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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Diana Kennedy, a tart-tongued British food writer devoted to Mexican cuisine, died Sunday. She was 99.
Kennedy spent much of her life learning and preserving the traditional cooking and ingredients of her adopted home, a mission that even in her 80s had her driving hundreds of miles across her adopted country in a rattling truck as she searched remote villages for elusive recipes.
Her nearly dozen cookbooks, including “Oaxaca al Gusto,” which won the 2011 James Beard Award for cookbook of the year, reflect a lifetime of groundbreaking culinary contributions and her effort to collect vanishing culinary traditions, a mission that began long before the rest of the culinary world was giving Mexican cooking the respect she felt it was due.
Her long-time friend Concepción Guadalupe Garza Rodríguez said that Kennedy died peacefully shortly before dawn Sunday at her home in Zitacuaro, about 100 miles west of Mexico City.
“Mexico is very grateful for her,” Garza Rodríguez said. Kennedy had had lunch at a local hotel on March 3 for her birthday, but during the past five weeks had mostly stayed in her room. Garza Rodríguez visited Kennedy last week and said she cried when they parted.
Mexico’s Culture Ministry said via Twitter Sunday that Kennedy’s “life was dedicated to discovering, compiling and preserving the richness of Mexican cuisine.”
“Diana understood as few do, that the conservation of nature is key to continue obtaining the ingredients that make it possible to keep creating the delicious dishes that characterize our cuisine,” the ministry said.
Her first cookbook, “The Cuisines of Mexico,” was written during long hours with home cooks across Mexico. It established Kennedy as the foremost authority on traditional Mexican cooking and remains the seminal work on the subject even four decades later. She described it as a gastronomy that humbled her and she credited those — usually women — who shared their recipes with her.
“Cooking teaches you that you’re not always in control,” she had said. “Cooking is life’s biggest comeuppance. Ingredients can fool you.”
She received the equivalent of knighthood in Mexico with the Congressional Order of the Aztec Eagle award for documenting and preserving regional Mexican cuisines. The United Kingdom also has honored her, awarding her a Member of the British Empire award for furthering cultural relations with Mexico.
Kennedy was born with an instinctive curiosity and love of food. She grew up in the United Kingdom eating what she called “good food, whole food,” if not a lot of food. During World War II, she was assigned to the Women Timber Corps, where food was simple and sometimes sparse — homemade bread, fresh cream, scones and berries on good days, nettle soup or buttered green beans when rations were lean.
Millions across Western Europe shared this simple sustenance, but for Kennedy these meals awakened an appreciation of flavor and texture that would last a lifetime.
She talked about her first mango — “I ate it in Jamaica’s Kingston harbor, standing in clear, blue warm sea, all that sweet, sweet juice” — the way some talk about their first crush.
Indeed, that first mango and her husband, Paul Kennedy, a New York Times correspondent, arrived in her life around the same time. He was on assignment in Haiti, she was traveling there. They fell in love and in 1957 she joined him in Mexico, where he was assigned.
Here a series of Mexican maids, as well as aunts, mothers and grandmothers of her new friends, gave Diana Kennedy her first Mexican cooking lessons — grinding corn for tamales, cooking rabbit in adobo. It was another culinary awakening. While her husband wrote about insurrections and revolutions, Kennedy traipsed a land that was, for her, “new, exciting and exotic,” sampling unique fruits, vegetables and herbs of various regions.
The couple moved to New York in 1966 when Paul Kennedy was dying of cancer.
Two years later, at the urging of New York Times food editor Craig Claiborne, she taught her first Mexican cooking class, hunting out ingredients in the Northeast to reproduce the bursting flavors of Mexico. Soon she was spending more of her time back in Mexico, establishing a retreat there that still serves as her home in the country.
In classes, cookbooks and lectures, her fundamental principal is simple: “There is never, ever, any excuse for bad food.”
She was known for her sharp-tongue commentary, even as her pioneering work helped turn Mexico into a culinary mecca for foodies and the world’s top chefs, and transformed a cuisine long dismissed as tortillas suffocated in heavy sauces, cheeses and sour cream.
She once told Jose Andres, James Beard Award winning chef and proprietor of an acclaimed Mexican restaurant, that his tamales were “bloody awful.”
She worried that famous chefs, who flocked to Mexico in recent years to study and experiment with the purity of the flora, fauna and flavors, were mixing the wrong ingredients.
“Many of them are using it as a novelty and do not know the things that go together,” she said. “If you are going to play around with ingredients, exotic ingredients, you’ve got to know how to treat them.”
Kennedy was fiercely private and guarded about who she let into her sustainable Mexican retreat near the city of Zitacuaro in the conflicted western state of Michoacan. No one was welcome unannounced. Cell phones were turned off and computers were kept in a writing studio. Her companions were her paid help, a staff who treated her like a dear friend, and several beloved — if somewhat fierce — dogs.
Growing in Kennedy’s vast and enchanting garden, remnants — and resurrections — of ancient culture climbed the stone walls. She worked hard to prevent the loss of local ingredients, creating a rolling farm of indigenous herbs and other produce. The growing continued in a vine-filled atrium in the center of her home, a steamy culinary paradise of vanilla, oregano, mint, bananas, and countless local herbs.
“Rebellious activist, an absolute defender of the environment, Diana Kennedy was and continues to be the best example of care for the environment and its biodiversity,” her editor Ana Luisa Anza wrote in a remembrance Sunday. She wrote that years ago Kennedy had set reaching the age of 100 as a goal to conclude her life’s work.
In 2019, the documentary “Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy,” showed a still feisty Kennedy relishing in the production of her garden and driving the bumpy roads of Zitacuaro.
In her later years, Kennedy had said she wanted to slow down, but couldn’t.
“There are so many more recipes out there, handed down mother to daughter that are going to be lost. There are seeds and herbs and roots that could disappear. There is absolutely so much more that needs to be done!” she said.
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AP journalist Martha Mendoza contributed.
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Adames 2 homers, career-best 7 RBIs as Brewers beat Pirates
By ALAN SAUNDERS
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Willy Adames homered twice and drove in a career-high seven runs, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 12-8. Adames hit a two-run blast in the first inning and a three-run drive during a six-run sixth for the NL Central-leading Brewers. It was the first multi-homer game of his career. He added a two-run double in the fifth and finished 4 for 5, raising his batting average 45 points to .239. Reliever Brent Suter got the win for Milwaukee and Josh Hader got the last out for his major league-leading ninth save. Reliever Aaron Fletcher took the loss for Pittsburgh.
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- With state-of-the-art aquaculture technology, Totoaba is farmed in an environmentally responsible, sustainable and completely legal manner.
- Through Earth Ocean Farm's sustainable aquaculture process, the conservation and reproduction of fish is enhanced without affecting other marine species.
LA PAZ, Mexico, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Earth Ocean Farms (EOF), today announced its seventh release of 30,000 juvenile Totoaba as part of its commitment to preserving and protecting the species as a Management Unit for the Conservation of Wildlife.
The company specializes in state-of-the-art, off-shore aquaculture for the proliferation of native species such as Totoaba Macdonaldi and Red Snapper while generating jobs and contributing to the regional economy. The release was completed with the support of federal and local governments as well as research institutions and community organizations as part of a restocking plan to repopulate the Sea of Cortez. Totoaba which is an endemic species to the Gulf of California and currently in a vulnerable population state.
"Over the past seven years, we have released 175,000 juvenile Totoaba. This means a lot to us, it is a contribution to the environment, to the protection of this iconic species for Mexico that only exists in the Sea of Cortez," said Israel Marqueda, Commercial Director of EOF.
The release was carried out in collaboration with the Direccion General de Vida Silvestre de la Secretaria del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DGVS), as well as other governmental organizations and NGOs of Mexico in the bay of Santispac, in the municipality of Mulege in Baja California Sur. Local community and youth organizations in Mulegue also participated in the release.
"For us, the involvement of the community in these events is fundamental, especially that of the children, because a sustainable future depends on the investment of future generations. The fact that the children get to release the fish into the water gives them a sense of responsibility for the hatchlings and helps them become more aware of what the positive long-term impacts will be," remarked Marqueda.
Success indicators from previous releases show high survival rates: up to 98% of juveniles survive during transport and release. Population monitoring of the species in the Sea of Cortez is carried out by government institutions that regulate fisheries in Mexican seas and have the necessary technical infrastructure and professional staff including: specialized vessels, scientific equipment, probes, biologists, fisheries technicians, statisticians, sailors, and more to carry out these studies.
For more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj2YF7eskro&t=1s
About Earth Ocean Farms
Earth Ocean Farms (EOF) is an innovative aquaculture company based in Baja California Sur, focused on bringing healthy fish to market through the use of advanced, cutting-edge and sustainable technologies in the field of offshore aquaculture. Established in 2010, EOF is part of Cuna del Mar, a private equity platform committed to early-stage investments in disruptive and innovative companies advancing environmentally and socially responsible aquaculture.
For more information about Earth Ocean Farms, visit http://earthoceanfarms.com/.
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marysol.sanchez@thegoodagency.gg
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NEW ORLEANS, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into Sleep Number Corporation (NasdaqGS: SNBR).
Leading up to early 2021, the Company repeatedly touted its vertical integration and robust supply chain, and thus its ability to meet surging customer demand. However, in February 2021, Winter Storm Uri caused widespread damage to the local water and electricity infrastructure in the Gulf Coast of the United States, resulting in a disruption of the supplies of the petrochemical components used in foam manufacture, which was not disclosed by the Company. In April 2021, the Company disclosed that it had missed consensus sales estimates for the quarter because of significant supply chain disruptions, yet still downplayed the future impact of the disruptions. Then in July 2021, the Company again revealed disappointing financial results due in significant part to "near-term supply constraints" and component shortages.
The Company was subsequently sued in a securities class action lawsuit for failing to disclose material information, violating federal securities laws, which remains ongoing.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether Sleep Number's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to the Company's shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of Sleep Number shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nasdaqgs-snbr/ to learn more.
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking to recover investment losses due to corporate fraud and malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Contact:
Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
Lewis Kahn, Managing Partner
lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com
1-877-515-1850
1100 Poydras St., Suite 3200
New Orleans, LA 70163
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With an Increase in RPA, Robocorp's New Automation Tool Allows Developer Teams to Easily Create Bots that are Better, Stronger, and Easier to Manage
SAN FRANCISCO, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Robocorp, the top provider of Gen2 robotic process automation (RPA), is pleased to announce the public beta release of Automation Studio - the first code native, low-code RPA development solution that offers the fastest and easiest way for developers and business users to automate enterprise processes together using the world's most flexible and powerful RPA platform.
Currently, we're seeing the companies utilizing RPA struggle with how to scale the development of new automations. Even in the best scenarios, developers are tied down to maintaining existing automations instead of creating new ones. Further, finding people skilled in proprietary tools for creating new automations is difficult and expensive.
Some companies have implemented lackluster proprietary solutions, such as citizen developer strategies or more advanced automation solutions, to get robots on every desktop. Citizen developer strategy tools are created for business users and, while simple, come with expensive licensing and offer limited ability to solve complex enterprise processing challenges. On the other hand, automation solutions built for experienced developers offer more power and flexibility but are often difficult to master, especially for those who are not used to reading and writing code.
Dedicated to providing accessible automations for everyone, Robocorp has created Automation Studio. Powered by Robot Framework, Automation Studio allows users to create flexible and powerful enterprise bots all within a single, collaborative environment. Robocorp's Gen2 RPA solution complements and works with clients' existing RPA and business technologies and offers benefits beyond traditional Gen1 providers, including:
- Virtually eliminates broken bots and the need to fix them.
- Provides limitless automation opportunities across any technology stack.
- Creates scalable, portable, and reusable bots without vendor lock-in.
- Requires no licensing fees and has no long-term commitments.
The Code Editor delivers granular RPA features and controls for professional developers, reducing development time and effort. Programmers can build, customize, and reuse centralized keywords and run bots in one place without needing to switch environments. Of course, if a professional developer prefers to use a different code editor, then no problem. The code generated in Automation Studio is portable so that they can pull it into the editor of their choice.
"At Robocorp, we believe in 'minutes to learn, a lifetime to master'," says Antti Karjalainen, the CEO of Robocorp. "With Robocorp Automation Studio, we are not only enabling aspiring developers of all levels to start their journey to becoming software robot developers but also making it easier for existing developers to upgrade their skills and their bots."
"Automation Studio opens the door for those who prefer a visual approach to automation, while keeping it open for those who prefer a more programmatic approach through multiple methods of building", said Cory Shreffler, Managing Director at Babybots. "I am truly fond of it, and think Robocorp is one of the few companies taking the right approach to automation."
Utilizing Automation Studio, everyone from junior engineers, analysts and RPA developers are able to create new automations in minutes, learn software development best practices and skills, and transition to more advanced automation tools all at their own pace. Automation Studio is ushering in a new era of accessibility, efficiency and collaboration to RPA and automation.
To get started with Robocorp's Automation Studio for free, visit www.robocorp.com/automation-studio/
Robocorp empowers businesses and teams to work smarter by shattering previous RPA and intelligent automation boundaries. The company makes it easy, affordable, and fast to build software robots and automate manual tasks with first-class, open-source process automation tools. It also provides a robust, secure orchestration and execution platform to allow customers to run both cloud-based and self-managed robotic automations with consumption-based pricing. Robocorp is backed by Benchmark, Canvas Ventures, Slow Ventures, FirstMinute Capital, Harpoon Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Artisanal Ventures, Haystack, and angels. Robocorp is headquartered in San Francisco, with our primary offices being online. Learn more at https://robocorp.com/.
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedia Group to promote former convict William Steel now starring in new breakout reality TV series "Inmate to Roommate" to debut 10 PM EST Thursday, August 18 on A&E Network.
"We're so pleased to promote a guy just called "Bill' on the new TV series all about his amazing transition from bad to good as today he's an author of two books and now knocking on the door of celebrityhood that's about to swing open," said TransMedia Group CEO Tom Madden
Steel is a former prolific jewel and art thief who spent 18 years in prison for non-violent crimes, and today is a rising true crime author appearing on A&E network's groundbreaking docuseries.
TransMedia said it plans to include in publicity how grateful Steel is to Donald Trump's attorney Peter Ticktin and Francis Mota of The Ticktin Law Group for representing him and helping him to turn his life around.
Publicity program to also underscore how Steel today is a crime victim advocate who, along with his fiancée Dr. Mary Bass, advocates for those wrongfully convicted.
Madden said the PR campaign will focus on the true crime books Steel has written including the blockbuster insiders exposé of his unfortunate relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell titled "Ghislaine: Sensational and Impure" and how Steel has become a prolific true crime podcaster at OfficialWilliamSteel on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram across all social media.
TransMedia to alert media that Steel is available for interviews and speaking engagements about his reformed life and how he believes this A&E series will "shed light on the challenges newly released prisoners have finding an appropriate place to live and work," also how privileged and humbled he is to an example of going straight.
The documentary series, "Inmate to Roommate," follows recently released inmates as they re-enter society and move in with everyday people who are welcoming them into their homes. This practice has been the subject of re-entry programs aimed at stopping recidivism. America has one of the world's highest recidivism rates with approximately 76% of released prisoners being re-arrested after 5 years. One of the most significant factors in reducing recidivism rates is access to housing.
William Steel contact: Press@WilliamSteelAuthor. (934)600-1140
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/William-Steel/e/B09P1LYC9M. His Electronic Press Kit:
https://williamsteelauthor.com/uploads/1/3/6/7/136781184/updated_updated_2022_epk_william_steel.pdf.pdf
Media contact: Tom Madden tmadden@transmediagroup.com, 561-750-9800 (o) 561-702-4999 ©
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| 2022-08-15T16:50:02Z
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Federal authorities have seized six websites that prosecutors say were illegally distributing copyrighted music to millions of users.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced the seizures Monday of the websites that primarily targeted Latin music.
According to an affidavit, agents began investigating the websites in April after a music industry consortium complained.
The websites — Corourbanos.com, Corourbano.com, Pautamp3.com, SIMP3.com, flowactivo.co and Mp3Teca.ws — collectively reached about 6.6 million users per month.
According to the affidavit, the pirated music drew traffic that allowed the website operators to make money by selling ads on the website.
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| 2022-06-28T08:21:12Z
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Washburn hires former school legend as new Ichabod Head Coach
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Washburn University has hired a former school legend as the Ichabod’s new head coach.
Washburn University Athletics Director Loren Ferré announced on Wednesday, April 13, that former Lady Blues great Lora Westling has been hired as the sixth head coach of the Washburn women’s basketball program.
An official news conference will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 15, in Washburn’s McPherson Booster Room to announce the move.
“I am humbled and honored to have the opportunity to lead Washburn women’s basketball into the future,” Westling said. “This program was so instrumental in shaping me as a young woman and I do not take that responsibility lightly. Thank you to Dr. Farley, Loren Ferré, and the rest of the search committee for their work during this process and especially for their belief in me. I am ready to get to work immediately with this tremendous group of student-athletes, and look forward to being a part of the Topeka community again.”
Washburn noted that Westling was a standout member of the women’s team from 2001-05 and helped the Lady Blues to the school’s first NCAA Division II national championship in 2005. Her name is found in its record books and she is currently sixth in games played - 132 - sixth in career three-pointers made - 144 - 10th in assists - 299 - and 14th in three-point field goal percentage - .363.
The University also indicated Westling played one season of soccer for the Lady Blues. She is a Casper, Wyo., native and earned her bachelor’s degree in business in 2005 with her MBA in 2007 - both from Washburn.
“We are very excited to welcome Lora back to Washburn as the sixth head coach for the women’s basketball program,” Ferré said. “She was an accomplished student-athlete at Washburn and returns after experiencing success with each of the prior teams she coached. We are excited for the future.”
WU said Westling will return to her alma mater after six seasons at Western Colorado where she amassed a record of 77-78 and led the team to back-to-back NCAA Tournament selections - the first two in the program history. She helped guide the team to three-consecutive RMAC Tournaments after having not made the postseason for seven seasons. Her overall victories are second on the Western all-time list and her 62 RMAC wins are tied for second in program history.
In 2019-20, Washburn noted that the Mountaineers went 20-7 overall, which was the third time the program reached the 20-win mark and the first time since the 80s. Western went 18-4 in RMAC play to finish in second place - the most conference wins in program history. It said the team also earned its first-ever bid to the NCAA Tournament, only for it to be canceled a day before gameplay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before Western Colorado, Washburn said Westling spent three seasons as the head coach of Illinois College. In her first season, its aid she guided the team to a five-win improvement in both its overall and MWC records. The College then followed with its first trip to the MWC Tournament in five seasons in 2014-15.
Before she accepted the job in Illinois, WU noted that Westling was the top assistant at Truman State from 2010-13 where she was part of staff that built a team that finished the 2012-13 season 20-8 and spent 11 weeks in the national rankings. At Truman State, it said she was the recruiting coordinator and guards/defensive coach.
Washburn said Westling’s first full-time position came at the University of Missouri - St. Louis where she was the top assistant from 2007-10. She was also the recruiting coordinator and position specialist for guards. It said she got her start in coaching at Washburn, however, where she served as a graduate assistant for the women’s basketball and women’s soccer teams.
Westling’s first official day in her new role will be April 26.
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CUTE: Firefighters save baby owl that fell from nest
Published: Apr. 14, 2022 at 2:06 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. (CNN) - The Los Angeles Fire Department saved a baby owl that fell from its nest.
The baby got separated from its mom after taking a tumble from high atop a house in Woodland Hills.
The people who live there found the little bird, and firefighters showed up to make sure the baby got back home safe and sound.
With a gentle touch – and a ladder – the feathered family was finally reunited.
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All Four Channels Currently Available Including The Q, Q Marathi, Q Kahaniyan and Q Comedistaan
MUMBAI, India and TORONTO, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - QYOU Media Inc. (TSXV: QYOU) (OTCQB: QYOUF) has announced that QYOU Media India Pvt. Ltd., is launching flagship channel The Q, the company's Hindi language youth oriented channel, now available in over 125 million TV households and to over 680 million users via OTT, mobile and app based platforms in India along with previously announced new channels Q Marathi, Q Kahaniyan and Q Comedistaan on One Plus Smart TV systems via their Oxygen Play content discovery platform.
Leading global technology provider, One Plus, has become a leader in mobile phone, Smart TV and other consumer electronics categories with their motto "Never Settle." In India, they have become known for delivering high quality products at more accessible price points to push the concept of a connected ecosystem led by Smart TV's in Indian homes. The Q channels have been launched on a free ad supported basis via the interface of Oxygen Play and are monetized on a revenue share basis.
Via its unique proposition for driving synergies between linear TV and digital, QYOU Media India has become one of India's youngest and fastest growing entertainment brands. QYOU Media India continues to capture newer and wider audience segments by strengthening its presence on Smart TV's for its growing channel offerings through partnerships with leading television and mobile device manufacturers. The burgeoning growth of Smart TV's in India supports the company's core ethos of expanding its digital footprint in partnership with the large scale Indian distribution partners and OEM's. The young entertainment brand's leading channels - The Q, Q Marathi, Q Kahaniyan and Q Comedistaan are currently available across 70+ Smart TVs in India in addition to One Plus including Samsung TV Plus, MiTV, TCL, Videocon, Haier, LLOYD, MarQ by Flipkart, Sansui, Hyundai, Daiwa and Croma, among others.
Speaking on strengthening its digital presence via Smart TV's, Curt Marvis, CEO and Co-Founder of QYOU Media Inc. said, "All of our efforts in India are driven by a focus on the pulse of young India and providing our viewers with seamless access to our content through these partnerships. Since our launch in India, we have seen tremendous growth opportunities for a young entertainment brand like ours to reach our target audience via Smart TV's. With partnerships with brands like OnePlus, we aim to further strengthen our presence and expand our digital distribution footprint across the country creating with QYOU Media India a holistic network of youth oriented content offerings available across all digital and broadcast based platforms."
QYOU Media operates in India and the United States producing and distributing content created by social media and digital content stars and creators. In India, via our flagship brand, The Q and the recently launched Q Marathi and Q Kahaniyan and Q Comedistaan, we curate, produce and distribute premium content including television networks and VOD for cable and satellite television, OTT, mobile phones, smart TV's and app based platforms. Our India based influencer marketing division, Chtrbox, is among India's leading influencer marketing platforms connecting brands and social media influencers. In the United States, we create and manage influencer marketing campaigns for major film studios, game publishers and brands. Founded and created by industry veterans from Lionsgate, MTV, Disney and Sony, QYOU Media's millennial and Gen Z-focused content reaches more than one billion consumers around the world every month. Experience our work at www.qyoumedia.com and www.theq.tv
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| 2022-06-13T12:48:31Z
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Napping at work? The Nap Experience wants you to do exactly that
(Gray News) - With many of us busy at work all day and dealing with stress, sometimes we just need to take a break or even better, a nap.
A couple in New York, Joel and Sandy Arcadipane, have created The Nap Experience to offer workers just that type of option.
Sandy Arcadipane said she found that after 15-20 minutes of sleep, she was re-energized, refocused and ready to face the rest of her day.
And after several years of planning, the two have brought their idea to life with a nap bus.
The bus is a travel trailer outfitted with five private, comfortable resting stations, according to the company’s description.
The trailer has warm fixtures and pictures from Buffalo, New York, where the bus is based.
Customers can reserve a 20 or 50-minute nap and the couple says the bus can meet those who make a reservation at a location.
The trailer is also available to park outside of a business and employees can come out on their breaks and rest, among other options.
The company reports it has received excellent feedback about its wellness power naps and relaxation experience.
More information about The Nap Experience can be found here.
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| 2022-04-21T00:21:31Z
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NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT) between March 4, 2021 and March 8, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 16, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Yext securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Yext class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7115 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 16, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Yext's revenue and earnings were significantly deteriorating because of, among other things, poor sales execution and performance, as well as COVID-19 related disruptions; (2) accordingly, Yext was unlikely to meet consensus estimates for its full year ("FY") fiscal 2022 financial results and fiscal 2023 outlook; and (3) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Yext class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7115 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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SAN FRANCISO, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, RH Capital, a leading women's health venture capital fund, announced three new investments to improve health outcomes for women in the US. Investing from its second fund that will hold its final close in June, RH Capital focuses on improving access, affordability, choice, and health outcomes for women in the US and beyond. Recent investments in Cayaba Care, Cirqle Biomedical, and Planerabring the fund's current portfolio to twelve companies.
"With the impending SCOTUS decision to repeal Roev. Wade, there is even more urgency to ensure women have access to contraception and quality maternal health care," said Elizabeth Bailey, Managing Director of RH Capital. "It has always been our position that reproductive and maternal care are essential health care. Now, the private sector - and startups in particular - will have an even greater role in ensuring health equity for women."
Led by Seae Venturesand Kapor Capital, RH Capital joined a $12 million Series A financing for Cayaba Care, which provides comprehensive and holistic maternity services to underserved communities, helping to address health inequities in the US for BIPOC and low-income populations.
RH Capital also invested in Cirqle Biomedical, a Danish-based company developing an effective, non-hormonal contraceptive that meets the needs of women looking to avoid the side effects of hormonal methods. "We are thrilled to partner with RH Capital, with its deep domain expertise in contraceptive innovation and women's health. Their support will help us bring to market a new and needed contraceptive offering for women around the world," mentioned CEO Frederik PeturssonMadsen.
RH Capital also closed an investment in Planera's $9.5 million Seed round, led by Valo Ventures. Planera is developing the first certified flushable and 100% biodegradable menstrual pad, addressing environmental concerns regarding microplastics, adhesives, and other chemicals which contribute to over three million tons of waste per year.
"RH Capital is proud to partner with Cayaba, Cirqle, Planera, and all of our portfolio companies that share our commitment to ushering in the next generation of innovations that will improve the health and wellbeing of women in the US," added Stasia Obremskey, Managing Director.
RH Capital, a Rhia Ventures fund, is an impact venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups that promise to revolutionize women's health and improve health equity in the US. Its primary focus areas include contraception and maternal health while investing in other high-impact and underinvested areas such as fibroids, PCOS, STIs, endometriosis, pelvic health, menopause, etc. RH Capital invests across all healthcare segments, including the life sciences (diagnostics, devices, therapeutics), digital health, consumer products, and health services.
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FBI Director Wray addresses threats, declines to comment on Mar-a-Lago search
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - FBI Director Christopher Wray, in Nebraska on Wednesday to talk about attempted cyberattacks in David City, wouldn’t answer questions about the agency’s recent search at Mar-a-Lago, but did comment on attacks on law enforcement, calling them “deplorable and dangerous.”
He was also asked for his response to former President Trump’s criticism of the search, specifically his comments about the conduct of agents executing the search.
“I’m sure you can appreciate that’s not something I can talk about, so I would refer you to the department,” Wray said about the search FBI agents executed Monday at former President Trump’s estate and subsequent statements Trump has made.
Wray said he’s spoken frequently with law enforcement officials — in Iowa and Illinois on Tuesday and in Nebraska on Wednesday — about the matter.
“As to the issue of threats, I will say I’m always concerned about violence and the threat of violence against law enforcement ... Any threat made against law enforcement — including the men and women of the FBI as with any law enforcement agency — are deplorable or dangerous.”
WOWT asked Wray whether he was concerned the raid would incentivize — or even embolden — some of the same “bad actors” from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol to attempt any sort of similar attack.
“Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter what anyone is upset about or who they are upset with,” Wray said. “I think we have had an alarming rise of violence against law enforcement over the last few years. Last year, 73 law enforcement officers around this country were killed in the line of duty — as in murdered in the line of duty. It’s the highest number since 9/11.”
Wray said it’s important to recognize and appreciate the sacrifices law enforcement are willing to make in the line of duty.
“The men and women of law enforcement, including the men and women in the FBI, make heroic sacrifices for everyone in this country,” he said. “And it takes an incredibly special person to be willing to get up every day and give his or her life, sacrifice his or her life for a total stranger. And so we must view the men and women of law enforcement as a resource to cherish.”
Sen. Ben Sasse had a response Wednesday to Wray’s lack of comment on the Mar-a-Lago search, saying “public trust matters.”
“Attorney General Garland and FBI Director Wray have an obligation to make facts available to the public without delay. Someone at DOJ signed off on this, and the American people deserve to know why. Public trust matters,” he said.
Managing Editor Kevin Westhues contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM") (NYSE: IBM) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between April 4, 2017 and October 20, 2021.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in IBM, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against IBM includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Strategic Imperatives Revenue and growth, CAMSS and CAMSS Components' revenue and growth, and the Company's Segments' revenue and growth were artificially inflated as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives Revenue; (ii) the Company's present success and positive future growth prospects concerning its Strategic Imperative business strategy were being fueled by the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperative Revenue and, as a result (iii) the Company misled the market by portraying the Company's Strategic Imperative's financial performance and future prospects more favorable than they actually were as a result of the wrongful reclassification of revenues from non-strategic to strategic to make those revenues eligible for treatment as Strategic Imperatives.
DEADLINE: June 6, 2022
Aggrieved IBM investors only have until June 6, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Slalom to Offer Specialized Services Tailored for AIQ CX Hub
NEW YORK and SEATTLE, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ActionIQ, the leader in customer experience (CX) solutions, and Slalom, a global consulting firm focused on strategy, technology and business transformation, today announced a strategic partnership, whereby Slalom will offer specialized services tailored for the ActionIQ platform to help enterprise brands increase time to value and accelerate campaigns as they use the AIQ CX Hub to discover audiences and orchestrate personalized, impactful customer experiences at scale.
The specialized services combining data, marketing, customer experience and organizational change offered by Slalom around the ActionIQ CX Hub will include:
- Strategy services, such as CX research, marketing strategy and use case development
- Implementation and Integration offerings, including integrations with other platforms such as advertising, analytics, data sources, engagement, planning, along with sales and service systems
- Managed services, such as change management, governance and expansion
"This partnership brings together the unique advantages and technical superiority of the ActionIQ CX Hub with Slalom's strategy, technology, and business transformation services," said Neil Wilson, Vice President of Partnerships at ActionIQ. "The ActionIQ CX Hub helps brands make every team member a CX champion through self-service ability to action the full breadth of customer data to deliver personalized customer experiences. This partnership will empower enterprise customers to utilize ActionIQ to the full extent through Slalom's AIQ-tailored service offerings."
The ActionIQ CX Hub, powered by a CDP, brings order to CX chaos by enabling all teams with direct and controlled self-service access to customer data to discover audiences and orchestrate experiences for millions of customers. With accessibility across users, the AIQ CX Hub gives users the direct access they need to execute use cases while giving data owners complete control of data governance.
"We're excited to join forces with such a strong industry leader," said Ronak Shah, Sales Director of Slalom NYC. "With our combined experience across the martech landscape, we are in an excellent position to provide a wide range of customized services to clients, including marketing strategy, use case development, ActionIQ CX Hub implementation, integrations with other platforms, and managed services."
To learn more about the ActionIQ CX Hub paired with Slalom please visit here to schedule a demo https://www.actioniq.com/customer-data-platform-demo/
AIQ brings order to CX chaos. Our Customer Experience Hub empowers everyone to be a CX champion by giving business teams the freedom to explore and action on customer data while helping technical teams extend and enhance existing technology investments to manage data governance, costs and performance. Enterprise brands such as Autodesk, M&T Bank, The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, Hertz and many more use our CX Hub to drive growth through extraordinary customer experiences. Learn more at actioniq.com.
Slalom is a global consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. In 43 markets around the world, Slalom's teams have autonomy to move fast and do what's right. They are backed by regional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world's top technology providers. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 12,500 employees. Slalom has been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running and is regularly recognized by employees as a best place to work. Learn more at slalom.com.
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Noe's latest release is inspired by his passion for cooking, infused with family traditions and blended with his love of whiskey
CLERMONT, Ky., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Freddie Noe, Eighth Generation Master Distiller of the Fred B. Noe Distillery and creator of Little Book® Whiskey, is proud to announce the sixth installment in his acclaimed annual, limited-release series – Little Book Chapter 6: "To The Finish."
The name of this year's chapter is inspired by Noe's passion for both whiskey-making and cooking, and more specifically, his curiosity for how flavors come together to complement each other.
"From generation to generation, the kitchen has always been a place where my family comes together to share traditions including my dad teaching me to cure meat and working to perfect my grandfather's sausage recipe. These memories ultimately led to my pursuits around the grill," said Noe. "My love for cooking and grilling, along with my obvious love of whiskey, has inspired my work in the rackhouse, and you'll see that poured into Chapter 6."
Noe uses the traditional method of smoking hardwoods to create different aromas and flavors in food, and he's applied that same method to the whiskey-making process, using unique wood staves and barrel techniques for Chapter 6. This process brings different characteristics together to create a final blend that has a perfect balance of flavors.
"To The Finish" is a blend of five liquid streams all distilled under Noe's watchful eye. The 4-year-old Straight Malt Whiskey liquid streams all start as the same American Single Malt Whiskey but are aged separately with different wood staves and barrel techniques to impart a unique taste profile. Once the liquids are individually dumped, they are blended back together in different ratios before a 5-year-old Kentucky Straight Bourbon is added to create the final blend. The result is an extremely approachable liquid, even for those who have yet to try a cask strength whiskey.
Little Book "To The Finish" was developed by Noe with the following characteristics:
- Blend Overview:
- Proof: 117.45
- Tasting Notes: Little Book "To The Finish" features flavors of rich toasted grain with hints of smoke.
- Sipping Suggestions: Little Book "To The Finish" is best enjoyed neat or on the rocks.
"With each release of Little Book, I strive to bring any curious whiskey drinker along for the journey as I explore different flavors, aging, and blending methods," Noe explained. "For this chapter, I hope to open people's eyes to a whiskey that has a taste bigger than its individual components, and a flavor that's inspired from generations of curing, grilling and distilling."
"To The Finish" is now available nationwide in limited quantities with a suggested retail price of $124.99 for a 750mL bottle. For more information about Little Book "To The Finish" and Noe's work as Master Distiller of the Fred B. Noe Distillery, please visit: www.littlebookwhiskey.com or visit us on Instagram @littlebookwhiskey.
Little Book® is the first-ever product release from Freddie Noe, Eighth Generation Master Distiller of the Fred B. Noe Distillery. An annual, limited release series, Little Book features new and unique high-quality blends each year that bring to life Noe's passion for blending and his curiosity for the limitless tastes that can be achieved through the blending process. Little Book is named as a nod to Noe's childhood nickname, given to him by his family for the many qualities he shared with his granddad, Booker Noe.
As a world leader in premium spirits, Beam Suntory inspires human connections. Consumers from all corners of the globe call for the company's brands, including the iconic Jim Beam® and Maker's Mark® bourbon brands and Courvoisier® cognac, as well as world renowned premium brands including Basil Hayden®, Knob Creek®, and Legent™ bourbon; Yamazaki®, Hakushu®, Hibiki® and Toki™ Japanese whisky; Teacher's, Laphroaig® and Bowmore® Scotch whisky; Canadian Club® whisky; Hornitos® and Sauza® tequila; EFFEN®, Haku® and Pinnacle® vodka; Sipsmith® and Roku™ gin; and On The Rocks Premium Cocktails.
Beam Suntory was created in 2014 by combining the world leader in bourbon and the pioneer in Japanese whisky to form a new company with a deep heritage, passion for quality, innovative spirit and vision of Growing for Good, which now includes its transformative sustainability strategy, Proof Positive. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Beam Suntory is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited of Japan. For more information on Beam Suntory, its brands, and its commitment to social responsibility, please visit www.beamsuntory.com and www.drinksmart.com.
Little Book® Whiskey, 58.7% Alc./Vol. ©2022 James B. Beam Distilling Co., Clermont, KY.
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Rapidly-growing U.S. HVAC company expands leadership team
DAVIE, Fla., May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Pros USA, a leading residential and commercial air conditioning services company, has announced the appointment of Robert DiPietro as President. With over 15 years of leadership experience, DiPietro will oversee Air Pros USA's strategy and operations management teams to support market expansion and sales goals.
"Robert is an industry leader whose talent in organic growth and acquisition strategy, and data-driven approach to operations, will be an asset to our team. Robert's executive roles in multi-national public organizations provide invaluable and complementary experience to our business," said Anthony Perera, founder and CEO of Air Pros USA. "We strive to build long lasting relationships with every customer we service, even as we become one of the fastest growing HVAC companies in the nation. Robert's hands-on, customer-centric leadership style aligns with our vision as we expand existing relationships and introduce ourselves to new markets."
Most recently, DiPietro served as Managing Director HVAC at HomeServe a publicly traded, independent provider of home repair and service solutions. Prior to his role at HomeServe he worked for Staples, a global leader in Office Supplies and Technology Solutions where he managed Technology Services and launched and grew Staples EasyTech to over $100 million in revenue.
"It is my goal to lead Air Pros USA forward into the next stages of success and solidify the company's presence as a trusted expert to customers and industry partners," said Robert DiPietro. "Air Pros USA will continue to grow in markets with distinctive weather patterns that can pose an additional set of needs and challenges to residential and commercial customers. Whether it's extreme heat, blizzards, or hurricanes, I am excited to collaborate with our teams and achieve something that hasn't been done before for their customers."
DiPietro holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Technology from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
His hiring comes at a key moment in Air Pros USA's development as the company continues to grow its national presence in new cities and states. Air Pros USA recently entered the Louisiana market in 2022 and now operates in eight states and more than a dozen metro areas including Miami, Orlando, Dallas, Atlanta, Colorado Springs, Mobile and Spokane.
Air Pros USA was founded as a father-son business in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with a single truck and two people. Since then, the fast-growing HVAC company has grown to over $100 million in annual revenue, employs 500 people, and serves over half a million customers in multiple markets.
For more information about Air Pros USA, visit www.airprosusa.com.
About Air Pros USA:
Air Pros USA was founded in South Florida in 2017 on the promise of integrity, reliability, and putting our customers first. The company has quickly expanded to many metro areas within Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Colorado, Georgia, Texas, Washington, and Louisana with more locations expected to be introduced soon. Air Pros USA currently employs more than 500 experienced professionals in more than a dozen metro Service locations including Miami, Orlando, Dallas, Atlanta, Colorado Springs, Mobile and Spokane. For more information visit www.airprosusa.com.
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BOULDER, Colo., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viserion Milling, LLC ("Viserion"), a newly formed subsidiary of Viserion International Holdco, LLC ("Viserion International"), today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Western Milling, LLC ("Western Milling"), a diversified California-based agribusiness, from Kruse Western, Inc. Viserion International and its subsidiaries are backed by Pinnacle Asset Management, L.P. ("Pinnacle"), a New York-based alternative asset management firm focused on global commodities markets.
With a legacy dating back to 1935, Western Milling is one of the oldest and largest industrial providers of mixed grain cattle feed products to the dairy industry in California—which accounts for approximately 20% of all U.S. dairy output—and operates large-scale fertilizer transportation and grain merchandising businesses with a fleet of natural gas-powered trucks. Beyond mixed cattle feed, Western Milling provides a full suite of customizable animal nutrition products including complete feeds, blended vitamin-rich feeds, pelleted feeds for both poultry and branded pet foods, rolled grains, supplements, and other grain commodities including millrun, molasses, rice bran, and whey. The primary facilities being acquired by Viserion are located in Visalia (headquarters), Hanford and Famoso, California; Hereford, Texas; and Buckeye, Arizona.
Aaron Wiegand, Chief Executive Officer of Viserion International, said, "Western Milling has been a well-respected cornerstone of California's agriculture industry for nearly a century. We are thrilled to acquire this outstanding, multifaceted company whose feed mill and fertilizer operations will complement Viserion International's existing grain-handling and commodity trading offerings. We look forward to working with Western Milling's seasoned management team and excellent operational personnel, who will strengthen our international agribusiness platform."
Kevin Kruse, outgoing Chief Executive Officer of Western Milling and grandson of Western Milling's founder Otto Kruse, will serve as Executive Chairman of Western Milling. Chad Pinter, currently Chief Financial Officer of Western Milling, will succeed Kevin as Chief Executive Officer.
Jason M. Kellman, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Pinnacle, commented, "Viserion International's domestic growth plans will be significantly amplified by Viserion Milling's comprehensive portfolio of agribusiness units and established presence in the California dairy market. Following Viserion International's recent portfolio acquisition of ten grain elevator facilities from Zen-Noh Grain Corporation, we are pleased that the company continues to grow into one of the leading agricultural merchants in the U.S."
Over the past six years, Pinnacle-managed entities have made several strategic investments to bolster the firm's physical commodities trading and merchanting businesses. The investments include acquiring Five Rivers Cattle Feeding, the world's largest cattle feeding operation from JBS USA in 2018, and in 2017, Pinnacle partnered with Noble Group's former Head of North American Gas and Power, Ben Sutton, to acquire Sierentz Global Merchants and form Six One Commodities ("61C"), a global energy merchant. In 2021, 61C acquired Vega Energy Partners, Ltd. and WGL Midstream, Inc., a Houston, TX-based energy merchant and wholesale energy solutions business. Pinnacle is also the largest shareholder of Concord Resources Holdings Limited, a global metals merchant formed in 2015 with a team of former Noble Group executives.
Rabobank acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Kruse Western, Inc. on the transaction.
About Viserion International Holdco, LLC
Viserion International is a global agricultural merchant based in Boulder, Colorado. Viserion Milling, a subsidiary of Viserion International, is expected to manage a portfolio of strategic feed mill operations.
About Western Milling, LLC
Headquartered in Central California, Western Milling is a highly diversified manufacturer and supplier of nutrient solutions for plants and animals, serving farmers and growers across the US. Founded in 2000, with a heritage dating back to 1935, Western operates facilities across the Western US and Texas.
About Pinnacle Asset Management, L.P.
Founded in 2003, Pinnacle Asset Management, L.P. is a private, New York-based alternative asset management firm focused on the global commodities markets with over $5 billion under management. Pinnacle provides its institutional investor base with exposure to the global commodities markets via physical and financial absolute return strategies and products. Pinnacle is registered as an investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is registered as a commodity trading adviser and a commodity pool operator with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and is a member of the National Futures Association.
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NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. ("Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc." or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AUPH) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 7, 2021 and February 25, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
AUPH 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: (i) Aurinia was experiencing declining revenues; (ii) Aurinia's 2022 sales outlook for the Company's only product which it offers for the treatment of adult patients with active lupus nephritis, LUPKYNIS, would fall well short of expectations; (iii) accordingly, the Company had significantly overstated LUPKYNIS's commercial prospects; (iv) as a result, the Company had overstated its financial position and/or prospects for 2022; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. during the relevant time frame, you have until June 14, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
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New York, NY 10006
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A new authorized branded distributor initiative with Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ supports the company's commitment to sustainable energy solutions
NEWS SUMMARY
- World Fuel Services (World Fuel) is now an authorized branded distributor of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™, with the first supply location at Paris-Le Bourget (LFPB).
- This new initiative builds on World Fuel's long history of providing access to SAF in Europe, expanding existing supply points in the UK, Germany, and France.
- Supplying lower-emission fuels reflects World Fuel's ongoing commitment to developing innovative sustainability solutions for the aviation industry.
HOUSTON, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- World Fuel Services (World Fuel) has announced they are now an authorized branded distributor of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ (SAF). Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LFPB/LBG) in France is the first location where the company delivered Neste's SAF as the authorized branded distributor.
"As a European airport leader for business aviation, Paris-Le Bourget airport has always been a pioneer in the aviation world; through this enthusiastic initiative led by World Fuel with Neste, we stay at the forefront of innovation and decarbonization," said Sébastien Couturier, managing director, Paris-Le Bourget Airport within Groupe ADP. "This new service will allow us to complete the biofuel offer available on our platform, putting us in a unique position in Europe. This is an excellent signal, which attests to the transition underway in business aviation."
Becoming an authorized branded distributor builds on World Fuel's ongoing commitment to developing innovative sustainability solutions for the aviation industry, which is exemplified by supporting customers in Europe with solutions and services such as:
- As one of the first companies to have blended SAF in the UK, World Fuel provides Farnborough Airport (EGLF) in Hampshire, England, with a supply of SAF from Neste.
- World Fuel managed Bremen Airport's (EDDW) fuel storage facility upgrade by converting an existing Avgas tank into a SAF tank and supplying a dedicated refueller asset to support Airbus' Beluga flight operations.
- At Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (LFBO), the company supported Airbus by delivering blended and 100% SAF for engine testing.
- World Fuel supplied SAF to the Royal Air Force Brize Norton in support of the Autumn Royal Tour and provided Boeing with SAF for flights related to the UK and the Middle East.
"World Fuel is committed to the industry's goal of reducing carbon emissions by 50%. Working together with Neste to expand the global supply chain of SAF furthers that commitment," said Duncan Storey, vice president, supply aviation Europe, World Fuel Services. "We will continue to invest in creating innovative solutions and expanding renewable and lower-emission fuels and energy offerings."
Neste's market-leading Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ is fully certified for use and produced from 100% renewable and sustainable waste and residue raw materials, such as used cooking oil and animal fat waste. In its neat form and over its life cycle, Neste's SAF can reduce GHG emissions up to 80%* compared to fossil jet fuel use.
"SAF is a key element in achieving the aviation industry's emission reduction goals. Neste is leading the transformation to SAF and increasing its global SAF production capacity to 1.5 million tons per annum in 2023," said Jonathan Wood, vice president Europe, renewable aviation, Neste. "Partnering with World Fuel at Paris-Le Bourget Airport underlines our commitment to business aviation and supports the French government's ambitions for a more sustainable aviation industry."
Since 2015, World Fuel has delivered more than 27 million gallons of SAF to business and commercial aviation customers worldwide. Becoming an authorized branded distributor of Neste's SAF furthers the broader adoption of cleaner fuels that will help advance the industry on its path to net zero.
*Calculated with established life cycle assessment (LCA) methodologies, such as CORSIA methodology
To learn more about World Fuel's efforts to create a more sustainable world, please visit https://aviation.World Fuelcorp.com/sustainability.
Headquartered in Miami, Florida, World Fuel Services is a global energy management company involved in providing supply fulfillment, energy procurement advisory services, and transaction and payment management solutions to commercial and industrial customers worldwide. World Fuel Services sells and delivers liquid fuels, natural gas, electricity, renewable energy, and other sustainability solutions to its clients at more than 8,000 locations in more than 200 countries and territories through its Marine, Aviation, and World Kinect Energy Services divisions. For more information, visit www.wfscorp.com or www.world-kinect.com.
Neste (NESTE, Nasdaq Helsinki) creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. We refine waste, residues and innovative raw materials into renewable fuels and sustainable feedstock for plastics and other materials. We are the world's leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge. We aim at helping customers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions with our renewable and circular solutions by at least 20 million tons annually by 2030. Our ambition is to make the Porvoo oil refinery in Finland the most sustainable refinery in Europe by 2030. We are introducing renewable and recycled raw materials such as liquefied waste plastic as refinery raw materials. We have committed to reaching carbon-neutral production by 2035, and we will reduce the carbon emission intensity of sold products by 50% by 2040. We also have set high standards for biodiversity, human rights and supply chain. We have consistently been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world's most sustainable companies. In 2021, Neste's revenue stood at EUR 15.1 billion. Read more: neste.com
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‘Friends’-themed house for sale in Ohio
Published: May. 2, 2022 at 7:52 AM CDT|Updated: 5 hours ago
DAYTON, Ohio (CNN) - Hardcore fans of the classic television show “Friends” may want to check out a house up for grabs in Ohio.
The home is designed just like the apartment owned by Monica Geller in the show.
The replica has purple and blue walls, just like it did on the TV set. It even features a mini clawfoot tub, similar to the one in Monica’s bathroom. It also has a new furnace, water heater and air conditioner.
There is no word if there is a pizza-loving neighbor or an “ugly naked guy” living across the street.
The agent selling the home said she repeatedly watched the show and got the house to look as close to the show’s apartment as possible.
The asking price is $162,000.
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WASHINGTON, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the nation's largest immigration reform advocacy organization, today announced a new series of digital ads asking Americans to help provide visibility and transparency to expose the magnitude of the Biden administration's "night flight" illegal immigration transportation program. FAIR works for responsible immigration levels under a stable, enforceable cap, and an end to illegal immigration in all its forms.
"The Biden administration continues a widespread illegal use of immigration parole, which has helped precipitate a historic mass immigration crisis at our border," said Dan Stein, President of FAIR. "The use of secret 'night flights' happens without community notice or input and is antithetical to a free society and an informed citizenry. Policies that affect communities' schools, resources, and taxpayers are entitled to full public disclosure."
The ads ask Americans to report information they receive or witness regarding flights to help organize opposition to these illegal activities that, according to Stein, "simply complete the work of the cartels and smugglers at taxpayer expense."
"The Biden administration's abuse of parole is out of control. These practices are illegal and must be stopped. As we can see with every new announcement from DHS, unless the practices are challenged, they will expand – and indeed they are," he added. "DHS has become a lawless, rogue agency, stripping Congress and the public of the right to decide who may enter and under what conditions."
"It's time for the American media to get serious about covering these flights – and disclosing in full detail how many there are and where they are landing," Stein concluded.
The ads will run in markets across the nation. It can be viewed here, and text is as follows:
Attention – this is a national crisis.
You've seen the daily chaos at our borders. It's getting worse by the day.
And now, under the cover of darkness…
Unable to cope with the humanitarian crisis they have unleashed, the Biden administration is clandestinely flying thousands of illegal immigrants, aliens and other non-citizens on secret nighttime flights across America.
The smuggling operations by the cartels in Mexico are now being completed here in the U.S. by the administration at taxpayers' expense.
Communities across America are being affected and yours may be next.
In increasing numbers, more flights will continue shuttling hundreds of thousands more under the same conditions and we know from Homeland Security's own policy guidance that they will never be deported.
Our schools, hospitals, healthcare and housing cannot handle this continued strain. We as taxpayers are burdened enough.
FAIR is fighting to stop this destruction of our immigration laws and our borders and we need your help.
If you see or hear of one of these night flights, or of illegal aliens being resettled into your community, email nightflightalert@fairus.org or use the hashtag #NightFlightAlert to help alert the public to these covert smuggling operations. Our affected communities need to know.
With your reports, FAIR will demand transparency from the administration on their destruction of our borders and their refusal to enforce our immigration laws.
Visit fairus.org to help us fight to stop these secret night flights into our communities.
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Contact: Preston Huennekens, 202-328-7004 or phuennekens@fairus.org
ABOUT FAIR
Founded in 1979, FAIR is the country's largest immigration reform group. With over 3 million members and supporters nationwide, FAIR fights for immigration policies that serve national interests, not special interests. FAIR believes that immigration reform must enhance national security, improve the economy, protect jobs, preserve our environment, and establish a rule of law that is recognized and enforced.
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As global health leaders investigate an unusual outbreak of monkeypox across more than a dozen countries, discussions in the United States have turned to vaccination against the disease -- and certain people exposed to the virus could be offered a vaccine.
Vaccines for monkeypox are now available to some health care workers treating infected people.
"I'm happy to report, even with the first case in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital, our colleagues across the government have been able to get vaccines to that hospital. And just yesterday they've already started offering the vaccines to health care workers who have been exposed," Dr. Raj Panjabi, who leads the White House's monkeypox response, told CNN's Laura Coates on Monday night.
"The first part is to identify those who are infected and to isolate them and make sure that they get the care they need," Panjabi said. "The second part is to ensure we vaccinate those who've been exposed to the infected individuals. If we do that again and again -- and that's our approach at the White House and across the government -- then we have a better chance of ending this outbreak."
A senior Biden administration official said Tuesday that, in general, small clusters of people who have been exposed to a monkeypox patient with symptoms could be offered vaccination -- but this is not a mass vaccination effort.
In the United States, the Jynneos vaccine, given as two doses four weeks apart, is licensed to prevent smallpox and monkeypox in adults.
"Because monkeypox virus is closely related to the virus that causes smallpox, the smallpox vaccine can protect people from getting monkeypox," the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website says. "Smallpox and monkeypox vaccines are effective at protecting people against monkeypox when given before exposure to monkeypox. Experts also believe that vaccination after a monkeypox exposure may help prevent the disease or make it less severe."
Scientists have known for years that smallpox vaccines can be effective in preventing monkeypox, too. The variola virus that causes smallpox and the monkeypox virus belong to the same family.
"The viruses come from the same family of viruses, and what we've seen in prior monkeypox outbreaks is that vaccinating contacts does abort infection or attenuate infection in those individuals with monkeypox," said Dr. Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
But don't expect a large-scale rollout of vaccines.
"I think that we will need to use vaccinations in contacts of cases. This isn't something where everybody lines up and gets vaccinated," Adalja said of the current outbreak. "That's going to be critical to stopping cases."
What vaccines could work against monkeypox?
The senior administration official said Tuesday that there's sufficient vaccine to cover the United States' current level of cases.
"Right now, we have over 1,000 doses of [Jynneos] available, and we expect that level to ramp up very quickly in the coming weeks as the company provides more doses to us," Dr. Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology within the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, said Monday.
The CDC estimates that the vaccine is at least 85% effective in preventing monkeypox, based on data from Africa.
Another vaccine, called ACAM2000, is licensed in the United States to prevent smallpox. Although the vaccine could be used to prevent monkeypox, it is not licensed for that.
The United States has more than 100 million doses of ACAM2000, McQuiston said.
"ACAM2000 is an older-generation smallpox vaccine that has some potential significant side effects with it," she said. "So a decision to use that widely would have to have some serious discussion behind it."
ACAM2000 is a live virus vaccine -- and once the shot is given, a lesion will develop at that site. Because the virus grows at the site of the lesion, it can spread to other parts of the body or even to other people, according to the CDC, which is why people who get ACAM2000 "must take precautions" to prevent the spread.
In comparison, the Jynneos vaccine is given as a live virus that is non-replicating. That means there is no visible "take" and, as a result, no risk of viral spread, according to the CDC. Some common vaccine side effects include pain at the injection site, muscle pain, headache or fatigue.
Who should get vaccinated against monkeypox?
Most people won't be vaccinated against monkeypox. It's based on direct exposure.
The CDC's Advisory Committee and Immunization Practices voted last year to recommend vaccination for select groups at risk for monkeypox and other related viruses due to their occupations. That could include research lab personnel and health care workers, for instance, who treat infected people.
Amid the global outbreak, World Health Organization officials plan to make recommendations on who should be prioritized to receive a smallpox vaccination to lower their risk of monkeypox.
"We will be making recommendations on who should be prioritized for this," Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's emerging diseases and zoonoses lead and technical lead on Covid-19, said during a social media Q&A Monday.
"This is not something that everybody needs. It is a virus that is spreading between people who are coming in close contact with those who are cases," Van Kerkhove said. "We really need to discuss evidence-based use of these measures, access and equity."
Andy Seale, strategies adviser for the WHO Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes, added that vaccinations should be considered for countries where monkeypox is endemic, which are in West and Central Africa.
"Communities are already saying to us, 'if we get this right, if we contain this, if we get the access right for the outbreak, we have to do this for the endemic countries as well,' " Seale said.
Can someone get vaccinated after being exposed to monkeypox?
Vaccination after exposure to monkeypox virus can still offer some protection, according to the CDC.
"That's the norm. We usually don't do vaccination of everybody beforehand. We use vaccination as post-exposure prophylaxis," Adalja said.
"Because monkeypox has a long incubation period, just like smallpox -- it's 12 days or so, on average, for monkeypox -- you can intervene with a vaccine in an exposed person, and it will abort the infection," he said. "Or if you do get an infection, maybe it gets to them really late or late in the incubation period, it makes the infection less severe."
But the sooner an exposed person gets the vaccine, the better. The CDC recommends giving the vaccine within four days of exposure in order to prevent illness. If it's given between four and 14 days of exposure, vaccination may reduce the symptoms but may not prevent the disease itself.
Overall, people who have been exposed to the monkeypox virus and have not gotten the vaccine within the past three years should consider getting vaccinated, according to the CDC.
Will a smallpox vaccination protect against monkeypox?
There probably is some "remnant" of protection against monkeypox for adults who were vaccinated against smallpox as children, Adalja said, but it may not be full protection.
"The smallpox vaccination program ended in the 1970s in the United States. Obviously, if someone is in the US military and they got vaccinated last year, I'm sure they're completely protected," Adalja said. "But people who got vaccinated as children in the era when smallpox was a routine childhood vaccination, they may have some residual immunity."
The senior Biden administration official said Tuesday that, theoretically, there is some protection offered from a previous smallpox vaccination, but there is not good evidence on how much protection -- and that protection could wane over time.
Has the monkeypox virus changed with this outbreak?
The official said that it doesn't seem like anything has changed about the biology of the monkeypox virus and that the chances of contracting it are still very low for the general public.
WHO officials have not found evidence of the monkeypox virus changing or mutating in this outbreak. Therefore, there is no evidence to suggest that the licensed vaccines won't work against the currently circulating virus.
"It's a very stable virus. So we don't yet have evidence that there's mutation in the virus itself," Rosamund Lewis, head of smallpox secretariat at WHO Emergencies Programme, said during the Q&A on Monday.
"We are beginning to collect that information," Lewis added. "We will be convening our groups of virologists and other experts who will discuss this very question based on the sequence of the genome of some of the cases that are being detected."
That is a "key question" that is important to answer, said Dr. Daniel Rhoads, co-chair of the College of American Pathologists Microbiology Committee.
"Did something change with the biology, or is this just an unusual situation that hasn't happened before or we haven't recognized it before? I think anytime there's a change in geography for these endemic diseases, that's a key question," said Rhoads, a pathologist at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
"Whenever we see a new infection or an infection transmitted in what seems to be a new way, I always wonder, is this just something we haven't recognized before that's always been around? Or is this an actual biological change, which would be due to a mutation in the virus? I don't know," Rhoads said.
"My guess is, once they sequence the virus causing the current outbreak, they'll be able to compare it to known sequences, and then hopefully we'll have some insight as to whether or not this is kind of the same old monkeypox or if there's something that appears to be different."
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- Timely Addition of M&A and Corporate Finance Expert Strengthens Board for Execution of Acquisition Based Business Plan and Preparing to meeting Listing Requirements
PHOENIX, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SinglePoint, Inc. (OTCQB: SING) ("SinglePoint" or "the Company"), a renewable energy and sustainable solutions provider, announced today the appointment of Mr. James (Jim) Rulfs to the Board of Directors. Mr. Rulfs' 40-year business background includes experience in launching companies, working in mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance.
Mr. Rulfs, a serial entrepreneur, currently serves as a principal member in CBC Partners, LLC, a privately funded lender that provides debt financing loans to high-growth commercial and industrial companies. CBC Partners, LLC is a commercial loan Company with ten years of experience in corporate finance. Mr. Rulfs also founded Liberty Pacific Capital LLC, a venture capital firm specializing in emerging technology companies, which later became the Forbes Private Capital Group, and is the founding principal of Seattle Venture Group. Mr. Rulfs holds a Series 82 securities license and a Bachelor of Science from Ohio University.
Jim Rulfs said, "I can think of few things that are more important to America now than reliable, renewable, and environmentally responsible energy. SinglePoint is exceptionally well positioned to provide solar energy solutions to families, businesses, and institutional customers. Also giving them a measure of independence from a struggling energy grid, both local and national. Equally important, as the cost of energy is skyrocketing in a struggling economy, SinglePoint and the solar platforms they can deploy will give economic and energy independence to clients for years to come. I'm honored to have the opportunity to work with the SinglePoint team."
Wil Ralston, CEO of SinglePoint, said, "We are very pleased to welcome Jim Rulfs to the Board of Directors of SinglePoint at a juncture when his deep experience in mergers and acquisitions and building companies will be used as we experience rapid growth. Jim's business acumen and business relationships offers real value as we ramp up our acquisition activity and expand our business footprint in the sustainable living market sector."
SinglePoint Inc. is a renewable energy and sustainable lifestyle company that provides environmentally friendly energy efficiencies and healthy living solutions. SinglePoint is initially focused on building the largest network of renewable energy solutions and modernizing the traditional solar and energy storage model. The Company is also actively exploring future growth opportunities in air purification, electric vehicle charging, solar as a subscription service, and additional energy efficiencies and appliances that enhance sustainability and healthier life. For more information, visit the Company's website (www.singlepoint.com) and connect on social media for the latest updates.
Certain statements in this news release may contain forward-looking information within Rule 175 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 3b-6 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are subject to the safe harbor created by those rules. All statements, other than statements of fact included in this release, including, without limitation, statements regarding potential plans and objectives of the Company, the use of proceeds, anticipated growth, and future expansion, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.
Technical complications, which may arise, could prevent the prompt implementation of any strategically significant plan(s) outlined above. The Company undertakes no duty to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
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DALLAS, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NexPoint Real Estate Finance ("NREF" or the "Company") (NYSE: NREF) announced today that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.50 per share of NREF common stock. The dividend will be payable on September 30, 2022 to stockholders of record on September 15, 2022.
NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc., is a publicly traded REIT, with its shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "NREF" primarily focused on originating, structuring and investing in first mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity and alternative structured financings in commercial real estate properties, as well as multifamily commercial mortgage-backed securities. More information about the Company is available at http://nref.nexpoint.com.
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Which laptop cooling pad is best?
Laptops have their own cooling systems, but sometimes it isn’t enough. You may be working in a hot environment or pushing your laptop to its limits with intensive software or by gaming. Using a laptop in conditions like these for extended times will damage your components, leading to a broken computer and possible loss of data. Laptop cooling pads are designed to supplement your onboard cooling system to avoid these dangers.
The best laptop cooling pad is the Havit Laptop Cooling Pad. It’s affordable, effective and simply designed.
What to know before you buy a laptop cooling pad
Your conditions
Your laptop, what you use it for and where you use it have the biggest effect on determining how powerful a cooling pad you need.
- Laptop: There are a lot of variables, but in general, the cheapest and most powerful laptops are more likely to need more powerful cooling pads.
- Usage: Think of usage as the difference between sitting and working out in the same conditions. Working out will make you sweaty and you’ll want help cooling off. It’s the same for laptops — writing a report and browsing the web won’t have the same cooling requirements as using intensive software.
- Location: This refers to the temperature around your laptop. For example, if you take two identical laptops — one inside with air conditioning and the other outside on a warm day — and use them intensely for an hour, the outside laptop is much more likely to need additional cooling from a pad.
Portability
Laptop cooling pads can be split between those meant to stay on a desk and those designed to travel with you. Those meant for desk work tend to be more powerful and larger, while those designed for travel are small and have soft materials on the underside so they’re comfortable to keep on your lap.
Power source
Laptop cooling pads use your laptop’s battery as a power source by connecting to it via USB. Some also can use external power sources, such as portable chargers or power outlets, which will help maintain your laptop’s battery. Few are only powered via an external source.
What to look for in a quality laptop cooling pad
Less noise
Fans generate noise no matter what, but better fans generate less, even if they’re more powerful. The best fans have decibel counts as low as the 20s-30s on max power while the worst are as loud as the 50s.
Airflow
Most laptop cooling pads measure their airflow using cubic feet per minute. The higher the CFM, the more air is pushed through your laptop and the cooler it is.
How much you can expect to spend on a laptop cooling pad
Laptop cooling pads typically cost $20-$100. Low-powered models for basic needs cost less than $30. Most midrange models cost $30-$40. The strongest models start around $40 and can exceed $100.
Laptop cooling pad FAQ
How badly will a cooling pad drain my laptop’s battery?
A. That depends on the cooling pad. More powerful pads will obviously drain your battery faster, but some pads have features such as power control or off and on switches to help you tailor your cooling needs to specific situations.
Do laptop cooling pads really work?
A. Yes. Even the weakest cooling pads can help lower your laptop’s temperature by a few degrees, while others can drop it tens of degrees. Even dropping your laptop’s temperature by a single degree will lower the risk of damage and help your laptop last longer than it otherwise would.
How can I tell if I need a laptop cooling pad?
A. The two main ways to gauge if you need to invest in a cooling pad are through touch and hearing. If your laptop ever feels hot to the touch in any area — even if it’s just slightly warm — or you notice that your onboard cooling fans are operating more frequently or louder than they should be, you can receive some benefit from a cooling pad.
What’s the best laptop cooling pad to buy?
Top laptop cooling pad
What you need to know: It cools well and isn’t too pricey.
What you’ll love: It cools 15.6- to 17-inch laptops and comes in three designs. The fans don’t generate much noise, and it includes extra USB ports to expand how many devices you can connect at once. It can be tilted up to 1 inch high.
What you should consider: While designed to handle up to 17-inch laptops, those on the upper threshold don’t fit as well. It isn’t as effective at cooling gaming laptops.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top laptop cooling pad for the money
What you need to know: It’s designed to cool gaming consoles in addition to laptops.
What you’ll love: It can cool 11- to 19-inch laptops and the Xbox One and PS4, and it comes with red or green LEDs. It uses four fans that spin at up to 1,200 revolutions per minute for powerful cooling. The surface has retractable stoppers to help keep your device in place.
What you should consider: Larger and heavier laptops have trouble staying in place, especially if the pad is tilted. Some customers were unhappy with the plastic frame’s durability.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Targus Neoprene Laptop Cooling Pad
What you need to know: This no-frills pad is perfect for the office.
What you’ll love: The simple all-black design is more professional than that of most cooling pads. The neoprene base is comfortable when used on the lap and the surface has rubber stops to hold your laptop in place. It has two fans that don’t create much noise.
What you should consider: It doesn’t include any extra ports and the height of the tilt is not adjustable. The included power cable is too short for some laptops.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Run, Laal, run: ‘Forrest Gump’ gets remake in India
(AP) - Indian actor Aamir Khan enjoyed “Forrest Gump” so much that he’s starring in a Hindi remake.
Released in 1994, the original film went on to sweep the Oscars, taking six trophies including best picture and best actor for Tom Hanks. Directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth based on Winston Groom’s novel, “Forrest Gump,″ is the tale of a slow-witted but mathematically gifted man who witnesses key points and figures of U.S. history, like the Vietnam War, presidents and Elvis Presley.
Nearly 30 years later, the story has been given an Indian makeover — with Khan taking on the role of the titular character “Laal Singh Chaddha’' — including converting the line “Run, Forrest, run” into “Run, Laal, run.”
“I just remember seeing it a couple of times in a short span, and it had a deep impact on me, Khan says “I loved the character of Forrest. I loved the way Tom played the part as well. And it’s a film that stayed with me.”
It took a decade for Khan to get the movie rights. But big changes were made to root “Laal Singh Chaddha” in Indian history and culture, with both the Kargil war and superstar Shah Rukh Khan appearing.
Laal does not think life is like a box of chocolates, he instead likes to quote his mother talking about Golgappas - small circles of filled, deep-fried flatbread enjoyed with spiced water, which has a slightly different meaning than the original motto.
“(Forrest says) ‘my momma used to say life is like a box of chocolates: you never know which one you would get.’ And in this one, the English translation is, ‘My mama used to say that life is like a Golgappa: your stomach gets full, but your heart desires more,’” explains Khan.
He says writer Atul Kulkarni was adapting what was “essentially American” into something “quintessentially Indian and very relevant to us culturally.”
Directed by Advait Chandan, “Laal Singh Chaddha” also stars Kareena Kapoor Khan, Mona Singh and Naga Chaitanya.
Khan says he asked Kapoor Khan, who’s had a successful career for more than two decades, to try out for the pivotal role of Laal’s friend, Rupa D’souza.
“She’s such a huge star and she’s never auditioned for a part in her life. But for me, doing an audition for the part is perfectly natural because even I want to see how close I am to the character. So we’re not really testing to see that a person can act or not, but really how suitable the person is for the part. But that’s something which is very unusual in India.”
Another huge star who makes a small but important appearance in the movie is legendary Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan. No audition needed, as he’s portraying himself.
“We were trying to look for an equivalent to Elvis Presley in America. And I think for us, it was an obvious choice to go for Shah Rukh, because he’s such a huge star and everyone loves him so much,” Khan says. “He was really sporting and generous and said, yes, I’d love to do that.”
“Laal Singh Chaddha” is releasing around the world this month — including on 350 screens in the U.K., which is a new record for an Indian movie.
“I’m really nervous,” Khan admits.
“It’s a film that we’ve made with so much love and care and it’s been such a challenging film to make. The whole journey has been difficult but exciting and fun.”
A lot of that journey was spent sprinting towards the finish line — and he “ran a lot,’’ Khan says.
“For a month and a half we were traveling across the country, and each place we went to I just was running, and Advait as a director was quite heartless. He would start a shot and he would be in the car, and there would be a camera in the car, and I would be running and the car would be just driving, and it would be a few kilometers by the time he said cut.”
“Laal Singh Chaddha” releases in India, Germany, France, Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S. on Thursday.
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HOUSTON, April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (NYSE: GPI) ("Group 1" or the "Company"), an international, Fortune 300 automotive retailer with 202 dealerships located in the U.S. and U.K., today announced that senior management will present at the Bank of America 2022 Auto Summit on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, at the JW Marriott Essex House in New York City. The presentation is scheduled to begin at 9:45 a.m. ET.
The presentation for this event will be simulcast live on the Internet at http://www.group1corp.com/events. A softcopy of the Company's presentation material provided at the conference will also be available within http://www.group1corp.com/events and within the Investor Relations section of Group 1's website at http://www.group1corp.com/company-presentations.
ABOUT GROUP 1 AUTOMOTIVE, INC. Group 1 owns and operates 202 automotive dealerships, 268 franchises, and 46 collision centers in the United States and the United Kingdom that offer 34 brands of automobiles. Through its dealerships, the Company sells new and used cars and light trucks; arranges related vehicle financing; sells service contracts; provides automotive maintenance and repair services; and sells vehicle parts.
Group 1 discloses additional information about the Company, its business, and its results of operations at www.group1corp.com, www.group1auto.com, www.group1collision.com, www.acceleride.com, www.facebook.com/group1auto, and www.twitter.com/group1auto.
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Convicted murderer Gonzalo Lopez, who escaped last month from a prisoner transportation bus in Texas, was killed in a shootout with officers late Thursday, according to officials.
Hours earlier, authorities said Lopez was the prime suspect in the killing of five people, including four children, in a home in Leon County.
Lopez fled the home in a truck that was later disabled with a spike strip in the town of Jourdanton, Jason Clark with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a press conference Thursday night.
Lopez crashed the vehicle and then engaged in a firefight with officers, he said.
"He fired several rounds at officers and was armed with an AR-15 and a pistol," Clark said, adding that they believe the firearms were likely stolen from the home in Centerville where the family was killed. No officers were injured.
Lopez had been convicted of capital murder, attempted capital murder and aggravated kidnapping, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. He was serving two life sentences for those convictions, according to the department.
His escape near Centerville, about 120 miles north of Houston, on May 12 sparked one of the largest search efforts for an escaped inmate in Texas history, according to officials.
Lopez was on the state's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List and authorities offered up to $50,000 for information that would help toward his capture.
"He's got a life sentence for a capital murder, where he killed a man with a pickaxe and he's also gotten an attempted capital murder conviction for shooting a gun at a police officer," Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson Robert Hurst said during a news conference at the time, warning that Lopez is "very dangerous."
Lopez was affiliated with the Mexican Mafia and had ties to the Rio Grande Valley area -- including Weslaco and Mercedes -- and San Antonio, the state's public safety department said.
Family was visiting their weekend residence when they were killed
Earlier on Thursday, officials said a family had been found dead in their rural home and that Lopez was the suspect.
"Lopez is obviously a killer. He has a disregard for human life," Clark said.
Authorities did not provide exact ages or identities of the victims.
Clark said the family was using the home in Leon County as a "weekend residence." Investigators believe the family had no connection to Lopez, who allegedly broke into the home and stole a vehicle that Clark described as a "farm truck."
The home was within the perimeter police were searching following Lopez's escape, which happened as he was being transported from a facility in Gatesville to another unit in Huntsville for a medical appointment.
Huntsville is around 70 miles north of Houston.
He was being driven in a separate, caged area of the prison bus but he was able to break out of his restraints, cut through the metal and crawl out of the bottom of the cage, officials previously said.
Lopez attacked the driver and forced the bus to a stop, authorities said. The two got out of the vehicle and as a second officer began approaching, Lopez went back into the bus and attempted to drive it away but the officers shot at the tires and were able to stop the vehicle, authorities said.
Lopez left the bus and ran into the woods off of Highway 7 in Leon County, according to authorities.
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Funds including BCI, CalSTRS, CalPERS, CPPIB and IMCO backed a shareholder proposal filed by SHARE on freedom of association and collective bargaining at Amazon's shareholder meeting
TORONTO, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - More than 47% of independent shareholders voted in favour of a proposal filed by SHARE and the Catherine Donnelly Foundation at Amazon's May 25 annual meeting. The proposal requests Amazon's board of directors to review how the Company's actions in the face of union organizing efforts align with its stated commitment to freedom of association and collective bargaining and core International Labour Organization Conventions.
Angelika Maldonado, a leader with the Staten Island, NY based Amazon Labor Union spoke to the resolution, on SHARE's behalf. Maldonado did not mince words: "Amazon management wasted millions of dollars in anti-union consultants and it all backfired," she said. "What a waste of time and money."
"This vote is historic" said Anthony Schein, Director of Shareholder Advocacy at SHARE. "Amazon's human capital management practices are notorious, and the company's interference in freedom of association is well documented. We have never seen such a strong vote on a North American company's direct, workforce practices." Moldonado cited leading brands that each have committed to respecting basic association rights – including UPS, Kaiser, Kroger, and General Motors.
The list of asset owners and managers that declared votes in support of the proposal includes is extensive. Pension fund heavyweights CalPERS, CalSTRS, New York City Pension, and the Florida, Wisconsin funds, Texas Teachers all backed the proposal, along with the some of largest Canadian funds, including CPPIB, AIMCO, IMCO, and BCI. Asset managers declaring in support included Schroders and Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM). Leading proxy advisors Institutional Shareholders Service (ISS) and Glass Lewis also expressed support for the proposal despite management's opposition.
"This is a big win for workers, and for investors who recognize that good human capital management practices are crucial to companies' success. As one of the largest employers in the world, Amazon has the power to influence labour rights globally", said Sarah Couturier-Tanoh, Manager of Corporate Engagement and Shareholder Advocacy at SHARE. "Amazon can no longer ignore its union problem as workers, investors and regulators expect the board and the management to demonstrate a genuine intention to respect workers' rights, including freedom of association and collective bargaining across its operations."
Amazon has been subject a barrage of negative media coverage in the U.S and internationally in recent years. The company has been accused of limiting fundamental rights through the use of intimidation strategies, retaliation actions and surveillance systems. Such practices directly contradict Amazon's own commitment "to non-discrimination and non-retaliation that ensures equal treatment for union and non-union employees."
SHARE has filed a similar proposal at Tesla Inc, which will be voted on at the company's August 4 AGM. Tesla is a leader in electric vehicle manufacturing – and has faced accusations of discrimination and harassment in its workforce practices.
SHARE is a leader in responsible investment services, research and education for institutional investors, providing shareholder engagement, consulting services, education and timely research that help investors integrate environmental, social and governance issues into the investment management process.
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CHARLESTON, S.C., April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world's leading cloud software company powering social good, will report its first quarter 2022 financial results on Tuesday, May 3, after the U.S. financial markets close for trading. In conjunction with this announcement, Blackbaud will host a conference call on Wednesday, May 4, at 8:00 a.m. ET to discuss the company's financial results.
A webcast will be available and archived on Blackbaud's investor webpage following the call.
About Blackbaud
Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the world's leading cloud software company powering social good. Serving the entire social good community—nonprofits, higher education institutions, K–12 schools, healthcare organizations, faith communities, arts and cultural organizations, foundations, companies and individual change agents—Blackbaud connects and empowers organizations to increase their impact through cloud software, services, expertise and data intelligence. The Blackbaud portfolio is tailored to the unique needs of vertical markets, with solutions for fundraising and CRM, marketing, advocacy, peer-to-peer fundraising, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and governance (ESG), school management, ticketing, grantmaking, financial management, payment processing and analytics. Serving the industry for four decades, Blackbaud is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, and has operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.blackbaud.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
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"Dr. Zero Trust" and former Forrester analyst to further Lumu's mission to help organizations measure compromise in real time
MIAMI, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumu, creators of the Continuous Compromise Assessment cybersecurity model that empowers organizations to measure compromise in real time, today announced the appointment of Dr. Chase Cunningham as Chair of its new Advisory Board. In this role, Cunningham will lead a strategic CISO advisory board to help enable organizations of all sizes to more optimally defend their organizations.
"Cyberthreats evolve infinitely, and our defenses should evolve as well. Chase has supported Lumu's mission since day one because he understands the change in paradigm we are bringing to the market and the value we offer to more than 3,000 customers," said Ricardo Villadiego, Founder and CEO of Lumu. "As organizations continue to adopt our Continuous Compromise Assessment model, they need expert, unbiased advice on how to evolve their defense programs. Chase joins Lumu to offer that support to our customers and prospects."
Cunningham is a former Forrester analyst, creator of the zero trust extended framework and a cybersecurity expert with decades of operational experience in NSA, US Navy, FBI Cyber and other government mission groups. Cunningham is a renowned book author of the book Cyber Warfare: Truth, Tactics and Strategies, gAbrIel, the Cynja comic series and is cited in more than 100 other publications.
"Lumu is definitely one of the top innovators in the cybersecurity operations space. Their Continuous Compromise Assessment model and the actionable visibility it provides is an essential tool in any cybersecurity program looking to survive and prepare for the current threat landscape, regardless of the size of the organization," said Chase Cunningham. "Lumu's traction in the market isn't surprising because I have seen first hand the value they are providing to their customers and I am excited to join and further their mission."
Lumu offers a cloud-based solution that collects and standardizes metadata from across the network, including DNS queries, network flows, access logs from proxies, firewalls, and spam box filters. Lumu then applies Artificial Intelligence to correlate threat intelligence from these disparate data sources to isolate confirmed points of compromise allowing a business to identify compromised infrastructure and additional adversarial activity.
To learn more about Lumu or to open a Lumu Free Account, visit: www.lumu.io.
About Lumu
Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Lumu is a cybersecurity company focused on helping enterprise organizations illuminate threats and isolate confirmed instances of compromise. Applying principles of Continuous Compromise Assessment, Lumu has built a powerful closed-loop, self-learning solution that helps security teams accelerate compromise detection, gain real-time visibility across their infrastructure, and close the breach detection gap from months to minutes. Learn more about how Lumu illuminates network blind spots at www.lumu.io.
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WASHINGTON, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff hosted an evening of NASA STEM activities Friday at the Naval Observatory for military families and local students and their families, which included a special screening of Disney Pixar's Lightyear.
NASA provided three hands-on STEM activities to inspire students from 4th to 8th grade to engage with the science, technology, engineering and math behind NASA's missions. Former astronaut and former NASA Associate Administrator of Education Leland Melvin and astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli, Stephanie Wilson, and Tom Marshburn answered questions about their time in space. Marshburn recently returned with NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 from the International Space Station and was the NASA technical consultant on the film. Also in attendance were Lightyear actors Keke Palmer and Uzo Aduba.
"It was wonderful to work on these STEM activities with a bright young group of future leaders showcasing the exciting work we're doing at NASA in STEM and in space," said NASA Astronaut Thomas Marshburn. "This next generation – the Artemis Generation – will build on the work we're doing today to get us to the Moon and Mars, and it all starts here with inspiring young people on Earth."
Through NASA's Office of STEM engagement, the agency makes investments in engaging students, educators, and educational institutions to attract diverse groups of students to STEM for a diverse set of students to contribute to NASA's work and build a diverse future STEM workforce. OSTEM's Next Gen STEM project focuses on NASA's efforts to engage K-12 students, including those traditionally underrepresented and underserved, and provides support to informal educational institutions.
NASA also engages and inspires the next generation through STEM collaborations as the country prepares for human exploration of the Moon. NASA's Artemis program will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. NASA will then use what they learn to take the next giant leap: sending the first astronauts to Mars.
U.S. leadership in science and technology depends on increasing student STEM engagement and as Chair of the National Space Council, the Vice President has made it a priority to ensure the Administration is inspiring future scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and explorers.
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Ssun Health adds Overjet's FDA-cleared dental AI for radiograph analysis and annotation to its practices in the Midwest.
BOSTON and PARKER, Colo., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ssun Health, a dental support organization dedicated to reimagining dentistry to improve patient health, announced today it is partnering with Overjet to add AI-powered X-ray analysis and clinical insights to its network of practices in the Midwest.
Overjet transforms dental radiographs by layering in data that quantifies bone loss, detects decay, and highlights potential areas of concern for clinicians to review. The real-time analysis and annotations also make it easier for patients to visualize what is happening with their oral health, which increases case acceptance.
"At Ssun Health, we take pride as leaders in total health and wellness-initiated care, and we're constantly trying to improve upon the experience we're able to create for our teams and patients alike," said Eric Nuss, CEO of Ssun Health. "Through our partnership with Overjet and adopting AI into all of our practices, we will not only be providing our doctors with an innovative tool to help them improve diagnostic quality, consistency, and speed, but we will also significantly enhance the quality of care and the overall patient experience. AI is transforming the way we care for our patients while improving the lives of our doctors. It's a win-win."
"Ssun Health has a well-established reputation for providing excellent patient care, and Overjet is excited to partner with its practices to provide a powerful tool to enhance comprehensive diagnosis and patient communication," said Wardah Inam, the co-founder and CEO of Overjet. "Together, we're creating a future that is clinically-precise, efficient, and patient-centric."
Overjet has analyzed tens of millions of X-rays, is used by dental practices nationwide, and has been implemented by insurance companies representing more than 100 million patients in the U.S. To learn more, visit overjet.com.
Ssun Health is a dental support organization that was founded in 2018 by a world-class leadership team which brings far-reaching and industry-known experience from over 80 years in the dental field. Headquartered in Colorado, it has 11 practices and is growing throughout the Rocky Mountain, Southwest and Midwest regions. With a focus on leadership, education, and creating an exceptional experience for patients, Ssun Health is disrupting the dental management industry and Group Dentistry Today named it an "Emerging Dental Group to Watch" in 2021. Ssun Health offers a partnership model that provides financial, administrative, clinical, and real estate support services and works hand-in-hand with practice owners to make the personal and professional success they've dreamed about a reality. To learn more, visit ssunhealth.com.
Founded by experts from MIT and Harvard School of Dentistry, Overjet is the industry leader in dental artificial intelligence, helping both providers and payers improve patient care. By combining deep expertise in dentistry and advanced engineering, Overjet develops accurate and quantified ways to detect pathologies, and integrates actionable insights into workflows to operationalize a feedback loop between providers, payers, and patients. Every day, some of the largest DSOs and insurance companies rely on accurate information provided by Overjet's FDA-cleared platform to drive care and service to patients. Learn more at overjet.com.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred defended the sport’s treatment of minor leaguers, prompting immediate criticism from the players’ advocacy group.
“I kind of reject the premise of the question that minor league players are not paid a living wage,” Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America before Tuesday’s All-Star Game.
“I think that we’ve made real strides in the last few years in terms of what minor league players are paid, even putting to one side the signing bonuses that many of them have already received. They receive housing, which obviously is another form of compensation.”
MLB raised minimum salaries in 2021, increasing Class A pay from $290 to $500 per week, Double-A from $350 to $600, and Triple-A from $502 to $700 over the roughly five-month season. Players are only paid in-season.
Amateur players residing in the United States and Canada who are selected in this week’s amateur draft have slot values for their signing bonuses, which clubs use as guidelines, ranging from $8.8 million for the first pick to just under $150,000 for the last selections of the 10th and final round. MLB says it spends about $450 million each year on signing bonuses for first-year players.
Last November, MLB announced it was requiring teams to provide furnished accommodations, with a single bed per player and no more than two players per bedroom. Teams are responsible for basic utility bills.
“Most minor league baseball players work second jobs because their annual salaries are insufficient to make ends meet,” Harry Marino, executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, said in a statement responding to Manfred. “His suggestion that minor league pay is acceptable is both callous and false.”
Papers filed Friday in federal court revealed MLB agreed to pay $185 million to settle a lawsuit by minor leaguers. MLB agreed in the deal to rescind any prohibitions against teams paying wages to minor league players outside of the season.
An early estimate is that perhaps 23,000 players could share the money with an average payment of $5,000 to $5,500, with $55.5 million going to the players’ lawyers.
Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked Manfred to explain by next Tuesday the impact of potential legislation stripping the sport’s antitrust exemption from covering the sport’s relationship with minor league players.
While players with major league contracts are unionized, players with minor league contracts are not. The Major League Baseball Players Association gave Advocates for Minor Leaguers $50,000 last November, according to a federal disclosure statement.
“It is exciting to see players recognizing and appreciating the power of their collective voice in effecting positive change in things that they live day to day,” union head Tony Clark, a former first baseman, told the BBWAA in a question-and-answer session prior to Manfred’s. “Harry Marino and the Advocates for Minor Leaguers have done a tremendous job in engaging and educating the the minor leaguers and helping them to find their voice. … We are watching. We are providing support when and where possible.”
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CAUGHT ON CAM: Dog alerts family to intruder inside home
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. (KCNC) – A family in Colorado avoided an attempted home robbery, thanks to their brave dog.
Police are now searching for the intruders.
The couple had just picked up their child from day care, and when they returned home with their dog Phoebe, she quickly noticed there was a stranger inside.
Natalie, who did not provide her last name, said Phoebe went to the back of the house immediately and started barking.
“And then we saw a man run through our dining room,” Natalie said.
The family ran out of the house and called 911. Seconds later, the intruder ran outside and jumped into a getaway car. The homeowners took photos of what police said was a stolen white Subaru.
A surveillance camera also captured the female driver. The vehicle eventually ran a stop sign and struck another car entering the intersection.
The suspects fled the vehicle at the scene, according to police.
“They continued driving and then eventually dumped their essentially totaled vehicle on another random street in the neighborhood,” Joanna Small with Wheat Ridge police said.
License plates and drug paraphernalia were found in the wrecked and abandoned getaway car.
Phoebe’s owners are grateful she protected them.
“We do know that she is protective of the house, but [we’re] definitely grateful that she was the one who encountered him and not us, because I don’t want to see a man in our house, face-to-face, who is trying to rob us,” Natalie said.
Police are still searching for the suspects.
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TORONTO, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Orvana Minerals Corp. (TSX: ORV) (the "Company" or "Orvana") is pleased to announce the recent completion of Phase I of its infill and resource-growth drilling campaign targeting the Oxides Horizon ("Oxides") of its 100%-owned Taguas Project in San Juan Province, Argentina. A five-month final Phase II is expected to start in November 2022.
Phase I consisted of 6,482.6 meters in 41 diamond drill holes (DDH's), with over 4,900 assay samples. The main goal of the program was to upgrade Cerros Taguas Oxides Sector to Measured & Indicated Resource categories, as those terms are defined in National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") while moderately expanding the ore tonnage previously reported in the Company's NI 43-101 compliant Taguas preliminary economic assessment report dated December 29, 2021 and filed on SEDAR on February 11, 2022 (the "Taguas 2021 PEA"). The second goal was to incorporate satellite Cerro Campamento Sector into the Oxides scope, going forward.
"The DDH's average drilling results and key intercepts continue to support Orvana's Oxides development strategy for our Taguas multimillion-ounce Au-Ag Oxides-Sulfides Project. Also, the decision to incorporate the satellite higher-grade Cerro Campamento Sector will be key to improving project economics. We are excited, and eagerly awaiting, resource re-modeling by July 2022. Completion of Phase II will be the foundation of the 43-101 Pre-Feasibility Study for our Oxides Project in Taguas", said Orvana CEO Juan Gavidia.
Highlights:
- Phase I infill and growth drilling program on Taguas Oxides completed (41 holes totaling 6,482.6 meters).
- Mineralization encountered in all 41 holes.
- Grades generally equaling-improving average previous resource grades included in the Taguas 2021 PEA.
- Best drilling results included:
- Potential to reduce strip ratio in next open pit re-design.
- Phase II infill and growth drilling program expected to start in November 2022: additional 11,000 meters in Cerros Taguas Sector and 3,000 meters in Cerro Campamento Sector.
Drilling Program Overview:
Phase I was conducted between late-December 2021 and mid-May 2022. Out of the total 41 drill holes drilled in Phase I, assay results from the first 12 holes (TADD237 to TADD248) were outlined in Orvana's March 31, 2022 news release. The assay results for the subsequent 29 holes are summarized in Table 1 and Table 2 of this news release.
Phases I & II results to be used for Taguas Oxides prefeasibility studies purposes.
Cerros Taguas
- 34 core holes totaling 5,748.6 meters drilled.
- Targets:
- Table 1, below, shows promising results, identifying thicker high-grade structures than previously modeled:
- Under-drilled area inside Taguas 2021 PEA open pit model is now preliminarily showing a high possibility to improve mining strip ratio.
- High grade structures like the ones intercepted in TADD258 leave open the possibility of increasing resources towards the northeast.
- Phase II (additional 11,000 meters) is expected to be completed by March 2023.
Cerro Campamento
- 7 core holes totaling 734 meters drilled.
- Focused on defining the shallower part of high gold grade oxides, which can potentially be mined by open pit.
- First interpretations show the existence of a low-grade envelope around high-grade veins. Additional drilling is necessary to continue delineating shallower parts of high gold grade veins; with the aim for open pit mining modeling.
- Best intercepts shown in Table 2. Highlights:
- Phase II (additional 3,000 meters) is expected to be completed by March 2023.
Quality Assurance-Quality Control ("QA/QC")
Samples were prepared and analyzed by Alex Stewart International Argentina SA Laboratory in Mendoza. This laboratory is ISO 9001; ISO 17025, and ISO 14001 certified. Samples were prepared following the P-5 laboratory preparation code: the samples were dried, crushed to passing 10 mesh (>80%), riffle split of 1kg sample and pulverized to 106 microns (>95%). The assays included 50 g Au by fire assay (FA), AA finish and 39 element package with aqua regia dilution and ICP OES finish. Over limits for Au and Ag were run in 50 g sample by FA and gravimetric method finish. Coarse and pulp rejects were returned and are stored in the Piuquenes storage facilities.
The reported work has been completed using industry standard procedures, including a quality assurance/quality control ("QA/QC") program consisting of the insertion of quarter core field duplicates, coarse duplicates split after laboratory crushing, pulp duplicates split after laboratory pulverization, coarse analytical blank samples and 2 different CRMs inserted in batches of roughly 50 samples.
The exploration update was prepared under the supervision of Raúl Alvarez Cifuentes, a qualified person for the purposes of NI 43-101 and an employee of the company.
Table 1 – Intercepts from Cerros Taguas
The assay results from the first 12 holes (TADD237 to TADD248) were outlined in the news release dated March 31, 2022. The assay results for the subsequent 29 holes are summarized below:
Table 2 – Intercepts from Cerro Campamento
The table shows the most significant results:
Cautionary Notes to Investors - Mineral Reserves and Resources Estimates
Pursuant to Canadian Institute of Mining Metallurgy and Petroleum's "CIM Standards on Mineral Resources and Reserves Definitions and Guidelines" (the "CIM Guidelines"), mineral resources have a higher degree of uncertainty than mineral reserves as to their existence as well as their economic and legal feasibility. Inferred mineral resources, when compared with measured or indicated mineral resources, have the least certainty as to their existence, and it cannot be assumed that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource will be upgraded to an indicated or measured mineral resource as a result of continued exploration. Pursuant to NI 43-101, inferred mineral resources may not form the basis of any economic analysis, including any feasibility study. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to assume that all or any part of a mineral resource exists, will ever be converted into a mineral reserve, or is or will ever be economically or legally mineable or recovered.
ABOUT ORVANA - Orvana is a multi-mine gold-copper-silver company. Orvana's assets consist of the producing El Valle and Carlés gold-copper-silver mines in northern Spain, the Don Mario gold-silver property in Bolivia, currently in care and maintenance, and the Taguas property located in Argentina. Additional information is available at Orvana's website (www.orvana.com).
Cautionary Statements - Forward-Looking Information
Certain statements in this presentation constitute forward-looking statements or forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws ("forward-looking statements"). Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, potentials, future events or performance (often, but not always, using words or phrases such as "believes", "expects", "plans", "estimates" or "intends" or stating that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "will" or "are projected to" be taken or achieved) are not statements of historical fact, but are forward-looking statements.
The forward-looking statements herein relate to, among other things, Orvana's ability to achieve improvement in free cash flow; the ability to maintain expected mining rates and expected throughput rates at El Valle Plant; the potential to extend the mine life of El Valle and Don Mario beyond their current life-of-mine estimates including specifically, but not limited to, in the case of Don Mario, the processing of the mineral stockpiles and the reprocessing of the tailings material; Orvana's ability to optimize its assets to deliver shareholder value; the Company's ability to optimize productivity at Don Mario and El Valle; estimates of future production, operating costs and capital expenditures; mineral resource and reserve estimates; statements and information regarding future feasibility studies and their results; future transactions; future metal prices; the ability to achieve additional growth and geographic diversification; and future financial performance, including the ability to increase cash flow and profits; future financing requirements; mine development plans; and the possibility of the conversion of inferred mineral resources to mineral reserves.
Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of such statements, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, which includes, without limitation, as particularly set out in the notes accompanying the Company's most recently filed financial statements. The estimates and assumptions of the Company contained or incorporated by reference in this information, which may prove to be incorrect, include, but are not limited to the various assumptions set forth herein and in Orvana's most recently filed Management's Discussion & Analysis and Annual Information Form in respect of the Company's most recently completed fiscal year (the "Company Disclosures") or as otherwise expressly incorporated herein by reference as well as: there being no significant disruptions affecting operations, whether due to labour disruptions, supply disruptions, power disruptions, damage to equipment or otherwise; permitting, development, operations, expansion and acquisitions at El Valle and Don Mario being consistent with the Company's current expectations; political developments in any jurisdiction in which the Company operates being consistent with its current expectations; certain price assumptions for gold, copper and silver; prices for key supplies being approximately consistent with current levels; production and cost of sales forecasts meeting expectations; the accuracy of the Company's current mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates; labour and materials costs increasing on a basis consistent with Orvana's current expectations; and the availability of necessary funds to execute the Company's plan. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this news release also contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities legislation, including, without limitation, references to the results of the Taguas preliminary economic assessment (PEA), including but not limited to the mineral resource estimation, conceptual mine plan and operations, internal rate of return, sensitivities, taxes, net present value, potential recoveries, design parameters, operating costs, capital costs, production data and economic potential; the timing and costs for production decisions; permitting timelines and requirements; exploration and planned exploration programs; the potential for discovery of additional mineral resources; timing for completion of a feasibility study; timing for first gold production at Taguas; issuing an expanded resource PEA for Taguas in a timely manner; completion of the infill drilling program and prefeasibility timing at Taguas; making a decision on the oxides stockpile at Don Mario in a timely manner; identifying additional resources beyond the replenishment of annual depletion rates at El Valle for the extension of mine life; and the Company's general objectives and strategies.
A variety of inherent risks, uncertainties and factors, many of which are beyond the Company's control, affect the operations, performance and results of the Company and its business, and could cause actual events or results to differ materially from estimated or anticipated events or results expressed or implied by forward looking statements. Some of these risks, uncertainties and factors include: the potential impact of the COVID-19 on the Company's business and operations, including: our ability to continue operations; our ability to manage challenges presented by COVID-19; the accounting treatment of COVID-19 related matters; Orvana's ability to prevent and/or mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases at or near our mines; the general economic, political and social impacts of the continuing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, our ability to support the sustainability of our business including through the development of crisis management plans, increasing stock levels for key supplies, monitoring of guidance from the medical community, and engagement with local communities and authorities; fluctuations in the price of gold, silver and copper; the need to recalculate estimates of resources based on actual production experience; the failure to achieve production estimates; variations in the grade of ore mined; variations in the cost of operations; the availability of qualified personnel; the Company's ability to obtain and maintain all necessary regulatory approvals and licenses; the Company's ability to use cyanide in its mining operations; risks generally associated with mineral exploration and development, including the Company's ability to continue to operate the El Valle and/or ability to resume long-term operations at the Carlés Mine; the Company's ability to successfully implement a sulphidization circuit and ancillary facilities to process the current oxides stockpiles at Don Mario; the Company's ability to successfully carry out development plans at Taguas; sufficient funding to carry out development plans at Taguas and to process the oxides stockpiles at Don Mario; the Company's ability to acquire and develop mineral properties and to successfully integrate such acquisitions; the Company's ability to execute on its strategy; the Company's ability to obtain financing when required on terms that are acceptable to the Company; challenges to the Company's interests in its property and mineral rights; current, pending and proposed legislative or regulatory developments or changes in political, social or economic conditions in the countries in which the Company operates; general economic conditions worldwide; the challenges presented by COVID-19; fluctuating operational costs such as, but not limited to, power supply costs; current and future environmental matters; and the risks identified in the Company's disclosures. This list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect any of the Company's forward-looking statements and reference should also be made to the Company's Disclosures for a description of additional risk factors.
Any forward-looking statements made herein with respect to the anticipated development and exploration of the Company's mineral projects are intended to provide an overview of management's expectations with respect to certain future activities of the Company and may not be appropriate for other purposes. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current plans, estimates, projections, beliefs and opinions and, except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements should assumptions related to these plans, estimates, projections, beliefs and opinions change. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements made in this information are intended to provide an overview of management's expectations with respect to certain future operating activities of the Company and may not be appropriate for other purposes.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a better way to display the address on a home or other building," said an inventor, from Chicago, Ill., "so I invented VIVID VIEW ADDRESS NUMBERS. My design ensures that guests, delivery drivers, emergency personnel and others can easily see the address."
The invention provides an improved way to illuminate the address of a home or small business. In doing so, it ensures that the address can be easily seen at night or in low lighting conditions. As a result, it increases visibility and it provides added convenience. The invention features a practical design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for households and small businesses. Additionally, a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CKL-1370, 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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Coyle’s OT goal lifts Bruins past Lightning 2-1
By JOHN KREISER
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Charlie Coyle scored 3:37 into overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 2-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning. Coyle picked up a loose puck to the right of Tampa Bay goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, came out in front and scored on a quick wrist shot. Jake DeBrusk scored the other goal for Boston, which got 28 saves from Linus Ullmark. The Bruins improved to 8-3 in their last 11 games. Pierre-Édouard Bellemare had the only goal for Tampa Bay which is 0-2-2 in its past four games and fell one point behind Boston in the race for third place in the Atlantic Division. Vasilevskiy finished with 36 saves.
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NEW YORK, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased or otherwise acquired shares of Amazon common stock between July 30, 2021, and April 28, 2022, inclusive.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until September 6, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Amazon.com, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: 1) defendants knew or recklessly disregarded that the Company's infrastructure and fulfillment network investments substantially outpaced demand; 2) those investments were a massive, self-imposed, undue drain on Amazon's financial condition; 3) contrary to defendants' public statements and undisclosed to investors, defendants had already implemented cutbacks to Amazon's fulfillment capacity by July 2021; and 4) as a result of defendants' misrepresentations and omissions, Amazon's common stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the class period.
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Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle among World Cup sites
NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle and Kansas City, Missouri, were the newcomers among the 11 U.S. sites picked to host games at the 2026 World Cup, while Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Tennessee, and Orlando, Florida, were left out.
Arlington, Texas; East Rutherford, New Jersey; Foxborough, Massachusetts, and Inglewood and Santa Clara, California, were the holdovers.
FIFA announced its selections Thursday for the first World Cup with three co-hosts, also picking three Mexican cities and two in Canada.
The U.S. selections included none of the nine stadiums used at the 1994 World Cup. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, and Orlando’s Camping World Stadium were the only ones remaining in contention, and they were among the sites dropped in the final round.
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BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the Chinese territory was ever a British colony. China’s Communist rulers say the semi-autonomous city and the nearby former Portuguese colony of Macao were merely occupied by foreign powers and that China never relinquished sovereignty over them.
It’s not a new position for China, but the move is a further example of Beijing’s determination to enforce its interpretation of history and events and inculcate patriotism as it tightens its grip over Hong Kong following massive protests demanding democracy in 2019.
“Hong Kong has been Chinese territory since ancient times,” says one new textbook seen by the AP. “While Hong Kong was occupied by the British following the Opium War, it remained Chinese territory.”
It is one of four sets of textbooks being offered to schools to replace those currently in use, all stating the same position, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper reported earlier this week.
WAS HONG KONG A COLONY?
Hong Kong was a British colony from 1841 until its handover to Chinese rule in 1997, with the exception of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945. Its colonial status was the result of a pair of 19th century treaties signed at the end of the first and second Opium Wars, along with the granting of a 99-year lease in 1898 to the New Territories, which greatly expanded the size of the colony.
China’s Communist Party, which seized power during a civil war in 1949, says it never recognized what it calls the “unequal treaties” that the former Qing Dynasty was compelled to sign following military defeats.
In the late 20th century — with China unwilling to extend the lease on the New Territories, and the colony not viable without them — Britain entered into protracted and often contentious negotiations with Beijing over conditions for the return of Hong Kong to Chinese rule.
Ultimately, China took control of Hong Kong in 1997 under a “one country, two systems” arrangement that would keep the city’s economic, political and judicial systems distinct from those in mainland China for 50 years. That was laid out in a 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration registered with the United Nations, although China now refuses to recognize the agreement.
HAS THIS ISSUE COME UP BEFORE?
In 1972, just months after the China seat at the United Nations was transferred to Beijing from the Republic of China government that fled to Taiwan during the civil war, the government acted to remove Hong Kong and Macao, which reverted to Chinese rule in 1999, from a U.N. list of colonies, effectively stripping them of their right to self-determination.
At a time when European nations had granted independence to other colonies, China feared the same could happen to the British and Portuguese enclaves it wanted back. “The settlement of the questions of Hong Kong and Macao is entirely within China’s sovereign right and does not at all fall under the ordinary category of ‘Colonial Territories,'” China’s representative said at the time.
Mary Gallagher, who teaches Chinese studies at the University of Michigan, said then-Chinese leader Mao Zedong wanted to ensure that Hong Kong would remain part of China. “So Hong Kong moves between the Chinese empire and the British empire, but loses its right to determine its own future,” she said.
WHY IS HONG KONG CHANGING TEXTBOOKS NOW?
The new textbooks are part of broader changes to education following the 2019 protests, in which many students participated and some played leadership roles.
The texts are for liberal studies classes, which the government overhauled last year after pro-Beijing lawmakers and supporters said they encouraged opposition and activist thought. The classes now focus on themes such as national security, patriotism and identity.
The textbooks promote the official view that the protest movement was the result of foreign agitation and threatened national security. The Beijing government used such arguments to pass a sweeping National Security Law for Hong Kong in 2020 curtailing free speech, criticism of authorities and political opposition.
Authorities have launched a National Security Education Day on April 15, with students encouraged to learn more about national security and take part in educational activities that emphasize the importance of protecting China.
WHERE IS THIS LEADING?
The new textbooks are part of a push to bring Hong Kong’s institutional values more closely in line with those of mainland China, especially in the areas of politics and history. Increasingly, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is imposing his vision of strongly nationalistic and increasingly authoritarian rule on the region.
China has sought to eradicate any memory of the military’s 1989 bloody suppression of student-led protests centered on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, citing pandemic concerns to ban once huge public commemorations in Hong Kong on the June 4 anniversary.
“The Communist Party has a monopoly of the truth and of history in China,” said Steve Tsang, a Chinese politics specialist at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. “In the Xi approach to history, facts are merely incidental. Only interpretation matters. And only one interpretation is allowed.”
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Biden seeks to bolster legal protection for DACA recipients
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled a regulation aimed at fending off legal challenges to a decade-old program that shields immigrants from deportation if they arrived as young children.
The rule isn’t scheduled to take effect until Oct. 31 and its fate is tied to a lawsuit by Texas and other Republican-led states. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has been closed to new registrants since July 2021 while the case winds its way through the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Its 453 pages are largely technical and represent little substantive change from the 2012 memo that created DACA, but it was subject to public comments as part of a formal rule-making process intended to improve its chances of surviving legal muster.
President Joe Biden said he would do “everything within my power” to protect DACA recipients while renewing a call for legislation to provide them a pathway to citizenship.
“Dreamers are part of the fabric of this nation,” said Biden, using a common name for the young immigrants. “They’ve only ever known America as their home.”
The rule keeps eligibility criteria the same, disappointing some DACA advocates who wanted to allow more immigrants to qualify. Applicants must prove they arrived in the U.S. by age 16 before June 2007.
More than 600,000 immigrants were enrolled in DACA at the end of March, about 80% from Mexico and many of the rest from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, according to government figures.
In July, the New Orleans-based appeals court heard arguments that ending the Obama-era program would cruelly upend the lives of hundreds of thousands who have grown up to become tax-paying, productive drivers of the U.S. economy. Opponents argued that DACA has cost taxpayers for health care and other services.
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CINCINNATI, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inequality, misinformation and holding the powerful accountable are common themes in the journalism produced by the finalists for the 69th Scripps Howard Awards. This year, viewers will get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the work of journalists whose relentless reporting exposed previously undisclosed or misunderstood information.
The Scripps Howard Awards judges – a panel of veteran journalists and media leaders – selected the 2021 finalists from more than 800 entries across 15 categories, with a focus on high-impact journalism.
The Scripps Howard Foundation will present $170,000 in prize money to the winning news organizations and journalists. The winners will be announced June 12 during a special program airing at 8 p.m. ET on Newsy, the national news network owned by The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP).
This year's show will highlight the year's most compelling stories.
"The Scripps Howard Awards showcase incredible, life-changing journalism," said Liz Carter, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Foundation. "This year's show will take the American public behind the scenes with some of our nation's most dedicated journalists and up close with the people impacted by their work. It will be a night to remember."
The 2021 finalists are:
Excellence in Coverage of Breaking News
Houston Chronicle – "Astroworld"
NBC News – Richard Engel's Reporting on the "Taliban's Takeover of Afghanistan"
The Tennessean – "The Floods of Waverly"
Excellence in Broadcast Local Coverage, honoring Jack R. Howard
KNTV-NBC Bay Area (San Jose) – "The Moms of Magnolia Street"
KUSA-TV and KARE-TV – "Prone"
WTVF-NewsChannel 5 (Nashville) – "Gideon's Army"
Excellence in Broadcast National/International Coverage, honoring Jack R. Howard
48 Hours/CBS News – "What Happened to the Perfect Child?"
ABC News – "Blindsided/Out of Bounds"
CBS News – "Behind the Badge"
Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting
FRONTLINE (PBS) and The New York Times – "Boeing's Fatal Flaw"
The California Newsroom, KRCB and KQED – "Bankrupt"
ProPublica – "The Secret IRS Files"
Excellence in Environmental Reporting, honoring Edward W. "Ted" Scripps II
Los Angeles Times – "Extreme Heat's Deadly Toll"
ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Mountain State Spotlight – "Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution"
The Coloradoan, The Arizona Republic, The Desert Sun and The Spectrum – "Draining the Forests"
Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, honoring Edward Willis Scripps
KQED and NPR – "On Our Watch"
Miami Herald and ProPublica – "Birth & Betrayal"
The Arizona Republic – "Democracy in Doubt"
Excellence in Human Interest Storytelling, honoring Ernie Pyle
Los Angeles Times – "Disease, Inequity and Resilience in South L.A."
The Boston Globe – "Under the Wheel"
The Wall Street Journal – "Abandoned at Sea"
Excellence in Innovation, honoring Roy W. Howard
The Markup – "Citizen Browser"
The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica – "Black Snow: Big Sugar's Burning Problem"
The Outlaw Ocean Project – "The Outlaw Ocean Music Project"
Excellence in Local/Regional Investigative Reporting
Miami Herald – "House of Cards"
Nashville Public Radio's WPLN News and ProPublica – "Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn't Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge"
The Arizona Republic – "Democracy in Doubt"
Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting, the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize
ICIJ, The Washington Post and media partners – "Pandora Papers"
The Wall Street Journal – "The Facebook Files"
The New York Times – "Airstrikes Gone Wrong"
Excellence in Multimedia Journalism
Bloomberg News – "The Vaccine Rollout"
Frontline (PBS) – "Un(re)solved"
The New York Times – "Inside the Capitol Riot"
Excellence in Opinion Writing
Detroit Free Press – Opinion Writing by Nancy Kaffer
San Francisco Chronicle – City Hall Columnist Heather Knight
The Boston Globe – Columnist Jeneé Osterheldt
Excellence in Radio/Podcast Coverage, honoring Jack R. Howard
Latino USA – "Mississippi River"
NBC News – "Southlake"
The Washington Post – "Four Hours of Insurrection"
Excellence in Visual Journalism
STAT – "DISTANCED: Pandemic Stories of Black Life in the Rural South"
Los Angeles Times – "Sorrow and Defiance: Under Taliban Rule, Afghan Women Navigate a Landscape of Loss"
The Associated Press – "The Cost of War"
Teacher of the Year
Dr. Nicole Kraft – The Ohio State University School of Communication
Dr. Nicole Smith Dahmen – University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication
Administrator of the Year
David Boardman – Temple University Klein College of Media and Communication
You can watch the Scripps Howard Awards on Newsy free through a digital antenna, streaming devices, video platforms, smart televisions and mobile. For information on where to watch Newsy over-the-air in your city, visit Newsy's website.
About the Scripps Howard Foundation The Scripps Howard Foundation supports philanthropic causes important to The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) and the communities it serves, with a special emphasis on journalism education, excellence in journalism and childhood literacy. At the crossroads of the classroom and the newsroom, the Foundation is a leader in supporting journalism through scholarships, internships, minority recruitment and development and First Amendment causes. The Scripps Howard Awards stand as one of the industry's top honors for outstanding journalism, and the Foundation's annual "If You Give a Child a Book …" childhood literacy campaign has distributed more than 500,000 new books to children in need across the nation since 2017. In support of its mission to create a better-informed world, the Foundation also partners with Scripps brands to create awareness of local issues and support impactful organizations to drive solutions that help build thriving communities.
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Enhances SVPGlobal's Aviation Platform with an Experienced Provider of Aircraft Management Services and Financial Solutions to World's Airlines and Aviation Investors
GREENWICH, Conn., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic Value Partners, LLC and its affiliates ("SVPGlobal"), a global investment firm with over $18 billion of assets under management, today announced that funds managed by SVPGlobal have acquired full ownership of Deucalion Aviation Limited ("Deucalion"), an innovative global platform with world class aviation expertise and asset management services. SVPGlobal had owned 50% of Deucalion since June 2021.
Deucalion manages more than 180 aircraft on lease to over 80 airlines globally with clients including banks, investors, financiers and lessors. Led by Jon Skirrow and Stephan Sayre, Deucalion possesses a comprehensive aviation skillset with over 65 marketing, technical management, finance and origination professionals. The company is headquartered in London with additional offices in Europe, Asia and North America.
Stephan Sayre, Co-CEO & CIO of Deucalion, commented: "SVPGlobal has been a significant investor in aviation-related opportunities over the last 18 months, extending the firm's long track record of investing in the space. With this additional commitment, along with its complementary skills and capabilities, SVPGlobal provides Deucalion a very strong platform to further grow its franchise and customer base, particularly amidst a more challenging, near-term market."
John Brantl, Co-Head of SVPGlobal's European Investment Team, said: "Over the last 18 months, SVPGlobal has taken advantage of the dislocation in the aviation market by deploying over $2.5 billion in aircraft-related investments. With full ownership of Deucalion's top tier, full-service global aircraft management and investment platform, SVPGlobal's aircraft investment capabilities will be even further strengthened. We look forward to our continued partnership with the Deucalion team."
Strategic Value Partners, LLC and its affiliates ("SVPGlobal") is a global investment firm that focuses on event-driven, special situations, private equity and financing opportunities. The firm uses a combination of sourcing, financial and operational expertise to unlock value in complex situations. Today SVPGlobal manages more than $18 billion in assets under management, and since inception, has invested almost $41 billion of capital, including approximately $17 billion in Europe. The firm, established by Victor Khosla in 2001, has approximately 145 employees, including approximately 65 investment professionals, across its main offices in Greenwich (CT), London and a presence in Tokyo. Learn more at www.SVPGlobal.com.
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Astronomers have spied a "black widow" lurking in space 3,000 light-years from Earth, and it's a record-breaking cosmic object.
Called a neutron star, the dense, collapsed remnants of a massive star weighs more than twice the mass of our sun, making it the heaviest neutron star known to date. The object spins 707 times per second, which also makes it one of the fastest-spinning neutron stars in the Milky Way.
The neutron star is known as a black widow because, much like these arachnids known for female spiders that consume much smaller male partners after mating, the star has shredded and devoured almost the entire mass of its companion star.
This stellar feast has allowed the black widow to become the heaviest neutron star observed so far.
Astronomers were able to weigh the star, called PSR J0952-0607, by using the sensitive Keck telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii.
The observatory's Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer recorded visible light from the shredded companion star, which glowed due to its high heat.
The companion star is now about the size of a large gaseous planet, or 20 times the mass of Jupiter. The side of the companion star that faces the neutron star is heated to 10,700 degrees Fahrenheit (5,927 degrees Celsius) -- hot and bright enough to be seen by a telescope.
Neutron star cores are the densest matter in the universe, outside of black holes, and 1 cubic inch (16.4 cubic centimeters) of a neutron star weighs more than 10 billion tons, according to study author Roger W. Romani, a professor of physics at Stanford University in California.
This particular neutron star is the densest object within sight of Earth, according to the researchers.
"We know roughly how matter behaves at nuclear densities, like in the nucleus of a uranium atom," said study coauthor Alex Filippenko in a statement. Filippenko holds dual titles of professor of astronomy and distinguished professor of physical sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
"A neutron star is like one giant nucleus, but when you have one-and-a-half solar masses of this stuff, which is about 500,000 Earth masses of nuclei all clinging together, it's not at all clear how they will behave."
A neutron star like PSR J0952-0607 is called a pulsar because as it spins, the object acts like a cosmic lighthouse, regularly beaming out light through radio waves, X-rays or gamma rays.
Normal pulsars spin and flash about once a second, but this one is pulsing hundreds of times per second. This is because the neutron star becomes more energized as it strips material away from the companion star.
"In a case of cosmic ingratitude, the black widow pulsar, which has devoured a large part of its mate, now heats and evaporates the companion down to planetary masses and perhaps complete annihilation," Filippenko said.
Astronomers first discovered the neutron star in 2017, and Filippenko and Romani have studied similar black widow systems for more than a decade. They have been trying to understand how large neutron stars can become. If neutron stars become too heavy, they collapse and become black holes.
The PSR J0952-0607 star is 2.35 times the mass of the sun, which is now considered to be the upper limit for a neutron star, the researchers said.
"We can keep looking for black widows and similar neutron stars that skate even closer to the black hole brink. But if we don't find any, it tightens the argument that 2.3 solar masses is the true limit, beyond which they become black holes," Filippenko said.
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Which snake toy is best?
Playing with toys is an important part of a child’s growth. Imagining creative play scenarios and manipulating objects can help little ones develop both their cognitive and motor skills. It’s even better if the toy intrigues the child or is something that fascinates them.
A simple toy snake checks all of these boxes. The best one will be realistic enough to make playtime a thrilling adventure. Melissa & Doug’s Giant Boa Constrictor, however, is a 14-foot-long plush toy that can become your child’s best companion — and encourage affection for serpents instead of fear.
What to know before you buy a snake toy
Snake toys aren’t just for kids
Animal toys are always an exciting option for kids. They stimulate a child’s imagination and help them learn creative play. However, snake toys aren’t just for children. If you purchase realistic-looking toys, they can be used to decorate the house for Halloween or to play practical jokes on friends that, if videoed, may end up going viral. Also, toy snakes can be used as pest deterrents if you have animals such as birds and squirrels that are causing trouble on your property.
There are different types of snake toys
When most of us think of a snake toy, we picture a rubber toy. While this is arguably the most popular version of a snake toy, there are a few different kinds out there.
Plush: These snake toys are usually large and designed for comfort and cuddling.
Realistic: Such snake toys are ideal for decoration or for a prank, and there are numerous plastic or rubber models available with accurate detail. These toys look great, but they typically don’t move.
Wooden: An old-fashioned wooden snake toy might not look as real as a molded plastic or rubber toy, but it’s fluid motions are mesmerizing.
Electronic: Whether it is a Fingerling or a robotic toy, an electric toy snake typically offers the greatest amount of interaction for children. This type of model may stick out its tongue, move its eyes or even slither across the floor.
What to look for in a quality snake toy
Size
If you are looking for a more realistic item, a smaller snake toy might be what you want. However, for younger kids, something that is larger and easier to hold and handle might be the best way to go.
Material
Some snake toys are hard plastic items that sink in water, making them great dive toys for a pool. Others are soft, making them best for snuggling.
Quantity
If your child really loves serpents, consider purchasing a set that depicts several different types of snakes.
How much you can expect to spend on a snake toy
When it comes to small plastic or rubber toy snakes, you can purchase them for as low as a few dollars. Larger toy snakes or robotic snakes, however, may cost as much as $40 or more.
Snake toy FAQ
Will a snake toy be too scary for my child?
A. This depends on your child. For most kids, having a harmless toy snake is exciting because it is scary but also safe. In fact, a snake toy may even help your child overcome any fears they might have because it can desensitize them. That said, if a toy snake increases a child’s anxiety or stress levels every time they see it, it might not be a good choice for them.
At what age is it safe for my child to play with a snake toy?
A. Recommended ages vary from toy to toy. If a snake toy has small pieces, for instance, it will not be suited for a very young child. The best answer is to check the manufacturer’s age recommendations before purchasing. However, as noted above, even if your child is old enough to play with the toy, if it causes them stress or anxiety, you might want to wait until the child is a little older — especially if the snake toy is particularly realistic-looking.
What’s the best snake toy to buy?
Top snake toy
Melissa & Doug’s Giant Boa Constrictor
What you need to know: If your child loves snakes, this 14-foot boa constrictor will be a welcome addition to their toy collection.
What you’ll love: This lifesize snake has a soft, plush exterior that makes it suitable for hugging. It has realistic markings, but is not too scary for little ones, and it is a vibrant green color. The outer surface is washable for ease of care.
What you should consider: While the majority of users have a great experience with this snake, some buyers report the toy was not as durable as expected or split at the seam after minimal use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top snake toy for the money
What you need to know: This is a fun, wooden snake that can be positioned in a variety of shapes for imaginative play.
What you’ll love: You can use this eco-friendly wooden snake as a toy or a Halloween decoration. It is a little over 2 feet long and is crafted so its body moves gracefully back and forth like the real animal. It is smooth and nontoxic, so it is safe for kids of all ages.
What you should consider: The buyer does not get to choose the color of this item and must be happy with whichever design arrives.
Where to buy: Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: If you are looking for a realistic toy snake that will make others jump, this offering is designed to do just that.
What you’ll love: This is an ideal snake for individuals who love to play practical jokes. It has a highly realistic look, and it is small enough to be placed nearly anywhere for decoration or to serve as a pest deterrent. It features a soft touch and does not have an offensive odor.
What you should consider: This snake is small and manufactured from harder PVC, so it cannot be bent, shaped or repositioned.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Wayfair
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Canton Mayor Thomas Bernabei stresses safety as police shooting case heads to grand jury
CANTON – The city is prepared for the possibility of protests when a Stark County grand jury decides whether or not to indict a Canton police officer who shot and killed 46-year-old James Williams on New Year's Day, Mayor Thomas Bernabei said Tuesday.
Citizens have a constitutional right to protest the outcome, but it must be done in a peaceful and safe manner, the mayor said when asked if the city is prepared for any community reaction.
"It is important that all citizens may freely exercise this right ― peacefully. Safety is paramount," Bernabei said in an email.
The city, he said, will be ready to protect people and property from dangerous or non-peaceful activity. He did not detail the specific preparations being made by the city.
Canton police chief:Internal review in James Williams shooting coming after grand jury
A grand jury is expected soon to decide the case of police officer Robert Huber, who shot Williams while responding to a call about gunfire on the city's southwest side. Williams was shot outside his home in the 2300 block of 10th Street SW minutes after midnight. He was firing an AR-15 skyward at the time, celebrating the New Year, according to his family.
Huber spotted Williams standing behind a partially fenced patio, and the officer immediately fired shots through the wooden fence, striking Williams.
Grand juries routinely review police-involved shootings in the county.
Stark County Prosecutor Kyle Stone has previously said he would personally present the case to the grand jury, which decides if there is enough evidence to support criminal charges.
Who will hear the James Williams shooting case?
The decision on whether Huber will face criminal charges or his actions are deemed justifiable will fall to a group of registered voters who make up the grand jury.
In Stark County, three grand juries each consisting of 14 people meet once a week for three months hearing potential felony cases.
If a case takes longer than one day to hear, it will be continued on the same day on the following week for as long as it takes for the case to be presented, according to Stark County Prosecutor's Office.
After a three-month term is up, three new grand juries are seated, similar to jury duty.
The Stark County grand jury typically hears 1,800 cases annually.
Understanding Stark County's grand jury process
Canton, Massillon, and Alliance municipal courts send over felony cases after a judge confirms there is "probable cause" for a grand jury review. Often, a defendant waives his or her right to a preliminary hearing and the case is bound over to the grand jury, said Christian Turner of Stark County Prosecutor's Office.
Grand jury hearings are held in secret and are not open to the public.
The Prosecutor's Office presents its case and may call upon witnesses or those involved to testify. Hearings do not have time restrictions, and may take as long as needed.
At the conclusion of a hearing, if there is enough evidence to support criminal charges, an indictment will be filed against the defendant.
If there is not enough evidence to support criminal charges, the individual will be no-billed, or not indicted, and the case would be dismissed.
The case could also be sent back to municipal court to face lesser misdemeanor charges.
Individuals also can face direct indictment, meaning the case skips municipal court and goes directly to a grand jury to expedite felony cases.
If an individual is indicted by a grand jury, an arraignment hearing is scheduled in Stark County Common Pleas Court so a trial can be set.
Canton Mayor Thomas Bernabei's message to community
Bernabei said the city and Police Department "recognize and support the constitutional right of all citizens to peacefully assemble and protest."
In addition to advising residents to be peaceful, he encouraged anyone planning to protest to use the city's permit system, "which allows for planning and increases safety. We value our relationships in the community and will work with any group to provide appropriate public space, barricades and any other support available to ensure safe events.
"For those planning dynamic events such as marches, other safety issues must be considered. Pedestrians marching in exercise of their right to protest must remain on sidewalks where available and respect the rights of motorists using the roadway. Vehicles and pedestrians participating in protests may not obstruct other vehicular traffic in the roadway or uninvolved pedestrian traffic on sidewalks."
Permits may be obtained by visiting https://www.cantonohio.gov/FormCenter/Public-Event-Forms-7/Public-Event-Application-52.
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‘This kid never had a chance’—Team of lawyers work to prove innocence of 14-year-old convicted in mother’s murder
By Angie Ricono and Cyndi Fahrlander
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — Michael Politte was 14 years old when his mother died.
Rita Politte was beaten, then set on fire. Michael and a friend were sleeping in the next room and say they woke up to smoke.
That would traumatic enough for any teenage boy, but it gets worse. Michael was convicted of killing his mother.
“This kid never had a chance,” says Politte’s attorney Megan Crane.
Michael Politte has always sworn he’s innocent. He’s now 38 years old and shares his story from prison.
The crime
“I remember the hair on the back of my neck rising up–I didn’t know what to do,” said Politte. “What’s a 14-year-old kid supposed to do in that moment?”
After he woke up to smoke, he tried to put the fire out himself with a garden hose, but the hose wouldn’t stretch that far.
“I ran until to the into the hose all the slack is gone,” Politte remembers. “I knelt down to see what I can see. And when I did, I seen my mother’s legs and I seen blood on her legs and she was on fire from her waist up.”
Police expected Michael to be more emotional at the crime scene, maybe even shed tears. But he didn’t. He was quiet—and angry.
“I mean I can still hear it–I can hear the fire crackling,” said Politte. “There’s times I wake up in the morning that I can smell (it). It’s with me with me forever.”
Politte was defiant throughout the investigation. And a police dog alerted investigators to Michael’s shoes—three times. Testing revealed gasoline.
When the case went to trial, Michael had a public defender. Still Michael believed in the system. He believed the truth would come out. But with no explanation for gasoline on the shoes, a jury convicted him and the judge sentenced him to life in prison.
He’s lived more than half of his life behind bars.
“I can’t describe the feeling of helplessness,” said Politte. “There’s no reason to exist anymore.”
Nagging questions
In the years since Politte’s conviction, many question whether the court got it right. His case attracted the attention of the Midwest Innocence Project and the MacArthur Justice Institute and a Kansas City law firm, Langdon & Emison, in part, because of his age.
“According to law enforcement, he just wasn’t acting right. He wasn’t emotional. He wasn’t crying. He wasn’t upset. But psychologists tell us that’s what trauma often looks like, especially in a kid,” said Crane.
Politte’s attorneys point the court to another possible motive for the murder. The week of Rita Politte’s murder she was granted alimony, child support and part of her ex-husband’s pension and 401K. They also argue that her ex-husband, Ed Politte responded, “you will never see the day when you’ll get the money.”
Investigators found a boot print behind the burning trailer, but Ed Politte was quickly dismissed as a suspect in the case. He had an alibi. He was at work at the time of the murder.
Michael’s current lawyers sent investigators back to Hopewell to conduct new interviews. They now tell the court that investigation turned up witnesses who place a cousin of Ed’s near the scene of the crime the morning of the fire and circumstantial evidence suggests he had a financial windfall shortly after the murder. They argue the evidence implicates the cousins in a murder-for-hire scheme.
We contacted both men for a response. Ed sent this:
I’m grateful and Happy Mike is being released. Now about me, I did a dozen or so interviews with the law. I did a lie detector test, a blood test, a DNA test and fingerprints. I cooperated 100% with the law. I don’t know what else I could have done. My place of work was checked out. My coworkers were interviewed, I have a couple dozen witnesses that placed me 85 miles from my ex…. That’s all I have to say. Your (sic) a reporter I’m sure you can verify what I’ve said. I will discuss this no further. Thank you for atleast(sic) getting my side.
New Evidence Supports Michael’s innocence claim
More than 20 years after the murder, evidence is now on Michael Politte’s side. Those gasoline-soaked shoes that help convict him—investigators got that wrong.
A newer test can now tell the difference between accelerants. The new test reveals there’s no gasoline on the shoes- the earlier test was positive for the adhesive in the shoes. That information was revealed six years ago.
The majority of jurors who are still alive and even a former member of the Sheriff’s Department are now advocating for Michael Politte’s release.
“It shouldn’t be this hard. We’re the greatest country in the world, but yet here I am, after six years of discovering that I was wrongfully convicted with false science, my jury was lied to, and I’m still sitting in a prison cell,” said Politte. “I don’t want to be angry—I just want to live.”
Release is not “The End”
As it turns out—Michael will be released from prison at the end of April. Not because a judge ruled in his favor, but because the parole board granted his release due to new sentencing guidelines for juveniles.
Michael told us one of the first things he’ll do after this release is visit his mother’s grave.
“She can probably finally rest,” he said. “I don’t think she’s been resting since she passed away knowing what happened in the aftermath.”
But that’s not the end for Michael. He says he will fight to clear his name and hopes the local prosecutor will reopen the case and look at new evidence. He said he would tell his mother, “Here, I am, and I’m going to continue to fight for you and I’m going to see it through.”
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AP-NORC poll: Most in US say they want stricter gun laws
CHICAGO (AP) — Most U.S. adults want to see gun laws made stricter and think gun violence is increasing nationwide, according to a new poll that finds broad public support for a variety of gun restrictions, including many that are supported by majorities of Republicans and gun owners.
The poll by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows 71% of Americans say gun laws should be stricter, including about half of Republicans, the vast majority of Democrats and a majority of those in gun-owning households.
The poll was conducted between July 28 and Aug. 1, after a string of deadly mass shootings — from a New York grocery store to a school in Texas and a July 4 parade in Illinois — and a 2020 spike in gun killings that have increased attention on the issue of gun violence. Overall, 8 in 10 Americans perceive that gun violence is increasing around the country, and about two-thirds say it’s increasing in their state, though less than half believe it’s increasing in their community, the poll shows.
The question of how to prevent such violence has long divided politicians and many voters, making it difficult to change gun laws. In June, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court expanded gun rights, finding a constitutional right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.
Later that same month, President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan gun safety bill. The package, approved in the wake of shootings like the one that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, was both a measured compromise and the most significant bill addressing gun violence to be approved in Congress in decades — an indication of how intractable the issue has become.
The poll finds that majorities of U.S. adults view both reducing gun violence and protecting gun ownership as important issues.
Nicole Whitelaw, 29, is a Democrat and gun owner who grew up hunting and target shooting in upstate New York with her strongly Republican family. Whitelaw, who now lives along Florida’s Gulf Coast, supports some gun restrictions, such as prohibiting people convicted of domestic violence from owning firearms and a federal law preventing mentally ill people from purchasing guns.
She said other restrictions — such as banning sales of AR-15 rifles — are “going too far” and may not solve the problem. Whitelaw pointed to the the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people bought up all the toilet paper they could find.
“I think people would start trying to hoard guns,” she said, adding that a better approach is to make smaller changes and see what impact they have.
The poll shows bipartisan majorities of Americans support a nationwide background check policy for all gun sales, a law preventing mentally ill people from purchasing guns, allowing courts to temporarily prevent people who are considered a danger to themselves or others from purchasing a gun, making 21 the minimum age to buy a gun nationwide and banning those who have been convicted of domestic violence from purchasing a gun.
A smaller majority of Americans — 59% — favor a ban on the sale of AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons, with Democrats more likely to support that policy than Republicans, 83% vs. 35%.
Chris Boylan, 47, from Indianapolis, opposes restrictions on guns. As a teacher for many years, Boylan said he has “buried more kids than I care to count” and believes gun violence is a major problem. But the Republican, who said he leans more toward Libertarian in his personal stances, believes the issue is more about mental health and a too-lenient criminal justice system.
“Blaming the gun is an oversimplification of what the issues really are,” Boylan said. “It’s not the gun. It’s a hearts-and-minds issue to me.”
The new poll finds 88% of Americans call preventing mass shootings extremely or very important, and nearly as many say that about reducing gun violence in general. But 60% also say it’s very important to ensure that people can own guns for personal protection.
Overall, 52% of Americans -- including 65% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats -- say both reducing mass shootings and protecting the right to own guns for personal protection highly important.
University of Chicago professor Jens Ludwig said the poll’s findings show that concerns raised by opponents of gun restrictions are “very off base.” Led by the National Rifle Association, the gun lobby argues that any new limitations on who may have a gun or what type of firearms may be sold will lead to nationwide bans on all weapons and ammunition.
The poll showed most Americans’ opinions are more nuanced and there is support for some changes even among Republicans, who as elected officials typically oppose gun control, said Ludwig, who also is director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab.
“It should shut the door to some of the ‘slippery slope’ arguments,” he said.
The poll also found that only about 3 in 10 Americans support a law allowing people to carry guns in public without a permit. Seventy-eight percent of Democrats are opposed. Among Republicans, 47% are in favor and 39% are opposed.
Ervin Leach, 66, lives in Troutman, North Carolina, north of Charlotte, believes gun violence is a major problem and says that laws should be much more strict. A Democrat, Leach said he supports measures like background checks — or what he said should be “in-depth studies” — and a minimum age of 21 to buy a gun.
The poll found 1 in 5 people have experienced gun violence themselves in the last five years, such as being threatened with a gun or a shooting victim, or had a close friend or family member who has. Black and Hispanic Americans are especially likely to say that they or someone close to them has experienced gun violence.
Leach, who is Black, said the gun violence he sees in the news has made him more cautious.
“I don’t like people approaching me,” he said. “It used to be if someone was on the side of the road, you’d stop to help. Now, you go to help somebody, you might lose your life.”
All the killings have caused Leach to contemplate buying a gun for his own protection. While he hasn’t had a chance yet to get his gun permit, he said, “That is my intention.”
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AP Polling Reporter Hannah Fingerhut in Washington contributed to this report.
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The poll of 1,373 adults was conducted July 28-Aug. 1 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
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Women in Entertainment's sixth annual Summit will take place on June 22, 2022 and feature notable speakers such as Paul Feig, Alexandra Shipp, Karen Pittman, and Jeanne Mau
LOS ANGELES, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Women in Entertainment(WIE) announced today that it will host its sixth annual summit on June 22, 2022 at the iconic Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California. WIE returns for the first time since 2019 with a revamped itinerary that gathers some of the most iconic and creative minds in television, film, and media for a series of inspirational fireside chats and educational panel discussions.
Founded by Renee Rossi (Relativity Ventures) and Gretchen McCourt, WIE combines experienced leaders in the entertainment and marketing worlds to address a range of pivotal and timely issues that affect women. This year, panel topics will include how creatives keep a beloved story relevant to up and coming audiences, how media companies are expanding their offerings to meet the needs of today's consumers, how to negotiate deals within the IP and talent rights space, and much more.
"Our mission is and always has been to share knowledge from incredible women who have built successful businesses in the world of entertainment and media," said Renee Rossi, Co-founder of Women in Entertainment. "We are back stronger than ever this year – combining a group of vastly dynamic speakers and panel topics to curate an event that I'm confident will help aspiring professionals grow and evolve their careers."
WIE 2022 speakers include: Erika Anderson, West Coast Director, The Slate Group; Casey Kriley, Co-CEO of Magical Elves (Top Chef, Nailed It); Anjali Midha, CEO & Co-Founder of Diesel Labs; Teri Weiss, Executive VP, Television Development, Dreamworks Animation; Anastasia Puglisi, Senior Vice President at Wolf Entertainment (FBI: Most Wanted, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit); Dana Block, Senior Vice President of Digital Entertainment and Consumer Technology at Metro Public Relations; Alexandra Moore, Global Strategic Initiatives Leader at Amazon Music; Jess Kessler, Head of Content & Creator Marketing at Audible; Jennifer Brunsweiger, Senior Director of Content Marketing at Shutterstock; Kaitlyn Powell, VP of Talent at Bright; Lisa Guerrero, Investigative Journalist at Inside Edition; Jeanne Mau, Senior Vice President, TV Programming Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at NBCUniversal; Iram Bilal, Filmmaker (I'll Meet You There); Zakiyyah Alexander, Executive Producer/Showrunner (grown-ish, Hunters); Megan Townsend, Director of Entertainment Research & Analysis at GLAAD; Monica Trasandes, Director of Spanish Language and Latinx Media & Representation at GLAAD; Linda Grasso, Editor in Chief of Ventura Blvd; Alexandra Shipp, Actress (Barbie, tick, tick...BOOM!); Charmaine Degrate, Writer & Producer (The 100); Susan Cartsonis, Partner & Film Producer at Resonate Entertainment (Feel The Beat, Carrie Pilby); Amanda Spain, Vice President of Longform Acquisitions at MSNBC Films; Tiauna Jackson, Founder & CEO of the Jackson Agency; John Mass, President of Content Partners, LLC; Tomii Crump, Head of Unscripted Talent & Casting at NBCUniversal; Jenna Gates, Talent Agent at United Talent Agency; Hilary Zaitz Michael, Literary Packaging Agent at WME; Julie Candelaria, Producer & Principal at All About the 360, Inc.; Karen Pittman, Actress, (And Just Like That); Paul Feig, Actor & Filmmaker (The School for Good and Evil, Minx, Bridesmaids, A Simple Favor); among others still to be announced.
The 2022 Summit is sponsored by NBCUniversal Television & Streaming, Universal Studio Group, Metro Public Relations, Kendra Scott, hair stylist Azi Aishling, Sugar House Macarons, Whisps, Drink Vina, CORE Foods, and Tito's. Tickets can be purchased in advance via Eventbrite at https://bit.ly/2022WIESummit. More information can be found at womeninentertainment.com.
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Slight wind shifts and some drier air will bring subtle rainfall differences day to day
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - During summer in Florida, a slight shift in winds can bring noticeable changes in the weather of the day.
Over the next few days, our forecast will be influenced by these changes in wind direction and the moisture content of the air.
Today the winds will have a slight south shift. This will allow the sea breeze to start early and be a bit stronger in the afternoon. The early sea breeze start will trigger a shower or two by late morning or early afternoon. These showers will die down as we move into the afternoon and the focus of the rain shifts inland.
Late in the day the east coast sea breeze and our own west coast sea breeze will meet inland. When this happens some stronger storms will build and drift back to the coast.
Tomorrow some dry air will filter in and reduce the number of storms. We could also see the timing of the storms shift to afternoons. Over the weekend, our winds shift southwest and humidity goes up. However, after a few early day showers, most storms will be carried into inland locations.
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More Than 17,000 Costco Teamsters Currently Working Under Expired Contract; Workers Planning Job Actions Across the Country to Send Message to the Company
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Costco Teamsters are one step closer to a nationwide work stoppage following another day of contentious negotiations for a new national contract. The Teamsters are bargaining with the company this week for the first time since members overwhelmingly rejected Costco's "last, best and final" contract offer in June.
"Our members at Costco will stand up for their rights and withhold their labor if necessary," said Sean M. O'Brien, Teamsters General President. "As always, if our members decide to act, they will have the backing of the 1.2-million member International Brotherhood of Teamsters behind them."
In May, the Teamsters Costco National Negotiating Committee unanimously recommended a "no" vote against the company's contract offer. On June 21, Costco Teamsters rejected the national contract offer by over 93 percent.
"Don't be fooled by Costco's 'worker-friendly' image in the public. There's a new executive team running the show now and they want to make Costco like all the other profit-hungry wholesalers," said Mike Bergen, Local 166 Secretary-Treasurer and Chair of the Teamsters Costco National Negotiating Committee. "Costco made record profits during the pandemic—more than $70 billion in 2021 alone—yet they are refusing to share their success with the employees who make them profitable. They don't seem to care about their workers anymore."
Tom Erickson, International Vice President and Director of the Teamsters Warehouse Division, says the union will take action if an agreement isn't reached.
"This isn't a bluff; we won't back down until our members receive the contract they deserve," Erickson said. "Costco made a killing off our members' backs during the pandemic. They can afford to pay our members their fair share of those profits."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Visit www.teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teamsters.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will provide live coverage of key events as a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts launch and dock to the International Space Station on Wednesday, Sept. 21.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will launch aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:54 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 21 (6:54 p.m. Baikonur time). Coverage will begin at 9 a.m. on NASA Television's Public Channel, the NASA app, and on the agency's website.
NASA also will air continuous coverage of an Artemis I tanking test on NASA TV's Media Channel beginning at 7:15 a.m.
Soyuz MS-22 launch and key events as well of coverage of the Artemis I tanking test will be available to watch online at:
After a two-orbit, three-hour journey, the Soyuz will dock to the space station's Rassvet module at 1:11 p.m. About two hours after docking, hatches between the Soyuz and the station will open and the crew members will greet each other.
Once aboard station, the trio will join Expedition 67 Commander Oleg Artemyev, cosmonauts Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov of Roscosmos, as well as NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Rubio, Prokopyev, and Petelin will spend six months aboard the orbital laboratory.
This will be Prokopyev's second flight into space and the first for Rubio and Petelin.
Mission coverage is as follows (all times Eastern):
Wednesday, Sept. 21
9 a.m. – Coverage begins on NASA TV's Public Channel for 9:54 a.m. launch.
12:15 p.m. – Coverage begins on NASA TV's Public Channel for 1:11 p.m. docking.
3:30 p.m. – Coverage begins on NASA TV for hatch opening and welcome remarks.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands and SUZHOU, China, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harbour BioMed ("HBM", HKEX: 02142) announced that China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) had approved the investigational new drug (IND) application to commence phase I trial of its B7H4x4-1BB bispecific antibody (HBM7008) in China. This study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and preliminary anti-tumor activity of HBM7008 in patients with solid tumors. It has successfully completed the dosing of first patient in the phase I trial of HBM7008 in Australia on 25 May 2022.
HBM7008 is generated from HBM's unique and innovative HBICE® platform. It is a first-in-class bispecific antibody targeting B7H4 and 4-1BB. The bispecific antibody can engage and activate T cells by 4-1BB only in B7H4 positive tumor microenvironment. B7H4 is overexpressed on a variety of solid malignancies, including breast, ovarian, endometrial, and non-small cell lung cancers. With its crosslinking-dependent specificity on tumors and potent immune modulation activity, HBM7008 has shown excellent safety profile with strong anti-tumor efficacy in the pre-clinical study, including completed response observed in the mouse tumor model.
"4-1BB is one of the most promising anti-tumor immune targets, providing new solutions for cancer treatment. As the first-in-class bispecific antibody targeting B7H4 and 4-1BB, HBM7008 is expected to lead the development of next-generation immunotherapeutics. Based on preclinical study data, we are highly confident in B7H4x4-1BB bispecific antibody. We will efficiently promote this clinical study to provide a novel, effective and safe treatment for patients, so that more cancer patients can benefit from the innovative therapeutic." said Dr. Humphrey Gardner, CMO of Harbour BioMed.
About HBM7008
HBM7008 is a bispecific antibody targeting Tumor-Associated Antigen B7H4x4-1BB that not only displays high potency in the T cell co-stimulation and tumor growth inhibition, and potentially may also translate to better safety due to its strict dependency of TAA-mediated crosslinking T cell activation. HBM7008 is one of the fully human bispecific antibodies developed from the HBICE® platform of the Company. It is the only bispecific antibody against these two targets globally. Its unique specificity on tumors and immune modulation activity makes it a promising therapeutic in PD-L1 negative or PD-1/PD-L1 resistant patients. It also has the potential to avoid 4-1BB liver toxicity risk observed in other products with the benefit of its innovative biology mechanisms and bispecific design.
About Harbour BioMed
Harbour BioMed (HKEX: 02142) is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel antibody therapeutics focusing on immunology and oncology. The Company is building its robust portfolio and differentiated pipeline through internal R&D capability, collaborations with co-discovery and co-development partners, and select acquisitions.
The Company's proprietary antibody technology platforms Harbour Mice® generate fully human monoclonal antibodies in two heavy and two light chain (H2L2) format, as well as heavy chain only (HCAb) format. Building upon the HCAb antibodies, the HCAb-based immune cell engagers (HBICE®) are capable of delivering tumor-killing effects unachievable by traditional combination therapies. Integrating Harbour Mice®, HBICE® with single B cell cloning platform, our antibody discovery engine is highly unique and efficient for the development of next-generation therapeutic antibodies.
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BATON ROUGE, La., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Weld Holdings ("UWH"), whose portfolio of companies focuses primarily on providing industrial pipe fabrication and pipe and fitting distribution to industrial and commercial markets, is pleased to announce the completion of the alignment of its operations following its acquisition of BendTec in Duluth, Minnesota.
BendTec has a longstanding reputation for high-quality, technically sound steel pipe bending and fabrication across multiple industries, including the power, structural and architectural, mining, industrial, chemical, and nuclear industries. The company has received worldwide recognition for its expertise, dependability, and innovation. It is the leading provider of critical power piping systems, with specific focus on heavy-wall, large-diameter pipe fabrication and bending for the power generation industry. In addition, BendTec is a proud partner of the Local 11 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada.
"Since we were purchased by United Weld Holdings, we have been forging a path forward with newfound direction," said Clint Zimpel, appointed President of BendTec following the transaction. "BendTec remains a united company, utilizing a strong union workforce provided by the Local 11 with whom we have a longstanding relationship. Now more than any other time over the past 20 years, we are looking to grow our business and strengthen our relationship, which will benefit the members of the Local 11 and all of our employees."
UWH's portfolio also includes Epic Piping, Epic Distribution, Emirates Prefabrication, and Epic Piping Supports. The alignment enables the companies to leverage UWH's corporate shared services functions and operate independently, giving each greater ability to expand their unique service offerings and grow their businesses based on their individual capabilities.
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Dustin Johnson looking to get back on track at PGA
By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Jordan Spieth is going for the final leg of the career Grand Slam at the PGA Championship. Dustin Johnson would take any trophy at this point. Johnson has gone 15 months since his last win. A year ago he was No. 1 in the world. Now he’s at No. 12. That’s his lowest world ranking in more than seven years. They are just part of the storylines as the PGA Championship is set to begin at Southern Hills. With so much chatter about the absence of Phil Mickelson and the prospects of Tiger Woods, the second major of the year unfolds beginning Thursday.
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Mark Zuckerberg Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research
Here is a look at the life of Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta.
Personal:
Birth date: May 14, 1984
Birth place: Dobbs Ferry, New York
Birth name: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Father: Edward Zuckerberg, dentist
Mother: Karen (Kempner) Zuckerberg, psychiatrist
Marriage: Priscilla Chan (May 19, 2012-present)
Children: Maxima and August
Education: Attended Harvard University, 2002-2004
Other Facts:
Is red-green colorblind.
Captain of his high school fencing team.
In high school, co-created a program called Synapse that recommended music.
Timeline:
2003 – Creates Facemash at Harvard, a website that pairs photos of Harvard students and has users vote on who is more attractive. The pictures were taken from a protected area of Harvard’s computer network. Harvard forces Zuckerberg to take the site down.
November 2003 – Harvard seniors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra enlist Zuckerberg to work on their website ConnectU.
February 4, 2004 – Zuckerberg, roommates Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz and friend Eduardo Saverin launch Facebook, an online directory to connect people at college, from Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room.
March 2004 – Facebook expands to Stanford, Columbia and Yale.
May 2004 – ConnectU launches and contains many of the same features as Facebook.
September 2004 – The Winklevosses and Narendra file a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, claiming he stole the idea for Facebook from them.
September 2005 – Facebook expands into high schools.
September 2006 – Facebook is opened to anyone over the age of 13.
2008 – Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra settle their lawsuit against Zuckerberg.
September 2010 – Zuckerberg donates $100 million to the Newark, New Jersey, public school system.
October 1, 2010 – “The Social Network” is released. The film is a fictional version of how Facebook started.
December 2010 – Signs the Giving Pledge, a public pledge to give away the majority of his wealth to philanthropic causes.
2010 – Is named Time Person of the Year.
April 2011 – A US appeals court rejects the Winklevoss’ attempt to void their earlier settlement with Facebook. The Winklevosses argued that their $65 million settlement wasn’t enough because Facebook misrepresented the value of company stock.
November 29, 2011 – The Federal Trade Commission announces that it has reached a settlement with Facebook after filing an eight-count complaint alleging that the company made deceptive claims about privacy on the social network and disclosed user information to advertisers. Zuckerberg posts a message on Facebook acknowledging that the company made “a bunch of mistakes.” In the post, he vows to improve privacy controls.
May 18, 2012 – Facebook IPO – trading opens at $42.05 and closes at $38.23.
May 23, 2012 – Three Facebook shareholders file a lawsuit in federal court against Zuckerberg, underwriter Morgan Stanley and others, alleging they withheld crucial financial information about Facebook before the IPO.
October 4, 2012 – Announces that Facebook has passed one billion active monthly users.
December 2012 – Announces that he has donated 18 million Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
October 14, 2014 – Announces he is donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to combat Ebola.
February 06, 2015 – Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donate $75 million to San Francisco General Hospital. Chan worked there previously during her pediatric residency.
February 2015 – Real estate developer Mircea Voskerician files a lawsuit against Zuckerberg regarding property rights he sold to him at a steep discount, alleging Zuckerberg agreed to provide him networking opportunities. Zuckerberg claims Voskerician is using “extortive” measures. The lawsuit is later settled.
May 4, 2015 – His family’s charitable organization and others invest $100 million in AltSchool, a chain of schools that is technology-focused and claims to offer a more individualized education.
November 19, 2015 – Zuckerberg announces that he and his wife will give $20 million to Education Super Highway, a nonprofit that helps public schools buy affordable high-speed Internet access.
December 1, 2015 – Zuckerberg and Chan pledge to donate 99% of their Facebook stock — worth about $45 billion — over their lifetime to promote equality and the human potential.
March 16, 2018 – Facebook announces it is suspending a data firm called Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its subsidiary Cambridge Analytica, which provided the Donald Trump presidential campaign with digital voter outreach services. In a statement, the social network’s vice president and deputy general counsel says that Cambridge Analytica harvested user data through a third party app, violating the company’s policies protecting people’s information. The data was gathered by Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian-American psychology professor who built a Facebook app and got about 270,000 volunteers to take a personality quiz. The volunteers consented to share info from their profiles with Kogan for academic purposes. Kogan then turned over the data to Camridge Analytica. When Facebook learned of the violation in 2015, the company removed the app and asked Cambridge Analytica to certify that it had deleted the harvested data.
March 17, 2018 – A joint investigation by the New York Times and the Observer of London reveals that Cambridge Analytica obtained data from 50 million American Facebook users via Kogan’s app. Cambridge Analytica covered the expenses of creating the app and used the info to create targeted political advertising for Trump, according to the investigation. At least some of the data was not deleted as requested by Facebook in 2015, the newspapers report.
March 21, 2018 – During an interview on CNN, Zuckerberg says “I’m really sorry that this happened,” acknowledging that Facebook made mistakes and should have responded more robustly to secure user data. He also says that his company is prepping to combat potential meddling in the 2018 midterm elections. Earlier in the day, Zuckerberg posted a message on Facebook with a timeline of events that led to the Cambridge Analytica leak.
March 27, 2018 – CNN reports that Zuckerberg has agreed to testify on Capitol Hill regarding the Cambridge Analytica leak. He turns down a request to appear before British lawmakers, offering to send two senior executives in his place.
April 10-11, 2018 – Zuckerberg testifies on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers press the CEO on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, censoring conservative voices and self-regulation.
December 18, 2018 – The New York Times reports that Facebook offered more of its users’ data to companies than it has admitted. Despite assurances from Zuckerberg that people “have complete control” over who sees their content, the Times reported documents and interviews with 50 former Facebook employees indicate that the company gave other firms access to user data.
March 6, 2019 – Zuckerberg posts a statement detailing his vision for how to make the service more secure, touting a renewed commitment to privacy. He says the company aims to create a service that is the digital equivalent of a living room, shifting away from Facebook’s origins as a virtual “town square.” Zuckerberg also announces his intent the integrate WhatsApp and Instagram with Facebook for more streamlined messaging. Critics have said integrating the services may actually compromise privacy and could further consolidate Facebook’s power in the marketplace.
September 18-20, 2019 – Zuckerberg travels to DC to discuss data privacy. Zuckerberg meets with President Trump, senators and lawmakers amidst allegations of anti-conservative bias.
March 27, 2020 – Zuckerberg and Chan announce they have donated $25 million to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to assist with researching treatments for COVID-19.
April 20, 2020 – In the Washington Post, Zuckerberg announces the launch of Facebook’s “opt-in” symptom survey app. Built in partnership with the Carnegie Mellon University, the survey will be used to track the spread of COVID-19.
July 29, 2020 – Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and the CEO of Google‘s parent company Sundar Pichai all testify before a House subcommittee on anti-trust to address concerns that their businesses may be harming competition.
January 7, 2021 – Facebook will ban President Trump’s account from posting for at least the remainder of his term in office and perhaps “indefinitely,” Zuckerberg says in a blog post.
January 27, 2021 – On a conference call with analysts, Zuckerberg says Facebook is considering steps it can take to reduce the amount of political content in the News Feed.
March 25, 2021 – Zuckerberg, Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are questioned by members of Congress about about their platforms’ efforts to stem baseless election fraud claims and vaccine skepticism.
October 28, 2021 – Zuckerberg announces Facebook is changing its corporate name to “Meta,” as a rebranding move amid wide-ranging scrutiny of its various platforms after a whistleblower leaked hundreds of internal documents.
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Collaboration Aims to Close the Gender Gap in Technology
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Akkodis, a global leader in the engineering and R&D market, and Hired, the largest AI-driven marketplace that matches ambitious tech and sales talent with the world's most innovative companies, today launched a strategic partnership with Girls Who Code, an international nonprofit organization that will work to close the gender gap in engineering, software development, and other technology disciplines. Akkodis and Hired are part of the Adecco Group, whose mission is to "Make the Future Work for Everyone."
"Women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce but only 27% of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce," said Mike Small, head of Akkodis North America. "We look forward to collaborating with Girls Who Code on thought leadership, career coaching, upskilling, as well as job placement to address the critical underrepresentation of women in STEM."
"In 1995, 37% of computer scientists were women. Today, it's only 22%," said Marcia Custodio, Director, Akkodis Academy. "This percentage will continue to decline if we do nothing. We are looking forward to partnering with Girls Who Code to help close the gender gap through proactive programs that not only build a strong pipeline of future talent but provide pathways to meaningful and lucrative career opportunities."
"While overall progress on increasing workplace equality is being made, the gender gap in computing is getting worse," said Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired. "Our partnership with Girls Who Code will help us place the next generation of female software engineers in high impact roles with some of the world's most innovative brands."
"At Girls Who Code, we understand that it's not enough to foster a passion for computer science among girls and young women. We also need to build pathways to ensure that they are given equal access to opportunities that turn their interest into lucrative and exciting careers," said Tarika Barrett, CEO of Girls Who Code. "We're grateful for the support from Akkodis and Hired as we work to close the gender gap in tech, level the playing field for our most marginalized students, and build a tech workforce that's representative of the diverse world we live in today."
AKKA & Modis, now Akkodis, is a global leader in the engineering and R&D market that is leveraging the power of connected data to accelerate innovation and digital transformation.
With a shared passion for technology and talent, 50,000 engineers and digital experts deliver deep cross-sector expertise in 30 countries across North America, EMEA and APAC. AKKA & Modis offers broad industry experience, and strong know-how in key technology sectors such as mobility, software & technology services, robotics, testing, simulations, data security, AI & data analytics. The combined IT and engineering expertise brings a unique end-to-end solution offering, with four service lines – Consulting, Solutions, Talents and Academy – to support clients in rethinking their product development and business processes, improve productivity, minimize time to market and shape a smarter and more sustainable tomorrow. AKKA & Modis is part of the Adecco Group.
Hired is the most efficient way to fill tech and sales roles today. With unbiased insights, DEI tools, skill assessments, and dedicated Customer Success Managers, Hired works with over 10,000 companies around the world to match thousands of active and qualified candidates to employ their full potential. With better data, curated matches, and higher acceptance rates, employers save an average of 45 sourcing hours per role with the Hired solutions suite. Backed by The Adecco Group, Hired is rated by G2 as a leader in Recruiting Automation, Job Search Sites, and Diversity Recruiting. Hired is committed to building equity in the hiring process through a more representative talent pool, using bias reduction features, customized assessments, and salary bias alerts to help remove unconscious bias when hiring.
Girls Who Code is an international nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in technology, and leading the movement to inspire, educate, and equip students who identify as girls or nonbinary with the computing skills needed to pursue 21st century opportunities. Since launching in 2012, Girls Who Code has reached 500,000 students through our in-person and virtual programming, and 115,000 of our alumni are college or career-aged.
Girls Who Code has sparked culture change through marketing campaigns and advocacy efforts, generating 14 Billion engagements globally. In 2019, the organization was name the #1 most innovative non-profit on Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list and, in 2022, was named one on NonProfit Times' Best Non-Profits to Work For.
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WOODLAND PARK, N.J., May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anterix (NASDAQ: ATEX) today announced that members of the Anterix management team will be participating in the following upcoming Investor conferences.
Anterix CFO Tim Gray will participate in a fireside chat during J.P. Morgan's 50th Annual Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference taking place in Boston, MA on Tuesday, May 24 at 4:10 PM ET. Concurrently, Tim Gray and VP of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, Natasha Vecchiarelli, will participate in 1:1 conversations with interested investors.
Anterix CFO Tim Gray will participate in a fireside chat during B. Riley Securities 22nd Annual Institutional Investor Conference taking place in Los Angeles, CA on Wednesday, May 25 at 10:30 AM ET. Concurrently, Tim Gray will participate in 1:1 conversations with interested investors.
Anterix CFO Tim Gray and VP of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, Natasha Vecchiarelli, will conduct 1:1 meetings at Craig-Hallum's 19th Annual Institutional Investor Conference taking place virtually on Wednesday, June 1, 2022.
Investors that would like to schedule a meeting with Anterix should contact their event representative. A live webcast and replay of management's presentations, where possible, will be made available on the Anterix Investor Relations event website at https://investors.anterix.com/events/default.aspx.
At Anterix, we are focused on delivering transformative private broadband that enables the modernization of critical infrastructure for the energy, transportation, logistics and other sectors of our economy. As the largest holder of licensed spectrum in the 900 MHz band (896-901/935-940 MHz) throughout the contiguous United States, plus Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, we are uniquely positioned to enable the private LTE solutions that support secure, sustainable, resilient and customer-controlled operations. www.anterix.com
Investor Contact
Natasha Vecchiarelli
Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications
Anterix
973-531-4397
nvecchiarelli@anterix.com
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PITTSBURGH, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a safe and convenient way to use public keypads and buttons without touching the germ-ridden surfaces," said an inventor, from Cincinnati, Ohio, "so I invented the SAFE TOUCH. My design provides added protection and peace of mind when entering a PIN code, pushing an elevator button or turning on a light switch in a public place."
The invention provides a touch-free way to use a public keypad or other push buttons. In doing so, it eliminates the need to directly touch the surfaces with your finger. As a result, it enhances sanitation and safety and it helps to reduce the spread of germs and viruses. The invention features a practical and stylish design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for the general population. Additionally, it is producible in design variations and a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the Cincinnati sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CCT-4646, 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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Three people arrested at traffic stop for child endangerment and drugs
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Three people are in custody after being pulled over for a traffic infraction on Saturday at approximately 8:15 pm, near 134 and U.S. Hwy 75.
According to a press release from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy stopped a 2006 Chevy Trail Blazer for an alleged traffic infraction. and further investigation led to the arrest of 32-year-old, Rusty James Potts, of Mayetta, 26-years-old Simone Alexandra Noriega, of Mayetta and 26-year-old, Cass Ellen Cadue, of Mayetta.
Potts was booked into the Jackson County Jail for interference with law enforcement and two counts of aggravated endangerment of a child. Noriega was booked into the Jail for interference with law enforcement, two counts of aggravated endangerment of a child, no child restraint seat, and driving while suspended.
Cadue was booked into the Jail for possession of cocaine, possession of a hallucinogenic drug and drug paraphernalia.
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| 2022-07-25T04:29:20Z
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Falling gas prices have drivers excited, and the Biden administration has been quick to tout the downward trend.
AAA shows the national average of a gallon of regular gasoline is at $4.36. Spokesman Andrew Gross says the trend is encouraging.
“They’re falling, which is great news. How far they’re going to fall, we’re not quite sure,” Gross said.
White House Economic Adviser Jared Bernstein says it’s clear the Biden administration’s effort to bring down prices at the pump have paid off.
“Nobody is saying that the sole reason for the 66 cent per gallon reduction over the past 41 days is the president’s actions. What we are saying is those actions are in the mix,” Bernstein said.
Gross says the biggest reasons for the decline are lower global oil prices and less demand. A recent AAA study found nearly two-thirds of drivers changed their habits to intentionally drive less and buy less gas.
But when President Joe Biden ordered the release of oil from the strategic petroleum reserves, he says that helped too.
“If they hadn’t taken that step, could they have gone a lot higher than $5.01? It’s likely,” Gross said.
Republicans argue the Biden administration’s energy policies are to blame for the higher gas prices in the first place. Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, says Democrats are attacking the fossil fuel industry.
“Every tool, every weapon, every available avenue to kill this industry is being used right now,” Pfluger said.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., thinks gas prices are still far too high.
“That’s just killing families,” Scott said. “People are not going to have any opportunities if we don’t get energy under control.”
The White House agrees that gas prices still aren’t affordable enough.
“And we’ve got to do more to get them to come down further,” Bernstein said.
The Biden administration says it’s working to put a price cap on Russian oil. The president has also been calling on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax.
But there’s reason for drivers to feel optimistic. Gross says if the global market stays stable and demand stays low, the gas prices should keep dropping.
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| 2022-07-26T02:44:52Z
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Another massage therapist has filed a civil lawsuit against Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson, raising the number of women who have accused him of sexual misconduct to 23.
Attorney Tony Buzbee, who is representing all the women, filed the latest lawsuit Tuesday in Texas and said in a text to the AP that there could be more legal action forthcoming against Watson.
“I will be filing a 24th case soon,” he said.
Buzbee did not provide any details about the latest case.
The previous 22 lawsuits were filed in 2021, and two of those cases recently received national attention when two of the women were interviewed for a segment on HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.”
Both women provided graphic details of their encounters with Watson, who was traded from Houston to Cleveland in March. The Browns sent five draft picks — including three first-rounders — to the Texans and then signed the three-time Pro Bowler to a fully guaranteed five-year, $230 million contract despite his legal entanglement and the cases still pending.
Watson has denied any wrongdoing, and his lawyer, Rusty Hardin, reiterated the 26-year-old’s innocence while commenting on lawsuit No. 23.
“Deshaun Watson vehemently denies the allegations, just as he has since she first discussed them with members of our firm in March of last year,” Hardin said in an email to AP. “She repeated the allegations on social media in August and he denied them then. The only thing new about her contentions is the embellishment making them more extreme than prior versions. Deshaun’s denial remains the same.”
Watson is also facing a possible suspension from the NFL, which is independently investigating his behavior to see if he violated the league’s substance-abuse policy.
League investigators recently met with Watson in Houston. It’s not know if the league has completed its inquiry.
Watson, who has been giving depositions in the lawsuits over the past month, is scheduled to be back on the field Wednesday as the Browns continue their offseason team activities.
Watson has not spoken to the media since his introductory news conference on March 25. At that time, Watson said he has “never assaulted or disrespected or harassed any woman in my life.”
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| 2022-06-01T02:08:00Z
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The Rev. Zachary Holmes spent part of last weekend assembling people to head to the polls ahead of Tuesday's primaries. But the church parking lot was a lot less crowded than it normally would have been.
That's because it was Saturday, not Sunday.
Previously, Holmes had conducted voting efforts on Sundays after church, as early voting on that day was popular for Black churchgoers. But, amid an ongoing fight over voting access in Georgia and nationwide, the Spalding County election board in April voted to eliminate the option. It is one of seven Georgia counties that had Sunday early voting in the 2020 election but will not have the option available for the midterms.
In a show of resistance against the change in weekend voting options, Holmes, along with other community leaders in the county, held a so-called "Souls to the Polls" event last Saturday.
"We're doing this mainly because we felt like the Sunday voting issue -- it was a success. It got people out to vote and that should be our ultimate goal," said Holmes, a member of the school board running for reelection in this town of about 23,000 people an hour south of Atlanta.
"No matter what party affiliation you have, we should want to increase participation in the voting process. And that was something that Sunday voting had done," Holmes said.
Critics of Sunday early voting argue that the option is costly, but Spalding County community leaders don't buy that argument. They pushed back, arguing the change seemed racially motivated.
"That's the strongest day for Black people. And I think this is something that is racial, and this is a way to control our numbers at the poll," said Michael Lawrence, the pastor at Griffin's Breakthrough Deliverance Church, from which organizers led a convoy of about 12 cars, complete with a police escort, to the local polling location.
Before setting out, a group of about 10 people formed a circle in the sunny church parking lot and bowed their heads in prayer before breaking out into "We Shall Overcome."
Republicans take over local election boards
In the Peach State, local boards of elections oversee voter registration lists and certifications of elections and decide when voting can take place.
But those elections boards have been restructured under the state's voting law passed last year. Known as SB 202, the law allows for partisan takeovers of local election boards deemed low performing by state election officials.
The GOP-led legislature also handed control of more election board appointments to conservative local judges or GOP-controlled county commissions in at least five counties -- including Spalding -- which shifted the balance of power on these boards.
Spalding's new election board chair, Ben Johnson, was appointed last year by the county commissioner, James Dutton. He had argued against Sunday voting, saying that plenty of other options exist, including mail-in voting and the ability to cast ballots on two Saturdays during Georgia's 17-day early voting window.
"I still haven't heard anything that leads me to say that we absolutely have to do it," Johnson said of Sunday balloting when he voted to eliminate the option in April. "I've heard lots of emotional arguments and I sympathize with all of them. Anyone who only has Sunday off -- God bless them -- but we do have mail-in ballots available."
The decision by the board to get rid of Sunday voting has brought concerns about voter suppression to the forefront for community members in Spalding.
"It's clear that Republicans are engaged in an effort to chill the right to vote in this state. It's so in your face. They're not even trying to hide it," said Dexter Wimbish, an attorney who participated in last Saturday's convoy to a Spalding County polling location.
Wimbish sees Spalding County and the others that have eliminated Sunday voting as "ground zero" for a Republican strategy to hold on to power in a diversifying area.
"You have people who, you know, historically have been able to control the power structure in these communities, and they're not willing to give up that power without a struggle," he said.
Backlash against new voting laws
Spalding County is a predominantly Republican area -- former President Donald Trump won about 60% of the vote here in 2020. But leaders here pointed out that the top-of-the-ticket results belie the demographics of a town like Griffin, where Black voters are actually the majority of the population; they just haven't traditionally turned out to vote.
"We're trying to educate people about why we are going to the polls a little bit at a time," added Elbert Solomon, co-chair of the Spalding County Voting Project, which helped put on last Saturday's event. His group has been handing out door-hanging literature complete with a QR code that prompts people to check their voter registration status. "VOTER SUPPRESSION is Alive & Well in Spalding County!" reads the text on another piece of literature. "VOTE ANYWAY!"
In fact, Georgia Republicans' enactment of restrictive voting laws since the 2020 election have some community leaders believing it may actually make people more motivated to cast a ballot in this year's midterms.
"Honestly, I used to not care about the vote," said Jibriel Dubignon, 38. But that changed, he said, when he saw the efforts to limit access to the franchise. "It's got to be important -- they way they're fighting to take it from us -- it has to be; it has to be powerful, otherwise, they wouldn't be doing everything they're doing to make sure that we don't vote."
Still, voting rights groups have noted a surge this year in early voting, even with the restrictions. Xakota Espinoza, of Fair Fight Action, founded by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, told CNN turnout rates for the primary have been high even amid the obstacles.
"Voters are more determined than ever to get out and cast their ballots. But that doesn't mean they're not jumping through a number of obstacles, particularly voters who used to rely on Sunday voting, and are no longer able to," Espinoza said.
As of May 16, more than 380,000 people had early voted in Georgia, according to the Secretary of State. It is nearly three times more than what it was in 2018, when a little more than 120,000 votes were cast.
The rise of voter numbers comes even as Georgia Republicans work to recast voting laws in the state. In the last two years, the state's GOP-led legislature has passed two major voting bills that activists have said would hurt communities of color. The first, SB 202, created new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowered state officials to take over local elections boards, limited the use of ballot drop boxes and made it a crime to approach voters in line to give them food or water.
This year's bill created an election police force with the power to investigate election fraud. Both pieces of legislation were signed into law by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.
"They wouldn't be expending so much resources and controversy about taking our vote unless there was a reason and it was actually powerful and had the actual power to change some things," said Dubignon, who's now helping run his mother's campaign for state Senate.
Faith leaders in other parts of the Peach State have also pushed back against the new laws by starting grassroots networks in a bid to help voters navigate the election rules.
"We want to make sure that people understand fully what the rules are, and can vote accordingly. And that's really our focus, we're sending messages out weekly, just reminding people to check their registration status, to check their polling location," Rev. Lee May, a former DeKalb County government official and now pastor of Transforming Faith Church, told CNN.
Lee added that voting rights activists are now more motivated to ensure they are turning out voters.
"If somebody tries to take away something from you, you get more defiant," added Lee.
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NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Immunic, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMUX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of selective oral immunology therapies focused on treating chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, today announced participation in the following scientific, industry and investor conferences in June:
- June 10-13: 13th International Congress on Autoimmunity. Evelyn Peelen, Ph.D., Senior Manager Translational Pharmacology at Immunic, will present preclinical data on IMU-935, the company's potentially best-in-class oral IL-17 inhibitor, at this congress in Athens, Greece. The poster presentation will be accessible on the "Events and Presentations" section of Immunic's website at: https://ir.imux.com/events-and-presentations.
- June 12-16: BIO International Convention. Members of Immunic's business development team will host one-on-one partnering meetings during the conference in San Diego, California. To schedule a meeting, please use the BIO International partnering portal at: https://www.bio.org/events/bio-international-convention/one-one-partneringtm.
- June 15-16: JMP Securities Life Sciences Conference. Daniel Vitt, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer and President of Immunic, will participate in a fireside chat at the JMP Securities Life Sciences Conference on Thursday, June 16, at 1:30 pm EDT, in New York. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the "Events and Presentations" section of Immunic's website at: ir.imux.com/events-and-presentations. An archived replay will be available on the company's website for a period of 90 days after the conference.
- June 20-22: IBS DAYS 2022. Members of Immunic's clinical team will attend this conference in Bologna, Italy.
Immunic, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMUX) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a pipeline of selective oral immunology therapies focused on treating chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The company is developing three small molecule products: its lead development program, vidofludimus calcium (IMU-838), a selective immune modulator that inhibits the intracellular metabolism of activated immune cells by blocking the enzyme DHODH and exhibits a host-based antiviral effect, is currently being developed as a treatment option for multiple sclerosis, and primary sclerosing cholangitis. IMU-935, a selective inverse agonist of the transcription factor RORγ/RORγt, is targeted for development in psoriasis, castration-resistant prostate cancer and Guillain-Barré syndrome. IMU-856, which targets the restoration of the intestinal barrier function, is targeted for development in diseases involving bowel barrier dysfunction. For further information, please visit: www.imux.com.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" that involve substantial risks and uncertainties for purposes of the safe harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release regarding strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenue, projected expenses, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. Examples of such statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to management's participation in scientific, industry and investor conferences. Immunic may not actually achieve the plans, carry out the intentions or meet the expectations or projections disclosed in the forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on management's current expectations and involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual results and performance could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of many factors, including, without limitation, the COVID-19 pandemic, risks and uncertainties associated with the ability to project future cash utilization and reserves needed for contingent future liabilities and business operations, the availability of sufficient financial and other resources to meet business objectives and operational requirements, the fact that the results of earlier preclinical studies and clinical trials may not be predictive of future clinical trial results, the protection and market exclusivity provided by Immunic's intellectual property, risks related to the drug development and the regulatory approval process and the impact of competitive products and technological changes. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in the section captioned "Risk Factors," in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on February 24, 2022, and in the company's subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at www.sec.gov or ir.imux.com/sec-filings. Any forward-looking statement made in this release speaks only as of the date of this release. Immunic disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made. Immunic expressly disclaims all liability in respect to actions taken or not taken based on any or all the contents of this press release.
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| 2022-06-08T11:35:34Z
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Working with a powerful coalition of public and private stakeholders, LYT's TSP solution improved transit bus flow along one of the region's busiest corridors
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County (C/CAG), Sustainable Silicon Valley, SamTrans, City of East Palo Alto and LYT, a leader in intelligent connected traffic technology solutions, announced today it has successfully completed a pilot project for Intelligent Transit Signal Prioritization (iTSP).The project saw an overall positive impact for improved transit performance in the East Palo Alto community, and complete results of the project will be presented to the East Palo Alto City Council on September 20.
The efficiency of local transit has a direct impact on transit dependent communities such as East Palo Alto which is designated as an Equity Priority Community in part due to the number of Zero-Vehicle Households (9% have no vehicle, as compared to 6% Countywide). Without iTSP, buses stop at traffic signals 70% of the time. With iTSP deployed at key traffic intersections, the pilot demonstrated that buses spent less time idling and got riders to their destinations faster and more efficiently.
With over $178,000 of funding from City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County (C/CAG), Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) formed a coalition of public and private stakeholders including San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans), City of East Palo Alto and LYT, to deliver intelligent transit priority along congested arteries in transit-dependent communities. The City of East Palo Alto is a place where such improvements in transit speed and reliability are most needed and can potentially improve the quality of life for residents.
For the pilot project, the coalition deployed LYT's Artificial Intelligence-powered Transit Signal Priority (TSP) technology, called LYT.transit, on a corridor consisting of four signalized intersections in East Palo Alto. This corridor is a subsection of SamTrans route 281 and includes the following intersections:
- University Ave. & Bay Rd.
- University Ave. & Runnymede St.
- University Ave. & Bell St.
- University Ave. & Donohoe St.
The iTSP deployment on University Ave. yielded a significant positive impact on several key performance indicators. TSP reduced northbound intersection delays by 45% and southbound intersection delays by 19%. These reductions translate to 18% and 7% reductions in travel time for northbound and southbound respectively.
As SamTrans completes the upgrade of its CAD/AVL system, they will collect
iTSP data to inform where they can produce operation efficiencies, advise scheduling changes, and drive TSP deployments to be able to meet improved transit service goals.
"Our solutions keep transit vehicles moving for a more reliable and consistent rider experience, while minimizing the impact to other road users. Better transit helps to build better communities and increases the quality of life for all residents. We're excited about the results we saw during our pilot in one of the area's most congested corridors," said Tim Menard, CEO and Founder of LYT. "Traffic management systems driven by Artificial Intelligence and machine learning principles are now benefitting entire regions and transforming cities into places where people can live, work, and move more freely."
The ability to evaluate new technologies in a real world context is key to understanding how these systems will perform and scale. "We want to keep transit on the cutting edge of the latest technology," said SamTrans Board Chair Pete Ratto."iTSP has shown itself to be a great tool in
accomplishing that goal."
A sustainable approach to technology deployment is also key to unlocking value for the long term. "Reliable transit is essential for our community as East Palo Alto residents currently own cars at a much lower rate than the county average. LYT's pilot helped demonstrate the feasibility of implementing a transit signal priority system in East Palo Alto that benefits our community and can be beneficial across jurisdictions," said Lisa Gauthier, East Palo Alto Vice Mayor and C/CAG Board Member.
Developing and maintaining partnerships with local communities, agencies and non-profits allows rapid identification, evaluation and funding of worthwhile projects. "C/CAG is excited about this project, as it serves as another strong example of what's possible when you merge creative and collaborative problem solving with technology," said Davina Hurt, Belmont City Councilmember and Chair of the C/CAG Board. "C/CAG is committed to supporting nimble pilot projects, and leverages those lessons learned to help advance the county's mobility and clean air goals."
Bringing cities, agencies and tech together around some of the big challenges facing under-represented communities is itself a powerful tool. "SSV is recognized for creating unique partnerships and we are pleased to identify a solution for a systemic transit issue in East Palo Alto with LYT's innovative technology and introduce SamTrans to an AI-powered TSP solution that scales for for wider deployment," said SSV Board Chair Andrew (Drew) Clark.
LYT is a cloud-based software platform that uses state-of-the-art connected vehicle and machine learning technologies to prioritize the flow of vehicles in a city and across a corridor. By optimizing public transport, emergency and other vehicles it enables shorter travel times, less congestion, improved air-quality and more reliable mass transit.
The LYT/SSV team will present the project findings in a Special Presentation to the City of East Palo Alto City Council at the September 20th, 2022, City Council meeting.
About C/CAG
C/CAG works on issues that affect the quality of life in general; transportation, air quality, stormwater runoff, airport/land use compatibility planning, hazardous waste, climate planning, energy and water resource strategies, and solid waste and recycling. C/CAG operates as a Joint Powers Authority and has membership that includes each of the 20 cities and the County in San Mateo County. (https://ccag.ca.gov/)
SamTrans operates 70 routes throughout San Mateo County. Funded in part by a half-cent sales tax, the San Mateo County Transit District also provides administrative support for Caltrain and the San Mateo County Transportation Authority. SamTrans has provided bus service to San Mateo County customers since 1976. Click here for fact sheet.
LYT is an intelligent connected traffic technology provider that offers a cloud-based platform that orchestrates today's Intelligent Transportation Systems. LYT's AI-powered machine learning technology enables a suite of transit signal priority and emergency vehicle preemption solutions that utilize pre-existing vehicle tracking sensors and city communication networks to dynamically adjust the phase and timing of traffic signals to provide sufficient green clearance time while minimally impacting cross traffic. LYT is headquartered in Silicon Valley and serves municipalities across the US. Learn more at LYT.ai.
SSV is a nonprofit "think and do tank" that has a well-deserved reputation for coalescing Silicon Valley residents, government, agencies, leading tech companies, and start ups around tough sustainability issues such as equity and transit. With support from C/CAG, SSV formed a coalition of private/ public partners for the intelligent Transit Signal Priority project, and successfully led the pilot project, creating a blueprint for future investments in regional bus systems.
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Which pole hedge trimmer is best?
When it’s time to trim the tallest hedges, you need a pole hedge trimmer. It isn’t safe to use a standard trimmer on a ladder — the risk of injury is too high. Pole hedge trimmers aren’t any more expensive than standard trimmers either, so you can grab a low-cost pole trimmer that’s still highly effective.
The best pole hedge trimmer is the Makita 20-Inch Articulating Pole Hedge Trimmer Kit. It has a long reach and the head is articulated so you can trim at any angle.
What to know before you buy a pole hedge trimmer
Power source
Pole hedge trimmers are powered via cords, batteries or gas.
- Corded trimmers are the simplest as you just need to plug in and go. They’re also the lightest as there’s no complex engine or heavy battery and they have no unhealthy emissions. Their downsides are having the lowest power, a limited range and having to worry about accidentally slicing through your cord.
- Battery-powered trimmers are an excellent middle ground. They have solid power, can be used anywhere and have no emissions. However, most trimmers rapidly drain the battery plus they have long battery recharge times.
- Gas trimmers are the strongest, making them best for large yards and commercial usage. However, they are heavy, loud and complicated to maintain. They also emit unhealthy exhaust.
Pole and blade length
The length of the pole and blade determines how big of a hedge you can trim and how easily and quickly you can trim it.
- Pole length is typically between 6-12 feet, though some can be longer. Some poles are telescoping so you can adjust to your hedges.
- Blade length is typically between 16-22 inches. Shorter blades are easier to control but longer blades can finish the job faster.
What’s included
Most pole hedge trimmers come with just the tool except for battery-operated trimmers; these usually come in both tool-only and battery-and-charger kit options. Some trimmers also come with accessories such as leaf barrels, extra batteries and safety gear.
What to look for in a quality pole hedge trimmer
Trigger lock
The best pole hedge trimmers have a trigger lock, meaning you don’t need to hold the trigger down to keep it going. It makes controlling the trimmer much easier, especially when you start using extra-long trimmers on extra-tall hedges.
Articulating head
Many pole hedge trimmers have articulating, also called pivoting, heads. This lets you choose the angle at which you trim, including 90-degree angles for flattening the top of hedges.
How much you can expect to spend on a pole hedge trimmer
They can cost as little as $50 to as much as $500. Low-power electric trimmers typically cost $150 or less with the average trimmer costing around $200. Only the highest-power, feature-rich trimmers cost more than $250-$300.
Pole hedge trimmer FAQ
How do I use a pole hedge trimmer safely?
A. There are several steps to take to ensure you’re trimming safely.
- First, make sure the trimmer is ready. Check its fuel source, double-check that the blade is sharp, etc.
- Secondly, make sure you are ready. Wear clothing that covers your skin, gloves, safety glasses and ear protection. Wearing a mask doesn’t hurt but isn’t strictly necessary.
- Finally, make sure the hedge is ready. Make sure there’s nothing in the way of your trimmer that shouldn’t be cut including missing toys, animals and any nests.
Once these steps are complete and you make sure no one is near you you can get to trimming.
How much maintenance does a pole hedge trimmer need?
A. That depends on the fuel source. Electric trimmers need the least maintenance, usually just making sure the blade is sharp and lubricated and the body is clean. Gas trimmers are more complex as you need to regularly maintain the engine on top of the blades and body.
What’s the best pole hedge trimmer to buy?
Top pole hedge trimmer
Makita 20-Inch Articulating Pole Hedge Trimmer Kit
What you need to know: This has all the power and range you could ever want.
What you’ll love: The articulated head has six settings for a 115-degree working range. It has three speed options so you don’t need to waste battery power on easy hedges, plus the battery can last as long as 80 minutes. A three-year warranty covers the trimmer, battery and charger.
What you should consider: It’s among the highest costing trimmers making it best suited to commercial rather than residential use. A few consumers had issues wielding it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Top pole hedge trimmer for the money
Sun Joe 18-Inch Corded Telescoping Pole Hedge Trimmer
What you need to know: It’s small and low-cost, making it perfect for smaller homes.
What you’ll love: The pole stretches to 7.4 feet and has a pivoting head so you can adjust your angle of trim. The blade is made of rust-resistant steel and is double-sided with a gap of seven-tenths of an inch. It comes in red and green.
What you should consider: A few customers reported it being too heavy to use for long. Others had issues assembling it. It doesn’t have a trigger lock.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Black and Decker 18-Inch Pole Hedge Trimmer Kit
What you need to know: This is the perfect budget-friendly battery-powered trimmer.
What you’ll love: The head pivots between five settings for 180-degree coverage and the pole allows up to 11 feet of coverage. The blade is double-sided with a gap of seven-sixteenths of an inch. You can buy it in a bundle with a range of accessories such as gloves or safety glasses.
What you should consider: A few purchasers found it a little heavy and with more vibration than is comfortable for longer trimming jobs. It’s a little long for shorter hedges.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
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Bitcoin plunges as major crypto lender halts operations
NEW YORK (AP) — Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were collapsing in price Monday, after a major crypto lender halted all withdrawals citing “extreme market conditions.”
It is the second collapse of a part of the cryptocurrency world in the last two months. The stablecoin Terra imploded in early May, erasing tens of billions of dollars in a matter of hours.
Bitcoin was trading at roughly $22,600 as of midday Monday, down more than 17% in the past day. Ethereum, another widely-followed cryptocurrency, was down more than 20%.
On Sunday, the lending platform Celsius announced that it was pausing all withdrawals and transfers between accounts in order to “honor, over time, withdrawal obligations.” Celsius, with roughly 1.7 million customers, gave no indication in its announcement when it would allow users to access their funds.
“There is a lot of work ahead as we consider various options, this process will take time, and there may be delays,” it said.
Celsius is one of the bigger cryptocurrency lending platforms, with more than $11 billion in customer assets. In exchange for customers’ deposits, the company gives out extremely generous yields, upwards of 19% on some accounts. These lending platforms have come under scrutiny recently because they offer yields that normal markets could not support, and critics have called them effectively Ponzi schemes.
Terra, and its token Luna, offered similar yields on customer deposits. Those tokens collapsed after huge customer withdrawals forced Terra’s operators to liquidate all of the assets being used to support their currencies. The collapse of Terra has spurred calls for reform from the cryptocurrency industry, and calls for Congressional regulation.
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Dynamic Sales Veteran to Drive Sales and Business Growth
CHANHASSEN, Minn., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IWCO Direct, a leading provider of data-driven performance marketing results, announced today that James Capstick has joined the company as Chief Sales Officer. Capstick is an accomplished senior leader and sales executive with an impressive track record of serving clients by building and retaining high-performing sales teams while managing high-volume business operations.
In his new role, Capstick will lead the sales team in optimizing sales enablement tools and platforms to further improve data integrity and customer insights, while showcasing IWCO Direct's ability to help clients drive performance across a range of one-to-one channels. He will also work with the leadership team to accelerate sales, optimize customer experiences, and stimulate the growth of the business.
"We are confident James' leadership and sales experience will help us unlock new growth potential and retain IWCO Direct's position as the leader in data-driven marketing," said Gary Masse, CEO of IWCO Direct. "He comes to us at the perfect time as we continue to invest in new solutions and capabilities that allow clients to reach consumers with highly personalized offers through the individual's preferred channels."
Capstick has held various leadership roles during his 30-year career, focused on implementing successful sales processes and enhanced sales pipelines. His experience includes 20 years at Quad Graphics, where he served as Vice President of Sales and Business Development. He also served as Vice President of Sales at Innovairre Communications, where he led the Genuine Pen business, a technology that applies handwritten fonts to print communications.
As a leading provider of data-driven performance marketing results, IWCO Direct's Power your Marketing™ approach drives response across all marketing channels to create new and more loyal customers. The company's full range of services includes strategy, creative, and execution for omnichannel marketing campaigns, along with one of the industry's most sophisticated postal logistics strategies for direct mail. Through Mail-Gard®, IWCO Direct offers business continuity and disaster recovery services to protect against unexpected business interruptions, along with providing print and mail outsourcing services. The company is ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) certified through BSI, reflecting its commitment to data security. Stay current on direct marketing trends, industry news, postal regulations, and more by subscribing to IWCO Direct's SpeakingDIRECT blog and following the company on LinkedIn.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sept. 22, 2022, at 11:30 a.m. ET, MS-CC Director Lawrence Williams will deliver a presentation focused on supporting historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) through the advancement of campus technology, community building, funding support, and professional development opportunities. The presentation is part of the 2022 National HBCU Week Conference being organized under the leadership of the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The MS-CC, or Minority Serving - Cyberinfrastructure Consortium, is supported by nearly $3 million Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence (CoE) Pilot program grant from the National Science Foundation (award # 2137123) to provide researchers, professional staff, and students from HBCUs and tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) with programs and services that address their cyberinfrastructure needs.
The term cyberinfrastructure refers to the various technology tools and resources that an institution has access to, and that allow it to support and enable many of the day-to-day activities that happen on a college campus.
"Whether students are logging into a learning management system to take an online quiz, connecting to campus Wi-Fi on their walk from the library to the lecture hall, or streaming movies in their campus dorm rooms – access to a secure, fast, and reliable internet connection is one critical component of cyberinfrastructure, and the effectiveness of this infrastructure has a significant impact on their college experience," explains Williams.
For HBCUs looking to support their research mission, compete for federal research funding, and attract and retain research faculty, a more complex form of cyberinfrastructure is required. It includes workflows for managing research data and the storage systems used to move this data from one department to another, across campuses all over the country, and often, across institutions all over the world.
"A group of graduate students working in South Carolina on a research project might need to collaborate with their peers in Florida, Hawaii, South Africa, and beyond," added Williams. "Moving research data requires campus IT teams to manage, store, and share this data using a variety of tools, such as high-performance computing systems, cloud computing, or a combination of both."
The MS-CC was created specifically to grow the pool of diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, researchers by increasing access to cyberinfrastructure resources, enhancing collaboration among researchers and cyberinfrastructure professionals, and fostering professional and career development for students, faculty and staff from minority-serving campuses.
With support from the NSF award, a key driver for the MS-CC this past year has been developing and running a series of cyberinfrastructure and ransomware security workshops on the campuses of HBCUs and TCUs, including North Carolina A&T University and Salish Kootenai College.
Since the NSF award was announced in September 2021, MS-CC participation has more than doubled from 35 to 88 institutions as of August 2022. Membership in the MS-CC helps create a vibrant community of practice where peers can collaborate and support one another, and build a coalition to advocate for their needs as a community.
We invite you to learn more about the MS-CC, get involved, and join us virtually on the last Thursday of each month at noon ET for our monthly MS-CC All Hands meeting.
MS-CC envisions a transformational partnership to promote advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities on HBCU, HSI, TCU, and MSI campuses, with data; research computing; teaching; curriculum development and implementation; collaboration; and capacity-building connections among institutions. The consortium emerged from a National Science Foundation-funded pilot project that was awarded through Clemson University: NSF OAC #1659297 "CC* Cyber Team: Cyberinfrastructure Empowerment for Diverse Research, Scholarship, and Workforce Development (CI Empower)."
In September 2021, the MS-CC and Internet2 were awarded nearly $3 million by the National Science Foundation over two years to fund a Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot to advance the research cyberinfrastructure capabilities and support systems for HBCUs and TCUs (NSF Award # 2137123). While the initial focus of this grant is to advance cyberinfrastructure on campuses with definite needs through a partnership model, possibilities exist for additional opportunities to further expand the collaborations and support among other MSIs. For more information, visit www.ms-cc.org.
The Annual National HBCU Week Conference is the nation's premier convening of institution executive leaders, faculty, students, and supporters. It is implemented under the leadership of the Initiative, in close consultation with the Executive Office of the President and U.S. Department of Education. The event provides a unique occasion for federal agencies, private sector companies and philanthropic organizations to participate and provide useful information and successful models to improve instruction, degree completion and federal engagement, all of which strengthens the role of HBCUs. For more information, visit https://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/hbcu-week-conference/2022-national-hbcu-week/.
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Man accused of attacking 3 with machete after trying to buy guns
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (News 12) - A New York man accused of attacking three people with a machete at Dick’s Sporting Goods now faces attempted murder charges.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office revealed surveillance video of people running out of the store Aug. 12 in Patchogue, New York, after hearing that a man inside was being attacked with a machete. The attack was also caught on camera, though partially blocked by store shelves.
Prosecutors say 22-year-old Treyvius Tunstall can be seen beating the store manager on the head with a machete, fracturing the victim’s skull and severing tendons in his arms and wrist.
“The defendant then stopped…walked away from the manager, then returned and resumed his attack while the victim was still on the floor,” said District Attorney Ray Tierney.
The manager, who is still suffering from his injuries, had nothing to say in court Monday. Prosecutors say his injuries are so severe he may not be able to regain full use of his fingers.
Prosecutors say after Tunstall attacked the manager, he swung the machete at a customer inside the store, then ran out of the store with the machete and attacked a third person in the parking lot.
“Given the nature of this attack and their injuries, they’re doing remarkably well. We hope that continues, and we will continue to support them,” Tierney said.
Detectives say the incident started when Tunstall walked into a Dick’s location in Bay Shore earlier in the day and asked to buy a rifle. Employees told him that store doesn’t carry guns, so instead, he purchased a machete, knife and backpack.
Tunstall then went to the Dick’s location in Patchogue, which does sell guns. The employee there asked for identification, but the suspect quickly took it back when he heard there would be a background check. He walked away from the counter, and that’s when police say he started the attacks, which were random and unprovoked.
Customers at Dick’s were relieved to hear the charges against Tunstall were upgraded to attempted murder.
“You attack someone with a machete, that’s deserving,” said Chris Robinson, of Holtsville.
Tunstall is being held on $1 million cash bail. If convicted of attempted murder, he could be sentenced up to 25 years in prison.
He is scheduled to return to court in September.
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- Fund Hits $2.2 Billion in AUM, with Overall Evergreen Platform Growing to Nearly $2.6 Billion, as Firm Expands Investor Access to Private Markets
- Platform Experiences Steady Growth Globally, with Plans for a Senior Credit Fund Product Later This Year
SYDNEY, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As strong historical performance and demand for new sources of return drive investor interest in the private markets, Hamilton Lane's (NASDAQ: HLNE) Global Private Assets Fund ("GPA") has returned 14.7% and reached $2.2 billion in AUM in the three years since inception.
The firm's open-ended Global Private Assets Fund launched in 2019, and is open to retail and wholesale investors in Australia and New Zealand, Canada, as well as parts of Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. GPA has seen strong demand to date and has experienced a steady increase in AUM since inception from individuals and institutional investors around the globe.
The GPA Fund was the first product on the firm's evergreen platform, which today also includes the Private Assets Fund ("PAF"), a closed-end investment vehicle registered under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("'40 Act"), making the Fund more widely available to qualified U.S. clients, including certain individual investors, their wealth advisors, as well as institutions.
The firm's evergreen platform has experienced significant growth, standing at nearly $2.6 billion in total assets as of April 30, 2022. The platform is expected to expand further later this year, with the addition of a new senior credit fund offering.
James Martin, Head of International Client Solutions at Hamilton Lane, commented: "Over the last three years the GPA Fund has enabled investors to gain exposure to the growth of private companies which were previously inaccessible to most. We are increasingly seeing investors of all sizes here in Australia and around the world adding private markets to their portfolios or expanding their existing allocations in search of potential return drivers and exposure to innovative private companies. As demonstrated by the performance and growth of GPA, we're encouraged that our global platform and scale, investment expertise, and proven ability to service a diverse client base continue to resonate with the market."
Global Private Assets Fund (GPA)
- GPA has a truly global client footprint, enabling non-U.S. investors access to institutional-quality private markets exposure through a single investment. Since inception it has returned 50.88%, or 14.7% on an annualized basis*.
- GPA aims to provide a highly diversified offering, investing in a mix of direct equity, secondaries and direct credit investments across geographies, industries and general partners.
- GPA (AUD) recently received a Highly Recommended rating from Zenith Investment Partners, Australia's leading independent research provider. This is the highest rating that a fund manager can receive in Australia and only some 5% of the funds in the 'Alternatives' category have earned this rating.
- Hamilton Lane also recently partnered with digital securities exchange ADDX to tokenize a class of shares issued by GPA to enable access to the private markets for a broader set of investors in Asia. GPA is accessible to ADDX investors at a minimum ticket size of $10,000, compared to the minimum of $125,000 or more for investors who subscribe via traditional, non-tokenized distribution channels.
- Since launching in Canada a little over a year ago, interest in GPA has been strong, with more than C$440 million (U.S. $360 million) raised in that region alone.
Mike Ryan, Head of Evergreen Portfolios, commented: "As investors adjust to a period of heightened volatility in the public markets, they are increasingly looking to private markets for the inherent potential for value creation. Further, we've seen that in periods of lower public market returns, private markets out performance has historically widened, offering diversification within portfolios."
For more information about GPA and Hamilton Lane's evergreen platform, click here.
*I-Shares, USD
Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) is a leading private markets investment management firm providing innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world. Dedicated exclusively to private markets investing for 30 years, the firm currently employs approximately 530 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Hamilton Lane has over $901 billion in assets under management and supervision, composed of more than $106 billion in discretionary assets and nearly $795 billion in advisory assets, as of March 31, 2022. Hamilton Lane specializes in building flexible investment programs that provide clients access to the full spectrum of private markets strategies, sectors and geographies. For more information, please visit www.hamiltonlane.com or follow Hamilton Lane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamilton-lane/.
Disclosures
Private Assets Fund is a non-diversified closed-end fund and is considered illiquid and not suitable for investors with short term liquidity needs. An investment in the Fund involves risk, including the possible loss of the entire principal amount invested.
Investors should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the Hamilton Lane Private Assets Fund before investing. For a prospectus that contains this and other information about the Fund, call 1 (888) 882-8212.The Private Assets Fund is suitable only for investors who can bear the risks associated with limited liquidity in the shares and should be viewed as a long-term investment.
Other risks specifically associated with the PAF are detailed in the prospectus and include but are not limited to limited operational history, conflict of interest risk, non-diversified status risk, unspecified investment and dependent on adviser risk, failure to qualify as a RIC risk, liquidity risk, tax related risks, secondary investment risks, mezzanine investment risks, interest rate risk, defaulted debt securities risk, portfolio management risk, market risk, leverage risk, valuation risk and issuer risk.
Hamilton Lane Advisors LLC is the Advisor to the Hamilton Lane Private Assets Fund. UMB Distribution Services, LLC and Hamilton Lane are unaffiliated.
Hamilton Lane Private Assets Fund is distributed by UMB Distribution Services, LLC, 235 W Galena Street Milwaukee, WI 53212-3948
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Brantley's new show explores the perception of the Black body
NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 9th through October 22nd, internationally recognized artist Hebru Brantley will present his show, Dark Fiction: Flowers & Frogs, at Richard Beavers Gallery at 14 Wooster Street, New York, NY.
This exhibition explores the perception of the Black body – how it is presented, seen, and how it survives. In this work, Brantley finds a correlation between the beauty of flowers and the Black body. "There is a beauty within us and within our culture," says Brantley. "This beauty is precious and vulnerable, and oftentimes commoditized, the same way flowers are clipped for decoration for the instant gratification of humans, promptly causing them to wither and die once removed from their soil."
"Flowers are also personal to me as I recollect my mother in the garden," continues Brantley. "As a child I have memories of helping her tend the garden and learning the delicate and precious nature of the various plants she was cultivating. A correlation is also drawn between a tended garden and a community or household in the same context of the black body, embodying both themes of nature and nurture, together."
Brantley's Dark Fiction body of work is a departure from his well-known Flyboy universe, featuring iconic characters "Flyboy and Lil Mama." But throughout, his work is often seen challenging the traditional view of the hero or protagonist. The context, development and expressions of his youthful troupe, which are sometimes in autobiographical form, summon the audience to reimagine childhood and the American cultural experience in Brantley's created context of dark fiction.
Dark Fiction: Flowers & Frogs by Hebru Brantley will open Friday, September 9th from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and will run September 9 – October 22. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon – 6:00 p.m. Richard Beavers Gallery SoHo is located at 14 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013.
Recognized internationally, HEBRU BRANTLEY has exhibited in Chicago, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami, Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York including Art Basel Switzerland, Art Basel Miami, Art Basel Hong Kong, and Frieze London. Brantley has been recognized in publications including CNN, the Chicago Tribune, Forbes, WWD, HypeBeast, Complex Magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the New York Post. Collectors of his work include LeBron James, Jay-Z and Beyonce, Lenny Kravitz, George Lucas, and Rahm Emanuel, among others. Brantley has collaborated with brands like Nike, Hublot, and Adidas.
RICHARD BEAVERS GALLERY, established in 2007, is a contemporary fine art gallery. Our collection primarily consists of artists whose work depicts various aspects of life in an urban environment through a multitude of genres. The artwork is inspired by the culture of these communities and addresses the many social and political issues on the forefront of society. RB Gallery aims to educate, inspire, and stir consciousness – whether you are a seasoned collector, art appreciator, or merely have an interest in art.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for TSLA, BILL, TWTR, CVX, and REGN.
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SAN DIEGO, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mr. David Jacques Farahi and Quick Custom Intelligence ("QCI") jointly announced that Mr. Farahi has been named Executive Chairman. Mr. Farahi will focus on financial matters, working with key clients, product development, sales and developing initiatives to expand QCI into new verticals.
"In my time as an advisory board member at Quick Custom Intelligence, I have had the opportunity to not only interact with the revolutionary and award-winning team, but hear from and support our dozens of clients. It is clear to me that QCI has firmly earned its place as the industry leader, not only in terms of technology and service, but also in terms of installations. We have entered Moore's Tornado of growth! I am now thrilled to serve as QCI's Executive Chairman to further contribute to the company's ongoing success," said Mr. Farahi.
"We welcome David Farahi, an experienced and accomplished casino executive to our team," said Dr. Ralph Thomas, CEO of QCI. Dr. Thomas went on to say that "It is a pleasure to work with David as an advisor and we welcome him stepping up to this new role. David's knowledge of the gaming industry and his background in analytics and finance will be of tremendous value."
ABOUT Mr. David Farahi
Mr. Farahi served as Chief Operating Officer of Monarch Casino & Resort from 2012 to 2021, after re-joining the company in 2007 as Director of Investor Relations. As Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Farahi oversaw all operations at the company's two resorts, including more than 2,000 team members. He was also directly responsible for the company's investor relations and business development efforts. Mr. Farahi began his career with Monarch Casino & Resort in 1998 and served in a number of roles at the company's Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno, Nevada. These roles included front line positions in the hotel, casino and food and beverage departments. Prior to becoming Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Farahi also held the positions of FP&A analyst, Slot Director and Executive Director of Gaming Operations. He departed the company in 2004, taking a finance industry role with HSBC Bank PLC in London, Geneva and New York. When re-joining the company in 2007, one of Mr. Farahi's key priorities was to improve the guest experience through a Money Ball-style, analytics-based approach to every department from table games to spa, with a particular focus on slot machines, leading the company's efforts to develop new KPIs and data visualization tools. Mr. Farahi served four terms as President of the Colorado Gaming Association, from 2015 to 2021, where he spearheaded the industry's legislative agenda, including three successful state-wide ballot initiatives. In 2022 Mr. Farahi became an Adjunct Professor at Metropolitan State University Denver, teaching an introductory course on gaming and sports book management. Mr. Farahi was honored by the Reno Gazette Journal with their "20 Under 40 Award" for 2013, Global Gaming Enterprise magazine with their "40 Under 40 Award" for 2015 and the Denver Business Journal with their "40 Under 40 Award" in 2020. He was also recognized by JEWISHcolorado with their 2015 Young Leadership Award. Mr. Farahi earned an MBA from Columbia Business School with concentrations in both Real Estate and Finance. He also holds a BA in Economics and International Studies from Northwestern University. He earned Dean's List honors from both institutions.
ABOUT QCI
The QCI Platform aligns player development, marketing and gaming with powerful real-time operational tools developed for the gaming and hospitality industries. QCI has installed their ground-breaking, highly configured software in over 50 Casino Resorts and over 3,000 sites worldwide. QCI products provide tooling for gaming operators managing over $10 billion in annual gross gaming revenue, these products are built on the QCI Platform, a best-in-class on-premises, hybrid or cloud-based technology that enables fully coordinated activities across gaming or hospitality operations. This data-driven software allows for quick, informed decisions in the ever-changing world of the casino industry and assists casinos in their efforts to optimize resources and profits, manage marketing campaigns and increase customer loyalty. QCI was founded by Dr. Ralph Thomas and Mr. Andrew Cardno. Based in San Diego, QCI also has offices in Las Vegas, St. Louis, Dallas & Phoenix. Main phone number: (858) 299.5715 www.QuickCustomIntelligence.com
Contact: Andrew Cardno, (858) 299.5715
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How is everyone that makes less than $200,000 enjoying their hidden tax? Do you remember when Biden campaigned that people that make under $200,000 a year wouldn’t see their taxes increase.
I knew he was lying because he campaigned on eliminating the oil and gas industry to combat climate change.
Inflation is the hidden tax. Stifling our own domestic production while enriching our en- emies by purchasing their oil only hurt Americans, especially the lower and middle class. Releasing 1 million barrels a day for 6 months is like shooting a BB at a freight train. The United States uses 20 million barrels of oil a day and this won’t make a dent in the prices we pay at the pump.
Strategic reserves are for a time of war, not to drop prices in an election year. Everything we buy because has increased, because of inflation, is a direct result of Democrat policies.
It was insulting when Pete Buttigieg said that if you don’t like the price of gas then buy an electric vehicle. Most people are hurting by almost $4 gas so he suggested we go out and buy a $50,000-plus electric vehicle. How out of touch can you be?
The Fed is raising interest rates to combat runaway inflation. That means your credit card interest rates or adjustable rates on your mortgage will continue higher. The bond market is also predicting a recession, which will lead to layoffs.
This isn’t a red vs. blue debate, it’s reality. Biden (Democrats) are sacrificing your family at the altar of Gaia. It will get worse and I hope everyone plans accordingly, especially if you get laid off.
Richard Lewis
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Published: May. 11, 2022 at 5:01 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
TORONTO, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX: SLF) (NYSE: SLF) announced its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.
Q1'22 reported net income of $858 million decreased 8% and underlying net income(1) of $843 million decreased 1% from Q1'21.
Q1'22 reported EPS(2) was $1.46 and underlying EPS(1)(2) was $1.44.
"Sun Life delivered solid first quarter results driven by the strength of our diversified business model. We continue to deliver on our Purpose for Clients amidst a challenging economic environment and ongoing COVID-19 impacts. We saw our insurance and wealth sales grow this quarter, highlighting the value our Clients place on financial security and healthier lives, and we delivered strong long-term investment performance," said Kevin Strain, President and CEO of Sun Life. "Our capital position remained strong and we are pleased to announce a 4.5% increase in our dividend to $0.69 per common share, reflecting our confidence in meeting our medium-term financial goals."
Sun Life also announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with CIMB Niaga, a leading regional bank in Indonesia. This extended partnership will increase distribution and product offerings starting in 2025, and more importantly, help millions of people to access financial security solutions across all life stages.
Financial and Operational Highlights - Quarterly Comparison (Q1 2022 vs. Q1 2021)
Our strategy is focused on key business segments, where we aim to be a leader in the markets in which we operate.
Reported net income of $858 million decreased $79 million or 8% from prior year, driven by less favourable market-related impacts, partially offset by a Q1'21 restructuring charge and lower fair value changes on MFS' share-based payment awards.(1) Underlying net income of $843 million(2) was down slightly, driven by broad-based business growth, higher investment gains and lower Corporate expenses, offset by unfavourable mortality and disability which included impacts from COVID-19, and lower available-for-sale ("AFS") gains.
Canada: A leader in insurance and asset management
Canada reported net income of $263 million decreased $142 million or 35% from prior year, primarily reflecting changes in interest rates and lower equity markets, partially offset by an increase in the value of real estate investments and an increase in underlying net income of $13 million. Underlying net income of $298 million increased 5%, driven by business growth and new business gains.
Experience in the quarter consisted of higher investment gains, partially offset by morbidity reflecting longer durations for disability claims, and unfavourable credit impacts.
Canada insurance sales were $332 million, up 42% year-over-year, driven by large case group benefits sales in Sun Life Health. Canada wealth sales were $5 billion, up 11%, driven by defined contribution sales in Group Retirement Services ("GRS"), partially offset by individual wealth sales.
Aligned with our Purpose to help Clients achieve lifetime financial security, we launched Prosprby Sun Life, a hybrid advice solution combining a best-in-class digital platform with a team of licensed advisors, to meet Canadians' personalized and holistic financial planning needs. Prosprby Sun Life makes it easier for Canadians to select, prioritize and track their goals all in one place.
U.S.: A leader in health and benefits
U.S. reported net income of $169 million decreased $42 million or 20% from prior year, reflecting a $53 million decrease in underlying net income. Underlying net income of $118 million decreased 31%, driven by mortality and morbidity, partially offset by business growth.
In the first quarter, COVID-19 impacts of US$30 million ($39 million) were largely driven by elevated group life mortality. Earnings for the quarter also reflected higher long-term disability claims in Group Benefits, offset by higher medical stop-loss margins and investment gains. The trailing four-quarter after-tax profit margin for Group Benefits(3) was 4.9% as of Q1'22 (Q1'21 - 8.1%).
U.S. insurance sales were $148 million, down 4% year-over-year, reflecting a large employee benefits case sale in the prior year, largely offset by a 56% increase in medical stop-loss sales.
During Q1, we launched Benefits Explorer, an interactive platform designed to provide employees with personalized, live educational content and customized tools to help them make well-informed benefits decisions. We also continued to invest in our dental business and digital capabilities by partnering with Teledentistry.com. The service offers members 24/7 virtual access to dental providers, making it easier to get dental care and advice in emergencies while traveling or during evenings and weekends. This complements the recent announcement of our intention to acquire DentaQuest Group Inc. ("DentaQuest"), one of the largest providers of dental benefits in the U.S., and their mission to make oral health accessible to all.
Asset Management: A global leader in both public and alternative asset classes through MFS and SLC Management
Asset Management reported net income of $308 million increased $78 million or 34% from prior year, driven by lower fair value changes on MFS' share-based payment awards and an increase in underlying net income of $35 million. Underlying net income of $326 million increased 12%, driven by higher results in MFS and SLC Management.
Asset Management ended Q1'22 with $981 billion in AUM, consisting of $796 billion (US$637 billion) in MFS and $185 billion in SLC Management. Total Asset Management net outflows of $2 billion in Q1'22 reflected MFS net outflows of approximately $7 billion (US$5 billion), largely offset by SLC Management net inflows of approximately $5 billion.
The MFS pre-tax net operating profit margin(1) was 39% for Q1'22, consistent with prior year. The SLC Management fee-related earnings margin(1)(2) was 23%, down from 26%.
Through its collective expertise, long-term investing philosophy and active risk management, MFS continues to deliver on its consistent track record as a top-performing active asset manager. For 2021, MFS ranked in the top 10(3) for its 5- and 10-year performance across its U.S. fund line up, marking the 13th time in the last 14 years that MFS has achieved this recognition.
During Q1, Crescent Capital Group LP ("Crescent") closed its third U.S. Direct Lending Fund, raising approximately US$6 billion, more than double the size of the predecessor fund. WELPUT(4), a fund managed by BentallGreenOak ("BGO"), won the 2022 Pension Real Estate Association ("PREA") Closed-End Fund ESG Award. In addition, SLC Management, and its affiliates, BGO and Crescent, have become founding signatories to the CFA Institute's recently launched Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ("DEI") Code in the U.S. and Canada.
Asia: A regional leader focused on fast-growing markets
Asia reported net income of $161 million decreased $37 million or 19% from prior year, reflecting less favourable market-related impacts. Underlying net income of $152 million decreased $7 million or 4%, reflecting new business strain in Hong Kong largely driven by lower sales as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, partially offset by experience-related items.
Experience in the quarter included higher investment gains, partially offset by higher mortality mainly in International, related to a small number of large claims. Foreign exchange translation led to a $5 million decline in reported net income and underlying net income.
Asia insurance sales were $319 million, down 7% year-over-year, reflecting lower sales in Hong Kong, partially offset by sales growth in India and Singapore. Asia wealth sales were $4 billion, up 7%, driven by higher sales in the Philippines and India, partially offset by lower sales in Hong Kong.
We continue to expand our distribution channels across Asia to better service Clients in our fast-growing markets. In Indonesia, we announced the expansion of our existing bancassurance partnership with CIMB Niaga, Indonesia's second largest privately-owned bank(5). Sun Life will be the provider of all insurance solutions to the bank's seven million customers, across all channels, starting in 2025 through 2039.
Corporate
Corporate reported net loss of $43 million improved $64 million from prior year, as Q1'21 included a restructuring charge of $57 million. Underlying net loss of $51 million improved by $5 million.
Earnings Conference Call
The Company's Q1'22 financial results will be reviewed at a conference call on Thursday, May 12, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET. To listen to the call via live audio webcast and to view the presentation slides, as well as related information, please visit www.sunlife.com and click on the link to Quarterly reports under Investors – Financial results & reports 10 minutes prior to the start of the call. Individuals participating in the call in a listen-only mode are encouraged to connect via our webcast. Following the call, the webcast and presentation will be archived and made available on the Company's website, www.sunlife.com, until the Q1 2023 period end. The conference call can also be accessed by phone by dialing 602-563-8756 (International) or 1-877-658-9101 (toll‑free within North America) using Conference ID: 6588671. A replay of the conference call will be available from Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET until 1:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, May 26, 2022 by calling 404-537-3406 or 1-855-859-2056 (toll‑free within North America) using Conference ID: 6588671.
Forward-looking Statements
From time to time, the Company makes written or oral forward-looking statements within the meaning of certain securities laws, including the "safe harbour" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking statements contained in this document include statements (i) relating to our strategies; (ii) relating to the expansion of our bancassurance partnership with CIMB Niaga; (iii) relating to our intention to acquire DentaQuest; (iv) relating to our growth initiatives and other business objectives; (v) relating to the plans we have implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic conditions and their impact on the Company, (vi) that are predictive in nature or that depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, and (vii) that include words such as "achieve", "aim", "ambition", "anticipate", "aspiration", "assumption", "believe", "could", "estimate", "expect", "goal", "initiatives", "intend", "may", "objective", "outlook", "plan", "project", "seek", "should", "strategy", "strive", "target", "will", and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements include the information concerning our possible or assumed future results of operations. These statements represent our current expectations, estimates, and projections regarding future events and are not historical facts, and remain subject to change, particularly in light of the ongoing and developing COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the global economy and its uncertain impact on our business.
Forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Future results and shareholder value may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements due to, among other factors, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic conditions on our operations, liquidity, financial conditions or results and the matters set out in Q1 2022 MD&A under the headings C - Profitability - 5 - Income taxes, E - Financial Strength and H - Risk Management and in SLF Inc.'s 2021 AIF under the heading Risk Factors, and the factors detailed in SLF Inc.'s other filings with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators, which are available for review at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov, respectively.
Important risk factors that could cause our assumptions and estimates, and expectations and projections to be inaccurate and our actual results or events to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this document, are set out below. The realization of our forward-looking statements, essentially depends on our business performance which, in turn, is subject to many risks, which have been further heightened with the current COVID-19 pandemic given the uncertainty of its duration and impact. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations include, but are not limited to: market risks - related to the performance of equity markets; changes or volatility in interest rates or credit spreads or swap spreads; real estate investments; and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; insurance risks - related to policyholder behaviour; mortality experience, morbidity experience and longevity; product design and pricing; the impact of higher-than-expected future expenses; and the availability, cost and effectiveness of reinsurance; credit risks - related to issuers of securities held in our investment portfolio, debtors, structured securities, reinsurers, counterparties, other financial institutions and other entities; business and strategic risks - related to global economic and political conditions; the design and implementation of business strategies; changes in distribution channels or Client behaviour including risks relating to market conduct by intermediaries and agents; the impact of competition; the performance of our investments and investment portfolios managed for Clients such as segregated and mutual funds; changes in the legal or regulatory environment, including capital requirements and tax laws; the environment, environmental laws and regulations; operational risks - related to breaches or failure of information system security and privacy, including cyber-attacks; our ability to attract and retain employees; legal, regulatory compliance and market conduct, including the impact of regulatory inquiries and investigations; the execution and integration of mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments and divestitures; our information technology infrastructure; a failure of information systems and Internet-enabled technology; dependence on third-party relationships, including outsourcing arrangements; business continuity; model errors; information management; liquidity risks - the possibility that we will not be able to fund all cash outflow commitments as they fall due; and other risks - COVID-19 matters, including the severity, duration and spread of COVID-19; its impact on the global economy, and its impact on Sun Life's business, financial condition and or results; risks associated with IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts and IFRS 9 Financial Instruments; our international operations, including our joint ventures; market conditions that affect our capital position or ability to raise capital; downgrades in financial strength or credit ratings; and tax matters, including estimates and judgements used in calculating taxes.
The following risk factors are related to our intention to purchase DentaQuest that could have a material adverse effect on our forward-looking statements: (1) the ability of the parties to complete the transaction; (2) failure of the parties to obtain necessary consents and approvals or to otherwise satisfy the conditions to the completion of the transaction in a timely manner, or at all; (3) our ability to realize the financial and strategic benefits of the transaction; and (4) the impact of the announcement of the transaction and the dedication of our and DentaQuest's resources to completing the transaction. These risks all could have an impact on our business relationships (including with future and prospective employees, Clients, distributors and partners) and could have a material adverse effect on our current and future operations, financial conditions and prospects.
The Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this document or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.
About Sun Life
Sun Life is a leading international financial services organization providing asset management, wealth, insurance and health solutions to individual and institutional Clients. Sun Life has operations in a number of markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of March 31, 2022, Sun Life had total assets under management of $1.35 trillion. For more information, please visit www.sunlife.com.
Sun Life Financial Inc. trades on the Toronto (TSX), New York (NYSE) and Philippine (PSE) stock exchanges under the ticker symbol SLF.
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Unique Partnership Allows Retailers to Seamlessly Resell Product Returns While Providing Customers with Unparalleled Convenience Across ReCommerce Experience
BURLINGAME, Calif., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ReverseLogix, a provider of end-to-end returns management systems, today announced a partnership with B-Stock, the world's largest business-to-business marketplace for returned, excess, and other liquidation merchandise. The partnership provides merchants with ReverseLogix's powerful returns management solution (RMS) that empowers sellers to centrally manage eCommerce product returns with B-Stock's industry-leading platform to sell and buy customer returns, overstock, and other excess merchandise.
As consumers spend more time and money shopping online, retailers are looking to technology to help them orchestrate and automate product returns operations. With global eCommerce sales estimated to top $7 trillion dollars by 2025 (Statista), reverse logistics technology presents a significant opportunity for organizations to offer a well-managed customer experience beyond the initial point of sale through a returns experience that is easy for the customer and cost-efficient for the retailer.
"In today's eCommerce-driven world, returns management is critical to improving profitability and delivering a superior customer experience," said Gaurav Saran, CEO of ReverseLogix. "From providing a totally self-service returns initiation to streamlining returns processing in the warehouse, to after-sales care and resale, the ReverseLogix RMS directly addresses the need for better consumer returns experiences and more efficient returns management operations. We are thrilled to collaborate with B-Stock who, like ReverseLogix, is focused on delivering solutions that deliver true business value."
"As a 2-sided marketplace, B-Stock provides business value to the world's largest retailers and manufacturers by allowing them to outsource their returns process to B-Stock to drive high recovery, and operational efficiency, at a fraction of the cost it would require managing the process internally," said Sean Cleland, Vice President to Sales and Partnerships. "In addition to the value to large sellers, B-Stock empowers the entrepreneurs of commerce in the form of the growing number of medium to small businesses who bid and buy on B-Stock to secure the inventory they need for their resell businesses. B-Stock's platform and recommerce expertise, combined with ReverseLogix returns management software, provides an innovative approach to optimize the entire returns process."
B-Stock is the world's largest B2B recommerce marketplace for excess [or surplus] merchandise. Businesses of all sizes leverage the B-Stock platform to sell and buy customer returns, overstock, and other excess merchandise. Our customers range from the world's largest brands and retailers (including nine of the top 10 U.S. retailers) who want best-in-class inventory management to entrepreneurs looking to source valuable merchandise for their resale businesses. B-Stock believes there is tremendous value in and demand for this inventory – no matter the category, condition, or location. We pride ourselves on empowering the entrepreneurs and innovators of commerce. Having completed over 225,000 transactions in 2021, B-Stock gives buyers a simple and direct way to buy valuable products and offers sellers a trusted replacement for traditional liquidation while boosting operational efficiency, recovery rates, and cycle time.
ReverseLogix is the only end-to-end, centralized, and fully integrated returns management system built specifically for retail, ecommerce, manufacturing and 3PL organizations. Whether B2B, B2C or hybrid, the ReverseLogix platform facilitates, manages, and reports on the entire returns' lifecycle. Organizations that rely on ReverseLogix deliver a vastly superior customer returns experience, save employee time with faster workflows, and increase profits with 360⁰ insight into returns data. For more information, visit https://www.reverselogix.com/
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Georgia voters appeal decision on Rep. Greene’s eligibility
ATLANTA (AP) — A group of voters who challenged U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection said Monday they have filed an appeal of the Georgia secretary of state’s decision that she can appear on the ballot.
The five voters from Greene’s district in March filed a complaint with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. They alleged that the Republican congresswoman played a significant role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that disrupted Congress’ certification of Biden’s presidential victory. They argued that put her in violation of a seldom-invoked part of the 14th Amendment having to do with insurrection and makes her ineligible to run for reelection.
Georgia Administrative Law Judge Charles Beaudrot last month held a daylong hearing that included arguments from lawyers for the voters and for Greene, as well as extensive questioning of Greene herself. He then sent his decision to Raffensperger May 6.
Beaudrot found that the voters hadn’t produced sufficient evidence to back their claims. Raffensperger affirmed that decision, writing that whether Greene’s political statements and actions disqualify her from office “is rightfully a question for the voters of Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.”
Under Georgia law, the voters are allowed to appeal that decision in Fulton County Superior Court.
The Georgia Supreme Court has held that the burden of establishing one’s eligibility to run for office is on the candidate, the appeal filed Monday says. Beaudrot erred by shifting that burden of proof to the challengers and thwarting the voters’ attempts to get evidence from Greene, the appeal argues, adding that Raffensperger’s decision was thus “made upon unlawful procedures and affected by other errors of law.”
The petition for judicial review that the voters said they filed Monday asks a judge to reverse Raffensperger’s decision and conclude that Greene isn’t qualified to be a congressional candidate or to vacate his decision and send the case back to Beaudrot for further proceedings.
The voters are represented by Free Speech for People, a national election and campaign finance reform group, which has filed similar challenges against lawmakers from Arizona and North Carolina.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Native American is being appointed U.S. treasurer, a historic first.
The White House on Tuesday announced President Joe Biden’s intent to appoint Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba as his administration establishes an Office of Tribal and Native Affairs at the Treasury Department, which will be overseen by the U.S. treasurer.
The treasurer’s duties include oversight of the U.S. Mint, serving as a liaison with the Federal Reserve and overseeing Treasury’s Office of Consumer Policy. The treasurer’s signature appears on U.S. currency.
“It is especially important that our Native voices are respected,” Malerba said in a statement. “This appointment underscores this Administration’s commitment to doing just that. I am excited to serve our communities as Treasurer and for the work ahead.”
Malerba, who is the lifetime chief of the Mohegan Indian Tribe, previously worked as a registered nurse, according to the tribe’s website, and has served in various tribal government roles. The tribe’s reservation is located on the Thames River in Uncasville, Connecticut.
“For the first time in history, a Tribal leader and Native woman’s name will be the signature on our currency,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in remarks prepared ahead of the announcement.
“Chief Malerba will expand our unique relationship with Tribal nations, continuing our joint efforts to support the development of Tribal economies and economic opportunities for Tribal citizens,” Yellen said.
Yellen was set to visit the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota on Tuesday, the first time a Treasury secretary has visited a tribal nation. She is expected to focus on how the American Rescue Plan has affected tribal communities.
The relief package allotted more than $30 billion to Tribal governments, some of which oversee the poorest communities in the nation.
For instance, 59% of Rosebud Sioux Tribal households live in poverty, according to U.S. government estimates. Native communities have also suffered the brunt of waves of COVID-19-related deaths and drug overdoses.
This makes the need for representation at the federal level all the more important, says Carl Tobias, a law professor at University of Richmond who specializes in federal appointments.
With Malerba at Treasury, the agency “can work with individual indigenous tribes to work on economic issues which are critical to Native people,” he said.
He added that “I think it’s true in certain western states that Native Americans are an important voting group.”
There are about 9.7 million people in the U.S. who identify as American Indian and Alaska Native, according to the Census Bureau. And while roughly eight million Native Americans are eligible to cast a ballot, Census surveys estimate that large portions of the population are not registered to vote.
A March 2022 White House report on Native American Voting Rights states that “Native voters are less attached to political parties and are more concerned with what candidates can do to support Native communities.”
Biden, a Democrat, has taken several steps to demonstrate his commitment to tribal nations, including naming Deb Haaland as the first Native American to lead the Interior Department. Biden also has appointed at least three Native American judges — Lauren J. King, Sunshine Suzanne Sykes and Lydia Griggsby — to the federal court system.
Biden issued the first presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, with the intent of refocusing the federal holiday previously dedicated to explorer Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of Native people.
The administration led by Haaland is leading a reckoning with the U.S. government’s role in Native American boarding schools, which stripped children of their cultures and identities. On Wednesday, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the Interior Department’s report on its investigation into the federal government’s past oversight of Native American boarding schools.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for CCL, AAL, PFE, BAC, and GME.
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Everton loses 2-1 at West Ham to stay in deep trouble in EPL
LONDON (AP) — Everton remains in deep trouble in the Premier League after losing 2-1 at West Ham. Defender Michael Keane’s second-half red card capped another disappointing away performance by Frank Lampard’s team. Jarrod Bowen marked his comeback from injury by scoring the winning goal in the 58th minute. Aaron Cresswell gave West Ham the lead with a curling free kick into the top corner in the 32nd. Mason Holgate equalized in the 53rd. West Ham moved above Manchester United and to within three points of fourth-place Arsenal. Everton stayed one place and three points above the relegation zone ahead of a trip to next-to-last Burnley on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON, June 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With its ruling today, the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, dismantling the constitutional right to abortion that has stood for nearly 50 years. Roe is overturned at a time when 26 states are poised to ban abortion which will leave 36 million people who can become pregnant without access to care in their home state. Despite the Court's failure to defend this fundamental freedom, abortion is still legal in DC, Maryland, and Virginia and Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC is committed to providing care to all who come to us in need.
"We are outraged! Personal medical decisions about people's sexual and reproductive health should be made by patients, and patients alone. Politicians and judges should never be making personal medical decisions about other people's bodies," said Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC President & CEO Dr. Laura Meyers. "People need control of their own bodies, lives, and futures; no matter where they live. PPMW will never back down and stands rock solid in our commitment to provide equitable access to abortion care."
"Today's ruling will most impact Black and Brown women, trans and nonbinary folks, people earning low incomes, and people who live in rural communities, where health care can be extremely hard to access," said Meyers.
PPMW has already provided abortion at our health centers in DC, Prince George's and Montgomery counties to patients traveling long distances from areas like Texas. We are prepared to see a bigger increase as more bans are enacted. As the oldest and largest provider of reproductive health services in the area, we will welcome patients with open arms and will continue to provide care – no matter what.
PPMW's mission it to provide high-quality, compassionate healthcare, including reproductive care; promote sexual health; and advocate for reproductive rights and health equity for all.
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IPLOOK's FWA solution enables Connect to deliver fast and reliable 4G LTE Connectivity to Residential and Enterprise Customers while significantly lowering TCO
HONG KONG, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IPLOOK Technologies, the leader in end-to-end mobile network solution, announced it has been selected by Connect, one of the leading Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) in Liberia, to deploy 4G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) solution, delivering ultra-fast connections and rich customer experience for residentials and enterprises.
In the highly competitive Liberia market, the region has the demand for high-bandwidth services. As one of the leaders in telecommunications, Connect is committed to bringing state-of-the-art internet and intranet services to Liberia's people at a competitive price. After a range of full-scale and trusted validation, IPLOOK was successfully selected to deploy the full turnkey 4G mobile network solution, that will provide high-speed broadband service to areas where fiber is unavailable or very expensive to build.
With IPLOOK's help, Connect delivered a fast and reliable LTE network offering to residential and enterprise customers, that will usher in a new phase of growth. Connect expects to significantly upgrade its 5G network in the near future and develop more advancing network services to better meet the requirements from its customers.
"Connect Services Liberia is an instant high-speed wireless broadband internet provider, that allows you to get connected anywhere you go," said Jubran El Ayan, CTO of Connect. "We've selected IPLOOK as it is the best company capable of fulfilling our requirement for a scalable EPC (4G core network) platform. Moreover, they are pragmatic, flexible and with timely manner for service."
"IPLOOK is honored to become the trusted partner of Connect. Our flexible FWA solution enables Connect to rapidly roll out 4G services to address their customers' needs and win in the marketplace. In the future, we will continue to support the upgrade of 5G network," said Frank Li, Sales Director in MENA Region at IPLOOK Technologies.
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About Connect Services Liberia
Connect seeks to keep delivering the latest broadband services in the field, preserving a true competitive advantage and meeting all customer expectations. Being connected with people, whenever and wherever they are in the fast-paced world, inspired Connect to deliver an extensive line-up that comprises Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), high quality high-speed wireless broadband access as well as data center and hosting solutions.
About IPLOOK
Established in 2012, IPLOOK Technologies is a leading vendor of 4G/5G networking solutions, offers a complete line of products for mobile operators, mobile virtual operators, service providers, enterprises and industrial markets. We help build, expand and optimize your networks to fulfill the growing connectivity needs, with a dramatically lower cost of ownership.
Reach out more at https://www.iplook.com/. Follow IPLOOK on LinkedIn @IPLOOK Technologies
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CHANDLER, Ariz., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NovaSource Power Services ("NovaSource" or the "Company"), a portfolio company of Clairvest Group Inc. ("Clairvest") (TSX: CVG) and the global leader in solar operations and maintenances services, announced today that it is adding the next evolution of services to its product lifecycle packages for the North American market.
NovaSource will provide an industry-first DC Availability Guarantee. The Guarantee will align owner and operator incentives and fill a verification gap in PV systems maintenance that has plagued the industry for a decade. "We were diligent in engaging with our customers to understand the service gaps in the market. As a result of those conversations, we crafted multiple service offerings to meet each customer's unique needs—including the industry's first DC Availability Guarantee," said Michael Gantt, head of strategy and solutions for the Company. The new DC Availability Guarantee was developed based on existing and prospective customer feedback and guarantees 99% DC equipment uptime. NovaSource leveraged its proprietary DC monitoring system, SunStreams, and the capabilities of its recently acquired subsidiary, Heliolytics, to develop this new product offering.
The DC Availability Guarantee will be offered as part of NovaSource's new long-term service agreements (LTSA), which have been expanded to meet the diverse needs of the growing industry. These new offerings provide customers enhanced options to meet their preferred level of engagement. For the utility power plant segment, the new offerings include four primary service levels: MAINTAIN, PROTECT, ENHANCE, and ASSURE (LINK). The new LTSA offerings cover the commercial and industrial segment as well and include the ENGAGE, ADVANCE, and ASSURE offerings (LINK). These offerings cover a wide-range of engagement levels, with the ASSURE offering representing the industry's strongest full-wrap guarantee.
"NovaSource recognizes the opportunity for better commercial alignment with our partners during the operational phase of a solar project." noted Troy Lauterbach, CEO of NovaSource Power Services. "Our new service tiers have been curated in collaboration with our partners and based on our experience operating over 20 GWs of solar assets globally. We are confident these new offerings will provide our partners with additional flexibility, with the continued production assurance that owners need to meet their financial and carbon-reduction goals."
Currently, NovaSource operates and maintains over 20GW of solar power plants across 10 countries and is a leading operator of battery storage systems. The DC Availability Guarantee and LTSA offerings are now available in the North American market, and the European, South American, and Australian markets can expect similar improvements to service agreement structures in 2023.
NovaSource Power Services, a portfolio company of Clairvest Group Inc. ("Clairvest") (TSX: CVG) headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, is a global O&M services provider for renewable energy assets. NovaSource seeks to maintain a world-class culture of safety and integrity, while developing lasting partnerships with our customers and team members. As an independent, O&M-focused company, NovaSource is poised to offer even greater value in the design, maintenance, and management of our customers' projects. More information is available at www.novasourcepower.com.
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Intercepts 206 AgEq g/t over 41 metres
VANCOUVER, BC, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX: ASM) (NYSE American: ASM) (FSE: GV6) ("Avino" or "the Company") is pleased to announce further drill results from Phase 2 of its 2021/2022 exploration program.
These latest results represent assays from six holes completed below the current Level 17 mining area, approximately 1,850 metres above sea level at Avino Elena Tolosa ("ET ") area to define the continuity of economic mineralization at depth in the central part of the vein. The drilling results have confirmed the downdip continuity of widths and grades of the Avino vein extending significant potential to a depth of at least 290 metre down dip below current development.
"This ET area drilling below Level 17 is very encouraging and confirms our expectation that not only does the mineralization continue at depth, but it also contains significantly higher copper mineralization as is often the case with porphyry deposits", said David Wolfin, President and CEO. "Since 2019 following our sale of Bralorne, we have focused our resources on creating value at the Avino property by optimizing production, completing a complimentary property acquisition in La Preciosa and executing an exploration strategy focused on growing the resource base. To execute our exploration strategy, we have expanded our technical team, some of whom, are seasoned geologists having worked on large Mexican mining projects. Avino has been a consistent producer over the years, and we are excited by these high-grade copper intercepts encountered at depth within our permit boundaries and we will continue to pursue value enhancing exploration initiatives across our core assets."
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Current drilling results are 290 metres down dip of Level 17, the lowest developed point of the ET Area of Avino. We are developing a geological model based on the "near porphyry" environment. The persistence of grade continuity from surface down a plunge distance of over 800 metres (600 metres vertical) and base metal zonation supports the likelihood of a deep mineralized system and could possibly be linked to a porphyry centre."
Geological modelling is advancing to determine the potential geometry and controls of the mineralization. A second drill has been added to this program which includes a total of 13 drill holes for approximately 7, 000 metres of total length for 2022.
The Property contains numerous low-sulphidation epithermal veins (including the Avino vein), breccias, stockwork, and silicified zones that grade into a "near porphyry" environment within a large caldera. The caldera has been uplifted by regional north-trending block faulting (a graben structure), exposing a window of andesitic pyroclastic rocks of the lower volcanic sequence within the caldera. The Lower Volcanic Sequence is overlain by the Upper Volcanic Sequence, consisting of rhyolite to trachyte flows and extensive ignimbrites and intruded by monzonite bodies. The copper / silver ratio in the Avino vein consistently increases from less than 100 above
8 level to over 400 at 17 level and below. The direction of this increase plunges towards the east in the Avino vein, suggesting changing pressure and temperature conditions with depth at the time of mineralization and possibly reflecting a transition from epithermal to porphyry-style mineralization.
Six holes totalling 3,373 metres drilled were completed to investigate the continuity of mineralization in the central part of the ET Area. Five of the holes intercepted the mineralization within the vein and stockwork and are reported in Table 1.
Vein-type mineralization and stockwork with mineralization of Au, Ag, and Cu are found along the contacts between intrusive rock and an andesite and provide opportunities within the ET Area for the identification and delineation of additional mineral resources that remain open on strike and dip (see Figure 1 for the projections of the resource relative to the drilled holes). The Inclined distance of the Avino vein at the ET Mine from surface is approximately 520 metres as shown in figure 3. This recent deeper drilling suggests that the mineralization persists down dip for an additional 290 metres past the lowest developed mining level. Currently, the mine levels have a vertical separation of 20 metres, suggesting a potential further 14 additional underground levels may be required (depending on economic conditions) to mine the mineralization.
Selected high grade intercepts include:
- Hole Number - ET 22-01: 206 AgEq g/t over 41.0 metres, including 4,527 AgEq g/t over 0.19 metres
- Hole Number – ET 21-08: 226 AgEq g/t over 30 metres, including 617 AgEq g/t over 0.65 metres.
Details are shown in the table and images below.
Table 1 - Summary Drill Results (2021 and 2022 Deep Campaign)
Following detailed geological and geotechnical logging, drill core samples were cut in half. One half of the core was submitted to the SGS Laboratory facility in Durango, Mexico, and the other half is retained on-site for verification and reference. Gold is assayed by fire assay with an AA finish. Any samples exceeding 3.0 gold grams/tonne are re-assayed and followed by a gravimetric finish. Multi-element analyses are also completed for each sample by SGS ICP14B methods. Any copper values exceeding 10,000 ppm (1%) are assayed using ICP 90Q. Silver is fire assayed with a gravimetric finish for samples assaying over 100 grams/tonne.
Avino uses a series of standard reference materials (SRMs), blank reference materials (blanks), and duplicates as part of their QA/QC program during analysis of assays.
Avino's projects in Durango, Mexico are under the geoscientific oversight of Michael F. O'Brien, P.Geo., Senior Principal Consultant, Red Pennant Communications, and under the supervision of Peter Latta, P.Eng, Avino's VP, Technical Services, who are both qualified persons within the context of NI 43-101. Both have reviewed and approved the technical data in this news release.
Avino is primarily a silver producer from its wholly owned Avino Mine near Durango, Mexico. The Company's silver, gold and copper production remains unhedged. The Company's mission and strategy is to create shareholder value through its focus on profitable organic growth at the historic Avino Property and the strategic acquisition of mineral exploration and mining properties. We are committed to managing all business activities in a safe, environmentally responsible, and cost-effective manner, while contributing to the well-being of the communities in which we operate. We encourage you to connect with us on Twitter at @Avino and on LinkedIn at Avino Silver & Gold Mines. To view the Avino Mine VRIFY tour, please click here.
On Behalf of the Board
"David Wolfin"
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David Wolfin
President & CEO
Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd.
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (together, the "forward looking statements") within the meaning of applicable securities laws and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including the amended mineral resource estimate for the Company's Avino Property located near Durango in west-central Mexico (the "Avino Property") with an effective date of January 13, 2021, and as amended on December 21, 2021, and the Company's updated mineral resource estimate for La Preciosa with an effective date of October 27, 2021, prepared for the Company, and references to Measured, Indicated, Inferred Resources referred to in this press release. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and the dates of technical reports, as applicable. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, as there can be no assurance that the future circumstances, outcomes or results anticipated in or implied by such forward-looking statements will occur or that plans, intentions or expectations upon which the forward-looking statements are based will occur. While we have based these forward-looking statements on our expectations about future events as at the date that such statements were prepared, the statements are not a guarantee that such future events will occur and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which could cause events or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors and assumptions include, among others, the effects of general economic conditions, the price of gold, silver and copper, changing foreign exchange rates and actions by government authorities, uncertainties associated with legal proceedings and negotiations and misjudgments in the course of preparing forward-looking information. In addition, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Known risk factors include risks associated with project development; the need for additional financing; operational risks associated with mining and mineral processing; the COVID-19 pandemic; volatility in the global financial markets; fluctuations in metal prices; title matters; uncertainties and risks related to carrying on business in foreign countries; environmental liability claims and insurance; reliance on key personnel; the potential for conflicts of interest among certain of our officers, directors or promoters with certain other projects; the absence of dividends; currency fluctuations; competition; dilution; the volatility of the our common share price and volume; tax consequences to U.S. investors; and other risks and uncertainties. Although we have attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. We are under no obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statements except as required under applicable securities laws. For more detailed information regarding the Company including its risk factors, investors are directed to the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F and other periodic reports that it files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
References to Measured & Indicated Mineral Resources and Inferred Mineral Resources in this press release are terms that are defined under Canadian rules by National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101"). On October 31, 2018, the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Item 1300 of Regulation S-K ("Regulation SK-1300") to modernize the property disclosure requirements for mining registrants, and related guidance, under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. All registrants are required to comply with Regulation SK-1300 for fiscal years ending after January 1, 2021. Accordingly, the Company must comply with Regulation SK-1300 for its fiscal year ending December 31, 2021, and thereafter, and the Company will no longer utilize Industry Guide 7. Regulation SK-1300 uses the Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards ("CRIRSCO") based classification scheme for mineral resources and mineral reserves, that includes definitions for inferred, indicated, and measured mineral resources. U.S. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part of the mineral resources in these categories will ever be converted into probable or proven mineral reserves within the meaning of Regulation S-K 1300.
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Trump election probe grand jury to hear from Raffensperger
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s secretary of state is expected to appear next week before a special grand jury in an investigation into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to meddle in the 2020 election in the state.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has been summoned to appear before the special grand jury Thursday, according to a subpoena obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request. Five other people in his office have received subpoenas to appear in early June and the office has received a subpoena for documents.
Trump directed his ire at Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, after the secretary of state refused to bend to pressure to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow presidential election victory in Georgia. On Tuesday, Raffensperger won the Republican primary in his quest for reelection, defeating a Trump-endorsed challenger.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation soon after she took office in January 2021. She made clear when she requested a special grand jury earlier this year that one purpose for doing so would be to issue subpoenas to people who might not cooperate otherwise.
The 23 members of the special grand jury and three alternates were selected May 2 but Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who’s overseeing the panel, said the grand jurors wouldn’t begin meeting until June.
Willis has confirmed that her investigation includes looking into a January 2021 phone call in which Trump pushed Raffensperger to “find” the votes needed for him to win the state.
Among the documents the grand jury has asked for is anything that “memorializes the events” surrounding that call, anything that “explains the conduct” of the president during that call, and any logs of telephone calls between anyone in Raffensperger’s office and Trump or his representatives.
They also asked for anything showing the results of the audit and hand recount of the results of the 2020 presidential election and a forensic audit of the state’s voting equipment, among other documents.
The other people from the secretary of state’s office summoned to appear are Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer; Ryan Germany, general counsel; Chris Harvey, former head of the elections divisions; Frances Watson, former chief investigator; and Victoria Thompson, a former executive assistant who is now a legislative liaison.
Willis has also said her team is looking at a November 2020 phone call between U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and Raffensperger, the abrupt resignation of the U.S. attorney in Atlanta on Jan. 4, 2021, and comments made during December 2020 Georgia legislative committee hearings on the election.
Trump has said his call with Raffensperger was “perfect” and said he did nothing wrong. Graham has also denied any wrongdoing.
It’s not clear exactly what charges Willis could choose to pursue against Trump or anyone else. In a letter she sent to top-ranking state officials last year, she said she was looking into “potential violations of Georgia law prohibiting the solicitation of election fraud, the making of false statements to state and local government bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of office and any involvement in violence or threats related to the election’s administration.”
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Foodtech co. makes strides toward cultivated meat commercialization through partnership with European grocery, foodservice, and manufacturing giant to produce and sell cultivated meat products
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperMeat, a foodtech company working to supply the world with high-quality cultivated meat, announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Switzerland's largest retail supermarket chain and leading meat manufacturer, Migros, to expedite production and distribution of cultivated meat at a commercial scale. As part of the partnership, Migros invested in SuperMeat, indicating that the industry sees a strong interest among consumers in alternative proteins.
Working together, the two hope to solidify an infrastructure to distribute and sell meat on a wide scale to meet the demand of the European consumer looking for more efficient and sustainable alternative products. With Migros' direct consumer relationships, the companies will be better positioned to serve customers and provide product assortments that better match consumer needs.
"We are thrilled to be working with a prominent foodservice partner like Migros as we move toward our joint vision of producing cultivated meat on a mass scale," said Ido Savir, CEO SuperMeat. "Their expertise and reach in food production and grocery paired with SuperMeat's advancements in the industry will set the stage to bring cultivated meat to European consumers in the near future."
Migros believes in supporting a future of alternative proteins in many forms. In addition to the work with SuperMeat, Migros recently partnered with Swiss companies Givaudan and Bühler to establish The Cultured Food Innovation Hub, with the goal of building a pilot plant to further research and grow cultivated meat.
"As consumers demand more sustainable, healthier, and alternative protein products, Migros wants to ensure it is prepared to meet the needs of this growing customer base when the time comes," said Matthew Robin, CEO ELSA-Mifroma, a Migros Group company. "Having the opportunity to taste SuperMeat's cultivated chicken personally at their restaurant in Israel, I was very impressed with how similar this was to traditional chicken, confirming my conviction of the potential for this technology to change the meat industry."
The announcement is part of several vital steps SuperMeat is taking to move forward the commercialization of cultivated meat, including the development of the first open-source system aimed at identifying the most cost-effective cell feed, reducing production costs for the industry. Last year, SuperMeat also signed a memorandum of understanding with PHW Group, one of Europe's largest poultry producers and the only company from the meat industry to rank among the 50 Sustainability & Climate Leaders, to manufacture and distribute cultivated meat at a large scale for European consumers.
With annual sales of CHF 28.93 billion in 2021, the Migros Group is both the largest retail company in Switzerland and with over 97'541 employees the largest private employer as well. The owners of Migros are its more than two million cooperative members, organized into ten regional cooperatives. These members run the Migros Group's core business, its retail sales. Over 50 percent of the products offered in the Migros stores are own brands, a large number of which are manufactured by its own industrial group. The Migros Group also owns other commercial enterprises such as the Denner discount chain or the online store Digitec Galaxus, as well as the travel company Hotelplan and Migros Bank.
Migros was founded in 1925 by Gottlieb Duttweiler. The founder himself attached great importance to sustainable value creation, with ethical considerations and the assumption of social responsibilities playing a major role in his business philosophy. For example, one of the stipulations in his philosophy was that a fixed percentage of the Migros cooperatives' annual revenues should be used for cultural and social activities. And with CHF 160 million contributed each year, Migros is the largest private promoter of cultural activities in Switzerland. For more information on the company, visit www.migros.ch
SuperMeat, headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, is a food-tech company working to supply the world with high-quality meat grown directly from animal cells. The company's products offer a delicious meat experience and a high-quality nutritional profile, while being manufactured in a sustainable, slaughter-free way. SuperMeat's proprietary cultivated meat platform allows food companies to be at the forefront of the emerging cultivated meat industry and manufacture a wide range of products containing cultivated meat inside. SuperMeat is the first B2B company to address the entire category of poultry meat from fat to muscle, providing a complete solution to cultivated meat production. The company has been showcasing the versatility of its meat platform in various events at its pilot production plant, The Chicken, the world's first farm-to-fork facility for local meat production, and is planning to host additional events in the near future. For more information on the company, visit www.SuperMeat.com.
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The Simply NUC Topaz 2 is equipped with the brand-new 12th Gen Intel Core processors, Intel Xe graphics, and your choice of DDR4-3200 memory
AUSTIN, Texas, BELFAST, United Kingdom, DUNLEER, Ireland , June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Simply NUC, Inc, a leading mini PC integration company, announces we are taking orders for our new Topaz 2 NUC. As the successor to the first generation Topaz, Topaz 2 is the first available NUC to be powered by Intel's latest 12th Gen Core processors. From home office to digital signage, Topaz 2 is designed to be used across a wide range of computing applications. Offering up to 12 cores and 16 threads paired with the new Intel® Thread Director, Topaz 2 provides powerful performance no matter the application or workload, thanks to its hybrid core architecture.
Starting at $599, three Topaz 2 models (NUC12TZi7, NUC12TZi5, and NUC12TZi3) are available to preorder from Simply NUC across our global sites. The NUC12TZi7 model based on the Intel® Core™ i7-1260P processor is intended for usage where higher performance is needed. To accommodate a variety of price points, more cost-effective performance options are also available with the NUC12TZi5 model based on the Intel® Core™ i5-1240P processor and the NUC12TZi3 model based on the Intel® Core™ i3-1215U processor. Units are expected to begin shipping in late June. More information on the Topaz 2 product line can be found at: https://simplynuc.com/topaz-2/.
"Perfect for everyday computing, we saw an opportunity to grow our product line based on our customers' needs for a mini PC that keeps them at the forefront of technology," said Aaron Rowsell, Simply NUC CEO, "By launching Topaz 2, we're thrilled to be the first to offer a 4x4 NUC that leverages the brand-new 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors."
Providing a truly versatile experience, Topaz 2 has a substantial range of ports, with a replaceable lid to extend IO functionality with add-ons such as extra HDMI or USB ports, or a quad HDTV tuner. It also offers dual Ethernet supporting 2.5 GbE speeds and a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) for secure communications where encryption is required. Topaz 2 is driven by Intel Xe graphics, allowing it to control a single 8K display, or up to four 4K displays with crystal clear visuals. This feature rich mini supports a variety of usages including office productivity workstation, home entertainment, and digital signage to name a few. With numerous processor, memory, storage, OS, and mounting options, Topaz 2 can be customized to meet your exact needs.
Formed in 2015 and headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, Simply NUC, Inc. is a global systems integrator and OEM specializing in mini computers. Simply NUC provides fully configured, warrantied, and supported mini PC systems to businesses and consumers, as well as end-to-end NUC project development, custom operating system installations, and NUC accessories. For more information about Simply NUC visit www.simplynuc.com.
Contact: John Deatherage, CMO, johnd@simplynuc.com
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MUSCAT, Oman, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing to unearth new discoveries in perfumery, Amouage has released its latest olfactive tale. One of knowledge and aesthetic pleasure, Opus XIV - Royal Tobacco is a fragrant journey along the Tropic of Cancer from Oman to Cuba, connecting Royal Frankincense to Regal Tobacco. The perfume references the tradition of 'El Lector', whose role was to read to cigarmakers in Cuban factories, captivating them with riveting novels like Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and works by Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, Edgar Allan Poe or Herman Melville until it became an honored ritual as synonymous with the rolling floor as the scent of tobacco. Interpreted by renowned perfumer Cécile Zarokian, a unique accord of Frankincense and Tobacco bursts alive in a novel and rich sensory experience.
As the 23rd parallel north unites the sundrenched shores of Cuba and Oman, Opus XIV - Royal Tobacco weaves as one their iconic treasures, Royal Frankincense and Tobacco Absolute, hence bearing the name of Royal Tobacco. Both fumigated since the earliest days of recorded history, their vertical signature imprints the entire evolution of the perfume, each enriched with supporting notes that reveal and sublime their complex personality. Aromatic flashes of Cardamom and Elemi light up a voluptuous heart shining with many facets of flowers and balsams casting their reflections upon the Frankincense and Tobacco duo. Emboldened by Benzoin, Labdanum and Myrrh, ambery notes of Vanilla Absolute and Tonka Bean echo the coumarinic depth of Fenugreek while graceful volutes of Prunol, Bulgarian Rose and Osmanthus Absolute evoke the fruitiness and floralcy of high-end cigars. Supported by Anise and Basil, the typically treacly burnt molasses notes of Liquorice act as a link with the choral finale of smoky Birch Tar, Vetiver and Guaiacwood amped up by the glaring animality of Oud. Opus XIV - Royal Tobacco is a daring, lavish, deep and modern creation fit for men and women alike.
"Royal Tobacco is a heady tour de force, inspired by the evocative accord of Tobacco and Frankincense and the cultural innovation that led to new paths of knowledge. Staying true to the Library Collection's original ethos, it chronicles the one instance in the modern era when tobacco (smoke - fūmus) and reading (knowledge) were linked in a collective setting" – noted Renaud Salmon, Creative Director and Chief Experience Officer at Amouage.
Joining the reshaped Library Collection as a true testament to how the search for knowledge transforms our existence, Opus XIV - Royal Tobacco reawakens the legends and cultures surrounding Cuban tobacco – its factories roasting in the summer, its hand rolled cigars, the Lectors' thundering voice quieting the production lines, the heat of embers and the cold ashes – seeking balance through contradiction, to not only strengthen its qualities with warm, deep, and resinous ingredients, but also create a bright floral heart with a sense of aromatic relief. A Tobacco indeed, but a contemporary one and respectful of the nobility of the raw material itself; of the dried, rolled, veined, smoked and leathery leaf.
True to the roots of Amouage, Omani heritage and excellence, Opus XIV – Royal Tobacco is housed in Amouage's iconic "Khanjar"-inspired bottle with an organic ceramic finish in earthy Truffle and Cashmere colours; a true reflection of the craft and authenticity of Oman. Original artworks created by Louise Mertens adorn the packaging and are an integral part of a series of analog art visuals shot by Valentin Abad, and movies shot by Thomas Savary.
Opus XIV - Royal Tobacco and the other fragrances of the Library Collection are available for purchase on Amouage.com and selected Amouage boutiques.
CONTACT: Tariq Al Haremi, tariq.alharemi@traccs.net, +968 24649099
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BETHESDA, Md., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AGNC Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) ("AGNC" or the "Company") announced today it will report first quarter 2022 earnings after market close on May 2, 2022. AGNC will hold a stockholder call and audio webcast on May 3, 2022 at 8:30 am ET. Callers who do not plan on asking a question and have internet access are encouraged to utilize the free webcast at www.AGNC.com. Those who plan on participating in the Q&A or do not have internet available may access the call by dialing (877) 300-5922 (U.S. domestic) or (412) 902-6621 (international). Please advise the operator you are dialing in for the AGNC Investment Corp. stockholder call.
A slide presentation will accompany the call and will be available at www.AGNC.com. Select the Q1 2022 Earnings Presentation link to download and print the presentation in advance of the stockholder call.
An archived audio of the stockholder call combined with the slide presentation will be available on the AGNC website after the call on May 3, 2022. In addition, there will be a phone recording available one hour after the call on May 3, 2022 through May 10, 2022. Those who are interested in hearing the recording of the presentation can access it by dialing (877) 344-7529 (U.S. domestic) or (412) 317-0088 (international), passcode 9845693.
For further information or questions, please contact Investor Relations at (301) 968-9300 or IR@AGNC.com.
ABOUT AGNC INVESTMENT CORP.
AGNC Investment Corp. is an internally-managed real estate investment trust that invests primarily in residential mortgage-backed securities for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by a U.S. Government-sponsored enterprise or a U.S. Government agency. For further information, please refer to www.AGNC.com.
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Stocks shed early gains and ended broadly lower on Wall Street Tuesday as investors brace for a big week of news on inflation and company earnings reports.
The S&P 500 fell 0.9%, extending its losing streak to a third consecutive day. All of the benchmark index’s 11 company sectors closed in the red.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 0.6%, while the Nasdaq lost 0.9%.
Technology, health care and energy stocks accounted for a big share of the S&P 500’s losses. Bond yields mostly fell, as did energy futures.
Clothing company Gap fell 5% after announcing that CEO Sonia Syngal is stepping down from her role after two years on the job.
The market pullback follows a rare winning week for stocks and comes as investors focus on corporate earnings reports and what they say about how inflation and rising rates are affecting company profits.
“We’ll get more color in the next couple of weeks about how the economy is shaping up, through the lens of companies,” Terry Sandven, chief equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management.
The S&P 500 fell 35.63 points to 3,818.80. The Dow dropped 192.51 points to 30,981.33, and the Nasdaq slid 107.87 points to 11,264.73.
Smaller company stocks held up better than the broader market. The Russell 2000 slipped 3.83 points, or 0.2%, to 1,728.18.
Energy stocks were among the biggest decliners Tuesday as energy prices fell. The price of U.S. crude oil slumped 7.9%, settling at $95.84 per barrel. Hess fell 3.9%.
Technology stocks also lost ground, weighing heavily on the S&P 500. Pricey values for tech stocks tend to push the broader market higher or lower. Microsoft fell 4.1%.
Several travel-related companies bucked the market decline. United Airlines climbed 8.1%, American Airlines jumped 10% and cruise line operator Carnival rose 7.5%.
Investors remain worried about the possibility the economy will tip into a recession as the Federal Reserve jacks up interest rates to tackle the highest inflation in four decades. Higher interest rates can squelch inflation, but also can choke economic growth and weigh on all kinds of investments.
Against this backdrop, big companies are set to report their latest quarterly results over the next few weeks. Expectations for second-quarter results appear subdued. Analysts are forecasting 5.1% growth for companies across the S&P 500, which would be the weakest since the end of 2020, according to FactSet.
Soft drink and snack maker PepsiCo slipped 0.6% Tuesday after releasing a profit report that easily beat analysts’ estimates.
Delta Air Lines will report its latest results on Wednesday and provide more insight into the travel industry’s recovery from the pandemic. Major banks including JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup are on tap later this week.
The key concerns on Wall Street remain inflation and whether aggressive rate hikes from the Federal Reserve will push the economy into a recession. Investors have had to deal with a turbulent market over the last several months because of those concerns. Major indexes have often swung wildly between gains and losses on any given day and remain in a broad slump.
“The multitude of crosscurrents in the market place suggest that caution is warranted,” Sandven said. Inflation jumped as the economy recovered from the pandemic and demand for goods outpaced supplies. But, inflation heated up in February after Russia invaded Ukraine and sparked a jump in energy prices. Supply chain problems have worsened as China locks down cities in an effort to contain new COVID-19 cases.
The Fed is raising rates in an effort to slow economic growth to help temper the impact from rising inflation. But, the economy is already slowing down as consumers ease up on spending and Wall Street is worried that interest rate hikes could go too far and bring on a recession.
In the bond market, a warning signal continued to flash about a possible recession. The yield on the 10-year Treasury slid to 2.96% from 2.98% late Monday. It remains below the two-year Treasury yield, which fell to 3.04%. Such a thing doesn’t occur often, and some investors see it as a sign that a recession may hit in the next year or two.
Wall Street is keeping a close watch on any indicator that could signal inflation is easing. The Labor Department on Wednesday will release its June report on consumer prices, following with a Thursday release of its June report on prices directly impacting businesses.
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Make no mistake: Every runner dreams of running the Boston Marathon.
I should know. I was one of them, and I always thought it would take a miracle for it to ever happen.
In my wildest imagination, I never thought I could possibly run well enough to qualify for the most prestigious race in the world, outside of the Olympics, of course. But then one day, I did. I ran as fast as I ever have in a marathon in Jacksonville, Fla., and qualified, with nearly four minutes to spare. A miracle, perhaps.
In 1987, on the third Monday in April — Patriot’s Day — I crossed the elusive finish line on Boylston Street in what was then my fastest 26.2-miles ever. As an added bonus, a portion of my run was broadcast live on ESPN’s coverage of the race. It was my 15 seconds of fame, or, in my case, 15 strides.
I was ready to end my Boston Marathon aspirations right then and there. Only seven years later, two of my running companions, Val and Al, convinced me that the Boston Marathon didn’t have to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I took their advice, and today each one of us has a dozen finishes in what we called our “Christmas in April.”
Today, I have a lifetime of Boston Marathon memories I never dreamed possible:
· I ran the 100th edition in 1996. There was a record 36,000-plus runners in the field that year, the largest ever. (Prior to 1996, there had never been more than 10,000.) That, of course, made for all sorts of logistical problems. For example, the bus ride from Boston to the start in Hopkinton takes more than an hour. We rode in those yellow school buses, so there were no bathrooms. Prior to a marathon, runners drink fluids. A lot of them, in fact. When our bus arrived in Hopkinton, there was a long line of buses waiting to unload. Meanwhile, runners continued to hydrate, and most of them needed to use a bathroom. This made for desperate times. You can use your imagination as to what happened next.
· In 1999, my son Josh accompanied me to Boston. We took in a Red Sox game at Fenway Park the afternoon before the race. Josh sat 20 rows behind the third base dugout; I sat right next to him, directly behind a cement column that obstructed my view of the field (sad but true). As for the marathon, when I turned the last corner onto Boylston Street, Josh was standing amongst the thousands of fans lining the course. Somehow — another miracle, perhaps — we made eye contact. I’ll admit that of all my Boston Marathons, this is the one I’m proudest of because I ran well — and my son was there to see it. I just wish he was still here to run it with me one day like we had planned.
· In 2003, the Boston Marathon was my 100th lifetime marathon. So I wanted to do something special to celebrate, and decided to run the marathon from the finish line to the starting line prior to running the actual marathon. My friend Al took it upon himself to notify the local television stations what I was doing, and one of them took the bait: They wanted to interview me prior to the start of the race. After running 28 miles from the finish line to the starting line — the two extra miles because the course looks different running it backwards and I got temporarily lost — I made my Boston television station debut. It came right after an interview with a couple that was getting married on Heartbreak Hill (around the 20-mile mark) as they ran the marathon together. Incidentally, and perhaps not surprisingly, I ran the 28 miles to the start faster than I ran the 26.2 miles to the finish.
· Cindy accompanied me to Massachusetts in 2010 for my 12th and, in all probability, last Boston Marathon. The race itself wasn’t particularly memorable outside of the fact that I crossed the finish line, but our week in the Cradle of Liberty (as Boston is known) certainly was. There were lots of tours — most of them on foot, painfully (for me, anyway) — and one memorable visit to the Samuel Adams Brewery that gave out more free samples than a human being has a right to.
However, not all of my Boston Marathon memories are fond ones. While I didn’t run the race in 2013, several of my good friends did. When the bombs went off that year on Boylston Street — not far from where Josh had been standing 14 years earlier — for me, it was a “JFK in Dallas” or “9/11” moment: I’ll always remember exactly where I was, who I was with, and what I was feeling. As for the latter, it felt like a punch to the heart.
Thankfully, none of my friends running in 2013 was harmed. Thankfully, those responsible were held accountable. Thankfully, the Boston Marathon returned the following year. It was a magnificent testament to its pride and resilience, much like my memories of competing in it over the years.
Godspeed to all the runners lining up Monday morning in Hopkinton to run the most prestigious marathon in the world.
And may all of your running dreams come true.
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WATCH: Bald Eagle suspected of bird flu released after lead poisoning treatment
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A Bald Eagle originally suspected to have bird flu, but found to instead have lead poisoning was recently released back into the wild in Kansas.
Game Wardens with Kansas Wildlife and Parks took to Facebook on Wednesday, June 15, after they released a Bald Eagle suspected of Avian Influenza.
Game Wardens said when the bird was brought in a few months prior, they thought the eagle was suffering from Avian Influenza. However, after transportation to Operation Wildlife for treatment and evaluation, it was found the eagle was actually suffering from lead poisoning.
While still very unfortunate, the Wardens said in many cases lead poisoning is survivable for birds.
Wardens said Operation Wildlife staff were able to nurse the eagle back to health successfully before it was recently released back into the wild.
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PARK CITY, Utah, April 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MRP.io ("MRP"), a globally recognized community marketplace for energy-based medical devices, announced today that its Chief Executive Officer, Scott Carson, Chief Scientific Officer, Dale Koop, Global Commercialization Director, Gary Wilson, and VP of Marketing, Andrea Pezzano, will attend the upcoming 41st Annual Conference of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS) in San Diego on April 27th-30th at Booth 135.
In its fifth decade as a world leader in promoting excellence in patient care, the ASLMS conference advocates for advancing the biomedical application of lasers and energy-based technologies.
Koop has held board positions at ASLMS, ISCLS, and many companies and is an expert in biophysics, energy-tissue interactions, lasers, RF, ultrasound, and product development. He started the Coherent Aesthetics Business unit (now Lumenis), was a founding director of Thermage, GM at Sciton, and CEO at Cooltouch & DEKA Inc. Author of more than 20 patents in the industry, Koop created the first commercial applications for laser skin resurfacing at Coherent and non-ablative-resurfacing at Cooltouch, and developed the first fractional laser device in 1994.
Wilson has joined MRP as Global Commercialization Director. With over 40 years in medical device commercialization, he has managed direct sales and marketing operations in the U.S. and Europe. He has expertise in the Asia Pacific, EMEA, Latin America, and Canadian distribution operations. Wilson has an MBA in International Business and BSEE with a Biomedical Engineering emphasis.
Bringing over 25 years in healthcare marketing and communication to MRP, Pezzano's background includes extensive experience in the aesthetic arena. He worked at several laser companies, domestically and internationally, to grow their brand equity, profitability, and market shares.
"We are thrilled to be part of the upcoming conference and share our experience with industry veterans who strive to help transform traditional industry approaches to the evolving medical device world," said Founder and CEO Scott Carson. "We are eager to continue fostering new relationships within this fast-growing industry."
ABOUT Powered by MRP
MRP is a globally recognized aesthetics device company founded by Scott Carson in 2015. MRP's technology-driven platform provides a vertically-integrated community marketplace that helps Aesthetic Providers lower equipment and supply costs through consultative customer service and GPO-level pricing. Overstock, pre-owned, parts and deals, drive markets, and MRP is the largest reseller of new and pre-owned energy-based aesthetic and surgical devices in the world. MRP-supplied equipment can be seen featured in TLC's first season of their hit television series, DR. MERCY.
Visit www.mrp.io and follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube for more information.
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POTOMAC, Md., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Curbio, the leading fix now, pay-at-closing home improvement solution for real estate agents and their clients, today announced that it has been named to the Washington Business Journal's 2022 list of Best Places to Work.
Now in its 16th year, the Washington Business Journal's list of Best Places to Work recognizes leading employers in the greater Washington, D.C., area based on a survey completed by employees. The survey provides a qualitative assessment of company culture, leadership, employee engagement, employee benefits and more.
"We are honored to be recognized as one of the best places to work in the Washington, D.C. region. At Curbio, we are radically transforming the way homeowners and real estate agents get homes ready for market. None of our success would be possible without our incredible employees, who are all so committed to the work that we're doing. Knowing that this recognition is based on employee feedback makes it even more meaningful," said Rick Rudman, CEO of Curbio.
Best Places to Work honorees were announced at a live ceremony on May 12 and are listed on the Washington Business Journal's published lists.
To learn more about Curbio, visit www.Curbio.com.
About Curbio
Curbio was founded in 2017 to transform the multi-billion-dollar home improvement industry and has quickly become the nation's leading pay-at-closing home improvement solution. The company partners exclusively with real estate agents and their clients to get any home ready for the market, allowing it to sell faster and for top dollar. Using technology to power their service, Curbio completes pre-listing home improvement projects of any size quickly and without hassle, from start to finish, with zero payment due until the home sells. Curbio is trusted by thousands of realtors and brokerages nationwide, and has been continuously recognized for its exemplary solution, receiving nods in HousingWire, Qualified Remodeler and Comparably, to name a few.
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Biden to join governor to survey flood damage in Kentucky
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and the first lady are expected to join Gov. Andy Beshear and his wife, Britainy, as they meet with families and view damage from storms that have created the worst flooding in Kentucky’s history.
At least 37 people have died since last month’s deluge, which dropped 8 to 10 1/2 inches of rain in only 48 hours. The National Weather Service said Sunday that flooding remains a threat, warning of more thunderstorms through Thursday.
Monday’s visit will be Biden’s second to the state. He previously visited in December after tornadoes whipped through Kentucky, killing 77 people and leaving a trail of destruction.
“I wish I could tell you why we keep getting hit here in Kentucky,” Beshear said recently. “I wish I could tell you why areas where people may not have much continue to get hit and lose everything. I can’t give you the why, but I know what we do in response to it. And the answer is everything we can. These are our people. Let’s make sure we help them out.”
Biden has expanded federal disaster assistance to Kentucky, ensuring the federal government will cover the full cost of debris removal and other emergency measures.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Federal Emergency Management Agency has provided more than $3.1 million in relief funds, and hundreds of rescue personnel have been deployed to help.
The flooding came just one month after Beshear visited Mayfield to celebrate the completion of the first houses to be fully constructed since a tornado nearly wiped out the town. Three families were handed keys to their new homes that day, and the governor in his remarks hearkened back to a visit he had made in the immediate aftermath.
“I pledged on that day that while we had been knocked down, we were not knocked out,” Beshear said. “That we would get back up again and we would move forward. And six months to the day, we’re not just up, we’re not just standing on our feet, we are moving forward.”
Now more disasters are testing the state. Beshear has been to eastern Kentucky as many times as weather permitted since the flooding began. He’s had daily news conferences stretching an hour to provide details including a full range of assistance for victims. Much like after the tornadoes, Beshear opened relief funds going directly to people in the beleaguered regions.
A Democrat, Beshear narrowly defeated a Republican incumbent in 2019, and he’s seeking a second term in 2023.
Polling has consistently shown him with strong approval ratings from Kentuckians. But several prominent Republicans have entered the governor’s race, taking turns pounding the governor for his aggressive pandemic response and trying to tie him to Biden and rising inflation.
Beshear comments frequently about the toll surging inflation is taking in eating at Kentuckians’ budgets. He avoids blaming Biden, instead pointing to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and supply chain bottlenecks as contributors to rising consumer costs.
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Schreiner reported from Frankfort, Kentucky.
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