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NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
If you own shares in any of the companies listed above and
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Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. (NASDAQ: IEA)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. (NASDAQ: IEA), in connection with the proposed acquisition of IEA by MasTec, Inc. ("MasTec"). Under the terms of the merger agreement, IEA shareholders will receive $14.00 per share in cash and 0.0483 shares of MasTec common stock for each IEA share owned, representing implied per-share merger consideration of approximately $18.12 based upon MasTec's August 25, 2022 closing price of $85.26. If you own IEA shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/iea
Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: SHLX)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: SHLX), in connection with the proposed acquisition of SHLX by Shell USA, Inc. ("Shell USA"). Under the terms of the merger agreement, SHLX unit holders will receive $15.85 in cash for each Public Common Unit of SHLX common stock owned. A subsidiary of Shell USA currently owns 269,457,304 SHLX common units, or approximately 68.5% of SHLX common units. If you own SHLX shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/shlx
Zymergen Inc. (NASDAQ: ZY)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of Zymergen Inc. (NASDAQ: ZY), connected with the proposed acquisition of ZY by Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. ("Ginkgo"). Under the terms of the merger agreement, ZY shareholders will receive 0.9179 shares of Ginkgo common stock for each ZY share owned, representing implied per-share merger consideration of approximately $2.69 based upon Ginkgo's August 25, 2022 closing price of $2.93. If you own ZY shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/zy
EVO Payments, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVOP)
Weiss Law is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the board of directors of EVO Payments, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVOP), in connection with the proposed acquisition of EVOP by Global Payments Inc. Under the terms of the merger agreement, EVOP shareholders will receive $34.00 in cash for each share of EVOP common stock owned. If you own EVOP shares and wish to discuss this investigation or your rights, please call us or visit our website: https://www.weisslaw.co/news-and-cases/evop
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NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner of the class action firm Monteverde & Associates PC (the "M&A Class Action Firm"), a national securities firm rated Top 50 in the 2018-2021 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report and headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating MICT, Inc. (MICT), relating to its proposed merger with Tingo, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, current MICT shareholders will own approximately 22.5% of the combined company. Click here for more information: https://www.monteverdelaw.com/case/mict-inc. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.
We are a national class action securities litigation law firm that has recovered millions of dollars and is committed to protecting shareholders from corporate wrongdoing. We were listed in the Top 50 in the 2018-2021 ISS Securities Class Action Services Report. Our lawyers have significant experience litigating Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Class Actions. Mr. Monteverde is recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in Securities Litigation in 2013, 2017-2019, an award given to less than 2.5% of attorneys in a particular field. He has also been selected by Martindale-Hubbell as a 2017-2021 Top Rated Lawyer. Our firm's recent successes include changing the law in a significant victory that lowered the standard of liability under Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act in the Ninth Circuit. Thereafter, our firm successfully preserved this victory by obtaining dismissal of a writ of certiorari as improvidently granted at the United States Supreme Court. Emulex Corp. v. Varjabedian, 139 S. Ct. 1407 (2019). Also, in 2019 we recovered or secured six cash common funds for shareholders in mergers & acquisitions class action cases.
If you own common stock in MICT and wish to obtain additional information and protect your investments free of charge, please visit our website or contact Juan E. Monteverde, Esq. either via e-mail at jmonteverde@monteverdelaw.com or by telephone at (212) 971-1341.
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Varadian will spearhead continued growth in the U.S. and Canada
NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CoachHub, the leading global talent development platform, is adding to its senior leadership team with the appointment of Kevin Varadian as senior vice president of sales and general manager for North America. Varadian brings nearly two decades of sales acumen and leadership to the role. He will oversee the strategy and operations of the company in North America while leading a dedicated sales team focused on continuing the fast-growing company's global expansion following CoachHub's $200 million Series C financing round announced in June.
Prior to joining CoachHub, Varadian held senior positions at LinkedIn and WeWork, where he focused on organizational growth. He helped WeWork achieve 10x in revenue growth to reach $1B+ and most recently scaled mortgage startup Tomo through sales and acquisition as the company's SVP of sales.
"Already the global category leader, CoachHub is continuing to innovate and evolve. As part of this growth, we are investing in international expansion with a strategic priority on North America — our fastest-growing market," said Yannis Niebelschuetz, founder and CEO of CoachHub. "Kevin will act as a driving force behind this next stage of accelerated growth, and I am confident that his extensive leadership and sales expertise will further solidify CoachHub as the world's leading enterprise coaching provider."
Along with overseeing the North American sales function, Varadian will lead talent acquisition and employee growth, unifying the North American organization with global operations and continuing to grow brand awareness in this region.
"CoachHub is a proven disruptor in a legacy industry and has showcased significant product-market fit," said Varadian. "I am thrilled to join CoachHub's robust leadership team and help this fast-growing company realize even greater success in its mission to democratize coaching."
Varadian's hire comes hot on the heels of other growth milestones including the rollout of the Digital Coaching Institute and the start of CoachHub's five-year partnership with EMCC Global to promote international accreditation and ethical standards in the coaching industry.
For more information about CoachHub, please visit www.coachhub.com.
About CoachHub
CoachHub is the leading global talent development platform that enables organizations to create personalized, measurable and scalable coaching programs for the entire workforce, regardless of department and seniority level. By doing so, organizations are able to reap a multitude of benefits, including increased employee engagement, higher levels of productivity, improved job performance and increased retention. CoachHub's global pool of coaches comprises over 3,500 certified business coaches in 90 countries across six continents with coaching sessions available in over 60 languages, to serve more than 500 clients. Our programs are based on advanced R&D from our Coaching Lab, led by Prof. Jonathan Passmore and our Scientific Board. CoachHub is backed by leading tech investors, including Sofina, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Molten Ventures, Speedinvest, HV Capital, Partech and Silicon Valley Bank/SVB Capital.
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Grayson College serves over 4,000 students nearing Adult Education and Family Literacy Week
DENISON, Texas (KXII) - Since July of 2020, approximately 4,000 students have enrolled in free adult education classes offered by Grayson College in Collin, Cooke, Fannin, and Grayson counties.
This milestone arrived just days before the annual Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, which is set for Sept. 18 through Sept. 24. The upcoming week serves as public awareness about the significance of adult education and family literacy.
Despite the growing demand for reading, writing, and basic math, these educational skills remain difficult to access for millions of adults nationwide, including 19% of Grayson County residents. According to a press release from Grayson College, the ProLiteracy organization claimed 43 million adults in the United States cannot read, write or do math above a third-grade level.
To prevent certain educational necessities from being an elusive target, Grayson College has used funding provided by the Texas Workforce Commission to improve these levels of competency for adult learners and help them prepare for life outside of school and meet the demands of today’s workforce.
“Our ultimate goal is that [students] go onto a higher education,” said Adult Education and Literacy Assistant Director Davina Ransom. “We are extremely excited. The teachers are excited, and that makes the students excited to see where they’re going to be going in life.”
Prospective students interested in earning their high school equivalency diploma, improving their English language proficiency, or simply seeking to refresh their skills in math and reading can enroll in Grayson College’s free classes at any time by calling (903) 463-8784 to make an enrollment appointment. Registration without an appointment is available Oct. 5 and Oct. 19 between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Interested students should simply walk into the Advanced Technology building on Grayson College’s main campus in Denison with an ID to enroll. Registration can be completed in various languages with Spanish-speaking staff available to assist registrants.
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crown Products, Inc. ("Crown") an industry leading distributor of flooring and flooring installation products, announced today the acquisition of Blakely Products Company ("Blakely"), headquartered in Warren, MI. Founded in 1946, Blakely is a leader and innovator in the distribution of flooring and flooring installation products with seven locations in Michigan (6) and Ohio (1).
Crown CEO, John DeYoung commented, "Blakely Products is a natural fit with Crown. It adds renowned distribution experience and capabilities in Michigan and Ohio with many common strategic manufacturers. This acquisition aligns with our mission to build one of the premier sundries and flooring distributors in the country. We are excited to partner with the Blakely team and work together to further distinguish Crown as an industry leader."
Everett Blakely founded the company near downtown Detroit, MI on the principles of honor, integrity, and superb service. Today, Blakely has grown to seven locations serving all of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and Northwest Ohio.
Dan Blakely commented, "Blakely Products has had a blessed 76-year history since my father and mother, Everett and Wilma Blakely, founded the business. Considering current industry consolidation trends and increased competition, it became apparent we needed to join forces with a solid strategic partner with a vision for future success. It is important to ensure our dedicated employees and their families, our faithful customers and vendors, along with the Blakely legacy and core values continue to prosper in the future. I am confident Crown Products will be trustworthy stewards of all that Blakely Products Company has stood for since 1946."
"Blakely has a sterling reputation and a talented team that shares Crown's passion and desire to provide excellent quality, service, and value to the customer. We are committed to delivering the best customer experience and the combination of Blakely Products and Crown is yet another step closer to achieving our goal," said DeYoung. "This is our fifth acquisition since 2018 as we continue to expand the number of markets where we provide a full range of flooring and flooring installation products to our customers. It is a very exciting time for both Crown and Blakely."
About Crown Products:
Crown, headquartered in Bloomington, MN, is an industry leading distributor of flooring and flooring installation products, serving the Upper-Midwest, Mountain West and Great Lakes geographies for over 75 years. Crown's knowledgeable team and 27-location distribution network serves residential and commercial flooring contractors, builders, and retailers across 10 states. With over 23,000 items from more than 100 manufacturers, Crown manages a distinguishable vendor portfolio for its dynamic customer base.
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Acquisition of Digital Signage Network Bolsters Fyllo's Retail Solutions; Ushers in New Era of Connective Commerce
NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fyllo, the leading platform providing data-driven marketing and regulatory solutions to drive new growth, today announced the signing of an agreement to purchase NineSixteen, an interactive retail display network that delivers high-impact digital experiences in physical retail locations.
NineSixteen will bolster Fyllo's widely-used retail offering, which was created to build stronger connections with today's most progressive consumers.
The combination of NineSixteen's hardware and software platform has proven to increase in-store sales for some of the top retailers in cannabis, fashion and apparel. Now, through this acquisition, both cannabis retailers and brands will have access to NineSixteen's revenue-boosting technology while at the same time providing an even more progressive brand experience to customers.
"Fyllo's platform is built for ambitious marketers to reach today's most progressive consumers who expect more from retail and brand experiences," said Chad Bronstein, Founder and CEO of Fyllo. "We have a track record of creating highly effective loyalty and promotional campaigns for our customers. The addition of NineSixteen's hardware and software will allow us to take this to the next level and deliver 'connective commerce' solutions to retailers."
"NineSixteen's vision is to reimagine how the digital and physical retail sectors coincide and to define what an effective in-store digital experience should be. The Fyllo team understood our mission from the moment we launched and have been champions of the company we have created. Now as part of Fyllo, we can innovate faster and stay ahead of the changes our new consumer economy brings," said Sumant Yerramilly, CEO, NineSixteen.
Bronstein continued, "At Fyllo we are always looking for ways to enhance our offerings and build additional value for our customers. NineSixteen not only provides new retail hardware and software to our suite, but it also provides brands with the best user experience, which ultimately leads to stronger connections with their customers. We look forward to welcoming the NineSixteen team into the Fyllo Family."
NineSixteen's subscription-based software platform provides retailers with interactive digital signage that helps consumers get more from their shopping experience – from endless product discovery and purchase to loyalty signup and promotions at the point-of-sale. The company will continue to serve its portfolio of leading retailers. Additionally, its software will be integrated into Fyllo's Retail Solutions and has applications across several sectors including retail/apparel, gaming and hospitality.
This is Fyllo's second acquisition in 2022 and fourth since it was founded in 2019. In April the company announced the acquisition of Semasio, a pioneer in unified targeting for digital marketing, to enhance its data solutions.
Fyllo is on a mission to accelerate the economies of tomorrow. Fyllo's marketing and regulatory solutions provide the tools, data and integrations needed to drive new growth with speed and scale. Powered by the largest ecosystem of cannabis and CBD purchase data and an industry-leading regulatory database, Fyllo's marketing and regulatory solutions are used by Fortune 500 companies and emerging brands to stay competitive and compliant. For more information, visit www.hellofyllo.com.
NineSixteen is on a mission to become the customer service experience platform for brands & retailers in the physical world - unlocking seamless experiences around product discovery, rewards, loyalty enrollment and purchase. This enables a world where products are brought to life and browsing is fun & interactive. Most importantly - Buying is frictionless. By applying the contextual data derived from these interactions across hundreds of locations and brands we will be able to leverage physical interaction data like never before. Our vision is to enable this seamless experience platform that connects the offline world to the online world. Today - we are focused on interactive digital layers & in-person mobile experiences to bring this vision to life across hundreds of retail locations. For more information, visit www.ninesixteen.com
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A Quarter Century of Business Dotted with Technology Advancements and Industry-Leading Support
ATLANTA, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquid Web, the market leader in cloud hosting and software solutions for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), celebrates 25 years of helping businesses grow online.
Over the past quarter century, Liquid Web has grown into a Family of Brands delivering technology, services, and support for thriving businesses and nonprofits running mission-critical websites, eCommerce stores, and applications. Liquid Web (High Performance Managed Hosting), Nexcess (Digital Commerce Cloud), StellarWP (WordPress Software and Tools), and Modern Tribe (Enterprise WordPress Agency) have more than 500,000+ sites under management and support over 175,000 software subscribers and 2.5 Million+ free version software users.
The company was founded in 1997 by Matthew Hill, who passed away unexpectedly on July 13, 2022. He was in high school when he founded Liquid Web in Holt, Michigan. For 18 years, before he sold in 2015, with the help of his family and friends, he built the foundation for what the company is today.
In 2015, Madison Dearborn and the management team (Jim Geiger (CEO), Joe Oesterling (CTO), and Carrie Wheeler (COO)) invested in Liquid Web. The new leadership team set a vision to build a platform to enable small businesses - and the creators who build sites and stores for them - to make money online. The strategy was developed to innovate products and services that address market trends toward simplification and deliver the best experience in hosting - to become the Most Helpful Humans in Hosting®.
"All of our efforts and strategies are focused on helping small businesses make money online," said Jim Geiger, CEO. "We've coined the phrase "Web-Dependent SMBs" because, for our customers, their online presence is their business. They are not "setting and forgetting" their website; it's not brochureware, it's not a hobby. Our platform(s) power their online commerce and therefore, their livelihood", said Geiger.
In the last 7 years, Liquid Web invested heavily in product development, sales, and marketing and expanded platform and support capabilities by adding Managed WordPress (2016); Premium Business Email (2017); the industry's first Managed WooCommerce Hosting (2018); Protection and Remediation Services (2018); VMware Private Cloud (2019); CloudFlare (2019); Acronis Cyber Backups (2020); Managed Cloud Servers (2020); VMware Private Cloud Multi-Tenant (2020); and Threat Stack (2021).
The Liquid Web Family of Brands has also strategically grown its presence in the WordPress space by adding software companies like iThemes (2018), Restrict Content Pro (2020), The Events Calendar (2021), Iconic (2021), KadenceWP (2021), GiveWP (2021), LearnDash (2021), and Modern Tribe (2021) to our portfolio. In addition, a new arm of our business was introduced to serve as the umbrella brand for all WordPress software offerings: StellarWP.
The company has honed a strategic focus around open source software and platforms and the flexibility and ownership those provide for online site and store owners. Because the customers they attract are largely within the WordPress ecosystem – the world's most dominant content and commerce management system powering over 43% of all online properties on the Internet today – the company has a commitment to fostering ongoing innovation with new features, curated solutions, and tools to help customers realize the power that open source provides. In 2021, the company launched the first SaaS-like customer experience for buying, building, and managing an online store with a product called StoreBuilder, and in 2022, launched LearnDash Cloud. These products integrate hosting and curate a number of the company's owned software solutions to innovate online commerce solutions on WordPress.
"We continue to believe that we can lead in providing simplified, highly performant, secure, curated solutions to accelerate SMBs and creators getting, staying, and growing online. Our North Star, our strategic vision, is to continue to simplify online commerce – in all its forms – for new and existing online merchants by leveraging open source solutions riding on our infrastructure, our software assets, our industry expertise, and our world-class technical support," said Geiger. "We celebrate this anniversary with great pride and appreciation for our customers who trust us with their business and our employees, the Most Helpful Humans in Hosting® who make us stand out as an industry leader. As we look ahead to our future, we understand the responsibility we have to the businesses we support and will continue to focus on our purpose of helping SMBs and their creators make money online."
Building on 25 years of success, our Liquid Web Family of Brands delivers software, solutions, and managed services for mission-critical sites, stores, and applications to SMBs and the designers, developers, and agencies who create for them. Liquid Web (Managed Hosting), Nexcess (Digital Commerce Cloud), and StellarWP (WordPress Software and Tools) have more than 500,000+ sites under management, over 175,000 software subscribers, and 2 million+ free version software users. Collectively, the companies have assembled a world-class team of industry experts, provide unparalleled service from solution engineers available 24/7/365, and own and manage ten global data centers. As an industry leader in customer service, the rapidly expanding brand family has been recognized among INC. Magazine's 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies for 12 years. Learn more about the Liquid Web Family of Brands.
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VIENNA, Va., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solutions By Design II, LLC (SBD), a leader in cyber strategy, defense and recovery capabilities announced that it has been awarded a subcontract to provide Security Operations Center (SOC) support to the Federal Student Aid (FSA). This Task Order is a part of the Department of Education's Cybersecurity and Privacy Support Services (CPSS) five-year, $300 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). SBD will provide SOC Operations Center support, SOC Engineering Support, and Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing.
As part of the CPSS BPA, SBD and prime Zen Strategics are humbled to have been selected for an all-important task order providing the Federal Student Aid SOC support valued at 5 yr / $57M for the Department of Education. This is an important milestone and an inflection point for Zen.
SBD will work collaboratively with Prime Contractor Zen Strategics and the Department of Education Federal Student Aid stakeholders to communicate threat information and other relevant security data and alerts while maintaining and optimizing the security posture of their assets, networks and data locations. "Given the impact of student loans on so many Americans, we realize how important security is to FSA's mission" said Michael Ewell., Vice President at SBD.
ABOUT SBD: SBD specializes in IT system modernization and support as an application transformation and agile process leader. We leverage open source technologies and cloud-based solutions to reduce operating costs and advance the value proposition of automated solutions. We also have a robust cybersecurity capability optimizing security operation centers through the use of workflow automation, technical expertise, and the use of leading edge security tools. Bottom line, we deliver technically innovative, reliable, and cost-effective solutions, services, and products to our federal customers.
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EMA accelerated assessment allows a shorter review period for leniolisib from a standard 210 days to 150 days
Pharming is on track to submit its Marketing Authorisation Application for leniolisib in H2 2022
LEIDEN, the Netherlands, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharming Group N.V. ("Pharming" or "the Company") (EURONEXT Amsterdam: PHARM) (Nasdaq: PHAR) announces that the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has granted an accelerated assessment for the Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) for leniolisib. Leniolisib has been studied for the treatment of activated PI3K delta syndrome (APDS), a rare primary immunodeficiency, in adults and adolescents age 12 or older in the European Economic Area (EEA). Pharming is on track and plans to submit its MAA for leniolisib to the EMA in October 2022.
Accelerated assessment reduces the timeframe for the CHMP to review an MAA from 210 days to 150 days. The EMA will grant, upon request, accelerated assessment of an MAA if they decide the product is of major interest for public health and therapeutic innovation.
The clinical development for leniolisib includes positive data from a Phase II/III study of the product, which met both its co-primary endpoints in the target patient population of evaluated reduction in lymph node size and correction of immunodeficiency. The primary efficacy results demonstrated clinical efficacy of leniolisib over placebo with a statistically significant reduction from baseline in the log10 transformed sum of product of diameters (SPD) in the index lymphadenopathy lesions (p=0.0012) and normalization of immune dysfunction, as evidenced by increased proportion of naïve B cells from baseline (p<0.0001). The shrinking of lymphadenopathy lesions and increased proportion of naïve B cells are important in patients as they indicate a reduction in APDS disease markers.
In the study, leniolisib was generally well-tolerated, with the majority of reported adverse events in both treatment groups classified as mild. There were no adverse events that led to discontinuation of study treatment, there were no deaths, and the incidence of serious adverse events (SAEs) was lower in the leniolisib group than the placebo group. None of the SAEs were suspected to be related to study treatment.
Anurag Relan, Chief Medical Officer of Pharming, commented:
"The acceptance of an accelerated regulatory review for leniolisib underlines the high unmet need for patients with APDS, with the product potentially being the first approved treatment for this rare disease. This is an important milestone for the APDS community and for Pharming and is built on the successful Phase II/III data, which we first reported in February 2022. We remain focused on progressing leniolisib through the regulatory review process, with our MAA on track for submission in October of this year, as we seek to make this important new product available to immunologists, hematologists, and their patients in Europe."
About Activated Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase δ Syndrome (APDS)
APDS is a rare primary immunodeficiency that affects approximately one to two people per million. Also known as PASLI, it is caused by variants in either of two genes, PIK3CD or PIK3R1, that regulate maturation of white blood cells. Variants of these genes lead to hyperactivity of the PI3Kδ (phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta) pathway.1,2 Balanced signaling in the PI3Kδ pathway is essential for physiological immune function. When this pathway is hyperactive, immune cells fail to mature and function properly, leading to immunodeficiency and dysregulation.1,3 APDS is characterized by severe, recurrent sinopulmonary infections, lymphoproliferation, autoimmunity, and enteropathy.4,5 Because these symptoms can be associated with a variety of conditions, including other primary immunodeficiencies, people with APDS are frequently misdiagnosed and suffer a median 7-year diagnostic delay.6 As APDS is a progressive disease, this delay may lead to an accumulation of damage over time, including permanent lung damage and lymphoma.4-7 The only way to definitively diagnose this condition is through genetic testing.
About Leniolisib
Leniolisib is a small-molecule inhibitor of the delta isoform of the 110 kDa catalytic subunit of class IA PI3K with immunomodulating and potentially anti-neoplastic activities. Leniolisib inhibits the production of phosphatidylinositol-3-4-5-trisphosphate (PIP3). PIP3 serves as an important cellular messenger specifically activating AKT (via PDK1) and regulates a multitude of cell functions such as proliferation, differentiation, cytokine production, cell survival, angiogenesis, and metabolism. Unlike PI3Kα and PI3Kβ, which are ubiquitously expressed, PI3Kẟ and PI3Kγ are expressed primarily in cells of hematopoietic origin. The central role of PI3Kẟ in regulating numerous cellular functions of the adaptive immune system (B-cells and, to a lesser extent, T cells) as well as the innate immune system (neutrophils, mast cells, and macrophages) strongly indicates that PI3Kẟ is a valid and potentially effective therapeutic target for several immune diseases. To date, leniolisib has been well tolerated during both the Phase 1 first-in-human trial in healthy subjects and the Phase II/III registration-enabling study.
About Pharming Group N.V.
Pharming Group N.V. (EURONEXT Amsterdam: PHARM/Nasdaq: PHAR) is a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with rare, debilitating, and life-threatening diseases. Pharming is commercializing and developing an innovative portfolio of protein replacement therapies and precision medicines, including small molecules, biologics, and gene therapies that are in early to late-stage development. Pharming is headquartered in Leiden, Netherlands, and has employees around the globe who serve patients in over 30 markets in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit www.pharming.com.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including with respect to timing and progress of Pharming's preclinical studies and clinical trials of its product candidates, Pharming's clinical and commercial prospects, Pharming's ability to overcome the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to the conduct of its business, and Pharming's expectations regarding its projected working capital requirements and cash resources, which statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including, but not limited to the scope, progress and expansion of Pharming's clinical trials and ramifications for the cost thereof; and clinical, scientific, regulatory and technical developments. In light of these risks and uncertainties, and other risks and uncertainties that are described in Pharming's 2021 Annual Report and the Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the events and circumstances discussed in such forward-looking statements may not occur, and Pharming's actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied thereby. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and are based on information available to Pharming as of the date of this release.
Inside Information
This press release relates to the disclosure of information that qualifies, or may have qualified, as inside information within the meaning of Article 7(1) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation.
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth marked 70 years on the throne in February 2022. Britain’s longest-serving monarch is the only sovereign most Britons have ever known. The Queen had been a constant presence as Britain navigated the end of empire, the swinging ’60s, the labor strife of the 1980s, international terrorism, Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in 1952 after the death of her father, King George VI, and five years after marrying Prince Philip, also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, at London’s Westminster Abbey. She and Prince Philip had four children, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
The youngest great-grandchild, the daughter of Princess Beatrice and husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, was born Sept. 20, 2021.
Prince Philip died at age 99 in April 2021.
In remarks released for the 70th anniversary of her rule, the monarch expressed a “sincere wish’’ that Prince Charles’ wife, Camilla, should be known as “Queen Consort” when her son succeeds her as expected. With those words, Elizabeth sought to answer once and for all questions about the status of Camilla, who was initially shunned by fans of the late Princess Diana, Charles’ first wife.
In backing Charles and Camilla, Elizabeth remembered the support she received from her husband, Prince Philip, who died last year after decades at her side, as well as the role her mother played as the wife of a king.
“I am fortunate to have had the steadfast and loving support of my family. I was blessed that, in Prince Philip, I had a partner willing to carry out the role of consort and unselfishly make the sacrifices that go with it,″ she wrote. “It is a role I saw my own mother perform during my father’s reign.”
“And when, in the fullness of time, my son Charles becomes King, I know you will give him and his wife Camilla the same support that you have given me,” she added.
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-Provides path to growing nickel refining capacity in North America-
TORONTO, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Electra Battery Materials Corporation (NASDAQ: ELBM) (TSXV: ELBM) ("Electra") today released highlights of a scoping study prepared by a global engineering firm supporting the creation of an integrated electric vehicle battery materials park in Ontario that would include nickel, cobalt and manganese refining, recycling of battery black mass material, and precursor cathode active material (pCAM) manufacturing.
The scoping study assessed the economics and carbon footprint of various nickel feed options to develop an integrated facility producing 10,000 tonnes per annum of battery grade nickel sulfate and nickel equivalent pCAM, components essential to production of electric vehicle batteries. All amounts are in U.S. currency unless otherwise noted.
"With U.S. electric vehicle manufacturers moving swiftly to reduce reliance on Chinese and Russian critical minerals in order to qualify for the $7,500 EV credit under the Inflation Reduction Act, Electra is capitalizing on the opportunity to provide secure domestic supply of EV battery materials," said Trent Mell, CEO of Electra Battery Materials. "The scoping study supports our view that an integrated refining-recycling-pCAM battery materials complex in Ontario would deliver compelling economics, emit low carbon emissions and address the onshoring of battery materials needed by the North American automotive industry."
Mr. Mell added, "Backed by compelling project economics, we are now proceeding with an engineering prefeasibility study to narrow our focus on feed sources and devise a multi-phased approach to growing nickel refining capacity in North America."
- The scoping study examined the construction of a battery grade nickel sulfate refinery in Ontario by 2025-26, with three feed base loads: nickel sulfides, Class 1 nickel metal and ferro nickel, supplemented with recycled battery black mass and nickel-rich mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP).
- Capital costs to build an integrated facility producing 10,000 tonnes per annum of nickel sulfate and nickel equivalent pCAM materials are anticipated to be between $550 and $650 million.
- Operating costs to produce 10,000 tonnes per annum of nickel sulfate and nickel equivalent pCAM materials on an integrated basis are anticipated to be between $125 and $133 million per year or between $13,000 and $13,600 per tonne of nickel sulfate produced (excluding byproduct credits), configured for NMC 811 EV battery chemistries.
- The integrated production facility is expected to contribute $225 million of GDP impact during the construction phase, including $112 million of salaries and $35 million of taxes plus an additional $415 million during the first 10 years of operations, including $111 million of salaries and $78 million of taxes.
- The integrated facility will utilize a hydrometallurgical flowsheet and leverage Electra's emerging expertise and permitted refining complex.
- 10,000 tonnes of per annum production of battery grade nickel sulfate and nickel equivalent pCAM could support domestic manufacturing of up to 250,000 fully electric vehicles per year.
- China refineries account for approximately 75% of battery grade nickel sulfate today.
"The benefits of an integrated recycling, refining, and pCAM facility identified by the scoping study provide a significant opportunity for Electra to further leverage its Ontario refinery location and assets," said Electra's VP of Engineering, Dave Marshall. "By using a phased approach towards project development and exploring collaboration opportunities for manganese and pCAM production, we will now look towards reducing capital and operating costs as we launch our engineering prefeasibility study."
- Total Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse emissions producing 10,000 tonnes per annum of nickel sulfate and pCAM materials configured for NMC 811 battery chemistries would range from 14,000 and 16,000 of tCO2e per year.
- The scoping study estimates that an NMC 811 battery using materials produced at Electra's integrated facility would be up to 60% less carbon intensive than benchmark values.
- The low carbon footprint is due to Electra's hydrometallurgical process, that is less energy intensive, and to Ontario's clean electricity grid, from which more than 90% of electricity is generated from zero or low carbon sources.
In addition to the construction of a battery grade nickel sulfate refinery, the scoping study also examined the construction of an integrated pCAM manufacturing facility, which would receive nickel, cobalt and manganese in solution, thereby eliminating the capital and operating costs associated with refined product crystallization and handling. Electra has had discussions with several pCAM manufacturers and envisions that precursor production would be done by an existing producer seeking to establish a presence in North America.
Commissioning of a nickel sulfate refinery would allow Electra to treat battery black mass through to pCAM and return recycled material back to partner battery cell manufacturers, thereby creating an integrated EV battery supply chain loop.
The scoping study was conducted in partnership with the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, Glencore plc and Talon Metals. The consortium is collaborating on engineering, permitting, socio-economic and cost studies associated with the construction of a nickel sulfate plant as well as a pCAM plant adjacent to Electra's cobalt refinery and recycling plant. The realization of this vision will result in the creation of an integrated, localized and environmentally sustainable battery materials park in Ontario for the electric vehicle market.
Electra is pursuing a multi-phased approach to build an integrated battery materials park in Ontario. The first phase consists of commissioning a battery grade cobalt sulfate refinery in the spring of 2023, followed soon after with the commissioning of a battery recycling plant once a demonstration currently slated for the fall of 2022 is successfully completed. The third and fourth phases will consist of developing an integrated nickel sulphate refinery and pCAM manufacturing facility. Manganese refining is also under consideration.
With completion of the scoping study, Electra is now commencing a prefeasibility study to assess a phased approach to nickel refining while lowering initial capital and operating cost estimates. The study, which will be developed in consultation with Electra's upstream and downstream supply chain partners, will be led by Dave Marshall, Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Marshall recently joined Electra following a 29-year career spent with Vale in a number of senior project roles. Mr. Marshall is also overseeing development of Electra's prefeasibility study focused on development of a cobalt refinery in Bécancour, Quebec.
Electra is targeting commercialization of an integrated nickel sulfate refinery and pCAM plant over the next three to four years following completion of requisite prefeasibility and feasibility studies and project construction.
The integrated nickel sulfate and pCAM facility is projected to have a 76,190 square metre footprint, all of which can be built on Electra's 600 acre land package in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario where the company is progressing with the commissioning of its cobalt sulfate refinery.
Commensurate with a scoping study, a number of general and untailored assumptions were used to assess the economics of a potential nickel sulfate refinery constructed and operated in conjunction with Electra's to be completed cobalt refinery in Ontario. As such, the outcomes and economic metrics have a margin of error of +50% / -30%.
Key assumptions affecting the economics presented are; CAD values were converted to USD at 1.31, forward escalation or contingencies for future construction and operating costs were not considered, by-product values were excluded and sensitivities to changes in key inputs were not performed.
Key construction cost assumptions include, most inputs will be Canadian sourced apart from process equipment where approximately 50% will be sourced in Canada. Construction driven GDP impacts include direct, indirect and induced spending, including labour with more than 2,500 job years generated through the construction phase.
Operating assumptions assume more than 65% of costs are derived from reagents and consumables and more than $16 million annually in labour costs. Operational driven GDP impacts also include direct, indirect and induced spending.
Electra cautions that the study does not constitute a scoping study within the definition employed by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum ("CIM"), as it relates to a standalone industrial project and does not concern a mineral project of Electra. As a result, disclosure standards prescribed by National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") are not applicable to the scientific and technical disclosure in the study. Any references to scoping study, prefeasibility study or feasibility study by Electra, in relation to the refinery development, are not the same as terms defined by the CIM Definition Standards and used in NI 43-101.
Electra is also pleased to report that it has issued a total of 305,600 common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange at an average price of C$5.7789 per share and 13,877 common shares on the Nasdaq Capital Markets at an average price of $3.915 during Q2 2022 under its at-the-market equity program launched in January 2022, providing gross proceeds of C$1,766,033.52 and $54,328.48, respectively. Commissions of C$44,150.86 and $1,358.21 were paid to CIBC World Markets Inc. and CIBC World Markets Corp., respectively, in relation to these distributions.
Electra is a processor of low-carbon, ethically-sourced battery materials. Currently commissioning North America's only cobalt sulfate refinery, Electra is executing a multipronged strategy focused on onshoring the electric vehicle supply chain. Keys to its strategy are integrating black mass recycling and nickel sulfate production at Electra's refinery located north of Toronto, advancing Iron Creek, its cobalt-copper exploration-stage project in the Idaho Cobalt Belt, and expanding cobalt sulfate processing into Bécancour, Quebec. For more information visit www.ElectraBMC.com.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release may contain forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (together, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable securities laws and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, are forward-looking statements. Generally, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of terminology such as "plans", "expects', "estimates", "intends", "anticipates", "believes" or variations of such words, or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "occur" or "be achieved". Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results, performance, and opportunities to differ materially from those implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements are set forth in the management discussion and analysis and other disclosures of risk factors for Electra Battery Materials Corporation, filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Although Electra Battery Materials Corporation believes that the information and assumptions used in preparing the forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on these statements, which only apply as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed times frames or at all. Except where required by applicable law, Electra Battery Materials Corporation disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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- Two papers, published in The Lancet and Nature, indicate that treatment with oral raloxifene, a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) with a proven safety profile, may be efficacious against SARS-CoV-2 clinically relevant variants.
- Raloxifene was identified as a potential COVID-19 treatment by Exscalate4CoV consortium,
a multidisciplinary European center of excellence created with the aim to fighting coronavirus by combining the best supercomputing resources and artificial intelligence with state of the art experimental facilities up through clinical validation. - New digital open tools for researches are now being developed with the support of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking to further accelerate the drug discovery process.
MILAN, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dompé farmaceutici S.p.A ("Dompé") today announced positive results from two studies demonstrating that treatment with oral raloxifene, a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) with a proven safety profile, may be effective against SARS-CoV-2, including its clinically relevant variants. The two studies were conducted in collaboration with the Italian National Institute for the Infectious Diseases "Lazzaro Spallanzani" in Rome and other important clinical and preclinical research groups highly committed to COVID-19 research. "The clinical results on raloxifene published on Lancet's eClinical Medicine[1] show a significant virological impact in term of negative nasopharyngeal swab at day 7 in COVID-19 patients treated at home with raloxifene compared to standard of care. This randomized clinical trial confirm the in vitro data published in Nature's Cell Death and Disease[2], on the efficacy of Raloxifene on cellular lines experimentally infected by SARS-CoV-2" said Emanuele Nicastri, author of both studies and Director of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit of the Spallanzani Institute in Rome, where Italy's very first Covid-19 patients were hospitalized.
Raloxifene was identified by the Exscalate4CoV[3] (E4C) project, a group composed of 30 public and private institutions from seven countries and funded by EU Commission's in the frame of its Horizon 2020 Framework Programme[4], aimed at fighting Coronavirus with the latest European supercomputing resources and experimental facilities. Results were driven by the use of Exscalate, Dompé's supercomputing platform which leveraged a database of 500 billion molecules to find those capable of targeting clinically relevant coronavirus variants. Due to its processing capacity of more than 3 million molecules per second, Exscalate is currently the most powerful intelligent supercomputing drug design platform. This processing power allowed the E4C researchers to rapidly select and repurpose a generic molecule with known efficacy and tolerability to make it available to the global community. As raloxifene is a generic molecule already tested and approved for the treatment of osteoporosis, this was a not for profit effort aimed at providing a globally available low cost treatment.
The first study on raloxifene, published in The Lancet's eClinical Medicine, demonstrated that after seven days of treatment, patients taking raloxifene showed an improvement in symptoms compared to patients receiving placebo (please refer to www.clinicaltrials.gov for additional clinical trial details). The second study, published in Cell Death and Disease), indicates raloxifene as a potential agent to treat mild-to-moderate COVID-19 caused by the most common SARS-CoV-2 variants. Mechanistic studies[5] confirmed the significant affinity of raloxifene for the Spike protein, as predicted by in silico studies. Researchers concluded that raloxifene is efficacious against the main SARS-CoV-2 variants and could represent a useful addition to the therapeutic arm for the management of Covid-19.
"Supercomputing is already demonstrating its potential for finding new solutions at previously unprecedented speeds in many domains, including medicine. I am very pleased that the Commission has supported the Exscalate4Cov consortium to discover promising treatments for COVID-19, and we now look forward to seeing the results of the consortium's successor LIGATE project[6], which is developing a new drug discovery platform with the support of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking" commented Thomas Skordas, Deputy Director-General of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT).
"All of us at Dompé are incredibly proud of our contribution to the identification of new solutions to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on patients, healthcare systems, and their communities" said Marcello Allegretti, Chief Scientific Officer at Dompé. "The huge power of our unique supercomputing platform has been a gamechanger, but we want to thank all patients and researchers around the world who participated in these two studies. These results show the importance of combining pharmacological knowledge and breakthrough technologies as AI tools, to exploit the potential of repurposed drugs, and to elevate understanding of yet to be revealed mechanisms of action to address critically unmet medical needs".
About Raloxifene
Raloxifene is currently on the market for the treatment of osteoporosis and is well-tolerated with a known safety profile. The compound is a marketed drug and has been approved by the EMA for clinical use.
About Dompé
Dompé is a private, rapidly scaling international biopharmaceutical company founded in Milan, Italy, with a 130-year legacy of medical innovation. The R&D department of the company is leveraging EXSCALATE, a structure-based virtual screening platform developed in-house and presently one of the most powerful supercomputing and artificial intelligence platforms. Today, Dompé employs more than 800 employees worldwide and maintains a U.S. commercial operations hub in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as an R&D presence in Boston.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release refers to certain information that may not coincide with expected future results. Dompé firmly believes in the soundness and reasonableness of the concepts expressed. However, some of the information is subject to a certain degree of indetermination in relation to its research and development activities and the necessary verifications to be performed by regulatory bodies. Therefore, as of today, Dompé cannot guarantee that the expected results will be consistent with the information provided above.
[1] A phase 2 randomized, double-blinded, placebocontrolled, multicenter trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of raloxifene for patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(22)00180-8/fulltext
[2] "Characterization of raloxifene as a potential pharmacological agent against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants" in Nature Cell Death and Disease (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-022-04961-z).
[3] The Exscalate4Cov (www.exscalate4cov.eu) consortium, supported by the the EU's Horizon 2020 programme for research and innovation, was coordinated by Dompé farmaceutici, and composed by 18 member institutions from seven European countries: Politecnico di Milano (Dept. of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering), Consorzio Interuniversitario CINECA(Supercomputing Innovation and Applications), Università degli Studi di Milano (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences), International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland), KU Leuven, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology, BSC Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Università Federico II di Napoli, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Department of Applied Physics), Associazione Big Data, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Istituto nazionale per le malattie infettive Lazzaro Spallanzani and Chelonia Applied Science. Part of E4C League were: ENI, SAS, Alfasigma, CFEL Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, MMV Medicines for Malaria Ventures, Esteve Pharmaceutical, University of Basel Biozentrum, University of Basel Innovation Office, University of Basel Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, D-wave, Pierre fabre, Greenpharma, University of Sheffield - Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience – SITraN, Dassault Systemes- Biovia, Institute of Food Science Research, CECAM Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire, Nanome, Esteco, IT4Innovation, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Faculty of Physics, Institut Cochin.
[4] EXaSCale smArt pLatform Against paThogEns for Corona Virus / Grant agreement ID: 101003551 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101003551
[5] "Repurposing the estrogen receptor modulator raloxifene to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection" in Nature Cell Death & Differentiation journal (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41418-021-00844-6) and "Characterization of raloxifene as a potential pharmacological agent against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants" in Nature Cell Death and Disease (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-022-04961-z).
[6] https://www.ligateproject.eu/
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IRVING, Texas, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vistra (NYSE: VST) today published its 2021 Sustainability Report, showcasing its sustainability strategy, including its efforts to power a zero-carbon future through its Vistra Zero portfolio and drive a company culture rooted in equity and inclusiveness. The report also highlights the company's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives and accomplishments during 2021.
"At Vistra, we have a legacy of doing business the right way, and we pride ourselves on being good corporate citizens; it is fundamental to who we are as a company," said Curt Morgan, CEO of Vistra. "We are proud to be leading the nation's clean energy transition through the responsible and deliberate transformation of our generation portfolio, while also delivering on our commitment to affordable and reliable electricity. In 2021, we drove significant advancements for our stakeholders, including our employees, customers, communities, and investors. I am proud of our team and am excited to highlight their many accomplishments in our annual sustainability report."
Select highlights include:
- Environmental Stewardship
- The Excellence in Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Award from the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation & Enforcement for exemplary coal mine reclamation
- 2021 Texan by Nature 20 designation: for the second year in a row, Vistra was recognized for its demonstrative commitment to conservation and sustainability by the conservation non-profit Texan by Nature
- Human Capital Management
- Safety and Health
- Supporting Our Communities and Customers
- Responsible Business Practices
Vistra's 2021 sustainability report adheres to the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) frameworks. The report also includes Vistra's voluntary annual report of its employee political action committee contributions, corporate contributions, and dues to trade organizations, which are located in the appendix. For additional information about Vistra's 2021 ESG performance and to download a copy of the report, please visit vistracorp.com/sustainability.
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Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 275 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, providing essential resources for customers, commerce, and communities. Vistra combines an innovative, customer-centric approach to retail with safe, reliable, diverse, and efficient power generation. The company brings its products and services to market in 20 states and the District of Columbia, including six of the seven competitive wholesale markets in the U.S. and markets in Canada, as well. Serving nearly 4.3 million residential, commercial, and industrial retail customers with electricity and natural gas, Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and offers over 50 renewable energy plans. The company is also the largest competitive power generator in the U.S. with a capacity of approximately 39,000 megawatts powered by a diverse portfolio, including natural gas, coal, nuclear, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. In addition, Vistra is a large purchaser of wind power. The company owns and operates the 400-MW/1,600-MWh battery energy storage system in Moss Landing, California, the largest of its kind in the world. Vistra is guided by four core principles: we do business the right way, we work as a team, we compete to win, and we care about our stakeholders, including our customers, our communities where we work and live, our employees, and our investors. Learn more about our environmental, social, and governance efforts and read the company's sustainability report at https://www.vistracorp.com/sustainability/.
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O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Record rainfall caused widespread flash flooding across the St. Louis area early Tuesday, closing multiple roadways and prompting rescues from vehicles and homes.
There were no immediate reports of injuries to people, but several puppies drowned when water got into a building at Stray Paws Adoptables, a stray dog rescue operation in St. Peters. Firefighters in boats were able to rescue other dogs from the building.
Damage across the St. Louis region was widespread after a massive downpour dropped more than 11 inches (28 centimeters) of rain in parts of St. Charles County and up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) elsewhere in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
By 8 a.m., 8.3 inches of rain had fallen at Lambert Airport, demolishing the previous daily record of 6.85 inches set Aug. 20, 1915, when remnants of the Galveston, Texas, hurricane moved north to St. Louis. Forecasters expected Tuesday’s rain to wrap up by late-morning, but more storms were likely through the rest of the week.
Firefighters across the St. Louis region were busy with water rescues. A section of Interstate 70 was closed in St. Peters, and many other roadways were flooded. Some vehicles were completely submerged. The Missouri State Highway Patrol on Twitter urged drivers to avoid I-70. Some motorists took to social media to report being stranded for several hours.
At one point, sections of interstates 64, 55 and 44 also were closed in the St. Louis area.
In the city of St. Louis, the fire department rescued people from 18 homes in the same general area after floodwaters made it into houses. The fire department said on Twitter that six people and six dogs were rescued by boat, while 15 others declined to leave their homes.
In the St. Louis County town of Brentwood, residents were forced to evacuate when Deer Creek overflowed. Rising waters also threatened homes in Ladue, one of the wealthiest cities in Missouri.
Flooding was so bad that the iconic Gateway Arch closed for the day.
National Weather Service meteorologist Marshall Pfahler said a storm that moved into the St. Louis area around midnight that stalled and kept pouring water over the same relatively narrow band.
“You have this swath of up to 10-inch amounts, and a county or two south they had a trace or even less,” Pfahler said.
The remarkable rainfall followed a period of extended drought in the region. The ground was rock-hard before Tuesday morning and Pfahler said that may have played a small role in the flash flooding. A bigger factor, he said, was that the storm hit a metro area with a lot of concrete and asphalt, rather than grassy areas that could absorb the moisture more readily.
While the St. Louis region got the worst of it, other places were soaked, too. The central Missouri town of Mexico received more than 6 inches of rain. Similar rainfall totals were reported in parts of southern Illinois.
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Scottsdale, Ariz., June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today announced the availability of ApexNow, an app integration between VIAVI Observer Apex and ServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM) and Telecommunications Service Operations Management. ApexNow provides IT teams with immediate access to the VIAVI patented End User Experience (EUE) scoring model, further accelerating problem identification, analysis and resolution for users of Observer and the ServiceNow Platform®. The Observer ApexNow application is available from the ServiceNow Store today.
According to the State of the Network survey from VIAVI, NetOps and SecOps teams are managing the new work-from-anywhere paradigm, and supporting a surge in unified communications, all while reckoning with a skills gap. The ApexNow application enables technicians with varied levels of training to quickly isolate issues by network, server, application or client domain, or by physical location. The VIAVI EUE Score is underpinned by a machine learning process providing insight into the root cause of a degradation to allow for an automated remediation process to be executed using the power of the ServiceNow Platform.
"Enterprises are grappling with increasing network complexity and security threats while facing a labor and skills gap. They need to equip their workforces with intuitive tools that will speed identification and resolution of issues from anywhere," said Rohit Batra, head of telecommunications, media & technology product at ServiceNow. "The integration of the VIAVI EUE Score into the ServiceNow platform is a terrific example of such user friendliness and efficiency, enabling our joint customers to stay ahead of IT and service issues."
"Over the last year, VIAVI and ServiceNow have collaborated to allow our customers to utilize our combined technologies and enhanced product capabilities in ways that are game-changing in day-to-day operations," said Chris Labac, Vice President and General Manager, Network Performance and Threat Solutions, VIAVI. "The ApexNow App integration is one visible result of this, building on a significant partnership and a focus on bringing impactful innovations to our customers."
About VIAVI
VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions for communications service providers, enterprises, network equipment manufacturers, government and avionics. We help these customers harness the power of instruments, automation, intelligence and virtualization to Command the network. VIAVI is also a leader in light management solutions for 3D sensing, anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, and defense applications. Learn more about VIAVI at www.viavisolutions.com. Follow us on VIAVI Perspectives, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
ServiceNow, the ServiceNow logo, Now, Now Platform, and other ServiceNow marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ServiceNow, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A right-wing bloc that includes a nationalist anti-immigration party won a narrow majority in Sweden’s parliament Wednesday. It was a major political shift in the Scandinavian country that had a decades-long history of welcoming refugees, but is grappling with a crime wave linked with immigration.
Center-left Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson conceded defeat with 99.9% of the vote from the weekend elections counted Wednesday. She said she would step down Thursday.
Populist Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson declared victory for the four-party bloc. He said his party would be “a constructive and driving force” in the work of rebuilding safety in Sweden. He said it was “time to put Sweden first.”
The bloc that includes the Sweden Democrats — the country’s second-largest party — won a thin majority in parliament. Though a few votes were outstanding they were not enough to sway the final outcome.
Prime Minister Andersson said that “the preliminary result is clear enough to draw a conclusion” that her center-left forces had lost power.
Andersson became Sweden’s first female prime minister last year and led the country in its historic bid to join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
While Andersson is personally popular, anxiety in Sweden has grown over high crime rates in segregated districts that are home to large numbers of immigrants who have failed to integrate into Swedish society. Some blamed her Social Democrats, who have been in power for eight years.
Ulf Kristersson, the leader of Sweden’s third largest party, the Moderates, who’s considered to be the leading figure in the right-wing bloc and a possible prime minister, thanked voters for their trust. “Now we will get Sweden in order,” he wrote on Facebook.
“The Moderates and the other parties on my side have received the mandate for the change that we asked for. I am now starting the work of forming a new, effective government,” Kristersson said.
The Sweden Democrats were long shunned by Swedes because the party was founded in the 1980s by neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists. In recent years it has moved into the mainstream by expelling extremists, and gained support with a tough stance on crime and immigration amid a rise in shootings and other gang violence.
Its transformation was led by 43-year-old Akesson, who in his speech Wednesday evening said it was time for a new chapter in Sweden.
“Now it will be enough with the failed Social Democratic policy that for eight years has continued to lead the country in the wrong direction,” Akesson said. “It is time to start rebuilding security, welfare and cohesion. It is time to put Sweden first. The Sweden Democrats will be a constructive and driving force in this work.”
“Now the work begins to make Sweden good again,” he said.
The tally gave the right-wing bloc 176 seats in the 349-parliament, the Riksdag, and Andersson’s center-left bloc with 173 seats. A majority in Sweden requires 175 seats.
“The four right-wing parties appear to have received just under 50% of the votes in the election, and in the Riksdag, they have gained one or two mandates. A thin majority, but it is a majority,” Andersson said.
“Tomorrow I will therefore request my dismissal as Prime Minister and the responsibility for the continued process will now pass to the Parliament Speaker and the Riksdag.”
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Gera reported from Warsaw, Poland.
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NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 28th, members of the Philos Action League, joined by representatives from Pathways for Peace, Combat Antisemitism Movement, and the Anti-Defamation League, demonstrated outside Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) headquarters in a Sidewalk Stand against Antisemitism and in support of Israel's right to self-determination. The group confronted delegates arriving at the PCUSA's headquarters to vote on a controversial resolution to condemn Israel for its laws, policies, and practices they charge constitute apartheid. Yesterday's committee vote was just the latest in a string of anti-Israel measures the PCUSA has taken up since 2004, including multiple efforts linked to the BDS movement.
On Sunday, the Philos Action League delivered an open letter to PCUSA's Louisville, KY, headquarters and ten of its churches across the United States in a stand against antisemitism. Fifteen other organizations, Jewish and Christian, joined in the letter that urged General Assembly delegates to reject the overture because it fuels hate, even as antisemitic attacks are on the rise.
"Yesterday's committee vote to designate Israel an apartheid state will leave an indelible stain on the PCUSA's legacy. Should PCUSA ultimately pass this resolution it would stand with the most vocal and vile antisemitic critics of Israel whose goal is to see the Jewish state destroyed," said Luke Moon, the Deputy Director of The Philos Project. Moon, who was outside PCUSA headquarters today added, "Now, more than ever, Christians must stand with our Jewish brethren against the evils of antisemitism at home and abroad. We urge the PCUSA General Assembly to reject this overture and to refute rather than embrace the kind of hate and antisemitic propaganda that has fueled an uptick in violence against Jews in the United States."
In the days leading up to the vote and yesterday's Sidewalk Stand against Antisemitism, the Philos Action League ran a digital advertising campaign, including mobile billboards, in the Louisville area to invite others to join them in opposing the PCUSA resolution.
Philos Action League is a membership community of Christians who are committed to showing up, physically, in solidarity and friendship with the Jewish community when an act of antisemitism happens. PAL was developed by leaders at The Philos Project, an organization committed to promoting positive Christian engagement in the Near East, to move beyond mere words and put support for the Jewish community into practice.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — At least seven people are injured after a plane with dozens of passengers was forced to make an emergency landing in Birmingham Wednesday afternoon.
According to the Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service, the plane was headed for Nashville when it experienced severe turbulence and was diverted to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.
Federal Aviation Administration records show the American Airlines flight departed Tampa on time and made the emergency landing in Birmingham at approximately 3:18 p.m., having flown for an hour and 42 minutes.
In a statement obtained by Nexstar’s WFLA, American Airlines says the flight was diverted after experiencing “unexpected turbulence.” Once landed, the flight was safely taxied to the gate.
There were reportedly 56 people on the plane, 10 of whom were medically evaluated. Six passengers and two flight attendants were transported to local hospitals with minor injuries.
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The platform offers the first and only AI solution for medicolegal lawyers, insurance companies & hospitals
LOS ANGELES , June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- pareIT, an automated medical record analysis company, today announced the official launch of its platform. pareIT's patent-pending artificial intelligence and machine learning models have been trained on more than a million medicolegal data points, allowing for automatic analysis of medical cases files. The platform, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and leveraging Amazon Comprehend Medical, is set to disrupt the medicolegal industry through providing a solution that automatically categorizes medicolegal case files, and analyzes medical case files, including, removing duplicative and void documents, placing files into a chronological timeline, and extracting diagnoses, prognoses, treatment recommendations, medical history, and hand-written records.
Traditionally, the process of medical record summaries is performed manually by in-house legal staff or outsourced medical practitioners, taking days to complete, and depending on the case size, can cost thousands of dollars. pareIT, on the other hand, can analyze a thousand pages within as little as two hours, and costs about a third of the price typically charged for such services. The platform is specialized for the medicolegal industry, including personal injury claims, medical malpractice, criminal cases, and worker's compensation.
"As one of the most retained biomechanics experts in the country, I recognized and dealt with the inefficient and costly process of medical record analyses for the better part of a decade," said Dr. Rami Hashish, Founder of pareIT. "I am happy to announce the official launch of pareIT, which will set new technological standards for our industry, and help professionals reduce mistakes, while saving time and money on medical record analyses."
pareIT achieves similar accuracy metrics to manual medical record summaries, but with the use of AI, will continue to increase in accuracy and speed overtime.
More information on pareIT is available at pareIT.com.
About pareIT
pareIT uses proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to sort legal case files and summarize medical records – a process typically performed manually by in-house legal staff or outsourced medical practitioners. pareIT has been trained on over a million data points, allowing for automated analyses performed at 10x the speed for a third of the cost, improving efficiency for medicolegal lawyers, insurance companies & hospitals. pareIT stands as the only technological solution to a 50-billion-dollar industry. With the use of AI, pareIT will continue to improve overtime, continuously resetting the bar for accuracy and efficiency. To learn more, visit pareit.com.
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Showing war’s toll, Ukrainian first lady appeals for more arms
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska appealed face to face to U.S. lawmakers Wednesday for more air defense systems to help guard her country’s skies, in an unsparing Capitol address showing the blood-stained baby strollers and small crumpled bodies left by Russian bombardment.
“We want no more airstrikes. No more missile strikes,” Zelenska told Republican and Democratic congressional members in a speech capping a visit to Washington in the stead of her husband, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “Is this too much to ask for?”
“This is what I’m asking for and what my husband is asking for,” she said from the stage of the Capitol’s congressional auditorium, showing photos of carnage on an overhead screen that had lawmakers shaking their heads at the scenes. “As parents.”
Zelenska’s Washington meetings with first lady Jill Biden, President Joe Biden and other top administration figures have been among her highest-profile events of the war. She spent the first two months after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in late February in seclusion with her two children, for safety.
Her husband has remained in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, through the war. He made a powerful address by video to lawmakers in the same auditorium earlier this year, drawing repeated standing ovations.
WARNING: The following video contains graphic content.
Zelenska repeatedly thanked lawmakers and Biden for the billions of dollars in arms and other support the U.S. has delivered to Ukraine to help it battle Russian forces and warplanes. She called for more anti-air defense to help repel what have been unending Russian missile and airstrikes that have killed countless civilians and leveled some Ukrainian cities.
She showed photographs of a smiling, paint-smeared 4-year-old girl, Liza Dmytrieva, whom the first lady had happened to meet before Christmas. The screen next showed an overturned baby carriage with blood caking on the sidewalk beneath it, after an airstrike killed the girl and badly injured her mother last week.
Zelenska showed and told the stories of other Ukrainian children killed or maimed by airstrikes or shot to death as their families tried to flee with them.
“Our family represents the whole world for us, and we do everything to preserve it,” Zelenska said. “We cry when we cannot save it. And we remain completely broken when our world is destroyed by war.”
The speech was an unexpected change in tone for a visit whose previous public moments had included receiving a bouquet from Joe Biden at the White House, an award ceremony, and a visit to a local monument for Ukrainians.
“We’ve seen from Ukrainian leadership their courage but also their no-nonsense direct appeal and laying out the brutal mentality of Mr. Putin,” Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, said as lawmakers walked out.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other top leaders and rank-and-file lawmakers listened.
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Arhirova reported from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Hot and Muggy Weekend Ahead
Temperatures not much below records by Sat-Sun
Tuesday was a sunny and rather hot day for mid-September, gusty southerly winds of about 20 mph along with the dry and hot weather is making for high fire danger. Winds ease overnight but return on Wednesday. Please avoid outdoor burning!
Overall, we’re in a desert-style air mass with large temperature swings (low near 60, highs in the lower 90s) for a few more days; that changes when a surge of Gulf moisture arrives for the weekend. Unseasonably hot weather with highs in the mid to possibly upper 90s can be expected, just short of records. Overnight lows will be warmer in the humid weekend air mass, in the lower 70s. Rain looks unlikely during the next week as unseasonably strong upper high pressure maintains control of our skies.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Lawyers Association (CLA), Public Law Section will honor UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky with its highest award on October 3, 2022, following the constitutional law scholar's talk on "Our Imperiled Democracy."
Dean of Berkeley Law since 2017, Chemerinsky was previously the founding Dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He has taught law since 1980, including more than two decades at the University of Southern California Law School.
He has authored more than 200 law review articles and 14 books, including leading casebooks and treatises about constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. One of the country's leading academic commenters on the U.S. Supreme Court, his op-eds and columns frequently appear in the Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee, the ABA Journal, the Daily Journal, and newspapers across the country. In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
CLA's Public Law Section will present Chemerinsky with the Ronald M. George Public Lawyer of the Year Award on October 3, 2022, during a reception from 5:30–7 p.m. at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza in Berkeley, Calif. The award is presented annually to recognize a public law practitioner who has provided outstanding service to the public and possesses an exemplary reputation in the legal community and the highest of ethical standards. Since 2008, the award has been named for former Chief Justice Ronald M. George in recognition of his distinguished career.
"This award recognizes Dean Chemerinsky's exemplary contributions to educating lawyers and the public about the Constitution and the rule of law," said CLA CEO and Executive Director Oyango A. Snell. "His long track record of prolific writing and public speaking has helped to improve the public's understanding of these legal principles, which are critical to a functioning democracy."
The award reception will follow CLA Public Law Section's program "Our Imperiled Democracy," from 4–5:15 p.m. at UC Berkeley School of Law. Featuring Chemerinsky as keynote speaker, the program will explore the legal and political developments threatening democracy in the United States.
"There are few legal scholars in the country who have such an outstanding depth of knowledge of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Constitution," CLA President Jeremy M. Evans said. "CLA appreciates Dean Chemerinsky's tireless efforts to share his wisdom and experience with the legal profession and the public and encourage a variety of legal opinions."
Established in 2018, California Lawyers Association is the statewide voluntary bar association for all California attorneys. CLA's mission is to promote excellence, diversity, and inclusion in the legal profession and fairness in the administration of justice and the rule of law. Visit us at www.calawyers.org to learn more about CLA or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter.
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The Future of Financial Services Summit brings together fintech experts and thought leaders to share the latest insights on career opportunities, decentralized finance, and investment strategies.
NEW YORK, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BLACK ENTERPRISE will present its first Future of Financial Services Summit: Fintech, Cryptocurrency and Black Wealth beginning at 6:00 p.m. EST on July 28. With Black Americans more focused than ever on wealth creation, opportunities to build wealth have never been greater. The Black Enterprise Future of Financial Services Summit will inform and inspire attendees to become fully engaged participants in the latest in investment opportunities with cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance (DeFi), and more. The latest in a series of virtual events produced by BLACK ENTERPRISE to address the demand for diversity, equity, inclusion, and economic justice for Black Americans, the 2022 Wealth Building & Real Estate Summit is presented by Prudential.
The Future of Financial Services Summit will feature candid, engaging conversations with leading experts on cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, investing, and fintech careers. The one-day virtual event will provide attendees with actionable solutions and key resources to leverage opportunities presented by a financial services industry being transformed by fintech and the rising demand for cryptocurrency and digital tokens as an emerging asset class, especially among African Americans.
"We know that Black people are excited about the potential of cryptocurrency, NFTs, and blockchain to open up new avenues of Black wealth creation," says BLACK ENTERPRISE CEO Earl "Butch" Graves Jr. "According to the most recent Ariel Schwab Black Investor Survey, of six financial products—bank savings account, individual stocks, stock mutual funds, cryptocurrency, individual bonds, bond mutual funds—cryptocurrency is the only one owned by a higher proportion of Black people than of white people. About 38% of Black investors under 40 own digital tokens, compared with 29% of their white counterparts. Overall, twice as many Black respondents than those who are white ranked crypto as the best investment choice overall."
Confirmed speakers for the Black Enterprise Future of Financial Services Summit include Larry Wade Sr. Director, Blockchain, Crypto & Digital Currencies, RLCO BP, PayPal; Imari Oliver, Founder & CEO, Bond & Play; Michael Grove, CFA, Financial Planner, Greater Metro Financial Group, Prudential Advisors; Deidra Ramsey-McIntyre, Founder, Black People & Cryptocurrency; Derek Jones, Founder & CEO, UnitedCoin Inc.; Matt Mitchell, Hacker & Founder, CryptoHarlem; LaMont Connie, Sr. Vice President & Sr Relationship Manager – Fintech Division, Bank of America; and Kenneth Johnson, President, East Coast Executives.
Attendees of the 2022 Black Enterprise Future of Financial Services Virtual Summit will gain insights on:
- Cryptocurrency: A New Asset Class for Black Investors
- Understanding and Exploring the Utility of Blockchain
- Career Opportunities in Fintech
- Financial Advisors and Crypto: Helping You Shape Your Investing Strategies
The Black Enterprise Wealth Building & Real Estate Summit takes place from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST on Thursday, July 28, 2022. Prudential is the presenting sponsor for this event. For complimentary registration and more information about sessions and speakers, visit financial.blackenterprise.com/.
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BLACK ENTERPRISE is the No.1 Black media brand, with more than 10 million monthly unique visitors. Since 1970, BLACK ENTERPRISE has been the premier business, career, investing, and wealth-building resource for African Americans. BLACK ENTERPRISE produces video and podcast programming, virtual and in-person business and lifestyle events, and other digital media. Visit www.blackenterprise.com for more information.
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2 Diamond League track meets in China called off
MONACO (AP) — Two Diamond League track meets scheduled to be held in China have been canceled because of coronavirus-related restrictions and a substitute event in Poland has been added to the calendar. Organizers say the mid-season meets in Shanghai and Shenzhen were called off “due to travel restrictions and strict quarantine requirements currently in place for entry into China.” The substitute event will be held in the Polish city of Chorzow on Aug. 6. The series concludes at the Diamond League final in Zurich on Sept. 7-8. Two meets in China were also canceled last year for similar reasons.
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DUBLIN, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TriNet (NYSE: TNET), a leading provider of comprehensive human resources for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), today announced the addition of seven new speakers, including TriNet customers, to its roster of thought leaders and influencers for TriNet PeopleForce 2022. The three-day, award-winning conference taking place September 13-15 will feature acclaimed leaders from the worlds of business, public policy, science, social justice, sports, entertainment, media and more. The live event will take place at the Theater at City Tech in downtown Brooklyn, NY, and virtually from anywhere.
The newly added participants are:
- Alan Murray - CEO, Fortune Media
- Christopher J. Wolfe - Chief Investment Officer, First Republic Investment Management
- Laurent Francois - Co-founder & CEO, Le Botaniste (TriNet Customer)
- Alex Collmer - Founder & CEO, VidMob (TriNet Customer)
- Andres Wydler - Executive Director, StartOut
- Dr. Heather Wathington – CEO, iMentor
- Kimberly Greene, Founder and CEO, Svalinn
Among the previously announced speakers are former Chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company Bob Iger, Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace, award-winning actor, musician and entrepreneur Riz Ahmed, former Ukrainian Press Secretary Iuliia Mendel, and many more. The event will also feature performances by accomplished vocalists Katharine McPhee, Lauren Davidson, Victoria Renée, and Loren Allred.
TriNet PeopleForce 2022 will provide entrepreneurs and SMB leaders with three days of outstanding speakers and dynamic sessions that will focus on this year's conference theme: passion, purpose and perseverance.
Register to attend virtually or live in New York by visiting peopleforce.TriNet.com.
About TriNet
TriNet (NYSE: TNET) provides small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR solutions tailored by industry. To free SMBs from HR complexities, TriNet offers access to human capital expertise, benefits, risk mitigation and compliance, payroll, all enabled by industry leading technology capabilities. TriNet's suite of products also includes services and software-based solutions to help streamline workflows by connecting HR, Benefits, Employee Engagement, Payroll and Time & Attendance. From Main Street to Wall Street, TriNet empowers SMBs to focus on what matters most—growing their business and enabling their people. TriNet, incredible starts here. For more information, visit TriNet.com or follow us on Twitter.
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DETROIT (AP) — The Rocket Mortgage Classic, nestled between the British Open and FedEx Cup playoffs, could have been a tournament to skip for all of the world’s best players.
Patrick Cantlay, though, and four more players in the top 20 are in Detroit week.
Twenty-eight of the top 100, doubling the total from last week at the 3M Open, will start the first round Thursday at the Detroit Golf Club.
Playing to improve positioning in the FedEx Cup standings, possibly for a spot in the Presidents Cup for top players, or just meeting the season minimum for events also drove some to the Motor City.
“It’s the deepest field we’ve had,” Jason Langwell, executive director of the Rocket Mortgage Classic that made its debut in 2019. “No other event in golf this weekend around the world will be able to say that.”
Was that a thinly veiled shot at the Saudi Arabia-funded LIV Golf tour?
“We only compare ourselves to being bigger and better than we were the year before,” Langwell insisted.
Last year, Cam Davis holed a 50-foot sand shot on the 71st hole of regulation and went on to win a five-hole playoff against Troy Merritt and Joaquin Niemann to win the Rocket Mortgage Classic for his first PGA Tour victory.
The tournament was a relative success despite being stuck with a spot on the PGA Tour calendar that included the July 4 holiday, and defending champion and Rocket Mortgage ambassador Bryson DeChambeau missing the cut with an uninspiring performance after parting ways with caddie Tim Tucker on the eve of the tournament.
DeChambeau joined Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and others for the riches from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and pitches from Greg Norman that LIV Golf is the future. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has said players who sign up for a Saudi golf league will lose their PGA Tour membership, and should not expect to get it back.
LIV golf has its third event of the season and second in the United States this week at Trump National in New Jersey with 10 of the top 50 players and none among the top 15.
Max Homa, No. 20 in the world, said LIV golf has given PGA Tour players something to discuss about talking asking about their families.
“Now, it’s can you believe so and so is not on tour anymore?” Homa said.
Cantlay said he will not be in the next wave of players to leave the PGA Tour.
“I don’t have any plans at the moment to leave after the FedEx Cup,” Cantlay said.
Homa said no one on the PGA Tour feels the need to validate anything relative LIV golf, which seemed to pick spots on the calendar to compete with the world’s top golf circuit when it would have weaker fields.
“The last LIV event went against the John Deere — which typically doesn’t have the top, top guys — and this one typically has an OK field,” Homa said. “It is interesting that this is the first time I’ve played during a LIV event. Typically, I’m home and reading about the contracts and comparisons of the field and it’s kind of exhausting.”
Will Zalatoris, ranked No. 13, said he’s playing in Detroit simply because he should be on a course competing at the age of 25.
“If you ever hear me talk about being tired, I think I probably need to get my head checked,” he said. “It’s a wild time for the PGA Tour and I guess golf as a whole.”
Cantlay is clearly not tired either, playing for the sixth time since early June. Next month, he will shoot to be the first to win the FedEx Cup in consecutive years since it was awarded for the first time in 2007 to Tiger Woods.
“That’s the goal now that the majors are done with for the year,” he said. “That’s the biggest prize left on the schedule.”
Finishing in the top 125 in the FedEx Cup standings, and securing a spot in the playoffs and a full card for next season, is also a reward some will be chasing this week in Detroit and next week when the regular season ends at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.
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Twitter says it’s testing an ‘edit’ button
(AP) - Twitter tweeted Tuesday that it is indeed working on a way for users to edit their 280-character messages, although it says the project has nothing to do with the fact that edit-function fan Elon Musk was just revealed as the company’s largest shareholder and now sits on its board.
Twitter said it will test the feature in its paid service, Twitter Blue, in the coming months. It said the test would help it “learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible.” So it may be a while before most Twitter users get to use it, if they ever do. Twitter spokesperson Catherine Hill declined to say whether an edit feature might be rolled out for all users.
Many Twitter users — among them, Kim Kardashian, Ice T, Katy Perry and McDonald’s corporate account — have long begged for an edit button. The company itself recently teased users with an April Fool’s Day tweet saying “we are working on an edit button.” The official Twitter account said Tuesday that the April 1 tweet wasn’t a joke and that it has been working on it since last year.
Twitter also said it didn’t get the idea from a Twitter poll launched by Tesla CEO Musk Monday evening. Musk, himself a Twitter power user, asked followers if they wanted an edit button, cheekily misspelling “yes” as “yse” and “no” as “on.” More than 4 million people had voted as of Tuesday evening.
Musk also tweeted that he is looking forward to making “significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!”
Twitter’s vice president of consumer product, Jay Sullivan, tweeted Tuesday that an edit function has for years been Twitter’s most requested new feature, noting that people want to fix mistakes, typos, and “hot takes.”
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had said that Twitter had considered an edit button, but in a January 2020 Q&A maintained that “we’ll probably never do it.” He noted that Twitter’s current setup keeps the spirit of its text-message origins — texts can’t be edited — and the confusion that could result from users making changes to a tweet that has already been heavily circulated by others. Dorsey stepped down as CEO in November 2021.
People who study Twitter also say adding an edit button would likely change the nature of Twitter, making it less valuable as a historical warehouse that stores official statements by politicians and other high-profile people. Twitter, for better or worse, “has become the de facto news wire,” said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor and an expert on social media who researches propaganda.
Tweets are often embedded in news stories, which could cause problems if the users edit important or controversial tweets without leaving evidence of the original statement. Grygiel suggested instead giving Twitter users a window of time to edit their tweets before they publish them.
Letting powerful Twitter users edit their tweets means they would not be historical statements anymore, Grygiel said. “We need to think about what the implications are, what these tweets are, who has power.”
The company acknowledged those concerns Tuesday evening when Sullivan tweeted: “Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been edited, Edit could be misused to alter the record of the public conversation. Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work.”
Musk, too, had said that a proposal for a post-publication edit window of a few minutes " sounds reasonable.”
Musk is someone who could seemingly use an edit button. His tweet about taking Tesla private at $420 per share, when funding was not secured, led to a $40 million SEC settlement and a requirement that Musk’s tweets be approved by a corporate lawyer. Musk is still embroiled in a fight over that settlement.
Twitter had earlier seemed to be taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to Musk’s poll. Twitter’s CEO, Parag Agrawal, retweeted the poll with a seeming reference to an earlier tweet by Musk, saying “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.” Musk had used the same language in a March tweet describing another of his polls that asked whether Twitter adheres to free speech principles.
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- Net income was $19.8 million, or $0.56 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2022 compared to $19.4 million, or $0.55 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2021 and $25.3 million, or $0.70 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2021.
- Reversal of provision for credit losses was $3.6 million for the first quarter of 2022 compared to $5.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2021 and $7.2 million for the first quarter of 2021.
- Loans receivable grew $5.5 million, or 0.1% (0.6% annualized), in the first quarter of 2022; excluding SBA PPP loan repayments of $80.9 million, loans receivable grew $86.4 million, or 2.4%(1) (9.5% annualized(1)).
- The ratio of nonperforming assets to total assets decreased to 0.22% at March 31, 2022 compared to 0.32% at December 31, 2021 and 0.75% at March 31, 2021.
- Noninterest expense to average total assets, annualized, was 1.95% for the first quarter of 2022 compared to 2.06% for the fourth quarter of 2021 and 2.22% for the first quarter of 2021.
- Declared a regular cash dividend of $0.21 per common share on April 20, 2022.
OLYMPIA, Wash., April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Financial Corporation (NASDAQ GS: HFWA) (the "Company" or "Heritage"), the parent company of Heritage Bank ("Bank"), today reported net income of $19.8 million for the first quarter of 2022 compared to $19.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2021 and $25.3 million for the first quarter of 2021. Diluted earnings per share for the first quarter of 2022 were $0.56 compared to $0.55 for the fourth quarter of 2021 and $0.70 for the first quarter of 2021.
Jeffrey J. Deuel, President and Chief Executive Officer of Heritage, commented, "While we continue to see challenges from the COVID-environment, we remain focused on delivering strong financial performance and improvements in our operating efficiency by managing expenses and leveraging technology systems. We are well-positioned for the rising rate environment due to our ample balance sheet liquidity, including $1.58 billion in cash and cash equivalents. Additionally, we are seeing loan growth due to a decline in loan payoff activity and the strong economic climate in the Pacific Northwest.
Further, we are pleased with the success of our ongoing efforts to positively contribute to housing in the communities we serve. Heritage Bank recently partnered with Catholic Housing Services in constructing a new affordable housing development of 119 new family units in Seattle's Rainier Beach Neighborhood. Heritage Bank is providing $31.1 million of construction financing and $14.8 million of permanent financing for this project. Catholic Housing Services will utilize Seattle's Community Preference Policy, providing housing preference to families with historic ties to the area which will aid in improving demographic dispersion in the neighborhood."
Financial Highlights
The following table provides financial highlights at the dates and for the periods indicated:
SBA PPP Loans
The Company has supported its community and customers during the COVID-19 pandemic through its participation in the Small Business Administration's ("SBA") Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP"). The SBA PPP ended on May 31, 2021.
The following table summarizes the SBA PPP activity as of and for the periods indicated:
Balance Sheet
Total investment securities increased $184.4 million, or 14.4%, to $1.46 billion at March 31, 2022 from $1.28 billion at December 31, 2021 due primarily to purchases to deploy excess liquidity into higher yielding assets.
The following table summarizes the Company's loans receivable, net at the dates indicated:
Loans receivable grew $5.5 million, or 0.1% (0.6% annualized), in the first quarter of 2022. Excluding SBA PPP loan repayments of $80.9 million, loans receivable grew $86.4 million, or 2.4% (9.5% annualized); see Non-GAAP Financial Measures section herein for the calculation. New loans funded during the first quarter of 2022 were $235.9 million, including $42.2 million of purchased residential real estate loans, as compared to $222.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. Additionally, loan repayments declined in the first quarter of 2022 to $149.9 million as compared to $242.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, exclusive of SBA PPP loan repayments, net deferred fees, and net acquired discounts.
Total deposits increased at a quarterly growth rate of 1.5%, or an annualized rate of 6.2%, from December 31, 2021. The following table summarizes the Company's total deposits at the dates indicated:
During the first quarter of 2022, the Company repurchased $2.0 million, or 80,559 shares of its common stock at a weighted average price per share of $25.17, as compared to the repurchase of $1.5 million, or 63,884 shares of its common stock, at a weighted average price per share of $23.02, during the fourth quarter of 2021. As of March 31, 2022, there were 657,745 shares available for repurchase under the current repurchase plan.
The Company and Bank continue to maintain capital levels in excess of the applicable regulatory requirements for them both to be categorized as "well-capitalized". The following table summarizes capital ratios for the Company at the dates indicated:
The stockholders' equity to total assets ratio and the tangible common equity to tangible assets ratio both declined due primarily to a decrease in accumulated other comprehensive income of $43.6 million during the first quarter of 2022 following an increase in market interest rates during the quarter, which negatively impacted the fair value of our investment securities available for sale at March 31, 2022.
Allowance for Credit Losses and Provision for Credit Losses
The following table provides detail on the changes in the allowance for credit losses ("ACL") on loans and the ACL on unfunded commitments ("Unfunded") and the related (reversal of) provision for credit losses for the periods indicated:
The ACL on loans decreased compared to December 31, 2021 due primarily to a reduction of loans individually evaluated for losses and their related ACL as well as changes in the loan mix and continued improvement in forecasted economic indicators used to calculate credit losses.
Credit Quality
Nonperforming assets decreased to 0.22% of total assets at March 31, 2022 compared to 0.32% of total assets at December 31, 2021. Nonperforming assets at both March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021 consisted only of nonaccrual loans. Changes in nonaccrual loans during the periods indicated were as follows:
Nonaccrual loans declined $7.2 million, or 30.4%, due primarily to ongoing collection efforts, including the partial payoff of two large commercial and industrial loan relationships, the payoff of one non-owner occupied CRE relationship, and the transfer of two commercial business loan relationships back to accruing status.
Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin
Net interest income decreased $1.0 million, or 2.0%, for the first quarter of 2022 compared to the fourth quarter of 2021 due primarily to a decrease in deferred SBA PPP loan fees recognized due to a decrease in the volume of forgiven SBA PPP loans, offset partially by an increase in interest income on investment securities.
Net interest income decreased $5.3 million, or 10.1%, compared to the first quarter of 2021 also due primarily to the decrease in deferred SBA PPP loan fees recognized as well as a slightly lower loan yield. The decrease in net interest income was offset partially by a higher average balance of taxable investment securities.
The following table presents the loan yield and the impact of SBA PPP loans and the incremental accretion on purchased loans on this financial measure for the periods presented below:
The impact to loan yield from recoveries of interest and fees on loans classified as nonaccrual was 11 basis points during the first quarter of 2022, including the recovery of $774,000 from a non-owner occupied CRE relationship, compared to one basis point during the fourth quarter of 2021.
Net interest margin decreased slightly to 2.84% for the first quarter of 2022 as compared to 2.85% for the fourth quarter of 2021.
Net interest margin decreased from 3.51% for the first quarter of 2021 due primarily to the change in the mix of total interest earning assets, including a significant increase in the balance of lower yielding average interest earning deposits, and secondarily due to lower loan yield.
Noninterest Income
The following table presents the key components of noninterest income and the change for the periods indicated:
Noninterest income decreased during the first quarter of 2022 compared to the fourth quarter of 2021 due primarily to the prior quarter's gain of $2.7 million related to the sale and leaseback of the Company's headquarters included in gain on sale of other assets, net, offset partially by an increase in bank owned life insurance income due to the recognition of a death benefit of $1.0 million during the current quarter.
Noninterest income increased from the same period in 2021 due primarily to the current quarter death benefit discussed above and increases in service charges and other fees and card revenue reflecting increased customer transactions as businesses reopened in our market areas, offset partially by reduced gain on sale of loans, net as sales volume of secondary market mortgage loans declined.
Noninterest Expense
The following table presents the key components of noninterest expense and the change for the periods indicated:
Noninterest expense decreased from the fourth quarter of 2021 due primarily to a decrease in compensation and employee benefits as the accrual for incentive compensation declined compared to the fourth quarter of 2021. Data processing declined as software implementation costs related to technology initiatives were included in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Noninterest expense decreased from the same period in 2021 due primarily to a decrease in compensation and employee benefits from lower headcount and secondarily due to a decrease in professional services which was elevated during the first quarter of 2021 due to costs associated with our participation in the second tranche of the SBA PPP.
Income Tax Expense
The following table presents the income tax expense and related metrics and the change for the periods indicated:
Income tax expense decreased for the first quarter of 2022 compared to the fourth quarter of 2021 and the same period in 2021 primarily reflecting the change in income before income taxes earned between the periods. Additionally, the effective income tax rate was higher during the fourth quarter of 2021 due primarily to an increase in annual pre-tax income for the year ended 2021, which decreased the impact of favorable permanent tax items such as tax-exempt investments, investments in bank owned life insurance and low-income housing tax credits.
Dividend
On April 20, 2022, the Company's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.21 per share. The dividend is payable on May 18, 2022 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 4, 2022.
Earnings Conference Call
The Company will hold a telephone conference call to discuss this earnings release on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time. To access the call, please dial (844) 200-6205 -- access code 097736 a few minutes prior to 11:00 a.m. Pacific time. The call will be available for replay through April 28, 2022 by dialing (866) 813-9403 -- access code 921221.
About Heritage Financial
Heritage Financial Corporation is an Olympia-based bank holding company with Heritage Bank, a full-service commercial bank, as its sole wholly-owned banking subsidiary. Heritage Bank has a branch network of 49 banking offices in Washington and Oregon. Heritage Bank does business under the Whidbey Island Bank name on Whidbey Island. Heritage's stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "HFWA". More information about Heritage Financial Corporation can be found on its website at www.hf-wa.com and more information about Heritage Bank can be found on its website at www.heritagebanknw.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements often include words such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," and "intend" or future or conditional verbs such as "will," "would," "should," "could," or "may." Forward-looking statements are not historical facts but instead represent management's current expectations and forecasts regarding future events, many of which are inherently uncertain and outside of our control. Actual results may differ, possibly materially, from those currently expected or projected in these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, include but are not limited to, the following: the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, including on the Company's credit quality and business operations, as well as its impact on general economic and financial market conditions and other uncertainties resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the extent and duration of the impact on public health, the U.S. and global economies, and consumer and corporate customers, including economic activity, employment levels and market liquidity; changes in the interest rate environment; changes in general economic conditions and conditions within the securities markets; legislative and regulatory changes, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; and other factors described in Heritage's latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other documents filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission-which are available on our website at www.heritagebanknw.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Moreover, any of the forward-looking statements that we make in this press release or the documents we file with or furnish to the SEC are based only on information then actually known to the Company and upon management's beliefs and assumptions at the time they are made which may turn out to be wrong because of inaccurate assumptions we might make, because of the factors described above or because of other factors that we cannot foresee. The Company does not undertake and specifically disclaims any obligation to revise any forward-looking statements to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events or circumstances after the date of such statements. These risks could cause our actual results for 2022 and beyond to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements by, or on behalf of, us, and could negatively affect the Company's operating and stock price performance.
Average Balances, Yields, and Rates Paid:
HERITAGE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES (Unaudited)
(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share amounts)
This earnings release contains certain financial measures not presented in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP") in addition to financial measures presented in accordance with GAAP. The Company has presented these non-GAAP financial measures in this earnings release because it believes that they provide useful and comparative information to assess trends in the Company's capital, performance and asset quality reflected in the current quarter and comparable period results and to facilitate comparison of its performance with the performance of its peers. These non-GAAP measures have inherent limitations, are not required to be uniformly applied and are not audited. They should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial measures presented in accordance with GAAP. These non-GAAP measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. Reconciliations of the GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures are presented below.
The Company considers the tangible common equity to tangible assets ratio and tangible book value per share to be useful measurements of the adequacy of the Company's capital levels.
The Company considers presenting the ratio of ACL on loans to loans receivable, excluding SBA PPP loans, to be a useful measurement in evaluating the adequacy of the Company's ACL on loans as the balance of SBA PPP loans was significant to the loan portfolio; however, since SBA PPP loans are guaranteed by the SBA, the Company has not provided an ACL on loans for these loans.
Similarly, presenting the change in loans receivable excluding the change in SBA PPP loans is useful in assessing the impact of these special program loans to the Company's loan production efforts:
The Company considers the return on average tangible common equity ratio to be a useful measurement of the Company's ability to generate returns for its common shareholders. By removing the impact of intangible assets and their related amortization and tax effects, the performance of the Company's ongoing business operations can be evaluated.
The Company believes that presenting pre-tax pre-provision income, which reflects its profitability before income taxes and provision for credit losses, and the pre-tax, pre-provision return on average assets, are useful measurements in assessing its operating income and expenses by removing the volatility that may be associated with credit loss provisions. The Company also believes that during a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic, this information is useful as the impact of the pandemic on credit loss provisions of various institutions has varied based on the geography of the communities served by a particular institution and the decision to adopt or defer the current expected credit losses ("CECL") methodology required by ASU 2016-13.
The Company believes presenting loan yield excluding the effect of discount accretion on purchased loans is useful in assessing the impact of acquisition accounting on loan yield as the effect of loan discount accretion is expected to decrease as the acquired loans mature or roll off its balance sheet. Incremental accretion on purchased loans represents the amount of interest income recorded on purchased loans in excess of the contractual stated interest rate in the individual loan notes due to incremental accretion of purchased discount or premium. Purchased discount or premium is the difference between the contractual loan balance and the fair value of acquired loans at the acquisition date, or as modified by the adoption of Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-13. The purchased discount is accreted into income over the remaining life of the loan. The impact of incremental accretion on loan yield will change during any period based on the volume of prepayments, but it is expected to decrease over time as the balance of the purchased loans decreases.
Similarly, presenting loan yield excluding the effect of SBA PPP loans is useful in assessing the impact of these special program loans that are anticipated to substantially decrease within a short time frame.
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HEFEI, China, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sungrow, the global leading inverter and energy storage solution supplier for renewables, announced that it is listed in Forbes China's Top 50 Most innovative companies and is the only inverter company listed. This honour reaffirms Sungrow's years-long dedication to technological innovation and recognizes its continuous achievements in the renewable energy industry.
Referring to Innovation, Jack Gu, Sungrow's Super Vice President, expressed his thoughts during his dialogue with Forbes China the other day: "Solar inverters will still be the 'Brain' to manage modules and be able to detect and repair failures. In addition, as large-scale renewables connect to the grid, PV plants need actively support the grid, which requires the inverter to be more intelligent and competent to manage the system. What is more, when governmental subsidies to this industry decrease, PV plants must bring long-term benefits. Hence, Sungrow seeks to upgrade the inverter equipment with advanced algorithms and other innovative technologies so that they can help save the O&M costs, lower the LCOE and increase the overall ROI for all stakeholders."
Sungrow's innovative spirit is not only manifested in the solar inverter development but is inherited in its booming energy storage system business. "Sungrow aims to be a professional company in storage system integration and smart energy management. We provide three core equipment including Battery Management System (BMS), Power Conversion System (PCS) and Energy Management System (EMS), which are supported by Sungrow's innovative technologies in power conversion, battery, and grid forming," Jack Gu emphasized, "Sungrow will focus on refining the integration of software and hardware of storage system as well as improving energy management systems."
25 years-long innovation and R&D bring fruitful results to Sungrow. It was ranked as the No.1 PV inverter supplier globally with 47.1 GWac shipments by IHS Markit now a part of S&P Global. It also shipped a total 3GWh of ESS globally in 2021, all working safely. Being listed as the Top Innovative Company also testifies to its capabilities to innovate. "At Sungrow, the R&D personnel occupies over 40% of the total, and we are also the Top.1 patent holder in this industry with over 4400 patents. This large team keeps exploring more possibilities in the renewable energy industry. When sticking to the main business of inverter and energy storage systems, Sungrow also seeks growth in wind energy solutions, NEV driving solutions, EV charging solutions and renewable hydrogen production systems. This industry is creating numerous opportunities, but potential risks will also arise. Hence, we will remain proactive and prudent amid the complex situation and keep a close eye on the market and industry changes constantly so that we can maintain strong competitiveness in the long term," Jack Gu concluded.
About Sungrow
Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd. ("Sungrow") is the world's most bankable inverter brand with over 269 GW installed worldwide as of June 2022. Founded in 1997 by University Professor Cao Renxian, Sungrow is a leader in the research and development of solar inverters with the largest dedicated R&D team in the industry and a broad product portfolio offering PV inverter solutions and energy storage systems for utility-scale, commercial & industrial, and residential applications, as well as internationally recognized floating PV plant solutions, NEV driving solutions, EV charging solutions and renewable hydrogen production systems. With a strong 25-year track record in the PV space, Sungrow products power over 150 countries worldwide.
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HICKSVILLE, N.Y., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Acutis Diagnostics, a New York State laboratory, is taking on urgent healthcare issues through advancing medical testing capabilities.
Among its most important projects is developing advanced gene sequencing technologies that can be used in the clinic. This work was featured recently in a Long Island Press article.
"Acutis expects that gene sequencing will dramatically improve the way cancer medication is developed and that biomarker-specific treatment will be based on diagnostics, such as those being developed by Acutis," said Acutis CEO Jibreel Sarij.
The company has a 40,000-square-foot facility in Hicksville with more than 200 professional employees. It was launched as a clinical diagnostic laboratory in a 1,000-square-foot start-up space in Farmingdale.
Acutis also offers molecular testing with a focus on infectious diseases, which enabled it to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has performed 2.5 million COVID tests over the past two years.
Acutis provides advanced polymerase chain reaction-based (PCR) tests for infectious diseases that may be misdiagnosed with traditional testing, such as urinary tract infections.
"We stress the importance of moving together with continuous improvement in mind," said Javon Barnwell, vice president of human resources. "Simply, we demand more of ourselves and each other to serve those who have entrusted us with their important care as best as we can."
The company plans to provide specialized contract services to assist other biopharmaceutical companies through Acutis Biosciences. These services will include research, development, and commercialization of new oncology therapeutics using genomics, including for identifying cancer mutations.
Acutis is a specialized clinical and biosciences diagnostics grounded in the most advanced science, technology, and best practices, all set in motion by teams of deeply committed professionals. https://www.acutis.com/.
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MADRID (AP) — Large parts of Spain were under alert Friday as a wave of intense heat began sweeping across the country, leaving residents sweltering through May temperatures that rank among the hottest in two decades.
A mass of hot, dry air carrying dust from North Africa has pushed temperatures up to 15 degrees above average, with the mercury topping 40 C (104 F) in parts of the country.
The State Meteorological Agency said it expected the “unusual and extreme” temperatures to peak on Saturday.
“These will probably be among the warmest temperatures we’ve seen in May in the 21st century,” agency spokesman Rubén del Campo said.
By Friday, a handful of records had already been set. In the southern Spanish city of Jaén, the temperature climbed to 38.7 C (101.7 F) — 15 degrees above the seasonal average — in a record for the month of May. In the central city of Cuenca, the daily low temperature of 19.5 C (67.1 F) was two degrees higher than the previous May minimum.
While the temperatures are expected to fall short of what meteorologists in Spain define as a heat wave, what makes this episode singular will be its persistence, with nighttime temperatures expected to hover above 20 C (68 F) in many places.
The high temperatures are forecast to push northeast in the coming days, with little relief expected until after Sunday.
The State Meteorological Agency said Friday it had put four regions on alert due to the heat. The regions of Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura and Madrid were under a yellow alert, meaning they were at risk, while the southern region of Andalusia was under an orange alert, meaning a significant risk because of the intense heat. No region was under red alert, the highest level that corresponds to an extreme risk.
Del Campo characterized the May heat as part of a broader pattern that has seen summer weather start to arrive in Spain nearly one month earlier than it did in the 1980s. He was unequivocal about the cause.
“What’s behind all of this?” Del Campo asked. “Climate change, obviously anthropogenic, generated by the emission of greenhouse gases linked to human activity.”
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The 2022 Grammy Awards are being presented Sunday.
A list of nominees in several major categories follows below, with winners indicated in bold.
You can see the full list of nominees and winners in more than 80 categories here.
Record of the Year
"I Still Have Faith In You," ABBA
"Freedom," Jon Batiste
"I Get A Kick Out Of You," Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
"Peaches," Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon
"Right On Time," Brandi Carlile
"Kiss Me More," Doja Cat Featuring SZA
"Happier Than Ever," Billie Eilish
"Montero" (Call Me By Your Name), Lil Nas X
"drivers license," Olivia Rodrigo
"Leave The Door Open," Silk Sonic
Song of the Year
"Bad Habits," Ed Sheeran
"A Beautiful Noise," Alicia Keys Featuring Brandi Carlile
"drivers license," Olivia Rodrigo
"Fight For You," H.E.R.
"Happier Than Ever," Billie Eilish
"Kiss Me More," Doja Cat Featuring SZA
"Leave The Door Open," Silk Sonic *WINNER
"Montero (Call Me By Your Name)," Lil Nas X
"Peaches," Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon
"Right On Time," Brandi Carlile
Album of the Year
"We Are," Jon Batiste
"Love For Sale," Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
"Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe)," Justin Bieber
"Planet Her (Deluxe)," Doja Cat
"Happier Than Ever," Billie Eilish
"Back Of My Mind," H.E.R.
"Montero," Lil Nas X
"Sour," Olivia Rodrigo
"Evermore," Taylor Swift
"Donda," Kanye West
Best New Artist
Arooj Aftab
Jimmie Allen
Baby Keem
FINNEAS
Glass Animals
Japanese Breakfast
The Kid Laroi
Arlo Parks
Olivia Rodrigo *WINNER
Saweetie
Best Pop Solo Performance
"Anyone," Justin Bieber
"Right on Time," Brandi Carlile
"Happier Than Ever," Billie Eilish
"Positions," Ariana Grande
"Drivers License," Olivia Rodrigo *WINNER
Best Pop Duo or Group Performance
"I Get a Kick Out of You," Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
"Lonely," Justin Bieber & benny blanco
"Butter," BTS
"Higher Power," Coldplay
"Kiss Me More," Doja Cat feat. SZA
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
"Love for Sale," Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga *WINNER
"'Til We Meet Again (Live)," Norah Jones
"A Tori Kelly Christmas," Tori Kelly
"Ledisi Sings Nina," Ledisi
"That's Life," Willie Nelson
A Holly Dolly Christmas, Dolly Parton
Best Pop Vocal Album
"Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe)," Justin Bieber
"Planet Her (Deluxe)," Doja Cat
"Happier Than Ever", Billie Eilish
"Positions," Ariana Grande
"Sour," Olivia Rodrigo
Best Dance Recording
"Hero," Afrojack & David Guetta
"Loom," Ólafur Arnalds Featuring Bonobo
"Before," James Blake
"Heartbreak," Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
"You Can Do It," Caribou
"Alive," Rüfüs Du Sol
"The Business," Tiësto
Best Rap Album
"The Off-Season," J. Cole
"Certified Lover Boy," Drake
"King's Disease 2," Nas
"Call Me If You Get Lost," Tyler, the Creator *WINNER
"Donda," Kanye West
Best Rap Performance
"Family Ties," Baby Keem, Kendrick Lamar *WINNER
"Up," Cardi B
"My Life," J. Cole, 21 Savage & Morray
"Thot S***" Megan Thee Stallion
Best Rap Song
"Bath Salts," DMX, Jay-Z, Nas
"Best Friend," Saweetie, Doja Cat
"Family Ties," Baby Keem, Kendrick Lamar
"Jail," Kanye West, Jay-Z *WINNER
"My Life," J. Cole, 21 Savage & Morray
Best Latin Pop Album
"Vertigo," Pablo Alborán
"Mis Amores," Paula Arenas - Mis Amores
"Hecho A La Antigua," Ricardo Arjona
"Mis Manos," Camilo
"Mendó," Alex Cuba
"Revelación," Selena Gomez
Best Musica Urbana Album
"Afrodisíaco," Rauw Alejandro
"El Último Tour Del Mundo," Bad Bunny
"Jose," J Balvin
"KG0516," KAROL G
"Sin Miedo (Del Amor Y Otros Demonios) 8," Kali Uchis
Best American Roots Performance
"Cry," Jon Batiste
"Love and Regret," Billy Strings
"I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free," The Blind Boys of Alabama and Bela Fleck
"Same Devil," Brandy Clark Featuring Brandi Carlile
"Nightflyer," Allison Russell
Best R&B Performance
"Lost You," Snoh Aalegra
"Peaches," Justin Bieber Featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon
"Damage," H.E.R.
"Leave The Door Open," Silk Sonic *WINNER (tie)
"Pick Up Your Feelings," Jazmine Sullivan *WINNER (tie)
Best R&B Song
"Damage," H.E.R.
"Good Days," SZA
"Heartbreak Anniversary," Giveon
"Leave The Door Open," Silk Sonic *WINNER
"Pick Up Your Feelings," Jazmine Sullivan
Best Country Solo Performance
"Forever After All," Luke Combs
"Remember Her Name," Mickey Guyton
"All I Do Is Drive," Jason Isbell
"camera roll," Kacey Musgraves
"You Should Probably Leave," Chris Stapleton
Best Country Duo or Group Performance
"If I Didn't Love You," Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood
"Younger Me," Brothers Osborne
"Glad You Exist," Dan + Shay
"Chasing After You," Ryan Hurd & Maren Morris
"Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)," Elle King & Miranda Lambert
Best Country Song
"Better Than We Found It," Maren Morris
"camera roll," Kacey Musgraves
"Cold," Chris Stapleton
"Country Again," Thomas Rhett
"Fancy Like," Walker Hayes
"Remember Her Name," Mickey Guyton
Best Country Album
"Skeletons," Brothers Osborne
"Remember Her Name," Mickey Guyton
"The Marfa Tapes," Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall & Jack Ingram
"The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita," Sturgill Simpson
"Starting Over," Chris Stapleton *WINNER
Best Rock Performance
"Shot in the Dark," AC/DC
"Know You Better (Live from Capitol Studio A)," Black Pumas
"Nothing Compares 2 U," Chris Cornell
"OHMS," Deftones
"Making a Fire," Foo Fighters *WINNER
Best Rock Song
"All My Favorite Songs," Weezer
"The Bandit," Kings of Leon
"Distance," Mammoth WVH
"Find My Way," Paul McCartney
"Waiting on a War," Foo Fighters *WINNER
Best Rock Album
"Power Up", AC/DC
"Capitol Cuts- Live From Studio A," Black Pumas
"No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1," Chris Cornell
"Medicine at Midnight," Foo Fighters *WINNER
"McCartney III," Paul McCartney
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A grand jury in Lake County, Illinois, has returned 117 felony counts against Robert E. Crimo III, the man accused of shooting into a crowd during a July 4th parade in Highland Park, killing seven people and woounding dozens of others.
Crimo, 21, is charged with 21 counts of first-degree murder, three counts for each deceased victim.
He also is charged with 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm for each victim who was struck by a bullet, bullet fragment or shrapnel, a release from the Lake County State's Attorney's Office said.
CNN has reached out to Crimo's attorney for comment.
"I want to thank law enforcement and the prosecutors who presented evidence to the grand jury today. Our investigation continues, and our victim specialists are working around the clock to support all those affected by this crime that led to 117 felony counts being filed today," State's Attorney Eric Rinehart said in the release.
Crimo is expected to appear in person in court on August 3 for his arraignment, the release said. He has been held without bail since being arrested during a traffic stop hours after the shooting.
Crimo voluntarily admitted to authorities he emptied two 30-round magazines before loading his weapon with a third and firing again, Lake County Assistant State's Attorney Ben Dillon said earlier this month during a virtual bail hearing. If convicted on first-degree murder charges, Crimo faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Authorities have said they have not learned the suspected shooter's motive.
According to state police, Crimo bought rifles and other guns between June 2020 and September 2021. He passed four background checks, including checks of the federal National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
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International Soccer Academy and FC Schalke 04's Integrated Academy Proves Successful
NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Soccer Academy today announced five North American youth soccer players on FC Schalke 04's Integrated Academy will join Germany's SC Verl and compete in the Bundesliga U19, Europe's most competitive league for this age.
"This is proof of concept," said Eddie Loewen — cofounder, International Soccer Academy. "The signing of our five players with SC Verl is living proof that our program works. We are proud to create the opportunity for American youth soccer players to compete in the world's leading U19 league."
Over the past 18 months, International Soccer Academy has successfully arranged over 65 trials with LA LIGA, Bundesliga and German clubs and a total of 12 players have signed contracts to play soccer in Europe.
"Our goal is to create a pathway for top American youth soccer players to become professionals or top collegiate impact players," said Diane Scavuzzo, co-founder of International Soccer Academy. "We are proud SC Verl chose players from our FC Schalke 04 Integrated Academy. Competing in the U19 Bundesliga against FC Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, FC Köln and other Bundesliga teams is a real dream for many teenage soccer players."
International Soccer Academy's exclusive partnerships with FC Schalke 04 creates a proven pathway for talented youth soccer players. The player development program is outstanding. Michael Volmari, SC Verl's Sporting Director said, "We are very impressed with the players from International Soccer Academy's program with FC Schalke 04."
Players Selected by SC Verl:
DEFENDERS (3): Alex "X' Hafer (Kingsville, MD/Baltimore Armour), Tidiane Keita (Montreal, Canada/MLS Montreal Impact), Jaime Villanueva (Tualatin, OR/MLS Portland Timbers)
MIDFIELDERS (1): Christian Chandler (San Antonio, TX/ECNL SAFC Pro)
FORWARDS (1): Keiquon Aaron (Brooklyn, NY/USL FA Euro)
Daniel Fröhlich, Head Coach of SC Verl U19 said, "We are excited to welcome these talented players and look forward to our success in U19 Bundesliga."
SC Verl has won several championships and is an outstanding club focused on succeeding in the future of the game.
"I am proud to join SC Verl," said Christian Chandler. "To play in the U19 Bundesliga is a huge opportunity for any player to showcase their talent."
"This is the opportunity of a life-time and I am thrilled to be selected to play for SC Verl and compete in the U19 Bundesliga," said Keiquon Aaron, who is in the Trinidad and Tobago Men's National U20 Team player pool for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
"After playing for at FC Schalke, one of the best academy in the world, to now play for SC Verl is incredible," said Tidiane Keita.
Jaime Villanueva said, "Excited to join SC Verl and play against some of the best teams in Europe."
An exclusive partnership with Hertha Berlin is launching an U17 Integrated Academy this fall. Interested players for the 2022/23 rosters should complete the APPLY NOW form.
Contact: Diane Scavuzzo, 858-531-8300, diane@internationalsocceracademy.com
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This approval expands MRIdian's global reach and offers cancer patients a new radiation therapy option—MRIdian SMART
DENVER, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewRay, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRAY) today announced that the company's MRIdian MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy System has received approval from the Chinese regulatory authority National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), allowing for its sale and utilization throughout China. This approval expands MRIdian's global reach and offers cancer patients a new radiation therapy option, MRIdian Stereotactic MRI-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy (SMART), allowing treatment that integrates diagnostic-quality MR imaging, on-table adaptive replanning, and continuous, real-time, soft tissue tracking and automated beam gating.
Recognizing the need to improve both social and economic development, China has put health at the core of policy making. Healthy China 2030 lays out China's long-term approach to healthcare and shows its commitment to improving healthcare services across the country.1 There are about 4.6 million new cases of cancer diagnosed annually in China.2 The Healthy China 2030 initiative aims to increase the five-year survival rate of cancer patients by 15%.1
"With the increasing burden of cancer prevalence in China, we are excited to bring the benefits of MRIdian SMART to these patients," said Paul Ziegler, ViewRay Chief Commercial Officer. "The availability of more treatment options, excellent treatment outcomes, reduced toxicity, and improved quality of life is an important advance for this market. The China NMPA approval not only supports our global expansion but also our goal of changing the paradigm of care in radiation oncology."
The MRIdian system provides oncologists outstanding anatomical visualization through diagnostic-quality MR images and the ability to adapt a radiation therapy plan to the targeted cancer with the patient on the table. This combination allows physicians to define tight treatment margins to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure of vulnerable organs-at-risk and healthy tissue and allows the delivery of ablative radiation doses in five or fewer treatment sessions, without relying on implanted markers. By providing real-time continuous tracking of the target and organs-at-risk, MRIdian enables automatic gating of the radiation beam if the target moves outside the user-defined margins. This allows for delivery of the prescribed dose to the target, while sparing surrounding healthy tissue and critical structures, which results in minimizing toxicities typically associated with conventional radiation therapy.
To date, nearly 25,000 patients have been treated with MRIdian. Currently, 53 MRIdian systems are installed at hospitals around the world where they are used to treat a wide variety of solid tumors and are the focus of numerous ongoing research efforts. MRIdian has been the subject of hundreds of peer-reviewed publications, scientific meeting abstracts, and presentations. For a list of treatment centers, please visit: https://viewray.com/find-mridian-mri-guided-radiation-therapy/
- Xiaodong, tan. (2017). Healthy china 2030: A Vision for Health Care - ISPOR. Retrieved August 11, 2022, from https://www.ispor.org/docs/default-source/publications/newsletter/commentary_health-care_china_2030.pdf
- Incidence rates: 2020 GLOBOCAN database
Disclaimer:
Nothing in this material is intended to provide specific medical advice or to take the place of written law or regulations.
Safety Statement
The MRIdian Linac System is not appropriate for all patients, including those who are not candidates for magnetic resonance imaging. Radiation treatments may cause side effects that can vary depending on the part of the body being treated. The most frequent ones are typically temporary and may include, but are not limited to, irritation to the respiratory, digestive, urinary, or reproductive systems; fatigue; nausea; skin irritation; and hair loss. In some patients, side effects can be severe. Treatment sessions may vary in complexity and duration. Radiation treatment is not appropriate for all cancers. You should discuss the potential for side effects and their severity as well as the benefits of radiation and magnetic resonance imaging with your doctor to make sure radiation treatment is right for you.
About ViewRay
ViewRay, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRAY), designs, manufactures, and markets the MRIdian® MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy System. MRIdian is built upon a proprietary high-definition MR imaging system designed from the ground up to address the unique challenges and clinical workflow for advanced radiation oncology. Unlike MR systems used in diagnostic radiology, MRIdian's high-definition MR was purpose-built to address specific challenges, including beam distortion, skin toxicity, and other concerns that potentially may arise when high magnetic fields interact with radiation beams. ViewRay and MRIdian are registered trademarks of ViewRay, Inc.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, among other things, ViewRay's financial guidance for the full year 2022, anticipated future orders, anticipated future operating and financial performance, treatment results, therapy adoption, innovation, and the performance of the MRIdian systems. Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Such factors include, among others, the ability to commercialize the MRIdian Linac System, demand for ViewRay's products, the ability to convert backlog into revenue, the timing of delivery of ViewRay's products, the timing, length, and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, including its impacts across our businesses on demand, our operations and global supply chains, the results and other uncertainties associated with clinical trials, the ability to raise the additional funding needed to continue to pursue ViewRay's business and product development plans, the inherent uncertainties associated with developing new products or technologies, competition in the industry in which ViewRay operates, and overall market conditions. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to ViewRay's business in general, see ViewRay's current and future reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as updated periodically with the Company's other filings with the SEC. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and ViewRay assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
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Second Quarter ended July 2, 2022
BLUE BELL, Pa., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QualTek Services Inc. ("QualTek" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: QTEK), a leading turnkey provider of infrastructure services to the North American 5G wireless, telecom, power grid modernization, and renewable energy sectors, announced today that the Company will release its Second Quarter financial results on Monday, August 8, 2022, after the financial markets close.
The Company will host a conference call the next day, August 9, 2022, to discuss its results and business outlook at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The call will be accessible by telephone at 1 (888) 330 – 2454 or 1 (240) 789 - 2714 using passcode 2965812, and the webcast can be accessed here. Additionally, the call will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed and replayed through the investor relations section of the Company's website at qualtekservices.com.
About QualTek
Founded in 2012, QualTek is a leading technology-driven provider of infrastructure services to the 5G wireless, telecom, power grid modernization, and renewable energy sectors across North America. QualTek has a national footprint with more than 80 operation centers across the U.S. and a workforce of over 5,000 people. QualTek has established a nationwide operating network to enable quick responses to customer demands as well as proprietary technology infrastructure for advanced reporting and invoicing. The Company reports within two operating segments: Telecommunications and Renewables and Recovery. For more information, please visit qualtekservices.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This communication contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about the financial condition, results of operations, earnings outlook and prospects of QualTek. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as "plan," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "outlook," "estimate," "forecast," "project," "continue," "could," "may," "might," "possible," "potential," "predict," "should," "would" and other similar words and expressions, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of QualTek and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of such statement. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed and identified in public filings made with the SEC by QualTek.
Should one or more of the risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made by the management of QualTek prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.
All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning the matters addressed in this communication and attributable to QualTek or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this communication. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, QualTek undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this communication to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Great minds run in pairs. I read an interesting opinion piece in the Atlanta newspapers recently about parenting. The author, Beth Collums, has a master’s degree in clinical psychology and experience as a child and family therapist. She is also a parent.
Collums states something we all know but tend to forget: Children are impressionable. They mimic their parents’ behavior. If they see momma or daddy screaming at a school board meeting, how are the kids going to act when something doesn’t go their way? Boorish behavior begets boorish behavior.
Which brings me to the second great mind on this particular subject — Carla, who runs the Yarbrough household and all within it. Carla, too, is a parent. Her youngest is turning 16 and is both academically and athletically gifted. At this young age, she has already decided to become a lawyer and later a judge. Big dreams at 16, but why not?
Carla is not quite as introspective on the subject of bad parenting as is Collums. Her bottom line is to hold the adults personally accountable for the bad behavior of the child. If some kid disrupts school for whatever reason, find the adult responsible and toss their derriere in jail. They are the cause of that behavior.
No question she feels strongly about this. Carla is a mama bear about her daughter’s education and is the reason the young lady is excelling. She has witnessed apathetic and absentee adults who don’t give a rip about their child’s behavior impacting her own child’s efforts to learn and then want to blame everybody but themselves.
My son-in-law, who was once named Georgia’s Teacher of the Year, retired after 31 years in the public school system. He said it was easy to identify the students most likely to succeed in the classroom. Their parents were involved in their child’s education and trusted the teacher to do his or her job.
My brother and I were raised by parents who grew up in rural Georgia when education was not valued. Neither made it past the seventh grade. That was not going to happen to their boys, both of whom they saw graduate from college.
Most important, they backed my teachers even when I tried eloquently to rationalize one of my dumb-as-a-rock decisions to them. To my parents, the teacher was usually right, I was usually wrong and as much as I hate to admit it, that was usually the case.
Collums rightly points out that teachers are on the front line, trying to make a positive difference. She says they need our respect and support and that teachers don’t go into the profession to get rich but “because they want to sow good into the world.” As the father, grandfather and father-in-law of dedicated public schoolteachers, I say “amen.”
Fast forward to today’s cacophonous world. Many children reside in an atmosphere where parents loudly denigrate those who have a different point of view from their own. They show disrespect to educators, yell at school board meetings and blithely ignore the fact they are turning their impressionable offspring into clones of their own worse side.
Collums cites a survey by the America Psychological Association that says 42% of bullying, threats, online harassment and slurs directed at school administrators come from parents. And they expect their children to behave?
She says if civil discourse and calm assertion aren’t exhibited at home, it is no surprise that those kinds of tensions will carry over into the schoolhouse. That manifests itself into an environment where teachers, who already have a boatload of problems not of their own making, have an even more difficult time teaching and trying to get students to learn.
In short, Collums, the child and family therapist, says parents need to behave themselves, become positive role models for their children and support the educators who are trying their best to educate the next generation. To which Carla, who runs the Yarbrough household and all within it, says if they refuse to do that, when their kids threaten, bully or harass at school, park their fannies in the pokey until they decide to take responsibility. One complex subject. Two great minds.
While we are on the subject of education, in my paean to the Vidalia onion last week I stated that Vidalia was the county seat of Toombs County. Actually, it is Lyons. Give me a “F” for attention to detail and an “A” for humbly admitting my mistake. Just don’t tell Carla.
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Man gets 3 years in prison for scheme to sell fraudulent Super Bowl rings
(CNN) - A New Jersey man was sentenced to three years in federal prison for a scheme to sell fake Super Bowl rings.
Scott Spina pleaded guilty earlier this year to a single count of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud and another count of aggravated identity theft.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California said Spina bought memorabilia in 2017 from a former pro football player. He then used that unidentified player’s information to place an order for three “family and friends” Super Bowl rings with the name Brady on them.
Spina told the ring-maker the jewelry was for former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who now plays for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
According to prosecutors, Spina eventually sold those rings to an auction house for $100,000.
Spina’s plea deal called for him to pay $63,000 in restitution to the former player.
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NANJING, China, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuniu Corporation (NASDAQ:TOUR) ("Tuniu" or the "Company"), a leading online leisure travel company in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
"Despite recent challenges in the external environment, we have continued to fully leverage Tuniu's core competencies and strengths in product innovation and service quality to provide customers with safe and secure travel experiences. We will continue to focus on our mission to make travel easier while remaining dedicated to corporate social responsibility, and working with our customers and partners to overcome challenges, take on new opportunities and further promote the recovery and development of China's travel industry." said Mr. Donald Dunde Yu, Tuniu's founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Reflecting the progress we've made in optimizing our operations, Tuniu's operating expenses have decreased year-on-year for five consecutive quarters. We will continue to implement strict expense control measures to further lower costs and improve efficiency."
First Quarter 2022 Results
Net revenues were RMB41.5 million (US$6.5 million[1]) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year decrease of 46.4% from the corresponding period in 2021. The decrease was primarily due to the negative impact brought by the outbreak and spread of COVID-19.
- Revenues from packaged tours were RMB14.4 million (US$2.3 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year decrease of 68.3% from the corresponding period in 2021. The decrease was primarily due to the resurgence of COVID-19 in certain regions in China.
- Other revenues were RMB27.1 million (US$4.3 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year decrease of 15.3% from the corresponding period in 2021. The decrease was primarily due to the decrease in the fees for advertising services provided to tourism boards and bureaus.
Cost of revenues was RMB25.7 million (US$4.0 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year decrease of 47.3% from the corresponding period in 2021. As a percentage of net revenues, cost of revenues was 61.9% in the first quarter of 2022, compared to 63.0% in the corresponding period in 2021.
Gross profit was RMB15.8 million (US$2.5 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year decrease of 44.8% from the corresponding period in 2021.
Operating expenses were RMB68.6 million (US$10.8 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year decrease of 17.8% from the corresponding period in 2021. Share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets, which were allocated to operating expenses, were RMB3.1 million (US$0.5 million) in the first quarter of 2022. Non-GAAP[2] operating expenses, which excluded share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets, were RMB65.5 million (US$10.3 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year decrease of 17.6%.
- Research and product development expenses were RMB16.2 million (US$2.6 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year increase of 37.3%. Non-GAAP research and product development expenses, which excluded share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets of RMB0.8 million (US$0.1 million), were RMB15.4 million (US$2.4 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year increase of 41.9% from the corresponding period in 2021. The increase was primarily due to the increase in research and product development personnel related expenses.
- Sales and marketing expenses were RMB29.8 million (US$4.7 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year decrease of 15.9%. Non-GAAP sales and marketing expenses, which excluded share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets of RMB1.2 million (US$0.2 million), were RMB28.6 million (US$4.5 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year decrease of 16.5% from the corresponding period in 2021. The decrease was primarily due to the decrease in promotion expenses.
- General and administrative expenses were RMB27.7 million (US$4.4 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year decrease of 38.2%. Non-GAAP general and administrative expenses, which excluded share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets of RMB1.2 million (US$0.2 million), were RMB26.5 million (US$4.2 million) in the first quarter of 2022, representing a year-over-year decrease of 38.2% from the corresponding period in 2021. The decrease was primarily due to the decrease in general and administrative personnel related expenses and allowance for doubtful accounts.
Loss from operations was RMB52.8 million (US$8.3 million) in the first quarter of 2022, compared to a loss from operations of RMB54.9 million in the first quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP loss from operations, which excluded share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets, was RMB49.6 million (US$7.8 million) in the first quarter of 2022.
Net loss was RMB41.7 million (US$6.6 million) in the first quarter of 2022, compared to a net loss of RMB41.6 million in the first quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP net loss, which excluded share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets, was RMB38.4 million (US$6.1 million) in the first quarter of 2022.
Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders was RMB40.4 million (US$6.4 million) in the first quarter of 2022, compared to a net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders of RMB39.5 million in the first quarter of 2021. Non-GAAP net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders, which excluded share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets, was RMB37.2 million (US$5.9 million) in the first quarter of 2022.
As of March 31, 2022, the Company had cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash and short-term investments of RMB929.5 million (US$146.6 million). The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted our business operations, and will continue to impact our results of operations and cash flows for subsequent periods. Based on our liquidity assessment and management actions, we believe that our available cash, cash equivalents and maturity of investments will be sufficient to meet our working capital requirements and capital expenditures in the ordinary course of business for the next twelve months.
Business Outlook
For the second quarter of 2022, the Company expects to generate RMB32.2 million to RMB40.2 million of net revenues, which represents a 75% to 80% decrease year-over-year. This forecast reflects Tuniu's current and preliminary view on the industry and its operations, which is subject to change.
Conference Call Information
Tuniu's management will hold an earnings conference call at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time, on June 9, 2022, (8:00 p.m., Beijing/Hong Kong Time, on June 9, 2022) to discuss the first quarter 2022 financial results.
To participate in the conference call, please dial the following numbers:
Conference ID: Tuniu 1Q 2022 Earnings Call
A telephone replay will be available one hour after the end of the conference call through June 16, 2022. The dial-in details are as follows:
Replay Access Code: 2866159
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will also be available on the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.tuniu.com.
About Tuniu
Tuniu (Nasdaq:TOUR) is a leading online leisure travel company in China that offers a large selection of packaged tours, including organized and self-guided tours, as well as travel-related services for leisure travelers through its website tuniu.com and mobile platform. Tuniu covers over 420 departing cities throughout China and all popular destinations worldwide. Tuniu provides one-stop leisure travel solutions and a compelling customer experience through its online platform and offline service network, including a dedicated team of professional customer service representatives, 24/7 call centers, extensive networks of offline retail stores and self-operated local tour operators. For more information, please visit http://ir.tuniu.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements made under the "safe harbor" provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Tuniu may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its reports filed with or furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Any statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Tuniu's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements that involve factors, risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such factors and risks include, but are not limited to the following: Tuniu's goals and strategies; the growth of the online leisure travel market in China; the demand for Tuniu's products and services; its relationships with customers and travel suppliers; the Company's ability to offer competitive travel products and services; Tuniu's future business development, results of operations and financial condition; competition in the online travel industry in China; relevant government policies and regulations relating to the Company's structure, business and industry; the impact of the COVID-19 on Tuniu's business operations, the travel industry and the economy of China and elsewhere generally; and the general economic and business condition in China and elsewhere. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release is current as of the date of the press release, and Tuniu does not undertake any obligation to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
About Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement the Company's unaudited consolidated financial results presented in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"), the Company has provided non-GAAP information related to cost of revenues, research and product development expenses, sales and marketing expenses, general and administrative expenses, other operating income, total operating expenses, loss from operations, net loss, net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders, net loss per ordinary share attributable to ordinary shareholders-basic and diluted and net loss per ADS-basic and diluted, which excludes share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets. We believe that the non-GAAP financial measures used in this press release are useful for understanding and assessing underlying business performance and operating trends, and management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing our financial performance and when planning and forecasting future periods. For more information on these non-GAAP financial measures, please see the table captioned "Reconciliations of GAAP and non-GAAP Results" set forth at the end of this press release.
A limitation of using non-GAAP financial measures excluding share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets is that share-based compensation expenses and amortization of acquired intangible assets have been – and will continue to be – significant recurring expenses in the Company's business. You should not view non-GAAP results on a stand-alone basis or as a substitute for results under GAAP, or as being comparable to results reported or forecasted by other companies.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Donors gave a towering $11.7 million to the campaign of Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams in the three months ended April 30, her campaign for governor announced Wednesday.
Abrams, who is unopposed in the May 24 primary election for her party’s nomination, said she had more than $8 million in cash on hand. Abrams had $7.2 million in cash at the end of January, meaning she spent almost all of the huge sum she raised during the period.
The heavy spending means Abrams has less cash on hand than the $10.7 million that Kemp has. He raised $2.7 million during the period, hampered by a state law that prohibits sitting officeholders from accepting contributions while state lawmakers were meeting. Kemp raised his money in the 26 days following the April 4 end of the session.
Kemp’s cash pile shrank some as he also spent, seeking to defeat his chief rival for the Republican nomination, former U.S. Sen. David Perdue. That means Kemp’s lead in cash on hand shrank somewhat.
Perdue has not yet disclosed his fundraising and spending for the period. The challenger has struggled to tap the same network of big donors that sustained his two Senate runs, despite his endorsement by former President Donald Trump. After having less than $1 million in cash on hand at the end of January, Perdue hinted he would crack his own $50 million fortune to try to keep up with Kemp’s spending.
Abrams temporarily paused her own fundraising to urge donors to instead give to five groups that support abortion rights after the leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion that could overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision establishing a nationwide right to abortion. Her campaign resumed its own fundraising late Wednesday while urging its donors to continue giving to the groups.
The Abrams campaign says 187,000 separate donors have given money since December, one measure of the fundraising powerhouse that Georgia Democrats are building as they try to build on recent success in the state. Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, trying to defend his Senate seat,raised $13.6 million in the first three months of 2022. His campaign said that was the most ever raised by a U.S. Senate candidate in the first quarter of an election year.
Fundraising in Georgia has also seen a dispute over Kemp’s use of a leadership committee, a special state fundraising vehicle that allowed the governor to collect unlimited contributions and coordinate spending with his campaign. Both Perdue and Abrams sued over the committee, saying it was unfair that Kemp could take in large amounts while Perdue and Abrams were barred until they won their party primaries.
After an earlier ruling that Kemp could not spend money from the committee against Perdue, U.S. District Judge Mark Cohen ruled last week that Kemp’s Georgians First Leadership Committee cannot solicit or receive contributions until after the primary election and any possible runoff that makes him the Republican nominee for governor.
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Abstract: China's biotech company Zelixir Biotech publishes 600+ protein structure predictions for the Monkeypox proteome
SHANGHAI, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zelixir Biotech announces it has predicted more than 600 structures and added functional annotations of proteins from monkeypox virus proteomes amid the recent emergence of monkeypox cases in Europe and the United States. The predicted structures are expected to help experts worldwide to develop structure-based drug design and monkeypox vaccines.
The predicted protein structures are AI-generated by AlphaFold2-Batch (originated from the DeepMind AlphaFold2, ), the company's self-developed MPI-based structure prediction pipeline with heterogeneous parallelism powered by supercomputing infrastructures. The predictions are based on the complete sequence of the genome of the epidemic strain in May 2022 (ID: ON563414.2) (Ref. 1) , the whole proteome of the 2018 West African (WA) virus strain (Monkeypox virus isolate MPXV-UK_P3, ID: MT903345.1) (Ref.2), and the whole proteome of the 1996 Congo basin (CB) virus strain (Monkeypox virus strain Zaire-96-I-16, ID: NC_003310) (Ref. 3).
AlphaFold2-Batch, which is available on the company's platform "ZCloud", has largely boosted both the efficiency and the precision of the predictions by nearly two orders of magnitude acceleration compared to the original AlphaFold2 pipeline, generating results without any compromise of accuracies.
The precision of the AI-generated result is also supported by profound and up-to-date research by Zelixir. The published results provide functional annotations and analyses of the proteome from the latest west African strain compared with its counterpart, the 1996 Congo Basin strain.
Using the PointSite Algorithm developed by the Zelixir, the team provides profound annotations for all the 600+ predicted structures and managed to label the small molecules binding regions with high confidence for the three-dimensional structure of each protein. Meanwhile, experimentally solved structures with high similarity to monkeypox proteins are vetted through the company's structure-alignment algorithm against a subset of Protein Data Bank database (PDB70).
All the detailed forecasts and the corresponding functional predictions are available on its website (https://www.zelixir.com/Monkeypox/index.html).
"We hope our work can accelerate the development of monkeypox vaccines and drug discovery. We will keep updating and publishing our new research findings as our research progresses." said Dr. Sheng Wang, the CEO of Zelixir Biotech.
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Monthly Robocall Volume Jumps 17.4%, As Robocallers Go Back To Work
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Americans received just under 4.5 billion robocalls in August, marking a massive 17.4% increase from July, both on a monthly and daily basis. Specifically, August averaged 144.4 million calls/day and 1,672 calls/second, compared to 123.1 million calls/day and 1,424 calls/second in July. This is the highest volume of robocalls in a single month since March 2021.
So far this year, US consumers have received some 32.6 billion robocalls, and the country has continued on a pace to exceed 48 billion robocalls for the year, roughly the same as last year.
"It was unexpected to see such a large jump in robocalls in August, despite all the efforts to address the problem," said YouMail CEO Alex Quilici. "It suggests that there continues to be a need to step up enforcement, improve technology, and see more changes in consumer behavior."
These latest figures are provided by YouMail, a totally free robocall blocking app and call protection service for mobile phones. These figures are determined by extrapolating from the robocall traffic attempting to get through to YouMail's millions of active users.
August's most unwanted robocall campaign was the same tax scam campaign from July that continues to make tens of millions of robocalls every week from thousands of different numbers. As in this example, the callers are pushing tax debt reduction services. Like many other illegal telemarketing or scam calls, they appear to be violating a variety of telemarketing regulations, as they do not identify the entity making the call, do not provide a call back number, and appear to be calling people who did not give prior consent. Here is the call transcript:
"This is a notification call from our Department of Tax and Financial Settlement Services. The purpose of this call is to inform all US citizens who may owe back taxes about the new back taxes compromise program. This program is part of the American rescue plan put into effect by the new administration and is now open for enrollment. The new compromise program will allow you to significantly reduce or eliminate your back taxes that can now be considered temporarily non-collectible. However, you must select to enroll into the program now it is only open for a limited time. If you have over $10,000 on your back taxes, please press one. If you want us to put your number on our Do Not Call list, please press two."
Together, there were roughly 2.3 billion unwanted scam and telemarketing calls in August, up from roughly 1.9 billion in July. This heavy calling volume was driven by a 32% increase in telemarketing calls and an 8% increase in scam calls. However, we also saw a roughly 15% increase in both notifications and payment reminders, the types of robocalls which are generally acceptable to consumers.
It's likely that some calls initially viewed as telemarketing will eventually be recognized as illegal telemarketing or scam calls, so it's important to measure the overall quantity of scam and spam calls combined. A scam call is one that has clearly illegal or fraudulent behavior, such as a call from an enterprise imposter, or one that has a spoofed caller ID. Stir/Shaken continues to reduce the number of robocall campaigns based on spoofed IDs, which drives down the number of obvious scam calls by making them harder to detect, since they appear to be telemarketing campaigns unless there is other evidence of fraud.
There were a few changes to the cities, area codes, and states getting the most robocalls. Macon, Georgia, replaced Washington, DC, as the 3rd highest robocalled city, with a 25% increase in robocall volume month over month. Houston's 832 area code jumped ahead of Dallas's 214 area code as the 2nd most robocalled area code. And Tennessee replaced Alabama as the state with the 3rd most robocalls per person, with a 25% increase.
These data points are provided by YouMail, a free call protection app for mobile phones. YouMail recently won the American Business Awards' Gold Stevie Award for Technical Innovation of the Year, and the YouMail app was named the nation's best robocall-blocking solution in a competition organized by Geoffrey Fowler of the Washington Post.
YouMail blocks unwanted robocallers by making sure the user's phone doesn't ring, and then plays an out-of-service message that leads them to think they dialed an invalid number. YouMail identifies problematic numbers and robocalls using a combination of its recently patented audio fingerprinting technology, call patterns, and consumer feedback.
YouMail provides the YouMail Robocall Index to estimate robocall volume across the country and for specific area codes every month. This estimate is formed by extrapolating from the behavior of the billions of calls YouMail has handled for its users, and these statistics are regularly cited by the FCC as a definitive source for national data trends.
For a full ranking of cities, states and area codes, as well as details on the behavior of robocallers in each area code, please see http://robocallindex.com. To listen to actual voice messages left by robocallers, please visit the YouMail Directory. To join the YouMail Robocall Index mailing list, please write to RobocallIndex@YouMail.com.
YouMail protects consumers, enterprises, and carriers from harmful phone calls. YouMail provides US and UK consumers app-based call protection services through the YouMail, Another Number, and HulloMail apps. These solutions answer over a billion live calls per year across well over 10 million registered users, powering America's most robust telephone sensor network in identifying and providing zero-hour protection against illegal calling campaigns and cyberattacks. YouMail Protective Services leverages this sensor network to protect consumer-facing enterprises by detecting and helping shut down imposter traffic that can lead to financial or brand damage, as well as to protect carriers with robocall mitigation services that detect and help stop bad traffic originating, traversing, or terminating on their networks. This sensor network is also used to provide the YouMail Robocall Index™ is the nation's definitive source on telephone network activity and attacks. YouMail, Inc. is privately funded and based in Irvine, California.
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New role will enhance digital equity in the broadband industry
PITTSBURGH, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, announced today the promotion of Kirsten Compitello, AICP, to National Broadband Digital Equity Director. In her new role, Ms. Compitello will leverage more than 15 years of experience in the urban planning industry, as well as building community-oriented systems through public engagement, visual storytelling and smart policy, to enhance digital equity and inclusion in the Broadband industry.
"Kirsten has been with Michael Baker for more than four years, working to advance healthy, safe, equitable and people-oriented urban design," said Jeremy Jurick, GISP, Vice President and National Broadband Services Director at Michael Baker International. "Michael Baker's Broadband services are designed to facilitate digital inclusion and enable access to underserved communities. As Digital Equity Director, Kirsten will further this mission by drawing on her experience in urban planning, creativity and passion for delivering equitable solutions to communities. Her work will be critical to closing the digital divide in the communities that we serve."
As the National Broadband Digital Equity Director, Ms. Compitello will act as a vital link to ensure Michael Baker's Broadband Technology Solutions align with the equity goals of local, state, and regional clients and their constituents. Ms. Compitello and her team will act as client advocates and trusted advisors to evaluate resident needs, tailor outcomes to best suit the communities impacted, and build local stewardship and capacity to support both short-term improvement and long-term sustainability of their broadband programs.
Prior to being promoted to National Broadband Digital Equity Director, Ms. Compitello served as a Senior Urban Designer and Planning Associate at Michael Baker. As lead Broadband Planner for the Connectivity Roadmap for Southwestern Pennsylvania, she helped to innovate Michael Baker's unique approach toward digital connectivity solutions through a multidisciplinary collaboration of infrastructure planning, smart data tracking and management, engineering applications and community advocacy. She also served as an Urban Design Fellow and Senior Urban Designer for Urban Design Associates.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Arts degree in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University.
Michael Baker's nationwide Broadband planning and implementation work is completed under the firm's Consulting and Technology Solutions (CTS) Vertical, which combines the firm's technology offerings, including National Broadband Development, Unmanned Aerial Systems, Geographic Information Systems, Next Generation 9-1-1, and Light Detection and Ranging. The CTS team is comprised of nearly 200 technology experts focusing on technology differentiation and innovation to support Michael Baker's growth initiatives, identifying and incubating technologies and maximizing opportunities with consulting and technology-based solutions.
About Michael Baker International
Michael Baker International is a leading provider of engineering and consulting services with Practices that encompass all facets of infrastructure, including design, civil engineering, planning, architecture, environmental, construction and program management and design-build project delivery. For more than 80 years, the company has been a trusted partner to commercial clients, all branches of the military and federal, state and municipal governments, providing comprehensive services and solutions. Embracing emerging technologies and the latest innovations – like intelligent transportation and engineered models, Michael Baker is an industry leader that delivers expertise and quality. The firm's more than 3,000 employees across nearly 100 locations are committed to Making a Difference for clients and communities through a culture of innovation, collaboration and technological advancement while Reimagining Michael Baker to become a full-service engineering and consulting firm over the next five years. To learn more, visit https://mbakerintl.com/.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Futu Singapore Pte. Ltd. ("Futu SG" or "Futu Singapore"), a subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Futu Holdings (Nasdaq: FUTU) offering securities trading services via moomoo app in Singapore, had the gong-strike ceremony today to mark it becoming the first digital brokerage with full Singapore Exchange memberships.
Futu SG is officially admitted as a Trading and Clearing Member of Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited and Trading Member of Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited. In addition, it will hold clearing membership in SGX subsidiary The Central Depository (Pte) Limited, as well as becoming a depository agent of the financial institution. Futu SG is now one of the twelve SGX members with full memberships among other 79 members.
In honour of the occasion, SGX Group CEO Mr. Loh Boon Chye, Futu Holdings Senior Partner and Senior Vice President Mr. Robin Xu, Futu SG CEO Mr. Ivan Mok and Managing Director Mr. Gavin Chia and other members of the SGX and Futu SG struck the gong of the SGX on the IPO Arena on Thursday, 30 June 2022 at market open.
Mr. Leaf Hua Li, Futu's Founder, Chairman, CEO & Chairman of the Technology Committee commented: "Receiving all the memberships from SGX was a significant milestone for our company as we moved toward strengthening our market leading position as a trusted, reliable, stable full-service investment and wealth management super-app (moomoo), and as the go-to partner for comprehensive financial inclusion and financial literacy in Singapore."
Mr. Pol de Win, Senior Managing Director, Head of Global Sales and Origination, SGX Group, said, "We are pleased to welcome Futu Singapore as the first digital broker to receive full trading and clearing memberships of our securities and derivatives markets. Futu Singapore is primed to play a prominent role in increasing retail participation in Singapore's market, with millions of users worldwide across Futu Holdings' investment platforms. We look forward to strengthening our partnership with Futu Singapore to serve the growing retail and institutional demand for SGX Group's investment and risk management products across the region."
Futu Holdings Senior Partner and Senior Vice President Mr. Robin Xu said: "With the full memberships, we will be able to execute and settle transactions through our clearing system, strengthening the synergy with other Futu's subsidiaries. Owing to this, we expect to see a rise in retail participation across all Futu's clients on the SGX market, and for us to become an investment platform that connects SGX to global investors."
Futu SG and moomoo had achieved countless breakthroughs and advancements in Singapore. Since its debut in March 2021, Futu SG had acquired the first 100,000 paying clients in less than three months. As of June 2022, the number of moomoo users in Singapore exceeds 21.5% of the 20 to 70-year-old permanent resident population.
Meanwhile, the average asset value of the accounts held by the Singapore paying clients acquired in January had doubled by the end of March, as moomoo's penetration into higher income and education population increases.
In addition, the wealth management business also thrives in Singapore, as the scale of asset under management boosted 93% with the client number surging 95% quarter-over-quarter, as of the end of first quarter.
Later this year, Futu Holdings will be celebrating its 10-year anniversary, marking over 18 million users globally with presence in four key markets – Singapore, United States, Australia and Hong Kong SAR.
About Futu Holdings Limited
Futu Holdings Limited ("Futu") (Nasdaq: FUTU) is an advanced technology company transforming the investing experience by offering a fully digitized brokerage and wealth management platform. Futu provides investing services – including stock trading and clearing, margin financing, wealth management, market data and information, and interactive social features for Hong Kong SAR, US and China Connect stocks – to individual investors through its proprietary one-stop digital platforms, Futubull and moomoo. Futu also provides Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) solutions and IPO distribution services through its enterprise service brand FUTU I&E, with a focus on providing employee stock ownership plans to corporate clients.
Futu aims to become an influential financial services platform globally, by building a complete financial technology ecosystem with the mission of "making investing easier and more collaborative." For more information about Futu Holdings, please visit the company's official website www.futuholdings.com
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Fourteenth-century Italian writer Dante Alighieri in his “Divine Comedy” describes Hell as a place for those who have perverted “their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen.” He could have been describing Alex Jones and his Infowars followers.
For the past decade, this incorrigible blowhard has claimed the massacre in which 20 children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut was staged by actors and the media and that the shooting was merely a ploy to push gun control measures. Now, he admits the shooting was “100% real” and that it was wrong to call it a hoax. A Texas jury has ordered Jones to pay the parents of one of the victims more than $4 million. And this is just the beginning. More suits to come before he hopefully ends up where he belongs for all eternity.
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I don’t know who runs what passes for China’s Congress, but whoever that is, I would like to invite them to visit Puerto Rico to muck around in its affairs like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did in visiting Taiwan recently. She accomplished nothing except to provoke the always slightly-unhinged Chinese government.
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Oh, boo-hoo. Listen to the wimps who have or who are being convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol — our U.S. Capitol — on Jan. 6, 2020, leaving several people dead and more than a hundred wounded. Now, they are so sorry. They didn’t mean to do it. They wish they hadn’t done it. They got caught up in the moment. They’ve lost their job. Blah. Blah. Blah. I am still waiting on Donald Trump to come to their rescue, but last I heard he was busy playing golf at his private club. Let ‘em eat cake.
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In my annual letter to Georgia schoolteachers last week, I stated they shouldn’t be required to focus on our past but, rather, to look at the progress we have made in Georgia as witnessed by our electing a black U.S. Senator, a Jewish U.S. Senator and having a black woman running for governor. A reader got so upset with that, she said she had to pick up her jaw off the floor. (Dang. That must have hurt.) That is because I did not name the three, but I did mention our “white governor” by name and, ergo, I must be a (shudder!) racist Republican. To get back in her good graces, the three are as follows: Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff and Stacey Abrams. You will have to figure out who the white governor is. I’m not telling. I cannot be responsible for any more jaw droppings.
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I will have more to say about this man in the future, but Lindsey Tippins, R-Cobb, is retiring after 12 years in the Georgia state senate. In the senate, he was chairman of the Higher Education Committee and had previously chaired the Education and Youth Committee. Prior to that, he served on the Cobb County board of education. Public education has lost a true champion, and I don’t see anybody willing or capable of filling his shoes. Certainly not the zealots who are out to destroy public education with their tax-supported private school voucher schemes. Dear jaw-dropper: They all happen to be Republicans. (Clunk!)
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Also retiring is Bryan Reber, the C. Richard Yarbrough Professor in Crisis Communication Leadership in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia. Reber was the first to hold that post, an area of great interest to me. I have devoted my time and tithes to that effort hoping to turn out a next generation of professionals who will be relevant in helping solve crises that inevitably will occur. Bryan Reber far exceeded my highest expectations. My applause and thanks.
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The Habit Burger Grill Opens in Logan on September 7th
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Habit Burger Grill, the California-based restaurant company renowned for its award-winning Charburgers grilled over an open flame, signature sandwiches, fresh salads and more announces the grand opening of a new location in Logan. Located at 1375 N Mail St., the fast-casual restaurant will serve up its 'Habit Hospitality' beginning September 7th.
In honor of the exciting grand opening, The Habit Burger Grill will host exclusive pre-opening VIP events for The Habit's CharClub members. Guests can receive an invite to this exclusive sneak peek by signing up for the CharClub at www.habitburger.com/logan.
- Free Charburger Day (Saturday, September 3rd): The first 200 guests at 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. will receive a free freshly-made Charburger, fries and drink. Must be a CharClub member and present VIP invitation.
- Free Charburger Day (Monday, September 5th): The first 200 guests at 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. will receive a free freshly-made Charburger, fries and drink. Must be a CharClub member and present VIP invitation.
- Free Habit Day (Tuesday, September 6th): The first 200 guests at 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. will receive a free chargrilled meal from one of our pre-set menus. Must be a CharClub member and present VIP invitation.
The restaurant will offer dine-in, takeout and drive-thru ordering. Curbside pick-up and delivery will be available via The Habit Mobile App and online at order.habitburger.com. Guests also have additional convenient ordering options including state-of-the-art indoor self-serve kiosks and delivery through DoorDash, Postmates and Uber Eats.
"It has been so exciting to make our mark in Utah and have the chance to open a new drive-thru in Logan. This restaurant will be #13 in the state, and we look forward to reaching more communities as we grow," said Iwona Alter, Chief Brand Officer at The Habit Burger Grill.
The Habit Burger Grill was named in Thrillist's list of "Underrated Burger Chains that Need to be in Every State!" With its cooked-to-order mantra, The Habit Burger Grill's open flame sears a distinctive smoky flavor into their famous Charburgers, fresh marinated chicken, sushi-grade ahi tuna and tenderloin steak. Guests at The Habit Burger Grill can always count on freshly-made, handcrafted quality served up with genuine hospitality.
This Habit Burger Grill's dining room and drive-thru will be open Monday - Saturday from 10:30am - 10:00pm and Sunday from 10:30am - 9:00pm.
Connect with The Habit Burger Grill on social media at facebook.com/habitburgergrill, instagram.com/habitburgergrill, twitter.com/habitburger, tiktok.com/@habitburgergrill, and youtube.com/habittube.
Born in Santa Barbara, California in 1969, The Habit Burger Grill is a burger-centric, fast-casual restaurant concept that specializes in preparing fresh, cooked-to-order chargrilled burgers and handcrafted sandwiches featuring grilled tenderloin steak, grilled chicken and sushi-grade ahi tuna cooked over an open flame. In addition, it features fresh handcrafted salads and an appealing selection of sides and shakes. The Habit Burger Grill was named the "best tasting burger in America" in July 2014 in a comprehensive survey conducted by one of America's leading consumer magazines, named in Thrillist's list of "Underrated Burger Chains that Need to be in Every State!" and featured in Newsweek's "America's Favorite Restaurant Chains 2022." The Habit Burger Grill has since grown to over 335 restaurants in 14 states throughout Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Washington as well as 13 international locations, seven in China and six in Cambodia. More information is available at www.habitburger.com.
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The partnership will set a higher standard for how crypto-based rewards are safeguarded in the travel industry
POMONA, Calif., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FlyCoin, Inc., a cryptocurrency-based travel rewards technology company, announces today their partnership with BitGo, the industry's gold standard for custody and security solutions. FlyCoin will hold a significant portion of the company's minted cryptocurrency token, FLY in BitGo's US Qualified Custody Solution. The announcement comes on the heels of Flycoin's $33M seed funding earlier this year.
"As we continue to grow Flycoin's ecosystem of partners and end-users, it is critical that we properly safeguard these digital assets. BitGo's reputation and credibility as a global leader in digital asset cryptocurrency are unmatched, and a key factor in our decision to partner with them in this capacity," stated Lenny Moon, Flycoin's CEO.
Custodians of crypto assets play an essential role in storing and securing digital assets, while also interacting directly with brokers and exchanges to facilitate transactions for institutional and individual stakeholders. BitGo's global reach , and other platform services in addition to providing qualified custody, align well with Flycoin's focus on scaling its rewards platform offerings globally.
"I am very pleased to work closely with the FlyCoin team and for BitGo to be a trusted partner in their journey to revolutionize the travel rewards industry through the use of blockchain technology" said Kai Kono, Managing Director, Global Head of Digital Asset Sales, BitGo.
Flycoin's partnership with BitGo will go a long way toward further enhancing their portfolio of partners. Last month, the company announced major crypto heavyweights Lisa Nector and Rena Shah as strategic members of their advisory team. Other Flycoin partners include ThanksAgain, Foley Wines, and Ravn Alaska Airlines.
About BitGo
BitGo is the leader in digital asset financial services, providing institutional investors with custody, liquidity, and security solutions. Active in both centralized and decentralized finance, BitGo offers market leading trading, lending, and borrowing services through its prime brokerage services and acts as the custodian for WBTC, the leading global stablecoin for Bitcoin. In 2020, BitGo launched BitGo Portfolio and Tax, providing clients with a full-stack solution for digital assets. In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. BitGo processes approximately 20% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and supports over 500 coins and tokens. BitGo's customer base includes the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges and institutional investors and spans more than 50 countries. BitGo is backed by Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.
About FlyCoin, Inc.
FlyCoin represents the evolution of loyalty programs. FlyCoin's revolutionary technology infrastructure provides companies in the consumer loyalty space - including travel and hospitality, insurance and benefits, financial services, and more, with a powerful, turnkey solution to incentivize users in a more customer-centric way. Users can earn FlyCoin's newly minted token, FLY, reward doesn't expire, is easily transferable, and has an abundance of redemption options.
For more information, please visit www.flycoin.org.
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AMRA Medical will present "Two years of aging – initial results on changes in muscle composition in the UK Biobank imaging study" at SCWD, scheduled June 24-26, 2022.
LINKÖPING, Sweden, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AMRA Medical will present the results of their recent study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure muscle composition changes in individuals with metabolic disorders at the 2022 SCWD Conference. AMRA's research shows they can observe significant changes in muscle composition measurements after two years of aging. The results indicate that individuals with metabolic disorders experience more rapid wasting and that diseases may have a disease-specific wasting profile. Researchers can use AMRA's muscle-monitoring biomarkers to further study the progression, severity, and risks of metabolic diseases. This research could also have clinical implications, which could further enhance the utility of AMRA's currently available clinical service offerings that help monitor an individual's health and wellness.
The aim of this study was to describe changes in muscle composition in metabolic disease-free individuals and common metabolic disorders including type 2 diabetes (T2D), cardiovascular disease (CVD), and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
The study included 1,265 participants from the UK Biobank who were scanned twice approximately 2 years apart using a 6-minute MRI protocol. Using AMRA® Researcher, images were analyzed for thigh fat-free muscle volume (FFMV) and muscle fat infiltration (MFI) — a biomarker associated with all-cause mortality1. The participants were divided into cohorts based on metabolic disease. While no group had a significant weight change over two years, the researchers observed significant changes in muscle composition. Individuals with a metabolic disease had more rapid muscle wasting process compared with metabolic disease-free individuals. Notably, the rate of muscle wasting was distinct for each group, with CVD being associated with the most rapid muscle wasting profile followed by T2D.
Eric Converse, CEO at AMRA, commented: "These results are particularly exciting not only because of how they can advance metabolic disease research but also because they continue our path to proving the clinical utility of mapping the trajectory of an individual's muscle composition. For instance, for an individual with T2D or cardiovascular disease, physicians could longitudinally assess their muscle composition using AMRA's recently regulatory-cleared clinical service offering and determine if the results align with or differ from the wasting profile of others that are similar to them. This information could help inform or develop longevity plans for an individual."
To hear more about the study results and to connect with AMRA's team, SCWD conference attendees can observe the presentation titled: Two years of aging – initial results on changes in muscle composition in the UK Biobank imaging study.
- Linge, Jennifer, et al. "Adverse muscle composition predicts all‐cause mortality in the UK Biobank imaging study." Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle 12.6 (2021): 1513-1526.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEMIA National Security Solutions (NSS) today announced that it has been appraised at level 3 of ISACA's Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®). The appraisal was performed by ChangeBridge Consulting LLC.
CMMI is a proven, outcome-based performance model and the globally accepted standard for improving capability, optimizing business performance and aligning operations to business goals. At Maturity Level 3, processes are well characterized and understood, and are described in standards, procedures, tools and methods. The organization's set of standard processes, which is the basis for Maturity Level 3, is established and improved over time.
"Organizations worldwide are harnessing CMMI to elevate their business performance," says Patrick Clancey, NSS President and Chief Executive Officer. "Achieving Maturity Level 3 is the product of constant effort across NSS, demonstrating our ability as a high-performing organization. This accomplishment further illustrates our focus on continuous improvement and the relentless commitment to support our Nation's toughest mission sets."
IDEMIA National Security Solutions (NSS) is the Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI) mitigated IDEMIA affiliate, supporting the national security interests of the United States of America through cutting-edge identity solutions and services. NSS' best-in-class identity solutions are top rated by NIST for speed, accuracy, and reliability. For over 60 years, our extensive hardware, software, and services portfolio has driven consistent results enabling America's defense, intelligence, and homeland security posture. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of IDEMIA, the global leader in identity management and biometrics, the NSS security portfolio is best-in-class and is recognized and top rated by the U.S. National Institute of Technology (NIST) for speed, accuracy, and reliability. For more information, visit https://www.idemia-nss.com, or on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/idemia-nss/
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Concerns over police aggression toward Champions League fans
By ROB HARRIS
AP Global Soccer Writer
PARIS (AP) — Tear gas fired indiscriminately around children and the elderly. Pepper spray unleashed at close-range on frustrated fans. Ticket holders blamed for delaying kickoff when they’d spent hours trying to enter the stadium in bottlenecks in tight spaces.
Liverpool supporters have been defending themselves against accusations by French authorities they were responsible for the unrest at the Champions League final amid overcrowding outside the Stade de France caused by operational failings on Saturday.
The British government called the treatment of the fans “deeply concerning.”
UEFA officials spent the hours after Liverpool lost 1-0 to Real Madrid in talks about the chaotic scenes that delayed the start of the final for 37 minutes in the biggest club match of the year.
Even as the final started, riot police were firing rounds of tear gas immediately outside the stadium doors into wide open spaces to disperse any lingering people around Gate U.
The French ministers for the interior and sports blamed ticketless Liverpool fans trying to force their way into the stadium, contrary to the scenes witnessed by reporters of people who appeared to be local youths climbing over fences. “Get down,” Liverpool supporters could be heard shouting.
“The stigma around English fans is being used by the French public authorities for cheap political gain,” Ronan Evain, executive director of Football Supporters Europe, told The Associated Press on Sunday.
The closing of gates sparked concerns among hundreds of fans outside the Liverpool section but little obvious aggression from them. Hostility by police appeared to inflame frustrations.
Problems had been encountered even before getting to the final turnstiles with entry points into the wider perimeter blocked off, forcing fans through narrow passages that caused bottlenecks.
While UEFA blamed fans arriving late for delaying kickoff in stadium announcements greeted by jeers, thousands from Liverpool were seen arriving hours before the game to be greeted by organizational disarray in the heat of the late afternoon.
The congestion was partly caused by fans being diverted to a small entrance rather than a bigger one 150 meters away, said Evain, who advises UEFA on supporter issues.
“There have always been mobility problems around the Stade de France,” Evain said.
“We are appalled by the communication by the French public authorities. Liverpool and Real Madrid fans are the victims of yesterday’s fiasco and are not the culprits here.
“Tear gassing people trying to enter the stadium is insane.”
The British government called on UEFA to launch a formal investigation into what went wrong with officials from the stadium and French authorities.
“The footage and accounts from Liverpool fans and the media on their entry to the Stade de France last night are deeply concerning,” Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said.
“It is in the interests of everyone involved to understand what happened and to learn lessons from these events.”
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A pediatric nurse with Albany Area Primary Health Care evaluates a young patient. AAPHC will hold a groundbreaking June 7 for its new facility in Dawson.
A pediatric nurse with Albany Area Primary Health Care evaluates a young patient. AAPHC will hold a groundbreaking June 7 for its new facility in Dawson.
DAWSON — Albany Area Primary Health Care for will host a groundbreaking ceremony at the future site of its Dawson Medical Center on June 7.
The ceremony will take place at 9:30 a.m. at 505 Forrester Drive Southeast in Dawson.
Once constructed, the medical center will be the new home of Albany Area Primary Health Care’s Dawson providers and care teams. The new space will allow AAPHC to further expand patient care services and access to health care providers.
Albany Area Primary Health Care is one of the largest Community Health Centers in Georgia and one of the largest medical groups in southwest Georgia. The center’s No. 1 priority, according to AAPHC officials, is providing high-quality health care for all, regardless of an individual’s ability to pay or a lack of health insurance. The new space in Dawson will help Albany Area Primary Health Care serve even more residents in Terrell County.
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Jays’ Guerrero hits 2nd HR of game after hand bloodied at 1B
NEW YORK (AP) — Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. shook off a bloody gash on his right ring finger to hit his second homer of a game against Yankees ace Gerrit Cole. Guerrero took Cole deep in the first inning, then seemed like he’d have to leave an inning later when his bare throwing hand was accidentally spiked by baserunner Aaron Hicks. Guerrero had to reach across his body for infielder Bo Bichette’s throw and placed his right hand down behind the first base bag to balance. Hicks stomped on it running out an infield single.
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US Navy’s first woman aircraft carrier commander: Leadership is hard
By Brad Lendon, Blake Essig and Emiko Jozuka, CNN
Amy Bauernschmidt is the rarest of the rare.
The 51-year-old is in a select group of United States Navy officers: The commanders of the 11 aircraft carriers in the US fleet.
Capt. Bauernschmidt is the only woman in that group. In fact, she’s the only woman ever to command a US aircraft carrier, the largest and among the most powerful warships afloat.
“(It’s) easily one of the most incredible jobs in the world,” she told CNN.
Most people would consider that an understatement.
Bauernschmidt commands the USS Abraham Lincoln, a 97,000-ton, 1,092-foot Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. With around 5,000 people aboard, it’s the equivalent of a small city at sea.
It’s also one of the centerpieces of US military might. More than 60 aircraft are aboard the Lincoln, including F-35C stealth fighters, the most advanced warplanes in naval aviation.
US aircraft carriers “are ready to control the sea, conduct strikes, and maneuver across the electromagnetic spectrum and cyberspace. No other naval force fields a commensurate range and depth of combat capabilities,” a US Navy fact sheet says.
“In times of crisis, the first question leaders ask is: ‘Where are the carriers?'” the fact sheet says.
Bauernschmidt says answering that call is a privilege.
“There’s absolutely no more humbling sense of responsibility than to know that I was selected to lead the men and women that have chosen (to) defend our nation,” she told reporters on a recent visit to the warship during maneuvers off Japan.
Growing up in Milwaukee, Bauernschmidt knew she had an affinity for the sea. “I have always loved the water, and swam and rowed competitively,” she says. But joining the Navy was more practicality than ambition.
“I came upon my service in a roundabout way.” she says. “I knew I would be paying for my college education and I wanted to find a major I was not only interested in pursuing but would allow me to find a job to repay student loans.”
With a strong interest in math and science, and that love of the water, she settled on a major in ocean engineering.
Only a handful of colleges offered it, the US Naval Academy in Maryland being one. With tuition paid, it was the choice for Bauernschmidt.
But when she arrived at the campus in Annapolis, the thought of being the first woman to command an aircraft carrier wasn’t even something she thought possible.
“Absolutely not. I didn’t even understand this was an option when I first started on this adventure,” Bauernschmidt says.
When she entered the Naval Academy, it wasn’t an option.
It was only in November of 1993 — six months before Bauernschmidt’s graduation from that Naval Academy — that Congress passed legislation allowing women to serve on US Navy combatant ships.
That “changed almost everything about women’s service in the Navy,” Bauernschmidt says.
A few months before graduation, Naval Academy midshipmen are allowed to request their first assignments. Bauernschmidt chose aviation and began the path to her current command.
She learned to fly helicopters, became a flight instructor, deployed on destroyers and aircraft carriers and eventually commanded a helicopter strike squadron.
She then attended the Naval War College, earning a Masters degree in strategic studies before serving in the US Secretary of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues.
After that Bauernschmidt attended the Navy’s Nuclear Power School, learning the science and engineering behind naval nuclear power plants in what Naval Sea Systems Command calls “the most demanding academic program in the US military.”
She’d need that knowledge aboard the Lincoln, which is powered by two nuclear reactors, as she became the executive officer, the second in command, in 2016.
Almost five years later, after a stint commanding the amphibious transport dock USS San Diego, Bauernschmidt took command of the Abraham Lincoln.
“Each new job and opportunity strengthened my leadership, and challenged me to be the best version of myself,” Bauernschmidt says.
“I’ve had a phenomenal career where I’ve been given incredible opportunities.”
Even jobs she didn’t really want were opportunities, she says.
“Sometimes you will learn the most and grow the most in a situation or job you did not want to be in or to do.
“Not every job I’ve done in the Navy is a job I wanted, but I learned and took everything out of every job I could,” Bauernschmidt says.
Even though she’s risen to a powerful position, Bauernschmidt acknowledges the many challenges still faced by women in the Navy.
As of December 31, only 20% of the Navy’s active duty force of 342,000 personnel are women, according to the service’s demographic data.
As a Department of the Navy gender relations survey from February relates, “social media is filled with anecdotes and shared experiences about instances of sexism, discrimination, accessing help, and reporting and seeking justice for sexual harassment and sexual assault. It’s clear there are challenges that must be overcome for meaningful change.”
“These are challenges bigger than the military,” Bauernschmidt says. “We constantly work to improve the environment and sailor programs to support our most important resource — our people during their careers.”
At Bauernschmidt’s rank of captain and above, the Navy’s gender gap is even more stark. Only 13% of those 3,075 officers are women, Navy data shows.
So Bauernschmidt does feel an extra sense of responsibility as the first woman to command an aircraft carrier, but she seems to see it as evolutionary, not revolutionary.
“While women have accomplished a lot, I look forward to the day we don’t have to celebrate firsts,” she says.
Bauernschmidt says support she’s had from the entire Navy community was crucial in getting her to that bridge on one of the biggest warships in the world. And she says she’s still learning now.
“Overcoming any challenge for me starts with ownership — know your job and do your job to the utmost of your ability every day. It is hard to argue with someone doing exceptional work supporting the mission and the team,” she says.
The thousands of sailors she leads challenge her and keep her growing, she says.
“Leadership is hard,” Bauernschmidt says.
“To effectively lead a team, department, or command, you have to understand the organization and yourself. You have to meet them where they need a leader and you have to know yourself well enough to know how to meet them where they are,” she says.
Her advice to those under her command, and to anyone with aspirations: follow through on a daily basis.
“I try not to just complete a task, but own the outcome of my work,” she says.
For inspiration herself, she quotes an NFL superstar, Arizona Cardinals defensive end JJ Watt: “Success isn’t owned, it’s leased and rent is due every day!”
Pay that rent, and you might find yourself with one of the rarest jobs in the world: commander of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
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The Lee County High School Distinguished Alumni Program Committee has announce the selection of seven recipients of the 2022 LCHS Distinguished Alumni Award.
LEESBURG -- The Lee County High School Distinguished Alumni Program Committee has announce the selection of seven recipients of the 2022 LCHS Distinguished Alumni Award.
The purpose of the program is to recognize outstanding alumni who have maintained a high standard of excellence and distinguished themselves through their work, personal accomplishments, or in the lives of others. These individuals exemplify the ideals of the Lee County School System and the community it serves and serve as role models for current and future Lee County High School students.
The 2022 Class of Distinguished Alumni are:
-- David Preston Daughtry, Class of 1994;
-- Curtis R. “Trey” Green III, Class of 1989;
-- Abigail Leigh “Abby” Phillips, Class of 2002;
-- Yolanda Michelle Robinson, Class of 2001;
-- Larry Eugene Tucker, Class of 1962 (posthumous recognition)l
-- Theresa West, Class of 1983;
-- Penny Wood Whitman, Class of 1995.
The Distinguished Alumni will be recognized and honored during LCHS homecoming festivities Sept. 29 and 30. They will serve as grand marshals for the homecoming parade on Sept. 29. Following the parade, the distinguished alumni will be honored at a banquet at The Bindery at Oakland Library. Tickets for the banquet will go on sale to the public in August.
On Sept. 30, the honorees will visit and speak with students in the Lee County School System. That evening, they will be recognized on the football field during homecoming pre-game festivities.
The Lee County High School Distinguished Alumni Program will select seven recipients every year. For more information on how to nominate a LCHS Distinguished Alumni, email patsy@leecountyfamilyconnection.org. Applications are available year-'round.
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Offseason QB moves played big role in NFL schedule
By JOSH DUBOW
AP Pro Football Writer
Tom Brady had just retired, Russell Wilson was in Seattle and the free-agent frenzy hadn’t even started when the NFL schedule makers started to dig in after the Super Bowl on putting together the complex puzzle of a 272-game schedule. After sifting through more than 100,000 schedules out of a possibility of more than one quadrillion possibilities, the final schedule had Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Wilson and his new team in Denver getting prime-time television windows in Week 1.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The DecisionNext Price List feature gives users access to all their finished goods pricing and the raw material inputs that drive them.
DecisionNext has announced the release of their Price List module within their commodity analytics software, aimed at connecting the procurement and pricing functions at meat processing organizations.
The Price List module instantly shows expected gross margin for each pricing alternative and empowers users to build a historical log of all pricing details and the risk profiles associated with each price quote.
Michael Farrand, DecisionNext Food & Ag Lead remarked "DecisionNext's ability to bring proprietary analytics power to the protein industry, across the supply chain from procurement to sales, allows our customers to be on the leading edge of today's technology. Our new Price List feature is the latest in a growing stable of solutions DecisionNext brings to market which will help set the bar for the next generation of innovative industry leaders to be successful in any market condition."
Powered by machine learning algorithms, DecisionNext allows market experts to bring together the best of human and machine intelligence to improve market visibility and forecast accuracy through transparent, interactive software. By having the ability to not just forecast markets, but simulate outcomes, decision-makers can more effectively evaluate options in high value, high frequency decisions across sourcing, operations, and sales. Reference customers of DecisionNext include Sysco, Johnsonville, Topco, Teys, and other leading names in the food and agriculture space.
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Scholarship giveaway: McDonald’s franchise owner helping workers go to college
SALINAS, Calif. (KSBW) - Nearly two dozen people are getting a chance to attend college thanks to a California McDonald’s franchise owner’s charitable foundation.
The Raymond Costa family scholarship foundation gave scholarships to 21 McDonald’s employees or their children.
Mohamed Abdulla said he is going into his third year at Cal State Monterey Bay, majoring in molecular biology and a minor in business. His dream is to be a physician’s assistant and help the community.
“it’s kind of personal why I want to be in the medical field. My grandma went through a medical issue, and I felt like I couldn’t do anything to help her,” Abdulla said.
Abdulla came to the U.S. in 2012 from Yemen and is the first in his family to attend college.
“It impacted me but also got me to go to college. To do something, my parents have never done. It means a lot,” Abdulla said.
Abdulla is a McDonald’s employee and has earned $15,000 from the Raymond Costa Family Scholarship Foundation.
Since 2017, the Raymond Costa Family Scholarship Fund has given more than $343,000 in scholarships to 120 employees, many of whom, like Abdulla, are first-generation college-goers.
Many are also Hispanic and Latino.
“Almost all of our crew goes to college somewhere. They are making their lives better, and I’m happy to be a part of that,” Raymond Costa said. “Every year, we look forward to announcing the new candidates. Sometimes, this is the only scholarship they get, and it’s from our foundation and me.”
This year, the 21 scholarships ranged from $1,500 to $5,000.
For Costa, this is personal with growing up working in the fields and losing his father at a young age. Now, he makes it his mission to give back to others.
“I came from working in the fields. I used to move the sprinkler pipe. So, I know what it is,” Costa said. “I’m just blessed that the businesses here can afford to give this money, and I like helping people.”
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Bain & Company's mid-year M&A report shows market leaders are using this time of volatility to improve competitive positions
BOSTON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite a cooling pace of dealmaking in the first half of the year, 2022 could be on track to reach $4.7 trillion in strategic M&A deal value by year-end. While this would represent a 20% decline from 2021's record-breaking $5.9 trillion, it would still make 2022 the second-best year for dealmaking on record. These are among the findings of Bain & Company's 2022 mid-year M&A report, published today.
Bain & Company's estimates for a strong market are due in part to the rebound in deal activity in recent months, with market leaders using this time of turbulence to improve competitive positions. In the first quarter of 2022, deal value totaled only $599 billion, a steep drop from fourth-quarter 2021's $970 billion. However, the second quarter of 2022 brought with it a healthy recovery, with deal value totaling $702 billion in April and May.
"The keyword for dealmakers this year has been turbulence, as inflation has soared, interest rates have continued to rise, and the cost of capital has increased, not to mention mounting supply chain issues and geopolitical tensions," said David Harding, an advisory partner at Bain & Company. "Such an environment makes it easy to overlook the fundamentals that still exist for robust M&A opportunities: capital is generally available for deals, most businesses have strong cashflow and balance sheets, and private equity pockets remain deep. We're seeing market leaders continue to do M&A to add much-needed capabilities amid these turbulent times."
A sign of this year's unprecedented volatility: oscillating valuations. 2021 saw record deal valuations, with median enterprise value/EBITDA multiples at 15.4 times. Looking deeper at 2022, valuations stumbled in the first quarter, down to just 11 times, only to rebound in the second quarter to 16.7 times.
"In the face of such turmoil, it's easy for dealmakers to get conservative, but that would be a mistake," said Andrei Vorobyov, a partner at Bain & Company. "Our research shows that the greatest competitive market shifts take place during times of turbulence. Companies that invest throughout the economic cycle have the opportunity to help set the shape of their industries for years to come and realize far superior returns than those that participate sporadically."
Bain & Company's study of nearly 3,900 companies revealed that recession winners average 14% in compounded annual EBIT growth in the 13 years following a downturn, compared with zero for recession losers. As the winners adjust their corporate strategies for times of uncertainty, they continue to use M&A as one of the big levers to gain and strengthen their competitive advantage.
Companies willing to act must start with revising their M&A playbooks and deploying scenario planning so that executives have a clear view of the full range of potential outcomes.
Editor's Note: To arrange an interview, contact Katie Ware at katie.ware@bain.com or +1 646 562 8102.
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Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today's urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a gold rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 2% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
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SINGAPORE, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Esports Federation today announces the appointment of IMG, a global leader in sports, fashion, events, and media, as its Strategic Partner. IMG will collaborate with the GEF and its Strategic Partner for Esports Services, FACEIT, to shape the inaugural Commonwealth Esports Championships in Birmingham this August. IMG will also support and provide commercial consultancy for the second edition of the GEF's Flagship event – the Istanbul 2022 Global Esports Games in December.
IMG will utilize its expertise and global reach to further accelerate the rapid global expansion of the GEF's esports events portfolio, through the staging of live content, brand creation, event management, marketing, media distribution, and partnership rights management.
"We are proud to welcome IMG to our Global Esports family. This is an important strategic partnership, not only for the GEF and IMG, but for players, fans and brands around the world," said Lorenzo Giorgetti, Board Member and Chair of the GEF Brand, Marketing, Communications Commission. "We look forward to creating tremendous value for the GEF and our worldwide properties together."
Paul J. Foster, CEO of the GEF emphasized, "It's the connection and sharing of our human stories that are unlocking the superpowers of our time. We are proud to collaborate with IMG as we help to unite passionate brands with esports, sport, powerful technology and the Global Esports' limitless innovation. We have seen the magic that powerful partnerships can create for our community. In our #worldconnected community, we level up our collective strengths and unlock opportunities together. Our worldwide collective of GEF partners shares our optimism for the future and deep commitment to our community, elevating esports on the global stage."
Richard Wise, SVP, Content and Channels for IMG's media business, said, "This is an exciting year for the Global Esports Federation and esports in general, and we are delighted to bring our expertise in a wide range of areas to ensure these major events are successful. The world of esports has grown enormously in recent years and these two events will provide outstanding entertainment for fans all over the world."
In 2021, IMG signed a consultancy partnership with the Global Esports Games Organizing Committee and successfully staged the highly-anticipated inaugural Singapore 2021 Global Esports Games. The first-ever GEG attracted over 500 million accumulated views, including 4.4 million global live views during the two-day live event in Singapore.
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CHICAGO, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Metropia, Inc. announced today that its free multi-modal navigation app--GoEzy--has officially launched in northeastern Illinois which will be used to support the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Smartphone Travel Incentive Study. The GoEzy app helps drivers avoid traffic and spend less time behind the wheel, and as part of the study northeastern Illinois drivers could be offered valuable rewards for trying out GoEzy's suggestions to improve their commute over the next several weeks.
In addition to enjoying GoEzy's innovative features, thousands of drivers in Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties will receive special offers to make changes to their routine travel, such as leaving a little earlier for a trip than normal, carpooling or biking to work, or trying out a convenient CTA route to school. Commuters can earn rewards like gift cards from Visa, Amazon, Starbucks and more for giving those suggestions a try.
As drivers use the GoEzy app, the Smartphone Travel Incentive study will develop a deeper understanding of traveler behavior, how incentives influence travel choices, and how these findings can help shape transportation policy in the future.
"Many drivers have simply given up and accepted traffic as part of their day," says Chris Colemon, leader of Smartphone's recruitment efforts, "but the truth is you can make small changes to avoid traffic and reduce that stress in your life. The GoEzy app will actually find and suggest those changes for you, and for a limited time, drivers in northeastern Illinois could be rewarded for trying them out."
GoEzy will continue to improve daily drives long after the study is over, but to potentially join the thousands of northeastern Illinois drivers earning rewards while improving their commute, here's what to do:
- Download the free GoEzy app from the Apple App Store or Google Play
- Start using the GoEzy app for navigation when traveling around town
- Within 1-2 weeks, the app will start presenting you with personalized suggestions (and possibly rewards!) for upcoming trips
Metropia's platform, powered by AI-based algorithms, data analytics and behavioral economics, provides a multidimensional demand management framework (route, departure time and mode) to support transportation system congestion-management strategies and policies To learn more, visit Metropia.com.
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| 2022-06-10T14:24:00Z
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On 13 September at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange opening bell ceremony, founder William Martinez de Velasco celebrated the launch of the newly established PANAMERICAN-US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (PANAMUS). www.panamus.org.
"International web of commerce is the lifeblood of economic opportunity, connected like the blood that unites us. Expanding connections between panamerican trade, economies, societies and cultures is a basic human need. As prosperity is defined by the community we belong to" William Martinez de Velasco, Chairman
Headquartered in New York City, the newly formed Panamerican-U.S. Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to strengthening the commercial relationships between United States and countries of the Americas. Representing a population of over 1 billion, PANAMUS mission is to promote mutually beneficial relationships at highest level.
Infrastructure for the People is a nonprofit foundation that owns the Panamerican-U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Its mission is to equitably foster cultural trade and economic growth. Creating sustainable economies, encouraging business opportunity knocks on every door.
CONTACT: william.martinez@infra4people.com
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| 2022-09-18T05:35:42Z
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PITTSBURGH, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MSA Safety Incorporated (NYSE: MSA), the global leader in the development, manufacture and supply of safety products that protect people and facility infrastructures, today announced that Nish Vartanian, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Kenneth Krause, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will present at the following investor conferences:
- William Blair 42nd Annual Growth Stock Conference at the Loews Chicago Hotel on Monday, June 6, 2022 from 1:40 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. E.T.
- Stifel 2022 Cross Sector Insight Conference at the InterContinental Boston Hotel on Wednesday, June 8, 2022 from 3:35 p.m. – 4:05 p.m. E.T.
These events will be webcast live and can be accessed at http://investors.MSASafety.com. Following the presentation, a replay will be available for 90 days at the link listed above, under the "News and Events" menu.
Established in 1914, MSA Safety Incorporated is the global leader in the development, manufacture and supply of safety products that protect people and facility infrastructures. Many MSA products integrate a combination of electronics, mechanical systems and advanced materials to protect users against hazardous or life-threatening situations. The company's comprehensive product line is used by workers around the world in a broad range of markets, including the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, the fire service, the construction industry, mining and the military. MSA's core products include self-contained breathing apparatus, fixed gas and flame detection systems, portable gas detection instruments, industrial head protection products, firefighter helmets and protective apparel, and fall protection devices. With 2021 revenues of $1.4 billion, MSA employs approximately 4,800 people worldwide. The company is headquartered north of Pittsburgh in Cranberry Township, Pa., and has manufacturing operations in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. With more than 40 international locations, MSA realizes approximately half of its revenue from outside North America. For more information visit MSA's web site at www.MSAsafety.com.
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| 2022-05-31T19:41:57Z
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Kendal Rautzhan: Funny tales will entertain young readers
All around the world, people like to laugh. We know that while life isn’t always funny, finding a way to lighten the mood is always preferred because no one like to be under a dark cloud for long.
Reading books that make the reader/listener laugh is always a good choice when things have gone in the wrong direction. That’s exactly what you’ll find in the books reviewed today. From a bizarre, imaginative story of how a trip to the store for milk went completely sideways, to the story of a persistent boy trying to be an entrepreneur, and a bird who can’t fly but won’t give up trying, each of these three stories are certain to elicit smiles and laughter. What a great way to spend time together and steer the mood to a happy, lighter place. Read on.
Books to Borrow
The following book is available at many public libraries.
“Fortunately, the Milk,” by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Skottie Young, Harper, 113 pages
Read aloud: Age 8-12.
Read yourself: Age 8-9 and older.
Dad had gone out to fetch milk for his children’s breakfast cereal. When he finally returned, his son and daughter asked where he had been. His story went something like this:
He purchased the milk, emerged from the store, put the milk in his pocket and was promptly abducted by aliens, transported back and forth through time, faced pirates and unworldly beings, and was befriended by a Stegosaurus professor in a hot air balloon. As events progressed it became evident that the fate of the universe depended on him and, bizarrely, the milk. Fortunately, he still had it (the milk, that is).
Outrageously wonderful, inventive, imaginative, with nonstop hilarity throughout (including the fun illustrations), "Fortunately, the Milk" excels in every possible way.
Librarian’s Choice
Library: Stark County District Library, North Branch Library, 189 25th St. NW, Canton
Executive Director: Mary Ellen Icaza
Senior Director of Public Services: Jen Welsh
Branch Manager: Katherine Ferrero
Choices this week: “If You Give a Pig a Pancake,” by Laura Numeroff; “Maisy Drives the Bus,” by Lucy Cousins; “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” by Jeff Kinney.
Books to Buy
The following books are available at favorite bookstores.
“Willis Wilbur Wows the World,” by Lindsey Leavitt, illustrated by Daniel Duncan, Penguin Workshop, 2022, 206 pages, $13.99 hardcover
Read aloud: Age 8 and older
Read yourself: Age 8/9 and older.
At the end of third grade, Willis and his best friend, Shelley, would soon be going for six weeks to summer band camp. Willis and Shelley were basically inseparable since kindergarten, so Willis couldn’t imagine life any other way. Then, at the very last minute, Shelley announced that she couldn’t go to camp because her mom had taken a temporary job as a nurse in Hawaii and Shelley would be going with her the very next day – for the whole summer.
Willis was shocked and disappointed, but always wanting the best for Shelley, he knew he needed to be happy for her. As for Willis, it wasn’t too late to get the deposit back for camp and skip that altogether, but he knew his mother wouldn’t put up with him doing nothing all summer. Fortune seemed to shine on Willis when he saw a flyer for a local business competition for young entrepreneurs, offering scholarship money to help support the winner’s business. Willis knew this was his opportunity to take Shelley’s advice to make a date with destiny and apply. Deciding his best business idea would be to become the Neighborhood Life Coach for kids, he had to work fast to learn all about that and hone his skills before the day of the competition. But as Willis soon discovered, this was a much harder task to reach fame and fortune than he thought.
Hilarious, heartfelt, and loaded with fun, "Wilbur Willis Wows the World" will have kids ripping through this sensational novel at breakneck speed.
“Take a Breath,” written and illustrated by Sujean Rim, Atheneum, 2022, 40 pages, $17.99 hardcover
Read aloud: Ages 4-8.
Read yourself: Ages 6/7-8.
With each new morning, the birds are excited for their first flight of the day. But there’s one bird, Bob, who hasn’t been able to take flight yet, despite all of his efforts. So, Bob keeps busy on the ground, doing this and that, and continues to practice his flying. From one failed attempt after another, Bob can’t understand why he can’t fly.
Just when Bob is having a major meltdown over his inability to fly, Crow enters the picture and gives him the advice he’s needed all along – “Bob ... you just need to take a breath.” Crow then explains to Bob how to breathe mindfully, and together they practice and practice until it all begins to make sense.
Expressive illustrations perfectly complement this enormously clever and funny book about mindfulness, perseverance, and believing in yourself, making "Take a Breath" a real gem.
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| 2022-04-10T16:03:04Z
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COLUMBIA, Md. and HOUSTON, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universities Space Research Association's David Kring at the Lunar and Planetary Institute was a coauthor on the paper "Cryogeomorphic Characterization of Shadowed Regions in the Artemis Exploration Zone" published in Geophysical Research Letters.
Imagine a world where the Sun never passes overhead and, instead, forever moves in a circle along the horizon, casting long shadows that rotate across the landscape. That world is the lunar south polar region, soon to be explored by Artemis astronauts.
Because the Sun hovers near the horizon, the sunken floors of impact craters in the region never see sunlight and lie in perpetual shadow. Those permanently shadowed regions are incredibly cold, less than 100K (or less than -280°F), and approaching absolute zero. At those temperatures, water vapor and other volatile substances may be frozen in lunar soils, even though that soil is exposed to the vacuum of space.
The potential for ice makes those shadowed crater floors intriguing sites to explore. The ice may harbor clues about the delivery and processing of water to the Earth-Moon system. The ice may also provide resources to be used by astronauts for consumption, radiation shielding, and rocket propellant.
But designing exploration plans into such regions is difficult. What lurks in those shadowed regions? Where within them will our astronauts venture?
That puzzling problem was recently solved by an international team of scientists that developed a method for seeing into those dark regions of the Moon. Their work is published in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters. The paper is led by Valentin Bickel, a former graduate student intern at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), Houston, and now a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Bickel's former LPI mentor, Dr. David Kring, the principal investigator of the LPI-NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, co-authored the study along with Dr. B. Moseley (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom), Dr. E. Hauber (German Aerospace Center, Berlin, Germany), Dr. M. Shirley (NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California), and Dr. J.-P. Williams (University of California, Los Angeles).
Areas that were once dark are made visible by using a physics-based, deep learning-driven post-processing tool to produce high-signal and high-resolution Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) images that efficiently capture photons bounced into the shadowed regions from adjacent mountains and crater walls. This allows the team of scientists to provide the world with images of potential exploration regions. As LPI's Dr. Kring explains, "Visible routes into the permanently shadowed regions can now be designed, greatly reducing risks to Artemis astronauts and robotic explorers." The spacesuit being developed for Artemis astronauts will allow them to spend at least two hours in those shadowed terrains. Using the new images, mission planners can direct astronauts to boulders to be sampled in the shadowed domains and locations where trenches can be dug in the soil to evaluate the distribution of any ices.
The authors applied their new technique to images collected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, which has been documenting the Artemis exploration zone for over a decade. The team used those enhanced images to determine that water ice is not visible in sheets covering those shadowed areas. Dr. Bickel says, "There is no evidence of pure surface ice within the shadowed areas, implying that any ice must be mixed with lunar soil or underneath the surface." Dr. Bickel also notes that this work has an immediate impact on the mission delivering NASA's PRIME-1 payload, "We detect an ~50-meter-wide crater and other surface features in a shadowed region that could alter the location where the hopper lander, Micro-Nova, may touch down next year."
The results published in the new paper are part of a comprehensive investigation of potential Artemis landing sites and exploration options on the lunar surface conducted by the LPI-JSC Center for Lunar Science and Exploration. Thus far, the team has examined more than a half-dozen potential landing sites for Artemis astronauts and complementary robotic missions.
Dr. Kring's work was supported by NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).
Founded in 1969, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the U.S. Government, the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is a nonprofit corporation chartered to advance space-related science, technology, and engineering. USRA operates scientific institutes and facilities and conducts other major research and educational programs. USRA engages the university community and employs in-house scientific leadership, innovative research and development, and project management expertise. More information about USRA is available at www.usra.edu.
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), operated by Universities Space Research Association, was established during the Apollo program in 1968 to foster international collaboration and to serve as a repository for information gathered during the early years of the space program. Today, the LPI is an intellectual leader in lunar and planetary science. The Institute serves as a scientific forum attracting world-class visiting scientists, postdoctoral fellows, students, and resident experts; supports and serves the research community through newsletters, meetings, and other activities; collects and disseminates planetary data while facilitating the community's access to NASA science, and engages, excites, and educates the public about space science and invests in the development of future generations of explorers. The research carried out at the LPI supports NASA's efforts to explore the solar system. More information about LPI is available at www.lpi.usra.edu.
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| 2022-08-26T13:54:33Z
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Officer shot in head, suspect killed in domestic violence call, police chief says
WARREN COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - A police officer in Ohio was critically injured in a shooting earlier this week while responding to a domestic violence call.
According to Clearcreek Township Chief of Police John Terrill, two officers responded to a reported domestic violence situation at a residence where a man was ramming his wife’s car with an ATV.
WXIX reports the man shot one of the responding officers in the head before he was shot and killed by the other officer.
The wounded officer was transported by helicopter to a hospital and was reportedly breathing on his own after the shooting.
Terrill described the officer as being in “stable but critical condition.” Later, about the officer, Terrill said, “We’re not quite sure how this is going to turn out yet.”
The chief of police declined to identify the injured officer but did say he is a 14-year veteran of the force.
Officials said the officer who shot and killed the man was not injured.
According to the police chief, the department responded to multiple domestic violence calls at the same address in the past.
“An officer-involved lethal use of force incident, when it results in a death, is a tragedy regardless of whether the officer’s actions ultimately end up being justified,” David Fornshell said, Warren County Prosecutor.
Officials said the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations will handle evidence collection and conduct interviews as part of the investigation.
According to Terrill, Tuesday’s incident was the first officer-involved shooting in the 47-year history of the Clearcreek Township Police Department.
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| 2022-07-13T21:44:05Z
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- DodgeHWY93.com connects the open road with the 93 days of summer, charting a summer course across the U.S. for its owners and enthusiasts
- HWY93 will include a curated list and interactive map of events, drag strips, iconic drives, restaurants, roadhouses, lodging and other attractions that the Brotherhood of Muscle can use to build their ultimate summer roadmap
- Fans can also submit their own content and recommendations for locations to be added to HWY 93 throughout the summer using #DodgeHWY93
- Dodge will collect its owners' and enthusiasts' user-generated content, including the 93 days of summer, to feature in an upcoming national marketing campaign
- In this first-of-its-kind muscle car marketing campaign, The Real Brotherhood of Muscle, Dodge puts its fans and drivers in the national spotlight
- Dodge brand will search across social media channels, including YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram
Dodge is charting a course along HWY 93 for its owners and enthusiasts this summer, connecting 93 Dodge-inspired events and locations across America — one for each day of summer. Dodge is curating a list of places that embody the daring, authentic spirit of Dodge. The Dodge HWY 93 campaign officially launched on June 22 and runs through September 22, 2022.
"HWY 93 is more than just a highway, it's a mindset; one that stretches across all 93 days between June and September, past the coolest events and hottest locations in America," said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand chief executive officer – Stellantis. "Summer is the best time of year for Dodge, it's when the shackles of winter come off, and drivers are free to get the absolute most out of the longest days of the year. And Dodge, with the Brotherhood of Muscle, is going to blaze a path across the United States that leaves no roadhouse, rest stop or drag strip unturned.
"And with more than 13 million – and growing – devoted fans across our social media channels, Dodge has automotive's most active and engaged muscle car following, and their passion and excitement for the brand are all but impossible to recreate on our own," Kuniskis added. "So we're going to collect user-generated content from our biggest fans, including the 93 days, and put our Real Brotherhood of Muscle in the driver's seat of the Dodge brand's next national campaign."
Fans can go to DodgeHWY93.com to begin charting their summer course. As Dodge enthusiasts make their way across the U.S., they can also submit their own content and recommendations for locations to be added to HWY 93 throughout the summer using #DodgeHWY93. Select user content will also be featured on DodgeHWY93.com. To get on the list, each event and location must feel like a uniquely Dodge experience. Forget mainstream or vanilla, Dodge is choosing only the most thrilling events and oddest attractions for summer travelers to enjoy.
The campaign will include TV, social media and digital content running throughout the summer. DodgeHWY93.com will include a curated list and interactive map of events, roadhouses, restaurants, rest stops, races, including the iconic Roadkill Nights on Woodward Avenue in Michigan, dragstrips, iconic/scenic drives, lodging, sporting events and other attractions that Dodge owners can use to build their ultimate summer road map.
After the 93 days of summer, Dodge will launch its new The Real Brotherhood of Muscle national advertising campaign featuring the real Dodge stars. We will scour social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, seeking out the most compelling video content from Dodge enthusiasts to integrate into the campaign, which will run across multimedia, including television and social media channels.
Dodge is encouraging the Brotherhood of Muscle to help the brand in its search by posting and sharing their favorite content across their social media channels to bring awareness to their videos and photos. Dodge enthusiasts will need to post or share their content with the hashtag #ThatsMyDodge and #ad across their social channels to bring awareness to their content. Dodge is focused on content showing legal, safe driving practices and discourages owners from filming or posting anything dangerous, hazardous, illegal or harmful to the Dodge brand.
Dodge is looking for content that shows off the unique culture of American muscle enthusiasts. And while donuts and burnouts on closed courses have become a signature of the brand, Dodge will be digging much deeper, searching for content where owners show off not just their vehicles and modifications, but how they care for their HEMI®, Hellcat or Scat Pack, how they use them and even where they park their ride.
The Dodge brand's HWY 93 campaign is being created in partnership with Doner agency in Michigan. The Real Brotherhood of Muscle campaign is being developed in partnership with Austin-based GSD&M.
Dodge//SRT
For more than 100 years, the Dodge brand has carried on the spirit of brothers John and Horace Dodge. Their influence continues today as Dodge shifts into high gear with muscle cars and SUVs that deliver unrivaled performance in each of the segments where they compete.
Dodge drives forward as a pure performance brand, offering SRT versions of every model across the lineup. For the 2022 model year, Dodge delivers the drag-strip dominating 807-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock, the 797-horsepower Dodge Charger SRT Redeye, the most powerful and fastest mass-produced sedan in the world, and the Dodge Durango SRT 392, America's fastest, most powerful and most capable three-row SUV. Combined, these three muscle cars make Dodge the industry's most powerful brand, offering more horsepower than any other American brand across its entire lineup.
In 2020, Dodge was named the "#1 Brand in Initial Quality," making it the first domestic brand ever to rank No. 1 in the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (IQS). In 2021, the Dodge brand ranked No. 1 in the J.D. Power APEAL Study (mass market), making it the only domestic brand ever to do so two years in a row.
Dodge is part of the portfolio of brands offered by leading global automaker and mobility provider Stellantis. For more information regarding Stellantis (NYSE: STLA), please visit www.stellantis.com.
Follow Dodge and company news and video on:
Company blog: http://blog.stellantisnorthamerica.com
Media website: http://media.stellantisnorthamerica.com
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DodgeGarage: www.dodgegarage.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dodge
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dodgeofficial
Twitter: www.twitter.com/dodge and @StellantisNA
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HOUSTON, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Walker & Dunlop, Inc. announced today that it completed the sale of Parc at Champion Forest, a 232-unit, garden-style apartment property located in Houston, Texas. Built in 2000, the community provides the buyer with an excellent opportunity to implement a greater value-add program by renovating units, in addition to the 95 recently upgraded by the seller.
Ryan Epstein and Jennifer Ray of Walker & Dunlop Investment Sales represented the seller, Commerce Capital Partners, while Paul House and Larry Perez of Walker & Dunlop's Capital Markets group secured the financing for the buyer, Lone Star Capital Group. The teams worked to coordinate with several parties on behalf of their clients, including agencies and local government entities, to ensure compliance with the property's existing Land Use Restrictive Agreement (LURA), which is set to expire in May 2023.
"With steady population growth and employment growth, Lone Star Capital remains bullish on Houston multifamily, particularly workforce housing such as Parc at Champion Forest," said Lone Star Capital's Rob Beardsley. "We are excited to build from the seller's successful renovations at Parc at Champion Forest, which is well-poised to benefit from strong demand and limited new supply in the submarket. Parc's suburban setting coupled with its convenience to jobs and retail make it a dynamic investment for either short term value-add or longer-term yield."
"With the extreme demand for affordable housing, Parc at Champions Forest will continue to service the community it is has for years as upgrades are completed," commented Mr. Epstein. "The community is also an excellent investment opportunity, given its high-visibility location in Houston, strong value-add potential, and LURA expiring in less than two years. Walker & Dunlop's Houston Multifamily Investment Sales Team exclusively listed the property for our client and helped to find the perfect buyer looking for long-term stability, future rent growth, and value appreciation."
Parc at Champion Forest is a three-story multifamily community, comprised of 112 one-bedroom units, 108 two-bedroom units, and 12 three-bedroom units, situated along Bammel North Houston Road in the Champions area. Bammel North Houston Road, which experiences traffic of nearly 50,000 cars per day, allows residents to easily locate nearby retail, including Willowbrook Mall, Willow Center, North Oaks Shopping Center, and Kroger.
Walker & Dunlop is a leader in multifamily property sales, having completed $19.3 billion in property sales volume in 2021 alone, up 214% from 2020. The firm was also the third largest provider of capital to the U.S. multifamily market, originating $49 billion in transactions and lending over $42 billion for multifamily properties in 2021. For information about multifamily properties available for sale via Walker & Dunlop's investment sales platform, visit our website.
Walker & Dunlop (NYSE: WD) is the largest provider of capital to the multifamily industry in the United States and the fourth largest lender on all commercial real estate including industrial, office, retail, and hospitality. Walker & Dunlop enables real estate owners and operators to bring their visions of communities — where Americans live, work, shop and play — to life. The power of our people, premier brand, and industry-leading technology make us more insightful and valuable to our clients, providing an unmatched experience every step of the way. With over 1,400 employees across every major U.S. market, Walker & Dunlop has consistently been named one of Fortune's Great Places to Work® and is committed to making the commercial real estate industry more inclusive and diverse while creating meaningful social, environmental, and economic change in our communities.
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| 2022-06-02T00:43:32Z
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‘He gained my heart’: Wildlife photographer watches orphan cub grow up without a mother
By Maggie Brown
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PANTEGO, North Carolina (WRAL) — Early in January, North Carolina wildlife photographer Lori Ann Beckwith spotted a small cub hiding in the top of a tree in a wildlife refuge in Pantego.
“I waited around for three hours, and the cub stayed there,” Beckwith said. She carefully took photos of the cub, and after weeks of watching him, she found there was no mother bear to be found.
The newborn bear was going to have to navigate the world alone.
Beckwith was concerned, and reached out to wildlife experts in the area, who assured her that this is a part of nature and that the cub will find his way.
“He’s by himself. We don’t know what happened,” Beckwith said.
Beckwith began to form an attachment to the bear, going to the Pungo National Wildlife Refuge each day she had off work.
“It turned into my place of peace … to see something that small, thriving and surviving,” she said.
She watched the cub put on weight, learn to come down from the tree and forage for food.
“I adore him. It’s amazing to watch his growth,” Beckwith said.
Beckwith became a wildlife photographer after her mother died. She had always loved taking photos and capturing memories, and Beckwith hopes to do the same.
“He’s gained my heart,” she said.
To follow the orphan cub’s journey, visit Beckwith’s Facebook page.
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| 2022-05-05T18:15:32Z
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Our solar system is in constant motion. The planets orbit the sun. The sun orbits the center of our galaxy. Celestial bodies twirl and tilt, creating a grand cosmic ballet. When we look up at the sky, the view is always changing. This is what makes stargazing so fascinating.
Since we understand how celestial bodies move, we can predict not only what you can see, but where you will be able to see it and when. For instance, four planets — Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn — aligned last month. This month, you can see several other pairings in the night sky.
What is a conjunction?
In astronomy, a conjunction is a type of optical illusion. It occurs when you look up in the sky and see two (or more) objects that appear close together. This event is only an illusion because the two objects are not really close together. In fact, they are many, many millions of miles apart from each other. However, because of the viewer’s perspective, these two celestial objects look like they are next to each other. In some instances, they might even appear to be touching. When this happens, however, it is called an occultation, not a conjunction.
Alignment vs. conjunction
While there are precise astronomical definitions that involve terms like right ascension or ecliptic longitude, you can get the gist of the essential difference between alignment and conjunction by using your imagination.
Alignment
If you were standing on the sidewalk as a parade marched by, from your perspective, that would be an alignment: The individual planets are roughly all lined across a section of the sky.
Conjunction
If you were standing in the street and a parade was marching toward you (in a single file), as long as you could fully see each member in the parade, that would be a conjunction. If the front member obscured or blocked your view of one of the members who was standing further back, that would be an occultation.
The last half of May 2022 has several conjunctions
While planetary conjunction is rare, the moon moves much faster, so it offers far greater chances to witness a conjunction. Beginning on May 22, there are five events you may be able to see throughout the week. The times are in Eastern Daylight Time, and they are approximate, as they will vary slightly depending on your exact location within a time zone. You will be able to view these conjunctions with the naked eye or through binoculars. Some may be better viewed with a telescope.
May 22: Moon-Saturn conjunction
The moon and Saturn will be in proximity for nearly four hours, rising in the southeast at 1:36 a.m. (EDT) and fading at 5:18 a.m. (EDT).
May 24: Moon-Mars conjunction
The moon and Mars will be in proximity for a little over two hours, rising in the southeast at 2:56 a.m. (EDT) and fading at 5:16 a.m. (EDT).
May 24: Moon-Jupiter conjunction
The moon and Jupiter will be in proximity for a little over two hours, rising in the southeast at 2:59 a.m. (EDT) and fading at 5:16 a.m. (EDT).
May 27: Moon-Venus conjunction
The moon and Venus will be in proximity for a little over one hour, rising in the east at 3:57 a.m. (EDT) and fading at 5:15 a.m. (EDT). The best way to view this conjunction is with a telescope.
May 28: Mars-Jupiter conjunction
Mars and Jupiter will be in proximity for roughly 2 1/2 hours, rising in the southeast at 2:45 a.m. (EDT) and fading at 5:14 a.m. (EDT).
What you need to see the upcoming conjunctions
If you want top-of-the-line celestial binoculars, this high-end pair is for you. They have long eye relief for eyeglass wearers and multicoated optics for brighter, sharper images. One word of warning: These binoculars are heavy — 10 pounds — so a tripod is highly recommended.
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Celestron Skymaster Binoculars
Celestron is a respected name in optics. These powerful binoculars offer low light functionality with a crisp focus. At 25 times magnification, this model is suitable for astronomical viewing. The long eye relief makes these binoculars ideal for people who wear glasses, while the protective rubber coating gives the stargazer a secure grip.
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This telescope will offer too tight of a view for most of this month’s conjunctions. However, you can still focus on one celestial object at a time when using this popular model. Additionally, purchase includes a smartphone adapter and a wireless camera remote to facilitate taking pictures. It features an adjustable tripod and has a coated lens to enhance the images.
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These compact binoculars are designed for outdoor activities. At 10 times magnification, these will be wide enough to encompass both celestial bodies in most conjunction events. The multilayer-coated lenses — green objective and blue eyepiece — and BAK4 prism produce clearer, brighter images. These binoculars come with a lifetime warranty.
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If you’d like a budget option to see if watching celestial events is right for you, this entry-level pair of binoculars is a great option. This lightweight model weighs less than 2 pounds and has slip-resistant rubber armor for durability. A smartphone adapter is included so you can take pictures.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that next month’s summit in Madrid will be a “historic” opportunity to strengthen the alliance in the face of Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Speaking at a gala in Madrid to mark Spain’s 40th year as a NATO member, Stoltenberg said he looked forward to welcoming Sweden and Finland at the summit hosted by Spain’s capital on June 29-30.
“At the Madrid summit, we will chart the way ahead for the next decade,” Stoltenberg said. “We will also be joined by Finland and Sweden, who have just made historic applications to join our alliance. The Madrid summit is an important opportunity to reaffirm our NATO values.”
But the leader of the 30-member alliance didn’t address Turkey’s reluctance to opening the doors to Sweden and Finland. Turkey, which commands the second-largest military in NATO behind the United States, has cited the alleged support by the Nordic countries for Kurdish militants that Turkey considers terrorists as reason to reject their applications. Unanimous support is needed to add new NATO members.
On Sunday, when Stoltenberg held a private session with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to prepare the summit, he expressed his confidence that Turkey can be convinced to drop its rejection of the Scandinavian pair.
“Turkey, an important ally, has expressed its concerns, and we have to do what we always do because our decisions are reached by consensus,” he told Spanish state broadcaster TVE.
Sánchez and Spanish King Felipe VI presided over Monday’s celebration at Madrid’s Royal Theater, which was attended by Stoltenberg and four former NATO secretary-generals and three former Spanish prime ministers.
Next month’s summit will redefine NATO’s strategic priorities for the next decade, which Stoltenberg said include facing Chinese ambitions, the rise of anti-democratic states, climate change and instability in Africa, a top priority for Spain on Europe’s southern flank. But its immediate focus will be on how to continue supporting Ukraine and deter any further aggression by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Spain became the 16th member of NATO on May 30, 1982. Its entrance marked a milestone of Spain’s return in the international political order following the end of Gen. Francisco Franco’s dictatorship with his death in 1975. The country’s adhesion to NATO came just a year after its fledgling democracy survived a failed military coup. Spain would later join the European Union in 1986.
A 1997 NATO summit hosted by Spain featured the invitation to former Soviet-bloc members Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic to join the alliance that they had once stood against.
“Next month Madrid will host another historic summit,” Stoltenberg said. “This time however the context is very different, not a fresh burst of freedom but a cold blast of conflict.”
Spain is aiding Ukraine with humanitarian aid and military equipment. Its military is deployed on NATO missions in Turkey, Latvia, Lithuania and Iraq, in addition to naval operations.
“Today our security is threatened by Putin’s regime and therefore our support for Ukraine is absolute,” prime minister Sánchez said. “Putin has clearly not achieved his goals because we allies have showed that our support is unbreakable.”
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Woman charged with child neglect after 3-year-old found sleeping on sidewalk
OKALOOSA, Fla. (Gray News) – A Florida woman is facing child neglect charges after a 3-year-old child was found sleeping on a concrete sidewalk in the early hours of the morning.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested and charged 25-year-old Shyla Heidelberg with three counts of child neglect without great bodily harm.
Police were called around 1 a.m. Saturday morning for a report of a 3-year-old child wrapped in a blanket and asleep on a street sidewalk.
After investigating, police discovered two more young children asleep alone in an apartment at the complex.
After police questioned her, they said Heidelberg admitted she had gone out to a nightclub an hour and a half earlier, leaving the children unattended.
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday he plans to talk to Chinese leader Xi Jinping soon as he considers whether to lift some Trump-era tariffs on Chinese goods.
Biden did not say when they might speak, but suggested he was getting closer to making a decision about the fate of the economic penalties.
“I’m in the process of making up my mind,” Biden told reporters in a brief exchange after a bike ride near his beach home in Delaware.
National security and economic aides are in the process of completing a review of the U.S. tariff policy and making recommendations to the president.
The tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump applied a 25% duty on billions of dollars of Chinese products. The penalties were intended to reduce the U.S. trade deficit and force China to adopt fairer practices.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently called for eliminating some of those tariffs as a way to fight inflation in the United States. Others in the Biden administration, i ncluding U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, have raised concerns about easing tariffs when China has not upheld its agreements on purchasing U.S. products.
She said she saw the tariffs as “a tool in the economic policy toolbox” that could be considered, but alongside “a lot of other tools at our disposal.”
“What is of the utmost importance for us is to ensure that this medium-term strategic realignment that we know we need to accomplish is something that we are able to accomplish, and that nothing that we do in the short term undermines that larger goal,” Tai told The Associated Press in an interview last month.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Tuya Inc. (NYSE: TUYA).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Tuya American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until October 11, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Tuya Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (b) prior to the initial public offering, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, inter alia, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (c) as a result of (a) and (b) above, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (d) as a result of (a)-(c) above, the registration statement's representations regarding Tuya's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities and expected growth did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and such statements were materially false and misleading and lacked a reasonable factual basis.
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SEATTLE, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), today announced an orderly CFO transition plan.
Christine Chambers, Real's current CFO, will be leaving Real on July 31, 2022 to pursue another opportunity. To fill her role, the Company announced the hiring of Brian McClain. Mr. McClain joined the Company as a full-time strategic advisor on July 6th and will succeed Ms. Chambers as Interim CFO and Treasurer on August 1, 2022.
"On behalf of everyone at Real, I want to thank Christine for her many contributions to the Company and for the thorough and professional way she is handling this upcoming transition," said Rob Glaser, Real's CEO. "I wish Christine the best in her future endeavors."
Mr. Glaser continued, "We are excited to have Brian McClain join our senior team as Interim CFO and Treasurer. Brian is a very experienced and accomplished leader and CFO with 25 years of financial and business leadership roles in technology and manufacturing companies, including several stints and businesses that are highly aligned with Real's growth initiatives. Brian has already started working with Christine and the senior team at Real and I expect a very smooth transition."
Mr. McClain most recently served as President and CFO of Pelco, Inc., a leading computer security company, where he managed customer care, supply chain and purchasing, engineering development, finance, human resources, IT, and sales. Prior to that, as CFO of LOUD Audio, Brian directed all financial, accounting, and IT functions for a $75 million professional audio and music products company. Prior to LOUD Audio, Mr. McClain worked in a number of manufacturing related industries including paper and packaging, as well as Aerospace where he held progressive levels of responsibility at the senior level.
Commenting on his new position, Mr. McClain said, "I am excited to join the Real team. I look forward to being a part of the Company's transformation from pure software to software and hardware and the continued investment in AI."
About RealNetworks
Building on a rich history of digital media expertise and innovation, RealNetworks has created a new generation of products that employ best-in-class artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance and secure our daily lives. Real's portfolio includes SAFR, the world's premier computer vision platform for live video, KONTXT, an industry leading NLP (Natural Language Processing) platform for text and multi-media analysis, and leveraging its digital media expertise, a mobile games business focused on the large free-to-play segment. For information about all of our products, visit www.realnetworks.com.
RealNetworks is a registered trademark of RealNetworks, Inc. All other trademarks, names of actual companies and products mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including statements relating to our current expectations regarding our future growth, profitability, and market position, our financial condition and liquidity, our strategic focus and initiatives, product plans, agreements with partners, Scener's current and future activities, and certain remaining contingencies relating to the sale of Napster. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward- looking statements. These statements reflect our expectations as of today, and actual results may differ materially from the results predicted. Factors that could cause actual results for RealNetworks, on a consolidated basis, to differ from the results predicted include: our ability to realize operating efficiencies, growth and other benefits from the implementation of our growth initiatives and restructuring efforts; cash usage and conservation, and the pursuit of additional funding sources; successful monetization of our products and services; competitive risks, including the emergence or growth of competing technologies, products and services; issues with the use of AI; potential outcomes and effects of claims and legal proceedings; risks associated with key customer or strategic relationships and business acquisitions and dispositions; challenges caused by the COVID19 pandemic; disruptions in the global financial markets, including changes in consumer spending and impacts to credit availability, and fluctuations in foreign currencies; volatility of our stock price; material asset impairment; continued declines in subscription revenue; difficulty recruiting and retaining key personnel; regulatory, tax, accounting, and cross-border risks; and risks related to our governance structure. More information about potential risk factors that could affect our business and financial results is included in RealNetworks' latest annual report on Form 10-K for year ended December 31, 2021, its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and in other reports and documents filed by RealNetworks from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The preparation of our financial statements and forward- looking financial guidance requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount of assets and liabilities, and revenues and expenses during the reported period. Actual results may differ materially from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. RealNetworks assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or information, which are in effect as of their respective dates.
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Infor customers surveyed call out Infor's strengths in industry expertise, user experience, innovation and implementation experience
NEW YORK, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that it has been named a Leader in two IDC MarketScape reports – IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Manufacturing ERP Applications 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US49047922, May 2022) (the "Manufacturing Report"); and IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Operational ERP Applications 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #US46733721, May 2022) (the "Operational Report").
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The Manufacturing Report evaluated Infor customer feedback from manufacturers in discrete industries such as automotive, aerospace & defense, high-tech, and industrial machinery, and process industries such as chemicals, consumer packaged goods, food & beverage, and pulp & paper.
The Operational Report evaluated Infor customer feedback from product-centric organizations across multiple industries such as distribution, manufacturing and retail.
Key excerpts from the Manufacturing Report
The Manufacturing Report noted that Infor customers highlighted Infor's strengths in industry expertise, innovation and implementation experience.
"Infor recognizes that deep industry knowledge is key to its customers' success, and multiple (customers surveyed) cited their expertise as critical in the selection process and the most important reason they have stayed with Infor," the Manufacturing Report stated. "Another (customer) stated that Infor provides them the functionality, breadth and flexibility they need to meet unique requirements."
According to the Manufacturing Report, "Manufacturing references noted that Infor has exceeded its expectations when it comes to innovation." The Manufacturing Report added, "Combining technology expertise with industry expertise previously mentioned is the best way to ensure that tangible manufacturing outcomes are delivered through the use of new technology (IoT, AI/ML, etc.)."
According to the Manufacturing Report, "Infor's implementation experience generally exceeded customer expectations based upon reference interviews. Deployment is aided by the application's flexibility, adaptability, and extensibility, combined with simple screen designers and role-based views."
Key excerpts from the Operational Report
In the Operational Report, customers surveyed called out Infor's strengths in user experience / user interface, innovation and implementation experience.
"Multiple operational references noted the ease of use for Infor's solutions as a strength. These references shared that limited training is needed for their employees to start taking advantage of the system and it has really helped with adoption of the tools and increasing the overall impact."
Soma Somasundaram, Infor Chief Technology Officer and President of Products, said, "We believe this recognition from the IDC MarketScape reinforces that Infor is delivering to our customers smart, preconfigured and modern cloud solutions that enable them to keep pace with industry challenges and better compete and innovate. Our solutions are designed to address customers' industry-specific needs, out-of-the box, simplify the deployment process, provide an intuitive user experience and, ultimately, help them achieve business results faster."
About IDC MarketScape:
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position in a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors. Visit www.idc.com/promo/idcmarketscape.
About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. We develop complete solutions for our focus industries, including industrial manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, food & beverage, automotive, aerospace & defense, and high tech. Infor's mission-critical enterprise applications and services are designed to deliver sustainable operational advantages with security and faster time to value. We are obsessed with delivering successful business outcomes for customers. Over 60,000 organizations in more than 175 countries rely on Infor's 17,000 employees to help achieve their business goals. As a Koch company, our financial strength, ownership structure, and long-term view empower us to foster enduring, mutually beneficial relationships with our customers. Visit www.infor.com.
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Charlotte County deputies respond to shots fired call
Published: Jun. 11, 2022 at 11:11 AM EDT|Updated: 14 minutes ago
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - Charlotte County deputies responded to a home early Saturday morning after a call of shots fired.
At 6:40am, a call came in stating the caller had heard multiple gunshots coming from a home on Coulton Ave. in Port Charlotte. Deputies responded and can confirm that one person is injured and another is believed to be inside the home.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for injuries sustained. Deputies are working on communicating with the other individual that is believed to be inside the home.
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- 50 young leaders have been recognised by the European Commission and One Young World for their efforts to prevent and counter violent extremism in some of the most challenging environments across the world
- These delegates will participate in the upcoming One Young World 2022 Summit in Manchester taking place between the 5th-8th September
MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One Young World, the global community for young leaders, announces its 2022 cohort of 50 Peace Ambassadors to attend the upcoming Summit in Manchester in partnership with the European Commission.
It supports young leaders working to prevent violence and extremism within their communities. This year's programme has a timely focus on the role of disinformation in fuelling hate speech, conflict and violent extremism.
Since 2017, One Young World and the European Commission has supported 240 young people involved in peacebuilding and conflict prevention initiatives throughout the world to make the future safer.
The Peace Ambassadors will participate in four transformative days of speeches, panels, networking, and workshops, where they are counselled by influential political, business, and humanitarian leaders such as former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman, and The Duchess of Sussex.
Delegates have the opportunity to share a platform, challenge, engage and make lasting connections with global leaders with the world's media in attendance.
The Summit will take place at the Manchester Central from September 5th to 8th, with the Opening Ceremony held at the internationally renowned concert venue Bridgewater Hall.
Ella Robertson McKay, Managing Director of One Young World, commented: "We're delighted to welcome this year's cohort of Peace Ambassadors to Manchester in partnership with the European Commission. We continue to be impressed by the resilience and commitment of young leaders across the world to create a safer future.
"We're proud to be able to host so many inspiring and creative minds from all over the world, providing them with a platform and ensuring their voices are heard. Our Summit provides the knowledge, skills, network and platform for young leaders to affect meaningful and impactful change."
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PETACH-TIKVA, Israel, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eltek Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELTK), a global manufacturer and supplier of technologically advanced solutions in the field of printed circuit boards, announced today that it will release its financial results for the second quarter of 2022 before the market opens on Wednesday, August 17, 2022. Eltek's financial results will be released over the news wires and will be posted on its corporate website at: http://www.nisteceltek.com.
On Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time, Eltek will conduct a conference call to discuss the results. The call will feature remarks by Eli Yaffe, Chief Executive Officer and Ron Freund, Chief Financial Officer.
To participate, please call the following teleconference numbers. Please allow for additional time to connect prior to the call:
United States: 1-866-860-9642
Israel: 03- 9180691
International: +972-3-9180691
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8:30 a.m. Eastern Time
5:30 a.m. Pacific Time
15:30 p.m. Israel Time
A replay of the call will be available through the Investor Info section on Eltek's corporate website at http://www.nisteceltek.com approximately 24 hours after the conference call is completed and will be archived for 30 days.
About Eltek
Eltek – "Innovation Across the Board", is a global manufacturer and supplier of technologically advanced solutions in the field of printed circuit boards (PCBs) and is an Israeli leading company in this industry. PCBs are the core circuitry of most electronic devices. Eltek specializes in the manufacture and supply of complex and high quality PCBs, HDI, multilayered and flex-rigid boards for the high-end market. Eltek is ITAR compliant and has AS-9100 and NADCAP Electronics certifications. Its customers include leading companies in the defense, aerospace and medical industries in Israel, the United States, Europe and Asia.
Eltek was founded in 1970. The Company's headquarters, R&D, production and marketing center are located in Israel. Eltek also operates through its subsidiary in North America and by agents and distributors in Europe, India, South Africa and South America.
For more information, visit Eltek's web site at www.nisteceltek.com
Forward Looking Statement
Some of the statements included in this press release may be forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to expected results in future quarters, the impact of the Coronavirus on the economy and our operations, risks in product and technology development and rapid technological change, product demand, the impact of competitive products and pricing, market acceptance, the sales cycle, changing economic conditions and other risk factors detailed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F and other filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statements set forth in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. The information found on our website is not incorporated by reference into this press release and is included for reference purposes only.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RF elements® is releasing five new Array Sector antennas for 3 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands and adding more horn antennas for 5 GHz band to strengthen the antenna toolset for the most used frequency bands.
RF elements® is the leader in sustainable use of unlicensed spectrum, solving the issue of interference in wireless networks through award-winning horn antenna technology across European, American, African, and Asian markets. Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) provide internet connectivity to all but especially remote, underserved, or otherwise disadvantaged communities heavily reliant on unlicensed spectrums.
Since 2014, RF elements® Horn Antenna technology has been playing a pivotal role in the evolution of 5 GHz WISP networks. "Our award-winning products have enabled transition from noise-encumbered progressively dysfunctional networks and poor internet service quality to stable, reliable, and highly scalable systems. To speed up the world-wide optimization of wireless networks we introduce several Array Sector (AS) antennas with proprietary Backshield™ Technology for improved noise rejection. Namely AS-2-14, AS-2-17 for 2.4 GHz band with 14 and 17 dBi gain. For the 3.4 - 3.8 GHz band, we now offer AS-3-17HV, AS-3-17DS, and AS-3-18DS (DS stands for Dual Slant) with 17 and 18 dBi gain. These Array Sector antennas are perfectly suited for efficient deployment in rural areas with noise issues." said Tomas Zvolensky, Product Manager at RF elements®.
"Our Horn Antenna technology has influenced the way WISP networks are designed and scaled in an unprecedented way. Thinking of the WISP industry on a global scale, we focus also on highly price-sensitive markets. We decided to address these markets with an affordable horn antenna series we call StarterHorns™. StarterHorn™ 30° USMA and StarterHorn™ A45° USMA are highly noise suppressing antennas just like our Asymmetrical and Symmetrical Horn antennas but with more attractive pricing. They are ideal for WISPs new to RF elements® Horn antenna technology or those who are not ready to commit to our TwistPort™ antenna ecosystem and are looking for an easy way to test out the waters first." added Tasos Alexiou, Product Evangelist at RF elements®.
RF elements® provides technology for fast, sustainable wireless. RF elements® proprietary technology allows sustainable use of Spectrum, a limited resource that plays a key role for general access to broadband internet. RF elements® is headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia with local market support across Europe, in the U.S., Ireland and South Africa. For more information, please visit www.rfelements.com.
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PHOENIX, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluum, North America's leading education technology solutions provider, announced Friday that its CEO, Erez Pikar, was named an Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) "Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 Pacific Southwest Award" winner. EY US's "Entrepreneur Of The Year Award" is one of the preeminent competitive business awards for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies worldwide.
An independent panel of judges selected Pikar based on his entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth and impact, among other core contributions and attributes. As a Pacific Southwest award winner, the Bluum CEO will now be eligible to be selected by the independent national panel of judges for the national and global awards.
"It is an incredible honor to win this award," Pikar said. " I was humbled to stand on stage with this amazing group of entrepreneurs, and I hope that all of us at Bluum can live up to the high standards of societal impact and financial success set by previous winners. This award will be shared with the remarkable team at Bluum because they all make the impossible seem just around the corner."
Under Pikar's leadership, Bluum was named to the Inc. 5000 list of "America's Fastest-Growing Companies," CRN's "Tech Elite 250" list, as well as one of the "Top 10 Integrators" by Systems Contractor News. The company's growth has occurred through mergers and acquisitions, as well as organically, more than tripling revenue and assets over the past three years.
Pikar now joins former "Entrepreneur Of The Year" honorees such as Noom's Saeju Jeong, Starbucks' Howard Schultz, Vitamix's Jodi Berg, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman and Chobani's Hamdi Ulukaya on the winners' list.
To learn more about Bluum's CEO and the award, please visit https://www.ey.com/en_us/entrepreneur-of-the-year/pacific-southwest/overview.
About Bluum
At Bluum, we believe that education is the single most achievable step toward a more positive and equitable tomorrow. We empower educators to become innovative change-makers by providing them with technology solutions and services to improve learning and make it more accessible. With decades of experience working with educators to create remarkable learning experiences, Bluum provides technology and services that support to nearly 27 million students across North America daily. Cultivate possibility with us at bluum.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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System wins Platinum "Govies" Award from Security Today magazine
BOTHELL, Wash., July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leviton today announced it was awarded a Govies Government Security Award by Security Today magazine for its OneReach PoE Extender System, a solution that supports remote devices with power and data at distances far beyond traditional limitations. The annual awards honor outstanding government security products, and Leviton was awarded platinum in the Network Support Solutions category.
The OneReach solution is ideal for security systems in parking lots, parking garages, and other remote locations inside and outside buildings. By combining fiber cable for long-distance data transmission and copper conductors for Power over Ethernet (PoE) delivery in a single composite cable, OneReach takes data and PoE to all new distances to support cameras, emergency phones, and wireless access points.
"Leviton is excited to receive a platinum Govies award from Security Today," said Teresa Hoffman, product manager for Leviton Network Solutions. "The OneReach system simplifies device management and supply of power, resulting in reduced costs and ease of installation for security applications."
An independent panel of judges from the security industry selected OneReach and the other top entries in the 2022 categories using criteria including Features, Innovation, User Friendliness, Interoperability, Quality, Design, Market Opportunity, and Impact in the Security Industry, Technical Advances, and Scalability.
The OneReach PoE Extender System is available today through Leviton's extensive network of distribution partners. More information about the system is available at Leviton.com/OneReach.
Leviton Network Solutions delivers complete network structured cabling systems for data center, enterprise, education, health care, government and commercial mixed-use markets around the globe. Solutions include copper and fiber optic connectivity, IT/AV systems and much more. All Leviton products are engineered to exacting standards, offer industry-leading performance and are backed by the industry's best service and support. IT management, builders, contractors and other industry professionals consistently rank Leviton products as the most preferred brand in the industry. We can expand your network possibilities. Learn more at www.leviton.com/ns or www.twitter.com/LevitonNS.
Every day, Leviton is engineering possibilities that make the future happen, meeting the needs of today's residential, commercial and industrial customers globally. From electrical to lighting, to data networks and energy management, Leviton develops thoughtful solutions that help make its customers' lives easier, safer, more efficient and more productive. Driven by its commitment to its customers, the ingenuity of its employees and the safety and quality of its products and solutions, with Leviton, the FUTURE IS ON. For more information, visit http://www.leviton.com/, www.facebook.com/leviton, www.twitter.com/leviton, or www.youtube.com/Levitonmfg.
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ATLANTA, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- hihotels by Hospitality International, a leader in economy lodging across the United States, is pleased to announce the launch of its new and improved INNcentive Instant Rewards program. INNcentive members will enjoy greater value when staying at a hihotels brand and now have access to thousands of discounts and special offers from nationally recognized companies.
Featuring five distinct brands – Scottish Inns, Red Carpet Inn, Master Hosts Inns, Downtowner Inns and Passport Inn – hihotels has a unique loyalty program that offers immediate benefits and discounts rather than requiring members to accumulate enough points for a reward.
The perks and deals include:
- 15% room discount during each stay*
- Early check-in**
- Late checkout**
- Access to thousands of discounts and special offers for dining, shopping, entertainment and travel
- Weekly emails with special offers for traveling and everyday activities
*based on availability
**up to 2 hours and based on each hotel's policy and availability
"Our frequent guest program has been popular with our customers because it is not based on points. I think everyone can relate to the frustration of joining a loyalty club and not getting anything out of it because it's too complicated, they don't travel often enough to take advantage of it or an unreasonable amount of points are needed for a reward. Our guests enjoy benefits as soon as they sign up, and now membership is even more valuable thanks to the thousands of additional discounts now available," said hihotels President & CEO Chris Guimbellot.
Guests can sign up for the INNcentive Instant Rewards program for free by visiting stayhihotels.com/inncentive-rewards or stopping by the front desk of any hihotels brand location.
Each hotel in the hihotels family of brands has a distinct and individual personality of its own. For a good night's sleep!®, our affordable rates will let you focus on the things that matter, whether it is your family vacation or your business meeting. Visit stayhihotels.com for reservations and locations.
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SensaAML Solution Proves a Worthy Ally for Financial Crime Detection
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Symphony AyasdiAI announced today that its SensaAML™ solution continues to be validated and is leading the redefinition of financial crime discovery and operational effectiveness with the receipt of multiple new awards. These accolades, which come as the company continues a global growth trajectory, are a testament to the powerful results Symphony AyasdiAI Sensa is delivering for customers in fraud, AML and compliance malfeasance.
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Adding to its recent Edison award for the most innovative company in security, during the past month, Symphony AyasdiAI won the Tech of the Future Award from Banking Tech Awards USA, a program of FinTech Futures that recognizes excellence and innovation in the use of information technology in financial services. The company also took the winner's spot in Central Banking's Fintech & RegTech awards for the machine learning and AI category. This award underscores how regulators are beginning to recognize the impressive value that higher-order technologies such as SensaAML can achieve when designed and deployed with innovation and focus.
Symphony AyasdiAI's SensaAML is a leading, next-generation platform with robust capabilities to help financial institutions detect, mitigate and uncover money laundering, fraud and other criminal financing activities. Using a powerful combination of groundbreaking AI and machine learning technologies, the solution provides unparalleled, predictive insights to deliver heightened effectiveness and increased risk coverage for today's leading banking organizations. Whether SensaAML is used as an augmentation or stand-alone solution, clients have experienced an order of magnitude improvement in detection (in one case, close to 100X improvement in criminal transparency) and, as a result, improved operational costs by close to 50%.
Simon Moss, CEO, Symphony AyasdiAI, said: "These wins are further endorsements that we're definitely on the right track to help our customers truly execute the mission of fighting financial crime. We built the SensaAML platform to both fill the void and inefficiencies caused by the myriad of legacy systems that continue to be foiled by today's sophisticated financial criminals and to truly deliver a transformation of the financial crimes industry. Such recognition by these global influencers is a huge boost and confirmation of the sterling work delivered by the Symphony AyasdiAI team and its growing group of customers."
Chuck Subrt, Fraud and AML practice director, Aite-Novarica Group, said: "Leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence, Symphony AyasdiAI focuses on more accurate detection of financial crime rather than trying to reduce false positive volumes or manage investigation workloads. By putting detection first, it spots obscure risks and threats while addressing these other challenges at the root source. Its current momentum illustrates that increased adoption in advanced analytics and machine learning-based platforms are enabling Financial Crimes compliance and detection, and as a result cultivating sharper risk intelligence and elevating resource productivity."
Symphony AyasdiAI, a SymphonyAI business, empowers banks and financial institutions with a complete picture of customer, third party and user behavior to discover crime, risk and competitive opportunity through unparalleled, predictive insight. Using a uniquely powerful combination of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Symphony AyasdiAI customers dramatically reduce the time to achieve genuine transparency, with full explainability. The Sensa platform leverages unique combinations of topological data analysis, time series and leading analytical innovations to give organizations absolute fidelity for competitive discovery, risk detection and efficiency optimization. Learn more at www.ayasdi.com, LinkedIn, or Twitter.
SymphonyAI is building the leading enterprise AI SaaS company for digital transformation across the most critical and resilient growth industries, including retail, consumer packaged goods, financial services, manufacturing, media and IT service management. SymphonyAI businesses have many leading enterprises as clients in each of these industries. Since its founding in 2017, SymphonyAI has grown rapidly, approaching 2,000 talented leaders, data scientists, and other professionals. SymphonyAI is an SAIGroup company, backed by a $1 billion commitment from successful entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr. Romesh Wadhwani.
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ATLANTA, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- R&B music is constantly making a comeback, and blind singer, musician, producer, and songwriter Rob Jones is guaranteed to be a part of that success with the release of his new single "Cold". "Cold", originally recorded by country music legend Chris Stapleton, is all about loss of love and heartbreak and Rob Jones puts his spin on it. Rob's version of "Cold" is a soulful timeless ballad filled with emotion, power, and grittiness showcasing Rob's amazing vocal ability and range. "Cold" is a song that is extremely relatable, and even with its simplicity, it quickly grabs your attention; from the first note that Rob sings to the musicality of the track. Rob states, "I love the passion and soul displayed in this song and the familiarity of the story is so relatable. I always wanted to do my own version to introduce this song to an audience that's not familiar with Chris Stapleton's version. It's actually one of my favorite songs by him." "Cold" is now available on all DSPs.
Rob Jones is a multi-talented musician, singer, and songwriter who was born and raised on the South side of Chicago. At the age of 10, he was struck in the head by a stray bullet which caused him to lose his sight immediately. Rob was introduced to music by his teacher who was also blind at Skinner Elementary School, and that's where his love for music began. Rob Jones became skilled in all genres of music; from classical to jazz to R&B to contemporary. Even through the losses he endured, Rob doesn't see himself as a blind man and doesn't want anyone else to treat him that way. Rob moved to Atlanta to further his music career in which he met and worked with a lot of top producers. Rob Jones is ready to let the world hear his immense talent with the release of his soulful, gritty, and emotional single "Cold" under Blackground Records 2.0. Be prepared for greatness because that's exactly what Rob Jones will bring to the music industry.
Founded by Barry Hankerson initially and launched in 1993, Blackground Records became a staple name in music and pop culture in the 1990s and early 2000s with the Hankerson's expert ear for artist development that would evolve into prolific careers for the aforementioned artists. Over the years, Blackground Records - with artists such as the late Aaliyah, Timbaland, Tank and JoJo - sold millions of records, had ten Top 10 Billboard 200 albums and won countless awards. Now as Blackground Records 2.0, Hankerson plans to continue its undeniable impact on pop culture.
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ISTANBUL, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arçelik, the global household appliance manufacturer, expanded the coverage of its WE-inTech programme works to ensure gender equality in technology and innovation, and welcomed its first cohort of students to its inaugural WE-inTech programme from Turkey, Romania, South Africa and Pakistan.
Arçelik officially welcomed 45 women to a year-long programme to empower and support their career progression in the STEM industry. The programme kicked off with a three-day workshop, focusing on guided coaching to prepare women for a career in various STEM areas, providing access to industry experts for insight and mentorship, and supporting participants' professional development in technology and innovation. The scheme is being delivered together with Arçelik's subsidiary companies Arctic (Romania), Dawlance (Pakistan) and Defy (South Africa).
Earlier this year, Arçelik, along with other Koç Group companies renewed its commitment to gender equality in technology and innovation and announced ambitious goals to increase the number of women working in STEM areas. Arçelik has been supporting women's empowerment in STEM through the 'We-inTech' programme, which has been running locally in Turkey as 'You are an Engineer, You are with Us' since 2019. As part of its Action Coalition commitments, Arçelik expanded the programme's coverage to reach out to young women engineers in Romania, Pakistan and South Africa.
Nihat Bayız, Chief Production & Technology Officer of Arçelik, commented: "Arçelik is committed to empowering women in technology and innovation. Our We-inTech programme supports women currently pursuing an education in STEM, to not only support the career development but also to ensure their full and effective participation in their related educational background."
Additionally, he said: "We share a collective vision to driving real change when it comes to gender equality in the STEM field which is a man-dominated area. It is in service of this vision that we have become a supporter of the Action Coalition platform and committed to advancing gender equality in the fields of technology and innovation, in cooperation with the UN Women's Generation Equality Forum. We know that we have to offer a programme not only supports their education but opens a field to ensure their career start. Following the positive impact, we decided to expand our 3 years old programme, thus, we aim to reach out to young women engineers globally starting with Romania, Pakistan and South Africa. We believe that our leading brands in these countries will help us to support the career progression of young women in STEM."
The WE-inTech programme is aimed at women who are currently in their third or final year of undergraduate studies in STEM areas. The programme structure consists of three full days of workshops, mentoring sessions, and networking events.
During these three days, attendees met industry experts and researchers from all over the world, as well as teams from Arçelik, Arctic, Defy and Dawlance. During the one-year program, participants will also be able to work on ongoing projects, in addition to receiving technical and career development training, mentorship and support within the scope of their mentorship program.
For more information, please visit: We-inTech.
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About Arçelik
With over 40,000 employees throughout the world, Arçelik's global operations include subsidiaries in 52 countries, and 28 production facilities in 9 countries and 12 brands (Arçelik, Beko, Grundig, Blomberg, ElektraBregenz, Arctic, Leisure, Flavel, Defy, Altus, Dawlance, Voltas Beko). As Europe's second-largest white goods company by market share (based on volumes), Arçelik reached a consolidated turnover of 6.5 billion Euros in 2021. Arçelik's 28 R&D and Design Centers & Offices across the globe, are home to over 2,200 researchers and hold more than 3,000 international patent applications to date. In 2021, Arçelik achieved the highest score in the DHP Household Durables category for the 3rd year in a row in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index of the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment. Through its leadership position in sustainability and credible decarbonization roadmap for achieving net zero, Arçelik became the first and only company from its industry to receive the Terra Carta Seal by HRH Prince of Wales. Arçelik's mission is 'Respecting the World, Respected Worldwide.'
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NEW YORK, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for BHAT, VRM, REV, RBLX, and JAGX.
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Coinbase Global says it plans to cut about 1,100 jobs, or approximately 18% of its global workforce, as part of a restructuring in order to help manage its operating expenses in response to current market conditions.
The cryptocurrency trading platform said in a regulatory filing that it expects to have about 5,000 total employees at the end of its current fiscal quarter on June 30.
The company reported last month that active monthly users fell by 19% in the first quarter amid the decline in crypto values. Cryptocurrencies soared early in the pandemic as ultralow rates encouraged some investors to pile into the riskiest investments. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has tumbled and briefly fell below $21,000 in Asia on Tuesday, down from a peak of $68,990 late last year.
Coinbase estimates that it will incur about $40 million to $45 million in total restructuring expenses, mostly related to employee severance and other termination benefits.
The restructuring plan is anticipated to be substantially complete in the second quarter.
The remote-first company was founded in 2012 and has no headquarters. It went public just over a year ago, in April 2021, by listing its stock directly and skipping the traditional process of hiring underwriters. Shares closed on the first day at around $328. In premarket trading Tuesday, the stock lost 7% to $48.40.
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- Dr. Christopher Kellner from Mount Sinai Health System successfully enrolled the first patients in the DIVE (Deployment of Irrigating Intraventricular Catheter System) study.
- DIVE is designed to measure the effectiveness of IRRAflow to treat intraventricular hemorrhage versus standard EVD treatment.
- The Neurosurgery and Neurology Departments at The Mount Sinai Hospital were recently ranked 9th in the US, according to U.S. News and World Report.
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IRRAS, a commercial-stage medical technology company with a comprehensive portfolio of innovative products for neurocritical care, today announced the initial patient treatments with the company's IRRAflow system within Mount Sinai Health System in New York, NY, one of the United States' largest and most respected hospital groups. Thus far, two patients suffering from intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) have been enrolled in the Deployment of Irrigating Intraventricular Catheter System (DIVE) clinical trial for patients. The DIVE study will assess the IRRAflow system's ability to more effectively treat patients experiencing IVH than traditional treatment with an external ventricular drain (EVD).
The DIVE study is a retrospective and prospective cohort, controlled, single-center, phase 1 study with a primary objective of evaluating the safety and radiographic outcomes associated with using IRRAS' IRRAflow system compared to the current standard of care with external ventricular drains. Dr. Christopher Kellner, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Intracerebral Hemorrhage program at Mount Sinai, is the Principal Investigator of the study, which will compare retrospective EVD data from Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai West Hospital to prospective data collected from future patients treated with IRRAflow in up to 140 patients (70 EVD versus 70 IRRAflow).
"We are excited to enroll our first patients in the DIVE study," said Dr. Kellner. "We believe that the combination of irrigation and drainage has the potential to be a more efficient and cost-effective means to treat intraventricular hemorrhage than traditional passive drainage. Our first patient was successfully treated in just 67 hours, a significant reduction from our historic data for ICU and hospital length of stay. This study will continue to enroll patients and assess outcomes."
"Our growing partnership with Mount Sinai is another exciting step toward IRRAS becoming a leader in the treatment of intracranial bleeding," said Will Martin, President and CEO of IRRAS. "Working closely with such a prestigious institution and closely tracking the outcomes of their patients within the DIVE study will be an important piece of the growing pool of clinical evidence to support improved outcomes with IRRAflow for this critically ill group of patients."
The Mount Sinai Health System is an internationally recognized leader in clinical neurosurgery, neurosurgery education, and neurosurgery research. For 2021-2022, Neurosurgery and Neurology at The Mount Sinai Hospital rank 9th in the United States, according to U.S. News and World Report.
About IRRAS
IRRAS is a global medical care company focused on delivering innovative medical solutions to improve the lives of critically ill patients. IRRAS designs, develops, and commercializes neurocritical care products that transform patient outcomes and decrease the overall cost of care by addressing complications associated with current treatment methodologies. IRRAS markets and sells its comprehensive, innovative IRRAflow and Hummingbird ICP Monitoring product lines to hospitals worldwide through its direct sales organization in the United States and select European countries as well as an international network of distribution partners.
IRRAS maintains its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, with corporate offices in Munich, Germany, and San Diego, California, USA. For more information, please visit www.irras.com.
IRRAS is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (ticker: IRRAS).
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Louisville woman has filed for an emergency protective order against Cleveland Cavaliers guard Rajon Rondo and alleges the former Kentucky star brandished a gun and threatened her life.
The woman alleges Rondo “became enraged” last week and filed for the EPO on Friday in Jefferson County Family Court, news outlets reported. She says in the EPO that Rondo was playing video games with a child when she asked the child to finish separating his laundry so she could wash the family’s clothes.
When the child got up to do so, she said Rondo ripped the video game console out of the wall, went downstairs, smashed a teacup plate, knocked over several water bottles and began yelling and cursing. According to the EPO, Rondo then went outside and knocked over the trash cans, stomped on the landscaping lights and drove his car onto the lawn.
When the woman confronted Rondo, the EPO continued, he said, “You’re dead.” After briefly leaving the house, Rondo came back and beat on a window with a gun. The woman said in the EPO that the player was yelling at the kids, asking them why they were scared of him while he had a gun in his hand.
The woman called former interim Louisville Metro Police chief Yvette Gentry, who eventually arrived at the house. However, the woman said Rondo wouldn’t allow Gentry inside. The woman said she locked herself in the house with the kids, and Gentry eventually told her Rondo had left and she had his gun.
Two days after the alleged incident occurred, a judge granted the woman the protective order. The judge ordered Rondo not to communicate and to stay at least 500 feet away from her.
Rondo played 39 games last season between the Cavaliers and Los Angeles Lakers. He has played with eight other NBA clubs, including the Boston Celtics from 2006-14 after being drafted 21st overall in 2006.
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NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading communications consultancy Ketchum today announced the appointment of Jim Joseph to global chief marketing and integration officer, the first in the company's history. Joseph will collaborate with teams worldwide, drawing on his extensive experience leading global client and agency brands to help shepherd and define the Ketchum brand as both trusted counselor to clients and prospective clients and destination of choice for current and future colleagues. In addition to leading global marketing and communications, Joseph will partner with his colleagues from across Omnicom Public Relations Group and the entire Omnicom network to unleash creative solutions for clients and to drive thought leadership for Ketchum. He joins the company from IPG Health, where he served as chief customer solutions officer.
"Jim is a world-class leader and counselor, and an all-around exceptional human being," said Mike Doyle, Ketchum president and CEO. "The deep experience he brings in client relationship building, agency leadership and expertise in so many of our consultancy's growth categories is clear. And importantly, his values and commitment to people, relationships and inclusion are aligned with Ketchum's."
Joseph has experience leading virtually every discipline within the marketing mix. Prior to his role at IPH Health, Joseph spent eight years at BCW, starting out at Cohn & Wolfe in a variety of global roles and then as a BCW global president, where he was instrumental in the successful merger of Burson Marsteller and Cohn & Wolfe. Joseph also has extensive experience leading smaller specialty agencies and began his career client-side with brand management stints at Church and Dwight, Co. (Arm & Hammer) and Johnson & Johnson.
Chris Foster, CEO of Omnicom Public Relations Group, said of the appointment, "I've known Jim for years, and he is one of the best in the business. I'm looking forward to seeing him thrive at Ketchum and to working with him on programs across Omnicom Public Relations Group and Omnicom."
"Having been an integrated marketer from the very beginning of my career, I am inspired by both the legacy and future potential of Ketchum and quite simply, want to be a part of it and help to shape it," commented Joseph. "The agency's future matches my own goals, but it's the Ketchum culture, spirit, and values that made me come running to the door."
Agency of the Year, Global Agency of the Year, Most Awarded Agency and Network of the Year, and Creative Agency of the Year are just a few of the accolades won under Joseph's past agency leadership. In his "spare time," Jim is training the next generation of marketing and public relations professionals in his role as adjunct professor at NYU's School of Professional Studies and has been an avid blogger and author since 2009, receiving honors from the Nonfiction Authors Association, Axiom Book Awards and Reader Views for his most recent book, The Conscious Marketer: Inspiring a Deeper and More Conscious Brand Experience, which explores the need for brands to be aware of socio-political, public health, and cultural issues as consumer mindsets and behaviors evolve.
About Ketchum
The winner of 135 Cannes Lions, Ketchum is the most creatively awarded firm in our industry. We're equal parts human-centered and business-focused, empathetic and intelligent. As a global communications consultancy, we combine the deep industry and specialty expertise of boutique firms with global reach to find unexpected connections that lead to lasting relationships and work that matters. For more information on Ketchum, a part of Omnicom Public Relations Group, visit www.ketchum.com.
About Omnicom Public Relations Group
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What to know about Friday’s January 6-focused hearing on the bid to disqualify Marjorie Taylor Greene
By Tierney Sneed, CNN
The effort to disqualify lawmakers who allegedly encouraged the January 6 Capitol attack takes a major step forward Friday with a hearing on the bid to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the ballot this year.
Greene is one of multiple Republican lawmakers who have been targeted with disqualification petitions citing a constitutional amendment barring lawmakers from serving in office if they participated in an Insurrection. The effort is unprecedented and could bring new insight to the conduct of those who supported former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election — even as the challengers have faced an uphill battle to remove Greene and other lawmakers from the ballot.
Greene — who denies the allegations that she encouraged the violence on January 6, 2021 — is vigorously pushing back on the effort, having already sought to block it in federal court.
Here is what to know about Friday’s hearing, which is currently underway in a Georgia court.
Why is Greene’s candidacy being challenged?
Left-wing advocacy groups –– who are working with local voters in Greene’s Georgia district — are seeking to remove Greene from the ballot as part of a larger campaign to use the Constitution’s 14th Amendment to hold accountable those lawmakers who allegedly boosted the violent disruption to Congress’ certification of the 2020 election. The 14th Amendment says any American official who takes an oath to uphold the Constitution is disqualified from holding any future office if they “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
Greene unsuccessfully tried to block the disqualification bid in federal court, where her arguments were rejected by US District Judge Amy Totenberg earlier this week, clearing the way for Friday’s proceedings to move forward.
In their filings with the state officials who will be weighing the disqualification bid, the challengers argued that Greene’s inflammatory rhetoric encouraged the violence on January 6, and they pointed to one video she posted to social media in which she rejected a peaceful transfer of power that made Joe Biden president. Claiming that the disqualification attempt is an unconstitutional witch hunt, Greene has denied wrongdoing and says she would never encourage political violence.
What is happening at Friday’s hearing?
At a hearing in in front of a state administrative law judge, lawyers for the challengers are presenting evidence that they say show Greene’s role in encouraging the assault on the Capitol. Greene has taken the stand, where her challengers will be able to question her about her conduct. An expert witness was tapped by the challengers to testify about the historical context around the 14th Amendment. The challengers have put forward video and other evidence to flesh out their case as well.
Later, Greene will be able to put up a defense, but it is unclear what exactly that stage of the proceedings will look like. During opening statements, her lawyer James Bopp Jr. said the effort risks “irrevocable harm to the voters and to the candidate” — particularly if Greene is removed from the ballot for the May primaries only for the disqualification to be reversed on appeal.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, will decide whether Greene will be disqualified at this stage of the proceedings, though she will be able to appeal a decision to disqualify her in state court. Judge Charles Beaudrot, the state administrative law judge presiding over Friday’s hearing, will issue a recommendation to Raffensperger after Friday’s proceedings.
How likely is this to be successful?
The current effort to disqualify Greene and others alleged to have roles in the insurrection does not resemble the usual way disqualification statutes are wielded. The state laws being used to trigger the proceedings are typically used when a candidate is accused of not residing in her or her district, or in other more mundane contexts.
Similar bids to remove North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn and Indiana Rep. Jim Banks from the ballot have failed to gain traction. A federal judge granted a request from Cawthorn to halt the disqualification proceedings against — though that ruling is now being reviewed by a federal appeals court. Likewise, a state commission in Indiana rejected the effort to disqualify Banks. It’s notable Greene’s disqualification bid has made it to this evidentiary stage, but it will still be an uphill climb to remove her from the ballot.
Supporters of the effort say that, regardless of whether Greene is ultimately disqualified, Friday’s proceedings are significant for how they’ll bring deeper scrutiny to her conduct around January 6.
In his opening statement, Ron Fein, the lawyer representing the challengers, previewed a case that would show how Greene “urged and encouraged and helped facilitate violent resistance through our own government, our democracy and our Constitution.”
Meanwhile, Bopp said that her defense will trace her conduct in the days before and during January 6, including a social media post she published while the attack as underway where she encouraged her followers to “Be safe, be smart, stay peaceful, obey the laws.”
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| 2022-04-22T19:03:16Z
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TAIPEI, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tang Prize, an international academic award set up to create a better world for all of humanity, is poised to announce its 2022 laureates in Taipei in four consecutive days starting June 18. In the first press conference held on June 18, the Foundation introduced to the public winner of the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs. A world-renowned professor in economics who has made great contributions to the establishment and promotion of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Prof. Sachs served as Special Advisor to three UN Secretaries-General, and is currently Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University as well as President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He is awarded for "leading transdisciplinary sustainability science and creating the multilateral movement for its applications from village to nation and to the world," according to the selection committee's citation.
At the moment, mankind as a whole is confronted with many tough challenges, including environmental pollution, extreme weather events, energy crisis, the shock to our physical, social and economic wellbeing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and food shortages and raging inflation exacerbated by the regional confrontation. As an eminent economist of international distinction, Prof. Sachs has conducted ground-breaking research in many areas, such as debt crises, hyperinflations, transition from central planning to market economies, and eradication of extreme poverty. Moreover, when addressing complex issues related to global sustainable development, he combined the fields of global economics, public health, equity and sustainability to pioneer a multidisciplinary approach to solving these problems, transforming sustainable development into an integrated field of study and practice. His outstanding scholarship, advice to world leaders, educational innovation, and efforts in the global advocacy and realization of sustainable development have proven him to be a true leader of great vision, of profound influence, and imbued with deep humanistic concern.
With regard to the innovative transdisciplinary approach Prof. Sachs pioneered, an example can be found in his engagement with the Millennium Project, which he chaired on behalf of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2002 to 2006. He was tasked with developing a concrete action plan to attain the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)[i], and he demonstrated how it can be done by using best practices in science, technology, and public policy. Moreover, Prof. Sachs was also in charge of the UN Millennium Village Project (MVP), which was implemented from 2006-2015 after the UN General Assembly adopted the key recommendations of the Millennium Project at a special session in September 2005. The MVP aimed to help rural Africa and was carried out in ten countries including Senegal, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. During these ten years, a range of notable successes were achieved, from raising agricultural production to reducing child stunting, and cutting child mortality rates. Lives of more than half a million people were changed as a consequence. Its key concepts of integrating rural development to achieve the MDGs are now being adopted by many other countries to help support national anti-poverty programs.
With regard to promoting the UN SDGs[ii], Prof. Sachs began his engagement from their very inception when the idea was first broached at the "Rio+20" conference in June 2012 and offered his help based on this experience of implementing MDGs. The SDGs are the blueprint for creating a more sustainable future for all. They address many global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, and environmental degradation. To overcome these problems, 17 goals, such as "no poverty," "good health and well-being," "reduced inequalities," "climate action," and "life below water" have been set. They are subdivided into 169 targets and 232 indicators to measure and track the global progress toward these goals. Prof. Sachs' fruitful pursuit of the MDGs, and his tireless work in front of and behind the scenes at Rio+20 made an important contribution in persuading nations to forge a consensus on adopting the 17 SDGs as the successor to the MDGs.
To promote the SDGs, also in 2012, Prof. Sachs led a global consortium of universities and think tanks under the auspices of then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to establish the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), which functions as the largest global knowledge-based think tank to help countries achieve the SDGs. The SDSN has produced many highly influential reports, conducted academic studies, offered online courses, and held hundreds of SDG-related meetings around the world each year. The SDSN now has over 1600 member institutions in 47 networks across 137 countries.
With regard to combating anthropogenic climate change, Prof. Sachs saw the crucial importance of a long-term policy framework for climate control. He headed a global study on "deep decarbonization" which resulted in the highly influential "Pathways to Deep Decarbonization" report. The report lays out concrete and viable plans regarding issues like energy transition, industrial transformation, technological innovation, and governance mechanisms to enable 15 major carbon emitters to achieve deep decarbonization. Presented to Ban Ki-moon in September 2014, the report demonstrates how, during the decades leading to 2050, these 15 countries can find their own pathways to decarbonization that are compatible with their economic growth targets and technically feasible. Subsequently, many countries have taken on board this idea and designed their deep decarbonization pathways.
Prof. Sachs' participation in the promotion of the Paris Agreement has been equally vital. He has long helped to formulate core policy concepts for global climate control as a scholar and an academic leader. During the intensive phase of negotiating the Agreement, he worked behind the scenes with France, the US, and many other governments to support the design and adoption of the Paris Agreement. The SDGs and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change have been hailed as the two essential pillars for the world to achieve sustainable development, and Prof. Sachs has played a unique role in both.
With regard to offering suggestions to leaders of different countries, as one of the world's leading experts on economic development, global macroeconomics, and the fight against poverty, Prof. Sachs has advised many heads of states and governments on complex economic challenges, including ending high inflations (Bolivia, Peru, Poland), negotiating debt relief (Bolivia, Brazil, Poland, and others), adopting market economic reforms (Poland, Russia), introducing new national currencies (Estonia, Slovenia), promoting regional development (China), and scaling up health systems (Ethiopia, Ghana, India, and many others). He has been awarded by several countries their highest honors for his board-based support of their economic reforms.
About Jeffrey Sachs
Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1954, Jeffrey Sachs got his BA, MA and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1980s. In less than four years' time became a Professor of Economics with tenure at Harvard. He served as Director of the Center for Sustainable Development in the Earth Institute of Columbia University and Special Advisor to three UN Secretaries-General. He is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor (by decree of the president of the French Republic), the Sustainable Development Leadership Award from India's TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), and Japan's Blue Planet Award. He has also received 38 honorary degrees from universities all over the world. The papers and books he has published number in the hundreds, including three New York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, and The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
About the Tang Prize
Since the advent of globalization, mankind has been able to enjoy the convenience brought forth by the advancement of human civilization and science. Yet a multitude of challenges, such as climate change, the emergence of new infectious diseases, wealth gap, and moral degradation, have surfaced along the way. Against this backdrop, Dr. Samuel Yin established the Tang Prize in December 2012. It consists of four award categories, namely Sustainable Development, Biopharmaceutical Science, Sinology, and Rule of Law. Every other year, four independent and professional selection committees, comprising many internationally renowned experts, scholars, and Nobel winners, choose as Tang Prize laureates people who have influenced and made substantive contributions to the world, regardless of ethnicity, nationality or gender. A cash prize of NT$50 million (approx. US$1.7 million) is allocated to each category, with NT$10 million (approx. US$ 0.35 million) of it being a research grant intended to encourage professionals in every field to examine mankind's most urgent needs in the 21st century, and become leading forces in the development of human society through their outstanding research outcomes and active civic engagement.
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Just one rogue drone is all it takes to bring the aerial assault on a wildfire to a standstill. So in a fresh alliance, the Los Angeles County Fire Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Los Angeles field office are working together in a first-of-its-kind drone deterrent program to get them out of the sky.
During a wildfire, firefighters often attack a blaze from the ground and from the sky -- sending in fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to drop water and fire retardant to impede a fire's progress. If an unauthorized drone flies into an emergency response zone, all that effort must stop.
"The main reason they have to avert those drones is we have no idea what the intention is of the operator," said Capt. David Laub of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, who said they've had cases of drones buzzing just over firefighters' heads, posing myriad hazards to its personnel and aircraft.
Yet as they pause, the fire continues to rage.
"It continues to burn. It continues to get bigger. It threatens people's homes, property, the environment, infrastructure -- all of it," Laub said.
With drones now affordable and readily available at big box stores, officials say unauthorized drones have really become a problem in Southern California -- especially as human-induced climate change is spurring gigantic wildfires capable of scorching through thousands of acres of parched vegetation ripe for burning as the megadrought in the West drags on.
People want to see what these massive fires look like up close, usually not realizing how disruptive their drone can be.
But through this new partnership, the officials say offending drones are identified and located in about 30 seconds of taking to the air.
"When the detection equipment finds the drone and identifies the operator's location, we can very rapidly get that information to a ground intercept team who can then go make contact with that drone operator and essentially get them to stop flying that drone," said James Peaco III, the weapons of mass destruction coordinator for the FBI's Los Angeles field office.
With a special sensor, the team can set up a boundary as large or as small as desired and get notified if a drone flies into that area, instantly obtaining precise details such as elevation, direction, speed as well as where the drone took off from and where the controller is currently standing.
Teams are spread out around the incident, ready to spring into action if a troublesome drone is identified. They immediately set out to intercept the controller.
"The first thing we do is order them to bring the drone back, explain to him that there's a wildfire and flying that drone during a wildland fire is actually a federal felony," Peaco said, adding that violators fall into three categories: clueless, careless and criminal -- with the vast majority willing to comply immediately.
"If it's just clueless or careless, we'll either issue a citation or even just warn them off and tell them not to do it," Peaco said. "If they've done something very egregious and really interrupted operations or they refuse to comply, then we have federal felony charges that we can apply to the situation."
But the usefulness of drones is not lost on Los Angeles County Fire. They have a team that uses drones to assist in structure fires and wildland blazes, both for scouting those fires and then zeroing in on hotspots.
"We can do a 360-degree lap around the entire fire. So, you see all four exterior walls, the condition of the roof, where the smoke is coming from and really pinpoint where the fire is without having to put firefighters in harm's way," said Capt. Michael Nardone, Los Angeles County Fire's drone coordinator.
Optimally from 50 to 200 feet away from a fire, a drone can provide several useful data points to help a fire operation chief decide where to send manpower and, alternatively, helping them avoid sending firefighters to unsafe parts of a building.
"I can switch from regular video screen to infrared screen so you can see where the hot spots are in the building," Nardone said. "We can see pretty much anything and everything we'd like to see."
In wildland fires, drones are used to see down range and above ridges -- places it would be hard to see otherwise, Nardone says. This also saves resources from having to hike into some of these remote locations to determine how the fire is behaving.
In an exclusive demonstration for CNN, Nardone flew a drone equipped with a high-definition camera to find a fire in a structure. As the drone smoothly lifted from one floor to the next, Nardone faced the camera to peer into the building through its windows.
On the screen, a white-hot, amoeba-like blob came into view -- a small heat source set for this demo by Laub, who's tall frame was also picked up by the infrared camera. The drone pegged the temperature of the blaze at more than 300 degrees.
Since in infrared mode the camera was looking at heat signatures, the smoke being emitted didn't impact the visuals.
But there are limitations. In a structure fire, the type of material the building is made of plays a part.
"You can't see through a concrete wall so I could have a great fire and I'll never know it's there. But if I have a single-family residence with aluminum or wood siding, I'll probably see it. Same thing with roofs," Nardone said. "The drone pilot needs to be more than just a pilot; he needs to have a familiarity with what heat signatures will penetrate building material."
Los Angeles County Fire and the FBI are building out this drone deterrence model and plan to expand their collaborative partnership in Southern California and beyond.
"We developed this from the ground level. We literally had nothing to go from," Laub said. He and Peaco began working on this program just before the pandemic began. "There's no one else in the US that's been doing it this way."
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– Achieved Second Quarter 2022 Total Revenue of $39.7 Million, Up 76% Versus Second Quarter 2021;
XPOVIO® (selinexor) Net Product Revenue of $29.0 Million, a 44% Increase Over Q2 2021 –
– Received Full Marketing Authorization from the European Commission Expanding Indication for NEXPOVIO® (selinexor) for Treatment of Adults with Multiple Myeloma Who Have Received at Least One Prior Therapy –
– Clinical Updates from Phase 1/2 Study of Selinexor in Combination with Ruxolitinib in Treatment-Naïve Myelofibrosis and Interim Data from Phase 2 Study Evaluating Eltanexor in Relapsed/Refractory MDS Expected in 2H 2022 –
– Company Provides Full Year 2022 Total Revenue Guidance of $155 Million to $165 Million Including Revised XPOVIO Net Product Revenue of $120 Million to $130 Million and non-GAAP R&D and SG&A Expense Guidance of $250 Million to $265 Million; Re-iterates Cash Runway to Early 2024 –
– Conference Call Scheduled for Today at 8:00 a.m. ET –
NEWTON, Mass., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:KPTI), a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies, today reported business highlights and financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
"I'm pleased with our team's ongoing commitment to successfully execute against key priorities in the second quarter, achieving more than 75% year-over-year revenue growth and further expanding patient access for selinexor globally following full marketing authorization from the European Commission and recent launches in China and Canada," said Richard Paulson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Karyopharm. "Despite headwinds caused by COVID-19 at the beginning of the year and increased competition for later lines of multiple myeloma treatment, we continue to see increased use of XPOVIO in earlier lines with growth in the community setting. Looking ahead to the remainder of the year, we have several key upcoming milestones, including reporting additional data from our studies of selinexor in front-line myelofibrosis and eltanexor in relapsing/refractory myelodysplastic syndromes."
Second Quarter 2022 and Recent Highlights
XPOVIO Commercial Performance
- Achieved U.S. net product revenue for the second quarter of 2022 of $29.0 million, a 44% increase compared to the second quarter of 2021, driven by strong year-over-year growth in new patient starts and refills, with continued shift of XPOVIO into second to fourth lines of therapy.
- In the second quarter of 2022, a recovery in new patient starts as compared to the previous quarter was offset by the decline in refills due to COVID-19 related reduction of new patient starts in the beginning of the year and intensified late-line competition in the academic setting.
- XPOVIO continued its growth in the community setting, driven by a positive shift in perception and intent to treat metrics.
- Increased selinexor's reach to patients around the world with the full marketing authorization of NEXPOVIO® (selinexor) in Europe, which expands the indication in multiple myeloma to patients with multiple myeloma after at least one prior therapy as well as commercial launches in mainland China and Canada by partners Antengene Corporation Limited and FORUS Therapeutics Inc., respectively.
Research & Development (R&D) Highlights for Selinexor and Eltanexor
- European Commission granted marketing authorization of NEXPOVIO® in combination with once weekly bortezomib (Velcade®) and low-dose dexamethasone (XVd) for the treatment of adults with multiple myeloma who have received at least one prior therapy, expanding on the prior approval which was in combination with dexamethasone for the treatment of multiple myeloma in adult patients who have received at least four prior therapies and whose disease is refractory to at least two proteasome inhibitors, two immunomodulatory agents and an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody, and who have demonstrated disease progression on the last therapy.
- Results from Phase 1/2 study of selinexor in combination with ruxolitinib in treatment-naïve myelofibrosis were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2022 Annual Meeting, including a generally manageable side effect profile with no dose limiting toxicities and 75% of evaluable patients demonstrating ≥35% spleen volume reduction (SVR 35) at week 12. The most commonly reported Grade 3/4 treatment emergent adverse events were thrombocytopenia (27%), anemia (20%) and neutropenia (20%). These data were also presented at the European Hematology Association 2022 Hybrid Congress.
- Following productive discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Company is finalizing a partner for a companion diagnostic to be used in a registration-enabling study of selinexor in patients with p53 wild-type endometrial cancer.
- FDA granted fast track designation for the development program of eltanexor as monotherapy for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory intermediate, high-, or very high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), per IPSS-R. In addition, the FDA also granted eltanexor orphan drug designation for the treatment of MDS and selinexor for the treatment of myelofibrosis.
- The European Commission granted EU orphan medicinal product designation for eltanexor for the treatment of MDS.
2022 Financial Guidance
Based on its current operating plans, Karyopharm is updating its guidance for full year 2022:
- Total revenue to be in the range of $155 million to $165 million.
- XPOVIO net product revenue to be in the range of $120 million to $130 million versus previous guidance of $135 million to $145 million.
- Non-GAAP R&D and Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses, excluding stock-based compensation expense, to be in the range of $250 million to $265 million versus previous guidance of $265 million to $280 million.
Karyopharm has not reconciled the full year 2022 outlook for non-GAAP R&D and SG&A expenses to full year 2022 outlook for GAAP R&D and SG&A expenses because
Karyopharm cannot reliably predict without unreasonable efforts the timing or amount of the factors that substantially contribute to the projection of stock compensation expense, which is excluded from the full year 2022 outlook for non-GAAP R&D and SG&A expenses. - The Company continues to expect that its existing cash, cash equivalents and investments, and the revenue it expects to generate from XPOVIO product sales, as well as revenue generated from its license agreements, will be sufficient to fund its planned operations into early 2024.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Total Revenues: Total revenue for the second quarter of 2022 was $39.7 million, up 76% compared to $22.6 million for the second quarter of 2021.
Net product revenue: Net product revenue for the second quarter of 2022 was $29.0 million, up 44% compared to $20.2 million for the second quarter of 2021.
License and other revenue: License and other revenue for the second quarter of 2022 was $10.7 million, compared to $2.4 million for the second quarter of 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to $6.5 million earned in reimbursement of development expenses from the Menarini Group.
Cost of sales: Cost of sales for the second quarter of 2022 were $0.9 million, compared to $1.1 million for the second quarter of 2021. Cost of sales reflects the costs of XPOVIO units sold and third-party royalties on net product revenue.
R&D expenses: R&D expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were $44.3 million, compared to $34.0 million for the second quarter of 2021. The increase was primarily driven by an increase in personnel costs and stock-based compensation, including $3.8 million of severance-related stock-based compensation expense incurred during the three months ended June 30, 2022.
SG&A expenses: SG&A expenses for the second quarter of 2022 were $37.3 million, compared to $36.5 million for the second quarter of 2021. The increase in SG&A expenses was primarily due to an increase in stock-based compensation as a result of $3.5 million of severance-related stock-based compensation expense incurred during the three months ended June 30, 2022.
Interest expense: Interest expense for the second quarter of 2022 was $6.3 million, compared to $5.0 million for the second quarter of 2021.
Net loss: Karyopharm reported a net loss of $49.1 million, or $0.62 per share, for the second quarter of 2022, compared to a net loss of $53.6 million, or $0.71 per share, for the second quarter of 2021. Net loss included non-cash stock-based compensation expense of $15.1 million and $8.1 million for the second quarters of 2022 and 2021, respectively.
Cash position: Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and investments as of June 30, 2022, totaled $172.6 million, compared to $235.6 million as of December 31, 2021.
Non-GAAP Financial Information
Karyopharm uses a non-GAAP financial measure, non-GAAP R&D and SG&A expenses, to provide operating expense guidance. Non-GAAP R&D and SG&A expenses exclude stock-based compensation expense. Karyopharm believes this non-GAAP financial measure is useful to investors because it provides greater transparency regarding Karyopharm's operating performance as it excludes non-cash stock compensation expense. This non-GAAP financial measure should not be considered a substitute or an alternative to GAAP R&D and SG&A expenses and should not be considered a measure of Karyopharm's liquidity. Instead, non-GAAP R&D and SG&A expenses should only be used to supplement an understanding of Karyopharm's operating results as reported under GAAP.
Conference Call Information
Karyopharm will host a conference call today, August 4, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time, to discuss the second quarter 2022 financial results and provide other business highlights. To access the conference call, please dial (888) 349-0102 (local) or (412) 902-4299 (international) at least 10 minutes prior to the start time and ask to be joined into the Karyopharm Therapeutics call. A live audio webcast of the call, along with accompanying slides, will be available under "Events & Presentations" in the Investor section of the Company's website, http://investors.karyopharm.com/events-presentations. An archived webcast will be available on the Company's website approximately two hours after the event.
About XPOVIO® (selinexor)
XPOVIO is a first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor and the first of Karyopharm's Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) compounds to be approved for the treatment of cancer. XPOVIO functions by selectively binding to and inhibiting the nuclear export protein XPO1. XPOVIO is approved in the U.S. and marketed by Karyopharm in multiple oncology indications, including: (i) in combination with Velcade® (bortezomib) and dexamethasone (XVd) in patients with multiple myeloma after at least one prior therapy; (ii) in combination with dexamethasone in patients with heavily pre-treated multiple myeloma; and (iii) in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), including DLBCL arising from follicular lymphoma, after at least two lines of systemic therapy. XPOVIO (also known as NEXPOVIO® in certain countries) has received regulatory approvals in various indications in a growing number of ex-U.S. territories and countries, including but not limited to the European Union, the United Kingdom, China, South Korea, Canada and Israel, and is marketed in those areas by Karyopharm's global partners.
Please refer to the local Prescribing Information for full details.
Selinexor is also being investigated in several other mid- and late-stage clinical trials across multiple high unmet need cancer indications, including in endometrial cancer and myelofibrosis.
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SELECT IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Warnings and Precautions
- Thrombocytopenia: Monitor platelet counts throughout treatment. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction and supportive care.
- Neutropenia: Monitor neutrophil counts throughout treatment. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction and granulocyte colony‐stimulating factors.
- Gastrointestinal Toxicity: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, and weight loss may occur. Provide antiemetic prophylaxis. Manage with dose interruption and/or reduction, antiemetics, and supportive care.
- Hyponatremia: Monitor serum sodium levels throughout treatment. Correct for concurrent hyperglycemia and high serum paraprotein levels. Manage with dose interruption, reduction, or discontinuation, and supportive care.
- Serious Infection: Monitor for infection and treat promptly.
- Neurological Toxicity: Advise patients to refrain from driving and engaging in hazardous occupations or activities until neurological toxicity resolves. Optimize hydration status and concomitant medications to avoid dizziness or mental status changes.
- Embryo‐Fetal Toxicity: Can cause fetal harm. Advise females of reproductive potential and males with a female partner of reproductive potential, of the potential risk to a fetus and use of effective contraception.
- Cataract: Cataracts may develop or progress. Treatment of cataracts usually requires surgical removal of the cataract.
Adverse Reactions
- The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) in patients with multiple myeloma who receive XVd are fatigue, nausea, decreased appetite, diarrhea, peripheral neuropathy, upper respiratory tract infection, decreased weight, cataract and vomiting. Grade 3‐4 laboratory abnormalities (≥10%) are thrombocytopenia, lymphopenia, hypophosphatemia, anemia, hyponatremia and neutropenia. In the BOSTON trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 6% of patients within 30 days of last treatment. Serious adverse reactions occurred in 52% of patients. Treatment discontinuation rate due to adverse reactions was 19%.
- The most common adverse reactions (≥20%) in patients with multiple myeloma who receive Xd are thrombocytopenia, fatigue, nausea, anemia, decreased appetite, decreased weight, diarrhea, vomiting, hyponatremia, neutropenia, leukopenia, constipation, dyspnea and upper respiratory tract infection. In the STORM trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 9% of patients. Serious adverse reactions occurred in 58% of patients. Treatment discontinuation rate due to adverse reactions was 27%.
- The most common adverse reactions (incidence ≥20%) in patients with DLBCL, excluding laboratory abnormalities, are fatigue, nausea, diarrhea, appetite decrease, weight decrease, constipation, vomiting, and pyrexia. Grade 3‐4 laboratory abnormalities (≥15%) are thrombocytopenia, lymphopenia, neutropenia, anemia, and hyponatremia. In the SADAL trial, fatal adverse reactions occurred in 3.7% of patients within 30 days, and 5% of patients within 60 days of last treatment; the most frequent fatal adverse reactions was infection (4.5% of patients). Serious adverse reactions occurred in 46% of patients; the most frequent serious adverse reaction was infection (21% of patients). Discontinuation due to adverse reactions occurred in 17% of patients.
Use In Specific Populations
Lactation: Advise not to breastfeed.
For additional product information, including full prescribing information, please visit www.XPOVIO.com.
To report SUSPECTED ADVERSE REACTIONS, contact Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. at 1‐888‐209‐9326 or FDA at 1‐800‐FDA‐1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
About Karyopharm Therapeutics
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI) is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company pioneering novel cancer therapies. Since its founding, Karyopharm has been an industry leader in oral Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) compound technology, which was developed to address a fundamental mechanism of oncogenesis: nuclear export dysregulation. Karyopharm's lead SINE compound and first-in-class, oral exportin 1 (XPO1) inhibitor, XPOVIO® (selinexor), is approved in the U.S. and marketed by the Company in three oncology indications and has received regulatory approvals in various indications in a growing number of ex-U.S. territories and countries, including Europe and the United Kingdom (as NEXPOVIO®) and China. Karyopharm has a focused pipeline targeting multiple high unmet need cancer indications, including in multiple myeloma, endometrial cancer, myelodysplastic syndromes and myelofibrosis. For more information about our people, science and pipeline, please visit www.karyopharm.com, and follow us on Twitter at @Karyopharm and LinkedIn.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include those regarding Karyopharm's financial guidance for full year 2022; Karyopharm's expected cash runway; the ability of selinexor or eltanexor to treat patients with multiple myeloma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, solid tumors and other diseases; and expectations related to future clinical development and potential regulatory submissions of selinexor or eltanexor. Such statements are subject to numerous important factors, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Karyopharm's control, that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from Karyopharm's current expectations. For example, there can be no guarantee that Karyopharm will successfully commercialize XPOVIO or that any of Karyopharm's drug candidates, including selinexor and eltanexor, will successfully complete necessary clinical development phases or that development of any of Karyopharm's drug candidates will continue. Further, there can be no guarantee that any positive developments in the development or commercialization of Karyopharm's drug candidate portfolio will result in stock price appreciation. Management's expectations and, therefore, any forward-looking statements in this press release could also be affected by risks and uncertainties relating to a number of other factors, including the following: the risk that the COVID-19 pandemic could disrupt Karyopharm's business more severely than it currently anticipates, including by negatively impacting sales of XPOVIO, interrupting or delaying research and development efforts, impacting the ability to procure sufficient supply for the development and commercialization of selinexor or other product candidates, delaying ongoing or planned clinical trials, impeding the execution of business plans, planned regulatory milestones and timelines, or inconveniencing patients; the adoption of XPOVIO in the commercial marketplace, the timing and costs involved in commercializing XPOVIO or any of Karyopharm's drug candidates that receive regulatory approval; the ability to obtain and retain regulatory approval of XPOVIO or any of Karyopharm's drug candidates that receive regulatory approval; Karyopharm's results of clinical trials and preclinical studies, including subsequent analysis of existing data and new data received from ongoing and future studies; the content and timing of decisions made by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory authorities, investigational review boards at clinical trial sites and publication review bodies, including with respect to the need for additional clinical studies; the ability of Karyopharm or its third party collaborators or successors in interest to fully perform their respective obligations under the applicable agreement and the potential future financial implications of such agreement; Karyopharm's ability to enroll patients in its clinical trials; unplanned cash requirements and expenditures; development or regulatory approval of drug candidates by Karyopharm's competitors for products or product candidates in which Karyopharm is currently commercializing or developing; and Karyopharm's ability to obtain, maintain and enforce patent and other intellectual property protection for any of its products or product candidates. These and other risks are described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Karyopharm's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 5, 2022, and in other filings that Karyopharm may make with the SEC in the future. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, Karyopharm expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
XPOVIO® and NEXPOVIO® are registered trademarks of Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. Any other trademarks referred to in this release are the property of their respective owners.
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LAS VEGAS, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty ONE Group, a modern, purpose-driven lifestyle brand and ONE Of the fastest growing franchisors today, is partnering with the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP), as it continues to strategically grow and expand its diverse, global network. This is the first of several partnerships Realty ONE Group plans to launch in order to broadly represent REALTORS(R) and their clients around the world.
"We believe that formalizing our partnership with NAHREP will allow us to help so many more Hispanic homeowners and our REALTORS(R) who work so hard for them every day," said Kuba Jewgieniew, CEO and Founder of Realty ONE Group.
NAHREP has a network of over 40,000 real estate professionals and is The Voice for Hispanic Real Estate® advocating for more Hispanic families to achieve the American Dream of homeownership for generations to come. As part of the formalized partnership, Realty ONE Group will add even more representatives to serve on NAHREP boards and throughout the organization.
This year, Realty ONE Group was ranked a Top 100 Recession-Proof franchise by Franchise Business Review and the company claimed the No.1 spot for real estate franchisors on Entrepreneur's highly competitive 2022 Franchise 500(R) List.
Realty ONE Group now has more than 18,000 real estate professionals in more than 400 offices in 49 states, Washington D.C. and Canada and will be opening in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Italy, Singapore, Spain and Portugal in addition to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.
Learn more at www.OwnAOne.com.
Founded in 2005, Realty ONE Group is an industry disruptor, radically changing the face of real estate franchising with its unique business model, fun coolture, technology infrastructure and superior support for its real estate professionals. The company has rapidly evolved to include more than 18,000 real estate professionals in over 400+ offices across 49 U.S. states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Canada, Italy, Spain, Singapore, Costa Rica and Portugal. Realty ONE Group ranks in the top one percent in the nation by REAL Trends and has been recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine as the number ONE real estate brand. Realty ONE Group is surging ahead, opening doors, not only for its clients but for real estate professionals and franchise owners. To learn more, visit www.RealtyONEGroup.com.
About NAHREP
The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals® (NAHREP®), a nonprofit 501(c)6 trade association, is dedicated to advancing sustainable homeownership for the Hispanic community in America. NAHREP has a network of over 40,000 real estate professionals and 100 local chapters nationwide, hosting several national events per year and publishing multiple industry cornerstone reports annually and multimedia content. NAHREP advocates for policies that grow sustainable Latino homeownership, read the organization's 2022 policy priorities here.
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NEEDHAM, Mass., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Needham Bank is pleased to announce it has committed to invest $2 million in a venture capital fund overseen by the Massachusetts-based firm Reinventure Capital (Reinventure).
Led by pioneer impact investor Edward Dugger III, the fund invests exclusively in US-based companies that are led and controlled by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) and/or female founders, and that are breakeven and poised to grow profitably. The fund's investment objective is to construct a portfolio of innovative businesses with a high level of measurable and positive social and economic impact.
"At Needham Bank, we're committed to fulfilling the Community Reinvestment Act and supporting our ongoing goal of helping previously under-served communities," said Joseph Campanelli, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Reinventure is diligently expanding the investment opportunities offered to BIPOC and women founders, and I'm glad Needham Bank is able to be a part of such a meaningful racial and social justice program."
Needham Bank submitted the first $1 million to Reinventure in June and is planning to complete the remaining commitment in 2023 to support investments in the fund.
Reinventure President Ed Dugger commented, "While many financial institutions continue to disregard the abundance of evidence pointing to the financial and social advantages of investing in overlooked BIPOC and female founders, Needham Bank is among a rarefied few who are leading the way by making inclusion a priority. Reinventure Capital is proud to work with Needham Bank to back underestimated founders who are building the future."
Reinventure has invested in six businesses so far through the fund, including New York-based Canela Media, which operates the first free streaming service for US Hispanics; Portland, Oregon-based OpConnect, which provides electric vehicle charging services for fleets and multiunit developments; Dallas-based Zirtue, which simplifies peer-to-peer lending and borrowing; New York-based Adventr, which enables professionals and amateurs alike to make data-rich interactive video; Detroit-based Livegistics, which provides real-time digital chain of custody for the construction, demolition, hauling, and landfill sectors; Brattleboro, Vermont-based Home Outside, which is utilizing AI/AR to put award-winning landscape design in the hands of DIY homeowners.
About Reinventure Capital:
Reinventure Capital is advancing the Third Reconstruction by investing in a more perfect multicultural, equitable and prosperous union. Reinventure invests exclusively in US-based companies led and controlled by BIPOC and/or female founders, at breakeven and poised to grow profitably. Our high impact + high return strategy and investment process has been proven to deliver nonconcessionary financial returns along with intentional, measurable, and meaningful racial/social justice impact. For more information, see reinventurecapital.com.
About Needham Bank:
Needham Bank offers an array of tech-forward products and services that businesses and consumers use to manage their financial needs. We have the financial expertise typically found at much larger institutions and the local knowledge and commitment you can only find at a community bank. Known as the "Builder's Bank," Needham Bank has been helping individuals, businesses and non-profits build for their futures since 1892. For more information, please visit https://NeedhamBank.com. Needham Bank is a member of FDIC and DIF.
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ROSEMONT, Ill., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SellersCommerce, the Illinois-based leading enterprise SaaS eCommerce company, has been on a roll since it revealed its vision of building a 360-degree B2B eCommerce platform earlier this year, veering away from its identity as an eCommerce provider exclusively to the uniform and apparel industry.
This conscious shift in the company's product roadmap to keep up with the fast-evolving trends in the eCommerce space further led to the development of new products like LineSheets Pro and Catalog Manager in quick succession, aimed at simplifying sales and product information management for online retailers, distributors, and manufacturers.
And now, anticipating triple-digits growth in business stepping into the third quarter of 2022, the message from the company is loud and clear. And it's that SellersCommerce is here to redefine the way B2B eCommerce is done, and they are just getting started.
With its eyes firmly set on raising capital for exponential growth, the business has undergone major changes in order to meet its aggressive goals. From making several Senior Leadership hires from established SaaS organizations. SellersCommerce will also be doubling the team size globally to bring fresh, dynamic talent on board with the vision of transforming the face of enterprise B2B eCommerce using innovative digital solutions.
"World trade is just kickstarting after two years of COVID-induced lull. B2B buyers have made themselves comfortable with digital channels. We are on the cusp of a major shift in the way commerce is perceived. If there ever was a time more suitable to ramp up digital innovations in B2B eCommerce, it's now."
- Ashok Reddy, CEO, SellersCommerce
As much as SellersCommerce wants to revolutionize B2B eCommerce by harnessing technology, it wants to do so with the best interests of its employees at heart. Therefore, to accommodate the growing needs of the team, the India team recently moved into an expansive new office space in the IT corridor of Hyderabad, equipped with all the modern amenities, wellness zones, and gaming arenas that make for a truly conducive working environment designed to bring out the best in everyone.
About SellersCommerce: SellersCommerce is a leading 360-degree B2B eCommerce provider empowering enterprise businesses to build, innovate and grow their online business. It specializes in customizing and creating stellar digital experiences.
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Return of the Dream Canteen Coming October 14th on Warner Records
Surprise Announcement Comes As North American Stadium Tour Kicks Off In Denver
LOS ANGELES, July 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tonight, Red Hot Chili Peppers announced their brand new studio album, Return of the Dream Canteen will be released October 14th on Warner Records. The surprise announcement was dropped at Denver's Empower Field to rapturous response as the North American leg of their critically and commercially acclaimed global stadium tour kicked off.
We went in search of ourselves as the band that we have somehow always been. Just for the fun of it we jammed and learned some old songs. Before long we started the mysterious process of building new songs. A beautiful bit of chemistry meddling that had befriended us hundreds of times along the way. Once we found that slip stream of sound and vision, we just kept mining. With time turned into an elastic waist band of oversized underwear, we had no reason to stop writing and rocking. It felt like a dream. When all was said and done, our moody love for each other and the magic of music had gifted us with more songs than we knew what to do with. Well we figured it out. 2 double albums released back to back. The second of which is easily as meaningful as the first or should that be reversed. 'Return of the Dream Canteen' is everything we are and ever dreamed of being. It's packed. Made with the blood of our hearts, yours truly, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Red Hot Chili Peppers will continue the tour through California with a special hometown performance in Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium, then through Chicago, Toronto, and more before wrapping up the North American leg in Arlington, TX on Sunday, September 18th at Globe Life Field. A roll call of some of the most acclaimed, eclectic and vital artists across various genres - including HAIM, Beck, Thundercat, The Strokes, King Princess, St. Vincent and Post Malone - will be joining the band on select dates.
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Despite ample school security plan, Texas shooter found gaps
By COLLIN BINKLEY and KANTELE FRANKO
Associated Press
Robb Elementary School had measures in place to prevent this kind of violence. A fence lined the school property. Teachers were ordered to keep classroom doors closed and locked. Students faced regular lockdown and evacuation drills.
But when an 18-year-old man arrived Tuesday at the school in Uvalde, Texas, intent on killing children, none of it stopped him.
Security failures allowed the shooter to massacre 19 students and two teachers, school safety experts say. The shooting already has led to calls to fortify schools further, on top of millions spent on equipment and other measures following earlier shootings. But more security offers drawbacks, with no guarantee of an end to mass violence. In the worst case, as in Uvalde, it could backfire.
“You can do the best job you can to prevent a school crisis, but we cannot read the minds of all the criminals who are out there,” said Ronald Stephens, executive director of the National School Safety Center, a nonprofit that works with schools across the country. “We cannot prevent all crime.”
According to a district safety plan, Uvalde schools had a wide range of measures in place to prevent violence. The district had four police officers and four support counselors, according to the plan, which appears to be dated from the 2019-20 school year. The district had software to monitor social media for threats and software to screen school visitors.
Yet when the gunman arrived at the school, he hopped its fence and easily entered through an unlocked back door, police said. Behind the locked door of a fourth-grade classroom, he gunned down children and teachers.
Amid the attack, nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway because the on-site commander believed the gunman was barricaded in the classroom and children were not at risk, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw said at a Friday news conference, saying “it was the wrong decision.”
The case underscores that even the strongest security plans can be undermined by a seemingly simple lapse, said Curtis Lavarello, executive director of the School Safety Advocacy Council, which provides training on school safety. The Texas school appeared to be doing many things right, he said, but none of that mattered once the gunman was able to walk unobstructed into the building and into a classroom.
“All those things on paper mean nothing if they’re not followed in practice. And there seemed to be a number of gaps,” he said.
In the aftermath of the shooting, some Republicans have been calling for further investments in school safety to prevent more attacks. Some have pushed for more armed police in schools, along with metal detectors and measures to make it harder to enter schools.
Among those promoting physical security measures is Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Appearing on Fox News on Wednesday, he brought up 2013 legislation that created grants to help schools install bulletproof doors and hire armed police officers among other measures.
If those grants had gone to Robb Elementary, Cruz said, “the armed police officers could have taken him out and we would have 19 children and two teachers still alive.”
Security experts say the Uvalde case illustrates how fortifying schools can backfire. A lock on the classroom door — one of the most basic and widely recommended school safety measures — kept victims in and police out.
U.S. Border Patrol agents eventually used a master key to open the locked door of the classroom where they confronted and killed the gunman, McCraw said at the Friday news conference.
Some argue that investments in school security have come at the expense of student welfare. Lockdown drills that have become routine for a generation of American students have traumatized students and added to strains on mental health, educators say.
Schools need more counselors and psychologists to help troubled students, not stronger buildings, said Dewey Cornell, a psychologist and director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project at the University of Virginia.
“We have systemically reduced the number of support staff in our schools, and focused too much on installing metal detectors and surveillance cameras and electronic door locks, which are very short term and reactive and very expensive,” he said.
In the wake of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, schools across the country began spending huge sums of money on fortifications including bulletproof glass, metal detectors and armed security.
But such measures can create an atmosphere where students feel uncomfortable and less trusting, and it does not necessarily prevent attacks, said Matthew Mayer, a Rutgers associate professor who works on issues related to school violence.
“You’ll go down these sort of endless rabbit holes of how much security is enough. And when it comes to someone who’s coming in heavily armed, you’re not going to stop them,” Mayer said. “So the idea is you need to figure out why people do this in the first place and have ways — multi-level systems of prevention — to prevent it from happening.”
He advocates for a multi-faceted prevention approach that also includes steps such as improving mental health services, assessing threats more effectively and building trust so students and families are not afraid to speak up if they’re concerned someone has the means or intent to cause harm.
Still, schools can only do so much, he said, and he isn’t optimistic that public outrage over Uvalde will lead to significant change.
“The problem is that a lot of this public reaction, you know, sort of rises like a wave and then recedes over time, and the politicians have been accustomed to riding that out. You know, they make speeches and so forth, and sometimes there’s a commission that gets appointed, and they issue reports,” Mayer said. “But substantive change is lacking.”
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