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- Lunit participated in the "Indonesia AI Healthcare Course," organized by South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT as a platform to experience AI image analysis solution and share tuberculosis diagnosis technology
- The program aimed to increase awareness of the values of AI-assisted tuberculosis diagnosis, featuring technology demonstrations and field visits.
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lunit (KRX: 328130.KQ) announced it had participated in the "Indonesia AI Healthcare Course," hosted by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) of the Ministry of Science and ICT, from August 22 to 31.
The "Indonesia AI Healthcare Course" featured on-site training courses and business meetings for officials in the field of information and communications technology (ICT) from target countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee. 15 officials from the Indonesian Ministry of Health and related experts were invited to partake in the program.
In cooperation with STOP-TB Partnership Korea, the Korean National Tuberculosis Association (KNTA), and Masan National Tuberculosis Hospital, the program conducted specialized lectures in the field of AI healthcare and tuberculosis diagnosis, including a lecture on "Global Tuberculosis Prevention Strategy and Improving Tuberculosis Diagnosis" by Professor Ho-joon Son of Seoul National University Medical School, as well as a field trip to observe the AI-assisted tuberculosis screening process.
Lunit delivered a lecture on the value of AI in tuberculosis screening, followed by a product demonstration of Lunit INSIGHT CXR, a CE-marked AI software that detects abnormalities via chest x-ray. During the demonstration, visiting participants had the chance to experience the entire x-ray and Lunit AI screening process.
"This invitational course was a meaningful opportunity to introduce South Korea's AI-based tuberculosis screening technology to Indonesian healthcare officials," said Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit. "With NIPA's continued support, we anticipate the expansion of our AI-based tuberculosis screening model to Indonesia and the greater ASEAN region."
In March 2021, Lunit INSIGHT CXR was recommended by the WHO (World Health Organization) Consolidated Guidelines on Tuberculosis as one of the computer-aided detection (CAD) software that can be used in place of human readers for TB screening in populations aged 15 years and older. Lunit INSIGHT CXR detects suspicious lesions in chest x-ray images, helping radiologists distinguish suspected disease areas by providing the location of the lesion with an abnormality score that reflects the AI's confidence level. The AI solution can detect 10 of the most common chest abnormalities, including supporting tuberculosis screening, with 97-99% accuracy.
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| 2022-09-07T13:24:28Z
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NEW YORK, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE: VRT).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that: (a) purchased or otherwise acquired Vertiv securities between February 24, 2021, and February 23, 2022, inclusive; and/or (b) purchased Vertiv shares in or traceable to the Company's secondary public offering of Class A common stock conducted on or around November 4, 2021.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until May 23, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Vertiv Holdings Co issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company could not adequately respond to supply chain issues and inflation by increasing its prices; (2) as a result of the increasing costs, Vertiv's earnings would be adversely impacted; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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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| 2022-05-06T11:50:36Z
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MCKINNEY — Temple’s offense flashed its potential during Saturday afternoon’s lightning-delayed season opener against McKinney but never quite found its footing. The Wildcats’ defense, however, stood its ground plenty and added some boom before, during and after the rain.
Temple stopped the Lions on fourth down four times, the last with less than 4 minutes to play in the fourth quarter of a seven-point ballgame, and Josh Donoso’s interception with 19 seconds to go sealed Temple’s gritty 17-10 victory at sometimes sunny, sometimes rainy and always humid McKinney ISD Stadium.
“We came out pretty slow but made the adjustments we needed to make to finish,” said Donoso, one of seven defensive players who made their first varsity starts for the Wildcats. “We played calm and we were told not to hesitate, so we did not hesitate one bit.”
Newcomers in defensive lineman Kevin Stockton and defensive backs O’Ryan Peoples and Steven Jackson — who played at Troy a year ago — were credited with eight tackles apiece. Veteran Naeten Mitchell also had eight stops.
Bryan Jackson needed 26 carries to account for 108 of McKinney’s 143 yards rushing. The 6-foot-1, 230-pound running back’s 4-yard touchdown run with 10:12 left in the fourth quarter got the Lions — who lost starting quarterback Keldric Luster to injury midway through the second quarter — within 17-10.
McKinney started its next possession on the Temple 38-yard line, with eyes on at least tying the contest. Facing fourth-and-6 at the Wildcats 22, backup signal-caller Owen Fann rolled to his left to avoid the rush from Temple’s Ka’Morion Carter and threw incomplete.
“I was really proud of our defense,” said Temple head coach Scott Stewart, whose squad surrendered 234 total yards. “We gave up 55, 60 pounds a man. For them to hold that kind of crew, I was really proud of how they stood up against that running game.”
McKinney, which held a 15-minute advantage in time of possession, had the ball one final time, but Donoso jumped an out-route to come up with the clinching interception.
“They’re a power offense. They like to run it down people’s throats,” Donoso said. “That wasn’t something we could let happen and we made some adjustments to that, too.”
Temple quarterback Reese Rumfield finished 5-of-13 passing for 147 yards and a touchdown. Four of his five completions went for at least 18 yards. His 1-yard sneak across the goal line put Temple up 17-3 with 1:33 remaining in the third.
Mikal Harrison-Pilot’s 33-yard TD reception in the second quarter went toward his four catches for 75 yards. Deshaun Brundage managed a team-high 47 yards rushing on an otherwise difficult day running the ball for the Wildcats, who tallied 219 total yards.
“We won. It was a sloppy win, but we got the job done,” Rumfield said. “Our offense can be better. We showed, once we clicked and got rolling, what it can do.
“I’m proud of the win but we have a lot more potential in us. We’ll get there.”
The Wildcats offense faced tough sledding for a majority of the first half when they were held to minus-4 yards in the first quarter and just three points through the first 23 minutes.
But because Temple’s defense forced a pair of punts and made two fourth-down stops, it gave the offense time to find its rhythm through early rain drops. Eventually lightning struck, in more ways than one.
The Wildcats doubled their first-half yardage total on their final drive of the half, traveling 80 yards in seven plays and 2 minutes. Harrison-Pilot had a 15-yard carry and a 22-yard reception to march Temple into McKinney territory before Rumfield tossed a seeing-eye pass to the senior receiver, who tumbled into the end zone down the left sideline for the 33-yard score.
It was the burst the Wildcats needed and was followed by lightning in the vicinity with 1:05 to go before halftime that prompted what amounted to a 1-hour stoppage that served as the halftime break.
When play resumed, Temple added Garcia’s extra point for a 10-0 lead.
After time expired in the second quarter, the game immediately moved to the third period. Linebacker Taurean York made an appearance on offense and had his number called on two consecutive running plays on Temple’s first drive of the second half, fumbling the second carry. McKinney’s Xavier Filsaime picked up the loose ball and returned it 49 yards to the Wildcats 11.
The Lions managed just Luke Watkins’ 21-yard field goal to make it 10-3.
“We put ourselves in some horrible situations. We’ve got a lot of work to do, both sides of the ball. We have to figure out who we are and what we are. The kids played hard enough, but we’ll work on it,” Stewart said. “These kids want to be successful. We have to clean some stuff up. I challenged them to have a better focus and a higher intensity at practice. We didn’t practice bad, just wasn’t enough focus.”
On the legs of Luster — who was seen after halftime with his right hand taped — and Jackson, McKinney opened the game with a 12-play drive that stalled mostly because of an offensive facemask penalty.
Temple’s defense then proceeded to stuff running back D’Kedrion Abrams on fourth-and-1 from the Lions 48, hold Dylan Rhodes to 10 yards on fourth-and-22 at the Wildcats 29 and force a punt on McKinney’s next possessions.
In between, Jeremiah Lennon’s 72-yard catch-and-run set up Garcia’s 28-yard field goal that gave Temple a 3-0 lead at the 9-minute mark of the second quarter.
“Got a win and I used to not appreciate those,” said Stewart, who made sure the players and coaches remained on the sideline to watch Temple’s band perform postgame. “My old man chastised me quite a bit for that because I’d be fussy or whatever. He was like, ‘Hey look, you’re never going to have enough wins, so enjoy the ugly ones and the pretty ones.’”
Temple next hosts its home opener at 7:30 p.m. Friday against Willis at Wildcat Stadium.
TEMPLE 17, MCKINNEY 10
Temple 0 10 7 0 — 17
McKinney 0 0 3 7 — 10
Tem — Marcos Garcia 28 field goal
Tem — Mikal Harrison-Pilot 33 pass from Reese Rumfield (Garcia kick)
McK — Luke Watkins 21 field goal
Tem — Rufield 1 run (Garcia kick)
McK— Bryan Jackson 4 run (Watkins kick)
TEAM STATISTICS
Tem McK
First downs 9 11
Rushes-yards 29-72 43-144
Passing yards 147 90
Comp.-Att.-Int. 5-13-0 8-16-1
Punts-average 6-31.8 3-42.7
Fumbles-lost 2-1 1-0
Penalties-yards 10-75 5-60
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING — Temple: Deshaun Brundage 14-47, Harrison-Pilot 3-19, Rumfield 5-10, Rymond Johnson 4-(-7), York 2-8, team 1-(-5); McKinney: Jackson 26-108, Khali Best 3-30, D’Kedrion Abrams 6-16, Keldric Luster 2-12, Sincere Blakely 1-5, Owen Fann 2-(-27).
PASSING — Temple: Rumfield 5-13-0-147; McKinney: Luster 8-11-0-90, Fann 3-5-1-18.
RECEIVING — Temple: Harrison-Pilot 4-75, Jeremiah Lennon 1-72; McKinney: Myles Elam 4-38, Dylan Rhodes 3-50, Jackson 1-2.
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BOSTON, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Overjet, the dental industry leader in artificial intelligence solutions, is pleased to share that Dr. Wardah Inam, CEO and co-founder of Overjet, has been selected as the recipient of the "Excellence in Industry" Award for 2022 from the Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Fund. The 2022 Shils Innovator Award is given in recognition of Dr. Inam's innovation and entrepreneurial role for advancing oral health and the use of Augmented Intelligence/Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning as a diagnostic aid for dentistry.
The Shils Awards are given annually in recognition of individuals, organizations, and programs from all parts of the oral health community who contribute to the advancement of the practice of dentistry and the delivery of oral healthcare to all people.
"Since we first conceived of these awards, they've prominently celebrated the innovators, big thinkers, and fearless entrepreneurs whose vision for our industry has shaped the oral health of so many," said Steven W. Kess, President of the Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Fund's Board of Directors. "The honorees continue to exemplify Dr. Shil's belief that the values of entrepreneurship and education create long-lasting and far-reaching impacts when carried into the public health sector."
The prestigious award's 2022 recipients include Dr. Rena D'Souza, Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, and Dr. Mark Wolff, Dean of University of Pennsylvania's School of Dental Medicine.
"The Excellence in Industry award is a testament to the Overjet team in pioneering dental AI innovations that advance oral health and to our partners and customers who are trailblazers in dental AI adoption," said Dr. Inam. "Overjet's mission is to improve oral health by creating a future that is clinically precise, efficient, and patient-centric. I'm honored by the Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Fund's recognition of Overjet's significant positive impact on the oral health community and the health of the public."
The recipients of the Shils Award will be formally honored at the Shils 20th Anniversary Event at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in Philadelphia on October 19, 2022.
Founded by experts from MIT and Harvard School of Dentistry, Overjet is the industry leader in dental artificial intelligence, helping both providers and payers improve patient care. By combining deep expertise in dentistry and advanced engineering, Overjet develops accurate and quantified ways to detect pathologies, and integrates actionable insights into workflows to operationalize a feedback loop between providers, payers, and patients. Every day, some of the largest DSOs and insurance companies rely on accurate information provided by Overjet's FDA-cleared platform to drive better care and service to patients. Learn more at overjet.com.
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| 2022-08-22T17:56:11Z
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With a solid combination of a 1/1.8-inch sensor, f/1.6 aperture in specifications and AI-activated spotlights and siren in software intelligence, the ANNKE AC800 will lead the path for next-generation PoE cameras.
HONG KONG, May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ANNKE, a leading home security solution brand, today unveils its innovative security camera built on the success of its acclaimed 4K PoE series. The popular ANNKE 4K PoE series of security cameras has been widely recognized as the best in 4K category with ever-lasting durability, advanced AI detection and highly responsive notifications all without monthly subscriptions. The newly-launched ANNKE AC800 not only keeps all these features but also brings in the all-new active deterrence system by two 50 lumen spotlights and a blaring 95 decibel siren, both of which can be triggered by locally-processed AI.[i]
"In an event of residential break-in, the typical surveillance camera system we use today only reacts by sending an alert to your phone and capturing footage only to be handed out to police as potential proof of evidence thereafter. It's usually too late for you to react to a break-in in the middle of 2 am when seeing a phone notification." said ANNKE's Chief Product Officer Jerry Yao. "With the introduction of an AI-activated audio visual alarm system, the ANNKE AC800 will not just react but proactively keep crime from happening by automated intelligence. The screaming alarm or fully customized prerecorded audio will create a significant psychological impact on the thieves. So do you to be alerted and prepared."
Build On the Legacy of ANNKE 4K PoE and NightChromaTM Series
Like the C800, the AC800 equips with the same 2.8mm lens and reproduces true-to-life 4K clarity video. Moreover, it gets crisper and smoother due to a 1.4 times bigger sensor and a higher fps than the old C800. The 1/1.8-inch progressive CMOS sensor captures more details both day or night while efficiently reducing noises in the dark with 3D Digital Noise Reduction. The f/1.6 big aperture increases lights through the lens by a 25% margin comparing to a f/2.0 aperture camera, making it render vivid color night vision at 0.003 lux, that's as dim as a moonless night, almost on par with the NightChromaTM series.
Revolutionary 7 Advanced Motion and Perimeter Events Detection
Empowered by leading machine-learning platforms, the AC800 has the best-in-class AI analysis on motion and smart events. Customers can set four perimeter detection from Line Crossing/Region Entrance/Region Exit to Intrusion Detection, one facial capture and two human/vehicle detection to stay focused on what's important and to talk back in real-time via the two-way audio, pretending they were home even in miles away.
Pricing and Availability
The AC800 is available in ANNKE Global, British and German stores now with a MSRP of $199.99, £169.99 and€199.99 respectively. The camera is also compatible with all currently-listed ANNKE 4K NVR among which the 8CH and 16CH ones already support Alexa and others are to support by the end of June this year.
For more about the pricing and promotions of ANNKE AC800 and 4K security camera systems, please visit www.annke.com.
About Us
ANNKE, created for security, aims to provide the finest and best smart security cameras and systems for home and business owners worldwide. ANNKE's deep expertise in product design, smart home connectivity and cutting-edge capabilities enable it to deliver the most seamless security solutions for users. ANNKE is always striving to develop innovative technology to provide customers with the easiest and most straightforward security products.
[i] The turret model has a single 50 lumen LED and the bullet one has two LEDs.
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| 2022-05-23T16:54:10Z
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Build-A-Bear Workshop Recognized by Consumers as a Top Retailer
ST. LOUIS, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW), a beloved brand and leading interactive retailtainment concept appealing to a wide array of consumers who enjoy the fun of making their own furry friends, has been recognized as one of Newsweek's America's Best Retailers of 2022. This prestigious award is presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. Following the announcement of being named a best retailer, Build-A-Bear was also honored to be named on Newsweek's list of America's Fastest Growing Online Shops 2022. This award is also presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc.
"Following our most profitable year in our nearly 25-year history, we continue to be delighted to provide guests of all ages a unique experience to celebrate and commemorate life moments by creating their own furry friends in both our retail stores and online. We are honored to be named as a best retailer by Newsweek and also receive recognition for the ongoing accomplishments of our digital transformation with the Fastest Growing Online Shops award. With over 200 million furry friends made, we take great pride in our mission to add a little more heart to life each day for our guests, so we are thrilled to receive both of these awards," said Sharon Price John, Build-A-Bear Workshop President and Chief Executive Officer.
Guests can visit one of nearly 500 interactive brick-and-mortar Workshop locations and engage in a hands-on entertaining process to create their very own, personalized furry friends. The experience begins by choosing from a wide array of plush animals and then stuffing them with love with the assistance of a BEAR BUILDER® associate including participating in Build-A-Bear's iconic Heart Ceremony. A wide range of clothing and accessories allows each new friend to be customized and unique. The process completes when Guests fill out a birth certificate and then take the new furry friend home in a signature Cub Condo™ carrying case. The personal nature of the interactive experience often fosters a lasting and emotional brand connection.
Guests can also engage in unique digital experiences and shop online at www.buildabear.com including the interactive "Bear-Builder", the animated "Bear Builder 3D Workshop" and the age-gated adult-focused "Bear Cave". They also have the option to select home delivery by choosing Buy Online, Pickup In Store and have their purchase ready to pick up at a local Workshop. To explore gift options by occasion, recipient, category and price, guests can visit the Build-A-Bear GiftShop.
The America's Best Retailers of 2022 were identified based on the results of an independent survey of customers across the U.S. who have shopped at the retail stores in-person in the past three years. Shoppers who participated in the survey were asked how likely they were to recommend a retailer to friends and family as well as how they ranked the retailer on factors including price, selection and overall atmosphere.
America's Fastest Growing Online Shops 2022 were selected based on an evaluation consisting of objective KPIs based on Sales, Traffic, and Platform Quality. In total, more than 10,000 of the largest online shops were evaluated using Statista and online databases, online directories and price comparison websites.
ABOUT BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP, INC. (NYSE: BBW)
Build-A-Bear is a multi-generational global brand focused on its mission to "add a little more heart to life" appealing to a wide array of consumer groups who enjoy the personal expression in making their own "furry friends" to celebrate and commemorate life moments. Nearly 500 interactive brick-and-mortar retail locations operated through a variety of formats provide guests of all ages a hands-on entertaining experience, which often fosters a lasting and emotional brand connection. The company also offers engaging e-commerce/digital purchasing experiences on www.buildabear.com including its online "Bear-Builder", the animated "Bear Builder 3D Workshop" and its age-gated adult-focused "Bear Cave". In addition, extending its brand power beyond retail, Build-A-Bear Entertainment, a subsidiary of Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc., is dedicated to creating engaging content for kids and adults that fulfills the company's mission, while the company also offers products at wholesale and in non-plush consumer categories via licensing agreements with leading manufacturers. Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. (NYSE: BBW) posted total revenue of $411.5 million in fiscal 2021. For more information, visit the Investor Relations section of buildabear.com.
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| 2022-07-08T16:19:33Z
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The Tennessee based lender joins the multi-channel fintech as its newest retail group.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lower, the multi-channel fintech aimed at creating wealth through homeownership, today announced the addition of Honor Home Loans to the company.
Lower's platform allows distributed retail partners to connect into its infrastructure to benefit from its streamlined tech, delivering the best customer experience. Its channels include retail, direct to consumer, wholesale, and Mortgage as a Service. Honor joins its retail channel.
"The team at Honor is on top of their game and we're proud they chose to join the Lower family. Their relentless pursuit of a simple, helpful path to homeownership aligns perfectly with our mission," said co-founder and managing partner Mike Baynes. "They prioritize the customer experience and we know our customers and partners will get a five-star experience working with the Honor team. We look forward to seeing what they'll accomplish with us."
Derek Vandlen is the Vice President of Honor, joining Lower with more than two decades of lending experience. He started in the industry after serving in the United States Army, which has fed directly into his team's commitment to help veterans and first responders.
"In Lower, we found a parent company that's interested in partnering with us to make the customer journey the best it can be. The team cares about innovating and solving pain points often found in the homebuying process and we're excited to be a part of it," said Vandlen. "In addition, we'll be expanding our product and service offerings to enhance our already great service from start to finish."
Joining Vandlen are more than 60 team members focused on helping make customers' paths to homeownership as simple as possible, specifically first time homebuyers. Honor Home Loans has a number of branches in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama.
About Lower
Lower's multi-channel fintech platform helps consumers build wealth through homeownership, no matter where they are in their life's journey. Our products for mortgage, banking, insurance, and real estate provide customers with an intuitive ecosystem to simplify their homeownership goals, whether it's their first home or their last. Lower is a national and local best place to work, and the naming rights partner of Lower.com Field, home of the Columbus Crew.
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| 2022-08-02T15:54:36Z
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Man arrested after gunfire reported in Port Charlotte neighborhood
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (WWSB) - Charlotte County deputies arrested a man early Wednesday who they say was screaming incoherently and shooting two handguns in a Port Charlotte community.
Homeowners in the area of Glendale Avenue called 911 just after 1 a.m. to report the sound of gunshots. Callers told deputies they could hear a man screaming while he ran between homes in the area. When deputies arrived, they located Ralph A. Marok, 59, who deputies say appeared irrational. He was taken to a local hospital.
Detectives found 19 .40 caliber and .45 caliber shell casings between the two homes. Several vehicles were struck by gunfire. Two handguns were found discarded in the yard of two different homes on Glendale Avenue.
The homes hit were occupied, with one bullet striking the bedroom window where a person was sleeping. No injuries were reported.
Marok was later taken to the Charlotte County Jail. Several firearms have been removed from Marok’s home as the criminal investigation continues.
Marok has been charged with shooting into a vehicle or dwelling, and criminal mischief.
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| 2022-04-08T12:33:40Z
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GUANGZHOU, China, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yatsen Holding Limited ("Yatsen" or the "Company") (NYSE: YSG), a leading Chinese beauty company, today announced that it will release its unaudited financial results for the first quarter of 2022 on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, before the open of the U.S. markets.
The Company's management will hold a conference call on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 7:30 am U.S. Eastern Time (7:30 pm Beijing/Hong Kong Time) to discuss the financial results. Listeners may access the call by dialing the following numbers:
A live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.yatsenglobal.com/.
A replay of the conference call will be accessible by phone one hour after the conclusion of the live call at the following numbers, until May 31, 2022:
About Yatsen Holding Limited
Yatsen Holding Limited (NYSE: YSG) is a leading player in China's beauty market with a mission to create an exciting new journey of beauty discovery for consumers in China and around the world. Founded in 2016, the Company has launched and acquired multiple color cosmetics and skincare brands including Perfect Diary, Little Ondine, Abby's Choice, Galénic, DR.WU (its mainland China business), Eve Lom, and Pink Bear. The Company's flagship brand, Perfect Diary, is one of the top color cosmetics brands in China in terms of online retail sales value. Leveraging its digitally native direct-to-customer business model, the Company has built core capabilities which enable it to launch and scale multiple brands quickly while offering a wide selection of products to a growing variety of customers. The Company reaches and engages with customers directly both online and offline, with expansive presence across all major e-commerce, social and content platforms in China.
For more information, please visit http://ir.yatsenglobal.com/.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Yatsen Holding Limited
Investor Relations
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The Piacente Group, Inc.
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Tel: +86-21-6039-8363
E-mail: yatsen@thepiacentegroup.com
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The Piacente Group, Inc.
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| 2022-05-17T09:59:36Z
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Houston area's leading garden center and nursery expands to serve growing community
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cornelius Nursery, the leading gardening and landscaping destination for Houston-area homeowners, is opening its fifth Houston-metro location in Spring on Friday, May 6.
The new, 87,000-square-foot nursery will have a captivating selection of begonias, vinca, boxwoods, hydrangeas, abelias and more spring favorites for the garden and patio. In addition to other everyday gardening and landscaping essentials, Cornelius carries a wide variety of pottery, private-label soils and plant foods specifically formulated for Texas gardening conditions.
Cornelius strives to offer trending plants that are popular and well-suited to the Houston climate, and the Spring location will offer access to expert advice from Texas Nursery & Landscape Association Certified Nursery Professionals.
"At Cornelius Nursery, we strive to offer guests a wide selection of high-quality plants, including flowers and herbs, in addition to outdoor decor," said Cornelius Nursery CEO Marce Ward. "As we continue to expand in the Houston area, the growing Spring community is the perfect destination for a Cornelius location to offer new homeowners access to plants and gardening tools that fit the market."
Starting at 8:30 a.m. on May 6, a grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting will welcome the Spring community to the new nursery. Customers who sign up for Cornelius' Blooming Rewards will have a chance to win door prizes, including gift cards, hanging baskets, wind chimes, and indoor and outdoor plants.
For more information on Cornelius Nursery and the new Spring location, visit https://www.calloways.com/cornelius/.
ABOUT CORNELIUS NURSERY
Cornelius Nursery, a subsidiary of North Richland Hills, Texas-based Calloway's Nursery, has been a leading destination for Houston-area homeowners, gardeners and green thumbs since 1938. With five locations in the Houston area, Cornelius offers a wide variety of plants, flowers, shrubs, trees, vines, gardening supplies and decorative items, along with expert planting services through Pick & Plant and Landscape Design and Installation to help customers beautify any exterior space. For more information and inspiration, follow Cornelius Nursery on Facebook and Instagram @corneliusnursery.
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ORLANDO, Fla., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE: TUP), a leading global consumer products company, today announced the appointment of Jim Van Ingen as an Executive Officer of the company as Executive Vice President of Supply Chain.
Mr. Van Ingen joins Tupperware with career experience in global manufacturing and distribution across the automotive and industrial industries. Most recently, he served as President of the Automotive Powertrain Components business at Novares Group, a French plastic and metal automotive OEM components manufacturer with more than 40 sites worldwide. In this role, he had full responsibility for the company's seven U.S. and Mexico operating facilities. During his time with Novares, he also served as President of the Automotive Body components business responsible for maintaining cost and efficiency levels during a volatile period for semiconductor chip and plastic resin sourcing.
Prior to Novares, Mr. Van Ingen served as President and CEO of Bway Corporation, a $1.5 billion private equity portfolio company, and led transformation initiatives across nearly 40 global manufacturing sites for The Marmon Group/Berkshire Hathaway by launching new innovations, enhancing customer experiences, and redirecting initiatives and capital. Mr. Van Ingen began his career with ITW, a Fortune 200 global industrial company, concluding his 20-year tenure by running ITW's Automotive, Medical and Appliance portfolio of autonomous business units.
"We're building a business that is as big as the Tupperware brand, and in order to do so, we're expanding into new channels, new product categories and new methods of distribution. Having a skilled and experienced supply chain leader like Jim is exactly the talent we need to help push our omnichannel growth plan forward," said Miguel Fernandez, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tupperware Brands. "Especially in today's challenging operating and supply chain environment, we believe that Jim's global operational expertise, successful turnaround experience, and ability to build high-performing supply chain teams around the world will be an especially valuable asset to our rapidly evolving company."
At Tupperware, Mr. Van Ingen will oversee the Company's global supply chain strategy and execution. He will be responsible for operational performance, including delivering against product and service level agreements, cost objectives, and introducing processes, infrastructure, and technology to drive operational excellence. He will lead the Company's manufacturing, procurement, distribution, and quality teams to reduce cost given inflationary pressures on areas like resin and logistics, strategically optimize the company's manufacturing and distribution footprint, and determine the future vision for sourcing efforts to support the company's transformation. He will also be responsible for leading the company's environmental, social and governance strategy, and further integrating ESG principles throughout the global organization.
About Tupperware Brands Corporation
Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE: TUP) is a leading global consumer products company that designs innovative, functional and environmentally responsible products that people love and trust. Founded in 1946, Tupperware's signature container created the modern food storage category that revolutionized the way the world stores, serves and prepares food. Today, this iconic brand has more than 8,500 functional design and utility patents for solution-oriented kitchen and home products. With a purpose to nurture a better future, Tupperware® products are an alternative to single-use items. The Company distributes its products into nearly 70 countries primarily through independent representatives around the world. For more information, visit Tupperwarebrands.com or follow Tupperware on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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WASHINGTON, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hamilton Clark Sustainable Capital, Inc., an institutional investment bank focused on decarbonization and climate change solutions, announced today the appointment of Robert H. Edwards, Jr. as a Managing Director - Advisory, based in Washington, DC, and Allison K. Prescott as a Managing Director, based in New York City.
Edwards brings 25 years of experience in the climatetech, renewable energy, electric vehicles, and related sectors. He has held senior management positions with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Loans Programs Office (LPO), Kilpatrick Townsend, J.P. Morgan, and Hunton & Williams.
Prescott brings 13 years of experience in Private Equity Commercial Real Estate. She has worked as an equity investor with experience in development, acquisitions, fundraising, fund and joint venture formation, and debt financing at Creek Lane Capital and PNC Realty Investors.
"We are committed to supporting companies and projects delivering sustainable solutions to address the challenges of climate change. To that end, we are extremely pleased to have Rob's experience in project finance and the DOE's Loan Programs Office, and Allison's experience in the real estate industry," said John McKenna, HamiltonClark's CEO.
In his new role, Edwards will initially focus on advisory mandates for companies considering applying to the DOE Loan Programs Office (currently with $40 billion in lending authority), emerging climate tech and clean energy venture backed companies, companies bringing new technologies and services to the electric grid, and companies participating in the U.S. offshore wind industry supply chain.
Prescott will focus on the Built Environment, which generates nearly 40% of annual CO2 emissions. Transformation in this sector is a critical component to achieving Net-Zero by 2050. She plans to work with companies bringing new technologies and advanced materials to real estate and construction.
"Raising capital for companies leading the energy transition requires a hands-on approach, domain expertise and a seamless integration of advisory and execution capabilities to help drive new technologies to scale," said McKenna. "What sets us apart from other Wall Street investment banks in this space is our 30 years of experience, our entrepreneurial approach, and our determination to assist companies that are overlooked by other firms."
About Hamilton Clark Sustainable Capital, Inc.
HamiltonClark has been working with private and publicly traded companies for over 30 years to successfully complete corporate financing, project financing, mergers and acquisitions, and advisory assignments. With 16 Managing Directors based in Boston, New York, Washington DC, St. Louis, Dallas, Houston and San Francisco, it's financing transactions are sourced from institutional private equity, venture capital, and strategic corporate investors focused on promising new projects and technologies. The firm also assists large companies in right sizing their business, divesting non-core operations, and shareholder value enhancement. Hamilton Clark Sustainable Capital, Inc. is registered broker dealer with the SEC and a member of FINRA and SIPC. Learn more at https://www.hamiltonclark.com
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ELIZABETH CITY, N.C., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys for the family of Andrew Brown Jr. released the following statements today memorializing one year since Brown was shot and killed by deputies with the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office.
The family's attorneys include nationally renowned Civil Rights attorneys Ben Crump (Ben Crump Law), Bakari Sellers (Strom Law Firm) and Harry Daniels (Law Offices of Harry Daniels).
"We want to remember Andrew Brown for his kindness and easy smile, his commitment to his family and his unshakable faith in his children. But it's hard to remember his life while there is no justice for his death. One year ago today, Andrew Brown's death left a hole in all of us and there's only one way to fill it."
- Bakari Sellers, Strom Law Firm
"We need not imagine Andrew Bown in death beyond what he was in life. He was like any of us, just a man. But that makes what happened to him so terrifying because, until his killers are held responsible, what happened to him can happen to any of us too."
- Ben Crump, Ben Crump Law
"How do you explain to a child why he never got to meet his grandfather? How do you explain to sons that they will never laugh with their father again? How do you tell a community that they'll never know that smile again and that, one year later, no one has been held responsible? No one can replace this loss. But we can find answers. We can and we will."
- Harry Daniels, Law Offices of Harry Daniels
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened an investigation into Brown's killing in April and the family's attorney's filed a federal lawsuit seeking more than $30 million in compensatory and punitive damages. The attorneys declined to comment on either the lawsuit or the investigation, however, as both are ongoing.
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Viola Davis is aware that not everyone loves her portrayal of Michelle Obama in the Showtime series, "The First Lady."
She told BBC News that it is "incredibly hurtful when people say negative things about your work" but comes with the territory.
"How do you move on from the hurt, from failure?" she said. "But you have to. Not everything is going to be an awards-worthy performance."
Some on social media have criticized Davis for her performance, focusing on what they viewed as her exaggerated facial expressions.
Davis told the media outlet that "Critics absolutely serve no purpose. And I'm not saying that to be nasty either."
She said those critics feel like "you're surrounded by people who lie to you and 'I'm going to be the person that leans in and tells you the truth'" which allows them to be "cruel."
"But ultimately I feel like it is my job as a leader to make bold choices," Davis said. "Win or fail it is my duty to do that."
"The First Lady" also stars Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt. It delves into the lives of the former first ladies.
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VIDEO: Brawl breaks out between Bengals, Rams during practice
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CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) - A brawl broke out Thursday during the joint practice session between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams.
Tempers between the two sides escalated when Bengals offensive lineman La’el Collins and Rams linebacker Leonard Floyd exchanged punches.
An ugly brawl between the two sides ensued.
Rams star Aaron Donald grabbed the helmet of a Bengals player and started swinging.
Eventually, Donald had a hold of two Bengals players’ helmets.
Regardless of his actions, Donald is unlikely to face discipline from the NFL, according to NFL Network reporter Tom Pelissero.
A suspension for Donald would have to come from the Rams, Pelissero explained.
He wrote on Twitter: “Clubs -- not the NFL -- are responsible for overseeing conduct of players at practice, including joint practices. So fair to say league discipline for Aaron Donald (or anyone else) in today’s brouhaha is unlikely.”
The joint practice session came to a halt following the altercation.
Bengals head coach Zac Taylor spoke after practice about what happened between the teams, saying: “Emotions run high. You’ve been working together for two days now, and that’s just some really competitive guys getting into it a little bit.”
The Bengals host the Rams Saturday at Paycor Stadium in the final preseason game.
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Manhunt underway for suspect in killing of officer, woman in Miss.
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK/Gray News) - A multi-agency search continued in Mississippi on Friday for a man suspected in the killings of a police officer and a woman.
Meridian police Officer Kennis Croom and the unidentified woman were fatally shot Thursday, officials said.
The suspect was identified as Dante Marquez Bender, 31, who is described as about 5 feet, 11 inches tall and 299 pounds.
He is believed to be driving a 2004 Black Nissan Armada with a tag reading “IMANI.” Bender may be armed and dangerous, officials said.
Anyone who sees him was told to call 911 immediately.
Anyone with information on Bender or his whereabouts can call 911 or East Mississippi Crime Stoppers at 1-855-485-8477. They may also call 1-855-642-5378 or send an email to MBITIPS@dps.ms.gov. All tips are anonymous.
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Taco Bell’s Mexican pizza is finally back
Published: May. 18, 2022 at 11:14 AM EDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
(CNN) - Taco Bell is bringing Mexican pizza back after a two-year absence from the menu.
The pizza will be available to order starting Thursday, but fans can get it Wednesday through a special offer on the Taco Bell app.
Taco Bell CEO Mark King said last month its Mexican pizza has a long history with the fast-food chain and customers have been calling for its return. Taco Bell announced last month that the fan-favorite item would be coming back.
Taco Bell is also joining forces with Dolly Parton and Doja Cat for a musical inspired by the Mexican pizza. It will make its debut on TikTok later this month.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading promotional products and solutions provider iPromo announced today that it has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for the second year in a row with three-year revenue growth of 256%, placing No. 2281 on Inc's. annual 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.
"In the new hybrid world we are focused on creating solutions that help with employee retention and relationship building through promotional products and corporate gifts," said Leo Friedman, iPromo's CEO & Founder. "Our clients love their online company stores, and our new SwagCloud™ platform that lets them store and distribute their products on demand. We are also passionate about reducing the 20% waste in our industry through EcoCloud™, a solution for reusing or donating unused swag. Our growth has come from being reliable branding and distribution partners for our clients."
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%. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
"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."
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.
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.
About iPromo
iPromo is a leader in providing solutions and swag for corporate gifting, trade shows, events and branding needs. The company has been curating and sourcing the newest, smartest and most impactful promotional products since its founding in 1999, working with over 45,000 clients to match branded items to their specific requests. For more information, visit www.ipromo.com
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NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for LOW, PGR, HD, LLY, and COST.
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Preliminary Itinerary Announced Ahead of FC Bayern Munich vs. Manchester City FC Friendly on July 23 at Lambeau Field
Published: Jul. 14, 2022 at 11:05 AM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Capacity Crowd Expected for Historic Match at NFL Venue; Event to be Broadcast Live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes
Match Week to Feature Fan Events on July 22 & July 23
CHICAGO, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CMN Sports, an international sports and entertainment multimedia company, announced a preliminary itinerary for all media and public events in advance of its upcoming international friendly featuring FC Bayern Munich and Manchester City FC on Saturday, July 23 (6:00 p.m.) at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI. The match will be broadcast live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes.
A capacity crowd is expected for the first-ever soccer match to be played at the iconic NFL venue—home of 13-Time NFL Champion Green Bay Packers. FC Bayern Munich and Manchester City FC, the respective 2021/22 Bundesliga and Premier League Champions, will be displaying their championship trophies at Lambeau Field on the day of the game. Fans will also enjoy pre and post-game ceremonies including a spectacular fireworks display.
Prior to the match, on Friday, July 22 and Saturday, July 23, both clubs are set to host fan events in the Green Bay area. Please see below for more detailed information.
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Industry Leading QSR Concept Flourishes Amid Increasing Inflation
WILMINGTON, N.C., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clean Eatz, one of the nation's leading wellness concepts in the QSR space, is on pace to achieve a rate of expansion in 2022 that will surpass any year prior for the restaurant franchise. The guiding metric for the brands success leading into 2023 being to establish 100 active locations by years end, as the Clean Eatz team has previously stated.
The franchise has signed 15 new agreements over the course of the past several months, bringing the total in development to over 80 headed into the third quarter. In addition, the brand has seen five new units open their doors and commence operations since the close of the first quarter, putting the total number of open and active units nationwide at 81 – a 17% growth rate since starting off the year.
Core to the expansion of the Clean Eatz brand has been the demand in communities and major metropolitan areas throughout the country for enhanced accessibility to "clean", affordable meal options.
"I'm so proud of what the Clean Eatz franchise has become," said Don Varady, Co-Founder of Clean Eatz. "As a concept built on helping educate people on the value and impact of healthy eating, nothing is more inspiring to our cause than seeing the continued system-wide expansion and growing recognition that the franchise builds on quarter by quarter."
Consumers are proving to be more cost-conscious than ever, given the record-high inflation taking its toll on everyday finances. Even still, most remain intent on prioritizing their personal health and dietary practices, which has worked well to highlight the cost-effective nature of the Clean Eatz menu. In turn, this has brought many new customers through our doors, acclimating themselves with the franchise and what it can afford them. It's also given the concept an AUV of over $1 million, an industry-leading figure capable of attracting the attention of aspiring business owners and future franchisees to the one-of-a-kind QSR brand.
"We've set a clear path for ourselves as far as what we can expect to accomplish and where we can anticipate standing come year's end," said Evonne Varady, Co-Founder of Clean Eatz. "Which means our team can focus on doing what we do best. Conceptualizing new menu items, building out the Clean Eatz community, and enacting means of helping our customers to live their best lives through the Clean Eatz culture."
To learn more about joining the health and wellness movement as a franchisee with Clean Eatz, visit https://www.cleaneatz.com/franchise.
ABOUT CLEAN EATZ
Clean Eatz, which launched in 2011 and started franchising in 2015, was co-founded by husband-and-wife duo Don and Evonne Varady, as a means of helping individuals and families change their lives by providing them with better nutrition options, a steady dose of health and wellness education, and a diverse support community that's committed to helping each other in becoming their best selves. By supplying such healthy alternatives, the Clean Eatz brand has continued to win over communities with their dine-in, grab-n-go, catering, marketplace, and weekly online meal plan selections.
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Seasoned ecommerce leader and former CMO of Lulus joins thredUP to oversee marketing and merchandising
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- thredUP (NASDAQ: TDUP), one of the largest online resale platforms for women's and kids' apparel, shoes, and accessories, today announced that Noelle Sadler has joined the company as its chief marketing officer (CMO). As thredUP sharpens its focus on inspiring a new generation of consumers to think secondhand first by capturing the mindshare of younger generations, Sadler will apply her expertise in ecommerce marketing and merchandising to secondhand. She is the company's first dedicated CMO in nearly five years and will report to thredUP President Anthony Marino, who previously oversaw marketing.
"thredUP has made great strides towards our mission of inspiring a new generation of consumers to think secondhand first. As we continue to shift consumer preference from new to used, it's imperative that we make shopping secondhand as easy as possible and provide a delightful experience for the next generation of thrifters," said Anthony Marino, President at thredUP. "Resale is taking hold of the modern shopper, and Noelle's expertise will help enhance the customer experience and in turn fuel growth among young buyers."
Sadler joins thredUP from online fashion retailer Lulus, where she most recently served as CMO. Previously, she held several marketing leadership roles at MAC Cosmetics and cofounded Retold Recycling, a subscription-based clothing clean out service. Sadler has a Master's degree in Business Administration from IESE Business School, a Certificate in Sustainable Business Strategy from Harvard Business School Online, and a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts in Film & Television Production from New York University.
"thredUP is undeniably changing the way the world shops and I'm eager to further the company's mission. My expertise is deeply rooted in consumer marketing and merchandising, while my passion closely aligns with sustainability and reducing fashion waste," said Sadler. "As a thredUP customer, I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to use my marketing expertise to drive awareness of the mission and enhance the customer experience and build brand loyalty. I look forward to building on the incredible work thredUP and its marketing team have already achieved."
This spring, the company kicked off several marketing campaigns aimed at reaching a new audience of thrifters and inspiring younger consumers to embrace secondhand over fast fashion. These initiatives included the company's first brand awareness campaign saturating the Seattle market, which coincided with a climate positive concert during Coachella to raise awareness of single-use fashion waste. The company also collaborated with celebrity stylist Karla Welch during both festival season and wedding season – two of the most wasteful fashion moments of the year - to help consumers dress responsibly for events without sacrificing style.
thredUP is transforming resale with technology and a mission to inspire a new generation of consumers to think secondhand first. By making it easy to buy and sell secondhand, thredUP has become one of the world's largest online resale platforms for women's and kids' apparel, shoes and accessories. Sellers love thredUP because we make it easy to clean out their closets and unlock value for themselves or for the charity of their choice while doing good for the planet. Buyers love shopping value, premium and luxury brands all in one place, at up to 90% off estimated retail price. Our proprietary operating platform is the foundation for our managed marketplace and consists of distributed processing infrastructure, proprietary software and systems and data science expertise. With thredUP's Resale-as-a-Service, some of the world's leading brands and retailers are leveraging our platform to deliver customizable, scalable resale experiences to their customers. thredUP has processed over 125 million unique secondhand items from 35,000 brands across 100 categories. By extending the life cycle of clothing, thredUP is changing the way consumers shop and ushering in a more sustainable future for the fashion industry.
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City leader accused of assaulting businessman at local debate
By Marlee Ginter
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LINCOLN, California (KOVR) — A Lincoln city leader is accused of hurling insults and even hitting one of his constituents at a local debate—and it was all caught on camera.
Now, city leaders are asking City Councilman William Lauritsen to resign, but he refuses, saying they’re not listening to his side of the story.
As candidates for U.S. Congress squared off at William Jessup University in Rocklin, the ones who really butted heads were in the audience.
Longtime local businessman Matthew Oliver, the owner of House of Oliver in Roseville, started a Facebook Live at the event—but what happened next, he didn’t see coming.
Oliver said, while asking questions to various local politicians, Lauritsen started harassing him until things escalated and even turned violent.
“It wasn’t until he took my phone that I realized this guy is completely and clearly out of line and I needed to get my phone back,” Oliver said. “I needed to get out of here.”
Oliver said what he was trying to do was “ask him questions and get real responses.”
Lauritsen paints a different picture.
“It was recording him and he hit me in the nose with it,” he said of Oliver’s phone.
Lauritsen said Oliver was being aggressive and all he regrets is not walking away sooner.
“He got really ono me, he started pushing me and everything like that. And he’s got his phone at me, so you’re not really seeing what he’s doing, you’re only seeing me,” Lauritsen said.
Lincoln Mayor Holly Andreatta is now pushing for Lauritsen to resign.
“Matthew Oliver is not an elected official. Bill Lauritsen is. He chose to run for council,” she said. “We hold them to a higher accountability. There’s a responsibility when you hold office and all he had to do was walk away.”
We asked Lauritsen if he pushes the envelope. Lauritsen said he doesn’t and added that what happened was “not appropriate but it’s what happens when two guys get together and start arguing.”
“Showing the world who he is needed to be done,” Oliver said. “I believe that he revealed his true character and his true nature.”
As for his seat, Lauritsen says he refuses to resign. The mayor said they can’t remove him and that it would be up to voters to do a recall. But city leaders are looking into censuring him, removing him from every committee and banning him from any city-paid events.
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GARDEN GROVE, Calif., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Beautiful Valley View Villas Senior Apartment Homes in Garden Grove are now managed by The REMM Group Multifamily Management Company. The luxury senior community has 178 units and joins three other properties that recently selected The REMM Group for property management. Those properties are Atlas at Arcadia, with 42 apartments renovated in 2021, Desert Boutique Apartments with 129 luxury units in Palm Springs. And Yucaipa Pointe – A New Commercial Retail center in Yucaipa.
Valley View Villas offers residents' spacious grounds with Mediterranean architecture and premium amenities.
Sara D'Elia, CEO of The REMM Group, said, "We have an exciting renovation of the beautiful property underway. The common areas are being enhanced with a new flooring, a fresh paint pallet, furniture, and lighting. A full exterior paint is underway and in the upcoming months, we will focus on renovations within the apartment homes. Residents are loving the updates!
"Today's seniors are dynamic, and Valley View Villas offers everything they want. The location is perfect for dining, entertainment, and shopping. There are golf courses, a dog park, marine sanctuary, and Los Alamitos Race Course nearby."
D'Elia added, "Our commitment to the community goes beyond offering a great place to live. We match our senior communities with managers and service people that love serving seniors. Because many of the residents are retired, they can relax, meet friends, and participate in scheduled activities in the newly renovated common areas, around the resort-style pool, game room and barbecue picnic area."
Valley View Villas residents benefit from the abundant senior service providers and businesses that have built up to serve nearby Leisure World Seal Beach, with over 9,000 seniors in residence.
The pet-friendly one bedroom, one bath, and two bedrooms, two bath apartments have air conditioning and patios or balconies.
The REMM Group is located at 207 W 20th Street Santa Ana, CA. They are an award-winning IREM Accredited Commercial Real Estate Management Organization (AMO). Their expanding portfolio includes multifamily, lease up, mixed-use and commercial properties. The REMM Group ranks in the top 10 companies nationwide in The Best Place to Work Multifamily 2022. For additional information contact Sara D'Elia at (714) 974-1010 x 213, sdelia(at)remmgroup(dot)com.
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- Fast casual concept celebrates grand opening with free chicken salad for a year to first 100 guests on August 2-
ATLANTA, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicken Salad Chick, the nation's only fast casual chicken salad restaurant concept, announced today the grand opening of its newest restaurant in Wesley Chapel, Florida, which will feature a drive-thru and patio dining. This location marks Chicken Salad Chick's 31st restaurant in the Sunshine State and continued growth in the Tampa area. Located at 25038 Wesley Chapel Blvd., Chicken Salad Chick Wesley Chapel will celebrate its grand opening on Tuesday, August 2, and will offer free chicken salad for a year to the first 100 guests.
During grand opening week, guests can expect to experience the Southern hospitality that Chicken Salad Chick is known for with specials and giveaways that include:
- Tuesday, August 2 – Free Chicken Salad for a Year – The first 100 guests will receive free chicken salad for a year! The first guest in line will receive one large Quick Chick of chicken salad per week for 52 weeks, and the next 99 guests will receive one large Quick Chick of chicken salad per month for 12 months. * Guests may arrive at 8 a.m. for grand opening day only.
- Wednesday, August 3 – The first 50 guests to purchase a Chick Trio will receive a free Chick Tumbler or Stainless-Steel Chick Water Bottle. **
- Thursday, August 4 – The first 50 guests to purchase a Chick Trio will receive a free Chick Tote Bag. **
- Friday, August 5 – The first 50 guests to purchase 2 Large Quick Chicks will receive a free Large Chick Cooler. Those who can't make the first 50 giveaway can join the restaurant all day for their buy 2 get 1 free special. **
The new Wesley Chapel restaurant will be owned and operated by successful multi-unit franchise owners Tammy and Brad Cochran of Tampa Bay CSC. Introduced to Chicken Salad Chick in 2007, the Cochrans opened their first location in 2015. Just seven years later, the husband-and-wife duo are now proud owners of five locations in the Tampa area with restaurants already open in East Fowler, Lutz, South Tampa and Brandon.
"We're thrilled to expand Chicken Salad Chick to Wesley Chapel," said Tammy Cochran. "We've received such phenomenal support from the Lutz community and are really looking forward to opening our second location nearby. From our made-from-scratch menu to our warm and welcoming atmosphere, we strive to be a spot that our guests look forward to coming to. We have no doubt that our Wesley Chapel Chick family will fall in love with the food and hospitality just like we did."
Chicken Salad Chick Wesley Chapel will be open for dine-in Monday – Saturday from 10:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m., with the drive-thru open until 9 p.m. For more information, visit www.chickensaladchick.com. Follow Chicken Salad Chick on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for the latest news and trends.
*Eligible winners must be over 16 years of age and are required to download and create an account on the Craving Credits app. Once the restaurant opens, guests will receive a unique code to enter into their Craving Credits app to receive their reward. All first 100 guests must make a purchase of The Chick meal or greater value.
**Must download the CSC App and be 16 years or older to purchase. Not valid with any other offers. Limit 1 reward per guest present.
For more information on giveaways and specials, visit https://www.facebook.com/ChickenSaladChickWesleyChapelFL/.
About Chicken Salad Chick
Chicken Salad Chick serves full-flavored, Southern-style chicken salad made from scratch and served from the heart. With more than a dozen original chicken salad flavors as well as fresh side salads, gourmet soups, signature sandwiches and delicious desserts, Chicken Salad Chick's robust menu is a perfect fit for any guest. Founded in Auburn, Alabama by Stacy and Kevin Brown in 2008, Chicken Salad Chick has grown to more than 205 restaurants in 17 states. Today, under the leadership of Scott Deviney and the Chicken Salad Chick team, the brand is continuing its rapid expansion with both franchise and company locations. Chicken Salad Chick has received numerous accolades including rankings in the 2022 Entrepreneur Franchise 500, Franchise Times' Fast & Serious for the second consecutive year, Fast Casual.com's top Movers and Shakers from 2018 to 2022, QSR's Best Franchise Deals in 2019 and 2020, and Franchise Business Review's Top Food Franchises in 2020 and 2021. See www.chickensaladchick.com for additional information.
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LONDON, UK, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Atlas ("Atlas" or the "Company") (NYSE: ATCO) announced today that its board of directors (the "Board") has received a non-binding proposal letter, dated August 4, 2022, from Poseidon Acquisition Corp. ("Poseidon"), an entity formed by certain affiliates of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited ("Fairfax"), certain affiliates of the Washington Family ("Washington"), David Sokol, Chairman of the Board of Atlas, and Ocean Network Express Pte. Ltd., and certain of their respective affiliates (the "Consortium"), to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Atlas, other than common shares owned by Fairfax, Washington, Mr. Sokol and certain executive officers of the Company, for $14.45 cash per common share.
Fairfax, Washington and Mr. Sokol, together with certain of their respective affiliates, collectively own more than 50% of the Company's outstanding common shares.
The proposal letter states that a transaction would be subject to two non-waivable conditions: approval and recommendation by a special committee of independent directors of the Board and approval by the holders of a majority of the outstanding common shares of the Company not owned by the Consortium. The proposal letter indicated the proposal may be modified or withdrawn at any time.
The Board intends to establish a special committee consisting of independent directors of the Board to consider the proposal.
Atlas cautions its shareholders and others considering trading in Atlas securities that Atlas has only recently received the proposal letter and has not had an opportunity to carefully review and evaluate the proposal or make any decision with respect to Atlas response to the proposal. The proposal constitutes only an indication of interest by Poseidon and does not constitute a binding commitment with respect to the proposed transaction or any other transaction. No agreement, arrangement or understanding between Atlas and Poseidon relating to any proposed transaction will be created unless definitive documentation is executed and delivered by the appropriate parties.
Atlas does not undertake any obligation to provide any updates with respect to this or any other transaction, or to provide any additional disclosures to reflect subsequent events, new information or future circumstances, except as required under applicable law.
About Atlas
Atlas is a leading global asset management company, differentiated by its position as a best-in-class owner and operator with a focus on disciplined capital deployment to create sustainable shareholder value. We target long-term, risk-adjusted returns across high-quality infrastructure assets in the maritime sector, energy sector and other infrastructure verticals. For more information, visit atlascorporation.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. All statements included in this press release other than statements of historical fact, including, but not limited to, expectations regarding the proposed transaction, the formation of a special committee of independent directors and the negotiation and consummation of any transaction are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements represent Atlas' estimates and assumptions only as of the date of this release and are not intended to give any assurance as to future results. As a result, you are cautioned not to rely on any forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements appear in a number of places in this release. Although these statements are based upon assumptions Atlas believes to be reasonable based upon available information, they are subject to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this release are estimates and assumptions reflecting the judgment of senior management and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond Atlas' control. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, all forward-looking statements should be considered in light of various important factors listed above and including, but not limited to, those set forth in "Item 3. Key Information—D. Risk Factors" in Atlas' Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2021 on Form 20-F filed with the SEC on March 24, 2022, and in its subsequent filings with the SEC. Atlas does not intend to revise any forward-looking statements in order to reflect any change in its expectations or events or circumstances that may subsequently arise. Atlas expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise any of these forward-looking statements, whether because of future events, new information, a change in Atlas' views or expectations, or otherwise. You should carefully review and consider the various disclosures included in Atlas' Annual Report and in Atlas' other filings made with the SEC that attempt to advise interested parties of the risks and factors that may affect Atlas' businesses, prospects and results of operations.
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TROY, Mich., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As Michigan's winter turns to early spring rains, municipalities need to keep a watchful eye on erosion control and slope destabilization possibilities around rivers, roadways, commercial sites and any site where excess water and loose soil conditions could trigger unwanted soil movements.
G2 Consulting Group, a Troy-based leader in geotechnical, environmental, and construction engineering services, works with communities, state agencies, commercial property owners and homeowners on preventative slope stabilization designs, and, when necessary, remediation efforts to repair failures.
"Snowmelt and spring rains are the two most common causes of soil erosion on Michigan slopes," said Mark Smolinski, P.E., G2 principal. "Since slopes are common around important natural and made-made environments, it's important to monitor and plan for a potential destabilization event, where soil can easily spill into waterways, onto roads, or even impact commercial and residential structures."
G2 Consulting works with clients across all stages of slope management, often beginning with a risk assessment and analysis to help property owners identify problem areas. Slope stabilization efforts run the gamut, from easy and low cost to more complex engineering projects:
- Slope geometry: When there's available land nearby, one of the most cost effective solutions is simply to remove soil from the slope, thereby lessening its severity and likelihood of slide.
- Water drainage: Since water is a primary trigger of destabilization events, drains and culverts can be installed.
- Soil improvement: Soil conditions can be improved mechanically through compaction, mixing and other remedies or chemically by adding cement or aggregates.
- Natural slope support: Plants, bushes, and trees can be planted, with their root structures significantly aiding stabilization while enhancing natural beauty.
- Engineered slope support: Ranging from simple netting and geosynthetic reinforcements to more complex implementation of anchors, piles, and retention walls, G2 offers solutions for even the most severe and perilous terrain.
"It's impossible to reinforce all slopes in the state, and we know many city managers will wake up to news of a slope failure in their area," Smolinski said. "In those cases, we're able to respond quickly, assess the problem and identify remedies that make the most sense at the particular site."
G2 has more than 30 years working on Michigan slopes, from investigating subsurface conditions, performing visual surveys, and providing design solutions to prevent and remediate slope erosion or global slope failure. Visit www.g2consultinggroup.com.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Essity has raised EUR 500m in the bond market under its Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) program. The re-offer yield for the bond was 3.094% with a maturity date of September 21, 2026, corresponding to mid swaps +0.70 percentage points.
The bond offering was three times oversubscribed, and the transaction was placed with more than 80 investors.
The bonds will be listed on the on the official list of Luxembourg Stock Exchange. The purpose of the issue is to refinance maturing bond loans and to finance operations.
BofA Securities, Commerzbank, NatWest Markets, and SEB acted as joint bookrunners for the transaction.
For further information, please contact:
Per Lorentz, Vice President Corporate Communications, +46 733 13 30 55, per.lorentz@essity.com
Johan Karlsson, Vice President Investor Relations, +46 705 11 15 81, johan.ir.karlsson@essity.com
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Steve Kerr is out of the NBA’s health and safety protocols and preparing to coach the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference finals after missing the last three games of the semifinal round against Memphis with COVID-19.
Kerr said his symptoms were mild with a cough and congestion but his biggest concern was not to get anyone around him sick. He departed less than two hours before tipoff of Game 4 against the Grizzlies last Monday after arriving at Chase Center and testing positive.
“It really wasn’t too bad,” Kerr said Sunday, still waiting on his team’s opponent from Game 7 of the Mavericks-Suns series.
Associate head coach Mike Brown, who last weekend became the next coach of the Sacramento Kings, filled in for Kerr as Golden State wrapped up the series with a 110-96 win in Game 6 on Friday night.
Guard Gary Payton II said everyone is thrilled to have Kerr back in the building and locker room.
“Just good to see him,” Payton said. “We’re glad that he made it out OK, made it good, came back healthier.”
Kerr encouraged Brown “to follow his gut. He couldn’t sit there and think, ‘What would I do?’” and that led to the Warriors staff starting Kevon Looney in the clincher. Then he went out and grabbed 22 of Golden State’s 70 rebounds.
The Warriors are hopeful forward Otto Porter Jr. will be available for Game 1 on Wednesday night after missing the previous two games with soreness in his right foot. In addition, Payton is recovering well from a broken left elbow and might be fine to play at some point during this round, Kerr said.
Payton was injured when he fell hard after driving for a layup and getting struck on the head by Dillon Brooks in Game 2, with Brooks receiving a Flagrant 2 foul, ejection and one-game suspension.
“Time, it’s going to take time,” said Payton, who is left-handed and is regaining strength in his dominant arm doing daily tasks such as brushing his teeth.
Payton said he couldn’t catch himself when he went down, saying, “Things happen, but it’s past me. I’m just trying to work and continue to strengthen my arm and get it back ready and come back and help my team.”
He did speak to Brooks.
“We talked, it’s all good, it’s a basketball play,” Payton said. “I know he didn’t mean it. No hard feelings, no bad blood. It’s all good, it’s playoff basketball.”
Golden State has one group of scouts preparing for Dallas and another for Phoenix and will present a game plan to the Warriors at practice Monday afternoon. An advanced scout has watched every game of the Mavs-Suns series, too.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adams Resources & Energy, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN: AE) ("Adams" or the "Company") today announces operational and financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and declares a quarterly cash dividend of $0.24 per common share.
Q2 2022 Financial Highlights
- Net earnings of $2.5 million, or $0.56 per diluted common share, on revenues of $992.1 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to net earnings of $4.7 million, or $1.10 per diluted common share, on revenues of $486.7 million for the second quarter of 2021.
- Net cash used in operating activities was $30.1 million, versus net cash generated by operating activities of $29.1 million for the second quarter of 2021. The decrease was primarily driven by an increase in the market price of crude oil and an increase in crude oil inventory and changes in working capital.
- Adjusted net earnings of $3.1 million, or $0.69 per diluted common share, compared to adjusted net earnings of $1.9 million, or $0.44 per diluted common share, for the second quarter of 2021.
- Adjusted cash flow of $9.0 million versus $7.4 million for the second quarter of 2021.
Adjusted net earnings (losses), adjusted earnings (losses) per diluted common share and adjusted cash flow are non-generally accepted accounting principle ("non-GAAP") financial measures that are defined and reconciled in the financial tables later in this release.
Additional Q2 2022 Highlights
- Cash and cash equivalents position was $67.7 million at June 30, 2022, versus $97.8 million at December 31, 2021, primarily due to an increase in crude oil inventory barrels, due in part to timing of customer deliveries, together with an increase in crude oil prices.
- Enhanced financial liquidity of $102.0 million at June 30, 2022, including cash and cash equivalents and $34.3 million available under the Company's $40.0 million Credit Agreement.
- Adam's crude oil marketing subsidiary, GulfMark Energy, Inc. ("GulfMark"), marketed 94,876 barrels per day ("bpd") of crude oil, compared to 89,585 bpd during the second quarter of 2021 and 90,385 bpd during the first quarter of 2022. GulfMark held 573,036 barrels of crude oil inventory at June 30, 2022, compared to 259,489 barrels at December 31, 2021.
- The collective fleet of Service Transport Company ("Service Transport"), Adams' liquid chemicals, pressurized gases, asphalt and dry bulk transportation subsidiary, traveled 6.86 million miles versus 7.25 million miles during the second quarter of 2021 and 6.80 million miles during the first quarter of 2022.
- Adams' crude oil pipeline and storage segment, which was established following the purchase of the Victoria Express Pipeline System ("VEX Pipeline System") in October 2020, further expanded its scope of operations. Pipeline throughput increased to 13,281 bpd from 7,876 bpd for the second quarter of 2021 and 10,486 bpd for the first quarter of 2022, and terminalling volumes grew to 13,704 bpd from 8,106 bpd in the second quarter of 2021 and 10,948 bpd for the first quarter of 2022.
Kevin J. Roycraft, Adams' Chief Executive Officer, said, "We are delighted to report continued momentum through the second quarter, resulting in a strong first half of 2022 both operationally and financially. All three of our segments made important progress on their strategic initiatives designed to sustain profitability and grow their respective businesses for the long-term benefit of our shareholders. I want to thank all of our team members for their steadfast dedication to providing our customers with a safe, efficient and best-in-class service offering."
Capital Investments and Dividends
During the second quarter of 2022, the Company spent capital of $1.1 million for tractors, trailers and other field equipment. In addition, Adams paid dividends of $1.1 million, or $0.24 per common share.
As part of Adams' on-going capital allocation strategy, the Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend for the second quarter of 2022 of $0.24 per common share, payable on September 23, 2022, to shareholders of record as of September 9, 2022. Adams' has consistently paid a dividend since 1994.
Outlook
Mr. Roycraft concluded, "We look forward to further executing our strategic plan to drive increased efficiencies across the entire organization. We continue to have a strong financial position, which includes a liquidity position of more than $102 million at the end of this year's second quarter. As in the past, we will continue to leverage our significant operational expertise and financial flexibility to execute on opportunities designed to prudently grow our business. We remain laser focused on providing significant long-term value for our shareholders, demonstrated by the regular return on capital through our consistent payment of quarterly cash dividends."
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release and accompanying schedules includes the non-GAAP financial measures of adjusted cash flow, adjusted net earnings (losses) and adjusted earnings (losses) per common share. The accompanying schedules provide definitions of these non-GAAP financial measures and reconciliations to their most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. Company management believes these measures are useful indicators of the financial performance of our business and uses these measurements as aids in monitoring the Company's ongoing financial performance from quarter to quarter and year to year on a regular basis and for benchmarking against peer companies. Our non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered as alternatives to GAAP measures such as net income, operating income, net cash flow provided by operating activities, earnings per share or any other measure of financial performance calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. Adams' non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies because they may not calculate such measures in the same manner as Adams does. The non-GAAP financial measures are defined and reconciled in the financial tables below.
About Adams Resources & Energy, Inc.
Adams Resources & Energy, Inc. is engaged in crude oil marketing, transportation, terminalling and storage and tank truck transportation of liquid chemicals and dry bulk through its subsidiaries, GulfMark Energy, Inc., Service Transport Company, Victoria Express Pipeline, LLC and GulfMark Terminals, LLC. For more information, visit www.adamsresources.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements relate to future events and anticipated results of operations, business strategies, and other aspects of our operations or operating results. In many cases you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "project," "estimate," "continue," "potential," "should," "could," "may," "will," "objective," "guidance," "outlook," "effort," "expect," "believe," "predict," "budget," "projection," "goal," "forecast," "target" or similar words. Statements may be forward looking even in the absence of these particular words. Where, in any forward-looking statement, the Company expresses an expectation or belief as to future results, such expectation or belief is expressed in good faith and believed to have a reasonable basis. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements, and any other risk factors included in Adams' reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. However, there can be no assurance that such expectation or belief will result or be achieved. Unless legally required, Adams undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Tracy E. Ohmart
EVP, Chief Financial Officer
tohmart@adamsresources.com
(713) 881-3609
Investor Relations Contact
Gary Guyton or Steven Hooser
Three Part Advisors
(214) 442-0016
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Deerfield-Windsor's Thomas Ray is the quarterback for the football team, the point guard on the basketball team, the shortstop for the baseball team and runs the 800 meters for the track and field team. He also owns a 4.0 GPA.
Deerfield-Windsor's Thomas Ray is the quarterback for the football team, the point guard on the basketball team, the shortstop for the baseball team and runs the 800 meters for the track and field team. He also owns a 4.0 GPA.
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Deerfield-Windsor's Thomas Ray will be the starting quarterback for the football team for a third straight season.
Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of a series highlighting some of the top high school football players in Albany and Lee County. In the past, it has been the “Dynamite Dozen” but this season it will be the “Fantastic Fifteen.”
ALBANY — Deerfield-Windsor senior Thomas Ray does it all.
He will start as the Knights’ quarterback for the third year in a row. He will be a point guard on the basketball team, the shortstop for the baseball team and runs the 800 meters for the track and field team. He also owns a 4.0 GPA at Deerfield-Windsor. Call him Mr. Competitor.
“I enjoy competition and I really like to win,” Ray said in an interview last week.
And his coach sees that.
“If there is such a thing as the ‘X-factor,’ he has it,” said Deerfield-Windsor head coach Jake McCrae. “He is a fierce competitor. He is a great leader and can see the game about as well as any quarterback I have ever coached — and I have had some good ones.”
Ray is the son of Todd and Lauren Ray and has been at Deerfield-Windsor since his days in K-4. He is affectionately known by teammates and coaches as “Tee Ray” and he began playing football at age 7.
He probably gets his competitive nature and drive to success from his parents. His dad played football, basketball and softball, while his mother played basketball and softball. After graduation next spring, he intends to enroll at the University of Georgia in Athens and study either law or agriculture.
Beginning his senior football season, Ray is not sitting on his accomplishments, but is looking to earn more. He has work ahead of him that keeps him focused at practice.
“I want to help our team win a region championship and host a playoff game at home,” he said. “Right now I am working to improve my reads on the defenses on each play and I’m working on my ability to throw on the run.”
Ray has been through a couple of rough seasons for the Knights with 2-9 and 3-7 records, but even then had bright moments. His favorite football memory is the game last season against Savannah County Day.
“It was homecoming. We were expected to get blown out like the year before,” Ray said. “But we won by one point and everybody went crazy. That was fun.”
Ray and the Knights will kick off football season Friday night in Colquitt in a scrimmage game against Miller County. They then host the Westfield School of Perry on Aug. 19 in Albany.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Carvana Co. (NYSE: CVNA).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Carvana between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until October 3, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Carvana Co. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, Defendants' statements about Carvana's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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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CHICAGO, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, announced today that Ed Tilly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will present at Piper Sandler's Global Exchange & FinTech Conference on Thursday, June 9, at 9:30am Eastern Time.
The webcast and replay of the virtual presentation will be accessible at www.cboe.com in the Investor Relations section, under Events and Presentations. The archived webcast is expected to be available within an hour of the presentation.
About Cboe Global Markets, Inc.
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JOLIET, Ill., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Lion Electric Company (NYSE: LEV) (TSX: LEV) ("Lion" or the "Company"), a leading manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles, today joined U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11), workforce experts, policymakers and industry stakeholders to discuss new opportunities for investments in electric vehicles and clean manufacturing.
Nate Baguio, Senior Vice President of Commercial Development at Lion Electric, provided an overview of how the Company has been a leader in manufacturing zero-emission school buses and all electric medium and heavy-duty trucks in North America. The roundtable addressed how partnerships with the federal government, states, counties, cities as well as local and nonprofit organizations deliver economic opportunities for green manufacturing. They also address the need for clean energy and can help bridge the demand for additional heavy-duty electric vehicles and charging infrastructure across the nation.
"We are honored to have U.S. Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg, an advocate for electric vehicles, recognize how building a robust electrification ecosystem and supply chain is integral for industry stability and growth," said Nate Baguio. "The Federal Government's Infrastructure and Jobs Act and the $5 billion it allocates to fund the deployment of zero-emission and clean school buses over the next five years further reinforces its commitment to the electric vehicle sector."
The current administration has been supportive of expanding charging infrastructure across urban, suburban and rural communities in the United States. Furthermore, it has been vocal about its focus to offer funding to advance the adoption of electric vehicles. One of their priorities is to build a network of charging stations along the nation's highways that will help create more jobs in the EV sector and a healthier environment.
The roundtable conversation also featured remarks about the future of the American clean manufacturing sector from Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11); Doug Pryor, CEO of Will County Economic Development; Craig Knight, CEO of Hyzon Motors; Caroline Portlock, Director with the Workforce Center of Will County; Kathy Gilmore, President of Valley Industrial; Dain Meza-Gotto, Director of Joliet Junior College Workforce Education; Terrie Simmons, President of Illinois Minority Business Development Center; John Gedney, Legislative Representative, United Auto Workers Region 4; Bob O'Dekirk, Mayor of Joliet and representatives from Pace Suburban Bus.
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Lion Electric is an innovative manufacturer of zero-emission vehicles. The company creates, designs and manufactures all-electric class 5 to class 8 commercial urban trucks and all-electric buses and minibuses for the school, paratransit and mass transit segments. Lion is a North American leader in electric transportation and designs, builds and assembles many of its vehicles' components, including chassis, battery packs, truck cabins and bus bodies.
Always actively seeking new and reliable technologies, Lion vehicles have unique features that are specifically adapted to its users and their everyday needs. Lion believes that transitioning to all-electric vehicles will lead to major improvements in our society, environment and overall quality of life. Lion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol LEV.
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This press release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Any statements contained in this press release that are not statements of historical fact, including statements about Lion's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements and should be evaluated as such. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "believe," "may," "will," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "expect," "should," "would," "could," "plan," "project," "potential," "seem," "seek," "future," "target" or other similar expressions and any other statements that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words.
The Company made a number of economic, market and operational assumptions in preparing and making certain forward-looking statements contained in this press release including, but not limited to, that Lion will be able to retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with customers, suppliers and other business partners, that Lion will continue to operate its business in the normal course, that Lion will be able to implement its growth strategy, that Lion will be able to successfully and timely complete the construction of its U.S. manufacturing facility and its Quebec battery plant and innovation centre, that Lion will not suffer any material disruption in the supply of raw materials on competitive terms, that Lion will be able to maintain its competitive position, that Lion will continue to improve its operational, financial and other internal controls and systems to manage its growth and size and that its results of operations and financial condition will not be adversely affected, that Lion will be able to benefit, either directly or indirectly (including through its clients), from government subsidies and economic incentives in the future and that Lion will be able to secure any required additional funding through equity or debt financing on terms acceptable to Lion. Such estimates and assumptions are made by Lion in light of the experience of management and their perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors believed to be appropriate and reasonable in the circumstances. However, there can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct.
By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. Lion believes that these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: any adverse changes in the U.S. and Canadian general economic, business, market, financial, political and legal conditions, including as consequences of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of COVID-19 variants and varying rates of vaccination amongst various countries; Lion's inability to successfully and economically manufacture and distribute its vehicles at scale and meet its customers' business needs; Lion's reliance on key management and any inability to attract and/or retain key personnel; Lion's inability to execute its growth strategy; Any unfavourable fluctuations and volatility in the price of raw materials included in key components used to manufacture Lion's products; Lion's reliance on key suppliers and any inability to maintain an uninterrupted supply of raw materials; Lion's inability to maintain its competitive position; Lion's inability to reduce its costs of supply over time; any inability to maintain and enhance Lion's reputation and brand; any significant product repair and/or replacement due to product warranty claims or product recalls; any failure of information technology systems or any cybersecurity and data privacy breaches or incidents; the reduction, elimination or discriminatory application of government subsidies and economic incentives or the reduced need for such subsidies; natural disasters, epidemic or pandemic outbreaks, boycotts and geo-political events; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the Company from time to time.
These and other risks and uncertainties related to the businesses of Lion are described in greater detail in the section entitled "Risk Factors" not related to an investment in the Company's final prospectus dated May 5, 2021 (the "Canadian Prospectus") filed with the Autorité des marchés financiers (the "AMF") and the registration statement on Form F-1 (the "Registration Statement") filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and declared effective on June 14, 2021 and other documents publicly filed with the AMF and the SEC. Many of these risks are beyond Lion's management's ability to control or predict. All forward-looking statements attributable to Lion or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained, and risk factors identified, in the Canadian Prospectus, the Registration Statement and other documents filed with the AMF and the SEC.
Because of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Furthermore, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required under applicable securities laws, Lion undertakes no obligation, and expressly disclaims any duty, to update, revise or review any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company™, today announced that it will hold its quarterly conference call on Wednesday, July 27 at 5:30 p.m. EST (2:30 p.m. PST). The company will discuss second quarter results for the period ended June 30, 2022.
To hear the conference call live, please dial 1-517-308-9482 (domestic and international) and reference the passcode (EQIX). A simultaneous live webcast of the call will be available on Equinix.com under the Investor Relations heading. A replay of the call will be available one hour after the call through Wednesday, October 26, 2022, by dialing 866-363-4001 and entering passcode (2022). In addition, the webcast will be available on the company's website at www.equinix.com/investors (no password required).
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today's businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.
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The Minnesota Twins must make a midseason change to a vital role on their field staff, with the sudden departure of pitching coach Wes Johnson for a lucrative college job at LSU.
Before opening a five-game set at AL Central rival Cleveland on Monday, the Twins announced that Johnson will work the series against the Guardians through Thursday. The 50-year-old will then return to his roots in the powerhouse SEC and join the Tigers.
The Twins, who lead the Guardians by two games in the division race, were still working to address how Johnson’s job would be filled. Bullpen coach Pete Maki and assistant pitching coach Luis Ramirez figure to play a major part in replacing Johnson.
“His leadership, insight, creativity and ability to effectively work across a diverse team were hallmarks of his time with the Minnesota Twins,” president of baseball operations Derek Falvey said. “His influence and impact will continue to be realized in Minnesota through the pitchers and staff members he helped mentor.”
The midseason move by a key assistant from a first-place team was startling, but Johnson’s arrival in 2019 was also unusual. He was widely believed to be the first college pitching coach to jump directly to the major leagues when the Twins hired him from Arkansas, which was the national runner-up in the 2018 College World Series.
Johnson spent nine seasons as a college pitching coach before the Twins plucked him with a keen eye on his background in biomechanics. He has a master’s degree in kinesiology.
Johnson, who was born in Atlanta and raised in Arkansas, where he has has kept an offseason home, also had stops at Mississippi State, Dallas Baptist and Central Arkansas. He was a high school coach before entering the college ranks.
Johnson presided over pitching staffs for division champion teams in his first two years, and the Twins have returned to the top of the AL Central this season with a 3.78 team ERA that ranks 11th in the majors. The Twins ranked 26th in ERA last year, fourth in 2020 and ninth in 2019 while Johnson was in charge of the staff.
The Twins set a single-season club record with 1,463 strikeouts in 2019. José Berríos and Jake Odorizzi were All-Star selections in 2019, and Taylor Rogers made the team in 2021. Twins pitchers routinely praised Johnson’s energy, positivity and wisdom, as recently as Saturday night when Chris Archer threw five shutout innings with one hit allowed to Colorado.
“Wes is one of my biggest advocates,” Archer said after the 6-0 win at Target Field. “We do a lot of work, mental and physical, in between starts.”
The Athletic reported that Johnson will receive a hefty raise at LSU, which planned an announcement for Monday. The Tigers are one of only three schools that have won six national championships, all of which were accumulated between 1991 and 2009. They’ve made the College World Series 18 times, most recently in 2017.
Coach Jay Johnson just finished his first season at LSU, which went 40-22 and was eliminated by Southern Mississippi in the final game of their NCAA regional, and has lost two staff members to head coach promotions at other power conference programs. Assistant coach and recruiting coordinator Dan Fitzgerald went to Kansas, and pitching coach Jason Kelly went to Washington.
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NEW YORK, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Yext, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of YEXT 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: March 4, 2021 to March 8, 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) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, among other things, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; (ii) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (iii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: August 16, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/yext-class-action-lawsuit/?id=30247&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of YEXT 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 August 16, 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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SALEM, W.Va., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Salem University is excited to announce the launch of its new Master of Science in Health and Human Performance degree program. The program will build on Salem University's rich history of biology and physical education and the University's NCAA Division II athletics. The program is aligned with nationally recognized exercise science, health, and wellness certifications.
"One of Salem University's strategic goals is to expand our educational offerings beyond nursing into other areas of healthcare, wellness, and integrative health," said Dr. Karen Ferguson, Provost and VP of Enrollment at Salem University. "The new Master of Science in Health and Human Performance program is a natural complement to our offerings and meeting the need for highly skilled, educated, and credentialed exercise science professionals".
"Health and Human Performance is a growing field and the need for a program like the one we have designed at Salem is ideal for those in the field already, and those looking to make a shift into the exercise and health science fields," said Dr. Scott Howell, Lead Faculty for the program. "Our goal is to provide opportunities for those looking to advance their careers, as well as new people into the field who may have an interest in health and human performance."
The Health and Human Performance program will offer four specialization options: (1) strength and conditioning, (2) health and fitness, (3) sports coaching administration, and (4) integrated health coaching. The degree can be completed in just 12 months. Students can also complete additional areas of specialization as continuing education certificates.
Salem is now accepting applications for the program. Interested applicants are encouraged to visit Health and Human Performance - Salem University to learn more or https://www.salemu.edu to apply.
About Salem University
Salem University was founded in 1888 with the goal of providing comprehensive, affordable degree programs, and that is still the mission that drives them today. The university offers master's, bachelor's, and associate degree programs, as well as post-master's certificate programs, in a wide array of subject areas and specializations. Find out more by visiting www.salemu.edu.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced its foreign exchange futures and options reached a new single-day volume record of 3 million contracts on Sept. 14, 2022. This was the first time CME Group FX futures and options traded more than 3 million contracts in a single day and was 7% higher than the previous record of 2.8 million contracts set on Dec. 3, 2020.
Open interest (OI) for CME Group FX futures and options also reached a record high of 3.3 million contracts on Sept. 8, 2022, up 17% year-on-year and reflecting a notional value of around $295 billion.
"Clients are increasingly accessing the deep liquidity, as well as the potential capital and cost efficiencies, offered by our FX futures and options products to manage their currency exposure," said Paul Houston, Global Head of FX Products, CME Group. "With the final phase of the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR) now in play, and the Standardized Approach for Measuring Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) starting to take effect, we have seen strong growth in participation by firms across the trading community."
About CME Group
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.
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Court documents: Officer charged after 65-year-old pedestrian hit and killed
SEATTLE (KING) – A 33-year-old police officer is facing charges after a pedestrian was struck and killed in Washington state.
The crash data recorder of the off-duty officer’s car shows he was driving 85 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone moments before the accident.
The accident happened April 23 around 10:30 p.m. when the officer’s speeding Mercedes struck Clifford Jones, according to court documents.
Jones’s daughter, Miranda Hartman, said her father was her best friend and protector.
“It’s been hard. It’s been very hard,” she said, “We’re doing the best that we can. He’s going to be missed by a lot of people.”
Hartman said her father was a retired Marine. He attended college in Edmonds, Washington, and had two daughters and seven grandchildren.
He was 65 years old and went by the nickname “Rooster.”
“I thought he was like 33, 34,” Hartman said. “He had a young heart, a young soul, that’s for sure.”
Charging documents say the driver of the car that killed Jones was Michael Smith, an officer with the Auburn Police Department since January 2021.
The records say Smith was heading north on 15th Avenue at a high speed, when he tried to make a right turn onto a side street.
Along the way, Jones was struck and killed.
Smith’s car went over a grassy embankment and collided with three mailboxes, according to the documents.
The documents say Smith told responding officers he had alcohol at a Mariners game that night but declined a field sobriety test.
Officers on the scene noted that Smith “was obviously impaired from alcohol.”
“I just hope justice is served the way it should be on this Michael Smith,” Hartman said.
This wasn’t the only scene involving Smith. Charging records revealed that shortly before this accident, Smith had hit the back of a taxi cab.
Prosecutors say that when Smith got out of the car after the collision, he “appeared angry, opening the front passenger door and attempted to grab the driver out of the vehicle through the passenger’s side.”
That incident was an added shock to Hartman.
“Him trying to assault that man was absolutely not OK,” she said. “He should have known better, you know, he’s here to serve and protect, but yet he was the bad guy this time.”
Smith was ordered to submit a blood test after the accident, but the results are not in yet.
He’s currently out of jail on bond and scheduled to be arraigned on vehicular manslaughter and other charges May 11.
He has been placed on administrative leave from the police force.
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For more than a year, Americans have been vaccinated for free against Covid-19, but many of the nation's most vulnerable citizens are being charged hundreds of dollars to get immunity to the virus, according to a CNN investigation.
Doctors and hospitals are charging fees to give Evusheld, the only drug that works to prevent Covid-19 for many immune-compromised people, even though the government is distributing the drug for free.
Evusheld, a monoclonal antibody, is the only Covid prevention option for many people with weak immune systems, as vaccines failed to give them antibodies.
"It's completely unjust to have a public health policy that requires the most vulnerable to Covid to pay their own way for protective treatment," said Art Caplan, director of medical ethics at NYU's Grossman School of Medicine. "It makes no ethical sense."
In a recording since removed from a federal government website, a health official said in February that officials were aware patients were being charged large sums for monoclonal antibodies and that this violated the government's goal to have equitable access to Covid-19 drugs.
But officials have offered no plan, at least not publicly, to fix the situation, leaving some immune-compromised people hit with sticker shock when they go to the doctor to get Evusheld.
A patient in Fort Myers, Florida, said she already spends hundreds of dollars a month on prescription drugs for her rare muscle condition, and can't afford the $520 she was told it would cost her to get Evusheld, even with her health insurance. She never got the drug.
She said she will "just wait and hope I don't get Covid and die."
"To be hit by that bill was just like a smack in the face," she added. "It's here, but we're going to charge you what we want. And there's nothing you can do about it."
A woman in Mission Viejo, California, said she paid $1,100 to get Evusheld, on top of what her insurance paid.
"I called it opportunistic billing," said the patient, who is immune-suppressed because of medicine she takes to treat a rare kidney condition. "I'm thankful that my family can afford [it]. But my thoughts went instantly to - there's a lot of families who couldn't do this."
A kidney transplant patient in Charlottesville, Virginia, said she was charged more than $400 to get Evusheld, and that was on top of the nearly $2,000 her insurance paid. The drug requires a doctor's prescription and like the vaccine is given in two shots, although for Evusheld both are given in one appointment.
"It's a real slap in the face to be told, 'Oh, we have protection for you, but you better cough it up or else you don't get it at all," she said.
Several of the patients interviewed for this story requested anonymity for fear their doctors might retaliate against them for speaking publicly about their ordeals.
The US Department of Health and Human Services distributes Evusheld.
"COVID-19 therapeutics are provided at no cost to patients, however, patients may be charged an administration fee for monoclonal antibody treatments, including Evusheld, based on their insurance status or type," according to an emailed statement from HHS spokesperson Jorge Silva.
Another HHS spokesperson, who asked not to be named, had a suggestion for patients being charged high fees -- they said "providers charging exorbitant fees during a Public Health Emergency should be reported to their state medical board" and health department.
The spokesperson did not explain why they wanted to be anonymous.
Caplan, the ethicist, called the response "ludicrous." "People need protection quickly, not protection after a two-month bureaucratic review," he said. "It's a miserable non-answer. It's inadequate."
'In violation of our planning priorities'
Government health officials have been aware for months that some patients have had to pay high prices for Evusheld.
In a Zoom call in February with state public health agencies, a federal health official said officials had received reports of places "charging several thousand dollars" for antibody drugs, according to Endpoints, a news outlet covering the biopharmaceutical industry.
"Obviously, this would be in violation of our planning priorities," said Dr. Derek Eisnor, a medical officer at HHS, according to Endpoints, "which again is to maintain equitable access of all procured therapeutics for all Americans, regardless of their ability to pay."
Endpoints obtained a recording of the call from the HHS website. Sometime after the publication of their article, HHS removed that recording. When CNN inquired, HHS spokespersons did not deny Eisnor's quotes and declined to supply a transcript or audio of the meeting or explain why the Zoom recording had been removed.
HHS regulations forbid hospitals, clinics, or any other providers from charging patients for Covid-19 vaccinations; they can't charge for the vaccines themselves or for administering them. But HHS regulations do allow providers to charge an administrative fee for giving Evusheld, and there is no limit on the size of that fee. Sometimes insurance will cover the fee and sometimes all or part of it gets passed on to the patient.
"They're leaving this to the private market, which is what American health care is for most people," said Michael Fraser, the CEO of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. "What Dr. Eisnor said about this violating the government's planning priorities is right, but that doesn't change the situation for patients who are being charged for this."
Medicare and Medicaid patients do not have to pay a fee for Evusheld.
Dr. Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at NYU Langone Health and a leading researcher on the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines for the immune-compromised, asked whether HHS could have made the rules for Evusheld similar to the rules for vaccines.
"I wonder whether they could have required insurance companies to cover it or have Covid emergency funds cover it as they did for other treatments and vaccinations," he said.
As it stands now, providers charge a fee to give Evusheld because they can, he noted.
"People will play within the letter of the law often in contrast to the spirit of the law," he said.
HHS spokespersons did not respond to CNN's inquiry about Segev's comments.
'It's infuriating'
Some patients have managed to negotiate better rates for Evusheld.
Michelle Fontenot, a kidney transplant patient in St. Charles, Illinois, said she argued with her health insurance company when they said she would have to pay $800 for Evusheld. After weeks of calls and emails, she says she ended up not having to pay anything.
"It just seems kind of unfair that if you're immuno-competent, you can just wander into Walgreens and get your vaccines and sit there for 15 minutes and off you go," Fontenot said, but if you're immune compromised, "you're charged $800 for (Evusheld) simply because your body didn't respond to the mRNA vaccines. That just doesn't seem right."
Fontenot is a former insurance broker, and Segev noted that the system is set up to benefit patients like her who are particularly well-educated or savvy, which is in contradiction to the government's goal of equitable access.
"This is yet another example of the disparities that have arisen during the pandemic," he said.
The woman from Fort Myers with the rare muscle condition said she couldn't figure out a way to avoid paying the $520 fee.
She has been essentially sequestered at home during the pandemic, and limiting her children's activities to decrease the chance that they'll contract Covid and pass it along to her. She and her family were elated when her doctor said she could Evusheld.
"We told them there's a new medicine that can help protect me [and] they were so excited, they actually cheered," she said. "They got up and danced around."
Then she had to let her children, ages 7, 10 and 12, know they couldn't afford the $520 fee to get the drug.
"I can't even put into words how frustrating it is -- it's beyond frustrating," she said. "It's infuriating. It makes me angry to know that it's there and it's just out of reach."
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EchoStar Announces Financial Results for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2022
Published: May. 5, 2022 at 5:00 AM CDT|Updated: 22 minutes ago
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) today announced its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2022.
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022 Financial Highlights:
Consolidated revenue of $501.5 million.
Net income of $88.9 million, consolidated net income attributable to EchoStar common stock of $91.4 million, and basic and diluted earnings per share of common stock of $1.07 and $1.06, respectively.
Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of $165.9 million (see discussion and the reconciliation of GAAP to this non-GAAP measure below).
"The EchoStar team turned in a solid performance in the first quarter of this year, continuing a consistent track record of fiscal responsibility," said Hamid Akhavan, CEO and President of EchoStar. "As we take stock of our strengths and begin to chart a new course for growth, I could not ask for a more talented, technologically astute organization to capture the great opportunities presented by the rapid changes in our industry."
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022 - Additional Information:
Consolidated revenue increased 3.9% or $19.0 million year over year primarily driven by higher equipment sales of $30.5 million to our domestic and international enterprise customers, partially offset by lower service revenues of $11.5 million primarily due to lower broadband consumer customers.
Adjusted EBITDA decreased 10.7% or $19.9 million year over year.
Net income increased $11.4 million year over year. The increase was primarily due to lower net interest expense of $20.2 million and favorable gains on foreign exchange of $10.5 million. These items were partially offset by higher income tax expense of $10.6 million, lower operating income of 8.4 million, and an unfavorable change in equity earnings in unconsolidated affiliates, net, of $3.1 million.
Hughes broadband subscribers totaled approximately 1,406,000, declining 56,000 from December 31, 2021. The decrease primarily reflects a balancing of capacity utilization with subscriber levels in areas of high bandwidth demand. In Latin America, subscriber levels were also impacted by adverse economic conditions, more selective customer screening, and capacity allocation to community WiFi and enterprise opportunities.
For the three months ended March 31, 2022, approximately 64% of Hughes segment revenue was attributable to our consumer customers with approximately 36% attributable to our enterprise customers.
Cash, cash equivalents and current marketable investment securities were $1.5 billion as of March 31, 2022.
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, we purchased 1,462,094 shares of our Class A common stock in open market trades.
The Jupiter 3 / EchoStar XXIV satellite is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2023.
Set forth below is a table highlighting certain of EchoStar's segment results for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 (amounts in thousands) (all US GAAP amounts reference results from operations):
Note on Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
EBITDA is defined as "Net income (loss)" excluding "Interest income, net," Interest expense, net of amounts capitalized," "Income tax benefit (provision), net," "Depreciation and amortization," and "Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests."
Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA excluding Gains and losses on investments, net, Foreign currency transaction gains (losses), net, and other non-recurring or non-operational items. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not measures determined in accordance with US GAAP. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are reconciled to Net income (loss) in the table above and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for operating income, net income or any other measure determined in accordance with US GAAP. Our management uses EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA as measures of our operating efficiency and overall financial performance for benchmarking against our peers and competitors. Management believes that these non-GAAP measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding the underlying operating performance of our business and are appropriate to enhance an overall understanding of our financial performance. Management also believes that EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are useful to investors because they are frequently used by securities analysts, investors, and other interested parties to evaluate the performance of companies in our industry.
The consolidated financial statements of EchoStar for the periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 are attached to this press release. Detailed financial data and other information are available in EchoStar's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2022 filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
EchoStar will host a conference call to discuss its earnings on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The conference call will be broadcast live in listen-only mode on EchoStar's investor relations website at ir.echostar.com. To ask a question, the dial in numbers are (833) 562-0124 (toll-free) and (661) 567-1102 (international), Conference ID 6271168.
About EchoStar Corporation
EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) is a premier global provider of satellite communications solutions. Headquartered in Englewood, Colo., and conducting business around the globe, EchoStar is a pioneer in secure communications technologies through its Hughes Network Systems and EchoStar Satellite Services business segments.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The roar of the Indianapolis 500 engines and the cheers of 325,000 fans have come and gone. Now all that remains at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the smell of stale beer and a sea of trash including everything from deserted coolers to a portable toilet.
Organizations like local churches and schools will help in the cleanup process at IMS beginning Monday. Those volunteers can keep anything they find and cash in on the aluminum cans they gather.
Each group is also paid based on how many section it helps to clear of trash.
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ATLANTA — Long-time state Rep. Calvin Smyre, known as the “dean” of the House, bid farewell to his colleagues this week after a career that has spanned five decades.
Smyre, a Columbus Democrat, has been tapped by President Biden to serve as ambassador to the Dominican Republic. The U.S. Senate still needs to confirm his appointment.
“I’m really, really happy that the process would allow me to finish the legislative session, because I needed this. I really needed to finish here. And I needed to go out right,” Smyre told reporters as he left the House chamber.
The 74-year-old has represented Columbus for 48 years, serving under seven governors — four Democrats and three Republicans — and nine presidents, visiting seven of them in the White House.
Elected in 1974 when he was just 26 years old, Smyre went on to be the first African American to serve as a governor’s floor leader, and he chaired the House Rules Committee when Democrats controlled the statehouse, which is one of the most powerful roles under the Gold Dome.
“How can you measure a 48-year career in the Georgia House? Is it by the number of bills you introduce or pass? Is it by the positions you hold? I don’t think so,” Smyre said in a lengthy speech on the last day of the session. “You measure your career by how you honor this institution, and I honor the House of Representatives, this institution. I have always paid honor to this institution called the Georgia House of Representatives, and I shall always.”
Smyre led efforts to pass a hate crimes law and repeal the state’s Civil War-era citizen’s arrest law following the murder of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County in 2020.
He also sponsored legislation making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a state holiday and more recently carried a bill adding Juneteenth to the list of state holidays.
“I don’t have the words to say how much he has meant, but he always (worked) with a spirit of trying to find a consensus and he always did it with civility,” House Speaker David Ralston, a Blue Ridge Republican, said. “Many, many times he has been the calming influence on the waters when the storms were kind of raging around us.”
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GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VirgilHR announces the launch of its new web-based platform, putting real-time, automated employment and labor law guidance at the HR team's fingertips. The disruptive SaaS platform empowers individual HR professionals and teams to make smart, well-informed employment and labor law decisions in the moment, without the need to research regulatory requirements.
As an HR leader with experience at both public companies and growth-stage technology startups, Jocelyn King, CEO & Founder of VirgilHR, has had the privilege of supporting executives and departments in all functions across the business.
"When we started building VirgilHR, we wanted to do two things — reduce the complexity and mitigate the risk of legal action from human error against companies and get HR professionals back to why they got into HR — building, growing, and nurturing great people and great cultures," said King. "With this evolution in our product, we've made it possible for every HR professional to have a real-time legal guide by their side."
VirgilHR hosts a proprietary database of employment and labor law requirements that helps HR professionals manage the compliance of employment decisions, including leave requests, final wages, and termination. HR team members can access real-time, prescriptive guidance across federal, state, and local employment and labor laws via the online web-based, self-service application.
As part of the product launch, HR professionals are eligible for a 30 day free trial of VirgilHR with access to all employment modules and all features including:
- The VirgilHR chatbot built on smart, automation technology, which provides legal guidance to on labor and employment law queries in the moment, no research required
- Educational content, developed by experienced labor and employment attorneys
- Policy templates, which cover the newest labor and employment laws released across the country, to supplement employee handbooks
Register for access to the 30 day free trial at https://member.virgilhr.com/auth/register.
The platform helps HR professionals navigate the complexities of employment and labor law, close the knowledge gap, and empower HR teams to make compliant employment decisions with ease and confidence.
The company's early customers have come from organizations across the mid-market with small HR teams looking for efficiency gains; King sees growth for the business in manufacturing, construction, technology, government contracting, and medical services.
VirgilHR is the new evolution of HR compliance software, enabling HR professionals to spend more time on strategic objectives and less time on researching and tracking thousands of ever-changing employment and labor laws. Our mission is to help HR professionals navigate the growing employee complexities, close the knowledge gap and empower HR teams to make compliant employment decisions with ease and confidence.
Learn more at https://virgilhr.com/.
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FBI searches Trump’s Florida estate for classified records
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, people familiar with the matter said, a dramatic and unprecedented escalation of law enforcement scrutiny of the former president.
Trump, disclosing the search in a lengthy statement, asserted that agents had opened a safe at his home and described their work as an “unannounced raid” that he likened to “prosecutorial misconduct.” He was in New York, planning to meet later Tuesday at his Bedminster, New Jersey, club with members of the Republican Study Committee, a group headed by Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana that says it is committed to putting forth his priorities in Congress.
Monday’s search intensified the months-long probe into how classified documents ended up in boxes of White House records located at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year. A separate grand jury is investigating efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and it all adds to potential legal peril for Trump as he lays the groundwork for another run.
About two dozen Trump supporters stood in protest at midmorning Tuesday in the Florida summer heat and sporadic light rain on a bridge near the former president’s residence. One held a sign reading “Democrats are Fascists” while others carried flags saying “2020 Was Rigged,” “Trump 2024″ and Biden’s name with an obscenity. Some cars honked in support as they passed.
Familiar battle lines, forged during a a four-year presidency shadowed by investigations, quickly took shape again Monday night. Trump and his allies sought to cast the search as a weaponization of the criminal justice system and a Democratic-driven effort to keep him from winning another term in 2024 — though the Biden White House said it had no prior knowledge of it, and the current FBI director, Christopher Wray, was appointed by Trump five years ago.
Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence, a potential 2024 rival, tweeted on Tuesday: “Yesterday’s action undermines public confidence in our system of justice and Attorney General Garland must give a full accounting to the American people as to why this action was taken and he must do so immediately”
“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump wrote. “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.”
“After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump said.
Justice Department spokesperson Dena Iverson declined to comment on the search, including whether Attorney General Merrick Garland had personally authorized it.
The FBI reached out to the Secret Service shortly before serving a warrant, a third person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Secret Service agents contacted the Justice Department and were able to validate the warrant before facilitating access to the estate, the person said.
The Justice Department has been investigating the potential mishandling of classified information since the National Archives and Records Administration said it had received from Mar-a-Lago 15 boxes of White House records, including documents containing classified information, earlier this year. The National Archives said Trump should have turned over that material upon leaving office, and it asked the Justice Department to investigate.
There are multiple federal laws governing the handling of classified records and sensitive government documents, including statutes that make it a crime to remove such material and retain it at an unauthorized location. Though a search warrant does not necessarily mean criminal charges are near or even expected, federal officials looking to obtain one must first demonstrate to a judge that they have probable cause that a crime occurred.
Two people familiar with the matter, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, said the search on Monday was related to the records probe. Agents were also looking to see if Trump had additional presidential records or any classified documents at the estate.
Trump has previously maintained that presidential records were turned over “in an ordinary and routine process.” His son Eric said on Fox News on Monday night that he had spent the day with his father and that the search happened because “the National Archives wanted to corroborate whether or not Donald Trump had any documents in his possession.”
Asked how the documents ended up at Mar-a-Lago, Eric Trump said the boxes were among items that got moved out of the White House during “six hours” on Inauguration Day, as the Bidens prepared to move into the building.
“My father always kept press clippings,” Eric Trump said. “He had boxes, when he moved out of the White House.”
Trump made no mention of the search during a Monday evening tele-town hall on behalf of Leora Levy, the Connecticut Republican he has endorsed in Tuesday’s U.S. Senate primary.
But in a social media post Monday night, he called it a “weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024.”
Other Republicans echoed that message.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate, said on Twitter that it was “an escalation in the weaponization” of U.S. government agencies. Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, said in a tweet that if Republicans win control of the U.S. House, they will investigate the Justice Department.
Trump took a different stance during the 2016 presidential campaign, frequently pointing to an FBI investigation into his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, over whether she mishandled classified information via a private email server she used as secretary of state. Then-FBI Director James Comey concluded that Clinton had sent and received classified information, but the FBI did not recommend criminal charges.
Trump lambasted that decision and then stepped up his criticism of the FBI as agents began investigating whether his campaign had colluded with Russia to tip the 2016 election. He fired Comey during that probe, and though he appointed Wray months later, he repeatedly criticized him, too, as president.
Thomas Schwartz, a Vanderbilt University history professor who studies and writes about the presidency, said there is no precedent for a former president facing an FBI raid -- even going back to Watergate. President Richard Nixon wasn’t allowed to take tapes or other materials from the White House when he resigned in 1974, Schwartz noted, and many of his papers remained in Washington for years before being transferred to his presidential library in California.
The probe is hardly the only legal headache confronting Trump. A separate investigation related to efforts by him and his allies to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election — which led to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — has also been intensifying in Washington. Several former White House officials have received grand jury subpoenas.
And a district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, is investigating whether Trump and his close associates sought to interfere in that state’s election, which was won by Democrat Joe Biden.
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Associated Press writers Terry Spencer, Zeke Miller, Meg Kinnard, Michelle L. Price, Meg Kinnard and Will Weissert contributed to this report.
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Incipio Grip and kate spade new york Protective Hardshell Cases Offer Fashionable, Long-Lasting Protection for the Galaxy Z Flip4 and Z Fold4
TUSTIN, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vinci Brands, a global leader in consumer tech protection, carry and power solutions, today announced availability of the Incipio Grip and kate spade new york Protective Hardshell cases for the all-new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and Z Fold4. Equipped with essential everyday features such as drop protection, antimicrobial defense, wireless charging and 5G compatibility, the cases provide fashionable, premium protection for the latest Galaxy Z devices. To reduce impact on the environment, the new Incipio and kate spade new york cases are made from recycled materials, are BPA-free, and feature recycled packaging.
Incipio and kate spade new york cases for the all-new Samsung Galaxy Z devices have been certified to meet Samsung performance standards through the Samsung Mobile Accessory Partnership Program (SMAPP).
"Vinci is proud to offer environmentally-friendly and fashionable cases for the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip and Z Fold devices to ensure our customers stay protected and productive on-the-go," says Brian Stech, CEO of Vinci Brands. "Every case we make balances innovation, sustainability, style, and reliability, offering consumers a product they can trust to protect their device and their investment. Plus, with Vinci's partnerships with 1% for the Planet and Close the Loop, Incipio and kate spade new york cases provide protection you can feel good about."
Incipio Grip for Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and Z Fold4
The Grip case's multidirectional grip enhancers stop drops before they happen. Integrated Impact Struts technology absorb shock, while industry-leading raised-edge bezels provide maximum protection against screen scratches and face drops on uneven surfaces. Available in Black and Midnight Navy colorways. Additional features include:
- Slim, form-fitting design in dual-layer, one-piece construction
- Antimicrobial protection eliminates 99.9% of surface bacteria
- Superior scratch resistance and discoloration defense
- 5G compatible
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kate spade new york Protective Hardshell for Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and Z Fold4
Show off your sophisticated side with the modern designs of kate spade new york. The co-molded Protective Hardshell's lightweight, slim design with shock-resistant bumper protects against drops and is perfect for everyday use. Available in iconic kate spade new york Hollyhock Floral and Scattered Flowers Iridescent prints. Additional features include:
- Slim shape and graceful contouring
- Antimicrobial protection eliminates 99.9% of surface bacteria
- Scratch resistant capabilities to keep the design fresh
- 5G compatible
- Wireless charging compatible
As part of its commitment to driving environmental responsibility, Vinci is a proud member of 1% for the Planet, donating 1% of global e-commerce revenue from Incipio.com to support environmental nonprofit partners.
Additionally, Vinci's collaboration with Close the Loop USA (CtL) continues to divert waste from landfills by offering users an end-of-life solution for their used phone case. At no charge, customers can receive a pre-paid shipping label to send a case from any brand to CtL for recycling by visiting Incipio.com.
The Incipio and kate spade new york cases for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4 are available for purchase at Incipio.com for MSRP $69.99, with select cases coming soon to Verizon.com and Verizon stores nationwide.
Vinci Brands is a global leader in consumer tech protection, carry and power solutions operating an innovative and diverse portfolio of owned and licensed brands at the intersection of design, functionality, sustainability, and lifestyle. The company has an award-winning product portfolio that includes protective cases, shells, sleeves, bags, power management, enterprise and B2B solutions sold under the Incipio, Incase, Survivor, Griffin, kate spade new york, and Coach brands. Vinci Brands has operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, and China. For more information visit www.vincibrands.com.
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Severe weather causes widespread damage in Manhattan
Published: Jun. 11, 2022 at 10:09 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - Severe storms have caused widespread damage in Manhattan Saturday night.
Although as of 10 p.m. no tornado has been confirmed, winds were clocked in excess of 80 mph on the east side of town.
Riley Co. Emergency Managers have closed down several streets across the area due to downed power lines. At one point, 14,000 customers in Riley Co. were without power.
A tornado was confirmed to the east in Pottawatomie County.
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LONDON, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hakluyt, the strategic advisory firm for businesses and investors, announced today that it has opened a new office in Chicago.
This office, which will be Hakluyt's base in the Midwest, will be jointly led by Gretchen Crosby Sims and Tom Wyler. Gretchen joined Hakluyt in 2021, having previously spent 20 years in politics, policy, philanthropy and impact investing, including as executive director of the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics, director of Social Finance UK, and chief programme executive of the Joyce Foundation. Tom Wyler also joined the firm in 2021, having been senior vice president for global strategy at PSP Capital, a privately held investment firm headquartered in Chicago. He has also served as counsellor and senior adviser to the US Secretary of Commerce.
Varun Chandra, Hakluyt's managing partner, said: "I am proud that Hakluyt has opened a fourth office in the US, which continues to be one of our most important markets. Gretchen and Tom are both excellent colleagues who have already brought a lot to our company, and we are very fortunate to have them leading our work in Chicago."
Mark Hanson, Hakluyt's deputy managing partner, who leads the company's North American business, added: "Hakluyt has worked with clients in the Midwest for many years, so opening an office in Chicago is a great opportunity to expand our presence there. Our firm is continuing to grow in North America, and I am very much looking forward to supporting Gretchen and Tom as they lead our business in the region."
Gretchen Crosby Sims commented: "I am pleased to be opening Hakluyt's newest office alongside Tom Wyler. Chicago is a tremendous global city and home to some of the most important businesses in North America. Our client base in the Midwest is strong, and it is an honor to be advising corporations and investors here on the opportunities and challenges they face in these complex and unpredictable times."
Tom Wyler said: "Chicago is a large and dynamic market, and it is the perfect home for Hakluyt's newest office. Every day, companies and investors are being forced to make significant commercial decisions in an increasingly complex global environment that is defined by hyper-competitiveness and volatility. The support and advice that we provide to our clients has never been more important, and I look forward to continuing to work with them in Chicago and across the Midwest on a wide range of their most strategic issues."
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Robust first-in-human study of PT-112 monotherapy saw 66 patients with progressing, advanced solid tumors treated
Data previously reported in part at international medical meetings
Full data set shows PT-112 was safe and well-tolerated in heavily pre-treated cancer patients and elicited prolonged responses against thymoma and lung cancers, along with radiographic and serum marker improvement in prostate cancer, including in non-responders to prior chemotherapy and immunotherapy
NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Promontory Therapeutics Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on oncology therapeutics, announced today the peer-reviewed publication of its first-in-human Phase 1 study of lead therapeutic candidate, PT-112 in the July 2022 issue of eClinicalMedicine, part of The Lancet's Discovery Science. The study, entitled "Phase I Study of PT-112, a novel Pyrophosphate-Platinum Immunogenic Cell Death Inducer, in Advanced Solid Tumours," showed that PT-112 was safe and well-tolerated in heavily pre-treated patients with advanced cancers, and demonstrated prolonged responses against thymoma and lung cancers, along with radiographic and serum marker improvement in prostate cancer.
PT-112 has been validated as an immunogenic cell death inducer in pre-clinical models, and is under active Phase 2 clinical development. In the first-in-human dose escalation study PT-112 was given as monotherapy to eligible patients with progressing, advanced solid tumors via intravenous infusion on days 1, 8, 15 of a 28-day cycle in a 3+3 dose-escalation trial. The primary endpoint was to assess safety and pharmacokinetics, and to identify a recommended Phase 2 dose. The secondary objective was exploratory assessment of anti-tumor activity.
Study findings from 66 heavily pre-treated patients treated across 11 dose levels of PT-112 (12-420 mg/m2) include:
- The recommended phase 2 dose was determined to be 360 mg/m2
- The most common treatment-related adverse events included fatigue (35%), nausea (24%), and peripheral neuropathy (21%)
- Treatment-related Grade 3 adverse events were experienced by 27% of patients, with no grade 4-5 events observed.
- Durable, confirmed RECIST partial responses were induced in non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, and thymoma, some of which persisted for prolonged periods even after treatment discontinuation. Two additional unconfirmed RECIST responses were observed.
- Radiographic and serum marker reductions were observed among ten patients with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer, four of whom survived two years or longer
"We are pleased to publish the results of our first Phase 1 study of PT-112 in The Lancet's eClinicalMedicine," said Matthew Price, Executive VP & COO of Promontory Therapeutics. "The evidence supports our belief that PT-112's immunogenic cell death induction makes it a promising future treatment option in several possible cancer indications, and that its foundational safety allows us to consider numerous ways to deploy it. The experience we gained in this study underlies the direction taken by the company in our current Phase 2 studies of PT-112."
The study is registered under NCT02266745 and the full dose-escalation results are available in eClinicalMedicine and online here.
PT-112 is the first small-molecule conjugate of pyrophosphate in oncology, and possesses a unique pleiotropic mechanism of action that promotes immunogenic cell death (ICD) through the release of damage associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) that bind to dendritic cells and lead to downstream immune effector cell recruitment in the tumor microenvironment. PT-112 represents a highly potent inducer of this immunological form of cancer cell death. Further, PT-112 harbors a property known as osteotropism, or the propensity of the drug to reach its highest concentrations in certain areas of the bone, making it a candidate for treatment of patients with cancers that originate in, or metastasize to, the bone. The first in-human study of PT-112 demonstrated an attractive safety profile and evidence of long-lasting responses among heavily pre-treated patients and won "Best Poster" within the Developmental Therapeutics category at the ESMO Annual Congress. The combination Phase 1b dose escalation study of PT-112 with PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor avelumab in solid tumors was reported in an oral presentation at the ESMO 2020 Virtual Congress. A Phase 1 study in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma was presented at ASH 2020. Monotherapy Phase 2 development is ongoing in mCRPC, and in a Phase 2 proof of concept study in thymic epithelial tumors under the company's formal collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Promontory Therapeutics Inc. is a privately held, clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on small molecule immunotherapy. The company's lead candidate, PT-112, is the first small molecule conjugate of pyrophosphate in oncology, and possesses a unique pleiotropic mechanism of action that promotes immunogenic cell death (ICD), through the release of damage associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) that bind to pattern recognition receptors on dendritic cells and promote the adaptive immune response in the tumor microenvironment. Clinical data generated across three Phase 1 studies have demonstrated single-agent anti-cancer activity and an attractive tolerability profile, and three Phase 2 studies of PT-112 are underway. The company's research and development work has been conducted in the United States, Europe and Asia, along with a sub-license agreement for the development, commercialization and use of PT-112 in Greater China. The company also sponsors the ongoing clinical study of PT-112 in combination with the PD-L1 inhibitor avelumab under a collaboration agreement with Pfizer and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany (operating as EMD Serono in the US and Canada), and has an active Phase 2 trial underway with the NCI utilizing PT-112 in thymic epithelial tumors where PT-112 has received Orphan Drug designation.
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- Combining onvansertib with the PARP inhibitor (PARPi) olaparib led to statistically significant survival benefits compared to treatment with either agent alone in PARPi-resistant ovarian cancer models
- Onvansertib-olaparib combination was well tolerated in vivo
SAN DIEGO, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardiff Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDF), a clinical-stage biotechnology company leveraging PLK1 inhibition to develop novel therapies across a range of cancers, today announced the results of preclinical studies evaluating the anti-cancer activity of onvansertib in combination with the PARP inhibitor (PARPi) olaparib in PARPi-resistant patient-derived xenograft (PDX) ovarian cancer models. The results are featured in a poster presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting, which is taking place both virtually and in-person at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana from April 8-13, 2022.
"In these studies, we sought to evaluate how combining onvansertib with PARP inhibition, an approved maintenance treatment for ovarian cancer, might mitigate the known phenomenon of acquired tumor resistance to PARP inhibitors," said Tod Smeal, Ph.D., chief scientific officer at Cardiff Oncology. "We are very pleased with the results, which showed onvansertib and olaparib synergistically combining to generate strong activity against PARPi-resistant patient-derived ovarian cancer models. Given the current lack of effective treatment options for patients showing PARPi resistance, we believe these data are supportive of evaluating this combination within a PARPi-resistant clinical setting."
Preclinical studies featured in the AACR poster evaluated onvansertib-olaparib combination treatment in three olaparib-resistant patient-derived xenograft (PDX) ovarian cancer models. Two of the three PDX models used (MNHOC22, MNHOC266) were cisplatin-sensitive with a mutated BRCA1 gene, while the third (MNHOC316DDP) was cisplatin-resistant with wild type BRCA1. BRCA1-mutant tumor cells are deficient for homologous recombination (HR)-mediated DNA repair and are initially sensitive to PARPi. This suggests that PARPi resistance was acquired in the MNHOC22 and MNHOC266 tumors due to the restoration of HR-mediated DNA repair, while being naturally conferred in MNHOC316DDP tumors due to continuous HR-proficiency.
Data showed that combining onvansertib with olaparib led to a statistically significant survival benefit compared to treatment with either agent alone in each of the three evaluated PDX models. Results showed the combination was well tolerated.
An electronic copy of the poster and corresponding abstract, entitled, Combining PARP inhibition with the Polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) inhibitor onvansertib overcomes PARP inhibitor resistance, is available to registered attendees of the AACR annual meeting on the meeting website. The in-person presentation will take place during the "Drug Resistance and Reversal of Resistance" poster session on April 12, 2022, from 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM CT. Following the meeting, the poster will be available on the "Scientific Presentations" section of the Cardiff Oncology website at https://cardiffoncology.com/scientific-presentations/.
About Cardiff Oncology, Inc.
Cardiff Oncology is a clinical-stage biotechnology company leveraging PLK1 inhibition to develop novel therapies across a range of cancers. Our lead asset is onvansertib, an oral highly selective PLK1 inhibitor, which we are evaluating in combination with standard-of-care (SOC) therapeutics in clinical programs targeting indications such as KRAS-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer, metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, and metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. These programs and our broader development strategy are designed to target tumor vulnerabilities in order to overcome treatment resistance and deliver superior clinical benefit compared to the SOC. For more information, please visit https://www.cardiffoncology.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may be identified using words such as "anticipate," "believe," "forecast," "estimated" and "intend" or other similar terms or expressions that concern Cardiff Oncology's expectations, strategy, plans or intentions. These forward-looking statements are based on Cardiff Oncology's current expectations and actual results could differ materially. There are several factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, clinical trials involve a lengthy and expensive process with an uncertain outcome, and results of earlier studies and trials may not be predictive of future trial results; our clinical trials may be suspended or discontinued due to unexpected side effects or other safety risks that could preclude approval of our product candidates; risks related to business interruptions, including the outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus, which could seriously harm our financial condition and increase our costs and expenses; uncertainties of government or third party payer reimbursement; dependence on key personnel; limited experience in marketing and sales; substantial competition; uncertainties of patent protection and litigation; dependence upon third parties; and risks related to failure to obtain FDA clearances or approvals and noncompliance with FDA regulations. There are no guarantees that any of our technology or products will be utilized or prove to be commercially successful. Additionally, there are no guarantees that future clinical trials will be completed or successful or that any precision medicine therapeutics will receive regulatory approval for any indication or prove to be commercially successful. Investors should read the risk factors set forth in Cardiff Oncology's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and other periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While the list of factors presented here is considered representative, no such list should be considered to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements included herein are made as of the date hereof, and Cardiff Oncology does not undertake any obligation to update publicly such statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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BJ's Looks to Gain Competitive Edge Over the Competition in Hiring and Retention With Highly Sought-After Benefit
NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ: BJRI), a national restaurant brand and pioneer in the craft brewing world, today announced its partnership with DailyPay, the leading provider of on-demand pay.
Headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, BJ's Restaurants, Inc. ("BJ's") owns and operates 214 casual dining restaurants across 29 states. By offering DailyPay as a benefit, BJ's team members can now access their pay immediately after completing a shift, enabling them to pay bills, save, spend, or invest on their own schedule.
"At BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse, we're committed to offering an exceptional culture for our more than 22,000 valued team members," said Jake Guild, Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse, Inc. "Having the ability to access pay on demand is a game-changer for our team members, who take great care of our guests every day. We are proud to be the first U.S. restaurant brand to roll out this innovative and easy-to-use pay system nationwide."
According to DailyPay's Job Satisfaction Index, restaurants saw one of the highest hiring rates of all industries tracked (26%). The partnership allows BJ's to remain competitive on the job market. According to a survey conducted by DailyPay, employers are able to hire up to 2x faster than those who don't offer an on-demand pay benefit. For employees, 85% of users said DailyPay makes them more able to budget.
BJ's Restaurants, Inc. ("BJ's") is a national brand with brewhouse roots where Craft Matters®. BJ's broad menu has something for everyone: slow-roasted entrees, like prime rib, BJ's EnLIGHTened Entrees® including Cherry Chipotle Glazed Salmon, signature deep-dish pizza and the often imitated, but never replicated world-famous Pizookie® dessert. BJ's has been a pioneer in the craft brewing world since 1996 and takes pride in serving BJ's award-winning proprietary handcrafted beers, brewed at its brewing operations in five states and by independent third-party craft brewers. The BJ's experience offers high-quality ingredients, bold flavors, moderate prices, sincere service and a cool, contemporary atmosphere. Founded in 1978, BJ's owns and operates 214 casual dining restaurants in 29 states. All restaurants offer dine-in, take-out, delivery and large-party catering. For more BJ's information, visit http://www.bjsrestaurants.com.
DailyPay, Inc., powered by its industry-innovator technology platform, is on a mission to build a new financial system. Partnering with America's best-in-class employers, including Dollar Tree and Adecco, DailyPay is the industry leader in on-demand pay. Through its massive data network, proprietary funding model, and connections into over 6,000 endpoints in the banking system, DailyPay works to ensure that money is always in the right place at the right time for employers, merchants, and financial institutions. DailyPay is building technology and the mindset to reimagine the way money moves, from the moment work starts. DailyPay is headquartered in New York City, with operations based in Minneapolis. For more information, visit www.dailypay.com/press.
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1 killed and 4 others injured in shooting outside Houston-area sports bar
By Jason Hanna, CNN
Gunshots from two groups of people fighting outside a Houston-area sports bar early Saturday left one man dead and four other people injured, sheriff’s officials said.
Investigators have identified “everybody that was shooting” in the parking lot of Al’s Sports Bar just outside western Houston, Harris County sheriff’s Sgt. Dennis Wolfford said, though no arrests or charges were immediately announced.
A fight started inside the bar around 12:50 a.m. CT and “spilled out into the parking lot, where multiple people pulled out firearms from both sides of the disagreement,” Wolfford said.
“Shots were fired from both sides,” he said.
A man died, and two other males and a female were injured and sent to hospitals, the sheriff’s office said.
Their names and details about what led to the fight were not immediately released. Wolfford described the conditions of the injured as stable.
Investigators will review “video footage that’s here,” Wolfford said, without elaborating. They’ll eventually contact the district attorney’s office to see if charges will be accepted, or if the case will be presented to a county grand jury, he said.
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HOLYOKE, Mass., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NextMart, Inc. (the "Company" or "NXMR" - Pink Sheets Alternative Reporting Pink: NXMR) – NXMR would like to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Emco Oilfield Services, LLC ("Emco"), has launched an acquisition program of New Mexico water rights to expand its water capacity for own water stations in the Permian Basin.
The Permian Basin is the largest oilfield in the world. EMCO is currently servicing over sixty (60) clients including major oil companies such as Exxon Mobile's subsidiary, XTO, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Occidental (OXY), and major independent public oil companies such as EOG, Devon, Cimarex, Noble Energy and many more. The acquisition of more New Mexico water rights is in direct response to the current fast-growing needs of its current clients, and new clients that are coming on board, due to the increased oil and gas activity in the Permian Basin.
William Bouyea (CEO of the Company), states…"The historically fast increase in the price of oil and gas has spurred oil and gas drilling and production in the Permian Basin. With oil is at its highest price per barrel in well over a decade domestically, increased production is a natural occurrence. EMCO is just trying to be proactive and work in the best interests of our client base who will use more water as they attempt to grow their production levels by drilling more wells in these unprecedented times in the energy market. It goes without saying that the amount of water used by our clients will increase almost 100% in correlation to any increase in oil and gas drilling as well as actual production."
Water stations provide a vital source of water needed to drill oil and gas wells. Emco will continue to transport water to and from oil and gas well drill sites in the Permian Basin, which has generated an estimated $40 million in revenues for Emco since 2018. Going forward, with its own water stations, Emco can generate an additional revenue stream that can be significant for its aggressive growth plans. Approximately half the drilling rigs in the U.S. are stationed in the Permian Basin drilling thousands of oil and gas wells annually to provide for the U.S. energy needs.
William Bouyea (CEO of the Company), further stated…"We are excited to announce that we are acquiring water rights in the New Mexico area of the Permian Basin allowing us to capture a revenue stream that has historically been a pass-through. Emco has historically charged transportation fees for the water it transports and passes on the per barrel costs of the third-party water to its customers. This new revenue stream can be expanded as we endeavor to develop additional water stations in our market."
Certain statements that we make may constitute forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The statements contained herein may contain certain forward-looking statements relating to NXMR that are based on the beliefs of NXMR's management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to NXMR's management. These forward-looking statements are, by their nature, subject to significant risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements relating to the NXMR's business prospects, future developments, trends and conditions in the industry and geographical markets in which NXMR operates, its strategies, plans, objectives and goals, its ability to control costs, statements relating to prices, volumes, operations, margins, overall market trends, risk management and exchange rates.
NextMart, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, is a public quoted Pink Sheet issuer under the ticker symbol "NXMR". Currently, NXMR currently is a shell company with a new management team with plans to become a current alternative reporting issuer with OTC Markets. The Company is currently looking for an appropriate business acquisition.
Company Web Site: https://nextmartcorporation.com/
Emco Oilfield Services, LLC Web Site: https://emcooilfield.com/
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Second-annual Mayor’s Masterpieces Children’s Art Gallery lets young artists showcase work
The second annual Mayor’s Masterpieces Children’s Art Gallery hosted their first-ever reception Tuesday afternoon, allowing the young artists of the city to proudly show off their artwork to friends, family and city residents.
The contest, a partnership between the mayor’s Public Art Commission and the Jackson Arts Council, awarded a first, second and third place artwork, along with an additional Mayor’s Choice award to city children in grades Kindergarten through 8th grade.
The theme of the contest was Earth Day, and Lizzie Emmons, executive director of the Jackson Arts Council, and Andrew Boks, chair of Public Art Commission, were “extremely impressed” at the passion young Jackson artists took to the project.
“There’s so many amazing pieces,” Emmons said. “It’s so surprising how aware children are of their environment—It’s so much more than their previous generations. We find that the Earth Day themed contest brought out some really beautiful artwork, but students are also very aware of their changing environment and their changing earth. It was very surprising and moving.”
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Boks agreed.
“The students are so in-tune with the environment,” he said. “They’re so in-tune with what’s going on around them. Art imitates life, and it’s inspiring to other artists and the community as a whole to see what they come up with.”
The first place winner was self-taught seventh-grader Omarion Harris of Northeast Middle School, who submitted an acrylic canvas depicting Mother Earth.
“It’s just beautiful,” Emmons said, gesturing to it.
Jackson City Mayor Scott Conger agreed.
"This really highlights our young artists of the city, and allows them to display their artwork in City Hall,” he said. “It’s another avenue for us to be involved in the arts in Jackson.”
The artwork will remain on display until May 2. Another art contest will be held in the fall, with details coming soon.
Second place winner was Milo Newsom, third place was Mykala Vinson and Mayor’s Choice was Julie Rodriquez.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. ("Innovative Industrial Properties") (NYSE: IIPR) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between May 7, 2020 and April 13, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Innovative Industrial Properties, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Innovative Industrial Properties includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Innovative Industrial Properties' focus is to be a cannabis company lender rather than a REIT; (2) that the true values of the Company's properties are significantly lower than Innovative Industrial Properties represents; (3) there are existential issues in its top customers; (4) as a result, its top customers may not be able to continue making payments to Innovative Industrial Properties and the Company would face significant issues replacing these customers; and (5) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: June 24, 2022
Aggrieved Innovative Industrial Properties investors only have until June 24, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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DETROIT (AP) — Tesla reported 273 crashes involving partially automated driver-assist systems, according to statistics about the industry released by U.S. safety regulators on Wednesday.
The cautioned against using the numbers to compare automakers, saying it didn’t weight them by the number of vehicles from each manufacturer that use the systems, or how many miles those vehicles traveled.
Automakers reported crashes to the agency from July of last year through May 15. Tesla’s crashes happened while vehicles were using Autopilot, “Full Self-Driving,” Traffic Aware Cruise Control, or other driver-assist systems that have some control over speed and steering. The company has about 830,000 vehicles with the systems on the road.
The next closest of a dozen automakers that reported crashes was Honda, with 90, but Honda says it has about six million vehicles on U.S. roads with such systems. Subaru was next with 10, and all other automakers reported five or fewer.
In a June 2021 order, NHTSA told more than 100 automakers and automated vehicle tech companies to report serious crashes within one day of learning about them and to disclose less-serious crashes by the 15th day of the following month. The agency is assessing how the systems perform and whether new regulations may be needed.
“As we gather more data, NHTSA will be able to better identify any emerging risks or trends and learn more about how these technologies are performing in the real world,” said Steven Cliff, the agency’s administrator.
NHTSA also said that five people were killed in the crashes involving driver-assist systems, and six were seriously hurt.
Tesla’s crash number also may be high because it uses telematics to monitor its vehicles and get real-time crash reports. Other automakers don’t have such capability, so their reports may come slower or crashes may not be reported at all, NHTSA said. A message was left seeking comment from Tesla.
Tesla’s crashes accounted for nearly 70% of the 392 reported by the dozen automakers. Although the Austin, Texas, automaker calls its systems Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving,” it says the vehicles cannot drive themselves and the drivers must be ready to intervene at all times.
Manufacturers were not required to report how many vehicles they have on the road that have the systems, nor did they have to report how far those vehicles traveled, or when the systems are in use, NHTSA said. At present, those numbers aren’t quantifiable, an agency official said.
However, NHTSA may seek such information later. In the meantime, the new data has enabled it to find out about crashes much faster than before. At present, it’s using the crash data to look for trends and discuss them with the companies, the agency said.
Already NHTSA has used the data to seek a recall, open investigations and provide information for existing inquiries, officials said. Also, they said it’s difficult to find out how many drivers actually use the technology.
“This will help our investigators quickly identify potential defect trends that can emerge,” Cliff said. “These data will also help us identify crashes that we want to investigate and provide more information about how people in other vehicles interact with the vehicles.”
Honda said it has packaged the systems to sell more of them, which could influence its numbers. “The population of vehicles that theoretically could be involved in a reportable event is much greater than the population of vehicles built by automakers with a less-aggressive deployment strategy,” the company said.
Also, reports to NHTSA are based on unverfied customer statements about whether automated systems were running at the time of a crash. Those crashes may not qualify for reporting to NHTSA after more data is gathered, Honda said.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents most automakers, said the data collected by NHTSA isn’t sufficient by itself to evaluate the safety of automated vehicle systems.
NHTSA’s order also covered companies that are running fully autonomous vehicles, and 25 reported a total of 130 crashes. Google spinoff Waymo led with 62, followed by Transdev Alternative Services with 34 and General Motors-controlled Cruise LLC with 23.
Waymo has far more vehicles in use than other companies, and it’s running a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Arizona and California.
In 108 of the crashes involving fully autonomous vehicles, no injuries were reported, and there was only one serious injury. In most of the crashes, vehicles were struck from the rear.
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Google Cloud Infrastructure Selected to Power U.S. Growth and Set Stage for International Expansion
LOS ANGELES and TORONTO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Today, Allen Media Group and Quickplay announced an agreement that paves the way for Allen Media Group's direct-to-consumer (DTC) products to unlock the next phase of exponential growth in streaming, using Quickplay's cloud-native over-the-top (OTT) platform.
In an announcement at the Devoncroft Summit in advance of IBC 2022, the two companies said that the flexibility, agility, and scalability of the Google Cloud-powered platform would accelerate Allen Media Group's DTC strategy more efficiently to create streaming opportunities around existing Allen Media Group properties, and would serve as a catalyst for growth for new opportunities in the United States and globally.
Allen Media Group owns 27 ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX network affiliate broadcast television stations in 21 U.S. markets and twelve 24-hour HD television networks serving nearly 220 million subscribers: THE WEATHER CHANNEL, THE WEATHER CHANNEL EN ESPAÑOL, PETS.TV, COMEDY.TV, RECIPE.TV, CARS.TV, ES.TV, MYDESTINATION.TV, JUSTICE CENTRAL.TV, THEGRIO, THIS TV, and PATTRN. Allen Media Group also owns the streaming platforms HBCU GO, SPORTS.TV, THEGRIO, THE WEATHER CHANNEL STREAMING APP and LOCAL NOW.
Leveraging the Quickplay platform running on Google Cloud, Allen Media Group will accelerate engagement and monetization across its portfolio by powering the back end of:
- LOCAL NOW - A free-streaming AVOD service delivering real-time, hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports, lifestyle information across 400+ Channels and 16,000 movies and television shows, documentaries, and more. Local Now carries the most local news channels of any free streaming platform. (www.LocalNow.com)
- THE WEATHER CHANNEL STREAMING APP - A connected TV (CTV) app that includes a subscription-based live stream of The Weather Channel television network with access to the network's on-demand library of original programming and interactive features such as local forecasts, 24/7 weather alerts, real-time maps and radars. (www.streamTWC.com)
- THE GRIO STREAMING APP - A free-streaming AVOD service where Black America watches a free, 24/7 premium network bringing award-winning movies, contemporary comedy, and classic TV shows. TheGrio is the brand you trust for news and entertainment focused on the Black community, streaming the most compelling stories and perspectives with cutting edge news reports and in-depth interviews. (www.thegriotv.com)
- HBCU GO - A free-streaming AVOD service offering viewers the best in live sports, original series, documentaries, films, comedy, and edutainment programming produced by African American leading producers, directors, and students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). (www.hbcugo.tv)
- SPORTS.TV - A free-streaming AVOD service that aggregates sports, news, movies, documentaries, and entertainment networks, as well as local broadcast television stations, connecting sports fans to their favorite sports, teams, games, players, highlights, podcasts, and scores on every device for free. (www.Sports.tv)
"Allen Media Group's direct-to-consumer strategy is to create exceptional product experiences powered by world class content for users worldwide," said Byron Allen, Founder/Chairman/CEO of Allen Media Group. "Global audiences, along with our streaming platforms and partners, demand excellent product and content experiences. Partnering with Quickplay's platform powered by Google Cloud will accelerate our mission of achieving the highest level of product excellence."
"Allen Media Group's commitment to serving all audiences requires an OTT platform that enables rapid iteration of new opportunities and seamless management of content, user experiences, and advertising," said Paul Pastor, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of Quickplay. "Using the Quickplay platform, Allen Media Group can achieve rapid time to market for new services and can create new features almost instantaneously to optimize viewer satisfaction, retention, and monetization."
Quickplay will be exhibiting with strategic partners at IBC 2022 Sept. 9-12 in Amsterdam. To set up a meeting before, during, or after IBC please contact Quickplay at hello@quickplay.com.
Chairman and CEO Byron Allen founded Allen Media Group/Entertainment Studios in 1993. Headquartered in Los Angeles, it has offices in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Charleston, SC. Allen Media Group owns 27 ABC-NBC-CBS-FOX network affiliate broadcast television stations in 21 U.S. markets and twelve 24-hour HD television networks serving nearly 220 million subscribers: THE WEATHER CHANNEL, THE WEATHER CHANNEL EN ESPAÑOL, PETS.TV, COMEDY.TV, RECIPE.TV, CARS.TV, ES.TV, MYDESTINATION.TV, JUSTICE CENTRAL.TV, THEGRIO, THIS TV, and PATTRN. Allen Media Group also owns the streaming platforms HBCU GO, SPORTS.TV, THEGRIO, THE WEATHER CHANNEL STREAMING APP and LOCAL NOW--the free-streaming AVOD service powered by THE WEATHER CHANNEL and content partners, which delivers real-time, hyper-local news, weather, traffic, sports, and lifestyle information. Allen Media Group also produces, distributes, and sells advertising for 68 television programs, making it one of the largest independent producers/distributors of first-run syndicated television programming for broadcast television stations. Allen Media Group International Television continues to extend its corporate branding and content around the globe. It currently has active license agreements and programming in South Africa, The United Arab Emirates, Australia, The Bahamas, Canada and New Zealand. With a library of over 5,000 hours of owned content across multiple genres, Allen Media Group provides video content to broadcast television stations, cable television networks, mobile devices, and multimedia digital. Our mission is to provide excellent programming to our viewers, online users, and Fortune 500 advertising partners.
Quickplay is leading cloud transformations of OTT and in-home experiences for pay-TV, telcos, and MVPDs. The company's cloud-native platform leverages a transformative Gen5 architecture for unparalleled performance in delivering premium video, handling complex use cases, and scaling to millions of viewers. Founded by a team that has built and operated dozens of Tier 1 OTT services worldwide, Quickplay is powering immersive sports, live experiences and personalized entertainment on any screen. The company is headquartered in Toronto and has additional locations in Los Angeles, San Diego and Chennai, India. For more information, visit firstlight.ai.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of the Supreme Court justices who disagree most often on the outcomes of cases say they both still try hard to persuade each other, and sometimes succeed. Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Amy Coney Barrett made the comments in a pretaped conversation made public for the first time Thursday evening.
Barrett, a conservative, and Sotomayor, a liberal, were on opposite sides of a decision last month in which the court stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abortion. They also disagreed on decisions where the court expanded gun rights and lowered barriers to religion in public life. But, noted Barrett at one point: “We like each other. We do.”
“I think one of the wonders of being on the Supreme Court is my knowing that every single one of my colleagues is equally passionate about the Constitution, our system of government and getting it right as I am. We may disagree on how to get there, and we often do, but that doesn’t mean that I look at them and say, ‘You’re bad people.’ I accept that it is a difference of opinion,” Sotomayor said. “I’m going to work very hard to try to convince them to look at it my way, and to correct their wrong.”
“Ditto,” Barrett said, and both laughed.
As for persuading each other, Barrett said: “I just want the audience to know sometimes we do. Justice Sotomayor has persuaded me. We do try to work together behind the scenes and we don’t go in and have our minds made up and locked in. We work together a lot and we talk and, you know, we do change our minds.”
The event is the first time the justices have made a joint appearance. Barrett, an appointee of President Donald Trump, joined the court in 2020. Sotomayor, an appointee of President Barack Obama, has been on the court since 2009. Sotomayor is the court’s first Hispanic justice. They are the court’s third and fifth female justices.
The two also talked about ways the court, currently divided 6-3 between conservatives and liberals, works to foster collegiality. They celebrate birthdays with a toast and round of “Happy Birthday,” shake every other justice’s hand when they get together and eat lunch together, where a rule is that they can’t talk about work. Sotomayor noted she’s been absent from those lunches because of concerns about the coronavirus.
Sotomayor and Barrett answered questions from Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar for about an hour as part of an education summit hosted by The Ronald Reagan Institute Center for Civics, Education, and Opportunity. The two didn’t talk specifically about any case and most of the conversation focused on education and civic engagement, with the justices answering questions from how they try to model citizenship to whether they’ve ever served on a jury. The answer to that question was no, for both.
Sotomayor, a former trial judge, talked about the importance of jury service, however, calling it “one of the few responsibilities we are asked to undertake as citizens.” “I get a lot of people and friends call me and say: ‘I just got a jury notice. Can you get me of it?’ And my answer is no I can’t, but I don’t want to.”
In speaking about civic participation, Barrett noted that her parents’ garage was a polling place when she was young. She also said one of her seven children turned 18 in the fall and was unsure about voting, wondering if she’d have time to learn all that she needed to, among other things. Barrett said one of her younger siblings convinced her she needed to.
“You have the right to vote now. You better go vote or I’ll be really mad at you,” Barrett recounted her 11-year-old daughter Juliet saying. “She couldn’t disappoint her sister, so she voted.”
Returning to talk about the court at the end of the conversation, Sotomayor said she challenges audiences to take one Supreme Court decision they disagree or agree with and read it from beginning to end. “There are two sides to every presentation. And it is important that before you choose a side … that you’ve actually sat down and thought about it completely,” she said.
“Wholeheartedly agree,” Barrett said.
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Progress made in fight against California fire that killed 2
YREKA, Calif. (AP) — When ash began to fall and his throat was burning from the smoke, Franklin Thom decided it was time to leave the city where he grew up on the edge of the national forest in California.
He made it to a shelter with his daughter and just his medicine, some clothes and his shower shoes. Unlike some others, he was told that he had escaped California’s largest fire of the year with his home still standing.
“Keep your prayers out for us,” said Thom, 55.
At least two people have died and more than 100 homes, sheds and other buildings have burned in the McKinney Fire since it erupted last Friday and the blaze remains out of control, authorities said.
Two bodies were found inside a charred vehicle Sunday in the driveway of a home near the remote community of Klamath River, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Other details weren’t immediately released.
The blaze in Northern California near the state line with Oregon exploded in size to nearly 87 square miles (225 square kilometers), and is the larger of two wildfires burning in the Klamath National Forest. A separate fire northeast of Happy Camp forced evacuations and road closures as it burned out of control Tuesday. Still more fires are raging in the Western U.S., threatening thousands of homes.
In northwestern Montana, a fire that started Friday afternoon near the town of Elmo on the Flathead Indian Reservation measured 20 square miles (52 square kilometers), fire officials said. Some people were forced to flee their homes as gusting afternoon winds drove the fire east.
The Moose Fire in Idaho has burned more than 85 square miles (220 square kilometers) in the Salmon-Challis National Forest while threatening homes, mining operations and fisheries near the town of Salmon. It was 23% contained Tuesday, according to the National Interagency Coordination Center.
And a wildfire raging in northwestern Nebraska led to evacuations and destroyed or damaged several homes near the small city of Gering. The Carter Canyon Fire began Saturday as two separate fires that merged. It was about 10% contained Tuesday.
The California fire started small but exploded over the weekend as thunderstorm cells brought winds gusting to 50 mph (80 kph) at times.
Cloudy weather and some good rain helped firefighters Sunday night and Monday. Bulldozers managed to ring the city of Yreka (Wye-REE’-kuh) with firebreaks, while crews carving out fire lines in steep and rugged terrain also were making progress, fire officials said.
The blaze was holding about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) from Yreka, a scenic city of around 7,500 people.
“We’ve got the weather,” said Todd Mack, an incident fire commander with the U.S. Forest Service. “We’ve got the horsepower. And we’re getting after it.”
But the weather was a mixed blessing. Weekend lightning also sparked several smaller fires near the McKinney Fire. And despite the much-needed moisture, forests and fields in the region remained bone-dry.
Yreka could see a high of nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday, and the National Weather Service issued a red flag warning of extreme fire danger into Tuesday night because of the chance of lightning starting new fires and gusty outflowing winds from thunderstorms powering the flames.
Among those waiting out the fire at the shelter Monday was Paisley Bamberg, 33. She arrived in Yreka a few months ago from West Columbia, South Carolina.
She was living in a motel with her six children, ranging in age from 15 to her 1-year-old twins, when she was told to evacuate.
“I started throwing everything on the top of my truck,” but had to leave many things behind, she said.
Bamberg said she’d just been hired at an Arby’s restaurant and wondered if it will survive the fire.
“There might not be much there when we get back,” she said. “I don’t know if I have a job. The kids were supposed to start school and I don’t know if the school is still standing.”
“I’m trying to keep up my spirits. I have six little humans that are depending on me,” she said. “I can’t break down or falter.”
About 2,500 people were under evacuation orders but Thom said he knew many people remained in Yreka.
“There’s still a lot of people in town, people who refused to leave,” he said. “A lot of people who don’t have vehicles and can’t go. It’s really sad.”
Thom has lived in Yreka all his life but this was his first time being threatened by a wildfire.
“I never thought it would ever happen,” he said. ‘I thought, ‘We’re invincible.’ ... This is making a liar out of me.”
Scientists have said climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
The U.S. Forest service shut down a 110-mile (177-kilometer) section of the famed Pacific Crest Trail in Northern California and southern Oregon. Sixty hikers in that area were helped to evacuate on Saturday, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon, which aided in the effort.
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Weber reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press reporters Amy Hanson in Helena, Montana; Margery Beck in Omaha, Nebraska; and Keith Ridler in Boise, Idaho, contributed to this report.
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An autopsy commissioned by Patrick Lyoya's family shows the 26-year-old was shot in the back of the head following an April 4 encounter with a Grand Rapids, Michigan, police officer, attorneys representing the family said Tuesday.
Lyoya and the officer, who has not been publicly identified, had a physical encounter following a traffic stop.
"Today, based on scientific evidence, we can confirm that Patrick Lyoya was shot in the back of his head," attorney Benjamin Crump said Tuesday in a news conference. "That is now scientific evidence of this tragic killing and what his family believes was an execution."
Forensic pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz, who performed the autopsy, attended the news conference to present his findings. Lyoya "died as a result of a single gunshot wound with entrance wound in the back of the head," he said.
According to Spitz's report, which was read aloud by Crump, Lyoya "was conscious and aware of the fact that a gun was being held to the back of his head. Death was instantaneous when the gun was fired."
Spitz reported there were no other injuries found in the autopsy, a fact family attorney Ven Johnson said was significant because it indicated Lyoya was not actively fighting the officer. If he had, there might have been other defensive wounds, he said.
Lyoya "was resisting ... but he was not actively fighting this officer, hence you have no physical injuries to the knuckles, face, body, etc.," Johnson said.
The Grand Rapids Police Department declined to comment on the family attorneys' news conference Tuesday, citing the ongoing investigation.
An official death certificate, including the cause and manner of Lyoya's death, has yet to be released. The report has been prepared, Kent County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen D. Cohle said in a statement last week, but it won't be completed until the results of toxicology and tissue tests have been received from a contracted laboratory.
The Kent County medical examiner's office said Tuesday it is still awaiting the test results.
"Once the report is finalized, it will be turned over to the Michigan State Police," a statement said, adding the death certificate won't be publicly available until state police conclude an investigation.
Lyoya's death, like those of other unarmed Black men at the hands of police, prompted protests, with demonstrators chanting, "Justice for Patrick."
Lyoya's family has called for the officer to be prosecuted. The officer is on paid leave and his police powers have been suspended, the Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom has said.
The officer involved in the shooting will not be identified publicly unless there are criminal charges, Winstrom said last week.
What the video shows
The encounter can be seen in videos captured from various cameras -- including a police body camera, the police vehicle's dashcam, cell phone and a home surveillance camera. Those videos were released by Grand Rapids police last week.
Lyoya was driving when authorities say a Grand Rapids police officer pulled him over just after 8 a.m. ET for improper registration.
The footage begins with the officer walking toward the car. Lyoya is seen exiting the vehicle and is instructed by the officer to get in the car and asks him if he has a driver's license, the video shows.
Lyoya responds that his license is in the car, opens the driver's side front door and speaks to an unidentified passenger in the car. He then shuts the door, according to video footage, turns his back to the officer and appears to walk toward the front of the car.
"No, no, no, stop, stop," the officer is heard saying. He then puts his hands on Lyoya's shoulder and back. Lyoya is seen resisting the officer's touch and quickly backs away from the officer, running away before the officer tackles him to the ground and tells Lyoya to "stop resisting."
The video shows Lyoya getting up and standing, the officer drawing and then deploying a Taser.
"Let go of the Taser," the officer is heard saying on his bodycam video.
At this point, the officer's body-worn camera was deactivated. Winstrom said it takes pushing a button for three seconds to turn off the body camera, adding he thought pressure from Lyoya's body caused the deactivation.
Another angle of the incident, taken from a neighborhood home surveillance camera, captures the rest of the altercation. The officer is heard shooting Lyoya, according to audio from the video. The cell phone video also shows the fatal shot.
Taken together, the fact Lyoya suffered no other injuries and was shot in the head suggests the encounter was not one that warranted deadly force, Johnson told reporters.
Crump echoed that, saying, "this was an unnecessary killing of an unarmed Black man who was shot in the back of the head."
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Richer nations fall short on climate finance pledge
By WANJOHI KABUKURU
Associated Press
Richer countries failed to keep a $100 billion-a-year pledge to developing nations to help them achieve their climate goals, according to an analysis by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD.
$83.3 billion in climate financing was given to poorer countries in 2020, a 4% increase from the previous year, but still short of the proposed goal. The United Nations-backed payment plan was first agreed in 2009 to help poorer nations adapt to the effects of climate change and reduce emissions.
The pledge, which was originally set up as an annual commitment from its inception until 2020, has never been fulfilled.
“We know that more needs to be done” to address the shortfall, admitted OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann.
Who pays for tackling and adapting to climate change has been a key sticking point between richer nations and poorer ones since international climate negotiations began 30 years ago.
Harsen Nyambe, who heads the African Union climate change and environment division, told the Associated Press the continent will continue to put pressure on richer nations to ensure the $100 billion-a-year agreement is fulfilled. He added that the funds will give the continent better access to required technology and will help nations transition to green energy in a fair way.
But others believe that after decades of unmet promises, it’s unlikely that richer countries will start to step up.
“They do not have the money. They are over-committed with issues such as Ukrainian crisis and that is why they have been unable to meet any of their pledges,” said Godwell Nhamo, a climate research professor at the University of South Africa.
“Africa should move on and find other sources of funding,” he added.
A report released by the British charity Oxfam in 2020 warned that the recent increase in funding came in the form of loans, not grants, with climate-related loans increasing from $13.5 billion in 2015 to $24 billion in 2018. The charity said at the time that reaching the $100 billion goal in this way “would be cause for concern, not celebration.” It’s unclear whether the latest year-on-year increase in climate funding came in the form of loans or grants.
In recent years, climate financing has helped fund greener energy and transport sectors for poorer nations, as well as adaptation measures for the agriculture and forestry industries which are threatened by land degradation, according to the OECD. ___ Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations. See more about AP’s climate initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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| 2022-07-29T20:43:41Z
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British regulator 1st to OK Moderna’s updated COVID-19 booster
LONDON (AP) — British drug regulators have become the first in the world to authorize an updated version of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine that aims to protect against the original virus and the omicron variant.
In a statement on Monday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had given the green light to Moderna’s combination “bivalent” vaccine, which will be used as an adult booster shot.
Each dose of the booster shot will target both the original COVID-19 virus that was first detected in 2020 and the omicron BA.1 variant that was first picked up in November. British regulators said the side effects were similar to those seen for Moderna’s original booster shot and were typically “mild and self-resolving.”
“What this (combination) vaccine gives us is a sharpened tool in our armoury to help protect us against this disease as the virus continues to evolve,” said Dr June Raine, the head of Britain’s health care and medicines regulator.
Such an approach is used with flu shots, which are adjusted each year depending on the variants that are circulating and can protect against four influenza strains.
Stephane Bancel, Moderna’s Chief Executive, said in a statement that it was the first regulatory authorization for a vaccine aiming to fight the omicron variant, predicting the booster would have an “important role” to play in protecting people against COVID-19 in the winter.
Britain’s health officials have not yet decided whether the tweaked vaccine will be used in its fall strategy. In July, the government said everyone 50 and over would get a COVID booster in the fall.
On Friday, Germany’s health minister said the European Medicines Agency might clear the tweaked COVID-19 booster next month.
In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told vaccine makers that any booster shots tweaked for the fall would have to include protection against the newest omicron variants.
According to the World Health Organization, the latest global surge of COVID-19 has been driven by omicron subvariant BA.5, which is responsible about 70% of the virus samples shared with the world’s largest public virus database.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a processor of pet food at a family-owned company and I care about pet health and safety. It is super easy for dogs to get dehydrated and I thought there should be a way for a dog to drink water when needed during a walk and without assistance from the pet owner, so I invented the NUTRO PACK," said an inventor, from Chula Vista, Calif. "My design helps to prevent the dog from becoming dehydrated and it could provide a more healthy, fun and active life."
The invention provides an effective way for a pet dog to stay hydrated during a walking excursion. In doing so, it enables the dog to obtain water on his own at any time during the walk. It also eliminates the need for the pet owner to carry an extra water bottle, bowl, etc. As a result, it provides added convenience and peace of mind and it keeps pets safe outdoors, especially in areas without nearby water or fountains. The invention features a practical and portable design that is easy to apply and use so it is ideal for pet dog owners. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the San Diego sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-SDB-1653, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the ASPCA, 23 million households in America – and 3.7 million in Canada – welcomed a new pet into their pack during the pandemic. People have been using their backyards more in recent years for everything from working and entertaining to vacationing and working out. But for dogs, this backyard business is old hat.
"No one loves the family yard as much as the family dog," notes Kris Kiser, President of the TurfMutt Foundation, an organization that advocates for the care for and use of green spaces, as well as pet rescue. "It's my rescue dog, Mulligan's, favorite place to be, so I do everything I can to make it safe and enjoyable for her, which ultimately makes it better for me, too."
Kiser and Mulligan have advice for creating a dream yard for your pets and the whole family this summer:
Plant Real Grass
Plastic grass is uncomfortable on paws (and bare feet), gets very hot during the summer, is difficult to clean, and is worse for the environment since it requires water for cleaning and usually can't be recycled. The bottom line: real grass is the best option for pets, people and the environment.
Select the Right Plants & Grasses
Choose a type of turf grass that will withstand the "ruff" housing of your pet. Buffalo and Bermuda grasses can be a good choice, depending on your climate zone. For other plants and shrubs, check the ASPCA's list of toxic and non-toxic garden plants for advice before planting. You'll want soft, sturdy foliage near walkways. Save delicate, decorative flowers for elevated flowerbeds and patio pots. Pro tip: place plants close together in areas you want to designate as off-limits to your dog to create boundaries.
Consider Pollinators & Other Wildlife
Nature starts in your backyard, which provides habitat and food for birds, butterflies, bees and more. Each of these species help pollinate food crops and flowering plants, so take them into consideration, too, when you're selecting plants for your backyard.
Plan for Fun
Add a splash pool, build a sandbox for digging or even create a canine obstacle course to provide hours of fun. After a day of play, your dog will need a place to relax so think of where you can plant trees or bushes that provide shade for snoozing.
Sign up for Mutt Mail, a monthly e-newsletter with backyarding tips and all the news from the TurfMutt Foundation. To learn more about creating the yard of your dreams, visit TurfMutt.com.
TurfMutt was created by the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute's (OPEI) TurfMutt Foundation and has reached more than 70 million children, educators and families since 2009. Through classroom materials developed with Scholastic, TurfMutt teaches students and teachers how to "save the planet, one yard at a time." TurfMutt is an official USGBC® Education Partner and part of their global LEARNING LAB. TurfMutt is an education resource at the U.S. Department of Education's Green Ribbon Schools, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Green Apple, the Center for Green Schools, the Outdoors Alliance for Kids, the National Energy Education Development (NEED) project, Climate Change Live, Petfinder and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2017, the TurfMutt animated video series won the coveted Cynopsis Kids Imagination Award for Best Interstitial Series. TurfMutt's personal, home habitat is featured in the 2017-2020 Wildlife Habitat Council calendars. More information at www.TurfMutt.com.
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| 2022-07-14T13:42:03Z
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Traveling around the country and even the world to get a taste of music in your life is some of the most fun travel and music fanatics can have. Checking out new bands, artists, venues, sounds, and everything in between is nothing short of exciting.
Recently, Clever Real Estate released its rankings of the best music cities in the United States based on 2022 data and Texas is well represented in the top 50. The publication made their rankings based off working musicians in the city, inexpensive concerts, intimate concert venues and people searching for music genres on Google.
Like most things in Texas, it starts in Austin and the city came in at No. 4 behind Nashville, Indy, and Portland. Meanwhile, near the bottom of the top 50 in back-to-back-to-back fashion were Dallas (46), San Antonio (47), and Houston (47).
Clever named Austin the Live Music Capital, “Austin is America’s No. 1 live music metro, with an average of five small concert venues per 100,000 residents and nine music festivals planned for 2022 – almost 2x more than the average U.S. city (5)!”
Austin was ranked No. 1 for live music while Dallas and Houston found themselves on the top five worst cities for live music in this study. San Antonio and Dallas were also listed among the top five most expensive music cities.
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| 2022-08-16T21:18:40Z
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- The Company reached record daily bookings during the third edition of its 'Prime Days' campaign, marking the biggest single-day sales ever recorded in the business' 22-year history.
- Participating airlines saw on average a two-fold increase in their booking volumes compared to the previous week.
BARCELONA, Spain, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- eDreams ODIGEO, Europe's largest online travel company and the largest in flights globally, excluding China, today announced that it has hit a new all-time single day sales record during its latest 'Prime Days' campaign.
After breaking a sales record in the second edition of the 'Prime Days', held in October 2021, the Company has achieved a new milestone by reaching its highest ever daily trading during the latest 3-day Prime campaign, between 5th and 8th April.
During this period, Prime members enjoyed special discounts of up to -60% on flights and participating partner airlines benefited from strong market share growth, achieving on average a two-fold increase in their booking volumes compared to the previous week. Members also enjoyed an additional -25% discount on accommodation on top of the usual reduction of up to -50% normally offered to Prime subscribers and up to -40% in car hire.
eDreams ODIGEO Prime, the first and leading subscription programme in the travel industry, surpassed 2.4 million members at the end of February after growing 182% in just one year. Based on the ongoing success of Prime, the Company is targetting 7.25 million subscribers by 2025.
Since it first launched in 2017, the eDreams Prime service has consistently grown exponentially as consumers increasingly value the convenience, personalisation, premium customer service and flexibility that the subscription model in travel brings to them.
Dana Dunne, Chief Executive Officer at eDreams ODIGEO, said: "We are thrilled with the continuing success of Prime as the world's leading travel subscription programme. The record-breaking sales achieved in our last Prime Days, combined with the continuous and exponential growth of our Prime subscriber base, demonstrates its compelling offer and appeal to consumers. We are transforming the travel booking experience with a unique customer proposition that offers the highest levels of convenience, personalisation, flexibility and choice to travellers worldwide. With Prime, we build long-lasting relationships with our customers and solve all of their travel needs throughout their journey, all while making them save time and money. Our continuing aim is to further revolutionise our industry with Prime and deliver an even better product for our 2.4 million subscribers and those who will subscribe in the future."
About eDreams ODIGEO
eDreams ODIGEO is one of the world's largest online travel companies and one of the largest e-commerce businesses in Europe. Under its four leading online travel agency brands – eDreams, GO Voyages, Opodo, Travellink, and the metasearch engine Liligo – it serves more than 17 million customers per year across 45 markets. Listed on the Spanish Stock Market, eDreams ODIGEO works with over 660 airlines. The business conceptualised Prime, the first subscription product in the travel sector which has topped 2.4 million members since launching in 2017. The brand offers the best quality products in regular flights, low-cost airlines, hotels, dynamic packages, cruises, car rental and travel insurance to make travel easier, more accessible, and better value for consumers across the globe.
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| 2022-04-11T17:07:05Z
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VANCOUVER, BC and BOSTON, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagin Medical (CSE: IME) (OTCQB: IMEXF) (Frankfurt & Stuttgart Symbol: DPD2) ("Imagin" or the "Company") today announced today that, pursuant to the Company's Stock Option Plan, an aggregate of 472,187 shares have been granted to certain employees, board members and consultants as incentive stock options at an exercise price of $0.28 USD per share. The options are exercisable for a period of five years, ending on April 22, 2027.
About Imagin Medical
Imagin Medical is a surgical imaging company focused on advancing new methods of visualizing cancer during minimally invasive procedures. The Company believes its first product, the i/Blue™ Imaging System, with its proprietary optics and light sensors, will greatly increase the efficiency and accuracy of visualizing bladder cancer for better resection. The Company's initial focus is bladder cancer. Learn more at www.imaginmedical.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements. These statements reflect management's current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations; they are not guarantees of future performance. The Company cautions that all forward- looking statements are inherently uncertain, and that actual performance may be affected by a number of material factors, many of which are beyond the Company's control. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or implied in the forward-looking information. Specifically, there is no assurance the Company's imaging system will work in the manner expected. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information. The CSE has neither approved nor disapproved the information contained herein and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
Contacts:
Jim Hutchens, President & CEO
jhutchens@imaginmedical.com
John Vacha, CFO
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| 2022-04-22T21:00:17Z
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NEW ORLEANS, May 13, 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 July 5, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. (NasdaqCM: ARQQ, ARQQW, CENH, CENHU, CENHW), if they purchased the Company's securities between September 7, 2021 and April 18, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period") and/or held Centricus securities as of August 31, 2021 and were eligible to vote at the special meeting on the merger between Arqit and Centricus. This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
What You May Do
If you purchased securities of Arqit or held Centricus as above and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case 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/nasdaqcm-arqq/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by July 5, 2022.
About the Lawsuit
Arqit and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period and/or in the Proxy Statement issued in connection to the Merger, violating federal securities laws.
The alleged false and misleading statements and omissions include, but are not limited to, that: (i) the Company's proposed encryption technology would require widespread adoption of new protocols and standards of for telecommunications (ii) British cybersecurity officials questioned the viability of the Company's proposed encryption technology in a meeting in 2020; (iii) the British government was not a customer of the Company but, rather, provided grants to it; (iv) the Company had little more than an early-stage prototype of its encryption system at the time of the Merger; and (v) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's statements about its business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
The case is Glick v. Arqit Quantum Inc., et al., 22-cv-2604.
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.
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Somalia’s extremists bomb restaurant in the capital; 6 dead
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A bomb blast by Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels hit a popular seaside restaurant in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, killing at least six people, ambulance service officials say.
The explosion was detonated by a suicide bomber who had been denied access inside the restaurant where the Somali Police Commissioner and several lawmakers were having dinner, Somali Police Spokesman Maj. Abdifatah Aden Hassan announced at a press conference Saturday.
The explosion occurred Friday evening when many patrons gathered for an Iftar meal to break the Ramadan fast. The restaurant is frequented by government officials.
Those killed were mostly civilians and seven other people were wounded, the director of Aamin Ambulance Service, Abdulkadir Adan told The Associated Press by phone. The blast caused “huge damage,” he said. Some security personnel were killed in the blast but police did not specify how many.
Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamic extremist group has claimed responsibility for the explosion.
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Declares Second Quarter Dividend
TULSA, Okla., May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ONE Gas, Inc. (NYSE: OGS) today announced its first quarter 2022 financial results, affirmed its 2022 financial guidance and declared its quarterly dividend.
FIRST QUARTER 2022 FINANCIAL RESULTS & HIGHLIGHTS
- First quarter 2022 net income was $98.9 million, or $1.83 per diluted share, compared with $95.6 million, or $1.79 per diluted share, in the first quarter 2021;
- Actual heating degree days across the Company's service areas were 5,699 in the first quarter 2022, 9% colder than normal and 2% colder than the same period last year; and
- The board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.62 per share, or $2.48 per share on an annualized basis, payable on June 1, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 16, 2022.
"In the first quarter, our maintenance and growth capital programs were both on track, underscoring the opportunities created by the location of our assets," said Robert S. McAnnally, president and chief executive officer. "In the current environment, we remain focused on our long-term strategy, which includes a commitment to safely operating our assets, expanding service to new customers, and managing costs."
FIRST QUARTER 2022 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
ONE Gas reported operating income of $140.8 million in the first quarter 2022, compared with $130.3 million in the first quarter 2021, which primarily reflects:
- an increase of $15.1 million from new rates;
- a decrease of $2.4 million in bad debt expense; and
- an increase of $2.6 million in residential sales due to net customer growth.
These increases were partially offset by:
- an increase of $3.7 million in outside service costs; and
- an increase of $2.2 million in employee-related costs.
For the first quarter 2022, other expense, net, increased $3.7 million compared with the same period last year. Other expense, net, includes $2.8 million of expense and $0.6 million of income for the quarters ended March 31, 2022, and 2021, respectively, related to the Company's non-qualified employee benefit plans. In addition, there is $0.8 million and $0.6 million of related expense in operations and maintenance expense for the quarters ended March 31, 2022, and 2021, respectively. In total, these non-cash expenses, which are not included in guidance, were $3.6 million higher for the quarter than the prior year.
Income tax expense includes a credit for amortization of the regulatory liability associated with excess accumulated deferred income taxes (EDIT) of $7.9 million and $8.1 million for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022, and 2021, respectively.
Capital expenditures and asset removal costs were $122.9 million for the first quarter 2022 compared with $109.0 million in the same period last year. The increase was due primarily to expenditures for system integrity and extension of service to new areas.
REGULATORY ACTIVITIES UPDATE
Securitization
In Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Development Finance Authority (ODFA) received a hearing before the Oklahoma Supreme Court on April 13, 2022, seeking validation of the bond issuance. If the Oklahoma Supreme Court issues a ruling that validates the bond issuance by the ODFA complies with the Oklahoma securitization statute and the laws of Oklahoma, the ODFA will continue the process to issue the securitized bonds associated with the Oklahoma Natural Gas financing order. Pending a ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the financing order requests the ODFA to issue bonds and provide the net proceeds to Oklahoma Natural Gas as soon as feasible in 2022. At March 31, 2022, Oklahoma Natural Gas has deferred approximately $1.3 billion in extraordinary costs attributable to Winter Storm Uri.
In Kansas, on March 31, 2022, Kansas Gas Service submitted its application for a financing order to the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) as contemplated by the settlement reached on its financial plan. Kansas Gas Service has requested approval to issue securitized bonds to recover extraordinary costs resulting from Winter Storm Uri and flexibility to recover the costs over 5, 7, 10 or 12 years. The KCC has until Sept. 27, 2022, to review the application and issue a financing order if it deems the issuance of securitized bonds to be appropriate. If the KCC approves the financing order, the Company can begin the process to issue the securitized bonds. At March 31, 2022, Kansas Gas Service has deferred approximately $335.6 million in extraordinary costs, net of penalties billed, attributable to Winter Storm Uri.
In Texas, the Texas Public Finance Authority has begun the process to issue securitized bonds, which by statute, must be issued no later than Aug. 7, 2022. At March 31, 2022, Texas Gas Service has deferred approximately $248.3 million in extraordinary costs associated with Winter Storm Uri, which includes $50.7 million attributable to the West Texas service area. Pursuant to the approved settlement order, in January 2022, Texas Gas Service began collecting the extraordinary costs, including carrying costs, attributable to the West Texas service area from those customers over a three year period.
Other Regulatory Updates
In March 2022, Oklahoma Natural Gas filed its first annual Performance-Based Rate Change (PBRC) application following the general rate case that was approved in November 2021. The filing is for a calendar year 2021 test year and includes a requested base rate increase of $19.7 million, energy efficiency program incentive of $2.3 million and an estimated $9.1 million credit associated with EDIT. If approved, new rates are expected to become effective in the third quarter 2022, and EDIT is expected to be credited to customers in 2023.
In February 2022, Texas Gas Service made Gas Reliability Infrastructure Program (GRIP) filings for all customers in the Central-Gulf Service Area, requesting a $9.1 million increase to be effective in June 2022.
In March 2022, Texas Gas Service made GRIP filings for all customers in the West Texas service area, requesting a $5.0 million increase to be effective in July 2022.
In April 2022, Texas Gas Service filed its annual Cost-of-Service Adjustment filing for the incorporated area of the Rio Grande Valley service area, requesting an increase of $2.9 million. If approved, new rates will become effective in August 2022.
2022 FINANCIAL GUIDANCE
ONE Gas affirmed its financial guidance issued on Jan. 18, 2022, with 2022 net income and earnings per share expected to be in the range of $215 million to $227 million, and $3.96 to $4.20 per diluted share. Capital expenditures, including asset removal costs, are expected to be approximately $650 million for 2022.
EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST
The ONE Gas executive management team will conduct a conference call on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at 11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (10 a.m. Central Daylight Time). The call also will be carried live on the ONE Gas website.
To participate in the telephone conference call, dial 888-254-3590, passcode 9128072, or log on to www.onegas.com/investors and select Events and Presentations.
If you are unable to participate in the conference call or the webcast, a replay will be available on the ONE Gas website, www.onegas.com, for 30 days. A recording will be available by phone for seven days. The playback call may be accessed at 888-203-1112, passcode 9128072.
ONE Gas, Inc. (NYSE: OGS) is a 100% regulated natural gas utility, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "OGS." ONE Gas is included in the S&P MidCap 400 Index and is one of the largest natural gas utilities in the United States.
Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ONE Gas provides a reliable and affordable energy choice to more than 2.3 million customers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Its divisions include Kansas Gas Service, the largest natural gas distributor in Kansas; Oklahoma Natural Gas, the largest in Oklahoma; and Texas Gas Service, the third largest in Texas, in terms of customers.
For more information and the latest news about ONE Gas, visit onegas.com and follow its social channels: @ONEGas, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Some of the statements contained and incorporated in this news release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. The forward-looking statements relate to our anticipated financial performance, liquidity, management's plans and objectives for our future operations, our business prospects, the outcome of regulatory and legal proceedings, market conditions and other matters. We make these forward-looking statements in reliance on the safe harbor protections provided under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The following discussion is intended to identify important factors that could cause future outcomes to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements include the items identified in the preceding paragraph, the information concerning possible or assumed future results of our operations and other statements contained or incorporated in this news release identified by words such as "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," "should," "goal," "forecast," "guidance," "could," "may," "continue," "might," "potential," "scheduled," "likely," and other words and terms of similar meaning.
One should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which are applicable only as of the date of this news release. Known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. Those factors may affect our operations, markets, products, services and prices. In addition to any assumptions and other factors referred to specifically in connection with the forward-looking statements, factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in any forward-looking statement include, among others, the following:
- our ability to recover costs (including operating costs and increased commodity costs related to Winter Storm Uri in February 2021), income taxes and amounts equivalent to the cost of property, plant and equipment, regulatory assets and our allowed rate of return in our regulated rates;
- cyber-attacks, which, according to experts, have increased in volume and sophistication since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, or breaches of technology systems that could disrupt our operations or result in the loss or exposure of confidential or sensitive customer, employee or Company information; further, increased remote working arrangements as a result of the pandemic have required enhancements and modifications to our IT infrastructure (e.g. Internet, Virtual Private Network, remote collaboration systems, etc.), and any failures of the technologies, including third-party service providers, that facilitate working remotely could limit our ability to conduct ordinary operations or expose us to increased risk or effect of an attack;
- our ability to manage our operations and maintenance costs;
- the concentration of our operations in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas;
- changes in regulation of natural gas distribution services, particularly those in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas;
- the economic climate and, particularly, its effect on the natural gas requirements of our residential and commercial customers;
- the length and severity of a pandemic or other health crisis, such as the outbreak of COVID-19, including the impact to our operations, customers, contractors, vendors and employees, the effectiveness of vaccine campaigns (including the COVID-19 vaccine campaign) on our workforce and customers and the effect of other measures or mandates that international, federal, state and local governments, agencies, law enforcement and/or health authorities implement to address the pandemic or other health crisis, which could (as with COVID-19) precipitate or exacerbate one or more of the above-mentioned and/or other risks, and significantly disrupt or prevent us from operating our business in the ordinary course for an extended period;
- competition from alternative forms of energy, including, but not limited to, electricity, solar power, wind power, geothermal energy and biofuels;
- conservation and energy efficiency efforts of our customers;
- adverse weather conditions and variations in weather, including seasonal effects on demand and/or supply, the occurrence of severe storms in the territories in which we operate, and climate change, and the related effects on supply, demand, and costs;
- indebtedness could make us more vulnerable to general adverse economic and industry conditions, limit our ability to borrow additional funds and/or place us at competitive disadvantage compared with competitors;
- our ability to secure reliable, competitively priced and flexible natural gas transportation and supply, including decisions by natural gas producers to reduce production or shut-in producing natural gas wells and expiration of existing supply and transportation and storage arrangements that are not replaced with contracts with similar terms and pricing;
- our ability to complete necessary or desirable expansion or infrastructure development projects, which may delay or prevent us from serving our customers or expanding our business;
- operational and mechanical hazards or interruptions;
- adverse labor relations;
- the effectiveness of our strategies to reduce earnings lag, revenue protection strategies and risk mitigation strategies, which may be affected by risks beyond our control such as commodity price volatility, counterparty performance or creditworthiness and interest rate risk;
- the capital-intensive nature of our business, and the availability of and access to, in general, funds to meet our debt obligations prior to or when they become due and to fund our operations and capital expenditures, either through (i) cash on hand, (ii) operating cash flow, or (iii) access to the capital markets and other sources of liquidity;
- our ability to obtain capital on commercially reasonable terms, or on terms acceptable to us, or at all;
- limitations on our operating flexibility, earnings and cash flows due to restrictions in our financing arrangements;
- cross-default provisions in our borrowing arrangements, which may lead to our inability to satisfy all of our outstanding obligations in the event of a default on our part;
- changes in the financial markets during the periods covered by the forward-looking statements, particularly those affecting the availability of capital and our ability to refinance existing debt and fund investments and acquisitions to execute our business strategy;
- actions of rating agencies, including the ratings of debt, general corporate ratings and changes in the rating agencies' ratings criteria;
- changes in inflation and interest rates;
- our ability to recover the costs of natural gas purchased for our customers, including those related to Winter Storm Uri and any related financing required to support our purchase of natural gas supply, including the securitized financings currently contemplated in each of our jurisdictions;
- impact of potential impairment charges;
- volatility and changes in markets for natural gas and our ability to secure additional and sufficient liquidity on reasonable commercial terms to cover costs associated with such volatility;
- possible loss of local distribution company franchises or other adverse effects caused by the actions of municipalities;
- payment and performance by counterparties and customers as contracted and when due, including our counterparties maintaining ordinary course terms of supply and payments;
- changes in existing or the addition of new environmental, safety, tax and other laws to which we and our subsidiaries are subject, including those that may require significant expenditures, significant increases in operating costs or, in the case of noncompliance, substantial fines or penalties;
- the effectiveness of our risk-management policies and procedures, and employees violating our risk-management policies;
- the uncertainty of estimates, including accruals and costs of environmental remediation;
- advances in technology, including technologies that increase efficiency or that improve electricity's competitive position relative to natural gas;
- population growth rates and changes in the demographic patterns of the markets we serve, and economic conditions in these areas' housing markets;
- acts of nature and the potential effects of threatened or actual terrorism and war, including recent events in Europe;
- the sufficiency of insurance coverage to cover losses;
- the effects of our strategies to reduce tax payments;
- the effects of litigation and regulatory investigations, proceedings, including our rate cases, or inquiries and the requirements of our regulators as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017;
- changes in accounting standards;
- changes in corporate governance standards;
- discovery of material weaknesses in our internal controls;
- our ability to comply with all covenants in our indentures and the ONE Gas Credit Agreement, a violation of which, if not cured in a timely manner, could trigger a default of our obligations;
- our ability to attract and retain talented employees, management and directors, and shortage of skilled-labor;
- unexpected increases in the costs of providing health care benefits, along with pension and postemployment health care benefits, as well as declines in the discount rates on, declines in the market value of the debt and equity securities of, and increases in funding requirements for, our defined benefit plans; and
- our ability to successfully complete merger, acquisition or divestiture plans, regulatory or other limitations imposed as a result of a merger, acquisition or divestiture, and the success of the business following a merger, acquisition or divestiture.
These factors are not necessarily all of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any of our forward-looking statements. Other factors could also have material adverse effects on our future results. These and other risks are described in greater detail in Part 1, Item 1A, Risk Factors, in our Annual Report. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors. Other than as required under securities laws, we undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement whether as a result of new information, subsequent events or change in circumstances, expectations or otherwise.
APPENDIX
Analyst Contact:
Brandon Lohse
918-947-7472
Media Contact:
Leah Harper
918-947-7123
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Benefits help provide workers with income protection as financial and mental health pressures mount
COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac, a leading provider of supplemental health insurance products in the U.S., today announced the launch of its newly enhanced Aflac Individual Short-Term Disability Insurance to help employers better support the changing needs of their valued workers amid economic uncertainty and enduring pandemic challenges. The company's income protection insurance product provides policyholders with a source of monthly income when a mental health condition or another covered injury or sickness leaves them unable to work.
According to the National Alliance on Mental Health, 21%, or nearly 53 million U.S. adults, experienced mental illness in 2020, and 46% of adults with mental illness received treatment.1 They go on to report that serious mental illness causes $193.2 billion in lost earnings each year.
"Today, more Americans are grappling with challenges that, in the past, may have received less attention, but in the wake of the pandemic it is increasingly clear that mental health is a major concern for our customers," said Aflac U.S. Deputy President Virgil Miller. "That is why Aflac is enhancing its offerings in the mental health space to provide solutions for consumers who seek to protect not only their physical health, but their emotional well-being as well."
Aflac's Individual Short-Term Disability product is a workplace benefit that can help protect the overall physical, financial and mental health of an employer's workforce. With a variety of options, employees can tailor coverage to their specific needs and budgets, so they can focus on recovery and getting back to work rather than financial stress.
"Events and conditions leading to disability that prevent people from working and generating income are more common than many think," said Kim Rudeen, vice president, Aflac Product Development and Management. "When a disability leaves a person unable to earn a living, increased out-of-pocket expenses could rapidly strain their finances. In fact, 1-in-3 employees (36%) could not go for more than one month without a paycheck, which is a high degree of fragility."3
- Expanded coverage for disabilities caused by common mental health conditions, including but not limited to schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress, substance and alcohol use disorders.
- Expanded coverage with no rate increases to policyholders.
- Optional riders to help further amplify income protection coverage.
For more information visit Aflac.com/business.
Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) is a Fortune 500 company helping provide protection to more than 50 million people through its subsidiaries in Japan and the U.S., paying cash fast when policyholders get sick or injured. For more than six decades, the insurance policies of Aflac Incorporated's subsidiaries have given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the U.S., Aflac is the number one provider of supplemental health insurance products.4 Aflac Life Insurance Japan is the leading provider of medical and cancer insurance in Japan, where it insures 1 in 4 households. In 2021, Aflac Incorporated was proud to be included as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for the 16th consecutive year. Also in 2021, the company was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and became a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). In 2022, Aflac Incorporated was included on Fortune's list of World's Most Admired Companies for the 21st time and Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index for the third consecutive year. To find out how to get help with expenses health insurance doesn't cover, get to know us at aflac.com or aflac.com/español. Investors may learn more about Aflac Incorporated and its commitment to ESG and social responsibility at investors.aflac.com under "Sustainability."
Media contact: Jon Sullivan, 706-763-4813 or jsullivan@aflac.com
Analyst and investor contact: David A. Young, 706-596-3264, 800-235-2667 or dyoung@aflac.com
1 National Alliance on Mental Health (2022). Mental Health Stats. Accessed July 20, 2022, from https://www.nami.org/mhstats.
2Integrated Benefits Institute (2019). IBI Benchmarking Analytics Series: Which Diagnoses Drive STD Incidence, Costs and Lost Time? Accessed from https://f.hubspotusercontent10.net/hubfs/8926463/Resource%20Assets/Benchmarking%20Analytics/IBI-Benchmarking-Analytics-STD-condition-drivers.pdf.
3 Aflac (2021). 2021-2022 Aflac WorkForces Report. Accessed July 5, 2022, from https://www.aflac.com/docs/awr/pdf/2021-overview/2021-aflac-awr-health-wellness-power-benefits.pdf
4 LIMRA 2021 US Supplemental Health Insurance Total Market Report.
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DULUTH, Ga., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This weekend, nearly 600 veterinary students representing three dozen veterinary schools from across the US, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands marked the conclusion of a special summer research experience with a presentation of their findings at the National Veterinary Scholars Symposium.
Mentored this summer by leading researchers from across academia, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and National Institutes of Health, the students – all participants in the Veterinary Scholars Program – conducted original research, relevant to both animal and human health, in such fields of study as emerging infectious diseases, toxicology, oncology and chronic diseases as well as advances in conservation and sustainable agriculture. This longstanding collaboration between public and private organizations, academia and government agencies provides veterinary students hands-on research experience in the laboratory and field, and exposes them to potential careers in biomedical research.
The Veterinary Scholars Program participants summarize their research findings and work over the course of the summer on a scientific poster, which they present to public health officials and industry experts as well as leading biomedical researchers and other veterinary students at the National Veterinary Scholars Symposium. This year's Symposium was hosted by the University of Minnesota's College of Veterinary Medicine, and also sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim, the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges, American Veterinary Medical Association and American Veterinary Medical Foundation, National Institutes of Health, USDA and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
This summer marked the first time that Veterinary Scholars had the opportunity to work directly with scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, researching diseases that could affect livestock and public health and advancing sustainable approaches for agriculture and food production. Under this new collaboration between the USDA and Boehringer Ingelheim, 12 students spent the summer at one of nine USDA sites working with an ARS scientist on a research project, with Boehringer Ingelheim and USDA covering all costs for the students, including a monthly stipend and costs associated with traveling to and from their schools to the USDA centers and the opportunity to present their research at the National Veterinary Scholar Symposium.
"It's clear from the students' presentations that they have learned a great deal from their mentors and their research work this summer. We hope that this summer's experience has introduced them to the many ways that veterinarians are contributing to science, innovation and the well-being of animals and humans, and that it will inspire them throughout their careers.," said Caroline Belmont, head of U.S. Animal Health Innovation for Boehringer Ingelheim, in her welcome address to participants at the National Veterinary Scholars Symposium.
Several veterinary students and one graduate veterinary researcher are recognized annually at the National Veterinary Scholars Symposium with Boehringer Ingelheim awards in recognition of their early contributions to research advancing animal and human health.
Dr. Ashley M. Rasys, from the University of Georgia, received the 2022 Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Research Award for Graduate Veterinarians, which recognizes graduate veterinarians who have completed or will soon complete a Ph.D. program or are in their final years of residency training in veterinary pathology, medicine, surgery, radiology/ imaging, or laboratory animal medicine. Dr. Rasys' work has focused on genome editing in reptiles, with the intention to develop a cheaper and more efficient method to edit the chicken genome in order to help mitigate pathogen spread and disease among birds. Dr. Rosemary Bayless, from North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, also was recognized as Veterinary Graduate honorable mention.
Sydney Womack, from Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, received the 2022 Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Research Award for Veterinary Students. Womack's research has focused on the exploration of proteomics across species to identify potential biomarkers for osteoarthritis in animal and humans.
Lauren Ellison, from Mississippi State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, and Myranda Gorman, from University of Tennessee's College of Veterinary Medicine, also received recognition as honorable mention Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Research Scholars.
The Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Scholars Program was established more than 30 years ago to introduce veterinary medical students to biomedical research. At each participating school, Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Scholars are assigned a mentor and laboratory. Each scholar conducts a hypothesis-driven research project. The research project is typically conducted over a 10-12-week period during the summer, with students presenting their work at the conclusion. More than 5,000 students have received stipends from Boehringer Ingelheim to conduct research since the program started. More information is available at http://veterinaryscholars.boehringer-ingelheim.com/.
Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health is working on first-in-class innovation for the prediction, prevention, and treatment of diseases in animals. For veterinarians, pet owners, producers, and governments in more than 150 countries, we offer a large and innovative portfolio of products and services to improve the health and well-being of companion animals and livestock.
As a global leader in the animal health industry and as part of the family-owned Boehringer Ingelheim, we take a long-term perspective. The lives of animals and humans are interconnected in deep and complex ways. We know that when animals are healthy, humans are healthier too. By using the synergies between our Animal Health and Human Pharma businesses and by delivering value through innovation, we enhance the health and well-being of both.
Learn more about Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA at https://bi-animalhealth.com/
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Wealth advisory firm hires two employees as part of strategic growth plan
LAFAYETTE, La., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Financial Wealth Advisors ("Summit"), one of the largest independent wealth advisory firms in Louisiana, today announced the addition of Chris Breaux, investment advisor representative, and Kim Landry, client service representative, within the growing firm's Lafayette office.
Breaux, a Lafayette native, brings a decade of financial and entrepreneurial experience to his role at Summit. After receiving his bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, followed by an MBA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he returned to Lafayette, where he initially worked as a financial analyst before branching out on his own as a business owner.
Landry, who graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana with a degree in Business Administration, brings more than a decade of marketing and administrative experience from her work with accounting, wealth management and legal firms. She has been very active in the Acadiana community, having served 10 years on the board at Krewe of Bonaparte and six years with The Big Easel.
"We are excited to expand our team to support the growing financial needs of our multigenerational clients in Louisiana and across the Gulf Coast region," said David Daniel, Managing Partner at Summit Financial. "Chris and Kim will be valuable additions to Summit and our team-based approach to helping clients achieve their long-term financial goals."
Breaux said: "I have long respected the Summit team and I'm excited to join the firm. I look forward to helping small business owners and successful families achieve their financial goals and dreams."
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HERSHEY, Pa., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) today announced net sales and earnings for the second quarter ended July 3, 2022, and raised its full-year financial outlook.
"Our business momentum continued in the second quarter, with double-digit sales growth in each of our segments resulting in strong earnings per share performance," said Michele Buck, The Hershey Company President and Chief Executive Officer. "These results reflect the strength and resilience of our categories, consumers' love for our brands, the investments we are making in our business, and the exceptional execution of our dedicated employees. We are raising our financial expectations for the year and investing more heavily in our brands, capabilities and people in the second half to continue this momentum into 2023."
- Consolidated net sales of $2,372.6 million, an increase of 19.3%.
- Organic, constant currency net sales increased 14.1%.
- The impact of acquisitions on net sales was a 5.3-point benefit2 while foreign currency exchange was a 0.1-point headwind.
- Reported net income of $315.6 million and $1.53 earnings per share-diluted, an increase of 5.5%.
- Adjusted earnings per share-diluted of $1.80, an increase of 22.4%.
The Hershey Company is increasing its net sales outlook to reflect continued strength in consumer demand and net price realization. Price elasticities are expected to moderate from the second quarter, but remain favorable to historical levels, as inflation and fewer government benefits are expected to weaken consumers' buying power.
Profit from increased sales growth is expected to more than offset higher supply chain costs, elevated advertising and merchandising levels and increased incentive compensation costs, to deliver higher reported and adjusted earnings per share growth.
To reflect this strength in performance and expectations for the second half of the year, the company is raising its full-year financial outlook to the following:
Below is a reconciliation of projected 2022 and full-year 2021 earnings per share-diluted calculated in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to non-GAAP adjusted earnings per share-diluted:
2022 projected earnings per share-diluted, as presented above, does not include the impact of mark-to-market gains and losses on our commodity derivative contracts that are reflected within corporate unallocated expense in segment results until the related inventory is sold since we are not able to forecast the impact of the market changes.
Consolidated net sales increased 19.3% to $2,372.6 million in the second quarter of 2022, including a 5.3-point benefit from the acquisitions of Pretzels, Dot's and Lily's, while foreign currency exchange was a 0.1-point headwind. Organic, constant currency net sales increased 14.1% driven by pricing and volume gains across segments. Net price realization contributed 9.5 points to net sales growth driven by list price increases as well as moderately lower levels of promotional activity. Volume contributed to an additional 4.6-point benefit driven by the replenishment of distributor inventory levels, primarily in the North America Confectionery segment, along with favorable price elasticities in the North America Salty Snacks and International segments.
Reported gross margin was 42.1% in the second quarter of 2022, compared to 46.5% in the second quarter of 2021, a decrease of 440 basis points. This decrease was primarily driven by derivative mark-to-market losses, combined with higher supply chain costs and unfavorable mix, which was partially offset by sales growth. Adjusted gross margin was 43.9% in the second quarter of 2022, a decrease of 250 basis points. Higher raw material, packaging and logistics cost inflation, as well as labor investments, contributed to this decline, in addition to unfavorable mix from recent acquisitions. These headwinds were partially offset by accelerating net price realization and volume gains.
Selling, marketing and administrative expenses increased 16.2% in the second quarter of 2022 versus the second quarter of 2021, primarily driven by higher amortization, integration and operating expenses related to recent acquisitions. Advertising and related consumer marketing expenses increased 3.2% in the second quarter of 2022 versus the same period last year. Moderate advertising increases across brands and segments without capacity constraints were largely offset by cost efficiencies related to new media partners, primarily benefiting the North America Confectionery segment. Selling, marketing and administrative expenses, excluding advertising and related consumer marketing, increased 22.4% versus the second quarter of 2021. This increase was driven by a loss related to the sale of non-operating assets; higher acquisition-related costs; incremental capabilities and technology investments, including the upgrade of the company's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, as well as related amortization; and salary and benefit inflation.
Second-quarter 2022 reported operating profit was $456.5 million, in line with prior year, resulting in an operating profit margin of 19.2%, a decrease of 380 basis points. Adjusted operating profit of $526.9 million increased 14.7% versus the second quarter of 2021, resulting in adjusted operating profit margin of 22.2%, a decrease of 90 basis points. Profit increases in adjusted operating profit were driven by pricing and volume gains, partially offset by broad-based inflation, acquisition-related costs, and higher advertising, capability and technology investments. Reported operating profit was similarly affected but was further offset by a loss related to the sale of non-operating assets, derivative mark-to-market losses, and higher integration costs related to recent acquisitions. The aforementioned costs outpaced sales growth resulting in a degradation of reported and adjusted operating margin in the second quarter.
The reported effective tax rate in the second quarter of 2022 was 21.8%, a decrease of 620 basis points versus the second quarter of 2021. The adjusted effective tax rate in the second quarter of 2022 was 21.4%, a decrease of 600 basis points versus the second quarter of 2021. Both the reported and adjusted effective tax rate decreases were driven primarily by higher international tax reserves accrued in the prior year period, as well as the timing of renewable energy tax credits.
The company's second-quarter 2022 results, as prepared in accordance with GAAP, included items positively impacting comparability of $70.4 million, or $0.27 per share-diluted. For the second quarter of 2021, items positively impacting comparability totaled $2.8 million, or $0.02 per share-diluted.
The following table presents a summary of items impacting comparability in each period (see Appendix I for additional information):
Segment performance for the second quarter of 2022 versus the prior-year period are detailed below. See the schedule of supplementary information within this press release for additional information on segment net sales and profit.
Hershey's North America Confectionery segment net sales were $1,909.1 million in the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 12.9% versus the same period last year. Excluding the 0.8-point benefit from the acquisition of Lily's and a 0.3-point headwind from foreign currency exchange, organic, constant currency net sales increased 12.4%. Net price realization was a 9.8-point benefit driven by list price increases as well as a lower level of promotional activity in response to capacity constraints. Volume drove an additional 2.6-point benefit driven by the replenishment of distributor inventory levels, which contributed approximately 6.0 points to net sales growth and was partially offset by price elasticities.
Hershey's U.S. candy, mint and gum (CMG) retail takeaway for the 12-week period ended July 17, 2022 in the multi-outlet plus convenience store channels (MULO+C) increased 5.0%. Consumer demand and unit velocities remained steady with strength in take-home chocolate and sweets, while growth in unit pricing drove year-over-year gains. Hershey's take-home chocolate increased 6.6% in the latest period as at-home consumption remained strong and above pre-pandemic levels. Momentum of Hershey's sweets brands continued with retail takeaway of 7.7%, driven by Jolly Rancher Gummies and Twizzlers summer programming. Hershey's CMG share declined 54 basis points as production and on-shelf availability of certain products remained constrained and promotional levels were reduced to enable inventory replenishment. Declines were in line with expectations and an improvement from the first quarter as on-shelf availability increased. Hershey's confectionery share remains 83 basis points higher than pre-pandemic levels.
The North America Confectionery segment reported segment income of $618.9 million in the second quarter of 2022, reflecting an increase of 11.6% versus the prior-year period. The increase in segment income was driven by pricing and volume gains, which were partially offset by higher supply chain costs, increased acquisition costs related to Lily's, higher capability and technology investments and increased trade show and travel expenses as the prior-year period was impacted by pandemic-related restrictions. The aforementioned costs outpaced sales growth in the second quarter, resulting in segment margin of 32.4%, a decrease of 40 basis points.
Hershey's North America Salty Snacks segment net sales were $256.3 million in the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 99.9% versus the same period last year. Sales from the acquisitions of Dot's and Pretzels was a 71.6-point benefit. Net price realization was a 14.6-point benefit, while volume contributed 13.7 points driven by strong consumer demand and favorable price elasticities.
Hershey's U.S. salty snack retail takeaway, including Dot's, in MULO+C increased 26.3% in the 12-week period ended July 17, 2022, driven by pricing and strong consumer demand across Hershey's salty snack brands. SkinnyPop brand retail sales increased 16.9% versus the prior-year period and resulted in a ready-to-eat popcorn share gain of approximately 130 basis points. Pirate's Booty brand continues to report strong takeaway with retail sales growth of 32.4%. Both SkinnyPop and Pirate's Booty brands reported double-digit growth across all classes of trade and nearly all pack-types in the period with exceptional strength in multi-packs, which increased 30.4%. This growth is driven by consumers' demand for convenience and on-the-go snacking along with the company's assortment strategy. Dot's Homestyle Pretzels brand also had tremendous retail sales growth of 45.4% during the period driven by continued strong distribution gains, resulting in a pretzel category share gain of approximately 340 basis points.
North America Salty Snacks segment income increased 43.7% to $37.4 million in the second quarter of 2022, compared to $26.0 million in the second quarter of 2021. Pricing gains and higher volumes offset unfavorable mix, acquisition-related costs and higher supply chain costs due to inflation and higher-than-expected demand, to drive segment income growth in the second quarter. The aforementioned costs outpaced sales growth in the second quarter, resulting in segment margin of 14.6%, a decrease of 570 basis points.
Second-quarter 2022 net sales for Hershey's International segment increased 21.3% versus the same period last year to $207.2 million. Excluding a 0.7-point benefit from foreign currency exchange rates, constant currency net sales increased 20.6%. Volume gains contributed 17.6 points to net sales growth, driven by the strong consumer buying power and demand across markets. Price realization was a 3.0-point benefit.
The International segment reported a $30.7 million profit in the second quarter of 2022, reflecting an increase of $3.1 million versus the prior-year period. The profit increase was driven by volume gains and net price realization, which were partially offset by higher supply chain cost inflation and logistics costs, as well as increased advertising investment, salary and benefit inflation and increased travel expenses. The aforementioned costs outpaced sales growth in the second quarter, resulting in segment margin of 14.8%, a decrease of 130 basis points.
Hershey's unallocated corporate expense in the second quarter of 2022 was $160.1 million, an increase of $11.5 million, or 7.7%, versus the same period of 2021. This increase was driven by higher amortization; integration and operating expenses related to recent acquisitions; incremental capabilities and technology investments, including the upgrade of the company's ERP system, as well as related amortization; and salary and benefit inflation.
The Board of Directors of The Hershey Company declared a quarterly dividend of $1.036 on the Common Stock and $0.942 on the Class B Common Stock, payable September 15, 2022, to shareholders of record as of August 19, 2022, representing an increase of 15%, or $0.135 and $0.123 per share, respectively. It is the 371st consecutive regular dividend on the Common Stock and the 152nd consecutive regular dividend on the Class B Common Stock.
At approximately 7 a.m. (Eastern time) today, Hershey will post a pre-recorded management discussion of its second-quarter 2022 results and business update to its website at www.thehersheycompany.com/investors. In addition, at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern time) today, the company will host a live question and answer session with investors and financial analysts. Details to access this call are available on the company's website.
Note: In this release, for the second-quarter 2022, Hershey references income measures that are not in accordance with GAAP because they exclude certain items impacting comparability, including gains and losses associated with mark-to-market commodity derivatives, business realignment activities, acquisition-related activities, and other miscellaneous losses and benefits. The company refers to these income measures as "adjusted" or "non-GAAP" financial measures throughout this release. These non-GAAP financial measures are used in evaluating results of operations for internal purposes and are not intended to replace the presentation of financial results in accordance with GAAP. Rather, the company believes exclusion of such items provides additional information to investors to facilitate the comparison of past and present operations. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures referenced in this release to their nearest comparable GAAP financial measures as presented in the Consolidated Statements of Income is provided below.
In the assessment of our results, we review and discuss the following financial metrics that are derived from the reported and non-GAAP financial measures presented above:
We present certain percentage changes in net sales on a constant currency basis, which excludes the impact of foreign currency exchange. To present this information for historical periods, current period net sales for entities reporting in currencies other than the U.S. dollar are translated into U.S. dollars at the average monthly exchange rates in effect during the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year, rather than at the actual average monthly exchange rates in effect during the current period of the current fiscal year. As a result, the foreign currency impact is equal to the current year results in local currencies multiplied by the change in the average foreign currency exchange rate between the current fiscal period and the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year.
A reconciliation between reported net sales growth rates and (i) constant currency net sales growth rates and (ii) organic constant currency net sales growth rates is provided below:
Details of the charges included in GAAP results, as summarized in the press release (above), are as follows:
Derivative mark-to-market losses (gains): The mark-to-market losses (gains) on commodity derivatives are recorded as unallocated and excluded from adjusted results until such time as the related inventory is sold, at which time the corresponding losses (gains) are reclassified from unallocated to segment income. Since we often purchase commodity contracts to price inventory requirements in future years, we make this adjustment to facilitate the year-over-year comparison of cost of sales on a basis that matches the derivative gains and losses with the underlying economic exposure being hedged for the period.
Business realignment activities: We periodically undertake restructuring and cost reduction activities as part of ongoing efforts to enhance long-term profitability. During the fourth quarter of 2020, we commenced the International Optimization Program to streamline resources and investments in select international markets, including the optimization of our China operating model to improve efficiencies and provide a more sustainable and simplified base going forward. During the second quarter of 2022 and 2021, business realignment charges related primarily to other third-party costs related to this program, as well as severance and employee benefit costs.
Acquisition-related activities: During the second quarter of 2022, we incurred costs related to the integration of the 2021 acquisitions of Lily's, Dot's and Pretzels. During the second quarter of 2021, we incurred costs to effectuate the Lily's acquisition.
Noncontrolling interest share of business realignment and impairment charges: Certain of the business realignment and impairment charges recorded related to the divestiture of Lotte Shanghai Foods Co., Ltd., a joint venture in which we previously owned a 50% controlling interest. Therefore, we have also adjusted for the portion of these charges included within the income (loss) attributed to the noncontrolling interest.
Other miscellaneous losses (benefits): During the second quarter of 2022, we recorded a loss on the sale of non-operating assets located in Pennsylvania. During the second quarter of 2021, we recorded a gain on a receivable previously deemed uncollectible.
Tax effect of all adjustments: This line item reflects the aggregate tax effect of all pre-tax adjustments reflected in the preceding line items of the applicable table. The tax effect for each adjustment is determined by calculating the tax impact of the adjustment on the company's quarterly effective tax rate, unless the nature of the item and/or the tax jurisdiction in which the item has been recorded requires application of a specific tax rate or tax treatment, in which case the tax effect of such item is estimated by applying such specific tax rate or tax treatment.
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Many of these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "assume," "believe," "continue," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "future," "intend," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "strategy," "target" and similar terms, and future or conditional tense verbs like "could," "may," "might," "should," "will" and "would," among others. These statements are made based upon current expectations that are subject to risk and uncertainty. Because actual results may differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements, you should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements when deciding whether to buy, sell or hold the company's securities. Factors that could cause results to differ materially include, but are not limited to: risks related to the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on our business, suppliers, distributors, consumers, customers, and employees; the scope and duration of the pandemic; government actions and restrictive measures implemented in response to the pandemic, including the distribution of vaccinations and continuation of social distancing guidelines and stay at home orders; disruptions or inefficiencies in our supply chain due to the loss or disruption of essential manufacturing or supply elements or other factors; issues or concerns related to the quality and safety of our products, ingredients or packaging, human and workplace rights, and other environmental, social or governance matters; changes in raw material and other costs, along with the availability of adequate supplies of raw materials; the company's ability to successfully execute business continuity plans to address the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting changes in consumer preferences and the broader economic and operating environment; selling price increases, including volume declines associated with pricing elasticity; market demand for our new and existing products; increased marketplace competition; failure to successfully execute and integrate acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures; changes in governmental laws and regulations, including taxes; political, economic, and/or financial market conditions, including impacts on the business arising from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine; risks and uncertainties related to our international operations; disruptions, failures or security breaches of our information technology infrastructure; our ability to hire, engage and retain a talented global workforce, our ability to realize expected cost savings and operating efficiencies associated with strategic initiatives or restructuring programs; complications with the design or implementation of our new enterprise resource planning system; and such other matters as discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and from time to time our other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in expectations or events or circumstances.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A panel of the National Advertising Review Board (NARB), the appellate advertising law body of BBB National Programs, recommended that CoStar Group, Inc. discontinue the claim "The Most Popular Place to Find a Place" and that it modify certain advertising to make clear that it is directed only to the rental market.
The advertising at issue had been challenged before the National Advertising Division (NAD) by Zillow, Inc., operator of a competing real estate website platform for selling, buying, and renting homes and apartments. CoStar Group had agreed to comply with NAD's ruling but appealed NAD's decision on certain issues (Case No. 7045).
The NARB panel determined that one reasonable message conveyed by the "Most Popular" tagline is that the advertiser's site is the preferred site for researching available rental properties, a subjective standard. Because the advertiser did not have consumer research to support that message, the panel recommended that the "Most Popular" tagline be discontinued. The panel noted that nothing in its decision would preclude the advertiser from making a properly supported claim that specifies the specific data point, such as "most unique visitors."
The NARB panel also concluded that prominent references to the brand name "Apartments.com," in CoStar Group's commercials that use the "Most Popular" tagline, reasonably convey that the advertising messages are directed to the rental market. To ensure that the ads do not also convey a message about purchases, however, the panel recommended that advertising that refers to "find a place" or comparable phrases should also include at least one conspicuous reference to renters, renting, or a visual that conveys a rental-market message.
CoStar Group stated that while it respectfully disagrees with the panel's ultimate conclusions, it will accept all of the panel's recommendations.
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Mother, daughter pilot crew takes inaugural flight together
(Gray News) – A mother and daughter pilot duo recently flew their first flight together, making history for Southwest Airlines.
“It’s been a dream come true,” Captain Holly Petitt said in a news release. “First, I found this career and fell in love with it, and then that one of my kids fell into this and in love with this career too. It’s surreal.”
Holly Petitt and her daughter, First Officer Keely Petitt, flew from their hometown of Denver to St. Louis on Flight No. 3658 for their inaugural flight together in July.
Holly Petitt started her career in aviation as a flight attendant and realized she wanted to learn to fly planes after riding the jumpseat in the flight deck, Southwest Airlines said.
She pursued her goals, training, obtaining certifications and taking flight lessons all while having three children and supporting her family as a full-time mom. Eventually, she was able to become a pilot for Southwest Airlines.
Kelly Petitt, who grew up around the airline’s family, decided to follow in her mother’s footsteps and also become a pilot.
Early in her education, Keely Petitt landed an internship with Southwest, which paved the way for her to learn more about a career in aviation.
“Southwest was always the end goal for me,” Keely Petitt said. “There was really never any other option.”
The Petitts are now Southwest Airlines’ first mother and daughter flight crew team.
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NEW YORK, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- COVID-19 vaccine acceptance increased 3.7% between 2020 and 2021, according to a new study from researchers at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH), the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), the Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary.
In a June 2021 survey of over 23,000 individuals across 23 countries, the researchers found that more than three-quarters (75.2%) of respondents reported vaccine acceptance, up from 71.5% one year earlier.
The study, which was published Monday in Nature Communications, was carried out within the context of a year of substantial but very unequal global COVID-19 vaccine availability and acceptance, which necessitated new assessments of the drivers of vaccine hesitancy and the characteristics of people not vaccinated.
Concerns about vaccine safety and efficacy and mistrust in the science behind vaccine development were the most consistent correlates of hesitancy. Other factors associated with vaccine hesitancy varied by country and included personal experience with COVID-19 (e.g., sickness or loss of a family member) and demographic characteristics (e.g., gender, education, and income).
The authors found that vaccine hesitancy did not significantly correlate with a country's current COVID-19 case burden and mortality. In June 2021, vaccine hesitancy was reported most frequently in Russia (48.4%), Nigeria (43%), and Poland (40.7%), and least often in China (2.4%), the United Kingdom (UK) (18.8%), and Canada (20.8%).
"In order to improve global vaccination rates, some countries may at present require people to present proof of vaccination to attend work, school, or indoor activities and events," says CUNY SPH Senior Scholar Jeffrey Lazarus. "Our results found strong support among participants for requirements targeting international travellers, while support was weakest among participants for requirements for schoolchildren."
Support for vaccine mandates was substantially lower among those who were hesitant to get vaccinated themselves. "Importantly, however, recommendations by a doctor, or to a lesser extent by an employer, might have an impact on a respondent's views on vaccination in some countries," said CUNY SPH Dean Ayman El-Mohandes.
Although some countries are currently disengaging from evidence-based COVID-19 control measures, the disease has by no means been controlled or ended as a public health threat. The authors note that for ongoing COVID-19 vaccination campaigns to succeed in improving coverage going forward, substantial challenges remain. These include targeting those reporting lower vaccine confidence with evidence-based information campaigns and greatly expanding vaccine access in low- and middle-income countries.
Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Katarzyna Wyka, Trenton M. White, Camila A. Picchio, Kenneth Rabin, Scott C. Ratzan, Jeanna Parsons Leigh, Jia Hu & Ayman El-Mohandes. Revisiting COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy around the world using data from 23 countries in 2021. Nature Communications.
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Kansas football moves to 3-0 on the season, takes down Houston 48-30
LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas football overcame an early 14 point deficit for its second straight game on Saturday, taking down Houston 48-30 and moving to 3-0 for the first time in 13 years.
The Cougars started the scoring early. Clayton Tune darted a 34 yd touchdown pass to Ta’Zhawn Henry about five minutes into the first quarter.
Soon after, Brandon Campbell ran in a 40 yd touchdown to bring about that 14-0 deficit over KU. Quarterback Jalon Daniels would soon respond.
Daniels ran in a 12 yd touchdown to cut the Cougars’ lead in half. That momentum would spark another Jayhawk rushing score, as Daniel Hishaw Jr. found the endzone on an 8 yd run, tying it up 14-14 before the end of the first quarter.
Just as the second quarter came around, so did a lightning delay. When that was over, the Jayhawks got to work. Daniels sent a 5 yd touchdown pass to Luke Grimm with 9:01 left in the second quarter.
About eight minutes later, Daniels sent a deep shot to Torry Locklin, who ran in the 60 yd bomb to the endzone. The Jayhawks went into halftime up 28-14 after scoring 28 unanswered points.
Houston was the first to score out of halftime, as Henry punched in a 1 yd touchdown with 10:30 remaining in the third quarter. Daniels ran his next score in himself, going 9 yds to the endzone to put the Jayhawks up 35-21.
About two minutes later, Daniels found Jared Casey for an 8 yd touchdown, Jayhawks up 42-21. The Cougars added one more to the board in the last second of the third quarter, as Tune ran in a 14 yd touchdown, 42-27 KU.
KU added two field goals in the fourth quarter, and Houston added one. The Jayhawks took this one 48-30.
Jalon Daniels continued his strong showing in the early season, throwing 158 yds, rushing 123 yds, and totaling 5 touchdowns on the day. His offensive line still has not allowed a sack this season.
They’ll return home to host Duke at David Booth Memorial Stadium next Saturday, September 24. Kickoff is set for 11:00 a.m.
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PRAGUE (AP) — This is Radio Ukraine calling.
A new Prague-based internet radio station has started to broadcast news, information and music tailored to the day-to-day concerns of some 300,000 Ukrainian refugees who have arrived in the Czech Republic since Russia launched its military assault against Ukraine.
In a studio at the heart of the Czech capital, radio veterans work together with absolute beginners to provide the refugees with what they need to know to settle as smoothly as possible in a new country.
The staff of 10 combines people who have fled Ukraine in recent weeks with those who have been living abroad for years. No matter who they are, their common goal is to help fellow Ukrainians and their homeland facing the brutal Russian invasion.
Natalia Churikova, an experienced journalist with Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, said she couldn’t say no to an offer to become the broadcaster’s editor-in-chief.
“It was for my people. For people who really needed help, who really needed support, something that would help them start a new life or restart their lives here after they have lived through very bad things trying to escape from Ukraine,” Churikova said.
Staffer Sofia Tatomyr is one of those who left to escape the war. The 22-year-old from the western town of Kalush was making plans to move to another city in Ukraine when a friend called one morning: “Sofia, the war has just begun.”
Her parents and older brother opted to stay home, but they wanted her to join her aunt in Prague.
“It happened all of a sudden,” she said. She boarded a bus alone in Cherniutsi and arrived 28 hours later in the Czech capital, a city she’d never visited.
“When I was already abroad, I remember the moment that I was crying and I was trying to buy a ticket and I couldn’t spell what ticket I need. It was really difficult,” she said.
Tatomyr worked as graphic designer and singer in Ukraine after getting a degree as a publisher and media editor. Radio broadcasting was part of her university training. To her surprise, her aunt’s brother found an announcement about jobs for a new Ukrainian radio station.
She said she needed “some time to understand that not everybody can be at the frontline at the war and everybody has to do what he or she can do the best.”
“So this is how I’m cheering myself up: That I’m doing my profession, that I’m doing what I can do the best, and this is the best way I can help our people, I can help Ukraine,“ she said.
Safe in Prague, she was still trying to come to terms with the invasion of her homeland.
“It’s horrible,” she said. “I can’t still find any logical explanation for what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. In the 21st century, a war? Why? We were a peaceful nation.”
Another announcer, Marharyta Golobrodska, was working as a copywriter for a software company when she received a call from Churikova, whom she knew from an internship at Radio Free Europe.
“I used to consider those who get up early to be ready to work from 6 a.m. crazy, but that’s what I do now and I thoroughly enjoy it,” Golobrodska said. “That’s what I always wanted to do, to be helpful for my country, even though I live so far away.”
For 12 hours each weekday — and 11 hours on weekends — Radio Ukraine plays Ukrainian and western music while presenting news of Ukraine and the Czech Republic together with information for refugees every 15 minutes. It includes details about where they can get the documents they need from local authorities, how to get a job or medical treatment, or how to find a place for children at schools. Children can also listen to Ukrainian fairy tales.
A native of the southern city of Mykolaiv, Golobrodska has lived in the Czech Republic for eight-and-a-half years. After the invasion, she traveled to western Ukraine to meet her mother and 9-year-old sister and drive them to safety. In Prague, she got them involved in her broadcast.
“My mum, for example, told me she’d like to hear what she’s not supposed to do here. For example, that she can’t park the car anywhere she wants to, like in Ukraine,” she said.
Bohemia Media, which operates several radio stations in the Czech Republic, came up with the idea to launch the station. It provided a studio and its people cooperated with the Ukrainian embassy, the local Ukrainian community and others to make it reality in just three weeks. It also covers the salaries.
Lukas Nadvornik, the director of the project, said the plan is for the station to remain on air as long as it’s needed. The key task for now is to let as many potential listeners as possible know about its existence.
One of them is Sophia Medvedeva. The 23-year-old web designer couldn’t hold back tears as she talked about the recent six-day drive with her mother and younger brother from Mykolaiv to Krakow, Poland.
But in Prague, she joined her fiance and Radio Ukraine helped her adapt to a new life.
“I’m so amazed about the chance to listen to Ukrainian music when I’m not in my homeland. I feel that I’m not alone,” she said. Her only recommendation for it is to invite a psychologist to “advise Ukrainian refugees about how to fight the survivor syndrome and how to fight depression.”
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What shopping in the metaverse might look like
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What shopping in the metaverse might look like
Imagine our world, then picture it fully digital. For many, it looks like the metaverse, an immersive virtual space where we can log on to meet friends, shop, work in virtual offices, and even buy virtual real estate. Offering an estimated $800 billion market opportunity, the metaverse is eyed by online game creators, social networks, and various tech leaders who are looking for the next game-changing technology platform.
Although social media companies see it as a way to capitalize on revenue, building the metaverse is not exactly cheap. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, lost more than $10 billion in 2021 alone just to work on building its own vision of the metaverse. Such losses prove that companies like Meta are investing astronomical amounts of money to discover their next growth stage.
In the metaverse, making purchases is possible through crypto wallets. They are made to keep your cryptocurrency safe and easily accessible by storing your private keys. You’d be able to receive, spend, and send out cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. There are various forms of crypto wallets, whether it’s a USB stick or a mobile app that makes it similar to shopping online.
To look at this emerging world, Wicked Reports compiled a list from news reports and expert predictions exploring the ways that people may shop for different types of real and virtual goods in the metaverse Some of these options are already available to try today, others are in the early phases of development. But the metaverse is coming, and here is how it may affect your buying habits.
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Food
Both grocery shopping and dining out are ingrained in our everyday lives, and both are also possible in the metaverse. Recently, a video circulated on Twitter of how Walmart envisions shopping in the metaverse. Although it was created in 2017, current metaverse demos still appear to be similar. So moving our meals to the metaverse is not exactly something new, at least in the minds of grocery chain executives.
Grocery shopping in the metaverse may also help with staff shortages, supply and demand, and optimizing buying experiences. The first food order in the metaverse happened in March 2021 through Decentraland, one of the most popular virtual platforms to buy land and digital assets.
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Clothes and accessories
Fashion in the metaverse will look a little different than strolling to our closets to pick out our daily outfits. Using digital garments “worn” through augmented reality, you’ll outfit digital avatars and possibly make them into non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, to trade and collect. With NFTs (basically non-replicable units of data that can be stored, traded, or purchased) rising in popularity, fashion brands have jumped on board. RTFKT studios, which is a Nike company, has created sneaker designs in the virtual realm, making them collectible in the metaverse.
As we inch closer to the metaverse, avatars and clothing continue to hold relevance. In June 2021, Decentraland allowed users to make and sell clothing for their avatars to wear on the site. Some users made a mint almost instantly: User Hiroto Kai sold $20,000 of digital kimonos in three weeks. This goes to show that virtual possessions generate sales and that the metaverse will leverage the clothing industry to help brands and individual designers grow a new form of revenue. Luxury brands will also be accessible in the metaverse, as Gucci, Balenciaga, and Fendi have already created digital collections for gaming avatars.
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Digital real estate
Real estate in the metaverse will allow us to invest in property within the digital realm, and it has already gained a lot of traction. Can you believe that someone paid $450,000 to live next to Snoop Dogg in the metaverse?
Those that got into digital real estate early have already seen massive returns. In 2021, the average price for a plot of land on Decentraland was under $1,000. Today, it sits at about $13,000. Digital homes, lots, and land are all being bought today because they are assumed to rise in value going forward.
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Art
Art has already paved its way into the metaverse, with NFTs rising in popularity. What appear to be digital pieces of art are cryptographic tokens existing on a blockchain, and they cannot be replicated. These emerging digital tokens have assisted up-and-coming artists—like college student Jazmine Boykins, who trades under the virtual name BLACKSNEAKERS and managed to draw in more than $60,000 in a six-month period—to profit from their work tremendously.
The virtual art market overall is flat-out booming; online tracker Nonfungible.com estimated that the NFT market reached $15 billion in 2021. In the metaverse, NFTs may be used in art galleries, virtual marketplaces, and auctions.
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Virtual goods
Virtual goods are already transitioning into the metaverse. Meta is currently testing ways for creators to make money within its Horizon Worlds social metaverse platform, with the hope they’ll be able to monetize virtual items and effects. Platforms such as Roblox—which is estimated to have more than 220 million monthly players and up to 22 million players on any given day—and Red Room currently allow creators to sell items that they make.
Elsewhere in the metaverse, virtual beer has become a big topic. Head of global innovation at AB InBev Lindsey McInerney believes that there is a spot for beer drinkers in the metaverse, which also presents a revenue opportunity. And she would know, as AB InBev owns bestselling macro-breweries Budweiser and Corona, as well as a deep bullpen of craft and micro-brew labels. Heineken, however, doesn’t feel the same after launching a virtual beer in an attempt to mock the metaverse.
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GREENVILLE, S.C., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFST), holding company for Southern First Bank, today announced its financial results for the three-month period ended June 30, 2022.
"I am incredibly proud of the Southern First team as they generated significant new client relationships and record loan growth for the second quarter," stated Art Seaver, the company's Chief Executive Officer. "During this time of high inflation, rising interest rates, and the resulting transition in housing and mortgage, our team's efforts resulted in strong performance with solid growth in net interest income and book value."
2022 Second Quarter Highlights
- Net income was $7.2 million and diluted earnings per common share were $0.90 for Q2 2022
- Net interest income increased 16.1% to $24.9 million at Q2 2022, compared to $21.4 million at Q2 2021
- Total loans increased 26% to $2.8 billion at Q2 2022, compared to $2.3 billion at Q2 2021
- Total deposits increased 24% to $2.9 billion at Q2 2022, compared to $2.3 billion at Q2 2021
- Book value per common share increased to $35.39, or 11%, over Q2 2021
- Completed move to new headquarters in Greenville, South Carolina
Net income for the second quarter of 2022 was $7.2 million, or $0.90 per diluted share, a $731 thousand decrease from the first quarter of 2022 and a $3.1 million decrease from the second quarter of 2021. The decrease in net income was driven by an increase in noninterest expenses, as well as an increased provision for credit losses and a decrease in mortgage banking income. Net interest income increased $1.7 million, or 7.4%, for the second quarter of 2022, compared with the first quarter of 2022, and increased $3.5 million, or 16.1%, compared to the second quarter of 2021. The increase in net interest income was driven by $184.5 million of loan growth during the second quarter of 2022.
The provision for credit losses was $1.8 million for the second quarter of 2022, compared to $1.1 million for the first quarter of 2022 and a negative provision of $1.9 million for the second quarter of 2021. The provision expense during the second quarter of 2022, calculated under the new CECL methodology, includes a $1.5 million provision for loan losses and a $250,000 provision for unfunded commitments, compared to a reversal in the provision during the second quarter of 2022 as the economy showed improvement after the onset of the pandemic.
Noninterest income totaled $2.3 million for the second quarter of 2022, a $662 thousand decrease from the first quarter of 2022 and a $1.4 million decrease from the second quarter of 2021. As the largest component of our noninterest income, mortgage banking income was the driving factor in the change in noninterest income from the prior quarter and the prior year due to lower mortgage origination volume during the past 12 months. In addition, we recorded a loss on disposal of assets during the second quarter of 2022 as we completed construction and relocated to our new headquarters building in Greenville, South Carolina.
Noninterest expense for the second quarter of 2022 was $15.8 million, or a $1.1 million increase from the first quarter of 2022, and a $2.3 million increase from the second quarter of 2021. Compensation and benefits expense increased from the prior periods due to hiring of new team members, combined with annual salary increases, while occupancy expense increased from the prior quarter and prior year due to costs associated with the relocation of our headquarters. Our insurance costs increased during the second quarter of 2022 related to higher FDIC insurance premiums, while the increase in professional fees related to higher legal, consulting and appraisal fees.
Our effective tax rate was 24.5% for the second quarter of 2022, 22.6% for the first quarter of 2022, and 23.3% for the second quarter of 2021. The higher tax rate in the second quarter of 2022 relates to the lesser impact of equity compensation transactions on our tax rate during the quarter.
Net interest income was $24.9 million for the second quarter of 2022, a $1.7 million increase from the first quarter of 2022, resulting primarily from a $2.8 million increase in interest income, on a tax-equivalent basis, partially offset by a $1.1 million increase in interest expense. The increase in interest income was driven by $221.3 million growth in average loan balances at an average rate of 3.82%, five basis points higher than the previous quarter. In comparison to the second quarter of 2021, net interest income increased $3.5 million, resulting primarily from $555.0 million growth in average loan balances during the 2022 period, despite a 19-basis point decrease in loan yield. Our net interest margin, on a tax-equivalent basis, was 3.35% for the second quarter of 2022, a two-basis point decrease from 3.37% for the first quarter of 2022, and a 15-basis point decrease from 3.50% for the second quarter of 2021. Reduced rates on our interest-earning assets, combined with higher costs on our interest-bearing liabilities, resulted in the lower net interest margin during the second quarter of 2022 in comparison to the second quarter of 2021.
Total nonperforming assets decreased by $1.6 million to $2.9 million for the second quarter of 2022, representing 0.09% of total assets, compared to 0.15% in the first quarter of 2022. The allowance for credit losses as a percentage of nonaccrual loans was 1,166.7% on June 30, 2022, compared to 726.9% on March 31, 2022 and 619.5% on June 30, 2021. During the second quarter of 2022, our classified asset ratio improved to 7.29%. The improvement over the second quarter of 2021 was primarily the result of five, or $14.1 million in the aggregate, hotel loans we upgraded from substandard during the first quarter of 2022.
Effective January 1, 2022, we early adopted the Current Expected Credit Loss ("CECL") methodology for estimating credit losses, which resulted in an increase of $1.5 million to our allowance for credit losses and an increase of $2.0 million to our reserve for unfunded commitments. The tax-effected impact of these two items totaled $2.8 million and was recorded as an adjustment to our retained earnings as of January 1, 2022.
On June 30, 2022, the allowance for credit losses was $34.2 million, or 1.20% of total loans, compared to $32.9 million, or 1.24% of total loans, at March 31, 2022, and $41.9 million, or 1.86% of total loans, at June 30, 2021. We had net charge-offs of $277 thousand, or 0.04% annualized, for the second quarter of 2022 compared to net recoveries of $11 thousand for the first quarter of 2022. Net recoveries were $313 thousand for the second quarter of 2021. There was a provision for credit losses of $1.5 million for the second quarter of 2022 compared to a provision of $1.0 million for the first quarter of 2022 and a reversal of $1.9 million for the second quarter of 2021.
ABOUT SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES
Southern First Bancshares, Inc., Greenville, South Carolina is a registered bank holding company incorporated under the laws of South Carolina. The company's wholly owned subsidiary, Southern First Bank, is the largest bank headquartered in South Carolina. Southern First Bank has been providing financial services since 1999 and now operates in 12 locations in the Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston markets of South Carolina as well as the Charlotte, Triangle and Triad regions of North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. Southern First Bancshares has consolidated assets of approximately $3.3 billion and its common stock is traded on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol "SFST." More information can be found at www.southernfirst.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements in this news release contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, such as statements relating to future plans and expectations, and are thus prospective. Such forward-looking statements are identified by words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "target," and "project," as well as similar expressions. Such statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Although we believe that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements are reasonable, any of the assumptions could prove to be inaccurate. Therefore, we can give no assurance that the results contemplated in the forward-looking statements will be realized. The inclusion of this forward-looking information should not be construed as a representation by our company or any person that the future events, plans, or expectations contemplated by our company will be achieved.
The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in the forward-looking statements: (1) competitive pressures among depository and other financial institutions may increase significantly and have an effect on pricing, spending, third-party relationships and revenues; (2) the strength of the United States economy in general and the strength of the local economies in which the company conducts operations may be different than expected; (3) the rate of delinquencies and amounts of charge-offs, the level of allowance for credit loss, the rates of loan growth, or adverse changes in asset quality in our loan portfolio, which may result in increased credit risk-related losses and expenses; (4) changes in legislation, regulation, policies, or administrative practices, whether by judicial, governmental, or legislative action, including, but not limited to, changes affecting oversight of the financial services industry or consumer protection; (5) the impact of changes to the U.S. presidential administration and Congress on the regulatory landscape and capital markets; (6) adverse conditions in the stock market, the public debt market and other capital markets (including changes in interest rate conditions) could have a negative impact on the company; (7) changes in interest rates, which may affect the company's net income, interest expense, prepayment penalty income, mortgage banking income, and other future cash flows, or the market value of the company's assets, including its investment securities; and (8) changes in accounting principles, policies, practices, or guidelines. Additional factors that could cause our results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found in our reports (such as Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K) filed with the SEC and available at the SEC's Internet site (http://www.sec.gov). All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning the company or any person acting on its behalf is expressly qualified in its entirety by the cautionary statements above. We do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date the forward-looking statements are made, except as required by law.
FINANCIAL CONTACT: MIKE DOWLING 864-679-9070
MEDIA CONTACT: ART SEAVER 864-679-9010
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — As in many sports, tennis has its share of well-known coaches. Unlike in other sports, tennis does not always allow them to coach.
Indeed, at Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic can’t get any sort of instructions from Goran Ivanisevic at Centre Court during the men’s semifinals on Friday. No other players and coaches were supposed to be communicating while matches were happening, either, whether it was Simona Halep with Patrick Mouratoglou, Andy Murray with Ivan Lendl, Rafael Nadal with Carlos Moya or anyone else in the women’s or men’s singles brackets.
While the WTA women’s tour tried various forms of in-match coaching over the past decade-plus — allowing, and broadcasting, face-to-face conversations during changeovers, for example — the ATP men’s tour has stayed away from it at its main tournaments other than a brief tryout in the late 1990s (there have been test runs involving chats through headsets at a season-ending event for younger players).
And coaching during Grand Slam matches has been forbidden. Until now.
Once play at the All England Club wraps up Sunday, the ATP will follow the WTA’s lead and open a trial run over the rest of this year to permit limited interaction between the folks on the court and their employees in the stands. That means coaches will be able to offer help to women and men at the last major of 2022, the U.S. Open, which starts Aug. 29 in New York.
“It’s exciting for coaches because now, all of a sudden, the stuff and strategy you talk about before matches, you can talk about during matches. You can tweak things. If things aren’t going well, you can get a chance to look at Plan B or C,” said Brad Gilbert, a former player who reached No. 4 in the rankings and a coach for Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and others.
“Any innovation is good,” added Gilbert, at Wimbledon for ESPN. “And before you say something isn’t good, you need to see it and see how it plays out.”
The ATP’s announcement that coaching is coming opened a debate in the sport. There are those who lobby for change to increase fan interest and those who say this sort of thing goes against the basic one-on-one, all-alone element of tennis.
Djokovic is one player, and French Open runner-up Casper Ruud is another, who said they see merit in both of those stances.
“I admire (the ATP) for trying something new,” said Ruud, a 23-year-old from Norway who has been coached by his father, former pro Christian. “At the same time, it’s the beauty of our sport that we have to figure out the game and everything ourselves.”
A key moment in the conversation around coaching in tennis came during the 2018 U.S. Open final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka, when Mouratoglou — then working with Williams — was seen by the chair umpire, and later acknowledged, giving hand signals from his seat. Mouratoglou has been a strong voice in favor of allowing coaching during matches.
There are those, such as 32nd-ranked American Tommy Paul, who recognize just how much against-the-rules coaching is going on these days.
“It would only be a mistake if people weren’t already doing it,” said Paul, who reached the fourth round in his debut at the All England Club. “I don’t want there to be coaching, per se. I don’t think that’s the way the sport is supposed to be. But people do it so much that it’s kind of normal now.”
Or as three-time major champion Stan Wawrinka summed up the situation: “It’s not something completely new. It’s just something that’s going to be allowed.”
Others raise an issue of equity: What if a player doesn’t have a coach at all? Is this going to create a sort of unfair advantage?
“You can play guys — journeymen grinding for a lot of years — who can’t afford a coach. Maybe they’re traveling with their friend or brother,” said Frances Tiafoe, an American who is ranked 28th and made it to the fourth round this week. “And then you have a guy who’s paying somebody $5,000 a week who knows everything about everything.”
Jessica Pegula, a two-time major quarterfinalist from the U.S. who is ranked No. 9, has experienced legal coaching on the women’s tour and isn’t so sure it’s going to make a significant difference in the men’s game.
“Some people think it’s going to be a big, huge thing that changes matches. I don’t think so. You can’t exactly call a play in tennis. There aren’t set plays. It’s not like football or basketball,” she said. “And some players probably don’t want to hear it. They’re going to be like: ‘Stop talking to me! Shut up!’”
The Grand Slam Rule Book explicitly prohibits coaching: “Players shall not receive coaching during a match (including the warm-up). Communications of any kind, audible or visible, between a player and a coach may be construed as coaching.”
As of Tuesday, three women have been fined at Wimbledon for coaching, including penalties of $3,500 for 2016 champion Garbiñe Muguruza and $4,500 for Lesia Tsurenko.
The ATP’s guidelines say coaches will sit in designated seats; they only can talk to their players when the two are on the same end of the court, but hand signals are always OK; they’ll be allowed to speak and use gestures “only if it does not interrupt play or create any hindrance to the opponent;” speaking must be limited to “a few words and/or short phrases.”
Gilbert was working with Agassi when the ATP decided to let coaches coach at a couple of tournaments more than 20 years ago — and he’s glad the tour is giving it another go.
“It’s a long time coming,” Gilbert said. “And if there’s a match that’s one-sided, maybe this can let the fans see a better match sometimes.”
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NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for ALZN, BCTX, SRRA, ARTL, and VERU.
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53,000-square-foot facility addresses unique demands of commercial-scale viral vector production
COSTA MESA, Calif., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Avid Bioservices, Inc. (NASDAQ:CDMO), a dedicated contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) focused on development and CGMP manufacturing services for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, today highlighted the companies' collaborative efforts that enabled the phase-one opening of its new purpose-built, 53,000-square-foot viral vector and CGMP facility in Costa Mesa, California, in only eight months.
The facility was designed and constructed by CRB – a leading global provider of sustainable engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting solutions to the life sciences industry – and built using the company's innovative ONEsolution™ project delivery approach.
By leveraging a single project team to align with Avid on cost and schedule without sacrificing quality, CRB's design and execution fulfills Avid's mission to address a critical gap in the treatment of oncology and rare disease by prioritizing the specific needs of the unique process development and manufacturing of viral vectors used in those treatments.
"Expanding our offerings into viral vectors was a natural adjacency for Avid, as previously explained by our CEO, Nick Green. However, the work really came down to finding a design-build partner with the process, design, and construction expertise to help us deliver a best-in-class facility within a constrained schedule and budget. CRB has done a great job filling this need for Avid and partnering with us to ensure this new facility meets the needs of current and future clients," said Mike Alston Jr., director of project engineering for Avid Bioservices. "We have been able to leverage dedicated design and construction teams for phase 1 and 2 to enable continuity across the facility, and also placed a major focus on early procurement and scheduling. Considering the challenges of the current supply chain environment, it has been nothing short of remarkable for Avid and CRB to be opening the doors of Avid's new viral vector process development labs here in June."
The state-of-the-art facility at full build-out will include capacity for adherent and suspension cultures. The second phase is expected to become operational in mid-calendar year 2023.
"When presented with the opportunity to lead and support Avid's organic growth and expansion of our business in the cell and gene therapy CDMO space, I was tremendously excited to be a part of the team. Next when given the project parameters, schedule, budget, the first thing that came to mind, was ensuring we had trusted partner that could anticipate our needs and could work collaboratively and creatively to achieve our goals," said Rami Barghout, director of viral vector facilities for Avid Bioservices. "To that end, CRB has been an instrumental partner technically and in navigating us through construction to achieve our aims."
"We're so excited to have worked alongside Avid to help them realize their vision for a facility that answers an important but unmet need through the commercial-scale production of viral vectors," said Matthew Khair, CRB's vice president for the Western Region. "The close collaboration, enhanced planning and cultural alignment between teams created an unrivaled project experience and resulted in a facility that can close that production gap and speed therapies to patients."
Avid Bioservices (NASDAQ:CDMO), an S&P SmallCap 600 company, is a dedicated contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) focused on development and CGMP manufacturing of biologics. The company provides a comprehensive range of process development, CGMP clinical and commercial manufacturing services for the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical industries. With 28 years of experience producing monoclonal antibodies and recombinant proteins, Avid's services include CGMP clinical and commercial drug substance manufacturing, bulk packaging, release and stability testing and regulatory submissions support. For early-stage programs the company provides a variety of process development activities, including upstream and downstream development and optimization, analytical methods development, testing and characterization. The scope of our services ranges from standalone process development projects to full development and manufacturing programs through commercialization. www.avidbio.com
CRB is a leading provider of sustainable engineering, architecture, construction, and consulting solutions to the food and beverage and life sciences industries. Led by its innovative ONEsolution™ service, CRB provides successful integrated project delivery for clients demanding high-quality solutions, on time and within budget. The company's more than 1,600 employees provide world-class solutions that drive success and positive change for their clients, people, and communities. CRB is a privately held company with a rich history of serving clients throughout the world, consistently striving for the highest standard of technical knowledge, creativity, and execution.
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Dozens killed in train station missile strike in eastern Ukraine as civilians try to flee Russian onslaught
By Olga Voitovych and Nathan Hodge, CNN
At least 50 people, including five children, were killed after Russian forces carried out a missile strike on a railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, that was being used by civilians trying to flee the fighting, Ukrainian officials said Friday.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the regional military administration in Donetsk, where the attack took place, said that 98 wounded people — 16 children, 46 were women and 36 men — were taken to local hospitals.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier that nearly 300 people were wounded in the strike.
In an address to Finland’s parliament on Friday, Zelensky said that the “Russian military hit the railway terminal,” adding: “There are witnesses, there are videos, there are remnants of the missiles and dead people.”
He said that “people (were) crowded waiting for the trains to be evacuated to the safe territory” at the station. “Why do they need to hit civilians with missiles? Why this cruelty that the world has witnessed in Bucha and other cities liberated by the Ukrainian army?” Zelensky asked lawmakers.
Local police said in a statement that the rockets struck a temporary waiting room, where “hundreds of people were waiting for the evacuation train.”
“This is another proof that Russia is brutally, barbarically killing the civilian Ukrainians, with one goal only — to kill,” the mayor of Kramatorsk said in a statement.
The mayor said that some 8,000 people per day were going to the station to evacuate during the last two weeks. As many as 4,000 people were there when the missile struck.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called the attack a “deliberate slaughter.”
“Russians knew that the train station in Kramatorsk was full of civilians waiting to be evacuated,” he said.
The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a statement Friday calling the missile strike a “provocation,” in a statement that mirrored recent denials of the indiscriminate killing of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha.
“All the statements of representatives of the Kyiv nationalist regime about the alleged ‘missile attack’ by Russia on April 8 at the railway station in Kramatorsk are a provocation and absolutely do not correspond to reality,” the statement said.
“On April 8, the Russian armed forces did not conduct or plan any artillery fires in the city of Kramatorsk. We emphasize that the Tochka-U tactical missiles, the wreckage of which was found near the Kramatorsk railway station and published by eyewitnesses, are used only by the Ukrainian armed forces.”
Ukrainian forces have the Soviet-designed Tochka missile in their inventory but it has also been used by Russian and separatist forces in the past.
Russia’s military and senior officials have issued blanket denials of attacks against civilians, most recently claiming — without evidence — that the massacre of civilians in Bucha was staged. The killing of civilians during the Russian occupation of the town has been extensively documented.
The eastern city of Kramatorsk was one of the first places to be targeted by the Russian military when the invasion of Ukraine was launched on February 24. Ihnatchenko said Ukrainians had been using the train station since late February to evacuate the region.
“The Russians knew that thousands of people are there (at the train station) every day,” she said.
Two missiles struck the station, according to the head of Ukraine’s national rail system, Oleksandr Kamyshin. Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of Donetsk regional military administration, said the Russian military used Iskander short-range ballistic missiles.
CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour said the attack was reminiscent of one on a marketplace in Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia, where “ordinary civilians were massacred as they just went about their business.”
Amanpour said such attacks on civilians tend to harden Western resolve and could push the European Union to enact even more sanctions on Russia. Brussels has already approved five rounds of sanctions against Russia since it invaded Ukraine.
The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, condemned the “indiscriminate attack,” while EU President Charles Michel called it “horrifying.”
“This is yet another attempt to close escape routes for those fleeing this unjustified war and cause human suffering,” Borrell said.
Borrell and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are scheduled to meet Ukrainian President Zelensky this week in Kyiv.
The attack comes as Russian forces are preparing for a massive operation in eastern Ukraine to take the contested region of Donbas, Ukrainian authorities say.
Donbas is home to the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, two separatist enclaves that Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized as independent shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine.
For almost eight years, the two regions have been the site of a low-intensity war between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. More than 14,000 people died in the fighting, and now Kyiv is bracing for more casualties.
Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, said the “battle for Donbas” is already underway. He said that the fighting there will be reminiscent of the destructive battles during World War II, as Moscow’s offensive could involve “thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, planes, artillery.”
British intelligence assesses that Russian troops have “fully withdrawn” from northern Ukraine to Belarus and Russia, and many could be transferred to eastern Ukraine to fight in Donbas. Ukrainian military officials also say they have observed a buildup of Russian forces to the east.
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Duvall brings valuable global biotech experience to the company as it advances into clinical stage
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Angiex, developer of Nuclear-Delivered Antibody-Drug Conjugate™ (ND-ADC) therapies for solid cancers, has appointed Marty J. Duvall as chief executive officer and member of its board of directors.
Duvall brings extensive global oncology drug development and commercialization experiences from executive leadership roles in both large pharmaceutical and biotech companies. At companies that include Aventis, Merck, MGI, and ARIAD, he built successful oncology companies with a footprint across the US, Europe, and Asia. With an oncology focus over the last three decades, Duvall has helped launch and drive many successful therapeutics that have benefited patients with a wide range of cancers, including breast, lung, prostate, gastric, head and neck, brain, melanoma, myelodysplastic syndrome, leukemia, and multiple myeloma.
Angiex Founder and President Paul Jaminet, said, "Marty joins the Angiex team at the perfect time to help drive our company forward. Together with our scientific team of leading experts in angiogenesis, vascular biology, antibody-drug conjugate chemistry, and oncology, Marty will help fully realize the promise of our transformative biology and ND-ADC technology."
"I couldn't be more excited to join Angiex at this stage in the company's young history. We have the opportunity to do something special here as we build on the exciting clinical results of the antibody-drug conjugate class," said Marty J. Duvall. "Our pre-clinical data is impressive, our potential to improve efficacy and therapeutic margin compared to traditional ADCs is clear, and we are now moving AGX101, our lead ND-ADC product, into clinical development."
Iain Dukes, executive chairman of Angiex and venture partner of Orbimed Advisors, said, "Bringing in an executive of Marty's caliber is an important step for Angiex. AGX101and future drugs built on Angiex's platform have the potential to transform the way cancer is treated, and Marty has the experience help make that happen."
Angiex Inc. is a privately held biotech startup whose mission is to exploit newly discovered biological transport mechanisms to make drugs with revolutionary power over cancer. Based in Cambridge, Mass., Angiex was founded by a scientific team of leading experts in angiogenesis, vascular biology, and oncology. The company is developing a novel portfolio of Nuclear-Delivered Antibody-Drug Conjugates™ (ND-ADCs) that release therapeutic payloads directly into the nucleus or cytosol, where the site of payload action is located. This direct delivery holds the promise of enhancing the efficacy and therapeutic margin of conventional ADCs. The lead product, AGX101, has advanced through pre-clinical development and is about to begin Phase 1 clinical trials. To learn more about Angiex, visit angiex.com.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., ROTTERDAM, Netherlands and SUZHOU, China, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harbour BioMed (the "Company", HKEX: 02142) announced that it will report financial results for the first half year ended June 30, 2022, on Wednesday, August 31, 2022. The Company will host an English virtual conference call to announce the interim results at 9:30-10:30 a.m. EST (daylight saving time).
Conference Call Information
Participants must complete the online registration in advance. Upon registering, participants will receive the zoom link as well as the dial-in number which can be used to join the conference call.
Registration Link: https://harbourbiomed.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YlSpH0x9QF2TTqxymxy_UA
About Harbour BioMed
Harbour BioMed (HKEX: 02142) is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel antibody therapeutics focusing on immunology and oncology. The Company is building its robust portfolio and differentiated pipeline through internal R&D capability, collaborations with co-discovery and co-development partners, and select acquisitions.
The Company's proprietary antibody technology platforms Harbour Mice® generates fully human monoclonal antibodies in two heavy and two light chains (H2L2) format, as well as heavy chain only (HCAb) format. Building upon the HCAb antibodies, the HCAb-based immune cell engagers (HBICE®) bispecific antibody technology is capable of delivering tumor-killing effects unachievable by traditional combination therapies. Integrating Harbour Mice®, and HBICE® with a single B cell cloning platform, our antibody discovery engine is highly unique and efficient for the development of next-generation therapeutic antibodies.
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Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush rises in 2022 rankings by U.S. News & World, enhancing an established tradition of excellence
CHICAGO, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush (MOR) is pleased to announce its ranking as the fifth-best program in the nation for orthopedic surgery by U.S. News & World Report. The latest ranking builds upon MOR's 6th place position nationally in 2021 and demonstrates a continued commitment to excellence in quality of care and patient outcomes. The 2022 ranking also comes at an exciting time of growth for MOR as it continues to open new clinics throughout the greater Chicago-area, strengthen team physician affiliations with professional sports organizations and support impactful local initiatives in many of the communities it serves.
"I am so proud that for the tenth consecutive year, our orthopedic group has been nationally recognized by our peers and our patients for its continued dedication to improving patient outcomes from near and far that seek expert, personalized care," said Dr. Brian Cole, the Managing Partner of Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush. "We are honored that our physicians and research department have been recognized for their amazing research on innovations that minimize pain and shorten recovery times for our patients, while also assuming impactful leadership positions as chosen by our peers. We continue to contribute to world's literature changing the way we practice musculoskeletal care today."
Of the more than 1,000 orthopedic hospitals reviewed for this ranking, MOR was recognized for its renowned and diverse group of physicians, many of whom serve as official team doctors for the Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, the Chicago Fire Soccer Club and many other local athletic organizations. The group's research-driven nature and stellar performance against other US News & World Report metrics were also key elements behind MOR earning a national top-five ranking in its field. Other criteria used in the ranking were reputation with specialists, survival, patient safety, patient volume, nursing intensity and nurse magnet recognition.
To schedule an appointment with a Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush physician, visit www.rushortho.com or call 877.MD.BONES.
MOR is among the international leaders in musculoskeletal health and is currently ranked No. 5 in Orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report. MOR is comprised of international renowned Orthopedic and Spine surgeons who pioneer the latest advances in technology and surgical techniques to improve the lives and activity levels of patients around the world. MOR has seven full-service locations in Chicago, Joliet, Naperville, Oak Brook, Oak Park, Westchester, and Munster, IN. MOR also has eight, stand-alone physical therapy clinics in Bensenville, Geneva, Lincoln Park, Lockport, Orland Park, River Grove, Park Ridge, and Munster (Centennial Village), IN.
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TULSA, Okla., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ONE Gas has released its 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report, which outlines the company's commitment to safe operations, responsible environmental stewardship and an inclusive and diverse work culture.
"Our dedicated and innovative workforce combined with the location of our assets position us to play an essential role in a cleaner energy future as we continue to provide reliable and affordable natural gas service to our 2.3 million customers," said Sid McAnnally, president and chief executive officer of ONE Gas.
"The 2022 ESG report also highlights our investment in existing technologies like renewable natural gas as we pilot emerging technologies including hydrogen blending."
Key highlights from the report include:
- Industry-Leading Safety
ONE Gas recorded the lowest Days Away, Restricted or Transferred rate among the country's largest natural gas distribution companies for the fifth consecutive year. - Emissions Reduction
ONE Gas has achieved an estimated 46 percent reduction in CO2e emissions due to leaks from mains and services from 2005 to 2021, measured utilizing the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Inventory Protocol. Going forward, ONE Gas has set a goal of achieving a 55 percent reduction in Scope 1 emissions due to leaks from its distribution pipelines by 2035, measured from a 2005 baseline and accounting for projected system growth. - Renewable Natural Gas and Hydrogen Development
ONE Gas has more than 24 renewable natural gas projects in various stages of development and is participating in research focused on hydrogen technology applications. - Inclusion & Diversity
Our workforce is comprised of 36 percent of individuals who identify as members of traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, well above the U.S. utility company average. We have over one-third of the ONE Gas workforce participating in one of the company's employee resource groups.
"Our strategy and goals are grounded in our commitment to our stakeholders – providing an excellent work environment for our employees, reliable and affordable service to our customers, and sound governance that focuses on continuous improvement in our efficiency and emissions reduction programs," McAnnally added.
The full ONE Gas ESG report is available at esg.onegas.com.
About ONE Gas
ONE Gas, Inc. (NYSE: OGS) is a 100-percent regulated natural gas utility, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "OGS." ONE Gas is included in the S&P MidCap 400 Index and is one of the largest natural gas utilities in the United States.
Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ONE Gas provides a reliable and affordable energy choice to more than 2.3 million customers in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Its divisions include Kansas Gas Service, the largest natural gas distributor in Kansas; Oklahoma Natural Gas, the largest in Oklahoma; and Texas Gas Service, the third largest in Texas, in terms of customers.
For more information and the latest news about ONE Gas, visit onegas.com and follow its social channels: @ONEGas, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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Three new ads show a new layer of Flo's personality and underscore her love of insurance.
MAYFIELD VILLAGE, Ohio, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Progressive Insurance's most dedicated employee, Flo, will reveal a different side of herself in a new advertising campaign launching May 23. The campaign follows Flo navigating an unexpected encounter with an old flame reappearing—Hollywood charmer Jon Hamm. While Jon seems eager to capture her heart, Flo only has room for one love in her life: insurance.
"Flo has been at the heart of Progressive's marketing for nearly fifteen years. We've witnessed her undying love of insurance, watched as friendships have developed, and have even met her family, but one aspect of her life has remained a mystery—until now," said Progressive's Chief Marketing Officer, Remi Kent. "In partnering with Jon Hamm, we fan the flames of brand love in a way that consumers can relate to, because who hasn't experienced the awkwardness of unrequited love."
Years after their unsuccessful blind date and his subsequent rise to stardom, Jon once again crosses paths with Flo, rekindling his interest and intrigue in the apron-clad insurance maven. The three-part story is the journey of Jon pining for Flo's attention, complete with romantic gestures and unexpected insurance emergencies. All to leave Jon with failed attempts at love and Flo sticking true to herself and offering insurance discounts whenever and however she can.
"Unanswered love is something we can all relate to, so I was thrilled to be able to play a role in this campaign," shares Jon Hamm. "I really enjoyed the dynamic between Flo and I and was excited to play myself in a campaign with a trusted brand and an iconic character."
This unlikely pairing and love story arc are a first for Flo and Progressive's line-up of campaigns and characters. Others include the highly successful 'Parentamorphosis' with Dr. Rick, the recently launched Drivers Ed with Ed Helms, and the long-standing Superstore campaign where Flo received her start.
"Old Flame", "Table for Two?" and "Hammergency", are focused on Progressive's Home & Auto Savings, and usage-based insurance offering Snapshot, and will be airing throughout May and June across digital channels and national television. To learn more, and view the rom-com themed teaser, please visit https://www.progressive.com/commercials-campaigns/jon-hamm/.
About Progressive
Progressive Insurance® makes it easy to understand, buy and use car insurance, home insurance, and other protection needs. Progressive offers choices so consumers can reach us whenever, wherever and however it's most convenient—online at progressive.com, by phone at 1-800-PROGRESSIVE, on a mobile device or in-person with a local agent.
Progressive provides insurance for personal and commercial autos and trucks, motorcycles, boats, recreational vehicles, and homes; it is the third largest auto insurer in the country, a leading seller of motorcycle and commercial auto insurance, and one of the top 15 homeowners insurance carriers.
Founded in 1937, Progressive continues its long history of offering shopping tools and services that save customers time and money, like Name Your Price®, Snapshot®, and HomeQuote Explorer®.
The Common Shares of The Progressive Corporation, the Mayfield Village, Ohio-based holding company, trade publicly at NYSE: PGR.
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Man, 71, mauled to death by stray pit bulls, sheriff says
FRESNO, Texas (KPRC) - Authorities in Texas say a 71-year-old man was mauled to death by several stray pit bulls while walking to the store.
Family members are remembering 71-year-old Freddy Garcia as being filled with laughter. Surveillance video shows him walking down a street alone Monday on the way to the store in Fresno.
Fort Bend County Sheriff Eric Fagan says seven pit bulls mauled Freddy Garcia, despite him not doing anything to provoke them. He was airlifted to the hospital, where he died.
“In reality, I can’t understand how these types of accidents happen,” said Jorge Garcia, the victim’s brother, through a translator. “In respects to him, not him or anybody deserves a death like this.”
The sheriff’s office says all of the dogs have since been caught.
“I feel more at ease that at least these animals are not going to hurt no one else, and I hope this doesn’t happen anywhere else,” Jorge Garcia said.
The dogs were found in Joey Cartwright’s backyard. He says he’s had issues with stray dogs, like the ones involved in the attack, in his yard and roaming the neighborhood for months. It’s something that animal services agrees is a problem.
“If you’re walking the street, carry a stick. Protect yourself… We all love dogs, but a lot of them can be very dangerous,” said Kevin Agular with animal services.
It’s not clear what will happen to the dogs or whether they will be euthanized.
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REVISIT EXODUS WITH A SERIES OF DIGITAL RELEASES
Three Highly Lauded and Previously Unreleased
Bob Marley & The Wailers Concerts From London's Rainbow Theatre,
Plus Revised Exodus: Deluxe Edition
Exodus Now Available in Dolby Atmos
Bob Marley & The Chineke! Orchestra Released July 22
Ziggy Marley On Tour This Summer Performing Live Tribute To His Father
LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, in honor of The Summer of Marley, a brand new, official music video for Bob Marley & The Wailer's "Could You Be Loved" debuts on Bob Marley's Official YouTube Channel. The animated video was inspired by Cedella Marley, who has been tapped as the global ambassador of the Jamaican women's Football program. In addition, Cedella also recently launched a women's football initiative called 'Football is Freedom,' aimed at providing tools & resources to grow & promote the sport for women in the Caribbean/Latin America. The "Could You Be Loved" video follows a little girl from Jamaica pursuing her dreams of playing soccer in a world where it's not very common. Throughout the storyline, the protagonist finds strength and courage in her surroundings and overcomes her inner doubts with Bob Marley as her guiding light, encouraging her to stay positive & keep going. The video shines a light on the girl's journey as she ultimately grows into a confident young woman & becomes the star player on her team, winning the championship in the end. Watch the video for "Could You Be Loved" on Bob Marley's Official YouTube Channel HERE.
To check out additional Summer of Marley video premieres, new content, and upcoming issues of Bob Marley's Legacy documentary series, subscribe to Bob Marley's Official YouTube Channel.
Last month, the Marley Family, Island Records, and UMe marked the 45th anniversary of Exodus – with a digital Exodus: Deluxe Edition. The digital deluxe album features the ten tracks from the original album, plus 18 Singles & Sessions tracks; 13 of the tracks were culled from two previous Deluxe Editions. Previously unreleased tracks, "Natural Mystic (Horns Mix)," and "The Heathen (Alternate Version)," and the rare 7-inch versions of "Exodus," "Jamming," and "Punky Reggae Party,' the original B-side to "Jamming" are also included on the new digital deluxe, as well as two cuts previously unavailable at all streaming services, plus two additional bonus tracks: the edited live versions of "So Much Things To Say" from the June 1st show, previously released on the Deluxe Edition of Exodus 40 – The Movement Continues in 2017, and "Exodus," the finale from the Rainbow's June 2nd set, previously featured on the album's 2001 Deluxe Edition. Each performance is otherwise presented unedited within their respective live set. Click HERE to listen to Bob Marley & the Wailers' Exodus: Deluxe Edition.
June also highlighted the digital premiere of three of the four nights from Bob Marley & the Wailers' historic 1977 run at London's Rainbow Theatre (June 1, 2, 3). Most of the legendary performances from the three nights, each featuring slightly different setlists and alternate arrangements, have never been heard until now. A select number of tracks from each of the four nights of the Live at the Rainbow recordings were included on previously released Deluxe Editions of Exodus, and audio and video of the entire June 4th concert were released during the year-long 75th Birthday Celebration, #Marley75, in 2020. Most of the legendary performances from the previous three nights, however, feature slightly different setlists and alternate arrangements that have never been heard until now. Twenty-nine songs throughout the three shows, equating to more than three-quarters of the total songs performed, were previously unreleased performances.
Listen to Bob Marley & The Wailers Live at the Rainbow: 1st June 1977 now HERE.
Listen to Bob Marley & The Wailers Live at the Rainbow: 2nd June 1977 now HERE.
Listen to Bob Marley & The Wailers Live at the Rainbow: 3rd June 1977 now HERE.
Completing the Exodus 45th Anniversary canon, Bob Marley & The Wailers' original album, Exodus, named the "Best Album of the 20th Century" by Time magazine in 1999, is now available in Dolby Atmos. Mixed by Nick Rives and approved in-person by Ziggy Marley at Capitol Studios, the Atmos mixes are available digitally now HERE.
In other news, Bob Marley & The Chineke! Orchestra will be released by Island Records/UMe on July 22. The album reimagines some of Bob Marley's greatest songs with contemporary classical orchestration from the globally esteemed Chineke! Orchestra. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios and produced by Nick Patrick (If I Can Dream, Elvis Presley and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, True Love Ways, Buddy Holly and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra), reimagined tracks include "Satisfy My Soul," "Exodus," "Is This Love," "Redemption Song," "Get Up, Stand Up," plus "One Love/People Get Ready," which was released as a lead track on March 25. Listen to Bob Marley & The Chineke! Orchestra here
Continuing the Summer Of Marley festivities, Ziggy Marley is currently on the European leg of his summer tour, performing a live tribute to his father as part of the belated Bob Marley 75th Birthday celebrations. Ziggy and his band will breathe new life into Bob Marley's most iconic songs on all of his headlining summer tour dates in Europe, the U.K., and North America. The tour kicked off in the U.K. last month and continues through July before heading back to the U.S. in August, where he will join Jack Johnson as a special guest on select dates. For more information on Ziggy Marley's tour dates, please click HERE.
Bob Marley, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, is notable not only as the man who put reggae on the global map but as a statesman in his native Jamaica, he famously brought together the country's warring factions. Today, Bob Marley remains one of the 20th century's most important and influential entertainment icons. Marley's lifestyle and music continue to inspire new generations as his legacy lives on through his music. In the digital era, he has the second-highest social media following of any posthumous celebrity. The official Bob Marley Facebook page draws more than 74 million fans, ranking it among the Top 20 of all Facebook pages and Top 10 among celebrity pages. Marley's music catalog has sold millions of albums worldwide. His iconic collection LEGEND holds the distinction of being the longest-charting album in the history of Billboard magazine's Catalog Albums chart and remains the world's best-selling reggae album. Marley's accolades include inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1994) and ASCAP Songwriters Hall of Fame (2010), a GRAMMY® Lifetime Achievement Award (2001), multiple entries in the GRAMMY® Hall Of Fame, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2001). For more information, visit bobmarley.com and facebook.com/bobmarley.
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Panasonic Releases Firmware Update Program for GH6
Published: Jun. 7, 2022 at 2:30 PM CDT|Updated: 43 minutes ago
NEWARK, N.J., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic has announced that the company will release the firmware update program Ver.2.0 for the LUMIX GH6 to enhance performance and usability. The firmware program will be available at LUMIX Global Customer Support website https://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/ at UTC 1 a.m. on July 5, 2022.
Together with ATOMOS, a global company that creates innovative technologies and cloud services for filmmakers everywhere, Panasonic created new firmware which enables the output of up to 5.8K / 29.97p and C4K / 119.88p RAW video data over HDMI to be recorded as Apple ProRes RAW on ATOMOS NINJA V and NINJA V+ devices.
First introduced in February 2022, the highly-regarded LUMIX GH6 has been recognized for its exceptional video performance and handling among existing and new GH users worldwide. Over time, the GH6 will evolve with firmware updates to further enhance its performance and usability to meet the changing needs of creators.
GH6 Firmware Version 2.0
1. RAW video data output over HDMI function -Apple ProRes RAW can be recorded on the ATOMOS NINJA V/V+.
・A LUT (Lookup table) exclusively designed for RAW video recorded on NINJA V/V+ is available on the following customer support website to make the same color grading as V-Log/V-Gamut. It is easy to match colors between the footages recorded with Panasonic Varicam, EVA1 cameras to combine them. https://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/download/lut/s1h_raw_lut/index.html
2. Internal recording C4K 60p/FHD 60p in ProRes 422 HQ/ProRes 422 are available. With this update, it is possible to load low compression and high-quality data directly to the PC without transcoding for smooth NLE (non-linear editing)
Major Apple ProRes 422 HQ / ProRes 422 Recording Modes
About Panasonic Corporation of North America Newark, NJ-based Panasonic Corporation of North America is a leading provider of Consumer Lifestyle technologies, as well as innovative Smart Mobility, Sustainable Energy, Immersive Experiences, and Integrated Supply Chain solutions. The company is the principal North American subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Panasonic Holdings Corporation. One of Interbrand's Top 100 Best Global Brands of 2021, Panasonic is a leading technology partner and integrator to businesses, government agencies and consumers across the region. Learn more about Panasonic's ideas and innovations at na.panasonic.com/us
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New Findings to Be Highlighted at the 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting
CHICAGO, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New research shows that removing a race modifier from a formula used to diagnose kidney disease could lead to more equitable care for Black patients. This study and a second that examines how this same diagnostic approach impacts Asian patients will be presented at the 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo.
One of the standard ways to diagnose kidney disease is by estimating glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) with a mathematical formula. Race has long been used as a variable in eGFR equations because researchers and clinicians mistakenly believed that Black people have higher muscle mass and/or creatinine metabolism than White people. The formula most widely used to determine eGFR, the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation (CKD-EPI), includes variables for serum creatinine, gender, race, and age. However, the National Kidney Foundation and the American Society of Nephrology now recommend that clinical laboratories use a revised CKD-EPI refit formula developed in 2021 for assessing kidney function that does not include a race modifier. Two studies discussed at 2022 AACC set out to determine how effective this new formula is.
Impact of Removing Race Adjustment on Chronic Kidney Disease Staging
Researchers at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Health, Dallas, led by Ibrahim Hashim, PhD, examined serum creatinine values of 56,676 patients over a 16-month timeframe and estimated eGFR using the previous CKD-EPI formula and the new CKD-EPI refit formula. After removing the race adjustment, 14% to 28% of Black patients were reclassified into a more severe chronic kidney disease stage.
Based on these results, the researchers support removing race as a factor in eGFR equations, noting that it perpetuates systemic racism and discrimination in healthcare, and that its removal will provide more equitable care and reduce healthcare disparities. UT Southwestern began using the new formula in May, noted Hashim.
"Race is a social construct," he said. "By removing race as a variable, patients are now objectively classified, which opens access for additional testing and more investigation into their condition. This can only lead to better care for patients with chronic kidney disease. This is very significant because we know there is racial disparity in healthcare. By removing race as a factor, medicine becomes more personalized."
Accuracy of the New eGFR Equation in Korea
Researchers at several different medical schools and hospitals in Korea also assessed the new 2021 CKD-EPI equation in a Korean population, as very few studies have evaluated the new equation's performance in Asian patients. The researchers compared eGFR results from 1,899 people with results from chromium-51-ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid GFR measurements (the gold standard for determining GFR). Interestingly, they found that the mean bias of the 2021 CKD-EPI refit formula was significantly greater than that of the original CKD-EPI formula when comparing test results for both males and females.
This means that "additional research is needed to decide whether to apply the 2021 CKD-EPI equation in clinical practice" with Asian patients, said Tae-Dong Jeong, MD, PhD, the lead author of the study and a researcher with Ewha Womans University College of Medicine in Seoul.
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A-029 Impact of removing race adjustment when estimating GFR on chronic kidney disease staging and
A-109 Accuracy of the new creatinine based equation to estimate glomerular filtration rate without race in Korea will be presented during:
Scientific Poster Session
Tuesday, July 26
9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. (presenting author in attendance from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.)
Poster Hall, Clinical Lab Expo show floor
McCormick Place Convention Center
Chicago
About the 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo
The AACC Annual Scientific Meeting offers 5 days packed with opportunities to learn about exciting science from July 24-28. Plenary sessions will explore artificial intelligence-based clinical prediction models, advances in multiplex technologies, human brain organogenesis, building trust between the public and healthcare experts, and direct mass spectrometry techniques.
At the AACC Clinical Lab Expo, more than 750 exhibitors will fill the show floor of the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago with displays of the latest diagnostic technology, including but not limited to COVID-19 testing, artificial intelligence, mobile health, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, point-of-care, and automation.
About AACC
Dedicated to achieving better health through laboratory medicine, AACC brings together more than 70,000 clinical laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists, and business leaders from around the world focused on clinical chemistry, molecular diagnostics, mass spectrometry, translational medicine, lab management, and other areas of progressing laboratory science. Since 1948, AACC has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing programs that advance scientific collaboration, knowledge, expertise, and innovation. For more information, visit www.aacc.org.
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Fritz Lanman named CEO; Josh McCarter to transition from CEO to the Mindbody Board of Directors
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mindbody, the leading technology platform for the wellness industry, today announced the appointment of Fritz Lanman as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective September 3, 2022. Lanman, a seasoned wellness and technology executive who has a proven track record of growth and innovation will succeed Josh McCarter, who will transition to the Mindbody Board of Directors.
"It has been an honor leading Mindbody through the pandemic and bringing together the two leading wellness businesses, Mindbody and ClassPass, with our acquisition of ClassPass last October," said Josh McCarter. "It's the right time to pass the baton to Fritz who will lead Mindbody through this next chapter. Fritz's tech and entrepreneurial background and his CEO experience make him the perfect fit to lead Mindbody and ClassPass."
Lanman, currently serving as President of ClassPass and Mindbody Marketplace, was CEO of ClassPass pre-acquisition. He has been involved with ClassPass since 2013 where he led both the Seed and Series A funding rounds. Lanman, a Yale graduate, started his career at Microsoft where he held a number of product management and corporate strategy roles and worked on several notable deals, including Microsoft's multi-million-dollar investment in Facebook. Fritz has a passion for starting, building and investing in great companies, especially those with deep technology, and is co-inventor on several technology patents.
"I am excited to build on the strong foundation the company has built over the years and bring new approaches to help accelerate our growth and deliver greater value for wellness business owners and wellness enthusiasts alike. There is tremendous opportunity in the wellness industry right now, and Mindbody is poised to capitalize on market changes and challenges," said Lanman.
Mindbody's software powers tens of thousands of wellness businesses around the world, and ClassPass, a monthly subscription service, provides access to the world's most extensive network of fitness and wellness experiences. The company is in a unique position to accelerate the wellness industry's recovery from the impacts of the pandemic by providing studios with best-in-class tools to help them grow and thrive, while also driving more consumers to their businesses.
The outlook for the wellness industry is strong. Recent company data shows that consumer bookings per studio are reaching pre-pandemic levels, and the ClassPass platform has seen users booking in-person classes at 10% higher rates than before the pandemic. Recent research shows that 96% of people report that they anticipate their exercise routine staying the same or increasing over the next 6 months and that 77% of consumers are attending the same or more in-person fitness classes in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic.
Mindbody is the leading experience technology platform for the fitness, wellness, and beauty industries. With the addition of ClassPass, the leading global fitness and wellness membership, to the Mindbody portfolio, consumers and wellness businesses around the world are easily connected through a rich wellness community. Fitness studios, salons, spas, and integrative health centers—from the newest entrepreneurs to the largest franchises—use Mindbody's integrated software and payments platform to run, market, and grow their businesses. Consumers use Mindbody and ClassPass to choose from a broad range of wellness experiences across thousands of gyms, exercise studios and wellness providers around the globe. For more information on how Mindbody is helping people lead healthier, happier lives by connecting the world to wellness, visit mindbodyonline.com.
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| 2022-08-02T17:20:59Z
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MIAMI (AP) — New York Mets star Jacob deGrom will make his season debut against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday, manager Buck Showalter said before a series finale against Miami.
“I’m definitely excited,” deGrom said Sunday. “It’s been a long time. This has been a pretty slow process of coming back, so excited to be out there. Nerves haven’t really set in yet, but I’m sure Tuesday I’ll be pretty nervous and I have a feeling it’s going to feel like my debut.”
The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner has not pitched for the Mets since July 7, 2021. The 34-year-old right-hander was sidelined the final three months of last season with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow, then was shut down late in spring training because of a stress reaction in his right scapula.
“After I did it, it didn’t take long to feel good. That’s where it was kind of an intersting thing of trying not to do too much,” he said
He said the shortened spring training following the lockout was a contributing factor.
“It was constant contact with these guys, and tried to stick with the plan and not move too fast,” he said. “We looked at why we thought it happened with the quick ramp-up, so played it safe by taking extra days and making sure that everything was where we wanted it. That way, there were no setbacks in this process. … Going into spring, with the lockout and the unknown, maybe I didn’t have enough time to build up. You look at a stress reaction and what that injury kind of is, it’s ramping up too quick.”
He compared video of this year with his Cy Young Award-winning seasons and concluded he was more upright now and leaning toward first base during his follow through.
DeGrom has made four minor league rehab starts totaling 12 2/3 innings, two at Class A St. Lucie and two with Syracuse. He’s allowed five runs — four earned — and seven hits with 21 strikeouts and four walks, hitting 100 mph on the radar gun even in his first outing.
“I think more than anything feeling for him and the emotions he’s going through,” Showalter said. “It’s been a long haul for him, knowing how hard he’s worked and how frustrating it’s been. You know how much he likes to compete and pitch.”
DeGrom won consecutive Cy Young Awards in 2018 and 2019. He is 77-53 with a 2.50 ERA in eight major league seasons.
DeGrom repeated he intends to opt out of his contract at the end of the season, giving up $30.5 million of guaranteed salary next year, of which $12 million would be deferred without interest. He had the opt-out right as part of his $137 million, five-year contract.
“Still the same,” he said.
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CAUGHT ON CAM: Officers rescue mother, children from burning apartment building
Published: Apr. 18, 2022 at 8:06 PM EDT
(CNN) – Dramatic video captured officers in Indiana rescuing a mother and her two toddlers from an apartment fire.
The rescue happened in the early hours of April 11.
A mother was trapped on the second floor along with her 2-year-old and 3-year-old.
Three officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department rushed to the back of the building, where the mother dropped her children down to the officers.
She jumped down after them.
Authorities say the flames started when a candle was knocked over by a resident, setting a blanket on fire.
One person was slightly injured, with 20 people in the apartment complex being displaced.
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New Hampshire couple found shot to death in wooded area
By Rebekah Riess and Jennifer Henderson, CNN
The bodies of a New Hampshire couple were found shot to death in a wooded area in Concord, police say.
Djeswende Reid, 66, and Stephen Reid, 67, had been shot multiple times, according to Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Mitchell Weinberg.
They had left their apartment to go for a walk around 2:22 p.m. Monday, and family and friends didn’t see or hear from them after that, authorities said.
Concord Police are asking people to report suspicious behavior and to share any surveillance video of the area.
Residents are also encouraged to be “vigilant and take normal precautions as they go about their daily lives,” a release from the state Attorney General’s Office said.
“This is a very peaceful neighborhood and they’re talking about murder,” resident Doug Ponusky told affiliate WFXT.
“It just seems random. That’s the scariest part,” Ron Biavaschi told the station. “You got some nut on the loose, you know.”
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