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Ukraine war weighs on pope’s Good Friday Colosseum ritual
ROME (AP) — The war in Ukraine loomed over the traditional Good Friday Colosseum procession in Rome, after the Vatican’s choice of a Russian woman to be among the cross-bearers angered Ukrainians.
For the first time since before the pandemic, the solemn torchlit procession at the ancient arena in Rome was to resume on Friday night. Thousands of pilgrims and tourists flocked to the site hours earlier, in hope of catching a glimpse of Pope Francis, who presides over the service from an elevated point near the Roman Forum.
Earlier this week, Ukraine’s ambassador to the Holy See and the archbishop of Kyiv denounced the Vatican’s plan to have a Ukrainian woman and a Russian woman carry the cross together during the procession. They objected to projecting what they saw as the idea of reconciliation while Ukraine is ravaged by war unleashed by Russia.
The Vatican didn’t respond to the protests or announce any program changes.
While Francis has denounced the Feb. 24 invasion and attacks on Ukraine as a “sacrilege,’’ he has refrained from naming Russia as the aggressor, although his references to Russian Vladimir Putin have been clear. The pope is pressing for negotiations to cease the fighting and bring peace, and has offered to go to Ukraine if his presence could further the cause of peace.
But other faithful in the world applauded the decision to pair the two women, who work together at a Rome hospital and are friends, to carry the cross during part of the procession, which recalls Jesus’ suffering as he was being brought to his crucifixion and death.
In Paris, hundreds of Catholics gathered for Good Friday prayers on the forecourt of Notre Dame cathedral, and followed its rector on a procession around the island on the Seine River that houses the medieval landmark.
“Well, you know today the pope has a woman from Ukraine and a woman from Russia holding the cross together at one of the Stations of the Cross,” Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec told The AP at Notre Dame. She called that a “very moving and meaningful symbol.” She added: “I think that real people in the real world are concerned about peace. We want peace, we don’t want war,” which brings suffering and pain. That is “not the message of the Christ on the cross.”
The faithful were not allowed inside the Paris cathedral, since it is still under reconstruction after a 2019 blaze collapsed its spire and destroyed its roof. French President Emmanuel Macron was visiting the cathedral Friday to mark the third anniversary of the fire.
In St. Peter’s Basilica, hours ahead of the Colosseum event, Pope Francis, wearing red vestments to symbolize the blood of Jesus, limped up the central aisle to take his place for an early evening prayer service. Francis, 85, has been suffering from a knee ligament problem.
Usually at the Good Friday basilica service at the Vatican, the pontiff would prostrate himself in prayer. But this time Francis, hobbled by pain for weeks, didn’t do so.
Francis dispatched his official almsgiver, Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, to Kyiv to lead a Good Friday procession in the capital city of war-ravaged Ukraine. Italian Rai state TV said Krajewski on Friday visited two of Ukraine’s hardest-hit locations, Bucha and Borodyanka, both in ruins. At one point, Krajewski prayed over some of the bodies and leaned over to touch one, partially covered, body.
Throughout his papacy, Francis has repeatedly denounced armaments accumulated by nations as unjustified. In an interview broadcast on Italian state TV on Friday, the pope elaborated on his view.
“I understand those governments that buy arms, I understand them. I do not justify them, but I understand them, because we have to defend ourselves,” Francis said. But, he added: “If there were a pattern of peace, this would not be necessary. But we live with this diabolical pattern of killing one another out of the desire for power, the desire for security, the desire for many things.”
Good Friday is one of the main days for Christians during Holy Week, which culminates in Easter, on Sunday.
In Jerusalem, where tens of thousands of faithful traditionally converge on the Israeli city’s Old City to visit sacred sites during Holy Week, Palestinians on Friday clashed with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque. The site is sacred to Jews and Muslims. This year, Ramadan coincides with Passover, as well as Holy Week.
Medics in Jerusalem said that more than 150 Palestinians were injured, in the most serious violence at the site in nearly a year.
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John Leicester and Oleg Cetinic contributed from Paris.
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| 2022-04-15T17:53:29Z
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– Proof-of-Concept Trial Confirms ZT-01's Mechanism of Action in Restoring Glucagon Release in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes –
– First-in-Class ZT-01 has the Potential to Become the First Therapeutic to Prevent Hypoglycemia in Patients with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes –
TORONTO, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Zucara Therapeutics Inc., a diabetes life sciences company developing the first therapeutic to prevent insulin-induced hypoglycemia (low blood glucose levels), today announced that its Phase 1b proof-of-concept trial demonstrated ZT-01's ability to restore glucagon release in people with Type 1 diabetes ("T1D").
Data from 18 subjects that completed all three hypoglycemic challenge (clamp) procedures demonstrated that nearly 90% of subjects had a meaningful increase in glucagon following ZT-01 compared to placebo. Compared to placebo, ZT-01 at 3 mg and 20 mg resulted in a mean 14 pg/mL and a 20 pg/mL change in peak glucagon from baseline, respectively (p<0.0001); while, on average, ZT-01 doubled the number of counter-regulatory events (an increase in blood glucose in hypoglycemia despite increasing insulin infusion). Of the 18 subjects completing 3 clamps, 16 showed a greater than 10 pg/mL increase in glucagon higher than placebo following one or both doses of ZT-01. There were no serious adverse events observed.
Michael Midmer, Zucara Therapeutics' Chief Executive Officer, added, "We are thrilled that results of this Phase 1b study establish proof of concept by demonstrating that our somatostatin receptor antagonist increases glucagon during hypoglycemia in people with diabetes. ZT-01 is a first-in-class molecule and could help many people with diabetes that suffer from disruptive hypoglycemia. We are working to file regulatory applications by the end of this year for a multi-center Phase 2 trial in the U.S. and Canada and look forward to evaluating ZT-01's ability to prevent hypoglycemia that challenges the lives of people with T1D."
Conducted at Centricity Research (formerly LMC Manna Research), the study employed a crossover design in people with T1D undergoing hypoglycemic clamp procedures to cause clinically significant Level 2 hypoglycemia. The procedure was performed on three separate occasions to assess the effects of subcutaneous ZT-01 at doses of 3 mg and 20 mg versus placebo, given before hypoglycemia was initiated. The main objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of ZT-01 on glucagon levels. Zucara would like to thank all study participants and we recognize how committed you were to our study and have greatly helped move this important research forward.
Dr. Alex Abitbol, the study's principal investigator, commented, "We are pleased to have demonstrated that ZT-01 acts to increase glucagon during hypoglycemia. In many patients undergoing the study's hypoglycemic clamp procedure, we not only observed a rise in glucagon but also a corresponding rise in glucose suggesting that ZT-01 may prevent hypoglycemia, further demonstrating proof-of-concept. This is the first treatment that aims to restore the normal physiology of glucagon secretion and could greatly impact the quality-of-life of patients living with diabetes, as well as their caregivers."
In people without diabetes, insulin secretion decreases while glucagon secretion increases to prevent hypoglycemia. However, in people with insulin-dependent diabetes, this response is dysregulated due to elevated secretion of pancreatic somatostatin ("SST"). Zucara has demonstrated that, in people with T1D, the glucagon response can be restored by inhibiting SST with ZT-01, a first-in-class SST receptor 2 antagonist.
Zucara Therapeutics is developing ZT-01, a first-in-class therapeutic to prevent insulin-induced hypoglycemia in patients using insulin therapy. ZT-01 is designed to inhibit somatostatin, a pancreatic hormone that impairs the glucagon response to hypoglycemia in people with insulin-dependent diabetes. ZT-01 restores glucagon release to prevent hypoglycemia, which could dramatically change diabetes disease management and improve both patient health and quality of life. For more information, visit www.zucara.ca.
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| 2022-06-22T12:52:59Z
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BROOKLYN (WPIX) – When Kim Crown got off the elevated subway train at Lorimer Street on July 5, she didn’t expect to see a cousin she barely knew, sitting on a bench and wearing tattered jeans.
“I work in a predominantly Hasidic Jewish community,” Crown told WPIX, “so you don’t see a lot of Asians.”
Crown suspected the man was her missing cousin, Jossiah Nguyen, 25, from Savannah, Georgia, who had told his parents he was stuck in New York.
“And I turned around and walked back to him and said his name,” Crown recalled. “And he responded.”
Crown had seen on social media that Nguyen went missing from home just before Mother’s Day, May 8.
His parents, Yen and Bien Nguyen, told WPIX during a Zoom interview their son has struggled emotionally since he finished high school. Jossiah once joyfully performed modern dance, especially break dancing, and enjoyed recording rap music.
“You know, it breaks your heart to see your son like that,” Yen Nguyen, Jossiah’s father, said. “I’m glad he’s still alive, but he doesn’t look well.”
Jossiah’s mother said her son tried to reach both parents on May 13, by way of Facebook Messenger, five days after he left Georgia, telling them he’d lost his wallet and phone.
“He was asking for help financially for a bus ticket to get back to Savannah,” Jossiah’s mom said.
She is tormented about her son’s follow-up call on Facebook.
“Unfortunately, I missed the call,” Bien Nguyen said, her voice breaking. “And we haven’t heard from him since.”
The parents came to New York City on Saturday, June 25, when they heard about Missing Persons Day. The event was organized by the Office of Chief Medical Examiner and the NYPD. While they were speaking to detectives, they learned their son had received a minor summons in Brooklyn the same day near a liquor store on Nostrand Avenue and St. John’s Place.
“We were able to actually see him on video, when he was summoned,” the mother said. “We actually went there. Nobody recognized him or gave us any leads.”
The parents learned their son’s phone had “pinged” at one point at Madison Plaza in lower Manhattan.
They didn’t hear about another sighting of Jossiah until July 5, when his father’s cousin got off the train and doubled back to the bench, on a hunch.
“He looked really skinny, dirty, you could tell he was living on the streets,” Kim Crown recalled. “He just had a winter coat next to him.”
Crown said she offered to help Jossiah, but he refused assistance.
“He just politely said, ‘I’m fine, I’m good, no thank you,'” she remembered.
Crown said her cousin was rolling a joint when she met him on the bench.
Jossiah’s parents are desperate to find him before he gets hurt. They have started a Facebook page called “JossiahNguyenMissingPerson.”
The young man’s mother is struggling to understand why he left home, knowing his parents would worry.
“I try to remember that I’m not in his shoes,” his mother said, her voice filled with emotion. “I haven’t had the same struggle with depression and those other things.”
The NYPD Missing Persons Squad normally advises New Yorkers to call 911 if they spot a missing, endangered person–or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
“The message is: his parents love him,” Yen Nguyen said. “We’ve always wanted the best for him.”
His mother is pleading with New Yorkers to help find her son.
“We just miss him, we love him, and we want him to be okay,” Bien Nguyen said.
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| 2022-07-20T16:55:25Z
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (NasdaqCM: PCT) f/k/a Roth CH Acquisition I Co. (Nasdaq: ROCH).
On May 6, 2021, analyst Hindenburg Research reported a wide range of criticisms toward the Company related to its prior "going public" transaction, highlighting problems with its business model and financial projections, among other things. For example, the report noted that the Company "put its aggressive projections through a bit of a torture session in order to justify its valuation," that the numbers projected "would put PureCycle's margins on par with some of the world's most profitable tech companies," and concluded that the Company "represents the worst qualities of the SPAC boom; another quintessential example of how executives and SPAC sponsors enrich themselves while hoisting unproven technology and ridiculous financial projections onto the public markets, leaving retail investors to face the ultimate consequences." Then, on November 10, 2021, the Company disclosed the receipt of an investigative subpoena from the SEC on September 30, 2021 "requesting testimony in connection with a non-public, fact finding investigation of the Company," pertaining to "among other things, statements made in connection with [Purecycle's] technology, financial projections, key supply agreements, and management."
The Company and certain of its executives have been sued in a securities class action lawsuit, charging them with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period in violation of federal securities laws, which remains ongoing.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether PureCycle's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to its shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of PureCycle shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqcm-pct/ to learn more.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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| 2022-09-03T04:10:43Z
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Which RMS Beauty product is best?
Since 2009, RMS Beauty’s performance-focused organic cosmetics have earned a slew of awards and a cult following. The brand formulates everything from beauty oil to lipstick using high-quality ingredients that are kept as close to their natural state as possible to maximize their nutritional benefits. If you’re seeking a highlighter that delivers natural radiance while actually improving your skin’s health, RMS Beauty’s Living Luminizer is the top choice.
What to know before you buy an RMS Beauty product
RMS Beauty was founded by a makeup artist
Rose-Marie Swift had been working as a makeup artist for years when she started observing — and experiencing — health concerns she attributed to the chemicals in the cosmetics she worked with. She started RMS Beauty in 2009, pioneering the modern clean beauty movement with nourishing yet dependable cosmetics formulas that met her standards for both product performance and safety.
Beauty multitaskers
As a clean beauty brand, the ingredient list isn’t RMS Beauty’s only concern. Its products and packaging both strive to address other beauty industry issues like sustainability and waste, so many RMS Beauty products can be used for multiple purposes. For example, the “Un” Cover-Up concealer also works as a clean foundation. Other versatile, easy-to-use multitaskers include the Lip2Cheek Cream Blush and the Master Radiance Base Cream.
Cruelty-free clean beauty
Clean beauty is often, but not always, cruelty-free. RMS Beauty does not test products or ingredients on animals, nor are its products sold in countries that require animal testing, making it a cruelty-free company. Its products are also nano-free, so they won’t harm coral reef environments.
What to look for in a quality RMS Beauty product
Natural, minimally processed ingredients
RMS Beauty was founded to help beauty professionals and makeup fans escape daily exposure to the potentially harmful chemicals found in cosmetics. As one of the first mainstream clean beauty brands, RMS Beauty sets a high standard for its ingredients. The brand uses organic, food-grade, raw or wildcrafted ingredients in all its formulas. RMS Beauty product ingredients are as close to their living and/or natural state as possible to preserve all their benefits.
‘No-makeup’ makeup essentials
RMS Beauty may have been founded by a makeup artist, but you don’t need to be a makeup artist yourself to make these products work for you. Recognizing that not everyone has the time or the skills for complicated makeup, RMS Beauty delivers effortless-looking, low-key looks that don’t compromise on performance. Its intuitive, multiuse products can be relied on to easily highlight your unique natural beauty. Plus, with the brand’s skin-loving formulas, your skin ends up feeling as good as it looks.
Makeup for all skin types
Generally, clean beauty brands have tended to fall into one of two categories: youthful and buzzy or reliable but outdated. Since RMS Beauty was founded by a beauty professional with more than three decades of experience, the company emphasizes timeless looks and high-performing products, creating formulas that are easy to use for dry, oily, sensitive or mature skin.
How much you can expect to spend on RMS Beauty products
RMS Beauty face makeup generally costs $34-52, while lip products and eye makeup can be found for $22-$28. Skin care like lip balm, beauty oil and serums cost $20-$78.
RMS Beauty product FAQ
What does wildcrafted mean?
A. Wildcrafted ingredients are foraged and harvested from their natural, uncultivated growing environment. Wildcrafted botanicals are valued for their hardiness since they have had to survive without human assistance. Wildcrafting is ideally done with high levels of knowledge and respect for the plant and the environment it grows in.
Is RMS Beauty sustainable?
A. RMS Beauty products are made in the USA with ethically sourced ingredients harvested or grown with careful attention to their environmental impact. Plus, many of its products are packaged using recyclable glass and aluminum instead of plastic, and its boxes are made using 80% wind power.
What’s the best RMS Beauty product to buy?
Top RMS Beauty product
What you need to know: This creamy, coconut oil-infused highlighter transforms your complexion with its red-carpet-worthy, naturally dewy finish.
What you’ll love: The nourishing formula contains coconut and castor seed oils and vitamin E to hydrate and strengthen the skin barrier. The award-winning highlighter is easy to apply and can be used to add a shimmery glow anywhere on your face, even as an eye shadow. It comes in five shades.
What you should consider: Some users felt it made them look shiny, not radiant. Its creamy, oil-based formula can make layering products challenging.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora, Credo Beauty, Lovelyskin and Violet Grey
Top RMS Beauty product for the money
RMS Beauty “Un” Cover-Up Concealer
What you need to know: Do you seek hydrating, rejuvenating and natural-looking coverage? Try this multitasking concealer that’s beloved by both beauty editors and celebrities.
What you’ll love: A little goes a long way with this lightweight, melting formula. It can act as a concealer or foundation for skin that still looks like skin. It minimizes the appearance of pores and redness, and it can be built up to medium coverage. It’s available in 16 inclusive shades.
What you should consider: It should be followed with setting powder to help it last, and even with powder, its natural finish may appear too shiny on oily skin types. Coverage can be too light for some blemishes or under-eye dark circles.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora, Credo Beauty, SkinStore and Lovelyskin
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This sheer, shimmery natural bronzer delivers a sun-kissed glow as well as a dose of skin-loving nutrients.
What you’ll love: The creamy formula is easy to blend out with just your fingertips. Its unique color formulation makes it look more natural than many bronzers on the market. Wildcrafted buriti oil, shea butter and cocoa butter hydrate, condition and provide antioxidants.
What you should consider: It has a reddish tint, which may be too dark or warm for some skin tones.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora, Credo Beauty, SkinStore and Lovelyskin
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| 2022-04-16T01:02:13Z
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MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The criminal case against the man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie involves so much potential evidence that prosecutors need more time to review it, the chief prosecutor said Wednesday.
District Attorney Jason Schmidt of Chautauqua County in western New York said his office is reviewing about “30,000 files,” without providing details. He said the volume of material entitled him to additional time to comply with a requirement to turn over evidence to suspect Hadi Matar’s attorney.
Matar’s lawyer, Nathaniel Barone, questioned the need for delay. Prosecutors typically must share evidence within 20 days of an arraignment.
“Just because there may be volumes of discovery out there, that doesn’t change the fact that that’s their job,” Barone said after the hearing, the Observer of Dunkirk reported. “They better get to it and we’re entitled to it.”
Prosecutors say Matar, 24, stabbed Rushdie in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and right eye at an Aug. 12 literary event in western New York, before onlookers intervened. Rushdie had been sitting in a chair onstage at the Chautauqua Institution waiting to be introduced for a discussion of protections for writers in exile and freedom of expression.
The author was recovering in a Pennsylvania hospital in the days after the attack. A Rushdie family lawyer did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking an update on his condition.
Henry Reese, the cofounder of Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum, was onstage with Rushdie and suffered a gash to his forehead, bruises and other minor injuries.
Matar, who has been held without bail since his arrest, arrived at Chautauqua County Court in a black-and-white striped jail jumpsuit, wearing shackles and a white medical face mask. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault. Matar lived with his mother in Fairview, New Jersey.
He is due back in court Sept. 13 when a judge will hear arguments on a prosecution request to limit who is allowed to review material disclosed ahead of trial, according to Schmidt, the district attorney. Schmidt did not rule out additional charges, pending the continuing investigation
In a jailhouse interview with The New York Post after his arrest, Matar spoke about disliking Rushdie and praised Iran’s late supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Khomeini issued an edict in 1989 demanding Rushdie’s death over his novel “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Iran has denied involvement in the attack.
Rushdie spent years in hiding but had traveled freely over the past two decades.
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| 2022-09-08T17:01:38Z
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joe Manganiello marveled at the years-old mysteries in his family that were solved through DNA by researchers on PBS’ “Finding Your Roots,” including a revelation involving the actor’s paternal grandfather.
It was so surprising that host Henry Louis Gates Jr. had to call Manganiello with the news so he wouldn’t find out first during taping.
“My family and I had a betting pool of what it is, like what’s so bad that you can’t announce it on the episode?” Manganiello told a TV critics meeting Thursday.
Gates informed Manganiello that the man the family believed to be the actor’s paternal grandfather really wasn’t.
“My grandfather was a Black man of mixed race,” said Manganiello, who is white. “That was fascinating.”
As a result, Gates told him, “You are zero percent genetically related to anyone named Manganiello in the world.”
Gates didn’t stop there. The show’s research traced back to the actor’s fifth great-grandfather who was a slave who became free before slavery was abolished in Massachusetts, where Manganiello’s father was born outside of Boston. His father’s family came from Italy.
Manganiello found out his distant relative joined the Continental Army and fought alongside other Blacks for the colonies against the British in units that were non-segregated.
“None of us would have guessed that if we’d had 10 years of guessing,” the actor said. “If Manganiello’s not my last name, what is?”
Another mystery from his mother’s side was solved, too.
Manganiello’s maternal great-grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian genocide during World War I in which her husband and seven of her children were killed. She was shot, but played dead and escaped with an eighth child, who later drowned while they traversed the Euphrates River.
Manganiello was told his great-grandmother was incarcerated and met a German officer stationed at the camp. He said she became pregnant by the officer, who later returned to Germany without her. The actor’s aunt had a picture of the man, which later got lost.
“We had nothing to connect us being German other than this,” he said.
The show’s researchers found that the actor’s mother and aunt were the children of the half-German baby.
“That was a really profound moment for me,” he said.
Gates said it took nearly a year to uncover the ancestry in part because the Turkish government doesn’t give researchers access to vital records and population documents dating to the Ottoman Empire.
Manganiello was filming in Europe last year, and the locals mistook him as being German.
“To think that I don’t look like the other people in m family is because I look like the Germans, OK, now that makes sense,” he said. “It’s really wild what we uncovered.”
The 45-year-old actor known for “True Blood” and “Magic Mike” was born and raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He is married to Colombian-born actor Sofía Vergara.
The new season of “Finding Your Roots” begins Jan. 3. Among those featured are Oscar winners Viola Davis and Julia Roberts, as well as Carol Burnett, political activist Angela Davis and actor Danny Trejo.
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| 2022-07-29T02:38:55Z
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2 Scoopz Ice Cream Shop coming to downtown Canton
CANTON – David Beck wants his new business to sell ice cream so tasty that customers order at least two scoops. His forthcoming 2 Scoopz Ice Cream Shop will even have a bell for customers to ring when they buy more than a single scoop.
"Ice cream is something everybody loves," Beck said.
2 Scoopz will be in the vacant northwest corner of the building that Beck owns along Fifth Street NW between Court and Market avenues. The Beauty Spot, Run to You Racing, and TomTod Ideas are located in the same building.
Beck plans to keep the menu simple — no food, just ice cream. There'll be soft-serve ice cream and about a dozen hard scoop flavors from the Michigan-based Ashby's Sterling Ice Cream. A local distributor will provide customizable flavors.
"I wanted to be able to have some fun with it," he said
Beck presented his plans and sought feedback at June's meeting of the Canton Architectural Review Board, which reviews building plans to maintain similar design standards throughout downtown. He said he wants a new address for the ice cream shop and will have a walkup window off Court Avenue with the main entrance off Fifth Street.
Canton Sign Co. will make a neon ice cream cone sign and Hot Buys Restaurant Supplies on Cherry Avenue NE will provide equipment for the shop. Beck said he's working with Sol Harris/Day Architecture and wants to open 2 Scoopz by mid-July.
"Construction is about to begin on the inside," he said.
The exterior will get an awning and aesthetic boost from the city's Storefront Reinvestment Program, which offers a 50% rebate on improvements. Beck said he also will place an ATM near the walkup window.
After witnessing the success of ice cream sales at Birdie Shack, a miniature golf course near Kent that Beck also owns, he decided it was time to bring frozen treats to downtown Canton. Other members of the Architectural Review Board and city planning staff agreed.
"You can tell we're all very excited," city Planning Director Donn Angus said after board members suggested several flavors with ties to local landmarks and companies.
"You're going to do well. You're going to do very well," said local developer Steve Coon, who predicted that Beck will want to expand after six months.
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| 2022-06-29T12:16:27Z
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be an improved way to promote the safety and social distancing of oral care products within a home," said an inventor, from Chicago, Ill., "so I invented the INDIVIDUAL PIECE. My design could help to prevent the spread of germs and bacteria between toothbrushes."
The invention provides a sanitary storage unit for toothbrushes. In doing so, it offers an improved alternative to storing toothbrushes in conventional holders. As a result, it prevents the brushing heads from touching and it increases hygiene and cleanliness. The invention features a protective and practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CLR-129, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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| 2022-09-05T15:37:20Z
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HOUSTON (AP) — A man evicted from a Houston apartment building shot five other tenants — killing three of them — Sunday morning after setting fire to the house to lure them out, police said. Officers fatally shot the gunman.
The incident happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed industrial-residential neighborhood in southwest Houston. Police and fire crews responded to the apartment house after reports of the fire, police Chief Troy Finner said.
The gunman opened fire, possibly with a shotgun, on the other tenants as they emerged from the house, Finner said. Two were dead at the scene, and one died at a hospital. Fire teams rescued two other wounded men, who were hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds, he said.
The man then opened fire as the firefighters battled the fire, forcing them to take cover until police officers spotted the prone gunman and shot him dead, Finner said.
No identities have been released, and Finner said no firefighters or officers were wounded.
“I’ve seen things I have not seen before in 32 years, and it has happened time and time again,” Finner said. “We just ask that the community come together.”
A neighbor, Robin Ahrens, told the Houston Chronicle that he heard what he initially thought were fireworks as he prepared for work.
“I’m just fortunate that I didn’t go outside because he probably would have shot me too,” he told the newspaper.
He said the shooter, who had colon cancer, was behind on his rent, jobless and was recently notified that he was being evicted.
“Something must have just hit him in the last couple of days really hard to where he just didn’t care,” he said.
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- 68% of European homeworkers don't prioritise security in top three purchase factors
- 75% of all European businesses take no steps to secure home internet connection or provide software protection for home devices, and over a quarter offer no protection at all, creating gaps for attackers
- With sales of smart domestic devices booming, unsecured home workers create lucrative entry points for exploitation by cybercriminals
WATERLOO, ON, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today published new European research exposing the cybersecurity risk created by cost-conscious homeworkers who prioritise security behind price, usability and ease of set up in their purchase of domestic smart devices. Less than a third (32%) of European home workers who own a smart devicei surveyed said security was a top three factor when choosing a smart device, compared to 50% who prioritised price (figure 1). Over a quarter of businesses (28%) aren't putting adequate security provisions in place to extend cyber protection as far as homes (figure 2). This heightens the risk of cyberattacks for businesses and their employees, as hybrid and home working become the norm.
The survey of 4,000 home workers in the UK, France, Germany, and the Netherlands revealed that over a quarter (28%) of people say that their employer has not done or communicated anything about protecting their home network or smart devices, or they don't know if they are protected. Furthermore, 75% of Europeans say their employers have taken no steps to secure home internet connection or provide software protection for home devices. This failure to extend network security to home devices increases risk of the vulnerabilities created by hybrid and home working being successfully exploited. Particularly sobering findings for small and mid-sized businesses who face upwards of eleven cyberattacks per device, per day, according to BlackBerry research.
"An increase in unsecured smart devices in Europe is equally ideal for cyber attackers," said Hans-Peter Bauer, Senior Vice President EMEA, BlackBerry Cybersecurity. "When consumers drop their guard to focus on price, and businesses don't extend their security cover to compensate, cybercriminals will take advantage of any unsecured access point that could lead to lucrative personal and corporate data."
Through even the most innocent of devices, bad actors can access home networks with connections to company devices – or company data on consumer devices – and seize the opportunity to steal data and intellectual property worth millions. It's likely businesses will bear the brunt of cyberattacks caused by unsecured home devices, with knock-on effects to employees themselves. With device security far down the list for fraught buyers trying to cut costs, and employer protection of smart home devices being afforded to few, a huge opening is left for cybercriminals looking to take advantage of the boom in smart devices in the home.
"A global hike in the cost of living, potential recession looming, escalating conflict and rising cyber-insurance premiums are creating perfect conditions for cyberattacks. Cybercrime increased during both the financial crisis of 2008-9 and the COVID-19 pandemic, and we expect to see a similar spike over the coming months," continued Bauer. "These conditions compound the challenge of implementing effective hybrid and home working practices in homes that are getting smarter, but not necessarily more cybersecure. So, it is crucial that organisations remember the devices beyond their immediate reach when they are considering their cybersecurity protection and preparing for challenging economic times ahead."
For more information on how BlackBerry's comprehensive, prevention-first, AI-driven cybersecurity solutions can help your business prepare for, prevent, detect and respond to cyber threats, please visit BlackBerry.com/Cyber.
Notes to editor: Research conducted in June 2022 by Opinion Matters on behalf of BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB), into 4,000 Europeans (in the UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands) who have worked from home in the last 12 months and have a smart device in their home.
Figure 1: Table showing the proportion of respondents who chose each factor in their top three considerations when purchasing a smart device for their home
Figure 2: Table showing the proportion of respondents who said their employer has introduced each measure to protect their home network or smart devices while working from home
Figure 3: Table showing the proportion of respondents who included these factors among their top three most important when purchasing a smart device, by country
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including over 215M vehicles. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint management, endpoint security, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
BlackBerry. Intelligent Security. Everywhere.
For more information, visit BlackBerry.com and follow @BlackBerry.
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Starbucks is pulling out of the Russian market.
In a memo to employees Monday, the Seattle coffee giant said it decided to close its 130 stores and no longer have a brand presence in Russia. Starbucks said it will continue to pay its nearly 2,000 Russian employees for six months and help them transition to new jobs.
Starbucks’ move follows McDonald’s exit from the Russian market last week. McDonald’s is selling its stores __ which are almost all owned by the company __ to an existing Russian franchisee. The stores won’t be allowed to use McDonald’s name or menu.
Starbucks’ stores are owned and operated by Alshaya Group, a Kuwait-based franchise operator. A spokesperson for Alshaya referred questions to Starbucks on Monday.
Starbucks entered the Russian market in 2007. In early March, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Starbucks announced that it would keep its Russian stores open but donate any profits to humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine.
But a few days later __ after Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, McDonald’s and others temporarily halted their business in Russia __ Starbucks changed course and temporarily closed its Russian stores.
“Through this dynamic situation, we will continue to make decisions that are true to our mission and values and communicate with transparency,” then Starbucks Corp. CEO Kevin Johnson wrote in a message to employees.
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NEW YORK, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK) (the "Company"), a leading global creative platform for transformative brands and media companies, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Commenting on the Company's performance, Paul Hennessy, the Company's Chief Executive Officer, said, "With the acquisitions of Pond5 and Splash News and the release of our Creative Flow suite of workflow applications and the Creative Flow+ subscription product during the quarter, we made significant progress on our journey towards becoming a creative platform that allows our customers to create with confidence. Despite macro headwinds, we grew revenues 13% on a constant currency basis driven by our recent acquisitions and supported by strong growth across a range of solutions in our Enterprise channel."
Second Quarter 2022 highlights compared to Second Quarter 2021:
Financial Highlights
- Revenue increased 9% to $206.9 million. On a constant currency basis, revenue increased 13%.
- Income from operations decreased 24% to $25.4 million.
- Net income decreased 34% to $19.4 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA decreased 8% to $48.9 million.
- Net income per diluted share decreased $0.26 to $0.53.
- Adjusted net income per diluted share decreased $0.19 to $0.83.
- Operating cash flows decreased 48% to $36.9 million.
- Free cash flow decreased 65% to $21.6 million.
Key Operating Metrics
- Subscribers increased 15% to 368,000.
- Subscriber revenue increased 8% to $84.7 million.
- Average revenue per customer increased 1% to $359.
- Paid downloads decreased 3% to 43.4 million.
- Revenue per download increased 7% to $4.46.
- Image collection expanded 9% to over 415 million images.
- Footage collection expanded 18% to over 26 million clips, excluding Pond5 footage clips.
SHUTTERSTOCK INVESTOR RELATIONS MICRO SITE
Accessible at content.shutterstock.com/investor-report/index.html.
SECOND QUARTER RESULTS
Revenue
Second quarter revenue of $206.9 million increased $17.0 million or 9% as compared to the second quarter of 2021. Revenue generated through our E-commerce sales channel increased 6% as compared to the second quarter of 2021, to $127.4 million, and represented 62% of total revenue in the second quarter of 2022. E-commerce revenue growth was primarily driven by revenue generated from our acquisitions of PicMonkey and Pond5. Revenue from our Enterprise sales channel increased 15% as compared to the second quarter of 2021, to $79.5 million, and represented 38% of second quarter revenue in 2022. Enterprise revenue growth was driven by our multi-asset product offerings and continued momentum in Shutterstock Studios and Shutterstock Editorial. Enterprise revenue growth also benefited from our acquisitions of Pond5 and Splash News.
On a constant currency basis, revenue increased 13% in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to the second quarter of 2021. On a constant currency basis, E-commerce and Enterprise revenues increased by 9% and 19%, respectively, in the second quarter of 2022, as compared to 2021.
Net income and net income per diluted share
Net income of $19.4 million decreased $10.0 million as compared to $29.5 million for the second quarter in 2021. Net income per diluted share was $0.53, as compared to $0.79 for the same period in 2021. This decrease was due primarily to increases in operating expenses partially offset by revenue growth in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to 2021. The increase in operating expenses was driven by higher acquisition-related amortization expense reported in cost of revenues, higher marketing expenses and transaction costs incurred to complete our second quarter 2022 acquisitions.
Adjusted net income per diluted share was $0.83 as compared to $1.02 for the second quarter of 2021, a decrease of $0.19 per diluted share.
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA of $48.9 million for the second quarter of 2022 decreased by $4.1 million, or 8%, as compared to the second quarter of 2021, due primarily to higher operating expenses, partially offset by increased revenue. The adjusted EBITDA margin decreased to 23.7% from 27.9% in the second quarter of 2021.
SECOND QUARTER LIQUIDITY
Our cash and cash equivalents decreased by $174.1 million to $84.0 million at June 30, 2022, as compared with $258.1 million as of March 31, 2022. This decrease was driven by $227.8 million used in investing activities, partially offset by $36.9 million of net cash provided by our operating activities and $20.2 million provided by financing activities.
Net cash provided by our operating activities was driven by our operating income, in addition to changes in the timing of payments pertaining to operating expenses. Cash used in investing activities primarily consists of $212.1 million related to our acquisitions of Pond5 and Splash News and $15.3 million related to capital expenditures and content acquisition. Cash provided by financing activities consists primarily of a $50.0 million drawdown from our credit facility, partially offset by $18.6 million paid for the repurchase of common stock under our share repurchase program, $8.7 million related to the payment of the quarterly cash dividend and $2.5 million paid in settlement of tax withholding obligations related to employee stock-based compensation awards.
Free cash flow was $21.6 million for the second quarter of 2022, a decrease of $40.1 million from the second quarter of 2021. This change was primarily driven by lower cash flows from operating activities.
QUARTERLY CASH DIVIDEND
During the three months ended June 30, 2022, the Company declared and paid cash dividends of $0.24 per common share, or $8.7 million.
On July 18, 2022, the Board of Directors declared a dividend of $0.24 per share of outstanding common stock, payable on September 15, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on September 1, 2022.
KEY OPERATING METRICS
2022 GUIDANCE
The Company's current expectations for the full year 2022, remain unchanged as follows:
- Revenue of $835 million to $850 million, representing annual growth of 8% - 10%.
- Adjusted EBITDA of between $210 million to $217 million.
- Adjusted net income per diluted share of between $3.65 to $3.80.
NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
To supplement Shutterstock's consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or GAAP, Shutterstock's management considers certain financial measures that are not prepared in accordance with GAAP, collectively referred to as non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted net income per diluted share, revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage), billings and free cash flow.
Shutterstock defines adjusted EBITDA as net income adjusted for depreciation and amortization, non-cash equity-based compensation, foreign currency transaction gains and losses, interest income and expense and income taxes; adjusted EBITDA margin as the ratio of adjusted EBITDA to revenue; adjusted net income as net income adjusted for the impact of non-cash equity-based compensation, the amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets and the estimated tax impact of such adjustments; adjusted net income per diluted share as adjusted net income divided by weighted average diluted shares; revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage) as the increase in current period revenues over prior period revenues, utilizing fixed exchange rates for translating foreign currency revenues for all periods in the comparison; billings as revenue adjusted for the change in deferred revenue, excluding deferred revenue acquired through business combinations; and free cash flow as cash provided by operating activities, adjusted for capital expenditures, and content acquisition. These figures have not been calculated in accordance with GAAP and should be considered only in addition to results prepared in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered as a substitute for, or superior to, GAAP results. Shutterstock cautions investors that non-GAAP financial measures are not based on any standardized methodology prescribed by GAAP and are not necessarily comparable to similarly-titled measures presented by other companies.
Shutterstock's management believes that adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted net income per diluted share, revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage), billings and free cash flow are useful to investors because these measures enable investors to analyze Shutterstock's operating results on the same basis as that used by management. Additionally, management believes that adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income and adjusted net income per diluted share provide useful information to investors about the performance of the Company's overall business because such measures eliminate the effects of unusual or other infrequent charges that are not directly attributable to Shutterstock's underlying operating performance; and revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage) provides useful information to investors by eliminating the effect of foreign currency fluctuations that are not directly attributable to Shutterstock's operating performance. Management also believes that providing these non-GAAP financial measures enhances the comparability for investors in assessing Shutterstock's financial reporting. Shutterstock's management believes that free cash flow is useful for investors because it provides them with an important perspective on the cash available for strategic measures, after making necessary capital investments in internal-use software and website development costs to support the Company's ongoing business operations and provides them with the same measures that management uses as the basis for making resource allocation decisions.
Shutterstock's management also uses the non-GAAP financial measures adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted net income per diluted share, revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage), billings and free cash flow, in conjunction with GAAP financial measures, as an integral part of managing the business and to, among other things: (i) monitor and evaluate the performance of Shutterstock's business operations, financial performance and overall liquidity; (ii) facilitate management's internal comparisons of the historical operating performance of its business operations; (iii) facilitate management's external comparisons of the results of its overall business to the historical operating performance of other companies that may have different capital structures and debt levels; (iv) review and assess the operating performance of Shutterstock's management team and, together with other operational objectives, as a measure in evaluating employee compensation and bonuses; (v) analyze and evaluate financial and strategic planning decisions regarding future operating investments; and (vi) plan for and prepare future annual operating budgets and determine appropriate levels of operating investments.
Reconciliations of the differences between adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted net income, adjusted net income per diluted share, revenue growth (including by distribution channel) on a constant currency basis (expressed as a percentage), billings, free cash flow, and the most comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP, are presented under the headings "Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Information to GAAP" and "Supplemental Financial Data" immediately following the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
EARNINGS TELECONFERENCE INFORMATION
The Company will discuss its second quarter and full year financial results during a teleconference today, July 26, 2022, at 8:30 AM ET. The conference call is being webcast live at the Company's website at http://investor.shutterstock.com/. The webcast is listen-only. Those interested in participating in the question-and-answer session should register using the link below.
Participants may register for the call here (https://register.vevent.com/register/BI3879892262844c06939b2a0ed7c0e6a2) to receive the dial-in numbers and unique PIN to access the call seamlessly. It is recommended that you join 10 minutes prior to the event start (although you may register and dial in at any time during the call).
A webcast replay of the call will be available on the Company's website beginning on July 26, 2022 at approximately 10:30 AM Eastern Time.
ABOUT SHUTTERSTOCK
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), is a leading global creative platform for transformative brands and media companies. Directly and through its group subsidiaries, Shutterstock's comprehensive collection includes high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, 3D models, videos and music. Working with its growing community of over 2 million contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 415 million images and more than 26 million video clips available.
Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries. The Company also owns Splash News, the world's leading entertainment news agency for newsrooms and media companies worldwide; Pond5, the world's largest video marketplace, TurboSquid, the world's largest 3D content marketplace; PicMonkey, a leading online graphic design and image editing platform; Offset, a high-end image collection; Shutterstock Studios, an end-to-end custom creative shop; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; Shutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial images and videos for the world's media; Amper Music, an AI-driven music platform; and Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media offering.
For more information, please visit www.shutterstock.com and follow Shutterstock on Twitter and on Facebook.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding guidance, industry prospects, future business, future results of operations or financial condition, future dividends, our ability to consummate acquisitions and integrate the businesses we have acquired or may acquire into our existing operations, new or planned features, products or services, management strategies, our competitive position and the COVID-19 pandemic. You can identify forward-looking statements by words such as "may," "will," "would," "should," "could," "expect," "aim," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "predict," "project," "seek," "potential," "opportunities" and other similar expressions and the negatives of such expressions. However, not all forward-looking statements contain these words. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, those discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, as well as in other documents that the Company may file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result of such risks, uncertainties and factors, Shutterstock's actual results may differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements discussed in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made only as of this date and Shutterstock assumes no obligation to update the information included in this press release or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by law.
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BOWIE COUNTY, Texas (KETK) – A Bowie County lieutenant and veteran of the U.S. Marines is reported to “lose his left eye and possibly be blind in his right eye” after being shot in the face during a traffic stop.
Lieutenant Scott Lillis, according to a GoFundMe benefitting his family, pulled over what he thought was a possible DWI driver on South Lake Drive Saturday when he approached the passenger side of the car and the driver fired a shot hitting him once in the face.
After the driver fled the scene, Lillis was found laying on the ground by a Texas DPS trooper and was airlifted to Little Rock Arkansas Hospital where police said he is in stable condition.
The driver, who Texarkana Police identified as 32-year-old Hector Alejandro Pintor Aguilar, was later found dead inside a vacant house by what police said was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Aguilar was suspected of a murder after two people were shot in Hooks on Saturday afternoon before the traffic stop. At the time of the traffic stop, an extensive manhunt had been underway for Aguilar after he abandoned his stolen car near the Loves Travel Center on Interstate 30.
Before joining the Bowie County Sheriff’s Office, Lillis served as a U.S. Marine and Texarkana police officer. According to the GoFundMe, all donations go to the Lillis Family.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Yext, Inc. ("Yext" or the "Company") (NYSE: YEXT) and certain of its former officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and docketed under 22-cv-05127, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Yext securities between March 4, 2021 and March 8, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Yext securities during the Class Period, you have until August 16, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Yext organizes a business's facts to provide answers to consumer questions online. The Company operates Yext platform, a cloud-based platform that allows its customers to, among other things, provide answers to consumer questions, control facts about their businesses and the content of their landing pages, and manage their consumer reviews. Yext's website describes its service as "a modern, AI-powered Answers Platform that understands natural language so that when people ask questions about a business online they get direct answers—not links."
As COVID-19 resurged throughout 2021, Yext consistently assured investors that pandemic-related impacts on the Company's business were limited as the Company adapted to lockdowns and improved efficiencies in its sales and other operations.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, inter alia, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; (ii) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year ("FY") fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (iii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On March 8, 2022, Yext issued a press release announcing its fourth quarter ("Q4") and FY fiscal 2022 results. Among other items, Yext reported Q4 fiscal 2022 revenue of $100.9 million, falling short of consensus estimates by $140,000; first quarter ("Q1") fiscal 2023 revenue outlook of $96.3 million to $97.3 million, versus consensus estimates of $103.79 million; Q1 fiscal 2023 non-GAAP net loss per share outlook of $0.08 to $0.07, versus consensus estimates of $0.05; FY fiscal 2023 revenue outlook of $403.3 million to $407.3 million, versus consensus estimates of $444.71 million; and FY fiscal 2023 non-GAAP net loss per share outlook of $0.19 to $0.17, versus consensus estimates of $0.09. The Company further disclosed the departure of its CEO and CFO.
That same day, on a conference call to discuss Yext's Q4 and FY fiscal 2022 results, the Company's incoming CEO, Michael Walrath ("Walrath"), addressed the Company's disappointing financial results, revealing, inter alia, that "we have seen fragmentation in our interactions with customers and our ability to deliver premium service and support" and that, "[i]n hindsight, it is clear we were too focused on building sales capacity and not focused enough on other functions that drive productivity, particularly sales enablement, training, client success and services." Walrath also disclosed that "we saw a really significant disruption in our business" such as "in Q4, 50% -- over 50% of our in-person events were canceled because of the Omicron surges[,]" while opining that Yext could "[a]bsolutely" improve its "sales motion so that it's more efficient during disruptions like that[.]"
Following that call, a Truist Securities analyst lowered the firm's rating on Yext to hold from buy and slashed its price target to $6 from $17, noting, among other things, that key performing indicators showed an "unexpected slowdown" in Q4, guidance for fiscal 2023 shows no near-term turn around, and that "planned changes under new management (in go-to-market strategy, sales organization) carry execution risks and the timing for a meaningful and sustainable revival in growth is unclear[.]"
Following these disclosures, Yext's stock price fell $0.55 per share, or 9.29%, to close at $5.37 per share on March 9, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
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-4th Quarter Sales Increase 22% to a Record $43.2 Million-
-4th Quarter Recurring Service Revenues Increase 33% to $12.7 Million With 87% Gross Margins-
-4th Quarter Net Income Increases 36% to a Record $7.5 Million-
-4th Quarter Adjusted EBITDA* Increases 29% to $9.3 Million-
-Net Sales for the Year Increase 26% to a Record $143.6 Million-
-Net Income for the Year Increases 27% to a Record $19.6 Million-
AMITYVILLE, N.Y., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSSC), one of the leading manufacturers and designers of high-tech electronic security devices, wireless recurring communication services for intrusion and fire alarm systems as well as a leading provider of school safety solutions, today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2022.
Financial Highlights:
- Net sales for the quarter increased 22% to a quarterly record of $43.2 million as compared to $35.4 million for the same period last year. Net sales for the fiscal year increased 26% to a record $143.6 million as compared to $114 million last year.
- Recurring service revenue ("RSR") for the quarter increased 33% to $12.7 million as compared to $9.5 million for the same period last year. Recurring service revenue for the fiscal year increased 36% to $46.0 million as compared to $33.9 million for the same period last year. Recurring service revenue now has a prospective annual run rate of $54.0 million based on July 2022 recurring revenues.
- Gross margin for recurring service revenue remained robust for the quarter and year at 87% and 86%, respectively.
- Net income for the quarter increased 36% to a fourth quarter record $7.5 million as compared to $5.5 million for the same period a year ago. Net income for the year increased 27% to a record $19.6 million as compared to $15.4 million last year.
- Earnings per share (diluted) for the quarter increased 36% to $0.20 as compared to $0.15 for the same period a year ago. Earnings per share (diluted) for the fiscal year increased 27% to $0.53 as compared to $0.42 a year ago.
- Adjusted EBITDA* for the quarter increased 29% to $9.3 million as compared to $7.2 million for the same period a year ago. Adjusted EBITDA* for the fiscal year increased 13% to $22.6 million as compared to $20.1 million a year ago.
- Adjusted EBITDA* per share (diluted) for the quarter increased 25% to $0.25 as compared to $0.20 for the same period a year ago. Adjusted EBITDA* per share (diluted) for the fiscal year increased 11% to $0.61 as compared to $0.55 for the same period a year ago.
- Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities were $46.8 million at June 30, 2022, an 16% increase as compared to $40.2 million at June 30, 2021. The Company had no debt as of June 30, 2022.
- Cash Provided by Operating Activities for the fiscal year was $8.3 million as compared to $23 million for the same period last year. This decrease was primarily due to Inventories increasing by $19.3 million during fiscal 2022.
Richard Soloway, Chairman and President, commented, "Our record-breaking fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 generated strong revenue growth, as we once again achieved the highest sales for any quarter in the Company's history, $43.2 million, representing a 22% increase over last year. Both equipment revenue (up 18%) and recurring service revenue (up 33%) contributed to the year over year quarterly sales growth. This was the seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year overall sales growth. Our recurring service revenues now have a prospective annual run rate of approximately $54 million based on July 2022 recurring service revenues. Gross margin for recurring service revenue continued to be very strong for the quarter, coming in once again at 87%. I was also very pleased to see our gross margins on hardware continue to show improvement, increasing 800 basis points to 27% for the fourth quarter compared to last quarter's hardware margin of 19%. While the hardware margins continue to be affected by the ongoing impact of supply chain constraints and higher component prices, our strategy to temporarily sacrifice hardware gross margin by purchasing components at higher prices so that we can continue to manufacture radio communicators (which lead to continued high margin recurring revenue for each radio installed and operating), as well as other hardware products, is working well. Radio sales continues to be strong. This along with increased revenue from school security business, the strategic price increases we implemented in April 2022, improvements we have made to combat the ongoing supply chain issues and increased hardware sales, have allowed us to expand our hardware gross margin vs. last quarter and exceed street consensus estimates for Q4 on Revenue, EPS, Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA. Our net income for the quarter, $7.5 million, and for the year, $19.6 million were both Company records. Adjusted EBITDA* of $9.3 million for the quarter and $22.6 million for the year were also records for the NAPCO.
While we are pleased with the hardware gross margin improvement, we continue to work to restore margins to levels at or above those before the start of the supply chain crisis. Toward that goal, we are developing alternative sources for those micros that are in high demand and which are key components in our Starlink cellular radios. In addition, as hardware sales increase, gross margins should improve as a result of increased overhead absorption rates in our Dominican Republic manufacturing facility resulting from higher hardware sales levels.
Our commercial radio and fire alarm business, and the RSR associated with each, continues to significantly increase as commercial buildings must be kept secure. Additionally, the commercial fire alarm business is a mandated, non-discretionary business which means, in order to receive a certificate of occupancy for a building, a fire alarm system is mandatory and must always function in compliance with fire codes. Because of the essential nature and high profitability of this sector, the commercial fire alarm business continues to be one of the key areas on which we focus our resources.
The demand for our products continues to be very strong. Even with the aforementioned solid, record-breaking sales growth in Q4, our ability to fully meet this strong demand for our products continues to be somewhat constrained by the ongoing supply chain challenges, electronic component shortages and logistics delays. NAPCO's delivery performance has been excellent during these very difficult times. However, these aforementioned constraints have once again led to historically high backlog levels which may continue throughout calendar 2022, particularly for electronic products. The strong sales performance during Q4 was accomplished, in part, because NAPCO continues to remain focused on aggressively managing these logistical challenges to ensure that we remain well positioned to meet the needs of our customers. We continue to manage these issues by re-engineering products, searching for alternative and lower cost supply sources and delivery methods and continuing to work closely with our customers and suppliers to navigate through these extraordinary times.
Our balance sheet continues to be very strong, with cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities of $46.8 million and no debt at June 30, 2022. We also continue to leverage our strong balance sheet by purchasing difficult to get electronic components, which while resulting in a significant inventory increase, has also led to continued strong sales growth. This reflects management's strategic decision to continue to invest resources to maximizing the production and sales of its Starlink cellular radios which results in the highly profitable and continuous recurring revenue.
Our fully integrated technologies for the school security market continues to remain a top priority for NAPCO, given the overwhelming need for school security solutions. When schools re-opened last September and students returned to in-person learning, school shootings also returned, which has resulted in an uptick in activity in this sector. Now more than ever, we are laser focused on further penetration of the school security market, which is comprised of approximately 130,000 K-12's and 5,000 colleges and universities across the country, in order to supply the security solutions these schools so desperately need.
Mr. Soloway concluded, "I am very proud of our record-breaking fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 performance. We achieved record sales and record profitability despite a turbulent economic operating environment including supply-chain issues and other operational challenges. The demand for our products and services continues to be very strong. We are confident that our seasoned management team has the experience and methods from previous supply chain shortages, such as multiple micro-chip famines, to deal with the volatility associated with shortages of electronic components, increased shipping costs and raw material price inflation. School security jobs are returning, and recurring service revenue remains strong. Our fundamental strategy continues to be to provide seamless security solutions for our customers and to continue to grow recurring revenue, now at a $54 million run rate, with both existing products as well as new ones, such as the unique to the industry AirAccess® products, which should generate a new stream of recurring revenue from the locking and access control segments of our business. Now, all of our major product lines will be in position to generate recurring revenue. As we enter fiscal 2023, we continue to remain focused on delivering significant value to our shareholders by generating continued strong record-breaking revenue growth as well as increased profitability for fiscal 2023 and beyond."
Financial Results
Net sales for the quarter increased 22% to a quarterly record of $43.2 million, as compared to $35.4 million for the same period one year ago. Net sales for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 increased 26% to a record $143.6 million as compared to $114.0 million for the same period a year ago. Research and development costs for the quarter increased 8% to $2.1 million or 5% of sales as compared to $1.9 million or 5% of sales for the same quarter a year ago. Research and development costs for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 increased 5% to $8.0 million or 6% of sales as compared to $7.6 million or 7% of sales for the same period last year. Selling, general and administrative expenses for the quarter increased 24% to $8.9 million or 21% of net sales, as compared to $7.2 million, or 20% of sales for the same period last year. Selling, general and administrative expenses for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 increased 31% to $32.9 million or 23% of net sales as compared to $25.2 million or 22% of net sales for the same period last year. The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses was due primarily to increased sales incentive compensation relating to the increase in net sales, as well as increases in tradeshow, stock-based compensation and legal expenses.
Operating income for the quarter increased 25% to $8.2 million as compared to $6.6 million for the same period last year. Operating income for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 increased 2% to 18.2 million as compared to $17.9 million for the same period last year. Net income for the quarter increased 36% to a fourth quarter record $7.5 million or $0.20 per diluted share as compared to $5.5 million or $0.15 per diluted share for the same period last year. Net income for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 increased 27% to a record $19.6 million or $0.53 per diluted share as compared to $15.4 million or $0.42 per diluted share in the same period last year. Operating income and net income for the quarter and fiscal year continue to be impacted by supply chain disruptions, which affected hardware gross margins, as well as the aforementioned increase in selling, general and administrative expenses.
Net income and earnings per share for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 both reflected Other income of $3.9 million which resulted from extinguishment of debt during the quarter ended September 30, 2021. Without such benefit, net income and earnings per share would have been $15.7 million and $0.43, respectively.
Adjusted EBITDA* for the quarter increased 29% to $9.3, million, or $0.25 per diluted share, as compared to $7.2 million, or $0.20 per diluted share for the same period last year. Adjusted EBITDA for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 increased 13% to $22.3 million or $0.61 per diluted share as compared to $20.1 million or $0.55 per diluted share in the same period last year.
Balance Sheet Summary
At June 30, 2022, the Company had $46.8 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities as compared to $40.2 million as of June 30, 2021. Working capital (defined as current assets less current liabilities) was $93.1 million at June 30, 2022 as compared with working capital of $75.4 million at June 30, 2021. Current ratio (defined as current assets divided by current liabilities) was 4.5:1 at June 30, 2022, and 4.7:1 at June 30, 2021.
Conference Call Information
Management will conduct a conference call at 11 a.m. ET today, August 29 ,2022. Interested parties may participate in the call by dialing 1-877-407-4018 or for international callers, 1-201-689-8471, about 5-10 minutes prior to the start time of 11 a.m. ET. The conference call will also be available on replay starting at 2 p.m. ET on August 29, 2022 and ending on Monday September 5, 2022, 11:59 PM ET. For the replay, please dial 1-844-512-2921 domestically, or 1-412-317-6671 for international callers, and use the replay access code 13732519. In addition, the call will be webcast and will be available on the Company's website at www.napcosecurity.com.
About NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc.
NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc., is one of the leading manufacturers and designers of high-tech electronic security devices, wireless recurring communication services for intrusion and fire alarm systems as well as a leading provider of school safety solutions, The Company consists of four Divisions: NAPCO, plus three wholly owned subsidiaries: Alarm Lock, Continental Instruments, and Marks USA. Headquartered in Amityville, New York, its products are installed by tens of thousands of security professionals worldwide in commercial, industrial, institutional, residential and government applications. NAPCO products have earned a reputation for innovation, technical excellence and reliability, positioning the Company for growth in the multi-billion dollar and rapidly expanding electronic security market. For additional information on NAPCO, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.napcosecurity.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections of future performance based on management's judgment, beliefs, current trends, and anticipated product performance. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic; the growth of recurring service revenue and annual run rate; the introduction of new access control and locking products; the opportunities for fire alarm products; and our ability to execute our business strategies. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including those risk factors set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as our annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Other unknown or unpredictable factors or underlying assumptions subsequently proving to be incorrect could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, level of activity, performance, or achievements. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. All information provided in this press release is as of today's date, unless otherwise stated, and the Company undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
*Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Certain non-GAAP measures are included in this press release, including non-GAAP operating income and Adjusted EBITDA. We define Adjusted EBITDA as GAAP net income plus income tax expense, net interest expense, non-cash stock-based expense, non-recurring legal expense and depreciation and amortization expense. Non-GAAP operating income does not include amortization of intangibles or stock-based compensation expense. These non-GAAP measures are provided to enhance the user's overall understanding of our financial performance. By excluding these charges our non-GAAP results provide information to management and investors that is useful in assessing NAPCO's core operating performance and in comparing our results of operations on a consistent basis from period to period. Our use of non-GAAP financial measures has certain limitations in that such non-GAAP financial measures may not be directly comparable to those reported by other companies. For example, the terms used in this press release, such as Adjusted EBITDA, do not have a standardized meaning. Other companies may use the same or similarly named measures, but exclude different items, which may not provide investors with a comparable view of our performance in relation to other companies. The presentation of this information is not meant to be a substitute for the corresponding financial measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Investors are encouraged to review the reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures set forth above.
Contacts:
Patrick McKillop
Vice President of Investor Relations
NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc.
Office 800-645-9445 x 374
Mobile 516-404-3597
pmckillop@napcosecurity.com
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Nearly 30 years later, man earns diploma after dropping out of high school
JOHNSTON, S.C. (WRDW/Gray News) - Twenty-nine years after dropping out of high school, a South Carolina man got his diploma.
Clyde Welch told WRDW that he is feeling a sense of accomplishment, even though he’s already owned a business for 20 years and has five children.
Welch, 43, graduated Friday through the GED program at Edgefield-McCormick County Adult Education and Family Literacy.
“When I was 15, things were difficult at home,” he said. “No one in my family had graduated from high school. My living conditions were bad, so I got a full-time job.”
On his second day of 10th grade, Welch withdrew, eventually left the area, and never returned to high school. He got married, started a family, and launched Augusta Appliance Repairs and Service, which he has owned for almost 20 years.
“I have a good life but want to do more and continue my education,” he said. “I feel drawn to complete a certificate course in theology and eventually obtain an engineering degree.”
Welch also said his faith played a vital role in entering the GED program.
“God told me to get my GED,” he said. “Preparing for the tests was tough at times, but I knew it was important and that I would work hard until I could make it happen.”
Welch said he got support from everyone in his family, including his wife, two adult children, and three teens. His 16-year-old even tutored him in science.
“Mr. Welch has shown that it is never too late to complete your educational goals,” said Vickie Butler, director of Edgefield-McCormick County Adult Education and Family Literacy. “Our staff is ready to help community members of any age, background and education level get started on accomplishing their dreams.”
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LAS VEGAS, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CISEVE today announced the Company's Board of Directors selected Col Michelle Gill as the inaugural intern for the newly created C-Suite Training Program. Col Gill brings with her over 22 years of active-duty experience to include numerous senior staff military headquarters positions in Engineering, Joint and International Strategy, and Cybersecurity. She is a two-time international Squadron Commander, having led organizations between 400 and 800 personnel.
CISEVE, a front-line provider of Cyber Specialists who focus on supporting, preparing, and assessing cyber security and compliance requirements, is pleased to join forces with the Department of Defense to be a SkillBridge Industry Partner at all position levels. Our offered internship program enables military personnel to work with CISEVE executives and highly skilled employees with the aim of rapidly converting military experience into desired civilian leadership and management positions. "As a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Company, we are constantly looking for ways to tap into the skills and talents of Veterans," said Michael Dempsey, CISEVE's COO. "SkillBridge is a great public-private partnership helping transitioning service members gain high quality private sector employment. We are excited to Welcome Michelle as our first C-Suite Intern. Her leadership, management, and system development skills are a tremendous asset," continued Dempsey.
"I am honored to be selected to join CISEVE via this internship," said Col Gill. "There is great fulfillment knowing the skills I bring from the military are valued in the private sector. Specifically, CISEVE provides great corporate growth opportunity as the Company is an Authorized CMMC C3PAO."
SkillBridge is a Department of Defense program which allows active-duty personnel to spend up to 180 days of permissive duty focusing solely on training full-time with approved industry partners. To learn more about the program, visit www.skillbridge.osd.mil.
CISEVE is an organization committed to servicing our clients with the highest integrity and quality. Our reliable, professional, certified, and cleared staff provide services to a variety of industries through a commitment to confidentiality and integrity. CISEVE is led by cybersecurity experts from various fields and backgrounds with over 60 years of total experience that pull together to provide the most current and secure approaches to protecting and assessing organizations. Preparation and Assessment services include CMMC, FISMA, ISO, SOC 2, 508 compliance and NIST SP800-171. For more information visit CISEVE.com.
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Man credits TV show for multi-winning lottery experiment idea
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Gray News) – A man in South Carolina says a television show gave him a winning idea for a lottery experiment.
He decided to spend $25 a week playing the lottery for three months after watching an episode of TLC’s “Lottery Changed My Life.”
He won $500 the first week and $100,000 on a Powerball ticket the seventh.
“I didn’t even know how to play Powerball,” he laughed.
According to the South Carolina Lottery, the man thought he matched two numbers but his wife noticed he had the Powerball number.
After a second look, he realized five numbers matched, one short of winning the jackpot in the drawing on May 28.
Lottery officials say he spent the extra $1 for PowerPlay so his $50,000 prize doubled to $100,000 when a “2″ multiplier was drawn.
Since cashing in his win, the man has bought a car and still plans to spend $25 a week on lottery tickets.
“I’m going to finish out the three months,” he said.
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LONDON, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC (NYSE: IGT) ("IGT"), announces the launch of an offer to purchase for cash (the "Tender Offer") up to US$500,000,000 aggregate principal amount (the "Maximum Acceptance Amount") of its outstanding US$1,100,000,000 6.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 (the "Dollar Notes") and its outstanding €500,000,000 3.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 (the "Euro Notes", and together with the Dollar Notes, the "Notes"), subject to the Acceptance Priority Levels set forth in the table below (with one (1) being the higher Acceptance Priority Level and two (2) being the lower Acceptance Priority Level) and the Dollar Offer Sub Cap (as defined below). The Tender Offer is made upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated September 2, 2022 (the "Offer to Purchase").
The Tender Offer will expire at 11:59 P.M. (New York City time) on September 30, 2022 (unless the Tender Offer is extended or terminated) (such time and date, as the same may be extended, the "Expiration Time").
To receive the Total Dollar Consideration (as defined below), which includes an early tender premium of US$30.00 per US$1,000.00 principal amount of the Dollar Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer (the "Early Dollar Tender Premium") or the Total Euro Consideration (as defined below), which includes an early tender premium of €30.00 per €1,000.00 principal amount of the Euro Notes accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer (the "Early Euro Tender Premium"), Holders must validly tender and not validly withdraw their Notes prior to 5:00 P.M. (New York City time) on September 16, 2022 (unless the Tender Offer is extended or terminated) (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Early Tender Time"). Holders who tender their Notes may withdraw such Notes at any time prior to 5:00 P.M. (New York City time) on September 16, 2022.
Holders who validly tender their Dollar Notes or their Euro Notes after the Early Tender Time but at or prior to the Expiration Time will be eligible to receive only the Dollar Tender Offer Consideration (which is an amount equal to the difference between the Total Dollar Consideration and the Early Dollar Tender Premium) or the Euro Tender Offer Consideration (which is an amount equal to the difference between the Total Euro Consideration and the Early Euro Tender Premium), respectively.
The following table sets forth certain terms of the Tender Offer:
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In addition to the Dollar Tender Offer Consideration, the Total Dollar Consideration, the Euro Tender Offer Consideration or the Total Euro Consideration (as applicable), all Holders of Notes accepted for purchase will also receive accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes, rounded to the nearest US$0.01 per US$1,000.00 principal amount of the Dollar Notes and €0.01 per €1,000.00 principal amount of the Euro Notes from the last interest payment date up to, but not including, the Early Settlement Date (as defined below) or the Final Settlement Date (as defined below) (as applicable).
Notes of one or both series may be subject to modified proration if the aggregate principal amount of Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn (with the aggregate principal amount of the Euro Notes converted to US dollars using the Exchange Rate) as of the Early Tender Time or the Expiration Time (as applicable) would cause the Maximum Acceptance Amount to be exceeded or the aggregate principal amount of the Dollar Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn as of the Early Tender Time or the Expiration Time (as applicable) would cause the Dollar Offer Sub Cap to be exceeded. Furthermore, regardless of the Acceptance Priority Level, Notes tendered at or prior to the Early Tender Time will be accepted for purchase in priority to Notes tendered after the Early Tender Time, and to the extent Notes are tendered at or prior to the Early Tender Time and accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer, the portion of the Maximum Acceptance Amount (which shall be applied subject to the Acceptance Priority Levels) and the Dollar Offer Sub Cap available for the purchase of Notes tendered after the Early Tender Time will be reduced or may be eliminated completely.
The Tender Offer is conditioned upon, among other things, IGT, in its sole and absolute discretion, being satisfied that it has received, or will receive, by the Early Settlement Date an amount of net proceeds of the sale of the shares of LIS Holdings S.p.A. by an indirect subsidiary of IGT to PostePay S.p.A. which would be sufficient to finance the payment by IGT of the sum of (1) the sum of the Total Dollar Consideration and the Dollar Tender Offer Consideration with respect to all Dollar Notes validly tendered and accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer to Purchase and (2) the sum of the Total Euro Consideration and the Euro Tender Offer Consideration with respect to all Euro Notes validly tendered and accepted for purchase pursuant to the Offer to Purchase.
It is expected that payment for Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Early Tender Time will be made promptly following the Early Tender Time, on September 20, 2022 (the "Early Settlement Date"), and payment for Notes validly tendered after the Early Tender Time but at or prior to the Expiration Time will be made on October 4, 2022 (the "Final Settlement Date").
Subject to applicable law and the terms and conditions of the Offer to Purchase, IGT may change the Acceptance Priority Levels and increase or decrease either or both of the Maximum Acceptance Amount and the Dollar Offer Sub Cap without extending the Early Tender Time or the Expiration Time or otherwise providing withdrawal rights. IGT may also terminate the Tender Offer, waive any or all of the conditions of the Tender Offer prior to the Expiration Time, extend the Expiration Time or amend the terms of the Tender Offer.
IGT has retained D.F. King & Co. to act as Tender and Information Agent for the Tender Offer. Questions regarding procedures for tendering Notes may be directed to D.F. King & Co.
D.F. King & Co.
By Mail, Hand or Overnight Courier:
48 Wall Street, 22nd Floor
New York, New York 10005
Attention: Michael Horthman
Email: igt@dfking.com
U.S. Toll Free: +1 (800) 706-3274
Banks and brokers: +1 (212) 269-5550
Joint Lead Dealer Managers
None of IGT, the guarantors of the Notes, the Dealer Managers, the Tender and Information Agent or the trustee (nor any director, officer, employee, agent or affiliate of, any such person) makes any recommendation whether holders should tender or refrain from tendering Notes pursuant to the Tender Offer. Holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender Notes and, if so, the principal amount of the Notes to tender.
This news release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security. No offer, solicitation or sale will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful. The Tender Offer is only being made pursuant to the Offer to Purchase. Holders of the Notes are urged to carefully read the Offer to Purchase before making any decision with respect to the Tender Offer.
The distribution of announcement release in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law. Persons into whose possession this announcement comes are required by each of IGT, the Dealer Managers and the Tender and Information Agent to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions.
OFFER AND DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS
Neither this news release nor the Offer to Purchase constitutes an invitation to participate in the Tender Offer in or from any jurisdiction in or from which, or to any person to or from whom, it is unlawful to make such invitation or for there to be such participation under applicable securities laws and regulations. The distribution of this news release and the Offer to Purchase in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by laws and regulations. Persons into whose possession this news release or the Offer to Purchase comes are required by each of IGT, the Dealer Managers and the Tender and Information Agent to inform themselves about, and to observe, any such restrictions.
United Kingdom
The communication of this news release and any other documents or materials relating to the Tender Offer is not being made, and such documents or materials have not been approved, by an authorized person for the purposes of Section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended (the "FSMA"). Accordingly, such documents or materials are not being distributed to, and must not be passed on to, the general public in the United Kingdom. The communication of such documents or materials is exempt from the restriction on financial promotions under Section 21 of the FSMA on the basis that it is only directed at and may be communicated to (i) persons who have professional experience in matters relating to investments, being investment professionals as defined in Article 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (the "Financial Promotion Order"); (ii) persons who fall within Article 43(2) of the Financial Promotion Order; or (iii) any other persons to whom these documents or materials may lawfully be made under the Financial Promotion Order. Any investment or investment activity to which this news release relates is available only to such persons or will be engaged only with such persons and other persons should not rely on it.
European Economic Area
In any European Economic Area Member State, this news release is only addressed to and is only directed at qualified investors in that Member State within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, together with any applicable implementing measures in any Member State.
Italy
None of the Tender Offer, this news release or any other document or materials relating to the Tender Offer have been or will be submitted to the clearance procedures of the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa ("CONSOB") pursuant to Italian laws and regulations. The Offer is being carried out in Italy as an exempted offer pursuant to article 101-bis, paragraph 3-bis of Legislative Decree No. 58 of February 24, 1998, as amended (the "Financial Services Act") and article 35-bis, paragraph 3 of CONSOB Regulation No. 11971 of 14 May 1999, as amended. Holders or beneficial owners of the Notes that are located in Italy can tender Notes for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer through authorized persons (such as investment firms, banks or financial intermediaries permitted to conduct such activities in the Republic of Italy in accordance with the Financial Services Act, CONSOB Regulation No. 20307 of February 15, 2018, as amended from time to time, and Legislative Decree No. 385 of September 1, 1993, as amended) and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations or with requirements imposed by CONSOB or any other Italian authority.
France
The Offer is not being made, directly or indirectly, to the public in the Republic of France ("France"). Neither this news release nor any other document or material relating to the Tender Offer has been or shall be distributed to the public in France and only qualified investors (investisseurs qualifies) within the meaning of Article 2(e) of the Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the "Prospectus Regulation"), are eligible to participate in the Tender Offer. This news release has not been and will not be submitted for clearance to nor approved by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
General
This news release does not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Notes (and tenders of Notes pursuant to the Tender Offer will not be accepted from Holders) in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. In those jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws require the Tender Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer and any Dealer Manager or any of the Dealer Managers' respective affiliates is such a licensed broker or dealer in any such jurisdiction, the Tender Offer shall be deemed to be made by such Dealer Manager or affiliate, as the case may be, on behalf of IGT in such jurisdiction.
In addition to the representations referred to above with respect to the United States, each Holder participating in the Tender Offer will also be deemed to give certain representations with respect to the other jurisdictions referred to above and generally as set out in "The Offer—Procedures for Participating in the Offer (Dollar Notes)" and "The Offer—Procedures for Participating in the Offer (Euro Notes)". Any tender of Notes for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer from a Holder that is unable to make these representations will not be accepted. Each of IGT, each Dealer Manager and the Tender and Information Agent reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to investigate, in relation to any tender of Notes for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer, whether any such representation given by a Holder is correct and, if such investigation is undertaken and as a result IGT determines (for any reason) that such representation is not correct, such tender shall not be accepted.
About IGT
IGT (NYSE:IGT) is the global leader in gaming. We deliver entertaining and responsible gaming experiences for players across all channels and regulated segments, from Lotteries and Gaming Machines to Sports Betting and Digital. Leveraging a wealth of compelling content, substantial investment in innovation, player insights, operational expertise, and leading-edge technology, our solutions deliver unrivaled gaming experiences that engage players and drive growth. We have a well-established local presence and relationships with governments and regulators in more than 100 countries around the world, and create value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. IGT has approximately 10,500 employees. For more information, please visit www.IGT.com.
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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tacony Corporation has introduced a new Baby Lock product lineup from its Tacony Sewing Division. The new product line is now available at Baby Lock retailers and showcases new products for expert to beginner-level sewists. Customers who purchase a Baby Lock product will join the Baby Lock community, where they'll receive hands-on retailer support and customer service, as well as hundreds of free projects, invitations to exclusive Baby Lock online communities, access to more than 1,000 sewing videos, and more.
"Our new lineup of sewing, embroidery, and quilting machines and accessories are packed with features that allow sewists to unlock their creativity," said Susanne Voss, director of brand marketing at Tacony Sewing Division. "Plus, each new machine comes with a Get Started Kit to provide Baby Lock owners with everything they need to begin creating and keep creating."
Solaris Vision Sewing, Embroidery, and Quilting Machine
- The IQ Visionary™ Projector vividly displays stitches and embroidery designs on the fabric for perfect placement.
- The included 10-5/8" x 16" hoop is Baby Lock's largest hoop. It makes it possible to stitch out large embroidery designs with fewer rehoopings. Also included is a 10-5/8" x 10-5/8" hoop size which is perfect for quilt blocks.
- With IQ™ Designer and IQ Intuition™ Positioning quilters can create designs and quilt motifs with ease. Draw directly on the screen, scan in favorite artwork, upload an existing file using a USB drive, or wirelessly send artwork to the machine from a smartphone using the IQ Intuition Positioning App. The art will be instantly converted for embroidery.
- Achieve perfect stitches using the built-in camera and endpoint sewing stickers. Simply place the sticker where you want your stitch to end, activate the endpoint sewing feature and sew with confidence.
- Create beautiful edge-to-edge quilting projects using the 10 built-in patterns. Enter a few measurements, select a hoop, specify flip options, and the Solaris Vision sets up the entire quilt. The on-screen instructions and design projections guide you every step of the way for quilts measuring up to 118" x 118."
Bloom Embroidery and Sewing Machine
- 251 built-in stitches and 342 built-in embroidery designs
- Embroider large designs with the included 5"x7" and 5"x12" embroidery hoops.
- By using Design Database Transfer, sewists can easily send designs from their computer to the machine. Also, when a WLAN connection is enabled, sewists will receive notifications when new updates are available for the machine.
- Easily and automatically cut threads before moving to another segment of the design. Thread no longer travels across the hoop or the design, making embroidery cleaner than ever.
Aurora Embroidery and Sewing Machine
- 191 built-in stitches and 303 built-in embroidery designs
- The included 4"x 4" hoop is perfect for personalizing projects with any of the Aurora's built-in embroidery designs and fonts.
- By using Design Database Transfer, sewists can easily send designs from their computer to the machine. Also, when a WLAN connection is enabled, sewists will receive notifications when new updates are available for the machine.
Allegro Quilting and Sewing Machine
- The Allegro has an expanded throat space of 12" to the right of the needle that provides plenty of room to work comfortably on large quilts and projects.
- 200 built-in stitches, including 56 utility stitches with 11 one-step buttonhole styles, 144 decorative stitch patterns, and 2 built-in alphabets.
- The needle up/down feature allows sewists to choose to have the needle start in the up or down position, eliminating interruptions and making it easier to complete projects faster. It's the perfect option for chain piecing and appliqué.
- Choose stitches, adjust stitch length and width, mirror image, and more using the LCD screen.
Solaris Embroidery and Sewing Upgrade 3
- Enhancements include edge-to-edge quilting features, fine-tipped stylus pen, long-stitch embroidery designs, advanced multi-function foot control, advanced monogramming foot N+, and more.
In addition to the new machines, several new Baby Lock accessories are available exclusively at Baby Lock retailers, including easy-to-use magnetic embroidery hoops, foot kits, and more.
To learn more about the new Baby Lock products, visit www.babylock.com.
Founded in 1946, Tacony Corporation is a privately held manufacturing and distribution company that provides your world with better solutions for sewing, cleaning and home. With more than 350 associates in eight offices around the world, under the leadership of CEO Kristi Tacony Humes, Tacony's mission is to create long-lasting relationships that are based on trust and feel like family. For more information, visit www.tacony.com.
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Suncoast resident takes home the gold in U.S. Rowing Championship
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The U.S. Rowing Masters National Championships have concluded, and one Suncoast resident overcame his circumstances to win the Gold.
In 2013, Elliot Vasquez suffered a spinal cord injury after a car crash. The Injury left him paralyzed from the T5 and T6 region down. Vasquez had a background in hand cycling and transferred those skills towards rowing after his recovery.
“It feels amazing out there. Once I got into this sport it was a leisure activity for me” Vasquez stated. “It was just a casual, good time in the water, and then I figured, let’s find out how we can be as efficient as possible here on the water. That’s when I got competitive with the sport”.
The Championships began on August 11th and included nearly 100 rowing clubs from across the nation. Vasquez is a member of the New Crew SRQ Collegiate Rowing Club and won gold in his event.
Vasquez aims to create an adaptive sports community in Sarasota and Manatee Counties to give everyone the resources they need to the best they can be.
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ALIQUIPPA, Pa., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PGT Trucking Inc., a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services, announces the addition of Robert Hoelke to the Executive Leadership Team as Senior Vice President, Commercial.
"In this role, Bob will be responsible for developing new client relationships, expanding our business opportunities throughout North America and continuing to build upon PGT's quality customer service model," stated Gregg Troian, PGT Trucking President.
Hoelke brings over two decades of experience in sales leadership and business development within the steel industry, with a strong commitment to building relationships, driving revenue and developing top-performing teams through innovative strategies and a focus on customer service and satisfaction. In addition, Hoelke concentrated on growing sales efforts in various end markets and developing cost-effective transit solutions for customers.
"I am fortunate to have this opportunity to be part of PGT Trucking, a company that is revolutionizing the way businesses ship freight," said Hoelke. "I am excited to help the company expand into new markets while continuing to deliver the highest level of customer service and personal relationships."
Hoelke holds his bachelor's degree in logistics from The Pennsylvania State University and his Strategic Metals Management Certificate from Washington University in St. Louis. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, he currently resides in Franklin Park, PA, with his wife and children.
"PGT Trucking is leading the transportation industry in progressive freight solutions," added Troian. "With Bob's direction, we are excited to bring new, forward-thinking initiatives and dynamic strategies to our business development platform, continuing to drive the Future of Flatbed."
PGT Trucking, Inc., is a multi-service transportation firm offering flatbed, dedicated, international and specialized services. PGT is the leader in progressive freight transportation and fleet evolution, exceeding customer expectations with a strong focus on the Future of FlatbedSM. At PGT Trucking, "Safety is Everyone's Job – All the Time." Visit www.pgttrucking.com.
Contact: Katie Irvine, PGT Trucking
Phone: 724.987.1812 Email: kirvine@pgttrucking.com
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VIDEO: Woman celebrates 102nd birthday after getting COVID twice
COLQUITT, Ga. (WALB/Gray News) - A Georgia woman recently celebrated her 102nd birthday.
Emma Smith celebrated her milestone birthday on May 14 and credited her long life to her faith, and for a good reason.
WALB reports she was sent home to die a few years ago after taking a fall. Also, since the pandemic began, she caught COVID twice.
On her 100th birthday, Smith’s family asked for community support amid the pandemic. They asked for 100 cards to be delivered but instead, they ended up being gifted 250!
Smith was born in Alabama and has spent most of her life in the South. She also has a long list of relatives who have crossed or gotten near the century mark.
The 102-year-old said she has not had alcohol or smoked in her life, and nowadays, she’s not up to a lot, but two things that keep her interested are quilting and flowers.
Smith has made over 200 quilts in her life.
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Continuing coverage: How meth affects more than just the user in Grayson County
GRAYSON COUNTY, Texas (KXII) - Methamphetamine use affects more than just the user.
In our continuing coverage of Grayson County’s relationship with meth, News 12 talks about the people who have relationships with someone using it.
Law enforcement sees this drug on a daily, sometimes hourly basis, but they aren’t the only ones.
Kids, family members, and anyone who is around this narcotic can be hurt by it, even if they aren’t using it.
“One of the most dangerous things are the side effects that come with having a parent on drugs around kids, often times those kids are subjected to sexual misconduct, serious abuse and neglect, if a dads in jail, if a moms in jail, who’s watching the kids…?” Family Law Attorney Britton Brooks said.
Methamphetamine accounts for about 95% of the drug arrests in Grayson County.
“The most common drug that we see here in Texoma causing divorces is methamphetamine,” Brooks said.
According to a family law attorney, Britton Brooks, about a third of his cases involve serious drugs or alcohol use.
“When you’re working the street and you go to these calls and everything and you have a three year old walk up to you holding a meth pipe, that’s tough and it’s just because somebody left it laying and all that stuff, you may not be able to see narcotics that are immediately laying around but that’s actually happened to our folks here.”
Brooks said one of the things he sees the most in cases involving substantial amounts of narcotics is property or child custody disputes.
“One of the biggest problems that I see is when there is a family member or parent on methamphetamine or any other hard drugs they are spending a lot of their time in jail when they are in jail they can not raise their kids and their children are being raised by grandparents, siblings, and sometimes strangers,” Brooks said.
Captain Hall said meth causes weight loss, violence, and increased paranoia.
“You know people that get addicted to narcotics they don’t really care about anything else it’s where the next high comes from and so they’ll steal from their families, they’ll lie to their families, they’ll manipulate their families in certain ways to get what they need,” Captain Hall said.
Captain Hall said with addiction in the picture, families and loved ones can become collateral damage.
“When one parent or both parents are on drugs one thing that they can not do is raise children properly, they have the kids around the drugs, they have other drug users around the children which leads to many other problems,” Brooks said.
Brooks said when he has clients who are dealing with addiction, he said his first action is to help get them off the drug and get them help like counseling and rehabilitation centers.
If you or someone you know is battling an addiction, you can find help here.
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Sisters revive a drowning child at campground swimming pool
NEW HAMPTON, N.H. (WMUR) – Two sisters revived a drowning child at a swimming pool in New Hampshire over the weekend.
One of the sisters is a nurse who was in the right place at the right time.
They said they couldn’t have done it, though, without the help of a little boy whose name they still don’t know.
“He definitely saved her life, because if he didn’t get there in time and didn’t alert everybody. No way,” Nicole Allen said.
Allen and her sister Heather, a nurse, were in the shallow end of a pool at the Adventure Bound Campground with their sons when they heard the boy call out for help as he was cradling a limp girl in his arms.
“She had one of the goggle face masks on it was filled with water, so we pulled that off. She has the blue lips. Cold. Unresponsive,” Allen said.
The sisters launched into tandem CPR.
“I did compressions for three rounds, we did breaths twice,” Allen explained. “The girl coughed up a lot of the water and started to breath on her own -- it was labored but we put her in the rest position.”
A month ago, almost to the day, Allen’s sister lost her own 2-year-old son to drowning.
“I’m 32 and I’ve never seen anyone drown. And to have two incidents in a month,” Allen said.
On this day, a grieving mother saved another mother from the unending heartache of losing a child.
“I don’t know how my sister did it,” Allen said.
Adventure Bound Campground didn’t respond to a request for comment on the incident.
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(The Hill) — A man who was tried in connection to his wife’s disappearance pleaded guilty Thursday to submitting a fraudulent ballot on her behalf for former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election.
Barry Morphew told law enforcement he figured “all these other guys are cheating” and that his wife Suzanne would have voted for Trump anyway, according to an affidavit acquired by KKTV Colorado.
The defendant was arrested in May 2021, but was already in police custody because of his suspected role in his wife Suzanne Morphew’s disappearance.
Morphew was offered a plea deal allowing charges of attempting to influence a public servant and elections offense, to be dropped if he plead guilty to the forgery charge. Now he faces a year of supervised probation for the charge.
The murder case against Barry Morphew was “dismissed without prejudice” after Suzanne Morphew’s body was unable to be located, according to the case file.
Barry Morphew was not pronounced not guilty, meaning that the case could be refiled if new evidence is found, including his wife’s body.
Suzanne Morphew disappeared in May 2020 and still has not been recovered.
However, law enforcement said last year that they believed themselves to be “close to discovering the victim’s body.”
“The People were hopeful that the search for, and the discovery of, the victim’s body would be concluded well before trial, but weather has complicated the efforts,” the prosecution claimed according to KKTV.
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Buffalo grocery store that was site of mass shooting to reopen this week
Published: Jul. 12, 2022 at 9:03 AM CDT|Updated: 6 minutes ago
BUFFALO, N.Y. (CNN) – The grocery store in Buffalo where 10 people died in a mass shooting on May 14 is set to reopen this week.
Tops Friendly Markets will officially reopen to the public Friday.
The reopening comes two months after an 18-year-old gunman carried out what authorities say was a racially motivated attack against Black people.
The suspect is facing numerous charges, including murder and attempted murder as a hate crime.
Thursday marks the two-month anniversary of the mass shooting. A memorial service will be held that day to remember the victims and employees affected by the tragedy.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Safehold Inc. (NYSE: SAFE) reported results for the second quarter 2022.
SAFE published a presentation detailing these results which can be found on its website, www.safeholdinc.com in the "Investor Relations" section.
Highlights from the earnings announcement include:
- Q2 '22 earnings per share were $0.37, a 32% increase year-over-year
- Q2 '22 revenue was $64.9 million, a 47% increase year-over-year
- Closed $381 million1 of new originations in Q2'22, bringing total aggregate portfolio to $5.9 billion
- Portfolio generates annualized in-place cash rent of $178 million with an annualized yield of 5.1% and an inflation-adjusted yield of 5.6% (based on the Federal Reserve's current 30-year inflation expectation of 2.22%)
- UCA grew by an estimated $543 million in Q2'22, bringing total UCA to an estimated $9.9 billion
"Safehold reported a strong second quarter with over $380 million of new originations, growing the portfolio by 7% quarter-over-quarter to $5.9 billion," said Jay Sugarman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "With $930 million of available liquidity at the end of the quarter, Safehold is well positioned to fund additional ground lease opportunities."
The Company will host an earnings conference call reviewing this presentation beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET. This conference call will be broadcast live and can be accessed by all interested parties through Safehold's website and by using the dial-in information listed below:
A replay of the call will be archived on the Company's website. Alternatively, the replay can be accessed via dial-in from 2:30 p.m. ET on August 3, 2022 through 12:00 a.m. ET on August 17, 2022 by calling:
About Safehold:
Safehold Inc. (NYSE: SAFE) is revolutionizing real estate ownership by providing a new and better way for owners to unlock the value of the land beneath their buildings. Having created the modern ground lease industry in 2017, Safehold continues to help owners of high quality multifamily, office, industrial, hospitality, student housing, life science and mixed-use properties generate higher returns with less risk. The Company, which is taxed as a real estate investment trust (REIT) and is managed by its largest shareholder, iStar Inc., seeks to deliver safe, growing income and long-term capital appreciation to its shareholders. Additional information on Safehold is available on its website at www.safeholdinc.com.
Company Contact:
Jason Fooks
Senior Vice President
Investor Relations & Marketing
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Construction along Hollywood Walk of Fame set for 2023
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Construction along the Hollywood Walk of Fame will begin next summer to make streetscape improvements for pedestrians and transit riders. Los Angeles Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell says the construction is expected to include an expanded pedestrian zone on part of Hollywood Boulevard, as well as sidewalk dining, bicycle racks, bus shelters, benches and landscaping. O’Farrell represents Hollywood. Money for the improvements comes from LA Metro’s Measure M, which was approved by voters in 2016 as a half-cent sales tax measure to fund traffic, transit and transportation projects. The LA Metro Board voted last year to put $7.2 million in Measure M funding toward the Hollywood Boulevard construction.
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NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Kennel Club (AKC®) is excited to announce that the AKC Flyball Dog Challenge, brought to you by presenting and official sponsors The Farmer's Dog and YuMOVE, will be broadcast on ESPN2. The competition will premiere on Saturday, June 25th at 1pm ET.
This invitational event, held in collaboration with North American Flyball Association, took place on May 22, 2022, in Concord, NC. Eight teams from the United States and Canada competed over two days.
"We're thrilled to introduce ESPN viewers to a variety of dog sports, and Flyball is as exciting as they come," said Gina DiNardo, AKC Executive Secretary. "This canine relay race is sure to keep viewers on the edge of their seats!"
The broadcast will be hosted by sportscaster Carolyn Manno, including sideline reporter Bill Ellis and analysis by Ashley Hilliker.
Founded in 1884, the American Kennel Club is a not-for-profit organization, which maintains the largest registry of purebred dogs in the world and oversees the sport of purebred dogs in the United States. The AKC is dedicated to upholding the integrity of its registry, promoting the sport of purebred dogs and breeding for type and function. Along with its more than 5,000 licensed and member clubs and its affiliated organizations, the AKC advocates for the purebred dog as a family companion, advances canine health and well-being, works to protect the rights of all dog owners and promotes responsible dog ownership. More than 22,000 competitions for AKC-registered purebred and mixed breed dogs are held under AKC rules and regulations each year including conformation, agility, obedience, rally, tracking, herding, lure coursing, coonhound events, hunt tests, field and earthdog tests. Affiliate AKC organizations include the AKC Humane Fund, AKC Canine Health Foundation, AKC Reunite and the AKC Museum of the Dog. For more information, visit www.akc.org.
AKC, American Kennel Club, the American Kennel Club seal and design, and all associated marks and logos are trademarks, registered trademarks and service marks of The American Kennel Club, Inc.
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Police: Man arrested for sexually assaulting disabled teen over four-year period
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN/Gray News) - Police in Nebraska have arrested a man for sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled teen over the course of several years.
KOLN reports Lancaster County deputies were called to a Lincoln-area school on Tuesday following a report from a student who said they’d been sexually assaulted by someone they knew.
Police said the teenager was interviewed by the Child Advocacy Center, and a search warrant was then produced to inspect a man’s home.
Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner said the teen explained to investigators that the assaults had been happening over the last three to four years.
Police searched a 53-year-old man’s home before arresting him Tuesday evening. Sheriff Wagner said the man is a convicted felon and had two firearms in his home.
The man was arrested for first-degree sexual assault, abuse of a vulnerable adult, strangulation and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s office.
Sheriff Wagner said the 53-year-old had been arrested in Texas back in 2005 for indecency with a child but the charge was later dismissed in 2006.
KOLN reports it is not releasing the name of the man arrested to better protect the teen’s identity.
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| 2022-04-13T22:58:57Z
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St. Francis shows off new Orthopedic and Sports Medicine clinic
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis is excited about its newly renovated space on the west side of town.
The hospital held an open house at its Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Office Thursday.
After a few years of work, the medical staff is back in the office; complete with new X-ray rooms, exam rooms, and enough space for a few more doctors. They say the upgrades will increase their productivity.
“It’s a really nice facility, and a lot more efficient for us to see patients,” Physician Assistant David Oaks said.
“This gives us a little more capacity to continue to grow in the future and continue to try to get patients more efficiently in and out as things pop up,” Peter Loo, Primary Care Sports Medicine specialist, said.
The Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Office is located at 6001 SW 6th Ave., right by the Tallgrass Surgery Center.
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| 2022-06-17T01:19:50Z
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson // Becker, PLLC is a nationwide products liability law firm with extensive experience representing victims of pressure cooker explosions. The firm has represented over 500 clients who have been severely burned by exploding pressure cookers designed and sold by numerous manufacturers.
Johnson//Becker filed this Complaint against manufacturer Tabletops Unlimited, on behalf of India Smith, a resident of Wynne, Arkansas, alleging that a defective Philippe Richards pressure cooker caused severe burns to Ms. Smith.
The pressure cooker explosion occurred when the lid exploded off the pressure cooker "suddenly and unexpectedly," splashing Ms. Smith with its scalding hot contents. Ms. Smith suffered her burn injuries during the "normal, directed use" of her Philippe Richards pressure cooker, and despite the manufacturer's assurances of so-called "triple safety features," according to the Complaint. The explosion left Ms. Smith with "serious bodily injuries, medical expenses, lost wages, physical pain, mental anguish, diminished enjoyment of life, and other damages," the Complaint alleges.
This suit is filed by Adam J. Kress of Johnson // Becker, PLLC. Adam exclusively handles injury cases, with an emphasis on national products liability litigation, including cases involving burn injuries from defective products.
If you or a loved one has been injured by a defective Philippe Richards pressure cooker, you may want to speak with the lawyers at Johnson//Becker. We are filing new pressure cooker lawsuits across the country, and you may be entitled to financial compensation for your defective pressure cooker injuries.
We offer a free case evaluation. To learn more about Johnson // Becker's product liability cases, or to arrange a free, no obligation case review, please visit Johnson // Becker at https://www.johnsonbecker.com/product-liability/pressure-cooker-lawsuit/, https://www.johnsonbecker.com/product-liability/philippe-richards-pressure-cooker-explosion-lawsuit/ or contact Johnson // Becker directly at (800) 279-6386.
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| 2022-08-03T21:27:50Z
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FRISCO, Tx (KDAF) — We are drawing closer to the Frisco RoughRiders’ Whataburger Night on Aug. 5, where the RoughRiders will face off against the Amarillo Sod Poodles.
In anticipation of the event, the RoughRiders have announced a new Whataburger Night Pack. Here’s what all comes included:
- 4 tickets for the game
- 4 Whataburger coupons
- 4 pairs of Whataburger sunglasses
Prices start at $44. Click here to buy now!
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NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Apyx Medical Corporation ("Apyx" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: APYX) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Apyx investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 12, 2021 and March 11, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
APYX investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) a significant number of Apyx's Advanced Energy products were used for off-label indications; (2) such off-label uses led to an increase in the number of medical device reports filed by Apyx reporting serious adverse events; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to incur regulatory scrutiny; (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Apyx during the relevant time frame, you have until August 5, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy Harbor Corp. announced today it has launched a 24/7 emission-free energy compliance product to meet the growing demand for customers requiring validation that the energy they consume is 100 percent emission-free every hour of every day. Leveraging FlexiDAO's technology and insights from Google Cloud, Energy Harbor will be providing the 24/7 emission-free energy credits (EFEC) created by its nuclear fleet, capable of generating over 32 million credits annually.
FlexiDAO's 24/7 carbon-free energy tracking and certification platform, built on Google Cloud, allows Energy Harbor to handle the large amounts of data required to match the hourly demand of customers with Energy Harbor's emission-free generation and the EFEC it creates. John Judge, Energy Harbor's chief executive officer, said "This collaboration with FlexiDAO and Google Cloud has enabled us to meet an important customer need. Now customers will be able to know with certainty every megawatt they consume was produced by an emission-free source."
The demand for 24/7 emission-free energy matching is growing rapidly and Energy Harbor, having unveiled a plan to become a 100% carbon-free energy infrastructure and supply company by 2023, is sharing insights from its own energy journey. The 24/7 emission-free energy product is a new approach to clean energy that accelerates the decarbonization of electricity systems by enabling organizations to meet their full electricity demand with carbon-free resources - every hour, every day, everywhere.
The 24/7 emission-free product is just one of the ways Energy Harbor is helping customers fully meet their zero-emission goals. This product will be available to Energy Harbor's electric customers, as well as customers seeking to simply use the EFEC to offset their consumption on an hourly basis. To find out more about this exciting new product visit us at www.energyharbor.com or contact us at carbon-free@energyharbor.com.
About Energy Harbor
Energy Harbor is a highly reliable provider of emission free baseload electricity committed to Environmental, Sustainability and Governance (ESG) principles critical to meeting the nation's emissions goals and accelerating the country's clean energy transition. Our success is driven by our unwavering employee commitment to safe, reliable operations, financial stability and best in class service to meet the energy and sustainability needs of our customers.
For more information on Energy Harbor visit www.energyharbor.com
About FlexiDAO
FlexiDAO is a global climate tech company based in the Netherlands and Spain. We co-create the international standard around energy-related emission compliance. Thanks to our end-to-end 24/7 Carbon-free Energy platform, companies can quantify and showcase their transparent contribution to achieving a decarbonized economy. www.flexidao.com
Forward Looking Statements and Further Information
This press release contains "forward-looking statements." All statements, other than statements of historical facts, that are included in this press release that address activities, events, or developments that Energy Harbor Corp. (the "Company") expects or anticipates to occur in the future (often, but not always, through the use of words or phrases such as "intends," "plans," "will likely result," "are expected to," "could" and "will continue"), are forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that in making any such forward-looking statement its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, any such forward-looking statement involves uncertainties and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the discussion of risk factors under "Risk Factors" available on the Investor Website (as described below) and the following important factors, among others, that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements: the actions and decisions of regulatory authorities; economic conditions and power pricing within the Company's territories and markets; the Company's ability to accomplish or realize anticipated benefits from strategic and financial goals; the uncertainties associated with the deactivation of remaining commodity-based generating units, including the impact on vendor commitments, and as it relates to the reliability of the transmission grid, the timing thereof; the risks and uncertainties associated with litigation, arbitration, mediation and like proceedings, including with respect to the timing and amounts of the capital expenditures that may arise in connection with any such proceedings; changes in customers' demand for power; and weather conditions affecting future sales, margins and operations.
Any forward-looking statement included in this press release speaks only as of the date hereof, and except as may be required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or circumstances. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict all of them; nor can the Company assess the impact of each such factor or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement. As such, you should not unduly rely on such forward-looking statements.
Further information regarding the Company will be available at www.energyharbor.com under the heading www.energyharbor.com/ir (the "Investor Website"). The Company advises that holders of the Company's securities should review all available information before making any decisions whether to buy or sell any of the Company's securities. Any information in any materials posted on the Investor Website in the future will automatically update and, where applicable, modify or supersede the information contained in this press release and any other information previously posted on the Investor Website.
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– Four Fan-Favorite Jones Soda Flavors Infused with THC Take Flavors Higher –
SEATTLE, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Get ready for the best tasting brand in cannabis, available now in California. After 25 years of creating signature craft soda flavors and famously featuring fan-submitted photo labels on every bottle, Jones Soda Co. is entering a whole new category with the new Mary Jones brand of cannabis-infused sodas.
Mary Jones 10mg Cannabis-Infused Sodas are available in Jones' fan-favorite Root Beer, Berry Lemonade, Green Apple and Orange & Cream flavors. Every flavor tastes like the Jones Soda original, thanks to Jones flavor scientists who have spent more than two decades as innovators in flavor and have now adapted their iconic recipes for cannabis. These delicious sodas are sold in single-serving 12 oz glass bottles with a 4-pack carrier perfect to bring to a party and share with friends.
The new Mary Jones products also continue Jones Soda's tradition of using photographs submitted by consumers on their bottle labels and printing quotes from fans under the bottle caps. These traditions of getting fans involved with the brand through self-expression, along with unique flavors like FuFu Berry and partnerships with partners from UFC champion Julianna Pena to Sub Pop Records, have built a community of passionate fans that has continued to grow.
Mary Jones keeps things DIY by offering a custom t-shirt builder enabling fans, influencers and budtenders to create individualized designs to wear or list for sale on the MaryMart commerce site where Mary Jones shares profits with creators.
Other Mary Jones products scheduled for launch in California later this year include a 100mg cannabis-infused soda packaged in a 16 oz, 10-serving can; a 1000mg syrup cannabis tincture designed for mixing with other drinks, using as a food topping or sipping; carbonated candy 2.5mg tablets for flavorful microdoses on the go; and 5mg cannabis-infused gummies shaped like miniature Jones soda bottles with a fun mini-four-pack carrier for a build-it-yourself downloadable DIY project. Plans are underway for additional products as well as expansion into other legal adult-use states.
"Jones Soda is a legendary brand built from bold flavors and doing bold things," said Bohb Blair, Chief Brand Officer, Mary Jones Cannabis Co. and CMO, Jones Soda Co. "Whether you're a canna-newbie or a cannaseur, our sodas are the most exciting flavors in cannabis today, and our product roadmap will keep our fans delighted by what's to come."
In California, Mary Jones has partnered with Kiva Sales and Service (KSS), distribution and sales; Tinley Beverage Company, cannabis beverage manufacturing; and SōRSE Technology, emulsion and formulation.
Mary Jones sodas are available at launch at California dispensaries including Sweet Flower locations around Los Angeles, Green Goddess in Venice Beach, and Embarc in northern California. A full list of dispensaries carrying Mary Jones products is available on the storefinder page at www.gomaryjones.com.
About Jones Soda Co.
Jones Soda Co.® (CSE: JSDA, OTCQB: JSDA) is a leading craft soda manufacturer with a subsidiary dedicated to cannabis products. The company markets and distributes premium craft sodas under the Jones® Soda and Lemoncocco® brands, and a variety of cannabis products under the Mary Jones brand. Jones' mainstream soda line is sold across North America in glass bottles, cans and on fountain through traditional beverage outlets, restaurants and alternative accounts. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. For more information, visit www.jonessoda.com, www.myjones.com, www.drinklemoncocco.com or https://gomaryjones.com
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Over 1,100 Supporters to join Underwood and Former University of Illinois Coaches Lon Kruger, Bill Self to Support the Charity's "Kickin' Cancer" Event
GORDYVILLE, Ill., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Cancer Society's University of Illinois Coaches vs. Cancer Dinner and Auction on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, has sold out. With the significant interest in helping us meet our goal of raising more awareness about the charity's vision of a world free from this terrible disease, limited access will be available for press/media to attend the "Kickin'Cancer" event.
Coaches vs. Cancer is a 25-year+ collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) that empowers coaches, their teams, and communities to unite to save more lives from cancer. The April 12th event in downstate IL will be a unique evening of sports talk, tasty food, guest speaker Coach Underwood, special appearances by coaches Lon Kruger and Bill Self - whose team KU beat UNC on Monday night winning the 2022 NCAA Tournament - the largest comeback in championship history - live and silent auctions, and more!
The American Cancer Society - the largest private, not-for-profit funder of cancer research in the U.S. - has invested more than $4 billion since 1946. Although 1.5 million lives have been saved in the US in the past two decades, Kickin' Cancer - with the support of the three coaches - aims to finish the fight against every cancer in every community.
Contact mandie.ernst@cancer.org immediately if your media company plans to attend Kickin' Cancer.
About the American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is on a mission to free the world from cancer. We invest in lifesaving research, provide 24/7 information and support, working to ensure individuals in every community have access to cancer prevention, detection, and treatment.
About Coaches vs. Cancer
Coaches vs. Cancer is a collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) empowering coaches, their teams, and communities to unite to save more lives from cancer. This program leverages the personal experiences, community leadership, and professional excellence of basketball coaches nationwide to increase cancer awareness and promote healthy living through year-round awareness efforts, fundraising activities, and advocacy programs.
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Scott Rye Leads Conversation on "Missing Link" in Cybersecurity
AUSTIN, Texas, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During an interview in Austin at the leading global data center conference, CyberSecure IPS founder and CEO Scott Rye shared his thoughts on protecting against the increasing problem of bad actors targeting and threatening critical infrastructures. The interview also revealed the company's ground-breaking monitoring solution; a next-generation step relative to legacy platforms familiar to the Data Center World audience.
As a result of CyberSecure IPS' leadership in cyber-physical security, Rye spoke to Alan Howard, Principal Analyst at Omdia's Cloud & Data Center, further reinforcing the company's first-time exhibit for the commercial sector of the data center community.
"Having the opportunity to share information about our unique data protection systems with one of the most well-known and respected experts in the field was a definite highlight of the conference," Rye said.
During the interview, Rye revealed what he believes to be the biggest threat to data center security: physical vulnerability. He explained that the "missing link" in cybersecurity is the monitoring of critical physical infrastructure.
While system hacking through software can cripple systems, Rye explained, even more damage can be caused simply by cutting the connection to the data center. Damage to infrastructure is even more dangerous than a digital hack because it needs to be repaired physically; it causes an outage during which no communication can take place. "When you stop someone from communicating, they are vulnerable," Rye said.
CyberSecurity IPS focuses precisely on protecting critical infrastructure. After originating its software work exclusively with the Department of Defense and other 3-letter government organizations requiring the utmost in security standards, CyberSecure IPS expanded into the commercial sector where similar security gaps exist within enterprise data centers, especially "hyper data centers."
As commercial data centers grow, inherent networks require higher speeds that necessitate higher levels of encryption. Encryption, however, slows down bandwidth significantly; Rye explained that CyberSecure IPS' hardware monitoring technology offers the same level of protection by 'watching' data traffic without interfering with it.
The company's enterprise solution processes a comprehensive range of sensor data to monitor the entire cyber-physical environment. This provides insight into security and protection through a holistic, real-time dashboard that's easy to use.
As a veteran, Rye said, creating military-grade security for commercial use is a vital mission in an increasingly dangerous world.
A global leader in the cybersecurity space, CyberSecure IPS constantly innovates its suite of patented software and hardware solutions which integrate to bring the physical realm under constant surveillance and provide holistic protection. The most advanced national governments and biggest data centers worldwide look to CyberSecure IPS to protect their critical infrastructure. Learn more at cybersecureips.com.
Contact: Scott Rye, sales@cybersecureips.com
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Food-Tech Company Empowers Culinary Superstars to Increase Distribution, Enhance Brand Exposure and Drive More Revenue
NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mealco ("the Company"), a food-tech start-up focused on creating value for food brands, restaurant operators and customers, announced today a new initiative to identify food creators – both established brands and emerging chefs – to join its exclusive "Brand Innovators'' program. Mealco will be selecting the best-of-the-best to expand its network of culinary innovators and help them penetrate new markets and enhance their brands. New creators will join an existing slate of esteemed brand innovators that include Hillary Sterling's Cayenne, Ken Gordon's Mochidoki, Dani Beckerman's Jars by Dani, Ariel and Leni Barbouth's Nuchas, Nils Noren's Num Pang and Matt and Chris Urakami's Poutine Brothers.
Details for Mealco's Brand Exclusive Incubator program are as follows:
- Culinary innovators will submit a "Request for Consideration" to join the Mealco Innovators Program.
- Once selected, creators will work with Mealco to develop a high-quality virtual menu that will be fulfilled by members of its nationwide restaurant operator network and delivered to customers via popular online delivery apps, including DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub.
- Upon creation of your virtual stores, Mealco will optimize your menu so that it ranks highly in Internet searches and is calibrated for a delivery-centered business model. Brands are paired with restaurant operators based on their infrastructure and resources, local customer demographics, existing ingredient inventory and equipment and staff culinary capabilities.
- Using geo-tracking, orders are directed to the closest restaurant that carries your brand to ensure the food's timely delivery to hungry customers.
"Mealco's secret sauce is that we work with creators to help them satisfy customer demand outside of their current markets, eliminating the investment and risk of launching brick and mortar locations and allowing them to get back in the kitchen to do what they love – develop new food creations for customers to enjoy," said Daniel Simon, Mealco Founder and CEO. "The increased growth for these brands results in significantly enhanced exposure and increased revenue for creators."
Mr. Simon continued, "Based on the vast amount of data that the Mealco platform collects and analyzes, we are able to uncover unique insights that empower our creators to give customers exactly what they want. For example, we estimate that approximately 70 percent of customers conduct exploratory food searches on delivery apps when they are hungry. Mealco optimizes these searches to make sure that our creators are featured prominently and grab customers' attention. Together, all of these Mealco features enable creators to substantially grow their customer base and permit restaurant operators to monetize their restaurants unused capacity."
If you're a creator interested in joining Mealco's Brand Innovator program, please contact creators@mealco.co. To learn more about Mealco, visit mealco.co.
Mealco's technology empowers restaurants in the $800 billion food industry to turn their back-of-house resources into digital-friendly operations. With a mission to leverage technology to empower restaurants to thrive in a digital age, Mealco streamlines operations through aggregating online delivery channels into a single, easy-to-use tablet; expanding meal and brand offerings to match customer tastes; optimizing restaurants' online presence; and reducing food delivery costs, all of which enable restaurants to grow their customer base and increase revenue and profitability. For more information, visit www.mealco.co.
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MIAMI, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Haber Law, a law Firm recognized for their outstanding achievements several years in a row, is honored to be recognized as Super Lawyers and Rising Stars once again. This highly selective list of well-respected Florida attorneys is an immense prestige for the firm. The recognition entails a thorough review of the Firm's expertise including construction litigation, real estate, general litigation, and business litigation.
The following Haber Law attorneys are recognized as 2022 Florida Super Lawyers and Rising Stars:
- Roger Slade – Top Rated Attorney in Business Litigation
- Frank Soto – Top Rated Attorney in Construction Litigation
- Hal Lewis – Top Rated Attorney in Real Estate
- David Podein – Rising Star in Real Estate
- Rebecca Casamayor – Rising Star in Real Estate
"Our law Firm is proud of the accomplishments of its outstanding attorneys, and we continue to be acknowledged by our peers for our achievements in the Firm's four core practice areas— commercial litigation, construction law, real estate, and condominium law. Our Firm continues to expand while remaining true to our ideals of excellence and quality lawyering for a fair price which our clients respect and value," says Shareholder Roger Slade.
Florida Super Lawyers is an attorney rating system owned by Thomson Reuters. Each year, Super Lawyers recognizes the top lawyers in Florida using a patented multiphase selection process involving peer nomination, independent research, and peer evaluation. No more than 5% of licensed attorneys can be designated a Super Lawyer and no more than 2.5% can be Rising Stars. The Rising Stars list is similarly selective and honors lawyers who are under 40 or have been practicing less than 10 years. The process is designed to find the best attorneys in their field of practice. For more information on Super Lawyers, visit www.superlawyers.com
About Haber Law
Haber Law is a 20-attorney boutique law firm based in Miami, Florida that has four core practice groups, Complex Business Litigation, Construction Law, including design and construction defects litigation, Real Estate, Finance and Transactional Law, and Condominium Association and HOA Law. Additional practice areas include aviation law, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, and family law. The Firm is committed to its core values of integrity, service, dedication, innovation, diversity, and success.
Haber Law is located on the internet at www.haber.law and can be reached at 305-379-2400.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rally House is thrilled to open a new store in South Bend, IN, officially bringing the locally inspired, family-owned sports and merchandise retailer to this new market. Rally House Erskine Plaza takes pride in being the trusted source for area residents and visitors looking for high-quality apparel and accessories for various nearby teams such as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, along with iconic businesses.
Rally House originated as a small-scale operation in Overland Park, KS, but now holds national recognition as a premier sports apparel and local merchandise retailer. "It's exciting to witness the company's extraordinary growth in Indiana, this time with Rally House Erskine Plaza," explains District Manager Jeffrey Chapman. "This new store in South Bend means even more dedicated fans can get the gear they love showing off, and our team can't wait to be a part of the fun!"
Customers will have an abundance of jerseys, hats, and gifts to browse at Rally House Erskine Plaza, with products from top brands like Nike, Mitchell & Ness, and '47. Find team-specific merchandise for the Colts, Bears, Cubs, and Pacers. Plus, this store carries Notre Dame, Purdue, Indiana, Ohio State, and much more college gear!
Rally House Erskine Plaza also offers unique, localized apparel and accessories to boast hometown spirit. Shoppers will find numerous products for popular Indiana themes, including items from the reputable RALLY Brand™ that are only available through Rally House.
Creating an enjoyable and straightforward shopping experience is a top priority for Rally House. Rally House Erskine Plaza offers a diverse selection of products and top-notch customer service. Still, there's also a full line of merchandise available online at www.rallyhouse.com, with shipping available to every state.
Stay current on store updates by visiting www.rallyhouse.com/rally-house-erskine-plaza or follow Rally House Erskine Plaza on Facebook (@RallyErskinePlaza) and Instagram (@rallyerskineplaza).
About Rally House
Rally House and Sampler Stores Inc. is a family-owned specialty boutique that offers a large selection of apparel, hats, gifts and home décor representing local NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and MLS teams in addition to locally inspired apparel, gifts and food. Proudly based in Lenexa, Kansas, Rally House operates 100+ locations across 12 states.
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NASA releases image of the Phantom Galaxy
(CNN) - Stunning new images produced by the Hubble Telescope and the James Webb Telescope showcase the Phantom Galaxy, a spiral of solar systems 32 million light-years away from Earth.
The galaxy is located in the constellation Pisces, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), which collaborates with NASA on both the Hubble Telescope and the James Webb Telescope.
The Phantom Galaxy, formally known as M74, is a kind of spiral galaxy known as a “grand design spiral.” This means that it has well-defined spiral arms, visibly winding out from the center in the newly released images.
The images were created using data from both the Hubble Telescope and the Webb Telescope. The Webb detected “delicate filaments of gas and dust” in the galaxy’s spiral arms, according to the ESA. The images also provide a clear look at the nuclear star cluster at the galaxy’s center, unclouded by gas.
The Webb telescope also used its Mid-InfraRed Instrument to examine the Phantom Galaxy as part of a project to understand the earliest phases of star formation, said the ESA.
While the Webb is best at observing infrared wavelengths, the Hubble has particularly sharp vision at ultraviolet and visible wavelengths, says the agency. This allowed it to reveal particularly bright areas of star formation, known as HII regions, in the Phantom Galaxy images.
The combination of data from both telescopes allowed scientists to gain an even deeper understanding of the Phantom Galaxy and to create spectacular images of the cosmos.
The Webb released its first high-resolution images just weeks ago in July. Bigger than the Hubble, the telescope is capable of observing extremely distant galaxies, allowing scientists to learn about early star formation. Hubble orbits the Earth but Webb orbits the sun, around 1 million miles away from
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Xoran Technologies® announces they have begun work on Phase 2 of their mobile lung grant with the goal to confirm the safety and utility of a future thoracic point-of-care CT system in support of an FDA 510k submission.
"It's hard to overstate how transformative this technology would be for us in the ICU," says Robert Dickson, MD, Associate Professor—Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Associate Professor—Microbiology & Immunology, and a clinical collaborator, all at the University of Michigan. "Every day, we make clinical decisions based on chest X-rays, which are limited in what they can tell us about what is going on in the chest or abdomen. Our patients are often too sick to transport down to radiology, or they have a communicable disease like COVID-19 that we don't want to spread around the hospital. A bedside scanner would have immediate impact in how we manage our sickest patients."
In 2021, Xoran Technologies was notified of a grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the company's research and development efforts for lung cone beam computed tomography (CT) imaging. Earlier this year, Xoran announced they completed Phase 1 of this grant. Just last month, Xoran submitted its 510k for TRON™, an open-bore fluoroscopy CT for full-body point-of-care imaging.
"We greatly appreciate the support from NHLBI as well as a fantastic collaboration with doctors at the University of Michigan," states William van Kampen, Xoran's Chief Technology Officer and principal investigator on the project. "This grant enables us to obtain valuable clinical feedback and accelerate our commercialization of this exciting technology and help bring imaging to patients who are in great need."
This project allows Xoran to optimize a point-of-care solution specifically for lung imaging. The combined Xoran and U of M teams aim to develop a highly deployable CT scanner intended for use in ICU, especially for patients with acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation.
NIH: Research reported in this news release was supported by the NHLBI of NIH under Award Number 4R44HL158452-02. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
NHLBI is the global leader in conducting and supporting research in heart, lung, and blood diseases and sleep disorders that advances scientific knowledge, improves public health, and saves lives.
The team at the Weil Institute for Critical Care Research & Innovation is dedicated to pushing the leading edge of research to develop new technologies and novel therapies for the most critically ill and injured patients. Through a unique formula of innovation, integration, and entrepreneurship, their multi-disciplinary teams of health providers, basic scientists, engineers, and data scientists, commercialization coaches, donors and industry partners are taking a boundless approach on re-imagining every aspect of critical care medicine. For more information, visit Weil Institute.
The University of Michigan was founded in 1817 and is a state-supported institution with a national and international reputation for excellence in scholarship. The Ann Arbor campus enrolls more than 43,000 students annually, including over 15,000 graduate students. The Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care is a collaborative center within the University of Michigan dedicated to improving the care of patients with critical illness by uniting the diverse expertise of faculty from across the institution.
Since 2001, Xoran is the pioneer and medical market leader in low-dose radiation, cone beam CT systems specifically designed for the patient's point-of-care. Providers around the world rely on our industry leading MiniCAT™, xCAT™, and veterinary CT systems: VetCAT and vTRON, to diagnose and treat patients.
Xoran is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
For more information visit www.xorantech.com
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s health minister and the mayor of the capital Hanoi have been arrested as part of an expanding investigation into massive price gouging of COVID-19 tests, state media reported.
Nguyen Thanh Long was dismissed from his ministry post and Chu Ngoc Anh, who previously was the science minister, was fired as Hanoi mayor, Tuoi Tre online news outlet reported Tuesday. They are being investigated for abuse of power, according to the Ministry of Public Security, and have been expelled from the ruling Communist Party.
An investigation concluded earlier that mismanagement in the science and health ministries had allowed Viet A Technology Corporation to inflate prices for test kits supplied to hospitals and health centers in Vietnam.
Nearly 60 suspects including ministry officials, public health leaders and military generals have been detained or are being investigated for involvement in the price gouging, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
The report said the two officials’ violations had harmed Vietnam’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and were costly to the state budget.
A deputy science minister, Pham Cong Tac, also was arrested Tuesday and accused of violating regulations on managing state assets.
Viet A took in $172 million for supplying its test kits in 62 localities. Its general director was arrested in December and allegedly admitted his Ho Chi Minh City-based company had inflated the selling price of a test kit to about $20, or 45% more than the original, to earn a difference of $21.5 million.
Phan Quoc Viet allegedly confessed to investigators that he paid illegal kickbacks worth $34 million to his state-owned partners who bought his test kits at the inflated prices.
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NEW YORK, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Amazon between February 1, 2019 and April 5, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until July 5, 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, Amazon.com, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Amazon engaged in anticompetitive conduct in its private-label business practices, including giving Amazon products preference over those of its competitors and using third-party sellers' non-public data to compete with them; (ii) the foregoing exposed Amazon to a heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny and/or enforcement actions; (iii) Amazon's revenues derived from its private-label business were in part the product of impermissible conduct and thus unsustainable; and (iv) as a result, the defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading.
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EAST LANSING, Mich., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Michigan Fire Inspectors Society and the Michigan Propane Gas Association (MPGA) are helping Food Truck operators get their rigs ready for the 2022 season.
"There are thousands of food trucks and trailers in Michigan," said Derek Dalling the executive director of the MPGA. "Food truck owners use propane for its portability, because it is a safe fuel to use, and because propane helps chefs cook foods fast and easily. Plus propane is eco-friendly with minimal emissions."
"Michigan has very safety-specific codes for traditional restaurants but when you add wheels to the equation the rules can change from county to county. In most cases an operator can learn more about regional safety standards from their local health department. Regarding their cooking fuel they should contact their local fire department," said Larry Otto, MPGA Safety Chairmen.
The food truck industry is outpacing the broader food service sector. The industry was growing at an annualized rate of 7.5 percent between 2016-2021.
"We are experiencing many new operators choose to repurpose trucks and trailers, and convert them into mobile food vehicles. Unfortunately, they often choose to do the work themselves, without the benefit having licensed contractors perform the installations. This can prove to be an expensive practice, and a dangerous one, if electric service or gas lines are done by unlicensed individuals. Please use professional installers when work is needed on your mobile food vehicle," said Lt. Bill Smith of the Grand Rapids Fire Department.
Food Truck Facts:
- To prepare for a fire safety inspection: MISafeFoodTruck.com.
- Install an automatic fire-suppression system in the truck. Because 57% of food service business fires involve cooking equipment, most municipalities require this equipment to be installed.
- Schedule regular maintenance of your propane equipment. Every time you enter a food truck or trailer check the lowest level inside of the rig and check for a rotten egg smell. A rotten egg smell is the safety odor in propane letting you know there is a leak.
Source: The mission of the Michigan Propane Gas Association (MPGA) is to promote the proper handling and use of propane, to work for favorable environment for propane distribution and marketing, and to increase its application by demonstrating propane's value as a clean energy resource.
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Midland inclusion made after extensive market review, to go into effect from June 2023 cargo deliveries
LONDON, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, today announced that it will reflect cargoes of WTI Midland crude oil in its Dated Brent, Cash BFOE and all related assessments across the Brent complex with effect from June 2023 cargo deliveries. This announcement follows extensive market engagement and consultation and a proposal period in which it received widespread support for including WTI Midland crude oil, a mainstay in the European refining sector and around the world.
The inclusion of WTI Midland crude oil will extend across the Brent complex, including Dated Brent price assessments, the benchmark for North Sea light sweet crude and reference point for around two-thirds of the world's oil trade. With this change, physical cargoes of WTI Midland crude oil could be bid or offered in the Platts Market-On-Close (MOC) price assessment process for Dated Brent from the first publication day in May 2023, and the associated June Cash BFOE value assessed from February 2023. Platts will be finalizing the Cash BFOE methodology in the coming months through dialogue with the marketplace.
Platts' inclusion of WTI Midland comes after a review process that started in December 2020, including market engagement, multiple rounds of feedback, and a joint white paper with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
Vera Blei, Global Head of Established Benchmarks, S&P Global Commodity Insights, said: "We are pleased that after an extensive period of consultation and detailed feedback that we identified a clear path forward, built on adding WTI Midland crude oil into the Brent complex. This is the first time that a crude grade from outside of the North Sea will be reflected in the Brent complex, and the inclusion will help ensure a stronger and more robust Brent complex for the decades ahead. Since US crude oil export restrictions were lifted in 2015, WTI Midland crude has established itself as a mainstay in the European refining sector and increasingly reflected seaborne market fundamentals. We are aware of several sets of bilateral contract amendments in the Brent cash forward market being discussed among North Sea market participants. The complexity and variety of these terms mean that no industry standard is yet to emerge so far ahead of implementation, and Platts looks forward to working with market participants to further define the forward mechanism to be included into the Dated Brent complex."
WTI Midland crude oil is produced mainly in the Permian basin of West Texas. The other five crude oil grades included are: Brent, Forties, Oseberg, Ekofisk and Troll. Platts currently publishes assessments of WTI Midland in both Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean on the basis of cost, insurance and freight (CIF) and delivered at place (DAP). These instruments have shown good liquidity in the Platts MOC price assessment process since their inception, providing transparent and robust data points for assessment.
For further information, please see the initial proposal for WTI Midland inclusion, published February 14, 2022, at this link. You can also view the consultation published July 21, 2021, at this link. Market participants are encouraged to send comments, feedback and questions to Platts_Oil_Feedback@spglobal.com and pricegroup@spglobal.com.
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As part of Vaseline's Equitable Skincare for All Program, together with partners HUED and VisualDx, See My Skin aims to improve skin healthcare outcomes for people of color.
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., April 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- When people of color search for skin care information online, they're often met with results that don't accurately reflect them. Research published by the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology found that less than 6% of image-based search results show conditions on skin of color.1 In an effort to close that gap, Vaseline® is introducing See My Skin, alongside partners at HUED, a digital health company focused on improving quality of care for Black, Latinx and Indigenous populations through education, access and data, and VisualDx, medical informatics company that is dedicated to reducing healthcare bias by improving clinical decisions through visualization. In joining forces, See My Skin was created as the only online database designed to search conditions on skin of color and connect people with the proper care they deserve.
Experience the interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/players/English/9040051-vaseline-launches-see-my-skin-database-to-improve-skin-healthcare-for-people-of-color/
As the original skin protectant that has been healing skin for over 150 years, Vaseline® exists to give everybody healthy skin – that includes providing equal access to skin health. However, this can't be achieved if part of the Vaseline® community doesn't have proper representation or access to equal care due to systemic racism that impacts medical standards and algorithmic search.
"People of color are negatively impacted by healthcare inequities that can lead to worse health outcomes, including caring for their skin. Whether it's looking for answers in search, on social media, or even in textbooks – the results that resemble their skin are scarce, which can leave us feeling unseen and underrepresented," says Kevin Tolson, Brand Director of US Skincare at Unilever. "We created See My Skin so that people with melanin-rich skin could finally see skin conditions on themselves. Our goal is to provide solutions that ensure communities are equipped to get the care that everyone deserves. This is a step in that direction."
As an educational resource, See My Skin guides consumers by displaying results they seek when searching for skin conditions. Through the search experience, See My Skin helps provide people access to quality and impartial skin care with a robust database of board-certified dermatologists. The platform also offers educational resources that provide expert recommendations on how to treat and monitor skin at home, understanding when to seek a dermatologist for proper care, and how to best prepare for an appointment with the right questions. The community is invited not just to search for resources, but also to submit their own images to help continually expand representation of skin of color.
All content on the platform is independently evaluated for accuracy and relevance by Vaseline's Dermatology Review Board including Dr. Mona Gohara, MD, FAAD, Dr. Uchenna Okereke, MD, FAAD, and Dr. Caroline Robinson, MD, FAAD. Founder of Tone Dermatology, Dr. Caroline Robinson, MD said, "I'm really excited to be a part of this work because this topic and this issue is something that I'm very passionate about. We need to move the needle on equitable care for all. Thinking about things from a patient perspective, it's really difficult to recognize the lack of representation for skin of color. We are becoming a more and more diverse nation, and resources like textbooks and image databases need to evolve with the changing society."
Broadening Our Equitable Skincare for All Efforts
Through Vaseline's broader Equitable Skincare for All efforts, See My Skin helps contribute to our mission to create 15 million more equitable skincare experiences by 2025. Vaseline® continues to create change by focusing on three important areas: resources for communities, providing access to care, and education for skincare professionals.
- Resources for Communities: To further meet the skin health needs for people of color with trusted resources and education, Vaseline® has evolved its partnership with HUED after launching a dermatologist finder tool in 2020. HUED is a first-of-its-kind healthcare technology startup and website that connects patients with medical professionals that specifically understand their cultural, physical, and mental health needs.
- Providing Access to Care: Vaseline continues providing access to care with Direct Relief, who has been an ongoing partner for over 6 years through The Vaseline® Healing Project. This partnership helps to support a network of nonprofit health centers and clinics that provide affordable and comprehensive services to those who need it most.
- Education for Skincare Professionals: In partnership with Medscape, the leading online global destination for physicians and healthcare professionals worldwide, Vaseline® has provided funding to support the development of continuing medical education to equip dermatologists and medical practitioners to better treat, diagnose and care for skin of color. These learning modules cover treatment for common skin conditions such as acne and scarring, seborrheic dermatitis and atopic dermatitis specific to skin of color.
As part of the launch, Vaseline's most iconic product is transformed to celebrate the brand's dedication to ensuring that everyone has proper access to healthy skin. The limited-edition Vaseline Healing Jelly artwork on pack includes a QR code driving to resources, inclusive of the See My Skin platform, while housing the moisturizing and healing skin care benefits Vaseline Original Healing Jelly is known for.
Visit www.seemyskin.com for resources to help find the right dermatologist to take care of your skin, and see how Vaseline is working towards equity in skincare at www.vaseline.com/equitableskincare.
Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of Beauty & Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods & Refreshment products, with sales in over 190 countries and products used by 3.4 billion people every day. We have 148,000 employees and generated sales of €52.4 billion in 2021. Over half of our footprint is in developing and emerging markets. We have around 400 brands found in homes all over the world – including iconic brands like Dove, Knorr, Hellmann's, Magnum, Axe, Ben & Jerry's, Degree, Seventh Generation, St. Ives, Suave, TRESemmé, and Vaseline.
Our vision is to be the global leader in sustainable business and to demonstrate how our purpose-led, future-fit business model drives superior performance. We have a long tradition of being a progressive, responsible business. It goes back to the days of our founder William Lever, who launched the world's first purposeful brand, Sunlight Soap, more than 100 years ago, and it's at the heart of how we run our company today.
The Unilever Compass, our sustainable business strategy, is set out to help us deliver superior performance and drive sustainable and responsible growth, while:
- improving the health of the planet;
- improving people's health, confidence and wellbeing; and
- contributing to a fairer and more socially inclusive world.
While there is still more to do, in the past year we're proud to have achieved sector leadership in S&P's Dow Jones Sustainability Index, 'Triple A' status in CDP's Climate, Water and Forest benchmarks, and to be named as the top ranked company in the GlobeScan/SustainAbility Sustainability Leaders survey for the eleventh consecutive year.
For more information on Unilever U.S. and its brands visit: www.unileverusa.com
For more information on Unilever Canada and its brands visit: www.unilever.ca
HUED is a venture backed digital health company focused on improving quality of care for Black, Latinx and Indigenous populations through education, access and data. By reducing barriers that these communities face due to fear, distrust, comfortability and lack of access to quality medical care, HUED seeks to change the lives of 500,000 Black and Latino patients by 2025.
VisualDx is a company dedicated to improving medical decisions through augmented thinking and timely visualization. It is committed to reducing disparities in medicine and believes technology can bridge gaps in knowledge to bring about more equitable care. The professional product, VisualDx, is the award-winning diagnostic clinical decision support system that has become the standard professional resource at more than 2,300 hospitals worldwide and over half the U.S. medical schools. VisualDx, along with its consumer tool Aysa, combines problem oriented clinical search with the world's best curated medical image library, plus medical knowledge from experts and sophisticated machine learning algorithms to help with differential diagnosis, variation, treatment, and patient communication. Their mission is to improve healthcare decision making and reduce diagnostic errors. Learn more at www.visualdx.com.
A humanitarian organization committed to improving the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies, Direct Relief delivers lifesaving medical resources throughout the world to communities in need—without regard to politics, religion, or ability to pay. For more information, please visit https://www.DirectRelief.org.
Medscape is the leading source of clinical news, health information, and point-of-care tools for health care professionals. Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. Medscape Education (medscape.org) is the leading destination for continuous professional development, consisting of more than 30 specialty-focused destinations offering thousands of free C.M.E. and C.E. courses and other educational programs for physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals. Medscape is a subsidiary of WebMD Health Corp.
1Source: https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(21)00582-X/fulltext#relatedArticles
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BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelalpha announced today that it has completed its strategic merger with Frontera Consulting. The merger expands the reach of both firms' complementary Oracle Cloud consulting offerings, while broadening their solution delivery capability and industry expertise to provide more extensive solutions to our customers.
Both companies enjoy an impressive reputation for successfully completing some of the most complicated Oracle Cloud application deployments. Together, Accelalpha and Frontera will deliver integrated multi-pillar solutions including Oracle ERP, EPM, PPM, HCM, CX, SCM, WMS, OTM, and GTM to implement Oracle's full range of cloud applications for our customers. This strategic merger brings together a significant customer base with over 400 clients and more than 500 Oracle Cloud implementations.
Frontera brings deep industry-focused offerings in Financial Services, Professional Services, Public Sector, Telecommunications, and Media & Entertainment, as well as decades of experience and a great reputation for client-focus. Frontera was one of the early adopters of Oracle Cloud applications, implementing the first ever Fusion Financials client in North America, and more than 200 successful Oracle Cloud projects since 2014. Their people are certified for Oracle ERP, EPM, PPM, HCM, and SCM, as well as Oracle Integration Cloud. Frontera has offices in New York and London, expanding the geographic reach of the combined company.
Nat Ganesh, Accelalpha CEO, said, "Accelalpha's merger with Frontera bolsters our market leadership as an organization that can implement, integrate, and manage all of the Oracle Cloud applications end-to-end to deliver comprehensive digital transformation solutions for our clients while expanding our global reach."
Kevin Beyer, Frontera Consulting Managing Partner, will continue to lead the Frontera operating unit within the Accelalpha family. Beyer said, "The combined organization of Frontera and Accelalpha creates a leading global consulting service provider with the ability to deliver a broader set of Oracle Cloud solutions and a depth of targeted industry knowledge. The two companies are a solid fit, geographically, technically, and culturally."
Together, the combined company will enjoy unrivaled depth and breadth of capability to deliver high-value, industry-specific integrated solutions to its clients worldwide.
Accelalpha is a leader in solving critical business challenges through a unique combination of industry insight, technology depth, and a world-class team with an unmatched level of experience and domain expertise. Accelalpha leverages its expertise in end-to-end enterprise solution implementations to help companies build integrated logistic capabilities, optimize sales processes, modernize the supply chain, and realize benefits of the cloud. Our rigorous, result-oriented approach to developing solutions allows us to deliver tangible results in a shorter time frame. Accelalpha is recognized by Fortune as a best small and medium workplace and certified as a great place to work. For more information on Accelalpha, please visit www.accelalpha.com.
Frontera Consulting is a leading provider of business and technology consulting services to global organizations. Collaborating closely with our clients, we create transformational solutions to meet business needs and drive performance. Our mission is to create long-lasting value for our clients through the innovative use of technology and process expertise, earning the role of trusted advisor. Frontera is headquartered in New York, with operations in London and Hong Kong, and a development center in India.
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2022 Spokesperson Jasmine Tookes and Nearly 100 Celebrities Unite with Animal-Lovers and Rescue Facilities to Champion Homeless Pets
RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In just over three weeks, Helen Woodward Animal Center will once again unite with animal welfare proponents and organizations worldwide for the 10th Annual Remember Me Thursday® (RMT). Honored on the fourth Thursday of September, the campaign asks pet lovers and animal rescue groups to create an unstoppable, integrated voice for homeless pets. Candle-lighting ceremonies and a global avalanche of social media buzz will shine a light on the millions of orphan animals still awaiting adoption and encourage communities to opt to adopt and reduce the over one million homeless pets euthanized each year. As in previous years, some very big names are stepping forward to lend their support to the cause including Jasmine Tookes, who has been named the 2022 Official Spokesperson for the campaign. Helen Woodward Animal Center encourages the world to join with these philanthropic celebrities and to be a part of this very special day, Thursday, September 22, 2022.
As the campaign's 2022 Official Spokesperson, Jasmine Tookes is an American fashion model and businesswoman. Aside from her professional career, Jasmine is a passionate animal lover and advocate. She grew up surrounded by animals including cats, rats & turtles just to name a few! In 2016, Jasmine joined forces with best friend and fellow model, Josephine to create JOJA - a community where the two share their workouts, health routines, and active lifestyles and just recently this year began selling their own line of activewear under the same name.
Regarding her love of animals and the special day, Tookes stated: "Pet adoption is something that is near and dear to my heart, but a lot of people may not have the knowledge or information on pet adoption. Remember Me Thursday provides the perfect opportunity to learn and hopefully change people's minds who were once never open to the idea of adoption."
Tookes leads an impressive list of celebrity supporters also aligning themselves with RMT. Notable personalities, professional athletes, pet behaviorists and social media pet stars have signed on as "luminaries," committing to share their thoughts on pet adoption in videos and via their social media accounts throughout the campaign. Nearly 100 influential luminaries have joined the cause. Past and present supporters include:
Notable Film, TV and Stage Personalities: Andie MacDowell, Ashley Bell, Bellamy Young, Bethenny Frankel (2019 Official Spokesperson), Beth Stern, Bo Derek, Bonnie-Jill Laflin, Brittany Aldean (2021 Official Spokesperson), Carrie Ann Inaba (2015 Official Spokesperson), Christian Siriano, David Tutera, Daymond John, Debbie Gibson, Diane Keaton, Elaine Hendrix, Eric Roberts, George Lopez, Jamie Little, Jasmine Tookes (2022 Official Spokesperson), Javicia Leslie, Jennie Garth (2020 Official Spokesperson), Katherine Heigl (2014 Official Spokesperson), Kathy Najimy, Kevin Frazier, Kristin Bauer, Kristin Chenoweth (2017 Official Spokesperson), Linda Blair, Lou Wegner, Mark Steines, Melissa Peterman, Pauley Perrette (2016 Official Spokesperson), Rick Springfield, Ross Mathews, Sandra Lee, Wil Wheaton, and Wynonna Judd (2018 Official Spokesperson).
Cartoonists: Greg Evans (creator of LUANN), and Patrick McDonnell (creator of MUTTS).
Professional Athletes: Anze Kopitar (Los Angeles Kings), Bryan Bickell (Chicago Blackhawks), David Backes (Anaheim Ducks), Evan Longoria (San Francisco Giants), Jake Muzzin (Los Angeles Kings), Jeff Carter (Los Angeles Kings), Joey Logano (NASCAR), Kevin Kiermaier (Tampa Bay Rays), Liam Hendriks (Oakland A's), Logan Ryan (Tennessee Titans), Marc Rzepczynski (World Series Champion), Mark Buehrle (World Series Champion), Rodney Peete, and Ryan Newman (NASCAR).
Animal Specialty Celebrities: Dr. Marty Becker, Gabriel Feitosa, Hannah Shaw, Jack Hanna, Jill Rappaport, Larissa Wohl, Megan Rose, Tamar Geller, Victoria Stilwell, and Wendy Diamond.
Animal Celebrities: Alien Cat Matilda, Baloo, Bamboo, Belarus the Cat, Best Boy Brodie, Boogie Shoes, Chewie, Chi Chi, Chloe, Choupette Lagerfeld, Cole and Marmalade, Cooper, Fugee, Josh, Justin Fire Survivor, Kitten Faces, Lil BUB, Louie, Memphis, Mimo and Kirry, Molly Happiness, Monty Boy, Mork, Mr. Bigglesworth, My Cat Kyle, My Dear Puddin, Nala Cat, Norbert, Paddington, Piglet, Purrminators, Sauerkraut Kitty, Smush, Spencer, Stevie, Sunglass Cat, Tango, Tuna, Venus, White Coffee Cat, and Worried Cat.
RMT was established in 2013 by Helen Woodward Animal Center President and CEO Mike Arms. Moved by the staggering statistic of over one million homeless pets who lose their lives each year in the U.S., Arms put out a call to rescue organizations in an attempt to create a global awareness campaign. As creator of the International Pet Adoptathon and the International Home 4 the Holidays® program (placing over 19 million pets in homes since 1999), he was able to send out an expansive request and the response was significant.
Now in its tenth year, RMT has been supported by 190 countries with hundreds of thousands of individuals and more than 1,000 separate animal welfare organizations around the globe holding candle-lighting ceremonies of their own, spreading the message on social media, or lighting a virtual candle. The enormous swell of celebrity support has resulted in the topic trending each year on both Facebook and Twitter, garnering more than 1 billion social media impressions since its start.
For the third year in a row, representatives from animal welfare organizations and campaign luminaries will unite on an international Zoom call to share the significance of RMT within their respective organizations and countries. This year speakers from Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazahkstan, New York, North Carolina, and Puerto Rico will share the state of animal welfare in their area and how they are commemorating the pet adoption awareness campaign. The virtual program will also include words from RMT founder and Center President and CEO Mike Arms, a reading of the official RMT poem and a heartfelt international candle lighting in remembrance of the millions of orphan pets still waiting in shelters for their own forever homes. The public is welcome to log on and watch the program which kicks off Thursday, Sept. 22 at 9:00 a.m. PST.
The one-of-a-kind international RMT Zoom call will be available online for the animal-loving public to watch. Those who wish to register to watch can click here. The public can also get involved by tweeting, tagging, posting and sharing the beauty and life-saving significance of pet adoption using the hashtag #RememberMeThursday and #SeeTheLight and @hwac.
Animal-lovers can also win life-saving funds, toys and food for adoptable pets looking for forever families at their favorite non-profit, pet adoption organization. To enter the Remember Me Thursday Social Media Contest, simply upload your rescue pet's photo and story to the #RememberMeThursday Photo Wall for a chance to win!* (*Restrictions apply. Final selection remains at the sole discretion of Helen Woodward Animal Center).
For more information on Remember Me Thursday® and a full list of participating celebrities and animal welfare organizations, go to www.remembermethursday.org.
Animal lovers and organizations across the globe unite on the fourth Thursday in September to light a candle in remembrance of the millions of homeless pets who lost their lives without the benefit of a loving home and to shine a light via social media on the millions of orphan pets still waiting for their forever homes. The Remember Me Thursday® global awareness campaign is championed by Mike Arms, President of Helen Woodward Animal Center, and creator of both the International Pet Adoptathon and successful Home 4 the Holidays program which, in partnership with national animal organizations, has placed over 19 million pets in homes since 1999. For more information, please visit www.remembermethursday.org or via hashtag #RememberMeThursday and #SeeTheLight on social media.
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BLUE BELL, Pa., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QualTek Services Inc. (NASDAQ: QTEK) ("QualTek" or the "Company") is set to join the Russell Microcap® Index at the conclusion of the 2022 Russell indexes annual reconstitution, effective after the US market opens on June 27, according to a preliminary list of additions posted June 3.
Membership in the Russell Microcap® Index, which remains in place for one year, means automatic inclusion in the appropriate growth and value style indexes. FTSE Russell determines membership for its Russell indexes primarily by objective, market-capitalization rankings and style attributes.
"It is an important step in QualTek's evolution to join the Russell Microcap® Index," said Scott Hisey, CEO of QualTek. "Inclusion in the Index affirms QualTek's commitment to executing on our growth strategy and providing customers across the country with solutions in the 5G wireless, telecommunications infrastructure, renewables, power grid modernization and recovery logistics industries. We thank our employees, customers, and investors for their continued support."
Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional investors for index funds and as benchmarks for active investment strategies. Approximately $12 trillion in assets are benchmarked against Russell's US indexes. Russell indexes are part of FTSE Russell, a leading global index provider.
For more information on the Russell Microcap® Index and the Russell indexes reconstitution, go to the "Russell Reconstitution" section on the FTSE Russell website.
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 will report within two operating segments: Telecommunications and Renewables and Recovery.
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In May, active inventory increased year-over-year (+8.0%) for the first time in nearly three years, but remained 48.5% lower than at the start of the pandemic
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New data suggests the U.S. housing market hit a turning point in its supply struggle in May, as active inventory recorded the first year-over-year increase since June 2019, according to the Realtor.com® Monthly Housing Trends Report released today. At the same time, the median national home price soared to an all-time high of $447,000 and buyers snatched up listings a week faster than last year.
"Among key factors fueling the inventory comeback are new sellers, who are listing homes at a rate not seen since 2019, as well as moderating demand, with pending listings declining year-over-year in May," said Danielle Hale, Chief Economist for Realtor.com. "While this real estate refresh is welcome news in a still-undersupplied market, it has yet to make a dent in home price growth, partially due to increases in newly-listed, larger homes and because the typical seller outlook is quite high, likely shaped by recent experiences of homeowners who sold. Importantly, as 72% of this year's sellers also plan to purchase a home, seller expectations will likely start to reflect buyers' needs. In an early sign, the rate of sellers making price cuts accelerated in May."
May 2022 Housing Metrics – National
The U.S. inventory of active listings grew year-over-year for the first time since June 2019, with this comeback driven by two key trends. First, new listings reached the highest level of any month in nearly three years, as rising numbers of sellers might be more confident in pursuing plans to list than last Spring when COVID vaccines were just rolling out. Second, higher housing costs are spurring a moderation in buyer demand. This is reflected in May's bigger year-over-year declines in pending listings – those at various stages of the selling process that are not yet sold – compared to April, a sign of softening in the turnover rate of for-sale homes.
- Nationally, the number of active listings increased 8.0% year-over-year in May, but remained 48.5% below typical levels in May 2020 at the onset of COVID.
- Compared to last month's year-over-year changes, May's national data showed a significant improvement in the new listings trend (+6.3% vs. 1.3%) and a bigger decline in pending listings (-12.6% vs. -8.7%).
- Among May's new listings, the share of smaller homes (up to 1750 square feet) declined year-over-year (to 45.7% from 47.3%), while those with 1,750-plus square feet increased from 52.7% to 54.3%.
- On average in the 50 largest U.S. markets, active inventory grew by double-digits (+14.9%) over May 2021 levels, with the biggest increases in the West (+33.6%) and South (+18.3%), led by Austin, Texas (+85.8%), Phoenix (+67.1%) and Sacramento, Calif. (+54.6%). Active listings declined on a year-over-year basis in just 8 markets.
- Thirty markets posted annual gains in newly-listed homes, with the biggest increases registered in southern metros: Raleigh, N.C. (+27.9%), Nashville, Tenn. (+22.8%), and Las Vegas (+20.7%).
May's increase in for-sale home options combined with softening buyer demand would typically drive a cooldown in home prices, but data shows that is not yet the case. In fact, the yearly growth rate in the U.S. median listing price accelerated from last month's pace as the median listing price approached $450,000 after just crossing the $400,000 threshold in March. From asking prices per square foot to pending listing prices, May housing trends suggest that a few factors are potentially driving the continued home price surge. These include a rising share of newly-listed, larger homes by square footage and some sellers not yet adjusting to shifting supply and demand dynamics, including buyer interest in less expensive homes.
- The U.S. median listing price hit an all-time high of $447,000 in May, rising at a faster year-over-year pace (+17.6%) than last month (+14.2%). On a square foot basis, asking prices for active listings increased 16.2% over May 2021 levels.
- In a potential sign of softening buyer demand at the national level, the median listing price of a typical pending listing actually decelerated in May over April, to a yearly rate of 16.2% from 17.2%. Additionally, the national share of listings that had their price reduced jumped to 10.5% in May from 7.0% in April, but the rate remains well below typical pre-COVID levels.
- Active listing prices in the nation's largest metros grew by an average of 13.0% compared to last year in May, with the biggest gains recorded in Miami (+45.9%), Nashville (+32.5%), and Orlando, Fla. (+32.4%).
- In May, median listing prices were down year-over-year in just six large markets, which were: Pittsburgh (-10.5%), Rochester, N.Y. (-9.7%), Cincinnati (-9.6%), Cleveland (-2.3%), Detroit (-1.8%), and Buffalo, N.Y. (-1.2%).
Similar to norms one would expect to see in home price trends, the increase in for-sale home options combined with softening buyer demand would typically drive a deceleration in time on market. However, time on market data did not yet show this trend in May, as buyers snatched up listings more quickly than in any month in the Realtor.com® data history going back to July 2016 – a record that typically isn't hit until the Summer season. For some homebuyers who have yet to be priced out of the market but can't afford to compete by making a larger down payment, acting quickly might give them an edge.
- In May, the typical U.S. home spent 31 days on the market , a full week less (-6 days) than last year and down 27 days compared to typical May 2017 to 2019 timing.
- Across the 50 largest U.S. metros, the typical home spent 26 days on market, down six days year-over-year, with the biggest declines registered in the South (-7 days).
- At the market level, homes saw the greatest yearly decline in time spent on market in Miami (-28 days), followed by a three-way tie between Hartford, Conn., Seattle and San Jose, Calif. (-12 days).
- Just one market posted a year-over-year increase in time on market: Detroit (-1 day), where homes still moved at a close to record-fast pace.
May 2022 Housing Metrics – 50 Largest U.S. Metro Areas
*Note: Oklahoma City new listing count growth and Hartford active listing count growth are not available while data is under review.
Realtor.com® housing data as of May 2022. Listings include active inventory of existing single-family homes and condos/townhomes for the given level of geography; new construction is excluded unless listed via an MLS.
Realtor.com® makes buying, selling, renting and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone. Realtor.com® pioneered the world of digital real estate more than 25 years ago, and today through its website and mobile apps offers a marketplace where people can learn about their options, trust in the transparency of information provided to them, and get services and resources that are personalized to their needs. Using proprietary data science and machine learning technology, Realtor.com® pairs buyers and sellers with local agents in their market, helping take the guesswork out of buying and selling a home. For professionals, Realtor.com® is a trusted provider of consumer connections and branding solutions that help them succeed in today's on-demand world. Realtor.com® is operated by News Corp [Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA] [ASX: NWS, NWSLV] subsidiary Move, Inc. For more information, visit Realtor.com®.
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| 2022-06-02T11:14:54Z
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With Three-Year Average Revenue Growth of 883%, Elevar ranks #714 Among America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies
CHARLESTON, S.C., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Elevar revealed they reached No. 714 on the annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. This milestone is a major accomplishment for Elevar, the company known to be a global authority and best-in-class solution for direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands using the Shopify and Shopify Plus eCommerce platform to collect the maximum amount of customer and conversion tracking data easily and reliably.
"Elevar is pumped to be amongst some of the most successful and renowned companies in the world," says Brad Redding, Founder and CEO at Elevar. "We optimize acquisition strategies for over 6,500 amazing D2C brands such as Vuori, Skims, Thrive Causmetics, Hunter Fans, and Le Creuset. This ranking is a testament to our success and our awesome team of talented people that help our customers every day."
This celebration of innovation comes in the wake of many recent company milestones, including:
- Achieving 4.9 out of 5 stars from client reviews on the Shopify app store
- Completing the individual and company certification process for Facebook Marketing Partners
- Developing a partner ecosystem of nearly 150 marketing, design/development, and technology partners
"We've 15x'd our business in 3 years since working with Elevar. Laying down the foundational work early so we could see that growth was key to our success," said Dylan Kim, Co-founder at Brevite.
Companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have been ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2018 to 2021. Notable companies previously named to the list include Zappos, Timberland, Under Armour, Clif Bar, and Patagonia.
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About Elevar: Elevar powers conversion tracking for direct-to-consumer brands on Shopify & Shopify Plus. Our server-side tracking transforms shopping behavior into structured, trackable events with attribution, resulting in near 100% conversion accuracy. With real-time event monitoring and pre-built tag templates for Facebook, Google Ads, Google Analytics, GA4, TikTok, and 30+ more digital marketing channels, we ensure brands never miss tracking a conversion. Rely on accurate data to make strategic business decisions with Elevar. www.getelevar.com
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| 2022-08-17T12:57:23Z
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Friday endorsed Tudor Dixon in Michigan’s crowded Republican primary for governor, just days before voters choose an opponent to face Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
“She’s pro-God, pro-Gun, and pro-Freedom, and she won’t be stopped!” Trump said in a statement announcing his backing.
Trump’s endorsement came shortly after his former education secretary, Betsy DeVos, urged him to join her in backing Dixon — and despite Dixon’s opponents highlighting that DeVos quit Trump’s Cabinet shortly after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Dixon, a conservative commentator, also has the backing of Michigan’s Right to Life, former Gov. John Engler and some of the state’s top legislative leaders. She also has financial support from a pair of super PACs with ties to DeVos, who is from Michigan.
Dixon has said she will fight to keep drag queens out of schools, and she opposes abortion, except to save the life of the mother. Dixon held a fundraiser at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida earlier this year, where the former president called her “special.”
Dixon’s opponents include businessman Kevin Rinke, chiropractor Garrett Soldano and real estate broker Ryan Kelley, who was charged with misdemeanors for his actions during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump’s endorsement has sometimes been a difference-maker, and he’s frequently trumped the power of his backing. But he’s also suffered some high-profile setbacks with some of his choices.
Trump lost Michigan by about 154,000 votes in 2020, and multiple audits and courts — as well as an investigation by the Republican-led state Senate — have upheld that outcome. But all of the GOP governor candidates say there was fraud, and all but Rinke have said they believe the election was stolen from Trump.
Rinke and the Democratic Governors Association have both spent large sums of money running TV ads attacking Dixon in the lead-up to the primary.
Rinke’s TV ad claims Dixon is backed by the “RINO establishment’s leading never-Trumpers,” using the derisive acronym for “Republican in name only.”
The Democratic Governors Association’s $2 million ad buy pushes claims that Dixon’s budget plan would force widespread police officer layoffs; she has said that’s false.
“Obviously, they’re desperate to get me out of this. They don’t want me running against Gretchen,” Dixon told The Associated Press after the final GOP gubernatorial debate on Wednesday.
DeVos, in her letter Friday to Trump, said they should work together to elect Dixon, calling her “the only one that who can stand toe to toe with `that woman from Michigan,’” a term Trump used for Whitmer rather than calling her by name in 2020.
Whoever emerges from the Aug. 2 primary will face a tough battle against Whitmer, who has nearly $15 million set aside, more than all five Republicans combined.
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Joey Cappelletti is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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| 2022-07-30T17:48:42Z
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Hundreds of urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, but it’s not because people are leaving.
It’s just that the U.S. Census Bureau is changing the definition of an urban area. Under the new criteria, more than 1,300 small cities, towns and villages designated urban a decade ago would be considered rural.
That matters because urban and rural areas qualify for different types of federal funding. Some communities worry the change could affect health clinics in rural areas as well as transportation and education funding from federal programs. But leaders in other communities designated to lose their urban status say it won’t make a difference.
“We are rural and we feel rural, and that’s how we already identify,” said Randy Reeg, city administrator of Mauston, Wisconsin, a city of 4,347 residents about 75 miles (120 kilometers) northwest of Madison.
Groups like the American Hospital Association say the changes, which are the biggest being made to the definitions in decades, could cause problems for people who need medical care in rural areas.
“Going with the new definition could limit the number of rural health clinics moving forward and have a negative impact on rural access to care,” said Shannon Wu, senior associate director of policy at the hospital association.
For starters, the Census Bureau is switching to housing units instead of people as the basis for calculating what should be an urban area. Bureau officials say the change will make it easier to update between once-a-decade head counts of the U.S. They also contend that it’s needed because a new privacy method introduces errors into 2020 census population numbers at small geographies to protect people’s identities. Housing counts stay accurate under the method.
A place had to have at least 2,500 people to be urban under old criteria that lasted more than a century. Now, it will need at least 2,000 housing units, the equivalent of about 5,000 people. A revised list of urban areas won’t be released until later this year, but a third of the areas deemed urban a decade ago would be knocked into the rural category under the new criteria.
Places with 50,000 residents or more were considered “urbanized areas,” compared with “urban clusters” having between 2,500 and 49,999 residents in the past. But those distinctions will be eliminated and all will be called urban areas under the new definition.
Some communities worry that the switch to housing units will cause some areas to be underestimated if the Census Bureau uses the U.S. average of 2.6 people per household for its calculations. For instance, Madera County, California, has 3.3 people per household, and the change “would not fully represent the community,” Patricia Taylor, executive director of the Madera County Transportation Commission, said in a letter to the bureau last year.
The Census Bureau says the new definition should be used for statistical purposes only. But the bureau’s urban areas form the cores of metro and micro areas, and its definitions provide the basis for how other agencies classify urban and rural areas in determining eligibility for federal funding. The bureau reviews the definitions every 10 yearsafter a census, and the urban population has grown from about 45% of the total U.S. population in 1910 to more than 80% a decade ago.
“We’ve heard people say 2,500 was too low. That was the impetus for the increase,” said Michael Ratcliffe, a senior geographer with the Census Bureau.
Different federal programs use different definitions of urban and rural, and some communities qualify for rural funding for some programs and not others. But any changes “will have significant implications for many groups and communities,” said Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire who studies rural issues.
“Another likely concern for many rural communities is that if many existing urban areas are redefined as rural, competition for the limited rural funds will increase,” Johnson said.
A coalition of associations representing cities, counties, planners and transportation groups had objected to many of the proposed changes last year, saying the switch from people to housing units would miss variations in development and land use patterns.
The Census Bureau tried to address those concerns by creating three levels of urban area definitions for census blocks, which are the nation’s smallest geographic unit. Census blocks will be urban if they have 425 housing units per square mile, the equivalent of 1,105 people. Before the change, census blocks with at least 500 people per square mile were considered urban.
The redesignation gives the bureau a way to distinguish between the “urban nucleus” and less densely populated areas, typically on the fringes of urban areas.
Bill Keyrouze, executive director of Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, said the Census Bureau’s revisions, adding different levels of urban areas based on density, “was an adequate compromise.”
For the town of DeMotte, Indiana, 85 miles (135 kilometers) southwest of South Bend, which won’t qualify as an urban area anymore, it doesn’t really matter from a “status” viewpoint, Town Manager Michael Cain said.
“You are who you are. The number of people doesn’t matter. It’s the spirit of the community that matters, whether your town is a cohesive group of people who care about each other,” Cain said.
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| 2022-05-01T20:34:22Z
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WASHINGTON -- Here's a look at how Georgia's members of Congress voted over the previous week.
Following the House vote last Friday, that chamber joined the Senate in a recess that is scheduled to last until September.
WASHINGTON -- Here's a look at how Georgia's members of Congress voted over the previous week.
Following the House vote last Friday, that chamber joined the Senate in a recess that is scheduled to last until September.
HOUSE VOTES:
ENERGY, TAXES, HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS: The House has agreed to the Senate amendment to a tax and spending bill (H.R. 5376) sponsored by Rep. John A. Yarmuth, D-Ky. The bill's spending measures include changes to Medicare prescription drug programs and various subsidies for non-fossil fuel sources of energy and energy efficiency programs, while its tax policy changes include a 15% alternative minimum tax on large companies and about $80 billion of increased funding for the Internal Revenue Service. Yarmuth said it "will lower health care costs and energy costs for American families" and also "makes the biggest corporations start paying their fair share in taxes." An opponent, Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., called the bill "welfare for the wealthy environmentalists and big corporations, paid for by increased taxes and audits on middle- and low-income taxpayers." The vote, on Aug. 12, was 220 yeas to 207 nays.
NAYS: Loudermilk R-GA (11th), Allen R-GA (12th), Scott, Austin R-GA (8th), Clyde R-GA (9th), Greene R-GA (14th), Carter R-GA (1st), Ferguson R-GA (3rd), Hice R-GA (10th)
YEAS: Bishop D-GA (2nd), Scott, David D-GA (13th), McBath D-GA (6th), Bourdeaux D-GA (7th), Johnson D-GA (4th), Williams D-GA (5th)
There were no key votes in the Senate this week.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dechert advised Abivax on its successful €49.2 million financing with top U.S. and European biotech specialist investors. The financing was underwritten by new and existing biotech investors based in the U.S. and Europe and led by TCGX, with participation from Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners, Deep Track Capital, Sofinnova Partners, Invus and Truffle Capital.
The proceeds of the transaction will be used primarily to fund the advancement of Phase 3 clinical trials of obefazimod in the treatment of ulcerative colitis. The financing consists of a reserved capital increase of €46.2 million and the issuance of €2.9 million in royalty certificates.
The cross-border Dechert team advising Abivax was led by the corporate/M&A Paris team with partner Alain Decombe and associate Vianney Toulouse and included corporate/M&A partner Patrick Lyons in London and global finance counsel Joshua Strathman in Los Angeles.
Dechert is a leading global law firm with 22 offices around the world. The firm advises on matters and transactions of the greatest complexity, bringing energy, creativity and efficient management of legal issues to deliver commercial and practical advice for clients.
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VAUGHAN, ON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CannTrust Holdings Inc. (the "Company" or "CannTrust") (unlisted), minority investor in Phoena Holdings Inc.("Phoena", formerly CannTrust Equity Inc.) today announced that it is seeking an order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the "Court") extending the time for the Company to call the next annual meeting of its shareholders. The Company also provided an update concerning its board of directors' (the "Board") review of strategic alternatives.
The Court previously issued an order extending the time for the Company to call the next annual general meeting ("AGM") of its shareholders to a date no later than 120 days following the completion of the Company's proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act ("CCAA"). The Company emerged from its CCAA proceedings on March 15, 2022 and is currently required to call the next annual meeting of shareholders on or before July 13, 2022. The Company requires additional time to prepare certain audited financial statements and other information which are required to be presented to the shareholders at each annual meeting. It has been working with its auditors, MNP LLP, to complete these audited financial statements but will be unable to do so before July 13, 2022. It is therefore requesting an extension from the Court to a date no later than November 30, 2022.
The motion is scheduled to be heard by the Court on July 7, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. EST. In support of the motion, the Company will today file with the Court the following materials (collectively, the "Court Materials"): a Motion Record containing the Notice of Motion, affidavits from Greg Guyatt, David Blair and Dan Hogan and a draft Order. The Court Materials are available at https://ln5.sync.com/dl/3460270d0/8szhn4iv-8tiac58r-f6b2rwde-v2iwj2q6. The Company will post a Zoom link for the hearing at the same location once it is provided by the Court.
The Company previously announced that it intends to explore alternatives for either applying to the Ontario Securities Commission ("OSC") for an order revoking the OSC's "failure-to-file" Cease Trade Order dated April 13, 2020 ("CTO") and listing the Company's common shares on a Canadian stock exchange or for taking steps to exchange the Company's common shares for common shares of Phoena and obtaining a Canadian stock exchange listing for Phoena's common shares. The Company is working closely with its advisors to devise a corporate structure that will be aimed at delivering modest incremental value to its shareholders, but in a manner that appropriately balances the constraints imposed by its cash position, accounting requirements and applicable Canadian and United States securities and tax laws. The Board's deliberations are ongoing and progressing, but there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to execute successfully on either strategic alternative.
The Board anticipates being in a position to complete its review, obtain any requisite audited financial statements and disclose its findings, and any related recommendations for approval by the Company's shareholders, before the Company's next shareholders meeting to be held by November 30, 2022, subject to the Court providing the relief noted above.
CannTrust is a holding company and its primary asset is comprised of an approximate 10% equity interest in Phoena. Although CannTrust is a reporting issuer under the laws of each of the Canadian provinces except for Quebec, it remains subject to the CTO and its common shares have been delisted by the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
Phoena is an award-winning, federally regulated licensed cannabis producer, with locations in Vaughan and Fenwick, Ontario. Phoena operates a portfolio of well-known brands, including estora, Liiv, SYNR.G and Xscape.
Phoena is committed to providing exceptional consumer experience, quality products and consistency. Phoena's greenhouse produces Grade A cannabis flower, which is sold in a variety of dried flower and extract formats.
Phoena creates cannabis products that meet the diverse needs of patients and consumers, promoting positivity, supporting creativity, and inspiring confidence.
Phoena, empowering you every day.
Learn more at Phoena.com
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of Canadian securities laws and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other applicable United States safe harbor laws, and such statements are based upon CannTrust's current internal expectations, estimates, projections, assumptions and beliefs and views of future events.
Forward-looking information and forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes", "expect", "likely", "may", "will", "should", "intend", "anticipate", "potential", "proposed", "estimate" and other similar words, including negative and grammatical variations thereof, or statements that certain events or conditions "may", "would" or "will" happen, or by discussions of strategy.
The forward-looking information and statements in this news release include statements relating to the Company's efforts to resolve certain securities regulatory and stock exchange issues, some of which have not been finalized and remain subject to completing further analyses, obtaining shareholder and creditor approval and satisfying the requirements of securities regulators and a stock exchange. Forward-looking information and statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks, including, without limitation: the risk that, if Phoena requires additional equity, the Company's investment in Phoena could be diluted further; the risk that Phoena or its affiliates could default under its credit facilities from Cortland Credit Lending Corporation or Marshall Fields International B.V., which are secured against substantially all of Phoena and the Company's assets; the risk that the Company will not be able to cure its disclosure defaults under securities laws and obtain an order from the OSC to revoke the CTO, on commercially reasonable terms, or at all; the impact of any regulatory and other investigations or proceedings; the risks associated with general economic conditions and/or adverse industry events; the risk of loss of markets; the risk of future legislative and regulatory developments in Canada, the United States and elsewhere; the state of the cannabis industry in Canada generally; the ability of the Company to attract and retain suitable directors, officers and employees; the risks that, even if the CTO can be revoked, the Company will be unable to obtain a stock exchange listing for the Company's common shares; the risk that neither the Company nor Phoena will be able to satisfy the requirements of such exchange; and the ability of Phoena to successfully implement its business strategies.
Any forward-looking information and statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and, except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information or statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict all such factors. When considering these forward-looking information and statements, readers should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary statements in the Company's Annual Information Form dated March 28, 2019 (the "AIF") and filed with the applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and filed as an exhibit the Company's Form 40-F annual report under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on EDGAR at www.sec.gov (the "March 2019 Form 40-F"). The risk factors and other factors noted in the AIF could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those described in any forward-looking information or statements. Readers are also reminded that the Company remains in default of its periodic disclosure requirements under applicable securities laws and stock exchange requirements, that its most recent AIF, Form 40-F and other disclosures do not reflect all risk factors that currently face the Company, and that the Company has not completed or filed the restatements of the financial statements included in the AIF or the March 2019 Form 40-F or otherwise filed an amendment to such Form 40-F, and that the Company was permitted by the Initial Order of the Superior Court of Justice to not to correct its prior filings or make any further filings in respect of periodic disclosure requirements under applicable securities laws and stock exchange requirements. None of the Company's securities is listed for trading on any stock exchange in any jurisdiction and, in Canada, trading in the Company's securities is subject to a cease-trade order issued on April 13, 2020 by the Ontario Securities Commission for CannTrust's failure to comply with its disclosure obligations under applicable securities laws.
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Annual Blintze Brunch set for Sunday at Temple Beth Sholom
Published: Apr. 25, 2022 at 10:03 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - For the third year in a row, Temple Beth Sholom will have its annual Blintze Brunch in a social-distancing format featuring curbside pickup of meals.
The 57th annual event, which will feature a variety of Jewish foods, will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at the temple, 4200 S.W. Munson.
Take-home meals featuring foods such as blintzes, rolled cabbage, knishes and Jewish-style challa will be available.
As of Monday, supplies for some of the food items -- especially the challa -- were getting low.
Those who purchase food items online can reserve times to pick up their meals.
To purchase meals, visit wwws.TBSGiving.com.
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(WSAV) – A few lucky tourists will be granted the chance to stay inside one of Paris’ most famous monuments: the Moulin Rouge.
For the first time ever, bookings for a secluded space inside the historic red windmill and cabaret venue will be up for rent on Airbnb for one-night stays. Each booking can accommodate two guests.
Reservations will open up Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET. The secret room will only be open to guests for three nights: June 13, June 20 and June 27.
The three one-night stays will be in a secluded room that has been designed to transport guests back in time to the late 19th century. Few are aware of the space inside the windmill, which has never been open for public access.
Also included in the stay is a private tour of the Moulin Rouge, breakfast, drinks on the rooftop terrace, a three-course dinner, a meet and greet with lead dancer Claudine Van Den Ber in her dressing room and tickets to the Moulin Rouge show, Féerie.
The Moulin Rouge first opened in the Jardin de Paris, at the foot of the Montmartre hill as a dance hall in 1889 and featured a cabaret show that included the first cancan, a high-energy, physically demanding dance featuring high kicks.
The front of the building was decorated with glittering electric lights, which were a novelty at the time, with a huge red windmill at the very front of the building.
The dance hall was damaged by fire in 1915, but was restored, and is still a performance venue today.
Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Frank Sinatra and Liza Minnelli have all performed on stage at the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
Today, the Moulin Rouge is a tourist attraction that offers musical dance entertainment for visitors from around the world.
Photos of the secret room and more information on how to reserve a stay can be found on Airbnb’s website.
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TAIPEI, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade and Development Council) announced today that half a dozen NVIDIA executives present the company's keynote at COMPUTEX 2022, Asia's leading IT show. This digital keynote will be on Tuesday, May 24, at 11:00 AM (UTC+8), to discuss how AI is revolutionizing networking, to the enterprise data center gaming, and content creation.
With NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform revolutionizing everything from gaming to data centers to robotics, six NVIDIA executives are invited to be the speakers at CEO Keynote, including Vice President for Accelerated Computing Ian Buck, Senior Vice President for Hardware Engineering Brian Kelleher, Director of Product Management for Accelerated Computing Ying Yin Shih, Chief Technology Officer Michael Kagan, Vice President of Embedded and Edge Computing Deepu Talla, and Senior Vice President for GeForce Jeff Fisher.
"NVIDIA and our partners will be announcing new developments and products on both the enterprise and consumer fronts at the show," said Fisher, a COMPUTEX regular.
At the accompanying TAITRA Forum, Richard Kerris NVIDIA's vice president for Omniverse Platform will talk about "A New Era of Digital Twins and Virtual Worlds with NVIDIA Omniverse".
Richard Kerris will share the enormous opportunities that AI presents to enterprise and how they can dramatically transform their business to gain a competitive edge.
Kerris' talk will be held Thursday, May 26, from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM (UCT+8).
Participants can visit NVIDIA's virtual booth at COMPUTEX and see how NVIDIA technologies are powering AI, data centers, 3D design and simulation, gaming and content creation, high-performance computing, and robotics.
COMPUTEX 2022 will be grandly held at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1 from May 24 to May 27, 2022. In addition, TAITRA will simultaneously hold an online exhibition called COMPUTEX DigitalGo (May 24 to June 6). Meanwhile, Taiwan External Trade Development Council will organize COMPUTEX CEO Keynotes & Forum, where CEOs and senior executives from global tech giants share their insights.
Join COMPUTEX CEO Keynotes & Forum: https://events.computextaipei.com.tw/en
About COMPUTEX
COMPUTEX was founded in 1981. It has grown with the global ICT industry and become stronger over the last four decades. Bearing witness to historical moments in the development of and changes in the industry, COMPUTEX attracts more than 40,000 buyers to visit Taiwan every year. It is also the preferred platform chosen by top international companies for launching epoch-making products.
Taiwan has a comprehensive global ICT industry chain. Gaining a foothold in Taiwan, COMPUTEX is jointly held by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council and Taipei Computer Association, aiming to build a global tech ecosystem. COMPUTEX uses cross-domain integration and innovation services as the most powerful driving forces for achieving the goal of becoming a new platform for global technological resources.
About TAITRA:
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) is Taiwan's foremost trade promotion organization. TAITRA is a public-benefit corporation founded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs by uniting industry and commerce groups from the private sector with the purpose of helping them expand their global reach. Currently, TAITRA has a team of more than 1,300 trade professionals, both domestically and abroad. Headquartered in Taipei, TAITRA operates 5 local offices in Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, as well as 63 branches worldwide. It has also signed cooperation agreements with 319 sister organizations that promote international trade. By forming a comprehensive trade services network that provides zero-time-difference and borderless real-time services, TAITRA continues to work with enterprises to jointly pursue the steady development of Taiwan's economy. It is the best partner for your success in business expansion.
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Man hears screaming, finds woman chained in abandoned house
Published: May. 23, 2022 at 5:13 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
CHICAGO (WLS) – It’s a disturbing story out of Chicago, where a man said he heard someone screaming for help from an abandoned home over the weekend.
The man called police, who then found a 36-year-old woman chained up inside the building on the city’s south side.
The woman said she was abducted, taken to the basement and attic, raped and handcuffed and chained inside the house.
She said she was there for four or five days.
The woman was released from a hospital Sunday morning in good condition.
Police are still searching for the abductor. Neighbors say the home has been vacant for more than 30 years. It’s among about half a dozen homes on the block that are abandoned.
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In the late 80s, Chaplain Harold Ellis and eight volunteers created the Jesus Acts in Inmate Lives Ministry Inc (J.A.I.L.).
“He felt called to come to Texas and start a ministry,” said J.A.I.L. Executive Director Steve Cannon. “So, he and his wife and kids got in a car and came to Belton.”
Ellis coordinated with Dan Smith, the Bell County Sheriff at the time to start the ministry to help inmates at the Bell County Jail.
“He worked out of his home at first,” said Cannon. “He began going inside the Bell County Jail with Thursday Night Cellblock Evangelism. We would hold hands and pray and go into the cellblocks and visit with people who were incarcerated.”
Cannon, a former disc jockey, was one of the first volunteers that helped Ellis grow the ministry to about 200 current volunteers.
“I was at the first meeting when it all got started,” said Cannon. “About a year later, Harold called me and asked me if I wanted to be on the board of directors. Harold passed away about 20 years ago this August.”
After Ellis’ passing, the hunt for a new director began with Cannon ultimately heeding the call.
“Truthfully, God called me to the ministry. There is no doubt about that,” he said. “I started Nov. 3 of 2003.”
J.A.I.L. volunteers do in-person contact non-denominational Bible studies with inmates.
“There are about 300 registered religions in Texas,” said Cannon. “We’re not about religion. We’re about relationships. Jesus Christ was not a religion. We are not facilitators of religion inside the jail.”
Cannon said his organization uses Bible study to help those at the jail find a better path.
“We use the Bible to share God’s words with inmates,” he said. “One of the things they need is a life change. Based on the scripture and the word of God, we take that to them.”
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, no organizations could continue their work at the jail.
“We had to think outside the box,” said Cannon. “We started doing webcam videos here at the office for the inmates to watch. The Bible studies were uploaded, and the inmates had access to them. We went from webcam videos to H.D. videos after one of our members bought a high-definition camera.”
Channeling his background in broadcast, Cannon created the J.A.I.L. Ministry Radio in 2012.
“We have low-power FM. that is available inside the jail,” said Cannon. “That radio station runs 24 hours, seven days a week. Inmates have access to radios at the commissary.”
Cannon said he would continue working at the ministry until “the Lord calls me up to the clouds.”
The ministry, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, relies on grants and donations. Its annual fundraising banquet is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Oct. 20 at the Bell County Expo Center.
Those wanting to attend can register at www.jailmin.org.
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NEW ORLEANS, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until July 1, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Riskified Ltd. (the "Company") (NYSE: RSKD), if they purchased or acquired the Company's Class A common stock in or traceable to the Company's July 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
What You May Do
If you purchased or acquired shares of Riskified as above and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-rskd/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by July 1, 2022.
Riskified and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information in its IPO Registration Statement, violating federal securities laws.
The alleged false and misleading statements and omissions include, but are not limited to, that: (i) as the Company expanded its user base, the quality of the Company's machine learning platform had deteriorated (rather than improved as represented in the Registration Statement); (ii) the Company had expanded its customer base into industries with relatively high rates of fraud – including partnerships with cryptocurrency and remittance business – in which the Company had limited experience, and that this expansion had negatively impacted the effectiveness of the Company's machine learning platform; (iii) the Company suffered from materially higher chargebacks and cost of revenue and depressed gross profits and gross profit margins during its third fiscal quarter of 2021; and (iv) as a result of the foregoing, the Company's representations in its Registration Statement were materially false and misleading, and lacked a factual basis.
The case is Thomas v. Riskified Ltd., et al., No. 22-cv-03545.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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BOSTON (AP) — Urine trouble no more, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority hopes, with a new program to tackle public urination in system elevators with technology.
The MTBA, which services Boston and the surrounding area, is launching a pilot program this summer in which urine detection sensors will be placed in four downtown elevators. The sensors alert transit ambassadors, who can dispatch a cleaning crew, the Boston Herald reported.
The sensors on the ceiling of an elevator have an attached fan, which allows them to suck in air and “basically smell what is present,” said Meghan Collins, a program/projects manager for MBTA.
The pilot kicks off in August. Data will be collected for several months before the agency makes a decision about whether to implement the program by year’s end, the newspaper said.
It’s not a new concept.
Nearly a decade ago, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority launched a pilot program that, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, triggered strobe lights, alarms and alerts to MARTA police when urine was detected in an elevator. The elevators were then inoperable until a cleaning. That program, deemed a success, was eventually expanded.
The MTBA hopes the program helps alleviate problems: Public urination is not only unsanitary but can also damage elevators, Collins said
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Did you lose money on investments in Bakkt Holdings? If so, please visit Bakkt Holdings Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com to discuss your rights.
NEW YORK, April 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bernstein Liebhard LLP announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired: (a) Bakkt Holdings, Inc. ("Bakkt" or the "Company") securities between March 31, 2021 and November 19, 2021, inclusive (the "Class Period"); and/or (b) Bakkt Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the offering documents issued in connection with the business combination between the Company and Bakkt Holdings, LLC ("Legacy Bakkt") completed on or about October 15, 2021 (the "Business Combination"). The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and alleges violations of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Bakkt was formerly known as "VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings" ("VIH") and operated as a special purpose acquisition company ("SPAC"), also called a blank-check company, which is a development stage company that has no specific business plan or purpose or has indicated its business plan is to engage in a merger or acquisition with an unidentified company or companies, other entity, or person.
On March 31, 2021, the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-4 with the SEC in connection with the Business Combination (the "Registration Statement"). On September 17, 2021, the Company filed a proxy statement and prospectus on Form 424B3 with the SEC in connection with the Business Combination, which formed part of the Registration Statement (the "Proxy" and, together with the Registration Statement, the "Offering Documents").
On or about October 15, 2021, the Company and Legacy Bakkt completed the Business Combination pursuant to the Offering Documents. Thereafter, the Company changed its name to "Bakkt Holdings, Inc." and began operating a digital asset platform that enables consumers to buy, sell, convert, and spend digital assets.
Plaintiff alleges that the Offering Documents were negligently prepared and, as a result, contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted to state other facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading and were not prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations governing their preparation. Additionally, throughout the Class Period, Defendants allegedly made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and compliance policies. Specifically, the Offering Documents and Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company had defective financial controls; (ii) as a result, there were errors in the Company's financial statements related to the misclassification of certain shares issued prior to the Business Combination; (iii) accordingly, the Company would need to restate certain of its financial statements; (iv) the Company downplayed the true scope and severity of these issues; (v) the Company overstated its remediation of its defective financial controls; and (vi) as a result, the Offering Documents and Defendants' public statements throughout the Class Period contained omissions of material fact and were inaccurate..
On May 17, 2021, Bakkt - then still operating as VIH - notified the SEC of its inability to timely file its quarterly report for the quarter ended March 31, 2021. Specifically, the Company advised that, as a result of a statement issued by the SEC, "the Company reevaluated the accounting treatment of its public warrants and private placement warrants" and "is currently determining the extent of the SEC Statement's impact on its financial statements[.]"
Then, on October 13, 2021, the Company disclosed in an SEC filing that it had previously failed to properly account for the classification of its Class A ordinary shares and "adjust[ed] . . . the initial carrying value of the Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption with the offset recorded to additional paid-in capital (to the extent available), accumulated deficit and Class A ordinary shares." Notably, the Company revised its balance sheet as of December 31, 2020, including, among other changes, additional paid-in capital that was reduced from $9,860,338 to zero, an accumulated deficit that ballooned from $4,861,190 to $29,250,419, and total shareholders' equity of $5,000,009 that swung to a total shareholders' deficit of $29,249,901.
Finally, on November 22, 2021, Bakkt disclosed in another SEC filing that the Company's management "has re-evaluated . . . the accounting classification of the Class A ordinary shares . . . of [VIH] . . . and has identified errors in the historical financial statements of VIH . . . related to the misclassification . . . of the Class A Ordinary Shares prior to the [Business Combination]." Specifically, the Company found that, as a result of errors in its condensed consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020, and the quarterly periods ended March 31, 2021, June 30, 2021 and September 30, 2021, Bakkt should "restate certain of VIH's condensed consolidated financial statements from" those periods.
On this news, Bakkt's stock price fell more than 13%, to close at $17.02 per share on November 22, 2021.
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 20, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff. If you choose to take no action, you may remain an absent class member.
If you purchased Bakkt securities, and/or would like to discuss your legal rights and options please visit Bakkt Holdings, Inc. Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit or contact Peter Allocco at (212) 951-2030 or pallocco@bernlieb.com.
Since 1993, Bernstein Liebhard LLP has recovered over $3.5 billion for its clients. In addition to representing individual investors, the Firm has been retained by some of the largest public and private pension funds in the country to monitor their assets and pursue litigation on their behalf. As a result of its success litigating hundreds of lawsuits and class actions, the Firm has been named to The National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List" thirteen times and listed in The Legal 500 for ten consecutive years.
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21.co is unveiled as a parent company to 21Shares and Amun
ZURICH, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 21.co, the world's leader in providing access to crypto through simple and easy to use products, today announced a $25 million round led by Marshall Wace. This round values the business up to $2 billion, making 21.co Switzerland's largest crypto unicorn. With this round of financing, 21.co will continue to drive rapid, targeted growth through first-of-their-kind products, key market expansions and strategic talent acquisitions. Other investors in the round include Collab+Currency, Quiet Ventures, ETFS Capital and Valor Equity Partners.
In addition to funding, the company also announced its new parent company, 21.co. 21.co is a collection of companies, the largest of which is 21Shares, the world's largest issuer of cryptocurrency exchange traded products (ETPs) – which is powered by Onyx, a proprietary technology platform used to issue and operate cryptocurrency ETPs for 21Shares and third parties – in addition to Amun, a token provider focused on making the DeFi world more accessible.
This round – raised during Crypto Winter – was the company's first raise in over two years, a testament to the company's early success and growing investor demand in the asset class. To prove such investor demand, the company ended 2021 on a nine-figure revenue run rate and has seen sustained inflows, even during down markets. Year-to-date, from September 2021 to September 2022, 21.co recorded over $650 million in net new assets, and hit its peak AUM at $3 billion in November of 2021. To support this rapid business growth, 21.co grew its headcount 75% during this period.
Launched in 2018, by Ophelia Snyder and Hany Rashwan, 21.co was founded to build bridges into the crypto world. Since then, 21.co has been on a tremendous journey to stay at the forefront of the market by providing investors with the most innovative crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs), the broadest token solutions, a decentralized software platform to create, list and manage ETPs globally and more forward-thinking solutions – all powered by free institutional-grade research to educate investors about the evolving industry.
"My co-founder, Ophelia, and I set out with a simple mission to make crypto more accessible," said Hany Rashwan, CEO and Co-Founder at 21.co. "Now, we're the highest valued and largest tech startup in Switzerland – and we're still only in the early days. 21.co remains committed to building innovative products that meet investor demand as this asset class continues to gain rapid momentum."
"The success 21.co has experienced over the past four years is truly amazing," said Ophelia Snyder, President and Co-Founder at 21.co. "We have built an incredibly diverse team, with some of the brightest minds in crypto and brought on best-in class investors. Our drive to revolutionize the world of crypto and build bridges into the asset class is only just getting started."
"At Marshall Wace, our culture is built around innovation – and we saw an immediate alignment of values when meeting with the team at 21.co. 21co is a first-mover in the crypto industry: the company is focused on growth, and committed to bringing new and innovative products to investors across markets – in a secure, accessible way," said Amit Rajpal, Partner and CEO Asia at Marshall Wace. "Even in the midst of crypto winter, MW believes that 21.co has the potential to revolutionize the industry globally and we're looking forward to working alongside the team."
"When I first met the team at 21.co, I understood their long-term vision and truly believed the company would transform the crypto ecosystem," said Cathie Wood, Founder, CEO and CIO of ARK Investment Management LLC, and an independent board member of 21.co. "This round is a testament to 21.co's early success and its ability to thrive in both bull and bear markets. I'm proud to be a part of the 21.co growth story."
21.co's raise follows a year of significant growth and product innovation. Most notably, 21Shares:
- Launched innovative products, like the world's first USD Yield ETP and the world's first Bitcoin and Gold ETP on SIX Swiss Exchange
- Released the first crypto ETFs in Australia
- Published the sixth issue of its State of Crypto Report, which explores current trends in the crypto industry and what investors are doing to successfully optimize their crypto portfolios.
- Launched its Crypto Winter Suite, which includes products like the world's cheapest Bitcoin ETP, 21Shares' Bitcoin Core ETP, and the S&P Risk Controlled Bitcoin and Ethereum Index ETPs
To learn more about the company, please visit www.21.co.
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21.co is the world's leader in providing access to crypto through simple and easy to use products. 21.co is the parent company of 21Shares, the world's largest issuer of cryptocurrency exchange traded products (ETPs) – which is powered by Onyx, a proprietary technology platform used to issue and operate cryptocurrency ETPs for 21Shares and third parties – in addition to Amun, a token provider focused on making the DeFi world more accessible. The company was founded in 2018 by Hany Rashwan and Ophelia Snyder. 21.co is registered in Zug, Switzerland with offices in Zurich and New York. For more information, please visit www.21.co.
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HOUSTON, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston is proud to present the first museum survey exhibition of distinguished Houston-born artist and photographer Pam Francis (1954-2020).
Pam Francis Photographs will be presented in the Joanne Guest Wilson Gallery of the Blaffer Art Museum, 120 Fine Arts Building on the University of Houston campus, April 19–26. Museum hours are Tuesday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, noon – 5 p.m. Admission is free.
Pam Francis Photographs spans Francis' art practice from 1987-2020, assembling over 100 photographs and collecting artifacts including the artist's camera, selected slides, contact sheets, CDs, films, and ephemera.
As one of the top editorial and portrait photographers in Texas, Francis photographed CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, Oscar Wyatt and Texas Lt. Governor William "Bill" Hobby, Jr. for the covers of Texas Monthly.
By 2001, she served as chief photographer for the Houston Texans "Got Tickets" billboard campaigns, which included iconic images of Lyle Lovett, members of Destiny's Child, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard of ZZ Top, Roger Clemens, and President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush.
While Francis' portraits have appeared on the covers of Texas Monthly, Time, Business Week, XXL, Source, and Sports Illustrated, her work has not yet had the critical attention to be comprehensively studied and celebrated.
To view some of her more memorable photos of celebrities, athletes, musicians, politicians and actors, go to www.pamfrancis.com.
Christine Starkman, Guest Curator of the exhibition worked closely with Steven Matijcio, Jane Dale Owen Director and Chief Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum, in selecting the works for the exhibition and the catalog.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue designed by Miko McGinty, and printed by Trifolio in Verona, Italy, and will be available in April 2022. This is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Francis, and it will feature essays by Teresa Hubbard, William and Bettye Nowlin Professor in Photography at the University of Texas at Austin, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Media at the University of Houston, and Britt Thomas, interdisciplinary artist and lecturer at Sam Houston State University, as well as eleven interviews conducted by Christine Starkman.
About Blaffer Art Museum
Founded in 1973, the Blaffer Art Museum endeavors to further the understanding of contemporary art through exhibitions, publications, and public programs. As the gateway between the University of Houston's Central campus and the City of Houston, Blaffer Art Museum is a catalyst for creative innovation, experimentation, and scholarship. Its exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public, create community through dialogue and participation, and inspire an appreciation for the visual arts as a vital force in shaping contemporary culture.
Major funding is provided by Leslie & Brad Bucher, the Stolbun Family Foundation, and the John P. McGovern Foundation. Generous support is provided by Ingrid Arneberg, Andrew & Robin Schirrmeister, and Blaffer Art Museum Advisory Board members. The following donors sustain Blaffer Art Museum in perpetuity by giving through endowments: Cecil Amelia Blaffer von Furstenberg Endowment for Exhibitions and Programs, Jane Dale Owen Endowment in the Blaffer Art Museum, Jo and Jim Furr Exhibition Endowment in the Blaffer Art Museum, Sarah C. Morian Endowment, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Blaffer Gallery Endowment. This project is supported in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. The Blaffer Art Museum is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
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TAPPP technology enables real-time wagers on live event broadcast for the first time
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TAPPP, a New York-based technology and marketing company dedicated to encrypted on-screen transactions and curated viewer experiences made single-screen sports betting a reality during the final weekend of the Major League Rugby (MLR) season with matches streamed on The Rugby Network (TRN). With TAPPP's proprietary, real-time gaming technology, eligible viewers were able to access sports betting data originating in a live broadcast environment while also placing authenticated bets via PlayUp directly on their device within the same live-broadcast environment.
"TAPPP has clearly demonstrated that single-screen sports betting has become a reality, now!", said Sandy Agarwal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at TAPPP. "I am extremely proud of our team bringing to market such transformative technology, and I am so appreciative of our partners MLR, TRN and PlayUp for working together with us to bring our transaction and engagement platform to life."
The unveiling of the live sports betting component of TAPPP's and TRN's Pick&Go! platform was the culmination of the partnership's first season aimed at increasing MLR match viewership and rugby fan engagement via both free-to-play, prize-based games of knowledge and skill and real-time, real money wagering. TAPPP is the first company to have operated both a free-to-play and real-time sports wagering product simultaneously via the same screen presenting a live sports event.
"In the era of Smart TVs, interactive overlays have become a hot topic" said Agarwal. "Interactivity is great but how about direct, in-game, on-screen transacting involving a product where the price can change every second? This is single-screen sports betting, and this is what TAPPP's platform has delivered. With more seamless transaction opportunities still to come."
TAPPP will leverage the activity data from the first year of Pick&Go! to develop an enhanced free-to-play and real-money gaming platform in time for the 2023 MLR season. The company is also in discussions with several broadcasters and additional sportsbooks to launch a similar interactive and transactional platform, with both real-time, single-screen sports betting and free-to-play contests in the second half of this year.
TAPPP is a technology and marketing company that helps media, consumer products and sports wagering clients drive customer acquisitions, transactions, engagement, and retention through products and services offered on-screen, at events and in-store with a business focus built on our Interactive Gaming, Betting & Transaction Platform, offering proprietary, real-time, content-specific viewing experiences across any end-use device and our Distribution & Payments Service Platform, enabling cash and digital transactions for gaming, betting and consumer products merchants. For more information on TAPPP, visit tappp.com.
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The Patrick Lyoya shooting reopens debate about how police interact with Black people. Here are other high-profile cases
By Giselle Rhoden, CNN
It is an all-too-familiar scenario. A Black person is killed during a routine traffic stop. Days later, video is released, and family attorneys and civil rights leaders often say it conflicts with what police say happened.
The shooting of Patrick Lyoya in Grand Rapids, Michigan, earlier this month is the latest high-profile police shooting under scrutiny.
On Wednesday, Grand Rapids police released several video clips, which show Lyoya’s entire encounter with a police officer after a traffic stop, including the moment the officer fatally shot the 26-year-old Black man.
Several hundred people protested after the video was released, with many chanting, “Justice for Patrick.”
Lyoya’s parents, Dorcas and Peter, and his brother Thomas wept at a news conference Thursday calling for the prosecution of the officer involved in the incident and demanding justice.
While details of the case — and the expected fallout — are still unfolding, Lyoya’s death not only puts the attention back on how a traffic stop can become fatal but reopens years-long frustration with how police interact with Black people. Killings at the hands of law enforcement continue to leave families devastated and social justice advocates calling for reform and policy changes.
On Tuesday, three former Minneapolis police officers rejected a plea deal from prosecutors as they await trial for charges in George Floyd’s death. And last week, prosecutors declined to file charges against the Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke or any other officers involved in the no-knock warrant service that led to the 22-year-old Black man’s death in early February.
Although Minnesota juries found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder in Floyd’s death and Kim Potter guilty of manslaughter for shooting Daunte Wright, experts note how rare it is that police officers involved in high-profile, and sometimes deadly, on-duty incidents ever face criminal charges or are convicted.
“It’s rare because the juries are very reluctant to second guess and judge the actions of on-duty police officers in violent street encounters,” Philip Matthew Stinson, a criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University, told CNN previously.
Here is a look at some of the most recent high-profile and controversial police shootings and the outcomes:
Patrick Lyoya, 26
When: April 4, 2022
Where: Grand Rapids, Michigan
What happened: The incident began just after 8 a.m. ET on April 4 when police say they pulled over a vehicle for improper registration. The driver, now known to be Lyoya, got out of the vehicle and at some point, ran, Grand Rapids Police said. Body camera footage showed the officer chasing and tackling Lyoya, resulting in a minutes-long struggle.
The officer attempted to tase Lyoya at least twice, according to the police chief, but failed to make contact as Lyoya put his hands on the Taser. At that point, the officer’s body camera was accidentally deactivated but cell phone video shows the fatal shot to the head, which can also be heard in video from a home surveillance camera.
What’s next: Michigan State Police said once the investigation is completed, the evidence will be turned over to the county prosecutor who will decide on charges. The officer’s name will be released if charges are filed.
Kent County Prosecuting Attorney Christopher Becker asked for patience from the public.
“While the videos released today are an important piece of evidence, they are not all the evidence… By law, we are required to review all available evidence before we consider whether charges should be filed, and if so, what appropriate charges should be,” he said in a statement Wednesday.
A death certificate with the cause and manner of Lyoya’s death has been prepared but will not be completed until the toxicology and tissue test results have been received from a contracted laboratory, Kent County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen D. Cohle said in a Wednesday statement, adding his office has requested the results be expedited.
Amir Locke, 22
When: February 2, 2022
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
What happened: Minneapolis police were executing a no-knock search warrant linked to a homicide investigation in neighboring St. Paul, when a SWAT officer shot and killed Locke, who appeared to be asleep on a couch when officers came in. Locke wasn’t named in the warrant; Locke’s cousin was.
City officials didn’t release a lot of information in the days after an officer shot Locke, other than 14 seconds of video that they said showed Locke with the gun.
The video shows officers using a key to open the apartment’s door as officers shout, “Police! Search warrant!” Other officers yelled, “Hands! Hands! Hands!” and “Get on the f****ng ground!” as they approach Locke, who was sleeping on the couch and wrapped in blankets. One officer kicks the back of the couch, waking up Locke. He begins to sit up with his gun in his hand as three shots in the home can be heard by officers.
The outcomes: Mark Hanneman — the Minneapolis SWAT officer responsible for the fatal shot — was placed on administrative leave but returned to active duty on February 28. Last week, CNN reported prosecutors will not file any charges against Hanneman and any of the other officers involved in the shooting due to insufficient admissible evidence.
Following Locke’s death, the Minneapolis mayor’s office announced the police department would be prohibited from executing no-knock search warrants starting April 8.
Daunte Wright, 20
When: April 11, 2021
Where: Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
What happened: The young father was pulled over by police for an expired tag and an illegal air freshener. During the stop, officers learned he had an outstanding warrant and attempted to arrest him, but Wright pulled away and tried to drive off.
As video of the incident shows, Officer Kim Potter yelled, “Taser” repeatedly before she shot Wright with her handgun. She then said, “Holy sh*t! I just shot him!” She added: “I grabbed the wrong f**king gun, and I shot him.”
The shooting led to days of unrest in suburban Brooklyn Center after a tumultuous year of coast-to-coast protests over police brutality and how officers interact with Black people.
The outcome: In December, Potter was found guilty of first and second-degree manslaughter in Wright’s death. CNN reported in February that she was sentenced to two years in prison, far less than the seven years and two months prosecutors requested.
George Floyd, 46
When: May 25, 2020
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
What happened: Minneapolis Police responded to a report of a “forgery in progress” outside of a Cup Foods store where Floyd was accused of passing a counterfeit $20.
Officers approached Floyd’s car, yanked him from the vehicle, handcuffed him and began to struggle with him in front of a squad car. Video camera footage showed one officer — in an effort to restrain Floyd — knelt on his neck for over nine minutes. Floyd pleaded with officers to release him saying, “I can’t breathe,” and repeatedly calling out for his mother. After several minutes, he was unresponsive.
The outcomes: The Minnesota governor issued an executive order activating the national guard amidst the protests following Floyd’s death. Protests then spread nationwide in the summer of 2020 as #BlackLivesMatter resurged in popularity on social media.
Derek Chauvin — the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck — was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for killing Floyd. Chauvin faces 22 years in prison.
In February, three other officers were found guilty of violating Floyd’s civil rights. CNN reported Tuesday that they are set to stand trial in mid-June for their involvement in Floyd’s death. They have all pleaded not guilty.
Ronald Greene, 49
When: May 10, 2019
Where: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
What happened: Louisiana State Police (LSP) engaged in a vehicle pursuit of Ronald Greene after attempting to pull him over for an unspecified traffic violation. LSP reported that the pursuit ended with Greene crashing his car into a tree.
Two years later, body camera footage of the incident was released that showed state troopers repeatedly tasing, beating and violently dragging Greene. The family has filed a lawsuit, accusing the agency of trying to cover up how Greene died. Greene’s family said they were initially told that he died in a car crash, but forensics examiners later eliminated the car crash as being a reason for his cause of death.
The autopsy, prepared by the Union Parish Coroner’s Office, states in its opinion section that lacerations of Greene’s head were “inconsistent with motor vehicle collision injury and most consistent with multiple impacts from a blunt object.”
What’s next: A special committee has been investigating Greene’s case since 2019. Last May, two of the state troopers involved in Greene’s death were reprimanded for their actions, specifically for violating body camera procedures.
Last week, the local Louisiana district attorney with jurisdiction over the town where Greene died told state lawmakers he plans to convene a special grand jury and pursue criminal charges against the troopers involved in the Black motorist’s death.
There have been no arrests or indictments of any of the officers involved. Meanwhile, the former head of the LSP on Thursday failed to appear at an appeal hearing related to the case.
Breonna Taylor, 26
When: March 13, 2020
Where: Louisville, Kentucky
What happened: A Jefferson County circuit judge issued five search warrants in pursuit of Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, convicted of drug-related crimes.
One of those warrants was for Taylor’s apartment, and Louisville Metro Police Department executed it early on the morning on March 13. Police announced themselves and battered down the front door while Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, were in bed. Thinking they were intruders, Walker fired one shot at officers with a gun he legally owned. Officers then responded with heavy fire, fatally shooting Taylor during the raid.
The outcomes: Protests erupted in Louisville shortly after Taylor’s death. The case started to gain more national attention following the murder of Floyd in Minneapolis. Her death — along with Floyd’s — sparked a racial reckoning in the US when demonstrators across the country demanded an end to discriminatory policing practices and inspired more conversations about police brutality against Black women.
The city of Louisville agreed to pay Taylor’s family a $12 million settlement for their wrongful death lawsuit, the highest settlement ever paid by the city, according to a spokeswoman from the Louisville mayor’s office.
Brett Hankinson — one of the officers involved in the raid — was the only officer charged in connection with the shooting. He was acquitted on three counts of felony wanton endangerment in connection with the raid.
David McAtee, 53
When: June 1, 2020
Where: Louisville, Kentucky
What happened: During a protest following the death of Taylor and Floyd, Louisville police and the Kentucky National Guard were sent to disperse a large crowd of demonstrators around midnight in front of a BBQ stand McAtee owned. Officers began firing pepper balls into the crowd, one of which hit McAtee’s niece, McAtee’s nephew told CNN affiliate WAVE. Louisville Police released a video where McAtee appears to grab his niece and fire shots at officers. Louisville Police and the National Guard then took cover and fired back, killing McAtee, according to the former police chief.
The outcomes: One former police officer has been indicted for unreasonable force against an individual during the protest that lead to McAtee’s death. McAtee’s family also filed a wrongful death lawsuit against 10 LMPD officers and 10 members of the Kentucky National Guard, accusing them of assault and battery, excessive use of force and negligence among other charges.
Atatiana Jefferson, 28
When: October 12, 2019
Where: Fort Worth, Texas
What happened: Overnight on October 12, Fort Worth officers responded to a call from a concerned neighbor who noticed the front door was left open at Jefferson’s home.
Jefferson was babysitting her nephew for her sister, who was recovering from heart surgery, when two Fort Worth police officers arrived at the home without knocking. Police reports say Jefferson heard a noise outside, approached the window and pulled out her gun. Body camera footage shows one officer demanding through the window for Jefferson to show her hands before opening fire through the window, killing her in front of her nephew.
The outcomes: In December 2019, a Texas grand jury indicted former Fort Worth officer Aaron Dean for Jefferson’s death. The Fort Worth Telegram previously reported that Dean pleaded not guilty and was released on bond in October 2019, with a trial scheduled for this May.
Jefferson’s father filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Fort Worth and Dean. Jefferson’s sister filed a separate wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Fort Worth, Dean and Fort Worth’s former police chief.
Elijah McClain, 23
When: August 24, 2019
Where: Aurora, Colorado
What happened: Elijah McClain was walking home from a convenience store when he was confronted by three officers in Aurora, Colorado in response to a 911 caller reporting a suspicious person wearing a ski mask.
McClain “resisted contact” and a struggle ensued, according to a news release from police.
McClain was wrestled to the ground, according to a letter from the Adams County District Attorney, and an officer proceeded to place him in a carotid hold, restricting blood flow to his brain. When paramedics arrived, they administered McClain ketamine, a powerful anesthetic. He suffered a heart attack en route to the hospital and was declared brain dead three days later.
The outcomes: Last year, the city agreed to pay the McClain family $15 million to settle the civil rights lawsuit the family filed after his death.
A Colorado grand jury indicted three police officers and two paramedics in September each on manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, among other charges as part of a 32-count indictment. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser opened the investigation after a viral petition advocated for the investigation and the Adams County District Attorney declined to bring charges against the officers.
The Colorado Attorney General’s Office launched a 14-month investigation into the Aurora police and fire departments. The investigation found the police department had a pattern of practicing racially biased policing and excessive force and had failed to record legally required information when interacting with the community.
In November, the city and the state of Colorado reached an agreement on the terms of a consent decree to resolve issues with the Aurora Police Department and Aurora Fire Rescue that were identified in a September “Patterns and Practices” report.
The consent decree covers four areas identified in the Attorney General’s report: Racially Biased Policing, Use of Force, Documentation of Stops, and Ketamine and Other Chemical Restraints.
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NEW YORK, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ: OKTA).
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The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Okta between March 5, 2021 and March 22, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until July 19, 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, Okta, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Okta had inadequate cybersecurity controls; (ii) as a result, Okta's systems were vulnerable to data breaches; (iii) Okta ultimately did experience a data breach caused by a hacking group, which potentially affected hundreds of Okta customers; (iv) Okta initially did not disclose and subsequently downplayed the severity of the data breach; (v) all the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to have a material negative impact on Okta's business, financial condition, and reputation; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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Attorneys for Amber Heard, the ex-wife of Johnny Depp, zeroed in on the movie star’s drug and alcohol use Wednesday as they defended her from Depp’s allegations that she falsely portrayed him as a domestic abuser.
Heard lawyer J. Benjamin Rottenborn resumed his cross-examination of Depp’s older sister, Christi Dembrowski, focusing on a February 2014 text exchange between Heard and Dembrowski.
“Ms. Heard says, ‘JD is on a bender,’ and your response is, ‘Where are the kids?’ — correct?” Rottenborn asked.
Dembrowski said that was correct. She also confirmed a 2014 email exchange she had with a doctor who treated Depp’s addiction to pain medication.
“You believe that your brother needed help with drugs and alcohol?” Rottenborn asked.
Dembrowski responded that she was concerned about Depp’s use of one medication but didn’t believe that he had a problem with drugs or alcohol overall, or that he romanticized drug culture.
Depp is suing Heard for libel in Virginia’s Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”
Depp says the article indirectly defamed him by referring to abuse allegations Heard made back in 2016. Depp denies abusing her.
Heard’s lawyers have argued that Depp has no credibility when he denies abusing Heard because he frequently drank and used drugs to the point of blacking out and failing to remember anything he did.
In Tuesday’s opening statements, Rottenborn said the evidence will show that Depp physically and sexually assaulted Heard on multiple occasions.
He also argued that Heard was exercising her First Amendment rights as an advocate when she wrote the article, which focused largely on the broad topic of domestic violence.
Depp’s team asserts that the article is an example of “defamation by implication.” In the December 2018 piece, Heard wrote that “two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out.”
Depp’s lawyer, Benjamin Chew, said that’s a clear reference to a restraining order Heard sought in May 2016 — right after Depp told her he wanted a divorce — in which she claimed she’d been physically abused.
Both Depp and Heard are expected to testify at the trial, scheduled for six weeks, along with actors Paul Bettany and James Franco and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
A civil jury of seven members, plus four alternates, was selected Monday to hear the case.
Heard’s lawyers had sought to have the case tried in California, where the actors reside. But a judge ruled that Depp was within his rights to bring the case in Virginia because The Washington Post’s computer servers for its online edition are located in the county. Depp’s lawyers have said they brought the case in Virginia in part because the laws here are more favorable to their case.
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New Business Planning brings more scalability, transparency, and collaboration to QBRs, allowing companies to engage all tiers of partners, including the smallest ones
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Impartner, the global pure-play leader in SaaS-based channel management and Partner Relationship Management (PRM), launched Impartner Business Planning within its PRM—scaling your channel and engaging partners like never before. Impartner Business Planning accelerates revenue in your entire channel.
Impartner Business Planning ends managers' dreading the quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with their partner channel. The increased collaboration, transparency, and automation help companies create business plans with all segments of partners—maximizing the productivity of the largest ones and fully engaging even the very smallest.
"Business planning with partners is no longer a check-off item or something to dread," said Gary Sabin, VP of Product at Impartner. "Impartner brings more accountability into the process through collaboration—not top-down micro-management—making partner planning meetings more productive, more fulfilling and even more enjoyable with the end result being increased revenue."
Impartner Business Planning motivates and manages partners with clear performance measures and objectives, enhancing the overall partner experience. Most companies perform business planning through spreadsheet applications and one-off systems, which impacts partner experience. Today, partners decide whom they want to do business with based on the experience they receive, especially compared to competitors. Business Planning provides a competitive advantage in partner experience.
Impartner Business Planning provides better collaboration with partners. It works with any CRM system. Channel managers can drag and drop pre-built metrics using standard objectives or build their own based on the partners' business. They can also establish two-way communication of these metrics with message threads, templated plans for different levels of partners and automated instructions. Business Planning provides easy access to current performance measures and attainment status. The system displays progress updates and tracks the history of business plan details. Business Planning extends the value of Impartner's Journey Builder, Program Compliance Manager and MDF applications by tracking and displaying the progress of journeys, tier badges and percent of MDF funds used.
The new product helps customers achieve more revenue with all levels of partners. It allows customers to deepen relationships and effectiveness of the top-performing partners, but it also engages the smallest, lower-tier partners. With new partners, channel chiefs can automatically track metrics like lead distribution, deal conversion and revenue targets and set goals for channel certification completion.
Business Planning is available in Impartner PRM for all customers now.
To learn more about how Impartner helps corporations from the smallest to the largest enterprises like Honeywell, Qualtrics and Vertiv grow their channel revenue by an average of 32.3% in the first year of use alone, click here.
About Impartner
Impartner is the fastest-growing, most award-winning provider of channel management technologies, including its flagship Partner Relationship Management (PRM) and Through Channel Marketing Automation (TCMA) solutions, which help companies worldwide manage their partner relationships, drive demand through partners and accelerate revenue and profitability through indirect sales channels. For more information on Impartner, which is based in Utah's tech hotbed, the Silicon Slopes, visit impartner.com.
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| 2022-09-15T14:57:28Z
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(The Hill) – The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Judge J. Michelle Childs to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation’s second-highest court, giving President Biden a promising option to nominate to the Supreme Court should another vacancy arise in the future.
The Senate approved Childs by a vote of 64 to 34.
If Democrats lose control of the Senate in the midterm election, Childs is a judge who could win bipartisan support if Biden has a chance to fill another Supreme Court vacancy.
Whether or not that happens, she will have an influential role on the D.C. Circuit, which now has five judges appointed by Democratic presidents and four appointed by Republicans.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) praised Childs’s confirmation as a significant accomplishment.
“It’s one of the most important votes we’re going to take all this year,” he said. “The D.C. Circuit is so important.
“It’s probably the second most important circuit in the country,” he added, noting the Supreme Court takes only about 75 cases a year. “So loads of decisions particularly those related to government and Congress and balance of power go through the D.C. Circuit.”
Childs was on Biden’s shortlist of potential nominees to the Supreme Court earlier this year after Justice Stephen Breyer announced his plans to retire.
Childs, a U.S. district court judge for South Carolina, had the strong support of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) as Biden mulled who to pick to replace Breyer.
But Biden instead nominated Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who had the strong support of Democratic activist groups. Childs ran into opposition from labor leaders.
Biden’s choice of Jackson over Childs angered Graham, who said he could have mustered 10 Republican votes for the South Carolina judge. Only three Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Mitt Romney (Utah) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted for Jackson.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an adviser to the Senate GOP leadership team, who voted for Childs Tuesday, said her confirmation to the D.C. Circuit positions her well for a future Supreme Court nomination.
“It’s a pretty well-established pathway but obviously it depends on a lot of circumstances we can’t guess about but it probably doesn’t hurt her,” he said.
Cornyn added “it’s not the usual path” for a D.C. circuit nominee to come from a district court within another circuit’s jurisdiction.
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SHANGHAI, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boqii Holding Limited ("Boqii" or the "Company") (NYSE: BQ), a leading pet-focused platform in China, today announced that it filed its annual report on Form 20-F (the "Annual Report") for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on July 27, 2022. The Annual Report can be accessed on the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.boqii.com/ and on the SEC's website at https://www.sec.gov/.
The Company will provide a hard copy of the Annual Report containing the audited consolidated financial statements, free of charge, to its shareholders and ADS holders upon request. Requests should be directed to the Company's Investor Relations Department at ir@boqii.com.
About Boqii Holding Limited
Boqii Holding Limited (NYSE: BQ) is a leading pet-focused platform in China. We are the leading online destination for pet products and supplies in China with our broad selection of high-quality products including global leading brands, local emerging brands, and our own private label, Yoken and Mocare, offered at competitive prices. Our online sales platforms, including Boqii Mall and our flagship stores on third-party e-commerce platforms, provide customers with convenient access to a wide selection of high-quality pet products and an engaging and personalized shopping experience. Our Boqii Community provides an informative and interactive content platform for users to share their knowledge and love for pets.
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Conversation with Craig Melvin of 'Today' Show, Article on What It Means to Raise Free Black Children, Story on Juneteenth Traditions of Black Families Around the U.S., Among Other Features, Debut on Kindred By Parents Today
NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dotdash Meredith's Parents announces the official debut of Kindred, a first-of-its-kind digital destination and community created for the parents and caregivers who are raising the next generation of free Black children, providing a safe place for empathetically sharing wisdom and solutions-based news, and honoring the parenting cultures and familial traditions of previous generations.
Kelly Glass, Editorial Director of Kindred by Parents, said, "Culturally, we parent differently, and we do family differently. There's so much nuance in the Black family experience that parenting publications don't capture. Kindred is filling that gap. We're also inviting the entire village of people into the fold because we know firsthand how important the aunties, the grandparents, and those key figures in Black families are to the lives of Black children. All of us who take seriously the responsibility to raise Black children with a radical sense of freedom and joy are going to find community here in the news, stories, and experiences we share on Kindred."
With more than 175 articles and features available now and new content created daily, Kindred by Parents centers and celebrates the voices and experiences of Black families from a multitude of communities. Kindred by Parents reports news and covers topics through an intersectional lens, highlighting stories from Black parents; providing ideas, solutions and practical advice from experts in their fields; and offering lifestyle features that honor Black cultures and traditions while carving paths for new ones.
New features debuting on Kindred by Parents today include:
- What Does It Mean to Raise Free Black Children?
- The Juneteenth Traditions of Black Families Around the U.S.
- The Policy Changes That Would Really Make Black Families Free, According to Experts
- Do Black Families Still Live In Multigenerational Households?
- Black Girls Are Stereotyped By Their Natural Hair, New Study Confirms
- 'Today' Show's Craig Melvin Says Reconciling with His Dad Helped Him Break Unhealthy Parenting Patterns
Kindred by Parents has four original video series created by Senior Video Producer, Kareema B. Partin, with episodes that are available on parents.com, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook:
- Kickback with Kindred: In this interview series, Kelly Glass and members of the Kindred team have real conversations with people from all walks of life to discuss the Black family experience. Interviews have featured Garcelle Beauvais, Jaime Foxx, Anthony Anderson, and Kyla Pratt, among many others.
- We Live & We Learn: In this series, Black family members across generations unpack a parenting topic and connect with and learn from each other in a sometimes light-hearted yet always meaningful way. See an episode here: The Family Dinner Is Back, But the Tradition Looks a Little Different for Black Families These Days.
- Our Family Portrait: This docu-series follows the vibrant lives of Black families seen through an atypical lens. The first episode is titled "Black People Will Swim: Meet the Lamoniers."
- Dear (Expert): In each episode, an expert from a given field answers the concerns of Black parents. Episodes include: Anti-Racist Birth Work Is Key In Changing Birth Outcomes for Black Birthing People, For Black Parents, Deciding on Therapy For a Child Can Be Difficult, and How To Advocate for School Accommodations for Black Children, among others.
Kindred by Parents is on Instagram and YouTube and has a digital newsletter. To learn more, check out this introductory video and Q&A with Kelly Glass.
ABOUT PARENTS
Parents is by your side for the big life decisions and memory-making moments—to lighten the load and provide you with trustworthy advice and a supportive community as you raise the next generation of confident and compassionate kids. Parents is part of the Dotdash Meredith publishing family.
ABOUT KELLY GLASS
Kelly Glass is Editorial Director of Kindred by Parents, the newly launched digital destination and community from Dotdash Meredith dedicated to Black families. A first-of-its-kind offering, Kindred centers the village of people raising the next generation of free Black children. Before joining the Parents team to lead Kindred, Kelly was contributing editor for Romper and Parents. A respected editor and journalist, Kelly has reported stories for a range of notable media outlets over the years, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic and Men's Health. She's also planned and guest edited in-depth Parents series such as American Birth Story and the award-winning series Anti-Racist Curriculum. She's also the author of the young adult racial literacy book Looking at Power and Privilege. Kelly is a founding co-chair of the Parenting Journalists Society, a member of the NPR Illinois advisory board, and resides in Illinois with her two children and their rescue dog, Winston.
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| 2022-06-15T21:26:11Z
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NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: YQ) pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and related prospectus (collectively, the "Registration Statement") issued in connection with 17EdTech's December 2020 initial public offering (the "IPO"), of the important September 19, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline, in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased 17EdTech securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the 17EdTech class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7395 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than September 19, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the IPO Registration Statement featured false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Defendant 17EdTech's K-12 Academic AST Services would end less than a year after the IPO; (2) as part of its ongoing regulatory efforts, Chinese authorities would imminently curtail and/or end 17EdTech's core business; and (3) as a result, Defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the 17EdTech class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7395 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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Chef Greg Vernick's Modern Take on an American Oyster Bar Returns to Its Source of Inspiration by Hosting a Week-Long Presence and Fundraising Dinner With Cookie Till of Steve & Cookies by the Bay in Margate, NJ
PHILADELPHIA, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vernick Fish, a contemporary American oyster bar located at Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia at Comcast Center, is bringing the New Jersey shore a taste of the celebrated restaurant this summer. James Beard Award-winning Chef Greg Vernick and team will host an experiential five-day culinary activation and a collaborative fundraising dinner in partnership with Cookie Till, owner of Steve & Cookie's, a beloved bayside restaurant in Margate.
"Seeing this idea turned into reality is, in a word, humbling," says Vernick. "My personal ties to Margate, a town where I was lucky to spend time during the summer months, landed my first kitchen job (shout-out to the beach grill at Lucy the Elephant) - makes this a full-circle moment for me. I'm very grateful to Cookie and her team for their like-minded passion when it comes to hospitality and food, and our team is looking forward to bringing what we do at Vernick Fish to a place that's been a great influence to me and much of the Fish team."
A custom, shore-inspired presence will be located daily in the parking lot of Steve & Cookie's from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. from Monday, August 8 – Friday, August 12. Guests can anticipate a casual, takeaway interpretation of the restaurant's famed ceviche, crudo, and seafood-driven bites assembled by the Vernick Fish team. Steve & Cookie's team will serve drinks from their outdoor bar to invite guests to take a break at one of the restaurant's existing picnic tables with refreshing cocktails. Branded Vernick Fish commemorative merchandise will be available. On Thursday, August 11, the Vernick team will serve savory and sweet breakfast items from Vernick Coffee Bar at the weekly Margate Community & Farmer's Market that takes place 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Vernick Fish's week-long presence will conclude with an intimate, 50-seat dinner under the stars on Saturday, August 13th at Till's farm, Reed's Organic Farm & Animal Sanctuary. The dinner will be prepared by Greg and Vernick Fish Chef de Cuisine Andrew Parassio, utilizing ingredients grown at the farm. Additional information can be found here. Tickets anticipated to go on sale late-June with a portion of the sales from the pop-up and dinner to benefit A Meaningful Purpose at Reed's Organic Farm.
"Collaborating with Vernick Fish is a natural fit for us," says Till. "It is a way to invite both our loyal guests and seasonal travelers to a treasured experience of tasting what Greg and his team have been doing at their restaurant in a casual setting, and one that's helped inspire their approach to fresh seafood. Greg and his family have been long-time patrons of ours, and we couldn't be more excited to bring this concept to life and kick-off our chef dinner series at Reed's Organic Farm & Animal Sanctuary."
About Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia at Comcast Center
Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia at Comcast Center is the first and only Hotel to receive a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star rating in the city of Philadelphia. After opening as the highest-situated hotel in North America atop the Comcast Technology Center, Four Seasons redefined the Philadelphia skyline. The Hotel is home to 219 rooms, a Forbes-Five Star Spa and world-class dining destinations helmed by Michelin-Starred Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten and James Beard Award-Winner Greg Vernick. Craftsmanship and innovation lie around every corner with stunning installations from Artistic Director and celebrity floral designer Jeff Leatham. For more information about Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia at Comcast Center, visit our Press Room.
About Vernick Fish
Vernick Fish is known as a version of an American Oyster Bar. Ingredient-driven cooking, paired with a love for global flavors results in an inventive menu of fish and shellfish dishes with a range of vegetable preparations. Vernick Fish is located inside the 3,400 square foot ground-floor space at the intersection of Arch and North 19th Street, with space for 200 customers divided between an indoor dining room, a bar, and a private dining area. For more information or to make a reservation, visit our website.
About Steve & Cookie's
The warm and inviting vibe is noticeable from the moment you enter this former supper club built circa 1932. Now heading into its 25th year on the bay in Margate, Steve & Cookie's knowledgeable and engaging team welcomes guests to a remarkable dining experience. The food, while remaining true to the classics that fans love, continues to evolve in a constant search for the best ingredients that fit the restaurant's ethos of fresh and local. In 2022, the restaurant was nominated with an "Outstanding Hospitality" recognition by the James Beard Foundation, its second award from the Foundation. For more information, visit their website.
About A Meaningful Purpose
A Meaningful Purpose was founded in 2020 to address the needs of food insecurity, soil regeneration, and community inclusiveness in Atlantic County, NJ. This mission is carried out at the historic Reed's Farm, continuing a legacy of local food production in the region. The farm operates organically year-round, hosts a sanctuary for farm animals, and features a farm market offering organic produce & baked goods alongside local vendors. A Meaningful Purpose also provides educational and vocational programming to local schools and organizations with a focus on people with cognitive disabilities. We aim to provide a community hub that inspires all who gather here to engage with nature and celebrate its healing capabilities. For more information, visit their website.
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COVID vaccines for young children headed to Kansas providers; Stormont plans mass vaccination clinics
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - COVID vaccine doses for young children are on their way to health care providers across Kansas, and Stormont Vail plans mass vaccination clinics for children when they arrive.
The Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment said Thursday that doses for children ages six months to five years had arrived in the state, and distribution was underway to its network of doctor’s offices, retail pharmacies, local health departments, and clinics that had pre-ordered them.
In its weekly update, Stormont Vail posted Thursday that it is finalizing plans to give the Moderna vaccine. They expected their doses to arrive some time next week.
When they do, Stormont said it would plan to hold two mass vaccination clinics in early July at the Cotton O’Neil Pediatrics Clinic, 4100 S.W. 15th St. Following the clinic, they plan to reserve time at the end of the workday, a couple days a week, to schedule pediatric vaccinations.
Stormont says parents will receive information from pediatrician’s office about the clinics and how to schedule appointments.
A spokesperson for University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus told 13 NEWS its vaccine order is scheduled to arrive in about a week. As soon as it arrives, parents will be able to call their primary care doctor’s office for an appointment.
Kids in this youngest age group get Moderna’s vaccine in a series of two, smaller-sized doses, and Pfizer’s in three doses.
About 17 million kids under the age of five are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines.
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| 2022-06-24T02:54:19Z
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Industry Leading, Ultra-rugged Devices Now Available at a Discount to T-Mobile First Responder Customers
AUSTIN, Texas, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonim Technologies (Nasdaq: SONM) announced today that its ultra-rugged devices are now available with T-Mobile's Connecting Heroes program, a 10-year commitment launched in May 2020 to provide free and discounted service and 5G access to first responder agencies — all public and non-profit state and local fire, 911, police and emergency medical services (EMS) departments — saving them up to $7 billion.
"First responders have and always will be a priority for Sonim," said Peter Liu, CEO, Sonim Technologies. "We're honored to be a part of T-Mobile's ongoing commitment to equip and support first responders with reliable, purpose-built devices that stand up to extreme work conditions when they need it most."
Fire, EMS and law enforcement professionals face some of the most punishing and demanding workdays. Sonim devices were designed to not only survive the same extreme conditions, but to help public safety professionals thrive thanks to the Sonim Rugged Performance Standards, which are based on more than ten years of customer feedback including crucial input from actual public safety workers.
Sonim devices deliver:
- Multi-shift battery life to last all day including removable batteries
- Extra-loud 100dB+ audio and noise cancellation to rise above the sirens
- Chemical resistant and designed to be rigorously cleaned and disinfected with harsh but highly effective cleaning agents
- Fully operational in temperatures from -4° F to 131° F
- Waterproof, fully submersible and pressure-washable
- Drop, impact, shock, pressure, puncture resistant
- Completely sealed against dust and micro-particles
In addition, with Sonim SCOUT mobile device management and a 3-year comprehensive warranty, first responders are equipped with the tools they need to do their job efficiently, safely and at a low cost-of-ownership.
For more information about T-Mobile's Connecting Heroes program, visit www.t-mobile.com/connectingheroes.
About Sonim
Sonim Technologies is a leading U.S. provider of ultra-rugged mobility solutions designed specifically for task workers physically engaged in their work environments, often in mission-critical roles. The Sonim solution includes ultra-rugged mobile phones, a suite of industrial-grade accessories, and data and workflow applications which are collectively designed to increase worker productivity, communication and safety on the job site. Please visit https://sonimtech.com/.
Important Cautions Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. These statements relate to, among other things, the expected timing of the availbility of Sonim's XP5 Plus and XP10 5G smartphones and the expected market demand for these products. These forward-looking statements are based on Sonim's current expectations, estimates and projections about its business and industry, management's beliefs and certain assumptions made by Sonim, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, "future", "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "intend," "estimate," "continue," or similar expressions or the negative of those terms or expressions. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, the following: Sonim's ability to continue as a going concern and improve its liquidity and financial position; the risk that the proposed equity investment in Sonim as disclosed in April 2022 may be be consummated on a timely basis, if at all; Sonim's exploration of strategic or financial alternatives may not result in any transaction or alternative that enhances value; risks related to Sonim's ability to comply with the continued listing standards of the Nasdaq Stock Market and the potential delisting of Sonim's common stock; Sonim's ability to continue to develop solutions to address user needs effectively, including its next generation products; anticipated sales levels of both new and legacy products; Sonim's reliance on its channel partners to generate a substantial majority of its revenues; the limited operating history in Sonim's markets; Sonim's ongoing restructuring and transformation of its business; the variation of Sonim's quarterly results; the lengthy customization and certification processes for Sonim's wireless carries customers; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; and the ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission investigation on Sonim's business, as well as the other risk factors described under "Risk Factors" included in Sonim's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and any risk factors contained in subsequent quarterly and annual reports it files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov). Sonim cautions you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Sonim assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release, except as required by law.
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| 2022-06-23T13:14:21Z
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Ye no longer performing at Coachella
(CNN) - Ye, who changed his name from Kanye West, will no longer be performing at Coachella this month.
Ye had been set to be one of the headliners at the upcoming music festival, along with Billie Eilish and Harry Styles.
A source close to the rapper said Ye did not want to take the stage amid his divorce from Kim Kardashian.
Ye has also been in a feud with “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah. He was suspended from Instagram for 24 hours after posting a racial slur aimed at Noah, who is South African.
According to multiple sources, Ye’s performance at Sunday’s Grammy Awards was canceled. He did not attend the event, but he did win two Grammys.
Coachella is held over two weekends at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. This year, it’s set to take place April 15-17 and April 22-24.
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| 2022-04-07T11:21:24Z
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NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Carvana Co. ("Carvana" or the "Company") (NYSE: CVNA) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Carvana investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
CVNA investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, Defendants' statements about Carvana's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Carvana during the relevant time frame, you have until October 3, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
55 Broadway, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10006
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Law reduced prison time for man tied to Sacramento shooting
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A suspect arrested in connection with last weekend’s mass shooting outside bars in Sacramento served less than half his 10-year sentence because of voter-approved changes to state law that lessened the punishment for his felony convictions and provided a chance for earlier release.
Smiley Allen Martin was freed in February after serving time for punching a girlfriend, dragging her from her home by her hair and whipping her with a belt, according to court and prison records.
Those count as nonviolent offenses under California law, which considers only about two dozen crimes to be violent felonies — such as murder, rape, arson and kidnapping.
Martin, 27, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun. He is among the 12 people wounded during Sunday’s shooting, which killed six others.
Police have said the violence was a shootout between rival gangs in which at least five people fired weapons, including Martin’s brother, Dandrae Martin, who also was arrested. No one has yet been charged with homicide in the shooting.
Smiley Martin typically would have remained behind bars until at least May after serving a minimum of half his time for his previous arrest in 2017, but prison officials evidently used a very expansive approach to applying lockup time credits to his sentence, said Gregory Totten, chief executive officer of the California District Attorneys Association and a former Ventura County district attorney.
“They’ve been given very broad authority to early release folks and to give them additional credit and all kinds of considerations for purposes of reducing the length of sentence that somebody serves,” Totten said.
Corrections officials did not dispute that Martin was among thousands of inmates who received additional credits that sped up their releases under state law. But the officials said their policy prohibits disclosing what prison time credits Martin received.
They cited credits through Proposition 57, the 2016 ballot measure that aimed to give most of the state’s felons a chance of earlier release. Credits were also broadly authorized in California to lower the prison population during the pandemic.
Proposition 57 credits include good behavior while behind bars, though corrections officials declined to release Martin’s disciplinary report. Good conduct credit is supposed to be reserved for inmates who follow all the rules and complete their assigned duties.
The state “has implemented various credit-earning opportunities to incentivize good behavior and program participation for incarcerated individuals, including those created in furtherance of Proposition 57— which was overwhelmingly approved by voters,” state corrections spokesperson Vicky Waters said in a statement.
Supporters of the credits, including former Gov. Jerry Brown, who pushed for Proposition 57, have said it’s important to give inmates a second chance. The opportunity for earlier release encourages inmates to participate in education and other rehabilitative programs and helps to reduce mass incarceration.
“The most recent reforms in California are seeking to change a culture that has been churning out recidivism problems for generations,” said Will Matthews, spokesperson for the Californians for Safety and Justice group, which backed the changes. “The question we need to be asking ourselves is, how are we engaging in behavior change?”
Under Proposition 57, credits are granted for completing rehabilitative or educational programs, self-help and volunteer public service activities, earning a high school diploma or higher education degree and performing a heroic act. Officials added credits during the coronavirus pandemic, including 12 weeks of credit that applied to most inmates.
Martin was denied parole in May 2021 under California’s process for nonviolent offenders to get earlier parole, after a letter was sent from the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors said they objected to his parole based on his lengthy criminal record and asserted that Martin “clearly has little regard for human life and the law.”
Six months after he turned 18, Martin was caught in January 2013 with an assault rifle and two fully loaded 25-bullet magazines, prosecutors said. Months later, he pushed aside a Walmart clerk to steal computers worth $2,800, they said. In 2016, he was arrested as a parolee at large. And less than six months after that was the assault that sent him back to prison.
It’s not clear if Martin has an attorney who can comment on his behalf.
Martin pleaded no contest and was sent to prison on charges of corporal injury and assault likely to cause great bodily injury in January 2018 under a plea deal in which prosecutors dismissed charges of kidnapping — considered a violent felony — and intimidating a witness or victim.
The sentencing judge awarded Martin 508 days of credits for time he spent in Sacramento County jail before his conviction, based on a California law that allows judges to double the actual time in jail, which in Martin’s case was 254 days.
Martin also had “a variety of additional post-sentencing credits,” which corrections department spokesperson Dana Simas said were awarded for time served while awaiting transfer to state prison from county jail.
Before Proposition 57, he would have qualified for 20% “good time” credits — meaning he could reduce his time served by one-fifth — but corrections officials used their authority under the ballot measure to bump those to 50%. Pending regulations opposed by most of the state’s district attorneys would further increase good time credits to two-thirds of a sentence for such repeat offenders.
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, a progressive Democrat who formerly led the state Senate, was among those upset when he learned of Martin’s record.
“If people have a history of committing violent acts, and they have not shown a propensity or willingness to change, I don’t think they should be out on the streets,” he said at an event where officials requested more than $3 billion from the state to expand crime prevention programs.
Republican state Sen. Jim Nielsen, who once headed the state parole board, said “good time” credits are generally awarded automatically, without inmates having to do anything to earn them.
“It gives them enormous opportunity to free up beds,” said Nielsen, an opponent of earlier releases.
The state has relied on such efforts, particularly its powers under Proposition 57, to keep the prison population below the level required by a panel of federal judges who ruled that inmate crowding had led to unconstitutionally poor conditions.
Martin was released to the supervision of the Sacramento County Probation Department in February. County probation officials wouldn’t provide the terms, saying their records are not public documents.
Without discussing Martin’s case, Karen Pank, executive director of the Chief Probation Officers of California association, said generally someone coming out of prison under the state’s Post Release Community Supervision program with an extensive and violent criminal history would likely have been treated on a “high-risk” caseload.
That would subject the person to more intensive supervision, including a requirement to check in with a probation officer more frequently and in person, although individualized determinations on risks and needs would be made and treatment and services would continue to be offered.
Hours before Sunday’s shootout, Martin posted a live Facebook video of himself brandishing a handgun, a law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to public discuss details of the shooting investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Pank said if there is evidence of a felon in possession of a firearm, that can be grounds for a violation, which may result in time in jail. However, it’s unlikely anyone from law enforcement could have acted in time even if they had seen the video.
“The big if is would they have known about it,” said Totten. But in this case, “it didn’t matter — it was so close to the time” of the shooting.
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Associated Press writers Adam Beam, Stefanie Dazio and Michael Balsamo contributed to this story. Dazio reported from Los Angeles and Balsamo from Washington, D.C.
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Invests $50 million in Marine Protected Areas in the Tropical Pacific
LISBON, Portugal, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bezos Earth Fund today announced its first investments dedicated explicitly to marine protection at the United Nations Ocean Conference, totaling $50 million in new grants. These grants further its commitment to the 30x30 initiative to protect 30% of the planet's land and sea by 2030. Currently, only 7.93% of the ocean is zoned as marine protected areas.
The Bezos Earth Fund will provide grants totaling $30 million to support organizations working in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama in strengthening the Eastern Tropical Marine Corridor. By creating a network of marine protected areas covering more than 500,000-square-kilometers (193,000-square-miles) and a transboundary biosphere reserve, the four countries' biological hotspots will be connected and protected. These grants are provided alongside those of other members of the Connect to Protect Eastern Tropical Pacific Coalition. The coalition will work alongside governments, local communities, non-government organizations, and scientists to help establish a regional governance structure, design, and implement marine protected areas and the biosphere reserve, and secure long-term sustainable financing.
"The ocean is our planet's life support system and a major carbon sink," said Dr. Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund. "Investing in the ocean can be a powerful solution to many major challenges. It can protect vital marine ecosystems, provide jobs, help local communities, improve food security, and address climate change. These commitments are the first of many the Bezos Earth Fund will make to support marine protection in this decisive decade."
The Earth Fund's $20 million grant to the National Geographic Society's Pristine Seas will further advance the goal of protecting 30% of the ocean by 2030. With this support, the Pristine Seas team will explore, document, and conduct research in the central and western Pacific Ocean over the next five years. This region contains the highest marine biodiversity on the planet, most of which is unprotected from extractive activities.
"It is an honor to receive this grant. It provides us with an exciting opportunity to work with local partners to accelerate, scale, and finance permanent ocean protection," said Dr. Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer in Residence and founder of Pristine Seas. "This grant allows Pristine Seas to continue to provide countries and local communities with the assistance and support they need to create marine-protected areas and achieve their ocean conservation and economic goals."
The Bezos Earth Fund is Jeff Bezos' $10 billion commitment to fund scientists, activists, NGOs, and other actors who will drive climate and nature solutions. By allocating funds creatively, wisely, and boldly, the Bezos Earth Fund has the potential for transformative influence in this decisive decade. Funds will be fully allocated by 2030—the date the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals must be achieved.
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TAMPA, Fla., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA), the country's preeminent leader in one-to-one youth mentoring, has appointed Suzy DePrizio, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for Centene Corporation, as its newest board member. In addition, Michael Carrel, president and CEO of AtriCure, is named the new national board chair and Tony Coles, president of the Black Information Network, division president of the iHeartMedia Markets Group, is named board vice chair for the organization.
DePrizio brings a powerhouse of marketing experience to the board. In her role at Centene, a diversified healthcare enterprise serving more than 26 million under-insured and uninsured people across the country, DePrizio leads brand development, marketing strategy, advertising, and communications.
"Suzy not only brings a wealth of expertise to our board, but also passion for our mission," said Artis Stevens, President and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. "Her diverse background in marketing, organizational leadership and nearly a decade of military service will further support the organization's long-standing mission to empower all young people with a mentor whose impact lasts a lifetime."
DePrizio joins current BBBSA Board members, including executives from Fortune 500 companies.
"It's an honor to join the BBBSA board at such a crucial time for our nation's youth," said DePrizio. "Together with the board and tremendous leadership at BBBSA, I look forward to creating even greater access to powerful mentorship experiences that can help set our youth on the path to lifelong success."
Along with DePrizio's announcement, Michael Carrel has been appointed BBBSA's national board chair and Tony Coles as BBBSA's national board vice chair.
Having been involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters for over 30 years, Carrel has a deep commitment to BBBSA serving on the national board for the past year. Carrel previously served as a Big Brother in the Chicago area and continued his work in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area as a board member for the local Big Brothers Big Sisters agency.
In addition, Coles brings expertise in media and a passion for mentorship, especially in reaching communities of color, to BBBSA to increase equity and make a lasting impact on the lives of young people. In his role as Division President of Metro Markets for iHeartMedia, he oversees the complete profitability for 21 iHeartMedia markets across the U.S. In 2020, he was instrumental in the launch of BIN, the first and only audio network that provides 24/7 news and objective information with a full focus on the Black community and as president, leads all operations for the Network.
"I'm incredibly inspired by the important work of Big Brothers Big Sisters and its 230 member agencies around the country," said Carrel. "The impact these groups and individuals have on the youth of America is profound, and I'm humbled and excited to help represent and advocate for the needs of our agencies, mentors, and the broader community as Chair."
"I am honored to work with Michael and Tony as they lead us into the next chapter of our work," said Artis Stevens, President and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. "Both leaders' exceptional commitment to Big Brothers Big Sisters will continue to advance our mission to create greater equity and access to mentorship experiences for all young people across the nation."
About Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Founded in 1904, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is the largest and most experienced youth mentoring organization in the United States. The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. Big Brothers Big Sisters' evidence-based approach is designed to create positive youth outcomes, including educational success, avoidance of risky behaviors, higher aspirations, greater confidence, and improved relationships. Big Brothers Big Sisters has over 230 local agencies serving more than 5,000 communities across all 50 states. For more information, visit: www.bigbrothersbigsisters.org.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) announced a collaborative agreement to advance commercial fusion energy. This new five-year Collaboration Framework Agreement establishes the terms under which a series of work projects between CFS and UKAEA will be executed to support the development of fusion energy and related technologies. This agreement is the result of a shared mission of both organizations to leverage innovative fusion energy research and the speed of the private sector to support the fastest path to clean commercial fusion energy to combat climate change.
"CFS and UKAEA have a mutual interest and strong belief that public private collaborations such as this represent a way to accelerate advances in commercial fusion energy technology and support CFS' plans to deliver commercial fusion power as fast as possible," said CFS CEO Bob Mumgaard. "UKAEA is a leader in fusion energy research and CFS plans to establish a UK presence as we leverage the combined skills and talents of both organizations to develop the fastest path to commercial fusion power on the grid."
"Achieving our shared missions to deliver low carbon and sustainable fusion energy involves working at the forefront of science, engineering, and technology. This new collaboration agreement with CFS will help push these developments and capabilities, drive innovation and accelerate progress," said Prof. Ian Chapman, UKAEA CEO. "Fusion presents an exciting opportunity for the UK and we're proud our ground-breaking work here continues to support economic growth and attracts such leading international partners."
The scope of the collaboration could include:
- Bilateral exchanges such as CFS tokamak operations team working with the JET operations team with the objective of learning best practices from JET deuterium-tritium operations.
- CFS access to UKAEA non-tokamak fusion technology R&D facilities, and contribution to experimental program planning on those facilities.
- Collaboration on fuel cycle technologies, neutronics modeling, systems integration models, advanced manufacturing, remote handling and remote maintenance.
- CFS science team collaborates with MAST-U science team to maximally exploit its flexibility of operation and achieve complementarity to the high-power experiments planned on SPARC.
- Collaborative work to identify and answer emerging plasma physics questions where improved empirical understanding or advancements in modeling can help to reduce risks for both ARC and STEP.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is collaborating with MIT to leverage decades of research combined with new groundbreaking high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology. HTS magnets will enable compact fusion power plants that can be constructed faster and at lower cost. The mission is to deploy fusion power plants to meet global decarbonization goals as fast as possible. CFS has raised more than $2 billion in funding since it was founded in 2018 and assembled a team of leaders in tough tech, fusion science, and manufacturing with a track record of rapid execution. Supported by the world's leading investors, CFS is uniquely positioned to deliver limitless, clean, fusion power to combat climate change.
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) carries out fusion energy research on behalf of the UK Government. UKAEA oversees the UK's fusion programme, headed by the MAST Upgrade (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) experiment. It also hosts the world's largest fusion research facility, JET (Joint European Torus), which it operates for scientists from around Europe.
More information: https://www.gov.uk/ukaea. Social Media: @UKAEAofficial
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CALGARY, AB, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Enbridge Inc. (TSX: ENB) (NYSE: ENB) (Enbridge or the Company) will host a conference call and webcast to provide a business update and review 2022 second quarter results on July 29, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. MT (9:00 a.m. ET).
The conference call format will include prepared remarks from the executive team followed by a question and answer session for the analyst and investor community only. Enbridge's media and investor relations teams will be available after the call for any additional questions.
Enbridge will announce its financial results before markets open on July 29, 2022.
2022 Second Quarter Earnings Webcast and Conference Call
Details of the webcast
A webcast replay and transcript will be posted to Enbridge's website shortly after the conclusion of the event.
About Enbridge Inc.
At Enbridge, we safely connect millions of people to the energy they rely on every day, fueling quality of life through our North American natural gas, oil or renewable power networks and our growing European offshore wind portfolio. We're investing in modern energy delivery infrastructure to sustain access to secure, affordable energy and building on two decades of experience in renewable energy to advance new technologies including wind and solar power, hydrogen, renewable natural gas and carbon capture and storage. We're committed to reducing the carbon footprint of the energy we deliver, and to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Enbridge's common shares trade under the symbol ENB on the Toronto (TSX) and New York (NYSE) stock exchanges. To learn more, visit us at enbridge.com
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- Lynn Good says company 'leading largest clean energy transition' in U.S.
- Customer focus, energy affordability remain key priorities.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) in 2021 continued to make rapid progress in its multi-year transition to clean energy sources, Chair, President and CEO Lynn Good told investors during the company's annual shareholders meeting today.
"Our more than 27,000 teammates rallied behind our mission to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050," she said. "Our promise is to continue this momentum. Our five-year enterprise capital plan includes $63 billion of investment, and 80% is directed to our clean energy transition."
Good cited several milestones:
- "We surpassed 10,000 megawatts of owned, operated or purchased renewables on our system, and remain on track to reach 16,000 megawatts of renewables by 2025 and 24,000 megawatts by 2030.
- "We filed for Subsequent License Renewal of Oconee Nuclear Station – our largest nuclear plant – and we plan to file requests for our remaining units to maintain this vital source of carbon-free energy for another 20 years.
- "We worked with stakeholders to help achieve bipartisan support in what's been called the most comprehensive piece of energy legislation in North Carolina history – setting the course for carbon reduction and regulatory reform.
- "We look forward to delivering a Carbon Plan to the North Carolina Utilities Commission later this month that will map out a variety of paths to achieve a 70% carbon reduction.
- "We continued to oversee the largest planned retirement of coal in our industry. We retired almost 1,000 megawatts of coal between the Carolinas and Indiana – bringing us to 7,500 megawatts retired since 2010."
"Already in 2022, we've taken aggressive action, expanding our net-zero emissions goal to include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. We also announced we're targeting energy from coal to represent less than 5% of our total generation by 2030, and a full exit by 2035," she said.
"We look forward to continued progress on our goals across our jurisdictions – retiring coal units, adding renewables and battery storage, investing in the grid, advocating for new zero-emission technologies, and collaborating with state and federal policymakers, regulators and stakeholders to meet the unique needs of each state," Good said.
Customer focus, energy affordability
In 2021, "we continued to surpass our benchmark targets for our internal customer satisfaction metrics, and improved our J.D. Power rankings, year over year, in nearly all of our jurisdictions," she said.
Duke Energy also continued to actively work to keep energy affordable for customers.
The company offered energy-saving tips and innovative efficiency programs to help customers manage and reduce their energy use. For example, the Home Energy House Call is a free in-home energy assessment that provides customers with comprehensive information about how they use energy – and strategies to save money on their monthly energy bills.
In addition, Duke Energy worked aggressively to assist financially struggling customers – offering customized bill-payment programs, connecting customers to financial assistance programs run by government agencies and nonprofit organizations, and donating funds to community organizations that help individuals and families in need.
The company in 2021 established a dedicated team of customer advocates to partner with government assistance agencies and nonprofit organizations. Through this model, the company helped customers receive more than $100 million in financial support to help pay their energy bills.
Duke Energy also assisted low-income customers with utility bills, providing $3.2 million through the Share the Light Fund and other donations.
Other business
Also at today's meeting:
- Good fielded shareholder questions on a range of topics. The company will post responses to questions on its website.
- Shareholders elected all 14 nominees to the company's board of directors.
- A nonbinding shareholder proposal did not receive a majority of shareholder votes cast.
A replay of the meeting will be posted on Duke Energy's investors page.
Duke Energy
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business and at least a 50% carbon reduction from electric generation by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage, and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.
Duke Energy was named to Fortune's 2022 "World's Most Admired Companies" list and Forbes' "America's Best Employers" list. More information is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos and videos. Duke Energy's illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
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NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc. announced today that Chief Financial Officer, Craig Felenstein, will participate in the William Blair 42nd Annual Growth Stock Conference on Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at the Loews Chicago Hotel, in Chicago, IL. The session will begin at 1:20 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. CT.
To listen to the live webcast, please visit the Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc. website at https://investors.expeditions.com/events/default.aspx. A replay of the webcast will also be available at the same location for an extended period following the conference.
About Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc.
Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc. is a global provider of small ship expeditions and adventure travel experiences recognized as the category leader for its pioneering, cutting edge programming and conservation commitment. Lindblad focuses on ship-based voyages through its Lindblad Expeditions brand and on land-based travel through its subsidiaries, Natural Habitat, Inc., Off the Beaten Path LLC, DuVine Cycling + Adventure Co. and Classic Journeys, LLC.
Lindblad works in partnership with National Geographic to inspire people to explore and care about the planet. The organizations work in tandem to produce innovative marine expedition programs and to promote conservation and sustainable tourism around the world. Guests interact with and learn from leading scientists, naturalists and researchers while discovering stunning natural environments, above and below the sea, through state-of-the-art exploration tools.
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Father, infant son fatally shot while sitting on front porch, police say
MONROE, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) – A father and his infant son were shot and killed outside their North Carolina home Sunday night, police said.
According to Monroe police, 25-year-old Darion McClendon and 4-month-old Da’Mari McClendon were shot just after 10 p.m. Sunday.
Family members said McClendon and his family were sitting on the porch having just come back from a picnic at the park when they were shot.
“They’re just shooting people just to shoot people. This man was cooking on the grill for his family, this man was having a good time with his family, and this is what happened,” a family member said.
McClendon’s girlfriend’s family said baby Da’Mari was always happy, brought his mom a lot of joy, and loved Mickey Mouse.
McClendon, who was affectionately known as Debo, was described as a hard-working, caring father of two sons.
“My cousin lost her baby and her boyfriend,” one family member said. “Debo wasn’t a bad guy. Debo went to work, they had just went to the park with my kids and their baby.”
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, has children who were also at the home when the shooting happened. She is thankful they are OK physically, but knows they’re traumatized from witnessing their loved ones get killed in front of them.
Monroe Police Department Chief Bryan Gilliard said the aftermath of the fatal shooting is a difficult time for the community and for officers.
“We are committed to bringing the perpetrator of this crime to justice. If anyone has any information, please come forward. We need people in the community to help us in this process,” Gilliard said.
The family is also pleading with the public to come forward and help the police make an arrest.
Anyone with any information about this crime should contact the Monroe Police Department at 704-282-4700 or Union County Crime Stoppers at 704-283-5600. A cash reward of up to $5,000 is available for information leading to an arrest.
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Northwestern Mutual's 2022 Planning & Progress Study finds more than half (54%) of U.S. adults are anxious about their finances; for Gen Z and Millennials it's two-thirds (66%)
MILWAUKEE, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest set of findings from the Northwestern Mutual 2022 Planning & Progress Study finds that people who work with a financial advisor and those who self-identify as disciplined financial planners not only report lower levels of financial anxiety in their lives, but higher levels of happiness and better sleep, too.
The research, conducted with Harris Poll and based on a sample of nearly 2,500 people, finds the majority (54%) of U.S. adults aged 18 and over report feeling somewhat or very anxious about their finances. That number drops to 46% for people who work with a financial advisor and 47% for those who self-identify as disciplined planners. It goes in the other direction for younger adults, with two-thirds (66%) of both Millennials and Gen Z saying they feel somewhat or very anxious about their finances.
The study uncovered an interesting relationship between financial planning and overall wellness, with people who have an advisor or identify as disciplined planners reporting being happier and sleeping better.
"It's interesting to look beyond the traditional financial wellness categories and explore topics such as how happy people feel, and how well they're sleeping at night," said Christian Mitchell, executive vice president & chief customer officer at Northwestern Mutual. "What emerges is a pretty distinct link between financial wellness and overall wellness."
A generational breakdown across wellness categories reveals that Gen X are the worst sleepers, and Millennials and Gen Z are tied for the most anxious.
The study also found a strong generational difference exists when it comes to how people view the impact of their daily financial decisions. The youngest group of U.S. adults believe that small daily purchases – even a cup of coffee – will have an impact on their long-term financial security.
"There's not a universally correct answer here, but it's noteworthy particularly for advisors that there's been a shift in point-of-view from one generation to the next," says Mitchell. "Regardless of age, the goal is to have clarity on what you will need in order to enjoy the things that make you happy in life – from the simple pleasures such as a daily cup of coffee to the larger milestones like a comfortable retirement, and everything in between."In forthcoming data sets, the 2022 Planning & Progress Study will explore wide-ranging issues facing Americans spanning savings and debt, work and retirement, planning, priorities and more.
The 2022 Planning & Progress Study was conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Northwestern Mutual and included 2,381 American adults aged 18 or older who participated in an online survey between February 8 – 17, 2022. Results were weighted to Census targets for education, age, gender, race / ethnicity, region and household income. Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online. No estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated; a full methodology is available.
Northwestern Mutual has been helping people and businesses achieve financial security for more than 165 years. Through a holistic planning approach, Northwestern Mutual combines the expertise of its financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and industry-leading products to help its clients plan for what's most important. With more than $561 billion in combined company and client assets, $34 billion in revenues, and $2.1 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force, Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to nearly five million people with life, disability income and long-term care insurance, annuities, and brokerage and advisory services. Northwestern Mutual ranked 97 on the 2022 FORTUNE 500 and was recognized by FORTUNE® as one of the "World's Most Admired" life insurance companies in 2022.
Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (NM), Milwaukee, WI (life and disability insurance, annuities, and life insurance with long-term care benefits) and its subsidiaries. Subsidiaries include Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC (NMIS) (investment brokerage services), broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, member FINRA and SIPC; the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company® (NMWMC) (investment advisory and services), federal savings bank; and Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company (NLTC) (long-term care insurance). Not all Northwestern Mutual representatives are advisors. Only those representatives with "Advisor" in their title or who otherwise disclose their status as an advisor of NMWMC are credentialed as NMWMC representatives to provide investment advisory services.
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PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge has ordered three Republicans, including secretary of state nominee Mark Finchem and U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, to pay $75,000 in attorney fees for filing a defamation suit against a former Democratic lawmaker “primarily for purposes of harassment.”
The Republicans filed the lawsuit last year against former Democratic state Rep. Charlene Fernandez after she called for an investigation of their roles in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The judge dismissed the lawsuit in April, saying Fernandez’s request was protected by the First Amendment’s rights to free speech and to petition the government.
The lawsuit was “groundless and not made in good faith,” Yuma County Judge Pro Tem Levi Gunderson ruled on Monday, adding that it appeared to have been “written for an audience other than the assigned trial court judge.”
Gunderson said legal filings by the Republicans made irrelevant references to open borders and Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
The lawsuit “was brought for an improper purpose, having been filed against a political opponent primarily for purposes of harassment,” he added.
Fernandez and 41 other Democratic lawmakers signed a letter on Jan. 12, 2021, urging the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Finchem, Gosar, then-state Rep. Anthony Kern and U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, all Republicans from Arizona. Finchem and Kern were outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, while Gosar and Biggs are under scrutiny for their roles in supporting protests leading up to the counting of electoral votes that day. All have denied wrongdoing.
Finchem and Kern, who is running for the state Senate this year, sued Fernandez and were later joined in the suit by Gosar. They claimed the letter was a smear and that Fernandez “baselessly” accused them of the “highest possible crimes against the Government of the United States.”
Finchem said in a text message that he is evaluating his options. A person who answered a cell phone number that Kern has previously used hung up when a reporter identified himself and did not respond to a text message. A spokesman for Gosar did not respond to an email seeking comment.
Of the 42 Democrats who signed the letter, Fernandez was the only one who was sued. She was previously the House Democratic leader but was not in Democratic leadership at the time the letter was signed and publicly released. Fernandez resigned from the Legislature last year to take a job in President Joe Biden’s administration.
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CARMEL, Ind., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Syra Health Corp., an emerging health care and life sciences leader, today announced the creation of its new Telehealth Solution, SyraPsych, which primarily targets those with behavioral and mental health issues. Mental health issues are impacting all segments of the population, especially college students. SyraPsych is an on-demand telehealth platform for mental health services. With SyraPsych, mental health professionals are available when you need them most. These services are convenient, professional, safe, and secure. Nearly half of all students believe that mental health issues have impacted their education and during COVID nine in ten students experienced negative mental health symptoms. SyraPsych provides On Demand 24/7 access to this necessary Telehealth Service. They provide scheduled counseling and care coordination with many types of licensed medical health professionals
Mental health concerns are rapidly growing on a global scale, yet the shortage of mental health professionals and access to treatment is leaving millions of people left to fend for themselves. Almost half of all counties in the United States do not provide access to even one psychiatrist and 111 million people live in areas where there is a mental health professional shortage.
Telehealth has played an oversized role meeting mental health needs recently. During the COVID-19 pandemic telehealth represented 13% of all outpatient visits, up from under 1% prior to COVID. As in-person care has returned and telehealth visits have dropped off to represent just 5% of other outpatient care visits, telehealth use has remained strong for mental health and substance use treatment, still representing 36% of these outpatient visits. Telehealth is providing a way to improve access to mental health and substance use disorder care, particularly for people living in areas with fewer providers.
Syra Health can provide similar services and solutions for employers and their employees. Employers that support mental health see a return of $4 for every dollar invested in mental health treatment and the employees are more productive and engaged. The platform provides an interactive patient experience that can be translated into over one hundred languages.
"Unfortunately, we have seen a significant rise in mental health issues at a time when access to mental health professionals is declining. Through our Telehealth platforms and solutions, we can help provide convenient, timely care to those that need it," said Sandeep Allam, President of Syra Health.
"Syra Health is a minority and women-owned scientific and medically oriented professional services company that leverages deep healthcare and managed-care industry expertise to create solutions for our clients based on real-world evidence and insights from advanced analytics. Syra Health has a growing service line with numerous solutions," said Deepika Vuppalanchi, CEO of Syra Health.
Syra Health partners with public and private sector healthcare and life science organizations in addressing the most pressing challenges by providing forward-thinking, innovative, and sustainable solutions. Syra Health is a scientific and medically oriented professional services company that leverages deep healthcare and managed-care industry expertise to create solutions for our clients based on real-world evidence and insights from advanced analytics. The services and solutions include population health management, behavioral and mental health, health education, medical communications, health analytics and quality, and government solutions
Statements in this press release about future expectations, plans and prospects, as well as any other statements regarding matters that are not historical facts, may constitute 'forward-looking statements.' The words 'anticipate,' 'believe,' 'continue,' 'could,' 'estimate,' 'expect,' 'intend,' 'may,' 'plan,' 'potential,' 'predict,' 'project,' 'should,' 'target,' 'will,' 'would' and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including the uncertainties related to market conditions. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date hereof, and Syra Health specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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MEXICO CITY, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Genomma Lab Internacional, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: LAB B) ("Genomma Lab" or "the Company"), today announced its results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022. All figures included herein are stated in nominal Mexican pesos and have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
The following tables provide an abridged Income Statement, in millions of Mexican pesos. The margin for each figure represents its ratio to net sales and the percentage change in the second quarter 2022 as compared with the same period in 2021:
Highlights
- Q2-2022 Sales increased by Ps. 458.3 million; +11.9% year-on-year
- Q2-2022 EBITDA closed at Ps. 892.0 million; +14.9% year-on-year
- Cash & Equivalents closed at Ps. 1.30 billion as of June 30, 2022
- Q2-2022 Net Debt to EBITDA ratio closed at 1.21x
- 7,800,000 bottles of Suerox® produced in-house during June 2022; +11% increase in productivity
- Capex Investments reached Ps.124.4 million. in the six months ended June 30, 2022
For a full version of Genomma Lab's Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Release, please visit: https://inversionistas.genommalab.com/en/financial-information
CONFERENCE CALL INFORMATION:
Genomma Lab will host a conference call on Thursday, July 28, 2022 to discuss these results at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time / 10:00 Central Time (Mexico City Time).
To access the call, please dial:
+1 877-407-0784 (From within the U.S.)
+1 201-689-8560 (From outside the U.S.)
If you would prefer to receive a call rather than dialing in, please register via the following link. Please use this option 10-15 minutes prior to conference call start time: Call Me Link
Participants who do not wish to be interrupted to have their information gathered may have provider dial out to them by clicking on the above link, filling in the information, and pressing the green phone button at the bottom. The phone number provided will be automatically called and connected to the conference without any interruption to the participant. (Please note: Participants will be joined directly to the conference and will hear hold music until the call begins. No confirmation message will be played when joined.)
Webcast:
There will also be a live Audio Webcast of the event at: Genomma's Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Call
Replay:
+1 844-512-2921 (U.S.)
+1 412-317-6671 (International)
Replay ID: 13731275
Available until August 4, 2022
About
Genomma Lab Internacional, S.A.B. de C.V. is one of the leading pharmaceutical and personal care products companies in Mexico with an increasing international presence. Genomma Lab develops, sells and markets a broad range of premium branded products, many of which are leaders in the categories in which they compete in terms of sales and market share. Genomma Lab relies on the combination of a successful new product development process, a consumer-oriented marketing, a broad retail distribution network and a low-cost, highly flexible operating model.
Genomma Lab's shares are listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange under the ticker "LAB B" (Bloomberg: LABB:MM).
Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This report may contain certain forward-looking statements and information relating to the Company that reflect the current views and/or expectations of the Company and its management with respect to its performance, business and future events. Forward looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements, and may contain words like "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "envisages," "will likely result," or any other words or phrases of similar meaning. Such statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions. We caution you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the plans, objectives, expectations, estimates and intentions expressed in this presentation and in oral statements made by authorized officers of the Company. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: risks related to the impact of the COVID19 global pandemic, such as the scope and duration of the outbreak, government actions and restrictive measures implemented in response, material delays, supply chain disruptions and other impacts to the business, or on the Company's ability to execute business continuity plans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic factors, such as interest rate and currency exchange rate fluctuations; competition, including technological advances, new products attained by competitors; challenges inherent in new product development; the ability of the Company to successfully execute strategic plans; the impact of business combinations and divestitures; manufacturing difficulties or delays, internally or within the supply chain; significant adverse litigation or government action, including related to product liability claims; changes to applicable laws and regulations, including tax laws; changes in behavior and spending patterns of purchasers of products and services; financial instability of international economies and legal systems and sovereign risk. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found within the Company's related filings with the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores. Any forward-looking statement made in this release speaks only as of the date of this release. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Boasting resort-style amenities and trail access, apartments are anticipated to open in the second half of 2023
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS), a top 10 national homebuilder and industry leader in online sales, announced that Century Living—the Company's fast-growing national multifamily division—has broken ground on its 227-unit Verona Apartments project in Highlands Ranch, CO.
Steps from the Highline Canal Trail network and adjacent to major arterial roadways—allowing easy access to Denver's largest employment hubs and the broader metro—the project will feature lavish amenities, thoughtful apartment interiors with smart home features, balconies on all units, plus select units with scenic views of the mountains. The multifamily development is anticipated to open and begin lease-up in the second half of 2023.
Learn more about Century Living at www.LiveCentury.com.
"With this project, we're continuing to build on our mission of delivering high-quality multi-family developments with exceptional livability," said Jim Francescon, President of Century Living. "Verona's prime location and resort-style amenities reflect our commitment to a best-in-class, full-lifestyle experience for renters in the Denver Metro area."
UNITS:
- 120 1BR units
- 78 2BR units
- 29 3BR units
- Average unit size: 1,033 square feet
AMENITIES:
- 71-mile trail network
- 25-yard lap pool and spa
- Resort-style fitness center
- Private work pods
- Outdoor kitchen
- Rooftop deck
- Expansive 4,500-square-foot dog park
- Managed Wi-Fi
About Century Communities
Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS) is a top 10 national homebuilder, offering new homes under the Century Communities and Century Complete brands. Century is engaged in all aspects of homebuilding — including the acquisition, entitlement and development of land, along with the construction, innovative marketing and sale of quality homes designed to appeal to a wide range of homebuyers. The Colorado-based company operates in 17 states and over 45 markets across the U.S., and also offers title, insurance and lending services in select markets through its Parkway Title, IHL Home Insurance Agency, and Inspire Home Loans subsidiaries. To learn more about Century Communities, please visit www.centurycommunities.com.
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ZUNYI, China, Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from CRI Online:
As midsummer is approaching, a great number of tourists visit Wujiang Village Resort, located in Zunyi in southwest China's Guizhou Province, and tourist season begins.
As a large tourist destination with comprehensive functions such as sightseeing, leisure, taking holiday and exhibition, the Resort takes the advantages of natural environment and folk custom of Northern Guizhou, which enables tourists to explore the natural landscape in and around the village and experience the glamour of folk custom in Northern Guizhou in an immersive manner.
Besides natural and human landscape, colorful cultural performance is also an outstanding character of Wujiang Village. Visitors are able to enjoy a lake cruise or drink tea while listening to opera. In addition, they can also take part in some singing and dancing performances with ethnic features such as drum dance, bamboo pole dance and folk songs of Qilao.
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US military OKs prototype mobile nuclear reactor in Idaho
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense plans to build an advanced mobile nuclear microreactor prototype at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho.
The department late last week signed off on the plan to build the reactor and reactor fuel outside of Idaho and then assemble the reactor at the lab.
The decision follows an environmental impact statement evaluating alternatives for building and operating a gas-cooled microreactor that could produce 1 to 5 megawatts of power.
The department says two reactor designs are being considered and will be announced later.
The department says advanced nuclear power could be a strategic game-changer for the United States.
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