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Sheriff warns children not to pick up money found on the ground
PERRY COUNTY, Tenn. (Gray News) – The Perry County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public to not pick up folded dollar bills found on the ground.
According to a post on the sheriff’s office’s Facebook page, someone picked up a folded bill found on the floor of a gas station that had a white powdery substance inside that tested positive for methamphetamine and fentanyl.
“This is very dangerous, folks!” Sheriff Nick Weems said in the post. “Please share and educated your children to not pick up the money.”
Weems said he plans to push legislation for a bill that would intensify the punishment if someone is caught using money as a carrying pouch for drugs.
“It enrages me as a father and the sheriff that people can act so carelessly and have no regard for others’ well-being, especially a child,” Weems said.
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NEW YORK , May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mr. Rotondo is a senior executive with deep and broad experience in the background screening industry. Being in the industry since 1988, he has held many roles for one of the world's largest CRA's, including: Vice President of Operations, Head of Client Advocacy, and Vice President of Compliance. Mr. Rotondo was one of the first in the industry to conduct FCRA webinars for clients, with attendance growing to over 1,000 attendees. In addition, he helped drive a 98% client retention rate by conducting high impact client meetings and training sessions. Through his extensive experience, he will help NSS drive stronger client retention, enhance regulatory compliance and deliver cost savings and operational efficiencies.
"The addition of Joe Rotondo to our team is a big win for NSS. With over thirty years of experience at Sterling, Joe will help guide us through the rapid growth we are experiencing. I look forward to working with him to expand our compliance department, which will be a big plus for NSS and all our clients. "
Lorenzo Pugliano, CEO
"I am very excited to partner with the Nationwide team in their efforts to grow the business. I believe the potential for growth is tremendous, and with the leadership of Lorenzo and the smart and passionate team in place at NSS, I am looking forward to making this happen," said Mr. Rotondo.
About Joe Rotondo
Joe has been in the employment screening industry for over three decades filling several executive roles. Joe has experience in helping a CRA grow from zero revenue to becoming one of the world's largest background screening companies.
About Nationwide Screening Services
NSS is an industry leading background screening provider that services HR professionals and helps clients make informed hiring decisions. With clients in all 50 states and with access to background information in hundreds of counties, they are truly an industry leader in this field. The management team at NSS is one of the most experienced in the industry and its' US based client services team is unmatched in providing live, real-time assistance.
For more information contact us at 631-617-6674 or visit our site: www.NSSHIRE.com
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New Assay Results Include 44.4 g/t Au over 6.4 m, 19.6 g/t Au over 10.4m & 10.7 g/t Au over 14.5 m
RENO, Nev., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - i-80 GOLD CORP. (TSX: IAU) (NYSE: IAUX) ("i-80", or the "Company") is pleased to announce results from an additional 19 holes drilled in the ongoing 2022 surface drill program testing the high-grade South Pacific Zone at the Company's Granite Creek Property ("Granite Creek" or "the Property") located in Humboldt County, Nevada.
The South Pacific Zone ("SPZ") is a new zone of high-grade gold mineralization located immediately north of the underground mine workings at Granite Creek (Figure 1). Drilling continues to delineate and expand mineralization in the SPZ with new results indicating significant expansion potential including hole iGS22‑24 that returned 10.7 g/t gold (Au) over 14.5 metres (m) and is a 40 m northern step-out from iGS22-04 (11.2 g/t Au over 7.3 m). Additionally, hole iGS22-16 was drilled in the southern portion of the SPZ, with three impressive intervals within 100 m of existing underground workings, including 15.5 g/t Au over 2.7 m, 19.6 g/t Au over 10.4 m and 10.2 g/t Au over 4.9 m. The SPZ remains open for expansion along strike to the north and at depth (see Figures 1, 2 & 3).
Highlight results from 2022 drilling in the South Pacific Zone (and adjacent horizons):
- 12.1 g/t Au over 7.0 m (0.35 oz/ton Au over 23.0 feet) in hole iGS22-07
- 19.6 g/t Au over 10.4 m (0.57 oz/ton Au over 34.0 feet) in hole iGS22-16
- 44.4 g/t Au over 6.4 m (1.30 oz/ton Au over 21.0 feet) in hole iGS22-18
- 10.7 g/t Au over 14.5 m (0.31 oz/ton Au over 47.7 feet) in hole iGS22-24
- 15.3 g/t Au over 7.1 m (0.45 oz/ton Au over 23.4 feet) in hole iGS22-25
The SPZ is the priority target of the ongoing surface drill program at Granite Creek and is anticipated to be included in a resource update following the 2022 program. Multiple holes were drilled to better define the upper and southern limits of the SPZ and returned modest results, as was anticipated based on historic drilling. Additional drilling in 2022 has been completed along strike and at depth, with assays pending, and has continued to intersect mineralization within the target horizon, suggesting further upside. Table 1 provides a summary of new results from the SPZ. So far in 2022, more than thirty (30) holes have been drilled in the SPZ.
"The continuity of high-grade mineralization within the South Pacific Zone appears to be excellent over a strike length of more than 600 metres and dip length of 250 metres", stated Tyler Hill, Senior Geologist of i‑80. "The zone remains open for expansion with the goal for it to be a significant source of production for Granite Creek in the coming years. Owing to our substantial success, we have prioritized the extension of the decline in order to accelerate the development of underground workings towards the SPZ."
High-grade mineralization at Granite Creek occurs in a near-identical geological setting as that at the multi‑million‑ounce Turquoise Ridge Mine located immediately to the north (Figure 4); proximal to a major regional fault (the Getchell or Range Front fault) on the eastern edge of the large Osgood Mountains intrusive complex. The Granite Creek deposit remains open at depth and along strike from the existing underground workings.
"Ongoing drilling in the South Pacific Zone continues to confirm one of the highest-grade gold discoveries made in recent years, not only in Nevada but anywhere in the world", stated Ewan Downie, Chief Executive Officer of i-80. "Given its proximity to our existing underground workings, the SPZ can be developed quite rapidly and represents a potential game-changer in our ultimate production profile."
Table 1 – Summary of New Assay Results from 2022 Surface Drilling in SPZ
The Granite Creek Property is strategically located proximal to Nevada Gold Mines' Turquoise Ridge and Twin Creeks mines at the north end of the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend, at its intersection with the Getchell gold belt in Nevada.
All samples were submitted to ALS Minerals (ALS) of Sparks, NV, which is an ISO 9001 and 17025 certified and accredited laboratory, independent of the Company. Samples submitted through ALS are run through standard prep methods and analyzed using Au-AA23 (Au; 30g fire assay) and ME-ICP41 (35 element suite; 0.5g Aqua Regia/ICP-AES). ALS also undertakes their own internal coarse and pulp duplicate analysis to ensure proper sample preparation and equipment calibration. i-80 Gold Corp's QA/QC program includes regular insertion of CRM standards, duplicates, and blanks into the sample stream with a stringent review of all results.
Tim George, PE, Mine Operations Manager, reviewed the technical and scientific information contained in this press release and is a Qualified Person within the meaning of NI 43-101.
i-80 Gold Corp. is a well-financed, Nevada-focused, mining company with a goal of achieving mid-tier gold producer status through the development of multiple deposits within the Company's advanced-stage property portfolio with processing at i-80's centralized milling facility that includes an autoclave.
Certain statements in this release constitute "forward-looking statements" or "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including but not limited to, the expansion or mineral resources at Granite Creek and the potential of the Granite Creek project. Such statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company, its projects, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information. Such statements can be identified by the use of words such as "may", "would", "could", "will", "intend", "expect", "believe", "plan", "anticipate", "estimate", "scheduled", "forecast", "predict" and other similar terminology, or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. These statements reflect the Company's current expectations regarding future events, performance and results and speak only as of the date of this release.
Forward-looking statements and information involve significant risks and uncertainties, should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results and will not necessarily be accurate indicators of whether or not such results will be achieved. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements or information, including, but not limited to: material adverse changes, unexpected changes in laws, rules or regulations, or their enforcement by applicable authorities; the failure of parties to contracts with the company to perform as agreed; social or labour unrest; changes in commodity prices; and the failure of exploration programs or studies to deliver anticipated results or results that would justify and support continued exploration, studies, development or operations.
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ST. LOUIS, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spire Inc. (NYSE: SR) today announced that members of its management team will present at the 2022 American Gas Association (AGA) Financial Forum on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at 1:50 p.m. Eastern time.
A live webcast of the presentation, along with presentation materials, can be accessed at Investors.SpireEnergy.com under the Events & presentations tab. The presentation will be archived and will be available for replay on our website.
About Spire
At Spire Inc. (NYSE: SR) we believe energy exists to help make people's lives better. It's a simple idea, but one that's at the heart of our company. Every day we serve 1.7 million homes and businesses making us the fifth largest publicly traded natural gas company in the country. We help families and business owners fuel their daily lives through our gas utilities serving Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri. Our natural gas-related businesses include Spire Marketing, Spire STL Pipeline and Spire Storage. We are committed to transforming our business through growing organically, investing in infrastructure, and advancing through innovation. Learn more at SpireEnergy.com.
Investor Contact:
Scott W. Dudley Jr.
Scott.Dudley@SpireEnergy.com
314-342-0878
Media Contact:
Jessica B. Willingham
Jessica.Willingham@SpireEnergy.com
314-342-3300
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LUXEMBOURG, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centralis is pleased to announce the expansion of its current business by welcoming Wheelhouse Advisors to the Group.
Centralis Group is a leading international corporate & fund services provider, offering a full range of services and expertise to its global client base, and has established itself as an industry leader providing a customer-centric tailored service via over 200 highly experienced professionals. The Group is headquartered in Luxembourg, with presence in 13 countries globally.
A strategic partner to the investment management sector, Wheelhouse Advisors supports more than 900 clients globally, with over $130bn of assets under reporting. Specialising in regulatory and prudential management, regulatory reporting, accounting and tax, Wheelhouse Advisors' solutions are designed to reduce risk, improve efficiencies and create value.
Since its management buyout from ACA Group in March 2020, Wheelhouse Advisors has experienced significant growth, building a market-leading competitive position which has been recognised through multiple industry awards. Clients include financial services firms, their principals, and other key professionals from start-ups and spinouts through to established firms, with a key focus on supporting participants in the alternative investments sector with their international expansion objectives and addressing and embedding regulatory change.
The transaction will provide further depth and breadth to Centralis's offering to the Asset Management sector and complements our strategic goal of broadening our client base and our UK presence in this fast-growing market.
Aidan Foley, Chief Executive Officer of the Centralis Group commented:
"We are delighted that Wheelhouse Advisors has chosen to join Centralis and we look forward to welcoming Matthew and his team. This is an important addition to our offering to the Asset Manager community and from a Group perspective this turbo-charges our regulatory compliance capability. I'm sure the specialist skills, expertise and reputation Matthew and the Wheelhouse Advisors team have built will be key components in the Centralis growth story in the coming years".
Matthew Crisp, Chief Executive Officer of the Wheelhouse Advisors commented:
"There is great pride at Wheelhouse Advisors for what we have achieved over the past 2 years; we have launched a new brand, significantly expanded our team and market share, furthered our technological enablement, as well as consistently built on our reputation for quality service delivery and market leading proposition – particularly in relation to the significant changes to prudential regimes in the UK and EU. We are all excited to be joining forces with Centralis for the next stage of the journey. Clients will undoubtedly benefit from access to the broader solutions that we can deploy together, and culturally there is an excellent fit: our businesses share a passion for continuous improvement and innovation, with excellent customer service at the heart of everything we do."
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WASHINGTON, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ahead of the Artemis I flight test, NASA is inviting media to its Johnson Space Center in Houston Friday, Aug. 5, for a detailed mission briefing and a behind-the-scenes look at facilities that will enable a long-term human presence at the Moon.
NASA is currently targeting no earlier than Monday, Aug. 29, for the launch of the Space Launch System rocket to send the Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth. The mission will take place over the course of about six weeks to check out systems before crew fly aboard on Artemis II.
The media day will feature mission support facilities, trainers, and hardware for future Artemis missions, as well as interview opportunities with program leaders, flight directors, astronauts, scientists, and engineers. It also will feature tours and activities in unique facilities at Johnson.
U.S. media interested in participating in person at Johnson must contact the Johnson newsroom no later than 5 p.m. Friday, July 29, by calling: 281-483-5111 or emailing: jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov. International media must contact the Johnson newsroom no later than 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 26.
Planned activities include:
- In-depth mission briefing – Discuss the Artemis I mission profile with flight directors and mission experts. The briefing also will air on NASA TV and media may ask questions by phone. NASA will share the briefing time and details to join by phone at a later date.
- Artemis mission control – Chat with flight directors, engineers and astronauts while in the control room that will be used throughout the Artemis I mission.
- Space Vehicle Mockup Facility – View a full scale version of the Orion crew module used for training and an Orion launch and entry suit that will be worn by astronauts on future Artemis missions.
- Systems Engineering Simulator – Preview the first Artemis lunar surface excursions in a new virtual reality trainer that is preparing future moonwalkers for extravehicular lunar surface operations.
- Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory – Learn about the latest hardware and ongoing testing in one of the world's largest swimming pools to support Artemis missions.
- Gateway high-fidelity hardware mockup fabrication facility – Tour a high-fidelity mockup of Gateway's Habitation and Logistics Outpost module where Artemis astronauts will live and work during future Artemis missions.
- Additional interview opportunities – Speak with experts from various programs at Johnson that support NASA's Artemis missions, including the Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program and the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
Artemis I is an uncrewed flight test, the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to the Moon in preparation for human missions to Mars. Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone to send astronauts to Mars.
For updates, follow along on NASA's Artemis blog at:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis
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LAS VEGAS, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) ("MGM Resorts" or the "Company") today announced that its public tender offer for the shares of LeoVegas AB (publ) ("LeoVegas") has been accepted by 96% of LeoVegas shareholders at a price of SEK 61.00 in cash per share, equivalent to a total tender value of approximately $604 millioni. Settlement of the shares is expected to be initiated on or around September 7, 2022.
"The completion of this transaction represents a major milestone for MGM Resorts as we continue to pursue our strategy of growing our online gaming footprint worldwide," said MGM Resorts' CEO & President Bill Hornbuckle. "We look forward to welcoming the LeoVegas team and are excited to begin working with them to grow our global digital gaming business and maximize the full potential of our omnichannel strategy."
"Joining forces with MGM Resorts is a major win for LeoVegas and we're excited to begin working with our new teammates to build upon the work we've done over the last 10 years," said LeoVegas Group CEO Gustaf Hagman. "MGM Resorts is a premier gaming entertainment company and we look forward to leveraging their expertise to further our long-term strategic goals."
Founded in 2011 by Gustaf Hagman and Robin Ramm-Ericson, LeoVegas is a leading global online gaming company with licenses in nine jurisdictions primarily in the Nordics and rest of Europe. LeoVegas generated EUR 394 million in revenue and EUR 46 million in Adjusted EBITDAii during the twelve months ended June 30, 2022. The business is headquartered in Stockholm with major offices in Malta, United Kingdom and Milan.
MGM Resorts believes the acquisition of LeoVegas will provide a unique opportunity for the Company to create a scaled global online gaming business with the following attributes:
- Strategic Opportunities to Accelerate Growth and Product Offerings – LeoVegas' online casino and sports betting capabilities and strong customer base outside of the U.S. is expected to further expand MGM Resorts' presence around the world.
- Experienced Online Gaming Management Team and Superior Technology Capabilities – LeoVegas' management team has demonstrated the ability to develop a robust and scalable technology platform with advanced product offerings.
- Commitment to Continued Profitable Growth – LeoVegas has operated profitably as a high-growth platform since 2014. From 2017 to 2021, LeoVegas' revenues compounded annual growth rate was 16%, while maintaining strong profitability. MGM Resorts' scale, brands and expertise will allow the combined businesses to expand within existing gaming segments and provide incremental opportunities to enter new areas.
Advisors
MGM Resorts has retained Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC. as financial advisor, Advokatfirman Vinge KB and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as legal counsel and Fox Rothschild as gaming counsel in connection with the offer.
About MGM Resorts International
MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) is an S&P 500® global entertainment company with national and international locations featuring best-in-class hotels and casinos, state-of-the-art meetings and conference spaces, incredible live and theatrical entertainment experiences, and an extensive array of restaurant, nightlife and retail offerings. MGM Resorts creates immersive, iconic experiences through its suite of Las Vegas-inspired brands. The MGM Resorts portfolio encompasses 33 unique hotel and gaming destinations globally, including some of the most recognizable resort brands in the industry. The Company's 50/50 venture, BetMGM, LLC, offers U.S. sports betting and online gaming through market-leading brands, including BetMGM and partypoker. The Company is currently pursuing targeted expansion in Asia through the integrated resort opportunity in Japan. Through its "Focused on What Matters: Embracing Humanity and Protecting the Planet" philosophy, MGM Resorts commits to creating a more sustainable future, while striving to make a bigger difference in the lives of its employees, guests, and in the communities where it operates. The global employees of MGM Resorts are proud of their company for being recognized as one of FORTUNE® Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies®. For more information, please visit us at www.mgmresorts.com. Please also connect with us @MGMResortsIntl on Twitter as well as Facebook and Instagram.
About LeoVegas Mobile Gaming Group
LeoVegas' vision and position is "King of Casino". The global group LeoVegas Mobile Gaming Group offers games on Casino, Live Casino, Bingo and Sport. The parent company LeoVegas AB (publ.) is located in Sweden and its operations are mainly located in Malta. The company's shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. www.leovegasgroup.com
Forward Looking Statements
Statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, and involve risks and/or uncertainties, including those described in the Company's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects," "could," "may," "will," "should," "seeks," "likely," "intends," "plans," "pro forma," "projects," "estimates" or "anticipates" or the negative of these words and phrases or similar words or phrases that are predictions of or indicate future events or trends and that do not relate solely to historical matters. The Company has based forward-looking statements on management's current expectations and assumptions and not on historical facts. Examples of these statements include, but are not limited to, the Company's expectations regarding the closing of the acquisition and any benefits expected to be received from the acquisition. Forward-looking statements depend on assumptions, data or methods that may be incorrect or imprecise, and the Company may not be able to realize them. The Company does not guarantee that the transaction or other events described herein will happen as described (or that they will happen at all). These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements include risks related to the Company's ability to complete the transaction on the terms described herein or all, the satisfaction of the closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals, to which the completion of the transaction is subject, which could delay or prevent the completion of the transaction, the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's business, the effects of economic conditions and market conditions in the markets in which the Company operates and competition with other destination travel locations throughout the United States and the world, the design, timing and costs of expansion projects, risks relating to international operations, permits, licenses, financings, approvals and other contingencies in connection with growth in new or existing jurisdictions and additional risks and uncertainties described in the Company's Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and Form 8-K reports (including all amendments to those reports). In providing forward-looking statements, the Company is not undertaking any duty or obligation to update these statements publicly as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. If the Company updates one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that it will make additional updates with respect to those other forward-looking statements.
MGM RESORTS CONTACTS
Investment Community:
ANDREW CHAPMAN, Director of Investor Relations
(702) 693-8711, achapman@mgmresorts.com
News Media:
BRIAN AHERN, Executive Director of Communications
media@mgmresorts.com
LEOVEGAS CONTACTS
Gustaf Hagman, Group CEO
+46 (0) 8 410 367 66, gustaf.hagman@leovegasgroup.com
Stefan Nelson, Group CFO
+356 993 942 68, stefan.nelson@leovegasgroup.com
Philip Doftvik, Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Finance +46 (0)73 512 07 20, philip.doftvik@leovegasgroup.com
i Based upon 97,652,970 outstanding shares of LeoVegas and a USD/SEK exchange rate of 9.87.
ii Definition of Adjusted EBITDA per LeoVegas' financial reports. The amount has been calculated as the sum of the Adjusted EBITDA figures in LeoVegas' financial reports for the third and fourth quarters 2021 and the first and second quarters 2022.
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Awards Recognize Architectural Firm's Versatility
SANTA ANA, Calif., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Excelling in one of the nation's most competitive and prestigious design competitions, SVA Architects, Inc. has earned four (4) 2022 Gold Nugget Awards of Merit. This year's Gold Nugget Awards—a highlight of the annual PCBC® Summer Tradeshow—will be on June 22 from 5pm-8pm at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. SVA's record of receiving Gold Nugget honors for eight (8) straight years demonstrates the firm's continuing commitment to excellence in affordable housing, dining and event centers, historical preservation, and rehabilitation projects.
The Gold Nugget Awards recognizes outstanding architectural design and planning achievements. This year's 59th annual competition elicited nearly 600 entries from around the world in more than 60 building categories, including mixed-use, affordable housing, educational, special use, and more. A Grand Award winner will emerge from the Merit Award winners in each category, and will be announced during the Awards event.
SVA's projects to be recognized with 2022 Gold Nugget Awards of Merit include:
- Orange Supportive Housing Apartments Hollywood (Hollywood, CA) - Best On-the-Boards Affordable Housing Community
- Serramonte Del Rey Faculty & Staff Housing (Daly City, CA) – Best Student or Faculty Housing
- The Barn at UC Riverside (Riverside, CA) - Best Special Use Project
- South Pasadena Middle School Arts Building: Old Gymnasium Rehabilitation (South Pasadena, CA) – Best Rehabilitation Project
Robert Simons, AIA, President of SVA Architects, states, "It's very rewarding for us to have these projects recognized with Gold Nugget Awards of Merit. We'd like to thank the judges for honoring these projects and recognizing the value and enrichment they bring to our communities."
Founded in 2003, SVA Architects has become one of the Country's most innovative and respected design and planning organizations. The award-winning firm specializes in urban planning, architecture, and interior design of public, private, and mixed-use projects. Among the firm's portfolio are civic, educational, residential, commercial and mixed-use developments. SVA Architects values institutional and public environments as the foundation of a community and the backdrop against which we live, learn, work, worship, and play. The company is headquartered in Santa Ana with offices in Oakland, San Diego, Davis, and Honolulu. For more information, visit www.sva-architects.com.
Media Contact: Beth Binger
BCI
Mobile: (619) 987-6658
beth.binger@BCIpr.com
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BALTIMORE, August 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Canton Group, a strategic technology consulting and engineering company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, has been competitively awarded a prime contract by the Maryland Stadium Authority (MSA). The contract is for three years with two additional one-year options. Established in 1986, MSA's original mission has been to build, manage, and maintain athletic facilities in the state, such as the Pimlico Racing Facility and the Camden Yards Sports Complex which includes Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium. An independent unit from the state's Executive Branch of government, MSA has expanded its business objectives to include overseeing projects in partnership with local governments, universities, and private sector organizations.
Under the contract, The Canton Group will be providing comprehensive project management, website hosting, maintenance, and support services to MSA. As the incumbent, The Canton Group will continue to provide web hosting for MSA and will be completing a Drupal upgrade (from Drupal 8 to 9). This upgrade will ensure MSA's website – utilized as an informational hub to provide updates on projects (new, existing, and completed) – is secure, modern, and scalable.
"We are thrilled to continue our partnership with MSA" said Ethan Kazi, The Canton Group CEO. "Over the last six years, we have collaborated with MSA to improve their website, upgrading the platform to follow industry best practices and ensure accessibility. The Canton Group looks forward to implementing innovative solutions that enable MSA to achieve their mission objectives."
MSA's work not only benefits Maryland's sports enthusiasts but they are also dedicated to improving opportunities for education, businesses, and the local communities. Highlights of previous work include 21st Century School Building Programs and Project C.O.R.E., or Creating Opportunities for Renewal and Enterprise, which orchestrates the demolition of blighted structures throughout Baltimore City. For close to 25 years, The Canton Group has provided support to over 20 Maryland state agencies including the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), Maryland State Ethics Commission (MD Ethics), the Maryland State Board of Elections (MD SBE) and many others.
The Canton Group is consistently recognized as the leading software development and implementation firm in the Baltimore Metropolitan area, providing website and development services. Dedicated to delivering state-of-the-art technology solutions that help clients achieve critical business and organizational objectives, The Canton Group's award-winning team of experts helps clients leverage technology to innovate and gain operational agility.
For more information about The Canton Group, please visit https://cantongroup.com/.
SOURCE: The Canton Group
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GLASTONBURY, Conn., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The principles of music education are immense and highly beneficial to students. Music positively impacts a child's academic performance, assists in developing social skills, and provides an outlet for creativity that is crucial to a child's development. Music education catapults a child's learning to new heights, and because of this, it should always be considered a pivotal part of a child's educational process.
In 1991, James A. Norkawich was introduced to a program called Regional Center for the arts (RCA). RCA was a multicultural program in southwestern Connecticut that was comprised of five towns in Fairfield County. As part of the normal high school day, students attended the University of Bridgeport where they experienced working with industry professionals, professors and choreographers from NYC. The program provided high school students the opportunity to earn college credits while learning more about their craft in either Music or Dance.
The RCA was led by its Director, Kevin Mack, who served the musical community as a conductor, singer, and player of historical keyboard and woodwind instruments. A native San Franciscan, Kevin earned degrees in Conducting, Vocal Performance and English-Philosophy from University of the Pacific, Yale University, the Juilliard School, and the Hartt School. He has been a pupil of Robert Shaw, Roger Wagner, Arthur Weisberg, Allen Forte, Claude Palisca, and David Diamond. To further compliment his teaching effectiveness, Kevin completed a certification program in Music given by the Connecticut Department of Education at Wesleyan University. Kevin Mack was the individual that made RCA happen.
James was part of the Music department which was led by Brian Q. Torff, American jazz double-bassist, songwriter, and composer as well as professor of music at Fairfield University in Fairfield Connecticut. James also studied under Joseph Mennona, multi-instrumentalist, and director of MIDI composition at RCA at that time.
In 1992, James worked with his fellow students from different backgrounds, styles and ideas. The beauty of the RCA was that it provided a safe place for students to come together from different backgrounds, learn about one another, learn each other's own story, which eventually propelled them to create one sound.
The RCA provided James with a real-world taste of what a musical craft could offer. He gained invaluable experience attending and performing in numerous concerts, musical performances, and television performances. In 1992, at the age of 16, James and his fellow band mates opened up for Milli Bermejo at the Quick Center for the arts theatre. It was that pivotal performance which resulted in future funding for the RCA program and ultimately transformed James from a student of Jazz to a Jazz artist.
In 2022, James released the original re-mastered recording to show where his roots began, and also to convey what a program such as the RCA can do for students in today's educational system. Norkawich says "Music has taken a back seat to sports programs and other programs of specialized interest, therefore not giving a voice to those who are trained and proficient in their instrument." He goes on further to say that programs like the RCA model work and he is taking his brand of Jazz and Classical Crossover music with the hope of getting it in the schools in his community, just as he had it available to him over 30 years ago.
Music is the soundtrack of our lives – this is the mantra that James lives by. Now that we are post-pandemic, people create music which is original, and they need to be heard. Their voices can make an impact on this world in a musical culture which is stagnant or run by management or labels. People now have to ability for the first time ever to produce things organically and market their creations on social media.
Norkawich is currently in talks with people in his hometown and state representatives to explore whether a program like RCA could be re-branded and expanded elsewhere in Connecticut in 2022/2023.
The Regional Center is now a part of Cooperative Education Services in Trumbull Connecticut and boasts a full-on campus for students, staff and faculty. As James looks back upon his early introduction to music, he is grateful for the opportunity to attend RCA and is proud to be an inaugural member of the class of 1993.
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Results provide foundational proof-of-concept for a unique target ID in glioblastoma, build further confidence in Mnemo's EnfiniT Discovery Engine
PARIS, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mnemo Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing transformational immunotherapies, today announced a publication in Cell Reports that demonstrates peptides derived from transposable elements (TEs) – mobile regions of DNA that move to other areas of the genome – may represent cancer-specific targets for immunotherapy. The article is authored by a team of researchers working under the leadership of Sebastian Amigorena, Ph.D., CNRS research director, scientific co-founder of Mnemo and head of the Immune Responses and Cancer Team at Institut Curie (Immunity and Cancer Unit – Institut Curie/Inserm).
"Mnemo is committed to comprehensively tackling the challenges facing immunotherapies, including the lack of suitable cancer-specific targets," said Mnemo Chief Executive Officer, Robert LaCaze. "We are extremely encouraged by the data put forth in this publication which validates our unique target ID approach and informs the future of Mnemo's science."
Traditionally, the human genome has been broadly broken down into two main categories – the 4%, known to encode for proteins, and the 96%, with elements either noncoding and/or poorly understood, also known as the "dark genome." The data demonstrated in this publication provides compelling evidence to suggest that novel cancer targets can be found outside of the 4%, necessitating the expansion of our definition to include the "grey genome." The "grey genome", which accounts for around 45% of the human genome, is composed of TEs, long non-coding RNAs and a few other non-coding transcripts. Increased transcription of TEs is found to occur in some tumor cells, suggesting they may encode for cancer antigens. The publication, titled, "Single-cell RNA-seq-based proteogenomics identifies glioblastoma-specific transposable elements encoding HLA-I-presented peptides," explored this connection, demonstrating that these DNA features may hold the key to unlocking new targets for immunotherapy.
"Known targets are encoded by a very small percentage of the human genome, leaving vast regions rich with potential tumor-specific targets uncharacterized and unexplored," said Dr. Amigorena. "The research in this publication provides foundational evidence that we can probe the grey genome to identify features with promising potential to encode for cancer-specific targets."
In this study, researchers leveraged a sophisticated proteogenomic approach to explore the grey genome, in a search to uncover TE-derived peptides that can act as suitable cancer targets. Additional results are outlined below.
- The authors obtained single-cell resolution of TEs, distinguishing between different cell populations in the tumor microenvironment.
- Concurrently, the authors demonstrated differential expression of these TEs in glioblastoma over healthy tissue.
- 370 HLA-I-bound peptides derived from TEs were identified, making them visible to the immune system and therefore potential targets for immunotherapies.
- Furthermore, an in vitro experiment leveraging TE-peptide loaded cells and healthy T cells showed an immunogenic response, illustrating the promise of these peptides as possible therapeutic targets.
"While initially tested in glioblastoma, this approach is applicable across cell-types, laying the groundwork for its application in other cancer models for indication-specific antigen identification," Mnemo Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Alain Maiore. "This research further validates Mnemo's EnfiniT Discovery Engine, which aims to overcome the key challenges facing current immunotherapies by enhancing therapeutic precision, durability, and potency."
References: Single-cell RNA-seq-based proteogenomics identifies glioblastoma-specific transposable elements encoding HLA-I-presented peptides. Pierre-Emmanuel Bonté, Yago A. Arribas, Antonela Merlotti, Montserrat Carrascal, Jiasi Vicky Zhang, Elina Zueva, Zev A. Binder, Cécile Alanio, Christel Goudot, Sebastian Amigorena.
Mnemo is developing transformational immunotherapies to improve the body's ability to fight and overcome cancer. Integral to Mnemo's approach is the EnfiniT Discovery Engine, composed of key technologies that work to identify novel cancer-specific antigens and enhance immune cells' memory and persistence. Mnemo will harness these technologies with multiple modalities across a range of oncology indications, engineering the future of immunotherapies to transform the lives of people with cancer. Mnemo is headquartered in Paris with an office in New York City, and it maintains state of the art laboratories in Paris, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. The company leverages an international talent pool and global resources in its quest to create immunological cures.
To learn more, visit https://mnemo-tx.com and follow Mnemo Therapeutics on Twitter (@MnemoTx) and LinkedIn.
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Woman rescued after falling in toilet trying to get phone
QUILCENE, Wash. (AP) — A woman who accidentally dropped her cellphone into the hole of an outhouse in a national forest and fell in while trying to retrieve it had to be rescued by firefighters in Washington state. Brinnon Fire Department Chief Tim Manly says the woman was using her phone when it fell into the toilet in the Olympic National Forest. He says she used dog leashes to tie herself off so she could reach the phone, but she ended up falling into the toilet headfirst. Firefighters passed her blocks to stand on to reach a harness, which they used to pull her out of the vault. The Kitsap Sun reports the woman was uninjured.
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The website also supports Magnolia Medical's Mission to ZERO® campaign. For each person who signs the pledge to prevent sepsis misdiagnosis for better patient outcomes, Magnolia Medical will make a donation to Sepsis Alliance.
SEATTLE, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc., inventors of Steripath®, the only FDA 510(k)-cleared device platform specifically indicated to reduce blood culture contamination for sepsis testing accuracy,1 today announced the launch of its new website (www.magnolia-medical.com).
Magnolia-Medical.com supports the company's mission to significantly improve the diagnostic accuracy for sepsis testing to directly, immediately, and significantly enable antibiotic stewardship initiatives, prevent patient harm, and improve patient outcomes.
One of the primary goals of the website is to educate the healthcare community on the role of diagnostic stewardship on antimicrobial stewardship and quality outcomes, and how technology solutions, like the Steripath® Initial Specimen Diversion Device®, align with these goals by engineering compliance and achieving equity of care across hospitals and healthcare systems.
The website provides a streamlined user interface for improved navigation and has been designed to scale with Magnolia Medical's expanded educational offerings. Magnolia-Medical.com also features specially curated on-demand content for stakeholders within nursing, infection prevention, quality, laboratory, and hospital administration on the specific pain points these departments may experience due to blood culture contamination, and the clinical and economic implications of a sepsis misdiagnosis.
Additionally, the website allows healthcare providers and institutions to sign the Mission to ZERO® pledge and rally around a common cause of eliminating sepsis misdiagnosis due to the preventable error of false-positive blood culture results. For each person who signs the pledge, "I am committed to helping prevent sepsis misdiagnosis by providing diagnostic excellence and the highest level of patient care possible," Magnolia Medical will make a donation to Sepsis Alliance in support of its efforts to increase awareness of the devastating impact of sepsis on the patients and the community while advocating for improvements in sepsis care.
"Magnolia-Medical.com has been developed as a comprehensive resource to educate the healthcare community on evidence-based approaches to dramatically improve patient safety and quality outcomes via sepsis testing accuracy," said Greg Bullington, CEO of Magnolia Medical. "Recognizing the immense time and resource constraints healthcare professionals face in today's environment, the new site was designed to provide an easy to navigate, 'one-stop' resource where essential information on the problem, cause, and solution for sepsis misdiagnosis is readily accessible."
"I am also thrilled to support Sepsis Alliance in raising awareness of sepsis and the urgent need to seek treatment when symptoms are recognized," Bullington continued. "Magnolia Medical's mission is to improve the accuracy of sepsis testing. With Steripath, we can increase clinician confidence in blood culture results, enabling safer and more effective patient treatment decisions for patients suspected of having sepsis."
Magnolia Medical invites visitors to explore its new website at http://www.magnolia-medical.com/ and reminds them to sign the pledge to our collective Mission to ZERO® and in support of Sepsis Alliance.
Magnolia Medical Technologies develops, manufactures, and markets innovative blood and bodily fluid collection devices to facilitate significant improvements in the accuracy, consistency, and predictability of critical laboratory tests. Magnolia Medical invented and patented the Initial Specimen Diversion Technique® (ISDT®) and Initial Specimen Diversion Device® (ISDD®) for blood culture collection and contamination prevention. The company has amassed an intellectual property portfolio, including more than 100 issued method, apparatus, and design patents with more than 70 additional patent applications pending. For more information, visit http://www.magnolia-medical.com/.
1. Indicated to reduce the frequency of blood culture contamination when contaminants are present, compared to standard method controls without diversion.
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Latest certifications further position SuccessKPI as the most secure and reliable insight and action platform serving enterprise contact centers globally.
CHANTILLY, Va. , Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SuccessKPI, Inc., a cloud-native contact center customer experience insight and action platform provider, announced the completion of ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, and LGPD in addition to previously achieved SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and PCI DSS Level 1. The expanded security compliance enables business users to comply with regulations while securely and confidently collecting, analyzing, understanding, and acting on customer insights from around the world.
SuccessKPI's all-in-one insights and action platform provides a 360-degree view into the health of the contact center from the agent to the CEO. The platform includes a purpose-built business intelligence layer, contact center analytics, speech and text analytics, speech transcription, quality management, SuccessKPI Playbooks™, and advanced reporting and visualizations.
Security and privacy compliance are at the epicenter of the SuccessKPI platform, delivering the industry's most robust privacy, security, data governance, and compliance practices. Fortune 500, Global 1000 organizations and U.S. Federal government agencies rely on SuccessKPI's security to comply with the world's requirements, including:
- AIPCA SOC 2 Type II,
- HIPAA,
- PCI DSS,
- ISO 27001,
- GDPR,
- CCPA,
- LGPD,
- and other laws and frameworks.
Enterprises strive to improve customer experience by unifying data and relying on AI-powered automations, and privacy and compliance remains a foundational requirement across as businesses operate in an increasingly complex global regulatory environment.
"SuccessKPI is leading the contact center insight and analytics market with the most robust Serverless SaaS secured solution designed to meet the needs of global enterprises and how they achieve differentiation and leadership in their own industries," said Piyush Patel, CTO and Co-Founder of SuccessKPI. "Companies trust us to protect their data and customer interactions while maintaining security and privacy compliance in the countries they do business in."
More information on SuccessKPI security compliance can be found here.
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SuccessKPI is a revolutionary on-demand experience analytics software provider enabling organizations to utilize artificial intelligence and automation to improve business outcomes and transform customer experiences. SuccessKPI's insight and action platform removes the obstacles that agents, managers, and executives encounter in delivering exceptional customer service. We are trusted by some of the world's largest government, BPO, financial, healthcare, and technology contact centers in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Learn more at www.successkpi.com.
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- Research explores the "care gap" as well as physical, emotional and social challenges faced by those with long-term health conditions, such as living with a stoma or wound, managing diabetes, urinary retention, cancer and more
- Global medical solutions and technology company Convatec is committed to making positive change for patients and healthcare providers through new 'forever caring' promise
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- According to new research, patients with long-term health conditions face stigma, among a variety of other emotional challenges associated with their health condition. At the same time, survey results indicate that their care teams, particularly nurses, feel unable to provide adequate support due to lack of time and resources. The survey, which was conducted by Wakefield Research and supported by Convatec, included responses from 200 patients or their caregivers and 200 nurses in the U.S..¹
Challenges facing patients
The survey found that 87% of patients or their caregivers feel some level of stigma associated with their or the person in their care's current health condition. Nearly half (44%) reported feeling embarrassed to talk about their current health condition, while 43% felt their health condition isn't something that's regularly talked about and is rarely represented in the media.
Almost all (99%) patients and their caregivers say that stigma can negatively impact or slow perceived healing of a patient with a current health condition – and 96% of nurses agree that a patient's physical healing can be impacted by stigma.
"We already know that the impact of stigma on our patients cannot be understated," said Karim Bitar, CEO, Convatec. "These survey results demonstrate why emotional and mental health is a societal health priority today. We need to do more, as an industry, to help prevent stigma among these patients – by showcasing stories and experiences of how our patients live confidently, by providing peer-to-peer support, and by making conversations easier between friends, family and care teams."
While emotional support comes in many forms, a patient's medical team plays an important role, with more than half (56%) of patients reporting that they would like more time with their medical team to feel better supported. Almost all (96%) patients and caregivers would like more information about their health condition – with 53% reporting that they would prefer that information come through conversations with their medical team.
Challenges facing nurses: The care gap
As patients ache for support and in the wake of the pandemic when healthcare professionals feel more overwhelmed and strained than ever, the survey found that more than 2 in 3 nurses (68%) feel they are unable to fully support their patients – and almost all (96%) agree that they need more time, resources and education to fully care for them. According to the survey:
- 71% of nurses need more time to spend with their patients
- 56% feel they need more time to be able to devote to learning and education
- 51% feel they are currently lacking the resources they need to share directly with patients to care for them most effectively
Additionally, while most nurses (82%) feel completely or mostly comfortable speaking with their patients about challenges related to their current health conditions, 60% say they are less than completely comfortable. Of those who are less than completely comfortable, 47% say it's because they lack the quality time to do so.
'Forever caring': A commitment to close the care gap
Convatec, a global medical solutions and technologies company, today announced a new promise and identity, 'forever caring,' which reflects the company's ongoing transformation to become a more care-centric, agile, and accountable organization.
"We're listening – and most importantly, we're learning," Karim Bitar added. "In what has historically been a very product-focused industry, 'forever caring' is a commitment to the people we serve – and these very patients, caregivers and nurses who participated in this survey. As we continue to bring to life our vision of pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch, we know that the needs of our patients and healthcare providers continue to change, and we must change with them."
As part of this new promise, Convatec commits to strengthening support for patients who are facing challenging issues associated with their health condition by expanding support programs such as me+, which provides educational and guided recovery tools, tips, and peer-to-peer-support to those living with long-term health conditions.
Convatec is also dedicated to working hand-in-glove with patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals to help prevent stigma. Convatec recently launched its first "Healthy Bonds" campaign, which celebrates, supports and empowers people in the ostomy community, who often face stigma, by sharing stories of how they are embracing life with an ostomy.
At the same time, Convatec is steadfast in its commitment to lifting the burden from healthcare providers by providing educational resources and added assistance through programs like Convatec Academy of Professional Education, which is dedicated to supporting the ongoing education and training of healthcare professionals. The program has already engaged with more than 300,000 healthcare professionals globally in the past year.
Convatec also realizes that the time of nurses and healthcare professionals is valuable. To lift the burden off healthcare providers, Convatec launched a new nurse solutions app which makes it easier for them to select and recommend the best ostomy products for their patients, while also providing patients with a convenient one-stop-shop to fulfill their prescriptions, find advice and schedule a consultation with a nurse.
Since 1964, Convatec has long supported patients with needs for the management of long-term health conditions, with leading market positions in advanced wound care, ostomy and infusion care. 'Forever caring' represents a new and exciting stage of Convatec's history, as well as a promise to help give patients and healthcare providers the support they need.
About the Survey
The Convatec Nurses Survey was conducted by Wakefield Research among 200 U.S. nurses treating patients for wound care, continence care, stoma care, infusion therapy, between April 5th and April 17th, 2022. This survey is weighted to ensure accurate representation of U.S. nurses.
The Convatec Patients and Caregivers Survey was conducted by Wakefield Research among 200 patients (or their caregivers) receiving wound care, continence care, or stoma care, infusion therapy, or their caregivers, between April 5th and April 17th, 2022, using an email invitation and an online survey.
Convatec Group Plc
Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a FTSE 250 global medical products and technologies company, focussed on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence and critical care, and infusion care. Group revenues in 2021 were over $2 billion. With around 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in over 100 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our products provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. To learn more about Convatec, please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com.
1Patients receiving wound care, continence care, or stoma care, infusion therapy, or their caregivers, and nurses treating patients for wound care, continence care, stoma care, or infusion therapy. U.S. only.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adding to the already 450,000 real estate professionals that they serve, SkySlope, the nation's leading digital transaction management platform, is expanding its partnership with Tulsa-based McGraw Realtors®. The partnership will extend SkySlope Forms to McGraw Realtor's 790 associates, strengthening what has already been a long-standing relationship between the two real estate entities.
Founded over 80 years ago in Tulsa, Oklahoma, McGraw Realtors has since developed into one of the nation's top ten fastest-growing real estate companies. They currently employ 790 associates who serve the states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Colorado.
McGraw Realtors is dedicated to providing its agents with the tools they need to help them succeed, making it a befitting partner for SkySlope, which specializes in designing tech that makes agents' lives easier.
McGraw Realtors initially selected SkySlope as their transaction management provider several years ago. Since then, the brokerage has seen tremendous growth. Now, in 2022, they are adding SkySlope Forms to their agent offerings.
SkySlope Forms makes the most recent versions of state and association forms available directly in SkySlope. Forms eliminate the guesswork for agents when it comes to identifying the most current versions of state and association forms, as updated forms are automatically uploaded into the SkySlope database.
Backend automation prefills matching data fields and automatically pulls in property data from the MLS to fill forms. Similarly, to reduce manual input, dates and contacts are automatically populated in matching data fields.
In addition to filling forms quickly, agents will be able to get their forms signed quickly with DigiSign, the built-in digital signature tool that auto-formats SkySlope Forms for digital signature and sends them to parties to sign digitally.
"McGraw Realtors has seen great success with SkySlope," says CEO Bill McCollough. "Its thoughtfully-designed interface makes it easy for agents to identify the steps needed to complete transactions smoothly and compliantly. We're confident that SkySlope Forms will greatly enhance our agents' workflow."
SkySlope launched in 2011 when CEO Tyler Smith — then an agent — realized that real estate professionals needed a way to reduce paperwork and digitally centralize their workflow. Since its founding, SkySlope has amassed an impressive share of the digital transaction management market, due in large part to its continuous drive for product innovation and development.
SkySlope provides real estate professionals with the ability to consolidate their workflow into one master system. Beloved for its ease of use, award-winning customer care team, and wide array of additional functions, SkySlope already serves over half of the top 20 brokerages in the nation.
"McGraw Realty has dedicated decades to figuring out what agents want — just like SkySlope," says Tyler Smith, CEO of SkySlope. "We feel proud that they've selected SkySlope as their transaction management provider and elected to expand their partnership with the introduction of SkySlope Forms."
For more information about SkySlope Suite, visit our website.
Established in 2011, SkySlope is the customer experience platform managing real estate transactions from contract to close. Serving over 450,000 real estate professionals across the U.S. and Canada, SkySlope manages nearly 3 million transactions annually. SkySlope is on a mission to build solutions that reshape the real estate industry by creating the most powerful autonomous transaction platform. For more information, visit SkySlope.
McGraw REALTORS has been working to make real estate simple for more than 80 years. What started as an independent residential real estate company in Tulsa, Oklahoma has become one of the nation's top ten fastest-growing real estate companies with over 790 experienced associates serving Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Colorado. In addition to real estate services, they also run the McGraw Real Estate Academy which provides classes for pre-licensing, post-licensing, and continued education.
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PORTLAND, Ore., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- theLotter Oregon, which launched two years ago, is reporting selling a massive number of lottery tickets after the multi-state Mega Millions rolled over last Friday. The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $810 million after no one picked the right numbers for the Friday night drawing. Eager to take part in tonight's draw, a growing number of people turn to Oregon's premier online lottery service.
"A jackpot like this reminds us all of events in 2016 and 2018," says Peggy Daniel, theLotter's U.S. Managing Director. "First, in January of 2016, Powerball rose to $1.586 billion: a sum which was won and shared by 3 ticketholders in Florida, California, and Tennessee. Mega Millions itself set a record in October 2018 when a single player in South Carolina won the $1.537 billion jackpot, making this the biggest win by a single ticket in lottery history. If the $810 Million Mega Millions jackpot isn't won tonight, it is set to rise towards the billion mark once again. And there is no reason why it couldn't be won by an Oregonian this time."
theLotter Oregon provides customers with a courier service for lottery tickets, meaning that people can order an official Oregon Lottery ticket on its website. It offers further features which differentiate it from other retailers: from subscriptions to special multi-draw packages.
So how does it work? "Our service aims to make playing Oregon's lotteries convenient and safe: a client simply places an order on our site and one of our couriers buys the ticket on the client's behalf. We then upload a scan of the actual paper ticket and always notify the client after winning any prize. Wins of up to $600 are transferred directly to a client's account, bigger prizes can be collected in person at Oregon Lottery offices," clarifies Daniel.
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theLotter Oregon is an online ticket purchasing service enabling residents of Oregon to play Oregon lottery games online, with official Oregon Lottery tickets, from the comfort of home.
Download the app on iOS or Android and follow theLotter Oregon on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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WINNEMUCCA, Nev., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: HYMC) ("Hycroft" or the "Company"), a gold and silver exploration and development company which owns the Hycroft Mine in the prolific mining region of Northern Nevada, announces that it has filed its 10-Q for the second quarter of 2022.
Diane Garrett, President and CEO commented "It is an exciting and promising time for the Hycroft Mine as we ramp up Hycroft's largest exploration program in nearly a decade to follow up on several higher-grade intercepts and anomalies previously identified and assess the district potential of this world class size resource. The results of this exploration program will be important to the mine plan for the sulfide operation. Our activities this year and next are integral to taking Hycroft up the value chain".
Reporting on the quarter, Garrett continued "We are very pleased with our continuous improvement in safety as demonstrated by our 0.28 trailing twelve-month TRIFR. Our operating team continues to execute and exceed our plans, including producing more gold from the leach pads than we had estimated in inventory and identifying areas of existing leach pads where additional gold ounces may be recovered. We are continuing to advance the technical studies and process design for the milling and pressure oxidation process".
Second Quarter 2022 Highlights
- Safety - Hycroft's safety performance continued to improve with a 0.28 trailing 12-month total reportable incident frequency rate ("TRIFR") at the end of the second quarter of 2022. This represents an approximate 56% reduction in TRIFR compared with 0.64 at the end of 2021.
- Russell 3000 Index – Hycroft was added to the Russell 3000 Index in June. The Russell 3000 is a broad market index that measures the performance of the top 3,000 U.S. publicly traded companies as ranked by market capitalization.
- Leach Pad Operations - Gold recoveries for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022, were 6,487 and 10,924 ounces, respectively, and silver recoveries were 18,566 and 30,515 ounces, respectively. Processing of ore on leach pads is currently planned to proceed through the end of 2022 with immaterial residual recovery of ounces through the first quarter of 2023.
- Cash Position - The Company ended the second quarter of 2022 with $157.8 million of cash on hand and was in compliance with debt covenants. The Company has approximately 5,800 ounces of gold inventory at the refiner pending settlement.
- Variability Test Program – To date, the Company has received approximately 95% of the test results from its metallurgical program. This test work is designed to determine ultimate grind size, flotation recovery rates and overall process flow sheet design.
- Exploration - In July 2022, we initiated the 2022 - 2023 exploration program which is the largest exploration program at the Hycroft Mine in nearly a decade. The 2022 - 2023 exploration program will focus on the higher-grade opportunities identified during 2021 and a systematic approach to understand the genesis of the Hycroft Mine deposit, including potential feeder systems. The 2022 - 2023 exploration program will comprise approximately 100,000 feet of RC drilling and approximately 25,000 feet of core drilling. The focus of the 2022 - 2023 exploration program activities are as follows:
- Infill Drilling - In addition to the exploration discussed above, the Company will also conduct targeted infill drilling within the existing deposits where there is limited drilling. Based on the geology and surrounding drill results, we are optimistic that the additional limited drilling could convert material currently modeled as waste to an ore classification in the resource model. This would reduce the strip ratio, haulage costs, equipment costs, and increase revenue in the ongoing engineering and design work. Additionally, based upon the results of such additional infill drilling, inferred mineral resources could be upgraded to higher resources classifications inside and adjacent to the current pit limits.
In May 2020, MUDS Acquisition Sub, Inc. ("MUDS") acquired Hycroft Mining Corporation's ("HMC") equity interests in its direct subsidiaries and substantially all of its other assets and assumed substantially all of the liabilities of HMC, including a certain Warrant Agreement dated October 22, 2015. That Warrant Agreement requires adjustment to the associated issued and outstanding warrants (Nasdaq: HYMCZ) when Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (formerly MUDS) issues equity to "Restricted Persons" as defined in the Warrant Agreement.
On August 3, 2022, the Company issued a notice of adjustments under the Warrant Agreement notifying the holders of the outstanding HYMCZ warrants originally issued by HMC. As a result of the issuance of equity awards under the HYMC 2020 Performance and Incentive Pay Plan in the aggregate amount of 2,570,602 restricted stock units convertible into shares of Common Stock and the prospective issuance of up to 500,000 shares of Common Stock to Restricted Persons, the HYMCZ warrant terms were adjusted as follows:
(1) the exercise price of each HYMCZ Warrant is decreased from $40.31 per share of Common Stock to $39.90 per share of Common Stock; (2) the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of each HYMCZ Warrant is increased from 0.28055 to 0.28347; and (3) as adjusted, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon full exercise of the 12,721,901 outstanding HYMCZ Warrants is increased from 3,569,051 to 3,606,256 shares of Common Stock.
Hycroft is a US-based, gold and silver company developing and exploring the Hycroft Mine located in the world-class mining region of Northern Nevada.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION contact info@hycroftmining.com or visit our website at www.hycroftmining.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Unites States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Unites States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included herein and public statements by our officers or representatives, that address activities, events or developments that our management expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to such things as future business strategy, plans and goals, competitive strengths and expansion and growth of our business. The words "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "intend", "believe" "target", "budget", "may", "can", "will", "would", "could", "should", "seeks", or "scheduled to" and similar words or expressions, or negatives of these terms or other variations of these terms or comparable language or any discussion of strategy or intention identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements address activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future and are based on current expectations and assumptions. These risks may include the following and the occurrence of one or more of the events or circumstances alone or in combination with other events or circumstances, may have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, cash flows, financial condition and results of operations. Please see our "Risk Factors" set forth our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and other reports filed with the SEC for more information about these and other risks. You are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements. Although we have attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Although these forward-looking statements were based on assumptions that the Company believes are reasonable when made, you are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results, performance or achievements may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements contained in this news release. In addition, even if our results, performance, or achievements are consistent with the forward-looking statements contained in this news release, those results, performance or achievements may not be indicative of results, performance or achievements in subsequent periods. Given these risks and uncertainties, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements made in this news release speak only as of the date of those statements, and we undertake no obligation to update those statements or to publicly announce the results of any revisions to any of those statements to reflect future events or developments.
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RE/MAX leaders will be joined by renowned author Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour and Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton
DENVER, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RE/MAX, LLC today announced an impactful lineup of speakers for the upcoming 2022 RE/MAX Broker Owner Conference. The three-day event, aimed at providing affiliated Broker/Owners and their guests networking opportunities and insights they can leverage to grow their businesses, will be at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, August 14-16.
In addition to hearing from RE/MAX leaders, including President and CEO Nick Bailey and RE/MAX Holdings Chair of the Board and RE/MAX Co-Founder Dave Liniger, along with top real estate coaches, attendees of this year's conference will also benefit from the following speakers:
Vernice "Flygirl" Armour, America's first Black female combat pilot and celebrated author
Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour is a gutsy trailblazer. Her resume includes an impressive collection of "firsts," including being America's first Black woman combat pilot. She served two tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine and was also a diversity liaison officer to the Pentagon for Headquarters Marine Corps. After her military service, FlyGirl revved up her career in the private sector as an entrepreneur, business consultant, and author of "Zero to Breakthrough, The 7-Step, Battle-Tested Method for Accomplishing Goals that Matter." As a speaker, FlyGirl unleashes hard-hitting advice and amazing anecdotes from her adventures on the battlefield and in business.
Scott Hamilton, Olympic gold medalist and four-time world champion figure skater
The most recognized male figure skating star in the world, Scott Hamilton has won 70 titles, awards and honors. He has been nominated for an Emmy Award and inducted into both the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. He inspires others as a speaker, humanitarian, and as a cancer and pituitary brain tumor survivor.
"Bringing together growth-minded RE/MAX Broker/Owners for shared learning and connection is a special thing," said Pam Harris, RE/MAX Senior Vice President, Customer Experience. "This year's speaker lineup will deliver uplifting, energizing and inspiring messages to attendees eager to implement learnings from the event as they continue to build their businesses. These engaging speakers will provide attendees with renewed encouragement and conviction to accomplish their goals."
Other speakers include (but are not limited to):
- Wayne Fredrick, See The Field Consulting
- Judy LaDeur, Judy LaDeur International
- Steve Murray, RealTrends
- Chelsea Peitz, Chelsea Peitz Consulting
- Verl Workman, Workman Success Systems
Early-bird registration is available to all RE/MAX Broker/Owners through June 30. Registration includes admission to the Welcome Reception, Educational Sessions, Ice Cream Social and Wrap-Up Session.
About the RE/MAX Network
As one of the leading global real estate franchisors, RE/MAX, LLC is a subsidiary of RE/MAX Holdings (NYSE: RMAX) with more than 140,000 agents in almost 9,000 offices and a presence in more than 110 countries and territories. Nobody in the world sells more real estate than RE/MAX, as measured by residential transaction sides. RE/MAX was founded in 1973 by Dave and Gail Liniger, with an innovative, entrepreneurial culture affording its agents and franchisees the flexibility to operate their businesses with great independence. RE/MAX agents have lived, worked and served in their local communities for decades, raising millions of dollars every year for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals® and other charities. To learn more about RE/MAX, to search home listings or find an agent in your community, please visit www.remax.com. For the latest news about RE/MAX, please visit news.remax.com.
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"Live and Local at RockHouse Live Key West" will be aired on Barefoot Radio Key West 104.9
It will also be carried live on VNUE Radio, StageIt.com, and all RockHouse Live locations
NEW YORK, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VNUE, Inc. (OTC: VNUE) today announced the company is partnering with Key West's Barefoot Radio 104.9 and RockHouse Live Key West, in collaboration on a new music show centered around local artists and those artists who pass through the exotic and beautiful island on tour.
Live and Local at RockHouse Live Key West™ will air every Thursday night, starting September 1, 2022, from 8PM to 10PM, 100% live from RockHouse Live Key West's exclusive Rock Room.
In addition to being carried on terrestrial radio by Barefoot 104.9, the show will also air on VNUE's online and app-based radio station, VNUE Radio, and it will be professionally livestreamed on VNUE's StageIt.com platform, both of which reach a global audience, and the latter with over a million subscribers. And it will also air on select screens at each of the other RockHouse Live locations, in Clearwater Beach, Oxford, MS, and Memphis, TN.
Two musical artists, which will range from solo artists to full bands, will be featured every week, and will each be interviewed on-site in the RockHouse Live Rock Room, in front of a live audience. Each artist will also take the stage, and during their performance, the radio station will play recordings by each of the featured artists, as well as other local artists who have submitted material for consideration.
"This is a concept that I have wanted to pursue for some time," said VNUE CEO Zach Bair, who is also the founder of RockHouse Live. "I'm stoked that Barefoot Radio came on board for our radio partner, and that we will also be leveraging our VNUE tech such as StageIt and VNUE Radio to reach not just our locals in Key West, but a global fan base of music lovers, who will get the opportunity to enjoy the amazing talent that is on the island."
Dave Jackson and Kevin Redding, co-owner/operators of 104.9 Barefoot Radio said, "We're incredibly excited to partner with Zach and the staff at RockHouse Live on Duval Street! Our quirky brand of local Conch music combined with Zach's power in the rock and digital music industry – all on world famous Duvall Street? Buckle up! It's going to be wild ride here in Key West when music in the Conch Republic goes live and worldwide!"
As noted above, Live and Local in Key West will feature a live studio audience – the show is 100% open to the public – and will be broadcast from the Rock Room, which is RockHouse Live Key West's upstairs performance room and venue. There will also be specials offered from the show's sponsors, as well as free SWAG, and other things that will make each show unforgettable.
Fans who are unable to listen locally on Barefoot Radio or attend the show in person may download the VNUE Radio app from the Apple App Store or Google Play, or may also go to StageIt.com, to actually see the performances and interviews, which will be professionally livestreamed. There will be no cost in most cases to attend the virtual performances, but fans are encouraged to tip the artists.
Businesses interested in becoming a sponsor should contact Ben Hennington at ben.hennington@vnue.com, or by calling him at 305.304.1232.
Bands and artists who wish to be considered for airplay and/or to be a guest on the show should email an EPK with links to original music to liveandlocalkw@rockhouselive.com. All song submissions must be professionally recorded and broadcast ready.
About VNUE, Inc. (www.vnue.com)
VNUE, Inc., (OTC: VNUE) is a multi-faceted music technology company dedicated to monetizing the live music experience for artists, labels, writers, and publishers, and protecting the rights of artists. For more information, please visit vnue.com.
About RockHouse Live™
RockHouse Live (www.rockhouselive.com) is a first-of-its kind hybrid live & virtual entertainment-themed restaurant, venue and bar concept, offering the culture of rock 'n' roll with live music, entertainment, great food, awesome drinks, and "virtual tech." For more information visit rockhouselive.com.
Investors seeking to learn more can contact the company at investors@rockhouselive.com.
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Fathom Events is bringing Dr. No back to theaters through Park Circus on behalf of MGM
DENVER, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. No, the film that introduced the world to the iconic James Bond franchise – not to mention Sean Connery in the starring role - is coming back to theaters this summer to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the film's release.
In 1962, Sean Connery introduced Ian Fleming's character to cinema audiences and "Bond, James Bond" is now one of the most iconic moments in film history. Now, fans will be able to see it again on the big screen as a part of worldwide celebrations of 60 years of James Bond. From the Academy Awards® to the BAFTA's, the entertainment world has paused to honor 60 years of 007!
In his explosive film debut, Ian Fleming's immortal action hero blazes through one of his most spectacular adventures. Bond's (Sean Connery) mission takes him to Jamaica, where mysterious energy waves are interfering with U.S. missile launches. As he unravels the truth, Bond must fight deadly assassins and sexy femme fatales as he searches for the headquarters of the sinister Dr. No, who is implementing an evil plan of world domination. Jack Lord and Ursula Andress also star.
Accompanying the Fathom Events screening is "Being James Bond", a 45-minute feature in which Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his fifteen-year tenure as James Bond. It includes never-before-seen archival footage spanning from 'Casino Royale' (2006) to 'No Time to Die' (2021).
Tickets to Dr. No 60th Anniversary event can be purchased online at www.fathomevents.com or at participating theater box offices.
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About Fathom Events
Fathom is a recognized leader in the entertainment industry as one of the top distributors of content to movie theaters in North America. Owned by AMC Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: AMC); Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK); and Regal, a subsidiary of the Cineworld Group (LSE: CINE.L), Fathom operates the largest cinema distribution network, delivering a wide variety of programming and experiences to cinema audiences in all of the top U.S. markets and to more than 45 countries. For more information, visit www.FathomEvents.com.
About Park Circus
Park Circus Group is a leading all-rights sales agency and distribution company representing the greatest names in filmed entertainment. Our classic films distribution and sales divisions represent the major Hollywood and British studios including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing International, Disney, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, LAIKA, Film4 and ITV Studios as well as a large number of independent producers and rights holders. Operating worldwide, the company aims to enable audiences to experience classic and contemporary cinematic content, through working with theatrical exhibition, television, digital and home entertainment partners. www.parkcircus.com.
About Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) is a leading entertainment company focused on the production and global distribution of film and television content across all platforms. The company owns one of the world's deepest libraries of premium film and television content as well as the premium pay television network EPIX, which is available throughout the U.S. via cable, satellite, telco, and digital distributors. In addition, MGM has investments in numerous other television channels, digital platforms, interactive ventures, and is producing premium short-form content for distribution. For more information, visit www.mgm.com.
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Biden set to mark Inflation Reduction Act at White House event
(Gray News) - President Joe Biden plans to deliver remarks Tuesday during an event on the White House South Lawn celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.
The law signed by Biden last month is designed to lower prescription drug prices, fund climate-related investments, increase corporate taxes and reduce the federal deficit, the Associated Press reported.
Biden is touting the Democrats’ legislative successes in Congress in the runup to the midterm elections in November.
Lower gas prices have helped cool off inflation somewhat. However, though inflation is easing, it’s not easing as quickly as investors would have hoped.
A report released Tuesday showed inflation decelerated to 8.3% percent in August, leading the Dow Jones Industrial Average to drop as of midday.
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PRINCETON, N.J., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CytoSorbents Corporation (NASDAQ: CTSO), a leader in the treatment of life-threatening conditions in the intensive care unit and cardiac surgery using blood purification, will report second quarter 2022 operating and financial results after the market close on August 2nd, 2022. CytoSorbents' management will host a live conference call and presentation webcast at 4:30 p.m. Eastern the same day.
Conference call details:
Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Time: 4:30 p.m. Eastern
Toll free: 1-877-451-6152
International: 1-201-389-0879
Conference ID: 13731826
The live audio webcast and presentation can be accessed via the following link: https://viavid.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1561029&tp_key=ddc6a4af76
It is recommended that participants dial in approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the call. An archived recording of the conference call will be available under the Investor Relations portion of the company's website at https://cytosorbents.com/investor-relations/financial-results/.
CytoSorbents Corporation is a leader in the treatment of life-threatening conditions in intensive care and cardiac surgery using blood purification. Its flagship product, CytoSorb®, is approved in the European Union with distribution in more than 70 countries around the world as an extracorporeal cytokine adsorber designed to reduce the "cytokine storm" or "cytokine release syndrome" seen in common critical illnesses that may result in massive inflammation, organ failure and patient death. These are conditions where the risk of death can be extremely high, yet few to no effective treatments exist. CytoSorb is also being used during and after cardiothoracic surgery to remove inflammatory mediators that can lead to post-operative complications, including multiple organ failure. More than 170,000 cumulative CytoSorb devices have been utilized as of March 31, 2022. CytoSorb was originally introduced into the European Union under CE-Mark as a first-in-kind cytokine adsorber. Additional CE-Mark label expansions were received for the removal of bilirubin and myoglobin in clinical conditions such as liver disease and trauma, respectively, and both ticagrelor and rivaroxaban during cardiothoracic surgery. CytoSorb has also received FDA Emergency Use Authorization in the United States for use in adult critically ill COVID-19 patients with imminent or confirmed respiratory failure. The DrugSorb™-ATR Antithrombotic Removal System, which is based on the same polymer technology as CytoSorb, has also been granted FDA Breakthrough Designation for the removal of ticagrelor, as well as FDA Breakthrough Designation for the removal of the direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) drugs, apixaban and rivaroxaban, in a cardiopulmonary bypass circuit during urgent cardiothoracic surgery. The Company has initiated two FDA approved pivotal trials designed to support U.S. marketing approval of DrugSorb-ATR. The first is the 120-patient, 30 center STAR-T (Safe and Timely Antithrombotic Removal-Ticagrelor) randomized, controlled trial evaluating the ability of intraoperative DrugSorb-ATR use to reduce perioperative bleeding risk in patients on ticagrelor undergoing cardiothoracic surgery. The second is the 120-patient, 30 center STAR‑D (Safe and Timely Antithrombotic Removal-Direct Oral Anticoagulants) randomized, controlled trial, evaluating the intraoperative use of DrugSorb–ATR to reduce perioperative bleeding risk in patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery on direct oral anticoagulants, including apixaban and rivaroxaban.
CytoSorbents' purification technologies are based on biocompatible, highly porous polymer beads that can actively remove toxic substances from blood and other bodily fluids by pore capture and surface adsorption. Its technologies have received non-dilutive grant, contract, and other funding of more than $39.5 million from DARPA, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), Air Force Material Command (USAF/AFMC), and others. The Company has numerous marketed products and products under development based upon this unique blood purification technology protected by many issued U.S. and international patents and registered trademarks, and multiple patent applications pending, including ECOS-300CY®, CytoSorb-XL™, HemoDefend-RBC™, HemoDefend-BGA™, VetResQ®, K+ontrol™, DrugSorb™, DrugSorb™-ATR, ContrastSorb, and others. For more information, please visit the Company's websites at www.cytosorbents.com and www.cytosorb.com or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
This press release includes forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about our plans, objectives, future targets and outlooks for our business, expectations regarding the future impacts of COVID-19 or the ongoing conflict between Russia and the Ukraine, representations and contentions and are not historical facts and typically are identified by use of terms such as "may," "should," "could," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential," "continue" and similar words, although some forward-looking statements are expressed differently. You should be aware that the forward-looking statements in this press release represent management's current judgment and expectations, but our actual results, events and performance could differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors which could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the risks discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on March 10, 2022, as updated by the risks reported in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and in the press releases and other communications to shareholders issued by us from time to time which attempt to advise interested parties of the risks and factors which may affect our business. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, other than as required under the Federal securities laws.
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Amy Vogel
305 College Road East
Princeton, NJ 08540
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Rubenstein Public Relations
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20 Million B4UFLY Searches, 500K LAANC Authorizations and 1 Million Monthly Airspace Events
SILVER SPRING, Md., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aloft Technologies today announced a series of milestones with record flight and airspace safety across Aloft's applications and UTM platform. Aloft recorded half a million LAANC authorizations all-time, including a record June where total authorizations grew 58% year-over-year and commercial airspace authorizations grew 102% year-over-year. On the B4UFLY application, record usage and adoption resulted in crossing 20 million airspace searches all-time. In addition, the Aloft UTM data network surpassed one million monthly airspace events in June while seeing 300% quarter-over-quarter commercial revenue growth, marking the largest expansion of the platform in company history.
Since relaunching the B4UFLY app in August of 2019 and extending it to a web-based version, B4UFLY has become the authoritative source of situational awareness for UAS operators and recreational drone pilots alike. Newer features like Notify & Fly which enables pilots to anonymously share their flight intent and location to other pilots are also seeing exponential growth. May and June saw record usage of Notify & Fly with a 3x increase from March to June of this year.
"We know that adoption by users is key to all successful compliance efforts. While we continue to build open and scalable systems, we can't mistake walls for highways. We have to make compliance, safety and security part of the benefits that come along with accessible and easy to use tools. We're excited to continue growing along with the broader drone ecosystem," said Aloft CEO and Founder Jon Hegranes.
Rounding out an all-time quarter, Aloft's latest product launch Aloft Geo, which allows government and authoritative agencies to publish air and groundspace advisories to the Aloft UTM data network, quickly surpassed 50 verified agencies in the first month. From local law enforcement and first responders to federal agencies like NASA and Department of Homeland Security, Aloft Geo is enabling the next step in UTM situational awareness by integrating these additional authoritative data sets with Aloft's airspace restrictions and flight activity data. This extension of Aloft's data crowdsourcing initiative is having a big impact by allowing authoritative agencies to directly manage and publish their data to the largest network of drone pilots and airspace stakeholders.
"Many pilots who fly motorized aircraft within Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) have told MBNS staff they use the B4UFLY app for situational awareness. Therefore, MBNMS staff made it a priority to upload the boundaries of the NOAA regulated overflight zones as a *.kml file to Aloft Geo and provide metadata and links to inform pilots where flights under 1000 feet within MBNMS are prohibited by federal regulations. Aloft Geo's interface is intuitive and updates are efficiently published to B4UFLY," said MBNMS Permit Coordinator and GIS Specialist Sophie De Beukelaer.
Formerly known as Kittyhawk, Aloft Technologies is the market leader in drone airspace systems & UTM technologies and powers more than two-thirds of all LAANC authorizations in the US. Our solutions make it easy to fly safely and operate compliantly at scale. Our dynamic airspace platform connects the largest drone network -- spanning recreational users, enterprise customers, regulators, and UTM partners across the globe.
Learn more at www.aloft.ai.
Contact:
Steve Roy
VP Marketing
sroy@aloft.ai
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| 2022-07-14T19:30:07Z
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Warm start to the weekend
Temperatures continue to rise a little more each day
Warm, dry and windy are the main weather themes for Friday as Texoma continues to experience warmer than normal temperatures for mid-September. The southerly wind has been picking up speed with gusts up to 20mph. High temperatures will continue to reach the low 90s but will slowly work up to the mid-90s by next week.
A strong area of high pressure is back over Texoma and the southeast portion of the United States. It will ensure that Texoma will continue experiencing warm and dry conditions for the near future. The summer season isn’t quite over yet!
As for high school football tonight, looks like ideal conditions other than a little warmth. Because it’s so dry, temperatures will drop fast when the sun goes down. A nice evening to start the weekend.
Brady Blackstock
Weekend Meteorologist
News 12 / KXII-TV
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TetraScience announces 5-year, $500 million investment in the ongoing development and delivery of the world's only cloud-native, open, and purpose-built scientific data cloud as it lays the foundation for revolutionary AI- and ML-based discovery.
BOSTON, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to overwhelming customer demand, TetraScience announced today the evolution of its industry leading data cloud to include manufacturing and quality control (QC) data as it seeks to relentlessly replatform and reengineer the world's scientific data in its cloud to radically accelerate and improve scientific outcomes. The Tetra Scientific Data Cloud™, already deployed in 10 of the top 20 pharma companies, helps customers solve previously intractable scientific data problems at scale.
BioPharma organizations have attempted to unlock the full value of their scientific data for decades in order to decrease time-to-market, glean scientific insights, and gain operational efficiencies. However, legacy systems, manual processes, incomplete cloud solutions, proprietary data formats, have contributed to inflexible point-to-point integrations to thousands of primary sources and millions of data silos. Having both upstream Research and Development (R&D) and downstream manufacturing and QC data available in the Scientific Data Cloud will yield long sought-after breakthroughs including new process development efficiencies, analytical control strategy, technology transfer acceleration, and reduction of manufacturing risk.
The Tetra Scientific Data Cloud systematically solves these problems across the BioPharma ecosystem, accelerating drug delivery while improving quality controls and data integrity. It comprises productized API-based integrations from the Tetra Partner Network, the open, cloud-native Tetra Data Platform which re-engineers raw or primary data into FAIR, harmonized "Tetra Data (™)," and use case-based Scientific Applications enriched by Tetra Data and the Tetra Partner Network. The Tetra Data Platform runs natively on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is available as a SaaS solution in AWS Marketplace.
These new classes of scientific applications, built on the Tetra Data Platform in conjunction with Tetra Partners, reduce time-to-value by addressing the challenges of specific scientific lab operations and workflows. Examples include data flow automation in high throughput screening and batch release and stability testing. In addition, for customer use cases in manufacturing and quality control , Tetra GxP ensures the capture of data provenance through a comprehensive audit trail, disaster recovery, control matrices, and software hazard analysis.
In addition to its unparalleled cloud capabilities and deep scientific data knowledge, TetraScience's market position as the "Switzerland of Scientific Data" – namely, not seeking to compete with our instrument manufacturer, ELN, and informatics partners - uniquely engenders trust among all industry and adds value to their core offerings. With the world's scientific data trapped in millions of data silos, it's essential that TetraScience remains open and agnostic to data sources and endpoints and focused on one goal - maximizing the value of the data for all relevant stakeholders.
"By engineering and automating data flow in late stage biopharma labs, Tetrascience and our Tetra Network Partners have already transformed how safer, better products can be manufactured more efficiently. In fact, meaningful decisions are already being made using Tetra Data-powered data science in QA/QC labs across the globe. Increasingly, Tetra Data (™) is now being requested for reactors, bioanalyzers and other manufacturing equipment for the game-changing therapies of tomorrow," said Spin Wang, TetraScience CTO.
"As CRISPR advances our mission to develop transformative gene-based medicines for serious human diseases, it's critical that our advanced analytics are able to leverage as much scientific data as possible coming from a wide range of instruments and informatics systems.," said Julian Fowler, VP, Head of Information Technology at CRISPR Therapeutics. "TetraScience has brought us value in this area already, and we're very pleased to see the company further evolve their capabilities to better support an expanded set of use cases in QA and manufacturing via the Scientific Data Cloud."
"The Tetra Scientific Data Cloud is a one-of-a-kind, purpose-built industry data cloud optimized to accelerate and improve scientific outcomes. We're closely collaborating with the world's most innovative BioPharma companies, scientific vendors, leading technology companies – such as AWS, and top global systems integrators – such as Deloitte, to fundamentally transform customer outcomes," said Patrick Grady, TetraScience Chairman and CEO.
"TetraScience's cloud-native platform, built on AWS, coupled with its partner network and deep scientific knowledge, allows it to securely and compliantly assemble and engineer some of the world's largest scientific data sets," said Lita Sands, Worldwide Life Sciences Strategic Solutions Leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS). TetraScience's data engineering and harmonization at enterprise scale delivers the underlying data that enables advanced analytics and new artificial intelligence-based capabilities. This leads to accelerated and improved outcomes including increased business agility, reduced costs, improved productivity, and faster time-to-market."
"We've seen first-hand the pains and challenges biopharmas experience around fragmented, siloed scientific data trapped in legacy systems," said Laks Pernenkil, Principal, Life Sciences at Deloitte. "Digital innovation in the life sciences space is at an inflection point, and what TetraScience is doing to help organizations leverage the full value of scientific data will play an important role in transforming the value stream across drug discovery and development, QA, manufacturing, and supply chain."
TetraScience is the Scientific Data Cloud company with a mission to accelerate scientific discovery and improve and extend human life. The Scientific Data Cloud is the only open, cloud-native platform purpose-built for science that connects lab instruments, informatics software, and data apps across the biopharma value chain and delivers the foundation of harmonized, actionable scientific data necessary to transform raw data into accelerated and improved scientific outcomes. Through the Tetra Partner Network, market-leading vendors access the power of our cloud to help customers maximize the value of their data. For more information, please visit tetrascience.com.
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Nationally Recognized Food and Nutrition Expert Shares the Health Benefits of Potatoes
Plus Delicious Recipes Everyone Will Enjoy This Summer
DENVER, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With summer kicking off, many of us are looking for new ways to eat healthy without sacrificing taste. Potatoes USA and Cara Harbstreet, registered dietitian and intuitive eating expert, are going on the record to bust some myths – and share some recipes – about America's favorite vegetable, the potato!
Dietary guidance says we're supposed to get 2-3 servings of vegetables a day, and a crowd-pleasing way to achieve that goal is through potatoes.
"Potatoes are vegetables," explains Harbstreet. "You get about a third of your vitamin C for the day from a medium, skin-on potato and more potassium than a banana (620mg vs 450 mg)! They've also got 3 grams of plant-based protein, which is more than any other commonly eaten vegetables, except dried beans."
Potatoes can also be included as part of a weight loss program. A medium potato only has 110 calories and no fat or cholesterol. In fact, potatoes are featured in some of the most healthy and popular diets, including Mediterranean, DASH and Flexitarian. On top of that, there's research that suggests eating potatoes may prevent you from feeling hungry and keep you filled up.
"There are also some major misconceptions about carbs being bad, but we literally could not live without them," said Harbstreet. "They're our brain's primary fuel and a key source of energy for our muscles. Potatoes are a complex carbohydrate, which is a carb food that provides vitamins, minerals and fiber. Most of our carbs should be complex carbs like potatoes."
Another popular misconception is that sweet potatoes are healthier than regular potatoes – but that's just not true. The two vegetables are remarkably similar on a lot of key nutrients, the main difference is that sweet potatoes are an excellent source of vitamin A, while regular potatoes are an excellent source of vitamin C.
"I personally love potatoes so much, and one huge reason is their versatility," said Harbstreet. "I have three recipes that I'd like to share that are healthy, full of flavor and perfect for summer entertaining!"
This first is perfect for Fourth of July entertaining. It's called it the Red, White and Blue Potato Salad and it uses purple potatoes. It's got some delicious ham and walnuts for some crunch, and you can use sherry or white balsamic vinegar for that classic potato salad bite.
The next recipe is for Grilled Potato Kabobs. Grilling potatoes is a trend for this summer, and when you put chicken, corn, bell peppers and zucchini on the kabob, you really have a whole meal on a stick. The lemon herb drizzle that goes with it gives it a nice zing.
Finally, On-The-Go Potatoes make a filling, nutritious snack you can take to the pool or the beach or wherever you're headed during the summer's busy times, Harbstreet said.
"It's simply petite yellow potatoes, olive oil, soy sauce, panko, sesame seeds and Chinese 5-spice. This is also a great option for athletes, providing a quick and easy fuel source to power your performance."
For more information or recipe inspiration, please visit PotatoGoodness.com/summer.
About Potatoes USA
Potatoes USA was established in 1971 by a group of potato farmers to promote the benefits of eating potatoes. Today, as the largest vegetable commodity board and the marketing organization for the 2,500 potato farming families operating in the United States, we are proud to be recognized as an innovator in the produce industry. We provide culinary potato inspiration to key audiences, as well as useful tools, education, and support. Through effective market-driven strategies that focus on the greatest opportunities, Potatoes USA is proving that, no matter where the customer lives, U.S. potatoes offer a world of possibilities.
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MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, Telix, the Company) today reports on regulatory progress for the Company's core prostate and kidney cancer imaging programs in the Asia Pacific (APAC) Operating Region, including progress in the major market of China with its strategic partner Grand Pharmaceutical Group Limited (Grand Pharma).
TLX591-CDx (Illuccix®) for prostate cancer imaging
- China: An Investigational New Drug (IND) application has been submitted by Telix's partner in Greater China, Grand Pharma, to the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) – and accepted for review – for a pivotal Phase III registration study that will bridge to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Illuccix.
- South Korea: As previously reported, an imported New Drug Application (NDA) has been submitted by Telix's partner in South Korea, DuChemBio Co, Ltd. (DuChemBio), to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) for TLX591-CDx (Illuccix®, Kit for the preparation of 68Ga-PSMA-11), a radiopharmaceutical targeting Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) for the imaging of prostate cancer using Positron Emission Tomography (PET).1
TLX250-CDx for kidney cancer imaging
- China: An IND application has been submitted by Grand Pharma to the NMPA CDE (and accepted for review) for a pivotal Phase III registration study that will bridge to Telix's global Phase III 'ZIRCON' trial of TLX250-CDx (89Zr-girentuximab), for the imaging of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with position emission tomography.
The Phase III bridging studies of TLX591-CDx and TLX250-CDx are required to provide "supplementary" data in an exclusively Chinese population to establish that efficacy of these investigational products is equivalent in Chinese and Western populations. It is expected that both studies will be multi-centre, enrolling approximately 100 patients.
"Together with our partners, we are pleased to report delivery of these material regulatory milestones, including submitting a first NDA for PSMA imaging in Asia. Additionally, we have made significant progress in China, following a thorough consultation process with the NMPA, and have filed our first IND applications in this important market. The expertise and strong support of our partners Grand Pharma and DuChemBio has enabled an efficient process and the delivery of these milestones within target timelines," said Dr David N. Cade, CEO Telix Asia Pacific. "The Asia Pacific region represents a major market opportunity, being driven by increasing cancer incidence rates and an investment in installation of PET/CT cameras in markets such as China and India. We are committed to bringing targeted radiation imaging and therapies to patients in need across the region."
About prostate and kidney cancer in the Asia Pacific region
The Asia Pacific region comprises approximately one third of the world's male population and includes many nations whose populations are ageing or increasingly adopting a more affluent, "Western-style" lifestyle, the two main demographic trends driving increasing cancer incidence rates. Consequently, the incidence of prostate cancer is increasing in many parts of the region.
In South Korea, over 13,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year.2
In China, 115,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, increasing by approx. 6% each year and 73,000 people are diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma each year.
In line with government policy supporting wider geographic access to nuclear medicine, the number of PET/CT cameras installed in China is forecast to reach 1,110 by the end of 2022, compared with 133 in 2010.3
About Illuccix® (TLX591-CDx)
Illuccix (TLX591-CDx) is a preparation for imaging prostate cancer with positron emission tomography (PET), targeting prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA), a protein that is overexpressed on the surface of more than 90% of primary and metastatic prostate cancer cells. Illuccix enables PSMA-11 to be labelled with the radionuclide Ga-68 directly before injection by medical professionals. After preparing the radiopharmaceutical and injecting it into the patient, PSMA positive lesions are localised by PET imaging.
Illuccix has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),4 and by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).5 Telix is also progressing marketing authorisation applications for this investigational candidate in Europe6 and Canada.7
About TLX250-CDx
TLX250-CDx (89Zr-girentuximab) is an investigational product being developed by Telix for the purpose of non-invasive detection of clear cell renal cancer in patients with "indeterminate renal masses" (IDMRs), typically identified based on computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) imaging and are an increasing medical dilemma as more scans are performed and more IDRMs are identified.
Girentuximab is a monoclonal antibody that targets carbonic anhydrase IX (CA9), a cell surface target that is highly expressed in several human cancers including renal, lung and oesophageal cancers. In July 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Breakthrough Therapy (BT) designation for TLX250-CDx,8 reflecting the significant unmet clinical need to improve the diagnosis and staging of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), the most common and aggressive form of kidney cancer.
About Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited
Telix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of diagnostic and therapeutic products using Molecularly Targeted Radiation (MTR). Telix is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with international operations in Belgium, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States. Telix is developing a portfolio of clinical-stage products that address significant unmet medical need in oncology and rare diseases. Telix is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: TLX). For more information visit www.telixpharma.com and follow Telix on Twitter (@TelixPharma) and LinkedIn.
Telix Investor Relations
Ms. Kyahn Williamson
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited
SVP Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
Email: kyahn.williamson@telixpharma.com
This announcement has been authorised for release by Dr. Christian Behrenbruch, Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer.
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1 ASX disclosure 21 July 2022.
2 Globocan 2021.
3 Goetz Partners research 2020.
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Transaction will bring airborne surveillance and search and rescue missions to Leidos Australia's portfolio
MELBOURNE, Australia, and RESTON, Va., August 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a FORTUNE® 500 science and technology leader, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Cobham Limited to acquire Cobham Aviation Services Australia's Special Mission business. The Special Mission business provides airborne border surveillance and search and rescue services to the Australian Federal Government. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.
"Cobham's Special Mission team conducts essential operations that protect Australia's borders, support law enforcement and environmental protection and save lives," said Leidos Chairman and CEO Roger Krone. "The integration of Special Mission into Leidos Australia will expand the scope of our global airborne ISR capabilities, diversify revenues, and open up new growth avenues."
"I have the greatest respect and admiration for Cobham's Special Mission team and their performance in service to the Government," said Leidos Australia Chief Executive Paul Chase. "The addition of the Special Mission business will bring new, expansive services to our offerings across Australia. I look forward to working with this exceptional team."
"This is a perfect match," said Cobham Aviation Services Chairman Kim Gillis. "Leidos has remarkably complementary operations to Cobham Special Mission in airborne ISR, as well as deep platform integration expertise, and both organisations uphold exceptional track records of delivering mission critical services to government and defence customers."
"I'd like to recognise and thank all of the Special Mission team for their continued dedication and commitment to delivering operational outcomes for our customers," Managing Director of Special Mission James Woodhams said. "I'm really excited about what the future holds for the team as part of Leidos."
Cobham Special Mission owns and operates 14 modified aircraft to deliver critical services across Australia, including:
- Conducting one of the world's largest outsourced civil maritime surveillance operations under contract with the Australian Border Force, patrolling Australia's 8.2 million square kilometre Exclusive Economic Zone;
- Providing fixed wing search-and-rescue response capability over land and sea on behalf of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA); and
- Operating a highly specialised mission aircrew training system for more than 30 mission aircrew per year.
Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company's 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $13.7 billion for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to Leidos' proposed acquisition of Cobham Aviation Services Australia, including statements regarding the benefits of the transaction, the anticipated timing of the transaction and the products and markets of each company. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words "believe," "project," "predicts," "budget," "forecast," "continue," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "strategy," "future," "opportunity," "plan," "may," "could," "should," "will," "would," "will be," "will continue," "will likely result," and similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions).
Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this release, including but not limited to: (i) the risk that the transaction may not be completed in a timely manner or at all, (ii) the failure to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the transaction, including the receipt of certain governmental and regulatory approvals, (iii) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, (iv) the effect of the announcement or pendency of the transaction on Cobham Aviation Services Australia's business relationships, operating results, and business generally, (v) risks that the proposed transaction disrupts current plans and operations of Leidos or Cobham Aviation Services Australia and potential difficulties in Cobham Aviation Services Australia's employee retention as a result of the transaction, (vi) risks related to diverting management's attention from Cobham Aviation Services Australia ongoing business operations, (vii) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Leidos or against Cobham Aviation Services Australia related to the merger agreement or the transaction, (viii) the ability of Leidos to successfully integrate Cobham Aviation Services Australia's operations, product lines, and technology, and (ix) the ability of Leidos to implement its plans, forecasts, and other expectations with respect to Cobham Aviation Services Australia's business after the completion of the proposed acquisition and realize additional opportunities for growth and innovation.
In addition, please refer to the documents that Leidos files with the SEC on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements set forth in this press release. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and Leidos assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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There are some things that defy belief. Things so incredible it’s nearly impossible to find the words to describe them.
Like how we put a man on the moon.
Or how the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
Or how a reality show personality became President of the United States.
Ask anyone to explain any of them for you, and you’ll see what I mean.
However, as far as I am concerned, what I have trouble finding the words to describe isn’t anything incredible. Rather, it’s quite simple: It’s what someone looks like. In other words, I don’t know how to describe a description.
What is even more incredible to me — besides a man hitting a six-iron on the moon or one with an orange face sitting behind the Resolute Desk — are the drawings an artist makes of someone whom they’ve never met. Specifically, the ones done by sketch artists. Their talent for illustrating a face they’ve never seen before, using only someone’s verbal description of it, absolutely fascinates me.
But what fascinates me even more is that a common citizen such as you or I can describe someone with enough detail and precision that a sketch artist can draw a reasonably accurate portrait of them. That, my friends, takes talent. A talent I simply do not have.
Think for a moment how you would describe a person’s face to a sketch artist. It they had a distinctive facial feature, I might have a snowball’s chance. For example, I could point out a teardrop tattoo under someone’s eye, which indicates the person was in a gang or served time in prison. Or, if I were to describe a man with a rather peculiar combover, that might narrow it down to a particular POTUS. Otherwise, about as detailed as I could possibly get with my description is that they have two eyes, a nose and a mouth.
With a little luck, I might have noticed the color of their eyes, and I only mention it because my wife, who has been with me now for almost 50 years, still isn’t aware of the color of mine. So chalk eye color up as a big fat maybe.
As an illustration of my ability — or rather, my lack thereof — to describe someone’s face to a sketch artist, I present a real-life example from my past. When I was a student at the University of Florida, I worked with the local Gainesville Police Department for a class project. One day I met their sketch artist, so I took the opportunity to ask him how he was able to draw someone’s face simply from a person’s verbal description of it. “Actions speak louder than words,” he said.
The sketch artist took me to his studio (an out-of-commission bathroom with an easel) and asked me to describe someone I knew. So I thought it would be in my best interests to pick the girl I’d been dating for five years with the green eyes, who didn’t know the color of mine. After the most elaborate description I could possibly provide over the course of an hour, the sketch artist produced an absolutely perfect portrait — of Alice the Goon from the old Popeye cartoons.
Had I done a better job, his drawing should have — at the very worst — resembled a blond Olive Oyl.
My point is this: Law enforcement agencies need to be aware that if I don’t know the actual name of the person they’re looking for, I would be a terrible witness.
That is, unless there was something I’d remember about the person’s face other than just the two eyes, nose and mouth.
Or, if the person they’re wanting to find looks like Alice the Goon.
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Innovative System Further Eliminates Natural Gas Drilling Operations-Related Emissions
PITTSBURGH and THE WOODLANDS, Texas, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CNX Resources Corporation (NYSE: CNX) and Dynamis Power Solutions (Dynamis) today announced an innovative ESG agreement to introduce the Appalachian Basin's first electric powered drilling system fueled entirely by on-site natural gas.
The Dynamis Gas Hybrid Drilling Package combines high efficiency continuous duty natural gas reciprocating power generation with battery energy storage technology to decrease engine emissions, reduce fuel consumption, and optimize the complete power system operation.
"We're pleased to once again be the first mover on new technology that advance sustainable and state-of-the-art natural gas development in the Appalachian Basin," commented CNX Chief Operating Officer Chad Griffith. "Our partnership with Dynamis advances our position as the region's lowest cost producer, while continuing to drive meaningful environmental and community solutions in what is already the world's most prolific and environmentally friendly natural gas basin."
In 2018, CNX entered into the first long-term agreement for a 100 percent electric hydraulic fracturing fleet in the Appalachian Basin. Building on its record of technology innovation and ESG leadership, earlier this year, CNX announced a four-year extension of the initial e-frac agreement.
Dynamis CEO Matt Crawford said, "Dynamis is excited to deliver our engineered hybrid solution as a cleaner path to power in the drilling space. CNX is a trusted partner that aligns with our relentless pursuit of sustainable energy through disruptive technologies. Together, we are setting the sustainable and innovative standard for drilling power."
The hybrid natural gas system eliminates diesel fuel consumption on pad for drilling rig operations and, as a result, CNX expects significant annual fuel savings in addition to C02 and NOX emission reductions.
CNX recently announced that it has developed proprietary technology to produce compressed natural gas and hydrogen on-site, among other fuel alternatives. The partnership with Dynamis provides the ability to further transition the fuel mix to hydrogen-enriched natural gas to power the drilling rig and further reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
CNX intends to begin utilizing this technology in the field during the second quarter of 2023.
About CNX Resources:
CNX Resources Corporation (NYSE: CNX) is unique. We are a premier, low carbon intensive natural gas development, production, midstream, and technology company centered in Appalachia, one of the most energy abundant regions in the world. With the benefit of a 158-year regional legacy, substantial asset base, leading core operational competencies, technology development and innovation, and astute capital allocation methodologies, we responsibly develop our resources and deploy free cash flow to create long-term per share value for our shareholders, employees, and the communities where we operate. As of December 31, 2021, CNX had 9.63 trillion cubic feet equivalent of proved natural gas reserves. The company is a member of the Standard & Poor's Midcap 400 Index. Additional information is available at www.cnx.com.
About Dynamis Power Solutions:
Dynamis Power Solutions is the benchmark for mobilizing quiet and clean power generation for Oil & Gas applications. The company was founded in response to direct customer demand, coming on the heels of the great success of its sister company, Evolution Well Services. The quick mobilization/demobilization solutions Dynamis offers, coupled with best-in-class technology for power generation and energy storage, provides a turnkey power plant solution for a variety of industries.
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With the exception of historical matters, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements (as defined in 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act")) that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from projected results. Accordingly, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. These forward-looking statements may include projections and estimates concerning the timing and success of specific projects and our future production, revenues, income, and capital spending. When we use the words "believe," "intend," "expect," "may," "should," "anticipate," "could," "estimate," "plan," "predict," "project," "will," or their negatives, or other similar expressions, the statements which include those words are usually forward-looking statements. When we describe a strategy that involves risks or uncertainties, we are making forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release; we disclaim any obligation to update these statements. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and assumptions about future events. While our management considers these expectations and assumptions to be reasonable, they are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, regulatory and other risks, contingencies, and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. Specific factors that could cause future actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements are described in detail under the captions "Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and any subsequent reports filed with the SEC. Those risk factors discuss, among other matters, pricing volatility or pricing decline for natural gas and NGLs; local, regional and national economic conditions and the impact they may have on our customers; the impact of events beyond our control, including a global or domestic health crisis; dependence on gathering, processing and transportation facilities and other midstream facilities owned by others; conditions in the oil and gas industry; our current long-term debt obligations, and the terms of the agreements that govern that debt; strategic determinations, including the allocation of capital and other resources to strategic opportunities; cyber-incidents targeting our systems, oil and natural gas industry systems and infrastructure, or the systems of our third-party service providers; and changes in safety, health, environmental and other regulations.
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Vertex Software, the leader in 3D industrial visualization software, is teaming up with John Deere to drive Industry 4.0 initiatives
MOLINE, Ill., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Vertex Software, Inc., a pioneer in 3D manufacturing visualization and cloud collaboration technology, announces that they have been selected as a supplier to Deere & Company, a leading global manufacturer of agricultural, forestry, and other heavy equipment and an Industry 4.0 innovator.
John Deere employees will use Vertex to access the state of the factory, service needs for equipment, forecast planning, and gather information about how equipment functions in real time. They can access the content on any computing device in seconds, including tablets, laptops, and smartphones.
By pushing 3D information data beyond the engineering department, Vertex's purpose-built software will support John Deere's Industry 4.0 initiatives, including Smart Connected Factory programs, by delivering real-time, actionable 3D data across manufacturing and business operations.
The Vertex 3D Platform dramatically reduces the time, cost, and effort needed to use 3D visualizations across the manufacturing value chain. The platform will help John Deere build and deploy fit-for-purpose apps that deliver decision-making systems with rich, interactive 3D content.
The sheer size and sensitive nature of CAD data, the cost of 3D hardware and software, and the number of data formats and software systems have made it nearly impossible to use 3D product data beyond engineering.
Now, Vertex makes it possible to engage customers, employees, suppliers, and partners with 3D data wherever they are on whatever devices they use. Vertex extends the reach of 3D data to reduce supply chain bottlenecks, accelerate time-to-market, and increase sales by providing easy access to viewable 3D information that enhances productivity and reduces expenses.
"For the first time, manufacturers have a truly effective way to leverage their 3D data assets beyond engineering," says Dan Murray, CEO & Founder of Vertex Software. "We're like Netflix for CAD. You can now reach everyone, everywhere, instantly with 3D."
Vertex Software offers cloud-based 3D solutions that enable manufacturers to unleash the full potential of their CAD and PLM investment. Vertex solutions drive customer satisfaction, grow market share, engage suppliers and partners, and energize employees with secure, cost-effective cloud-based solutions that eliminate the use of large data files. Vertex customers include industry-leading manufacturers, with several listed in the Fortune 500. Learn more at vertexvis.com.
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Australia's equity manager is the latest firm to join 50+ asset managers leveraging Eze Eclipse in APAC
WINDSOR, Conn., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today announced that Fairlight Asset Management, a Sydney, Australia–based global equity manager, has selected Eze Eclipse as its front-to-back investment management platform. The emerging asset manager is the latest firm to join over 50 asset managers of all sizes leveraging Eze Eclipse in APAC.
"When we set out to upgrade our existing workflows, we were looking for a provider to help streamline operations and scale business," said Ian Carmichael, Senior Portfolio Manager and Partner at Fairlight. "Eze Eclipse fits our needs perfectly. The all-in-one front-to-back solution is helping us optimize our team's activities and the tightly integrated and easy-to-use compliance engine simplifies managing global portfolios."
Eze Eclipse features 60 pre-built compliance rule templates and allows firms to build custom rules to accommodate unique restrictions. The system is also helping Fairlight reconcile its full investment book of record daily.
"We are excited to work with Fairlight to help the team grow their strong portfolio," said Michael Hutner, General Manager of SS&C Eze. "We have a long history of servicing clients across APAC and are proud to support this expanding market. Eze Eclipse is ideally suited to support emerging and growing managers. We continue to make significant investments in the platform, regularly releasing new features to meet our clients' needs."
Since its launch in the APAC market in 2019, Eze Eclipse has become a top choice for investment technology for emerging hedge funds and institutional managers across the Asia Pacific and was named "Best Cloud Tech Provider - Public" at the HFM Asia Services Awards 2021 for exceptional innovation, customer service, and business performance.
SS&C has continued to build on its investment management offerings in APAC. SS&C Eze officially launched in Japan in June, with Hiroki Allen taking over operations. SS&C Eze is Tokyo Metropolitan Authority's Qualified Outsourcing Provider, supporting emerging and growing managers launching funds in the region. In addition, SS&C Eze continues to grow its managed services across APAC.
Fairlight Asset Management is an employee-owned boutique firm investing exclusively in global equity markets. We are focused on contributing to superior investment outcomes for our clients through exceptional performance. Our team take an ethically-aware, quality-driven approach to investing, dedicated to deep fundamental research of both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of investee companies. Principals invest the majority of their liquid assets in the business and the fund itself in order to maximise alignment with investors and partners.
SS&C is a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices around the world. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale and technology.
Additional information about SS&C (Nasdaq: SSNC) is available at www.ssctech.com.
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Dorothy’s dress from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is up for auction
(Gray News) – A dress worn by Judy Garland in the classic film “The Wizard of Oz” is up for auction.
The dress was specifically matched to a scene from the movie in which Garland’s character Dorothy faces the Wicked Witch of the West in the Witch’s Castle.
Bonhams says the blue and white gingham dress is one of only two existing dresses with the white blouse and only one of four blue and white dresses in existence.
The fabric label of the dress is inscribed with “Judy Garland.”
The dress went missing in the 1980s after it was given to the Head of Drama at The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. by actress Mercedes McCambridge.
The costume was recently discovered, and will go for anywhere between $800,000 to $1.2 million, according to Bonhams.
The other dress with the blouse was also sold by Bonhams in 2015, where it went for over $1.5 million.
The dress will be presented at the Bonhams Classic Hollywood: Film and Television sale in Los Angeles on May 24.
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Ohio State Medical Association announcing free, anonymous tool available to all Ohio healthcare workers
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A free, anonymous service is being made available to help healthcare workers throughout Ohio screen for mental and emotional health issues and, if needed, connect with licensed mental health professionals and resources. The Well-Being CARE Service is powered by the Ohio State Medical Association Foundation.
With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, the Well-Being CARE Service aims to help healthcare professionals normalize the conversation about mental health, and feel empowered to take action in finding the mental and emotional supports they need.
"Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic plus other factors have stressed the healthcare system to the point where physician and healthcare worker burnout is quickly becoming an epidemic," said Brian Santin, MD, President of the Ohio State Medical Association. "The well-being of our healthcare workforce matters to all of us. That's why we're so excited to make this service available to all Ohio healthcare professionals."
The Well-Being CARE Service is designed to help clinicians receive as much support as they need, when they need it. By logging in to WellBeingCARE.org, healthcare professionals can:
- Take a brief assessment for mental and emotional health
- Receive recommendations for mental health services in their community
- Have the option to, if needed, privately connect with a licensed mental health professional
OSMA is partnering with organizations throughout the state that employ, represent or communicate with healthcare professionals to help spread the word about the importance of healthcare mental health and the Well-Being CARE Service. Throughout 2022, OSMA and partner organizations plan to host local events for healthcare workers to promote the availability of the service and have important conversations about healthcare provider well-being.
The Well-Being CARE service is free and confidential and available to all Ohio-licensed healthcare professionals, including students enrolled in healthcare training programs. The Ohio Physicians Health Program, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and The Physician Foundation assisted in the development and operation of the Service. Ohioans can learn more about this service at WellBeingCARE.org.
About OSMA
The Ohio State Medical Association (OSMA) is dedicated to empowering physicians, residents and medical students to advocate on behalf of their patients and profession.
OSMA is the largest and oldest statewide physician-led association in Ohio and is affiliated nationally with the American Medical Association and locally with county medical societies. Learn more at www.osma.org.
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Commercial litigation firm recognized for excellence in five practice areas
HOUSTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy insurance litigation firm Hall Maines Lugrin is honored to announce that four attorneys, including two name shareholders, have earned recognition in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
- Shareholder William P. Maines was named in four categories: commercial litigation, insurance law, antitrust litigation, and securities litigation;
- Shareholder George H. Lugrin IV was selected for his work in commercial litigation;
- Shareholder Claude L. Stuart III made the list for insurance law;
- Associate Tim Redden was selected for the "Best Lawyers Ones to Watch" list of early and mid-career lawyers for commercial litigation, insurance law, and personal injury litigation for defendants.
"We are all honored to get this recognition from our peers in the legal community," said Lugrin. "However, we are all especially proud of Tim. He is going to continue to be a major part of the firm's future."
Hall Maines Lugrin is a client-focused trial boutique that features a team of attorneys who bring a broad array of skills and experience to high-value, complex commercial litigation cases. The firm, as well as its shareholders and associates, are consistently recognized for excellence, named among the country's elite law firms by U.S. News – Best Lawyers, Chambers USA, and Super Lawyers magazine.
Best Lawyers in America is the legal industry's oldest peer-review guide and is widely considered to be the premier list for showcasing the country's leading attorneys. Best Lawyers honorees are selected through a rigorous survey process that includes confidential evaluations by other lawyers in the same and related specialties. For the complete list, visit https://www.bestlawyers.com/america.
Hall Maines Lugrin, P.C. opened its doors in 2000 and quickly rose to the top as a litigation firm with unparalleled knowledge and experience in energy insurance and business disputes. The firm's deep roots in the insurance and energy industries have made it the go-to firm for companies facing difficult commercial issues involving appellate, commercial, competition, energy, insurance coverage, products liability, and professional liability disputes. To learn more information about the firm's lawyers and representative matters, visit www.hallmaineslugrin.com.
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- Hundreds of Aspen Dental offices to open doors for annual Day of Service, honoring veterans
- Veterans and their families can call 1-844-277-3646 to schedule an appointment
CHICAGO, May 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, June 11, participating Aspen Dental locations nationwide will open their doors to provide free care to military veterans across the country. Now in its 8th year, the Aspen Dental Day of Service provides much-needed dental care for veterans and their families at no cost to honor their service and break down barriers to health care.
Appointments are still available for veterans in Indiana, at the following Aspen Dental locations:
- Crawfordsville, Indiana
- Evansville, Indiana
- Evansville, Indiana (South Red Bank)
- Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Indianapolis, Indiana (Castleton)
- Indianapolis, Indiana (Lawrence)
- Indianapolis, Indiana (Southport Rd)
- Jasper, Indiana
- Richmond, Indiana
- South Bend, Indiana
- Terre Haute, Indiana
Veterans and their families can call 1-844-277-3646 (1-844-ASPENHMM) to find a participating Aspen Dental office in their community and schedule an appointment. Advance appointments are required. During the Day of Service, Aspen Dental doctors and their teams focus on treating the most urgent dental needs for veterans and their families - with a focus on getting them out of pain, from fillings and extractions to dental hygiene and basic denture repairs.
Millions of Americans struggle to access dental care every year, and veterans are no exception. In fact, U.S. veterans are ineligible for dental benefits through the Veterans Administration unless they're 100% disabled, have a service-related mouth injury, or were a prisoner of war.
Visit www.HealthyMouthMovement.com to learn more.
About Aspen Dental
Aspen Dental was founded in 1998 in New York by Bob Fontana with a simple goal in mind: to break down the barriers that doctors and patients face when it comes to dental care. Today, more than 20 years later, with nearly 1,000 Aspen Dental locations nationwide, the mission of the company remains the same – to bring better care to more people. Aspen Dental is the largest group of branded dental offices in the world. For more information, visit aspendental.com, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
About TAG – The Aspen Group
TAG – The Aspen Group was built on the simple idea of bringing better health care to more people. TAG and the independent health care practices it supports operate more than 1,100 locations in 45 states through its four health care support companies: Aspen Dental®, ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers®, WellNow Urgent Care® and Chapter Aesthetic StudioSM. Combined, the companies serve more than 35,000 patients a day and more than 8 million patients each year. TAG is headquartered at 800 W. Fulton Market in Chicago. For more information, visit teamtag.com, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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NEW YORK, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in First High-School Education Group Co., Ltd. ("FHS" or the "Company") (NYSE: FHS) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of FHS investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased FHS American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
FHS 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: (a) the new rules, regulations and policies to be implemented by the Chinese government following the Two Sessions parliamentary meetings were far more severe than represented to investors and posed a material adverse threat to the Company and its business; (b) contemplated Chinese regulations and rules regarding private education were leading to a slowdown of government approval to open new educational facilities which would have a negative effect on FHS's enrollment and growth; and (c) as a result, representations made in connection with the Company's initial public offering regarding FHS's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, and financial results and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and were materially false and misleading and lacked a factual basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in FHS during the relevant time frame, you have until July 11, 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
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
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TDS reports second quarter 2022 results
Published: Aug. 4, 2022 at 4:05 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
2022 guidance reaffirmed
CHICAGO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
As previously announced, TDS will hold a teleconference on August 5, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. CDT. Listen to the call live via the Events & Presentations page of investors.tdsinc.com.
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (NYSE:TDS) reported total operating revenues of $1,349 million for the second quarter of 2022, versus $1,311 million for the same period one year ago. Net income attributable to TDS common shareholders and related diluted earnings per share were $18 million and $0.15, respectively, for the second quarter of 2022 compared to $20 million and $0.17, respectively, in the same period one year ago.
"The TDS Family of Companies achieved a solid position halfway through the year," said LeRoy T. Carlson, Jr., TDS President and CEO. "UScellular is vigorously enhancing its network, and TDS Telecom is executing on its strategy to drive residential broadband growth.
"At UScellular, higher ARPU contributed to service revenue growth for the second quarter. We are generating momentum in several of our growth areas, including fixed wireless and our tower portfolio.
"TDS Telecom continues to actively deploy fiber in expansion communities and inside our incumbent markets which, combined with higher revenue per connection, generated strong growth in residential broadband revenue in the quarter."
2022 Estimated Results
TDS' current estimates of full-year 2022 results for UScellular and TDS Telecom are shown below. Such estimates represent management's view as of August 4, 2022 and should not be assumed to be current as of any future date. TDS undertakes no duty to update such estimates, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. There can be no assurance that final results will not differ materially from estimated results.
The following tables reconcile EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted OIBDA to the corresponding GAAP measures, Net income or Income before income taxes. In providing 2022 estimated results, TDS has not completed the below reconciliation to Net income because it does not provide guidance for income taxes. Although potentially significant, TDS believes that the impact of income taxes cannot be reasonably predicted; therefore, TDS is unable to provide such guidance.
Stock Repurchase
During the second quarter of 2022, TDS repurchased 966,124 of its Common Shares for $16 million and UScellular repurchased 294,721 of its Common Shares for $9 million.
Conference Call Information
TDS will hold a conference call on August 5, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. Central Time.
- Access the live call on the Events & Presentations page of investors.tdsinc.com or at
https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/249925609 - Access the call by phone at (888) 330-2384, conference ID: 1328528.
Before the call, certain financial and statistical information to be discussed during the call will be posted to investors.tdsinc.com. The call will be archived on the Events & Presentations page of investors.tdsinc.com.
About TDS
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (TDS), a Fortune 1000® company, provides wireless; broadband, video and voice; and hosted and managed services to approximately 6 million connections nationwide through its businesses, UScellular, TDS Telecom, and OneNeck IT Solutions. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Chicago, TDS employed approximately 8,900 associates as of June 30, 2022.
Visit investors.tdsinc.com for comprehensive financial information, including earnings releases, quarterly and annual filings, shareholder information and more.
Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: All information set forth in this news release, except historical and factual information, represents forward-looking statements. This includes all statements about the company's plans, beliefs, estimates, and expectations. These statements are based on current estimates, projections, and assumptions, which involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that may affect these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: intense competition; the ability to obtain or maintain roaming arrangements with other carriers on acceptable terms; the ability to obtain access to adequate radio spectrum to meet current or anticipated future needs, including participation in FCC auctions; the ability to attract people of outstanding talent throughout all levels of the organization; TDS' smaller scale relative to larger competitors; changes in demand, consumer preferences and perceptions, price competition, or churn rates; advances in technology; impacts of costs, integration problems or other factors associated with acquisitions, divestitures or exchanges of properties or wireless spectrum licenses and/or expansion of TDS' businesses; the ability of the company to successfully construct and manage its networks; uncertainties in TDS' future cash flows and liquidity and access to the capital markets; the ability to make payments on TDS and UScellular indebtedness or comply with the terms of debt covenants; conditions in the U.S. telecommunications industry; the value of assets and investments; the state and federal regulatory environment; pending and future litigation; cyber-attacks or other breaches of network or information technology security; disruption in credit or other financial markets; deterioration of U.S. or global economic conditions; the impact, duration and severity of public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Investors are encouraged to consider these and other risks and uncertainties that are more fully described under "Risk Factors" in the most recent filing of TDS' Form 10-K, as updated by any TDS Form 10-Q filed subsequent to such Form 10-K.
For more information about TDS and its subsidiaries, visit:
TDS: www.tdsinc.com
UScellular: www.uscellular.com
TDS Telecom: www.tdstelecom.com
OneNeck IT Solutions: www.oneneck.com
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NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Vertiv Holdings Co ("Vertiv" or the "Company") (NYSE: VRT) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Vertiv investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that: (a) purchased or otherwise acquired Vertiv securities between February 24, 2021, and February 23, 2022, inclusive; and/or (b) purchased Vertiv shares in or traceable to the Company's secondary public offering of Class A common stock conducted on or around November 4, 2021. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
VRT 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) the Company could not adequately respond to supply chain issues and inflation by increasing its prices; (2) as a result of the increasing costs, Vertiv's earnings would be adversely impacted; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Vertiv during the relevant time frame, you have until May 23, 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
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
Fax: (212) 363-7171
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Collaboration Offers Advanced Security Operations Center Services and In-Vehicle Cybersecurity, Bridging the Gap Between Product Security and Security Monitoring
JERUSALEM, Israel, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- C2A Security, a leading provider of trusted mobility cybersecurity solutions, and Stefanini Group, $1 billion global technology company, announced today a collaboration to bring a robust cybersecurity solution to the automotive industry. The collaboration offers OEMs and their suppliers both Stefanini's advanced Security Operations Center (SOC) services and C2A Security's vehicle lifecycle cybersecurity solution, bridging the gap between product security and security monitoring.
Connecting Stefanini's SOC solutions to C2A Security's AutoSec enables an advanced SOC playbook and empowers teams with full visibility and control over the vehicle automotive cybersecurity from concept to post production.
Stefanini's SOC services offer the automotive industry expert resources and specialized tools that assist with investigations, root cause analysis, complex threat hunting, and eradication of threats.
Stefanini's Managed Security Operations SOC's capabilities offer access to cybersecurity incident monitoring and response capabilities, with the added benefits of rapid deployment, minimal infrastructure investments, and flexible deployment models that can fit most companies' budgets and security strategies .
C2A Security's AutoSec Platform is an automotive Cyber Security Management System (CSMS) that empowers OEMs and their suppliers with full-spectrum visibility, control and protection of cybersecurity status for all vehicle programs. AutoSec platform provides product security tools such as Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA), network security and IDS, and binary level run time protection. AutoSec is designed to integrate with existing security tools and processes to automate all the components needed to manage the vehicle lifecycle. The collaboration between C2A and Stefanini, enables the automotive industry with the most advanced cybersecurity solutions on the market today.
"Our partnership provides an all-in-one package for OEMs and suppliers looking for advanced cybersecurity solutions that offer full lifecycle visibility, combining C2A's security platform with Stefanini's SOC solution,"says Roy Fridman, CEO of C2A Security. "As the industry moves forward to adapt to the new requirements of the ISO/SAE 21434 standard and UNECE WP.29 regulation it is more crucial than ever for the automotive industry to have a solution in place that will keep them in compliance and protect their vehicles from potential cyber attacks."
The new automotive regulations - WP.29 and ISO/SAE 21434 require OEMs and suppliers to scale cybersecurity capabilities across the supply chain, and ensure compliance in all new vehicle models. The regulations detail both in-vehicle and external areas that need to be secured. Additionally, the regulations touch on software update management systems, which requires a structured process that complies with the requirements for all software updates.
"Tier-1s and OEMs are catching up to meet the new standard requirements that have been recently passed," says Alex Bertea, Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, Stefanini EMEA. "Our collaboration with C2A Security will give them the complete cybersecurity package they need to ensure compliance both in and outside the vehicle."
Farlei Kothe, Stefanini EMEA CEO, says: "Stefanini has a well-established history of collaborating with partners to create exceptionally innovative solutions that transform businesses. We're proud that our work with C2A builds on this track record to provide a truly comprehensive cybersecurity offering for the automotive sector."
About C2A Security
C2A Security is a trusted end-to-end automotive and mobility infrastructure cybersecurity solutions provider. Its suite of development and embedded cybersecurity solutions takes a multi-layered approach to cybersecurity to provide automotive-relevant protection and safety compatibility. C2A's AutoSec is a comprehensive cybersecurity lifecycle management platform that empowers OEMs and Tier 1s with the visibility required to meet all the cybersecurity needs of connected vehicles across the entire vehicle lifecycle including the vehicle's essential peripheral required for connectivity and electrification. With advanced automation, market neutrality, complete fluency in the needs of the automotive industry and ease of integration, C2A is redefining the automotive cybersecurity ecosystem. C2A is the sole provider of the most flexible, comprehensive and transparent cybersecurity solutions on the market. C2A was founded in 2016 by CEO Michael Dick, Co-Founder of NDS, which was acquired by Cisco for $5B. For more information, visit https://www.c2a-sec.com.
Stefanini (www.stefanini.com) is a global tech multinational, originating from Brazil, with more than 33 years of experience on the market and a presence in 41 countries. The company invests in a complete innovation ecosystem to serve main industry verticals and assist customers in their digital transformation. With robust offers aligned with market trends such as automation, cloud, Internet of Things (IoT) and User Experience (UX), the company has received recognitions as well as several awards in the innovation area. Currently, the Brazilian multinational has a broad portfolio, which combines innovative consulting and marketing solutions, mobility, personalized campaigns and artificial intelligence with traditional solutions such as Service Desk (with the ability to offer support in 35 languages), Field Service and outsourcing (BPO).
Contact:
DeeDee Rudenstein,
drudenstein@propelsc.com
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BOSTON, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2013 Bierman Autism Centers opened its first location in Massachusetts and is excited to share that not only does it have 3 centers within the state today, but it has moved its Needham location to a larger space that includes more therapy rooms and an outdoor play area.
Bierman's location in Needham is now located at 145 Rosemary St, Ste A, Needham, MA 02494.
At this location Bierman offers center-based Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnostic services, ABA Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Occupational Therapy to children between the ages of 18 months to 9 years of age. The clinical team at Bierman uses one-to-one naturalistic teaching to drive learning through play. The Bierman team uses a proprietary data measurement system and a precision teaching methodology to ensure children are progressing and developing skills to become lifelong learners.
Over time, Bierman has graduated more than 175 individuals and is committed to ensuring that children at their centers continue to become confident and empowered. The Bierman circle of care and support includes the whole family, not just the child. Training, collaboration, and resources are provided to parents to empower them and to ensure all are aligned around the same goals.
Alexis Ducharme, Bierman's VP of Marketing and Communications, shared that through this expansion, Bierman plans to continue to hire new team members and create jobs throughout the region.
ABOUT BIERMAN
www.biermanautism.com Bierman Autism Centers is a place where kids as young as 18 months to 9 years of age acquire foundational skills they can build on such as self-advocacy and communication. They recognize that every kid's success is unique, and their one-on-one approach allows them to drive progress and measurable outcomes, ensuring each child is advancing on their own terms.
BIERMAN currently has 14 centers, and is expanding in: Arizona, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Ohio. For more about Bierman Autism Centers visit www.biermanautism.com or contact marketing@biermanautism.com.
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- Siemens' advanced mixed-signal simulation platform accelerates mixed-signal verification and helps boost productivity
- Symphony Pro supports Accellera and other advanced digital verification methodologies for today's leading-edge mixed-signal designs
PLANO, Texas, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To address the design verification challenges of the world's most complex mixed-signal systems-on-chip (SoCs), Siemens Digital Industries Software today introduces the new Symphony™ Pro platform. This next generation solution extends the robust mixed-signal verification capabilities of Siemens' proven Symphony platform to support new and advanced Accellera standardized verification methodologies with a powerful, comprehensive and intuitive visual debug cockpit, resulting in productivity improvements of up to 10X compared to legacy solutions.
Next-generation automotive, imaging, IoT, 5G, computing and storage applications are driving strong demand for greater analog and mixed-signal content in next-generation SoCs. Mixed-signal circuits are increasingly ubiquitous -- whether it is integrating the analog signal chain with the digital-front end (DFE) in 5G massive-MIMO radios, digital RF-sampling data converters in radar systems, image sensors combining analog pixel read-out circuits with digital image signal processing or feeding datacenter computing resources with ever more data using advanced mixed-signal circuits to deliver PAM4 signaling. For these and other highly advanced applications, mixed-signal circuits enable lower power, area, and cost while delivering ever-improving performance figures.
"Mixed-Signal functional verification is increasingly vital for our sophisticated designs targeted for the imaging and automotive industries. We've participated in the early access program for Symphony Pro and have seen significant productivity gains thanks to advanced debugging capabilities and seamless support for multi-layer sandwich configurations in Symphony Pro," said Stephane Vivien, senior CAD manager, Imaging Division, STMicroelectronics. "We look forward to using Symphony Pro as our sign-off solution for present and future mixed-signal verification projects."
Increased application of digital control, digital calibration, and digital signal processing techniques in modern mixed-signal chip architectures is driving a paradigm shift in mixed-signal verification methodologies toward more digital-centric approaches. Siemens's new Symphony Pro platform -- built on the proven performance of Siemens' Symphony and Questa™ Visualizer platforms -- extends the rapid deployment of industry-standard Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and Unified Power Format (UPF) driven low-power techniques into the mixed signal domain by offering fast simulation performance in a unified environment for exceptional throughput and capacity.
Modern mixed-signal SoCs integrate analog circuits with logic gates operating at very high clock speeds. This high frequency bi-directional signal flow at the boundary of analog and digital pushes the limit of manual debug methodologies impacting the overall time-to-results. Symphony Pro Visualizer MS environment offers a seamless debug experience across the entire mixed-signal design hierarchy with comprehensive analysis, automation, and ease-of-use for increased productivity.
"Our high-performance, energy-efficient chips designed for the IoT are analog intensive and mixed-signal in nature. To ensure high quality, we expanded our digital verification methodology to enable effective regression of our mixed-signal designs," said Jayanth Shreedhara, senior CAD manager at Silicon Labs. "Symphony Pro Visualizer mixed-signal technology accelerated debug turn-around time for our digital on top UVM test suites, enhancing our verification productivity from days to hours and dramatically improving our coverage closure."
"Our customers are rapidly advancing the state-of-the-art in mixed-signal SoC design across a wide range of applications, and in the process, they are driving the requirements for new innovations in the EDA tools required to design, verify, and validate these chips," said Ravi Subramanian, senior vice president of IC Verification at Siemens Digital Industries Software. "We are excited to deliver Symphony Pro, which combines our proven AFS, Questa and Visualizer technologies, to our customers, enabling the potential for them to realize key competitive advantages with a unified mixed-signal verification solution."
For more information about the Symphony Pro Mixed-Signal Platform, please visit https://sie.ag/3MmqYgC
Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enable a digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing and electronics design meet tomorrow. The Xcelerator portfolio helps companies of all sizes create and leverage digital twins that provide organizations with new insights, opportunities and levels of automation to drive innovation. For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software products and services, visit siemens.com/software or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Siemens Digital Industries Software – Where today meets tomorrow.
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Siemens Digital Industries (DI) is an innovation leader in automation and digitalization. Closely collaborating with partners and customers, DI drives the digital transformation in the process and discrete industries. With its Digital Enterprise portfolio, DI provides companies of all sizes with an end-to-end set of products, solutions and services to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain. Optimized for the specific needs of each industry, DI's unique portfolio supports customers to achieve greater productivity and flexibility. DI is constantly adding innovations to its portfolio to integrate cutting-edge future technologies. Siemens Digital Industries has its global headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and has around 76,000 employees internationally.
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a globally leading medical technology provider shaping the future of healthcare. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power.
In fiscal 2021, which ended on September 30, 2021, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €62.3 billion and net income of €6.7 billion. As of September 30, 2021, the company had around 303,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a globally leading medical technology provider shaping the future of healthcare. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power.
In fiscal 2021, which ended on September 30, 2021, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €62.3 billion and net income of €6.7 billion. As of September 30, 2021, the company had around 303,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Verdant Microgrid, LLC, ("Verdant") a leading clean energy development company, today announces the completion of its newest energy storage microgrid at the ThermalVac Technologies, Inc., a premier brazing, heat treating and metals finishing facility headquarters in Orange, California.
This project deploys state-of-the-art energy storage technology in a demand-reduction mode that will reduce the peak draw of electric power from the customer's utility. This results in fewer demand charges from the utility to the customer and significant cost savings.
Verdant collaborated with Eos Energy Enterprises of Edison, NJ, Stronghold Engineering, Inc. of Parris, CA and Gridswitch Asset Management Services of Moon, PA to deploy 4 containerized Znyth™ aqueous zinc energy storage batteries to provide approximately 500 kW of energy storage for 4 hours per day. These U.S. manufactured batteries are completely recyclable and use earth abundant, non-conflict minerals in their construction and operation. The deployment of the Eos batteries in California is supported by that state's Self Generation Incentive Program ("SGIP") – a landmark first for the technology.
"This exciting project is another great example of the changing energy market in the U.S.," said Robert Babcock, Chief Executive of Verdant. "The customer benefits from advanced battery technology through reduced demand charges on their site, which also provides several hours of resiliency in case of a power outage. Eos' batteries are made in America, are fully recyclable, nonflammable and provide a wide range of operating parameters that allows us to match the complicated customer load profile to minimize their demand charges," continued Babcock.
"Eos was thrilled to provide the primary energy storage equipment to Verdant for this project," said William Mao, Chief Commercial Officer of Eos. He added, "This project also represents our first deployment of our energy storage systems under California's SGIP program, and we look forward to doing many more similar projects with the Verdant team in the future."
Verdant's affiliate, Gridswitch Asset Management Services, provided construction management services; coordinating the logistics and installation teams that implemented and commissioned the project. Gridswitch will also provide its GridCareSM long-term asset and operations management service to Verdant, including through-life performance warranty support required by SGIP. "Gridswitch will assure the performance and health of the ThermalVac battery installation through our state-of-the-art Operations Center outside of Pittsburgh," said Paul Tobin, CEO of Gridswitch. "GridCareSM includes a comprehensive suite of remote monitoring and reporting and predictive maintenance tools which will provide Verdant and other project stakeholders with real-time insights on the health and efficiency of the system."
About Verdant
Verdant Microgrid, LLC was founded in 2019 by energy industry experts who have deployed and operated over 30 gigawatts of clean power generation over the last 30 years. Formed primarily to address the commercial and industrial market, Verdant develops, builds, owns and operates microgrids ranging from 500 kilowatts to 50 megawatts utilizing solar, energy storage, advanced CHP and other clean technologies as a unified on-site energy source.
About Gridswitch Asset Management Services
GridSwitch provides turnkey design, development and long-term operational services for Microgrids and other renewable energy generation assets throughout the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Operations phases of a microgrid development. Founded in June 2021 and based in Pittsburgh, GridSwitch partners with specialist developers such as Verdant Microgrid and financial owners of renewable energy assets seeking a centralized and standardized way of managing and optimizing the productivity and performance of their energy portfolio.
About Eos Energy Enterprises
Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. is accelerating the shift to clean energy with positively ingenious solutions that transform how the world stores power. Our breakthrough Znyth™ aqueous zinc battery was designed to overcome the limitations of conventional lithium-ion technology. Safe, scalable, efficient, sustainable—and manufactured in the U.S—it's the core of our innovative systems that today provide utility, industrial, commercial, and residential customers with a proven, reliable energy storage alternative. Eos was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey. For more information about Eos (NASDAQ: EOSE), visit eose.com.
For more information, contact:
Robert Babcock
Verdant Microgrid, LLC
917-744-2712
Rob@VerdantMicrogrid.com
Paul Tobin
GridSwitch Asset Management
412-445-2789
tobinpjr@gridswitch.com
Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc.
732-225-8400
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New data from Eyebuydirect dives into American shopping habits for eyewear
LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eyebuydirect, the leading online retailer for prescription eyewear, has released the results of its latest commissioned research study, unveiling the American consumer's current relationship with and sentiment towards purchasing eyewear (prescription, sunglasses, blue-light, readers, etc.)
The study, commissioned through independent third-party research firm YouGov, also cements what many retailers have reported – today's consumer is looking to set themselves apart. Everyone has a different preference on what they want and how they want a product to make them feel. These ideals can change in an instant, but the research revealed, overall, eyewear buyers feel largely positive when purchasing a new pair of glasses – with confident (28%), happy (28%), stylish (25%) and smart (20%) ranking in the top five feelings for consumers.
Individuality and self-expression are also important for the consumer. According to the survey, 30% of buyers choose and purchase eyewear that reflects their individuality.
While consumer sentiment towards purchasing glasses is overwhelmingly positive, it's important to note that the emotional connection won't always result in a purchase.
Consumers also value affordability – one-third (33%) find eyewear too expensive and stick to budget brands. Over one-third (39%) of eyewear buyers only choose and purchase eyewear that is affordable and over a quarter (28%) say that if eyewear were less expensive, they would buy more styles.
"Reaching the American consumer is a daunting task and to do it correctly, it's crucial retailers – eyewear or otherwise –understand the wants and needs of their target customers," said Jim Merk, Brand Director at Eyebuydirect. "When it comes to eyewear; affordability and individuality are key and something we provide every day at EyeBuyDirect. Consumers can find unique frames to match their mood, personality and more at affordable and low prices."
For additional information about Eyebuydirect or to shop, please visit: https://www.eyebuydirect.com/.
All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 1079 adults, among whom 714 were eyeglass wearers/purchasers. Fieldwork was undertaken between June 13-14, 2022. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all US adults (aged 18+).
EyeBuyDirect is the best place to buy eyewear online. Our goal is to make quality eye care accessible to everyone. Established in 2006, EyeBuyDirect is reframing the eyewear game by making it easier to find quality eyeglasses and sunglasses. Offering over 3,000 affordable and stylish frames, EyeBuyDirect owns the entire process: from frames design and craftsmanship to eyeglasses manufacturing. We offer convenient innovations such as, 2-day delivery and a Virtual Try-On feature allowing customers to find the perfect style of eyewear for their face shape. For every order placed, a pair of glasses is donated to the most underserved communities worldwide through our Buy 1 Give 1 program.
To learn more, please visit us at www.eyebuydirect.com and find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WaveShark, producer of the world's fastest and longest lasting electric surfboards, is proud to officially announce the release of the Jetboard 2 and Foil 2 lines, which can reach 60 km/h (37 mph) and run continuously for 180 minutes respectively, on May 23rd, 2022.
WaveShark is a top-of-the-line luxury electric surfboard brand that represents an environmentally conscious experience. With products able to reach world-record speeds of over 60 km/h (37 mph) and run for over 180 minutes, WaveShark is the supercar of the sea. WaveShark is the only electric surfboard brand to transport a rider through the Strait of Gibraltar, and the recipient of Red Dot and IF Design Awards.
"Our team has 10 years' experience making the best underwater drones on the market, and we used that to make the fastest boards, that also have the largest battery capacity" , said Wally Zheng, CEO of WaveShark.
Four Exciting New Products
The Next Generation of Waveshark comprises four all-new products, divided into foil and jetboard lines. The Foil 2 is comprised of boards which "hover" over the water using a slim foil, while the JetBoard 2 is an ultra-fast no-frills board.
The Waveshark JetBoard 2 line encompasses a sport and explorer edition, built on the foundation of the original JetBoard. The Jetboard 2 Sport is the definitive fastest motorized surfboard in the world, able to accelerate to 60 km/h (37 mph) in three seconds. The Jetboard 2 Explorer is the world's longest-lasting jetboard, taken the nth degree. It boasts excellent stabilizing systems, a narrow 615mm board width, and extended 65-minute battery life.
The WaveShark Foil 2 line boast industry leading ride times. The WaveShark Foil 2 Explorer is a versatile board, suitable for riders of all levels, compatible with a suite of exciting new modular parts, and boasts the world's longest ride time of 180 minutes. The WaveShark Foil 2 Sport is an all-new foil that utilizes a rigid aluminum mast, a compact 5-foot board hull, and specialized components for ultra-responsive agility on any marine terrain.
Innovative Tech
WaveShark is the only electric surfboard producer with wholly-owned research, design, and manufacturing systems. This enables unmatched quality and component control. All WaveShark products are completely electric and produce zero ride emissions, as to not disturb marine ecosystems, and are subject to rigorous third-party and internal safety tests for structural stability, waterproofing, and operational safety. Vehicle grade carbon fiber and aluminum materials create a durable, lightweight product. A streamlined hydrodynamic board hull and rudder minimize water resistance to reduce choppiness and increase speed.
About WaveShark
WaveShark is the world's fastest, longest-lasting, fully electric surfboard producer. WaveShark prides itself on creating the world's best ultra-high end watersport experiences and has been recognized for design and engineering excellence by the Red Dot Award and iF Design Award. All Waveshark products, from jetboard to foil, are self-produced and manufactured from A-Z.
https://www.waveshark.com/
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Nuspire's Q2 2022 Threat Report provides data and insight into malware, exploit and botnet activity
COMMERCE, Mich., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuspire, a leading managed security services provider (MSSP), today announced the release of its Q2 2022 Quarterly Threat Report. The report outlines new cybercriminal activity and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).
Nuspire's data reveals a significant increase in overall threat activity across malware, botnet and exploits. Malware events increased over 25%, botnets doubled over the first quarter and exploit activity grew by nearly 150%, buoyed by the Log4j vulnerability.
"We witnessed a stunning escalation in threat activity in Q2, and while it's not a surprise given increased attack opportunities like remote work, it's still a worrying development and one we cannot ignore," said JR Cunningham, Chief Security Officer at Nuspire. "Attackers have always looked for the easiest way to profit from their targets, and because basic attacks like phishing continue to work, it's clear organizations need to shore up their fundamental security practices like patching and user awareness training. It's also critical organizations conduct regular reviews of their security programs to safeguard against a nonstop flow of potentially serious disruptive threats."
Additional notable findings from Nuspire's Q2 2022 Quarterly Threat Report include:
- VBA agent activity, which has been one of the top offenders over the past year in Nuspire's Quarterly Threat Reports, has significantly decreased as predicted last quarter, due to Microsoft's announcement of blocking them by default.
- A substantial increase in botnet activity near the end of Q2, attributed to Torpig Mebroot botnet, which is a banking trojan designed to scrape and collect credit card and payment information from infected devices. Torpig Mebroot is particularly difficult to detect and remove, as it infects the victim machine's master boot record.
- Manufacturing is the world's most attacked industry vertical. Our data shows the LockBit ransomware gang and Dynamite Panda (APT18) as two of the most prevalent threats to the manufacturing industry in the second quarter.
"Organizations continue to struggle balancing the need to protect against an onslaught of threats with the concurrent need for employees to properly manage digital sovereignty requirements," said Craig Robinson, Research Vice President for Security Services at IDC. "This is why we're seeing the market becoming more receptive to increasing and enhancing internal security training. This combined with tools like multi-factor authentication and endpoint detection, as well as services like MDR, can make all the difference in an organization's security posture."
Learn more about protecting your organization from increasing cyber threats and download Nuspire's Q2 2022 Quarterly Threat Report.
Nuspire is a managed security services provider (MSSP), offering managed security services (MSS), managed detection and response (MDR), endpoint detection and response (EDR) that supports best in breed EDR solutions, and cybersecurity consulting services (CSC) that includes incident readiness and response, threat modeling, digital forensics, technology optimization, posture assessments and more. Our self-service, technology-agnostic platform, myNuspire, allows greater visibility into your entire security program. Powered by the self-healing always on Nuspire Cyber X Platform (CXP), myNuspire will help CISOs alleviate the pain associated with tech sprawl, provide intelligence driven recommendations, solve for alert fatigue and help their clients become more secure over time. Our deep bench of cybersecurity experts, award-winning threat intelligence and three 24×7 security operations centers (SOCs) detect, respond, and remediate advanced cyber threats. Our client base spans thousands of enterprises from midsized to large enterprises that span across multiple industries and geographic footprints. For more information, visit www.nuspire.com and follow us at on LinkedIn @Nuspire.
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As the world begins building back post-pandemic, TBD Media Group brings together the businesses building a better planet for everyone
LONDON, Aug. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The scale of the challenges facing humanity today are massive, but we should not be overwhelmed by them. That's the signal coming loud and clear from today's ambitious business leaders who make up the Vision 2045 project, dedicated to meeting the moment with innovation, collaboration, ingenuity and grit.
As we contemplate the long term fate of our planet, Vision 2045 provides a roadmap for our survival as a species and the ultimate fate of our world.
Acclaimed production company TBD Media Group has brought together businesses from around the world and across industries to showcase the actions being taken today that set the standard for better practices that protect people, planet and profit.
In a series of compelling documentaries, TBD Media Group tells the story to a global audience of how the Sustainable Development Goals are being addressed: from transforming the investment markets to using the latest technology to decarbonize the supply chain, these films give thought leaders a platform for laying out their strategy to protect and repair our natural resources.
Paolo Zanini, Founder and CEO at TBD Media Group says:
"We are seeing a huge shift in the attitudes of businesses around the world which are looking beyond short term profits to imagine a fairer future, cleaner planet and long term sustainability. The UN has laid down a huge challenge to the world's businesses and we are seeing the bravest and most passionate of leaders stepping up to that challenge. In a media environment that leads with bad news, I am proud to say that the TBD team of filmmakers is using their talent to bring hope to anyone who questions whether the problems of the world can be fixed. They can, and these films explain how."
Zanini believes that this kind of engagement is essential to driving positive change. He says:
"We don't have the luxury of pessimism. Only optimists can see a better tomorrow and TBD Media Group, as part of the news landscape, has a responsibility to highlight the progress that has been made by Vision 2045 businesses. Solutions to our most urgent problems are here, we just need to learn the lessons."
The Vision 2045 documentary series examines how the most ambitious businesses in the world are harnessing innovation to meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Companies featured in this launch:
GALP
UPLIGHT
PROGRESS-WERK
ASTM
ESSITY
HOFFENHEIM
FAIRTRADE
DORSCH HOLDINGS
LINDERSTROM
HARRYBROT
MASHOLDINGS
HANWHA
More information on the Vision 2045 Campaign may be found here: https://vision2045.com/
About TBD Media Group:
TBD Media Group is an international, purpose-driven, media developer that helps companies, organizations and governments tell their brand stories in a human and direct way. Learn more at https://www.tbdmediagroup.com/
Media Contact:
Anna Berkman
Chief Marketing Officer
TBD Media Group
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SINGAPORE, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Metaverse Blockchain company, Coinllectibles™️, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cosmos Group Holdings, Inc. (OTC: COSG) is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of 58 art pieces through the Grand Gallery (the "Collection"), with a consideration of US$167,308. The Collection is comprised of various antiques from Dynastic China spanning the Tang, Song and Qing Dynasties.
Tokenization and Commercialization of the Collection
The latest acquisition of the Collection came after the successful near sell-out of the previous collection of 55 sets of collectibles ("55-Set") which was acquired by Coinllectibles™️ last year. After partially converting the 55-Set into 32 minted DOTs (with 29 of which having been quickly sold thus far), the 55-Set DOT collection has already successfully generated an revenue of $9.28 million for the Company to date.
One of the reason behind the tremendous success thus far had been Coinllectibles™️ strategy of working with renown galleries.
Commenting on the acquisition, Marsella Cheng, PR Director at Coinllectibles™️ said, "This is another critical step forward to us. We are extremely thrilled about this new phase of development in the art business which further defines our positioning between physical and digital. We look forward to continuing to build a diversity in art community across the globe with acquisition of more exclusive classical art pieces."
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, which are often indicated by terms such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "intend," "look forward to," "may," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "will," "would" and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements regarding future business activities including the expansion into the decentralized financing space. These forward-looking statements are not promises or guarantees and involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described or projected herein include uncertainties associated with operating a business in Singapore and Hong Kong, risk of interference by the PRC government, ability to compete, that financial resources do not last for as long as anticipated, and that COSG is a holding company that may not realize the expected benefits of NFT's offered by Coinllectibles™️. A further list and description of these risks, uncertainties and other risks can be found in COSG's regulatory filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including in its current report on Form 10-K filed on April 15, 2022. Existing and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. COSG undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information contained in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances or otherwise.
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About Cosmos Group Holdings Inc
Cosmos is a business group that operates in two business segments:
- Arts and Collectibles
- Financing
Through CoinllectiblesTM, the group provides authentication, valuation and certification (AVC) service, sale and purchase, hire purchase, financing, custody, security and exhibition (CSE) services to art buyers through traditional channels, as well as through leveraging blockchain technology through the creation of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
With subsidiaries licensed under Hong Kong's Money Lenders Ordinance, the group currently primarily provides unsecured personal loan to private individuals, with a small portfolio of mortgage loans. The group is integrating the two business segments by offering secured financing services to prospective art and collectibles purchasers to provide a one-stop arts and collectibles purchasing and financing experience.
About the Company – Coinllectibles™️
Coinllectibles™️ is a technology company supporting the collectibles industry with a focus on rare memorabilia and artworks that exist and have intrinsic value in the real world, whether tangible or intangible in nature.
Coinllectibles™️ applies blockchain, marketplace, metaverse and NFT technologies as tools to disrupt and enhance the real world collectibles industry. The technology underpinning NFTs (non-fungible tokens) has multiple functional use cases that Coinllectibles™️ is applying to areas including art, sports, watches, numismatics, limited edition toys, limited edition fashion wear and sneakers. NFTs have the power to transform our societies and some areas may be subject to regulations. Coinllectibles™️ uses NFT technology solely to provide a legally-binding digital ownership token (DOT) to a tangible or intangible collectible, which our analysis suggests would functionally fall outside any regulatory parameter.
Website: www.coinllectibles.art
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Coinllectibles
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coinllectibles/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/coinllectibles
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coinllectibles
About Coinllectibles™️ Fusion DOT
Coinllectibles™️ prides the Fusion DOT as the industry "Gold Standard". Being a Gold Standard, a Fusion DOT contains the following on Arweave – (1) a sale and purchase agreement reflecting the purchase, by the person minting the Fusion DOT™️, of the underlying asset at a fair value with all rights and restrictions clearly detailed, (2) bailment terms governing the rights to possession whilst the underlying asset remains with Coinllectibles™️, (3) a transfer deed reflecting the transfer of the ownership of the underlying asset (together with all rights and restrictions) by the transferor to the holder of the Fusion DOT™️, (4) ownership title deed written into the description of the Fusion DOT™️ and (5) the unequivocal identification file of the underlying asset, whose ownership is reflected in the title deed represented by the Fusion DOT™️.
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BOSTON, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Married homebuilding duo, Susan and Paul Kadilak, are thrilled to announce the nomination of their show, Renovation Rekindle (NECN), for a New England Emmy in the Lifestyle category!
"Being nominated for an Emmy is such an honor," said Susan. "It is a privilege to be considered."
Each episode of Renovation Rekindle follows a single project from concept to completion, chronicling the decision points along the way and showcasing the balance between Susan's technical expertise and Paul's hands-on ability to lead each project through execution. Viewers walk away with a smile on their face and the knowledge that, with the right partner, they can make their home renovation dreams come true.
Susan and Paul, both licensed general contractors, have established themselves as an authority in the building and design industry with 5.5+ million views of their stunning work on Pinterest every month. Several years ago, they began filming their projects from start to finish, posting short clips along the way that showcase both their gorgeous designs and Paul's unique brand of quirky humor. With more than 4 million views, their relatable videos have been a source of endless information and entertainment for their 50K+ Instagram followers and led to the launch of Renovation Rekindle in 2021. The Kadilaks and their brand, Kadilak Homes, circumvented the traditional channels, airing this linear version of their home renovation show regionally, then taking it direct to their global social audience via their Renovation Rekindle app - a first-of-its-kind accomplishment.
The production team is led by Executive Producer Seanbaker Carter (Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, Swab Stories), Executive Producer Jared Morris (Craziest Restaurants in America, Swab Stories), and Supervising Producer Evan Hatten.
Susan and Paul are honored to be in consideration for this award and congratulate all the other nominees in the category. The awards will be announced at the New England Emmy Gala on June 4, 2022.
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| 2022-05-16T18:45:41Z
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ZUG, Switzerland, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PraSaga – the non-profit organization building the next generation of Layer One blockchain – today announced its official designation as a Swiss Foundation. This critical step caps off a busy first half of 2022 for PraSaga, which also included attending the Chamber of Digital Commerce's Blockchain Summit in Washington D.C., to help define the future of the crypto industry, and attending Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas, to introduce SagaPython, a new extension of the popular coding language Python, with an integration into PraSaga's blockchain.
Recognition as a Swiss Foundation means that the PraSaga ecosystem will be governed by majority rule moving forward. Decisions will be based on the authority of majority or super-majority votes, meaning that no single entity will have the ability to gain control. This will help to ensure that PraSaga realizes its goal of creating a blockchain that delivers a better future, with transparent government, efficient markets, and real threat protection.
Michael Holdmann, Founder and CEO of PraSaga stated, "We understand the responsibility that comes with creating a Layer One blockchain and cryptocurrency. Being constrained by profit margins and controlled by a centralized authority are simply not compatible with the goals we are aiming to achieve at PraSaga. Operating as a foundation allows us to pursue our ultimate goal of improving the quality of life for people around the world. By placing control of data in the hands of every individual, and in areas such as creating transparency in tracking carbon emissions and addressing flaws in the global supply chain".
To gain designation as a Swiss foundation, the organization had to comply with government regulations. However, it was a worthwhile journey as Switzerland's legal and political stability, along with its focus on innovation, make the country a unique financial center. The Swiss finance industry is known globally for its banking legacy. Yet, its constant drive to broaden its horizons, and ready adoption of innovations like fintech and sustainable finance, make it the ideal location for a future-facing foundation like PraSaga to base itself.
About PraSaga
PraSaga is a Swiss Foundation building the next generation of Layer One blockchain. PraSaga's technology solution solves many of the limitations that plague first-generation Layer One blockchains. The SagaChain™ successfully addresses lowering transaction fees, extensibility for supply chains, and significantly lowers development costs.
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NEW YORK, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Natera, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRA).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of a class of all persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Natera common stock between February 26, 2020, and April 19, 2022, inclusive.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until June 27, 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, Natera, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's non-invasive prenatal test, Panorama, was not reliable and resulted in high rates of false positives; (2) the Company's screening test for kidney transplant failure, Prospera, did not have superior precision compared to competing tests; (3) as a result of defendants' false and misleading claims about Natera's technology, the Company was exposed to substantial legal and regulatory risks; (4) Natera relied upon deceptive sales and billing practices to drive its revenue growth; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about the company's business, operations, and prospects lacked a reasonable basis.
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| 2022-05-20T09:41:26Z
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- World renowned space enthusiast William Shatner has teamed up with Rapyd to offer developers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel aboard one of the first-ever carbon-neutral space flights to the edge of space
- Members of Rapyd's Software Developer Community will be given the chance to solve weekly challenges with the opportunity to win over $1 million in cash, prizes, trips and tickets
LONDON, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rapyd, the leading fintech-as-a-service platform, today announces the launch of its Hack the Galaxy challenge; a series of virtual challenges for developers to win tickets to ride to the edge of space in a private capsule launching in 2026. Check out this video from Rapyd partner William Shatner announcing the challenge.
Beginning today, challenges will be posted in the Rapyd Developer Community every week through October 3. Members will have an opportunity to compete in a total of 42 challenges. Each solution will reveal a password unlocking an entry to win tickets to the edge of space aboard the Space Perspective Spaceship Neptune.
The three individual winners - one each announced on July 11, September 2 and October 14, 2022 - plus one winning hackathon team named the Galaxy's Greatest Fintech Developer will board the world's only carbon-neutral spaceship for the six hour trip. The winners will enjoy 360 degree views, 450 miles in any direction, while relaxing in the capsule's Space Lounge featuring plush reclining seats and the largest-ever panoramic windows to be flown to the edge of space.
In addition to the challenges for the developer community, there are additional opportunities to win via live events and four Hack the Galaxy-themed hackathons taking place throughout the year. The top team from each of these hackathons will be flown to Rapyd's Developer Demo Day in Lisbon, Portugal in November 2022 to present their ideas in front of a panel of judges. The ultimate winning team will be crowned the 'Galaxy's Greatest Fintech Developers' and be rewarded with the trip to the edge of space. Winners may also opt to choose a cash alternative prize of $130,000. Rapyd encourages anyone from eligible countries to join the developer community and participate.
All participants have opportunities to win dozens of other prizes throughout the challenge.
Arik Shtilman CEO at Rapyd says: "The Hack the Galaxy challenge is a once in a lifetime experience and contest for our growing community of over 50,000 software developers. Developers are the dreamers and doers of fintech innovation - at Rapyd, we're on a quest to attract accomplished talent to welcome to our community. Millions of developers around the world are reimagining financial services bringing together new ideas and innovation to solve the problem of how businesses and consumers pay and want to be paid in markets across the planet. We're committed to ensuring that they have access to the best tools, support and advice so that they can continue to make payment and fintech applications more frictionless. By launching this world-first contest, we are not only able to find and crown the greatest fintech developer on Planet Earth and beyond but also create a place for like-minded thinkers across the globe who are hungry to connect and share ideas".
William Shatner, Film and TV icon and space enthusiast comments: "Having been to space myself, I can't express how incredible an opportunity this is for software developers all over the world. It's an experience I wouldn't trade for anything. I'm excited to partner with Rapyd to spread the word to the developers worldwide to join the Rapyd Developer Community and complete the puzzles for a chance to win a trip to the edge of space!"
The Rapyd Developer Community is far more than a ticket to space. The community has become a hub for developers to learn, connect and share with others in the fintech world. From learning how to use Rapyd's APIs, to collaborating on business ideas and local hackathons, the Rapyd Developer Community is a launching pad for creativity and success.
Can You Hack the Galaxy? Join the Rapyd Developer Community to solve unique puzzles and receive invitations to live and virtual developer events that can earn you entry into a Hack the Galaxy drawing. For full details, please visit https://www.hackthegalaxy.dev
Rapyd is the fastest way to power local payments anywhere in the world, enabling companies across the globe to access markets quicker than ever before. By utilising Rapyd's unparalleled payments network and Fintech-as-a-Service platform, businesses and consumers can engage in local and cross-border transactions in any market. The Rapyd platform is unifying fragmented payment systems worldwide by bringing together 900-plus payment methods in over 100 countries. Rapyd's investors include Stripe, General Catalyst, Oak HC/FT, Coatue, Tiger Global, Durable Capital, Latitude, Target Global, and Tal Capital. To learn more about the company that is accelerating the Fintech-as-a-Service revolution, visit www.rapyd.net, join our developer community, or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a plumber and I thought there could be a better way to hold, store and organize a series of project tools for jobsite use," said an inventor, from Gypsum, Colo., "so I invented the MULTI- USE TOOL BUCKET. My design ensures that the interior remains free of rain, debris or other airborne contaminants."
The invention provides an improved 5-gallon plastic bucket for holding and storing tools. In doing so, it protects against water and weather. It also increases organization and convenience and it eliminates the hassle of searching through a traditional toolbox. The invention features a portable and weatherproof design that is easy to use so it is ideal for trade workers, contractors, outdoor enthusiasts, gardeners, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Denver sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-DNV-343, 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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DETROIT (AP) — Tesla’s sales from April through June fell to their lowest quarterly level since last fall as supply chain issues and pandemic restrictions in China hobbled production of its electric vehicles.
The company on Saturday disclosed it sold more than 254,000 cars and SUVs from April through June, an 18% drop from the first three months of this year and also well below the pace in last year’s final quarter.
The last time Tesla sold fewer vehicles globally was in the third quarter of 2021 when it delivered 241,000.
On Friday, the rest of the industry reported a 21% drop in sales during the second quarter as the average price for vehicles skyrocketed to a record of $45,844 amid soaring inflation, according to J.D. Power.
Tesla’s sales drop may be a harbinger of weaker second-quarter earnings for the Austin, Texas, company, which is the world’s top-seller of battery-powered vehicles and has posted net profits for nearly three years. Tesla plans to release its full results for the April-June period on July 20.
Like many other stocks, Tesla shares have been hard hit this year. But the 35% decline in Tesla’s stock price hasn’t been entirely tied to the company’s see-sawing fortunes.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk also has made a $44 billion bid for Twitter, which he placed on hold after complaining that it has too many spam bot users who aren’t humans. Much of the erosion in Tesla’s value has occurred since Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder and then launched a takeover bid that has raised concerns he has too much on his already crowded plate
Musk has used his own Twitter account, which now has more than 100 million followers, to discuss the pandemic restrictions that forced the Shanghai factory to temporarily close during the quarter. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives estimates that more than 40% of Tesla’s sales come from China, and that the Shanghai factory produced about 70,000 fewer vehicles due to the shutdowns.
But Tesla signaled things are getting better Saturday, saying it produced more vehicles during June than in any other month in its history. The company didn’t disclose the number of vehicles manufactured during June.
As of early Saturday afternoon, Musk hadn’t tweeted about Tesla’s second-quarter sales. But he created a bit of a stir late Friday with ending an uncharacteristically long nine-day silence on Twitter. His Friday tweets included one with him and four his children meeting with Pope Francis.
Tesla’s latest delivery numbers came out a week after the release of an interview with Musk in which he described new factories in Austin and Berlin as “money furnaces” that were losing billions of dollars because supply chain breakdowns were limiting the number of cars they can produce.
In a May 30 interview with a Tesla owners’ club that was just released last week, Musk said that getting the Berlin and Austin plants functional “are overwhelmingly our concerns. Everything else is a very small thing,” Musk said, but added that “it’s all gonna get fixed real fast.”
Musk also has discussed making salaried workers return to offices and a possible 10% cut in Tesla’s work force due to a possible recession.
Supply chain breakdowns since the onset of COVID-19 two years ago have been especially debilitating for automakers, who get parts from all corners of the globe. A lack of computer chips needed to run cars’ computers compounded automakers’ problems and sent prices for used and new cars skyrocketing.
As the pandemic erupted in the U.S. in 2020, automakers had to shut factories for eight weeks to help stop the virus from spreading. Some parts companies canceled orders for semiconductors. At the same time, demand for laptops, tablets and gaming consoles skyrocketed as people stuck at home upgraded their devices.
By the time auto production resumed, chip makers had shifted production to consumer goods, creating a shortage of weather-resistant automotive-grade chips. Although Tesla has fared better than other automakers, the industry still can’t get enough chips.
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AP Business Writer Michael Liedtke contributed to this story from Berkeley, California.
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Drivers along Gage Blvd. expected to be impacted by road crews
Published: Jun. 8, 2022 at 11:08 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Drivers along Gage Blvd. are expected to be impacted by a mill and overlay project on Friday.
The City of Topeka says on Friday, June 10, Sunflower Paving will start a mill and overlay project on Gage Blvd. from SW 6th through SW Emland.
According to the City, through traffic will be maintained at all times on Gage and 6th - at the intersection - as half the road is worked on at a time. However, it said turns will be affected.
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New study suggests mushrooms may talk to each other with up to 50 ‘words’
By Tom Yun
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TORONTO (CTV Network) — A new study has found that mushrooms may be able to communicate with each other through patterns in electrical signals.
Computer scientist Andrew Adamatzky from the University of the West of England analyzed electrical activity from four species of fungi and published his findings last Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science. He found that spikes in electrical activity were used by fungi to communicate and transmit information to other fungi in their network.
“So, with this latest study, a computer scientist is sticking some electrodes into some mushrooms and asking, ‘What do the signals look like? And do the signals have any complexity to them?'” CTV News Science and Technology Specialist Dan Riskin told CTV News Channel on Sunday.
Underneath each mushroom lies hyphae, which are underground root-like structures that can be likened to nerve cells in the human nervous system. When hyphae form a network, called a mycelium, this can facilitate communication between fungi.
“There’s a whole culture around mushrooms and they are definitely amazing architects of our natural world,” Riskin said. “They’ve got this huge underground network and every once in a while, they poke mushrooms up for reproduction. But most of the time, they stay hidden.”
The study found that the spikes in the electrical signals generated by fungi can resemble a language. The spikes can be grouped in to “words” and “sentences,” and according to the study, these fungi can have a vocabulary of up to 50 “words.”
“There’s a big body of evidence that’s growing that these hyphae are sending some kinds of signals between individuals … communicating about where resources are, where the food is, and maybe having tripped-out mushroom-like conversations with each other too,” Riskin explained.
The complexity of the language varies between species of fungi. The study found that the split gill fungi could generate the most complex sentences with the largest vocabulary, while other species like the enoki fungi and caterpillar fungi had much smaller lexicons.
But while the study likens these fungal electrical signals to “words,” Riskin said it’s “a giant step” to suggest that fungi are using actual words to communicate with each other, similar to humans.
“I think most biologists are going to say that’s pushing it too far… But that said, that complexity probably does underlie real communication that’s happening among these organisms,” he said.
“It makes sense. They have the architecture to do it, and it would benefit them from a natural selection perspective. So, there’s certainly lots to decode here in terms of how these mushrooms and how these fungi are doing what they do.”
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| 2022-04-11T14:33:28Z
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SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Icahn Enterprises L.P. (Nasdaq: IEP) announced today that it will discuss its second quarter 2022 results on a conference call and webcast on Friday, August 5, 2022 - 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. To access the webcast, participants should go to this link (webcast). To access the call by phone, participants should go to this link (registration link), and you will be provided with the dial in details. To avoid delays, we encourage participants to dial into the conference call 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled start time. A replay of the webcast will also be available for a limited time at Icahn events and presentations.
Icahn Enterprises L.P., a master limited partnership, is a diversified holding company engaged in seven primary business segments: Investment, Energy, Automotive, Food Packaging, Real Estate, Home Fashion and Pharma.
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Haofood's satay nugget on a stick will retail at 2,300 Lawson stores in China
SHANGHAI, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Haofood, today announced a new partnership with leading Chinese convenience store Lawson where customers will gain greater access to its products. Starting today, Haofood's all-new satay nugget on a stick will retail at 2,300 Lawson stores in China.
"I am thrilled to be partnering with Lawson and look forward to bringing a different experience to our customers with our new satay nugget on a stick. At Haofood, our goal is to make plant-based chicken products accessible to people. We set our focus on China, the world's most populous country for a start, as we believe that there can be a significant impact on carbon footprint reduction as customers here turn towards alternative meat products," shared Astrid Prajogo, Founder & CEO of Haofood.
The collaboration comes at a time where China's millennials are embracing and adopting flexitarian, vegetarian and vegan diets in record numbers as they increasingly become aware of the environmental impact and health concerns brought about by meat consumption. While there is a growing appetite for sustainable alternatives to meat, customers in China demand great-tasting products, a competitive advantage that Haofood has, and its innovative Innotein technology. The result of it is a high-quality plant-based chicken with texture similar to real meat, and a stronger umami sensation.
The majority of the global population has great concerns for the environment and their health, and this has been especially evident with the pandemic fuelling a shift in consumers' lifestyles and eating habits. An IPSOS study published in 2020 indicated that 95% of consumers in China have heard of plant-based meat products, with 61% of the opinion that consumption of plant-based meat products will be beneficial to their health, and 41% of the opinion that it reduces carbon footprint. At the same time, stresses from modern everyday life, including being in fast-paced work environments, have contributed to an uptake in convenient ready-to-eat products among younger consumers globally.
With these consumption habits taking prevalence, Haofood created the new satay nugget on a stick, an in style, on-the-go snack perfect for Chinese consumers who are looking for convenience and very picky when it comes to the taste and nutritional benefits. For this satay nugget in particular, Haofood is adopting the use of quality soybeans, coupled with Haofood's Innotein™ technology, an innovative end-to-end proprietary technology, Haofood ensures that its products' nutritional benefits are easily absorbed by the human body. The satay nugget on a stick is high in protein and fibre with zero trans-fat, making an ideal choice for a busy workday or even a summer picnic with friends and family.
Since its inception, Haofood has been spearheading the future in food sustainability. It has brought together experienced professionals in the F&B industry, invested in R&D and continued to push boundaries in the expansion of its product portfolio. It has also partnered with various restaurants to bring its chicken dishes to the table.
"This tie back to our mission of sustaining happiness from good food forever. We want to unite past, present, and future through the creation of traditional dishes with our innovative, futuristic products that allow consumers to enjoy sustainable food in the present. We will continue to seek ways to innovate, improve and bring people sustainable alternatives to meat while preserving cultural norms in cooking and making a positive impact on the Earth," added Astrid.
Through this newly established partnership, Haofood will leverage Lawson's 25-years of market experience to accelerate its retail strategy and product availability in China, bringing more delicious, sustainable, and healthy plant-based chicken to consumers.
The new satay nugget on a stick is now available at 2,300 Lawson stores in Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces.
Please visit Haofood for more information.
About Haofood:
Haofood is a food science and technology startup with a mission to sustain happiness from good food forever. With cutting edge technology and science, Haofood is working to produce food in a smarter and more sustainable approach, to fulfill our protein needs today, tomorrow and in the future. They are a pioneer, using peanut protein as the chief ingredients for their first innovation of plant-based chicken. Based in Shanghai, Haofood was founded in 2020 and currently has a presence in over 2500 outlets in China. Haofood creates their product using Innotein, their own end-to-end proprietary innovative technology, to develop a variety of plant-based products from peanuts and other plant protein that has a distinctive texture and strong umami taste profile. The result is a variety of safe, tasty, nutritious plant-based chicken products that are produced with a reduced carbon footprint.
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The Settlement does not involve personal injury, death, or property damage.
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SEATTLE, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement is being issued by Kroll Notice Media regarding the Toyota Prius Inverter/IPM Settlement.
There is a proposed class action settlement alleging certain Toyota Prius and Prius V vehicles contained defective inverters/ Intelligent Power Modules ("IPMs"). Toyota denies the allegations. The Court has not ruled on these claims. This notice is to inform you about the settlement and your options.
Who Is Included?
You are a Class Member for settlement purposes only and may be eligible for benefits if you:
What Does the Settlement Provide?
The settlement provides these benefits:
What are Your Options?
- Do Nothing. You will be legally bound by decisions of the Court, and you will give up any rights to sue for these claims.
- Opt-Out. If you do not want to be bound by the Settlement, you must exclude yourself by October 26, 2022.
- Object to the Settlement. You may submit an objection and explain why you do not like the settlement by October 26, 2022. You cannot both exclude yourself and object to the settlement. Please see FAQ #21 at www.ToyotaPriusInverterSettlement.com for important details/requirements.
- File a Claim for Reimbursement and/or Register for Redistribution Check: You must submit a Registration and Reimbursement Claim Form to get reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses. If you replaced an IPM or inverter and did NOT receive notice that you are automatically registered for the Redistribution benefit, you must also register to be eligible to receive money from the Redistribution Fund, if available. The deadline to submit is three months after the Final Effective Date, and is currently anticipated to be May 12, 2023, but is likely subject to change.
The Court will hold a hearing on January 13, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. at First Street United States Courthouse, 350 West 1st St., Los Angeles, CA, 90012, Courtroom 8A to hear any objections, determine if the Settlement is fair, and consider the Special Master's recommendation that Class Counsel be awarded $19.6 million in fees and expenses and a Service Award for Class Representatives of $5,000 each, to be paid separately by Toyota. For details review FAQ #23 at www.ToyotaPriusInverterSettlement.com. You may attend the Hearing, but you aren't required to.
Where Can I Find More Information?
This is only a summary. If you have questions or want more information about this lawsuit, the settlement and your rights, visit www.toyotapriusinvertersettlement.com. call 833-942-3997, or write to: Prius IPM Settlement Notice Administrator, c/o Kroll Notice Administration, P.O. Box 5324, New York, NY 10150-5324. ALL DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. CHECK WEBSITE FOR REVISIONS & OTHER UPDATES.
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The passing of John Massey and the legacy he leaves behind
Durant, Oklahoma (KXII) -A distinguished Southeastern Oklahoma State University alumnus who died last Friday was honored at the university on June 30.
John Massey graduated from SOSU in 1960 and donated millions to the school every year for new programs, professorships, and scholarships.
Friends, family, and colleagues came together to pay their final respects.
Glen Johnson, who read the eulogy at the service, spoke with News 12 about his dear friend.
“He wanted to give students here, not just here in Durant and Southeastern, which was his alma mater, but all over the State of Oklahoma, the opportunity to succeed and to become whatever they wanted to do in life,” says Johnson.
In 2005, the business school was renamed the John Massey School of Business.
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The goal was enormous: Return to the NBA’s mountaintop.
And now with that monumental task complete, the NBA champion Golden State Warriors already have a new target: staying up there for a while.
The victory cigars hadn’t been extinguished after the title-clinching win in Boston, the last celebratory bottles of Moët & Chandon hadn’t been emptied, and the topic — can the Warriors win it again next season? — was already coming up. They have been installed by FanDuel Sportsbook as the favorites for the 2023 NBA title, and with Finals MVP Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green all back it would be foolish to think that their chance at a fifth championship in nine years isn’t very real.
“It still has not been proven, that when we’re whole, that anybody can stop it,” Green said.
That’s true, and that’s why it makes sense for the Warriors to carry the burden of being favorites into next season. They know what it takes; they have as many championships in the last eight seasons — four — as the rest of the league combined. The last run that was better than this was put together by Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, winning six in an eight-year span of the 1990’s.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr — now a nine-time champion — played for the Bulls for some of that run, and has led Golden State to all four of these titles.
“They are all unique. They are all special,” Kerr said. “I think this one may have been the most unlikely just from the standpoint of where we’ve been the last couple years. A lot of unknowns.”
Indeed, there were questions.
The Warriors answered them all. No, the core wasn’t too old. Yes, Thompson would come back from more than 900 days on the sidelines with injuries. And absolutely, Curry can still be unstoppable in the biggest moments.
They took that core and fortified it with a new group of talent. Among those on that list: 27-year-old Andrew Wiggins, the 2014 No. 1 pick who has come into his own and was nothing less than a star in the NBA Finals; Jordan Poole, who turns 23 this weekend and will celebrate as a champion who has blossomed after facing off against Curry in practice all the time; and Jonathan Kuminga, the 19-year-old who got into 86 games and is raved about by teammates.
“And we ain’t done,” Thompson said early Friday while appearing on Green’s podcast, The Draymond Green Show. “That’s the beautiful thing about it. We got these young bucks behind us and we got the same squad coming back? That’s scary for the NBA.”
Green concurred. “It is very scary,” he said.
They earned that championship moment, after going through an NBA Finals loss in 2019 to Toronto and then two seasons with a combined 54-83 record, a million miles away from being the team that the Warriors demand they be.
The Warriors had the NBA’s worst record in 2019-20 in large part because of roster turnover — Kevin Durant, who was out that whole season while recovering from Achilles surgery, had just left for Brooklyn — and injuries. Thompson didn’t play that season because of a knee injury suffered in the final game of the 2019 finals. Curry played in just five games. It was the reset year.
The bounceback was supposed to be last season, but Thompson had to sit out again, this time because of an Achilles tear of his own. The Warriors lost in the play-in tournament. But seeds were planted for something great; how great, even Golden State wasn’t sure, but Curry insisted something was brewing.
“You don’t want to see us next year,” Curry said when the 2020-21 season ended.
Prophetic words.
Thompson came back in January and the Golden State goal was clear — win it all, again. The Warriors have played 24 playoff series with Curry, Thompson and Green together in the last eight years. They’ve won 22 of them; the exceptions being the 2016 and 2019 finals, when injuries took a toll.
This time, there was no stopping the Dubs.
“I saw it in the beginning of season,” Thompson said. “People called me crazy. I said ‘Championship or bust’ because I saw how we came out of the gate, 18-2. And playing just that Warriors brand of basketball that made us so successful, and then knowing I was going to be inserted in that, I knew we had a chance to do something special, and here we are. It’s so incredible. Wow.”
Training camp is only three months away so the revving-up process for next season will start sooner rather than later. The Warriors know they’ll be right back in the center of the NBA spotlight, playing tons of national TV games, getting every opponent’s best shot, drawing massive attention everywhere they go again.
It’ll be just like old times. For many Warriors, it’ll be a first. For the old guard, the core of four-time champions like Curry, Green and Thompson — plus Andre Iguodala, if he decides to postpone retirement for one more year — it’ll be familiar territory.
“I think this one is definitely different because of the three years of baggage we carried coming out of that Game 6 in 2019,” Curry said. “I can say it now: I don’t know how many teams could carry that as long as we have with the expectations of comparing us now to teams of past and make it to the mountaintop again.”
His team did.
And next year, they’ll try to do it again.
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| 2022-06-18T13:16:27Z
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ATHENS — Francisco Diez-Gonzalez, director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety, is the 2022 recipient of the Harry Haverland Citation Award from the International Association for Food Protection.
Diez was nominated for the award, which is given “to an individual for years of devotion to the ideals and objectives of IAFP,” by 2003 Harry Haverland award recipient and CFS emeritus faculty member Larry Beuchat.
Diez’s “research has been broad in scope in regards to microbiological protection of foods, which includes foodborne pathogens, their behavior in various types of foods, their control, enumeration and detection, and other timely aspects that will help reduce the possibilities of foodborne outbreaks,” Beuchat said.
He also cited Diez’s commitment to IAFP as one of the reasons for the nomination. Diez joined IAFP in 2000 and was one of the founding members of the Minnesota Food Protection Association, serving as their first secretary. He currently serves on two IAFP journal editorial boards: the Journal for Food Protection since 2002 and Food Protection Trends since 2006.
Diez also serves on the planning committee for IAFP’s annual conference. For the past three years, he has helped organize the conference by reviewing numerous symposia, roundtables and workshops proposed by IAFP members. The committee also screens submitted abstracts for posters and oral presentations.
“His participation at both a national and an international level, and recognition for his past contributions in the area of food protection, clearly qualify him as deserving of this award. He has certainly fulfilled the qualities and criteria set forth for awardees,” Beuchat said.
“IAFP is the premier professional society in our discipline. Being part of IAFP is essential for any food safety professional to influence the advancement of science and technology, and to expand her/his network of peers and collaborators,” Diez said. “By serving IAFP, I contribute to creating opportunities for younger generations.”
Paul Hall, who served as chair of the CFS board for 13 years, received the award in 2013.
Diez will receive the award during the IAFP 2022 conference in Pittsburgh, being held from July 31 to Aug. 3.
He will be joined by Manpreet Singh, head of UGA’s Department of Food Science and Technology, who will begin his term as IAFP secretary at the event.
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CLARE, Mich., May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Battery Concepts, LLC has been awarded the 2022 Battery Council International (BCI) Innovation Award. The prestigious annual award is presented to celebrate innovation in equipment, processes, services and products that advance the lead battery industry by its North American trade association, representing battery manufacturing, supply, recycling and distribution companies.
As implied in the company's name, Advanced Battery Concepts was established as a battery innovation company about 13 years ago. With over 50 patents and another 63 patents pending, plus 49 trade secrets, the company's breakthrough technologies and "concepts" have been licensed around the world.
Dr, Edward Shaffer II is founder and CEO of the company located in Clare, Michigan. It was Dr. Shaffer and his ABC team that, created solutions to the complicated bipolar battery that was discovered in the 1930's and led a 'technology quest' that drained millions-of-dollars in search of successful commercial manufacturing. This stellar outcome led to the introduction of Advanced Battery Concepts' GreenSeal® batteries embodying vast innovative technologies enabling better performing, lower cost energy storage solutions. ABC's batteries provide a high value that address the power reliability and resiliency deficit in Michigan and across the nation.
"This Innovation Award marks a milestone in our company's progress in creating, or at least enhancing, technologies to store and reuse electricity in ways that are socially, economically and environmentally superior to everything that has preceded them. This is what all the members of the Battery Council International strive to do. I am proud that ABC is a member", said Dr. Edward Shaffer.
Titled: "Advanced Battery Concepts Home Emergency Energy Storage System" and subtitled: "Responsibly Commercialized Innovation", the company's application sought to solve a specific problem: Michigan's ranking in the U.S. Top Five States for power outages and outage duration.
A recent study conducted by the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business MAP (Multidisciplinary Action Projects) Team framed the problem: "Homeowners are seeking a safe, silent, affordable and touch-free backup emergency power solution with a small environmental impact footprint".
In September, 2021, ABC introduced its Home Emergency Energy System (HEES) to conform to the parameters and constraints outlined in the University of Michigan study.
GreenSeal® technology and the resulting GreenSeal batteries have been refined, advanced and commercialized including the perfection of unique and innovative core manufacturing processes and equipment to introduce the most efficient lead battery today. When coupled with an industry-leading power conversion system integrated into a homeowner friendly package, the innovative content inside the HEES system provides affordable unfailing security against power loss from weather, aging infrastructure, excessive consumer demand or lack of sufficient supply. Launched for Beta testing within Michigan, initially, the HEES introduction carries an industry standard warranty.
The HEES system relies on critical technology built into the GreenSeal® bipolar battery which holds 18kWh of energy available to be delivered at up to 6.8kW continuous power for home energy supply in the absence of stable continuous grid power. Available energy can be expanded by adding additional storage enclosures up to 36kWh of total energy available.
The HEES system is attractive and functional in addition to providing seamless power transition in the event of a grid power disruption. No noise, no fumes, no maintenance and no on-going consumable costs make the Home Emergency Energy Storage system from Advanced Battery Concepts a consumer-friendly reliable power backup. Taking up minimal floor space and fitting in almost any available area in the home, the HEES system can be placed in the garage, attic, basement, utility room or even in a living space.
ABC is leading the way into the stationary, long duration energy storage markets with proprietary, safe, low cost and responsible energy storage systems leveraging the benefits of bi-polar battery technology. The HEES system is a first step in a multi-year product rollout by ABC that responds to the growing demand for economically viable energy storage solutions as fossil fuels give way to alternative sources of energy most notably renewable wind and solar.
The HEES system with its proprietary GreenSeal® batteries as the energy storage component truly represents one of the most innovative energy storage systems available and worthy of the honor bestowed on Advanced Battery Concepts by the Battery Council International (BCI).
About Advanced Battery Concepts
As a global leader in bi-polar battery invention and manufacturing, the company has developed an extensive portfolio of patents and trade secrets, benefitting its licensees and other customers, termed GreenSeal® Technology. This technology delivers improved battery performance at lower production costs for traditional lead batteries while also enabling application to other advanced chemistries.
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Mahoning County Land Bank secures nearly $1.5 million for Royal China cleanup
SEBRING – The Mahoning County Land Bank received a grant of nearly $1.5 million grant to clean up the soil at the former Royal Sebring China site.
The agency said Friday in a news release that state officials awarded funding for the project. The 20-acre property on South 15th Street has sat dormant since Royal Sebring China shut down operations in the 1980s.
"The redevelopment potential is definitely there. We just need to deal with the soil, the contaminated soil there. And now we're going to be able to do that. So it's great news, a great day for Mahoning County," said Debora Flora, executive director of the Mahoning County Land Bank.
Flora said the cleanup will take about 15 months. The project will involve removing more than 2,300 tons of contaminated soil and installing new storm sewers, according to the land bank's news release.
Redevelopment at the former Royal Sebring site has been a slow process. Factory buildings were demolished after a fire in 2010. The Mahoning County Land Bank acquired the property after it went through tax foreclosure several years ago. Flora said the property had significant tax delinquency.
The land bank turned the property over to MAC Trailer President and CEO Michael Conny in 2020 as part of a collaboration between the land bank, local government and business owners.
Flora said the grant was made possible through the cooperation of state, county and local government.
She said Conny, a Sebring native, wants to bring "good jobs to Sebring through the development of that site." She said he has already done some work on the property and provided matching funds that were necessary for the grant request.
The land bank also received grant funding to clean up several other properties in Mahoning, including three in Youngstown and one in Struthers.
Flora said she believes the Royal China redevelopment will be beneficial for the area.
"We're going to get the site cleaned up so we can put it back into play for the good of the location, community and Mahoning County as a whole," she said.
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MIAMI, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Plastic Surgery today announced Dr. S. Alexander Earle, MD, FACS, is named president of the World Association of Gluteal Surgeons (WAGS) effective immediately. Dr. Earle is an Ivy League-educated plastic surgeon, double board-certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is a pioneer in safe Ultrasound Guided Brazilian Butt Lift Surgery (BBL) and has been an active member of WAGS since 2019.
"We chose Dr. Earle as the new president of WAGS because of his innovative practice, commitment to excellence and focus on safety," says Dr. Gabriel H. Patino, chief executive officer of WAGS. "We look forward to his leadership as we continue our commitment to education and performing safe gluteal procedures across the globe."
Dr. Earle is recognized for his skills and the additional safety measures he has in place for patients – from the use of technology to his operating room and staff. He has vast experience in both reconstructive and aesthetic surgery specializing in procedures of the body, including breast surgery, abdominoplasty, gluteal augmentation (BBL) with fat transfer and liposuction. He is the creator of Smart Aesthetics™ and the SoBeBL™.
"It is an honor to be the new president of WAGS and to build on the tremendous strides of the association in advancing the safety of all gluteal procedures, especially the Brazilian Butt Lift," says Dr. Earle. "Many believe the Brazilian Butt Lift is dangerous, and we know with the proper education, experience, safety measures and technology, it doesn't have to be unsafe."
Dr. Earle has a B.A. from Princeton University, a Doctor of Medicine from NYU Grossman School of Medicine and completed his general residency at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital where he also completed two years of research funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH). His plastic and reconstructive surgery residency was completed at Duke University.
He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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About Pure Plastic Surgery
Pure Plastic Surgery is an innovative plastic surgery practice in Miami dedicated to reaching patient goals with a focus on safety. The dedicated surgeons are skilled in both reconstructive and aesthetic surgery of the face and body, and they are pioneers in Ultrasound Guided Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) procedure. Pure is the home of Smart Aesthetics™ and the SoBeBL™.
It is a family-run business, owned by Dr. S. Alexander Earle, MD, FACS and operated by his wife, Mikele Aboitiz. www.pureplasticsurgery.com
About the World Association of Gluteal Surgeons (WAGS)
The World Association of Gluteal Surgeons (WAGS) was founded by a group of top-rated plastic and cosmetic surgeons who are committed to performing gluteal procedures in the safest manner possible. www.glutealsurgeons.org
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Referee shortage cause for concern ahead of high school football season in Kansas
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - With Friday night football games staring in a few weeks in towns across Kansas, some schools are having to change their schedules or miss a game entirely due to a referee shortage. Eyewitness News spoke with a member of the Greater Wichita Officials Association who says this is the worst he’s seen in his 19 years in the profession.
Across the nation, making sure there are enough officials to cover games has become more of a challenge each year. Kansas is no exception.
“It’s at a point that we’re really out of people,” said Greater Wichita Officials Association Director of Officials Keith Kenley.
Kenley said this year’s lack of officials is unlike any season he’s seen.
He said it’s upsetting to see the lack of interest in the profession, but can identify a multitude of reasons for the shortage including treatment from fans, long hours and lack of pay.
“Yeah, we don’t make a whole lot on Friday nights, Monday night, Saturday mornings. It’s really for the love of the game and or the love of the student athlete but at some point, somewhere, the money’s gonna have to make up,” Kenley said. “Gas prices really takes into that game check and it really hurts sometimes to have to drive out there, just do it for the love of the game.”
The referee shortage impacts officials in place who now will have to take on double the work to fill vacant positions, Kenley said. He said this could significantly impact games at the middle school and high school levels.
To avoid the issue worsening, Kenley encourages anyone with a love for sports to give the officiating profession a try.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche are happy they got a bit of a challenge before sweeping the Nashville Predators.
They actually had to rally for the first time in the first round.
Valeri Nichushkin scored the tiebreaking goal with 7:58 left, and the Avalanche became the first team to advance to the second round Monday night beating the Predators 5-3 Monday night.
“We found a way,” Colorado center Nathan MacKinnon said. “That’s the key. You can’t always win when you have your best, you have to find ways when you’re not. Tonight was one of those cases. We just know with all the skill and talent we have that we were going to get one.”
The Avalanche now are in the Western Conference semifinals for a fourth straight season and second consecutive after sweeping their first-round opponent. They improved to 6-0 since the franchise relocated to Denver in best-of-seven series after winning the first three games with their fourth sweep in that span.
They now get to wait for either St. Louis or Minnesota.
“The big thing is now we can take a breath, get a couple days off for our guys, give them some rest and we’ll still get some real good practice time before we get ready for our next opponent,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said.
Andre Burakovsky and Cale Makar each had a goal and two assists for Colorado, and Devon Toews added a goal. MacKinnon sealed the victory with an empty-net goal on the man advantage with 55.9 seconds remaining.
Yakov Trenin scored twice for Nashville, which was swept for the first time in franchise history in its 15th playoff appearance. Filip Forsberg scored his first of the series giving Nashville its first lead this series at 3:58 of the third, and it lasted less than 5 minutes.
“The fact that we weren’t able to win a game is something that we all take personal for sure,” Nashville coach John Hynes said.
Colorado scored three times over the final 11:05 to wrap up a series by outscoring Nashville 21-9. After Toews tied it 3-3 at 8:55 of the third, Nichushkin scored on a snap shot from the right circle to put the Avs ahead to stay.
The Predators had a few open seats midway into the first period. Not even having Walker Zimmerman, a defender for MLS’ Nashville SC, wave the pre-game rally towel helped.
Colorado wound up scoring on its first shot attempt of the game for the second time this series, even if replay was needed to call it a goal.
Burakovsky’s wrister sent the puck through the back net, a shot that had the Avalanche starting to celebrate before an official immediately waved it off During a stoppage at 1:56, officials reviewed the play and saw the puck go through the net needing an official to fix the net behind Predators rookie goalie Connor Ingram.
The rookie goalie had to make a save on a short-handed attempt by the Avs on Nashville’s first power play, and Colorado had two more shot attempts than the Predators. The Avs outshot Nashville 13-6 dominating the first until Trenin got his second of this series on a wrister from the slot with 61 seconds left in the period.
Makar put Colorado up 2-1 with a snap shot from near the blue line at 13:33 of the second, and he nearly scored again on a breakaway about 2 minutes later only to have Ingram stop the puck with his left pad.
“Anytime you get a chance to end a team’s season, you take it and run,” Makar said. “You try at least. For us tonight, there was a lot of ups and downs, but we wanted this one. I think just the resilience in general showed from our group.”
Trenin tied it again, this time with 3:11 left in the second. He spun in the right circle and fired a wrister past Pavel Francouz.
Forsberg scored into an open net behind Francouz off a cross-ice pass from Mattias Ekholm, giving Nashville a 3-2 lead in the third.
“You never want to go out 4-nothing,” Nashville captain Roman Josi said. “It’s tough right now. … I thought our two home games, we played a lot better. But yeah we didn’t get it done. We didn’t get a win, so yeah it’s definitely disappointing.”
SWEEP TIME
The Avalanche also swept St. Louis in the first round of the 2021 playoffs, Vancouver in the Western quarterfinals in 2001 and the 1996 Stanley Cup Final against Florida.
NORRIS TROPHY FINALISTS
Josi and Makar were announced as finalists earlier Monday for the Norris Trophy. Josi won the Norris in 2020, and he posted the best scoring season since Phil Housley in 1992-93 with 96 points — a franchise record for the Predators.
Makar is a finalist for a second straight season. He led defensemen with 28 goals, and he became the eighth defenseman in NHL history with seven or more points through the first three games of a postseason and first since John Carlson also had seven in 2018. Now he has a league-high 10 points.
“He might be the best player in the league right now,” MacKinnon said of Makar.
MUSIC CITY FINALE?
Forsberg is in the final year of his contract, though Nashville hopes to sign him to a contract extension before free agency opens. Forsberg took an extra wide lap waving to fans after the handshake line before heading off the ice.
TRENIN’S NIGHT
The Predators forward became the fourth NHL player in 26 years with multiple tying goals in an elimination game. Joel Kiviranta did it in Game 7 of the second round in 2020, Scott Hartnell in Game 6 of the 2010 Stanley Cup Final with Philadelphia and Matt Cooke in Game 7 of the 2004 conference quarterfinal.
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78-year-old woman given citation after crash sends 17-year-old to hospital
MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - A 78-year-old Manhattan woman was given a citation after a crash that sent a 17-year-old girl to the hospital.
The Riley Co. Police Department Activity Report indicates that around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, emergency crews were called to the intersection of Anderson Ave. and Westloop Pl. in Manhattan with reports of an injury accident.
When officers arrived, they said they found a 2008 Hyundai Accent driven by Anna McCormick, 78, of Manhattan, had been hit by a 2005 Volkswagen Jetta driven by a 17-year-old female from Manhattan. They said that McCormick failed to yield at the intersection, resulting in the collision.
RCPD noted that the 17-year-old was rushed to Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan for treatment of head pain.
Officers also said McCormick was issued a citation for failure to yield right of way.
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SHENZHEN, China, May 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- X Financial (NYSE: XYF) (the "Company" or "we"), a leading online personal finance company in China, today announced updates on its status under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (the "HFCAA").
The Company is aware of the fact that it was identified by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") under the HFCAA on May 4, 2022. The Company understands that this identification under the HFCAA and its implementation rules issued thereunder indicates that the SEC determines the Company used a registered public accounting firm whose working paper cannot be inspected or investigated by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board of the United States (the "PCAOB") to issue the audit opinion for its financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.
In accordance with the HFCAA, the SEC shall prohibit a company's shares or American depositary shares from being traded on a U.S. stock exchange or in the over-the-counter trading market in the United States if the company has been identified by the SEC for three consecutive years due to the PCAOB's inability to inspect the registered public accounting firm's working paper related to such company.
The Company has been actively exploring possible solutions to protect the interest of its stakeholders. The Company will continue to comply with applicable laws and regulations in both China and the U.S., and strive to maintain its listing status on the New York Stock Exchange.
About X Financial
X Financial (NYSE: XYF) (the "Company") is a leading online personal finance company in China. The Company is committed to connecting borrowers on its platform with its institutional funding partners. With its proprietary big data-driven technology, the Company has established strategic partnerships with financial institutions across multiple areas of its business operations, enabling it to facilitate and provide loans to prime borrowers under a risk assessment and control system.
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NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Integral Ad Science (Nasdaq: IAS), a global leader in digital media quality, announced today its Control Panel, a suite of reporting and planning tools that Context Control customers can use as an added value. The new capabilities will enable customers to more clearly understand the value and return on investment (ROI) that IAS's contextual targeting solution delivers.
"Using our new Control Panel, advertisers will gain the ability to strategically plan, activate, and optimize their targeting campaigns all within the IAS Signal platform," said Tom Sharma, Chief Product Officer, IAS. "This is yet another example of our ongoing efforts to empower our customer organizations and clients to confidently lean into our contextual targeting solution while hitting campaign KPIs."
The Control Panel suite offers the following tools:
- Context Control Segment Catalog: Provides easy discovery of all 400+ Context Control Avoidance & Targeting off-the-shelf segments all in one place.
- Contextual Segment Reach Calculator: Advises on the prospective reach of IAS contextual targeting segments to appropriately plan campaigns.
- Contextual Targeting Reporting: Offers insights into targeting segment performance, specifically focusing on viewability, reach, and programmatic dimensions.
- Contextual Targeting Profiles: Enables clients to bundle all of their desired targeting segments into one profile with a single segment ID for easy activation in their DSP.
IAS recently expanded its Context Control solutions for advertisers and publishers globally, giving customers more control over the context of digital ad placements. Advertisers can average more than 400 contextual segments from IAS on a pre-bid basis to avoid undesirable content or target towards content that is suitable for their campaigns. Major DSPs including Adelphic, Adform, Amobee, MediaMath, Xandr, Yahoo, and others have integrated Context Control, making these tools readily available for advertisers wherever they choose to buy.
In a recent case study, OMD Turkey was challenged with boosting awareness and driving conversions for their client, Renault, without using third-party audience targeting, all during the busy automotive period of Q4. IAS Context Control Targeting outperformed the competition and resulted in strong improvement in Renault's KPIs including a 53% increase in click-through rate, 8.4% increase in conversion rate, and 3% improvement in Cost Per Click.
About IAS
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global leader in digital media quality. IAS makes every impression count, ensuring that ads are viewable by real people, in safe and suitable environments, activating contextual targeting, and driving supply path optimization. Our mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality for the world's leading brands, publishers, and platforms. We do this through data-driven technologies with actionable real-time signals and insight. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York, IAS works with thousands of top advertisers and premium publishers worldwide. For more information, visit integralads.com.
CONTACT: press@integralads.com
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Sailors say aircraft carrier that had multiple suicides occur on board was uninhabitable
By Oren Liebermann and Henry Klapper, CNN
The commanding officer stood before the sailors of the USS George Washington’s security team. One of their own, Xavier Sandor, had taken his life a few weeks earlier in mid-April, and the captain had come down to speak with the 110 or so young men and women who worked closely with him.
The conversation with Capt. Brent Gaut lasted two hours, according to four sailors in attendance who spoke with CNN. In it, Gaut acknowledged what the sailors had felt for months. He said the crew had moved back onto the aircraft carrier too soon, the sailors recalled, but it was too late to go back.
Another sailor told CNN Gaut spoke over the shipwide speaker system, known as 1MC or 1 Main Circuit, about two months ago and said the ship, which had been undergoing major maintenance, wasn’t ready for sailors to move aboard when the process began last summer. But he said, “There’s no turning back now. We can’t reverse course.”
CNN has reached out to the Navy for comment on Gaut’s remarks.
The situation on the aircraft carrier came to national attention when three sailors died by suicide in one week last month. But twelve current and former crewmembers of the George Washington who spoke with CNN, painted a disturbing picture of a ship with myriad issues, including what many said were terrible accommodation standards on the vessel which was effectively a construction site, concerns over the quality of food and a sense that leadership was not tackling the problems and dismissing complaints.
But they weren’t the only deaths on the carrier as it remained docked at the Newport News shipyard. The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has been going through its mid-life refueling and overhaul process since the summer of 2017. The process, initially expected to last four years, has been delayed multiple times until at least March 2023, the Navy said.
‘Awful’ conditions
The sailors who agreed to speak with CNN all said the ship was uninhabitable. Sailors began moving aboard the carrier about one year ago, after the ship had already been in its refueling and overhaul process for four years and was supposed to be ready to accommodate parts of the crew. Even after years of work to prepare the carrier for its next deployment, the ship remained a construction zone around the clock. Often, the challenges of life on the ship hit the youngest sailors hardest.
“I was ready for a sh*tty situation, but I had no idea it would be in the yards,” one sailor currently assigned to the George Washington told CNN. Most of the sailors spoke on condition of anonymity, fearful of the consequences of speaking out to their own careers in the Navy or those of their friends.
In the past 12 months, the crew of the USS George Washington has suffered seven deaths, of which at least four are by suicide, the Navy said. Xavier Sandor, who worked in security on board the ship, according to those who knew him, took his own life on April 15th, the third suicide in one week amongst the crew.
Sandor’s father, John Sandor, said his son was proud to join the Navy right out of high school, following in his grandfather’s footsteps. But Xavier once told his father the conditions on the ship were “awful.”
“How do you sleep on an aircraft carrier with jack hammering and smokes and smells during the day?” asked John Sandor, demanding an explanation. “He would sleep in his car. No sailor should even have been living on that ship in those conditions.”
The suicides become a tragic reality of the carrier, sailors told CNN, instead of an aberration. “I wasn’t surprised. From being on the ship as long as I have been, that’s something that unfortunately I’ve become accustomed to,” said a second sailor on the George Washington. “I’ve seen it, it’s nothing new.”
On board the ship, it was nearly impossible to find a quiet place to sleep, the sailors said, and the ship suffered constant power outages and lacked hot water. The berthings often lacked ventilation, they said, and the massive metal structure of the vessel amplified the temperature outside until it became unbearable.
“I would wake up in the middle of the night freezing my ass off,” another sailor told CNN. “I lived in my car in the winter, and I still felt it better than my berthing.” The sailor, who says he was 19 years old at the time, was shocked at the conditions on the ship, a far cry from his expectations of what life was like in the Navy. He lived in his car off and on for about 3 weeks, he says, until he become more accustomed to the confines of the carrier.
“This is the very bottom,” he told CNN, speaking of the situation on the USS George Washington.
Crew moved off the ship
Earlier this week, the ship’s commanding officer announced that about half of the more than 400 crew members living on board the carrier would move to temporary housing off the ship. Others who wanted to do the same would also be given the opportunity. The sailors who spoke with CNN all agreed it was the right thing to do.
Asked if the Navy was aware that crewmembers were sleeping in their cars instead of on the ship, a spokesman for US Naval Air Force Atlantic said every sailor is “provided the means to accommodations,” and the Navy will look at whether housing was a factor in the suicides.
“Navy and Congressional leadership have met extensively with the current leadership aboard USS George Washington, and feel confident that the leadership team is working hard — within and beyond their lifelines — to care for the crew,” said Commander Robert Myers in a statement to CNN. “Our current focus is on ensuring that we are providing a safe and healthy environment for our sailors aboard GW, and that the shipboard leadership team has the resources to do so.”
One sailor shared with CNN messages from the ship’s digital suggestion box, where people could flag issues or share ideas. Many of the posts were categorized as “Quality of Life,” and focused on issues like distant parking, low morale or the food. But rarely did anything change, the sailors said.
“The complaints won’t do anything. You just have to suffer in silence,” said a fourth sailor assigned to the ship.
Even a complete meal was sometimes hard to come by, multiple sailors told CNN.
“They would just run out of food, and if they had anything left, it would be — if you’re lucky — a little cereal thing or one little chicken leg that may or not be undercooked,” said the fourth sailor who often worked late-night security shifts.
“Prisoners got better food than what we got in the military,” said a sailor who had recently transferred away from the USS George Washington. The carrier was her first assignment, and she says she developed a drinking problem for a time because of the living conditions.
“This is the most insane environment that I’ve ever had to experience,” she said.
Two weeks ago, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Russell Smith, the service’s top enlisted sailor, visited the George Washington and spoke to the crew. In a statement issued afterwards, he said his visit to the ship was about an “open and honest dialogue” where he wanted to “learn about the difficulties our sailors are facing” and to “understand their concerns.”
But when he told the sailors they should have “reasonable expectations” and that they’re not “sleeping in a foxhole like a Marine might be doing,” some crewmembers were stunned. The fourth sailor from the ship called it a “laughable, offensive speech.”
“That’s not a reason for why we live the way we do,” said the second sailor. “Things can be done to fix what we’re going through.”
Another former sailor assigned to the George Washington called the situation on board “unacceptable,” especially given the resources available to the military to address the living conditions and the quality of life.
“This isn’t Afghanistan where you’re expecting those circumstances,” he said. “This is Newport News, Virginia.”
Investigations
Following the most recent suicides, the Navy opened two investigations. The first, which is expected to be completed soon, looks specifically at the recent deaths on board the ship. The second, broader investigation will examine the command climate and culture at the shipyard in Newport News, including the housing, parking, and quality of life issues.
The Navy is “confident that our comprehensive investigation and assessment into the command climate and various quality of life issues will identify areas for future improvements as well as provide recommendations for immediate action,” said Commander Myers.
The commander of US Naval Air Force Atlantic, Admiral John Meier, said the ship also added more mental health resources, such as a special intervention team and an additional psychologist. Crewmembers aboard the USS George Washington will also have access to tele-mental health resources as well and on-board training for junior sailors.
The increase in mental health resources is long overdue, according to the sailors who spoke with CNN. Though the ship had a clinical psychologist, sailors said they would have to wait months for an appointment.
When Jacob Grella, who spent most of his time in the Navy assigned to the George Washington, found out he was assigned to the carrier, which was a short drive from his family in Richmond, Virginia, he said on Facebook that he was “So Freaking Happy.” But it didn’t take long for his occasional weekend trips home to become a chance to escape from the ship.
Grella said he tried to schedule a visit to the ship’s psychologist during his last year on the ship.
When he did, he was met with “a six-month wait period,” at which point “I would’ve been almost out of the Navy.”
Despite his frustration, Grella and many of the other sailors who spoke with CNN believed that a profound change in the culture and the climate of the ship was achievable.
“I think that’s definitely possible,” he said, “but for that to happen, I think at this point accountability needs to be held for everybody. you need to start looking at what’s causing the setbacks and who’s causing this negative treatment and the mindsets on these poor kids.”
Editor’s Note: If you or a loved one have contemplated suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or text TALK to 741741.
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4 teens shot in spray of bullets at Fla. apartment complex
GOULDS, Fla. (WFOR) - Four teens have been hospitalized after being shot at a Florida apartment complex. Residents say the gun violence in their community has to stop.
Four teens were walking just after 5 p.m. Friday alongside Cutler Manor Apartments in Goulds when investigators say they were sprayed with bullets. The victims were two 13-year-olds and two 15-year-olds.
The bullets hit the teens multiple times, and they were all taken to the Ryder Trauma Center. One is in critical but stable condition. The others are listed in stable condition.
So far, no one has been arrested. It’s unclear where the shooter fired from or how they got away.
Charlie Williams owns the Cool Bear Ice Cream shop across the street and says this isn’t the first time he’s seen shootings happen in this complex.
“We just heard the shots, and a couple of customers got down from the shots being fired over there,” he said. “This is our community, right? We need it to stop.”
Romania Dukes with Mothers Fighting for Justice lost her son to a stray bullet in the complex eight years ago.
“This has to stop. How many more kids have to get shot? How many more kids have to die before you guys get it? Enough is enough. You have to speak up,” she said.
Police are urging anyone with information about who was behind the shooting to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-TIPS.
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DENVER, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RiverNorth Opportunities Fund, Inc. is pleased to announce the declaration of a preferred dividend for the third quarter of 2022, as detailed below.
RISKS
This press release is not for tax reporting purposes but is being provided to announce the amount of the Fund's distributions. In early 2023, after definitive information is available, the Fund will send shareholders a Form 1099-DIV, if applicable, specifying how the distributions paid by the Fund during the prior calendar year should be characterized for purposes of reporting the distributions on a shareholder's tax return (e.g., ordinary income, long-term capital gain or return of capital). An investment in the Fund is not appropriate for all investors and is not intended to be a complete investment program. The Fund is designed as a long-term investment and not as a trading vehicle.
Investing in the Fund involves risks, including the risk that you may receive little or no return on your investment or that you may lose part or even all of your investment. The Fund's net asset value will vary and its distribution rate may vary and both may be affected by numerous factors, including changes in the market spread over a specified benchmark, market interest rates and performance of the broader equity markets. Fluctuations in net asset value may be magnified as a result of the Fund's use of leverage. Therefore, before investing you should carefully consider the risks that you assume when you invest in the Fund's common shares.
The Fund's investment objectives and policies are not designed to seek to return the initial investment to investors that purchase shares.
The distribution was calculated based on the preferred shares Liquidation Preference of $25.00 per share and most current quarterly distribution rate per share of $0.3750 for the Fund.
A portion of the distribution may be treated as paid from sources other than net income, including but not limited to short‐term capital gain, long‐term capital gain and return of capital. The final determination of the source of all distributions, including the percentage of qualified dividend income, is made after year‐end.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
An investor should consider the Fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. To obtain an annual report or semi-annual report which contains this and other information, visit www.rivernorthcef.com or call 855.830.1222. Please read them carefully before investing.
NOT FDIC INSURED | May Lose Value | No Bank Guarantee
The Fund is a closed-end fund and does not continuously issue shares for sale as open-end mutual funds do. Since the initial public offering, the Fund now trades in the secondary market. Investors wishing to buy or sell shares need to place orders through an intermediary or broker. The share price of a closed-end fund is based on the market's value.
ALPS Advisors, Inc. is the investment adviser to the Fund.
RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC is the investment sub-adviser to the Fund. RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC is not affiliated with ALPS Advisors, Inc. or any of its affiliates.
ALPS Portfolio Solutions Distributor, Inc. is the FINRA Member firm.
SS&C Technologies
SS&C is a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices around the world. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology. Additional information about SS&C (Nasdaq: SSNC) is available at www.ssctech.com.
About SS&C ALPS Advisors
ALPS Advisors, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SS&C Technologies, Inc., is a leading provider of investment products for advisors and institutions. With over $18.4 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2022, the firm is an open architecture boutique investment manager offering portfolio building blocks, active insight and an unwavering drive to guide clients to investment outcomes across sustainable income, thematic and alternative growth strategies. For more information, visit www.alpsfunds.com.
RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC
RiverNorth is an investment management firm founded in 2000 that specializes in opportunistic strategies in niche markets where the potential to exploit inefficiencies is greatest. RiverNorth is the manager to multiple registered and private funds.
*Registered Representative of ALPS Distributors, Inc.
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Falcons add BYU RB Allgeier to offensive-themed draft class
By CHARLES ODUM
AP Sports Writer
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons wrapped up their NFL draft by adding more help on offense. After selecting USC wide receiver Drake London and Cincinnati quarterback Desmond Ridder in the first two days, the Falcons added BYU running back Tyler Allgeier in the fifth round and two Georgia players, left guard Justin Shaffer and tight end John FitzPatrick, in the sixth round. General manager Terry Fontenot also found help for the Falcons’ woeful pass rush with edge rushers in Penn State’s Arnold Ebiketie and Western Kentucky’s DeAngelo Malone in the middle of the draft.
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ELMSFORD, N.Y., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Affiliates of Harbor Group International, LLC ("HGI") and Azure Partners ("Azure"), today announced their joint venture for the $306 million acquisition of Avalon Green, a garden-style multifamily community in Elmsford, New York. HGI plans to implement a $9.2 million capital improvement program across the community to refresh amenities and common areas and modernize select interior units.
Built in three phases in 1995, 2012 and 2016, respectively, the property totals 617 units and features a mix of townhouses, apartment homes and stacked flats. A portion of HGI's capital improvement program will focus on updating the interiors in Phase I and Phase II of the community to include contemporary finishes.
Located in Westchester County, Avalon Green offers residents convenient commuter access to nearby employment centers, including New York City, Rockland County and Fairfield County. The property is near Interstate 287 and Saw Mill River Parkway, and is a 10-minute drive to the region's Metro-North train station, providing direct service to Manhattan and Stamford, Conn. Westchester County also features several notable corporate campuses, including IBM, PepsiCo, Mastercard, Morgan Stanley and Regeneron.
"Avalon Green is an attractive fit for HGI's multifamily portfolio given its strategic location between several employment centers and transportation options along with the significant value-add potential of the community," said Richard Litton, President, HGI. "We see long-term demand fundamentals for the Westchester area as renters seek housing in suburban markets."
Amenities offered at the property include two saltwater swimming pools, a clubhouse and resident lounge and detached garages.
About Harbor Group International
Harbor Group International, LLC, and its affiliates control an investment portfolio of $19 billion including 4.9 million square feet of commercial space throughout the United States and the United Kingdom and 63,000 apartment units in the United States. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, HGI maintains offices in New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Tel Aviv.
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Morgan McGinnis
mmcginnis@prosek.com
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PRINCETON, N.J., April 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Radiate Holdco, LLC ("Radiate") announced today that it released its full year 2021 financial results on its secure investor website. The financial results were provided in accordance with the terms of the Indentures governing Radiate's 4.5% Senior Notes due 2026 and 6.5% Senior Notes due 2028 (together, the "Notes").
Radiate will hold a conference call to discuss its results at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, May 6, 2022. The dial-in information for the call will be posted to Radiate's secure investor website. During the conference call, representatives of Radiate will discuss and answer questions concerning the company's business and financial matters.
Access to the financial results and conference call will be limited to holders and beneficial owners of the Notes, qualified prospective investors in the Notes, holders of Radiate's term loan, and certain security analysts and market makers. Radiate will post all of its reports required to be furnished pursuant to the Indenture governing the Notes on its secure investor website maintained by Intralinks. Reports will also be posted to Syndtrak for term loan holders. If you meet one or more of the criteria set forth above and would like to access, but have not yet been granted access to, the secure investor website, please contact Radiate's contact below.
Contact details:
Radiate Contact: Jamie Hill, SVP Finance & Treasury
Telephone: 301-531-2720
Email: James.Hill@rcn.net
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ELMAU, Germany (AP) — In 1975, leaders of the world’s wealthy democracies gathered to deal with an energy crisis sparked by a war and rampant inflation. Those same sore points are bedeviling their successors representing 46% of the global economy at this week’s Group of Seven summit, with high consumer and energy prices threatening to trigger recessions in the U.S. and Europe.
Here are key facts about the Group of Seven:
WHAT IS THE GROUP OF SEVEN?
It’s a group of wealthy democracies with large, advanced economies and high standards of living. Annual summits give leaders a chance to hash out common approaches on pretty much anything they want to talk about.
The first summits in the 1970s were convened to deal with the first post-World War II recession, and focused on fiscal stimulus and exchange rates. Economic policy still tends to be front and center. Energy, terrorism, the Cold War and the environment have been major themes across the group’s history.
The members are: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. European Union officials also attend.
WHO STARTED THIS?
In 1975, French President Valery Giscard D’Estaing formally convened what was then a Group of Six outside Paris. The purpose: to deal with a recession accompanied by high unemployment and inflation in the wake of the Arab oil embargo against the U.S. and other countries for supporting Israel during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Canada was invited the next year.
HOW DO THE G-7 GET THINGS DONE?
Their annual meetings offer leaders a chance to size each other up and negotiate face to face on a broad spectrum of issues involving all their Cabinet departments – the big picture.
The G-7 doesn’t have a bureaucracy to carry out its decisions or a permanent headquarters. The rotating host country takes care of the organization and preparatory meetings. The national governments are responsible for follow-up and implementation. Agreements don’t have legal force, but peer pressure plays a role in pushing governments to carry them out.
WHAT’S ON THEIR PLATE NOW?
The leaders meeting in Germany’s Bavaria state are searching for ways to support Ukraine in defending itself against Russia and reviewing sanctions aimed at curbing Russia’s ability to wage war.
One proposal is a price cap on Russian oil that would reduce a key source of Kremlin income. But that has to be balanced with the economic impact, particularly in Europe which is more dependent on Russian oil and gas.
That’s a difficult juggle because fears are rising of a recession in both the U.S. and Europe as central banks raise interest rates to combat inflation. The G-7 are also looking for ways to facilitate grain shipments out of Ukraine and to alleviate global food inflation and shortages.
WHO DECIDES WHO GETS TO JOIN?
Membership is by invitation of the existing members. The G-7 stands out because its members are all democracies. That’s a contrast with the larger Group of 20, which represents more than 80% of the world economy but where like-minded democracies must sit with a monarchy like Saudi Arabia and authoritarian governments like Russia and China, as well as developing countries like Indonesia.
Russia previously belonged to the smaller group. It joined to form the G-8 in 1998 but was thrown out after Moscow invaded and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula in 2014.
The G-7 invites guest countries to take part in some summit sessions, and the 27 member countries of the European Union have a seat at the table through the attendance of the EU’s council and commission president.
WHAT KINDS OF THINGS HAVE THEY DONE?
Projects initiated or pushed by the G-7 included debt relief for poor countries during the 1990s, managing relations with the Soviet Union and attempting to win over Russia for the West after the Soviet collapse, and promoting free trade, a global minimum corporate tax and efforts to fight climate change.
WHAT DO CRITICS SAY?
The G-7 has faced several criticisms over the years – for excluding developing economies and for its lack of a formal institutional setup. Anti-capitalist and anti-globalization campaigners protest the meetings as a club for the rich, while anti-poverty and environmental groups urge the leaders to do more in those areas.
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The company announces initial investment in fiber network growth of $6 million with an additional estimated $8 million expected over 5 years
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conterra Ultra Broadband Holdings, Inc. ("Conterra Networks") today announced its continued leading efforts in fiber infrastructure initiatives across Smith County with its initial investment in fiber network growth of $6 million and an additional estimated $8 million expected over 5 years.
Conterra Networks designs and builds its 100% fiber network with symmetrical service, speeds of up to 10 Gbps, and 99.99% network reliability. The local team manages the all-fiber network, which is now available to approximately 6,509 Smith County businesses and growing.
"The communities we serve by investing in local network infrastructure continues to be a top priority for us," said Craig Gunderson, President and CEO of Conterra Networks. "This investment is critical to our customers. With the ever-increasing business connectivity requirements, we are always committed to enabling limitless communications opportunities for our customers by providing access to custom-designed, ultra-high-capacity broadband networks."
Conterra Networks is also expanding in Rusk County, Gregg County, Harrison County, Tom Green County, Brown County, Angelina County, and Nacogdoches County. The expansion is part of the company's growing network infrastructure across the United States. To date, Conterra Networks has 13,250 fiber miles, 2,700 schools served, and over 7,500 on-net locations.
To learn more about Conterra Networks and the expansion efforts in Texas, visit www.conterra.com.
Founded in 2001, and now operating 13,250 fiber miles, Conterra Networks is one of the largest remaining independent broadband infrastructure companies in the United States based on its optical fiber and fixed wireless network assets and annual recurring revenues. The company is owned by affiliates of APG and Fiera, along with significant participation by the company's senior management team. For more information about Conterra Networks, please visit www.conterra.com.
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TORONTO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its 2022 Business Instant Messaging Data Quadrant. Six providers in the Enterprise and Midmarket spaces have been identified as Gold Medalists.
The rise of hybrid and remote work has made Instant Messaging (IM) software an essential part of how organizations conduct business today, as internal IM bridges the gap of physical distance by allowing employees to collaborate from anywhere in the world. IM software combines many different solutions, such as messaging, video chatting, file sharing, and web conferencing. For 2022 and beyond, these features will boost employee efficiency and engagement and allow them to manage projects, communicate, and seamlessly share and work on documents, no matter their geographic location.
To support businesses in the digital market, SoftwareReviews has identified the top business instant messaging software providers for the year based on verified survey data collected from 2,245 end-user reviews. These providers have received high scores on SoftwareReviews' Data Quadrant.
Providers are ranked by a composite satisfaction score, called a Composite Score (CS), that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend.
The 2022 Enterprise Business Instant Messaging Software Gold Medalists are as follows:
- Slack, 8.9 CS, ranked high for notifications.
- Google Chat, 8.8 CS, ranked high for instant messaging.
The 2022 Midmarket Business Instant Messaging Software Gold Medalists are as follows:
- Talkspirit, 9.2 CS, ranked high for business value creation.
- Hive, 9.2 CS, ranked high for its quality of features.
- Mattermost, 9.0 CS, ranked high for ease of customization.
- Flock, 8.9 CS, ranked high for ease of data integration.
SoftwareReviews' comprehensive software reviews provide the most accurate and detailed view of a complicated and ever-changing market. The data comes from real end users who use the software day in and day out and IT professionals who have worked with it intimately through procurement, implementation, and maintenance.
To compare and evaluate business instant messaging software providers using the most in-depth and unbiased analyst reports available, visit SoftwareReviews' dedicated business instant messaging category page.
For more information about SoftwareReviews, the Data Quadrant, or the Emotional Footprint, or to access resources to support the software selection process, visit softwarereviews.com and connect via LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
About SoftwareReviews
SoftwareReviews is the most in-depth source of buyer data and insights for the enterprise software market. By collecting customer experience data from business and IT professionals, the SoftwareReviews methodology produces detailed and authentic insights into the experience of evaluating and purchasing enterprise software.
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Metered Cryospray treats damaged airways enabling a rejuvenative healing response
BOSTON, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CSA Medical, Inc., today announced results from the first randomized, controlled study of Metered Cryospray (MCS) utilizing the RejuvenAir® System for the treatment of Chronic Bronchitis. The data was presented at the International Congress of the European Respiratory Society in Barcelona, Spain by Christopher Orton, MD, of The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
SGRQ and CAT, the gold standard measurement for patient reported symptom scores, were statistically significant and clinically meaningful, respectively. Chronic Bronchitis, the largest subset of COPD, is a progressive, irreversible disease with no cure. Medications merely manage symptoms, but over time, chronic productive cough and breathlessness worsen. As expected, quality of life in the sham group continued to decline. However, sham subjects were offered cross-over to treatment at 6 months and to date, all 32 subjects have completed treatment.
The Royal Brompton team previously reported strong safety and clinically meaningful 24 month results, from an open-label trial, now 36 months out. Together with this new cohort, they have performed over 100 Metered Cryospray treatments with zero pneumothoraces. "This first randomized controlled study data reinforces previous feasibility results showing Quality of Life improvement in patients with chronic bronchitis. RejuvenAir® Metered Cryospray is both safe and effective in a patient population with multiple co-morbidities, in a disease with no established therapies," summarized Pallav Shah, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College, London.
The RejuvenAir System is designed to address the underlying cause of Chronic Bronchitis, the damaged cilia and mucus-producing goblet cells lining the airways and enable a rejuvenative healing response. SPRAY-CB, the pivotal study of the RejuvenAir System in patients with COPD with Chronic Bronchitis, is actively enrolling.
Chronic Bronchitis is the largest disease subset of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchial airways. A chronic bronchitis diagnosis is defined by cough with productive sputum of three months duration for two consecutive years. In addition to a chronic inflammation, cough and increased production of mucus, chronic bronchitis may or may not present with obstruction/partially blocked airways due to swelling and excess mucus in the bronchi, or shortness of breath (dyspnea). In the United States, there are an estimated 16 million people with COPD, of which over 9 million have a diagnosis of chronic bronchitis. Approximately 700,000 people are hospitalized for symptoms/exacerbations of chronic bronchitis every year. In Europe, there are approximately 23 million people with COPD and approximately 1.5 million hospitalizations per year for COPD.
CSA Medical, Inc. develops and manufactures proprietary interventional liquid nitrogen spray cryotherapy systems that utilize software-driven dosimetry and specialty catheters that enable delivery of cryogen spray inside the airways to flash freeze and destroy damaged cells allowing for a rejuvenative pattern of healing.
The RejuvenAir System is approved in the EU and under clinical investigation in the United States. To learn more about our technology or clinical trials, please visit www.rejuvenair.com or www.clinicaltrials.gov [Identifiers: NCT03893370 and NCT03892694].
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| 2022-09-06T11:32:11Z
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After Randy Cox suffered an injury in the back of a New Haven police van that left him partially paralyzed, officials in the Connecticut city have announced a series of reforms and police training requirements that include mandating the use of seatbelts in prisoner transport.
The announcement Thursday comes almost three weeks after Richard "Randy" Cox Jr., 36, suffered a serious injury to his neck and spine while in the custody of New Haven Police. The van came to a sudden stop and Cox, who was handcuffed and not in a seat belt, slid headfirst into the van's interior wall.
Cox called for help, but the officer continued driving for more than 3 minutes before stopping to check on him.
Connecticut State Police are investigating the June 19 incident. Five New Haven police officers, including the van's driver, were placed on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation.
Connecticut State Police refused to comment on the status of the investigation when contacted by CNN on Thursday.
The reforms announced include eliminating the use of police vans for most prisoner transports and using marked police vehicles instead. Prisoners will now be required to be secured in any transport vehicle by the proper use of a seat belt.
At a joint news conference, the mayor and chief of police also said officers will now be required to immediately call for an ambulance if a prisoner requests or appears to need medical aid. The reforms also include a review of detention center policies, random checks of body cameras and department-wide training.
How Cox was injured
The city released six videos relating to Cox and his arrest, one of which shows Cox -- unsecured on the van bench he was on -- sliding forward and hitting his head. Mayor Justin Elicker previously said the van was not equipped with seatbelts.
The mayor has said New Haven Police arrested Cox on suspicion of illegally possessing a handgun and other accusations. Court documents obtained by CNN show Cox has been charged with "threatening in the first degree," a felony, among other charges.
While a prisoner van transported Cox to a New Haven police detention facility, an officer who was driving "made a sudden stop to avoid a motor vehicle accident," and Cox, in the back of the van, was injured.
Elicker said he and Chief of Police Karl Jacobson visited Cox in the hospital Wednesday, and during the visit, Cox struggled to say, "I can't talk."
"I think yesterday, seeing Mr. Cox in his condition, really brings home why it's so important for us to take action to correct what happened," Elicker said Thursday. "I'm a dad, I can't imagine my children one day being able to walk and the next day potentially never being able to walk again."
He added, "It's just awful what happened to him. It's just awful. My heart goes out to him and the family. His life is forever changed."
Jacobson also said Cox had a hard time talking; he said Cox has paralysis and "is still struggling."
"We're committed to making sure this never happens again," the chief said. "We're committed and passionate about it."
Seeing Cox in the hospital, Jacobson said, "was a very tough thing to see, but I think it's important for us to see it because it's our job to fix it and make sure it never happens again. And I'm never going to forget meeting him and him attempting to talk, and it was a very emotional thing."
What happened to the officers
Some of the footage released by police shows several officers pulling Cox out of the van and putting him in a wheelchair. In the recordings, Cox repeatedly tells officers he cannot move and asks for help, but they keep telling him to sit up or move his legs or give him other directions.
Later, Cox is shown being dragged into a cell, where he is propped up against a bed. As an officer leaves, Cox falls onto the floor and ends up lying on his back.
The videos are from officers' body-worn cameras and a camera that is inside the rear of the police van.
The officers placed on leave include the van's driver, three officers at the detention facility and the facility's supervisor, Elicker wrote in a letter shared with New Haven residents on his Twitter account last month. They are also the subject of a department internal affairs probe, he said.
"As the chief, I want my officers to know, yes, you can make mistakes, but you can't treat people inhumanely," Jacobson said Thursday.
The new reforms also require officers to complete training on the prisoner transport initiatives within the next two weeks and then be tested on the procedures.
The mayor said, "I want to reiterate that what happened to Mr. Cox was unacceptable, and we're committed to making these necessary changes. We're deeply committed to making these necessary changes for the city of New Haven, for the family, and for the integrity of the police department."
He added, "We promised quick and decisive action and accountability and today's new initiatives and reforms are important step in fulfilling that commitment."
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Undercover online sex sting results in 7 arrests, officials say
LORRAIN COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - An undercover operation by several law enforcement agencies in Ohio has resulted in the arrests of seven men for online sex crimes.
According to WOIO, the men are accused of interacting with and traveling to meet children for sexual activity, except the victims were actually undercover officers posing as children.
Authorities said the men listed below are facing charges of attempting to commit an offense of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor as well as importuning:
- Mark Schnur, 53, of Elyria
- Gary Lovelace, 33, of Avon Lake
- Darrin Dudgeon, 36, of Avon Lake
- Wade Ellis Hering, 24, of Elyria
- David A. Bring, 42, of Wellington
- Devon Francis, 27, of Amherst
- Manuel Genao Vargas, 25, of Cleveland
The two-day sting, led by the Elyria Police Department and the Lorain County Prosecutor’s Office, is called “Operation Watchdog.”
“Online predators remain a serious threat to our children... the success of this operation will send a message to offenders that you will be found, you will be arrested, and you will be prosecuted,” authorities stated in a news release.
The men were taken to the Lorain County Jail, and according to the release, additional charges could be possible.
Assisting agencies in the investigation were the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, Streetsboro Police Department, Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Lorain Metro Housing Authority.
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Purported thief leaves flyers asking for donations to stop stealing
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) - Police are urging people not to send money after San Francisco residents found flyers on their cars claiming to be from a thief who wants to stop stealing and asked for help paying their bills.
Marcia Saephan found a flyer on her windshield when she parked near the University of San Francisco. It read, “I don’t want to steal anymore! But I still have bills to pay. Can you help me please?” The flyer then lists three ways to pay: Cash App, Bitcoin and PayPal.
Saephan believes the flyer amounts to extortion. She says she was afraid that if she didn’t pay, her car could get broken into.
“I was actually a little scared, a little rattled. I didn’t know if they were going to come back to break into my car or anyone else’s car,” she said. “It was something I had to consider every time I came to work and actually adjusting the way I parked and where I parked. So, it did affect me, and it still does.”
Saephan says multiple cars had the same flyer. She says car break-ins around the area happen frequently, especially during the holidays.
Even though she decided not to pay, her co-worker who also got the flyer did send money.
Etay Maor, the senior director of security strategy at Cato Networks, is a cybersecurity expert. He said this type of crime involving crypto and apps is in some cases hard to trace.
“Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency based on a block chain, so while it’s impossible to know who’s behind a specific wallet, you can still follow traces and see which transactions reach which wallet,” he said.
PayPal confirmed the account included on the flyer is real. After investigating, the company is taking action to terminate the account.
“Any illegal behavior is a direct violation of the PayPal user agreement, and any violations of this nature will result in an account being terminated,” said the company in part.
San Francisco Police said this is the first time they have seen this criminal approach but confirmed the city is experiencing an uptick in auto burglaries. Police haven’t confirmed if the person behind the flyer is a suspect of any crime and urged people not to send money.
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Ogunbowale scores 21 to lead Dallas over New York 81-71
By DOUG FEINBERG
AP Basketball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Arike Ogunbowale scored 18 of her 21 points in the second half and the Dallas Wings beat the New York Liberty 81-71. Dallas (2-1) had a two-point lead at the half before Ogunbowale got going. She had nine points in the third quarter, including a 3-pointer that made it 62-52 with 1:55 left in the period. New York (1-3) got within five in the fourth quarter but could get no closer thanks to Ogunbowale and Isabelle Harrison, who finished with 18 points. Sabrina Ionescu had 17 points, seven rebounds and six assists to lead the Liberty. Natasha Howard scored 14 points a game after missing 14 of her 15 shot attempts.
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| 2022-05-15T23:10:37Z
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jim Pasco, the executive director for the Fraternal Order of Police, was watching football on a Sunday afternoon when he got a call from Susan Rice, the top domestic policy adviser at the White House.
Negotiations over an executive order to address racism and policing were in danger of breaking down after a draft was leaked that law enforcement groups believed was too harsh toward officers. Now Rice was looking to get things back on track.
“She said they wanted to start over,” Pasco said as he looked back on that day earlier this year. “And they wanted to deal with us in total confidence.”
He agreed. The result was the executive order that President Joe Biden signed last week during a ceremony that, improbably, brought together law enforcement leaders, civil rights activists and families of people who had been killed by police.
“This is a moment where we have come together for something that is not perfect, but it’s very good,” Rice said. “And it moves the needle substantially.”
No one who believes that American policing needs to be overhauled — including the president himself — thinks the final order goes far enough. It does not directly affect local departments, which have the most interactions with citizens, nor does it necessarily represent permanent change. The next administration could swiftly undo it.
However, many civil rights advocates consider it an important step forward, and maybe even a building block toward more expansive legislation that has so far been elusive.
“We have to keep the dialogue going,” said Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League. “And I think this helps create the sense that we can talk, and if we do talk, we’ll find some common ground.”
A NEW STRATEGY
Biden’s original hope was for Congress to pass bipartisan legislation named for George Floyd, the Black man who was murdered by Minneapolis police during an arrest in 2020.
However, the first anniversary of Floyd’s death passed last year without a deal, and negotiations eventually broke down. White House officials began focusing on a potential executive order.
Previous presidents, too, have attempted to make improvements to America’s law enforcement system, but Biden faced particular pressure to find the right balance.
During his campaign, Biden met with Floyd’s family and pledged to make racial justice a core part of his administration.
He also had longstanding relationships with police and their unions. And he didn’t want to be at odds with law enforcement when crime was a growing concern for the country, not to mention an issue ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
After preliminary meetings, a draft of the order took shape, and it was circulated among various federal agencies. Then a leaked copy was posted online by the Federalist, a conservative website, in January.
“Everyone went ballistic,” Pasco said. Not only did law enforcement groups dislike various parts of the draft, they felt like the administration hadn’t adequately listened to their perspective.
Rice worked the phones to calm nerves, opening a new chapter in the negotiations.
In addition to Rice’s team, Justice Department officials and the White House counsel’s office under Dana Remus worked through the details. Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., were involved as well.
Senior administration officials described a sort of shuttle diplomacy, and they met separately with civil rights advocates and law enforcement groups while trying to keep everyone on the same page. Long days were fueled by Hershey’s Kisses, M&Ms and whatever else that could be scrounged from White House desks.
Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, an independent policy organization, said that in Washington, “people give you lip service.” But in this case, “we had hours of discussions, very substantive discussions, about some of the issues in there.”
REACHING A DEAL
One sensitive part of the leaked draft didn’t change. The final version still says the country should “acknowledge the legacy of systemic racism in our criminal justice system and work together to eliminate the racial disparities that endure to this day.”
Ebonie Riley, a senior vice president at the National Action Network, a civil rights organization led by Rev. Al Sharpton, said it was important to leave that in.
“If we continue to hide in the shadows conversations that we need to have out loud, that becomes part of the problem,” she said.
To balance the tone, more language was added about “rising rates of violent crime” and how “reinforcing the partnership between law enforcement and communities is imperative for combating crime and achieving lasting public safety.”
A phrase about how deadly force should only be used as “a last resort when there is no reasonable alternative” was cut. However, the executive order requires federal law enforcement officers to prioritize de-escalation and then intervention if they see another officer using excessive force.
A significant portion of the order is dedicated to collecting information, such as creating a database to track misconduct by federal officers and expanding tools for analyzing the use of force.
“When we talk about what a fair criminal justice system looks like, a big part of that is understanding what the data is,” said Danielle Conley, the White House deputy counsel.
As an executive order, the new policies are limited to federal agencies. But administration officials plan to attach strings to federal funding to persuade local police departments to adopt similar rules.
“Simply having these words on paper is not going to save lives,” said Udi Ofer, deputy national political director at the American Civil Liberties Union.
On May 15, Biden attended an annual memorial for officers killed in the line of duty. After Biden posed for photos with people at the memorial, Pasco stuck around for a private conversation.
There wasn’t much time left until the second anniversary of Floyd’s death, May 25, and no one at the White House wanted the day to pass without an agreement.
“We gave everything we had to give,” Pasco recalled telling Biden. “And your staff made a lot of concessions, too. So as long as it remains the way it is, we’re good with it.”
Pasco said Biden responded, “I’m going to take a look at it, and if I see any problems, I’ll let you know about it.”
But there weren’t any, and the deal was done.
THE CEREMONY
Officials began inviting key players to the signing ceremony just a few days before, and some were only notified the previous day. A process that had nearly been unraveled by a leak reached the finish line without disruption.
In addition to Floyd’s family, the audience included relatives of other Black people — Michael Brown, Elijah McClain, Amir Locke, Atatiana Jefferson and Breonna Taylor — who had been killed by law enforcement over the years.
Not everyone was mollified. The Movement for Black Lives issued a statement calling Biden’s executive order “a poor excuse for the transformation of public safety that he promised.” But Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, argued that the order represented progress.
“If we refuse to sit at the table, or allow for the political climate to overshadow public policy opportunities, we all suffer as a result,” he said.
In his speech, Biden said Congress still needed to pass legislation, but he described the executive order as “the most significant police reform in decades.”
“Let me say there are those who seek to drive a wedge between law enforcement and the people they serve, those who peddle the fiction that public trust and public safety are in opposition to one another,” Biden said.
He added, “We know that’s not true.”
When Biden finished, Floyd’s 8-year-old daughter, Gianna, approached. “You’re getting so big,” Biden told her.
She sat down at the desk where the president had signed the order. Vice President Kamala Harris handed her the pen that Biden had used.
“You know what she told me when I saw her when she was a little girl two years ago?” Biden said. “Seriously, she pulled me aside and she said, ‘My daddy is going to change the world.’”
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Ukraine returns to soccer field with friendly win in Germany
MÖNCHENGLADBACH, Germany (AP) — The Ukrainian men’s national team has returned to action for the first time since the invasion by Russia. Oleksandr Pikhalonok scored the winning goal as Ukraine beat German club Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-1 in a friendly. The game raised funds for charity and gave Ukraine much-needed game practice ahead of a World Cup qualifying playoff against Scotland on June 1. The squad for the unusual club-versus-country friendly was assembled from Ukrainian clubs whose league seasons were frozen Feb. 24 on the morning Russian troops invaded.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Resilience, which provides cyber insurance and security solutions to mid-market enterprises to help them holistically evaluate, manage, and quantify their cyber risk, continues its global expansion in the UK and Europe with five senior executive appointments:
- Jack Jenner, International Head of Distribution and Strategy
- Rehan Hussain, Head of Underwriting, Europe, UK, and Lloyd's of London
- Tom Ryan, Lead Underwriter, UK
- Tom Egglestone, International Claims Leader, UK and Europe
- Simon West, Cyber Advisory Lead
"Our new hires' extensive experience and relationships in the UK and European marketplace ensures our international expansion is launched from a position of strength," said Mario Vitale, President of Resilience. "I am thrilled to welcome such an impressive group of leaders to the team. Their track record of innovative thinking is exactly the approach we need to set the new security standard for cyber risk and redefine what it means to be cyber resilient."
Resilience has made key hires to their security team in support of its UK expansion, appointing industry veteran Simon West as Cyber Advisory Lead. "We are extremely excited to add Simon West to our growing security team," said Michael McNerney, SVP of Security at Resilience. "Simon is a recognized security expert with years of practical experience helping clients achieve cyber resilience."
Jack Jenner joins Resilience as International Head of Distribution and Strategy. Jenner has over 20 years of experience in international insurance and most recently served as Group COO at Orient Insurance in Dubai. Previously, he served as CEO of Middle East and North Africa at Allianz, where he also held prior leadership positions in Asia and London.
Rehan Hussain joins Resilience as Head of Underwriting, Europe, UK, and Lloyd's of London.
Most recently Hussain served as Head of Cyber UK and Nordics, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, based in London, where he led a team of underwriters serving London, UK, and European markets, underwriting middle market and large global accounts. Hussain has more than 14 years of international insurance experience, including serving as Head of Financial Lines for Middle East and North Africa, where he developed the cyber insurance proposition and underwriting team for the region.
Tom Ryan joins Resilience as Lead Underwriter, UK. Ryan was most recently Major Account Segment Leader, Cyber and Technology at Chubb UK, where he led a team of underwriters serving the large global account segment through the London market and retail distribution. Previously, he served as Senior Underwriter, UK Retail, where he developed and executed the retail middle market strategy for Chubb UK. Ryan brings to Resilience nearly a decade of underwriting experience in cyber, technology, and financial lines products.
Tom Egglestone joins Resilience as International Claims Leader, UK and Europe. Egglestone most recently served as Cyber and Intellectual Property Claims Manager at Tokio Marine Kiln where he was recognized as a specialist in cyber and intellectual property products, having handled some of the London market's largest claims in those areas. Previously a claims adjuster at CFC and Hiscox,
Egglestone has over a decade of escalating experience and responsibility for complex specialty claims and claims operations in the London market.
Simon West joins Resilience as Cyber Advisory Lead. West has more than 25 years of global security risk management experience across government, military, and civil agencies. He is a National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) certified instructor leading training for global underwriting teams on complex risk issues. West served over 14 years in the Royal Marines and has an MSc in Cyber Security and Human Factors from Bournemouth University.
Resilience is an industry leader in providing cyber insurance and security solutions, combining enhanced insurance coverage with advanced monitoring tools and deep technical expertise to help businesses better manage their cyber risk. Backed by global insurer Intact Financial Corporation - as well as venture capital firms like General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Founders Fund, CRV, Intact Ventures, and Shield Capital - Resilience leverages its proprietary, data-driven risk analytics platform to provide highly tailored policy coverage and a superior in-house claims experience. With headquarters in San Francisco, the Resilience team operates globally with offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, Toronto, and London. Coverage offered through Lloyd's will be available through an approved coverholder.
To learn more about Resilience, visit https://resilienceinsurance.com.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Africa have dropped to their lowest levels since the pandemic began, marking the longest decline yet seen in the disease, according to the World Health Organization.
In a statement on Thursday, the U.N. health agency said COVID-19 infections due to the omicron surge had “tanked” from a peak of more than 308,000 weekly cases to fewer than 20,000 last week. Cases and deaths fell by 29% and 37% respectively in the last week; deaths decreased to 239 from the previous week.
“This low level of infection has not been seen since April 2020 in the early stages of the pandemic in Africa,” WHO said, noting that no country in the region is currently seeing an increase of COVID-19 cases.
The agency warned, however, that with winter approaching for Southern Hemisphere countries, “there is a high risk of another wave of new infections.” The coronavirus spreads more easily in cooler temperatures when people are more likely to gather in larger numbers indoors.
“With the virus still circulating, the risk of new and potentially more deadly variants emerging remains, and the pandemic control measures are pivotal to effective response to a surge in infections,” said Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO’s Africa director.
The decline in Africa is consistent with falling COVID-19 numbers globally, although in China officials fear the country still doesn’t have its latest surge in omicron-involved cases under control despite a “zero-tolerance” approach that has triggered a three-week lockdown in Shanghai,where at least 15 million people are still barred from going outside.
The measures have led to frustration among Shanghai residents about running out of food and medicines. This week, government authorities also closed off access to Guangzhou, an industrial center of 19 million people near Hong Kong and other cities are cutting their outside links or closing factories and schools.
Meanwhile, scientists in the U.S. warn the country may be about to see a wave of cases fueled by the omicron subvariant BA.2, which has already peaked across Europe. The country expects to soon mark the deaths of at least 1 million Americans killed by COVID.
Earlier this week, WHO said scientists in Botswana and South Africa have detected new forms of the omicron variant, labeled as BA.4 and BA.5, but aren’t sure yet if they might be more transmissible or dangerous.
To date, the new versions of omicron have been detected in four people in Botswana and 23 people in South Africa. Beyond Africa, scientists have confirmed cases in Belgium, Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom. WHO said there was so far no evidence the new sub-variants spread any differently than the original omicron variant.
Despite repeated warnings from WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus that the coronavirus would devastate Africa, the continent has been among the least affected by the pandemic.
In an analysis released last week, WHO estimated that up to 65% of people in Africa have been infected with the coronavirus and said unlike many other regions, most people infected on the continent didn’t show any symptoms.
Scientists at WHO and elsewhere have speculated that factors including Africa’s young population, the lower incidence of chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes and warmer weather, may have helped it avoid a bigger wave of disease. Still, some countries have seen significant increases in the numbers of unexplained deaths, suggesting authorities were missing numerous COVID-19 cases.
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CLEVELAND and BOSTON, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MPE Partners ("MPE" or "Morgenthaler Private Equity") along with portfolio company Hi-Tech Industries ("Hi-Tech"), today announced a strategic investment in 3D International, LLC d/b/a 3D Car Care ("3D" or the "Company"), a vertically-integrated designer and manufacturer of premium vehicle care and detailing products sold through professional and consumer channels. 3D offers a comprehensive line of innovative and highly efficacious compounds, polishes, waxes, ceramic coatings, liquid chemicals, and hard good accessories serving customers across the United States and over fifty countries worldwide.
MPE partnered in the transaction with 3D's founder, Tunch Goren, as well as its management team, led by President Juan De Rada. Nathan Iverson, Chief Executive Officer of Hi-Tech, said, "Tunch and his team have established 3D as an industry leader in product innovation and abrasive technology coupled with a go-to-market strategy that appeals directly to the most highly skilled paint, body, and equipment and detailing professionals as well as discriminating enthusiasts. Hi-Tech is excited to welcome 3D as a sister company in the MPE portfolio."
Constantine Elefter, Principal at MPE, added, "3D is well positioned for organic growth by capitalizing on historical investments made in branding, new product formulation, omni-channel sales development, and manufacturing capabilities. We are thrilled about extending the foundation laid by Tunch to reach new professional customers and do-it-yourselfers in combination with Hi-Tech."
Tunch Goren noted, "We are enthusiastic to join with MPE and Hi-Tech and are confident that this strategic partnership will further accelerate 3D's growth trajectory and continued evolution."
Apogem Capital provided financing to support the transaction. Jones Day served as legal advisor to MPE. Parcrest Advisors acted as the investment banking advisor to 3D.
About 3D International
Headquartered in Santa Clarita, CA, 3D is a leading manufacturer of car care and detailing products. 3D's comprehensive line of innovative and high-quality compounds, polishes, ceramic coatings, cleaning supplies, and accessories serves customers across the United States and over fifty countries worldwide. For more information, please visit www.3Dproducts.com.
About Hi-Tech
Headquartered in Farmington, MI, Hi-Tech is a leading provider of innovative car care accessories, appearance liquids, and specialty aerosols. With over 2,300 SKUs sold across eight highly-recognized brands, Hi-Tech is the preeminent one-stop solution in the detailing and reconditioning market. For more information, please visit www.htiusa.com.
About MPE Partners
MPE Partners ("MPE" or "Morgenthaler Private Equity") seeks to be the preferred partner for entrepreneur- and family-owned companies. Based in Cleveland, OH, and Boston, MA, MPE invests in profitable, lower middle market companies with transaction values up to $250 million. MPE has two primary target investment areas: high-value manufacturing and commercial & industrial services. For more information, please visit www.mpepartners.com.
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ANAHEIM HILLS, Calif., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Channel Bakers, a global retail media agency, has been awarded the Amazon Ads advanced partner status based on the growth it delivers for their advertising clients and its level of engagement and expertise with Amazon Ads products like Amazon DSP and sponsored ads.
"Channel Bakers was one of the earliest adopters of Amazon Ads products, and has teams located throughout the world," said Josh Kreitzer, CEO and Founder of Channel Bakers. "These include emerging regions such as the Asia Pacific, Europe and Middle Eastern regions."
Channel Bakers has been a beta participant for Amazon Ads beta programs for several years and been on the forefront of adopting new advertising tools for the Amazon store, which initially included sponsored ads and stores and subsequently expanded to display, additional branded shopping experiences, and more recently streaming TV ads (STV).
Channel Bakers is going online advertising or creative, by also seeking to address common retailer challenges, such as inventory management and promotional calendar development. The agency provides complete go-to-market strategies for its clients, using metrics-driven insights to optimize retail channels, inventory and programmatic advertising management, as well as produce gold-standard creative assets to tell their story and differentiate their products.
Channel Bakers has also established technology-based partnerships to provide its clients a broader range of insights and metrics to facilitate marketing and inventory management on any retail media channel.
Founded in 2015, Channel Bakers, today is a full-service, global agency with offices on four continents. The agency was founded upon a core tenet to help innovative brands find the right audience at the right time and tell their story to drive sales. Named an Amazon Ads advanced partner, the agency utilizes its decades of experience leveraging insights and analytics to grow revenue within specific retailers and verticals. With this strategy Channel Bakers has leveraged its initial success to become a true omnichannel online retail media and marketing consultancy. Visit www.channelbakers.com for more information and view its case studies.
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NORTH CONWAY, N.H., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate The Masiello Group, a trailblazer in New England real estate, recently celebrated the grand opening of their new real estate office with a ribbon cutting in early June. The new office is located on 3631 White Mountain Highway just north of North Conway Village in Intervale.
The Masiello Group is a second-generation family company helping real estate owners and buyers throughout New England since 1966. With more than 35 offices throughout Northern New England, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate The Masiello Group is the largest residential real estate firm north of Boston and is the only company in the region to offer a complete spectrum of real estate services, including mortgage, title, home warranty, homeowner insurance, and relocation services.
The Masiello Group's CEO, Chris Masiello, is actively helping to shape the future of the real estate industry through his hands-on expertise as well as his promise to both personally and professionally strive to always be better. Chris is a 35-year veteran in real estate and is a nationally recognized expert and leader in business operations, marketing, relocation and homeownership services.
"At The Masiello Group's North Conway office, you will find the personalized touch you would expect within a small community, plus the full range of integrated offerings our team offers including mortgage financing, home warranty, relocation, and closing services" said Masiello. "Best of all, you'll be working with the area's most experienced real estate agents who are steadfastly committed to providing clients with a quality experience."
Contact Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate The Masiello Group at 603-446-6810 or find then online at www.masiello.com/north-conway-nh.
With more than 35 offices throughout Northern New England, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate The Masiello Group is the largest real estate firm north of Boston and is the only company in the region to offer a complete spectrum of home services, including mortgage, title, home warranty, homeowner insurance, and relocation services. The Masiello Group was recently named a Top 25 Broker by Realogy Leads Group in recognition of its excellent performance and customer satisfaction. In January 2022, Swanepoel Power 200 recognized Chairman and CEO Christopher J. Masiello as one of the most influential leaders in the residential real estate industry. For more information, visit www.masiello.com.
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Technology tackles complexity of human manipulation, enabling robotic dexterity
SYDNEY, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia-based company Contactile has closed US$2.5 million in seed funding to develop and pilot tactile sensors that give robots a human sense of touch and enable robotic dexterity. The round was led by Silicon Valley's True Ventures with participation from Flying Fox Ventures, Radar Ventures and UNSW Founders, the last of which is a program launched by the university where Contactile's three co-founders developed the company's core technology.
What makes Contactile's sensor technology superior is its ability to measure 3D forces and torques, partial slip and friction — all essential parameters for enabling robotic dexterity.
"To hold an object without letting it slip from our grasp, we squeeze it with our fingers," said Dr. Heba Khamis, Conctactile co-founder and CEO. "When an object is heavier, we squeeze harder, and when an object is slippery, we squeeze harder. People know how hard to squeeze an object because they can feel the weight and the slipperiness by touching the object. But robots haven't been able to feel these things before now."
Khamis co-founded Contactile with Benjamin Xia, CTO, and Associate Professor Stephen Redmond. The three co-founders have been developing tactile sensors together for eight years, beginning at UNSW Sydney, where they each studied or taught, and performed research in electrical, software and biomedical engineering. Together, they've developed deep expertise in human tactile physiology, artificial tactile sensing, signal processing and machine learning, and control.
"We're delighted to partner with True and this amazing group of investors, each of whom brings deep experience in different aspects of rapidly scaling businesses," said Khamis. "They understand the massive opportunity in robotics and the need for smarter, more flexible and more reactive robots that can help do the jobs that are too dull, dirty and/or dangerous for people to do."
While robots currently on the market can pick up and place items, they must be precisely programmed for every object they encounter; they cannot adapt to pick up new objects without new, more advanced programming. As such, their behavior is un-human-like and incapable of complex manipulation. Opening jars, turning door handles, and even operating tools are triumphs. Contactile's technology enables robotic grippers to autonomously handle objects never before encountered but also to perform more complex manipulation through touch sensor feedback, enabling robots to use their 'hands' in a more flexible, versatile way.
Contactile is looking to solve both short-term and long-term problems – from warehouse fulfillment – e.g., autonomous gripping of thousands of unique products in a grocery store – to space applications – e.g., versatile robots for building infrastructure on planets other than Earth.
"We're thrilled to partner with the Contactile team and join their bold vision to lead the tactile revolution in robotics," said Rohit Sharma, partner at True Ventures. "Their innovations in tactile-grip sensors have the potential to transform robots from single-task machines to multi-purpose handy helpers. Applications of Contactile's technology span multiple industrial and consumer robotics scenarios and our investment will accelerate the development of their products and pilots worldwide."
There is a mega trend towards robotics and automation in every sector, including agriculture, warehousing and logistics, security and rescue, health and medicine, and space. Rich tactile sensing and dexterous robots will be required in these industries as robots are needed to perform more human-like tasks.
Contactile will use this funding round to pursue further research and product development in addition to executing a number of pilots to demonstrate the value of tactile sensing.
About Contactile
Contactile's sensing technology gives robots a human sense of touch and enables dexterous robotic gripping. The technology was developed at UNSW Sydney with initial funding support from the Australian Research Council and US Office of Naval Research Global. To learn more, visit www.contactile.com.
About True Ventures
True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. With more than $2.8 billion under management, True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in today's fastest growing markets. To learn more, visit www.trueventures.com.
About Flying Fox Ventures
Flying Fox Ventures injects early stage capital to propel Australian and New Zealand companies across the globe. They look for amazing people who deeply understand the challenges around them and are breaking the mould on how to solve them. To learn more, visit www.flyingfox.vc
About Radar Ventures
Radar Ventures is a private fund based in Australia and New Zealand, investing globally in companies developing frontier technologies that aim to solve some of the world's biggest challenges. Partners are Atlanta Daniel and Rod Drury (founder of Xero).
About UNSW Founders
UNSW Founders is Australia's leading university-based entrepreneurial program. Contactile is one of 62 graduates from its flagship 10x accelerator program, which has helped its startups raise $70 million of investment capital post program, create 175+ jobs and rapidly expand to new markets. To learn more, visit unswfounders.com/
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SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Astroport Space Technologies, Inc. has been awarded its second NASA Phase 1 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract for the construction of landing pads on the Moon.
Astroport and its research partner, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), will develop geotechnical engineering processes for "Lunar Surface Site Preparation for Landing/Launch Pad and Blast Shield Construction" with a focus on "regolith works" for bulk regolith excavation and movement. The project will build on Astroport's previous Phase 1 STTR-21 work on regolith melting technologies and robotic bricklaying system for lunar infrastructure construction.
The new research will describe a multi-step Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for "regolith works" executed by multiple machines operating autonomously or in remote control mode with step sequencing/timing to enable machine-to-machine collaboration. In particular, it will define conveyance techniques and sorting and filtering processes to prepare and deliver excavated regolith to Astroport's Lunatron™ bricklayer system.
The project will utilize space civil engineering expertise from the University of Adelaide's Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources (ATCSR) in Australia. Venturi Astrolab of Hawthorne, CA, will provide consulting support for integration into the overall system architecture of their FLEX rover as a baseline robotic mobility platform operating a suite of excavation tools.
Astroport's Founder/CEO and Space Architect, Sam Ximenes said, "we are pleased that NASA continues to place confidence in our team's ability to define and develop technologies and processes for lunar infrastructure construction. Under this new contract, the Astroport team will continue its work on the overall construction system architecture that we have started last year. Our objectives are to advance the state-of-art with geotechnical engineering and civil engineering processes for bulk regolith manipulation using a "regolith works" toolset for preparation of the lunar launch/landing site".
Principal investigator for UTSA, Dr. Sazzad Bin-Shafique, said "this research is a natural progression of the University's regolith liquefaction investigations, in that the Phase 1 study will develop discreet-event modeling of the bulk regolith conveyance methods to help determine feeds rates for Astroport's Lunatron™ bricklayer system." UTSA co-principal investigator, Dr. Ibukun Awolusi, assistant professor of construction science and management stated that "leveraging innovative technologies and systems such as those proposed in this study offers remarkable opportunities for the use of lunar materials, construction processes, and our efforts toward achieving space sustainability."
ATCSR is one of a handful of organizations globally that has focused on the development of "space civil engineering" processes for planetary construction. ATCSR has developed numerical modeling to represent the geotechnical behavior of the natural lunar regolith when subjected to load in a lunar environment. This numerical representation facilitates the modeling of a range of lunar construction activities, such as vehicular movement, excavation, and compaction.
John Culton, Director of the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources at the University of Adelaide said, "ATCSR is proud to support cutting-edge US partners leading the development of critical off-Earth civil engineering processes required to return humans to the Moon, 'this time to stay'".
About Astroport: Astroport Space Technologies Inc. is a space construction and materials manufacturing company turning planetary resources into durable feedstock for autonomous construction of lunar surface infrastructure. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Astroport was founded with a vision to design, deploy, and operate interplanetary landing ports to facilitate safe, reliable, and efficient spaceflights to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Astroport is a deep tech startup founded in 2020, operating as a technology venture arm of Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc), a space architecture consulting design and engineering firm established in 2007.
About UTSA: The NASA MIRO Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments (CAMEE) at The University of Texas at San Antonio was established in 2019 to support NASA's Science, Aeronautics, and Space Technology Mission Directorates, with the vision of building a sustainable source of diverse, highly trained researchers to enter the Nation's workforce in NASA fields of earth system sciences, remote sensing and imaging technologies, computational fluid dynamics and data analytics, and experimental fluid mechanics. Space civil engineering has been added as a focus thrust area for the Center. Funding for the Center is provided through a NASA MUREP Institutional Research Opportunity (MIRO) award.
About ATCSR: The Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources (ATCSR) is the University of Adelaide's hub for space expertise, creating a collaborative interdisciplinary ecosystem with lunar simulation labs not found anywhere else in the Southern Hemisphere. Unique opportunities to make history are found here for students and industry to support long-term human presence in deep space focusing on habitation, agriculture, human health and space law. Outcomes of our work will not only benefit humans in space but will positively impact life here on Earth.
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Immersive Metaverse Experience Developed by Jazwares Game Studio Soars to New Heights with 90 Percent Positive Rating from Players
SUNRISE, Fla., May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jazwares, a leading global toy company committed to bringing content to life through innovative play experiences, announced today that their recently launched Squishmallows® on Roblox game has successfully become the #1 Toy Game by concurrent players on the platform. Launching in December 2021, Squishmallows on Roblox has emerged as a Metaverse gaming sensation expanding the world of the immensely popular Squishmallows brand and fusing two pop-culture phenomena in an exciting play experience for fans.
In just over 4 months, Squishmallows on Roblox has seen an impressive level of interest with 14 million play sessions garnering 50,000 group members, 3.7 million registered unique users, a massive 1.5 million monthly active user base, and a 90% positive rating from players, all of which reinforce the Squishmallows brand's ability to resonate widely with audiences. Developed in-house through Jazwares Game Studio, the Squishmallows on Roblox is the ultimate digital world where fans can collect Squishmallows virtual plush, hang with friends in an ultra-cool and vibrant world, compete in thrilling minigames, and customize their very own Squishmallows-themed home. This evolution is just the dawn of new ventures for Jazwares Game Studios as they look to expand on recent success to further explore additional IP and in-platform licensing opportunities.
"The success of Squishmallows on Roblox speaks volumes to how the brand has captured the attention of millions and continues to thrive across categories beyond plush," said Laura Zebersky, President, Jazwares. "We are proud of the work our team at Jazwares Game Studio has done to build this cool and colorful virtual world and look forward to growing our presence on the Roblox platform."
Additionally, Squishmallows on Roblox will make its Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S debut this month, adding to the many avenues to interact with the Roblox Metaverse and simultaneously tapping into the massive Xbox community. Players will be able to download Roblox on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S for free and play Roblox cross-platform with friends from PC, Mac, or mobile devices. For this Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S rollout, exclusive Squishmallows characters and content will be debuted and regularly added to boost in-game features and functionality further.
"We've seen exponential growth with Squishmallows on Roblox and have created an experience that has really resonated with our fans in an authentic, meaningful way within the rapidly expanding Metaverse," said Kyle Hulse, Operations Director, Jazwares Game Studio. "Jazwares Game Studio is constantly evolving our gameplay to engage, delight, and ultimately open the door for exciting new collaborations, characters, and impactful playability we know our community will love."
Squishmallows on Roblox is the latest success for the wildly popular lifestyle brand with unprecedented global demand, fueling robust cross-category consumer product launches and experiences that bring the Squishmallows universe to vivid life. Since its 2017 debut, over 125 million of the huggable, ultra-soft, whimsical Squishmallows plush characters have been sold, delighting fans of all ages, both online and in person. On social media, Squishmallows content has officially squished through the roof, generating more than 6 billion video views on TikTok, and @squishmallows (and related hashtags) tagged in more than 1M Instagram posts. The Squishmallows social media channels have also ballooned to more than 827K followers and nearly 100 global and local newly created Facebook groups of fans.
©️2022 Kelly Toys Holdings, LLC. All rights reserved. Squishmallow and Squishmallows are trademarks of Kelly Toys Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Jazwares.
About Jazwares
Jazwares, a subsidiary of Alleghany Capital Corporation, is a leading global toy company, recently expanding into the costumes and pets category. Jazwares' portfolio includes a variety of dynamic licensed and wholly owned brands. The Jazwares Game Studio further expands play opportunities for kids within the Metaverse. Jazwares celebrates 25 years of innovative play with expertise in design, development, and manufacturing. An award-winning company with a progressive focus on identifying new trends, Jazwares then transforms them into high-quality products for consumers of all ages.
Headquartered in Sunrise, FL, Jazwares has offices around the world and sells its products in more than 100 countries. Since its inception in 1997, Jazwares continues to grow through the development of new products and the strategic acquisitions of companies. For more information about Jazwares, please visit www.jazwares.com.
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Practice joins Affordable Care's national network of supported dental practices
- Patients at the new practice benefit from special offers
- Variety of payment options including financing and insurance available
KENNESAW, Ga., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The new Affordable Dentures & Implants practice in Kennesaw, Georgia, located at 667 Ernest W. Barrett Parkway NW, Suite 150, in the Town Center Commons, is now open. The practice joins the nation's largest provider network of dental practices – supported by Affordable Care – that focus exclusively on tooth replacement services.
From extractions and partial dentures to full dentures and dental implants, including implant-secured dentures, Affordable Dentures & Implants in Kennesaw offers affordable tooth replacement care to create a new smile that not only looks great, but has the potential to transform a patient's life, allowing them to eat, speak and smile with confidence again. The practice features an on-site dental lab, which adds faster, more convenient services with all dental care provided at one location, and features a CBCT scanner for a more accurate image of a patient's mouth. In addition, Affordable Dentures & Implants practices provide a variety of sedation options.
Sadiq Oketade, DDS, Prosthodontist, and the Affordable Dentures & Implants team in Kennesaw are proud to offer professional and compassionate care to patients. The practice is open 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, including the practice's enhanced COVID-19 safety protocols, or to schedule an appointment, visit the practice website or call (770) 783-0866.
Affordable Dentures & Implants practices make tooth replacement affordable for everyone. Founded in 1975 in Kinston, North Carolina, Affordable Dentures & Implant practices form the largest network of dental providers in the U.S., solely focused on tooth replacement solutions -- including dentures, dental implants, and fixed arch solutions -- with more than 400 locations across 42 states. The mission of Affordable Dentures & Implants practices is to provide a smile for every budget, delivered with compassion, dignity, and respect. Visit affordabledentures.com, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Affordable Care is America's largest dental support organization exclusively focused on tooth replacement services. Our team proudly supports more than 400 affiliated dental practices, including Affordable Dentures & Implants, DDS Dentures + Implant Solutions and Advanced Dental Implant Center, in 42 states by providing innovative, non-clinical business and administrative support services to assist affiliated dental practices in providing their patients with access to high-quality, affordable tooth replacement solutions. More than 8 million patients have received care at an Affordable Care-supported dental practice. Visit affordablecare.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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From September 21-24 at The Shed in New York City, Unfinished Live attendees will explore and accelerate solutions for creating a healthier internet and society; programming features more than 150 high-profile speakers, 75 expert-led sessions, live podcasts, and "The Project Liberty Experience" – a cutting-edge art exhibit that reimages data ownership.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unfinished Live 2022 will convene at The Shed in New York City from September 21-24, bringing together more than 2,500 technologists, academics, journalists, artists, thought leaders and changemakers for a captivating experience focused on building a more equitable and inclusive digital future. The event features a world-class speaker lineup of interdisciplinary leaders and experts, as well as a first-of-its-kind spotlight event focused on the future of digital governance in the Web3 era. In addition, renowned media artist Refik Anadol will unveil a new iteration of "The Project Liberty Experience"—the provocative art installation that, during Unfinished Live 2021, drew international media coverage and more than 5,500 visitors, inviting all who visit to imagine a digital world where they own and control their personal data.
This unique convening was launched by civic entrepreneur Frank McCourt, founder of Unfinished and Project Liberty—a groundbreaking initiative to democratize the internet; repair social media and the damage it has caused; and harness the collective power of new technology, effective governance principles and engaged citizens to create a healthier digital future.
"The current state of our society, and our unraveling social fabric, is the direct result of a tech architecture that enables major platforms to exploit, divide and trigger people for profit," said McCourt. "Unfinished Live is for everyone who believes we need systemic change and is ready to focus on bold solutions. I look forward to sharing an update on Project Liberty, which is taking meaningful steps to transform how the internet works. Rather than sit idly by while social media undermines our democracy, Project Liberty offers a solution and an alternative pathway forward."
Unfinished Live 2022 is presented by more than 35 partner organizations within the Unfinished Network, including The Aspen Institute, Center for Humane Tech, Filecoin Foundation, Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network, and many others.
"Unfinished Live is about bringing together diverse perspectives and voices to create a digital future, and society, that works better for all of us," said Angela Glover Blackwell, chair of the Unfinished Network and founder of PolicyLink. "Although the next generation of the web is coming quickly, we still have a chance to shape it. This convening is a critical opportunity to advance promising solutions like Project Liberty and to energize the collaboration needed to fix what today's tech giants have broken and forge a new, more inclusive and more equitable path forward."
Unfinished Live kicks off on Wednesday, September 21, with an exclusive "Day Zero" session dedicated to exploring "The Future of Digital Governance." This invitation-or application-only programming is hosted by the McCourt Institute, which aims to ensure that digital governance is prioritized in the development of new technology and embedded in the next generation of the web. Day Zero is presented in partnership with POLITICO and the McCourt Institute's founding partners, Georgetown University and Sciences Po. This spotlight session will convene policymakers, academics, civil society leaders, journalists and students from the U.S. and Europe.
Unfinished Live continues September 22-24, hosted by Baratunde Thurston, author, comedian, futurist and creator of the How to Citizen podcast. The multi-day program will feature more than 150 speakers, including Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, journalist, author and co-founder and CEO of Rappler; Tristan Harris, co-founder and president of the Center for Human Technology; Frances Haugen, Facebook whistleblower and advocate for accountability and transparency in social media; Cory Doctorow, journalist, author and activist; Marta Belcher, general counsel of Protocol Labs and president and chair of Filecoin Foundation; Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Pia Mancini, co-founder and CEO of the Open Collective; Dante Disparte, chief strategy officer and head of global policy at Circle; Braxton Woodham, president of Unfinished Labs and lead creator of the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP); Alex Zhang, mayor of Friends With Benefits; Shoshana Zuboff, professor at Harvard University and author of Surveillance Capitalism; Rob Reich, professor at Stanford University and co-author of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot; Maggie Little, founder and director of Georgetown University's Ethics Lab; Divya Siddarth, associate political economist and social technologist at Microsoft; Marta Tellado, president and CEO of Consumer Reports; Christo Grozev, executive director and lead Russia investigator at Bellingcat; Vivian Schiller, executive director of Aspen Digital; Jonathan Haidt, author, social scientist and professor at New York University's Stern School of Business; Brewster Kahle, digital librarian and founder of Internet Archive; and many others.
During the event, The Shed's state-of-the-art performance space will be home to a podcasting festival, featuring live sessions from Big Technology's Alex Kantrowitz, The Defiant's Camila Russo and more.
To experience Unfinished Live in-person, multiple ticket options are available for purchase. Virtual programming is accessible for free. "The Project Liberty Experience" art installation by Refik Anadol will be open to the public from September 22-24 at no cost.
Full itinerary and event details are available on Unfinished Live's website. More information about Project Liberty can be found here.
Please contact media@unfinished.com with any inquiries.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Lightning’s bid for a three-peat is alive and well.
With Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov, Victor Hedman and Andrei Vasilevskiy leading the way, the star-laden, two-time defending champions beat the Colorado Avalanche 6-2 Monday night in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.
The victory two nights after suffering the most lopsisded loss in the team’s playoff history trimmed Tampa Bay’s series deficit to 2-1 and breathed hope in the team’s quest to become the first franchise in nearly 40 years to win three consecutive NHL titles.
“There’s a reason why we’re here and there’s a reason why we won tonight. There’s a reason why this has gone on for the last couple of years,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said.
“The guys you need to lead you have been doing that, and then everybody falls in line,” Cooper added. “You watch Stammer’s growth and Hedman’s growth through the years, and it’s probably not a coincidence that winning has followed us.”
Stamkos, Pat Maroon and Ondrej Palat each had a goal and an assist, and the Lightning scored four times in the second period to bounce back from an embarrassing 7-0 loss in Game 2 of the best-of-seven matchup.
Anthony Cirelli, Nicholas Paul and Corey Perry also scored to help Tampa Bay storm back after playing poorly while losing the first two games on the road. Kucherov and Hedman had two assists, and Vasilevskiy stopped 37 shots.
“I don’t know why we started the series the way we did. … But any way you slice it, it’s 2-1 now,” Stamkos said.
“A big part, too, is our goaltender,” Cooper added. “For him to go through what he went through two nights ago and then perform like he did tonight … not only that, but to have them score first and then have the team to respond and back him up, I guess that’s how you get to the places that we’ve been.”
Stamkos, Paul, Maroon and Perry scored in the second period, when the Lightning chased Colorado goalie Darcy Kuemper while pulling away.
Gabriel Landeskog had two goals and Mikko Rantanen and Cale Maker each had two assists for the Avalanche. Kuemper gave up five goals on 22 shots before he was replaced by Pavel Francouz, who finished with nine saves.
Game 4 is Wednesday night at Amalie Arena, where the Lightning have won a franchise-record eight straight playoff games and Colorado lost on the road for the first time this postseason.
“Right now I feel like we’re still in the driver’s seat up 2-1,” Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon said. “We’ve got to really show up for Game 4, regroup, be better and stay even-keeled.”
Two nights after being limited to just 16 shots in the seven-goal loss in Denver, the Lightning found a way to neutralize Colorado’s speed and solve Kuemper to avoid falling to the brink of elimination.
The defending champs became the first team since 1919 to win a Stanley Cup Final game after losing by seven-plus goals the previous game.
“We knew they were too proud to go away,” MacKinnon said. “It’s the Stanley Cup Final, we’re not expecting to sweep. They obviously didn’t hang their head on losing to us in Game 2, and we’re not going to tonight.”
The Avalanche lifted Kuemper after Maroon scored a soft goal that put the Lightning up 5-2 with 8:45 remaining in the second. Perry reached behind Francouz to tap in a rebound that came off the right post to make 6-2 with 5:02 left in the period.
The back-to-back champions overcame a 2-0 series deficit in the Eastern Conference final to eliminate the New York Rangers in six games. They’re looking to do it again against Colorado to complete their quest for the NHL’s first three-peat in nearly 40 years.
Cirelli and Palat scored in the opening period for the Lightning, who played with a lot more energy than in Games 1 and 2, when they appeared to be a step or two slower the speedy, high-scoring Avalanche.
The seven-goal loss in Game 2 raised the question of whether a team that’s played 68 postseason games — most by a single club over a span of three playoffs — since 2020 is running out of gas as it tries to become the first franchise to win at least three consecutive Stanley Cup titles since the New York Islanders won four in a row from 1980-83.
And while, Cooper discounts the toll playing so much playoff hockey has taken on his players, Colorado clearly looked like the fresher team in Games 1 and 2 after going 12-2 against Nashville, St. Louis and Edmonton in breezing through the first three rounds.
Spurred on by a sellout crowd of more than 19,000, and playing with a sense of urgency absent for much of the first two games, the Lightning scored twice in a span of 1:51 to wipe out a 1-0 lead the Avalanche took on the first of Landeskog’s two power-play goals.
Cirelli crossed in front of Kuemper to make it 1-1 at 13:03 of the opening period. Palat delivered his 10th goal of the playoffs off a pass from Stamkos to give Tampa Bay a lead for the first time in the series.
Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said Kuemper didn’t have a good night, but noted: “Neither did our team.”
“I felt like the goals we gave up, we didn’t make them earn them,” the coach added.
Vasilevskiy yielded a second power-play goal to Landeskog, who briefly trimmed a two-goal deficit to 3-2 before Tampa Bay pulled away for good.
The Lightning became the third team in NHL history score six goals in a Stanley Cup Final after yielding at least seven the previous game.
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Content creators can earn up to $6000 with Quicklly's unique referral code
CHICAGO, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Great food is meant for sharing, and Quicklly is making it even easier to share your love of delectable South Asian cuisine through its newly launched Brand Ambassador program. This innovative initiative allows Quicklly's broad base of loyal customers and digitally savvy fans to earn up to $6,000 -- simply by sharing their love of Quicklly.
Since being founded in 2017, Quicklly has focused on bringing an ever-increasing variety of grocery items, prepared food, meal kits, and restaurant offerings to lovers of Indian and South Asian food from coast to coast. With nearly 5.4 million South Asians living in the U.S., Quicklly is connecting this fast-growing and underserved population with access to the most authentic food through the world's most comprehensive e-commerce marketplace. Now, Quicklly is giving Indian food lovers an insider view of this leading company through their Brand Ambassador program.
"One thing we take great pride in at Quicklly is our role as the undisputed leader in knowing and listening to our customer base," said Quicklly cofounders Keval Raj and Hanish Pahwa. "Since we launched, our customers have been asking for ways that they could get more involved and share their love for Quicklly with their families and networks. That's why we're thrilled to launch this robust and digitally-forward Brand Ambassador program. We can't wait to see how our committed fans make the brand their own."
Every Quicklly Brand Ambassador received a unique referral code that can be shared with family, friends, and social media followers. Every time the code is used is a win for the Ambassador and their followers – followers receive 10% off of their Quicklly order, and the Ambassador earns a 10% commission, up to $6,000 per year. But the benefits don't end there. Brand Ambassadors get to join an exclusive group of influencers who will be the first to know about Quicklly new product offerings and special deals, along with a host of other benefits.
Anyone can join Quicklly's Brand Ambassador program. Regardless of the size of your network or social media follower count, membership is as simple as 1-2-3.
- Sign up on Quicklly.com and receive a unique referral code
- Check out the asset dashboard to select the visuals to accompany any post or create unique photo or video content. Be as creative as possible.
- Create a post and share with one's community using the hashtags #quickllybrandambassador, #indianfood, #indiangroceries. Repeat as often as desired.
Richell Joseph, one of the participants in Quicklly's pilot, had this to say about the Ambassador program - "Being a globetrotter, I eat all kinds of food, but Indian food has my heart. Indian food is a perfect blend of flavor, color, taste, and nutrition. My love for desi food is deep-rooted, and it takes me back to my childhood. It reminds me of home and brings back so many fond memories. You can imagine my excitement when I found Quicklly a one-stop-shop for everything to prepare homestyle Indian meals." Richell is among the many customers who have kickstarted their individual campaigns.
For more information about this new program or to sign up, go to quicklly.com.
Whether longing for ingredients to stock up your kitchen or meals to satisfy your cravings, Quicklly offers everything you need to enjoy South Asian and Indian cuisine, all in one place. As the nation's most comprehensive, one-stop marketplace, Quicklly provides access to a range of Indian grocery ingredients, tiffins, and fully prepared restaurant meals delivered to your doorstep. Founded in 2017, Quicklly also provides a full digital presence for local businesses, connecting them to customers across Greater Chicago, New York, New Jersey, San Francisco, the Bay Area, and nationwide. Learn more at https://www.quicklly.com.
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