized for only one purpose, to cause reputational damage to Dfinity and its investors. Simply stated, there is no way that the Arkham Defendants, acting alone, could have gotten access to Sorkin, let alone coordinated this scheme and convinced Sorkin and his editors to publish the Article based on the intentionally false facts contained in the bought-and-paid for Arkham Report.
"In June 2022, online investigative video footage posted on Crypto Leaks shows Arkham representatives admitting that Arkham was in fact hired and paid a significant sum by a wealthy individual to create the Arkham Report. On information and belief, this wealthy individual has investments in the cryptocurrency space that are competitive with Dfinity, and paid Arkham and Morel to create the Arkham Report, knowing that the report would make false and defamatory statements about Dfinity therein, and with the intent and purpose that the report and statements would be shared with Sorkin and Livni at the Times and republished in an article, to provide instant legitimacy to and bolster the Arkham Report's supposed reliability, and publicize throughout the world the false and highly damaging statements in the Arkham Report.
"In a taped interview available at Crypto Leaks, Nick Longo of Arkham, when asked if Arkham has an 'angel', responds in the affirmative, naming a billionaire crypto investor.2
"On information and belief, Defendants carried out their malicious actions—simply put, a coordinated hit job—to intentionally harm Dfinity and its reputation, interfere with its business dealings and relationships, including to gain a competitive advantage for the Arkham Defendants and their financier(s) in the cryptocurrency industry, and potentially bankrupt Dfinity in the process. On information and belief, the named Arkham Defendants and their sponsors also profited in additional ways from their actions. or reputations for their alleged expertise or any legitimate basis for their supposed and very serious "findings" about Dfinity and ICP.
"The Times Defendants doubted or had obvious reasons to doubt the veracity of their sources and the sources' claims about Dfinity. Nevertheless, on the very same day the Arkham Report was released, the Times Defendants, without any serious investigation into the backgrounds, ulterior motives, and obvious conflicts of interest of the Arkham Defendants, and also without investigating the truth or falsity of the claims contained in the Arkham Report, even though it would naturally cause tremendous reputational and economic harm to Dfinity, published and repeated the false and defamatory statements about Dfinity contained in the Arkham Report. The Times Defendants purposefully avoided investigation or further investigation, with an intent to avoid the truth. Any "investigation" by the Times Defendants was deliberately skewed to avoid uncovering the truth—or, worse yet, simply ignored the truth.
"The fact that Sorkin, who writes about the influence the uber-wealthy has on the media,3 and Livni (a lawyer), conducted no diligence on their primary (and apparently only) source for the Article is alarming and strongly suggests undue influence by a third party, causing these seasoned reporters to ignore the Times' own standards for reporting and ethics. Dfinity finds it highly suspicious that a company with no track record (Arkham) and an individual with limited work experience (Morel) managed to convince veteran Times reporters to base an entire story on a dubious paid-for report that made unsubstantiated and defamatory allegations unless the Times reporters were unduly influenced by a third party with direct access to the reporters. Dfinity believes discovery will reveal that Sorkin and/or Livni were unduly influenced by an uber-wealthy and influential third party to be an accomplice in this coordinated hit job along with Arkham and its financier(s) (competitors to Dfinity who, on information and belief, also used their inside and advanced knowledge that Sorkin and the Times would maliciously publish the Article based on the Arkham Report to personally profit in additional ways) to cause substantial damage to Dfinity's business and reputation.
"In June 2022, online investigative video footage posted on Crypto Leaks shows Arkham representatives admitting that Arkham was in fact hired and paid a significant sum by a wealthy individual to create the Arkham Report. On information and belief, this wealthy individual has investments in the cryptocurrency space that are competitive with Dfinity, and paid Arkham and Morel to create the Arkham Report, knowing that the report would make false and defamatory statements about Dfinity therein, and with the intent and purpose that the report and statements would be shared with Sorkin and Livni at the Times and republished in an article, to provide instant legitimacy to and bolster the Arkham Report's supposed reliability, and publicize throughout the world the false and highly damaging statements in the Arkham Report.
"In a taped interview available at Crypto Leaks, Nick Longo of Arkham, when asked if Arkham has an "angel", responds in the affirmative, naming a billionaire crypto investor.2 On information and belief, Defendants carried out their malicious actions—simply put, a coordinated hit job—to intentionally harm Dfinity and its reputation, interfere with its business dealings and relationships, including to gain a competitive advantage for the Arkham Defendants and their financier(s) in the cryptocurrency industry, and potentially bankrupt Dfinity in the process. On information and belief, the named Arkham Defendants and their sponsors also profited in additional ways from their actions to further his second career in the content creation industry.
1 https://cryptoleaks.info/case-no-2
2 https://cryptoleaks.info/case-no-2
"Defendants' false and defamatory statements and tortious conduct have caused, and will continue to cause, extraordinary damages to Dfinity and the Internet Computer Protocol. Defendants must be held accountable for the harm they foreseeably caused Dfinity and the Internet Computer Protocol by their defamatory statements made with actual malice and their tortious conduct."
A copy of the lawsuit can be found here: https://dfinity.org/complaint.pdf
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NEW YORK, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for RIVN, SYTA, EBS, SNAX, and IQ.
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7-year-old girl dies at park after tree falls on tent, officials say
Published: Jul. 27, 2022 at 5:06 PM EDT|Updated: 16 minutes ago
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WHNS/Gray News) - A young girl from Georgia has died after a tree fell on a tent during the overnight hours at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
According to the National Park Service, park rangers were called to the Elkmont Campground at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, after a large maple tree fell and killed a 7-year-old girl.
WHNS reports other family members, including the girl’s father and two siblings, were not hurt.
Officials said the affected campsite and nearby campsites were closed immediately following the incident.
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Did you lose money on investments in CareDx? If so, please visit CareDx, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationally acclaimed investor rights law firm, reminds investors of the deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in a securities class action lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the common stock of CareDx, Inc. ("CareDx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CDNA) between February 24, 2021, and May 5, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
CareDx is a diagnostics company that offers diagnostic testing services, products, and digital healthcare software for organ transplant patients and care providers. Testing services for kidney and heart transplant recipients represented at least 85% of CareDx's total revenues, and the Company's AlloSure blood test for transplant recipients was the Company's primary source of revenue. Additionally, the higher reimbursement payment rates for its Medicare-approved tests drove growth of the Company's average sale price ("ASP"), an important metric for investors. Throughout the Class Period, CareDx reported growing revenue and strong demand in the Company's testing services segment. Defendants also emphasized to investors the success of the Company's RemoTraC service – a remote, home-based, blood-drawing service that the Company launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Plaintiff alleges that during the Class Period Defendants misled investors and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Defendants had engaged in a variety of improper and illegal schemes to inflate testing services revenue and demand, including pushing a surveillance protocol through inaccurate marketing materials, offering extravagant inducements or kickbacks to physicians and other providers, and improperly bundling expensive testing services with other blood tests as part of the RemoTraC service; (2) these practices, and others, subjected CareDx to an undisclosed risk of regulatory scrutiny; and (3) these practices rendered the Company's testing services revenue reported throughout the Class Period artificially inflated.
The truth began to emerge on October 28, 2021, when CareDx revealed for the first time that it was the subject of at least three government investigations related to its "accounting and public reporting practices." In response to this news, CareDx's stock price fell 27%, from a closing price of $70.34 per share on October 28, 2021, to a closing price of $51 per share on October 29, 2021.
On April 15, 2022, CareDx's former Head of Community Nephrology, Dr. Michael Olymbios, filed a complaint in California Superior Court that provided extensive detail about: (1) Defendants' misconduct, including the use of RemoTraC to improperly bundle the Company's most expensive testing services, including AlloSure, with other blood tests, that led to the government investigations; (2) Defendants' knowledge of the misconduct throughout the Class Period; and (3) their attempts to conceal the misconduct. In response to this filing, CareDx's stock price fell an additional 8% the next trading day.
Finally, after the markets closed on May 5, 2022, CareDx issued a press release announcing financial results for the first quarter of 2022, reporting a near 5% decline in the ASP of the Company's testing services. In response to this news, CareDx's stock price fell 18.5%, from a closing price of $31.66 per share on May 5, 2022, to a closing price of $25.87 per share on May 6, 2022.
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If you purchased CareDx common stock, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit CareDx, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
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Franchise Business Review Selects Military Veteran Lambie Among Hundreds of Contenders
TROY, Mich., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ziebart franchisee and military veteran Nick Lambie was named among an exclusive list of 12 Franchise Rock Stars of 2022 by leading industry research firm Franchise Business Review for his outstanding achievements as a Ziebart franchise owner in Morgantown, WV.
For the Franchise Rock Star Awards, Franchise Business Review reviewed over 273 nominations from franchisors in eight categories, including Top Performers, Multi-Unit Owners, Veteran-Owned and Family-Owned, and then narrowed the search by selecting 60 franchisees that defined what it really means to be a Rock Star, including leadership, business acumen, financial and professional success, and contributing to their community. Lambie earned one of the 12 final, coveted spots on the list.
Lambie, who opened his Ziebart franchise in 2019 and recently signed an agreement for his second franchise location in Bridgeport, West Virginia, spent time in the military as an Air Force Weapons Director before deciding to go into franchising. He credits his training as a main component of his leadership style. It made him recognize the importance of paying attention to detail and the importance of fostering a high-performing team. Lambie cares about each and every one of his employees, and truly values their input. He credits a lot of his success to how his team cares for each other and how they are consistently looking for ways to grow.
"Nick exemplifies all of Ziebart's core values of Honesty, Passion, Innovation, Teamwork and Legacy," said Ziebart International Corporation President & Chief Executive Officer, Thomas A. Wolfe. "The leadership skills and attention to detail he learned in the military has definitely transferred over into how he runs his Ziebart business. Nick genuinely cares about his team members and is passionate about providing a seamless and enjoyable experience to all of his customers. Franchise Business Review made an excellent choice in naming him a 2022 Rock Star."
Michelle Rowan, president & COO of Franchise Business Review, noted: "Each year it gets harder and harder to narrow down the list, but the franchisees recognized this year, including Nick Lambie, truly stand out as exceptional examples of achieving success within the franchise model. We are thrilled to recognize these individuals as Franchise Rock Stars."
About Ziebart
Founded in 1959, Ziebart International Corporation is the worldwide leader in premium automotive appearance and protection services that extend the life of vehicles. Ziebart operates over 400 locations, with 1,200 service centers, in 36 countries. Ziebart continues to grow and offers domestic and international franchising opportunities, a best-in-class investment for qualified prospects. For more information about Ziebart including franchise opportunities, please visit www.ziebart.com.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EARI Beverage Group (OTC:EARI), a diversified beverage and media group, today announces the acquisition of the Blossom Botanical Water Brand.
Adding to the EARI Beverage Group portfolio, the acquisition of Blossom Botanical Water expands the footprint in the functional and craft beverage market segments. The Blossom brand fits perfectly with EARI's strategy of identifying and acquiring brands in high-growth categories that have proven operating models and clear consumer acceptance. Blossom is credited with creating a new sub-category of plant-based waters using botanicals. The brand has distribution along the US East Coast and Midwest and has generated roughly $4 million in gross sales since inception.
"The exciting addition of this immunity-boosting botanical water fits perfectly with our craft and functional beverage portfolio" stated Bernard Rubin, CEO of the EARI Beverage Group. He further added, "An immediate priority is to test new variants and more environmentally friendly packaging. With our rapid expansion, we are thrilled to have the exceptional talent of Steve Fortuna, founder of Blossom Botanical Water, on the team to help us achieve these objectives."
"I'm delighted that Blossom is now part of the EARI portfolio. We have been a first mover in the use of flower botanicals for the beverage category, and now under the EARI umbrella, I am confident that the brand will go on to achieve its full potential in the marketplace", said Blossom Founder & CEO Steve Fortuna.
The Company trades on OTC Markets with the symbol, EARI and is a diversified beverage and media group, with brands in the hand-crafted spirit and functional drinks categories, covering "Craft Soda, Craft Beer, and Craft Spirits". In addition, the company also owns media streaming platforms with proprietary AR/AI/VR technology that can be used to promote the beverage brands.
Founded in Massachusetts 10 years ago and inspired by nature, Blossom Botanical Water is distinguished by its use of flower botanicals as a key flavor component across its portfolio of products. At only 20 calories per 16.9 oz bottle, it's a delicious, healthy alternative to both plain water and high-sugar sodas or juices. Blossom infuses pure spring water with the taste and aroma extracted from real blossoms, then uses a complementary fruit to create five hand-crafted unique flavors of distinctive appeal: Lemon Rose, Plum Jasmine, Mango Hibiscus , Pomegranate Geranium and Grapefruit Lilac. Blossom Water is further enhanced for your health by providing scientifically proven benefit to strengthen immunity, the body's best defense for maintaining wellness and vitality. Each bottle contains as much immune system support as 1 billion CFUs of probiotic from the strain Bacillus coagulants GBI-30 6086. Blossom Water's drinks are certified non-GMO and free of gluten, caffeine, and sodium. They have no artificial flavors, sweeteners, colors, or preservatives, and they are kosher and vegan.
Learn more at http://drinkblossomwater.com and via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA), a leading IoT development platform service provider, this week announced it will participate in the LightFair 2022 Trade Show and Conference. Hosted in Las Vegas, LightFair 2022 will take place June 19-23, 2022 at the Las Vegas Convention Center with over 300 attending brands.
Under the theme "Light Up the Unlimited Future," Tuya Smart will present its newest IoT lighting products and solutions. Located in West Hall 1915, the booth will feature a wide diversity of lighting solutions for business and residential scenarios.
Interactive showroom displays will allow visitors to experience Tuya Smart's powerful and seamless lighting systems ranging. Two new systems that will have fully immersive rooms are Tuya's Small and Medium Business (SMB) Lighting Control System and Residential Lighting Control System, featuring a custom-built esports gaming room lighting experience. Tuya Smart's lighting solutions and systems allow brands and developers to seamlessly control smart lighting devices from the convenience of a single app. Tuya's single-app interface unites products regardless of category, brand and communication protocol, allowing for customized smart lighting scenarios and convenient control.
LightFair is the world's largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference. This year's trade show has already confirmed participation of 310 global brands that will showcase innovative lighting solutions. This year's event will cover more than 100,000 square feet of exhibition halls, divided into four pavilions that cover the diversity of lighting needs.
According to a report by Transparency Market Research, the global smart lighting market is likely to grow at a CAGR of 20.3% through till 2031, when it is anticipated to surpass the US$ 83.52 billion. By partnering with Tuya Smart, brands are able to tap into the rapid growth of smart lighting and achieve stunning lighting scenarios in an effortless and affordable way. At LighFair 2022 and beyond, Tuya Smart continues to push the envelope of smart lighting development, and helping brands and developers make lighting seamless and efficient.
About Tuya Smart
Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA) is a leading technology company focused on making our lives smarter. Tuya does this through offering a cloud platform that connects a range of devices via the IoT. By building interconnectivity standards, Tuya bridges the intelligent needs of brands, OEMs, developers, and retail chains across a broad range of smart devices and industries. Tuya solutions empower partners and customers by improving the value of their products while making consumers' lives more convenient through the application of technology. Through its growing commercial SaaS business, Tuya offers intelligent business solutions for a wide range of verticals. The Company's platform is backed by industry-leading technology complete with rigorous data protection and security. Tuya partners with leading Fortune 500 companies from around the world to make things smarter, including Philips, Schneider Electric, Lenovo and many others.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TransPerfect, the world's largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business, today announced that its employees and teams won eight awards at the 2022 Stevie Awards® for Sales & Customer Service.
The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are the world's top honors for customer service, contact center, business development, and sales professionals. The Stevie Awards organizes eight of the world's leading business awards programs, including the prestigious American Business Awards® and International Business Awards®.
This year's winners from TransPerfect included:
- Sales Director of the Year: Chris Grunther, Gold Award
- Sales Manager of the Year: Katie Lewis, Gold Award
- Global Sales Team of the Year: Jessica Eker Team, Gold Award
- Woman of the Year in Customer Service: Lori Freise, Silver Award
- Woman of the Year in Sales: Danielle Giannecchini, Silver Award
- Sales Manager of the Year: Bryan Rand, Silver Award
- Woman of the Year in Sales: Jennifer Salerno, Silver Award
- Senior Sales Executive of the Year: Dan Emery, Bronze Award
Judges considered more than 2,300 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry across 51 nations. Winners were determined by the average scores of more than 150 professionals worldwide in 90+ categories.
"The nominations we received for the 2022 competition illustrate that business development, customer service, and sales professionals worldwide, in all sorts of organizations, have continued to innovate, thrive, and meet customer expectations during the COVID-19 pandemic," said Stevie Awards president Maggie Gallagher Miller. "The judges have recognized and rewarded their achievements, and we join them in applauding this year's winners for their continued success. We look forward to recognizing them on May 11."
TransPerfect President and CEO Phil Shawe stated, "We are proud of our Stevie Award winners and our staff as a whole this year. TransPerfect's most valuable asset is its people, and it is a privilege to work alongside such a talented and professional team."
Details about the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service and the list of Stevie winners in all categories are available at www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.
About TransPerfect
TransPerfect is the world's largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business. From offices in over 100 cities on six continents, TransPerfect offers a full range of services in 200+ languages to clients worldwide. More than 6,000 global organizations employ TransPerfect's GlobalLink® technology to simplify management of multilingual content. With an unparalleled commitment to quality and client service, TransPerfect is fully ISO 9001 and ISO 17100 certified. TransPerfect has global headquarters in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit our website at www.transperfect.com.
About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.
Sponsors of the 16th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service include Sales Partnerships, Inc., Thought Leadership Leverage, and ValueSelling Associates, Inc.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Texas barbecue, is one of the top cuisines in America, and of course, every region, state, and city has its claim to be the best.
However, Lawnstarter has put together a list of 2022’s Best BBQ Cities in America and some of their findings could very well come as a surprise! “What are the key ingredients of the best BBQ city? Award-winning barbecue restaurants, experience hosting a “master-level” competition, multiple barbecue festivals, and high ratings, among others.”
First, let’s take a look at the top Texas cities that cracked the list!
- Austin (8)
- Houston (10)
- Lubbock (21)
- Plano (45)
- San Antonio (50)
- Laredo (57)
- Corpus Christi (63)
- Midland (66)
- Dallas (75)
- Killeen (100)
- Amarillo (102)
- Garland (104)
- Brownsville (107)
- Fort Worth (110)
- Arlington (119)
Here’s what Lawnstarter said about the Texas BBQ scene, “The Lone Star State is known for having distinct regional BBQ styles, but which Texas cities will leave you feeling full as a tick?
Austin (No. 8) smoked its way to our top 10 thanks to stellar access to BBQ spots, as did Houston (No. 10) for securing one of the highest numbers of BBQ awards. Further down the list, Lubbock (No. 21) fell behind in Quality (No. 125) but earned extra points for previously Hosting (No. 2) barbecue competitions.
While Dallas (No. 75) BBQ has won several awards, steer clear of suburbs Grand Prairie (No. 177), Irving (No. 173), and Frisco (No. 172). These cities landed on the burnt ends of our ranking, lacking access to the quality ’cue that Texans love.”
Finally, we’ll leave this article with the top 10 BBW cities in America:
- St. Louis
- Kansas City
- Chicago
- Springfield
- Orlando
- Overland Park
- Kansas City (KS)
- Austin
- Chattanooga
- Houston | https://cw33.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/several-texas-cities-among-top-100-best-bbq-cities-in-u-s-per-report/ | 2022-07-01T20:47:07Z |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are tumbling and disappointment is hitting markets worldwide Tuesday, following Wall Street’s sudden realization that inflation isn’t slowing as much as hoped.
The S&P 500 sank 3% in morning trading, threatening to snap a four-day winning streak. Bond prices also fell sharply, sending their yields higher, after a report showed inflation decelerated to 8.3% in August, instead of the 8.1% economists expected.
The disappointing data means traders are bracing for the Federal Reserve to ultimately raise interest rates even higher than expected to combat inflation, with all the risks for the economy that entails.
“Right now, it’s not the journey that’s a worry so much as the destination,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments. “If the Fed wants to hike and hold, the big question is at what level.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 853 points, or 2.6%, to 31,5247, as of 10:49 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite dropped 3.8%. Big tech stocks swooned more than the rest of the market, as all 11 sectors in the S&P 500 dropped.
Almost all of Wall Street came into the day thinking the Fed would hike its key short-term rate by a hefty three-quarters of a percentage point at its meeting next week. But the hope was that inflation was in the midst of quickly falling back to more normal levels after peaking in June at 9.1%.
The thinking was that such a slowdown would let the Fed downshift the size of its rate hikes through the end of this year and then potentially hold steady through early 2023.
Tuesday’s report dashed some of those hopes. Many of the data points within it were worse than economists expected, including some the Fed pays particular attention to, such as inflation outside of food and energy prices. Markets honed in on a 0.6% rise in such prices during August from July, double what economists expected.
“This suggests that inflation expectations may be becoming ingrained,” said Gargi Chaudhuri, head of investment strategy at iShares.
The inflation figures were so much worse than expected that traders now see a one-in-five chance for a rate hike of a full percentage point by the Fed next week. That would be quadruple the size of the usual move, and no one in the futures market was predicting such a hike a day earlier.
Traders now see a better than 60% likelihood the Fed will pull its federal funds rate all the way up to a range of 4.25% to 4.50% by March. A day earlier, they saw less than a 17% chance of such a high rate, according to CME Group.
The Fed has already raised its benchmark interest rate four times this year, with the last two increases by three-quarters of a percentage point. The federal funds rate is currently in a range of 2.25% to 2.50%.
Higher rates hurt the economy by making it more expensive to buy a house, a car or anything else bought on credit. Mortgage rates have already hit their highest level since 2008, creating pain for the housing industry. The hope is that the Fed can pull off the tightrope walk of slowing the economy enough to snuff out high inflation, but not so much that it creates a painful recession.
In the meantime, higher rates also push down on prices for stocks, bonds and other investments. Investments seen as the most expensive or the riskiest are the ones hardest hit by higher rates, and bitcoin tumbled 6.6%.
In the stock market, all but 16 of the stocks in the S&P 500 fell. Technology and other high-growth companies fell more than the rest of the market because they’re seen as most at risk from higher rates.
Apple, Microsoft and Amazon all fell at least 4% and were the heaviest weights on the market. The communication services sector, which includes Google’s parent company and other internet and media companies, sank 4.5% for the largest loss out of the 11 sectors that make up the S&P 500 index.
The inflation report arrived before trading began on Wall Street, but it sent a thud through markets worldwide.
Treasury yields immediately leaped on expectations for a more aggressive Fed. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tends to track expectations for Fed actions, leaped to 3.73% from 3.57% late Monday. The 10-year yield, which helps dictate where mortgages and rates for other loans are heading, rose to 3.43% from 3.36%.
Stock markets in Europe, meanwhile, veered from gains to losses. The German DAX was down 1.2%, and the French CAC 40 fell 1%.
Expectations for a more aggressive Fed also helped the dollar add to its already strong gains for this year. The dollar has been surging against the euro, Japanese yen and other currencies in large part because the Fed has been hiking rates faster and by bigger margins than many other central banks.
An index measuring the value of the dollar against several major currencies rose 1% | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/ap-asian-stocks-gain-ahead-of-us-inflation-report/ | 2022-09-13T15:24:13Z |
Storms likely today and some could be heavy rain producers
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The atmosphere has plenty of moisture to work with today and storms are again likely. The cooling storms may be welcome by many after daytimes in the 90s and triple-digit “feels like” temperatures again this afternoon.
The center of our high pressure is located to our northeast and winds will be lighter out of the east. Because of that, storms could be slightly closer to the coast and move slowly. Slow-moving storms drop lots of rainfall if you are under one, and some ponding on roads is possible during the evening commute.
Models continue to show a stream of dry air moving in Thursday and slightly reducing rain chances. It could also cause the storms that do form have the ability to produce strong, gusty winds.
Moisture rapidly returns on Friday and shower chances go up again. The rain chances remain high into the weekend for mostly afternoon and evening storms. It is possible that some more Saharan dust could arrive by Monday and slightly reduce the rain chances.
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ARLINGTON, Va., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GEF Capital Partners ("GEF Capital"), a Washington, D.C. based sustainability-focused private equity firm, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Lifecycle Renewables Inc. ("Lifecycle Renewables" or "LRI"), a leading provider of renewable heating oil. GEF Capital has structured its investment in LRI to help the company continue to increase production of its trademarked biogenic fuel, LR100™, and to expand its geographic reach beyond the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic to meet the growing demand for sustainable fuels in North America.
Lifecycle Renewables collects used cooking oil (UCO) from its foodservice partners and converts it into a renewable heating oil, LR100™, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 80% compared to conventional heating oil derived from fossil fuels. District energy systems, academic institutions, and healthcare facilities are among the customers that rely on LR100™ to not only meet their heating needs, but to do so in a way that helps these customers reach their Net Zero carbon emissions targets.
"We are excited to partner with GEF Capital in this next phase of development for Lifecycle Renewables," said Rory Gaunt, Lifecycle Renewables' Founder and Chief Executive Officer. "As our clients seek to expand their use of renewable biofuels, Lifecycle stands ready to support them. The investment from GEF Capital will help the company continue to scale to meet an increasingly diverse set of customers looking for solutions to meet their carbon emissions goals".
"Lifecycle Renewables falls squarely within our core investment theme of supporting companies that provide innovative climate change and pollution mitigation solutions" said Daniel Prawda, Managing Partner at GEF Capital who led the Lifecycle investment. "At a time when institutions are seeking strategies to attain Net Zero targets, Lifecycle provides an easy, low cost, low risk and highly effective step towards decarbonizing emissions tied to heating".
Catherine Lien, a Vice President at GEF Capital who co-led the investment in Lifecycle added: "We are very excited to partner with Lifecycle Renewables' management team to support the continued growth of the business and the further adoption of LR100™. As innovators of low-carbon fuel solutions, Lifecycle Renewables has developed the types of novel approaches to emissions reduction that are becoming increasingly critical to support the energy transition and combat climate change. We look forward to working with the Lifecycle team to expand these solutions to meet market demand."
Boenning & Scattergood served as exclusive financial advisor to Lifecycle Renewables and WindSail Capital Group, Lifecycle Renewables' financial partner since 2017. "We are proud of everything Rory and the Lifecycle Renewables team have accomplished over the last five years in creating a new path to decarbonize the liquid heating fuels market in the Northeast and we look forward to great things from their partnership with GEF Capital," said Ian Bowles, Managing Director of WindSail Capital Group.
Lifecycle Renewables collects used cooking oil from restaurants and other foodservice entities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic and processes it into an eco-friendly renewable heating oil for utility grade energy customers. Founded in 2008, Lifecycle Renewables is headquartered in Tewksbury, MA, and has processing plants located throughout the Northeastern United States. Visit www.lifecyclerenewables.com for additional information.
GEF Capital Partners is a global private equity firm that that was established in March 2018 following a collaborative spinout from Global Environment Fund, an early pioneer in global sustainability and environmental investing. With offices in the United States, India and Brazil, and investments spanning the clean energy, energy efficiency, waste, water and resource efficiency sectors, GEF Capital invests in companies that have developed solutions to help address climate change and pollution mitigation. By partnering with management teams that operate in high-growth markets, GEF Capital brings a value-added approach to its investments to grow companies and ensure a more sustainable future. More is available at www.gefcapital.com.
WindSail Capital Group is a Boston-based investment firm that provides growth capital to early-stage commercial businesses advancing energy innovation and sustainability. WindSail's unique approach offers companies flexible and creative capital solutions that meet their specific needs while facilitating growth and minimizing dilution. WindSail typically invests $2-10 million in each transaction. For more information, please visit www.windsailcapital.com.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lifecycle Renewables
Rory Gaunt
617.633.2101
rory@lifecyclerenewables.com
GEF Capital Partners
Daniel Prawda
240.401.0896
dprawda@gefcapital.com
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HOUSTON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Talos Energy Inc. ("Talos" or the "Company") (NYSE: TALO) today provided select estimated operational and financial results for the second quarter of 2022.
Preliminary estimated results for the second quarter include:
- Average daily production between 65.0 and 65.5 thousand barrels of oil equivalent ("MBoe/d"), comprised of approximately 67% oil and 75% liquids.
- Realized prices before hedges of approximately $108 per barrel of oil, $37.75 per barrel of NGLs and $8 per Mcf of natural gas.
- Realized cash hedge losses of approximately $160 million.
- Repaid $146 million of debt in the second quarter, including $140 million repayment on the revolver – reducing the Company's credit facility balance to $200 million – and $6 million retirement at maturity of its 7.5% Notes.
- Initiation of the HP-1 facility dry-dock maintenance process, previously scheduled to begin in June, was deferred until early August and thus had no production impact on second quarter results.
Talos Energy (NYSE: TALO) is a technically driven independent exploration and production company focused on safely and efficiently maximizing long-term value through its operations, currently in the United States and offshore Mexico, both upstream through oil and gas exploration and production and downstream through the development of future carbon capture and storage opportunities. As one of the Gulf of Mexico's largest public independent producers, we leverage decades of technical and offshore operational expertise towards the acquisition, exploration and development of assets in key geological trends that are present in many offshore basins around the world. With a focus on environmental stewardship, we are also utilizing our expertise to explore opportunities to reduce industrial emissions through our carbon capture and storage initiatives along the U.S. Gulf Coast and Gulf of Mexico. For more information, visit www.talosenergy.com.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA welcomes Joseph Pelfrey as deputy director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center – and shares his inspirational story:
For Joseph Pelfrey, growing up in Cheraw, South Carolina, was idyllic. Most of his family lived in or near the town of less than 6,000, so large gatherings were common. He also enjoyed outdoor activities and spending time with friends.
"In a community where most everyone knows you, it was easy to have lots of people in your corner," said Pelfrey, who in April was named deputy director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. "As I grew older, I found I wanted more than my small town could offer, which led to the next steps in my journey."
One of those people in Pelfrey's corner was a high school math teacher, Gladys Sweeney. She ensured that Pelfrey was accountable for his educational development and recognized that he was capable of more. She and his parents helped him apply to the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Math in Hartsville, a two-year residential high school focused on advanced science, technology, engineering, and math education for the top 1% of students in the state.
"I left home at 16 and finished my high school years forming a great foundation that would take me to Auburn University to major in aerospace engineering," Pelfrey said. "The governor's school was also the place I met my future wife, Nicole."
Pelfrey joined Marshall as a civil servant in 2004, following several roles in industry and he went on to hold multiple leadership positions in engineering and project offices. Those roles helped prepare him for the challenge of being Marshall's deputy director, a job in which he assists in leading the center's nearly 7,000 civil service and contractor employees while overseeing an annual budget of approximately $4 billion.
"Our team is incredible," Pelfrey said. "In all my roles, I've been surrounded with great teammates who demonstrate a level of innovation and commitment beyond expectations. NASA's mission affords us an opportunity to do some incredibly challenging things and it's been fun to watch our teams, both government and industry, advance our exploration goals.
"I've also had the opportunity to grow, developing my own leadership style and continuously looking for ways to improve. Through these opportunities, I have developed a leadership philosophy rooted in five attributes: shared accountability, challenge the status quo, stay curious, practice transparency, and be mission focused."
Pelfrey also helps guide Marshall's portfolio of human spaceflight, science, and technology development efforts. He had the opportunity to contribute to all three areas in his previous role as manager of Marshall's Human Exploration Development & Operations Office. The office oversees Marshall's work in human exploration and transportation projects; habitation systems; payload and mission operations and integration; and International Space Station payload, facility, and environmental control and life support systems.
"NASA's work in low-earth orbit has spurred a growing space enterprise and a desire to explore even further," Pelfrey said. "There are still many frontiers to pursue and it's exciting to think of all the incredible things waiting to be discovered."
When it comes time to "unplug" and step away from work, Pelfrey makes family time a priority. That includes camping, swimming, Auburn football weekends, and cruises. He also serves in his church and enjoys helping others. His personal time is usually spent on projects around the house, hunting, or working on his project car – a 1958 Austin Healey Sprite.
Obstacles are part of the territory when it comes to science and space exploration. Pelfrey acknowledges that hurdles lie ahead, but he remains undaunted in his quest to help Marshall and NASA achieve their missions throughout the cosmos.
"Marshall is adapting and will need to continue adapting to new operating models to solve challenges of the future," he said. "We will need to focus our pursuits to capture new ideas, missions, and partnership opportunities."
"We have many great things to look forward to, delivering on current commitments and formulating new opportunities to expand our portfolio. Marshall will meet its strategic goals while serving a key role in meeting those of the agency."
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh on Sunday sought cooperation from China to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar during a visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who promised better trade ties, investment and support for infrastructure development in the South Asian nation.
China had used its influence in Myanmar to broker a November 2017 agreement to repatriate about 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled persecution in Myanmar in August that year. Despite attempts to send them back, the refugees refused, fearing danger in Myanmar, which was exacerbated by the military takeover last year.
Wang arrived in Dhaka on Saturday and met with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen. They discussed bilateral and global issues before his departure Sunday, said Shahriar Alam, Bangladesh’s junior minister for foreign affairs.
Bangladesh has strong relations with China, which is a major trade partner mostly for raw materials. But maintaining close ties with Beijing is challenging for Bangladesh, which also balances diplomatic and trade relationship with both India and the United States, China’s main rivals.
More than 500 Chinese companies are active in Bangladesh. China is involved in the country’s all major infrastructure projects such as seaports, a river tunnel and highways, and helped build its largest bridge over the River Padma at a cost of $3.6 billion.
Amid recent tensions between China and Taiwan, Bangladesh issued a statement reiterating its support for the “one-China” policy. After winning elections in 2008, Hasina’s administration closed the Taiwanese business representative office in Dhaka in response to a request from China, and since then China has increased its engagement in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh’s garment industry, which brings in more than 80% of foreign currency from exports, is heavily dependent on China for raw materials.
On Sunday, Wang told Hasina during a courtesy call that his country considers Bangladesh as a “strategic development partner” and would continue to support it, said Ihsanul Karim, the presidential press secretary.
The United News of Bangladesh agency reported that Wang also promised to stand beside Bangladesh “on all issues at international forums.”
The Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, state-run news agency, reported that Hasina raised the global tensions caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Western sanctions against Moscow, saying “people (across the world) are enduring difficult times … South Asia, Southeast Asia and China can work together for economic progress.”
Alam said that Wang agreed to expand trade benefits by raising to 98% duty-free access from current 97% of Bangladeshi products and services to Chinese markets.
“It’s a good news for Bangladesh as we have a thriving economy based on exports,” Alam said. “Now they have offered another 1% from Sept. 1,” he said, adding that the new tax advantage is likely to include garments, woven and other products that had previously faced some barriers.
He said Bangladesh would get a list from China soon about the products and services that would get duty-free access.
Alam said that Wang explained to the Bangladeshi foreign minister that “some countries misunderstand and misinterpret” China. He did not elaborate.
But Momen told reporters separately that the Chinese minister mentioned that a section of Taiwanese people was being provoked against the sovereignty of China. Beijing considers self-governed Taiwan to be its own territory.
The junior minister said China pledged to work continuously to resolve the Rohingya crisis and quoted Wang as saying that Myanmar’s internal challenges were troubling other countries.
”Our foreign minister strongly reiterated that Chinese cooperation is needed. China has progressed on resolving the Rohingya issue and we need the situation to come to an end,” Alam said.
On Sunday, Bangladesh and China signed or renewed four agreements and memorandums of understanding on disaster management, infrastructure and cultural exchanges.
Analyst Munshi Faiz Ahmad, who served as Bangladeshi ambassador in Beijing, said Wang’s visit was very significant for both countries.
“To resolve the Rohingya crisis Bangladesh needs support from China. This visit will help strengthen the bilateral relations,” Ahmad told The Associated Press.
“To us, China is very important. We also need to maintain good relations with both India and the United States as they are also very important development partners of Bangladesh. There is nothing to be afraid of because of Bangladesh’s close ties with China,” he said. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/bangladesh-seeks-china-help-to-repatriate-rohingya-refugees/ | 2022-08-08T19:06:54Z |
Key Takeaways:
- Marshall Porter named Partner with an initial focus on Web3, Consumer Technology, and Marketplaces
- Jay Hass named Partner and AlleyCorp's first Chief Financial Officer
NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AlleyCorp, a $600M+ evergreen venture fund founded by serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan and dedicated to founding, funding, and building transformative companies, announced two new Partners, Marshall Porter and Jay Hass, and the appointment of Hass as AlleyCorp's first Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Hass and Porter's roles at AlleyCorp are a sign of the growth occurring in the firm's universe. "We are incredibly fortunate that Jay joins our team on the operating side as Partner and CFO, and that Marshall joins on the investing side with particular focus on marketplaces and Web3," said Ryan. "We have no doubt that Jay and Marshall will each play an instrumental role on the team as we dive into the trends, challenges, and opportunities that the next 5-10 years will bring."
Porter initially will focus on Web3 and collaborate with AlleyCorp Partner Wendy Tsu to deepen focus in consumer technology and marketplaces. His appointment as Partner — a signal of AlleyCorp's commitment to Web3 and to building and investing in marketplaces and other consumer digital formats — is a natural extension of his longtime involvement in the AlleyCorp community and his experience in the New York startup ecosystem, which began when he joined Gilt Groupe, incubated out of AlleyCorp, in 2010. There Porter played an integral role as a full-time leader, as well as a community builder and sought-after mentor and advisor to numerous companies within AlleyCorp's portfolio and beyond.
At AlleyCorp, Porter will leverage what he's learned over the last 20 years building and operating e-commerce businesses. "I've always joined teams at the forefront of innovation, and I could not be more excited to join the incredible team at AlleyCorp to build the next generation of great companies," Porter said. "AlleyCorp is a very unique place where I will get involved and work hands-on with founders and teams at that critical early stage, to bring all those lessons I've learned as a builder and operator to bear."
Hass will help shepherd AlleyCorp into a new stage of growth as both Partner and Chief Financial Officer — the first in the firm's history. He comes to AlleyCorp from RRE Ventures where he was a partner for ten years, and currently serves as a director and strategic advisor to multiple companies and nonprofits. As AlleyCorp expands globally, Hass will leverage years of financial and investment experience to lead the firm's finance and administrative operations and coordinate strategic business initiatives while also supporting business and corporate development for AlleyCorp portfolio companies.
"From our first conversation many years ago, I knew that Kevin had both a compelling vision and a unique platform to build transformative new businesses," Hass said. "Having collaborated ad hoc on several successful deals since then, I'm thrilled to join the AlleyCorp team as we enter our dynamic next phase of growth."
NEW PARTNER BIOGRAPHIES
Marshall Porter most recently served as U.S. CEO of GymPass. Before that, he was chief strategy officer for ShopRunner, president of the e-commerce marketplace Spring, and held various leadership positions at Gilt Groupe. Porter is a longtime member of AlleyCorp's advisory network, the AlleyCorp Braintrust, led by VP of Platform Susannah Shipton.
Jay Hass joins AlleyCorp from RRE Ventures, where he has been a Partner for the past decade and remains active as a strategic advisor. Earlier in his career, Hass was a managing director at Brown Brothers Harriman and spent several years in national political campaign management. In addition to his advisory role at RRE, Hass serves as a director or strategic advisor to a number of companies and nonprofits, including NeoFidelity, Decode_M, and Raftr, Inc. He is a board member emeritus of the Tory Burch Foundation and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
About AlleyCorp
AlleyCorp is a $600M+ evergreen venture fund and a leading player in the New York tech startup ecosystem. Founded by serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan, AlleyCorp is dedicated to growing transformative companies in New York and across the globe in three principal ways: by founding them (prior incubations include MongoDB, Gilt Groupe, Business Insider, Zola, and Nomad Health); by investing in and supporting early-stage companies (across pre-seed, seed, and series A); and as a limited partner (investing in 30+ top funds globally). AlleyCorp also operates specialized funds in a range of areas including a $100M healthcare fund, a $30M robotics fund, and recently launched an in-house engineering team in Canada, comprised of over 40 exceptional engineers, that work for the team's early stage companies. For more information, please visit www.alleycorp.com.
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Susannah Shipton
212-741-8242
susannah@alleycorp.com
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- Wemade announced "100 For 100" at UNICEF HQ at Geneva on August 19
- Wemade plans to donate 100M USD's worth of WEMIX for 100 years
- Partnership with UNICEF's Reimagine Education programme
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wemade announced a partnership with UNICEF and the Korean Committee for UNICEF on August 19 to support education projects for its CSR activity, "100 For 100".
The signing ceremony was held at UNICEF headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Henry Chang, CEO of Wemade, Carla Haddad Mardini, UNICEF's director of private fundraising and partnerships division, and Key-cheol Lee, executive director of the Korean Committee for UNICEF were present.
Wemade plans to donate 1 million USD's worth of the cryptocurrency WEMIX every year, or 100 million USD's worth in total, for 100 years. The company pledged its commitment to education projects and rights promotion for children all over the world.
Based on Korean traditional belief that education constitutes a grand plan for 100 years, Wemade announced the "100 For 100" project for long-term support for children's future. The plan aims to improve the future prospects of children, thus contributing to the betterment of families, communities, and even countries, Wemade spokesperson said.
Donations will be used to support UNICEF's Reimagine Education programme to improve the quality of education for children.
"The pandemic showed us that far too many children are on the wrong side of the digital divide," said Carla Haddad Mardini, Director, UNICEF Private Fundraising and Partnerships. "Thanks to our new partnership with Wemade, we will be able to help improve access to technology for some of the most vulnerable children living in Laos and Timor Leste," she added.
"To fulfill the social responsibility of the WEMIX project on a global scale, we teamed up with UNICEF to support education for children all over the world," said Henry Chang, CEO of Wemade. "To commit ourselves to the sustainable improvement of the educational environment, we decided to do more than a single donation. We will stay devoted for 100 years."
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LONDON (AP) — A high-profile libel court battle between two British soccer spouses concluded Thursday, with one lawyer accusing the claimant, Rebekah Vardy, of deliberately destroying key evidence that allegedly showed she leaked her opponent’s private social media posts to tabloid reporters.
Vardy, the wife of Leicester City star Jamie Vardy, brought the defamation case against fellow soccer wife Coleen Rooney after an online spat between the two women spiralled.
The falling-out grabbed national headlines in October 2019 when Rooney, who is married to former Manchester United and England star Wayne Rooney, said she purposely posted fake stories on Instagram over several months to find out who was passing her private information to The Sun newspaper.
In a social media post that quickly went viral, she declared that Vardy was responsible because she had blocked everyone except an account belonging to Vardy from seeing her Instagram stories.
The case, which is being closely watched in Britain, has been dubbed the “Wagatha Christie” trial — a play on “WAG,” a slang term for wives and girlfriends of soccer players, and a reference to detective novelist Agatha Christie.
Vardy denied the claims and is suing for libel, despite judges calling for the women to settle the case. The trial, which was on its sixth and final day at London’s Royal Courts of Justice, has reportedly cost millions of pounds.
Wrapping up his arguments, Rooney’s lawyer David Sherbourne accused Vardy of deliberately deleting phone messages to “cover up incriminating evidence.” The lawyer also alleged that Vardy had a “consistent practice of secretly leaking information to the press.”
Vardy’s lawyer rejected the claims, saying Rooney had failed to produce any evidence to support the accusations. He said his client suffered “public abuse and ridicule on a massive scale” as a result of Rooney’s claims about her, and that she is entitled to substantial libel damages.
The judge said she would reserve her ruling until a later date. | https://cw33.com/technology/ap-technology/wagatha-christie-libel-lawyer-says-evidence-was-destroyed/ | 2022-05-20T02:40:11Z |
- Facility is first of 10 solar sites that are part of company's new community solar program.
- Enrolled income-qualified customers will see guaranteed savings on their program costs every month.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Duke Energy today announced the completion of its first community solar site in Hardee County, Fla., in its drive to make more solar power available for all customers in Florida.
The Fort Green Renewable Energy Center is the first of 10 solar sites, totaling 750 megawatts (MW), that are part of the company's new community solar program, Clean Energy Connection.
Through the program, Duke Energy Florida customers can subscribe to solar power and earn credits toward their electricity bills without having to install or maintain their own equipment.
"Bringing cleaner resources onto the grid is important to our customers and our company," said Duke Energy Florida State President Melissa Seixas. "By subscribing to the Clean Energy Connection program and supporting solar sites like this one, our customers are joining a community that is helping drive Florida to a cleaner energy future."
The 74.9-MW facility was built on approximately 500 acres of repurposed mining land in Hardee County, Fla. The project consists of nearly 265,000 solar panels, utilizing a fixed-tilt racking system that will produce enough carbon-free energy to effectively power more than 23,000 average-sized homes at peak production.
The second Clean Energy Connection site, Bay Trail Renewable Energy Center in Citrus County, is expected to begin supporting Clean Energy Connection subscriptions later this summer.
Launched in April 2022, the Clean Energy Connection program allows customers to subscribe to kilowatt (kW) blocks of solar power from the company's Clean Energy Connection solar portfolio. The monthly subscription fee will help pay for the cost of construction and operation of the solar power plants and is conveniently added to a customer's regular electric bill.
The monthly subscription fee is fixed at $8.35 per kW. A customer with average usage of 1,000 kWh/month could subscribe to approximately 5 kW to cover their full usage. Subscribers receive bill credits based on their subscription size and the amount of solar energy that is produced by the Clean Energy Connection solar facilities each month.
The bill credit rate for the first 36 months of the program participation will be 4 cents per kWh (kilowatt-hour), and then starting with the 37th month of continuous enrollment, the bill credit rate increases by 1.5% every year. This bill credit amount varies each month with the actual solar energy produced, where it may be greater during the months with more direct sunlight.
The program sets aside 26 MW for income-qualified customers who participate in government subsidy programs or Duke Energy's low-income energy efficiency program, Neighborhood Energy Saver.
For income-qualified customers, the fixed monthly $9.03 credit per kW subscribed will always be higher than the fixed monthly $8.35 subscription fee per kW subscribed.
Since the bill credits are greater than the subscription fee, income-qualified customers will continue to save each month for as long as they subscribe to the program.
The average subscription amount for income-qualified customers (5 kW) results in approximately $42/year in bill savings.
Subscriptions are associated with all solar plants in the program. Customers do not need to live near a facility to enroll, as the program brings new solar generation to the larger grid, which lowers the emissions profile of Duke Energy's electric service in all communities.
Customers who are interested in the program can learn more through the Clean Energy Connection website.
Video of Fort Green Renewable Energy Center, from drone.
Video of Bay Trail Renewable Energy Center, from done.
Duke Energy Florida
Duke Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, owns 10,300 megawatts of energy capacity, supplying electricity to 1.9 million residential, commercial and industrial customers across a 13,000-square-mile service area in Florida.
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business and at least a 50% carbon reduction from electric generation by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage, and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.
Duke Energy was named to Fortune's 2022 "World's Most Admired Companies" list and Forbes' "America's Best Employers" list. More information is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos and videos. Duke Energy's illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
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After Texas shooting, schools around US boost security
(AP) - In the aftermath of the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, schools around the U.S. have brought in additional security staff and restricted visitors as they deal with a new rash of copycat threats.
For some families and educators it all has added to uneasiness in the wake of the deadliest school shooting since the 2012 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Jake Green, 34, of Los Alamos, New Mexico, was jolted when he saw a plainclothes police officer for the first time while walking his 7-year-old daughter into school Friday morning. He grew up in Colorado, not far from where two Columbine High School students shot and killed 12 classmates and a teacher in 1999. Green remembers attending memorials and candlelight vigils as a fifth-grader, but he’s torn about whether having police at his daughter’s school is best.
“In a way, I don’t really feel any safer with police around,” Green said. “Seeing the police there, it really made it seem like the worst possibility was even more possible today.”
In El Paso, Texas, where a gunman killed 23 people in a racist 2019 attack that targeted Hispanics at a Walmart, schools are on edge. The El Paso Independent School District has already encountered some reported threats that turned out to be false. They were either “students joking or overly-sensitive parents,” said Gustavo Reveles Acosta, a district spokesperson.
“Our community is still raw from that incident,” Acosta said. “It hits us in a pretty emotional way.”
The district, which has its own police department, has also stepped up patrolling at all 85 campuses. Officers have been pulled from monitoring traffic or other duties. Schools already have updated camera surveillance systems. Visitors are required to ring a doorbell and show identification before they can enter.
The district is making a point to look out for teachers’ and students’ mental health. A counseling team has been visiting every school to speak about the shooting in Uvalde. They are also urging people to talk in private about any distress.
Mia Baucom, a 15-year-old student at a Forth Worth, Texas, high school said it was surreal to think the Uvalde killings happened in her home state. It also stirred memories of a lockdown at her school two months ago that was prompted by a shooting.
“I’m a little more stressed out about it because just the fear of what if that happened at my school?” said Baucom, whose last day of school was Thursday. “Let’s say we get more police officers. Most likely that’s not going to stop people from going crazy and just shooting up schools.”
Schools have ramped up police presence in a host of states, including Connecticut, Michigan and New York, after the shooting Tuesday that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
In Buffalo, New York, where a white gunman fatally shot 10 people in a racist attack in a supermarket on May 14, the largest school district announced new security rules effective immediately. Any visitors — parents, siblings, vendors — have to call ahead for approval. No exceptions will be made. They may be subjected to a search by a wand detector. Doors will be locked at all times.
In Jacksonville, Florida, the Duval County Public Schools’ chief of school police banned backpacks or large handbags at any school through Friday, the last day of school. Small purses were allowed but could be searched.
A discredited threat against a middle school prompted a Texas school district 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Uvalde to end the school year a week early. The Kingsville Independent School District announced Friday would be the last day of school. But students should not see any penalty for the premature end to the year.
“In light of the tragedy in Uvalde, there has been an enormous amount of stress and trauma. Unfortunately, more stress and trauma are added with ‘copy-cat threats’ that start circulating such as the one that was sent today for Gillett (Middle School),” Superintendent Dr. Cissy Reynolds-Perez wrote in a statement on the district’s website.
It’s clear staff and students nationwide are on edge as several reports of firearm sightings on campuses have popped up in the past few days.
Two Seattle-area schools went into lockdown Friday morning and police eventually recovered an airsoft gun. The Everett, Washington, schools then had their lockdowns lifted.
Two people were arrested Thursday after a Denver high school locked down its campus. Police found a paintball gun but no other firearms. Classes were canceled anyway.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/05/29/after-texas-shooting-schools-around-us-boost-security/ | 2022-05-29T13:03:39Z |
UpHealth, Inc. Stockholders urged to look for the BLUE Proxy Card for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
HOLLADAY, Utah , June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jeffery R. Bray, Dr. Mariya Pylypiv, Syed Sabahat Azim, Richa Sana Azim, Dr. Azfar Malik, Alfonso Gatmaitan, Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria and other stockholders (collectively, the "UpHealth Concerned Stockholders") announced today that they issued an open letter urging stockholders of UpHealth, Inc. (NYSE: UPH) (the "Company") to STOP, LOOK and LISTEN before taking any action in response to the Company's solicitation of proxies for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders set for 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time, on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 (the "Annual Meeting"). The complete text of the letter to stockholders is available at https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001930960/000119312522169689/d365467ddfan14a.htm.
The UpHealth Concerned Stockholders strongly urge stockholders NOT to return the white proxy card or voting instruction form from the Company and NOT to allow the Company to take their vote over the telephone or by internet, but to wait until they receive and review the UpHealth Concerned Stockholders' definitive proxy materials and BLUE proxy card, which will be sent to UpHealth stockholders soon, before voting. If UpHealth stockholders have already voted the Company's white proxy card or voting instruction form or had their vote taken by the Company over the telephone or by internet, a later-dated BLUE proxy card will revoke their previously cast vote.
When the UpHealth Concerned Stockholders' proxy solicitation materials are available, they will be seeking the vote of UpHealth stockholders because they believe that the Company needs to act now in order to restore stockholder value and do not believe that the Board, as currently constituted, and as currently proposed by the Board to be constituted following the Annual Meeting, is in the best position to achieve that objective. The Board has proposed a slate of three existing directors, adding no new viewpoints or expertise.
The UpHealth Concerned Stockholders intend to solicit proxies from UpHealth stockholders to (i) permit them to withhold the voting of their shares at the Annual Meeting to prevent the Annual Meeting from being held until a Special Meeting of Stockholders can be held to amend the Bylaws to allow them to nominate a slate of three highly qualified independent directors and (ii) then vote those shares to elect those director nominees who the UpHealth Concerned Stockholders believe will help to enhance the value of the Company and better align the Board with the objectives of its stockholders.
For questions or assistance, please contact Okapi Partners, the UpHealth Concerned Stockholders' proxy advisor, at the phone numbers or email listed below:
OKAPI PARTNERS LLC
1212 Avenue of the Americas, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10036
(212) 297-0720
Shareholders Call Toll-Free at: (888) 785-6707
E-mail: info@okapipartners.com
Please watch for additional information from the UpHealth Concerned Stockholders at
https://www.okapivote.com/uphealthconcernedstockholders
The UpHealth Concerned Stockholders intend to file a definitive proxy statement and an accompanying BLUE proxy card with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") to be used to solicit votes for the election of its nominees at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of UpHealth, Inc.
THE Uphealth Concerned Stockholders STRONGLY ADVISE ALL STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY TO READ THEIR PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER PROXY MATERIALS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. SUCH PROXY MATERIALS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE ON THE SEC'S WEB SITE AT WWW.SEC.GOV. IN ADDITION, THE Uphealth Concerned Stockholders WILL PROVIDE COPIES OF THE PROXY STATEMENT WITHOUT CHARGE, WHEN AVAILABLE, UPON REQUEST. REQUESTS FOR COPIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE Uphealth Concerned Stockholders' PROXY SOLICITOR, OKAPI PARTNERS, AT ITS TOLL-FREE NUMBER: (888) 785-6707 OR AT INFO@OKAPIPARTNERS.COM.
The participants in the UpHealth Concerned Stockholders' proxy solicitation and the number of shares of common stock of the Company beneficially owned by them is as follows: Jeffery R. Bray (72,437,807 shares beneficially owned, including 4,088,170 shares owned directly, 951,008 shares beneficially owned as custodian and 72,437,807 shares beneficially owned as a result of an irrevocable proxy granted to him under the Voting Agreement), Jeffery R. Bray, as custodian of the Samantha Josephine Bray UTMA (475,504 shares beneficially owned), Jeffery R. Bray as custodian of the Anais Alexandra Bray UTMA (475,504 shares beneficially owned), Alexandra Bray (475,504 shares beneficially owned), John Parsons, Trustee of The Anais Bray Protective Irrevocable Trust, The Bray Descendants Trust and The Samantha Bray Protective Irrevocable Trust (6,478,997 shares beneficially owned as trustee), The Anais Bray Protective Irrevocable Trust (2,699,582 shares beneficially owned), The Bray Descendants Trust (1,079,833 shares beneficially owned), The Samantha Bray Irrevocable Trust (2,699,582 shares beneficially owned), Jacque Butler (1,403,804 shares beneficially owned), Chirinjeev Kathuria (43,182,294 shares beneficially owned), Mariya Pylypiv (7,595,270 shares beneficially owned), Alfonso Gatmaitan (1,183,460 shares beneficially owned), Azfar Malik, M.D. (962,458 shares beneficially owned through AM Physicians LLC), AM Physicians LLC (962,458 shares beneficially owned) Syed Sabahat Azim (6,116,842 shares beneficially owned), Richa Sana Azim (6,116,842 shares beneficially owned), Kimberlite Social Infra Private Limited (684,981 shares beneficially owned), and Eligere Limited Liability Company (6,116,842 shares beneficially owned).
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Products, Inc. ("Crown") an industry leading distributor of flooring and flooring installation products, announced today the acquisition of Blakely Products Company ("Blakely"), headquartered in Warren, MI. Founded in 1946, Blakely is a leader and innovator in the distribution of flooring and flooring installation products with seven locations in Michigan (6) and Ohio (1).
Crown CEO, John DeYoung commented, "Blakely Products is a natural fit with Crown. It adds renowned distribution experience and capabilities in Michigan and Ohio with many common strategic manufacturers. This acquisition aligns with our mission to build one of the premier sundries and flooring distributors in the country. We are excited to partner with the Blakely team and work together to further distinguish Crown as an industry leader."
Everett Blakely founded the company near downtown Detroit, MI on the principles of honor, integrity, and superb service. Today, Blakely has grown to seven locations serving all of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and Northwest Ohio.
Dan Blakely commented, "Blakely Products has had a blessed 76-year history since my father and mother, Everett and Wilma Blakely, founded the business. Considering current industry consolidation trends and increased competition, it became apparent we needed to join forces with a solid strategic partner with a vision for future success. It is important to ensure our dedicated employees and their families, our faithful customers and vendors, along with the Blakely legacy and core values continue to prosper in the future. I am confident Crown Products will be trustworthy stewards of all that Blakely Products Company has stood for since 1946."
"Blakely has a sterling reputation and a talented team that shares Crown's passion and desire to provide excellent quality, service, and value to the customer. We are committed to delivering the best customer experience and the combination of Blakely Products and Crown is yet another step closer to achieving our goal," said DeYoung. "This is our fifth acquisition since 2018 as we continue to expand the number of markets where we provide a full range of flooring and flooring installation products to our customers. It is a very exciting time for both Crown and Blakely."
About Crown Products:
Crown, headquartered in Bloomington, MN, is an industry leading distributor of flooring and flooring installation products, serving the Upper-Midwest, Mountain West and Great Lakes geographies for over 75 years. Crown's knowledgeable team and 27-location distribution network serves residential and commercial flooring contractors, builders, and retailers across 10 states. With over 23,000 items from more than 100 manufacturers, Crown manages a distinguishable vendor portfolio for its dynamic customer base.
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LONDON, ON, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - More than 40% of marketing professionals said voice assistant applications were the top priority trend for them to implement, the 2022 Voice Branding Trends Report from Voices, the #1 voice marketplace, found.
More than 35% said social audio was a priority for them; while a little over 20% identified podcasting as their priority in 2022.
"Every industry is now being touched and are beginning to use sonic branding in relevant ways to their target markets; Automotive, electronics, pharmaceutical, tech, education, tourism, sports and recreation, the list goes on and on," Voices Vice President of Marketing, Angela Hawkins said.
"With increased interest, we predict a steady increase in spending in voice branding. While you can't control your marketing budget, you can find the right voice within your budget for your custom voice branding campaigns."
40 percent of respondents also said they plan on using voice or sonic branding in their 2022 marketing strategy.
2. Cost and budget is a major hurdle for mass adoption
3. Voice branding isn't a fad
4. Companies are willing to partner up to create voice/sonic brand campaigns
To read the full 2022 Voice Branding Trends Report, click here.
Voices is the world's #1 voice marketplace, with over 2 million registered users. Since 2005, the biggest and most beloved brands have entrusted Voices to help them find professionals to bring their projects to life. Headquartered in London, Canada, Voices helps match clients with voice over, music, audio production, and translation professionals in over 160 countries and 100+ languages and dialects.
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Under Clearlake's ownership, Brightly transformed into a leading cloud-based asset management software platform with a broad suite of products solving operational and planning needs
SANTA MONICA, Calif. and CARY, N.C., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with certain of its affiliates, "Clearlake") today announced it has completed the sale of Brightly Software, Inc. ("Brightly Software", "Brightly" or the "Company") to Siemens AG ("Siemens") (FRA:SIE) for $1.575 billion of upfront cash consideration, along with $300 million in cash earn-out payments, for a total of $1.875 billion.
Brightly is a software-as-a-service ("SaaS") provider of cloud-based enterprise asset management and facility operations management. Clearlake acquired Brightly, formerly known as "Dude Solutions," in June 2019.
Brightly executed on an investment thesis focused on scaling the business into a leading provider of enterprise asset management SaaS solutions across a diverse set of applications, end-markets, and geographies. In partnership with management, Clearlake implemented its O.P.S.® strategy to support the Company across several organic and inorganic growth initiatives. Organic growth initiatives were centered on reshaping the operating expense structure of the business to enable profitable growth, while improving the quality of the Company's revenue streams. These efforts were supplemented by executing on four strategic acquisitions, including Assetic, Confirm, Energy Profiles, and Facility Health.
The combination of these initiatives under Clearlake's ownership resulted in a material increase in annual recurring revenue and a significant expansion in the Company's EBITDA margins.
Kevin Kemmerer, Chief Executive Officer at Brightly Software, said, "The Brightly team and I have maintained a compelling partnership with Clearlake, and, collectively, we have built the Company into a SaaS platform addressing a variety of use cases for enterprise asset management. Throughout Clearlake's three years of ownership, our team has been able to leverage the firm's software expertise and their portfolio's best practices to establish ourselves as a high performing software solutions provider. We are proud and grateful to Clearlake for their partnership and believe we have collectively positioned the Company well to continue advancing our market leadership and executing on our goal to help our clients create more sustainable communities as part of Siemens."
"Clearlake's software investment approach involves partnering with management to scale promising SaaS companies, while focusing on profitable growth and sales efficiency. Since we invested in the business, Brightly has reconfigured its go-to-market motion and transitioned many customers to a longer-term partnership model, while maintaining the platform innovation that has always differentiated Brightly. We have valued our partnership with Kevin and his team over the years, which has culminated in Brightly's success during our ownership," said Behdad Eghbali, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, and Prashant Mehrotra, Partner and Managing Director, at Clearlake. "We are very excited about this outcome, as it highlights the potential of Clearlake's investment approach and the foundation that Kevin and his team have developed to help drive continued growth. We thank the Siemens team for their collaboration over the past months, and we wish the Brightly team every success for the future."
Throughout Clearlake's ownership, Brightly expanded into new end-markets and geographies, as well as broadened its product offerings, expanding into solutions with a focus on ESG and sustainability management. Today, Brightly has a global customer base with over 12,000 clients across Education, Public Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Commercial Real Estate, and other end-markets, and was recently recognized as a "Leader in Enterprise Asset Management Software" from Verdantix, an award-winning independent research firm.
William Blair & Company LLC and SVB Securities LLC acted as lead financial advisors to Brightly. Sidley Austin LLP provided legal counsel to Brightly and Clearlake.
About Clearlake
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit and other related strategies. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with experienced management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to dynamic businesses that can benefit from Clearlake's operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm's core target sectors are technology, industrials and consumer. Clearlake currently has over $72 billion of assets under management and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 400 investments. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with affiliates in Dallas, TX, London, UK and Dublin, Ireland. More information is available at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake.
About Brightly Software
Brightly, the global leader in intelligent asset management solutions, enables organizations to transform the performance of their assets. Brightly's sophisticated cloud-based platform leverages more than 20 years of data to deliver predictive insights that help users through the key phases of the entire asset lifecycle. More than 12,000 clients of every size worldwide depend on Brightly's complete suite of intuitive software – including CMMS, EAM, Strategic Asset Management, IoT Remote Monitoring, Sustainability and Community Engagement. Paired with award-winning training, support and consulting services, Brightly helps light the way to a bright future with smarter assets and sustainable communities. For more information, visit www.brightlysoftware.com.
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PLEASANTON, Calif., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cowbell Cyber, the leading provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), today announced the results of its Q2 cyber insurance risk report, the Cowbell Cyber Round-Up. The report, the second of its kind from Cowbell, offers insight into and rationale behind cyber insurance for SMEs.
The Q2 Cyber Round-up report features insights into Cowbell's closed-loop approach to risk management, continuous underwriting as well as continuous risk assessment and improvement. It explores cyber risk at the individual level, through Cowbell Factors to any risk portfolio, and also the mechanisms behind Cowbell's ability to proactively prevent cyber incidents by engaging policyholders throughout the lifecycle of a policy.
"Cyber insurance is rapidly evolving; the availability of meaningful risk signal analysis at the individual and portfolio levels is critical to establish confidence with all insurance stakeholders," said Isabelle Dumont, SVP of marketing and technology partnerships at Cowbell Cyber. "With real-time and advanced insights on how cyber risks are evolving within the U.S. SME population, Cowbell Cyber is building a new generation of cyber insurance offerings that allow policyholders to invest in the security measures that matter the most."
Highlighted features and findings in this quarter's report include:
- Cowbell Cyber Heatmap: The report highlights sectors at risk through the new heatmap that enables brokerage firms, carriers and other entities to gain immediate visibility into the health of a group of accounts and help policyholders improve their cyber risk profile.
- New Representation of Cowbell Factors: Organizations can now more easily understand where their cyber risk profile stands, whether they are more or less secure than industry peers and how close they might be to the extremes. Red and green color coding also gives an immediate indication of whether a specific Cowbell Factor is below or above the industry average.
- Spotlight: The report indicates specific zero-days that are immediately translated into early warnings for policyholders through Spotlight, an advanced feature available on specific accounts that allows Cowbell to react quickly to the latest vulnerabilities.
- Underwriting Efficiencies: Operating profitably in the SME market requires distribution and underwriting efficiencies. The report details how Cowbell outperforms the market in specific underwriting processes.
This is the second Round-up report delivered by Cowbell. The Q1 2022 report is available to view here. With these reports, Cowbell aims to bring clarity and transparency into the process with data, measurements and benchmarks that set expectations.
SMEs that want to understand whether they represent a bigger insurance risk than industry peers are invited to request their organization's Cowbell Factors at https://cowbell.insure/for-businesses/
Cowbell Cyber offers standalone, individualized, and easy-to-understand cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In its unique AI-based approach to risk selection and pricing, Cowbell's continuous underwriting platform, powered by Cowbell Factors, compresses the insurance process from submission to issue to less than 5 minutes. Cowbell Insurance Agency is currently licensed in 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Cowbell Reinsurance Company is a licensed insurance captive in the State of Vermont. For more information, please visit www.cowbell.insure.
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Purse stolen at Paris gas station
Published: May. 31, 2022 at 3:58 PM CDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
PARIS, Texas (KXII) - Paris Police are investigating after a woman’s purse was stolen while she was pumping gas.
Police said the 85-year-old woman reported that while she was pumping gas, someone stole her purse out of the front seat of her vehicle on Monday.
Officers said four transactions were made before the victim could cancel her credit and debit cards.
No word on which gas station is happened at, and law enforcement said they are investigating the incident.
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Meeting over Uvalde school police chief’s future canceled
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Uvalde school officials on Friday canceled a meeting to decide the future of embattled district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who was facing the possibility of becoming the first officer to be fired over the slow law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School massacre.
Arredondo’s job was set to be discussed in an abruptly called school board meeting that was scheduled for Saturday. But in a statement Friday, the district said it had canceled the meeting at the request of Arredondo’s attorney and because of “due process requirements.”
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The district said the the police chief’s potential firing would be considered later but did not specify when.
The reversal comes just two days after Uvalde’s superintendent moved to fire Arredondo amid mounting public pressure and growing impatience in South Texas for accountability after police body camera footage and a damning new report revealed how officers waited in the school hallway for more than 70 minutes instead of confronting the gunman inside a fourth-grade classroom.
Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.
The district said Arredondo will remain on unpaid administrative leave. So far, no officer has lost their job as a result of their actions or decisions during their May 24 tragedy.
Nearly 400 officers rushed to the scene of the school during the shooting, according to findings by a Texas House committee.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vuzix® Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI), ("Vuzix" or, the "Company"), a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, is pleased to announce that it has received an award from Deutsche Telekom (DT) at Digital X 2022 for Enterprise Technology of the Year, Connected Workforce. Vuzix was honored as a key partner for their role extending DT's vision for reaching new markets and driving digital transformation across all industries.
DT's plan for a more connected workforce hinges on integrating workers around the DACH region who presently lack access to high-speed internet at their job site, with Zoom X. Vuzix AR smart glasses provide the optimal hardware complement for DT customers to leverage their 5G network for expanded enterprise use. Combined with Zoom X, a highly secure video software solution specially configured for DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) users, DT and Vuzix create a perfectly balanced platform for accessing new networking opportunities. This easy to use and highly accessible combination of connectivity, software and hardware will bring previously unrealized benefits to connected workers in industries including retail and logistics, manufacturing, field services, healthcare, transportation and energy. Such a solution allows connected workers to significantly enhance their productivity, improve response times, reduce equipment downtime, and work safer.
"DT is dedicated to providing a complete set of end-to-end telecom services for the connected worker. Vuzix hardware and consultative approach to customer use cases, along with Zoom X's reach and extensive capabilities, now set the stage for a new era of innovation," said Thomas Novotny, CTO of Innovation at Deutsche Telekom Business Solution.
"We are honored to support DT with our extensive industry experience and customer-focused AR smart glasses solutions. We're proud to be part of this powerful trio of companies along with Zoom, to deliver a connected digital ecosystem to enterprise customers in DACH and around the world," said Paul Travers, President and CEO of Vuzix. "We look forward to continuous innovation together as we empower a new generation of connected workers."
About Vuzix Corporation
Vuzix is a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets. The Company's products include personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high-quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and augmented reality. Vuzix holds 252 patents and patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the Video Eyewear field. The Company has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for the years 2005 to 2022 and several wireless technology innovation awards among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (NASDAQ: VUZI) with offices in Rochester, NY, Oxford, UK, and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit the Vuzix website, Twitter and Facebook pages.
Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer
Certain statements contained in this news release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking statements contained in this release relate to Vuzix Smart Glasses and its current and future business relationships with Deutsche Telekom and Zoom and their customers and among other things the Company's leadership in the Smart Glasses and AR display industry. They are generally identified by words such as "believes," "may," "expects," "anticipates," "should" and similar expressions. Readers should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are based upon the Company's beliefs and assumptions as of the date of this release. The Company's actual results could differ materially due to risk factors and other items described in more detail in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Reports and MD&A filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and applicable Canadian securities regulators (copies of which may be obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). Subsequent events and developments may cause these forward-looking statements to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of changed events or circumstances that occur after the date of this release, except as required by applicable law.
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Vuzix Corporation
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Transaction Positions the Company Strongly for Long-Term Growth
SANFORD, Fla., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An affiliate of Shadowbriar Capital Partners, LLC ("Shadowbriar") is pleased to announce the acquisition of Benada Aluminum Products, LLC ("Benada" or the "Company") from Big Shoulders Capital ("Big Shoulders") and ABGB Capital, LLC ("ABGB"). The buyer is purchasing a controlling ownership stake in Benada, with Big Shoulders and ABGB remaining minority investors in the Company. With over 60 years of industry experience, Benada is a leading, full-service aluminum extrusion operation servicing a diverse mix of building products, distribution, storm protection and industrial customers across the Southeastern United States. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Benada has an excellent reputation for service as evidenced by its short customer lead times and outstanding product quality. The Company operates three aluminum extrusion lines and an industry-leading horizontal paint line capable of painting extrusions up to 40 feet in length, as well as having value-added downstream fabrication capabilities.
"Benada has demonstrated strong growth in recent years based on the strength of its management, operational footprint and end-markets", said Matt Homme, Managing Partner of Shadowbriar. "We look forward to partnering with the Benada team to expand the Company's manufacturing capabilities as it continues to provide outstanding service to its diverse customer base in the Southeast."
"Big Shoulders and ABGB are proud of the progress Benada has made since we bought it in 2015," said David Muslin, Chairman of Big Shoulders. "We are looking forward to Benada's next chapter as Shadowbriar grows Benada even further, and we are excited to remain on the team as minority partners and advisors."
Jim Piperato, Chief Executive Officer of Benada, adds, "Our management team is delighted to partner with Shadowbriar given its expansive vision for our Company and deep experience in both industrials and manufacturing. We would also like to thank Big Shoulders and ABGB for their support while we grew significantly under their ownership."
"This deal demonstrates Livingstone's continued commitment to the metals and industrial materials industry," shared Mike Jenny, Partner at Livingstone. "It was a pleasure to pull together a successful transaction outcome, and we look forward to watching Benada's continued success under Shadowbriar's ownership."
Livingstone Partners advised Big Shoulders and ABGB on the transaction. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP provided legal counsel to the sellers, and McDonald Hopkins LLC provided legal counsel to the buyer. White Oak Global Advisors, LLC and its financing affiliate, White Oak Commercial Finance, LLC, provided the debt financing for the transaction.
About Benada Aluminum Products, LLC
Benada is a full-service, American-owned and operated aluminum extruder located in Sanford, Florida. With over 60 years of industry experience, Benada demonstrates excellent manufacturing capabilities, customer service and commitment to quality. The Company offers precise custom-engineered solutions through its extensive library of extrusion standards, tooling capabilities, fabrication equipment and state-of-the-art powder coating capabilities. For more information on Benada, please visit www.benada.com.
About Shadowbriar Capital Partners, LLC
Shadowbriar is a Los Angeles based private equity firm that seeks to make control investments in leading lower middle-market industrial businesses that demonstrate strong potential. Shadowbriar looks to partner with outstanding management teams on a long-term basis to drive significant growth, both organically and through post-closing add-on acquisitions. For more information on Shadowbriar, please visit www.shadowbriar.com.
About Big Shoulders Capital, LLC
Big Shoulders works with manufacturing and other equipment-heavy companies in financial distress in the small and middle-market as a lender and/or equity investor. Big Shoulders invests in manufacturers with $15 million to $150 million in yearly revenue, and originates/purchases asset-based loans between $1 million and $15 million. For more information, please visit www.bigshoulderscapital.com.
About ABGB Capital LLC
ABGB is a principal investment firm making opportunistic investments in lower middle-market companies. ABGB focuses on special situations with an ownership or management transition, distressed or turnaround challenges, or growth opportunities requiring a combination of capital and experienced strategic and operational guidance. ABGB has specific experience in specialty finance, manufacturing and commodity-based businesses.
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Solution Promotes Automation and Reduces Stipulations, Manual Reviews, and Defaults
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Point Predictive, the San Diego-based company that provides artificial intelligence solutions to lenders, today launched its newest product, AutoPass™, which allows auto lenders to make approve or decline decisions on a loan application based solely on the likelihood of fraud or material misrepresentation that would lead to default. AutoPass customers can expect to automate 30% to 70% of application decisions while reducing defaults due to fraud by 40% to 60%. Streamlining low-risk applications provides for faster funding, reduced origination cost, and an improved experience for both borrowers and dealers.
"Having the ability to auto-decision both low-risk and high-risk auto loan applications helps our customers reduce the cost of loan origination as well as decrease losses due to fraud, which leads directly to increased profits," said Tim Grace, Co-Founder and CEO of Point Predictive. "AutoPass is a huge step forward in increasing automation, improving loan pull-through and cost-effectively rooting out fraud and misrepresentation. It enables auto lenders to leverage technology and AI to make better, streamlined decisions and reduce costs to fund a more profitable portfolio of loans."
AutoPass leverages the depth and breadth of the Point Predictive data consortium and is purpose-built for risk management and loan application decision automation. The data consortium is built using information from more than 120 million auto lending applications and provides unparalleled insight into the hidden risk of fraud and default. It includes more than 12 billion risk attributes and data from applications associated with more than $4.5 billion in confirmed early payment default. This data enables the evaluation of historical fraud risk patterns more deeply and broadly than any competitive solution from a credit bureau or public records source.
AutoPass accurately identifies low-risk applicants for streamlined processing, favorable pricing, and other credit terms or credit-based incentives (such as a reduction in down payment requirements). It can also be used in conjunction with credit scores to refine credit strategies.
Point Predictive invites any lenders who wish to explore AutoPass to contact info@pointpredictive.com.
Point Predictive enables lenders to fund more loans simply with a unique combination of Artificial and Natural Intelligence [Ai+Ni] to power machine learning technology solutions. Point Predictive helps automotive, mortgage, retail and personal loan finance companies to identify the consumer applications with truthful and reliable information without the intense interrogation and verification of data caused by lower tech solutions currently in use. Highly regarded as the most trusted fraud and misrepresentation analytic solution providers, Point Predictive has transformed that trust to enable lenders to fund more loans to more consumers simply. Point Predictive uses big data powerfully orchestrated from millions of examples of true and falsified loan applications, billions of derived proprietary data elements, and scientifically selected 3rd party data sources to build powerful machine learning models with the added natural intelligence of human experience. Located in San Diego, California, more information about Point Predictive can be found at www.pointpredictive.com.
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Salary guides provide detailed breakdown of earnings across the HVAC, plumbing, roofing, cleaning, electrician, handiwork, landscaping, and painting industries
TORONTO, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Jobber, the leading provider of home service management software, today announced the launch of comprehensive salary guides to help home service entrepreneurs hire and retain the right people to grow their home service business and scale operations. Jobber's salary guides outline salary information for the HVAC, plumbing, roofing, cleaning, electrician, handiwork, landscaping, and painting industries. Guides feature easy-to-read graphics that display average salaries organized by state, years of experience, and title.
With job openings outpacing qualified candidates in many home service industries, hiring and retaining employees have become major challenges. The fierce competition has left many home service entrepreneurs with questions about what qualifies as a fair salary for employees in today's market. Jobber's salary guides are designed to address these questions and provide home service leaders with the information they need to grow their teams.
"When home service companies expand their teams, they strengthen their communities by providing meaningful local job opportunities and the training and skill development needed to build lifelong careers," said Sam Pillar, CEO & co-founder of Jobber. "Our salary guides are just one of the ways Jobber is helping to equip home service businesses with the resources and tools they need to compete with large organizations and achieve success."
A few highlights from the salary guides include:
- HVAC Service Manager: $72,899
- Journeyman Plumber: $56,054
- Experienced Roofer: $50,558
- Experienced Cleaner: $35,299
- Journeyman Electrician: $58,180
- Experienced Handyman: $66,086
- Experienced Landscaper: $41,553
- Industrial Painter: $40,598
- HVAC Technician: $20.29
- Plumber: $22.64
- Roofer: $17.95
- Cleaner: $12.58
- Electrician: $23.00
- Handyman: $24.30
- Landscaper: $14.62
- Painter: $17.00
Data for Jobber's salary guides was sourced from Payscale, the world's largest salary database made up of more than 65 million salary profiles and 15,000 job titles.
To learn more about Jobber's salary guides, visit https://getjobber.com/resources/salary-guides/. For additional resources around hiring best practices and other management best practices, visit https://academy.getjobber.com/.
Jobber is an award-winning business management platform for small home service businesses. Unlike spreadsheets or pen and paper, Jobber keeps track of everything in one place and automates day-to-day operations, so small businesses can provide 5-star service at scale. Jobber's 160,000+ home service professionals have served over 12 million households in more than 47 countries. The company continually ranks as one of Canada's fastest-growing and most innovative companies by Canadian Business and Macleans, The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, and Deloitte. For more information, visit: https://getjobber.com/.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As children head back to school, parents and caregivers are encouraged not to overlook routine vaccinations against serious infections such as measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, and hepatitis. Superior HealthPlan is dedicated to ensuring Texans have access to information and resources about immunizations to help protect children and communities against preventable illnesses.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, immunizations have declined, with all populations showing a downward trend from pre-pandemic routine immunization rates. Routine vaccinations have proven effective in preventing serious illness within schools and communities. Despite the restart of student activities in many states last year, the immunization rate for children in kindergarten dropped between the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. This leaves thousands of young students at risk for preventable illnesses when re-entering the classroom for in-person learning.
The more immunized a community is, the harder it is for preventable illnesses to spread. Immunizations protect the individuals who are vaccinated as well as everyone who interacts with them. As students prepare to return to school, it is important to ensure students are up to date with routine immunizations to help prevent illness. In fact, childhood immunizations help protect against as many as 14 serious diseases.
Superior HealthPlan continues to invest in educational opportunities around vaccinations through programs such as Fluvention®, which provides comprehensive information about the impact the annual flu vaccine can have for the health of individuals, families, and communities. Additionally, Superior has partnered with Prospera Housing Community Services and UT Health San Antonio to bring a mobile health clinic into the community as well as Goodside Health to make care more easily accessible in schools.
"Pediatric vaccination reduces the rate of vaccine-preventable diseases and we want to ensure families have the information they need to make informed decisions about immunizing their children and accessing vaccines," said Dr. David Harmon, Chief Medical Director at Superior HealthPlan. "With the start of the school year around the corner, now is the perfect time for families to talk to their primary care providers about catching up on immunizations they or their children may have missed to reduce the spread of preventable illnesses."
Individuals can learn more about specific vaccines, immunization schedules, and safety information by reviewing materials developed by the CDC by visiting cdc.gov/vaccines.
About Superior HealthPlan
Founded in 1999, Superior HealthPlan is a managed care company that delivers quality health care throughout Texas. Committed to transforming the health of the community, one person at a time, Superior supports active local involvement in all 254 Texas counties with nearly 4,000 employees throughout the state. Superior is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation, a leading healthcare enterprise that is committed to helping people live healthier lives. More information on Superior can be found at www.SuperiorHealthPlan.com.
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TEMPE, Ariz., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SANTÉ Realty Investments is pleased to welcome Mark Schouten to its Advisory Board called the Founders Circle. Mr. Schouten is the President, CEO and owner of Diversified Roofing, an industry leader and one of the largest roofing specialists in the southwestern and southern United States. Mr. Schouten holds several directorship positions and focuses on socially responsible associations, which fits with SANTÉ's pursuit of investing in properties fulfilling its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.
The purpose of the Founders Circle is to bring top-quality, senior-level experience and advice to the management of SANTÉ Realty. By adding Mr. Schouten to the Founders Circle, SANTÉ Realty benefits from Mr. Schouten's guidance in the growth and development of its ground lease fund. The SANTÉ ground lease fund has experienced significant growth as developers begin to see ground leases as a source of sale-leaseback financing for their projects.
Mr. Schouten shared, "By participating with SANTÉ, I feel I can bring an outside perspective to further facilitate proper governance for the group. I have a strong desire to continuously learn about new innovations in the real estate industry and SANTÉ is certainly a leader from that standpoint."
Jim Small, CEO of SANTÉ Realty Investments says – "Our Ground Lease fund, used as a source of financing, is opening new opportunities for developers. Mark's advice will be very helpful to achieving the long-term vision of a high yield growth of SANTÉ Realty Investments. He is an ideal addition to our Advisory Board."
ABOUT SANTÉ REALTY INVESTMENTS
SANTÉ Realty Investments is a purpose driven organization delivering private equity in the real estate sector where the firm has high conviction of being able to deliver superior returns to its institutional investors. The firm was founded in 2009 and has grown to be an industry leader in commercial real estate both in the US and Europe by leveraging its proprietary methodology including the SANTÉ Acquisition Advantage™, SANTÉ Due Diligence Discovery™, SANTÉ Asset Management Method™, & SANTÉ Investor Cash Flow Maximizer™ programs.
Further information please contact Dave Shaw, Managing Director of Capital Markets for SANTÉ Realty Investments at 602-753-3538 or via email at dshaw@santerealty.com
Additional background information is available at www.SANTErealty.com.
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Winning lottery jackpot is lucky for some, tragic for others
By ANITA SNOW
Associated Press
Dave and Erica Harrig stayed true to their values when they won a lottery jackpot of more than $61 million in 2013. It made all the difference.
The couple from Gretna, Nebraska, a community on the outskirts of Omaha where Dave Harrig now is a volunteer firefighter, allowed themselves to buy a new home, some vintage automobiles and a few ocean cruises after they both quit their jobs.
But nine years later, they still live much as they always did, remaining in their community, keeping up with church, family and friends, and teaching their children to work hard to make a living despite any financial windfall that might come their way.
Many other winners haven’t been as lucky, suffering personal setbacks and lawsuits or becoming the victims of scams. The latest winner of a big jackpot came Friday, when a single ticket sold in Illinois matched the numbers for a $1.337 billion Mega Millions prize. Illinois is among the states where winners of more than $250,000 can choose to not reveal their names.
Dave Harrig, an Air Force veteran who worked in aircraft maintenance, says keeping things simple probably saved him and his family from the kind of hassles and tragedies that have befallen other big winners.
Almost overnight, the Harrig family mailbox was filled with letters full of hard luck stories: sick children, lost jobs, burned out homes.
Dave Harrig said they ignored them all and focused on their own family and charities.
They didn’t even touch the principal on their winnings until just a few years ago, when they tapped into it to fund a new museum of firefighting in Gretna that will open soon.
“We have nicer things, a bigger house, and more than we ever had in the past. But we are the same, and my wife and I keep each other in check,” Dave Harrig said, encouraging future lottery winners to invest wisely, choose a national investment adviser rather than a local one, and to avoid advisers who try to sell financial products.
They’ve ignored false rumors that have swirled about them, suggesting that his wife at one point ran off with a doctor and that he had a lawyer girlfriend. Their four children endured teasing at school.
“We’re still learning, but it has helped to stay working together as a team,” he said of himself and his wife.
He acknowledged the struggles of some past winners, saying the experience of winning a jackpot “can really accentuate your character and any addictions.”
The late Andrew Whittaker Jr., of West Virginia, suffered lawsuits and personal setbacks after he claimed a record $315 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas night in 2002.
At the time, it was the largest U.S. lottery jackpot won by a single ticket. People harassed him so much with requests for money he was quoted several times saying he wished he had torn up the ticket.
Before dying of natural causes in 2020 at age 72, he struggled with alcohol and gambling problems and had a series of personal tragedies, including the death of his granddaughter.
Winning the lottery brought other kinds of headaches for Manuel Franco, of West Allis, Wisconsin, who claimed a $768 million lottery jackpot in April 2019.
Then just 24, Franco excitedly held a news conference to discuss his win, but later reportedly went into hiding amid harassment by strangers and the news media.
The Better Business Bureau of Wisconsin began warning people in 2021 about messages from scammers who claimed to be the multimillion-dollar winner.
Using Franco’s name, the scammers sent text messages, social media messages, phone calls and emails phishing for personal information, telling recipients they had been chosen to receive money.
The BBB said scammers got more than $13,000 from people they tricked, including people in Alabama and Colorado.
Despite the problems encountered by the winners, lottery officials favor publicly identifying winners to instill public trust in the games.
That’s in large part because some past drawings have been rigged. Former Multi-State Lottery Association information security director Eddie Tipton pleaded guilty in 2017 to manipulating software so he could predict winning numbers on certain days of the year. He and his brother rigged jackpots in numerous states for a combined payout of some $24 million.
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AP researcher Jennifer Farrar contributed to this report. | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/07/31/winning-lottery-jackpot-is-lucky-for-some-tragic-for-others/ | 2022-07-31T15:39:37Z |
LAS VEGAS, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EBET, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBET) ("EBET" or the "Company"), a leading global provider of advanced wagering products and technology, announced today that on June 7, 2022 it entered into securities purchase agreements with several institutional and accredited investors to issue, in a private placement priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules, 977,657 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 977,657 shares of common stock, at a purchase price of $3.58 per share of common stock and associated warrant, for expected gross proceeds to EBET of approximately $3.5 million, before deducting fees and other offering expenses payable by the Company. The warrants will have an exercise price of $5.00 per share of common stock, will be exercisable six months from the closing of the offering for a period of five years from the closing date.
The closing of the private placement is expected to occur on or before June 15, 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the private placement for general corporate purposes.
The offer and sale of the foregoing securities are being made in a transaction not involving a public offering and the securities have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, the securities may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and such applicable state securities laws.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a 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.
EBET develops award-winning, groundbreaking and engaging wagering products for bettors around the world. The company is focused on bringing better odds and technology solutions to cater to the Millennial and Gen-Z demographics. It has an expanding portfolio of intellectual property with patents pending around odds modeling simulation, an electronic sports betting exchange system, live streaming odds integration and enhancing modeling probabilities in multi-player games. EBET operates online sportsbook and casino brands Karamba, Hopa, Griffon Casino, BetTarget, Dansk777, GenerationVIP and Gogawi, which have over 1.25 million deposited customers in more than 15 countries. The company recently was awarded Esport Product of the Year at the 2021 SiGMA Europe and 2022 SiGMA Asia Awards, and its brand Karamba received SBC's award for Innovation in Casino & Gaming Entertainment. EBET, Inc. is listed on the Nasdaq under the symbol EBET (CUSIP 278700109). EBET, Inc. was previously Esports Technologies Inc. The name changed on May 5, 2022, to better reflect the company's business and mission.
For more information, visit: https://ebet.gg/.
Forward-Looking Statements: This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which statements involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, without limitation, statements related to the completion of the private placement, the satisfaction of customary closing conditions related to the private placement and the intended use of net proceeds from the private placement. You can identify forward-looking statements by those that are not historical in nature, particularly those that use terminology such as "may," "should," "expects," "anticipates," "contemplates," "estimates," "believes," "plans," "projected," "predicts," "potential," or "hopes" or the negative of these or similar terms. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date made, actual results or outcomes may prove to be materially different from the expectations expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, including those discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including as set forth in Item 1A. "Risk Factors" in our most recently filed Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and updated from time to time in our Form 10-Q filings and in our other public filings with the SEC. The Company does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking statements as a result of subsequent events or developments, except as required by law.
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Which pie pan is best?
With its signature flaky crust and delicious filling, either savory or sweet, pie is a universally delightful creation. To create the perfect combination of filling and luscious pastry casing, you’ll need a great recipe and the best pie pan. The best pie pans combine both form and function to produce pie perfection every time.
The Emile Henry Pie Dish is a beautiful pan with a classic design. It’s as at home on the table as it is in the oven.
What to know before you buy a pie pan
Materials
Pie pans are available in three common materials: tempered glass, ceramic and metal.
- Tempered glass: This is the most common and iconic material for a pie plate. Tempered glass resists breaking and creates even browning. They are durable and affordable too.
- Ceramic: Ceramic is another classic material, but it does not conduct heat as evenly and may result in a soggy bottom. Because they are opaque, it’s also difficult to tell when your pie crust is done. If you choose to use ceramic, look for thinner versions for better heat transfer.
- Metal: Metal pie plates are lightweight and affordable. The exception to this is cast iron. Metal’s quick browning action may lead to a tough and overbaked crust. These are not a good option for custard-based pies that require long cooking times.
Sizes
The size you select is determined mainly by the recipe you are using and the number of people you are feeding. Most pie plates are 8 to 9 inches in diameter, but you may find options as large as 12 inches. Keep in mind that a recipe designed for a 9-inch pie crust results in an underfilled pie when baked in anything larger.
What to look for in a quality pie pan
Wide fluted edge
A wide fluted edge helps you create a decorative edge on your crust. It also acts as a guide if you aren’t quite sure how to finish the edges of your pie.
Different colors
Ceramic pie plates are often available in different colors. This lets you match your pie plate to your personal style.
Safe at high temperatures
Your pie pan should be safe up to at least 400 degrees. If you like to finish a crispy crust under a broiler, check to make sure that the pan you select can handle that heat.
Easy cleanup
Most pie pans can be rinsed out and tossed in the dishwasher. If this type of easy cleanup is important to you, stay away from cast iron pie plates or those that must be hand-washed.
How much you can expect to spend on a pie pan
Depending on the materials, expect to spend $5-$40. The most decorative and heavy-duty pans are on the higher end of the price range.
Pie pan FAQ
Can you use a pie pan for other dishes?
A. By its definition, pie is a baked dish of some kind of filling surrounded by one or two flaky pastry crusts. A pie pan can be used for baking without a crust, but the best use is the one for which it is designed.
Is there a trick to flaky pie crust?
A. Yes. Making a flaky pie crust is challenging for many home cooks, but there are a few tips to help produce the perfect pastry.
- Use cold ingredients: Everything from the butter to the water should be ice-cold.
- Work the dough as little as possible: The more you knead and mix your pie dough, the more the gluten develops. Overdeveloped gluten results in a tough pie crust that will not flake.
- Chill before rolling: Once you have cut in the butter and added your cold water to create the dough, wrap it in plastic wrap and chill to let the gluten relax before rolling.
- Use a combination of butter and shortening: Some bakers swear by an all-butter crust, but others have better results with a combination of butter and shortening. Even if the butter melts or is completely incorporated, the shortening stays somewhat separate and helps the crust flake.
- Add a shot of vodka: Substituting some of the cold water with an icy shot of vodka helps prevent the development of gluten in the pie crust. The alcohol content evaporates during baking.
What’s the best pie pan to buy?
Top pie pan
What you need to know: This beautiful, deep-dish bakeware is excellent for both baking and serving.
What you’ll love: It’s a durable ceramic dish that is oven-safe at high temperatures. The coated sides resist scratching. Deep sides with the perfect angle make a picture-perfect slice of pie. It is available in five colors and feels substantial.
What you should consider: It may not heat as evenly as glass pie plates, and because it’s opaque, you cannot see when the crust is done.
Where to buy: Sold by Sur la Table and Amazon
Top pie pan for the money
Oxo Good Grips Glass Pie Plate with Lid
What you need to know: For pie on the go, this lidded plate is the best option.
What you’ll love: It’s perfect for picnics and potlucks. The BPA-free lid snaps tight to prevent spills, and it’s vented, so condensation won’t ruin your crisp crust. The glass stands up to quick temperature changes without breaking. Additionally, it’s dishwasher-safe.
What you should consider: The vents on the lid might also allow insects in while picnicking.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s and Amazon
Worth checking out
Pyrex Easy Grab Glass Pie Plate
What you need to know: This classic glass set is a great option when you need to make two pies at once.
What you’ll love: Pyrex makes sturdy bakeware designed to last a generation or more. The wide scalloped edge lets you create a beautiful decorative crust. It’s 9.25 inches, resulting in a slightly larger pie. It’s safe in the freezer and the microwave.
What you should consider: The slightly larger size means that recipes designed for a standard 9-inch pie plate may feel underfilled.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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ALBANY — Facing a life of uncertainty, Krista Monk’s options were limited.
She could remain in the metro Atlanta region where she’d grown up, her childhood marked with tragic circumstances that would have broken many young people.
Or, Monk realized after doing a little research, she could head to southwest Georgia and try to get her life in order at Turner Job Corps Center, an institution made for people whose circumstances mirrored her own.
“I didn’t know anyone in Albany, but I decided that I wanted to start from scratch, build my own life,” Monk said. “Because of circumstances in my life, I had to get a GED and decide what I wanted to do. I came to Turner Job Corps, and those three years there were some of the best experiences of my life.”
In short order, Monk turned her life around, putting in the hard work that’s become something of her trademark. And it’s her experiences and work ethic that led Albany City Manager Steven Carter to hire Monk as the city’s Public Information Officer.
“Krista was already working at (local television station) WALB, so she came to the city aware of the public information process,” Carter, who became city manager in December, said. “Plus, she’d developed contacts in the city that are important in this position.
“There were others who came along who had more experience in a PIO-type job, but it was her relationships that won me over.”
When Monk finished requirements for her GED, she started working on what would be a mass communication degree at Albany State University. She started classes at then-Darton College, working at one time four separate jobs while attending classes. When she moved on to ASU, she started working at local TV station WFXL as a production assistant. She later moved to WALB, where she was named news and digital content producer.
After 6 1/2 years with the local station, Monk learned of the opening with the city of Albany.
“I knew all about press releases from working with the TV stations, and I can write,” Monk said. “When I learned the CIO position was open, I decided to apply.
“Look, I came to Albany with a suitcase and a 2000 Nissan Frontier — and she still gets me where I’m going. This city has given me a lot, allowed me to become my own person and build my own life. I wanted to repay what the city’s done for me.”
Carter said he was convinced that Monk was the right person to “tell the city’s story.”
“The way I do things, I believe in giving our managers the tools to do the job and letting them do the job,” the city manager said. “I expect my managers to be confident and competent. ... If they’re not, they can’t do the job. There are too many employees in this city and too many departments for me to run all of them. Krista understands what is expected of her, and she knows how to do the job. If she didn’t, I wouldn’t have hired her.”
The city CIO, meanwhile, said she’s not the same “terrified” 19-year-old who came to Albany looking to turn her life around.
“I love Albany, love the pace here,” she said. “There are so many great things happening here, and I want to be part of telling our story. I want to brag on the city, and I want to let the citizens know the things that are going on here.
“I also am proud of myself. Coming here taught me to be independent, how to be resourceful. I’m proud to have built something in my life from absolutely nothing.” | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/albany-cio-krista-monk-a-self-made-woman/article_fee7ad42-b51c-11ec-b4bb-ef5d905354dd.html | 2022-04-06T00:18:47Z |
Ex-officer charged with murder in shooting of 12-year-old
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A fired Philadelphia police officer has been charged with murder in the shooting of a fleeing 12-year-old boy, who prosecutors said Monday was on the ground and unarmed when the officer fired the fatal shot.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced first- and third-degree murder charges against former Officer Edsaul Mendoza in the shooting of Thomas “T.J.” Siderio on March 1. Police say the youth had first fired a shot at an unmarked police car, injuring one of four plainclothes officers inside.
Mendoza was also charged with voluntary manslaughter and other charges, according to a grand jury presentment unsealed Monday. He had been suspended from his job March 8 with intent to fire.
Court records show Mendoza surrendered Sunday and was denied bail, rare treatment for former law enforcement officers facing charges.
A spokesperson for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 said the union plans to provide an attorney for the officer. Court records showed the public defender’s office represented Mendoza at his bail hearing Monday. The defender’s association declined to comment on the case.
New details of the shooting were revealed in the unsealed grand jury documents Monday, including that Siderio had thrown a gun down about 40 feet (12 meters) before he was shot and that the youth had dropped to the ground, either tripping or obeying a command to get down. Krasner said the officer crossed between two parked cars and, from about a half-car length away, fired the fatal shot.
Krasner said much of the evidence was based on a video that has not been publicly released.
“It is certain that (Siderio) had stopped running and he was possibly surrendering ... and he was essentially facedown on the sidewalk,” Krasner said, saying the youth was in a pushup position looking back toward the officer.
Krasner called the entire foot-chase “tactically unsound” and said the video was “disturbing to watch,” though when pressed he refused to characterize the shooting beyond saying it was clear to him there was evidence to support a first-degree murder charge.
Police said the four plainclothes officers were in an unmarked car on the night of March 1, looking for a teenager they wanted to interview related to a firearm investigation. They saw two youths, Siderio and an unnamed 17-year-old, and maneuvered the car around the block and next to them to initiate a stop.
Prosecutors said Monday that almost at the same time the officers turned the red and blue lights on, a shot came through the back passenger window and ricocheted around the car. Prosecutors said it was unclear from video whether the boy knew it was a police vehicle when he fired, but the investigation is ongoing.
One officer was treated for injuries to his eye and face caused by broken glass.
Mendoza and another officer on the passenger’s side got out and fired one shot each. Mendoza then chased Siderio down the block, firing twice and striking the boy once in the back from what prosecutors say was “relatively close range.”
Krasner said Mendoza immediately told another officer that Siderio had thrown his gun back, signaling to prosecutors that he knew the boy was unarmed. He said the video also shows the officer slowing down and changing his approach, and that he was able to see Siderio was on the ground when he fired the fatal shot.
A message left with an attorney representing Siderio’s father and other family members was not immediately returned.
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National Institute launches state-of-the-art portal to broaden the talent pipeline by connecting individuals and those from underrepresented populations to careers, Registered Apprenticeships and educational resources needed to succeed - open access to be provided to NSF-ATE national network of colleges and universities
SALT LAKE CITY, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the High Impact Technology Exchange Conference (HI-TECH), the National Institute for Innovation and Technology (NIIT), a non-profit charged with developing a national strategy and infrastructure to build the talent pipeline for strategic industry sectors, announced its state-of-the-art National Talent Hub. The National Talent Hub represents a public-private effort developed over the past several years to be a nationally integrated platform available to states and regions to help develop the nation's talent pipeline. HI-TECH is a national conference supported by the NSF-ATE program on advanced technological education where attendees can update their knowledge and skills.
The portal is the first of its kind, competency-based system that uses dynamic signaling from industry to inform the NIIT's "Comprehensive Competency Standards Database" in real-time and advanced data analytics to provide comprehensive skills matching, gap analysis as well as career and education mapping capabilities for individuals. As the nation's leader in semiconductor talent pipeline development, the NIIT is deploying the National Talent Hub to support the semiconductor industry; however, the architecture was designed to support all strategic tech-based industries and their supply chains and will be expanded to be the nation's first integrated system.
The National Talent Hub is a culmination of a decade-long evaluation and development period which included comprehensive industry engagement. It is the only solution of its type intended to broaden the talent pipeline by making tech-based careers, previously viewed as unattainable, accessible to underserved and underrepresented populations as well as creating a comprehensive means for returning service members and their families to connect to and succeed in high-value careers in strategic industry sectors.
The Talent Hub was developed with the support of the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education program (NSF-ATE) and in partnership with U.S. Department of Labor Education and Training Administration (USDOL-ETA), SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and industry representatives from companies throughout the semiconductor industry supply chain. National and regional scaling will begin by offering no-cost participation to the NSF-ATE network of community colleges and universities. Some of the benefits for participating colleges and universities include:
- Dynamic alignment with industry requirements, ensuring real-time alignment with the ever-changing job requirements of industry
- Offering more value to students
• Students can verify that courses and programs align with requirements for target jobs and industries.
• Students can establish validated lifelong learning profiles which build as they acquire more work experience and academic related training and experience.
• Students can visually map out strategic career and educational pathways based on their current and target skills profile.
• Students can use the Hub to assess, align, and promote their skills and connect with employers in a manner unique to the National Talent Hub.
• Students can enter target fields through "learn and earn" Registered Apprenticeship Programs and then advance career learning and obtain degrees in order to "ladder up" - Increased enrollment – Specific courses become more visible to students who will be directed to programs based on their career choices and the need to skill, upskill and reskill.
- Improved visibility to employers who will know which programs meet their needs.
In addition, participating colleges become a part of the NIIT's network of colleges who offer training as a component of the NIIT's exclusive national U.S. Department of Labor contract to lead the development of Registered Apprenticeships throughout the nanotechnology / semiconductor sectors. The National Talent Hub and related infrastructure is supporting the NIIT's GAINS program – "Growing Apprenticeships in Nanotechnology and Semiconductors". Employers participating in GAINS will also benefit by no-cost access to the Hub.
"As GF hires for our future growth and expanding business, we have defined many pathways for entry into the semiconductor industry. Through Registered Apprenticeships, internships at the community college and university levels, as well as a focus on Veteran hiring and recruiting underrepresented groups, the National Talent Hub will serve to give us greater visibility into qualified candidates who otherwise may be unfamiliar with our industry," said Peter Benyon, SVP and General Manager of GlobalFoundries Fab 8.
"The National Talent Hub provides community college semiconductor education programs a unique and valuable resource to ensure course alignment with industry requirements and prepare the future semiconductor workforce. The Hub helps strengthen the partnerships between industry and higher education to increase the success of a more diverse student population in what is a broader range of career opportunities", said Jared Ashcroft, a Chemistry professor at Pasadena City College and the Center Director for the Micro Nano Technology Education Center (MNT-EC), a national network of colleges focused on developing the talent pipeline in support of the microelectronics and nanotechnology sectors.
"Collaborating with the NIIT in the development of the National Talent Hub has ensured that functionality specifically designed for colleges and universities has been fully integrated into what is a completely unique tool. The Talent Hub's state-of-the-art architecture ensures that college and university courses can be easily aligned with industry requirements and continually adjusted to match industry needs, automating the industry engagement process. This is the first tool of its kind designed for open access to educators, employers, and individuals and will help ensure students taking courses in the Hub are relevant and are connected directly to careers. This is a great value proposition we can offer prospective students", said Robert Geer, Professor of Nanoscale Science at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the State University of New York.
"After years of development, comprehensive industry engagement and user testing, we are thrilled to be able to announce the national deployment of the Talent Hub," said Mike Russo, President and CEO of the NIIT. Of the many general career matching services that exist, none offer all of the capabilities of this system, which was designed to meet the needs of the semiconductor industry and broader nanotechnology related fields. The National Talent Hub was designed to support a national strategy and regional ecosystem development and while we are very pleased with the outcome, it is also designed to be continually improved through real time input from individuals, employers and course providers."
The NIIT is a 501(c)(3) with a mission to identify roadblocks to innovation in strategic industry sectors – those important to the nation's national security and global competitiveness - and ensure they are eliminated. Talent pipeline development is the major focus of the NIIT, and through comprehensive industry engagement, the NIIT is leading the development of a national strategy and infrastructure to broaden and build the talent pipeline for the semiconductor industry and strategic industry sectors in general. Through its National Talent Pipeline Development Initiative and the support of the federal government, the NIIT has developed a comprehensive, nationally integrated approach that includes the alignment of programs K-12 through higher education and adult and veteran training, infrastructure to attract a broader population and improve access and connections to career and needed training, and the ability to scale to support the nation. In addition, the NIIT is under contract with the USDOL to develop and expand innovative Registered Apprenticeship programs throughout the nation within the strategic supply chains within the semiconductor industry and nanotechnology sectors.
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SINGAPORE, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- XT.COM listed CARAC (CARAC) in both the Innovation & DeFi Zones and opened trading for the CARAC/USDT trading pair at 2022-09-07 07:00 (UTC).
- Users can start depositing CARAC in preparation for trading from 2022-09-06 7:00(UTC)
- Withdrawals for CARAC will open at 2022-09-08 07:00 (UTC)
Moving forward, XT.com will continue to further strengthen its battle-hardened crypto listing strategies for everyone to take a deep dive and experience crypto. Deposit, trading, and withdrawal options are available live and colored for both CARAC users and XT holders. Everyone is encouraged to indulge in CARAC trading seamlessly anytime, anywhere without any limitations. As a promise, XT.COM will continue welcoming projects for crypto listings and achieve growth hand-in-hand.
Introducing CARAC, the Utility Currency of CARAC
The CARAC Token is a token for NFTs, Points, and DeFi Purposes. It is also used to pay for various NFT goods, and DeFi-yield farming via liquidity pools. The CARAC tokens can be converted to and from USDT on the platforms and also receive farming rewards from the pool in USDT. Additionally, as the number of videos delivered continues to increase, so will the funds distributed to token holders on a daily basis. This gives the CARAC token a "perpetual profit distribution", allowing the token to sustain its monetary value. Sales profit received from manufacturers will also be distributed to LP token holders as well, providing additional value to the CARAC token without fail.
A liquidity pool will be available on POcket Swap, a DEX built on the Ethereum blockchain. Users can provide liquidity there and farm for rewards just like on uniswap. Carac llc would then receive revenue by sharing the CARAC token ownership as well as the LP tokens, increasing the token value and promoting a healthy revenue growth via various services.
About CARAC LLC
CARAC llc is a company based in Tokyo, Japan and its business model utilizes the CARAC token in its business model with 5 different revenue streams: NFT Business, Video distribution, DVD sales, Video rental business, and its DeFi (DEX). Among these five categories, the video distribution business is currently distributed by a major Japanese video distribution company, ensuring the contents purchased will be properly distributed for the next 5 to 10 years.
Website: https://www.carac-jp.llc/
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About XT.COM
By consistently expanding its ecosystem, XT.COM is dedicated to providing users with the most secure, trusted, and hassle-free digital asset trading services. Our exchange is built from a desire to give everyone access to digital assets regardless where you are.
Founded in 2018, XT.COM now serves more than 6 million registered users, over 500,000+ monthly active users and 40+ million users in the ecosystem. Covering a rich variety of trading categories together with an NFT aggregated marketplace, our platform strives to cater to its large user base by providing a secure, trusted and intuitive trading experience.
As the world's first social-infused digital assets trading platform, XT.COM also supports social networking platform based transactions to make our crypto services more accessible to users all over the world. Furthermore, to ensure optimal data integrity and security, we see user security as our top priority at XT.COM.
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CEO transition to strengthen and accelerate the company's growth by driving innovation in the lab testing market and expanding production capacity to better serve customers
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Certified Group, a leading provider of testing and regulatory consulting services in North America, has announced Amanda Bosse as CEO. Ms. Bosse succeeds John Bellinger, who will remain with the company as its Chairman. Certified Group provides mission critical and time sensitive testing and regulatory consulting services to the food & beverage, dietary supplements & NHP, cosmetics, OTC, personal care, tobacco, cannabis, nicotine, hemp and other regulated end markets.
Ms. Bosse brings over 20 years of global experience in pharmaceutical and science led service businesses. She has extensive experience in growing complex service businesses in regulated environments, building and enabling high-performing teams, and proven track record in leadership roles across strategy, commercial operations and business.
Previously, Amanda was President of Drug Product Services at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a world leader in life sciences and diagnostics. In this role, she successfully led Drug Product Services Business, inclusive of oral solid dose and sterile injectables, serving customers across development and commercial operations. Prior to Thermo Fisher Scientific, she held multiple senior roles of increasing responsibility for Patheon Pharmaceuticals, an industry-leading pharma services solutions provider for drug development, clinical trial logistics, and commercial manufacturing.
"Certified is well-positioned as a leading provider of differentiated lab testing services and I see immense opportunity in serving our growing end markets through continued M&A and service expansion, all supported by an excellent team. It is an honor to lead this exceptional company and advance its role as a premier laboratory testing platform in North America," said Amanda Bosse, CEO, Certified Group. "I look forward to working closely with John and this talented team as we further strengthen and expand our product offering, capabilities, and reach."
"Amanda has a strong background in delivering successful transformations across numerous verticals. It has been a privilege to serve as CEO of Certified and I am incredibly proud of what our team has accomplished to-date," said John Bellinger, Chairman, Certified Group. "I look forward to focusing on Certified's key customers, and supporting the company strategy as the company's Chairman." "I am thrilled that Amanda will be leading Certified Group's broad set of capabilities, colleagues, and laboratories," said Steven Mitchell, Vice Chairman, Certified Group.
Certified Group is a leading North American provider of laboratory testing, regulatory consulting and audit and certification services. The Certified Group of companies includes Food Safety Net Services, Certified Laboratories, EAS Consulting Group, Labstat International Inc., Labs-Mart Laboratories, Advanced Botanical Consulting & Testing, Microconsult Inc. and Micro Quality Labs Inc. Certified Group provides analytical testing and regulatory guidance services in the food & beverage, dietary supplements & NHP, cosmetics, OTC, personal care, tobacco, cannabis, nicotine and hemp industries.
For more information about Certified Group, contact:
Nishat Jones
Chief Marketing Officer
nishat.jones@certifiedgroup.com
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers star outside linebacker T.J. Watt will miss Sunday’s game against New England with a left pectoral injury, though coach Mike Tomlin is optimistic Watt’s prognosis isn’t as bad as initially feared.
Tomlin said Tuesday the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year won’t be available for Pittsburgh’s home opener, but refused to offer a potential timetable on how long Watt might be unavailable and hinted the worst-case situation — that Watt would be lost for the season — is no longer on the table.
“We’re encouraged and we’ll just continue to look at the situation and gain opinions and do what’s appropriate,” Tomlin said.
Watt sustained the injury late in the fourth quarter of a 23-20 overtime victory over Cincinnati while attempting to sack the Bengals’ Joe Burrow. Watt walked off the field with Steelers physician Dr. James Bradley and went straight to the locker room. He declined interview requests on Monday but appeared to be upbeat.
Tomlin declined to give specifics about the injury on Sunday and remained intentionally vague about the extent of the damage to Watt’s pectoral on Tuesday other than to say “we’re probably in a lot better place than we were after the game. And usually that’s the case.”
The three-time All-Pro had a sack and even snagged his fifth career interception in the opener, picking up right where he left off in 2021 when he tied an NFL record with 22 1/2 sacks.
The Steelers will turn to newcomers Malik Reed and Jamir Jones to fill in. Reed arrived in a trade with Denver on Aug. 31. The Steelers claimed Jones — who played with them briefly in 2021 before being cut — off waivers on Sept. 1.
Tomlin made it a point to take some of the pressure off Reed and Jones, who will fill in for Watt.
“Those guys are not going to be T.J. (and) it’s not realistic to think that they’re going to be T.J.,” Tomlin said. “But we expect them to be varsity.”
Reed and Jones played a combined 50 snaps against Cincinnati, combining for three tackles. Reed is more of a known quantity, getting 15 sacks in three seasons with Denver before being caught in a numbers crunch with the Broncos and being shipped to Pittsburgh.
“Man, Malik is a 700-plus snap defender the last two years,” Tomlin said. “His resume speaks for itself. That’s why we went out acquiring him. He’s a very, very credible NFL player.”
There’s still a chance Watt could be placed on injured reserve, which would force him to miss a minimum of four weeks. Tomlin said the team will take its time to determine whether to take that step, adding that Watt is in the process of getting second and third opinions on the injury.
While Watt is out, second-year running back Najee Harris could play after leaving late against Cincinnati with a left foot injury. Harris appeared to be in significant pain afterward and was seen with his left foot and lower left leg heavily wrapped.
“It’s good to be young, you know,” Tomlin said. “He appears to be in position (to play), but he’s going to have to practice and prove his readiness.”
Pittsburgh’s top backup is Jaylen Warren, an undrafted rookie free agent who ran three times for 7 yards against the Bengals and proved to be an adept and enthusiastic blocker in the passing game.
Asked about Warren’s performance, Tomlin smiled.
“He didn’t urinate down his leg and that’s a great place to begin, you know,” Tomlin said with a laugh.
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Key media, analysts, and investors heard from DENSO leaders about the mobility supplier's short- and mid-term plans in semiconductor fields
KARIYA, Japan, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DENSO, a leading mobility supplier, yesterday hosted a business briefing to share its semiconductor strategy and how the company is achieving its Long-term Policy 2030. During the briefing, DENSO leaders discussed how semiconductors help lay the foundation in pursuing the company's Two Great Causes: "Green," achieving carbon neutrality by 2035, and "Peace of Mind," creating a safe and seamless world for all.
"Semiconductors are crucial to the automotive industry as new vehicles and mobility technologies become increasingly reliant on them to unlock new capabilities, especially in electrification and autonomous driving areas," said Yoshifumi Kato, Senior Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of DENSO Corporation. "It's important we make the most of existing semiconductor supplies, while also creating our own rugged chips to meet growing demand. At DENSO, we have divided semiconductor activities into three areas, each with its own strategy for stable procurement and development."
Promote development, standardization, and deepening cooperation with specialized manufacturers and activities to maintain supply chain" to secure stable procurement of advanced logic semiconductors
Securing a stable procurement network is most important for microcomputers and SoCs, where the division of labor in specification, design, and manufacturing is progressing and miniaturization is necessary. DENSO will work to strategically present specifications from an in-vehicle perspective, promote standardization, secure multiple production bases, and reform its procurement structure. By 2025, DENSO intends to standardize microcomputers, close the gap between the automotive and semiconductor industries, and make the supply chain more robust.
Develop and manufacture devices & wafers and manufacturing processes" in-house to maximize system competitiveness.
DENSO has been producing high voltage power and analog semiconductors for about half a century, endeavoring to develop rugged semiconductors. In high voltage power semiconductors, DENSO is working to produce large-diameter silicon wafers with strategic partners and to fully launch silicon carbide wafers, which will contribute to improving the electric cost for battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). In analog semiconductors, the company will accelerate the development of rugged semiconductors that can withstand the performance of in-vehicle environments and application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) that thoroughly meet our customers' needs. By 2025, DENSO aims to achieve sales equivalent to
as in-house manufactured semiconductors.
Strengthen judgment capabilities for current situation and realization capabilities for the future to create strategic partnerships with semiconductor vendors
Through collaboration with strategic partners, DENSO will apply technologies in the non-vehicle domain to the automotive domain. The company will accelerate collaboration with strategic partners by anticipating rapidly changing technology trends and communicating in-vehicle trends to strategic partners. The company will also work to further strengthen its semiconductor planning capabilities, which will be necessary for future mobility, and our technological capabilities to maximize sensor performance. DENSO is aiming to develop compact, high-performance environmental recognition sensors with advanced driver assistance functions of Level 3 or higher by 2025.
Please see the presentation slides here.
About DENSO
DENSO is a $45.1 billion global mobility supplier that develops advanced technology and components for nearly every vehicle make and model on the road today. With manufacturing at its core, DENSO invests in its 198 facilities to produce electrification system, powertrain system, thermal system, mobility electronics, & advanced devices, to create jobs that directly change how the world moves. The company's 167,000+ employees are paving the way to a mobility future that improves lives, eliminates traffic accidents, and preserves the environment. Globally headquartered in Kariya, Japan, DENSO spent 9.0 percent of its global consolidated sales on research and development in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022. For more information about global DENSO, visit https://www.denso.com/global/en/.
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VANTAA, Finland , July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Funds managed by CapMan Buyout have agreed to sell their holdings in Fortaco Group, the leading strategic partner to the heavy off-highway equipment and marine industries offering technology, vehicle cabins, steel fabrications, and assemblies to global OEMs, to private equity firm One Equity Partners.
As the new owner, One Equity Partners will empower the further development of the current and new offering of Fortaco, including areas to strengthen value creation to customers and to provide the means for further international expansion.
"We are very honored to become a member of the One Equity Partners family. I want to express my sincere thanks to all our global customers, business partners, and the Fortaco team for the highly qualified performance we reached together. With One Equity Partners, we are looking forward to realizing the full potential of Fortaco as the leading business partner of technology, vehicle cabins, steel fabrications and assemblies. In addition, I want to thank CapMan as the owner and the Board of Directors for their support and trust," says Lars Hellberg, President & CEO of Fortaco Group.
"We look forward partnering with Fortaco CEO Lars Hellberg and his team, applying our industrial sector expertise to support Fortaco in broadening and deepening its offerings in current markets and expanding into new end markets where we believe the Company is well-positioned for success," said Johann-Melchior von Peter, Senior Managing Director at One Equity Partners. "We see ample opportunity for Fortaco to leverage its global manufacturing and sourcing footprint and extend its value to clients by helping them improve their operational efficiency," adds Marc Lindhorst, Principal at One Equity Partners.
Under the ownership of CapMan, Fortaco has grown and become a market-leading, premium industrial company. Fortaco has factories across seven European countries, in addition to a joint venture with Tata AutoComp in India. Fortaco also has a large portfolio of global customers in different industry segments, and the company's turnover and profitability have developed very favorably in recent years.
"CapMan was one of the initiators in the formation of Fortaco Group ten years ago. We have provided continuous strategic support over the company's many development phases towards the market leader it is today with ambitious growth prospects. I would like to thank Fortaco's management team and employees for excellent co-operation over the years. The company is now well-positioned to continue its growth journey with One Equity Partners as the new owner," says Anders Björkell, partner at CapMan Buyout.
Closing of the transaction is expected in the second half of 2022 and is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
For more information
Lars Hellberg
+358 40 572 9488
lars.hellberg@fortacogroup.com
Fortaco
Fortaco is the leading brand-independent strategic partner to the heavy off-highway equipment and marine industries offering technology, vehicle cabins, steel fabrications and assemblies. Fortaco Group has operations in multiple European and Asian business sites and technology hubs, which are supporting the global customers.
One Equity Partners
One Equity Partners is a middle market private equity firm focused on transformative combinations within the industrial, healthcare and technology sectors in North America and Europe. The firm was founded in 2001 and spun out of JP Morgan in 2015 to become an independent partnership. One Equity Partners has completed more than 300 transactions worldwide with offices in New York, Chicago, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
CapMan
CapMan is a leading Nordic private assets manager and investor with an active approach to value creation. As one of the private equity pioneers in the Nordics they have built value in unlisted businesses, real estate, and infrastructure for over three decades. With over €4.7 billion in assets under management, their objective is to provide attractive returns and innovative solutions to investors.
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BOSTON, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Burns & Levinson is proud to announce senior partner Frank A. Segall, who chairs the firm's Business Law & Finance Group and Cannabis Business & Law Advisory Group, has been named a 2022 "Cannabis MVP of the Year" by Law360. Segall was singled out for the MVP award – from over 900 submissions – for his impressive work in the cannabis industry over the past year, including leading Urbn Leaf's and Sublime's merger with Harborside, Inc., AgrifyCorp.'s $50 million acquisition of Precision Extraction Solutions and Cascade Sciences, Agrify's $135 million debt facility, obtaining the first receivership of a vertically integrated operator in Massachusetts on behalf of a lending client, and KindTap Technologies' launch of its revolutionary digital consumer credit platform.
Throughout his more than 35 years of practicing law, Segall has earned a reputation as one of the most influential corporate dealmakers in the country. He has worked with hundreds of companies and entrepreneurs across the country to launch, finance and build their businesses, develop corporate opportunities, create strategic partnerships, and exit when the time is right.
Segall is considered one of the top cannabis business attorneys in the country. He was one of the first leading corporate lawyers to enter the cannabis industry over 10 years ago, and has created a national practice with unrivaled experience in cannabis and hemp/CBD business formation and corporate structuring, capital raises, M&A, investment structuring, regulatory matters and overall business issues affecting the fast-growing cannabis industry. Segall and his team are among the most sought after lawyers in the country to advise on startups, growth, M&A, and high-level corporate and financing deals in the private and public markets in the cannabis market.
Segall was also recently named a 2022 "Go To Business Transaction Lawyer" by Mass Lawyers Weekly, in addition to being selected as a "New England Trailblazer" and inaugural "Cannabis Trailblazer" by The National Law Journal. He received his J.D. from Columbia University in 1984 and his B.A., cum laude, from Brandeis University in 1981.
At Burns & Levinson, we provide high-level, client-centric and results-oriented legal services to our regional, national and international clients. We are a full-service law firm with over 125 lawyers in Boston, Providence and London. Our areas of expertise include: business/finance, business litigation, cannabis, divorce/family law, venture capital/emerging companies, employment, estate planning, government investigations, intellectual property, M&A/private equity, probate/trust litigation, and real estate. We partner with our clients to solve their business and personal legal issues in a collaborative, creative and cost-effective way. For more information, visit Burns & Levinson at www.burnslev.com.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Molecular Partners AG.
Shareholders who purchased shares of MOLN during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Molecular Partners American Depositary Shares pursuant and/or traceable to certain documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about June 16, 2021; and/or (b) Molecular Partners securities between June 16, 2021, and April 26, 2022.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company's product, ensovibep, was less effective at treating COVID-19 than defendants had led investors to believe; that (ii) accordingly, the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") was reasonably likely to require an additional Phase 3 study of ensovibep before granting the drug Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA"); (iii) waning global rates of COVID-19 significantly reduced the Company's chances of securing EUA for ensovibep; (iv) another of the Company's product candidates, MP0310, was less attractive to Molecular Partners' collaborator, Amgen, than defendants had led investors to believe; (v) accordingly, there was a significant likelihood that Amgen would return to global rights of MP0310 to Molecular Partners; (vi) as a result of all the foregoing, the clinical and commercial prospects of ensovibep and MP0310 were overstated; and (vii) as a result, documents issues in connection with the Company's initial public offer and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
DEADLINE: September 12, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/moln-lawsuit-molecular-partners-loss-submission-form/?id=30485&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of MOLN during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is September 12, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Producer, writer, actor, studio owner and philanthropist Tyler Perry shares the highs and lows of his decades-long career, and how he helped others along his way.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AARP The Magazine sat down with bestselling author and award-winning actor and producer Tyler Perry (whose new project 'A Jazzman's Blues' premieres on Netflix late 2022) to discuss his rise to billionaire status and becoming one of the entertainment industry's most influential and inspiring leaders. Perry goes back to the start, exploring his abusive childhood and those who helped him find his passion as well as determination. He shares about the challenges that led to him living out of his car before he was finally able to catch a break, and the community he built around him from friends following the same dream. A well-known philanthropist, Perry discusses the creation of The Tyler Perry Foundation (for which he was awarded an honorary 2023 AARP Purpose Prize Award) that offers money to help people overcome the obstacles that he, too, once faced.
The following are excerpts from ATM's August/ September 2022 cover story featuring Tyler Perry. The issue is available in homes starting in August and online now at www.aarp.org/magazine/.
On his childhood in Louisiana:
"I have some survivor's guilt about that, because there are a lot of people I went to school with who did not make it, who ended up in prison, who ended up murdered, especially during the time of the crack cocaine infusion into America. I credit my getting out to my mother, my aunts, my grandmother—all these incredible women who prayed and taught me things and believed in me. Had I not had their examples and their straight-up backbone—their insistence that I make something of myself—I don't know where I'd be."
On hitting rock bottom:
"I spent all my money to put this play up, and it didn't work. After that, I tried again—many, many times—to produce the play. I would get different jobs between those times, but I'd quit to work on the play, and I ended up homeless. For three months, I lived in a Geo Metro that I was hiding from the repo man."
On Oprah Winfrey, and the teamwork that led to community success:
"I brought scripted material to the network with the crime-drama series The Haves and the Have Nots. It ran for eight seasons and is still the highest-rated show that was ever on the channel. For Oprah and me, it was important to show Black people that you can work together, that powers can come together and be successful."
On his production company's purpose:
"Thousands of people come through the gate every day to work here. And it's a beautiful thing. A lot of them are former prisoners who wouldn't have had this shot."
On the importance of his studio location
"The land itself was once a Confederate Army base, which meant there were people here fighting to keep my ancestors enslaved. From the moment I walked onto the property, I was haunted by it. So, as we built each of the 12 soundstages, we buried Bibles underneath them, as a way of refocusing the spirit of the place. I wanted this to be a place where everyone was welcome."
On casting Cicely Tyson:
"This woman had done so many amazing things, but she wasn't well compensated for it. She made $6,000 for Sounder, you know? I wanted to make sure she knew that there were people who valued her. So, she did one day of work on my 2007 film Why Did I Get Married? I paid her a million dollars. I loved working with her. And it makes me feel great that I was in a position to give this incredible woman some security in her latter years."
On creating The Perry Foundation:
"When you've been given a lot, you have to do a lot. And the need is great. I've tried to align myself with people who have the same sensibility when it comes to helping others."
About AARP
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Here’s how you can get free fries for ‘Fry Week’
Published: Jul. 11, 2022 at 12:35 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
ATLANTA (CNN) – Wednesday is National French Fry Day, and you can score some this week at no cost.
McDonald’s and Wendy’s are giving customers a free order of fries all week long.
No purchase is necessary at McDonald’s, but you do need to order your fries through the app.
Likewise, you have to order your food through the Wendy’s app, but you’ll get your free fries with specific purchases that change each day.
The promotion runs all week at both fast-food chains.
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Worth County's Eyan Zupko leads in Saturday's Deerfield-Windsor Invitational as Crisp County's Sawyer McGinnis (in light blue), Deerfield-Windsor's Garrison Slaughter (in red) and Lee County's Tim Ellis (in white) pursue on Saturday.
ALBANY — More than 1,000 runners from 40 schools descended onto the campus of Albany State West Saturday morning for the annual Deerfield-Windsor Invitational and the host Knights took first place in the boys team competition while the girls placed third.
In the middle school race, Cook Middle School took the top spot for the boys with Lee County third and Deerfield-Windsor fifth. Bainbridge won the girls competition with Deerfield-Windsor in second place.
Crisp County sophomore Sawyer McGinnis outran the boys field for first place in the varsity boys competition. McGinnis finished the race in a time of 16 minutes, 35:07 seconds, just three seconds ahead of Lee County's Tim Ellis. Deerfield-Windsor's Garrison Slaughter crossed the finish line in third place with a time of 16:53 and Worth County's Eyan Zupko came in fourth. Zupko won the Lee County Inviational last week.
Deerfield-Windsor took the top spot in team honors with 46 points, with Cook in second (109), Tift County in third (129), Mount De Sales (134) fourth, and Worth County (159) fifth.
Team scores are based on the top five finishers from each team and the Knights of Deerfield-Windsor put all five top finishers in the top 20. Slaughter was third, followed by Jack Moore in sixth, Ethan Newsome in eighth, Jackson Belusko 11th and Harper Buntin 19th.
Georgy Helmers of St. Anne Pacelli left the rest of the girl's field behind, winning in a time of 19:17:30. Finishing second, almost a minute after Helmers was Lakeside's Chloe Helms. The highest finisher for Albany area schools was Deerfield-Windsor's Macy Hatcher who placed ninth.
Brookstone of Columbus won the girl's team title with 43 points. St. Anne Pacelli was second with 52 and Deerfield-Windsor was third with 93. Valwood (120) came in fourth and Lee County (142) was fifth.
Making up Deerfield-Windsor's team score were Hatcher in ninth, Jane Strickland in 12th place, Margaret Hodges (21st), Molly Fuller (28th), and Sophie Singleton in 29th. Annabelle Scott was right there, too, in 30th.
Landon Ray of Cook won the JV race, just ahead of Deerfield-Windsor's Ward Wright. The JV girls were led by Brookstone's Lizzie Bickerstaff and Molly Robinson in first and second, respectively. Deerfield-Windsor's Lily Urick and Faith Chung finished third and fourth.
Brandon Young of Crisp County took top honors in the boy's middle school race with Lee County's Johnny Vanderwalt in second place. Crisp County's Lana Bray won the girl's middle school race, just ahead of Deerfield-Windsor's Ada Hunt and Sophia Logan.
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On August 27, 2022, the long-range electric bike specialist, Himiway Bike, will go live on Amazon with 4 models to choose from.
EL MONTE, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Himiway, a global leader in the e-bike industry, is proud to announce the availability of its four Bestsellers that would go live on Amazon on August 27th, 2022.
Himiway will provide 4 powerful, durable, and well-made electric bikes that let users travel in the utmost comfort. The 840Wh Samsung battery and 750W geared motor on the all-terrain fat tire electric bikes, Himiway Cruiser and Step-thru, can still reach 80% after 1000 charge cycles. As an upgraded version of the Cruiser series, the Zebra, and Zebra Step-Thru have made innovations in the battery and motor. The 960Wh Samsung/LG battery allows the Zebra ebike to travel 80 miles with pedal assist and 60 miles with pure electric power. Himiway is well-known as a specialist in long-range electric bikes, in part due to these strong batteries.
Four New lineups on Amazon would be available for sale within a limited period. All the amazing features each bike offers would be included to enable you to meet the bikes. There will be a $200 off on all models. The sale will be valid from the 27th of August to the 29th of August.
The best electric bikes from Himiway are perfect for commuting and road trips. All Himiway bikes come with a 2-year all-inclusive warranty against all manufacturing defects and a 10-year frame damage replacement promise (all free accessories are excluded from warranty service). Over 150 offline repair locations in the US for customers in every state to consult and repair anytime.
Long-range electric bicycles are in our eyes the future of transportation and are the perfect solution for short journeys where traffic is bad if you don't want to sweat over as well as do some appropriate exercise.
As a leading electric bike brand, Himiway is continuously improving its range of e-bikes. Himiway was founded in 2017 with an R&D team of scientists, engineers, and technicians with more than ten years of experience in the electric bicycle field. On average, the range of Himiway e-bikes can reach 43% higher than other e-bikes on the market.
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Public meetings to be held for future US 20 to SH-87 project
FREMONT COUNTY, Idaho (KIFI) - The future of road travel between Ashton into West Yellowstone is now being brought forward to the public for their opinion.
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is holding two public meetings. The first is on Wednesday, May 25 at 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. in the Island Park EMS Building which is located at 4378 County Circle Island Park, ID 83429, and the second one will be in Ashton on Thursday, May 26 from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. in Ashton Community Center and Library which is located at 925 Main Street Ashton, ID 83420.
The purpose of the meetings is to discuss the findings from ITD's, Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) study which was conducted to see how the route could be modernized, made safer and reduce traffic congestion.
At the two meetings, the public is invited to provide feedback to ITD on the adjusted proposals ITD has prepared as well as other concerns the may have on the subject.
All are welcome to attend the meeting, and both meetings will cover the same information if you wish to attend and can't make one of them.
For those who can’t attend in person, an online meeting will be available from May 26 through June 9 HERE.
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Watchdog briefs Jan. 6 panel on erased Secret Service texts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security on Friday briefed all nine members of the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack about his finding that the Secret Service deleted texts from around Jan. 6, according to two people familiar with the matter.
While lawmakers were tight-lipped about what they heard, the closed-door briefing with the inspector general, Joseph Cuffari, came two days after his office sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Homeland Security committees stating that Secret Service agents erased messages between Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 “as part of a device-replacement program.” The deletion came after the watchdog office requested records from the agents as part of its probe into events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack, the letter said.
For the Jan. 6 panel, the watchdog’s finding raised the startling prospect of lost evidence that could shed further light on Donald Trump’s actions during the insurrection.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the House Jan. 6 panel, told the Associated Press on Friday that the committee is taking a deeper look at whether records may have been lost. “There have been some conflicting positions on the matter,” the Mississippi lawmaker said.
The private briefing was confirmed by two people familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss it.
The Secret Service insists proper procedures were followed. Agency spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, “The insinuation that the Secret Service maliciously deleted text messages following a request is false. In fact, the Secret Service has been fully cooperating with the OIG in every respect — whether it be interviews, documents, emails, or texts.”
He said the Secret Service had started to reset its mobile devices to factory settings in January 2021 “as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration.” In that process, some data was lost.
The inspector general first requested the electronic communications on Feb. 26, “after the migration was well under way,” Guglielmi said.
The Secret Service said it has provided a substantial number of emails and chat messages that included conversations and details related to Jan. 6 to the inspector general. It also said text messages from the Capitol Police requesting assistance on Jan. 6 were preserved and provided to the inspector general’s office.
The Senate Homeland committee, which has jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service, is also expecting a briefing from the inspector general about the letter, according to a person familiar with the committee’s discussions who was not authorized to discuss them publicly.
The Jan. 6 committee has taken a renewed interest in the Secret Service following the dramatic testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who recalled what she heard about former President Donald Trump’s actions the day of the insurrection.
Hutchinson recalled being told about a confrontation between Trump and his Secret Service detail as he angrily demanded to be driven to the Capitol, where his supporters would later breach the building. She also recalled overhearing Trump telling security officials to remove magnetometers for his rally on the Ellipse even though some of his supporters were armed.
Some details of that account were quickly disputed by those agents. Robert Engel, the agent who was driving the presidential SUV, and Trump security official Tony Ornato are willing to testify under oath that no agent was assaulted and Trump never lunged for the steering wheel, a person familiar with the matter told the AP. The person would not discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
With evidence still emerging, the House Jan. 6 committee on Friday officials scheduled its next hearing to take place Thursday in primetime. The 8 p.m. hearing, which is the eighth in a series that began in early June, will take a deeper look into the three-hour-plus stretch when Trump failed to act as a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol.
It will be the first hearing in prime time since June 9, the first on the committee’s findings. It was viewed by 20 million people.
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First Residential Installation Introduces a New Paradigm In The Clean Energy Transition
TUCSON, Ariz., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glass Dyenamics, in collaboration with the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), announces the first residential installation of advanced dynamic glass technology, which is glass that tints and untints upon application of an electric charge. The installation demonstrates fundamental materials science innovation, which has resulted in vastly simplified product manufacturing and consumer affordability.
This is significant for the DOE because existing dynamic glass companies have thus far prioritized commercial building market sales and high costs have limited market adoption. Affordable dynamic glass represents an enormous opportunity for climate impact by improving consumer and disadvantaged community access to energy-efficient technologies, thus accelerating the clean energy transition. This first residential installation showcases how consumers can gain access and familiarity with advanced dynamic glass technology, while the company further develops and scales its products for mass adoption.
According to a recent report by the NREL and Berkeley Lab, adoption of dynamic windows in residential applications can avoid 78 million metric tons of CO² emissions annually by 2030. This is equivalent to 9,393,008 million homes' energy use for an entire year, or at an average energy bill cost per household of $2,060.00, which represents over $19 billion in utility bill savings.
"We're pleased to have partnered with Glass Dyenamics to introduce a new residential home technology intended to enhance energy efficiency while also strengthening energy equity and inclusion in the fight against climate change. This also represents an exciting opportunity for us to support the development of domestic clean energy manufacturing and employment," Ram Narayanamurthy, the Emerging Technologies Program Manager for the U.S. Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office at the United States Department of Energy says.
Glass Dyenamics' vision is that dynamic glass systems will provide individual homeowners with up to twenty percent home energy savings and a utility-bill-reducing value proposition similar to residential rooftop solar. At the right price point, residential home dynamic window systems will have the potential to deliver a residential rooftop solar value-proposition at a third of the cost with no subsidies. Collaborations with NREL have validated performance of the product and assessed its field durability to over 100,000 cycles under ASTM environmental durability conditions.
"Our vision is that dynamic glass will be broadly adopted as a part of a lower cost and lower risk solution to achieve significant residential home energy efficiency either as a compliment or alternative to rooftop solar," Christopher Angelo, CEO of Glass Dyenamics says. "While residential rooftop solar market penetration is less than 1% nationally and subsidy dependent, the energy efficient window market growth precedent from zero to over 90% market share combined with our target price point, federal legislation such as the Dynamic Glass Act of 2021, and smart home wiring trends give us significant optimism about dynamic glass' adoption and climate impact potential. This installation marks a first step to achieving this goal."
About Glass Dyenamics: Glass Dyenamics, with 21 patents, is developing and commercializing breakthrough dynamic glass technology with a mission for everyone to be part of the global clean energy transition. The Company is the first and only electrochromic manufacturer to prioritize sales to the residential market, which is the result of fundamental advanced materials breakthroughs which open up a new and vast opportunity for climate impact.
To learn more about dynamic glass technology, please visit dyenamics.com.
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Schools in Alabama county end prayer over PA system at football games
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC/Gray News) - Prayers will no longer be said over loudspeakers before football games this fall for at least two Alabama high schools.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation says it received complaints last fall about the prayers over the PA system, WBRC reported. The organization sent a letter to Jefferson County schools, saying that prayers before the games, including Gardendale High School and Pinson Valley, are inappropriate and unconstitutional.
The organization says the Supreme Court has struck down school-sponsored prayer in public schools.
Freedom From Religion Foundation said it received word from the school district’s attorney that after the superintendent met with principals, the administration will not allow prayers at school-sponsored events.
A staff attorney for the organization says its purpose it to protect the separation of church and state.
“There are people affected by this. I think some people treat it as, ‘Oh, they just don’t want to hear prayer. They don’t like that Christians exist.’ It has nothing to do with that. It truly is just that public schools are a neutral place. They should be neutral with regard to religion,” said Chris Line with Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Jefferson County Schools Superintendent Dr. Walter B. Gonsoulin Jr. and the board of education issued a statement that the complaint was resolved at the school level and not as a result of board action or policy.
“That resolution was based on the board’s legal obligations that have been established by binding court precedent,” Gonsoulin stated. “However, the board’s adherence to those rulings should not be understood as a rejection of students’ religious rights and liberties in the school setting. The Jefferson County Board of Education remains firmly committed to respecting and protecting those rights and liberties in every way permitted by the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
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‘Ghost’ fossils reveal tiny organisms that survived ancient ocean warming events
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
The unexpected discovery of “ghost” fossils belonging to tiny, ancient organisms could provide insights about how life reacts to climate change in Earth’s oceans.
Looking through a powerful microscope, researchers were stunned to see the impressions left by single-celled plankton, or fossilized nannoplankton, that lived millions of years ago — especially since they were analyzing something else.
A study detailing the findings published Thursday in the journal Science.
“The discovery of the ghost fossils was a complete surprise,” said study author Sam Slater, researcher at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.
“We were actually studying fossil pollen from the same rocks. I had never seen this style of fossil preservation before, and the discovery was doubly surprising because the imprints were found in abundance from rocks where normal nannofossils are rare or missing entirely.”
As the researchers examined the pollen under a scanning electron microscope, they spied “tiny potholes” on the surface of the pollen, Slater said. When they zoomed in to see the potholes using magnifications of thousands of times, they observed complex structures.
Those structures were the impressions left by the exoskeletons of nannoplanktons called coccolithophores.
This microscopic plankton still exists today, and it supports marine food webs, provides oxygen and stores carbon within seafloor sediments. A coccolithophore surrounds its cell using a coccolith, or hard calcareous plate, which can fossilize in rocks.
Although tiny as individuals, coccolithophores can produce cloudlike blooms in the ocean that can be seen from space. And once they die, their exoskeletons drift down to rest on the seafloor. As they accumulate, the exoskeletons can turn into rocks like chalk.
The ghost fossils were created as seafloor sediment turned into rock. Layers of mud accumulating on the seafloor pressed the hard coccolith plates together with other organic matter, such as pollen and spores. As time passed, acidic water trapped within the rock spaces dissolved the coccoliths. All that was left was the impression in the stone they once made.
“The preservation of these ghost nannofossils is truly remarkable,” said study coauthor Paul Bown, a professor of micropaleontology at the University College London, in a statement.
“The ghost fossils are extremely small — their length is approximately five thousandths of a millimetre, 15 times narrower than the width of a human hair! — but the detail of the original plates is still perfectly visible, pressed into the surfaces of ancient organic matter, even though the plates themselves have dissolved away,” Bown said.
Filling a gap
Previous research noted a decline in these fossils during past global warming events that impacted the oceans, leading scientists to believe that the plankton were negatively affected by acidification in the ocean and climate change overall.
The ghost fossils tell a different story entirely, providing a record that shows coccolithophores were abundant in the ocean during three ocean warming events 94 million, 120 million and 183 million years ago, across the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
“Normally, palaeontologists only search for the fossil coccoliths themselves, and if they don’t find any then they often assume that these ancient plankton communities collapsed,” said study coauthor Vivi Vajda, professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, in a statement.
“These ghost fossils show us that sometimes the fossil record plays tricks on us and there are other ways that these calcareous nannoplankton may be preserved, which need to be taken into account when trying to understand responses to past climate change.”
The researchers were initially focused on the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, when volcanoes released increased carbon dioxide in the Southern Hemisphere and caused rapid global warming 183 million years ago during the Early Jurassic period.
Scientists have unearthed ghost fossils in the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany and New Zealand associated with this event, as well as specimens found in Sweden and Italy linked to warming ocean events 120 million years ago and 94 million years ago, respectively.
Understanding these ghost fossils can help researchers search for them in other fossil record gaps and better understand warming periods across Earth’s history.
Dead zones
The plankton were not only resilient in the face of rising temperatures — they actually diversified and thrived, and that may not have been a good thing for other species.
Big blooms of plankton aren’t a sign that an ecosystem is in trouble, but when a bloom dies and sinks to the seafloor, its decomposition uses oxygen and depletes it from the water, which can create areas where most species can’t survive.
“Rather than them being victims of these past warming events, our records indicate that the proliferation of plankton contributed to the expansion of marine dead zones — regions where seafloor oxygen levels were too low for most species to survive,” Slater said.
“These conditions, with expanding dead zones and plankton blooms, may become more widespread across our globally warming oceans,” he added.
Current global warming is occurring more quickly than these historical events, and Slater believes this study shows that scientists need a more nuanced approach to predicting how different species will respond as the global climate shifts, because not all of them will respond in the same way.
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Which Singer sewing machines are best?
For over a century, sewing machines have been used to produce clothing, linens, decor and many other items we enjoy everyday. Founded in 1851, Singer is known as one of the most trusted sewing machine brands in the world.
Singer provides an array of sewing machines fit for sewing experts, intermediates as well as beginners. The company produces sewing machines that utilize high quality and advanced technology are reliable and easy to use, such as the Singer 9960 Quantum Stylist.
What to know before you buy a Singer sewing machine
Types of Singer sewing machines
Deciding on what kind of sewing machine you’d like — either computerized or mechanical — is the most crucial part in finding the right one for you. Computerized and mechanical sewing machines both have useful features. Depending on what you plan to sew, how often and what kind of fabrics you use will greatly influence your selection.
Computerized
A computerized sewing machine can be connected to a computer through a USB port. This is a great option for those who do embroidery because you can download stitch patterns on your computer and send them to the sewing machine using an internet connection. This offers more creativity in the kind of embroidering and stitching available. Computerized machines also feature automatic needle threaders, which provide a much more user-friendly and smooth experience.
Mechanical
With mechanical sewing machines, you control everything manually from the threading of the needle and bobbin to the length of stitches and thread tension. Mechanical machines are often larger than computerized machines.
Since mechanical sewing machines are generally inexpensive, they tend to be best for beginners who are looking for an affordable option. However, while computerized machines are pricier, they can make it easier for beginners to learn.
What to look for in a quality Singer sewing machine
Ease of use
- Drop-in bobbin
- Automatic bobbin threader
- Automatic needle threader
Interior frame material
Keep in mind that the interior frame material impacts the quality of the machine. A metal interior frame is the most durable and long-lasting. A plastic frame is lightweight and portable, yet not as durable. Therefore, it will not last as long as metal.
Stitching options
- Straight stitch
- Zigzag stitch
- Lock stitch
- Buttonhole stitch
- Overlock stitch
- Embroidery stitch
How much you can expect to spend on a Singer sewing machine
While basic Singer sewing machines generally stay between $100-$200 and intermediate models around $400, some advanced models go up to around $1,000.
Sewing machine FAQ
What is a free arm?
A. A free arm is the part of a sewing machine that usually consists of a tray where needles and other accessories are stored and can easily slide off to make room for sewing items, such as sleeves and pant legs.
How often do I have to change the needle?
A. Singer suggests changing needles every six to eight hours of use, as well as exclusively using Singer needles. Doing this will ensure avoiding possible damage to the machine and fabric.
What are the best Singer sewing machines to buy?
Top Singer sewing machine
What you need to know: This high-speed portable sewing machine is fit for the serious seamstress who needs a variety of stitch patterns, accessories and automatic features.
What you’ll love: The automatic needle threader will save you plenty of time and frustration. With the technology of this computerized sewing machine, you also have the options of fonts to customize special projects. Unlike other sewing machines, it is powerful enough to take on heavy fabrics.
What you should consider: At times you may run into bobbin jams, which can be a hassle.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Singer sewing machine for the money
Singer 7258 Computerized Sewing Machine
What you need to know: It is a user-friendly, reliable and smooth operating computerized machine, which makes it great for sewing newcomers as well as experts.
What you’ll love: It includes convenient features such as the push button stitch selection with 100 different options, as well as automatic needle threader and settings for length, width and tension that sets the whole sewing process on a faster and easier pace.
What you should consider: This machine may not be ideal for quilts, due to the challenge of sewing multiple layers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This affordable, basic mechanical sewing machine is best for those who only plan to do occasional sewing.
What you’ll love: The simple mechanical machine works reliably for anyone who is not as technically inclined for the computerized machines. It features an automatic buttonhole and is supreme for basic projects that don’t require more than six built-in stitches.
What you should consider: Without an automatic needle threader, the threading process can be challenging.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Singer Simple 2263 23-Stitch Sewing Machine
What you need to know: It is an inexpensive model, which is great for beginners.
What you’ll love: Featuring 23 stitches with 11 decorative types included, it is a straightforward machine with an automatic needle threader. It also includes practical accessories and has easy-to-use knob controls.
What you should consider: It can be difficult to wind the bobbin, as the thread often becomes tangled.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Singer Mechanical Sewing Machine
What you need to know: Although this basic mechanical sewing machine does not have many different features, it is a reliable and affordable model for those just starting out.
What you’ll love: It is a lightweight, quiet machine with easy-to-handle knob controls, nine stitch options including two decorative choices and adjustable stitch width and length.
What you should consider: It doesn’t last as long as other models, so you may have to replace or upgrade after a while.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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TUCKER, Ga., May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oglethorpe Power Corporation executive management will discuss first quarter results during a conference call at 11:00 a.m. Eastern on Thursday, May 26, 2022. Investors, media and the public may view a live internet webcast or join via telephone.
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About Oglethorpe Power
Oglethorpe Power is one of the nation's largest power supply cooperatives with more than $15 billion in assets serving 38 Electric Membership Corporations which, collectively, provide electricity to approximately 4.4 million Georgia residents. A proponent of conscientious energy development and use, Oglethorpe Power balances reliable and affordable energy with environmental responsibility and has an outstanding record of regulatory compliance. Its diverse energy portfolio includes natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric and coal generating plants with a combined capacity of more than 8,300 megawatts. Oglethorpe Power was established in 1974 and is owned by its 38 Member Systems. Its headquarters are in Tucker, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb. For more information, visit www.opc.com.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — When a woman gashed her leg in mountains inhabited by snakes and scorpions, she told Joel Úbeda to take her 5-year-old daughter. Úbeda refused to let the mother die, despite the advice of their smuggler and another migrant in a group of seven, and helped carry her to safety by shining a mirror in sunlight to flag a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter near San Diego.
The motorcycle mechanic, who used his house in Nicaragua as collateral for a $6,500 smuggling fee, says the worst day of his life was yet to come.
Arrested after the encounter with U.S. agents, Úbeda learned two days later that he could not pursue asylum in the United States while living with a cousin in Miami. Instead, he would have to wait in the Mexican border city of Tijuana for hearings in U.S. immigration court under a Trump-era policy that will be argued Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Joe Biden halted the “Remain in Mexico” policy his first day in office. A judge forced him to reinstate it in December, but barely 3,000 migrants were enrolled by the end of March, making little impact during a period when authorities stopped migrants about 700,000 times at the border.
Úbeda, like many migrants at a Tijuana shelter, had never heard of the policy, officially called “Migrant Protection Protocols.” It was widely known under President Donald Trump, who enrolled about 70,000 migrants after launching it in 2019 and making it a centerpiece of efforts to deter asylum-seekers.
“It’s a frightening experience,” Úbeda said after a telephone call with his mother to consider whether to return to Nicaragua to reunite with her, his wife and his daughter. He was perplexed that a vast majority of Nicaraguans are released in the U.S. to pursue asylum, including the woman he saved and her daughter.
Nearly 2,200 asylum-seekers, or 73% of those enrolled through March, are from Nicaragua, with nearly all the rest from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador and Venezuela. Yet even among Nicaraguans, the policy is small in scope. U.S. authorities stopped Nicaraguans more than 56,000 times from December to March.
Criticisms of the policy are the same under Biden and Trump: Migrants are terrified in dangerous Mexican border cities and it is extremely difficult to find lawyers from Mexico.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, in an October orderto end “Remain in Mexico,” reluctantly conceded that the policy caused a drop in weak asylum claims under Trump but said it did not justify the harms.
Emil Cardenas, 27, said he bloodied his foot and drank his urine after running out of water on a three-day hike in mountains near San Diego with a smuggler who took a $10,000 installment toward his fee and stole his passport, phone and other identification.
Cardenas hoped to live near his brother, a Catholic priest in New Jersey, while seeking asylum but waits at the Tijuana shelter for his first hearing in San Diego on May 18. He is disheartened to see others at the shelter on their third or fourth hearing.
“One has to find a way to get across,” said Cardenas, a Colombian who had attempted twice to enter the U.S. “I’m thinking about what to do.”
While waiting for hearings, men at the shelter are attached to smartphones — reading, watching videos and occasionally calling friends and family. A large television facing rows of tables and plastic chairs helps defeat boredom.
Many have been robbed and assaulted in Mexico, making them too scared to leave the shelter. Some chat in small groups but most keep to themselves, lost in thought.
Carlos Humberto Castellano, who repaired cellphones in Colombia and wants to join family in New York, cried for two days after being returned to Tijuana to wait for a court date in San Diego. It cost him about $6,500 to fly to Mexico and pay a smuggler to cross the border, leaving him in debt, he said.
“I can’t leave (the shelter) because I don’t know what could happen,” said Castellano, 23, recalling that his smuggler took a photo of him. “Getting kidnapped is the fear.”
The issue before the Supreme Court is whether the policy is discretionary and can be ended, as the Biden administration argues, or is the only way to comply with what Texas and Missouri say is a congressional command not to release the migrants in the United States.
Without adequate detention facilities, the states argue the administration’s only option is to make migrants wait in Mexico for asylum hearings in the U.S.
The two sides also disagree about whether the way the administration ended the policy complies with a federal law that compels agencies to follow certain rules and explain their actions.
A ruling is expected shortly after the administration ends another key Trump-era border policy, lifting pandemic-related authority to expel migrants without a chance to seek asylum on May 23. The decision to end Title 42 authority, named for a 1944 public health law, is being legally challenged by 22 states and faces growing division within Biden’s Democratic Party.
Due to costs, logistics and strained diplomatic relations, Title 42 has been difficult to apply to some nationalities, including Nicaraguans, which explains why the administration has favored them for “Remain in Mexico.”
The administration made some changes at Mexico’s behest, which may explain low enrollment. It pledged to try to resolve cases within six months and agreed to shoulder costs of shuttling migrants to and from the border in Mexico for hearings.
As under Trump, finding a lawyer is a tall order. U.S. authorities give migrants a list of low- or no-cost attorneys but phone lines are overwhelmed.
Judges warn migrants that immigration law is complicated and that they face longer odds without an attorney. Migrants respond that calls to attorneys go unanswered and they can’t afford typical fees.
“I’ve seen lots of people in your situation who have found attorneys, often for free,” Judge Scott Simpson told a migrant this month in a San Diego courtroom before granting more time to hire one.
Victor Cervera, 40, gave up on low-cost attorneys after his calls went unanswered. The Peruvian’s online search for those who take “Remain in Mexico” cases yielded one find — a Miami lawyer who charges $350 for an initial phone consultation.
Nearly all migrants tell U.S. authorities they fear waiting in Mexico, entitling them to a phone interview with an asylum officer. About 15% are spared when the officer agrees their worries are well-founded, while others are excused for reasons deemed to make them vulnerable in Mexico, like gender or sexual orientation.
Those sent back wonder why they were chosen when so many others are released in the U.S to pursue their claims.
“It’s a raffle,” said Alvaro Galo, 34, a Nicaraguan man who cleans and cooks meals at the shelter to keep his mind busy.
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Associated Press writer Mark Sherman in Washington contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/supreme-court-weighs-policy-for-migrants-to-wait-in-mexico/ | 2022-04-25T05:35:44Z |
NEW ORLEANS, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients are turning to social media channels more and more frequently to learn about urological health, but the quality of information is highly variable and misinformation is prevalent. In fact, the most viewed videos about testosterone therapy and urinary tract infections feature home remedies versus consultation from a licensed healthcare provider.
Researchers will be presenting on these and similar social media trends at the 117th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA). Stacy Loeb, MD, a professor of urology and population health at New York University (NYU) and the Manhattan Veterans Affairs Medical Center, will moderate a press session featuring the following four abstracts at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans on May 13, 2022, at 1 p.m. CT.
Zhenyue Huang, MD, from Stony Brook University Hospital, studied the prevalence of misleading YouTube videos about UTIs and the dominance of home remedies versus videos featuring a urologist. "Urinary Tract Infection on Social Media: Examining YouTube Content As a Source of Patient Educational Information"
Dr. Huang and Justin Dubin, MD, from Northwestern University, investigated the quality of information for testosterone therapy on social media channels with their respective studies, "Systematic Evaluation of YouTube Content on Testosterone Therapy: The Proliferation of Bro-Science" and "The Broad Reach of Social Media as a Health Resource for Testosterone Information"
Black and Hispanic men remain underrepresented on YouTube and TikTok, and high-risk racial groups are not discussed in most videos despite the importance of screening criteria, according to recent research by Kara Watts, MD, from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. "Accuracy and Racial/Ethnic Representation of Prostate Cancer Screening Videos on YouTube and TikTok"
"These abstracts showcase that social networks such as YouTube, TikTok and Instagram are widely used as sources of information about urological health, including urinary tract infections, testosterone and prostate cancer screening," said Dr. Loeb. "However, the quality of information is highly variable and misinformation is prevalent. It is important for the public to be aware that popular online posts may not be accurate and to ask their healthcare providers for trusted sources of information."
About the American Urological Association: The 117th Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association takes place May 13-16 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. Founded in 1902 and headquartered near Baltimore, Maryland, the American Urological Association is a leading advocate for the specialty of urology and has nearly 24,000 members throughout the world. The AUA is a premier urologic association, providing invaluable support to the urologic community as it pursues its mission of fostering the highest standards of urologic care through education, research and the formulation of health policy.
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Woman who attacked a Black teenager while falsely accusing him of stealing her phone pleads guilty to hate crime charge
By Amir Vera and Rob Frehse, CNN
The California woman who falsely accused a Black teenager of stealing her cell phone and then attacked him in a New York City hotel lobby pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment in the second degree as a hate crime, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced.
In December 2020, Miya Ponsetto was seen on video attacking 14-year old Keyon Harrold Jr., who was with his father, a musician, in the Arlo Hotel. Ponsetto said she thought he had her cell phone, but investigators later determined he did not.
Video of the incident quickly went viral, with many accusing Ponsetto of racially profiling the teen, an accusation she has denied. The incident also occurred as continued calls for racial justice and police reform were the highest they’d been in years due to the deaths of Black people — like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor — at the hands of law enforcement officials.
The plea deal requires Ponsetto, 23, to follow the probation terms for a separate case in California, attend counseling and avoid further criminal incidents.
If she doesn’t comply, Ponsetto could go to prison for up to four years, prosecutors said. But if she successfully follows those terms, she can re-plead the felony charge to a misdemeanor charge of aggravated harassment in the second degree.
Ponsetto’s attorney, Paul D’Emilia, said his client is grateful for the plea deal, and she has been “leading an exemplary life” since the incident.
“We are appreciative of the District Attorney’s thoughtful and empathetic approach to finding an acceptable conclusion, especially in light of the unreasonable pressure brought to bear by many voices not familiar with the more granular details of what occurred that evening,” D’Emilia said. “Ms. Ponsetto looks forward to her eventual final plea to the harassment charge, a plea that we feel more realistically reflects her actions that night at the Arlo Hotel. It is Ms. Ponsetto’s wish that Keyon Harrold accepts her regrets and apology for her behavior that evening, and that all involved can move forward with added insight and compassion.”
District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Ponsetto “displayed outrageous behavior.”
“As a Black man, I have personally experienced racial profiling countless times in my life and I sympathize with the young man victimized in this incident,” Bragg said. “This plea ensures appropriate accountability for Ms. Ponsetto by addressing underlying causes for her behavior and ensuring this conduct does not reoccur.”
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Magistrate judge position in Kansas county to flip to district judge division
PHILLIPS CO., Kan. (WIBW) - A magistrate judge position in Phillips Co. will be converted to a district judge division in order to better handle the county’s caseload.
The Kansas Supreme Court says Chief Justice Marla Luckert recently signed an executive order which created a new district judge division in the 17th Judicial District effective July 10.
The Court noted that Administrative Order 2022-JA-060 converts district magistrate judge position number 5 in Phillips Co. into new district judge division number 2. It said the 17th Judicial District includes Decatur, Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and Smith counties.
Currently, the Court indicated the district has one district judge division and six district magistrate positions. After the order takes effect, the district will have two district judge divisions and five magistrate judge positions.
Luckert said the Court considered various factors when it came to the decision to convert the magistrate judge position to a district judge division - including caseload data, population, attorney registration figures and the distance between Phillipsburg and other county seats in the district.
“We continually evaluate case filings and judge workloads to verify our courts are able to quickly and effectively process cases in service to our communities,” Luckert said. “We appreciate the Kansas Legislature also recognized this change was necessary and provided funding to support it.”
The Court noted that the 17th district is one of three 6-county districts with only one district judge division. It said the 12th and 24th judicial districts are the other two.
Currently, the Court also indicated the distribution of judges in the district is one district magistrate judge position per county and one district judge division for the entire district. By statute, it said some cases are required to be heard by a district judge, so scheduling proceedings, hearings and trials have become increasingly difficult for the single district judge to manage.
The Court said the one judge is also the district’s chief judge - a situation that also exists in the 12th and 24th districts. It said a chief judge has general control over case assignments within the district, as well as general supervisory authority over the administrative and clerical functions of the court on top of their regular judge duties.
State law allows the Supreme Court to convert a magistrate judge position to a district judge division if deemed necessary to effectively speed up the business of the court. It said the conversion can happen when a magistrate judge dies, resigns, retires or is removed from office.
In this case, the Court said Judge Paula Hofaker has notified it of her intention to resign from district magistrate judge position number 5 in Phillips Co. effective July 8.
State law requires district judges to be at least 30 years old, a lawyer admitted to practice and engaged in Kansas for at least five years.
The Court noted that the resident chosen to fill the new division will be required to live in Phillips Co. at the time of taking office and while holding it.
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LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II attended the Royal Windsor Horse Show on Friday, watching her beloved equines from the comfort of a Range Rover before walking to her box in her first public appearance in person in weeks.
The monarch sat in the front passenger seat and spoke to a small group through the window after pulling up to the parade ground near Windsor Castle, where she has spent much of the past two years. The queen seemed relaxed and smiled while dozens of photographers a few feet away tried to capture the moment.
The queen’s public appearances are being closely watched as Britain prepares to celebrate the monarch’s 70 years on the throne with four days of festivities June 2-5.
Elizabeth, 96, has curtailed her schedule in recent months as she recovered from COVID-19 and coped with unspecified difficulties in moving around.
On Tuesday, she asked Prince Charles to preside over the state opening of Parliament and deliver the Queen’s Speech, which lays out the government’s legislative program. The event is one of the queen’s most important public appearances, highlighting her constitutional role as head of state.
Buckingham Palace didn’t elaborate on what prompted the queen to delegate her role to Prince Charles, but she has experienced what the palace calls “episodic mobility problems″ in recent months. Elizabeth has used a cane during some recent public appearances, and Prince Andrew escorted the queen into Westminster Abbey during last month’s memorial service for her late husband, Prince Philip. | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/queen-attends-horse-show-in-first-public-appearance-in-weeks/ | 2022-05-13T17:36:55Z |
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NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Inc. revealed that Advertise Purple is No. 1608 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
According to Advertise Purple's CEO Kyle Mitnick, "What an honor to make this list for the fifth consecutive year. Since the early days at Advertise Purple, we've made a concerted effort to push the boundaries of what is possible in our ecosystem. We challenge our teams to find better solutions, build better processes, and continue to take calculated risks, all in the name of improving client outcomes. Today, we get to celebrate those decisions and reflect on our successes. Tomorrow, we center ourselves and return to delivering unparalleled service for our brands.
Thank you to Inc., our customers, and most importantly, our fantastic AdPurp team."
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Among the top 500, the average median three-year revenue growth rate soared to 2,144 percent. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
Advertise Purple (www.AdvertisePurple.com) is a tech-enabled partnership marketing service. We have helped over 3,000 brands in 23 verticals generate over $3B in affiliate revenue, making us the leader in affiliate program management. Through a combination of experience, exclusive proprietary affiliate partnership technology Purply™, and our team of 150+, Advertise Purple provides award-winning affiliate program management for Enterprise, SMB, and international e-commerce brands looking to drive performance-based online customer acquisition.
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Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2018. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2021. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2018 is $100,000; the minimum for 2021 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places. The top 500 companies on the Inc. 5000 are featured in Inc. magazine's September issue. The entire Inc. 5000 can be found at http://www.inc.com/inc5000.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
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Online Security autonomously blocks malicious URLs, extensions, ad trackers and pop-ups 24/7, protecting consumers from complex and rapidly-evolving cyber threats online
NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ReasonLabs, a leading cybersecurity company providing enterprise-grade protection to users worldwide, has launched its newest product, Online Browser Security. The product provides real-time, 24/7 protection against malicious URLs, phishing, harmful extensions, suspicious downloads, intrusive cookies and trackers, unauthorized notifications, and pop-ups. It is currently available worldwide as a free download.
Online Browser Security is seamlessly integrated with RAV Endpoint Protection, ReasonLabs' leading antivirus software built on a multilayered machine-learning engine, to keep personal data safe from security threats. Bringing all the elements of a next-generation antivirus solution to the web browser, the solution allows consumers to use the internet with confidence and peace of mind. Powered by an autonomous protection engine, users can choose their own protection settings and let the endpoint protection do the work for them. It comes complete with a dashboard to stay informed regarding any identified and blocked online threats. Scheduled and user-initiated scans are also available at the touch of a button.
"Our mission at ReasonLabs is to provide every home user with the same degree of cybersecurity protection that large companies receive," said Kobi Kalif, ReasonLabs CEO. "In our connected world, everyone deserves the highest level of protection, and today, we have added another solution that will safeguard users in real-time, 24/7. As an additional layer to our security platform, RAV Online Security offers next-generation protection for all next-generation cyber threats."
Key features of RAV Browser Security include a malicious URL blocker, the ability to disable harmful extensions, and the blocking of suspicious cookies and ad trackers. The product also monitors all file downloads and comes equipped with an advanced threat scanner, and has notification control. These features can be easily managed through the easy-to-use RAV Online Security dashboard. Optimizing users' online experience, Online Security is a key component of ReasonLabs' advanced breach prevention product suite, which also includes RAV EDR, RAV VPN, RAV Safer Web, and FamilyKeeper, its parental control solution.
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ReasonLabs is a global pioneer in cybersecurity detection and prevention. Powered by machine learning, ReasonLabs' cutting-edge technology is revolutionizing consumer-focused cybersecurity, bringing enterprise-grade protection into the homes of tens of millions of users worldwide. Its innovative engine scans over 2 billion files in 180 countries a day, delivering fast, comprehensive data while providing 24/7 real-time threat detection. Founded in 2016, ReasonLabs is based in New York and Tel Aviv.
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Fetch Price Index uses real-time purchase data to measure inflation, up 13.9% in May
MADISON, Wis., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fetch Rewards, America's No. 1 consumer-rewards app, today announced the launch of the Fetch Price Index report. The first installment of the Fetch Price Index report, which will be released on a monthly basis, offers a unique, data-rich view into how increasing pricing is affecting shopping behavior. By analyzing a set of 375,000 shoppers and tracking 195 million in-store and e-commerce purchases over the last 24 months, this item-level view of shopper behavior captures, in real time, the true state of inflation and what it means for consumers, brands, and retailers.
Key findings from the first report, covering the month of May, include the fact that consumer prices for food, personal care, and household items are up 13.9% compared to a year ago, and inflation in these categories is rising at a higher rate than previously reported by officials.
"Inflation is having a huge impact across the board, and we're starting to see changes in consumer demand and purchasing behavior," said Wes Schroll, Fetch Rewards Founder and CEO. "Our mission at Fetch has always been twofold: give consumers a fun, easy way to save money on all their everyday purchases, and help brands connect with consumers in meaningful ways. With this new report, we aim to provide an additional resource for anyone looking to better understand what's happening in the market."
The Fetch Price Index report was created to provide further context to the findings that are published monthly in the The Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index report. The most recent Consumer Price Index report found a 9.4% increase in the "food at home" index for the previous 12 months ending in April. Fetch analyzed a similar mix of products and found that average prices increased 10.2% over the same period. For the 12-month period ending in May, Fetch found a 13.9 percent increase. BLS will release its May CPI report on June 10, 2022.
CPI, which measures the average change over time in consumer prices paid by urban consumers, is the most widely used measure of inflation. Fetch is answering the call for a more modernized approach to calculating the impact of inflation without relying on field-generated data. For the CPI, price surveys involve collecting sample prices for about 94,000 items including commodities, services, and housing. About two-thirds of price collection is done by in-person visits to brick-and-mortar stores, and the remaining data are collected by phone, online, or via other sources.
Fetch Rewards is the nation's leading rewards app and allows consumers to earn rewards by submitting any receipt. Through the analysis of these receipts over time, Fetch was able to create this report in a way that directly reflects consumer purchases.
Fetch found the first signs of declining consumer demand since the post-COVID recovery began, with the average number of units purchased per household dropping 9.6% year over year. Fetch also found that consumers are buying less per trip, but spending more. Interestingly, Fetch found that shopping trips per household increased slightly in May, despite record fuel prices.
"New highs in the Fetch Price Index are beginning to impact consumer demand, with continued decay in items purchased per trip and per household. We anticipate demand will continue to decline until prices stabilize or income increases," said Dhwani Worah Upadhyay, Marketing Analytics and Science lead at Fetch Rewards, who authored the report. "With federal policy and the macro landscape shifting, we look forward to using our data and insights to bring clarity to the changing consumer landscape."
The Fetch Price Index report will be published monthly on the Fetch Rewards blog, Unleashed.
Founded in Madison, Wis., Fetch Rewards captures over $100 billion in annualized retail sales by rewarding shoppers every time they submit any receipt through the app. Launched in 2017, Fetch provides shoppers an easy and fun way to save money, and brands a meaningful way to understand the retail world and connect with those shoppers. The resulting data was used to create this report. To learn more, download the free app and visit www.fetchrewards.com
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IFFD firefighter honored with valor award
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - Idaho Falls Fire Department (IFFD) Captain Josh Jacobsen recently received the Valor Award for saving an elderly woman who was trapped in a burning structure last spring.
This award is distinguished as the highest award presented by the department and is awarded to only active members for acts both on and off-duty. This honor is awarded any time a member of IFFD distinguishes themselves in such an act of personal bravery and known risk to help another person (sworn or civilian) under hazardous conditions in which the person is placed in a life-threatening position to save the life of another.
In the early morning hours on April 6, 2021, IFFD responded to a house fire on Laurelwood Avenue. The emergency communications officer/dispatcher obtained very specific information from the victim who stated that she was on the floor in the front room near the fire and was trapped and unable to get out. The victim was terrified, telling the ECO that the fire was getting very close to her and begging to “please hurry.”
Knowing life was in immediate danger, Jacobsen entered the burning home with very low visibility due to the smoke. He navigated past the flames in the living room to reach the victim. He placed himself between the woman and the flames, took her into his arms, and quickly brought her outside to the safety of the ambulance. She was transported to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in stable condition.
Immediately after placing the woman in the ambulance, Jacobsen quickly joined other personnel to help fight and extinguish the fire, successfully doing so within 10 minutes of arriving on scene.
“Without the quick thinking and decisive actions taken on this morning, there is no doubt the outcome of this incident would’ve been much worse,” said Captain Mark Pitcher, who was the incident commander that day. “Captain Jacobsen truly demonstrated our mission of providing life-saving services. He quickly placed the safety and well-being of the woman above his own; it is for his action and skill that I firmly believe he deserves this recognition,” added Pitcher.
“Captain Jacobsen orchestrated his duties with skill and precision. We are very proud of his leadership, selflessness, and dedication," Fire Chief Duane Nelson said.
Jacobsen was recognized during a department ceremony last week, along with Firefighter/Paramedic Justin King who received the American Legion Firefighter of the Year, and Captain Steve Farnsworth who received his 20-year service pin from the City of Idaho Falls. | https://localnews8.com/news/idaho-falls/2022/04/12/iffd-firefighter-honored-with-valor-award/ | 2022-04-12T18:16:13Z |
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The CEO of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has quit after a summer that descended into chaos and flight cancellations amid staff shortages in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I’ve done my very best, but we’re not there yet. I do hope it gets better soon,” CEO Dick Benschop said in a statement released by the airport Thursday, after he told the board of his decision on Wednesday night.
He said he was stepping down “to give Schiphol the space to make a new start. I do not want attention on me to become an obstacle for Schiphol.”
The busy aviation hub on the outskirts of Amsterdam has been hit by huge queues and piles of unclaimed baggage over the summer vacation months as air travel roared back after the pandemic.
The surge in demand for air travel came after airlines and airports had slashed jobs during the aviation slump during the pandemic.
Jaap de Winter, chairman of the Schiphol board, said he and board members “respect and understand Dick’s decision” and will be looking for a successor.
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Miami-based team brings more than 90 years cumulative experience in advising international clients along with $250 million in AUM from Morgan Stanley
MIAMI, April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanctuary Wealth, home to the next generation of elite advisors, welcomes Fuentes Hondermann Wealth Management, the latest internationally-focused team to join the partnered independence network. Based in Sanctuary's Miami office, the three-person team with $250 million in client assets under management was previously affiliated with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and consists of Managing Director, Senior Wealth Advisor Luis Fuentes, Executive Director, Senior Wealth Advisor Rosario Hondermann, and Executive Director, Senior Wealth Advisor Chris Fuentes.
"Three years ago, when Vince Fertitta joined us as President of Sanctuary Wealth, he stressed to me the demand for alternatives from US based financial advisors serving international clients. Over the years, much of the wealth management industry has appeared to lose interest in serving clients with cross border interests, making life much more difficult for advisors like Luis, Rosario and Chris who have devoted their careers to serving this important clientele," said Jim Dickson, CEO and Founder of Sanctuary Wealth. "We created Sanctuary Global specifically as a platform for teams who provide wealth management services to a mix of high-net-worth domestic and international clients. Wealth is a global phenomenon and Sanctuary is committed to serving every aspect of the wealth management universe."
The principals at Fuentes Hondermann Wealth Management estimate their business as being about 30% from US clients and 70% international with a concentration in the Argentina/Uruguay region as well as Mexico. The three partners have been together as a team for more than 25 years, first with Merrill Lynch and then, starting in 2012, with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management before deciding that independence offered the most benefits to their clients.
"When we decided to declare our independence, we looked around the industry at both large platforms and boutique firms, but none of them aligned with our needs the way Sanctuary Wealth does," explained Luis Fuentes, Managing Director, Senior Wealth Advisor at Fuentes Hondermann Wealth Management. "Sanctuary gives us the freedom and flexibility to run our business in a way that provides the maximum benefit to our clients backed with the support and resources of a much larger organization. While we are the owners of our business, we are also part of a global company which understands the unique situation of our clients."
Luis Fuentes, the senior member of the team, was born in Havana, Cuba and spent 41 years of his career with Merrill Lynch as an international financial advisor, leading and mentoring various teams during his tenure, and serving wealthy families and institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. He is a graduate of the University of Miami with a degree in Business Administration and majors in Finance, Economics and Marketing, and has also completed studies in Portfolio Modern Theory & Risk and Wealth Planning at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
A wealth manager for more than 20 years, Rosario Hondermann holds degrees in both law and political science from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru. Although born in Lima, she has lived in Miami, Florida with her family for more than 30 years and provides financial solutions and advice to high-net-worth clients and institutions in Latin America, Europe, and the United States.
With more than 25 years of experience as an international financial advisor, Chris Fuentes started his career in 1998 after graduating from the University of Miami, School of Business Administration. Chris specializes in the creation and implementation of global portfolio strategies and asset allocation and like his partners is fluent in Spanish and English.
"I moved to Miami 15 months ago to establish our presence in this important hub for international wealth management and to accelerate completion of our global platform. I am excited to welcome Fuentes Hondermann Wealth Management as our newest partners here in Miami. Luis Fuentes has over 50 years of experience serving international clients and is highly respected as one of the pioneers of the global business," said Robert Walter, Co-President of Sanctuary Wealth. "We've built a platform that gives them the resources they need to serve clients worldwide and a collaborative culture that backs entrepreneurial freedom with teamwork and support. We look forward to helping them take their business to the next level."
Sanctuary Wealth (sanctuarywealth.com/) is the advanced platform for the next generation of elite advisors, who have the entrepreneurial spirit to build and own their own practices and desire the freedom to deliver the tailored service their clients deserve. Sanctuary's ecosystem of partnered independence provides a complete technology and operations platform, as well as support from a community of like-minded advisors and the resources of invaluable affiliated businesses. Currently, the Sanctuary Wealth network includes partner firms across 23 states with over $20.0 billion in assets under advisement. The Sanctuary Wealth Group includes the fully owned subsidiaries Sanctuary Advisors, a registered investment adviser, and the broker-dealer Sanctuary Securities, as well as Sanctuary Asset Management, Sanctuary Insurance Solutions, Sanctuary Global, and Sanctuary Global Tax and Family Office.
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HONG KONG, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited ("NetDragon" or "the Company", Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), a global leader in building internet communities, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary Promethean, a leading global education technology company, just released the all-new ActivPanel with ActivSync that delivers the most robust, seamless, and secure user experience yet. With the new interactive panel, Promethean meets the needs of teachers and IT administrators with intuitive, cutting-edge technology that enables a seamless classroom experience. With its easy, secure sign-in options, streamlined connection to content, flexible lesson delivery software, and personalized user experience, ActivPanel 9 offers the tools needed to transform how teachers use technology.
ActivPanel 9 is the only interactive panel with ActivSync, Promethean's patented technology, which eliminates digital barriers between devices and enables increased connectivity, customizable settings, and enhanced mobility so that teachers can move around the classroom freely. Furthermore, Promethean redesigned the user experience, providing a solution for instructional models, such as hybrid, synchronous, and asynchronous learning that integrate hardware and software in all scenarios. The all-new ActivPanel offers two models, ActivPanel 9 and ActivPanel 9 Premium, and it includes new features with enhanced simplicity, connectivity, security, adaptability, and longevity, to address the key needs of educators.
"With our commitment to providing educators with the ability to transform learning and collaboration, ActivPanel 9 is our most innovative release to date," said Lance Solomon, Chief Product Officer at Promethean. "We addressed the challenges teachers, IT administrators, and district officials face by creating an interactive panel that is more secure, easier to use, and works better with other technologies in their classrooms."
About NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777) is a global leader in building internet communities with a long track record of developing and scaling multiple internet and mobile platforms that impact hundreds of millions of users, including previous establishments of China's first online gaming portal, 17173.com, and China's most influential smartphone app store platform, 91 Wireless.
Established in 1999, NetDragon is one of the most reputable and well-known online game developers in China with a history of successful game titles including Eudemons Online, Heroes Evolved, Conquer Online and Under Oath. In recent years, NetDragon has also started to scale its online education business on the back of management's vision to create the largest global online learning community, and to bring true integrated blended learning solutions to every school around the world.
About Promethean
Promethean is a leading education technology company working to transform the way the world learns and collaborates. From our founding in Blackburn, England, over 25 years ago to our global operations in 22 countries today, we've continued to explore, innovate, and inspire—designing learning and collaboration tools that are built for breakthroughs. Our award-winning interactive display, ActivPanel, and lesson delivery software, ActivInspire and ClassFlow, were designed to engage students, connect colleagues, and bring out the brilliance in everyone. With headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and offices worldwide, Promethean is a subsidiary of NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777).
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allspring Global Investments (Allspring), a leading independent asset manager with more than $476 billion in assets under management*, today announced new senior hires on its Human Resources (HR) and Product teams.
Katie Parenti joins Allspring as Global Chief Human Resources Officer, reporting to Sallie Squire, Chief Operating Officer. In this role, she leads a team across all HR disciplines, including talent acquisition, HR operations, data, analytics, compensation, and benefits. Katie brings more than 20 years of HR experience in the U.S., Europe, and Asia across leading financial institutions. She joins from BlackRock, where she served in many HR leadership roles, including senior HR business partner and interim head of employee relations. Prior to BlackRock, Katie spent 15 years with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in a variety of HR and business leadership roles.
Rick Genoni joins Allspring as Global Head of Product Development and Innovation, reporting to John Kenney, Head of Strategic Initiatives. In this role, Rick leads the efforts to further differentiate Allspring's global product strategy and development, responding to evolving client needs. He joins with more than 30 years of industry experience, most recently with Franklin Templeton, where he served as head of global ETF strategy and strategic partnerships. Prior to that, Rick worked for Legg Mason and Vanguard.
"I am delighted to welcome Katie to lead Allspring's HR team as we establish our HR platform and focus on adding talent globally. Her industry experience and expertise are an excellent match for our dynamic startup-at-scale culture," said Sallie Squire.
"Rick brings robust strategic experience within the asset management industry and will work closely with our Investment Management and Distribution teams to execute a global product development strategy that optimally leverages our capabilities. It is a pleasure to welcome him to the team," stated John Kenney.
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Washington (AP) — A Twitter employee told the House committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol that he spent a sleepless night on Jan. 5, 2021, worrying that people might die the next day during a rally that former President Donald Trump regularly promoted with angry rhetoric on his social media accounts.
The Twitter employee’s worst fears were confirmed when nine people were left dead during and in the aftermath of the ensuing riot that broke out when Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
He raised repeated concerns with his employer about Trump’s tweets leading up to the rally, the Jan. 6 committee revealed during its latest public hearing Tuesday. The employee’s voice was altered and his name was withheld to protect his identity in a prerecorded interview. His testimony did not indicate whom he told of his concerns about Trump’s tweets.
After Trump tweeted a Dec. 19 invitation for his followers to gather in Washington to protest the U.S. election results, a torrent of responses, including violent threats, followed, the Twitter employee testified.
“It felt as if a mob was being organized and they were gathering together their weaponry and their logic and their reasoning behind why they were prepared to fight,” he said.
Responses to Trump’s tweets included references to being “locked and loaded” and calls for “civil war,” the employee noted.
Twitter said in an emailed statement that it took “unprecedented steps” to respond to threats during the 2020 election and suspended accounts linked to far-right extremist groups. The company said it has had “ongoing, productive engagement” with the House committee.
In the days leading up to Jan. 6, Trump regularly used Facebook and Twitter to encourage his followers to travel to the Capitol to protest the election results. Last year, The Associated Press identified a series of responses to the president’s posts, which included multiple calls to “fight” and references to militias.
By then, after four years in office, the president had regularly violated the platforms’ policies around misinformation and inciting violence. Both Twitter and Facebook had removed or covered some of Trump’s most egregious posts, but they did not go as far as kicking him off their platforms until after the Capitol riot.
In Twitter’s case, the employee told the committee, that was because they enjoyed the attention Trump’s tweets brought the platform.
“I believe Twitter relished in the knowledge that they were also the favorite and most used service of the former President and enjoyed having that sort of power within the social media ecosystem,” the employee said.
But those messages had power over everyday people, too, including Ohio man Stephen Ayres, who pleaded guilty last month to disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building.
“I was pretty hardcore into the social media,” Ayers told the committee Tuesday. “I followed President Trump on all of the websites. He basically put out: Come to Stop the Steal rally. I felt like I needed to be down here.”
The day before Ayers and hundreds of others stormed the Capitol, the Twitter employee described to the committee a deflated message he sent to another colleague:
“When people are shooting each other tomorrow, I’ll try to rest in the knowledge that we tried.”
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized an American sea drone Tuesday in the Persian Gulf and tried to tow it away, only releasing the unmanned vessel when a U.S. Navy warship and helicopter approached, officials said.
The incident marks the first time the Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet’s new drone task force has been targeted by Iran.
While the interception ended without incident, tensions remain high between Washington and Tehran as negotiations over the Islamic Republic’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers hang in the balance.
The Guard’s Shahid Baziar warship attached a line to the Saildrone Explorer in the central part of the Persian Gulf in international waters late Monday night, said Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a 5th Fleet spokesman. The vessel then began towing the Saildrone Explorer, which carries cameras, radars and sensors for remotely monitoring the sea, Hawkins said.
The USS Thunderbolt, a Navy coastal patrol boat, as well as an MH-60 Seahawk helicopter, moved to shadow the Guard’s ship. The Navy called the Shahid Baziar by radio to identify the drone as American, Hawkins said.
“Our response was one that as such made clear that this was U.S. government property and was operating in international waters and that we had every intention to take action if necessary,” the commander told The Associated Press.
Hawkins said the incident ended peacefully after some four hours as the Iranians unhooked the tow line to the drone and left the area as the American forces were nearby.
U.S. Army Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, who leads the military’s Central Command, praised the Thunderbolt’s crew for its response.
“This incident once again demonstrates Iran’s continued destabilizing, illegal and unprofessional activity in the Middle East,” he said in a statement
Iran’s paramilitary Guard, which answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, did not acknowledge the incident. Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The 5th Fleet launched its unmanned Task Force 59 last year. The 5th Fleet’s area of responsibility includes the crucial Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all oil passes.
It also stretches as far as the Red Sea reaches near the Suez Canal, the waterway in Egypt linking the Mideast to the Mediterranean, and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Yemen.
It also represents a region that has seen a series of at-sea attacks in recent years. Off Yemen, bomb-laden drone boats and mines set adrift by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have damaged vessels amid that country’s yearslong war. Near the United Arab Emirates and the Strait of Hormuz, oil tankers have been seized by Iranian forces. Others have been attacked in incidents the Navy blames on Iran. | https://www.tdtnews.com/news/article_f8c844ac-28e5-11ed-a2ba-971c0017be3a.html | 2022-08-31T09:04:16Z |
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parameta Solutions, the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP Group, and PeerNova® announced the launch of ClearConsensus™, a transparent high-fidelity consensus network for Independent Price Valuation (IPV). The service improves both business resilience and regulatory response by addressing the evolving risk environments for price valuation and control groups at banks globally.
"We are excited to announce our partnership with PeerNova," said Eric Sinclair, CEO of Parameta Solutions. "By leveraging PeerNova's technology, an agile data management and analytics platform, we can provide clients with deeper insights and a streamlined challenge process for more efficient and timely consensus. It is a great marriage between PeerNova's technology and Parameta Solutions' observable transactions data."
ClearConsensus combines Parameta Solutions' Evaluated Price (EvP) with PeerNova's Cuneiform® modern technology platform. In a first of its kind, ClearConsensus is directly introducing observable transactions data via the EvP, significantly improving the fair value waterfall process. The solution provides visibility and transparency, while maintaining participant anonymity and data privacy. Through stringent data quality checks and an automated challenge process that incorporates additional participant data, the final consensus price is enriched, accurate, and timely. Comparative, real-time analytics help identify market trends so clients can better optimize capital allocation, mitigate risk, and reduce cost of ownership.
"We are very pleased to partner with Parameta Solutions and launch ClearConsensus," said Gangesh Ganesan, Founder and CEO of PeerNova. "As a leading provider of unique OTC content, with a global footprint in the derivatives market, Parameta Solutions will bring significant expertise when it comes to meeting regulatory requirements and enriching client data. Coupled with PeerNova's data and analytics capabilities, our solution is uniquely positioned to improve the overall consensus process, helping clients better plan for the future."
About Parameta Solutions:
Parameta Solutions is the Data & Analytics division of TP ICAP Group. The business provides clients with unbiased OTC content and proprietary data, in-depth insights across price discovery, risk management, benchmark and indices, and pre and post-trade analytics. Its post-trade solutions offering helps market participants control their counterparty and regulatory risks through a growing range of tools that manage balance-sheet exposure, as well as compression and optimisation services.
About PeerNova:
PeerNova's mission is to empower firms to make confident and timely decisions using high-quality data. PeerNova's platforms enable users to monitor data quality metrics, identify and resolve high-impact exceptions and outliers, and perform faster root-cause analysis across the enterprise and network landscapes in real-time.
In partnership with Parameta Solutions, the ClearConsensus™ solution establishes a mid-market high-transparency consensus view of derivative prices in the OTC markets. This enables market participants to optimize for risk capital allocation. PeerNova's Cuneiform® Platform provides reconciliation, data quality monitoring, and client onboarding that reduces manual processes and improves operational efficiency across complex workflows.
Founded in 2013 by entrepreneurs with deep expertise in data and financial infrastructure, PeerNova is a Silicon Valley technology company with sales offices in New York and London. For more information about PeerNova, please visit https://peernova.com.
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RED BANK, N.J., Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Provention Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRVB) (the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to intercepting and preventing immune-mediated diseases, today announced that the Company granted stock options to two non-executive employees to purchase an aggregate of 38,000 shares of common stock. The stock options were granted without stockholder approval as inducements, material to the new non-executive employees entering into employment with the Company, pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4) and were approved by the Company's compensation committee of the board of directors.
The stock options were granted with a 10-year term and an exercise price equal to $4.51 the closing price per share of the Company's common stock as reported by Nasdaq on September 1st 2022. Each of the options will vest 25% on the one year anniversary of the grant date and 75% in equal monthly installments thereafter so that the grant is fully vested on the four year anniversary of the grant date, provided that the new employee continues to serve as an employee of, or other service provider to, the Company on each such vesting date. The stock options are subject to the terms of the Provention Bio, Inc. 2020 Inducement Plan, as amended.
About Provention Bio, Inc.:
Provention Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRVB) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing the development of investigational therapies that may intercept and prevent debilitating and life-threatening immune-mediated diseases. The Biologics License Application (BLA) for teplizumab, its lead investigational drug candidate, for the delay of progression to Stage 3 clinical type 1 diabetes in at-risk individuals has been filed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Company's pipeline includes additional clinical-stage product candidates that have demonstrated in pre-clinical or clinical studies proof-of-mechanism and/or proof-of-concept in other autoimmune diseases, including celiac disease and lupus. Visit www.ProventionBio.com for more information and follow us on Twitter: @ProventionBio.
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MEXICO CITY, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBRA Prologis (BMV:FIBRAPL 14), a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico, declared today a cash distribution of Ps. 527.7 million (US$ 25.7 million), or Ps. 0.6162 per Certificado Bursátil Fiduciario Inmobiliario ("CBFI") (US$ 0.0300 per CBFI) related to the results of the second quarter ending June 30, 2022.
The distribution is payable July 29, 2022 to CBFI holders with an ex-dividend date of July 27, 2022, and a record date of July 28, 2022.
ABOUT FIBRA PROLOGIS
FIBRA Prologis is a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico. As of June 30, 2022, FIBRA Prologis was comprised of 227 logistics and manufacturing facilities in six industrial markets in Mexico totaling 43.4 million square feet (4.0 million square meters) of gross leasable area.
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The statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the industry and markets in which FIBRA Prologis operates, management's beliefs and assumptions made by management. Such statements involve uncertainties that could significantly impact FIBRA Prologis financial results. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, which generally are not historical in nature. All statements that address operating performance, events or developments that we expect or anticipate will occur in the future — including statements relating to rent and occupancy growth, acquisition activity, development activity, disposition activity, general conditions in the geographic areas where we operate, our debt and financial position, are forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Although we believe the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained and therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that may affect outcomes and results include, but are not limited to: (i) national, international, regional and local economic climates, (ii) changes in financial markets, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, (iii) increased or unanticipated competition for our properties, (iv) risks associated with acquisitions, dispositions and development of properties, (v) maintenance of real estate investment trust ("FIBRA") status and tax structuring, (vi) availability of financing and capital, the levels of debt that we maintain and our credit ratings, (vii) risks related to our investments (viii) environmental uncertainties, including risks of natural disasters, (ix) risks related to the coronavirus pandemic, and (x) those additional factors discussed in reports filed with the "Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores" and the Mexican Stock Exchange by FIBRA Prologis under the heading "Risk Factors." FIBRA Prologis undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements appearing in this release.
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Brisk Dragon Paradise is Sure to Delight with its Bubbly Fizz, Delicious Fruit and Berry Blend Flavors, and Distinct Purple Hue
PURCHASE, N.Y., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brisk, the category-leading iced tea brand known for its refreshing and innovative flavors, is partnering with long-standing partner Taco Bell to officially launch Brisk Dragon Paradise Sparkling Iced Tea, the brand's first-ever sparkling tea. The unique product innovation combines mouth-watering tropical fruit flavor with plenty of fizz for the ultimate taste adventure and has already started rolling out at Taco Bell locations nationwide.
Brisk Dragon Paradise strikes the perfect balance of tropical dragon fruit, raspberry, and blackberry flavors with a hibiscus tea base, creating a refreshing fizzy sensation that will excite tastebuds and leave fans wanting more. It's the perfect beverage to kick off the warmer months, especially when paired with Taco Bell favorites. In fact, Taco Bell Rewards members can get their hands on a free Dragon Paradise Sparkling Iced Tea (Medium) with a $1.00 purchase at participating Taco Bell restaurants every Friday through June 17*.
"At Brisk, we're dedicated to celebrating creative individuality and inspiring our passionate, enthusiastic fans with new innovations," said Katrina McDonald, Senior Director, Pepsi Lipton Joint Venture Brands. "We're excited to see them try Brisk Dragon Paradise whenever and wherever they might be craving a cool, refreshing beverage."
"Along with our long-standing partners at Taco Bell, we can't wait to introduce fans across the country to Brisk Dragon Paradise and look forward to their thoughts on this new sparkling tea," said Alex Chiavegatti, Senior Director, PepsiCo Global Foodservice.
"PepsiCo and Taco Bell have a history of creating cultural icons, from Mountain Dew Baja Blast to Doritos® Locos Tacos, and now the bold new purple Brisk Dragon Paradise," said Melissa Friebe, Chief Product Marketing & Insights Officer, Taco Bell.
To keep the excitement rolling, this July Brisk is bringing Brisk Dragon Paradise to Miami with an unforgettable food and music experience ahead of one of the most exciting weekends of 2022. This initiative will support up-and-coming music artists and engage music lovers, culture creators and foodies alike. More details including how Taco Bell will show up and how consumers can get in on the epic experience will drop later this summer.
To find Brisk Dragon Paradise at a Taco Bell near you, visit: http://www.drinkbrisk.com/flavor/dragon-paradise-sparkling-tea/.
*Free Medium Brisk Dragon Paradise Sparkling Tea with $1 minimum qualifying purchase on 6/3/2022, 6/10/2022, and 6/17/2022, redeemable only via the Taco Bell mobile app by registered Taco Bell app users for in-store/drive-thru pickup orders, at participating U.S. Taco Bell® locations, while supplies last. Reward valid once per Friday, per registered user. No upgrades or substitutions. Reward is non-transferable and cannot be combined with any other offer. No cash value. Terms and conditions apply https://www.tacobell.com/legal-notices/terms-of-use.
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Google now lets you search by combining images and words
By Rachel Metz, CNN Business
Google wants to make it easier to search for things that are hard to describe with just a few words or an image.
On Thursday, Google rolled out a new search option that lets you combine text and images in a single query. With this feature, you could search for a shirt similar to one in a photo but type that you want it with “polka dots,” or take a picture of your couch and type “chair” to find ones that look similar.
The feature, which the company calls “multisearch” and previewed in September, is now available for US users within the Google Lens part of Google’s mobile app. Liz Reid, vice president of Google Search, told CNN Business the feature will be considered experimental at first. It is expected to be used for shopping-related searches initially, though it’s not limited to such queries.
“This will just be the start,” Reid said.
Multisearch marks Google’s latest effort to make search more flexible and less bound to words on a screen. Google has long offered an image search engine. There’s also Google Lens, a feature that debuted in 2017 and can identify objects in a picture or immediately translate text as it’s viewed through a phone’s camera lens. Another endeavor in 2020 gave users the ability to hum to search for specific songs.
To find multisearch in Google’s mobile app, you have to tap a camera icon on the right side of the search bar, which pulls up Google Lens. You can take or upload a picture, and then tap a little bar containing a plus sign and the phrase, “add to your search.” This lets you type words to better explain what you want.
The feature works, essentially, by using artificial intelligence in a few ways. Computer vision deduces what’s in the image while natural language processing determines the meaning of the words you type. Those results are then pulled together to train an overall system, Reid said.
When Google introduced this sort of search in September, the company explained that it would use a powerful machine-learning tool called MUM (which stands for “multitask unified model”) that it had unveiled last May. Reid said in an interview last week that this won’t be the case at first, but that it may use MUM in the coming months, which she said she thinks will help improve search quality.
Asked if Google will eventually make it possible for people to use search in even more varied ways — such as by letting you combine music and words in a query in order to find new kinds of music you might — Reid said the company isn’t working on that specifically, but it is interested in combining various inputs in the future.
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LAKELAND, Fla., May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WellDyneRx, LLC ("WellDyne") is providing notice of an incident that could affect the privacy of information of certain individuals for whom it provided pharmacy benefit related services. While WellDyne is unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of individually-identifiable information, WellDyne takes this incident very seriously and is providing information about the incident, our response to it, and resources available to individuals to help protect their information, should they feel it appropriate to do so.
What Happened? On December 2, 2021, WellDyne became aware of suspicious activity related to a WellDyne email account. In response, we began an investigation of the activity with the assistance of third-party forensic investigators to determine the nature and scope of the incident. We determined that there was unauthorized access to the account between October 30, 2021, and November 11, 2021. Although there is no evidence that individually-identifiable information contained within the email account was accessed or taken by an unauthorized party, WellDyne cannot rule out this possibility. In response, WellDyne undertook a comprehensive and time-consuming programmatic and manual review of the contents of the email account to determine the type of information stored therein, and to whom the information pertained. On March 11, 2022, we completed this extensive review process, and identified the scope of the information at risk and the population who may be affected. We have worked diligently since this time to confirm the contact information for the individuals who may be impacted and the types of information at issue for each individual, in order to provide an accurate notification.
What Information Was Involved? We conducted a thorough review of the relevant WellDyne email account to identify the types of information stored therein and to whom it related. Although there is no evidence that individually-identifiable information contained within the email account was accessed or taken by an unauthorized party, we cannot rule out this possibility. While the specific data elements vary for each potentially affected individual, the scope of information potentially involved includes: name, date of birth, Social Security number, driver's license number, treatment information, health insurance information, contact information, prescription information, and other medical/health information.
How Will Individuals Know If They Are Affected By This Incident? WellDyne will be mailing notice letters to the individuals identified as impacted. If an individual does not receive a letter but would like to know if they are affected, they may call WellDyne's dedicated assistance line, detailed below.
What WellDyne is Doing. The confidentiality, privacy, and security of personal information within our care is among our highest priorities. Upon learning of the event, we secured the compromised account and investigated to identify any individuals that were affected. We have taken additional steps to improve security and better protect against similar incidents in the future. We are also notifying applicable regulators, including the Department of Health and Human Services.
Whom Should Individuals Contact For More Information? If individuals have questions or would like additional information, they may call WellDyne's dedicated assistance line at (877) 389-2455 between the hours of 9am-9pm Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday.
What You Can Do. WellDyne encourages individuals to remain vigilant against incidents of identity theft and fraud by reviewing your account statements, explanation of benefits forms, and monitoring your free credit reports for suspicious activity and to detect errors over the next 12 to 24 months. Under U.S. law individuals are entitled to one free credit report annually from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus. To order a free credit report, visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call, toll-free, 1-877-322-8228. Individuals may also contact the three major credit bureaus directly to request a free copy of their credit report, place a fraud alert, or a security freeze. Contact information for the credit bureaus is below:
Consumers have the right to place an initial or extended "fraud alert" on a credit file at no cost. An initial fraud alert is a 1-year alert that is placed on a consumer's credit file. Upon seeing a fraud alert display on a consumer's credit file, a business is required to take steps to verify the consumer's identity before extending new credit. If you are a victim of identity theft, you are entitled to an extended fraud alert, which is a fraud alert lasting seven years. Should you wish to place a fraud alert, please contact any one of the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below.
As an alternative to a fraud alert, consumers have the right to place a "credit freeze" on a credit report, which will prohibit a credit bureau from releasing information in the credit report without the consumer's express authorization. The credit freeze is designed to prevent credit, loans, and services from being approved in your name without your consent. However, you should be aware that using a credit freeze to take control over who gets access to the personal and financial information in your credit report may delay, interfere with, or prohibit the timely approval of any subsequent request or application you make regarding a new loan, credit, mortgage, or any other account involving the extension of credit. Pursuant to federal law, you cannot be charged to place or lift a credit freeze on your credit report. To request a security freeze, you will need to provide the following information:
- Full name (including middle initial as well as Jr., Sr., II, III, etc.);
- Social Security number;
- Date of birth;
- Addresses for the prior two to five years;
- Proof of current address, such as a current utility bill or telephone bill;
- A legible photocopy of a government-issued identification card (state driver's license or ID card, etc.); and
- A copy of either the police report, investigative report, or complaint to a law enforcement agency concerning identity theft if you are a victim of identity theft.
Should you wish to place a credit freeze, please contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below:
Additional Information
You may further educate yourself regarding identity theft, fraud alerts, credit freezes, and the steps you can take to protect your personal information by contacting the consumer reporting bureaus, the Federal Trade Commission, or your state Attorney General. The Federal Trade Commission may be reached at: 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580; www.identitytheft.gov; 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338); and TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The Federal Trade Commission also encourages those who discover that their information has been misused to file a complaint with them. You can obtain further information on how to file such a complaint by way of the contact information listed above. You have the right to file a police report if you ever experience identity theft or fraud. Please note that in order to file a report with law enforcement for identity theft, you will likely need to provide some proof that you have been a victim. Instances of known or suspected identity theft should also be reported to law enforcement and your state Attorney General. This notice has not been delayed by law enforcement.
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With 50% of people worldwide estimated to be diagnosed with Myopia (nearsightedness) by 2050, understanding the condition and how to slow its progression early is critical.
DALLAS, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- All About Vision (AAV), the world's leading online portal for vision and eye care information, has launched a myopia information hub. Myopia has rapidly increased in prevalence worldwide, with an estimated 50% of the global population diagnosed by 2050. The hub contains the most updated information on myopia with more than 100 pieces of content.
Myopia, also called nearsightedness, is an eye condition that makes distant objects look blurry. It usually develops in early childhood and can progress into early adulthood.
"Myopia currently is the number one condition in the visual system . . ., especially in younger-age adolescents," said Doctor Maria Liu, Associate Professor of Clinical Optometry at UC Berkeley. "It is a complex condition that involves critical influence from both genetic and environmental factors. If left uncontrolled, myopia will cause excessive elongation of the eyeball, leading to retinal complications which can cause irreversible vision loss later in life."
All About Vision worked with researchers from the International Myopia Institute, the WHO, the Brien Holden Vision Institute and others to incorporate the latest data to create accessible content for the myopia hub. Exclusive features include an interactive myopia simulator, which demonstrates what increasing levels of nearsightedness look like through a child's eyes, and a myopia assessment to determine a child's risk for having myopia.
"The mission for All About Vision is to ensure that visitors have the best information so they can make well-informed decisions for their children," said Kim Schuy, Head of All About Vision. "With the growing prevalence of myopia, we are prepared to remain ahead of the curve to meet readers where they are in their search for information."
To visit the Myopia Hub, visit https://www.allaboutvision.com/myopia/.
For information on All About Vision, visit https://www.allaboutvision.com/.
Launched in 2000, All About Vision is a leading online resource for visual health and eye care topics. With 50 million annual visitors across 25 global markets, AAV turns evidence-based medical information into engaging, trustworthy content for readers covering eye exams, vision correction, glaucoma, cataracts, myopia and more.
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Districts across the state can now use data from the i-Ready Assessment for Mathematics and Reading to help identify students eligible for gifted education programs
NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) has added Curriculum Associates' i-Ready Assessment for Grades K–12 to its approved list of Gifted Education Assessment Measures to identify students' eligibility for gifted education programs in the achievement domain. With this approval, districts throughout the state can now use their existing reading and mathematics data from the i-Ready Assessment as a source of evidence to support a referral for gifted education programs. The i-Ready normative scores can be used to determine if students meet the criteria in the achievement category of the evaluation and eligibility process, eliminating the need for a separate achievement assessment.
"The i-Ready Assessment data is powerful in helping teachers identify students' strengths and needs so they can provide more personalized instruction," said Rob Waldron, CEO of Curriculum Associates. "The Georgia Department of Education's approval of i-Ready to support gifted identification will help districts throughout the state save valuable time and resources by eliminating the need for another achievement assessment. A more efficient screening process will also help schools connect students more quickly with services that help them reach their full potential."
The GaDOE gifted education screening process requires information be gathered about a student in four categories: mental ability, achievement, creativity, and motivation. In order to be eligible to receive gifted programming, students must qualify in three of the four categories, or they must have a qualifying score in both the mental ability and achievement categories. i-Ready data is used in the achievement category.
Today, the award-winning i-Ready program serves more than 40 percent (i.e., 485,000) of students in Grades K–8 across almost 100 districts in Georgia.
i-Ready makes the promise of differentiated instruction a practical reality for Grades K–12 teachers and students. It combines powerful assessments and rich insights with effective and engaging instruction in reading and mathematics to address students' individual needs.
The program's assessment provides educators with actionable criterion-referenced and normative data to deliver impactful, equitable learning experiences. Teachers administer the assessment at the beginning of the school year to chart a course for their instruction and to personalize i-Ready instructional paths. Midyear and end-of-year assessments help students and teachers measure growth and engage together in data chats. Teacher-led and personalized instruction continues throughout the year to help students address unfinished learning and access grade-level content.
All i-Ready district partners have ongoing access to Curriculum Associates' award-winning customer service. This includes dedicated support via the company's Customer Service team, professional development experts, account managers, sales representatives, and Technical Support team, as well as access to the free customer service portal.
To learn more about i-Ready, visit CurriculumAssociates.com/i-Ready.
Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools. The company's products and outstanding customer service provide teachers and administrators with the resources necessary for teaching diverse student populations and fostering learning for all students.
Contact: Kati Elliott Charlotte Fixler
KEH Communications Curriculum Associates
(410) 975-9638 (978) 901-6066
Kati@kehcomm.com CFixler@cainc.com
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OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jennifer Hamann, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Eric Gehringer, executive vice president - operations, of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), will address the Deutsche Bank 2022 Transportation Conference on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, at 8 a.m. ET.
A live webcast of the presentation will be available in the investor relations section of Union Pacific's website at www.up.com/investor. A replay of the audio webcast will be available shortly thereafter.
ABOUT UNION PACIFIC
Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) delivers the goods families and businesses use every day with safe, reliable and efficient service. Operating in 23 western states, the company connects its customers and communities to the global economy. Trains are the most environmentally responsible way to move freight, helping Union Pacific protect future generations. More information about Union Pacific is available at www.up.com.
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SEATTLE, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
AMENDED SUMMARY NOTICE OF PENDENCY AND PROPOSED
SETTLEMENT OF STOCKHOLDER CLASS ACTION,
SETTLEMENT HEARING, AND RIGHT TO APPEAR
This notice is for all record holders and beneficial holders of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation ("Ameritrade") common stock at any point during the period from and including November 25, 2019, the date of the definitive merger agreement between Ameritrade and The Charles Schwab Corporation, through and including October 6, 2020, the date the Merger closed (the "Settlement Class").
Certain persons and entities are excluded from the Settlement Class by definition, as set forth in the full Amended Notice of Pendency and Proposed Settlement of Stockholder Class Action, Settlement Hearing, and Right to Appear (the "Amended Notice"), available at www.AmeritradeMergerLitigation.com. Any capitalized terms used in this Amended Summary Notice that are not otherwise defined in this Amended Summary Notice shall have the meanings given to them in the Stipulation and Agreement of Compromise, Settlement, and Release dated March 25, 2022 (the "Stipulation").
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, pursuant to an Order of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (the "Court"), that the above-captioned stockholder class action (the "Action") is pending in the Court.
YOU ARE ALSO NOTIFIED that (i) plaintiff Brett Hawkes ("Plaintiff"), on behalf of himself and the Settlement Class, and (ii) defendants (a) The Toronto-Dominion Bank and its affiliates TD Group US Holdings LLC ("TD Group US"), TD Bank USA, National Association ("TD Bank USA"), and TD Bank, National Association ("TD Bank N.A." and together with TD Group US and TD Bank USA, "TD Bank"); (b) Tim Hockey, Brian Levitt, Karen Maidment, Bharat Masrani, Irene Miller, Joseph Moglia, Wilbur Prezzano, and Stephen Boyle (collectively, the "Individual Defendants"); and (c) The Charles Schwab Corporation ("CSC," and together with TD Bank and the Individual Defendants, "Defendants") have entered into a proposed settlement for, among other consideration, $31,500,000 (the "Settlement"). The terms of the Settlement are stated in the Stipulation entered into between Plaintiff and Defendants dated March 25, 2022, a copy of which is available at www.AmeritradeMergerLitigation.com. If approved by the Court, the Settlement will resolve all claims in the Action.
Upon a request from the Parties, a hearing (the "Settlement Hearing") was adjourned from the originally scheduled date of July 11, 2022 to the current September 21, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. date, before The Honorable Paul A. Fioravanti, Jr., Vice Chancellor, either in person at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, New Castle County, Leonard L. Williams Justice Center, 500 North King Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, or by telephone or video conference (in the discretion of the Court), to, among other things: (i) determine whether the Action may be permanently maintained as a non-opt out class action and whether the Settlement Class should be certified permanently, for purposes of the Settlement, pursuant to Court of Chancery Rules 23(a), 23(b)(1) and 23(b)(2); (ii) determine whether Plaintiff may be permanently designated as representative for the Settlement Class and Plaintiff's Co-Lead Counsel as counsel for the Settlement Class, and whether Plaintiff and Plaintiff's Co-Lead Counsel have adequately represented the interests of the Settlement Class in the Action; (iii) determine whether the proposed Settlement on the terms and conditions provided for in the Stipulation is fair, reasonable, and adequate to the Settlement Class, and should be approved by the Court; (iv) determine whether the Judgment, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D to the Stipulation, should be entered dismissing the Action with prejudice as against Defendants; (v) determine whether the proposed Plan of Allocation of the Net Settlement Fund is fair and reasonable, and should therefore be approved; (vi) determine whether the application by Plaintiff's Co-Lead Counsel for an award of attorneys' fees and expenses, including Plaintiff's application for an incentive award, should be approved; (vii) hear and rule on any objections to the Settlement, the proposed Plan of Allocation, the application by Plaintiff's Co-Lead Counsel for an award of attorneys' fees and expenses, and/or Plaintiff's application for an incentive award; and (viii) consider any other matters that may properly be brought before the Court in connection with the Settlement.
Any updates regarding the Settlement Hearing, including any changes to the date or time of the hearing or updates regarding in-person or remote appearances at the hearing, will be posted to the Settlement website, www.AmeritradeMergerLitigation.com.
If you are a member of the Settlement Class, your rights will be affected by the pending Action and the Settlement, and you may be entitled to share in the Net Settlement Fund. If you have not yet received the Amended Notice, you may obtain a copy of the Amended Notice by contacting the Settlement Administrator at Ameritrade Merger Litigation, c/o JND Legal Administration, P.O. Box 91212, Seattle, WA 98111, 1-888-964-2135. A copy of the Amended Notice can also be downloaded from the Settlement website, www.AmeritradeMergerLitigation.com.
If the Settlement is approved by the Court and the Effective Date occurs, the Net Settlement Fund will be distributed on a pro rata basis to Eligible Closing Date Stockholders in accordance with the proposed Plan of Allocation stated in the Amended Notice or such other plan of allocation as is approved by the Court. Pursuant to the proposed Plan of Allocation, each Eligible Closing Date Stockholder will be eligible to receive a pro rata payment from the Net Settlement Fund equal to the product of (i) the number of shares held by the Eligible Closing Date Stockholder at the time such shares were converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration in connection with the Closing of the Merger and (ii) the "Per-Share Recovery" for the Settlement, which will be determined by dividing the total amount of the Net Settlement Fund by the total number of shares held by all of the Eligible Closing Date Stockholders at the time such shares were converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration in connection with the Closing of the Merger. As explained in further detail in the Amended Notice at paragraphs 38-43, pursuant to the Plan of Allocation, payments from the Net Settlement Fund to Eligible Closing Date Stockholders will be made in the same manner in which Eligible Closing Date Stockholders received the Merger Consideration. Eligible Closing Date Stockholders do not have to submit a claim form to receive a payment from the Settlement.
Any objections to the proposed Settlement, the proposed Plan of Allocation, or Plaintiff's Co-Lead Counsel's application for an award attorneys' fees and expenses, including Plaintiff's application for an incentive award, must be filed with the Register in Chancery in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware and delivered to Plaintiff's Co-Lead Counsel and Defendants' Counsel such that they are received no later than September 7, 2022, in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Amended Notice.
Please do not contact the Court or the Office of the Register in Chancery regarding this Amended Summary Notice. All questions about this Amended Summary Notice, the proposed Settlement, or your eligibility to participate in the Settlement should be directed to the Settlement Administrator or Plaintiff's Co-Lead Counsel.
Requests for the Amended Notice should be made to the Settlement Administrator:
Ameritrade Merger Litigation
c/o JND Legal Administration
P.O. Box 91212
Seattle, WA 98111
1-888-964-2135
info@AmeritradeMergerLitigation.com
www.AmeritradeMergerLitigation.com
Inquiries, other than requests for the Notice, should be made to Plaintiff's Co-Lead Counsel:
BY ORDER OF THE COURT OF
CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
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NEW ORLEANS, April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until May 6, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NasdaqGS: RIVN), if they purchased or otherwise acquired the Company's shares between November 10, 2021 and March 10, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period") and/or pursuant or traceable to its November 2021 initial public stock offering (the "IPO"). These actions are pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
What You May Do
If you purchased shares of Rivian as above and would like to discuss your legal rights and how these cases might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-rivn/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by May 6, 2022.
About the Lawsuit
Rivian and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information in its IPO Registration Statement, violating federal securities laws.
The alleged false and misleading statements and omissions include, but are not limited to, that the Company's R1T electric pickup truck and R1S electric SUV products were underpriced to such a degree that the Company would have to raise prices shortly after the IPO, which could tarnish its reputation as a trustworthy and transparent company and potentially jeopardize sales for the existing backlog of 55,400 preorders as well as future preorders. As a result, the price of the Company's shares was artificially and materially inflated at the time of the Offering and declined when the truth was subsequently revealed.
The first-filed case is Crews, Jr. v. Rivian Automotive Inc., et al., No. 22-cv-1524.
About Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Contact:
Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
Lewis Kahn, Managing Partner
lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com 1-877-515-1850
1100 Poydras St., Suite 3200
New Orleans, LA 70163
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Biden to meet with Democratic senators on student loan debt
By Arlette Saenz, CNN
President Joe Biden will meet with Democratic senators at the White House Wednesday afternoon to discuss the issue of student loan debt, a source familiar with the meeting said.
The President is expected to huddle with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Schumer and Warren were seen arriving at the White House Wednesday afternoon.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre earlier Wednesday said Biden has not made a decision about student debt forgiveness but noted the President “values” the perspectives of senators working on the issue and “looks forward to the discussion this afternoon,” when asked about a potential meeting with Warnock.
Late last month, Biden said he was “considering dealing with some debt reduction” and would have an answer on the matter “in the next couple of weeks.”
Biden has been under pressure to fulfill a campaign promise to deal with student loan debt. He signaled to lawmakers at a White House meeting last month he would take steps to address the problem.
Since taking office, Biden has taken several actions to provide student loan relief. He’s repeatedly extended a pause on federal student loan repayments, an action which was initially issued during the Trump administration to help borrowers struggling economically due to the pandemic. Most recently, the White House announced the pause would be extended through August 31.
During a meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in April, Biden appeared “positive” about the idea of forgiving at least $10,000 in Americans’ student loan debt but did not make a definite commitment on the matter, according to California Democratic Rep. Nanette Barragán.
Barragán told CNN that Biden and the Democrats had discussed the scope of such a plan — including whether it would include public and private institutions — but that the White House made no commitment nor specified a time frame for taking such a step. Her comments on the discussion came after reports that Biden strongly indicated during the meeting that he would take action on the issue through executive authority. But reporting that Biden had relayed a decision at the CHC meeting, Barragán said, “was news to me.”
Some key Democratic lawmakers, including Schumer and Warren, have called on Biden to broadly cancel up to $50,000 of student loan debt per borrower. Biden has said he would not consider that number.
“I am considering dealing with some debt reduction. I am not considering $50,000 debt reduction,” Biden said at the White House after unveiling new funding for Ukraine in April.
The White House has long indicated that the President would support action by Congress to eliminate $10,000 in student loan debt forgiveness for borrowers, but Biden hasn’t made clear whether he would use executive powers to immediately provide that mass debt relief. But it’s unlikely Congress, where Democrats have a slim margin, has the votes to pass legislation broadly canceling debt.
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
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CNN’s Kevin Liptak, Maegan Vazquez and Manu Raju contributed to this report. | https://localnews8.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2022/05/18/biden-to-meet-with-democratic-senators-on-student-loan-debt/ | 2022-05-18T21:24:35Z |
Commentary: Stark County working to promote manufacturing jobs
"In-Demand Jobs Week is a great chance for businesses to open their doors and showcase the many top jobs, industries and skills across Ohio," Gov. Mike DeWine said.
In a lead-up to In-Demand Jobs Week, Strengthening Stark worked with the Stark County Manufacturing Workforce Development Partnership, a group of 45 Stark County based manufacturers, and R.G. Drage Career Technical Center to host a pilot project that showcased four manufacturers to 147 students from Drage.
The SCMWDP will then use what we learn from this pilot project to host more schools by more manufacturers in October for National Manufacturing Day. These events are an important opportunity for the students and their teachers to obtain an accurate and up-to-date perception of today’s manufacturing shop floor — exciting, modern and safe.
The students were provided plant tours by Superior Dairy in Canton, Polymer Packaging in Massillon, The M.K. Morse Company in Canton and Hendrickson’s Navarre facility.
The students were able to see firsthand many jobs that could introduce them to a long and exciting career path with solid compensation and great benefits. They also saw state-of-the-art technology used by the manufacturers in making product — in some cases shipped all over the world.
The SCMWDP is also working with community-based organizations in Stark County to recruit people in untapped groups, career changers and COVID-displaced people to present career paths in manufacturing.
One organization, The National Center for Urban Solutions (NCUS), has committed to having 75 individuals employed by December. The individuals will go through a weeklong boot camp that will start their orientation for a career in manufacturing.
Each boot camp will have around 10 to 12 individuals and will make up a team. The idea is for each team to support each other and check on each other as they start their career path.
So far eight manufacturers have committed to hiring the individuals after their successful completion of the boot camp. More manufacturers are welcome to join the program by also making the commitment.
It is possible that some individuals may encounter barriers to success during their career. As they say, life happens. The car breaks down. The babysitter gets sick. NCUS will work with other community-based organizations to address transportation, childcare, and housing issues so the individual doesn't get in attendance trouble.
These wrap-around services are becoming embraced more by manufacturers as they are encountered more frequently by their human resource departments. Many manufacturers are in desperate need for more people resources and value these new wrap-around services.
The paradigm shift happened a couple of years ago — manufacturing companies used to set their budget by asking the sales team what their sales forecast was and the budget was planned from there.
Now, many manufacturing companies set their budget by asking the manufacturing team what they can make and ship. So recruiting and keeping people has become of paramount importance to a manufacturer's success.
The labor pool in Stark County is so tight it is limiting the growth of many manufacturers. The mission of the SCMWDP is to grow the labor pool in Stark County.
Manufacturers can’t solve the labor shortage by recruiting employees from each other — this doesn’t make the pie bigger. We already know, as of March, there are over 700 open manufacturing jobs in Stark County that pay over $30,000 a year.
Amazon is about to open a distribution facility in Stark County and will be hiring around 1,000 employees. Intel is opening a chip manufacturing facility in Central Ohio and will be hiring around 3,000 employees.
Economists forecast those high-tech employees will lead to another 15,000 jobs to provide the raw materials, tools, housing, food, medical, etc. for those 3,000 employees creating what Intel’s CEO Patrick Gelsinger has called a "Silicone Heartland" here in Ohio.
Stark County manufacturers are sure to benefit. We are counting on all manufacturers to work together so we can be ready.
If you are interested in obtaining more information about the Stark County Manufacturing Workforce Development Partnership, please contact Barb Bennett at barbb@cantonchamber.org or calling her at 330-458-2059.
James T. Batchelder is president of the Stark County Manufacturing Workforce Development Partnership. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2022/05/06/strengthening-stark-and-scmwdp-work-promote-manufacturing-jobs-manufacturing-workforce-development/9622081002/ | 2022-05-06T10:38:39Z |
Firefighter saves man’s life while playing in basketball game
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) – An off-duty firefighter jumped into action during the middle of a basketball game when one of the referees collapsed on the court.
“I assessed the situation, trying to see what I could do to fix the problem,” Myles Copeland told WTVG. “He didn’t have a pulse, he wasn’t breathing so I instantly started CPR, what I was trained to do.”
Copeland worked on the referee for over 10 minutes and saved his life. He was alert and talking by the time he was wheeled away on a stretcher.
“It was just kind of divine timing that I was there in the right place at the right time,” Copeland said.
Copeland is a forward with the Toledo Glass City basketball team and was in Upstate New York for a playoff game.
“He was calm, he’s everything that’s good about our players, he’s everything that’s good about society,” said David Magley, the president of the basketball league.
Copyright 2022 WTVG via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/06/17/firefighter-saves-mans-life-while-playing-basketball-game/ | 2022-06-17T19:29:39Z |
DALLAS (KDAF) — “As your next mayor, I will work tirelessly to ensure every citizen of this great city has access to the finest bacon, Wright Brand Bacon.”
It looks like Bacon City USA has found its new mayor in Walter Arnett of Lexington, Kentucky.
To celebrate 100 years of Wright Brand Bacon, VernonTexas (the official birthplace of Wright Brand Bacon) will officially change its name to “Bacon City, USA” for one weekend only, from Sept. 16-17.
Arnett will be inducted as the Mayor of Bacon City, USA on Sept. 16 at the Bacon City, USA festival. The one-day festival will have a food-truck competition and other activities across Vernon, including a concert from The Randy Rogers Band. | https://cw33.com/news/local/texas-town-renaming-itself-bacon-city-usa-has-officially-found-its-new-mayor/ | 2022-08-30T19:41:32Z |
SAN DIEGO, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Aviation Group, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with B Medical Systems to develop and launch an airline-specific passive temperature-controlled solution for the transportation of life-saving drugs, vaccines and high-value pharmaceuticals.
Etihad Cargo will collaborate with Luxembourg-based manufacturer and global distributor of medical refrigeration devices B Medical Systems to develop sustainable temperature-controlled container units that utilise passive cooling technology to retain temperatures from -80 to 25 degrees Celsius for up to five days without requiring an external power source, thereby reducing carbon emissions, with load capabilities ranging from two to 1,500 litres. The containers' robust design and multi-use capabilities enable an operational life of over ten years.
Martin Drew, Etihad Aviation Group's Senior Vice President – Sales & Cargo, said, "Etihad Cargo is the first airline globally to collaborate with a partner to develop and launch units specifically tailored to air transportation. Partnering with B Medical Systems is the latest step by Etihad Cargo to achieve its sustainability targets. By replacing legacy active cold chain air transportation containers with aviation-specific units that consume less energy, Etihad Cargo is future-proofing the transportation of pharmaceuticals, providing a better solution for Etihad Cargo's customers, the aviation industry and the environment."
Jesal Doshi, Deputy CEO of B Medical Systems, said, "The transportation of temperature-sensitive specimens needs a robust cold chain. Etihad Cargo's operational knowledge along with our expertise in creating quality medical cold chain solutions will enable us to develop aviation-specific sustainable units for the safe, effective, and environmentally friendly transportation of temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals and specimens."
Etihad Cargo is participating in the BIO International Convention as part of a high-profile Abu Dhabi delegation headed by H.E. Abdulla bin Mohammed Al Hamed, Chairman of the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH). The delegation is visiting the USA to explore prospects for collaboration within the healthcare sector and, more specifically, life sciences to establish sustainable mechanisms that empower the healthcare sector in both countries as well as showcase Abu Dhabi's distinguished healthcare ecosystem.
Powered by a solid infrastructure and advanced healthcare ecosystem, partnership opportunities across the biopharmaceutical and healthcare value chain in Abu Dhabi continue to emerge as a result of the sector's robust growth potential. Abu Dhabi has been leading the transformation of the regional healthcare ecosystem by leveraging sciences and technology, positioning itself as a global life sciences hub and incubator for healthcare innovation.
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SOURCE Etihad Cargo | https://www.wibw.com/prnewswire/2022/06/14/etihad-cargo-signs-mou-sustainable-pharmaceutical-transportation-solutions/ | 2022-06-14T00:58:22Z |
‘This was intentional’: Mechanic warns of engine light tape scam on used cars
ATLANTA (CBS46/Gray News) - Wanda King-Whitby was cruising through the listings on Autotrader and Craigslist when she found the right car at the right price.
It was a 2006 Toyota Camry with just over 151,000 miles. When she stopped by the seller, AP Auto Sales, she said she liked it, and when she drove it, the salesman told her there was nothing wrong with it. She paid $4,000 and drove it home.
“He just told me that the vehicle was in good shape,” King-Whitby told WGCL. “It did not need any repairs, I did not need an emission and I shouldn’t have any problems with it.”
Like most car buyers, King-Whitby opted to skip a pre-purchase inspection. Almost immediately after the purchase, she said, the car had issues.
“It seemed like the transmission slipped or the engine slipped,” she said.
A mechanic at Theo’s Automotive in Peachtree City, Georgia, performed a post-purchase inspection and found issues that should have kept the car off the road. The car had been poorly repainted and there were signs the roof had been crushed.
But that was just the beginning.
Decades ago, the only way to reduce a car’s odometer was by removing the instrument cluster and manually rolling back the miles. But in the digital age, criminals have an easier option.
In King-Whitby’s case, the original instrument cluster had been removed and replaced with one with fewer miles on it. Samantha Stout, a service adviser at Theo’s, found the discrepancy on the vehicle’s Carfax report.
“It says that the mileage was 151,000 with a note of mileage inconsistency,” Stout said. “The mileage before that was 248,000 miles.”
By replacing the instrument cluster, someone reduced the car’s mileage by 97,000 miles.
Glen Berry, a service manager at Theo’s, showed WGCL the instrument cluster after it was removed. It looked normal, until he pulled back the semi-transparent cover covering the warning lights. Berry says when you press start or turn the ignition, cars are designed to display all warning lights as a self-check.
On King-Whitby’s Camry, everything lit except for the check engine light.
“Upon trying to see why it doesn’t work, we actually started peeling the covering back, and you can see they put a little piece of electrical tape on it to black out where that light was on,” Berry said.
By covering the check engine light, Berry said a seller could make it appear there was nothing wrong with the car and that it would easily pass emissions.
“This was intentional,” Berry said. “They knew what they were doing.”
WGCL went to AP Auto Repairs in Douglasville, Georgia, and asked the sellers for an explanation. Employees of the company claimed the car’s previous seller must have tampered with it.
King-Whitby has since received a $4,000 cash refund from AP Auto Repairs.
Whitby said the money is going into the bank, but when she buys her next used car, she will pay for a pre-purchase inspection.
Copyright 2022 WGCL via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/06/08/this-was-intentional-mechanic-warns-engine-light-tape-scam-used-cars/ | 2022-06-09T01:07:47Z |
Local Entrepreneur Passionate about Providing Community with High-End, Premium Juices, Smoothies, Bowls & Bites
ESTERO, Fla., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Estero residents now have a new go-to spot to boost their immune system, cleanse, and eat and drink purely natural products. Clean Juice, the original USDA-certified organic juice bar franchise, opened its newest location at 19257 Highland Oaks Drive.
The Estero fast-casual juice bar is owned and operated by health and wellness advocate Mark Heinold. Mark and his wife have been involved in the health and wellness sphere for a number of years. The pair wanted to bring a healthy food option to the area for members of the community. Mark did some research, found Clean Juice, and opened their first location in Naples in 2021. After much success at their first location, and a realization that more healthy options are needed in the area, the couple decided to open their second location in Estero.
"Clean Juice is 100% organic, which separates us from our competitors," said Mark. "We care about providing our community access to a healthy option, and want to continue to grow in the area."
As the original USDA-certified organic juice bar franchise with nearly 100 open stores nationwide, Clean Juice sources only the highest-quality, premium ingredients for its cold-pressed juices, smoothies, açaí and greenoa bowls, toasts, wraps and more. Clean Juice aims to provide the perfect nutrition that comes only from organic food. Clean Juice has 10 heavily-dense nutrient cold-pressed juices made fresh daily, non-pasteurized and without heat, resulting in no enzymes being damaged. Also known for its dozens of superfood add-ons, Clean Juice offers fresh, organic spices that can be added to smoothies and juices for added health benefits.
For more information about the Clean Juice opening in Estero, please visit www.cleanjuice.com or call 239-676-1139.
While the concept of juicing has been around since the 1970s, co-founders Landon and Kat Eckles discovered a market need for an all-organic juice bar and healthier fast food options. With no existing concept, they created their own store in Charlotte, N.C. that ultimately led to franchising and a mission to provide communities with a healthy and delicious organic product. Since June 2016, the company has sold over 140 franchises in 23 states.
Realizing the importance of an organic, plant-based diet, co-founders Landon and Kat Eckles started Clean Juice in 2016 as the first and only USDA-certified organic juice bar franchise. Rooted in "healthy body and a strong spirit" (3 John 1-2) scripture, Clean Juice offers organic açaí bowls, cold-pressed juices, smoothies, and other healthy food to on-the-go families in a warm and welcoming retail experience across the nation. The brand has more than 80 locations across the country. For more information about Clean Juice, its leadership team and its core values, please visit www.cleanjuice.com and for franchise opportunities, please visit www.cleanjuicefranchising.com.
Media Contact: Colleen Sweeney, Fishman PR, csweeney@fishmanpr.com, 847-945-1300
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SOURCE Clean Juice | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/06/08/estero-has-gone-organic-with-new-usda-certified-juice-bar/ | 2022-06-08T18:11:44Z |
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