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Reliable and cost-effective hybrid delivery of live sports, cultural events and breaking news with simplified production workflow to the widest global audience
LUXEMBOURG and HACKENSACK, N.J., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SES, the leader in global content connectivity solutions, and LiveU, a leading provider of live video and remote production solutions, have partnered to offer an innovative end-to-end solution for live video contribution and distribution combined with premium content aggregation. Customers looking to broadcast live sports, news and other events from stadiums, sports facilities and remote sites now have access to the most reliable and cost-effective creation and delivery of live video to the widest audience – combining satellite, fibre, IP and cellular capabilities.
The fully integrated and turnkey solution based on the latest broadcast technologies gives global customers access to new services and levels of redundancy, including:
- Contribution: LiveU's cost-efficient mobile field units for live video transmission from outdoor locations and venues connected to SES teleports via 4G/5G. This direct connection offers an alternative to an on-site SNG truck or can be used as a redundant back-up feed.
- Aggregation: Customers now have the ability to instantly aggregate their content in the LiveU Matrix IP cloud live video service, including from LiveU's mobile field units and through SES's satellite and IP connections.
- Distribution: Customers can now reach widest possible audiences with simultaneous access to live video distribution over SES's global satellite and IP network and LiveU Matrix's global customers' endpoints.
Customers will also have access to leading sports brands using their preferred technology (IP or satellite) while benefiting from SES's dedicated project management team and LiveU's 24/7 support and service.
One of the first customers, Oranda Singapore, recently deployed the joint solution for live broadcasts of sports climbing in Korea to viewers across EMEA, Americas and Asia using LiveU's portable units with SES's satellite distribution. Floris Molijn, CEO, Oranda, said, "We are thrilled with the level of quality and flexibility that SES and LiveU have provided in finding a tailor-made solution for Oranda that combined SES's knowledge, reach and satellite capability with LiveU's production capabilities to deliver broadcast-quality signals over mobile data networks. Bringing it all together required out of the box thinking to turn around a project with very tight lead times, and SES and LiveU provided 100% reliability of signal distribution."
Michele Gosetti, Head of Sales, Sports & Events at SES, said, "LiveU is a leader in mobile and cloud-based broadcast video technologies, and they perfectly complement our vision of enabling our customers to broadcast live sports and events from nearly anywhere to the widest global audience possible. Combining our expertise in sports and events and our global reach with LiveU's mobile units and cellular technologies gives our customers the ability to deliver high-quality, professional broadcasts whether athletes are climbing up a remote mountain or competing in an urban professional sports stadium."
Ronen Artman, VP Marketing, LiveU said, "The synergy of our joint offering is clear. We are delighted to work with the SES team and already see the benefits, delivering connectivity for our global customers using optimised IP, cellular, satellite, and fibre. As well as delivering a highly cost-effective solution for all sports tiers for greater fan engagement, our solution provides robust broadcast-quality live coverage and back-up. There are also last mile benefits – customers can deliver the aggregated feeds easily in a direct seamless delivery to their Matrix account and receiver. Combining mobile and cloud, with satellite, fibre and IP offers the widest choice of technologies and remote production workflows to customers on a global scale."
An enabler of content and connectivity, SES reaches more than 366 million TV households and a billion people worldwide while broadcasting more than 700 hours of premium sports and live events every day. LiveU is recognised as the brand name in portable live video solutions, used by the world's top news broadcasters and sports organizations.
The joint offering will be presented at IBC2022 in Amsterdam (LiveU stand 7.C30 / SES Meeting Rooms at Hall 1, Balcony suites BS10-BS11).
For further information, please contact:
SES
Suzanne Ong
External Communications
Tel. +352 710 725 500
suzanne.ong@ses.com
LiveU
Joyce Essig
201-906-9367
joyce@liveu.tv
Joss Armitage (Int'l)
+44-7979-908-547
joss@jumppr.tv
About SES
SES has a bold vision to deliver amazing experiences everywhere on earth by distributing the highest quality video content and providing seamless connectivity around the world. As the leader in global content connectivity solutions, SES operates the world's only multi-orbit constellation of satellites with the unique combination of global coverage and high performance, including the commercially-proven, low-latency Medium Earth Orbit O3b system. By leveraging a vast and intelligent, cloud-enabled network, SES is able to deliver high-quality connectivity solutions anywhere on land, at sea or in the air, and is a trusted partner to the world's leading telecommunications companies, mobile network operators, governments, connectivity and cloud service providers, broadcasters, video platform operators and content owners. SES's video network carries ~8,000 channels and has an unparalleled reach of 366 million households, delivering managed media services for both linear and non-linear content. The company is listed on Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges (Ticker: SESG). Further information is available at: www.ses.com.
About LiveU
LiveU is shaping the future of live video, powering video production workflows and cloud services for news, sports, and other verticals. Building on our global market leadership and innovation, LiveU offers the highest quality, reliable and cost-effective end-to-end solutions for all types of live productions – producing more for less. Our broad portfolio ranges from our portable production-level field units and smartphone apps to satellite/cellular hybrid solutions and next-gen cloud-based IP management, orchestration, ingest and distribution solutions. With over 5,000 customers in 150 countries, LiveU's technology is the solution of choice for global broadcasters, sports, and other organizations (including government, education, public safety, enterprise, and production houses), streaming live video to TV, mobile, online, and social media. LiveU is a recipient of Frost & Sullivan's 2021 North America New Product Innovation Award for its LU800 unit and a winner of the 71st Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards in recognition of its innovation and achievement in Video over Cellular Internet Protocol (VoCIP) technology. For more information, visit www.liveu.tv, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn or Instagram.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republican-led states continue to ban nearly all abortions, President Joe Biden said Friday that such restrictions were “beyond the pale.”
Biden and Democrats are trying to harness outrage over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide, in this year’s midterm elections.
“You’re going to hear women roar on this issue, and it’s going to be consequential,” he said.
Biden made the comments at a White House meeting of state and local officials to talk about ways to expand access to abortion and to mark Women’s Equality Day.
Biden reiterated his desire for Congress to codify Roe v. Wade into law, but “we’re short a handful of votes,” he said.
Democrats would need 10 Republican votes to overcome a filibuster and get a bill through the 50-50 Senate, but only two GOP senators have publicly backed abortion rights. And even though they narrowly control the Senate, Democrats don’t have enough votes to sidestep the filibuster.
“The only way it’s going to happen if the American people make it happen in November,” Biden said.
In the meantime, Biden has been looking for ways to protect abortion access. But his options are limited.
Idaho, Tennessee and Texas are the latest Republican-led states to tighten their restrictions. They’ve been implementing so-called “trigger laws” that were put on the books to severely limit abortions if Roe was overturned, which happened in June.
Lina Hidalgo, the county judge from Harris County, Texas, called her state’s law a “slap in the face.”
“I think you speak for the majority of the American people,” Biden responded. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-biden-calls-abortion-restrictions-beyond-the-pale/ | 2022-08-27T11:15:43Z |
Red Robin says employee fired after reports of edibles in to-go orders
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WSOC) – A hamburger franchise in North Carolina has fired an employee after he was accused of putting possible drug-laced treats in to-go bags.
Several customers have reported finding what appear to be marijuana edibles in their orders at a Red Robin in Charlotte.
One of the customers, who didn’t want to give out personal information, said she and her daughter got an unwelcome surprise in their to-go bag when they ordered from the restaurant.
“I said, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you ordered a dessert or something,’ and she said ‘I didn’t,’” the woman said.
She said they got an item resembling a rice krispy treat, along with a card promoting “Kellz Sweet Treets: The Incredible Edibles.”
“It was a shock to realize the person was that bold, to give their card, put their face out there,” the customer said.
The treat is similar to what other customers said they received from the same location on the same day. Another viewer sent in a photo, saying she got a gummy candy with the same business card.
The Twitter account listed on the business card was taken down after an earlier report on the edibles, but a video on the account showed what’s described as infused Sour Patch Kids.
Regular customers say they find it all to be concerning.
“I’m just concerned for children that may get it, especially,” one regular customer said.
She believes the man pictured on the card is the same man who brought her order to her car.
It’s not clear whether any of the treats actually contain drugs.
In the meantime, the woman is warning everyone to be vigilant about their food.
“Check that there’s nothing additional that you didn’t order, for sure,” she said.
After the incident, the Mecklenburg County Health Department visited the restaurant for an inspection.
During their walkthrough, the health inspectors said they did not find any items from an unapproved source.
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Could sales tax holiday soon become reality in Kansas?
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - If you’re a parent traveling through Missouri or Oklahoma this weekend (Aug. 5-7), it might be worth stopping for some back-to-school shopping.
Through Sunday is the annual tax holiday for school supplies in two of Kansas’ neighboring states. It’s an idea that’s long been discussed in Kansas. So, where does it stand?
A survey found parents on average spend more than $660 per child for clothes and traditional school supplies. While relief would certainly be welcome, there’s not currently a stretch set aside for Kansas parents to catch a break as they do for at least three days each year in states including Oklahoma and Missouri.
“It can mean a lot as far as the family budget is concerned with sales tax in the state of Kansas,” said State Senator Virgil Peck ® Havana.
Peck said when you add in local sales tax, the total sales tax pushes to near 10 percent for many Kansans.
Kansas for years has been discussing a sales tax holiday for school supplies, clothes, and computers.
“A piece of legislation I have introduced several times in my legislative career,” Peck said. Peck said this year it almost got done. Living near the Kansas/Oklahoma border in Montgomery County, he knows many neighbors and families will be traveling to the Sooner State for back-to-school shopping.
“So, a lot of people will travel south to Oklahoma to save money,” he said. “It has had a negative impact on our businesses, I believe on the Kansas economy. “I hear from so many parents who will drive across the state line to do their back-to-school shopping.”
Under Senator Peck’s proposal, the sales tax holiday would start Thursday and run through the following Sunday, zeroing out the state sales tax for specific items.
With parents expected to spend an average of more than $660 per child, by removing the state sales tax, there would be a savings of more than $40. When lawmakers return to Topeka in January, Peck said he’s going to introduce the legislation for a sales tax holiday again. “I would just love to see this accomplished for the benefit of the state, our businesses and our families,” he said. “Maybe 2023 will be our year.” The Kansas Department of Revenue estimated with Senator Peck’s bill, it would cost the state about $8 million in taxes. But Peck said a tax holiday would be an economic benefit with increased spending at restaurants and other businesses, and it keeps that money in the state.
Copyright 2022 KWCH. All rights reserved. | https://www.wibw.com/2022/08/06/could-sales-tax-holiday-soon-become-reality-kansas/ | 2022-08-06T20:23:48Z |
WOODBRIDGE, N.J., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP, one of New Jersey's leading business law firms, is pleased to announce the launch of a new blog, "Healthcare Perspectives: Legal Issues for the Healthcare Industry," our latest resource for sharing timely information, valuable insights and the "Greenbaum perspective" on a broad range of topics of strategic interest to the healthcare business community and those who serve and support it. This new informational platform will strive to educate, analyze and provide context on need-to-know developments in the law that have a real-world impact on the business operations and objectives of healthcare entities, physicians and other medical care providers, and industry-related organizations and service firms.
The blog will be authored primarily by members of the firm's healthcare group, a multi-disciplinary team of attorneys with extensive experience in their respective areas of focus. Greenbaum takes a holistic approach to serving its clients, and subjects addressed on this blog will extend beyond the parameters of traditional healthcare law to encompass numerous additional areas of relevance, including corporate matters, employment and compensation issues, real estate holdings, tax planning, ethics concerns, cybersecurity protocols and more.
The "Healthcare Perspectives" blog is an offshoot of Greenbaum's continued commitment to support its valued healthcare clients and the greater New Jersey and national healthcare community by serving as a first-stop source for updates and observations on breaking developments, industry trends, regulatory and compliance matters, actions at the state and federal court levels, and other significant business issues.
Visit us online to learn more about the firm's capabilities and our work on behalf of healthcare industry clients.
Media Contacts:
Diana Parker | Director of Marketing | dparker@greenbaumlaw.com | 732.476.2464
Erin Faltin | Assistant Director of Marketing | efaltin@greenbaumlaw.com | 732.476.3278
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NEW YORK, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for TBLT, XELA, BHC, FLNC, and EVFM.
To see how InvestorsObserver's proprietary scoring system rates these stocks, view the InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alert by selecting the corresponding link.
- TBLT: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=TBLT&prnumber=072920221
- XELA: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=XELA&prnumber=072920221
- BHC: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=BHC&prnumber=072920221
- FLNC: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=FLNC&prnumber=072920221
- EVFM: https://www.investorsobserver.com/lp/pr-stocks-lp-2/?symbol=EVFM&prnumber=072920221
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InvestorsObserver's PriceWatch Alerts are based on our proprietary scoring methodology. Each stock is evaluated based on short-term technical, long-term technical and fundamental factors. Each of those scores is then combined into an overall score that determines a stock's overall suitability for investment.
InvestorsObserver provides patented technology to some of the biggest names on Wall Street and creates world-class investing tools for the self-directed investor on Main Street. We have a wide range of tools to help investors make smarter decisions when investing in stocks or options.
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BEIJING, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ensemble Stars!! Music, one of the most popular music-themed idol training mobile games worldwide, produced by Happy Elements, announced that the pre-registration for its English version is now also available on Google Play Store and App Store starting from May 13, 2022. Players from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia can now complete the pre-registration with mobile devices through the Google Play Store or App Store to claim a wide range of exclusive rewards. At the same time, a special invitation event is being held on the official website of Ensemble Stars!! Music for fans to obtain a load of further goodies to boot by inviting new players who haven't pre-registered before.
It is worth mentioning that Ensemble Stars!! Music has been honored with a series of highly acclaimed awards, including "User's Choice Game of 2021", the "Best Pick Up & Play" on Google Play, and the "Best Music Game Worldwide" from Sensor Tower APAC Awards 2021. It also ranked 3rd on the list of "Most Tweeted About Games Globally" in 2022 Q1.
To unlock the exclusive rewards, players just need to complete the pre-registration on the official website of Ensemble Stars!! Music. Attractive bonuses including an Exclusive Title, 200 Diamonds, 2 DIA Scout Ticket, 1 Gem(L) and 1 Gem (M) each in three colors will be issued to those who pre-register successfully upon the day of the game's official release. Players who pre-register through the Google Play Store or App Store will even be rewarded with additional 200 Diamonds.
Fans of Ensemble Stars!! Music are also encouraged to participate in the special invitation event held on the official website of this highly popular game. By successfully inviting five players who have never pre-registered before to complete the pre-registration, the inviter can obtain up to 6 DIA Scout Tickets. At the same time, each reward can only be claimed once. Don't miss the joy of producing your extraordinary idol with your friends together by exploring more details on the official website of Ensemble Stars!! Music.
For more information, please check out the following links:
Official website: https://www.ensemblestars.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/enstarsmusic_EN
Discord: https://discord.gg/fqVakj8SXS
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb_pOEuc3oL9KG3-UpPhbIg/featured
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enstarsmusicEN
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VAVA announced its 720P Video Baby Monitor is available with a little more personality. In addition to white, parents can now purchase the monitor in calming hues of blue, pink, and green to match the backdrop of the child's nursery.
For any new parent, baby monitors are an important safety feature for a child's room because they allow moms and dads to monitor their children as they sleep. Outfitted with a large 5" HD display, the VAVA baby monitor offers peace of mind by allowing parents to monitor their child for sleep disruptions or health issues. The two-way talk system also makes it easy for moms and dads everywhere to hear when their child is crying or in need of attention.
With more color options to choose from, parents can complement the theme and design of their baby's nursery with the VAVA Baby Monitor. Available in white, pink, blue, and green, VAVA's latest Baby Monitor can match any nursery design – from pretty pink princesses to dinosaurs and race cars. The baby monitors also come with a variety of convenient features that make it easy to monitor your child from anywhere in the house.
The technology behind VAVA's Red Dot Award winning 720P Video Baby Monitor is truly remarkable and one of the reasons why it was recently listed as one of the Best Baby Monitors of 2022 on Tech Advisor and Babylist. The wireless connection makes it easy for parents to watch their children from anywhere in the home, and up to four cameras can be connected to a single monitor. For added convenience, when multiple cameras are connected to the VAVA monitor, parents can activate scan view mode. This function will automatically switch between visual input from all the cameras.
VAVA 720P Video Baby Monitors in white, green, blue, and pink are now available for purchase at the VAVA Official Store for $179.99.
VAVA Press
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The award-winning, single-serve cocktail maker is now available on Amazon.com and at other retailers online and in-stores
TOWSON, Md., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BLACK+DECKER®, a global leader in home and lifestyle product innovation and a Stanley Black & Decker brand (NYSE: SWK), announced today the highly anticipated retail launch of the bev by BLACK+DECKER™ Cocktail Maker, the latest product innovation released by the brand. The new single-serve cocktail maker gives users the ability to make custom cocktails at the touch of a button. Now you can Cheers To The Moment™ with delicious craft cocktails from home.
"As a part of our expanded home and lifestyle line, we are delighted to bring innovation to countertops and bar carts this summer with the bev by BLACK+DECKER™ Cocktail Maker, said Allison Lawrence, President of BLACK+DECKER. "This product innovation delivers on BLACK+DECKER's brand promise to make life easier at home. We encourage you to cheer to any occasion worth celebrating with the new single-serve cocktail maker, available for purchase now."
bev by BLACK+DECKER™ Cocktail Maker product features include:
- Delicious mixologist-crafted cocktails dispensed in approximately 30 seconds.
- An easy-load liquor system which connects up to five standard 750ml bottles of your preferred liquor*. There are labeled locations for five liquors: gin, vodka, tequila, rum, whiskey and the included glass water bottle.
- Customize drink strength with the turn of a dial, the bev by BLACK+DECKER™ Cocktail Maker has four drink strength levels: mocktail, light, regular and strong.
- LEDs beneath the bottles illuminate and prominently display the liquor being served.
- "Party mode" feature with various LED sequences to add a unique fun factor.
- The cocktail maker works exclusively with Bartesian®'s growing assortment of premium cocktail capsules**, ranging from a Long Island iced tea to a spicy margarita.
- The intuitive cocktail maker works by scanning the barcode on the lid of the capsule to draw from the corresponding spirit.
- Shaker icon on the front of the machine which lights up when it is recommended to dispense a drink over a shaker with ice.
- Beginning this fall, a pack of five glass bottles will be sold separately for users that desire a uniform look. The bottle pack will be available for purchase at an estimated retail price of $49.99.
Recognized for its ease-of-use, simplistic design and innovation, the cocktail maker has received several accolades to date, including a "2022 Gadget Award" from Popular Mechanics for "Best Cocktail Machine".
The bev by BLACK+DECKER™ Cocktail Maker is now available for purchase on Amazon.com and at other select retailers for an estimated retail price of $299, with Bartesian® capsules** and liquor bottles sold separately.
To learn more about the bev by BLACK+DECKER™ Cocktail Maker or to purchase the product, visit: https://amzn.to/3O3CcaG.
*Liquor and capsules are not included with purchase of bev by BLACK+DECKER™ Cocktail Maker
**Bartesian® is a trademark of Bartesian Inc.
About BLACK+DECKER®
Since 1910, BLACK+DECKER, a Stanley Black & Decker brand, has been setting the standard for innovation and design. The inventor of the first portable electric drill with pistol grip and trigger switch, BLACK+DECKER has evolved from a small machine shop in Baltimore, Maryland to a global manufacturing powerhouse with a broad line of quality products used in and around the home. When home owners have work to get done, they trust that BLACK+DECKER products will do the job efficiently and reliably. For more information on BLACK+DECKER products, visit www.blackanddecker.com or follow BLACK+DECKER on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter.
About Stanley Black & Decker
Headquartered in the USA, Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) is the world's largest tool company operating nearly 50 manufacturing facilities across America and more than 100 worldwide. Guided by its purpose – for those who make the world – the company's more than 60,000 diverse and high-performing employees produce innovative, award-winning power tools, hand tools, storage, digital tool solutions, lifestyle products, outdoor products, engineered fasteners and other industrial equipment to support the world's makers, creators, tradespeople and builders. The company's iconic brands include DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, HUSTLER® and TROY-BILT®. Recognized for its leadership in environmental, social and governance (ESG), Stanley Black & Decker strives to be a force for good in support of its communities, employees, customers and other stakeholders. To learn more visit: www.stanleyblackanddecker.com.
BLACK+DECKER Media Contact:
Brooke Withers
Public Relations Manager
Brooke.Withers@SBDinc.com
(804) 349-7632
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ATLANTA, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Trustees (the "Board") of each of Invesco High Income Trust II and Invesco Senior Income Trust (each, a "Fund" and collectively, the "Funds") today declared the following dividends:
The Board of Trustees (the "Board") of Invesco Senior Income Trust (NYSE: VVR) (the "Fund") approved an increase in the monthly distribution amount payable to common shareholders pursuant to the Fund's Managed Distribution Plan (the "Plan"). Effective April 1, 2022, the Fund will pay its monthly dividend to common shareholders at a stated fixed monthly distribution amount of $0.026 per share, an increase from a stated fixed monthly distribution amount of $0.021 per share.
Effective August 1, 2018, the Board of Invesco High Income Trust II (NYSE: VLT) approved a Managed Distribution Plan (the "VLT Plan") for the Fund, whereby the Fund increased its monthly dividend to common shareholders to a stated fixed monthly distribution amount based on a distribution rate of 8.5 percent of the closing market price per share as of August 1, 2018, the date the VLT Plan became effective. The VVR Plan and the VLT Plan are collectively referred to herein as the "Plans."
The Plans are intended to provide shareholders with a consistent, but not guaranteed, periodic cash payment from each Fund, regardless of when or whether income is earned, or capital gains are realized. The Plans may have the effect of narrowing the discount between each Fund's market price and the net asset value ("NAV") of each Fund's common shares, but there is no assurance that the Plans will be effective in this regard.
1 A portion of this distribution is estimated to be from a return of principal rather than net income. The 19(a) Notice referenced below provides more information and can be found on the Invesco website at www.invesco.com
If a Fund's investment income is not sufficient to cover the Fund's intended monthly distribution, the Fund will distribute long-term capital gains and/or return of capital in order to maintain its managed distribution level under its Plan. A Fund may at times distribute more than its income and net realized gains; therefore, a portion of the distribution may result in a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that shareholders invested in a Fund is paid back to them. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect a Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with "yield" or "income." No conclusions should be drawn about a Fund's investment performance from the amount of the Fund's distributions or from the terms of its Plan.
In order to comply with the requirements of Section 19 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and an exemptive order granted to the Funds by the Securities and Exchange Commission, each Fund will provide its shareholders of record on each distribution date with a 19(a) Notice and issue an accompanying press release disclosing the sources of its dividend payment when a distribution includes anything other than net investment income.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in 19(a) Notices are only estimates and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for tax reporting purposes will depend upon each Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its full fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. Each Fund will send shareholders a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell them how to report these distributions for federal income tax purposes. Information on the Funds' 19(a) Notices can be found at www.invesco.com.
The final determination of the source and tax characteristics of all distributions in 2022 will be made after the end of the year.
The Plans will be subject to periodic review by each Fund's Board, and a Fund's Board may terminate or amend the terms of its Plan at any time without prior notice to the Fund's shareholders. The amendment or termination of a Fund's Plan could have an adverse effect on the market price of such Fund's common shares.
The amount of dividends paid by the Funds may vary from time to time. Past amounts of dividends are no guarantee of future dividend payment amounts.
Investing involves risk and it is possible to lose money on any investment in the Trust.
For additional information, shareholders of the closed end fund may call Invesco at 800-983-0903.
About Invesco Ltd.
Invesco Ltd. is a global independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. Our distinctive investment teams deliver a comprehensive range of active, passive, and alternative investment capabilities. With offices in more than 20 countries, Invesco managed $1.4 trillion in assets on behalf of clients worldwide as of June 30, 2022. For more information, visit www.invesco.com.
Invesco Distributors, Inc. is the US distributor for Invesco Ltd. It is an indirect, wholly owned, subsidiary of Invesco Ltd.
Note: There is no assurance that a closed-end fund will achieve its investment objective. Shares are bought on the secondary market and may trade at a discount or premium to NAV. Regular brokerage commissions apply.
NOT A DEPOSIT l NOT FDIC INSURED l NOT GUARANTEED BY THE BANK l MAY LOSE VALUE l NOT INSURED BY ANY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY
—Invesco—
CONTACT: Jeaneen Terrio 212-278-9205 Jeaneen.Terrio@invesco.com
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BANGKOK (AP) — Disruptions to supplies of commodities, financial strains and higher prices are among the impacts of the war in Ukraine that will slow economies in Asia in coming months, the World Bank says in a report released Tuesday.
The reportforecasts slower growth and rising poverty in the Asia-Pacific region this year as “multiple shocks” compound troubles for people and for businesses.
Growth for the region is estimated at 5%, down from the original forecast of 5.4%. The “low case” scenario foresees growth dipping to 4%, it said. The region saw a rebound to 7.2% growth in 2021 after many economies experienced downturns with the onset of the pandemic.
The World Bank anticipates that China, the region’s largest economy, will expand at a 5% annual pace, much slower than the 8.1% growth of 2021.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has helped drive up prices for oil, gas and other commodities, eating into household purchasing power and burdening businesses and governments that already are contending with unusually high levels of debt due to the pandemic, the report said.
The development lending institution urged governments to lift restrictions on trade and services to take advantage of more opportunities for trade and to end fossil fuel subsidies to encourage adoption of more green energy technologies.
“The succession of shocks means that the growing economic pain of the people will have to face the shrinking financial capacity of their governments,” said the World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Chief Economist Aaditya Mattoo. “A combination of fiscal, financial and trade reforms could mitigate risks, revive growth and reduce poverty.”
The report pointed to three main potential shocks for the region: the war, changing monetary policy in the U.S. and some other countries and a slowdown in China.
While rising interest rates make sense for cooling the U.S. economy and curbing inflation, much of Asia lags behind in its recovery from the pandemic. Countries like Malaysia may suffer outflows of currency and other financial repercussions from those changing policies, it said.
Meanwhile, China’s already slowing economy could falter as outbreaks of COVID-19 provoke lockdowns like the one now in place in Shanghai, the country’s biggest megacity. That is likely to affect many Asian countries whose trade relies on demand from China.
“These shocks are likely to magnify existing post-COVID difficulties,” the report said. The 8 million households whose members fell back into poverty during the pandemic, “will see real incomes shrink even further as prices soar.”
The report noted that regional economies fared better during the 2021 Delta variant waves of coronavirus than in the initial months of the pandemic in 2020, largely because fewer restrictions were imposed and widespread vaccinations helped limit the severity of the outbreaks.
On average, countries with a 1 percentage point higher vaccination rate had higher growth, it said. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/world-bank-says-war-shocks-to-drag-on-asian-economies/ | 2022-04-05T13:40:57Z |
Wind Advisory issued May 18 at 12:46PM MDT until May 19 at 3:00PM MDT by NWS Missoula MT
* WHAT…West winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph
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* WHERE…Shoup, Bannock Pass, Highway 28 Tendoy to Lone Pine,
Highway 93 Lost Trail Pass to Gibbonsville, Lemhi Pass, and
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* WHEN…From midnight tonight to 3 PM MDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS…Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
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Idaho's number 1 home builder takes 1st in Best Places to Work in Idaho.
MERIDIAN, Idaho, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CBH Homes has been named the #1 Best Places to Work in Idaho in the Large Employer Category for 2022. Competing against some of the best names in Idaho, the 2022 list is based on feedback from employees, then compared against the other companies in their size category.
In an industry not known for culture, CBH Homes is striving to do things differently. "At CBH, we're built different," said Ronda Conger, Vice President of CBH Homes. "We are made up of people that are passionate, caffeinated and ready to put it down. We love our team and have way too much fun."
CBH Homes has been voted a Best Place to Work for 12 years and they'll be the first to tell you it doesn't happen overnight.
It's a long journey to building and creating a company culture that people love and want to be a part of. Companies work for years to create a culture worth talking about and CBH Homes has been doing just that. Working, building, changing, growing, and pushing every year to be a Best Place to Work in Idaho.
"We are valued and loved so much at CBH. We're constantly pushed to be better. I love that I get to be me and a better version of me every single day." said Melissa Enrico, CBH North Canyon Sales Coach and employee of CBH Homes for 11 years.
Joining the CBH team isn't always easy. CBH takes their hiring very seriously with a multi-step process to ensure the applicant will be a good fit. From personality tests, multiple interviews, and questionnaires, they want to know if you truly want to be a part of the team.
Becoming a Best Place to Work in Idaho is always a priority at CBH. They work hard to go above and beyond to listen, adjust, and ensure their team is loving where they work. Their passion for their work shows as CBH has a 4.4 out of 5 stars rating on Google Reviews, has been voted Best Homebuilder by the Idaho Business Review Reader Rankings, and was named 10th in the Idaho Private 100 list.
CBH Homes is proud to have a passionate team of hardworking and humble rockstars. They strive to pay it forward and frequently share what makes them a Best Place to Work by giving tours to other companies that are also on the hunt to earn a Best Places to Work designation.
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CBH Homes has been building dreams for Idahoans for over 30 years, is Idaho's #1 Builder, a #1 Best Place to Work in Idaho, ranked #36 in the nation, and proudly working with over 23,000 happy homeowners. Cbhhomes.com RCE-923
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Leading research platform and thought leader recognized as gold winners in the Legal Information Solution and Achievement in Management | Legal categories
NEW YORK, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. today announced that its acclaimed research solution VitalLaw has earned a gold Globee Award in the 7th Annual 2022 American Best in Business Awards.
VitalLaw is a leading research platform that provides legal professionals with world-class analysis and comprehensive support throughout the legal process. The platform features a dashboard that includes thorough federal and state laws and regulations for all 50 states, including the dates when future laws and regulations will become effective. Powered by its wide range of world-class content, VitalLaw empowers customers to bring profound impact to their organizations and clients.
"VitalLaw provides customers with access to solutions that enable a faster, more effective workflow, and I am honored that it has been recognized with this prestigious award," said Ken Crutchfield, Vice President & General Manager of Legal Markets at Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. "We are committed to investing in powerful solutions for our customers, and VitalLaw is our latest move to enrich the entire legal process, increase productivity and drive efficiency for legal professionals."
Crutchfield also earned a gold Globee in the Achievement in Management | Legal category for his excellence in product developments and launches. With more than three decades of professional experience, Crutchfield excels at general management, business transformation, strategy, and more. He was recognized for effectively developing and launching VitalLaw in November 2021, and successfully guiding his team to bring deep impact to customers' organizations and clients.
The American Best in Business Awards are open to all organizations with at least one or more offices in the United States of America. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. – large to small and startups, government, public and private, for-profit, and non-profit – are eligible to submit nominations to the American Best in Business Awards in a wide range of categories honoring achievement in every aspect of business + work life. More than 70 judges from a wide spectrum of industry experts participated in the judging process.
See the complete list of 2022 winners here: https://globeeawards.com/american-business-awards/winners/
Wolters Kluwer (WKL) is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the healthcare; tax and accounting; governance, risk, and compliance; and legal and regulatory sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.
Wolters Kluwer reported 2021 annual revenues of €4.8 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 19,800 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.
Wolters Kluwer shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt (ADR) program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
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Two Black girls have been charged with hate crimes after the New York City Police Department says they assaulted a White woman and made "anti-White" statements, according to a Tuesday news release from the NYPD.
The incident took place on July 9 around 6:50 p.m. on a southbound MTA bus in Queens when three girls and the victim, a 57-year-old White woman, got into a "verbal dispute," an NYPD spokesperson said. One of the girls yelled, "I hate White people. I hate the way they talk," according to CNN affiliate WCBS-TV.
The woman was hit in the head with an unknown object, the release said, causing a laceration and bleeding.
The three girls ran away and the woman was taken to a local hospital where she received three staples on her head, the release said.
NYPD released a photo of three Black teenagers wanted in connection with the incident and two of them -- a 15 and 16-year-old -- have been arrested and charged with hate crimes. Police are still searching for the third girl.
The Queens District Attorney's Office will ultimately decide what charges the teenagers will face.
The charges against the girls come as hate crimes in New York City were reported to have increased by 76%, as of April, compared to the same period last year, according to data from the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force. To date, there have been 35 hate crimes committed against Black people in the city, 51 against Asians, 149 against Jewish people and only one recorded against a White person, according to the NYPD Hate Crimes Dashboard.
For the calendar year of 2021, there were 19 hate crimes committed against White people, the dashboard said.
Hate crimes are defined by the United States Department of Justice as crimes motivated by bias. The DOJ clarifies that "hate" doesn't mean anger or dislike -- but rather bias against people with specific characteristics like race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion or disability.
The "crime" part is often violent, like an assault or murder. Property damage, threats to commit the crime, or even conspiring to commit the crime also qualify.
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MILWAUKEE, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Today Circa has been awarded the Top Workplaces 2022 honor by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. This Top Workplaces award demonstrates Circa's commitment to employees while promoting a welcoming and inclusive culture for everyone who joins the team.
The Top Workplaces award is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by Energage LLC. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 culture drivers including the company's vision, employee sentiment and appreciation, benefits, confidence in company leaders, and open-mindedness. In 2021, Circa was also named as a Top Workplace for DE&I Practices and Remote Work as part of Energage's 2021 Culture Excellence Awards.
Circa doesn't just recommend diversity recruiting programs for others – it has undertaken a careful, holistic approach to incorporate inclusive, equitable practices, within all aspects of its business. Circa is taking a six-prong approach to elevate diversity, equity and inclusion in its own ranks and has already found great success. Creating an environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and thrive starts at the top.
"Circa's mission is to create an inclusive, equitable, culturally competent, and supportive environment within the organization by promoting discussions, fostering respect for all employees, and creating a better sense of community," said Patrick Sheahan, Circa CEO and President. "We strive to take a people-first approach. Our employees lead and drive much of our DEI activities and discussions, provide input on family friendly benefits as well as enhancements to the employee experience."
"During this very challenging time, Top Workplaces has proven to be a beacon of light for organizations, as well as a sign of resiliency and strong business performance," said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. "When you give your employees a voice, you come together to navigate challenges and shape your path forward. Top Workplaces draw on real-time insights into what works best for their organization, so they can make informed decisions that have a positive impact on their people and their business."
About Circa
Circa is a catalyst for 21st century organizations to build high-performing diverse teams based on research that shows companies want to shift from diversity as a program to diversity as a business strategy. Circa's robust portfolio of software solutions and unparalleled industry expertise give employers the tools and knowledge they need to radically change how they approach talent acquisition and management. The company was founded in 1994, has 4,500+ customers, 15,500 community partner relationships and in 2020 posted 5M+ jobs through its network of 600+ online employment websites.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Wells Fargo & Company ("Wells Fargo" or the "Company") (NYSE: WFC) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and docketed under 22-cv-03811, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Wells Fargo common stock between February 24, 2021 and June 9, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Wells Fargo common stock during the Class Period, you have until August 29, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Wells Fargo is a diversified financial services company that provides banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services in the U.S. and internationally.
In 2020, Wells Fargo expanded its so-called "Diverse Search Requirement", also referred to as a diverse slate hiring policy, requiring that at least 50% of interview candidates must represent a historically underrepresented group with respect to at least one diversity dimension (including race/ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ, veterans, and people with disabilities) for most posted roles in the U.S. with total direct compensation greater than $100,000 per year. In addition, at least one interviewer on the hiring panel must represent a historically underrepresented group with respect to at least one diversity dimension.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Wells Fargo had misrepresented its commitment to diversity in the Company's workplace; (ii) Wells Fargo conducted fake job interviews in order to meet its Diverse Search Requirement; (iii) the foregoing conduct subjected Wells Fargo to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement action, including criminal charges; (iv) all of the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Wells Fargo's reputation; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On May 19, 2022, the New York Times published an article entitled "At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job Interviews". Citing discussions with "seven current and former Wells Fargo employees", including Joe Bruno, a former executive in the Company's wealth management division, the article reported, in relevant part, that "[f]or many open positions, employees would interview a 'diverse' candidate", but that "often, the so-called diverse candidate would be interviewed for a job that had already been promised to someone else." The article further reported that Mr. Bruno was fired after "complain[ing] to his bosses" about the practice.
On this news, Wells Fargo's common stock price fell $0.44 per share, or 1.04%, over two trading sessions, closing at $41.67 per share on May 20, 2022.
On June 6, 2022, Reuters published an article entitled "Wells Fargo pauses diverse slate hiring policy after reports of fake job interviews." The article reported that "Wells Fargo . . . is pausing a hiring policy that requires recruiters to interview a diverse pool of candidates, after the New York Times reported such interviews were often fake and conducted even though the job had already been promised to someone else." The same article also reported that "[t]he bank also plans to conduct a review of its diverse slate guidelines, Chief Executive Officer Charles Scharf told staff on Monday, according to a memo seen by Reuters."
Then, on June 9, 2022, the New York Times published an article entitled "Federal Prosecutors Open Criminal Inquiry of Wells Fargo's Hiring Practices." The article reported that federal prosecutors are investigating whether Wells Fargo violated federal laws by conducting fake job interviews in order to meet the Company's Diverse Search Requirement. The article also revealed that, since the New York Times' May 19, 2022 article focusing on the bank's wealth management business, "another 10 current and former employees have shared stories about how they were subject to fake interviews, or conducted them, or saw paperwork documenting the practice", and that "sham interviews occurred across multiple business lines, including its mortgage servicing, home lending and retail banking operations."
That same day, Wells Fargo issued a press release entitled "Wells Fargo response to New York Times article", which confirmed that "[e]arlier this week, the [C]ompany temporarily paused the use of its diverse slate guidelines", and that, "[d]uring this pause, the [C]ompany is conducting a review so that hiring managers, senior leaders and recruiters fully understand how the guidelines should be implemented – and so we can have confidence that our guidelines live up to their promise."
Following these disclosures, Wells Fargo's common stock price fell $3.68 per share, or 8.62%, over the following two trading sessions, closing at $38.99 per share on June 13, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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Couple arrested for stealing gas following ‘suspicious purchases,’ authorities say
VERNON PARISH, La. (KPLC/Gray News) - A couple from Texas have been arrested in Louisiana following the theft of diesel fuel from a convenience store, authorities said.
Usleidy Guerra Carmona, 43, and Omar Menendez Mendez, 37, were each arrested on one count of identity theft, one count of monetary instrument abuse and one count of criminal conspiracy to commit monetary instrument abuse. KPLC reports that their bond was set at $75,000.
Sheriff Sam Craft said it is the second incident in recent months involving fraudulent fuel purchases by out-of-state persons.
A Vernon Parish store employee contacted the Vernon Parish Sheriff’s Office and told them that two people had made suspicious purchases of diesel, Craft said.
The man paid at the pump using a credit card for two $100 purchases of gas, then attempted additional transactions that were denied, he said. The woman entered the store and allegedly made separate purchases using a credit card.
The clerk told detectives the pair left the store heading east, Craft said. Store employees provided a detailed description of the vehicle and license plate information.
Detectives followed and within minutes identified the suspect vehicle as it entered. Deputies initiated a stop and the vehicle reduced its speed and eventually came to a stop, according to Craft.
During the traffic stop, Carmona was found to have cut three Walmart gift cards into several pieces, then stuffed them in the front of her pants to hide them from officers, the sheriff said.
“It’s believed that the attempted destruction and concealment of the gift cards was the reason for the delay in Mendez complying with the traffic stop,” Craft said.
The truck was towed to the sheriff’s office, where a search warrant was executed, the sheriff said. Detectives said they found a compact disc allegedly containing software for a “card reader/card scanner,” software used in conjunction with a card reader to encode gift cards with credit card information.
The bed of the truck had a large fuel tank as well as several plastic jugs used for fuel transport, Craft said.
Both Carmona and Mendez were identified as Cuban Nationals, and investigators were sent to act as language interpreters.
Carmona has previous arrests in Texas for engaging in organized crime as well as misidentifying herself to law enforcement, Craft said.
Mendez, whose visa expired in 2022, also has arrests in Texas for misidentifying himself to law enforcement, the sheriff said. Immigration has placed a detainer on Mendez, he said.
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Max Straka, PharmD, FISMP, has extensive experience leading pharmaceutical and biotech proprietary name submission reviews and evaluating medication error reports
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaderboard Branding, a Fingerpaint company, the fast-growing global naming and branding firm that delivers strategic insights and world-class creativity to biopharma and healthcare companies as early as clinical phase 1, announced the hiring of Max Straka, PharmD, FISMP, a former FDA Division of Medication Error Prevention and Analysis (DMEPA) safety evaluator. As a Director of Leaderboard Branding's Drug Safety Division, Dr. Straka adds to the broad experience of global leaders and innovators in this important area of drug development.
At the FDA DMEPA, Dr. Straka conducted and led the review processes to oversee and support the safe practices related to naming, labeling, packaging, and design of drugs. With evolving FDA guidance and recommended methodologies, Dr. Straka has first-hand experience and exclusive understanding of what is needed when developing proprietary names for submission.
"Max brings a unique end-to-end perspective of drug safety, as well as an insider's understanding of the FDA," said Brannon Cashion, Managing Partner of Leaderboard Branding. "His specific experience in proprietary name candidate review, reconsiderations, and final rejection or approval is invaluable as pharmaceutical companies around the world seek commercialization in the US through the FDA. From understanding what it takes to successfully move a therapeutic through the regulatory process to how it impacts real-world scenarios, Max has a clear grasp of the importance of naming and branding in drug safety."
At the FDA, Dr. Straka assessed medication error reports submitted through the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System and drafted postmarket reviews to further evaluate a product's safety. His depth of experience with the Division of Cardiology and Nephrology, where he was a primary reviewer, and the Divisions of Hematologic Malignancies and Non-Malignant Hematology provides further insight into these areas of rich innovation.
Prior to the FDA, Dr. Straka was a practicing pharmacist at a national retail pharmacy chain for nearly a decade, where his responsibilities included ensuring safety procedures and protocols were upheld to the highest standards.
"I've seen first-hand how the naming and branding of a therapeutic early on can set the successful foundation for the rest of its life cycle, from the regulatory process to how it is perceived on the shelf," said Dr. Straka. "Having the opportunity to influence those decisions and taking the appropriate steps to support approval so early in the commercialization process is one of the reasons I'm excited to join Leaderboard Branding."
While he was a Safe Medication Management Fellow at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Dr. Straka facilitated discussions and recommended solutions to labeling, packaging, naming, and device concerns for manufacturers, United States Pharmacopeia, and the FDA.
About Leaderboard Branding: Leaderboard Branding, a Fingerpaint company, is a global naming and branding firm that delivers strategic insights and world-class creativity to every client, on every engagement. Built on the tenets of put people first and take pride in your work, Leaderboard Branding has developed strong and strategic partnerships with healthcare, biopharma, consumer, and B2B companies.
In the biopharma and healthcare space, Leaderboard Branding supports clients in the early phases of clinical development. The expert strategists at Leaderboard Branding have a unique ability to optimize a brand's commercial potential while mitigating safety concerns and aligning to regulatory guidelines. With expertise in nonproprietary naming, clinical trial branding, global trade name development, and visual design, Leaderboard Branding provides creative solutions through each phase of the drug development process. Leaderboard Branding's drug safety consulting and assessment capabilities help clients make crucial commercial decisions and regulatory submissions with confidence. Connect with us at Leaderboard Branding and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Wrestling superstar Ric Flair, a.k.a. “The Nature Boy,” has announced he’s coming out of retirement for one last match.
The 73-year-old Flair made the announcement on his Twitter account Monday morning saying, “The rumors are true! I’m going to walk that aisle, style, and profile one last time!”
The 16-time former World Heavyweight Champion, who many consider the greatest professional wrestler of all time, will return to the ring as part of “Jim Crockett Promotions Presents: Ric Flair’s Last Match” wrestling event.
Flair’s last time in the ring was in 2011.
The match will take place at the Nashville Fairgrounds in Nashville, Tennessee on July 31. The event will be streamed exclusively on FITE, and Flair’s opponent is expected to be named at a later date.
Flair’s final match will take place the day after Nashville hosts WWE SummerSlam at Nissan Stadium.
Tickets for “Ric Flair’s Last Match” go on sale Friday, May 27, at 11 a.m. CT To preorder tickets, click here. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/legendary-wrestler-ric-flair-sets-date-for-last-match-in-nashville/ | 2022-05-18T18:21:54Z |
- Treatment with epigenomic controller, OTX-2002, resulted in robust in vivo efficacy in xenograft tumor models
- OTX-2002 successfully achieved pre-transcriptional downregulation of hepatocyte MYC gene expression in non-human primates
- Clinical potential of OTX-2002 as a monotherapy or in combination with existing standard-of-care therapies, including immune checkpoint inhibitors
- IND filed by the company to advance OTX-2002 into the clinic
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omega Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMGA) (Omega), a development-stage biotechnology company pioneering the first systematic approach to use mRNA therapeutics as a new class of programmable epigenetic medicines by leveraging its OMEGA Epigenomic Programming™ platform, announces the presentation of new preclinical data on its lead product candidate, OTX-2002, to regulate expression of the c-Myc (MYC) oncogene through epigenetic modulation in multiple models of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a poster presentation at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2022 World Congress on Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer, taking place in Barcelona, Spain, June 29 – July 2, 2022.
"We are proud to present these new data and add to the wealth of evidence supporting the potential of OTX-2002 as a new treatment option for patients suffering from HCC," said Thomas McCauley, Ph.D., Omega's Chief Scientific Officer. "In addition to providing strong evidence of OTX-2002's activity in the most translationally relevant species to human, non-human primates, the data support its potential as a monotherapy as well as its ability to synergize with existing treatment options. We believe epigenomic programming offers a promising avenue to precisely target previously undruggable genes, like MYC, that overcomes the compensatory mechanisms that have hindered previous modalities. We have recently filed an IND with the FDA for OTX-2002 and look forward to continuing to advance towards the clinic in service of patients."
- In non-human primates, treatment with OTX-2002 resulted in durable reduction of MYC mRNA levels in liver consistent with previous in vitro and in vivo studies
- OTX-2002 treatment decreased MYC mRNA and protein levels and cell viability in multiple HCC cell lines, while sparing normal cells
- OTX-2002 significantly reduced tumor growth in HCC xenografts models
- OTX-2002 treatment is associated with decreased expression of the immune checkpoint factor PD-L1 in HCC cells, suggesting a potential role for combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors
- Combining OTX-2002 with existing standard of care therapies for HCC resulted in further reduction of cell viability and tumor burden in both in vitro and in vivo HCC models, respectively
- OTX-2002 treatment demonstrated synergistic activity with AKT inhibition in HCC cells, highlighting additional possible combination approaches
The poster can be viewed on the Omega website at https://omegatherapeutics.com/our-science/#publications-research
OTX-2002 is a first-in-class Omega Epigenomic Controller™ in development for the treatment of HCC. OTX-2002 is an mRNA therapeutic delivered via lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) and is designed to downregulate MYC expression pre-transcriptionally through epigenetic modulation while potentially overcoming MYC autoregulation. The MYC oncogene is associated with aggressive disease in up to ~70% of patients with HCC. An IND application for OTX-2002 for the treatment of HCC has been submitted to the FDA.
Omega Therapeutics, founded by Flagship Pioneering, is a development-stage biotechnology company pioneering the first systematic approach to use mRNA therapeutics as a new class of programmable epigenetic medicines. The company's OMEGA Epigenomic Programming™ platform harnesses the power of epigenetics, the mechanism that controls gene expression and every aspect of an organism's life from cell genesis, growth, and differentiation to cell death. Using a suite of technologies, paired with Omega's process of systematic, rational, and integrative drug design, the deterministic OMEGA platform enables control of fundamental epigenetic processes to correct the root cause of disease by returning aberrant gene expression to a normal range without altering native nucleic acid sequences. Omega's modular and programmable mRNA medicines, Omega Epigenomic Controllers™, target specific epigenomic loci within insulated genomic domains, EpiZips™, from amongst thousands of unique, mapped, and validated genome-wide DNA-sequences, with high specificity to durably tune single or multiple genes to treat and cure diseases through Precision Genomic Control™. Omega is currently advancing a broad pipeline of development candidates spanning a range of disease areas, including oncology, regenerative medicine, multigenic diseases including immunology, and select monogenic diseases, including alopecia.
For more information, visit omegatherapeutics.com, or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including without limitation statements regarding our participation in upcoming events and presentations and expectations regarding our business strategy, OTX-2002 and product candidate pipeline, including efficacy, trial design, regulatory submissions, approvals and timing thereof, and the initiation of preclinical studies and advancement of multiple preclinical development programs. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following: the novel technology on which our product candidates are based makes it difficult to predict the time and cost of preclinical and clinical development and subsequently obtaining regulatory approval, if at all; the substantial development and regulatory risks associated with epigenomic controller machines due to the novel and unprecedented nature of this new category of medicines; our limited operating history; the incurrence of significant losses and the fact that we expect to continue to incur significant additional losses for the foreseeable future; our need for substantial additional financing; our investments in research and development efforts that further enhance the OMEGA platform, and their impact on our results; uncertainty regarding preclinical development, especially for a new class of medicines such as epigenomic controllers; the fact that our product candidates may be associated with serious adverse events, undesirable side effects or have other properties that could halt their regulatory development, prevent their regulatory approval, limit their commercial potential, or result in significant negative consequences; the impact of increased demand for the manufacture of mRNA and LNP based vaccines to treat COVID-19 on our development plans; difficulties manufacturing the novel technology on which our OEC candidates are based; our ability to adapt to rapid and significant technological change; our reliance on third parties for the manufacture of materials; our ability to successfully acquire and establish our own manufacturing facilities and infrastructure; our reliance on a limited number of suppliers for lipid excipients used in our product candidates; our ability to advance our product candidates to clinical development; and our ability to obtain, maintain, enforce and adequately protect our intellectual property rights. These and other important factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, and our other filings with the SEC could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press release. Any such forward-looking statements represent management's estimates as of the date of this press release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we disclaim any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change.
Contacts
Investor contact:
Kevin Murphy
Argot Partners
212.600.1902
ArgotOmega@argotpartners.com
Media contact:
Jason Braco
LifeSci Communications
646.751.4361
jbraco@lifescicomms.com
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Rocker Ronnie Hawkins, dies at 87, patron of Canadian rock
By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
Ronnie Hawkins, a brash rockabilly star from Arkansas who became a patron of the Canadian music scene after moving north and recruiting a handful of local musicians later known as the Band, has died.
His wife Wanda confirmed to The Canadian Press that Hawkins died Sunday morning after an illness. He was 87.
“He went peacefully and he looked as handsome as ever,” she said by telephone.
Born just two days after Elvis Presley, the Huntsville native friends called “The Hawk” (He also nicknamed himself “The King of Rockabilly” and “Mr. Dynamo”) was a hell-raiser with a big jaw and a stocky build.
He had minor hits in the 1950s with “Mary Lou” and “Odessa” and ran a club in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where acts included such early rock stars as Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Conway Twitty.
“Hawkins is the only man I ever heard who can make a nice sexy song like ‘My Gal is Red Hot’ sound sordid,” Greil Marcus wrote in his acclaimed book about music and American culture, “Mystery Train,” adding that “The Hawk” was alleged to “know more back roads, back rooms and backsides than any man from Newark to Mexicali.”
Hawkins didn’t have the gifts of Presley or Perkins, but he did have ambition and an eye for talent.
He first performed in Canada in the late ’50s and realized he would stand out far more in a country where homegrown rock still barely existed. Canadian musicians had often moved to the U.S. to advance their careers, but Hawkins was the rare American to try the reverse.
With drummer and fellow Arkansan Levon Helm, Hawkins put together a Canadian backing group that included guitarist-songwriter Robbie Robertson, keyboardists Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel and bassist Rick Danko. They became the Hawks, educated in the Hawkins school of rock.
“When the music got a little too far out for Ronnie’s ear,” Robertson told Rolling Stone in 1978, “or he couldn’t tell when to come in singing, he would tell us that nobody but Thelonious Monk could understand what we were playing. But the big thing with him was that he made us rehearse and practice a lot. Often we would go and play until 1 a.m. and then rehearse until 4.”
Robertson and friends backed Hawkins from 1961-63, putting on raucous shows around Canada and recording a howling cover of Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love” that became one of Hawkins’ signature songs.
But Hawkins wasn’t selling many records and the Hawks outgrew their leader. They hooked up with Bob Dylan in the mid-’60s and by the end of the decade were superstars on their own who had renamed themselves the Band.
Hawkins, meanwhile, settled in Peterborough, Ontario, and had a handful of top 40 singles there, including “Bluebirds in the Mountain” and “Down in the Alley.”
He admittedly didn’t keep up with the latest sounds — he was horrified the first time he heard Canadian Neil Young — but in the late 1960s he befriended John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono. They stayed with Hawkins and his wife, Wanda, and three children while they were visiting Canada.
“At that particular time, I thought I was doin’ them a favor,” he later told the National Post. “I thought the Beatles were an English group that got lucky. I didn’t know a lot about their music. I thought Yoko’s was (silly). To this day, I have never heard a Beatle album. For 10 billion dollars, I couldn’t name one song on ‘Abbey Road.’ I have never in my life picked up a Beatle album, and listened to it. Never. But John was so powerful. I liked him. He wasn’t one of those hotshots, you know.”
Hawkins also kept in touch with the Band and was among the guests in 1976 for the all-star, farewell concert that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s documentary “The Last Waltz.”
For a few moments he was back in charge, grinning and strutting under his Stetson hat, calling out “big time, big time” to his former underlings as they tore through “Who Do You Love.”
Besides “The Last Waltz,” Hawkins also appeared in Dylan’s film “Renaldo and Clara,” the big-budget fiasco “Heaven’s Gate” and “Hello Mary Lou.” A 2007 documentary about Hawkins, “Alive and Kickin,’” was narrated by Dan Aykroyd and featured a cameo from another famous Arkansan, Bill Clinton.
Hawkins’ albums included “Ronnie Hawkins,” “The Hawk” and “Can’t Stop Rockin,’” a 2001 release notable for Helm and Robertson appearing on the same song, “Blue Moon in My Sign.” Helm and Robertson were no longer speaking, having fallen out after “The Last Waltz,” and recorded their contributions in separate studios.
Over time, Hawkins mentored numerous young Canadian musicians who went on to successful careers, including guitarist Pat Travers and future Janis Joplin guitarist John Till.
He received several honorary awards from his adopted country, and, in 2013, was named a member of the Order of Canada for “his contributions to the development of the music industry in Canada, as a rock and roll musician, and for his support of charitable causes.” | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2022/05/29/rocker-ronnie-hawkins-dies-at-87-patron-of-canadian-rock/ | 2022-05-29T21:37:45Z |
Temple’s Moon headed back to state
WACO — Temple senior Daniel Moon shot 75 for the second straight day Tuesday at Bear Ridge Golf Club then eliminated a Tyler Legacy competitor on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff to advance out of the Class 6A Region II tournament for the second consecutive year.
Moon earned the region’s final individual berth in the state tournament to be held May 9-10 at Legacy Hills Golf Club in Georgetown, where he finished in a tie for 38th last year.
Salado, Lake Belton girls advance to state tournament
HUNTSVILLE — Salado posted a second-round 401 on Tuesday to win the Class 4A Region III tournament, and Lake Belton finished third as both teams punched their tickets to the state tournament.
The Lady Eagles (399-401—800) beat runner-up China Spring (410-400—810) by 10 shots, and the Lady Broncos (403-413—816) slipped to third on the final day but held off Bellville by seven strokes to claim the region’s last state berth.
Lydia Burleson (90-93—183) finished fourth in the individual standings, and teammate Cooper Meyer (92-92—184) was fifth to anchor Salado. Reese Rich (99-103—202), Madeline Rakowitz (123-113—236) and Elliot Self (118-121—239) rounded out the Lady Eagles’ card.
Lake Belton’s Tiffany Lange (86-87—173) was the individual runner-up — behind Orange Little Cypress-Mauriceville’s Montana DiLeo (79-78—157) — and teammate Shelby Pusey (94-96—190) finished in a tie for seventh. Shelby Chaney (109-110—219), Katherine Moore (114-120—234) and Clara Brunner (125-120—245) completed the Lady Broncos’ scores.
DiLeo, teammate Neely Wozniak and Rusk’s Katelyn Henslee earned the region’s three individual berths in the state tournament, which is May 16-17 at Legends Golf Course in Kingsland. | https://www.tdtnews.com/sports/article_80d7078c-c056-11ec-96f6-c7c71037ce54.html | 2022-04-20T05:45:03Z |
Attorney paying ex-casino mogul Steve Wynn defamation claim
By KEN RITTER
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn has accepted an undisclosed financial settlement to end his federal defamation lawsuit against an attorney. The attorney represented a dancer who she said accused Wynn of sexual harassment and retaliation. Wynn’s lawyers on Tuesday gave The Associated Press a settlement document that included a statement from Los Angeles attorney Lisa Bloom. Her statement retracted and withdrew claims she made in a news release in March 2018. The settlement amount was blacked out in the document. A federal judge approved the agreement and dismissed the case Monday. Wynn is now 80 and lives in Florida. His statement declared the matter fully settled. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/24/attorney-paying-ex-casino-mogul-steve-wynn-defamation-claim/ | 2022-05-25T01:26:40Z |
9-year-old found dead near his home’s shed
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. (WPXI) - A community is devastated after a 9-year-old boy was found dead Wednesday.
No one has yet been charged in the death of Azuree Charles, but the county’s district attorney confirms there is a person of interest, although she won’t specify who or what their relationship is to the child.
In the meantime, on Thursday afternoon, police picked up Azuree’s father. They had a warrant out for Jean Charles for a simple assault and child endangerment case from November.
He is accused of punching his son in the eye, causing bruising. He was denied bail.
“We are unified in solving this homicide, and I really cannot stress that enough,” said Nicole Ziccarelli, the Westmoreland County district attorney.
As the investigation presses on, officers spent the day canvassing the neighborhood.
On Thursday night, hundreds in the East Ken Manor community came to remember Azuree.
“He was honestly a super nice person, and I can’t believe someone would do that to him,” said his friend, Azalynn Lookhart.
Just days prior to Azuree’s death, “we used to ride bikes together and we used to play together,” said his friend, Zariyah Carter.
The news also hit Azuree’s third-grade teacher especially hard.
“He was the most innocent, sweet, kind and caring child that I have ever met,” Brian Heidenreich said.
People said under no circumstance should they have to hold a vigil for a child in the first place.
“You never have to hurt a child, I don’t care who you are. There are safe places for these kids. Look at this, this is our future. We have to love them, no matter what!” neighbor Tasha Williams said.
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies owned by minority groups in the United States, such as those from the Latino community, continue to experience disparity when seeking financing, explains Angelica Fuentes, impact investor.
Despite the legal efforts raised in the Community Reinvestment Law of 1977 and the creation in 2011 of the Office of Consumer Financial Protection, both focused on reducing discriminatory barriers in the banking system, Angelica Fuentes points out that Latino entrepreneurs have not overcome the structural obstacles.
"As far as venture capital is concerned, companies owned by women and men of Latin origin obtained only 2.6% of the investments, segregating them from the North American entrepreneurial ecosystem," she says.
Another challenge they face is the lack of financial products designed specifically for Latino communities, which are generally offered at higher interest rates than those for individuals of US origin.
"Audit studies have revealed that entry-level entrepreneurs are shown different and more expensive banking products and face more questions to legitimize their businesses. You will need some evidence of implicit bias and discriminatory practices at the time of initial engagement," explains the "State of Latino Entrepreneurs" report by the Standard Graduate School of Business.
"The odds of a national bank approving a $100,000 loan are 60% lower for Latinos than for white business owners, even after accounting for business performance measures.
For Angelica Fuentes, the structural barriers limit Latino entrepreneurs' development, even though statistics show that they are the racial group that presents the best cash flow and stability.
"More than a third of Latino entrepreneurs are immigrants, so their work history and credit record in the United States will hardly be a good source of support," says Angelica Fuentes.
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6sense named among best workplaces in Software category
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 6sense, the leading platform for B2B organizations generating predictable revenue, has been named to Inc. magazine's annual Best Workplaces list for the fourth consecutive year. The list is the result of a comprehensive assessment of companies that have excelled in creating exceptional workplaces and company culture.
"This award is a reflection of our promise to employees that their time at 6sense is the best chapter in their career," said Jason Zintak, CEO of 6sense. "Across the organization, it's easy to spot difference makers challenging the status quo, encouraging each other, and inspiring innovation. Our company values such as fun, accountability, mindfulness, integrity, and others, uniquely show up in our interactions and our work."
"This award is a reflection of our promise to employees that their time at 6sense is the best chapter in their career," said Jason Zintak, CEO of 6sense. "Across the organization, it's easy to spot difference makers challenging the status quo, encouraging each other, and inspiring innovation. Our company values such as fun, accountability, mindfulness, integrity, and others uniquely show up in our interactions and our work."
6sense leads the RevTech Revolution, applying the power of AI to every step of the revenue generation process, removing the guesswork that plagues revenue teams, thereby providing a better customer experience, and producing high-quality pipeline that is ultimately more likely to convert to revenue.
"Not long ago, the term 'best workplace' would have conjured up images of open-office designs with stocked snack fridges," says Inc. editor-in-chief Scott Omelianuk. "Yet given the widespread adoption of remote work, the concept of the workplace has shifted. This year, Inc. has recognized the organizations dedicated to redefining and enriching the workplace in the face of the pandemic."
After collecting data from thousands of submissions, Inc. selected 475 honorees this year. Each company nominated took part in an employee survey which included topics such as management effectiveness, perks, fostering employee growth, and overall company culture. The organization's benefits were also audited to determine overall score and ranking.
In the past year, 6sense has received a number of accolades and recognition for its workplace culture including:
- #3 Best Place to Work in 2022 for Glassdoor's Employees' Choice Awards
- Ranked among the Top 2022 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times
- Recognized by employee-review website Comparably for the Best Company Outlook and Happiest Employees, Best Perks & Benefits, Best Culture, Best for Women and Best for Diversity, Best Places to Work in the Bay Area, Best Engineering Teams, Best Product & Design Teams, Best Marketing Teams and Best Sales Teams
- Best CEO 2021 by Glassdoor and Comparably
Learn more:
- Search 6sense career opportunties
- Stay updated with announcements at the 6sense Newsroom
- Follow 6sense on LinkedIn and Twitter
About 6sense
6sense reinvents the way organizations create, manage, and convert pipeline to revenue. The 6sense B2B platform captures anonymous buying signals, predicts the right accounts to target at the ideal time, and recommends the channels and messages to boost revenue performance. Removing guesswork, friction and wasted sales effort, 6sense empowers sales, marketing, and customer success teams to significantly improve pipeline quality, accelerate sales velocity, increase conversion rates, and grow revenue predictably. 6sense has been recognized for its market-defining technology by Forbes Cloud 100, G2, TrustRadius, Gartner, and Forrester, and for its strong culture by Glassdoor, Inc. Magazine, and Comparably. Learn more at 6sense.com.
About Inc. Media
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
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Companies to leverage Skyhawk's proprietary SkySTAR™ platform to discover and develop novel small molecules that modulate RNA splicing to address challenging oncology and immunology targets.
Skyhawk receives $54 million upfront payments, potentially over $2 billion in aggregate development, regulatory and commercial milestones.
PARIS and BOSTON, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Skyhawk Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the signing of an exclusive worldwide collaboration agreement with Sanofi to discover and develop novel small molecules that modulate RNA splicing for challenging oncology and immunology targets.
Frank Nestle
Global Head of Research and Chief Scientific Officer, Sanofi
"We look forward to this collaboration with Skyhawk, a pioneer in developing novel small molecules that modulate critical RNA splice sites. Skyhawk's SkySTAR™ platform integrating proprietary computational biology tools, kinetic models, and conformational structural models of RNA, offers an exciting opportunity to build drugs that treat disease targets which today have limited or no therapeutic options."
Bill Haney
Chief Executive Officer, Skyhawk Therapeutics
"Sanofi is a global leader in the development and commercialization of innovative therapies, and we look forward to working with their talented team to build novel small molecule therapeutics that modify RNA splicing for the treatment of critical diseases of high unmet need. We are excited to develop drugs for challenging targets with Sanofi and look forward to working together on these potentially first- and best-in-class programs."
Terms of the Agreement
Under the collaboration agreement, Sanofi will pay Skyhawk $54 million upfront. Skyhawk will grant Sanofi exclusive licenses to worldwide intellectual property rights to candidates discovered and developed under the collaboration that are directed to program targets. Following DC status, Sanofi will assume responsibility for further development and commercialization. Skyhawk is also eligible to receive over $2 billion in potential milestone payments, as well as potential royalties on future sales.
About Skyhawk Therapeutics
Skyhawk develops and commercializes therapies using its novel SkySTAR™ platform, building small molecules that provide breakthrough treatments for patients. Skyhawk has productive collaborations across a broad range of disease areas ranging from neurodegenerative disease to oncology.
For more information visit:
www.skyhawktx.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/skyhawk-therapeutics/
https://twitter.com/Skyhawk_Tx
SKYHAWK MEDIA CONTACT:
Maura McCarthy
maura@skyhawktx.com
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AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME AS A STANDALONE CD VIA I.R.S./UMe
WITH EXTENSIVE LINER NOTES BY PRODUCER MITCH EASTER
ALSO AVAILABLE IN PICTURE DISC AND CASSETTE EDITIONS
LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, R.E.M.'s debut EP CHRONIC TOWN will be released for the first time ever as a standalone CD with extensive liner notes by the original producer Mitch Easter (Let's Active). It will be released in three different formats: CD, Picture Disc, and Cassette on August 19, 2022 via I.R.S./UMe and can be preordered here.
Featuring such adored classics in the band's repertoire as "Gardening At Night", "Wolves, Lower" and "1,000,000," the five song EP, as Rolling Stone noted, "served notice that R.E.M. was an outfit to watch." As a debut release, R.E.M.'s Chronic Town was an anomaly… a record that didn't quite fit into the constraints of what was played on the radio. So instead of trying to fit into a genre, R.E.M. helped create their own: College Rock. The follow-up to their breakthrough single "Radio Free Europe" which was released in 1981, Chronic Town served as the entry point to what would become one of Alternative Rock's biggest bands. "One might fancifully say that Chronic Town was the sound of an expedition, ready for anything, setting forth," says Easter fondly about the EP. "If R.E.M. 'Radio Free Europe' single was a signpost, the Chronic Town EP was the atlas."
Introducing their arpeggiated guitar playing, cryptic and often indecipherable lyrics, and radiant choruses that would soon emerge as signatures of the classic R.E.M. sound, Chronic Town is the sound of a restless band, chock full of ideas, operating on a post-collegiate budget. Charmingly ragged and refreshingly immediate, it established the band indelibly upon impact. "Wolves, Lower" opens the EP with Michael Stipe's trademark impressionistic and idiosyncratic lyrics, while Mike Mills' rubbery bass lines and Peter Buck's jangly Rickenbacker keeps Bill Berry's unpredictable drumming in check. It's this combination that would not only fuel the band for subsequent decades but make them equally as dependable as songsmiths. Serving as a template for '80s college jangle pop, "Gardening At Night" forged a style that combined heartily strummed rhythm guitars with a meandering bass line that proved to be a solid blueprint for college bands to come.
Critically hailed both upon release and in retrospect, Chronic Town heralded "a great band planting their flag in the ground, an historic landmark that portended great things that actually came" (Stereogum). The Stranger praised "everything about the EP, from its gnomic, blue-tinted cover art, to its restlessly discursive music, to the fact that the two sides both had their own titles ('Chronic Town' and 'Poster Torn'), was not only good on its own merits, but an excellent influence in favor of obscurantism and understatement." Chronic Town's impact and influence on the future of alternative music is uncontested and described by Magnet Magazine as "essentially a template for the entire indie-rock movement."
R.E.M. - CHRONIC TOWN
- Wolves, Lower
- Gardening At Night
- Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
- 1,000,000
- Stumble
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SYDNEY, Aug. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia-based boutique ultra-luxury hotel platform Baillie Lodges has acquired a majority share in Chile's esteemed Tierra Hotels ("Tierra"), whose intimate collection includes experiential luxury lodges in three of South America's most extraordinary wilderness destinations.
Adventures abound for guests at Tierra's trio of luxury lodges: Tierra Patagonia sits alongside craggy mountains and the glistening glacial Lake Sarmiento in Torres del Paine National Park, Tierra Atacama is set high in the northern desert of Chile, and Tierra Chiloé overlooks verdant pastures and dramatic coastline on Chiloé Island.
The acquisition builds on Baillie Lodges' existing portfolio of properties in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, further solidifying the company as a leading global experiential luxury lodging brand. Following the acquisition, Baillie Lodges will own and operate ten extraordinary lodges across a range of highly sought-after destinations.
The new partnership officially commenced on August 27, following a long history of collaboration between the Baillie Lodges team and Tierra Hotels founder Miguel Purcell. The Purcell family – which has developed and successfully operated Tierra Hotels since 2008 – will retain an ownership stake in the portfolio, and the three properties will keep the highly regarded Tierra Hotels branding.
The Baillie Lodges and Tierra collections provide access to incredible natural attractions in extraordinary locations, paired with culturally rich experiences and intimate lodges that cater to a small number of guests and place architectural and interior design at the forefront. The properties share a commitment to the sustainability of the natural environment and surrounding communities in which they operate, offering guests an authentic encounter with nature.
"We are delighted to work with the Baillie Lodges team," said Mr. Purcell. "We both take a personal approach to hospitality, customizing unique and enriching experiences for guests who are looking to explore the world in a meaningful, sustainable way."
"This partnership is a natural fit for our companies and teams, and we look forward to sharing these wonderful new properties and experiences with our guests," said Baillie Lodges Executive Chairman Michael Moret-Lalli. "Both brands share a vision for delivering exceptional, immersive experiences, and I am thrilled for our teams to join forces and continue exploring new frontiers in hospitality and leisure as the world gets back to traveling."
Baillie Lodges intends to meaningfully invest in the Tierra properties to ensure they maintain their unique market position as pre-eminent boutique hotels in Chile. In addition, Baillie Lodges plans to expand the Tierra hotel platform in the years to come through acquisitions and new greenfield developments.
About Baillie Lodges
Baillie Lodges is a growing portfolio of luxury lodges renowned for setting benchmarks in premium experiential travel. Set in exclusive locations of unique natural or cultural significance, the boutique properties appeal to the discerning global traveller seeking a remarkable experience. The Australia-based collection was founded in 2003 by James and Hayley Baillie and includes Longitude 131° at Uluru-Kata Tjuta, Capella Lodge on Lord Howe Island, Silky Oaks Lodge at the Daintree Rainforest, and The Louise in the Barossa Valley. Flagship property Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island was destroyed in the 2020 bushfires and its rebuild is in progress, with an anticipated reopening in mid-2023. In 2019, an affiliate of KSL Capital Partners acquired Baillie Lodges with the aim to further expand the unique collection of luxury lodges. The 2022 addition of Chile's esteemed Tierra Hotels group marks a continuation of the collection's foray into international waters, joining the Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge on Canada's Vancouver Island and New Zealand's Huka Lodge. For more information, please visit baillielodges.com.au. Baillie Lodges' Australian properties are honoured as members of Luxury Lodges of Australia.
About Tierra Hotels
The trio of Tierra Hotels in Chile was founded and operated by the Purcell family, who were already highly regarded in the Chilean tourism industry as owners of the high-end Ski Portillo resort in the country's Andes mountains. Guided by Purcell family's many years' experience, the Tierra Hotels team first opened Tierra Atacama in 2008. Tierra Patagonia set on the shores of Lake Sarmiento overlooking the Torres del Paine National Park opened in 2012, and Tierra Chiloé launched in 2017 after an extension to the former Refugia on "The Big Island" of Chiloé.
BAILLIE LODGES | Sarah Shields | sarah@baillielodges.com.au | +61 425 318 966
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DALLAS, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Residential Trust, Inc., ("NXRT" or the "Company"), (NYSE: NXRT) announced today that the Company is scheduled to host a conference call on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. ET (10:00 am CT), to discuss second quarter 2022 financial results.
The conference call can be accessed live over the phone by dialing 888-220-8474 or, for international callers, + 1 646-828-8193 and using passcode Conference ID: 4498068. A live audio webcast of the call will be available online at the Company's website, https://nxrt.nexpoint.com (under "Resources"). An online replay will be available shortly after the call on the Company's website and continue to be available for 60 days.
A replay of the conference call will also be available through Tuesday, August 2, 2022 by dialing 888-203-1112 or, for international callers, +1 719-457-0820 and entering passcode 4498068.
The Company plans to issue a press release with second quarter 2022 financial results before market open on Tuesday, July 26, 2022.
NexPoint Residential Trust is a publicly traded REIT, with its shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "NXRT," primarily focused on acquiring, owning and operating well-located middle-income multifamily properties with "value-add" potential in large cities and suburban submarkets of large cities, primarily in the Southeastern and Southwestern United States. NXRT is externally advised by NexPoint Real Estate Advisors, L.P., an affiliate of NexPoint Advisors, L.P., an SEC-registered investment advisor, which has extensive real estate experience.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The ban on asylum-seekers at the U.S-Mexico border on public health grounds was imposed by a president who wanted to restrict immigration entirely. It will soon be ended by a president who is facing increasing pressure from within his own party to welcome immigrants.
The path ahead for President Joe Biden looks far from smooth. With the end of the ban on May 23, he faces an expected increase in migration at the border under a system incapable of managing such large migrant flows and buckling under a backlog of more than 1.7 million asylum cases.
Republicans are already eager to assign Biden blame for the expected images of thousands of people likely to be crammed into temporary border facilities.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that it would lift the asylum ban, known as Title 42, next month. The ban had become increasingly hard to justify as pandemic restrictions ended around the country.
Many Democrats and immigration advocates viewed it as nothing more than an excuse for the United States to avoid its moral and legal obligation to offer safe haven to asylum-seekers at the border.
By delaying the end of Title 42 for nearly two months, Biden appeared to be seeking a political balance between liberals who want the policy scrapped and moderates who have joined Republicans in supporting continued restrictions. He may end up satisfying neither.
The expected influx of migrants could create a political damaging crisis for Biden with the the November midterm elections approaching. That debate will probably hinge more on partisanship than facts.
American attitudes on immigration are based on perception, not reality, said René D. Flores, a sociology professor at the University of Chicago who studies public opinion and immigration.
“It’s not about deciding what is the most sensible immigration policy,” he said. “It’s about managing public perception.”
The president has already faced withering criticism from both Democrats and Republicans over how he has managed immigration. Republicans say his push to repeal Trump-era restrictions has led to an increase in illegal crossings. Democrats have criticized the administration’s continued use of a policy that forces migrants back to Mexico to wait out their claims, even though that policy was reinstated by the Supreme Court.
An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll last yearfound that most Americans disapproved of how Biden had handled a sharp increase in migrant children and an influx of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. Approval of his other efforts on larger immigration policy fell short of other top issues.
Ryan Enos, a professor of government at Harvard University, doubted that the end of Title 42 would shift public opinion much, especially when views about immigration have become so polarized.
“Any issue besides the economy is going to be a marginal issue,” he said.
The seven-week gap between Friday’s order and the expiration of the asylum ban late next month is meant to allow officials time to increase staffing at the border, including erecting tents for an expected influx of asylum-seekers. It also allows for government officials to vaccinate more migrants at the border.
But in the interim, it creates a policy muddle. Nearly all migrants seeking to cross into the U.S. will be turned away under a health authority that American officials say is no longer necessary. It also gives opponents of ending Title 42 plenty of time to sue.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said Biden was refusing to listen to Americans and had “chosen to jeopardize the safety and security of those very Americans he swore to protect and defend by ending Title 42 expulsions.”
He said Texas must now “take even more unprecedented action to keep our communities safe by using any and all constitutional powers to protect its own territory.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said the decision “confirms that President Biden has abdicated his responsibilities and is actively working to make the border crisis worse. From Day One of his administration, he has failed to protect our nation’s security and to secure the border.”
From the other side, Biden faces criticism for waiting so long to act.
“The continued use of this policy — even for the next two months — is indefensible and unjustified,” said Efrén Olivares, the deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project.
The Title 42 restrictions went into place in March 2020 under the Trump administration as coronavirus cases soared. While officials said at the time that it was a way to keep COVID-19 out of the United States, there always has been criticism that the restrictions were used as an excuse to seal the border to migrants that Trump did not want to let in anyway.
It was perhaps the broadest of President Donald Trump’s actions to restrict crossings and crack down on migrants, and he instituted the policy over the objections of CDC officials, the AP reported. The health order has caused migrants to be expelled from the United States more than 1.7 million times since March 2020 without a chance for them to request asylum.
Biden came into office promising a return to more “humane” immigration policies after the Trump administration, which separated thousands of children from their parents at the border. But Trump dramatically changed how the U.S. system functions, shrinking the number of asylum-seekers allowed into the U.S. and adding restrictions that caused the backlog of immigration court cases to explode.
Biden undid many of Trump’s policies and raised asylum caps, but some of his attempts have been stopped by courts, including the effort to end the “Remain in Mexico” policy, which forces migrants to wait in Mexico for their asylum cases to play out. The Supreme Court reinstated that policy, and there are thousands of people now in Mexico waiting for a chance to seek asylum.
Administration officials acknowledge there is likely to be a large influx at the border when the ban lifts, including Ukrainians displaced by the war with Russia. The U.S. government is erecting tents, bolstering agents, hiring more civilians and working to reduce the existing case backlog.
Jessica Bolter, an associate policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, estimates the hardest hit spots could be Del Rio, Texas and Yuma, Arizona — locations that are already overwhelmed.
“We were always going to see a significant spike in border crossings,” she said. “To some degree, the administration doesn’t have a ton of options.”
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that a long-term solution “can only come from comprehensive legislation that brings lasting reform to a fundamentally broken system.”
Biden knows prospects for Democrats and Republicans to come together on such a deal are remote.
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Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Lisa Mascaro, Nomaan Merchant and Farnoush Amiri contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/border-asylum-limits-ending-but-not-bidens-migrant-woes/ | 2022-04-02T18:45:16Z |
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge on Monday granted a request from Planned Parenthood to delay implementing the state’s trigger law banning most abortions, as implications of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade reverberate nationwide.
With the decision, abortion remains legal up to 18 weeks in Utah, which is among a group of states where abortion rights have been thrown into limbo amid the legal and political challenges shaping the post-Roe landscape with states now holding the power to restrict abortion.
“What I’m really doing is saying we have serious things to talk about,” Judge Andrew Stone said after granting an injunction delaying the trigger law.
He said the status quo should remain in effect until a challenge from the state’s Planned Parenthood affiliate can be heard fully.
Meanwhile, a Minnesota judge declared most of that state’s restrictions on abortion unconstitutional. In Michigan, a campaign turned in a record-breaking number of signatures so voters can be asked on the November ballot whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.
Federally, the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that hospitals “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions. Currently, even states with the most stringent abortion bans allow exceptions when the health of a mother is at risk, though the threat of prosecution has created confusion for some doctors.
Last month’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that found the right to abortion was protected by the U.S. Constitution. The issue reverted to the states, setting off new court battles and ballot initiatives as many states act to curtail or ban abortions.
Utah is among more than a dozen states with trigger laws designed to limit abortion upon the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The decision on Monday comes two weeks after the court put a temporary hold on the law, which bans most abortions with exceptions for rape, incest or maternal health. Stone, who was appointed by a Republican governor, blocked its enforcement for 14 days after the state’s branch of Planned Parenthood sued. His decision effectively extends the temporarily hold placed on the law and allows Planned Parenthood clinics to continue providing abortions until the case is resolved.
Attorneys for Utah argued language in the state constitution allowed for abortions to be banned and said delaying the implementation of the trigger law would amount to overruling the will of Legislature and Utah voters. Julie Murray, Planned Parenthood’s attorney, said not delaying the implementation of the law could open its staff to criminal charges and hurt roughly 200 patients with scheduled appointments in the month ahead.
Stone granted a preliminary injunction, which would let Planned Parenthood clinics continue to provide abortion care — up to 18 weeks of pregnancy under another recently passed limit — until the court rules on the constitutional questions.
The judge in Minnesota declared most of the state’s restrictions on abortion unconstitutional, including a 24-hour waiting period and a requirement that both parents be notified before a minor can get an abortion. Ramsey County District Judge Thomas Gilligan also struck down requirements that only physicians can perform abortions and that abortions after the first trimester must be performed in hospitals. His order took effect immediately, meaning the limits can’t be enforced.
Gender Justice and other abortion rights groups argued the restrictions were unconstitutional under a 1995 Minnesota Supreme Court holding that the state constitution protects abortion rights. The judge called that case “significant and historic” and said it’s unaffected by the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
“These abortion laws violate the right to privacy because they infringe upon the fundamental right under the Minnesota Constitution to access abortion care and do not withstand strict scrutiny,” Gilligan wrote.
The ruling is expected to benefit patients from restrictive states who could go to Minnesota for reproductive health care. Providers have been preparing for a surge in patients from neighboring upper Midwest states, and even farther away.
Opponents of abortion rights condemned the decision. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life said the laws challenged in the case are “common sense measures that support and empower pregnant women” and striking them down blocks residents from “enacting reasonable protections for unborn children and their mothers.” A Republican attorney general candidate called on the Democratic attorney general to appeal.
In a Louisiana state court Monday, legal efforts to stave off the permanent closure of the state’s three abortion clinics were renewed. A New Orleans judge refused last week to extend a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the state’s abortion ban, saying the case belonged in Baton Rouge.
Attorneys for a north Louisiana clinic and an abortion rights group are now seeking a new restraining order from a Baton Rouge judge. Attorney General Jeff Landry’s office says a temporary restraining order cannot be renewed once it has expired.
In Arizona, a federal judge on Monday blocked a 2021 “personhood” law that gives all legal rights to unborn children. Abortion providers argued the law can lead to criminal charges such as assault or child abuse and say it is unconstitutionally vague. Judge Douglas Rayes agreed in his ruling.
All abortions in Arizona stopped last month, but they could restart in at least one county following the ruling.
Alongside lawsuits to challenge bans, abortion rights supporters are trying to add ballot questions to enshrine abortion rights in state constitutions.
More than 750,000 signatures were turned in by the campaign in Michigan on Monday — close to double the number needed. The Democratic governor and attorney general in the battleground state have both made abortion rights a centerpiece of their reelection campaigns.
“The number of signatures showed that here in Michigan we trust women. We trust people. We trust doctors, not politicians, to make decisions about our body, our pregnancy and parenthood,” Reproductive Freedom for All spokesperson Shanay Watson-Whittaker said during a news conference in Lansing.
The signatures still must be verified and validated. A judge has temporarily blocked a 1931 Michigan law that would make abortion a felony except when “necessary to preserve the life of such woman.”
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has said that the law is invalid under the due process and equal protection clauses of the state constitution. The injunction, which stems from a Planned Parenthood lawsuit, could be revoked at any time.
Last week, backers of a last-minute effort to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona Constitution failed to collect enough signatures to make the November ballot. In California, voters will decide in November whether to guarantee the right to an abortion in their constitution. Democrats who control the government in California fear the state’s abortion laws could be vulnerable to legal challenges.
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McDermott reported from Providence, Rhode Island, and Karnowski reported from St. Paul, Minnesota. Associated Press writer Kevin McGill in New Orleans and Associated Press/Report for America writer Joey Cappelletti in Lansing, Michigan contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/judges-rule-on-state-abortion-restrictions-shape-roe-impact/ | 2022-07-12T14:23:50Z |
TALENT SHORTAGES REACH HIGHEST LEVELS IN 16 YEARS
- Year-over-year, hiring outlooks improve in 36 of 40 markets and in 28 since last quarter
- Strongest hiring prospects are reported in Mexico (+59%), Brazil (+54%), and India (+51%); the weakest in Greece (-1%), Taiwan (+3%), and Japan (+4%)
- Global talent shortages are at an all-time high, with 75% of employers reporting difficultly in filling roles – a six percent increase compared to this time last year
- The most difficult roles to fill are in Education, Health, Social Work, Government, Information Technology, Telecoms, Communications and Media, Banking, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
MILWAUKEE, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hiring optimism has returned to levels not seen since the start of the pandemic with employers in 36 of 40 countries reporting stronger hiring outlooks year-over-year according to the latest ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN) Employment Outlook Survey of more than 40,000 employers. Yet that optimism is being tempered by the highest levels of global talent shortages in 16 years with 75% of employers reporting difficulty filling vacancies, a 6% increase compared to this time last year. Employers report technology and data skills (29%), are the most difficult to find, followed by skilled workers in sales and marketing (22%), operations and logistics (21%).
Asia-Pacific employers are reporting the most difficulty filling open roles, with the biggest impacts being felt in Taiwan (88%), Singapore (84%), China (83%), Hong Kong (83%), India (83%), and Australia (81%). In the U.S., employers report their most optimistic hiring intentions in more than 21 years, driven by IT, Tech, Telecoms, Communications and Media (+59%), Banking, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (+45%), and Construction (+42%). Businesses in the Czech Republic (49%), Slovakia (56%), and Colombia (61%) are struggling the least to find skilled workers.
KEY FINDINGS
- A Global Net Employment Outlook of +33% is anticipated for Q3; an 18% increase from this time last year and a 4% increase from the previous quarter
- Strongest hiring prospects are reported in Mexico (+59%), Brazil (+54%), India (+51%), Canada (+43%), and Colombia (+43%); weakest reported in Greece (-1%), Taiwan (+3%), and Japan (+4%)
- Employers report difficulty filling open roles, with the biggest impacts being felt in Taiwan, Portugal, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and India.
- In the U.S., technology skills are the most in demand, with 31% of employers reporting difficulty in filling roles. Additionally, 28% report difficulty in finding soft skills such as accountability and self-discipline, as companies hire more remote workers
"While it's encouraging to see employers have the intention to hire workers, it's been increasingly difficult for them to find the talent they need," said Jonas Prising, ManpowerGroup Chairman and CEO. "On top of the skills gap challenge, employers are dealing with wage inflation and competition for workers, as many are switching industries altogether to better suit their lifestyle. On the ground, we continue to see talent shortages created by the pandemic, the Ukraine conflict starting to impact the supply chain and creating greater uncertainty in the economic outlook. The need for organizations like ours to focus on reskilling and creating talent at scale has never been more important."
View the complete Q3 2022 ManpowerGroup Employment Survey results:
https://go.manpowergroup.com/meos
Global Hiring Plans by Region
North America: The U.S. (+38%) and Canada (+43%) report strong hiring levels for Q3 2022.
- Employers in Canada report an increase in outlook compared to last quarter (+6%), the U.S. also shows a slight increase for the second quarter (+3%).
- Hiring managers in both countries expect hiring to be significantly stronger compared to intentions year over year, +24% in Canada and +9% in the U.S.
- In the U.S., employers in IT, Tech, Telecoms, Communications and Media (+59%), and Banking, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (+45%) report the strongest outlooks while those in Primary Production (+26%) report the weakest.
Central and South America: All 8 countries report a positive employment outlook for Q3.
- Hiring intentions improved in seven countries when compared to Q2 2022, weakening in one and, when compared to this time last year, improved in all 8 countries.
- Mexico (+59%) reports the strongest hiring intention, followed by Brazil (+54%) and Colombia (+43%). The weakest prospects in the region are reported in Argentina (+21%), Peru (+32%), and Guatemala (+39%).
EMEA: Employers report positive hiring intentions in 22 out of 23 countries during the next three months.
- Hiring intentions improve in 21 countries when compared with Q3 2021 and improve in 15 when compared to Q2 2022.
- The strongest hiring intentions are in Ireland (+42%), South Africa (+38%), and Portugal (+37%), and the weakest in Greece (-1%), Poland (11%), and both Romania and Slovakia (+12%).
- In five U.K. industry sectors, employers report an increase in hiring intentions, and similarly, in nine of France's industry sectors, employers report an increase.
APAC: In comparison to the previous quarter, hiring plans strengthened in four countries, and weakened in three countries.
- Strongest outlooks are in India (+51%), Singapore (+40%), and Australia (+38%), and the most cautious plans are reported in Taiwan (+3%) and Japan (+4%).
- Hong Kong (+11%) reports increased hiring intentions, improving 8% compared to Q2 2022, and 10% on the previous year.
- China expects hiring intentions to decrease in eight industry sectors, with Banking, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (+4%) reporting the only increase.
To view complete results for the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey, visit: https://go.manpowergroup.com/meos. The next survey will be released in September 2022 and will report hiring expectations for the fourth quarter.
ABOUT THE SURVEY
The ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey is the most comprehensive, forward-looking employment survey of its kind, used globally as a key economic indicator. The Net Employment Outlook is derived by taking the percentage of employers anticipating an increase in hiring activity and subtracting from this the percentage of employers expecting a decrease in hiring activity.
ABOUT MANPOWERGROUP
ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis and Talent Solutions – creates substantially more value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity – as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality, and Disability, and in 2022 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 13th year – all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.
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ASH invests $19 million to strengthen the next generation of hematologists by funding the creation of 10 new hematology-focused fellowship tracks in the U.S.
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Society of Hematology (ASH) announced the institutions that have been selected for the ASH Hematology-Focused Fellowship Training Program (HFFTP), an innovative initiative to address the critical need to expand the hematology workforce. ASH has invested $19 million to launch 10 new hematology-focused fellowship tracks at nine academic institutions across the country.
Each institution will receive funding from ASH to develop a robust hematology training experience for up to two new fellows per year over five years to produce 50 new academic hematologists by 2030. The first cohort of 10 ASH-sponsored hematology fellows will begin in July 2023.
Hematology is a rewarding and rapidly advancing medical specialty. Classical hematology offers physicians opportunities to engage in cutting-edge research leading to life-saving discoveries and specialized patient care for adults living with sickle cell disease and bleeding and clotting disorders, among others. Millions of Americans are affected by blood disorders each year, and the need for hematologists continues to grow. Despite the need, over the past 25 years, hematology training has almost entirely intertwined with training in oncology, and the majority of fellows who choose a career in hematology ultimately focus on blood cancers. HFFTP will provide trainees who are interested in specializing in classical hematology with more fellowship options.
ASH conducted a series of workforce studies of U.S. hematology-oncology fellows and practitioners seeking additional insight into the growing shortage of hematologists, including perceptions of education, mentorship, the job market, and income potential in hematology. According to a 2019 study of 2,500 practicing hematologists, 46% reported a shortage in classical hematologists, while 31% reported a deficit in hematologists who specialize in blood cancers.
This disparity leaves critical gaps in medical care for patients with non-cancerous blood conditions like sickle cell disease and hemophilia, among many others. Trainees looking to study classical hematology also need more mentors to help them navigate the field. Of hematology-oncology fellows surveyed in 2021, only 30% of those in classical hematology reported having had mentors, despite mentorship being cited as the most influential factor in trainees' career decisions and perceptions of medical specialties.
As part of ASH's mission of fostering high-quality, equitable care, transformative research, and innovative education to improve the lives of patients with blood and bone marrow disorders, ASH is making a substantial commitment to address the shortage of hematologists through the ASH HFFTP, which will provide critical education, mentorship, and research opportunities for fellows interested in pursuing careers in hematology.
"ASH believes it's critically important to support the next generation of hematologists," said ASH President Jane N. Winter, MD, of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. "This program will not only provide world-class medical training to fellows across the country but will also address growing gaps in medical care to help ensure the best care of patients with blood disorders."
The program is primarily targeting aspiring hematologists from internal medicine or combined internal medicine-pediatrics. The new tracks at the awarded institutions offer opportunities to pair comprehensive classical hematology training with career-enhancing education in transfusion medicine, sickle cell disease, and thrombosis, as well as fields like medical education, systems-based hematology, and outcomes research.
"Through this strategic investment, ASH will expand the field of academic hematology and cultivate mentorship opportunities for fellows," said Dr. Winter. "We, along with the awarded institutions, remain committed to supporting hematology trainees and specialists throughout their educational and professional journeys."
To learn more about HFFTP and the awarded institutions visit: hematology.org/HFFTP.
ASH Awarded HFFTP Institutions:
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- University of California, San Francisco
- University of Minnesota Medical School
- University of Pittsburgh / UPMC
- University of Washington School of Medicine
- Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Yale School of Medicine
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) (www.hematology.org) is the world's largest professional society of hematologists dedicated to furthering the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders affecting the blood. For more than 60 years, the Society has led the development of hematology as a discipline by promoting research, patient care, education, training, and advocacy in hematology. ASH's flagship journal, Blood (www.bloodjournal.org), is the most cited peer-reviewed publication in the field, and Blood Advances (www.bloodadvances.org) is the Society's online, peer-reviewed open-access journal.
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Shared commitment to sustainability and transparency a key factor in partnership
NEW YORK and PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Havas Media Group (HMG) North America and OpenX Technologies, Inc., a leading global omnichannel advertising exchange, today announced that OpenX has been named a preferred supply-side platform for programmatic advertising bought by HMG on behalf of its clients across North America.
HMG North America and OpenX will work together to create unique and innovative media buying opportunities on leading publisher sites through a combination of open auctions, private marketplaces (PMPs) and programmatic direct buys. The companies will develop a go-to-market strategy that leverages HMG's media buying expertise and OpenX's network of more than 130,000 domains across web, mobile and connected TV formats.
Today's announcement is part of HMG North America's ongoing effort to consolidate – via select supply-side platforms – its clients' ad spend on the open web. HMG North America will rely on these platforms in particular when desirable ad inventory is available on multiple exchanges.
HMG North America has made it a strategic priority to establish an ethical and sustainable supply chain as a pillar of its business, and a key consideration in designating OpenX a preferred partner is its commitment to sustainability. In May, OpenX announced details of the company's "Path to Net-Zero," a comprehensive initiative that has positioned it at the forefront of sustainability practices in the ad industry. OpenX is the first advertising exchange to be certified as carbon neutral, and HMG intends for all of its supply chain partners to be carbon neutral by 2023.
"HMG is committed to buying through supply-side partners who bring insight, operating excellence and transparency to our supply chain and who align with our vision of responsible and sustainable advertising," said Andrew Goode, EVP, managing director, investment for HMG North America. "OpenX has demonstrated innovation and sophistication in helping brands find and engage audiences at scale, and we look forward to partnering with them as we continue our commitment to green media buying."
"As today's leading brands pursue audiences across a fluid and fragmented digital landscape, engaging meaningfully with customers requires deep, data-based insight, superior technology and trusted partners," said John Gentry, chief executive officer of OpenX. "We look forward to working with Havas Media Group to create an unquestionably valuable advertising supply path for its clients as they seek to connect with their targets in ways that are beneficial to everyone, including people and the planet."
Among the key benefits of the partnership will be greater control of inventory and less executional complexity for Havas Media Group North America and harder-working media for its clients. Timely and transparent data and analysis provided by OpenX will also promote better execution and optimization of clients' campaigns on a real-time basis, and OpenX will enjoy less cluttered access to premium marketers. Both HMG North America and OpenX are committed to a "clean" supply chain in which content and traffic quality as well as regulatory compliance and brand safety measures exceed expectations.
Havas Media Group (HMG) is the media experience agency. HMG delivers this brand promise through the Mx System, where meaningful media helps build more meaningful brands. HMG is part of the Havas Group, owned by Vivendi, one of the world's largest integrated content, media, and communications groups. HMG also consists of two global media networks: Havas Media and Arena Media. The media experience agencies are home to more than 10,000 specialists across 150 countries worldwide, with 62 Villages. Global clients include Hyundai Kia, Puma, TripAdvisor, Michelin, Telefónica, Swarovski, Reckitt Benckiser, among many others.
For more information, visit the website or follow Havas Media Group on Twitter @HavasMedia, LinkedIn @Havas Media Group, Facebook @HavasMediaGroup or Instagram @havas.
OpenX is a pioneering leader in advertising technology, helping create a world where the open web thrives. The company powers advertising on web, mobile and connected TV formats, enabling marketers to reach their target audience across OpenX's global network of publishers. OpenX works with more than 130,000 premium publishers and receives more than 250 billion ad requests every day. OpenX has been certified as a CarbonNeutral® company and is on a path to becoming one of the first companies in the world to achieve Net-Zero status. For more information, visit the company's website at www.openx.com.
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ATLANTA -- The multi-agency Crime Suppression Unit Gov. Brian Kemp put together last April to fight a crime wave apprehended 26 murder suspects and made 214 drug arrests during its first year in operation.
Kemp gave a progress report on the unit this week. The state and metro Atlanta law enforcement agencies that make up the unit also arrested 451 wanted persons, made more than 23,600 vehicle stops -- including 588 for driving under the influence -- and impounded about 1,300 vehicles, the governor reported.
"We're going to keep chopping, keep up the good work and go even harder in taking the fight to the street gangs and criminals," Kemp said.
Kemp put together the unit in response to a rise in violent crime that accompanied the coronavirus pandemic. Coordinated by the Georgia Department of Public Safety, the unit includes the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the state Department of Natural Resources, the Georgia Department of Community Supervision, the Atlanta Police Department and the Fulton County Sheriff's Office.
The Crime Suppression Unit also has been active in other Georgia cities including Columbus and Macon.
Col. Chris Wright, commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, said the unit also has arrested nine major street-racing organizers in the Atlanta metro region.
"Proactive policing and high visibility patrols result in crime reduction and improve the quality of life for our citizens," he said. "We share the governor's vision of reducing crime and making Georgia communities safer."
This story is available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation.
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NEW YORK, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DSers, a leading e-commerce solutions provider, has announced the launch of a new comprehensive cross-border e-commerce solution on May 6. With upgrades to technology and service, the solution streamlines supply chain management and procurement for e-commerce merchants by making the entire process more efficient, automated and intelligent.
Whether starting a business or scaling, e-commerce merchants have to navigate unique challenges. It can be difficult to identify high-quality partners, and merchants have little control over supplier inventory changes. Fulfillment is also complex and time-consuming, with merchants needing to invest significant manpower to deliver products and manually relay order updates to customers. What's more, with multiple supply chain links and a steep learning curve for new software, there is little flexibility to switch suppliers or e-commerce platforms. In response to these pain points, DSers is committed to helping merchants save time and money while increasing income with its flexible one-stop e-commerce services.
"At DSers, we believe that everyone deserves fast, efficient shipping. Our customers are our top priority, and we are constantly improving our solutions and implementing new technologies to address key pain points for merchants. Our latest solution redefines cross-border e-commerce by eliminating the stress and investment of supply chain management, empowering merchants to focus on what matters: growing their business," said Kevin Jones, CEO at DSers.
DSers' comprehensive e-commerce solution unlocks access to thousands of suppliers on AliExpress and enables merchants to save time and labor costs whilst increasing profitability. The supplier optimizer function filters providers in one click, which cuts out time-consuming comparison work and provides direct access to cost-effective, high-quality sellers. Merchants can also manage multiple stores in one place and place 100 orders to suppliers in seconds at one time. Meanwhile, built-in upselling tools help merchants increase income without complex plugins.
In addition to supplier selection, DSers automates supply chain management, procurement and logistics to enhance shopper satisfaction and make life easier for merchants. The solution automatically monitors the purchase price and inventory changes for items and tracks the shipping status of packages. In instances where items are delayed or unavailable, DSers automatically synchronizes the status across all purchase orders, triggers a return on the order number, and notifies the customer of their delivery status.
Recognizing that e-commerce never sleeps, DSers prides itself on providing excellent service to merchants around the clock. The solution is fully compatible with popular e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, and merchants have access to 24/7 365-day support. Moreover, DSers' strong production and research team has extensive e-commerce experience and continuously designs innovative functions to solve problems for users.
Looking ahead, DSers will continue to provide automated SaaS solutions that save time, save money and increase income for e-commerce merchants. By harnessing cutting-edge intelligent technologies, DSers will analyze supply chain big data to provide merchants with access to high-quality suppliers, build a world-class service team, and enable shoppers to enjoy a consistent and reliable shopping experience.
About DSers
DSers is a leading company that provides tech-enabled solutions for e-commerce merchants. The company's service portfolio includes the DSers dropshipping app, the most popular and top-rated dropshipping app on the Shopify App Store; supply chain services; and e-commerce solutions such as SaaS customization. DSers boasts a highly innovative technology development team with extensive e-commerce experience, as well as 24/7 online support for merchants. Since launching in 2018, DSers has received nearly one million installations and processed 150 million orders worldwide. The DSers app has also received 6,000+ 5-star reviews, ranking it as the top app amongst competitors.
Website: www.dsers.com
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NEW YORK, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for TEVA, GOVX, VNET, SDIG, and ENPH.
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SEATTLE, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CTI BioPharma Corp. (NASDAQ: CTIC) today announced that an authorized subcommittee of the Compensation Committee of its Board of Directors granted an equity award to a new employee as an equity inducement award outside of the Company's Amended and Restated 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (but under the terms of the Amended and Restated 2017 Equity Incentive Plan) and material to the employee's acceptance of employment with the company. The equity award was approved on June 13, 2022, in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
The employee received options to purchase 40,000 shares of CTI BioPharma common stock. The options will be issued upon the employee's grant date (the "Grant Date"), and all stock options included within the equity inducement award will have an exercise price equal to the closing price of CTI BioPharma common stock on the Grant Date. One-fourth of the options will vest on each anniversary of the employee's Grant Date, subject to the employee's continued employment with CTI BioPharma on such vesting dates. The options have a ten-year term.
About CTI BioPharma Corp.
We are a commercial biopharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of novel targeted therapies for blood-related cancers that offer a unique benefit to patients and their healthcare providers. CTI has one FDA-approved product VONJO™ (pacritinib), a JAK2 and IRAK1, that spares JAK1. VONJO is approved for the treatment of adults with intermediate or high-risk primary or secondary (post-polycythemia vera or post-essential thrombocythemia) myelofibrosis with a platelet count below 50 × 109/L. CTI is conducting the Phase 3 PACIFICA study of VONJO in patients with myelofibrosis and severe thrombocytopenia as a post-marketing requirement.
VONJO™ is a trademark of CTI BioPharma Corp.
CTI BioPharma Investor Contacts:
Argot Partners
+212-600-1902
cti@argotpartners.com
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NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Inotiv, Inc. ("Inotiv" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NOTV) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Inotiv investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between September 21, 2021 and June 13, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
NOTV investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Inotiv's acquisition, Envigo RMS, LL ("Envigo"), and Inotiv's Cumberland, Virginia facility (the "Cumberland Facility") engaged in widespread and flagrant violations of the Animal Welfare Act ("AWA"); (2) Envigo and Inotiv's Cumberland Facility continuously violated the AWA; (3) Envigo and Inotiv did not properly remedy issues with regards to animal welfare at the Cumberland Facility; (4) as a result, Inotiv was likely to face increased scrutiny and governmental action; (5) Inotiv would imminently shut down two facilities, including the Cumberland Facility; (6) Inotiv did not engage in proper due diligence; and (7) 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.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Inotiv during the relevant time frame, you have until August 22, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
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New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
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Sid Taubenfeld with Extensive Experience in the Financial Markets and as a Biotech Executive Joins Tryp as Company Prepares to Expand Patient Access to Psilocybin-Based Treatments
SAN DIEGO, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tryp Therapeutics, Inc. (CSE: TRYP) (OTCQB: TRYPF) ("Tryp" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing psilocybin-based compounds for diseases with unmet medical needs, announced today that Sid Taubenfeld, a seasoned executive with healthcare and biotech expertise, has joined the Company's senior leadership team as Chief Operating Officer.
Taubenfeld is a forward-thinking leader with over 20 years of significant experience in senior leadership roles and a deep understanding of scientific, financial, and commercial strategy. Most recently, he served as the CEO of Tikun Olam Pharma (TOP), a leading medical cannabis company based in Israel.
"Sid brings to his new role a wealth of expertise in building and growing emerging biotech companies and a strong reputation for developing people and inspiring teams," said Jim Gilligan, Interim CEO and Chief Scientific Officer, Tryp Therapeutics. "Furthermore, his national and international experience will be a valuable asset as we continue to drive growth through our clinical trials, filed patents, and previously announced strategic actions."
Sid's primary responsibilities will include developing the organization's long-term vision and strategy alongside the CEO and Board; ensuring that the company operates effectively and efficiently in all areas; and helping ensure a high-performing portfolio and psychedelic medicine advancements at Tryp.
Previously, Taubenfeld gained extensive pharmaceutical experience in a variety of executive management roles in the United States and Israel. He graduated from Brooklyn College of Pharmacy with a B.S. in Pharmacy and completed his graduate studies at New York Medical College in the area of Pharmacology.
About Tryp Therapeutics
Tryp Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing psilocybin-related molecules, including TRP-8803, for the treatment of diseases with unmet medical needs through accelerated regulatory pathways. Tryp's Psilocybin-For-Neuropsychiatric Disorders (PFN™) program is focused on the development of synthetic psilocybin-related molecules as a new class of drug for the treatment of binge eating, chronic pain, and other indications. The Company has begun enrolling patients in its Phase II trial for the treatment of binge eating disorder at the University of Florida and recently announced an upcoming Phase IIa clinical trial with the University of Michigan to evaluate TRP-8802 for fibromyalgia. TRP-8803 is a proprietary psilocybin-based product that uses a novel formulation and route of administration to potentially improve efficacy, safety and the patient experience. For more information, please visit www.tryptherapeutics.com.
Investor Relations:
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Tryp Therapeutics
jgilligan@tryptherapeutics.com
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KCSA Strategic Communications
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Forward-Looking Information
Certain information in this news release constitutes forward-looking information. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans," "targets," "expects" or "does not expect," "is expected," "an opportunity exists," "is positioned," "estimates," "intends," "assumes," "anticipates" or "does not anticipate" or "believes," or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may," "could," "would," "might," "will" or "will be taken," "occur" or "be achieved." In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management's expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events.
Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by Tryp as of the date of this news release, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to the factors described in greater detail in the "Risk Factors'' section of Tryp's final prospectus available at www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect Tryp; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release, and Tryp expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
NEITHER THE CANADIAN SECURITIES EXCHANGE NOR ITS REGULATION SERVICES PROVIDER HAS REVIEWED OR ACCEPTED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE.
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Ex-White House press secretary Jen Psaki hired by MSNBC
By MARK KENNEDY
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has officially landed at MSNBC, where she is expected to make appearances on the network’s cable and streaming programs as well as host a new original show.
The program, set to debut in the first quarter of 2023, will “bring together her unique perspective from behind the podium and her deep experience in the highest levels of government and presidential politics,” the network said in a statement Tuesday.
Psaki will also appear on NBC and during MSNBC’s primetime special election programming throughout the midterms and 2024 presidential election.
Psaki most recently served as White House spokesperson for the first 16 months of the Biden administration. She previously served as White House communications director under former President Barack Obama and as the spokeswoman for the Department of State.
“Her extensive experience in government and on the campaign trail and perspective as a White House and Washington insider is the type of analysis that sets MSNBC apart,” MSNBC President Rashida Jones said in a statement. “She’s a familiar face and trusted authority to MSNBC viewers, and we look forward to her insight during this consequential election season.”
At MSNBC, on-air personalities are mostly sympathetic to Biden and the Democrats. During Psaki’s White House tenure, Democrats saw her as a champion of their causes, while conservatives found her combative and standoffish.
MSNBC has also hired Symone Sanders, former chief spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris. NBC News has taken pains to draw distinctions between its journalists and MSNBC, which has beefed up its opinion programming. | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national-business/2022/05/24/ex-white-house-press-secretary-jen-psaki-hired-by-msnbc/ | 2022-05-24T15:41:20Z |
Canton Civic Opera, Voices of Canton gathering Sept. 25
The Repository
JACKSON TWP. − The former Canton Civic Opera and Voices of Canton will have a gathering from noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 25 at La Pizzaria, 3656 Dressler Road NW, with a family-style dinner.
Cost is $27 per person; cash or checks made payable to Maxine Hegnauer, 3015 Conover St. NW, Massillon. Reservations are due by Thursday. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/2022/09/12/canton-civic-opera-voices-of-canton-gathering-sept-25/69486494007/ | 2022-09-12T16:47:19Z |
Maintains Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) in the EU Providing 10-years of Market Exclusivity
Significant Benefit Over Existing Therapies for Patients with Severe Hemophilia A in EU Based on EMA Determination of ODD
Conference Call and Webcast to be Held Wed., Aug. 24th at 8:00 pm Eastern
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: BMRN) today announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted conditional marketing authorization (CMA) to ROCTAVIAN™ (valoctocogene roxaparvovec) gene therapy for the treatment of severe hemophilia A (congenital Factor VIII deficiency) in adult patients without a history of Factor VIII inhibitors and without detectable antibodies to adeno-associated virus serotype 5 (AAV5). The EC also endorsed EMA's recommendation for Roctavian to maintain orphan drug designation, thereby granting a 10-period of market exclusivity. The EMA recommendation noted that, even in light of existing treatments, Roctavian may potentially offer a significant benefit to those affected with severe Hemophilia A. The one-time infusion is the first approved gene therapy for hemophilia A and works by delivering a functional gene that is designed to enable the body to produce Factor VIII on its own without the need for continued hemophilia prophylaxis, thus relieving patients of their treatment burden relative to currently available therapies. People with hemophilia A have a mutation in the gene responsible for producing Factor VIII, a protein necessary for blood clotting.
It is estimated that more than 20,000 adults are affected by severe hemophilia A across more than 70 countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Of the 8,000 adults with severe hemophilia A in the 24 countries within BioMarin's footprint covered by today's EMA approval, there are an estimated 3,200 patients who will be indicated for Roctavian. BioMarin anticipates additional access to ROCTAVIAN™ for patients outside of the EU through named patient sales based on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approval in countries in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America and expects additional market registrations to be facilitated by the EMA license.
"This approval in the EU represents a medical breakthrough in the treatment of patients with severe hemophilia A that expands the conversation between a patient and physician on treatment choices to now include a one-time infusion that protects from bleeds for several years," said Professor Johannes Oldenburg, Director of the Institute of Experimental Haematology and Transfusion Medicine and the Haemophilia Centre at the University Clinic in Bonn, Germany. "It is exciting to imagine the possibilities of this approved gene therapy, which has demonstrated a substantial and sustained reduction in bleeding for patients, who potentially could be freed from the burden of regular infusions."
"Roctavian approval in Europe is a historic milestone in medicine and is built upon almost four decades of scientific discovery, innovation, and perseverance. We thank the European Commission for recognizing Roctavian's value as the first gene therapy for hemophilia A, a feat that we believe will transform how healthcare professionals and the patient community think about caring for bleeding disorders," said Jean-Jacques Bienaimé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BioMarin. "We are grateful to the patients, investigators and community, who dedicated their time and effort to this achievement and whose aspirations provided the driving force behind making this one-time therapy a reality."
The EC based its decision on a significant body of data from the Roctavian clinical development program, the most extensively studied gene therapy for hemophilia A, including two-year outcomes from the global GENEr8-1 Phase 3 study. The GENEr8-1 Phase 3 study demonstrated stable and durable bleed control, including a reduction in the mean annualized bleeding rate (ABR) and the mean annualized Factor VIII infusion rate. In addition, the data included five and four years of follow-up from the 6e13 vg/kg and 4e13 vg/kg dose cohorts, respectively, in the ongoing Phase 1/2 dose escalation study. BioMarin has committed to continue working with the broader community and the EMA to monitor the long-term effects of treatment. The Product Information will be available shortly on the EMA website under the Medicines tab. Search for "ROCTAVIAN" and select "Human medicine European public assessment report (EPAR): Roctavian. Then select "Product Information" in the Table of Contents and then select "Roctavian: EPAR – Product Information."
A Conditional Marketing Authorization (CMA) recognizes that the medicine fulfils an unmet medical need based on a positive benefit-risk assessment, and that the benefit to public health of the immediate availability on the market outweighs the uncertainties inherent to the fact that additional data are still required. BioMarin will provide further data from ongoing studies within defined timelines to confirm that the benefits continue to outweigh the risks, building on what already constitutes the largest clinical data package for gene therapy in hemophilia A. Conversion to a standard marketing authorization will be contingent on the provision of additional data from currently ongoing Roctavian clinical studies, including longer-term follow up of patients enrolled in the pivotal trial GENEr8-1, as well as a study investigating efficacy and safety of ROCTAVIAN with prophylactic use of corticosteroids (Study 270-303), for which enrollment is now complete.
Orphan drug designation is reserved for medicines treating rare (affecting not more than five in 10,000 people in the EU), life-threatening or chronically debilitating diseases. Authorized orphan medicines benefit from ten years of market exclusivity, protecting them from competition with similar medicines with the same therapeutic indication, which cannot be marketed during the exclusivity period.
BioMarin remains committed to bringing Roctavian to eligible patients with severe hemophilia A in the United States and is targeting a Biologics License Application (BLA) resubmission for Roctavian by the end of September 2022. Typically, BLA resubmissions are followed by a six-month review procedure. However, the Company anticipates three additional months of review may be necessary based on the number of data read-outs that will emerge during the procedure.
Robust Clinical Program
BioMarin has multiple clinical studies underway in its comprehensive gene therapy program for the treatment of hemophilia A. In addition to the global Phase 3 study GENEr8-1 and the ongoing Phase 1/2 dose escalation study, the Company is also conducting a Phase 3B, single arm, open-label study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Roctavian at a dose of 6e13 vg/kg with prophylactic corticosteroids in people with hemophilia A (Study 270-303). Also ongoing are a Phase 1/2 Study with the 6e13 vg/kg dose of Roctavian in people with hemophilia A with pre-existing AAV5 antibodies (Study 270-203) and aa Phase 1/2 Study with the 6e13 vg/kg dose of Roctavian in people with hemophilia A with active or prior Factor VIII inhibitors (Study 270-205).
Safety Summary
Overall, single 6e13 vg/kg dose of Roctavian has been well tolerated with no delayed-onset treatment related adverse events. The most common adverse events (AE) associated with Roctavian occurred early and included transient infusion associated reactions and mild to moderate rise in liver enzymes with no long-lasting clinical sequelae. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) elevation (113 participants, 80%), a laboratory test of liver function, remained the most common adverse drug reaction. Other adverse reactions included aspartate aminotransferase (AST) elevation (95 participants, 67%), nausea (52 participants, 37%), headache (50 participants, 35%), and fatigue (42 participants, 30%). No participants developed inhibitors to Factor VIII, thromboembolic events or malignancy associated with Roctavian.
About Hemophilia A
People living with hemophilia A lack sufficient functioning Factor VIII protein to help their blood clot and are at risk for painful and/or potentially life-threatening bleeds from even modest injuries. Additionally, people with the most severe form of hemophilia A (Factor VIII levels <1%) often experience painful, spontaneous bleeds into their muscles or joints. Individuals with the most severe form of hemophilia A make up approximately 50 percent of the hemophilia A population. People with hemophilia A with moderate (Factor VIII 1-5%) or mild (Factor VIII 5-40%) disease show a much-reduced propensity to bleed. Individuals with severe hemophilia A are treated with a prophylactic regimen of intravenous Factor VIII infusions administered 2-3 times per week (100-150 infusions per year) or a bispecific monoclonal antibody that mimics the activity of Factor VIII administered 1-4 times per month (12-48 infusions per year). Despite these regimens, many people continue to experience breakthrough bleeds, resulting in progressive and debilitating joint damage, which can have a major impact on their quality of life.
Hemophilia A, also called Factor VIII deficiency or classic hemophilia, is an X-linked genetic disorder caused by missing or defective Factor VIII, a clotting protein. Although it is passed down from parents to children, about 1/3 of cases are caused by a spontaneous mutation, a new mutation that was not inherited. Approximately 1 in 10,000 people have hemophilia A.
Conference Call and Webcast to be Held Wed., Aug. 24th at 8:00 pm Eastern
BioMarin will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the EC approval today, Wed., Aug. 24th at 8:00 pm Eastern. This event can be accessed in the investor section of the BioMarin website at https://investors.biomarin.com/events-presentations.
About BioMarin
BioMarin is a global biotechnology company that develops and commercializes innovative therapies for people with serious and life-threatening genetic diseases and medical conditions. The Company selects product candidates for diseases and conditions that represent a significant unmet medical need, have well-understood biology and provide an opportunity to be first-to-market or offer a significant benefit over existing products. The Company's portfolio consists of eight commercial products and multiple clinical and preclinical product candidates for the treatment of various diseases. For additional information, please visit www.biomarin.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the business prospects of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (BioMarin), including without limitation, statements about: the number of adults across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa who are affected by severe hemophilia A; the number of adults in the countries within BioMarin's footprint covered by the EMA approval who have severe hemophilia A and are indicated for Roctavian; BioMarin anticipating additional access to Roctavian for patients outside of the EU through named patient sales based on the EMA approval in countries in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America and the expectation that additional market registrations will be facilitated by the EMA license; the potential for Roctavian to be a one-time infusion protecting patients from bleeds for several years and freeing them from the burden of regular infusions; Roctavian potentially offering a significant benefit to those affected with severe hemophilia A; Roctavian potentially transforming how healthcare professionals and the patient community think about caring for bleeding disorders; BioMarin's plans to provide further data from ongoing studies within defined timelines to confirm that the benefits of Roctavian continue to outweigh the risks; conversion of Roctavian's CMA to a standard marketing authorization; BioMarin's plans to re-submit a BLA for Roctavian to the FDA by the end of September 2022; and the duration of the FDA's review procedure of BioMarin's BLA resubmission for Roctavian. These forward-looking statements are predictions and involve risks and uncertainties such that actual results may differ materially from these statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the results and timing of current and planned preclinical studies and clinical trials of Roctavian; additional data from the continuation of the clinical trials of Roctavian, any potential adverse events observed in the continuing monitoring of the participants in the clinical trials; the content and timing of decisions by the FDA, the EC and other regulatory authorities, including decisions to grant additional marketing registrations based on an EMA license; the content and timing of decisions by local and central ethics committees regarding the clinical trials; our ability to successfully manufacture Roctavian for the clinical trials and commercially; our ability to provide the additional data from currently ongoing Roctavian clinical studies to support the conversion from a CMA to a standard marketing authorization; and those and those factors detailed in BioMarin's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including, without limitation, the factors contained under the caption "Risk Factors" in BioMarin's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 as such factors may be updated by any subsequent reports. Stockholders are urged not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. BioMarin is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
BioMarin® is a registered trademark of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc and ROCTAVIAN™ is a trademark of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
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NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Mullen Automotive, Inc. f/k/a Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: MULN) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: June 15, 2020 to April 6, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 5, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Mullen Automotive, Inc. f/k/a Net Element, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Mullen overstates its ability and timeline regarding production; (2) Mullen overstates its deals with business partners, including Qiantu; (3) Mullen overstates its battery technology and capabilities; (4) Mullen overstates its ability to sell its branded products; (5) Net Element did not conduct proper due diligence into Mullen Technologies; (6) the Dragonfly K50, a luxury sports car, was not (solely) delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic; and (7) as a result, Defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Mullen Automotive, Inc. f/k/a Net Element, Inc. you have until July 5, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Mullen Automotive, Inc. f/k/a Net Element, Inc. securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the MULN lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/mullen-automotive-inc-f-k-a-net-element-inc-loss-submission-form?id=27283&from=4.
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Coworking Provider's Area Locations Enable Professionals to Collaborate and Thrive
LOUISVILLE, Colo., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With more Chicago-based companies looking for new ways to maintain productivity, innovation, and connection as the shift to remote and/or hybrid work takes hold, Office Evolution® has the perfect solution. The coworking provider is continuing to address demand and help small businesses and entrepreneurs in Chicago by offering convenient and affordable coworking spaces close to home.
Covering multiple neighborhoods in Chicago, Office Evolution has four locations – one near O'Hare International Airport which opened in 2015 and is currently expanding, two other locations in Naperville and Lisle, open since 2018, and another location in Hoffman Estates, welcoming members since 2017. According to the Illinois Small Business Economic Profile, small businesses employees make up 45% of the local workforce in Illinois, which is the primary Office Evolution customer in the region.
Members benefit from being part of a nation-wide network of coworking locations where they have access to over 70 other business locations in 25 states when travelling. Office Evolution is part of United Franchise Group's Coworks™ division, which provides the largest privately owned affiliated coworking network of flexible office space franchises in the world.
"With more than seven years of experience in the Chicago area, our franchise owners have a pulse on what their members need," said Jason Anderson, President of Office Evolution. "They manage so much more than the workspace demands, ensuring members are fully supported and have the professional resources required to focus on their growing business."
The four Office Evolution Chicago-area locations are situated between the business hubs that represent Chicago's diverse business communities. These locations combined have over 600 members – creating a thriving business ecosystem where professionals can learn from each other, form new opportunities, and be industrious.
"More people are working from a variety of locations, having the option to work in a space that has the amenities of a downtown office but is closer to home is becoming more attractive to local entrepreneurs, especially as people navigate high gas prices and chronic traffic congestion," said Anderson.
For more information about Office Evolution, please visit: https://www.officeevolution.com.
About Office Evolution
Office Evolution® (OE), a shared workspace – coworking environment, founded in 2003 and cultivated on the principles of 'Ohana', the Hawaiian tradition that references family working toward a common goal. Office Evolution is part of Coworks™ the largest privately held affiliated coworking franchise network on the planet, associated with United Franchise Group™ (UFG), a successful community of affiliated brands and consultants. Office Evolution is serious about supporting small business owners – the Dreamers, Risk-Takers and Doers who dare to chase their passions. For more information about Office Evolution visit www.officeevolution.com and for information about franchise opportunities visit www.officeevolution.com/development.
About Coworks
Coworks™ specializes in franchising within the coworking industry, offering solutions, expertise, and shared service options within the flexible workspace franchise community. Part of the United Franchise Group™ (UFG) family of affiliated brands and consultants, Coworks was founded in 2021 by Ray Titus, founder and CEO of United Franchise Group, with the express intention of building a framework to connect a variety of coworking brands, services, and amenities within the coworking industry, providing the largest privately owned affiliated franchise network of flexible, professional, and shared office space options on the planet. For more information about Coworks, visit www.coworksllc.com.
About United Franchise Group
Led by CEO Ray Titus, United Franchise Group™ (UFG) is home to an affiliated family of brands and consultants including Accurate Franchising Inc.™, Exit Factor™, FranchiseMart®, Fully Promoted®, Signarama®, Transworld Business Advisors®, and the Coworks™ division consisting of Franchise Real Estate™, Network Lead Exchange™(NLX), Office Evolution® (OE) and Venture X® as well as a food division featuring Graze Craze® and The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill®. UFG affiliated brands include over 1600 franchises in more than 60 countries, with consultants that have helped develop over 350 brands into franchises, in over 80 countries with more than 2500 franchisees. With over three decades in the franchising industry United Franchise Group offers unprecedented leadership and solid business opportunities for entrepreneurs.
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When an investigative genetic genealogy and private investigation team builds on its Law Enforcement and Legal DNA, Innovative Forensic Investigations (IFI) not only talks the talk but walks the walk with LE agencies in their pursuit of cold case resolution and justice. IFI hires two new team members with deep experience in law enforcement and forensic sciences.
EMPORIA, Va., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Forensic Investigations (IFI) was founded in 2019 by private investigator Jennifer Moore, who is an investigative genetic genealogist with experience dating back to 2014. Moore saw the need to use her background to assist Law Enforcement agencies across the country to understand how to utilize the newest tool in their forensic tool kit. IFI is a full-service investigative company collaborating with the agency from the very beginning of the case through the selection of the laboratory, DNA analysis, genetic genealogy, case reporting, and final court documentation.
With astronomical numbers of missing persons reaching over 600,000 every year (almost half are under the age of 21) and with rising unresolved homicides hitting close to 285,000 in the US, Law Enforcement Investigative Units' requirements for staffing, technology, and public support are near crisis. With the advent of forensic DNA analysis becoming the new touchstone since the identification of the Golden State Killer, Law Enforcement is increasingly looking to utilize these new forensic investigation tools to bring identification of unidentified decedents, victims of homicide and rape, and close long-overdue cold case files. Unfortunately, as with any new technology or science, individuals and companies short on credentials and experience can impede, and even discredit the new field with unproven techniques, poor customer service, and a total lack of communication between firms and agencies.
The team at IFI, with proficient backgrounds in Law Enforcement, legal, and court presentation, were early adaptors to the latest genetic genealogy investigative technologies, helping agencies with little to no experience in the new field to offer beginning-to-end collaboration. Collectively, the IFI team has solved thousands of cold cases, missing persons, and unknown parentage cases through investigative genetic genealogy.
"The thing that sticks out to me, and separates Innovative Forensic Investigations from others, is the commitment to victims. They are always willing to go the extra mile, take on difficult cases, and commit to working on them until a resolution is reached. IFI doesn't do this work for fame or fortune, often working pro bono to ensure that all eligible cases, meeting investigative forensic genetic genealogy criteria, have the opportunity to be solved using this amazing process," Ryan Backman, Founder and Executive Director of Project: Cold Case, as well as Family & Victim Advocate for IFI, commented.
With the knowledge and skill set of how investigative divisions within Law Enforcement agencies function, the IFI team can provide explicit information on evidence submission for the agency, and as the agency's liaison through the analysis process, IFI spearheads the process to keep communication open and move the process in a timely manner. The entire process that IFI facilitates accentuates their deep knowledge of the court systems and tremendous care is taken to make sure all evidence, processes, and results are court ready. Members of the IFI team have also provided expert testimony in court proceedings.
"Law Enforcement agencies now have a lot of choices when it comes to partnering with investigative genetic genealogists," Moore explained. "But trust is not something you can market. Trust is earned, and within the Law Enforcement community, we not only have worn the blue, worked with and for them, but we have also proven ourselves in case after case. That trust is so implicit, that we have agencies work a trial case, and are so pleased with the collaboration, they return to us again and again."
IFI continues to grow, adding new team members with the background essential to providing Law Enforcement agencies with efficient and effective management of all investigations.
Thomas C. McAndrew, IFI's new Director of Law Enforcement Relations, is a former Homicide Detective with the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office and retired Pennsylvania State Police officer with over 26 years of service in which he was a 20-year member of the Criminal Investigations Assessment (CIA) Unit specializing in behavioral analysis of violent crimes and crime scenes and designed to supervise and investigate active and cold case homicides and missing persons investigations. McAndrew served on a National Institute of Justice Cold Case Working Group comprised of 35 subject matter experts who developed a national publication in 2019 outlining the national best practices for implementing and sustaining a cold case investigation unit. Besides his new position on the IFI team, McAndrew is President of the Pennsylvania Homicide Investigators Association, a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and other prestigious associations related to homicide investigations.
"I am honored to have joined the team that Jennifer Moore has assembled at Innovative Forensic Investigations. Throughout my law enforcement career, I was fortunate to work for agencies that held honor, integrity, and skillful determination as core principles, and IFI is the same. Their efforts are rooted in simply doing what is right while pursuing justice for victims and their families. They recognize the hurdles that law enforcement faces in dealing with cold cases, and remain completely accessible to investigators throughout the entire process. They are willing to help investigators decide what is best for their case, and their team members remain focused on bringing an investigation to a successful resolution with a 'never give' up attitude. I look forward to helping them continue their success with the most difficult of cases," McAndrew commented.
Another new member to the IFI team comes with exceptional experience as a Senior DNA Forensic Scientist and National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUS) administrator and NamUS Coordinator for the National Forensic Science Technology Center, as well as a DNA Laboratory Assessor for Forensic Quality Services, and as a DNA Analyst for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Carrie Sutherland is Innovative Forensic Investigations' new Director of Client & Case Relations.
"This is an exciting time at Innovative Forensic Investigations, and I am thrilled to be a part of the growing team," Sutherland explained. "I know that the team's expertise and dedication will successfully support law enforcement in their mission to bring justice to the victims and families of many unresolved cases. I have dedicated over 20 years to serving the criminal justice system and I look forward to continuing to dedicate myself to helping combat 'This Nation's Silent Mass Disaster' and the 'Cold Case Crisis.' I am excited to grow with IFI and to play a role in their many upcoming successes."
Innovative Forensic Investigations is a full-service investigative genetic genealogy and private investigation firm providing services to agencies, working collaboratively through the entire lifecycle of the case, from submission to conclusion. Unique in the industry, Innovative Forensic Investigations combines years of expertise in law enforcement, forensics, legal, investigations, family & victim advocacy, and investigative genetic genealogy. The dynamic skill set of the team can generate new leads and fresh perspectives in your investigations.
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HOUSTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ten attorneys from the Houston intellectual property law firm Heim, Payne & Chorush are being recognized among the best in the country in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Firm partners Michael Heim, Russell Chorush, and Leslie Payne are included on the exclusive list of the nation's leading lawyers based on their work in patent lawsuits and other intellectual property disputes. Also honored for their expertise in the same types of cases are firm partners Allen Bullwinkel and Eric Enger.
The Best Lawyers 2023 Ones to Watch list includes Heim, Payne & Chorush partners Chris First, Alden Harris, and Blaine Larson, as well as firm associates William Collier and Chris Limbacher. All five Ones to Watch honorees are recognized for their intellectual property and patent lawsuit work. Mr. First was additionally noted for his expertise in antitrust cases.
"I am personally and professionally proud that more than 80 percent of the lawyers at Heim, Payne & Chorush have been named among the best anywhere," says Mr. Heim. "The selection of our attorneys is further proof that we can provide the answers for clients involved in high-stakes patent cases and serious antitrust matters."
Earlier this summer, Mr. Heim and Mr. Limbacher helped Ireland-based Arigna Technology Limited win a key Patent Trial and Appeals Board ruling against automotive giant BMW of North America. The decision represented a complete victory for the firm's client in its attempt to force BMW to trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Heim, Payne & Chorush, LLP, represents plaintiffs and defendants in litigation across a broad range of technologies and business sectors. With a wide variety of technical and scientific backgrounds, firm attorneys handle all facets of intellectual property litigation for some of the largest energy and technology firms, as well as individuals and smaller companies. Ranked among the most active and top-performing firms in matters before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board by Patexia Insights, Payne & Chorush takes pride in its ability to partner with other attorneys and firms to bring the best possible trial team together for the benefit of the client. To learn more about the firm and the work it does, visit www.hpcllp.com.
For more information, please contact Bruce Vincent at 214-763-6226 or bruce.vincent@muselegalpr.com.
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$22,500 reward offered for escaped murderer who attacked driver of Texas prison bus
By Amy Simonson, Steve Almasy and Susannah Cullinane, CNN
An escaped murderer with alleged ties to the Mexican mafia was added Friday to the Texas most-wanted fugitives list as more than 300 law enforcement personnel searched for the man who fled from a prison bus Thursday after breaking out of his restraints and attacking an officer.
Authorities are offering $22,500 in reward money for a tip leading to the apprehension of 46-year-old Gonzalo Lopez, who was serving two life sentences for a 2006 capital murder conviction and a separate attempted capital murder charge.
He had killed a man with a pickaxe in 2005 and attempted to shoot a sheriff’s deputy the year before, officials said.
“I cannot reiterate enough how dangerous this man is and how the public’s help is needed in locating him,” said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson Robert Hurst on Friday. “If anybody has seen him, if anybody has any reason to believe he’s been on their property please contact local law enforcement officials by way of 9-1-1.”
Lopez is 6-feet tall and weighs 185 pounds with “tattoos on his back, abdomen and chest,” according to the Texas Department of Public Safety Bulletin. He also has a burn scar on the right side of his neck.
Lopez is from the Rio Grande Valley and affiliated with the Mexican mafia, the agency said.
More than 300 law enforcement personnel were searching for Lopez in the rural area near Centerville in Leon County, about 120 miles north of Houston, aided by canine teams and helicopters, according to Hurst.
He stressed that members of the public should not try to take on the inmate themselves. “If he’s managed to get someplace else please contact law enforcement there tell them that you think you’ve seen this escaped convict and you want to get him in custody. Do not try and engage him yourself — he’s just too darned dangerous.”
Shots fired at Lopez during escape
The transport bus, with 16 inmates on board, had been traveling on Highway 7 when Lopez escaped his restraints and entered the protected driving compartment, Hurst said.
The driver, Officer Randy Smith, managed to stop the vehicle while being assaulted by Lopez and a second officer — Officer Jimmie Brinegar — exited the back of the bus and shot out the back tires while his colleague and Lopez were struggling outside.
“Then Lopez got back on the bus and drove it about another mile down the road with its back tires shot out,” Hurst said. “The other inmates never got off the bus.”
As Lopez fled the bus, Brinegar fired with his service weapon as well as a shotgun, Hurst said at a media briefing Thursday. “We do not know if the inmate was hit by any of these shots. Last we saw him he was fleeing across the cow pasture west of Centerville.”
Asked about forecasts of close to 100 degree weather Saturday, Hurst said he expected such conditions would make it harder for the felon.
“It’s going to make it real difficult for him if he’s still here. If he’s still in this area he’s getting real thirsty, and he’s getting real hot and he’s going to start being very uncomfortable if he’s not already.”
Hurst said that Lopez’s white prison uniform had not yet been found but that it was still possible he could have changed his clothes. Highway 7 between Interstate 45 and Marquez was closed and the public was still also being asked to avoid highway 79 between Buffalo and Marquez, he said.
At an earlier news conference Friday, Hurst said the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Marshals Service had joined the manhunt and again warned residents to keep their distance.
Meantime, the investigation was continuing as to how Lopez was able to break free from his restraints and get through the compartment where the officer driving the bus was seated. There is a secured door with metal mesh around it, Hurst said.
“Somehow, we don’t know yet how that happened,” Hurst said. “He got up underneath. He used some type of a device to cut out the bottom of that door. He got down underneath the door — he crawled underneath the door and when he got it when he got through that opening that he cut open, that’s when he started struggling with the officer.”
When asked whether Lopez had help, Hurst said the investigation had not answered that yet.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Dozens of aspiring Missouri Republican candidates are jumping at the chance to run in November for two rarely open U.S. congressional seats.
U.S. Reps. Vicky Hartzler and Billy Long are running for the Senate in Tuesday’s GOP primary, leaving Hartzler’s central 4th Congressional District and Long’s southwestern 7th Congressional District seats open.
The Republican primary for Hartzler’s seat includes state Sen. Rick Brattin, cattle rancher Kalena Bruce, former Kansas City-area news anchor Mark Alford, former Boone County Clerk Taylor Burks and former St. Louis Blues player Jim Campbell. Burks and Campbell were the top two fundraisers as of mid-July, although Campbell is primarily self-funded and has not been spending money.
Republicans seeking Long’s seat include state Sens. Eric Burlison and Mike Moon and former state Sen. Jay Wasson, along with pastor Alex Bryant and Dr. Sam Alexander. Wasson is leading in fundraising.
All but two sitting Missouri representatives won their seats when the positions became open, which is rare in Missouri.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver has served the Kansas City area since 2005, and GOP Rep. Sam Graves has represented northern Missouri since 2001. Both Cleaver and Graves won after incumbents opted not to run for reelection.
One reason is that there are no federal term limits. Incumbents also typically have name recognition, a financial advantage and the ability to claim credit for local programs and government funding, Central Missouri University political scientist Robynn Kuhlmann said.
“This is why we tend to see a surge of candidates during open seat elections,” she said. “Generally speaking, open seat elections are the chance to enter into the arena with a much more even playing field.”
An overloaded GOP pipeline of aspiring candidates is compounding competitiveness in Missouri’s Republican primaries, longtime state Republican political consultant John Hancock said.
Republicans hold a nearly two-thirds majority in the state House and Senate, a traditional launching pad for political careers. They’re barred from running for reelection after eight years of service, leaving candidates grasping for other political opportunities.
“The term limit is either imminent or it’s coming, and opportunities are few and far between for political advancement,” Hancock said.
He expects open congressional and statewide seats to continue luring large fields of Republican hopefuls.
In the Republican-controlled 4th and 7th Districts, Democrats face steep odds, Kuhlmann said.
“Because of this, the candidates that emerge successfully out of these two Republican primaries may very well be in for a coronation despite a looming general election,” she said.
The dynamic encourages candidates to stake out increasingly conservative positions to win the primary.
“I am the most conservative lawmaker in Jeff City,” Burlison said during a July 20 debate.
Top issues among the Republican candidates include abortion, immigration, American energy independence and gas prices, inflation, and “the usual midterm fight against the President’s party and its apparatus,” Kuhlmann said.
“These races are all too close to call,” Hancock said. “It could be a very late night Tuesday.”
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Associated Press writer David A. Lieb contributed to this report from Jefferson City. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/open-us-house-seats-draw-large-field-of-missouri-republicans/ | 2022-07-31T00:52:05Z |
Agreement with Port Adriano is expected to expand Eco Wave's European presence and advance Spain's clean energy initiatives
STOCKHOLM, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ) (Nasdaq: WAVE, Nasdaq First North: ECOWVE) ("Eco Wave Power" or the "Company"), a leader in the production of clean electricity from ocean and sea waves, today announced that it has entered an official agreement with Port Adriano, Spain, for the potential construction of a wave energy power plant of up to 2MW. The agreement expands Eco Wave Power's presence in Europe and will help Spain achieve its aggressive goals for renewable power, leveraging its significant coastline capacity.
According to the terms of the agreement, Port Adriano will assign a potentially suitable location to Eco Wave Power for a period of 20 years, while Eco Wave Power will be responsible for securing all the licenses, constructing, and commissioning the power plant/s and selling the electricity to be generated by the power plant in accordance with an approved production quota, to be determined for the site. Port Adriano has been in contact with Ports de les Illes Balears (Ports of the Balearic Islands, the public entity responsible for the powers and executive functions of the ports managed by the autonomous community) to inform it about the project, and will proceed to carry out all the legal procedures necessary for the installation of this innovative wave energy power plant, the first application of this technology in Spain.
The power plant is planned to be constructed and commissioned in two stages:
- The first stage is the construction of a plant of up to 1MW.
- The second stage involves the construction, operation and maintenance of the remaining capacity of the plant (2 MWs).
Port Adriano will have a right of first refusal to invest partially or fully in both stages of the project, and Eco Wave Power will have the right to combine the two stages of the project and execute the whole 2MW from the start.
Inna Braverman, Founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power commented: "When it comes to renewable energy, Spain foresees a sizeable buildout of new renewables capacity to reach 74% of electricity generation by 2030. Spain also has 8,000 km of coastline. The combination of Spain's ambitious renewable energy goals, along with its significant coastline, makes it an optimal market for Eco Wave Power. We are very excited about the collaboration with Port Adriano and would like to thank them for being true wave energy pioneers."
Antonio Zaforteza, CEO of OCIBAR, the company that owns the Port of Adriano, stated: "We believe that Eco Wave Power is a perfect fit to the innovation and sustainability vision of Port Adriano, creating a new way of generating renewable energy, that will help our port and our country to meet its ambitious goals to address the climate crisis. We are looking forward to welcoming this innovative project."
As a member of the European Union (EU), Spain is bound by EU targets for energy and climate change as part of the Energy Union.
Toward this end, the central strategy document guiding Spain's energy and climate policies over the coming decade is its NECP (National Energy and Climate Plan) for the period 2021-2030. It outlines several policy actions in various sectors that will support the country's climate targets, including in the areas of energy efficiency, renewables, and transport. Its 2030 objectives include:
- a 23% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels;
- a 42% share of renewables in energy end use;
- a 39.5% improvement in energy efficiency;
- and a 74% share of renewables in electricity generation.
Policies include increasing renewable power installations and boosting the use of renewable gases in the power sector, modal shifts and electrification in the transport sector, refurbishments and increasing the use of renewable heating in the residential and commercial sectors, promoting energy efficiency and fuel switching in the industry sector, and energy efficiency improvements in the agricultural sector. The Spanish government anticipates that investments of EUR 241 billion will be needed to enact the measures outlined in the NECP, out of which 80% is estimated to come from the private sector.
Spain's commitment to renewable energy is evident from the fact that the share of renewables (including non-renewable waste) in the national electricity mix grew from 24% in 2009 to 38% in 2019. Spain further emphasized its focus on renewable energy by planning to phase out both coal and nuclear power generation. The coal phase-out appears well on track, with coal only providing around 5% of electricity generation in 2019 and even less in 2020. Nuclear power, which accounted for 22% of power generation in 2019, will begin shutting down from 2027. Four of Spain's seven nuclear reactors are scheduled to close by the end of 2030, representing around 4 gigawatts of capacity.
As such, Eco Wave Power believes that there is a significant opportunity to contribute towards Spain's transition to renewable energy, by making wave energy an important part in Spain's renewable energy mix.
About Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ)
Eco Wave Power is a leading onshore wave energy technology company that developed a patented, smart and cost-efficient technology for turning ocean and sea waves into green electricity. Eco Wave Power's mission is to assist in the fight against climate change by enabling commercial power production from the ocean and sea waves.
Eco Wave Power is recognized as a "Pioneering Technology" by the Israeli Ministry of Energy and was labeled as an "Efficient Solution" by the Solar Impulse Foundation. Eco Wave Power's project in Gibraltar has received funding from the European Union Regional Development Fund and the European Commission's Horizon 2020 framework program. The company has also received the "Global Climate Action Award" from the United Nations.
Eco Wave Power's common shares (ECOWVE) are traded on Nasdaq First North and its ADSs (WAVE) are traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market.
Vator Securities is the company's Certified Advisor (+46 8 580 065 99, ca@vatorsec.se).
Read more about Eco Wave Power at: www.ecowavepower.com
About OCIBAR / Port Adriano
Port Adriano is a marina belonging to Ocibar, a Spanish company specialized in the construction and management of marinas and refit areas. Ocibar operates a network of marinas in four strategic locations in the Mediterranean: Port Tarraco (Tarragona), Port Adriano (Mallorca), Botafoc (Ibiza) and Marina Santa Eulalia (Ibiza).
Situated in a privileged setting in the south-west of the bay of Palma de Mallorca, near the best sailing areas of the Balearic Islands, Port Adriano is a reference port in the Mediterranean. It has a total of 488 moorings between six and 80 meters and a modern shopping area designed by the prestigious Philippe Starck.
Read more about Port Adriano at: www.portadriano.com
Information on, or accessible through, the websites mentioned above does not form part of this press release.
For more information, please contact:
Inna Braverman, CEO
Inna@ecowavepower.com
+97235094017
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Investor Contact:
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FNK IR
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Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other Federal securities laws. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates" and similar expressions or variations of such words are intended to identify forward-looking statements. For example, Eco Wave Power is using forward-looking statements when it discusses the terms of concession assignment agreement with the Port of Adriano, that Eco Wave Power aligns well with the sustainability vision of the Port of Adriano, Spain's renewable energy goals and the Company's belief that there is a significant opportunity to contribute towards Spain's transition to renewable energy. Except as otherwise required by law, Eco Wave Power undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. More detailed information about the risks and uncertainties affecting Eco Wave Power is contained under the heading "Risk Factors" in Eco Wave Power's Registration Statement on Form F-1 filed with the SEC, which is available on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov.
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NEW YORK, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: April 4, 2017 to October 20, 2021
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: June 6, 2022
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that International Business Machines Corporation made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Strategic Imperatives Revenue and growth, CAMSS and CAMSS Components' revenue and growth, and the Company's Segments' revenue and growth were artificially inflated as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives Revenue; (ii) the Company's present success and positive future growth prospects concerning its Strategic Imperative business strategy were being fueled by the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperative Revenue and, as a result (iii) the Company misled the market by portraying the Company's Strategic Imperative's financial performance and future prospects more favorable than they actually were as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in IBM you have until June 6, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased IBM securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the IBM lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/international-business-machines-corporation-loss-submission-form?id=26954&from=4.
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Bike ride to raise millions to fund cancer research with inaugural October ride
WASHINGTON, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- profToday, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center launched BellRinger, a bike ride and community movement to end cancer. BellRinger opened registration for its inaugural 25-, 50-, and 100-mile fundraising ride on Saturday, October 22, 2022 that will bring together more than 1,000 riders and raise more than $2 million. Riders include local cancer survivors, cancer researchers, and others united to end cancer. All funds raised by BellRinger will support lifesaving cancer research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"Today, and together with our partners at MedStar Health, community members, and businesses, we are proud to launch BellRinger to fund breakthroughs in cancer research," said Dr. Louis M. Weiner, Director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Director of the MedStar Georgetown Cancer Institute. "We are also proud to announce our community's goal to raise $15 million in the next five years to fund critical investments in lifesaving treatments."
"For more than 50 years, the team at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has dedicated their work to finding ways to prevent, detect, and treat cancers, to supporting survivors and their families, and to addressing health disparities in our Washington, D.C. community," said John J. DeGioia, Georgetown University President. "With all of us coming together, BellRinger can deepen and transform our support of cancer research here at Georgetown."
Riders interested in participating in BellRinger can sign up now to train for 25-, 50-, and 100-mile bike rides. BellRinger is a top-notch, fully supported ride and one of D.C.'s only rides with a 100-mile option. Riders will enjoy upscale food and beverages throughout the weekend, beginning with a kick-off party the evening before the ride (Oct. 21) at Georgetown University where riders and their guests will come together alongside their teammates to enjoy live music in a festival-like atmosphere. The ride starts from Georgetown University the following morning (Oct. 22) on a scenic course under the D.C. area's fall leaves, escorting riders out of D.C. and into rural Maryland. BellRinger riders will have access to fully stocked rest stops, on-route support vehicles, and safety officers at intersections to guide the way. The ride concludes at finishes lined with riders' friends, families, and supporters cheering them on and celebrating their physical and fundraising achievements.
"If you hate cancer, there is room for you in the BellRinger community," said Chris Timko, BellRinger Executive Director. "We've designed the 25-mile course with casual and beginner riders in mind, while the 50- and 100-mile routes will pose a steeper challenge for more experienced cyclists."
Those interested can click here to register and learn more. Riders can also create teams to train and fundraise together with friends and family. BellRinger is offering complimentary group training rides led by expert local ride leaders in the months leading up to BellRinger Weekend to help riders build endurance and become comfortable riding in groups.
BellRinger, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center's year-round community effort to end cancer, is a bold project to unite the community around a common cause. BellRinger's inaugural ride will take place on October 22, 2022 and stretch from Washington, D.C. to Urbana, MD. Georgetown Lombardi is the only National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated comprehensive cancer center in the D.C. area and has been a leader in cancer research for over 50-years–from breakthroughs in breast cancer treatment, to contributing to the creation of the HPV vaccine to prevent cancer, to enabling "bench to bedside" research and clinical trials with their academic health system partner, MedStar Health.
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a comprehensive cancer center. A part of Georgetown University Medical Center, Georgetown Lombardi is the only comprehensive cancer center in the Washington D.C. area. It serves as the research engine for MedStar Health, Georgetown University's clinical partner. Georgetown Lombardi is also an NCI recognized consortium with Hackensack Meridian John Theurer Cancer Center in Bergen County, New Jersey. The consortium reflects an integrated cancer research enterprise with scientists and physician-researchers from both locations. Georgetown Lombardi seeks to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer through innovative basic, translational and clinical research, patient care, community education and outreach to service communities throughout the Washington region, while Hackensack Meridian John Theurer Cancer Center in Bergen County, New Jersey serves communities in northern New Jersey. Georgetown Lombardi is a member of the NCI Community Oncology Research Program (UG1CA239758). Georgetown Lombardi is supported in part by a National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support Grant (P30CA051008). Connect with Georgetown Lombardi on Facebook (Facebook.com/GeorgetownLombardi) and Twitter (@LombardiCancer).
BellRinger is Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center's year-round community effort to end cancer. BellRinger riders train and fundraise for cancer research in advance of BellRinger Weekend, a 25-, 50-, and 100-mile bike ride starting in Georgetown on October 22, 2022. For more information, visit https://BellRinger.org/ and follow BellRinger on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
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TEANECK, N.J., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Veratad Technologies, LLC, a global leader in identity verification solutions that ensure regulatory compliance, announced today their partnership with U.K.-based Blockchain-ID Ltd to develop BlockchainIDme, an identity validation tool that integrates KYC and AML compliance solutions to be deployed on the Algorand blockchain.
While most blockchain users favor the use of non-custodial wallets for their day-to-day use, regulatory bodies all over the world are developing new laws and regulations that will require changes to the way those non-custodial wallets can be used. Furthermore, one of the fundamental objectives of blockchain technology is ensuring users' ownership of their own data, including absolute control over how and which third-parties can use that data.
The BlockchainIDme proposed solution, which is being developed with the support of Veratad's complete suite of identity verification methods, allows both custodial and non-custodial wallets to fully comply with KYC and AML regulations while providing wallet owners with absolute ownership and control over their personal information.
"Veratad's proven and tested identity verification solutions will allow Algorand blockchain users, merchants, and service providers to comply with stringent KYC and AML international requirements, while adapting to the requirements that are specific to a blockchain environment and non-custodial wallets," said BlockchainIDme Chief Strategic Development Officer, Marc Bernier. "Veratad brings years of identity verification experience to the BlockchainIDme development team. To ensure user satisfaction, we have assembled the best resources available to realize the BlockchainIDme project."
"The Blockchain revolution certainly appears to be the biggest thing since the dawn of the internet, but it's not without the same security challenges we all face on the Web," said John E. Ahrens, Veratad CEO. "We are proud to participate in the development of a solution that will allow millions of blockchain users and merchants to comply with highest privacy protection and KYC/AML standards. We are also proud to be participating in the development of the Algorand blockchain, which in itself meets the highest blockchain standards."
Veratad is a leading global ID and age verification company with a full suite of age and ID verification tools that satisfy a variety of regulatory requirements. All of Veratad's solutions are available for individual or bundled deployment to meet any combination of compliance requirements.
About Blockchain-ID
BlockchainIDme is an identity validation solution owned by Blockchain-ID Ltd, a United Kingdom based company that is part of the Respectful Development Initiativ ecosystem. BlockchainIDme is being built on the Algorand blockchain. BlockchainIDme allows its users to remain in complete control over their own data. BlockchainIDme allow users through the identity verification tools developed with Veratad to meet identity validation requirements ranging from basic to more stringent Know Your Client (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) rules and regulations. BlockchainIDme identity validation, as well as the KYC and AML results are minted in a token secured by an encryption key owned and controlled by the user. The combined BlockchainIDme token and encryption key will then allow the user to confirm his identity and his ownership of a wallet to CEX, DEX, merchants, service providers, or other users in the context of private smart-contracts.
About Veratad Technologies
Veratad Technologies, LLC is the leading provider of global identity solutions. Veratad makes high-end technology accessible with a full suite of trusted and highly flexible solutions. With Veratad, data, documents, out-of-wallet questions, mobile two-factor authentication and biometrics come together to solve the toughest identity problems. Privacy matters at Veratad. Our solutions verify age or identity in seconds while protecting sensitive personal data and promoting a high level of consumer privacy. Veratad's goal is to keep our clients safe without losing focus on their goals of increasing profits, reducing costs, preventing fraud and enhancing compliance. For more information, visit https://veratad.com/.
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Jurors deliberate fate of convicted killer's second missing person case
YOUNGSTOWN – Mahoning County jurors are deliberating in the trial of Robert L. Moore, a 52-year-old Alliance man accused of killing teenager Glenna Jean White in 2009 and hiding her body.
His trial began May 23 before Judge Maureen A. Sweeney in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Jurors heard six days of witness and expert testimony before closing arguments were held late Tuesday afternoon.
Moore faces charges of aggravated murder and murder.
White was 17 years old when she and her boyfriend ran away from home, investigators said. Two days after running away, she went missing on June 2, 2009, and has been missing ever since.
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According to the Mahoning County Prosecutor's Office, the state called 20 individuals to testify, including retired Stark County Sheriff's Office investigator Rick Perez, who spoke of Moore's involvement in 1993 beating death of Virginia Lecorchick, 22, of Stark County.
The defense, led by Jeffrey Haupt, called two witnesses. The first witness was a woman who was at the Alden Drive home when Moore reportedly left with White, and the second witness was a woman who claimed to have seen White near Alliance High School in the fall of 2009, more than a month after her disappearance.
Haupt argued there is reasonable doubt because White remains missing. There is no crime scene and no cause of death, Haupt argued.
The Mahoning County Prosecutor's Office contends Moore was the last person seen with White, and when he returned to his Smith Township home, he was covered in blood and mud from his knees down with visible injuries to his hand.
What Happened to Glenna Jean White?
According to witnesses, White ran away with her boyfriend and ended up at Moore's residence in Smith Township.
On June 2, 2009, White was seen leaving the residence with Moore in his vehicle. When Moore returned home, he was alone.
Moore's vehicle, the one he had driven while away with White, caught fire about a week later. The vehicle was a complete loss, and any evidence would have been destroyed. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
What happened to Virginia Lecorchick?
Moore was convicted in 1993 of involuntary manslaughter in Stark County for the death of Lecorchick. According to court records, Lecorchick's body was found by swimmers in Berlin Lake on July 10, 1993.
According to trial testimony described in Canton Repository archives, Moore confessed he "lost it" after Lecorchick rebuffed his sexual advancements at the reservoir. The pair had gone there after meeting at the Town Tavern in Alliance.
Court records filed in Mahoning County show Moore's defense asked the judge to keep the jury from hearing evidence about similarities in the cases.
Both victims were allegedly drinking at the time of their death and both had reportedly refused Moore's sexual advances, according to records.
After Moore dumped Lecorchick's body into Berlin Lake, he was seen wet from his feet to his groin. In White's case, Moore returned home with mud on his pants from his knees to his shoes, investigators said in the filing.
And after Lecorchick went missing, Moore burned his clothes and shoes.
Sweeney denied Moore's request to exclude the previous case evidence, allowing jurors to hear the similarities.
Moore served 15 years for Lecorchick's death before his release in 2008.
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NEW YORK, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Did you lose money on investments in Waste Management? If so, please visit Waste Management, Inc. Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
New York, New York -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased certain redeemable senior notes (the "Notes") of Waste Management, Inc. ("WM" or the "Company") (NYSE: WM) between February 13, 2020 and June 23, 2020, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The Notes include the following senior redeemable notes issued by WM in May 2019: (i) 2.95% Senior Notes due 2024; (ii) 3.20% Senior Notes due 2026; (iii) 3.45% Senior Notes due 2029; and (iv) 4.00% Senior Notes due 2039. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and alleges violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
On April 14, 2019, WM entered into an agreement and plan of merger (the "Merger") to acquire Advanced Disposal Systems, Inc. ("ADS") for $4.9 billion, or $33.15 per share. The Merger was conditioned upon an ADS shareholder vote and obtaining antitrust clearance from regulators, including the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ").
On October 25, 2019, WM, ADS, and the DOJ entered into a timing agreement that provided for a minimum 70-day settlement period during which the parties would attempt to reach an agreement on DOJ approval for the Merger, which included DOJ approval of the amount of WM's asset divestures. Unbeknownst to investors, during this process the DOJ informed WM that its agreement to divest $200 million in revenue-producing assets to address antitrust concerns would be insufficient for regulatory approval. The DOJ concluded that the combination of WM and ADS would, without divestures significantly in excess of $200 million, cause harm to municipal solid waste disposal in 24 geographic markets across 8 states, and cause harm to small container commercial waste collection in 33 geographic markets located in 6 states.
Plaintiff alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period, including omitting material facts relating to: (i) the DOJ's indication to WM that it would require WM to divest significantly more than $200 million; and (ii) the impact of the DOJ's indication on the completion of the Merger and the redemption of the Notes.
On June 24, 2020, WM disclosed that the Company and ADS had revised the terms of the Merger and that WM needed to divest substantially more assets than previously disclosed to receive DOJ approval for the deal. Under the revised Merger terms, WM agreed to purchase ADS for $4.6 billion, or $30.30 per share, thereby reducing WM's acquisition cost by approximately $300 million to $4.6 billion. In addition, WM and ADS had agreed to sell $835 million worth of assets in an attempt to satisfy antitrust regulators, which assets were responsible for generating approximately $345 million in 2019 revenue. WM also revealed that the deal was now not expected to close until "the end of the third quarter of 2020" – six months later than had been represented by defendants at the start of the Class Period and, critically, after the end date which triggered the redemption feature of the Notes.
On this news, the prices of the Notes fell significantly. For example, the 3.45% Notes fell from 109% on June 23, 2020 to just 103% of par on June 24, 2020.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 8, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased the Notes, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Waste Management, Inc. Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years.
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CALGARY, AB, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Crescent Point Energy Corp. ("Crescent Point" or the "Company") (TSX: CPG) and (NYSE: CPG) held its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders ("the meeting") on May 19, 2022.
During the regular business proceedings at the meeting, shareholders elected all director nominees to the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board") and approved all other items of business brought before the meeting. Voting results for all resolutions and advisory votes are below.
1. Fixing the Number of Directors
The appointment of ten Board members for the ensuing year was approved. Votes were received as follows:
2. Election of Directors
The ten director nominees were elected. Votes were received as follows:
The voting results for Mr. Ted Goldthorpe may be in response to the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services' ("ISS") recommendation that shareholders withhold from voting for Mr. Goldthorpe due to their assessment of overboarding. In contrast, the proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis recommended shareholders vote in favour of Mr. Goldthorpe's election. Crescent Point believes in engaging with its shareholders and responding to their feedback. As such, the Company's Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and Mr. Goldthorpe will work together to address these concerns. Mr. Goldthorpe is an independent director who brings extensive experience and knowledge to Crescent Point's Board.
3. Appointment of Auditors
The appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Crescent Point's auditor was approved. Votes were received as follows:
4. Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation
The advisory vote to accept the Company's approach to executive compensation was supported by shareholders. Votes were received as follows:
The biographies of Crescent Point's Board members, details about its environmental, social and governance ("ESG") practices and a recorded webcast from the meeting earlier today are available on www.crescentpointenergy.com. The full terms of each resolution voted on at the meeting can be found in the Company's latest information circular, which is also available on Crescent Point's website.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON CRESCENT POINT ENERGY, PLEASE CONTACT:
Shant Madian, Vice President, Capital Markets, or
Sarfraz Somani, Manager, Investor Relations
Telephone: (403) 693-0020 Toll-free (US and Canada): 888-693-0020 Fax: (403) 693-0070
Address: Crescent Point Energy Corp. Suite 2000, 585 - 8th Avenue S.W. Calgary AB T2P 1G1
Crescent Point shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CPG
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More to Explore with Innovative New Kid Tech Product
CHICAGO, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today VTech® announced the availability of My First Kidi™ Smartwatch, an engaging puppy companion just for preschoolers that offers an important starting point for learning to tell time and practicing daily routines. This smartwatch joins VTech's popular line of innovative children's electronics that inspire interactive play through technology.
"My First Kidi Smartwatch is the perfect first smartwatch for kids!" said Andy Keimach, President, VTech Electronics North America. "Kids can learn to tell time and structure their day with routine reminders while also having fun with age-appropriate activities like games and a digital pet."
My First Kidi Smartwatch helps little ones care for themselves and learn about time-telling with a friendly woof-woof in a wrist pet they'll love to care for. Get extra help with potty training by setting 30-, 60- or 90-minute reminders. Keep little smiles healthy with the Brush Your Teeth reminder or get them to sleep on time with a chime that tells them when to get ready for bed. Kids will love taking this digital doggie on all their adventures while learning a little responsibility along the way. Give the pup a name and care for them right on screen. This super-talented pup can even be taught to do 20 tricks and will celebrate with barks and confetti. Explore the Time Master app and choose from 20 digital and analog clock faces. Connect watch-to-watch with a friend who also has a My First Kidi Smartwatch (sold separately) for more games and activities. It is available in blue and purple.
My First Kidi Smartwatch, recommended for ages 3-5 years, retails for $44.99 and is available now at retailers nationwide. For more information, visit www.vtechkids.com.
VTech is a world leader in age-appropriate and developmental stage-based electronic learning products for children. As a pioneer in the learning toy category, VTech develops high-quality, innovative educational products that enrich children's development and make learning fun. With a rich 45-year history, VTech has not only established itself as a learning authority but also consistently remains at the forefront of innovation with multiple award-winning products, including prestigious Toy of the Year (TOTY) Award winners. The company also has a broad range of award-winning infant, toddler and preschool products available in 28 different languages worldwide, with more than 100 new products introduced every year. In order to further strengthen VTech's position as a learning authority, new products are developed with critical insights from a dedicated team of in-house learning experts.
VTech Electronics North America, L.L.C. is based in Arlington Heights, Illinois. VTech Electronics Limited is headquartered in Hong Kong with distribution globally.
For more information about VTech's electronic learning products, visit www.VTechKids.com, www.facebook.com/VTechtoys on Facebook or follow @VTechToys on Twitter.
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8-part series explores the inhibitors to growth and the opportunities for all
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AOTMP® announced its agenda for an eight-part article series to bring awareness to telecom expense management (TEM) industry growth opportunities and to offer a prescriptive action plan to affect positive change. $4+ trillion is being spent globally on telecom, mobility, and IT products, services, and solutions each year, yet growth in the telecom expense management (TEM) segment of the industry is stagnate and fraught with customer satisfaction conflict. Only a handful of TEM vendors have revenue over $50 million and growth is largely achieved through customer churn. Customers seek new levels of performance, yet they base success on a decades-old value proposition of cost savings dependent on recurring invoicing errors.
"Addressing the supply and demand sides of the industry, this article series challenges the status quo for the industry and charts a clear path forward with benefits for all," said Timothy C. Colwell, AOTMP® Executive Vice President
The series overview is available now with articles publishing through December as follows:
- Part 1 – The Industry (September 2022)
- Part 2 – Value Beyond Cost Savings (September 2022)
- Part 3 – The Buy and Sell Process (October 2022)
- Part 4 – The Dichotomy of Savings (October 2022)
- Part 5 – The Buyer and Seller Relationship (November 2022)
- Part 6 – Building a Center of Excellence (November 2022)
- Part 7 – Message to the Buyers (December 2022)
- Part 8 – Message to the Sellers (December 2022)
The series is supported by AOTMP® Industry Growth Partners committed to:
- Improving the buy-sell process
- Developing stronger vendor-customer partnerships
- Focusing on creating or realizing value beyond cost savings
- Partnering with their vendors or with their business customers to build a world-class telecom and mobility management environment
- Identifying buyer and seller improvement and growth opportunities for each other
Significant opportunity is right in front of us if the industry works together to affect change. It starts with one vendor and one buyer, then two vendors and two buyers, and builds from there.
AOTMP® is a global organization, empowering professionals in the dynamic $4+ trillion telecom, mobility, and IT management industry. AOTMP® delivers value through training, certifications, association memberships, events & programs, best practices, publications, resources, and professional development.
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MIAMI (AP) — Jimmy Butler walked off the floor when his night’s work was complete, lifted his arms in the air and heard a sold-out arena serenade him with screams.
That didn’t happen in the bubble two years ago, since nobody was there.
But Butler was every bit as good Tuesday night as he was during that bubble run — and the Miami Heat needed all his heroics.
Butler scored a playoff career-high 45 points, including a personal 7-0 run down the stretch to decide the game, and the Heat held off the Atlanta Hawks 115-105 in Game 2 of their Eastern Conference first-round series Tuesday night.
“We go as he goes,” Heat guard Gabe Vincent said.
Butler was 15 of 25 from the floor, 11 for 12 from the line and 4 of 7 from 3-point range. As such, the top-seeded Heat are going to Atlanta with a 2-0 lead.
Tyler Herro scored 15 for Miami, while Max Strus scored 14 and Vincent added 11 for top-seeded Miami.
Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 19 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter for Atlanta. Trae Young got his scoring touch back — he had 25 points in Game 2, after being held to eight in Game 1 — but also had a career-worst 10 turnovers for the eighth-seeded Hawks.
“If the refs are going to let them be as physical as they are and not call fouls, it’s going to be hard to really do anything anyways,” Young said.
De’Andre Hunter had 16 and John Collins finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Hawks.
Butler’s previous playoff best was 40, done twice, both in the bubble when the Heat made the 2020 NBA Finals. The Heat needed all of his heroics then, and they needed them all on Tuesday as well.
Bogdanovic’s 3-pointer with 3:15 left got Atlanta within 104-101.
From there, it was all Butler.
“Big-time basketball from a big-time basketball player, one of the best two-way players in the game,” Heat guard Kyle Lowry said.
Butler had a dunk, a 3-pointer and another dunk — all in the span of 56 seconds — to turn things from in doubt to locked down, putting Miami up 10 with 1:20 remaining and ensuring the Heat would finish off the win.
“Just staying aggressive,” Butler said. “Taking what the defense gives me.”
As would be expected in a playoff series, pleasantries began being exchanged with more regularity. The first half featured 16 fouls by Atlanta and 14 by Miami — a season-high for the Hawks, one off the season-high for the Heat, and those 30 personals didn’t even include a double technical that Lowry and Hunter got for getting face-to-face.
Young picked up a technical for arguing a foul against him late in the third as well, the capper to a period where the Heat went from barely ahead to holders of a double-digit lead going into the final 12 minutes. He played the entire third quarter, but managed only two shots in that span — making both — and didn’t get to the foul line, while committing five turnovers in that period alone.
“I think the difference in the game tonight was turnovers,” Hawks coach Nate McMillan said. “You can’t have 19 turnovers in a playoff game and expect to win games. They scored 21 points off of our turnovers. A lot of those came in transition … and I thought that was the difference.”
The first half was back and forth, the game close for much of those opening quarters, and Kevin Huerter’s stepback 3-pointer with 8:59 left in the third pulled Atlanta within 64-62. The Hawks went nearly three minutes without scoring again, and the game looked very different after those three minutes.
The Heat went 4 for 4 in that stretch — 3-pointers by Butler, P.J. Tucker and Strus, with a layup by Butler in there as well — and it added up to an 11-0 run that pushed the lead out to 75-62. The margin remained at least eight points for the next 11 minutes, before Atlanta began clawing back.
Young hit Collins with a strike for a layup, and Bogdanovic’s long jumper got Atlanta within 94-90 midway through the fourth.
But the Hawks never got the lead. Butler saw to that. He said a Monday night conversation with Tucker resonated — Tucker basically told him to score more — and Butler clearly listened.
“Just elite two-way basketball that he exhibited tonight,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.
TIP-INS
Hawks: Atlanta had three players (Hunter, Huerter and Bogdanovic) with three fouls by halftime for only the second time this season. The other was Jan. 14 — also at Miami. … Among the adjustments the Hawks tried: Collins started Game 2, and Huerter opened the game guarding Lowry.
Heat: Duncan Robinson, who made eight 3’s and scored 27 points in Game 1, went without a shot in seven minutes. … Soccer legend David Beckham was in attendance. … Going back to the end of the regular season, Miami is 8-1 in its last nine games. … Miami is now 5-1 against Atlanta this season.
2-0 LEADS
Teams that take a 2-0 lead in a best-of-seven matchup have eventually won the series 92.4% of the time. The Hawks have never rallied from 0-2 down in a series (0-25) and the Heat have never wasted a 2-0 lead (17-0) — but there were four such rallies in last season’s playoffs, two by the Los Angeles Clippers and two others by Milwaukee.
GOING HOME
Atlanta now plays host to games 3 and 4. Since Jan. 17, the Hawks are an NBA-best 20-3 at home.
UP NEXT
Game 3 is Friday in Atlanta.
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WNBA commissioner voices support for Brittney Griner
By Steve Almasy and Kikue Higuchi, CNN
Ahead of Monday’s WNBA draft, commissioner Cathy Engelbert reaffirmed the league’s commitment to helping bring Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner — who has been detained in Russia since mid-February — back home.
“I did want to start by saying we continue to be working diligently on bringing Brittney Griner home. This is an unimaginable situation for BG to be in,” Engelbert said Monday in her opening remarks to reporters.
Griner, who plays for Russian powerhouse UMMC Ekaterinburg during the WNBA offseason, was arrested by Russian authorities in February at a Moscow airport and accused of smuggling significant amounts of a narcotic substance — an offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Griner was the No. 1 pick in the 2013 WNBA draft and is one of the league’s all-time best players.
“She continues to have our full support, and she’s just been such a great person in the league. I can’t be any more real about the situation that she’s in,” Englebert said. “Certainly, we’re trying everything we can, every angle, working through with her legal representation, her agent, elected leaders, the administration; just everybody in our ecosystem to try and find ways to get her home safely and as quickly as we can.”
Engelbert also praised WNBA players for their patience with the process and for following the advice they’ve been given.
“I know we’re all frustrated, but we do need to be patient. I know the players have been amazing at following the advice that they’re getting and we’re getting in order not to jeopardize her safety in any way. We continue to follow that advice and continue to work on it,” she said.
Two weeks ago, former WNBA superstar Lisa Leslie told the “I am Athlete” podcast that people in the “women’s basketball world” were told “to not make a big fuss about it so that they could not use (Griner) as a pawn, so to speak, in this situation in the war.”
Griner has been able to see her representative in Russia twice a week and is able to receive letters and correspondence, ESPN’s Holly Rowe reported on Monday.
In mid-March, a source close to the situation told CNN her legal team has seen her several times a week throughout her detention and they reported that she is well. About a week later, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said that an official from the US embassy in Moscow visited Griner and found her in good condition.
On Monday, the commissioner also voiced her personal commitment to Griner and getting her home safely.
“I used to tell my daughter when she was little — and still now that she’s in her 20s — ‘I would go to the end of the earth to help you if you’re ever in trouble,’ and I say the same thing about Brittney Griner.”
Engelbert also announced the WNBA intends to launch a philanthropic effort in all 12 markets honoring Griner in the lead up to the 2022 season.
“While we’re working hard to get Brittney home, we will have a league-wide philanthropic initiative led by the Phoenix Mercury, honoring BG and modeled after her work,” Engelbert said.
“BG, for those that don’t know, founded an organization in 2016 called BG’s Heart and Soul Shoe Drive. The activations that we will do, the Mercury will lead, are intended to remind us of BG’s spirit of giving and do the work she’d be doing if she were here and certainly the work she will join us in when she returns.”
The WNBA season will tip off May 6.
A Moscow court announced last month it extended the arrest of Griner until May 19, according to Russian state news agency TASS. A trial date has not been set, a source close to the situation told CNN at the time.
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US: Shot that killed journalist likely fired from Israelis
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials have concluded that the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was likely fired from an Israeli position. But they say it is too badly damaged to reach an absolute determination, and that there is “no reason to believe” she was deliberately targeted.
State Department spokesman Ned Price, announcing the results of the probe, said “independent, third-party examiners” had undertaken an “extremely detailed forensic analysis” of the bullet that killed her after the Palestinian Authority handed it over to them.
Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian-American correspondent who was well known throughout the Arab world, was shot and killed while covering an Israeli military raid on May 11 in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian eyewitnesses, including her crew, say Israeli troops killed her and that there were no militants in the immediate vicinity.
Israel says she was killed during a complex battle with Palestinian militants and that only a forensic analysis of the bullet would confirm whether it was fired by an Israeli soldier or a Palestinian militant. It has strongly denied she was deliberately targeted, but says an Israeli soldier may have hit her by mistake during an exchange of fire with a militant.
U.S. security officials examined the results of separate Palestinian and Israeli investigations and “concluded that gunfire from IDF positions was likely responsible for the death of Shireen Abu Akleh,” Price said in a statement.
The U.S. “found no reason to believe that this was intentional but rather the result of tragic circumstances during an IDF-led military operation against factions of Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” Price said.
The Israeli military presented the findings as part of its own investigation in a statement that was likely to anger the Palestinian Authority, which had adamantly rejected any Israeli role in the probe and refused to share the bullet with Israeli authorities.
The PA handed the bullet over to U.S. officials over the weekend while insisting it was still opposed to any cooperation with Israel.
The Israeli military said that while the bullet remained in the custody of U.S. officials throughout the process, it was examined by Israeli experts in a forensic laboratory in Israel.
Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, the army chief of staff, ordered the investigation be continued “using all available means,” the military said in a statement. It said any decision on whether to launch criminal investigation would only be made after the operational investigation is completed.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz issued a similar statement, saying “unfortunately, it is not possible to determine the source of the shooting — and as such, the investigation will continue.” His statement did not include any details about who analyzed the bullet.
U.S. officials said a third-party expert, neither Israeli nor Palestinian, examined the fragment as part of the U.S. review, and that it remained in U.S. possession throughout the review.
The Palestinian Authority and Al Jazeera accused Israeli forces of deliberately targeting Abu Akleh within hours of her death.
Ahmad Majdalani, a senior Palestinian official, reiterated that Israel was to blame for her death and said the American announcement was “tantamount to an evasion from determining Israel’s responsibility.” There was no immediate comment from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
An Associated Press reconstruction of her killing lent support to accounts by Palestinian eyewitnesses, including her crew, that she was killed by Israeli forces. Subsequent investigations by CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post reached similar conclusions.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Outset Medical, Inc.
Shareholders who purchased shares of OM 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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ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's flagship product, Tablo Hemodialysis System ("Tablo"), would require an additional 510(k) application to be filed with The United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), as defendants had "continuously made improvements and updates to Tablo over time since its original clearance"; (2) as a result, the Company could not conduct a human factors study on a cleared device in accordance with FDA protocols; (3) the Company's inability to conduct the human factors study subjected the Company to the likelihood of the FDA imposing a "shipment hold" and marketing suspension, leaving the Company unable to sell Tablo for home use; and (4) as a result, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and /or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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All business units will incorporate CSL name and branding to signify one company
MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global biotech leader CSL today announced that all business units will be united as one family under the CSL global brand.
"As a purpose-driven organization, CSL has delivered biotechnology excellence for over a century," said Paul Perreault, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of CSL. "As we further advance our sustainable growth strategy, the timing is right to bring all the business units together under CSL. With one purpose, one strategy, one set of values and now one unified brand, our identity is clearly aligned where the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts."
CSL Behring, which delivers therapies for rare and serious diseases, will maintain its current identity, as will CSL Plasma, the company's plasma collection business. Seqirus, one of the world's leading influenza vaccine providers, will become CSL Seqirus. Recently acquired Vifor Pharma will be known as CSL Vifor. CSL is in the process of formally changing the name for Seqirus and plans to change the names of the Vifor Pharma entities in due time.
CSL's Values descriptions have been updated to reflect attributes from each business unit, but at their core they remain the same: Patient Focus, Innovation, Integrity, Collaboration and Superior Performance. A new creative campaign will help to launch the new global identity.
"Each business unit will continue to provide innovative products and services to patients and people in more than 100 countries around the globe as they do today," said Perreault. "Our 30,000 employees, now sharing one DNA, will remain driven by our promise to put innovation into all we do – our passion, our products and our performance – for our patients and human health."
For more information on the new CSL brand identity, visit: drivenbyourpromise.csl.com.
CSL (ASX: CSL; USOTC: CSLLY) is a leading global biotechnology company with a dynamic portfolio of lifesaving medicines, including those that treat haemophilia and immune deficiencies, as well as vaccines to prevent influenza. Since our start in 1916, we have been driven by our promise to save lives using the latest technologies. Today, CSL – including our three businesses, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor – provides lifesaving products to patients in more than 100 countries and employs 30,000 people. Our unique combination of commercial strength, R&D focus and operational excellence enables us to identify, develop and deliver innovations so our patients can live life to the fullest. For inspiring stories about the promise of biotechnology, visit CSLBehring.com/Vita and follow us on Twitter.com/CSL.
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Victims of floatplane crash included activist, winemaker
WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — A civil rights activist from Spokane, Washington, a business owner and the founder of a winery and his family were on the floatplane that crashed in the waters of Puget Sound, killing 10.
The U.S. Coast Guard released the names of the victims early Tuesday. The body of one of the dead was recovered by a good Samaritan after Sunday afternoon’s crash. The other nine remain missing despite an extensive search.
The Northwest Seaplanes flight was on its way from Friday Harbor, a popular tourist destination in the San Juan Islands, to a Seattle suburb when it went down without sending out a distress call.
The dead include pilot Jason Winters, activist Sandy Williams, winemaker Ross Andrew Mickel, his pregnant wife Lauren Hilty and their child Remy Mickel. Also killed were passengers Joanne Mera, Patricia Hicks, Luke Ludwig, Rebecca Ludwig and Gabrielle Hanna. The Coast Guard did not provide hometowns.
Mickel was the founder of Woodinville-based Ross Andrew Winery.
“We are deeply saddened and beyond devastated at the loss of our beloved Ross Mickel, Lauren Hilty, Remy and their unborn baby boy, Luca,” the Mickel and Hilty families said in a statement. “Our collective grief is unimaginable. They were a bright and shining light in the lives of everyone who knew them.”
The Washington State Wine Commission said in an email that Ross had “an incredible impact on the Washington wine community” and will be greatly missed.
Williams was a lecturer, filmmaker, founder of the Carl Maxey Center and editor of The Black Lens, an African American-focused newspaper.
“Sandy was a voice for the voiceless, a tireless advocate for marginalized people in Spokane, a journalist unafraid to speak truth to power, a builder of hope in her vision for the Carl Maxey Center, and a beloved friend to countless members of our community,” The Spokane County Human Rights Task Force said on Facebook.
Thayne McCulloh, president of Gonzaga University, said the community lost a leader, teacher, activist and powerful voice.
“I am devastated to learn of Sandy Williams’ passing and we @GonzagaU extend our condolences to her family, many friends and colleagues,” he tweeted. “Sandy: Rest In Peace.”
Joanne Mera was a business owner from San Diego, The Seattle Times reported. Her niece, Sami Sullivan, said she was visiting family in Seattle when the crash occurred. She leaves behind three children and a husband of more than 30 years, Sullivan said.
“Joanne Mera was someone everyone gravitated towards,” Sullivan said in a statement. “She was the life of any party and the soul of our family. She was the best mom, wife, sister and friend.”
The Coast Guard ended the search for survivors Monday afternoon after “saturating an area” of more than 2,100 square nautical miles (nearly 2,800 square miles or 7,250 square kilometers).
“All next of kin have been notified of this decision,” the Coast Guard said on Twitter. “Our hearts go out to the families, loved ones and friends of those who remain missing and the deceased.”
The plane went down in Mutiny Bay off Whidbey Island, roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of downtown Seattle and about halfway between Friday Harbor and its destination in Renton, just south of Seattle.
Whidbey Island resident Jeff Brewny and his wife were walking their dog Sunday when they heard a loud boom.
“First thought was thunder. It was that loud,” he said. “There was no flash like you get with lightning. So, you know, I thought it was a boat exploded. It was that devastating. My dog went crazy.”
The owner of the seaplane company was aboard one of two flights that took off on Sunday, Scott Giard, director of the U.S. Coast Guard’s search and rescue for the Pacific Northwest, said at a new conference.
The owner told authorities he saw the other plane divert slightly off course and he tried to make radio contact but was unable to.
“Shortly after that, he noticed on his flight tracker that the flight had stopped tracking and notified authorities,” Giard said.
Officials received reports that “the aircraft dropped suddenly at a fair amount of speed and hit the water,” Giard said. “We don’t have any video or pictures of the incident as of this moment.”
There was no distress call or distress beacon from the crashing plane, he said. The aircraft has an electronic locating transmitter onboard, but they have not received any transmission.
“That is very typical in times where there is either a hard landing or a crash of an aircraft,” he said.
The cause of the crash is unknown, authorities said.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday they’re sending a team of seven to investigate the crash of the DHC-3 Turbine Otter.
Coast Guard searchers found “minimal debris,” Giard said. By Monday afternoon, they had only found three to four long and narrow pieces of aluminum, very few personal items, a seat and some small pieces of foam.
Without a clear picture of the actual crash, and not knowing whether it exploded on impact or immediately sank to the sea floor, 150 to 200 feet (45-60 meters) below, it’s difficult to know what happened to the plane, he said.
Northwest Seaplanes is a family-owned business founded by Clyde Carlson, according to the company’s website.
The company’s business office next to the seaplane dock at the Renton Municipal Airport remained closed behind fencing Monday. The only visible activity was two people hugging near the front door.
A woman who answered the phone early Monday said they’re waiting to learn more and are devastated by the crash.
“It’s a small crew. Everyone’s close,” said the woman, who would only give her first name, Michelle. She declined to say more.
The company posted a message on Facebook late Monday saying they are heartbroken.
“We don’t know any details yet regarding the cause of the accident,” the post said. “We are working with the FAA, NTSB and Coastguard. We have been in communication with the families. We are praying for the families involved, including our pilot and his family.”
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Bellisle reported from Renton, Washington.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rally House was introduced to Louisville earlier this year, and the company is proud to announce another new location in the area - Rally House Paddock Shops. Now, nearby fans have another trusted source of locally driven merchandise and sports apparel northeast of the downtown metro. Customers will find everything from a friendly staff to an expansive assortment of high-quality apparel, accessories, and gifts at this new Rally House store.
Louisville happily welcomed Rally House when the first store arrived, and now this connection can continue to blossom with Rally House Paddock Shops. "The team is pumped to open our doors to even more enthusiastic fans around Louisville," describes District Manager Teri Hauenschild. "And we're confident these customers will be equally excited to shop one of the best selections of team gear and localized products around the city!"
Kentucky is home to many successful pro and college teams, many of which are available at Rally House Paddock Shops. For instance, visitors can shop team gear for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Bengals, and several other clubs. Plus, all these team collections include the industry's most respected brand names, like New Era, Nike, and Mitchell & Ness, to name a few.
Rally House Paddock Shops is also here to help residents and tourists express their love for the city and state. With an ever-growing assortment of stylish and high-grade local merch, especially from the famous RALLY Brand™, patrons will have no trouble finding products to rep area icons and prominent Louisville themes.
The team working at this new Rally House store delivers unparalleled customer service for an out-of-this-world shopping experience. For added convenience, there are also numerous products that can be shipped to any state available online at www.rallyhouse.com.
Customers hoping to stay on top of store news can visit www.rallyhouse.com/rally-house-paddock-shops or follow the store on Facebook (@RallyPaddockShops) and Instagram (@rallypaddockshops).
Rally House and Sampler Stores Inc. is a family-owned specialty boutique that offers a large selection of apparel, hats, gifts and home décor representing local NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS teams in addition to locally inspired apparel, gifts and food. Proudly based in Lenexa, Kansas, Rally House operates 125+ locations across 13 states.
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NEW YORK, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of IonQ, Inc. (NYSE: IONQ).
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According to a filed complaint, IonQ, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) IonQ had not yet developed a 32-qubit quantum computer; (2) the Company's 11-qubit quantum computer suffered from significant error rates, rendering it useless; (3) IonQ's quantum the computer is not sufficiently reliable, so it is not accessible despite being available through major cloud providers; (4) a significant portion of IonQ's revenue was derived from improper roundtripping transactions with related parties; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were the materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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2 mini horses euthanized after dog attack, authorities investigating incident
By James Felton and James Paxson
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THOMAS TWP., Michigan (WNEM) — Two mini horses are dead, and investigators are looking for dogs connected to the mauling.
This man, who doesn’t want to be identified, lost both of his mini horses after a dog attacked them on his property Sunday morning in the Saginaw County community of Thomas Township.
“I will tell you it starts out with shock, and then anguish, and it ends up with anger,” the horse owner said.
Duker and Kacee were alive after the attack but had to be put down as a result of their injuries.
“I think the most horrible thing about it was Duker laying on the ground kind of crying to me to help me, and not being able to do anything about it,” the owner said.
The horse owner said one dog, who investigators say was not involved in the attack, stayed behind. The other dog, believed to be the aggressor, got away. Authorities are still looking for it.
Bonnie Kanicki is the director of Saginaw County Animal Care and Control.
“It’s a white and black dog, medium weight, believed to be a mix of Pitbull and unknown mix, but a medium size dog, they estimate it about 50 pounds,” Kanicki said.
She is not sure where the dog is from, but if anyone sees a dog on the loose matching that description they should act quickly.
“Call 911, call Saginaw County Animal Control at our number, call the Thomas Township Police Department. But we really are looking to find this dog if at all possible,” Kanicki said.
Now, the horse owner is mourning the loss of his pets he had for 20 years. He hopes this dog is found soon.
“Please find that dog before it attacks some kid and injures it real badly,” the owner said.
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Springing into Q2, UPPAbaby Hosts Inaugural Quarterly Town Hall
ROCKLAND, Mass., April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- It might not have been known back in May 2006, but UPPAbaby's CEO and Co-Founder, Bob Monahan, would bring to market what has become a must-have staple of parenthood, the VISTA stroller. Fast-forward 15 years and a product depth of more than 170 SKUs, a presence in 55 countries, more than 175 employees globally, and a 45,000 square-foot Massachusetts-based headquarters, UPPAbaby continues to hold true to its mission of designing strollers, car seats, and accessories that meet that needs of all parents, plus innovations they never knew were possible with exceptional customer service.
An integral part of UPPAbaby's success has been Vice President of Domestic Sales, Joanne Apothéloz, who has overseen the development and growth of the brand's visibility in retailers nationwide for more than a decade. At UPPAbaby's inaugural quarterly Town Hall on Wednesday, Apothéloz announced after 15 years, she will be retiring, and Vice President of Sales Operations and Customer Experience, Robin Holler, will assume responsibilities effective April 6. "It has been an honor and privilege to be part of UPPAbaby from its infancy and to see it expand domestically and internationally for the past 15 years and I cannot wait to see the continued success for the next 15," Apothéloz said during her announcement to the company on Wednesday. "While I am stepping away from UPPAbaby professionally, I will continue to be the brand's biggest advocate and supporter as my husband, and I settle into our new normal as 'retirees' at the end of June." As Holler assumes the role from Apothéloz this April, she notes, "Joanne and I have been part of UPPAbaby from almost day one. I am looking forward to this new role and appreciate the guidance, support, and mentorship I have received from Joanne these past few months and the wider executive team. We're looking forward to an exciting second half of the year and what the next 15 plus years will bring for the brand."
Furthering the development of the executive team, UPPAbaby promoted and hired the following to advance the global expansion of the brand in 2022:
- Bob Monahan, CEO and Co-founder - Bob officially stepped into the role of CEO in January 2022. "Despite the roadblocks brought forth by the pandemic across all industries these past two years, the team at UPPAbaby has done a phenomenal job continuing to innovate and bring-to-market products that our parents and caregivers have come to know, trust, and appreciate. Looking ahead to the second half of this year, we're excited to continue this success by entering new product spaces in the juvenile market and furthering the brand's growth internationally."
- Trung Phung, President - As one of the first five employees to UPPAbaby, Trung has overseen product design across all strollers and car seats since 2006. Earlier this year, he was promoted to President from Vice President of Design. He will continue to manage the design of all products at UPPAbaby and further lead the strategic growth of the company globally.
- Christina Cook, Vice President of Human Resources - Christina was elevated to Vice President of Human Resources in January. She will continue to support the day-to-day operations, administrative and logistical needs of the brand.
- Amy Alabaster, Senior Vice President of Global Sales - Joining the team right after the New Year, Amy brings more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience with premium consumer product brands. When discussing 2022 goals and initiatives, as well as the outlook for UPPAbaby at Wednesday's Town Hall, she said, "Since joining in January, the team has hit the ground running in furthering UPPAbaby's global footprint. I look forward to leading the sales team and providing my expertise on where we can bring the brand for this year and beyond."
For more information and to learn more, visit www.uppababy.com and follow UPPAbaby on LinkedIn (UPPAbaby), Instagram (@uppababy), and Facebook (@UPPAbaby).
About UPPAbaby
UPPAbaby® is a global company with small-town roots committed to improving the lives of parents by building the smartest juvenile gear available. Our products are intuitively designed and expertly crafted, with features parents rely on. Drawing on three decades of experience, UPPAbaby was founded in 2006 to create products that make life with kids more manageable, more fashionable, and even more fun.
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Innovators to demonstrate cyber risk measurement, management and mitigation across traditional and cloud-native applications and infrastructure
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vulcan Cyber®, developers of the cyber risk management platform for infrastructure, application, and cloud security, today announced the agenda for the CyberRisk Summit. Cybersecurity innovators and leaders will join Vulcan Cyber experts to share best practices and modern approaches in cyber risk management, vulnerability prioritization, and risk mitigation orchestration. The semi-annual event is virtual and free and will take place on Wednesday, July 27, starting at 11 a.m. EDT.
Register free for the CyberRisk Summit here.
"As threats and exploits grow more sophisticated, the cybersecurity industry must not only keep pace but stay a step ahead of bad actors," said Yaniv Bar-Dayan, CEO and co-founder of Vulcan Cyber. "With the CyberRisk Summit we're bringing together the best and brightest in cybersecurity to offer insight into the technologies and strategies they use to reduce meaningful cyber risk in their specific organizations. Attendees will have an opportunity to glean a great deal of insight from the speakers' hands-on expertise and real-world deployments in complex, often highly-regulated environments."
The CyberRisk Summit includes keynotes and breakout sessions led by a diverse group of Vulcan Cyber executives, product leaders, and cyber security experts. Session content will focus on practical approaches to drive meaningful cybersecurity and risk management for digital businesses through risk-based vulnerability prioritization, orchestration and remediation programs.
Attendees will see real-world implementations of the Vulcan Cyber platform as it reduces business risk by unifying the teams, tools, and processes needed to make vulnerability management work toward delivering real cloud, application, and IT security outcomes.
Featured sessions include:
- Opening Keynote: Yaniv Bar-Dayan, CEO and Co-founder, Vulcan Cyber - A view into the future of cyber risk management.
- Security Research Panel Keynote: Ortal Keizman, Head of Research at Vulcan Cyber; Gafnit Amiga, Security Researcher at Lightspin; Yuval Lazar, Security Researcher at Pentera - Learn how leading cyber security researchers have honed their craft to identify the vulnerabilities that present the most risk to business.
- Vulcan Cyber Product Sessions:
Registration is free and the event is virtual.
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To see Vulcan Cyber in action, please request a demo or try Remedy Cloud today. In addition, Vulcan Free is now available as the industry's only free vulnerability prioritization tool. Request Vulcan Free access today.
About Vulcan Cyber
Vulcan Cyber has developed the industry's first cyber risk management platform, built to help businesses reduce cyber risk through measurable and efficient infrastructure, cloud and application security programs. The Vulcan platform orchestrates and tracks the cyber risk management and remediation lifecycle from scan to fix by prioritizing vulnerabilities, curating and delivering the best remedies, and automating mitigation processes through the last mile of remediation at scale. Vulcan Cyber is proud to offer Remedy Cloud and Vulcan Free as freemium SaaS solutions for IT security teams at businesses of all sizes. The unique capability of the Vulcan Cyber platform has garnered Vulcan Cyber recognition as a 2019 Gartner Cool Vendor and as a 2020 RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox finalist. https://vulcan.io
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- Showcases L'Oréal China procurement team's success at bringing people from underprivileged and minority communities into its supplier base
- Cited for exceeding its 2021 goals
CLARK, N.J., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GEP, a leading provider of supply chain software and services to Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises worldwide, announced that it has won Asia's prestigious Best Initiative for Building Diverse Supplier Base Award in support of L'Oréal China's ambitions in accelerating the impact of this initiative, at the CIPS Asia Excellence in Procurement Awards held recently at the annual ProcureCon Asia event in Singapore.
L'Oréal China, a subsidiary of the L'Oréal Group, the Fortune Global 500 beauty and cosmetics company, partnered with GEP to create and implement a successful sustainable sourcing initiative in China, which is a part of its global sustainability program. L'Oréal China wanted to enable people from underprivileged communities to be a part of its supplier network, and set a target of providing 500 FTE employees in China in 2021. GEP supported L'Oréal China by developing a strategic approach and operating model and implementing process flows and best practices. The program resulted in exceeding the 2021 goal of 500 FTE by 27%.
"This award is an important acknowledgement of L'Oréal's leadership to use its purchasing influence to provide better accessibility to underprivileged communities across China," said Michael Seitz, vice president, GEP Consulting, China. "L'Oréal is showing how a procurement function contributes to make positive social and societal impact. We're very proud to support L'Oréal's deliberate program enabling minorities and underprivileged communities to become suppliers, and are very excited about the second and third year of this program."
GEP is a global consulting firm that provides end-to-end procurement and supply chain strategy, managed services and technology solutions under one umbrella. That makes GEP the one-handshake solution for most of its clients' requirements. GEP manages approximately $200 billion in spend across 300+ direct and indirect categories for its clients worldwide.
The CIPS Asia Excellence in Procurement Awards, presented in partnership with ProcureCon Asia, are respected as a benchmark for excellence. Winning is the most prestigious recognition an organisation or individual in the procurement and supply chain profession can receive in Asia. To learn more about GEP procurement consulting, visit https://www.gep.com/strategy/procurement-consulting.
GEP® delivers transformative supply chain solutions that help global enterprises become more agile and resilient, operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitability and increase shareholder value.
Fresh thinking, innovative products, unrivaled domain expertise, smart, passionate people — this is how GEP SOFTWARE™, GEP STRATEGY™ and GEP MANAGED SERVICES™ together deliver supply chain solutions of unprecedented scale, power and effectiveness. Our customers are the world's best companies, including hundreds of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 industry leaders who rely on GEP to meet ambitious strategic, financial and operational goals.
A leader in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrants, GEP's cloud-native software and digital business platforms consistently win awards and recognition from industry analysts, research firms and media outlets, including Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, and Spend Matters. GEP is also regularly ranked a top supply chain consulting and strategy firm, and a leading managed services provider by ALM, Everest Group, NelsonHall, IDC, ISG and HFS, among others.
Headquartered in Clark, New Jersey, GEP has offices and operations centers across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. To learn more, visit www.gep.com.
Derek Creevey
Director, Public Relations
GEP
Phone: +1 732-382-6565
Email: derek.creevey@gep.com
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Webcast on May 18, 2022
LAKEWOOD, Colo., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE: UUUU) (TSX: EFR) ("Energy Fuels" or the "Company") today reported its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022. The Company's annual report on Form 10-K has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and may be viewed on the Electronic Document Gathering and Retrieval System ("EDGAR") at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml, on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval ("SEDAR") at www.sedar.com, and on the Company's website at www.energyfuels.com. Unless noted otherwise, all dollar amounts are in U.S. dollars.
Highlights:
- At March 31, 2022, the Company had a robust balance sheet with $136.6 million of working capital, including $105.8 million of cash and marketable securities, $29.7 million of inventory, and no short term (or long term) debt. At current commodity prices, the Company's product inventory has a value of $50.3 million.
- The Company produced approximately 60 metric tonnes of mixed rare earth element ("REE") carbonate ("RE Carbonate"), containing 30 metric tonnes of total rare earth oxides ("TREO") during Q1-2022. Energy Fuels' RE Carbonate, which is roughly 32% - 34% NdPr, is the most advanced REE material being produced in the U.S. today.
- The Company is currently in active discussions with several sources of natural monazite sands around the world to significantly increase the supply of feed for its growing REE initiative.
- During Q1-2022, the Company began partial commercial separation of Lanthanum (La) on a small scale from its RE Carbonate, using an existing solvent extraction circuit at its White Mesa Mill (the "Mill"). This represents the first commercial level REE separation to occur in the U.S. in many years.
- The Company is planning to install a full separation circuit at the Mill to produce both "light" and "heavy" separated REE oxides in the coming years, subject to successful licensing, financing, and commissioning, and continued strong market conditions. The Company has hired Carester SAS ("Carester"), a global leader in producing separated REE oxides, to support these REE separation initiatives.
- Through May 31, 2022, the Company has sold approximately 150,000 pounds of FeV (roughly 230,000 pounds of V2O5) from its existing V2O5 inventory at a gross weighted average price of about $20.65 per pound of V contained in FeV (roughly $11.00 per pound V2O5), capitalizing on recent market strength. The Company expects to continue to sell vanadium with increasing prices and is evaluating the potential to resume vanadium recovery at the Mill, where its tailings pond solutions contain an additional 1.0 to 3.0 million recoverable pounds of V2O5.
Mark S. Chalmers, Energy Fuels' President and CEO, stated:
"Energy Fuels continues to benefit from increases in the prices for all of the critical elements and materials we produce. Though volatile, uranium prices have continued to exhibit strength and resilience, which we expect to continue as Russia's invasion in Ukraine continues. As a result of Russia's aggression, we believe domestic and global nuclear utilities are reducing ties with the Russian state-owned nuclear company. We also believe U.S. uranium and nuclear fuel suppliers may be seeing increased interest from U.S. utilities as a result of the $6 billion civil nuclear credit program, which prioritizes reactors that purchase nuclear fuel and uranium from U.S. suppliers, which would include Energy Fuels.
"We have also been selling some of our vanadium inventory over the past few months, as prices rose during the quarter. Similar to uranium, we believe Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a reason we are seeing strength in the vanadium market. Russia is a significant global supplier of vanadium, and we believe buyers see risk in obtaining vanadium supply from Russia. This quarter we have sold 150,000 pounds of vanadium as FeV at an average price of $20.65 per pound of V, which equates to about $11.00 per pound V2O5. Our vanadium inventory was carried on our balance sheet at a little under $5.40 per pound V2O5, so we have been able to capture some gross margin on these sales.
"Energy Fuels' rare earth production continues to proceed extremely well. Through our actions and accomplishments in this difficult industry, we believe we are making more progress, faster, than any other U.S. company. In March, we began the partial separation of lanthanum from our rare earth carbonate, using existing solvent extraction equipment at our White Mesa Mill. This is the first commercial-scale rare earth separation to occur in the U.S. in many years. As a result, we are producing a very high-purity rare earth carbonate, with most of the lanthanum removed, that contains about 32% - 34% NdPr. We are also continuing pilot-scale rare earth separation in the Mill's laboratory, where we are producing about two kilograms of high-purity NdPr oxide per day. It is early days, but with the outstanding achievements of our internal staff, complemented by our relationships with Neo Performance Materials ("Neo") and Carester, we are confident that we will restore U.S. rare earth separation capabilities in the coming years.
"I was particularly excited to announce that the Company hit a critical mineral 'trifecta' a few weeks ago, when we shipped three different containers of uranium, vanadium, and rare earth materials from the White Mesa Mill to customers or conversion facilities. To my knowledge, this is the first time in American history a company has achieved this feat. Energy Fuels is proud to have become one of the most important producers of critical materials in the U.S., which is particularly important in today's uncertain geopolitical environment. I look forward to providing updates on all fronts in the coming weeks and months."
Webcast at 4:00 pm EDT on May 18, 2022:
Energy Fuels will be hosting a video webcast on May 18, 2022 at 4:00 pm EDT (2:00 pm MDT) to discuss its Q1-2022 financial results, the outlook for 2022, uranium, rare earths, vanadium, and medical isotopes. To join the webcast and access the presentation and viewer-controlled webcast slides, please click on the link below:
If you would like to participate in the webcast and ask questions, please dial in to 1-888-664-6392 (toll free in the U.S. and Canada).
A link to a recorded version of the proceedings will be available on the Company's website shortly after the webcast by calling 1-888-390-0541 (toll free in the U.S. and Canada) and by entering the code 271887#. The recording will be available until June 1, 2022.
Selected Summary Financial Information:
Operations Update and Outlook for 2022:
Overview
The Company continues to believe that uranium supply and demand fundamentals point to higher sustained uranium prices in the future. In addition, Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine and the recent entry into the uranium market by financial entities purchasing uranium on the spot market to hold for the long-term has the potential to result in higher sustained spot and term prices and, perhaps, induce utilities to enter into more long-term contracts with non-Russian producers like Energy Fuels to ensure security of supply and more certain pricing. However, the Company has not yet entered into sufficient long-term supply agreements to justify commencing uranium production at the Company's mines and in-situ recovery ("ISR") facilities. As a result, the Company expects to maintain uranium recovery at reduced levels until such time when sustained increased market strength is observed, additional suitable term sales contracts can be procured, or the U.S. government buys uranium from the Company following the establishment of the proposed U.S. uranium reserve (the "U.S. Uranium Reserve"). The Company also holds significant uranium inventories and is evaluating selling all or a portion of these inventories on the spot market in response to future upside price volatility or for delivery into long-term supply contracts, if procured. The Company has also begun selling a portion of its vanadium inventory into strengthening markets.
The Company will also continue to seek new sources of revenue, including through its emerging REE business, as well as new sources of Alternate Feed Materials and new fee processing opportunities at the Mill that can be processed under existing market conditions (i.e., without reliance on current uranium sales prices). The Company is also seeking new sources of natural monazite sands for its emerging REE business, is evaluating the potential to recover radioisotopes for use in the development of targeted alpha therapy ("TAT") medical isotopes for the treatment of cancer, and continues its support of U.S. governmental activities to assist the U.S. uranium mining industry, including the proposed establishment of the U.S. Uranium Reserve.
Extraction and Recovery Activities Overview
During 2022, the Company plans to recover 100,000 to 120,000 pounds of uranium and approximately 650 to 1,000 tonnes of mixed RE Carbonate containing approximately 300 to 450 tonnes of TREO.
No vanadium production is currently planned during 2022, though the Company is currently selling some of its vanadium inventory into improved markets and evaluating potential vanadium production in 2022 or 2023 in light of recent market improvements in vanadium pricing.
The Company has strategically begun to pursue uranium sales commitments, with pricing expected to have both fixed and market-related components. The Company believes that recent price increases, volatility, and focus on security of supply in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine have increased the potential for the Company to make spot sales, and the Company is actively seeking term sales contracts with utilities at pricing that sustains production and covers corporate overhead. Therefore, existing inventories may increase from 692,000 pounds of U3O8 to 792,000 to 812,000 pounds of U3O8 at year-end 2022 or may increase to a lesser extent, or be reduced, in the event the Company sells some inventory on the spot market or pursuant to term contracts, if procured, in 2022.
ISR Activities
The Company expects to produce insignificant quantities of U3O8 in the year ending December 31, 2022 from Nichols Ranch. Until such time when market conditions improve sufficiently, suitable term sales contracts can be procured, or the proposed U.S. Uranium Reserve is established, the Company expects to maintain the Nichols Ranch Project on standby and defer development of further wellfields and header houses. The Company currently holds 34 fully permitted, undeveloped wellfields at Nichols Ranch, including four additional wellfields at the Nichols Ranch wellfields, 22 wellfields at the adjacent Jane Dough wellfields, and eight wellfields at the Hank Project which is fully permitted to be constructed as a satellite facility to the Nichols Ranch Plant. The Company expects to continue to keep the Alta Mesa Project on standby until such time that market conditions improve sufficiently, suitable term sales contracts can be procured, or the proposed U.S. Uranium Reserve is established.
Conventional Activities
Conventional Extraction and Recovery Activities
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Mill did not package any material quantities of U3O8, focusing instead on developing its REE recovery business. During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Mill produced approximately 60 metric tonnes of RE Carbonate, containing approximately 30 metric tonnes of TREO. The Mill recovered small quantities of uranium in 2021 and during the 1st quarter of 2022, which were retained in circuit. During 2022, the Company expects to recover 100,000 to 120,000 pounds of uranium at the Mill as finished product. The Company expects to recover approximately 650 to 1,000 tonnes of mixed RE Carbonate containing approximately 300 to 450 tonnes of TREO at the Mill. The Company expects to sell all or a portion of its mixed RE Carbonate to Neo or other global separation facilities and/or to stockpile it for future production of separated REE oxides at the Mill or elsewhere. The Company is in advanced discussions with several sources of monazite sands, including the Company's existing supplier, to secure additional supplies of monazite sands, which if successful, would be expected to allow the Company to increase RE Carbonate production.
In addition to its 692,000 pounds of finished uranium inventories currently located at a North American conversion facility and at the Mill, the Company has approximately 389,000 pounds of U3O8 contained in stockpiled Alternate Feed Materials and ore inventory at the Mill that can be recovered relatively quickly in the future, as general market conditions may warrant (totaling about 1,081,000 pounds of U3O8 of total uranium inventory). The Company is also seeking to acquire additional ore inventory from 3rd party mine cleanup activities than can be recovered relatively quickly in the future. In addition, there remains approximately 1,397,000 pounds of V2O5 inventory in the form of immediately marketable product, and an estimated 1.0 to 3.0 million pounds of solubilized recoverable V2O5 inventory remaining in tailings solutions awaiting future recovery, as market conditions may warrant.
Conventional Standby, Permitting and Evaluation Activities
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, standby and environmental compliance activities continued at our fully permitted and substantially developed Pinyon Plain Project (uranium) and fully permitted and developed La Sal Complex (uranium and vanadium). The Company plans to continue carrying out engineering, metallurgical testing, procurement and construction management activities at its Pinyon Plain Project. The timing of the Company's plans to extract and process mineralized materials from these projects will be based on sustained improvements in general market conditions, procurement of suitable sales contracts and/or the establishment of the proposed U.S. Uranium Reserve.
The Company is selectively advancing certain permits at its other major conventional uranium projects, such as the Roca Honda Project, which is a large, high-grade conventional project in New Mexico. The Company is also continuing to maintain required permits at its conventional projects, including the Sheep Mountain Project and Whirlwind Project. In addition, the Company will continue to evaluate the Bullfrog Project. Expenditures for certain of these projects have been adjusted to coincide with expected dates of price recoveries based on the Company's forecasts. All of these projects serve as important pipeline assets for the Company's future conventional production capabilities, as market conditions may warrant.
Uranium Sales
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company completed no sales of uranium, at its election, but is now actively engaged in pursuing selective long-term uranium sales contracts.
Vanadium Sales
As a result of strengthening vanadium markets, during the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company sold 150,000 pounds of FeV (converted from the Company's existing inventory of V2O5) at a gross weighted average price of $20.65 per pound V contained in FeV. The Company expects to sell its remaining finished vanadium product when justified into the metallurgical industry, as well as other markets that demand a higher purity product, including the aerospace, chemical, and potentially the vanadium battery industries. The Company may also retain vanadium product in inventory for future sale, depending on vanadium spot prices and general market conditions.
Rare Earth Sales
The Company commenced its ramp-up to commercial production of a mixed RE Carbonate in March 2021 and has shipped all of its RE Carbonate produced to-date to Neo's Silmet facility in Estonia ("Silmet"), where it is currently being fed into their separation process. All RE Carbonate produced at the Mill in 2022 is expected to be sold to Neo for separation at Silmet. Until such time as the Company expects to permit and construct its own separation circuits at the Mill, production in future years is expected to be sold to Neo for separation at Silmet and, potentially, to other REE separation facilities outside of the U.S. To the extent not sold, the Company expects to stockpile mixed RE Carbonate at the Mill for future separation and other downstream REE processing at the Mill or elsewhere.
As the Company continues to ramp up its mixed RE Carbonate production and additional funds are spent on process enhancements, improving recoveries, product quality and other optimization, profits from this initiative are expected to be minimal until such time when monazite throughput rates are increased and optimized. However, even at the current throughput rates, the Company is recovering most of its direct costs of this growing initiative, with the other costs associated with ramping up production, process enhancements and evaluating future separation capabilities at the Mill being expensed as development expenditures. Throughout this process, the Company is gaining important knowledge, experience and technical information, all of which will be valuable for current and future mixed RE Carbonate production and expected future production of separated REE oxides and other advanced REE materials at the Mill. As discussed above, the Company is evaluating installing a full separation circuit at the Mill to produce both "light" and "heavy" separated REE oxides in the coming years, subject to successful licensing, financing, and commissioning and continued strong market conditions, and has hired Carester to support these REE separation initiatives.
The Company also continues to pursue new sources of revenue, including additional Alternate Feed Materials and other sources of feed for the Mill.
Continued Efforts to Minimize Costs
Although the Company is pursuing two exciting new initiatives — its REE and TAT radioisotope initiatives — in addition to its existing uranium and vanadium lines of business, which will likely require the Company to grow certain of its operations, the Company will continue to seek ways to minimize the costs of all its operations where feasible, while maintaining its critical capabilities, manpower and properties.
About Energy Fuels: Energy Fuels is a leading U.S.-based uranium mining company, supplying U3O8 to major nuclear utilities. The Company also produces vanadium from certain of its projects, as market conditions warrant, and is ramping up to full commercial-scale production of RE Carbonate. Its corporate offices are in Lakewood, Colorado near Denver, and all its assets and employees are in the United States. Energy Fuels holds three of America's key uranium production centers: the White Mesa Mill in Utah, the Nichols Ranch ISR Project in Wyoming, and the Alta Mesa ISR Project in Texas. The White Mesa Mill is the only conventional uranium mill operating in the U.S. today, has a licensed capacity of over 8 million pounds of U3O8 per year, and has the ability to produce vanadium when market conditions warrant, as well as RE Carbonate from various uranium-bearing ores. The Nichols Ranch ISR Project is currently on standby and has a licensed capacity of 2 million pounds of U3O8 per year. The Alta Mesa ISR Project is also currently on standby and has a licensed capacity of 1.5 million pounds of U3O8 per year. In addition to the above production facilities, Energy Fuels also has one of the largest S-K 1300 and NI 43-101 compliant uranium resource portfolios in the U.S. and several uranium and uranium/vanadium mining projects on standby and in various stages of permitting and development. The primary trading market for Energy Fuels' common shares is the NYSE American under the trading symbol "UUUU," and the Company's common shares are also listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "EFR." Energy Fuels' website is www.energyfuels.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: This news release contains certain "Forward Looking Information" and "Forward Looking Statements" within the meaning of applicable United States and Canadian securities legislation, which may include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to: production and sales forecasts; costs of production; any expectation that the Company will continue to be ready to supply uranium into the proposed U.S. Uranium Reserve once it is established; scalability, and the Company's ability and readiness to re-start, expand or deploy any of its existing projects or capacity to respond to any improvements in uranium market conditions or in response to the proposed Uranium Reserve; any expectations as to future uranium, vanadium, RE Carbonate or REE sales; any expectation regarding any remaining dissolved vanadium in the Mill's tailings facility solutions or the ability of the Company to recover any such vanadium at acceptable costs or at all; the ability of the Company to secure any new sources of Alternate Feed Materials or other processing opportunities at the Mill; expected timelines for the permitting and development of projects; the Company's expectations as to longer term fundamentals in the market and price projections; any expectations as to the implications of the current Russian invasion of Ukraine on uranium, vanadium or other commodity markets; any expectation that the Company will maintain its position as a leading uranium company in the United States; any expectation that the proposed Uranium Reserve will be implemented and if implemented the manner in which it will be implemented and the timing of implementation; any expectation with respect to timelines to production; any expectation that the Mill will be successful in producing RE Carbonate on a full-scale commercial basis; any expectation that Neo will be successful in separating the Mill's RE Carbonate on a commercial basis; any expectation that Energy Fuels will be successful in developing U.S. separation, or other value-added U.S. REE production capabilities at the Mill, or otherwise; any expectation with respect to the future demand for REEs; any expectation with respect to the quantities of monazite sands to be acquired by Energy Fuels, the quantities of RE Carbonate to be produced by the Mill or the quantities of contained TREO in the Mill's RE Carbonate; any expectation that additional supplies of monazite sands will result in sufficient throughput at the Mill to reduce underutilized capacity production costs and allow the Company to realize its expected margins on a continuous basis; any expectation that the Company's evaluation of thorium and radium recovery at the Mill will be successful; any expectation that the potential recovery of medical isotopes from any thorium and radium recovered at the Mill will be feasible; any expectation that any thorium, radium and other isotopes can be recovered at the Mill and sold on a commercial basis; any expectation that the Company will be successful in completing one or more contracts for the sale of uranium to U.S. utilities; and any expectation that the Company will generate net income in future periods. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans," "expects," "does not expect," "is expected," "is likely," "budgets," "scheduled," "estimates," "forecasts," "intends," "anticipates," "does not anticipate," or "believes," or variations of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results "may," "could," "would," "might" or "will be taken," "occur," "be achieved" or "have the potential to." All statements, other than statements of historical fact, herein are considered to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements express or implied by the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements include risks associated with: commodity prices and price fluctuations; processing and mining difficulties, upsets and delays; permitting and licensing requirements and delays; changes to regulatory requirements; legal challenges; the availability of sources of Alternate Feed Materials and other feed sources for the Mill; competition from other producers; public opinion; government and political actions; the appropriations for the proposed Uranium Reserve not being allocated to that program and the Uranium Reserve not being implemented; the manner in which the proposed Uranium Reserve, if established, will be implemented; the Company not being successful in selling any uranium into the proposed Uranium Reserve at acceptable quantities or prices, or at all; available supplies of monazite sands; the ability of the Mill to produce RE Carbonate to meet commercial specifications on a commercial scale at acceptable costs; the ability of Neo to separate the RE Carbonate produced by the Mill to meet commercial specifications on a commercial scale at acceptable costs; market factors, including future demand for REEs; the ability of the Mill to be able to separate thorium and radium at reasonable costs or at all; the ability of the Company to be able to recover other isotopes from thorium and radium recovered at the Mill at reasonable costs or at all; market prices and demand for medical isotopes; and the other factors described under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K, which is available for review on EDGAR at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and on the Company's website at www.energyfuels.com. Forward-looking statements contained herein are made as of the date of this news release, and the Company disclaims, other than as required by law, any obligation to update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, results, future events, circumstances, or if management's estimates or opinions should change, or otherwise. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, the reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update the information in this communication, except as otherwise required by law.
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HAIKOU, China, May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JX Luxventure Limited (Nasdaq: LLL) (the "Company"), a service provider delivering comprehensive solutions to global elite families with business segments covering menswear, cross-border merchandise, airfare and tourism, announced today that on May 2, 2022, it received the award "Annual Most Growth Enterprise" by Shenzhen Cross-border E-Commerce Association.
Ms. Sun "Ice" Lei, Chief Executive Officer of the Company commented: "At the beginning of 2021, we started our journey of three-year turnaround strategy with the first year focusing on revenue growth. Cross-border merchandise is and will continue to be a key revenue generator. This award is an affirmation of our company's growth. With two major contracts totaling $90,000,000 signed in March and April of 2022, I look forward to cross-border merchandise to fuel our revenue growth in 2022."
About JX Luxventure Limited
Headquartered in Haikou, China, JX Luxventure Limited is a service provider delivering comprehensive solutions to global elite families. Its business segments cover menswear, cross-border merchandise, airfare, and tourism. To learn more about the Company, please visit its corporate website at en.jxluxventure.com.
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This press release may contain certain "forward-looking statements" relating to the business of JX Luxventure Limited, and its subsidiary companies. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included herein, are "forward-looking statements" in nature within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements, often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects" or similar expressions, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including those discussed in the Company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on its website (http://www.sec.gov). All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
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STOCKHOLM, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ASSA ABLOY has acquired Caldwell, a manufacturer of fenestration hardware for window manufacturers.
"I am very pleased to welcome Caldwell into the ASSA ABLOY Group. This acquisition delivers on our strategy to add complementary products and solutions to our core business," says Nico Delvaux, President and CEO of ASSA ABLOY.
"Caldwell is an excellent addition to the Pacific & North East Asia Division and provides complementary growth opportunities. The acquisition will strengthen our position with fenestration manufacturers and I look forward to working with the experienced team to continue Caldwell's successful journey," says Simon Ellis, Executive Vice President and Head of Asia Pacific ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions Pacific & North East Asia.
Caldwell was established in 1888 and has some 800 employees.
Sales for 2021 amounted to about MSEK 1,000. The acquisition will be accretive to EPS from the start.
For more information, please contact:
Nico Delvaux, President and CEO, tel. no: +46 8 506 485 82
Erik Pieder, CFO and Executive Vice President, tel. no: +46 8 506 485 72
Björn Tibell, Head of Investor Relations, tel. no: +46 70 275 67 68
About ASSA ABLOY
The ASSA ABLOY Group is the global leader in access solutions. The Group operates worldwide with 51,000 employees and sales of SEK 95 billion. The Group has leading positions in areas such as efficient door openings, trusted identities and entrance automation. ASSA ABLOY's innovations enable safe, secure and convenient access to physical and digital places. Every day, we help billions of people experience a more open world.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A Charleston International Airport flight ran into an unusual delay on the taxiway Saturday night.
Delta passenger John Moroney said his flight from Atlanta landed in Charleston around 7 p.m. Saturday when the pilot announced a delay.
An alligator was passing across the taxiway.
The pilot briefly held the plane to let the gator pass.
Welcome to Charleston! | https://cw33.com/news/alligator-delays-flight-on-runway-at-charleston-international-airport/ | 2022-08-29T15:39:01Z |
BLUE BELL, Pa., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The severe flooding in Appalachian Eastern Kentucky has taken a devastating toll on the people, businesses, and properties of the area. To help support the individuals who have been displaced or lost loved ones, The Columbus Organization has donated $5,000 to the Team Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Fund, a fund established by Governor Beshear following the severe weather that began July 26th.
The Columbus Organization is the nation's largest provider of care coordination services and a leading case management agency in Kentucky for individuals living with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD), acquired brain injury, and complex health concerns. The company has a long history providing care coordination services, and in Kentucky continues to be an integral part of the fabric of the communities where they work and live.
Johnny Callebs, Executive State Director for Kentucky commented, "As someone born and raised in Eastern Kentucky, it is heartbreaking to see what so many are going through. Columbus and other generous donors provide hope for recovery, but the current trauma is just overwhelming. I am proud to work for an organization that immediately, and without hesitation, saw the role they could play in supporting the people of our state. Eastern Kentuckians have a strong fighting spirit and will bounce back. I'm grateful that Columbus will be a part of that."
Grief counseling is being made available for any Columbus staff who are struggling with issues related to the disaster.
For 38+ years, The Columbus Organization has been a national leader and pioneer in care coordination specifically for individuals living with intellectual/developmental disabilities, behavioral concerns, or complex care needs. Having served over 100,000 families, the company continues to be at the forefront of innovation, developing and implementing revolutionary outcomes-based models for early identification and holistic management of health risks among individuals with intellectual, developmental, behavioral, medical, and/or complex care needs. In addition to its team of almost 500 highly-experienced care coordinators, dedicated Quality Assurance division, and unparalleled national infrastructure,Columbus is also a recognized leader in clinical staffing and quality improvement services for organizations that serve the behavioral health community. The company delivers an unmatched depth of expertise, breadth of resources, diversity of thinking, and dedication to ensuring everyone can achieve their meaningful-life goals through transformative approaches to healthcare. For more, visit www.ColumbusOrg.com, follow @TheColumbusOrg on Twitter, like The Columbus Organization on Facebook, or follow The Columbus Organization on LinkedIn.
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NET MERCHANDISE SALES GREW 16.5%
COMPARABLE NET MERCHANDISE SALES GREW 12.8%
MEMBERSHIP BASE ACHIEVED RECORD LEVEL
STRONG RENEWAL RATE OF 88.9%
SAN DIEGO, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PriceSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSMT), operator of 50 warehouse clubs in 12 countries and one U.S. territory, today announced results for the fiscal third quarter of 2022, which ended on May 31, 2022.
"For the third quarter of this fiscal year, our net merchandise sales grew to almost $1 billion. Our comparable net merchandise sales increased 12.8% over last year, even after taking into account a negative currency impact of 2.2%. Once again, our Membership base set a new record, with a base of over 1.75 million accounts. We also opened our 50th club in Portmore, Jamaica during the quarter.
"However, like many other retailers, we have not been spared the impact of global supply chain disruption and abrupt shifts in consumer demands. Our hardlines and other non-foods categories are characterized by a higher penetration of imported items that tend to correlate with discretionary spending. Due to long lead times on many of these items, commitments are made many months, if not about a year, in advance.
"Many months ago, we made strategic investments in inventory with the goal of remaining in-stock and capturing higher sales. Since then, the environment has been characterized by global supply chain disruption, including Asia port closures due to COVID, container shortages, higher freight and fuel costs, inflation, and sharp changes in consumer demands. This has disrupted the cadence and flow of that inventory, and inflation has influenced consumer behavior by shifting the demand away from discretionary and toward more essential items. As a result, we have been experiencing excess inventory, primarily in the area of hardlines.
"We have taken decisive action, and continue to do so, to swiftly sell through excess inventory and quickly rebalance our inventory mix. As a result, we have experienced higher than normal markdowns. Our plan is to handle this quickly and efficiently in order to be well-positioned for the holiday season. Although it is likely we will see some margin pressure in the fourth quarter, we believe it will be far less than the third quarter. We see this as a point in time. We have gained many new important insights. We expect soon to return to our healthy, historical margin structures.
"While dealing with short-term challenges with inventory, we are making good progress on initiatives intended to support our plans for medium and long-term growth. The team remains focused on our plan to drive growth through expansion of our global real estate footprint, by increasing the value of the membership, and by driving incremental sales through PriceSmart.com and through the creation of additional technology capabilities."
Total revenues for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 increased 15.1% to $1.03 billion compared to $895.3 million in the comparable period of the prior year. For the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, net merchandise sales increased 16.5% to $999.0 million from $857.5 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2021. Foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations impacted net merchandise sales negatively by $19.1 million, or 2.3%, versus the same period in the prior year.
The Company had 50 warehouse clubs in operation as of May 31, 2022 compared to 47 warehouse clubs in operation as of May 31, 2021.
Comparable net merchandise sales for the 47 warehouse clubs that have been open for greater than 13 ½ calendar months increased 12.8% for the 13-week period ended May 29, 2022 compared to the comparable period of the prior year. Foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations impacted comparable net merchandise sales negatively by $18.6 million or 2.2% versus the same period in the prior year.
The Company recorded operating income during the fiscal third quarter of $33.8 million compared to operating income of $36.0 million in the prior year period. Net income attributable to PriceSmart was $19.3 million, or $0.62 per diluted share, in the third quarter of fiscal year 2022 as compared to $22.5 million, or $0.73 per diluted share, in the third quarter of fiscal year 2021.
PriceSmart has purchased land and plans to open its third warehouse club in El Salvador, located in the city of San Miguel, approximately 100 miles east of the capital city San Salvador. The small format club will be built on a five acre property located in the Hacienda San Andrés area and is anticipated to open in the spring of 2023. In addition, we have begun construction of a smaller format warehouse club in the affluent El Poblado area of Medellín, Colombia. We expect to open this warehouse club, which will be our second club in Medellín and the Company's tenth warehouse club in Colombia, in the summer of 2023. Once these two new clubs are open, we will operate 52 warehouse clubs.
PriceSmart management will host a conference call at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time (9:00 a.m. Pacific time) on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, to discuss the financial results. Individuals interested in participating in the conference call may do so by dialing (855) 209-8211 toll free or (412) 317-5214 for international callers and asking to join the PriceSmart, Inc. call. A digital replay will be available through July 19, 2022, following the conclusion of the call by dialing (877) 344-7529 for domestic callers, or (412) 317-0088 for international callers, and entering replay passcode 6291871.
PriceSmart, headquartered in San Diego, owns and operates U.S.-style membership shopping warehouse clubs in Latin America and the Caribbean, selling high quality merchandise and services at low prices to PriceSmart Members. PriceSmart operates 50 warehouse clubs in 12 countries and one U.S. territory (nine in Colombia; eight in Costa Rica; seven in Panama; five in the Dominican Republic and Guatemala, four in Trinidad; three in Honduras; two each in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Jamaica; and one each in Aruba, Barbados and the United States Virgin Islands). In addition, the Company plans to open a warehouse club in San Miguel, El Salvador in the spring of 2023 and a warehouse club in Medellín, Colombia in the summer of 2023. Once these two new clubs are open, the Company will operate 52 warehouse clubs.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements concerning PriceSmart, Inc.'s ("PriceSmart", the "Company" or "we") anticipated future revenues and earnings, adequacy of future cash flows, omni-channel initiatives, proposed warehouse club openings, the Company's performance relative to competitors and related matters. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements containing the words "expect," "believe," "will," "may," "should," "project," "estimate," "anticipated," "scheduled," "intend," and like expressions, and the negative thereof. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially including, but not limited to: various political, economic and compliance risks associated with our international operations, adverse changes in economic conditions in our markets, natural disasters, volatility in currency exchange rates and illiquidity of certain local currencies in our markets, competition, consumer and small business spending patterns, political instability, increased costs associated with the integration of online commerce with our traditional business, whether the Company can successfully execute strategic initiatives, our reliance on third party service providers, including those who support transaction and payment processing, data security and other technology services, cybersecurity breaches that could cause disruptions in our systems or jeopardize the security of Member or business information, cost increases from product and service providers, interruption of supply chains, novel coronavirus (COVID-19) related factors and challenges, exposure to product liability claims and product recalls, recoverability of moneys owed to PriceSmart from governments, and other important factors discussed in the Risk Factors section of the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, and other factors discussed from time to time in other filings with the SEC, which are accessible on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov, including Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date that they are made, and the Company does not undertake to update them, except as required by law.
For further information, please contact Michael L. McCleary, EVP, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer (858) 404-8826 or send an email to ir@pricesmart.com.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Emergency SNAP benefits for Texans are being extended through August, according to a release from the governor’s office.
The office said the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is providing over $305.5 million in emergency SNAP benefits this month. That total is expected to help about 1.5 million households in the state.
The commission got federal approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to extend the max allowable amount of SNAP benefits to recipients based on family size.
All SNAP households will get a minimum of $95 in emergency allotments, according to the governor’s office. The allotment should appear in accounts by the end of the month.
Since April 2020, over $7.6 million in benefits have been given to Texans, not including August’s new allotment.
SNAP is a program that provides food assistance to low-income families and people in Texas who qualify. Texans can apply for these benefits, including Medicaid, online here. | https://cw33.com/news/texas/emergency-snap-benefits-for-texans-extended-for-august/ | 2022-08-02T19:22:22Z |
The majority of customers surveyed were highly satisfied with the platform and 100% said they would purchase Notable again.
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Notable, the leading intelligent automation company for healthcare, receives high ratings from customers according to a new Emerging Technology Spotlight performance report from KLAS Research. In the report, Notable received an A+ grade both in the 'Executive involvement' category and the 'Likely to recommend' category.
The study consisted of interviews with individuals who use Notable to automate clinical and administrative workflows at their organizations. 100% of interviewed customers said they would purchase Notable again. The full spectrum of organizations using Notable was represented: 14% of respondents worked at academic health systems, 43% worked at small-hospital systems, 14% worked at large-hospital systems, and 29% worked in clinics.
In the interviews, Notable's customers evaluated the software across several dimensions, including overall satisfaction, time to see outcomes, product functionality, and likelihood to recommend or buy its products again.
Highlights from the report include:
- All customers would buy again: 100% said they would buy Notable's product again.
- Most customers are highly satisfied: 57% said they were highly satisfied and the remaining 43% said they were satisfied with Notable's platform overall.
- Outcomes happen quickly: 100% of customers saw outcomes delivered within 6 months, with 43% of respondents claiming they saw outcomes delivered immediately.
"We think of the health systems we work with as our partners in changing the industry," said Pranay Kapadia, Co-founder and CEO of Notable. "We take an iterative approach to solving real pain points at the organizations we work with. I'm very proud that the team at KLAS, which has a history of providing very reliable market research, gathered such a positive response from our customers. It further validates our approach."
Mike Davis, HCIT market research and analysis expert from KLAS said, "Notable provides an RPA and AI platform that reduces administrative overhead costs, improves care coordination and improves patient engagement. The platform can automate patient service tasks, such as scheduling and completing patient intake forms, to reduce staffing overhead and can automate RCM processes to improve billing and A/R functions. Patients' preferred languages can be accommodated in interactions, and AI can identify care gaps to improve patient outcomes."
About Notable
Notable is the leading intelligent automation company for healthcare. Deployed at over 1,000 locations, Notable is leveraged by leading health systems including Intermountain Healthcare and Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Customers use Notable to identify and engage more patients in need of care by automating hundreds of repetitive workflows like patient intake, care outreach, registration, documentation, and billing. With Notable, staff and clinicians report saving 700 hours of administrative work per provider per year. Based in San Mateo, Calif., Notable is backed by leading investors, including ICONIQ Growth, Greylock Partners, F-Prime, Oak HC/FT, Maverick Ventures, and 8VC. Learn more at notablehealth.com and follow us on Twitter @notablehealth.
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Integration with leading billing and operations system providers Innovative Systems and Azotel automates provisioning, setup, and eliminates swivel chair management
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Alianza Inc. announced an expansion of its Technology Ecosystem Partner Program that helps service providers streamline their back-office operations, accelerate time to revenue, and reduce the cost of delivering cloud communications. By introducing integrations with two leading billing and back-office solutions — Innovative System's eLation and Azotel's SIMPLer — Alianza strengthens its commitment to making voice simple for service providers. Leveraging Alianza's powerful API suite, these integrations enable service providers to streamline management of communications services, safeguard customer data integrity, and eliminating the inefficiencies of swivel chair provisioning by automating the time-consuming and routine tasks typically associated with account provisioning and setup.
Alianza's integrations with Innovative Systems and Azotel benefit the companies' joint communications service provider customers by enabling their personnel to enter, update, and retrieve customer information in a single back-office platform that seamlessly integrates with Alianza's cloud communications platform. Additionally, the integrations provide data and insights within the billing systems, enabling service providers and broadband operators to resolve customer issues faster and easier, improving the end-user experience.
The integration with these billing and provisioning systems allow operators to:
- Streamline customer account setup and management in the Alianza Admin Portal, including phone number ordering, feature changes, end user password resets, and more.
- Check and change account status in the billing system.
- Automate device provisioning with the SIP credentials for the embedded phone ports on optical network terminals (ONTs) and residential gateways from leading broadband vendors.
Availability
Alianza's new integrations with Azotel and Innovative Systems are available for joint service provider customers. These build upon Alianza's existing billing system partnerships with GLDS, ETI Software, and NISC,
"At Alianza, we are committed to teaming up with industry leaders as well as start-ups to accelerate innovation, simplify operations, and drive revenue growth for our joint customers," said Kevin Mitchell, Vice President of Alliances and Partners for Alianza. "Our innovative, API-rich platform makes it easy to work with outstanding partners like Innovative Systems and Azotel, who share our focus on integration, to introduce world-class solutions for our service provider and broadband operator customers."
"Like us, Alianza has a keen focus on providing service providers and broadband operators with operational simplification," said John O'Hare, CEO for Azotel. "Their flexible APIs made the integration process easy and quick, and our combined solution will enable our joint customers to scale up their operations quickly and efficiently while providing an overall better customer experience to their end users."
"Innovative Systems is happy to unite eLation with Alianza for seamlessly managing VoIP services for our customer base," said Nathan Knuth, Vice President of Engineering for Innovative Systems. "As service providers are faced with additional regulatory and maintenance costs, using a cloud-based VoIP solution gives operators a convenient approach to providing voice services while reducing the burden on their IT, administrative, and technical staff."
Additional Information
About Alianza
Alianza delivers the only true cloud-native, carrier-grade communications platform built for service providers. Our proprietary full-stack cloud communications platform offers wholesale residential and business communications services, including voice, video conferencing, collaboration, text messaging, and standalone UC softphones. Our team of experts are passionate about transforming communications delivery and ensuring first-rate customer experiences for more than 200 service providers worldwide. As a result of the platform's exceptional quality and always-on availability, our service providers can innovate quickly and address the evolving demands of their end user customers in a way that is easy to manage, easy to consume, and highly profitable. Learn more about our solutions at alianza.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About Azotel Technologies
Azotel Technologies develops integrated customer and network management solutions that help Fiber and Wireless Internet Service Providers improve their business operations, services, and profitability. Azotel has its headquarters in Cork, Ireland with deployments across 22 countries. For more information on Azotel products and services please contact your local Azotel distributor/reseller or visit www.azotel.com.
About Innovative Systems
Innovative Systems is a mission-critical enterprise software solution that enables independent service providers to seamlessly manage their business, deliver modern network services, and enhance existing offerings. Innovative's core products include eLation™, a market-leading Billing & Operations Support System (BSS/OSS), IPTV, a live streaming and cable television solution suite, and APMAX™, a hardware and software Voice over IP (VoIP) platform. Based in Michell, South Dakota, Innovative Systems is proud to support connectivity across the country, including delivering outstanding service to its Telecom, Cable, Municipality, Power, and Utility customers and their constituents. For more information, please visit www.innovsys.com.
Contacts
Hanna Miller
Vice President, Marketing
(778) 372-5557
pr@alianza.com
Kathleen Keith for Alianza
(707) 529-4507
kkeith@redshift.com
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Services for Verla Marie Haven, 85, of Little River-Academy are pending with Young’s Daughters Funeral Home and Bereavement Center in Temple.
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NYON, Switzerland, April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hublot and Takashi Murakami are pushing back the boundaries of artistic expression by presenting two NFT digital works. These are inspired by the Hublot Classic Fusion Takashi Murakami All Black and the Classic Fusion Takashi Murakami Sapphire Rainbow, the first two watches launched jointly by the Swiss watchmaker and the great Japanese artist in 2021. These two limited editions of 200 and 100 pieces respectively were sold out in just a few days.
"Our collaboration with Takashi Murakami has led us to digital art, a field of expression in which Hublot has become a pioneer on the watchmaking planet. From now on, NFTs will be an integral part of our 'Hublot loves art' artistic world."
RICARDO GUADALUPE
HUBLOT CEO
"Continuing my artistic collaboration with Hublot by using new forms of artistic expression such as NFTs seems to be the natural way to develop our relationship. By looking forward."
TAKASHI MURAKAMI
This new phase in the artistic collaboration developed with Takashi Murakami is in the form of two static NFTs featuring the smiling flower with its mischievous smile, the iconic theme of Murakami's work and his Superflat artistic movement. The first NFT based on the All Black version, is a limited edition of 216, while the second, which will recreate the colours of the highly exclusive Sapphire Rainbow version, will be a limited edition of 108. These NFT digital works are mainly intended for the current owners of these two limited-edition watches, to whom they will be offered under certain conditions explained under (Hublot.com). The current owners of these watches shall actively claim the NFT as from 1st April 2022 and no later than 25th April 2022. If they claim and wish, these watch owners may then receive their free NFT in their eWallet. In May, Hublot will then open a page on a decentralised non-fungible token marketplace, where owners may exchange their NFTs.
The launch of the Hublot Classic Fusion Takashi Murakami NFTs will be supported by a very arty promotional campaign, based on the principles of guerrilla marketing. After being presented at Watches & Wonders, the watchmaking fair in Geneva, posters will go up secretively in London and New York and giant light projections will illuminate iconic buildings.
A limited number of these NFT's will be available to the public in May 2022. Stay tuned!
HUBLOT
Founded in Switzerland in 1980, Hublot is defined by its innovation, which began with the highly original combination of gold and rubber. This "Art of Fusion" stems from the imagination of its visionary Honorary Chairman, Jean-Claude Biver, and has been driven forward by CEO Ricardo Guadalupe since 2012.
The release of the iconic, multi-award-winning Big Bang in 2005 paved the way for new flagship collections (Classic Fusion, Spirit of Big Bang), with complications ranging from the simple to the highly sophisticated, establishing the extraordinary DNA of the Swiss watchmaking house and ensuring its impressive growth.
Keen to preserve its traditional and cutting-edge expertise, and guided by its philosophy to "Be First, Different and Unique", the Swiss watchmaker is consistently ahead of the curve, through its innovations in materials (scratch-resistant Magic Gold, ceramics in vibrant colours, sapphire), and the creation of Manufacture movements (Unico, Meca-10, Tourbillon).
Hublot is fully committed to creating a Haute Horlogerie brand with a visionary future: a future which is fused with the key events of our times (FIFA World Cup™, UEFA Champions League, UEFA EURO™) and the finest ambassadors our era has to offer (Chiara Ferragni, Pelé, Kylian Mbappé, Usain Bolt, Novak Djokovic).
Discover the Hublot universe at our network of boutiques located in key cities across the globe: Geneva, Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong, Dubai, Tokyo, Singapore, Zurich and at HUBLOT.com
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BENSALEM, Pa., Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Missfresh Limited ("Missfresh" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MF).
Class Period: June 2021 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 12, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Missfresh investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Missfresh provided false financial figures in its Registration Statement; (2) Missfresh would need to amend its financial figures; (3) Missfresh, among other things, had lesser net revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2021; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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Kids swimwear company makes efficiency a priority to enable growth
CAMPBELL, Calif., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RuffleButts, the kids' swimwear and clothing company, has selected Centric Software®'s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.
Based in a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, RuffleButts was founded 15 years ago starting with ruffled bloomers for baby girls, hence the name. The company creates joyful clothing for the treasured years of childhood. RuggedButts for boys was added later, offering a full wardrobe for girls and boys all the way into the tween years.
Audrie Garcia, Production & Design Manager at RuffleButts, says, "We're growing quite a bit and adding new product categories, new sizing—and it was just getting to be a lot to manage." She talks about the manual work and duplicate data entry in a typical product development cycle, adding, "We have hundreds of Google sheets for specs alone. Then we have different sheets for our color library, and a SKU creation doc on another sheet."
There were many steps on the creative side as well. Designers would have to copy-paste their designs from Adobe™ Illustrator to a digital project board in the design phase. When the project moves on to development or production, the design gets re-entered into another sheet where tech packs are created and is finally sent to the factory, often via email. Garcia says, "We're entering data in multiple spots. And things just get lost or missed, or someone changes the size in one doc but forgets to change it in another... We want to streamline the process overall."
On top of all that, being in the children's apparel category subjects the company to strict regulations to comply with government safety standards. Garcia says, "There are so many rules, for example, no lead in the thread, zippers, buttons and obviously, flammability. We save that information on our internal shared drive, but you can't access it outside of the office. And it isn't currently linked back to any product. I may know that we have a testing document for certain products and where to go find it, but there's not an easy way for anyone, other than me, to know that this product has been tested."
RuffleButts decided on PLM as a strategy and evaluated a few providers. Much research and several demos took place over the course of a year. One of the most important features Garcia says, is "scalability, because our growth rate right now is phenomenal. I wanted to make sure that whatever company we chose could scale with us. The PLM had to have capabilities beyond just the product team—we may want to bring in more users like marketing, our e-commerce team, or our buyers and planners. During the demos, I eventually noticed that Centric was one of the only companies I saw that allows for that without going through a lot of hoop jumping."
Garcia expects to save a considerable amount of time once they are fully up and running. She states, "I did the math a while ago. Overall, we will save about a week and a half's worth of work per season, just on the product engineering or data information side. On the design side, the Adobe Connect plugin is great to link Adobe Illustrator directly with Centric PLM; designers won't have to leave Illustrator, eliminating many of their repetitive tasks. It'll also help with calendar management and sample status—looking at the Centric home screen, I could have a widget on my dashboard that tells me the status at a glance."
Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric says, "We are pleased to be partnering with RuffleButts, a fresh, rapidly growing company in the apparel space. They bring fun and functional clothing to families, and we are thrilled to have been selected as their partner."
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RuffleButts (www.rufflebutts.com)
We create joyful clothing for the treasured years of childhood. Built on a foundation of gratitude, we strive to share smiles with everyone along the way. Who can say "RuffleButts" without a grin?!
RuffleButts started small, a little idea pursued with passion. We place high value on gratitude and humbleness, while driven by determination and grit to deliver a wow-worthy customer experience. Our customers are amazing - intelligent, kind, enthusiastic, and so extremely supportive of our brands. Our best decisions are driven by your suggestions, as our company continues to grow beyond our wildest dreams. The company started with RuffleButts, then added RuggedButts for boys. We quickly expanded beyond our namesake RuffleButt Bloomer and now offer a full wardrobe for girls and boys all the way into their tween years. The one thing that hasn't changed is our dedication to quality, hand-me-down quality with a touchable difference, evidenced by our 50,000+ five-star reviews. When you're happy, we're happy - full circle smiles!
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From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software® provides a Product Concept to Consumer Digital Transformation Platform for fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor, consumer electronics and consumer goods including cosmetics and personal care and food and beverage. Centric's flagship Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric Visual Innovation Platform (CVIP) offers highly visual digital board experiences for collaboration and decision-making. Centric Retail Planning is an innovative, cloud-native solution powered by Armonica Retail S.R.L., that delivers an end-to-end retail planning process designed to maximize retail business performance. Centric Software pioneered mobility, introducing the first mobile apps for PLM, and is widely known for connectivity to dozens of other enterprise systems including ERP, DAM, PIM, e-com, planning and more as well as creative tools such as Adobe® Illustrator and a host of 3D CAD connectors. Centric's innovations are 100% market-driven with the highest user adoption rate and fastest time to value in the industry. All Centric innovations shorten time to market, boost product innovation and reduce costs.
Centric Software is majority-owned by Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions.
Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, including being named by Red Herring to its Top 100 Global list in 2013, 2015 and 2016. Centric also received various excellence awards from Frost & Sullivan in 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2021.
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have plunged to their lowest levels since the early days of the pandemic, offering a much needed break to health care workers and patients alike following the omicron surge.
The number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has fallen more than 90% in more than two months, and some hospitals are going days without a single COVID-19 patient in the ICU for the first time since early 2020.
The freed up beds are expected to help U.S. hospitals retain exhausted staff, treat non-COVID-19 patients more quickly and cut down on inflated costs. More family members can visit loved ones. And doctors hope to see a correction to the slide in pediatric visits, yearly checkups and cancer screenings.
“We should all be smiling that the number of people sitting in the hospital right now with COVID, and people in intensive care units with COVID, are at this low point,” said University of South Florida epidemiologist Jason Salemi.
But, he said, the nation “paid a steep price to get to this stage. … A lot of people got sick and a lot of people died.”
Hospitalizations are now at their lowest point since summer 2020, when comprehensive national data first became available. The average number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the last week nationwide dropped to 11,860, the lowest since 2020 and a steep decline from the peak of more than 145,000 set in mid-January. The previous low was 12,041 last June, before the delta variant took hold.
The optimistic trend is also clear in ICU patient numbers, which have dipped to fewer than 2,000, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“We’re beginning to be able to take a breath,” said Dr. Jeffrey Weinstein, the patient safety officer for the Kettering Health hospital system in western Ohio.
COVID-19 patients had filled 30% of Kettering Health’s nearly 1,600 hospital beds back in January, Weinstein said. Kettering’s eight hospitals now average two to three COVID-19 admissions a day — and sometimes zero.
And while Salemi agreed this is a good time for an exhausted health care system to take a breath, he warned that the public health community needs to keep an eye on the BA.2 subvariant of omicron. It’s driving increases in hospitalizations in Britain, and is now estimated to make up more than half of U.S. infections.
“We’re probably under-detecting true infections now more than at any other time during the pandemic,” Salemi said.
For now at least, many hospitals are noting the low numbers.
In California on Thursday, UC Davis Health tweeted that its intensive care unit had no COVID-19 patients for two consecutive days for the first time in two years.
“The first COVID-19 patient to arrive in our ICU did so in February 2020, and the unit treated at least one positive individual every day since, for at least 761 consecutive days,” the hospital system said.
Toby Marsh, the chief nursing and patient care services officer, said in a statement that they hope the numbers “are indicative of a sustained change.”
In Philadelphia, patients are spending less time in the Temple University Health System because there are no longer backlogs for MRIs, CT scans and lab tests, said Dr. Tony Reed, the chief medical officer.
Temple Health’s three hospitals had six adult COVID-19 patients on Thursday, likely its lowest patient count since March 2020, Reed said.
During the omicron surge, patients waited as long as 22 hours for a routine MRI, which is normally done within 12 hours. Longer waits affected those who came in with trouble walking — and in a lot of pain — for example, because of a herniated disc pinching their sciatic nerve.
“Nobody wants to stay in the hospital a day longer than they have to,” Reed said.
The emptying of beds is also helping patients in rural areas, said Jay Anderson, the chief operating officer for Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. During the surges, the hospital faced challenges accepting people from community hospitals who needed elevated care for brain tumors, advanced cancer and stroke. That burden is now being lifted.
Visitors also will return in higher numbers, starting Tuesday. Ohio State will no longer restrict patients to two designated guests, who could only stop by separately.
“Patients heal better when they have access to their family and loved ones,” Anderson said.
Doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists are also getting a much needed break in some areas.
In Colorado, Dr. Michelle Barron said the consistently low COVID-19 hospitalizations prompted smiles among staff, even as she double-checks the numbers to make sure they’re actually correct.
“I had one of these moments like, oh this is amazing,” said Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. “It feels unreal.”
UCHealth loosened some restrictions, including dropping testing requirements for anyone who entered a facility. And while that produced some anxiety among staffers, Barron says the numbers haven’t spiked.
“I think some people have started to take vacations and not feel guilty,” she said. “I had spring break with my kids and it was a level of happiness where I went, oh my god, this is actually normal.”
The omicron surge had stretched staff at work — but also at home, said Dr. Mike Hooper, chief medical officer for Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in southeastern Virginia.
“It was stressful to be at the store … to visit your family,” Hooper said. “We’re all hoping that some ‘return to normalcy’ will help people deal with the inherent stresses of being part of the health care team.”
But just because hospitalizations are down does not mean hospitals are empty, said Dr. Frank Johnson, chief medical officer for St. Luke’s Health System in Idaho.
Some measures — like wearing masks in certain settings — will remain in place.
“I don’t know when we may go back to old practices regarding mask wearing in our clinical areas,” Johnson said. “We’ve seen some benefits of that in terms of reduction in the number of other viral infections.”
In the meantime, the public health community is keeping an eye on the BA.2 subvariant of omicron.
Salemi, the University of South Florida epidemiologist, said the increase in at-home testing means that more results are not being included in official coronavirus case counts. Therefore, wastewater surveillance will be the early warning signal to watch, he said.
“BA.2 is here,” he said. “We don’t have to look that far in the rear-view mirror to know things can change very rapidly. We saw what happened with delta. We saw what happened with omicron…. We don’t want to wait until we see a lot of people hospitalized before we take action.”
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Kruesi reported from Nashville, Tennessee. AP Medical writer Carla K. Johnson in Washington state contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/health/ap-health/number-of-covid-patients-in-us-hospitals-reaches-record-low/ | 2022-04-02T19:18:06Z |
A judge has ordered Casey White to provide a DNA sample to prosecutors
By Jason Hanna and Chuck Johnston, CNN
An Alabama judge this week ordered recaptured murder suspect Casey White to provide a DNA sample in the investigation of the 11 days he spent as a fugitive with a jail official who authorities say freed him.
White, 38, is charged with first-degree escape in connection with his April getaway from a jail in Alabama’s Lauderdale County with corrections official Vicky White, who authorities say killed herself during a car chase May 9 after police caught up with the pair in Indiana.
Prosecutors requested the DNA order in relation to the escape case, Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly said.
Such a request is routine, said Connolly, who couldn’t elaborate because the case is active.
Casey White’s attorney did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.
Authorities say Vicky White, 56, then the assistant director of corrections at the Lauderdale County jail, checked Casey White out of the detention center April 29 under the pretense of taking him to a courthouse appointment.
Investigators believe the two had fostered a romantic relationship while Casey White, who was normally housed in a state prison, was periodically transferred to the Lauderdale County jail to attend hearings related to the 2015 stabbing death of Connie Ridgeway, for which White is facing capital murder charges.
He allegedly confessed to killing Ridgeway in 2020, according to Connolly, but later pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
The escape kicked off an 11-day manhunt that ended after officers were tipped off the pair were in Evansville, Indiana. Officers spotted the duo exit an Evansville motel room and drive away in a Cadillac, setting off a pursuit that ended in a car crash. Casey White was pulled from the wreck and arrested; Vicky White was later pronounced dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, authorities said.
Casey White is now being held at a state prison in Bessemer, Alabama.
Before his escape, Casey White was already serving a 75-year sentence for a 2015 crime spree that included a home invasion, carjacking and a police chase, according to the US Marshals Service.
He is scheduled to be in court June 13 relating to the murder charges in Ridgeway’s death.
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GREENSBORO, N.C., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Triad Business Bank (OTC Pink: TBBC)(the "Bank") held its annual meeting of shareholders on June 8, 2022. At the meeting the seven director nominees were elected for the terms specified in the Bank's proxy statement, the proposal to amend the Bank's long-term stock incentive plan to increase the number of shares reserved for issuance to 660,000 shares was approved, and the appointment of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP, now operating as FORVIS LLP, was ratified.
About Triad Business Bank
With three co-equal offices located in Winston-Salem, High Point and Greensboro, Triad Business Bank focuses on meeting the needs of small to midsize businesses and their owners by providing loans, treasury management and private banking, all with a high level of personal attention and best-in-class technology. For more information, visit www.triadbusinessbank.com
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The Temple Independent School District, Dr. Bobby Ott, TISD administration and the TISD board of trustees have developed a reasonable bond proposal. TISD schools need to be upgraded to maintain the necessary improvements that are needed.
The southeast quadrant of the community has developed very rapid growth, so a new elementary school must be built.
So, I ask all registered voters to join me in voting for the proposed bond on May 7.
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Showcasing New Products including Youdao Dictionary Pen X5 and Youdao Smart Learning Pad
BEIJING, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Youdao, Inc. ("Youdao" or the "Company") (NYSE: DAO), a leading technology-focused intelligent learning company in China, held its 2022 Intelligent Learning Product Launch Event where it unveiled its latest Youdao Dictionary Pen X5 and Youdao Smart Learning Pad. In addition, at the hybrid in-person and livestreaming event held on August 9, 2022 in Beijing, the Company also demonstrated existing products in its portfolio and discussed its strategic initiatives to further grow its intelligent learning device business.
The latest generation Youdao Dictionary Pen adopts a self-developed operating ecosystem integrating, for the first time, a variety of external learning applications to considerably enhance users' learning experience. Youdao Dictionary Pen X5 has significantly optimized its word search functionality, boosting speed by 15% compared to the previous version and expanding the vocabulary to 10 million words. With a real-time note-taking function, Youdao Dictionary Pen X5 can upload scanned excerpts instantly onto the Youdao Cloud Note application. It currently supports online translation of over 100 languages and enables translation for certain languages such as French, Spanish and German with its Neural Machine Translation technology developed in-house.
As a pioneer in the dictionary pen segment, Youdao also partnered with the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and other peers to jointly draft an industry standard that specifies the technical requirements and testing methods of dictionary pens.
Youdao Smart Learning Pad, also featured at the event, employs personalized functions of AI diagnosis and adaptive learning to meet the comprehensive learning needs of primary and middle school students. Youdao Smart Learning Pad achieved gross billings of RMB10 millions shortly after the initial batch of distribution. The outstanding performances of other Youdao smart devices were also showcased during the event. For example, Youdao Listening Pod attained the leading positions in terms of both sales and units during JD.com's June 18 shopping festival.
Dr. Feng Zhou, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Youdao, said, "We are proud of the progress we have made with our leading intelligent learning devices and how they are influencing China's evolving learning paradigm. In an effort to cover more learning scenarios on a broader scale, Youdao will continue to upgrade its portfolio with an expanded range of diversified offerings that empower better learning experiences. We are determined to support Chinese students in their pursuit of excellence and propel the industry's sustainable growth by leveraging our cutting-edge technologies."
About Youdao, Inc.
Youdao, Inc. (NYSE: DAO) is a leading technology-focused intelligent learning company in China dedicated to developing and using technologies to provide learning content, applications and solutions to users of all ages. Building on the popularity of its online knowledge tools such as Youdao Dictionary and Youdao Translation, Youdao now offers smart devices, STEAM courses, adult and vocational courses, and education digitalization solutions. In addition, Youdao has developed a variety of interactive learning apps. Youdao was founded in 2006 as part of NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES; HKEX: 9999), a leading internet technology company in China.
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Which “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis are best?
“Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” is becoming quite popular among kids, thanks to their wide range of unique toys and the popular Netflix series. In addition to the regular-sized toys, “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” has a fun line of miniature toys called “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis. The “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis Versus Bundle, featuring sought-after characters like Blazagon, Pantaro and Rock Jaw, is a popular choice, but there are many others to choose from as well.
What to know before you buy Heroes of Goo Jit Zu Minis
What is “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu”?
“Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” is a popular line of toys released by the Australian toy company, Moose Toys. “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” toys feature their own original characters, such as Blazagon, Scorpius and Thrash. Still, there are also several licensed toy sets that include characters from “Space Jam,” “Jurassic World” and Marvel Comics.
Are “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis safe?
Although kids love “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu’ toys, they aren’t known to last. Many “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” toys will likely break open at some point in their life. The durability doesn’t seem to be a huge deal for kids, as the toys are still trendy despite the longevity issues. Still, it’s important to note, some “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” toys are filled with small plastic trinkets such as bones and spider webs that may pose a choking hazard for young children. Many of the “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis don’t contain small plastic trinkets, so this isn’t a concern when buying minis.
“Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Netflix show
“Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” would not likely be as popular as it is if not for the Netflix show released in 2019. Although there aren’t many episodes, the show gives the characters a unique back story and explains what each character can do with their powers. In the show, we learn that a meteorite falling to Earth caused a group of ordinary zoo animals to gain unique superpowers and stretchy limbs.
What to look for in a quality “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis set
Reasonable price
Because “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” toys aren’t really built to last, many parents opt for the minis since they’re less expensive. If kids are too rough on the toys, they’ll undoubtedly break after a while. A ‘Heroes of Goo Jit Zu’ Minis set is the perfect way to test whether or not a full-sized toy is a good fit for your child without breaking the bank.
Popular characters
“Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” has several original characters that are pretty popular. If you’re unsure which character is your kid’s favorite, it’s a good idea to compare the most popular characters before making a purchase.
- Blazagon – Blazagon is the de facto leader of the Heroes of Goo Jit Zu. This character is red and has a design that resembles a dinosaur or dragon.
- Pantaro – Pantaro is Blazagon’s second in command. Pantaro is a blue panther who wears a full ninja outfit, perfect for kids who love big cats or ninjas.
- Rockjaw – Rockjaw is the leader of the Wilders, the primary villains in the “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Netflix series. Rock Jaw is a giant green alligator that’s popular among kids who tend to like villains.
Fun battle potential
Most of the “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis sets are designed for your child to make the characters battle. Sets like the Pantaro vs. Scorpius set tend to make sense because both characters are ninja-themed. If you opt for buying a set that includes more than two characters, your child will be able to switch things up and make various characters battle one another, even if they aren’t thematically similar.
How much you can expect to spend on “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis
“Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis are significantly more affordable than the full-sized toys and will likely run you around $13-$20 for a set of two.
Heroes of Goo Jit Zu Minis FAQ
Are “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis worth the money?
A. Many parents prefer buying their kids “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” minis, as they are less pricey than the full-sized toys.
Do they make “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu Dino Power” Minis?
A. No, the popular “Dino Power” subseries are only available in full-sized “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” toys.
Which “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis are best to buy?
Top “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis
“Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis Versus Bundle
What you need to know: This affordable set comes with six popular “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” toys.
What you’ll love: You’ll pay significantly less per toy for this set of six characters. The “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis Versus Bundle includes all of the show’s most popular characters.
What you should consider: Like many other “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” toys, the paint will wear off on these toys after a week or so of play.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis for the money
Goo JIT Zu Mini Pack Versus Blazagon vs Rockjaw
What you need to know: This set includes the leaders of the Heroes and the Wilders at an affordable price.
What you’ll love: Blazagon and Rockjaw are two of the most popular characters from the Heroes of Goo Jit Zu series. This set of two “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Minis is significantly more affordable than buying a single full-sized toy.
What you should consider: These toys can be sticky and pick up lint.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
“Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” Random DC Mini
What you need to know: This “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” toy is ideal for fans of DC Comics characters.
What you’ll love: The “Heroes of Goo Jit Zu” DC Minis series includes famous characters such as Batman, Aquaman, Superman, Cyborg and the Joker. You have a chance of getting a rare Golden Batman or Silver Superman figure by purchasing this randomized toy.
What you should consider: If your child doesn’t like the full range of DC characters available as Goo Jit Zu Minis, they may be disappointed with what they get.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s economic growth, hit by pandemic curbs and price increases, slowed to 4.1% in the January-March quarter, according to figures released Tuesday by the government.
It was the slowest pace in the financial year that ended in March, following 5.4% growth in the previous quarter.
Overall, India’s economy grew by 8.7% in the 2021-22 financial year, slower than the 8.9% estimated by a government survey in February.
India’s economy, Asia’s third largest, was recovering from a pandemic-induced slump when a surge in omicron-fueled coronavirus cases starting in January prompted authorities to bring back some virus-related restrictions.
A month later, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed up retail inflation, which hit an eight-year high of 7.8% in April.
Earlier this month, the federal government restricted wheat and sugar exports and cut fuel taxes in an attempt to control inflation and keep commodity prices in check.
Last week, rating agency Moody’s trimmed India’s growth forecast to 8.8% from 9.1% for the current fiscal year, which started in April, as rising energy and food prices hit consumer spending.
India’s economy contracted by 6.6% in the 2020-21 financial year. | https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/hit-by-pandemic-curbs-indias-quarterly-growth-slows-to-4/ | 2022-06-01T01:57:57Z |
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leatt Corporation (OTCQB: LEAT), a developer and marketer of protective equipment and ancillary products for sports, especially extreme high-velocity sports, announced today that it plans to release its financial results for the second quarter 2022 before the market opens on Thursday, August 11, 2022. The Leatt management team will host a conference call to discuss the Company's financial results on the same day at 10:00 am ET.
Participants should dial in to the call ten minutes before the scheduled time, using the following numbers: 1-877-407-9716 (USA) or 1-201-493-6779 (international) to access the call.
There will also be a simultaneous live webcast through the Company's website at www.leatt-corp.com. Participants should register on the website approximately ten minutes prior to the start of the webcast.
An audio replay of the conference call will be available for seven days and can be accessed by dialing 1-844-512-2921 (USA) or 1-412-317-6671 (international). The replay PIN number is 13731945.
For those unable to attend the call, a recording of the live webcast will be archived shortly following the event for 30 days on the Company's website.
Leatt Corporation develops personal protective equipment and ancillary products for all forms of sports, especially extreme motor sports. The Leatt-Brace® is an award-winning neck brace system considered the gold standard for neck protection for anyone wearing a crash helmet as a form of protection. It was designed for participants in extreme sports or riding motorcycles, bicycles, mountain bicycles, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles and other vehicles. For more information, visit: www.leatt.com .
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SINGAPORE, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- .bit (did.id) has raised $13 million to build cross-chain decentralized identity protocol. The Series A round, completed one year after the startup's launch, was led by CMB International, HashKey Capital, QingSong Fund, GSR Ventures, GGV Capital, and SNZ.
.bit's open-source blockchain protocol will provide permissionless decentralized identification for individual users and DAOs. Over the past 12 months, the project's user and developer communities have experienced strong growth. Almost 100 mainstream wallets and dApps have already integrated with .bit and more than 38k independent addresses have registered for more than 110k .bit accounts.
In the web2 era, social profiles are stored on centralized databases by tech giants who can revoke access or alter data at will. Accounts may be blocked or deactivated at any time, leading to censorship and deplatforming. Utilizing web3 technology, .bit will empower individuals to truly own and control their data. Users will enjoy identity sovereignty, both as private persons and as corporate entities.
Further use cases for .bit's decentralized identity product include supporting the one billion citizens who lack legal identification. This makes it impossible for them to prove their identity, obtain basic government benefits or healthcare, enroll in education, or exercise their right to vote.
Forthcoming features under development include NameDAO, which will assign a portion of .bit protocol revenue to DAOs, and sub-accounts which will be issued to DAO members, brand adopters, and loyal supporters to strengthen web3 communities, and further lower the threshold for registering accounts, 4-9 digits accounts available to 100% and open up 3 digits accounts, which will announce the specific rules on the official Twitter very soon.
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Receiving the award for a third consecutive year validates the powerful Springbuk Health Intelligence® platform and its approach to providing employers and their advisors with insights to make data-driven decisions on employee benefits.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Springbuk, a health data analytics software company whose mission is to "prevent disease with data™," is named a 2022 HR Tech Award winner by technology analyst firm Lighthouse Research. The analyst firm described Springbuk as "impressive" and of great value to the employer communities it serves.
Springbuk's Health Intelligence platform is proven to help companies better serve employee populations with more effective healthcare and well-being strategies and benefits, as well as deliver those employer-provided programs more cost-effectively through the use of its health intelligence platform.
"When it comes to employee well-being, the most critical question is simple to ask but difficult to answer: Are employees actually well? Thousands of business leaders trust Springbuk to answer that question using rich insights and analytics," said Ben Eubanks, Chief Research Officer at Lighthouse Research & Advisory. "This isn't just about guiding decisions or reducing costs — it's about making sure our people are able to be their healthiest and best selves."
Springbuk received the award in the category for "Core HR/Workforce Best Analytics, Measurement, and Business Impact Solution." Springbuk's entry impressed the judges for the value it provides organizations to make data-driven decisions about employee healthcare benefits and well-being programs. Where most health benefits technologies are just traditional data warehouses or glorified spreadsheets, Springbuk uses a proprietary machine learning model, predictive analytics, and third-party solutions to expose insights and answers, which empowers employers and benefits advisors with the insights and answers they need to improve employee health and control costs.
"This award validates our team's efforts and approach to consolidating, simplifying, and harnessing the power of predictive analytics to help employers improve the health and well-being of their employees in a cost-effective way," said Steve Kukula, Springbuk's Chief Technology and Product Officer. "We know that no other solution on the market can deliver healthcare insights with such ease and usability as can Springbuk's Health Intelligence platform."
Imagine a world where every healthcare decision is backed and guided by data. Springbuk is the health data analytics solution that equips you with the insights and expertise you need to sharpen your benefits strategy, advance employee health, and contain costs. Unlike legacy data warehouses, we simplify data-driven decision-making with an intuitive user experience, predictive modeling, and curated action steps. Springbuk — a world of actionable health intelligence insight, at your fingertips. Visit springbuk.com to learn more.
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Sizzle.gg, the leader in AI-driven automatic and personalized highlights for esports leagues and streamers, raises $5 million to continue rapid expansion as company officially launches global open access
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sizzle.gg, an AI-driven patented platform that creates automatic and personalized highlights for esports leagues and teams, video game streamers and more, has officially raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by White Star Capital along with Progression Fund, Eterna Capital, Play Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Xoogler Ventures and others. The news comes as the company, with founders who have previously held executive positions at Google and other prominent digital and video game companies, emerges from its initial beta phase, becoming readily available for content creators all over the world.
"There are so many valuable applications for what we're delivering to leagues, teams and streamers – we're just scratching the surface of what's to come," said Vijay Koduri, co-founder and CEO of Sizzle.gg. "With this recent round of funding, we'll be able to expand further and offer even more to creators and leagues, helping them continue to grow and reach their audiences in new and unique ways."
Sizzle.gg works with esports leagues, teams and streamers to create automatic, personalized highlights and trailers from their gameplay. With deep AI to analyze video, audio and chat, Sizzle.gg's patented technology determines the best highlights in gameplay – including action sequences (battles, kills, goals), funny moments, players involved, weapons used, endings and more – and automatically pulls them. These individual moments, which are usually 15 to 30 seconds each, can be used across a wide array of social platforms, such as TikTok, Twitter and Discord, and can even be personalized for each fan based on their favorite games, players, and types of play without creating multiple new video files. In addition, using those highlights, Sizzle.gg can create 3 to 5 minute compilation sizzles, ideal for YouTube.
PUBG Esports Americas is a prime example of a company utilizing the platform, leveraging Sizzle.gg's highlights portal after each stream to find the most compelling moments of the day and posting them on social media. Using Sizzle.gg, PUBG is able to seamlessly curate exciting individual player or team kills, as well as pull together compilations from tournaments and other events.
"What Sizzle.gg is doing is groundbreaking and we are thrilled to be lead investors in something so innovative," said Eddie Lee, Partner at White Star Capital. "Whether it's streamers, teams or Tier 1 esports leagues like PUBG Esports, their content needs are only going to grow exponentially, so we're excited to be involved in a platform that revolutionizes content generation and can be personalized for billions of fans globally."
Sizzle.gg plugs directly into Twitch and YouTube streams with no software requirement. Additionally, Sizzle.gg has developed patented personalization technology, which allows different users to view different moments simply by pointing back to the source video on Twitch or YouTube. This allows coaches to break down every individual play, or leagues to personalize highlights to millions of fans, all without generating any new video. Through this process, Sizzle.gg can also provide analytics back to the leagues so they know what moments fans are watching.
Streamers and creators can sign up now at Sizzle.gg; it's free to join. Teams and leagues looking to use the highlights portal are encouraged to reach out to info@sizzle.gg to learn more. For more information, please visit www.sizzle.gg.
About Sizzle.gg:
Sizzle works with esports leagues and streamers to deliver automatic, personalized highlights, directly from Twitch and YouTube streams. Sizzle has built deep AI, analyzing the video, audio and chat of gaming streams to detect the most exciting moments. Additionally, Sizzle has built patented technology to personalize highlights to millions of fans. Sizzle is based in Silicon Valley, funded by top-tier venture capitalists, and its management team combines ex-Google, digital media and gaming expertise. Sizzle is available at www.sizzle.gg.
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WASHINGTON, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new analysis by Ernst & Young (EY) finds that employee-owners of privately held businesses called "S corporations" (S ESOPs) benefit from far better retirement savings and job security compared with other U.S. workers.
The analysis – which EY conducted on behalf of the Employee-Owned S Corporations of America (ESCA) – examines trends in S ESOP retirement plans from 2002 through 2019, including S ESOP plans' net asset value, number of participants, average account balances, and distributions to participants.
EY's key findings include:
- S ESOP assets and participants grew significantly since the beginning of the millennium, and assets grew faster than participants, leading to higher assets per participant.
- S ESOP employee-owners saw returns at rates higher than the stock market.
- S ESOPs distributions to employee-owners, typically when they retire, totaled more than $77 billion from 2002-2019.
- An individual employee-owner participating in an S ESOP gets nearly $26,000 each year as an added benefit. This figure takes into account firm contributions, increased job security, and growth in S ESOP assets.
"Time and again, data show that the S ESOP model provides substantial added benefits to hardworking Americans who are able to be owners of their businesses," said Stephanie Silverman, President and CEO of ESCA. "From amassing significant retirement savings to enjoying outstanding job security and more, employee ownership of private businesses has a proven track record of helping American workers and businesses thrive, even in the most challenging of climates."
At a time when financial stability and retirement security are at the top of Americans' minds, Silverman added, "our elected leaders should seize the opportunity to encourage the creation of more S ESOP companies. The U.S. House took a helpful step in this direction by including a partial incentive for business owners to transition to employee ownership in the bipartisan SECURE Act, aimed at increasing retirement savings, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support last month. We are hopeful that the U.S. Senate will include a similar incentive in their own bipartisan retirement savings legislation."
EY's findings build on a growing body of data and research demonstrating the valuable benefits of employee ownership to American workers and businesses.
A recent study by the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) found that employee ownership of private businesses through employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) provided exceptional resiliency and financial security in the face of pandemic-driven economic challenges. In reporting on the study, NBC News noted that while record numbers of Americans have quit their jobs in what has been dubbed the "Great Resignation," workers at employee-owned private businesses are "staying put and reaping rewards" in a sharp contrast with the "deep disaffection among workers" at many traditional companies.
A 2021 survey by John Zogby Strategies also found that workers at employee-owned S corporations (S ESOPs) reported being on significantly more stable financial ground than other U.S. workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- To read EY's full findings, CLICK HERE.
- To learn more about the Employee-Owned S Corporations of America (ESCA), CLICK HERE.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones arrived at a Texas courthouse for his defamation trial for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack a hoax with the words “Save the 1st” scrawled on tape covering his mouth.
Although Jones portrays the lawsuit against him as an assault on the First Amendment, the parents who sued him say his statements were so malicious and obviously false that they fell well outside the bounds of speech protected by the constitutional clause.
The ongoing trial in Austin, which is where Jones’ far-right Infowars website and its parent company are based, stems from a 2018 lawsuit brought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son was killed in the 2012 attack along with 19 other first-graders and six educators.
Jones is expected to testify Tuesday in his own defense.
Here’s a look at how the case relates to the First Amendment:
ARE ALL DEFAMATION LAWSUITS FIRST AMENDMENT CASES?
They are. Defamation laws evolved through decades of U.S. Supreme Court rulings on what is and isn’t protected speech.
Typically, the first question jurors answer at trials is whether the speech qualifies as unprotected defamation. If it does, they address the question of damages.
Jones’ trial largely skipped the first question and went straight to the second. From the start, it focused not on whether Jones must pay damages, but how much.
WHY IS HIS TRIAL DIFFERENT?
Jones seemed to sabotage his own chance to fully argue that his speech was protected by not complying with orders to hand over critical evidence, such as emails, which the parents hoped would prove he knew all along that his statements were false.
That led exasperated Judge Maya Guerra Gamble to enter a rare default judgment, declaring the parents winners before the trial even began.
Judges in other lawsuits against Jones have issued similar rulings.
“I don’t know why they didn’t cooperate,” said Stephen D. Solomon, a founding editor of New York University’s First Amendment Watch. “It is just really peculiar. … It’s so odd to not even give yourself the chance to defend yourself.”
It might suggest Jones knew certain evidence would doom his defense.
“It is reasonable to presume that (Jones) and his team did not think they had a viable defense … or they would have complied,” said Barry Covert, a Buffalo, New York, First Amendment lawyer.
HAVE BOTH SIDES REFERRED TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT?
Yes. During opening statements last week, plaintiffs’ lawyer Mark Bankston told jurors it doesn’t protect defamatory speech.
“Speech is free,” he said, “but lies you have to pay for.”
Jones’ lawyer Andino Reynal said the case is crucial to free speech.
And Jones made similar arguments in a deposition.
“If questioning public events and free speech is banned because it might hurt somebody’s feelings, we are not in America anymore,” he said.
Jones, who had said actors staged the shooting as a pretext to strengthen gun control, later acknowledged it occurred.
WHAT ARE KEY ELEMENTS OF DEFAMATION?
Defamation must involve someone making a false statement of fact publicly — typically via the media — and purporting that it’s true. An opinion can’t be defamatory. The statement also must have done actual damage to someone’s reputation.
The parents suing Jones say his lies about their child’s death harmed their reputations and led to death threats from Jones’ followers.
IS IT EASIER FOR NON-PUBLIC FIGURES TO PROVE DEFAMATION?
Yes. They must merely show a false statement was made carelessly.
In New York Times v. Sullivan in 1964, the Supreme Court said the bar for public figures must be higher because scrutiny of them is so vital to democracy. They must prove “actual malice,” that a false statement was made “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”
ARE THE PARENTS PUBLIC FIGURES?
Their lawyers say they clearly aren’t in the category of politicians or celebrities who stepped voluntarily into the public arena.
The high court, however, has said those who temporarily enter public debates can become temporary public figures.
Jones argues that Heslin did just that, entering the national debate over guns by advocating for tougher gun laws on TV and before Congress.
WHAT DAMAGES ARE BEING SOUGHT?
The plaintiffs are seeking $150 million for emotional distress, as well as reputational and punitive damages.
Reynal told jurors that his client has been punished enough, losing millions of dollars being booted off major social media platforms.
He asked them to award the plaintiffs $1.
CAN FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES INFLUENCE THE TRIAL’S OUTCOME?
Indirectly, yes.
Jones can’t argue that he’s not liable for damages on the grounds that his speech was protected. The judge already ruled he is liable. But as a way to limit damages, his lawyers can argue that his speech was protected.
“Jurors could say (Jones’ defamatory statements) is actually something we don’t want to punish very hard,” said Kevin Goldberg, a First Amendment specialist at the Maryland-based Freedom Forum.
COULD JONES HAVE WON IF THE TRIAL WAS ALL ABOUT FREE SPEECH?
He could have contended that his statements were hyperbolic opinion — that wild, non-factual exaggeration is his schtick.
But it would have been tough to persuade jurors that he was merely riffing and opining.
“It was a verifiable fact the massacre occurred at Sandy Hook,” said Solomon. “That’s not opinion. It is a fact.” Even if the parents were deemed public figures, imposing the higher standard, “I think Alex Jones would still lose,” he said.
But Covert said defamation is always a challenge to prove.
“I wouldn’t discount the possibility Jones could have prevailed,” he said. “Trying to speculate what a jury would find is always a fool’s errand.”
MIGHT THE SUPREME COURT BE SYMPATHETIC TO ANY JONES APPEAL?
Conservatives and liberal justices have found that some deeply offensive speech is protected.
In 2011, the high court voted 8-to-1 to overturn a verdict against the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church for picketing military funerals with signs declaring that God hates the U.S. for tolerating homosexuality.
“As a Nation we have chosen … to protect even hurtful speech … to ensure that we do not stifle public debate,” the ruling said.
But it and the Jones case have key differences.
“The were both extreme, outrageous, shocking, deplorable. But the Westboro Baptist Church was also manifestly political and not defamatory … not about any one person’s reputation” Goldberg said.
He added: “I’d be shocked if (Jones’) case ever ended up in the Supreme Court.”
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For more of the AP’s coverage of school shootings: https://apnews.com/hub/school-shootings | https://cw33.com/news/u-s-news/ap-us-headlines/explainer-is-alex-jones-trial-about-free-speech-rights/ | 2022-08-02T23:17:31Z |
LOS ANGELES, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Elements CEO Michael Silver will deliver the keynote address at the 2022 Ceramics Expo Conference on August 29th in Cleveland, Ohio. The speech is entitled "An Era of Opportunity: The Top 5 Post-Pandemic Growth Materials in Ceramics."
In the speech, Mr. Silver will discuss the most promising advanced materials that will experience significant growth in the current and future global post-pandemic climate. Industries impacted include green energy, space flight and mobile communications.
Additional information about the 2022 Ceramics Expo is available online at http://www.ceramicsexpousa.com. For more information about American Elements and its product catalog of advanced materials, visit https://www.americanelements.com.
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