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SHANGHAI, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The inauguration ceremony of Shanghai Electric New Energy Development Co., Ltd. was held on July 15, marking the accelerated expansion and growth of Shanghai Electric's green, low-carbon business.
During the ceremony, Shanghai Electric Group announced its renewable energy roadmap alongside agreements with five partners to jointly develop renewable energy projects, in addition to establishing strategic partnerships with over ten financial institutions and industry partners to build a financial ecosystem for the renewable energy sector.
Shanghai Electric, a leading global integrated manufacturer of high-end equipment, has been building new comprehensive power systems and a complete solution for futuristic zero-carbon industrial parks in a move to take the lead in helping the Chinese government achieve its de-carbonization goals.
The Chinese government's carbon peak and carbon neutral policies, also known as the dual carbon goals, is a systemic change that is expected to have a broad and profound impact on both the economy and the whole of society while building a zero carbon society.
As a response to China's 14th Five-Year Plan, the company has developed a roadmap that focuses on the development of wind, solar, hydrogen and storage energy projects, alongside industrial intelligence, high-end medical equipment, and other new businesses.
The establishment of the renewable energy entity is a vital step in the right direction. The new company has received a total investment of RMB 3 billion, including RMB 2 billion from Shanghai Electric Group and RMB 1 billion from Shanghai Electric Wind Power Group each, and is aimed to become the most integrated and innovative provider of renewable energy projects and full lifecycle services.
With the domestic market as the initial area of expansion and an eye on expanding into international markets, Shanghai Electric New Energy Development will be committed to building a full lifecycle service platform for a renewable energy future by developing wind, solar, storage, thermal and hydrogen energy projects, as well as expanding the source-grid-load-storage integrated business. Based on the platform, the firm plans to create integrated solutions centered around system optimization, streamlined equipment, and intelligent control systems, providing strong support to the quality-driven development of Shanghai Electric Group's renewable energy business.
In the future, Shanghai Electric intends to focus on promoting industrial intelligence and the application of technologies while facilitating interactions between the energy and the industrial internet. Furthermore, the company plans to advance sustainable industrial development globally through the use of technologies by collaborating with government-owned parks, business customers, venture capital firms, technology partners and financial institutions, with the ultimate goal of creating a better world for all.
Fengxian District Party Committee secretary, Li Zheng, and Shanghai Electric Group's Party Committee secretary and chairman, Leng Weiqing, both delivered speeches at the inauguration ceremony and welcomed the start of the new business.
In attendance were several government officials and top management executives, including Fengxian District Party Committee deputy secretary and mayor, Yuan Quan; Shanghai Electric's Party Committee deputy secretary and president, Liu Ping; Bank of China Shanghai Branch general manger, Zhang Shouchuan; Shanghai Guosheng Group's Party Committee secretary and chairman and Shanghai Guosheng Capital Management chairman, Shou Weiguang; Shanghai Electric Power Construction's Party Committee secretary and chairman, Jiang Lindi; and China Merchants Bank executive VP and Shanghai Branch general manager, Shi Shunhua.
In addition, other executives from Shanghai Electric Group and major financial institutions, including banks, and securities firms and trust companies, as well as several journalists were also part of the ceremony.
About Shanghai Electric
Shanghai Electric Group Company Limited (SEHK: 2727, SSE: 601727) is a world-class high-end equipment manufacturer, focusing on smart energy, intelligent manufacturing and smart infrastructure to provide green and intelligent industrial-grade system solutions. It has a global presence in industries such as new energy, efficient clean energy, industrial automation, medical devices and environmental protection.
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NEW ORLEANS, May 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), informs investors that KSF continues its investigation into 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE: DDD).
On March 1, 2021, the Company disclosed that the filing of its 10-K annual report would be delayed, due primarily to "the presentation of cash flows associated with the divestiture process for its Cimatron and GibbsCam software businesses." On March 5, 2021, when the Form 10-K was finally filed, the Company disclosed internal control problems relating to "non-standard contracts and non-standard contract terms" and "the review of internally prepared reports and analyses utilized in the financial closing process," among other disappointing news.
Thereafter, the Company and certain of its executives were sued in a securities class action lawsuit for failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws, which remains ongoing.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether 3D's officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to 3D'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 3D 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/nyse-ddd/ to learn more.
About Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
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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Cedar Point announces closure of Top Thrill Dragster
SANDUSKY, Ohio (Gray News) – One of the world’s most famous roller coasters is closing.
Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, announced Tuesday it is retiring the Top Thrill Dragster.
The coaster has been a staple at the park for 19 years, opening to the public in May 2003. Park officials did not say why the ride is being closed after all these years.
Cedar Point also did not clarify if the coaster will be torn down or if it is being renovated.
“Cedar Point’s legacy of ride innovation continues. Our team is hard at work, creating a new and reimagined ride experience,” the park said in a tweet.
With a height of 420 feet, the Top Thrill Dragster is the second-tallest roller coaster on the planet. The tallest roller coaster in the world is Kingda Ka, a 456-foot-tall ride at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey.
The Top Thrill Dragster is also known for its incredible speed, taking riders from 0 mph to 120 mph within four seconds of launch.
The Top Thrill Dragster has remained closed for the past two seasons after a Michigan woman was injured by a metal bracket that fell off the coaster and hit her in the head as she waited in line for the ride in August 2021. The 44-year-old suffered brain damage.
The ride was shut down for the rest of the 2021 season and has remained closed during the 2022 season.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture launched a six-month investigation and determined Cedar Point was not responsible for the woman’s injury.
Cedar Point did not say if the ride’s permanent closure is related to that event.
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The team behind ORIJEN pet food will award $10,000 to one lucky winner to go on an adventure with their dog to celebrate the launch of ORIJEN AMAZING GRAINS™ dog food in collaboration with reality TV personality, fitness trainer and dog parent, Shawn Booth
AUBURN, Ky., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the team behind ORIJEN® pet food announced the introduction of ORIJEN AMAZING GRAINS™ premium dog food. Now, the premium dry food dog owners count on for quality protein also delivers a special blend of grains, including oats, quinoa and chia sourced from non-GMO crops. These whole grains are a source of essential vitamins, minerals, b-glucans, and fiber.
The premium grain lineup packed with animal ingredients makes the grain-inclusive dry dog food Biologically Appropriate, meaning it mirrors the quantity, freshness and variety of animal ingredients dogs are evolved to eat. At 38 percent protein, it boasts one of the highest percentages of protein in a grain-inclusive food, and approximately 90percent of that protein is delivered from animal ingredients.
Like other ORIJEN® diets, the first five ingredients are always fresh or raw animal protein - the fresh ingredients use refrigeration as the sole method of preservation and the raw ingredients are frozen at their peak freshness. ORIJEN® diets also offer WholePrey ingredients, meaning they incorporate meat, organs and bone from meat, poultry and fish to reflect a dog's natural diet.
The scientifically-tested and validated ORIJEN AMAZING GRAINS™ premium dog food diets have prebiotics, probiotics, and soluble and insoluble fiber to help support digestion. Additionally, the food also helps to support key health benefits, like immune function and healthy skin and coat through Omega-3 rich oil from wild-caught pollock. Because of its concentration of animal ingredients, ORIJEN AMAZING GRAINS™ kibble also helps to support dogs' muscle maintenance.
ORIJEN AMAZING GRAINS™ dog food makes its debut with five recipes dogs love:
Puppy Large is formulated for large-breed puppies that benefit from a different ratio of calcium to phosphorus that promotes slow and steady growth in bones and joints. All five recipes are available in 22.5lb bags, and all but Puppy Large are available in 4lb bags.
Starting this month, ORIJEN AMAZING GRAINS™ premium dog food will be available at Petco, Amazon, Chewy and neighborhood pet stores.
"Plenty of grain-inclusive dog food options available on the market now will make your dog feel full, but ORIJEN AMAZING GRAINS™ premium dog food will truly nourish your dog with high-quality animal protein and grains," said Kelsey Spencer, brand manager, ORIJEN Dog at Champion Petfoods. "Pet lovers know their companions deserve the food that's best suited to help them live long, healthy, active lives."
To celebrate the debut of ORIJEN AMAZING GRAINS™ dog food, the ORIJEN® pet food team launched the ORIJEN Amazing Challenge – an initiative aimed at inspiring pet parents to fuel their dogs with nutritious food and be active together.
The initiative includes activity ideas for dog owners everywhere to get outside and share in a month-long "adventure" with their pup, a collaboration with Shawn Booth, reality TV personality, fitness trainer and dog parent, and a sweepstakes in which one lucky winner will receive $10,000 to go on an adventure with their dog.
"As a fitness trainer, I know healthy living counts from the very start," said Shawn Booth. "I trust ORIJEN AMAZING GRAINS™ premium dog food to nourish my dog Walter's body the way nature intended, so he can be at his best for years to come. From camping and enjoying nature to outdoor training, Walter and I enjoy going on adventures together, and eating the right mix of high-quality grains and protein helps us stay healthy and active."
The ORIJEN Amazing Challenge Sweepstakes kicks off in May, National Pet Month. The sweepstakes will run from May 4 – 13. To be eligible to win the $10,000* adventure prize, participants must follow all sweepstakes Rules, as found here.
No purchase necessary. Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 years of age or older as of the date of entry. *Awarded as check
ABOUT CHAMPION PETFOODS
Champion Petfoods is an award-winning pet food maker with a reputation of trust spanning over 35 years. Founded in a small town in Alberta, Canada, Champion has grown to be a key player in the global premium pet food industry across three major geographies, and we are proud to be among the top 5 premium pet food companies in the world per the 2020 Euromonitor classification of premium pet food. Our purpose, To Earn Pet Lover Trust Every Day so Pets Thrive for a Lifetime, provides the foundation for our highest aspirations as a company. And our Food Philosophy drives us to provide the highest quality in every ORIJEN and ACANA food we make. We start with the finest WholePrey ingredients from both fresh and raw animal sources. All of our ingredients are selected from a carefully curated group of farmers, ranchers and fisheries, whom we know and trust. Our foods are crafted by passionate nutrition and health experts in world class kitchens, and as Pet Lovers ourselves, we strive for the highest quality and food safety in every food we make. To learn more, visit championpetfoods.com.
ABOUT ORIJEN® PET FOOD
ORIJEN® food is packed with premium animal ingredients to help dogs and cats thrive and is rich with the same nourishment their ancestors consumed in the wild. As the fullest expression of Biologically Appropriate nutrition, ORIJEN diets feature unmatched amounts of WholePrey animal ingredients. All of the pet food is made from only the finest ingredients, and every diet is formulated so you can help your pet reach their full potential, and then set off for adventure together. ORIJEN products include premium kibble, freeze-dried food and treats, biscuits, and wet food, and the brand is always adding new, innovative products. To learn more, visit orijenpetfoods.com.
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OKOTOKS, AB, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - (TSX: MTL) Mullen Group Ltd. ("Mullen Group", "We", "Our" and/or the "Corporation"), one of North America's largest logistics providers today reported its financial and operating results for the period ended March 31, 2022, with comparisons to the same period last year. Full details of our results may be found within our First Quarter Interim Report, which is available on the Corporation's issuer profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com or on our website at www.mullen-group.com.
"Expanding our service offerings through the acquisition of quality companies involved in the logistics space remains our number one priority as we strive to increase market penetration. This strategy is crucial to gaining future market share as shippers adjust to a structural change in the supply chain. No longer can logistics be taken for granted. It takes companies with scale and size, like Mullen Group, to handle the complexities associated with moving freight, because regardless of whether the shipment originates globally the freight must still be delivered locally," commented Mr. Murray K. Mullen, Chair and CEO.
"Investors should not be surprised by the strong growth year over year, as we have communicated our plan for 2022 on numerous occasions. What might not be as well known is how well our Business Units handled a multitude of challenges throughout the quarter. Issues like blockades and border closures, abnormal absenteeism associated with the Omicron breakout, and significant weather issues in key markets like Ontario and Manitoba all contributed to low productivity and higher costs. The most pressing challenge, however, was surging inflation and higher fuel costs. Collectively these issues hurt margins and profitability in the quarter, setting off another round of pricing increases to our customers. These are difficult discussions to have but are absolutely required to drive margin improvement in future quarters," added Mr. Mullen.
Key financial highlights for the first quarter of 2022 with comparison to 2021 are as follows:
First Quarter Summary
First Quarter Financial Results
Revenue increased by $166.4 million, or 57.3 percent, to a record of $456.9 million and is summarized as follows:
- LTL segment up $54.9 million, or 45.5 percent, to $175.6 million - revenue improved by $54.9 million due to $44.3 million of incremental revenue generated from acquisitions, an $8.6 million increase in fuel surcharge revenue and from $2.0 million of internal growth as the continued strength in consumer spending was virtually offset by severe winter conditions in certain markets.
- L&W segment up $51.2 million, or 56.1 percent, to $142.5 million - revenue improved by $51.2 million due to $29.0 million of incremental revenue from acquisitions, a $4.3 million increase in fuel surcharge revenue and from $17.9 million of internal growth due to higher spot market prices, an overall improvement in freight demand at virtually all of our Business Units.
- S&I segment up $4.0 million, or 5.0 percent, to $83.3 million - revenue increased by a modest $4.0 million due to $4.5 million of incremental revenue from the acquisition of Babine Truck & Equipment Ltd. and a $1.1 million increase in fuel surcharge revenue. Revenue from our established Business Units declined by $1.6 million due to a $9.3 million decrease in pipeline hauling and stringing services revenue that was somewhat offset by greater revenue from those Business Units involved in the transportation of fluids and servicing of wells and from greater demand at Canadian Dewatering L.P. ("Canadian Dewatering").
- US 3PL segment added $57.3 million - HAUListic LLC ("HAUListic") generated $57.3 million of gross freight revenue, which was above expectations due to the strong U.S. freight market and new business generated from the addition of new regional Station Agents.
Adjusted OIBDA increased by $19.2 million, or 46.7 percent, to $60.3 million and is summarized as follows:
- LTL segment up $4.8 million, or 26.2 percent, to $23.1 million - Adjusted OIBDA improved due to $6.8 million of incremental Adjusted OIBDA from acquisitions being somewhat offset by lower Adjusted OIBDA from Gardewine Group Limited Partnership. Adjusted operating margin decreased to 13.2 percent as compared to 15.2 percent in 2021, due to rising costs and reduced productivity.
- L&W segment up $10.8 million, or 73.5 percent, to $25.5 million - Adjusted OIBDA improved due to $5.1 million of incremental Adjusted OIBDA from acquisitions and from $5.7 million of internal growth due to the strong performance at several of our Business Units. Adjusted operating margin increased to 17.9 percent as compared to 16.1 percent in 2021 as higher spot market prices more than offset inflationary costs.
- S&I segment up $2.1 million, or 18.8 percent, to $13.3 million - Adjusted OIBDA increased due to improved commodity prices resulting in greater activity levels in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin as well as the strong performance at Canadian Dewatering. These increases were somewhat offset by a $2.0 million decline at Premay Pipeline Hauling L.P. Adjusted operating margin increased by 1.9 percent to 16.0 percent as compared to 14.1 percent in 2021 due to the strong performance at Canadian Dewatering.
- US 3PL segment generated $1.1 million of Adjusted OIBDA in the quarter, representing a margin of 1.9 percent of gross revenue. Operating margin as a percentage of net revenue was 23.4 percent. Margins were negatively impacted by higher than normal Contractors expense as availability was extremely tight throughout most of the quarter, contributing to significantly higher spot market pricing. In addition, HAUListic incurred one-time administrative expenses related to the transition agreement with the previous owners.
Net income increased by $3.4 million to $16.4 million, or $0.17 per Common Share due to:
- A $13.2 million increase in OIBDA, a $1.0 million increase in earnings due to the strong performance from equity investments and a $0.4 million decrease in amortization of intangible assets.
- These increases were somewhat offset by a $3.4 million negative variance in net foreign exchange, a $3.3 million increase in income tax expense, a $2.7 million increase in depreciation of right-of-use assets, a $1.0 million increase in finance costs and a $0.5 million increase in depreciation of property, plant and equipment.
Financial Position
The following summarizes our financial position as at March 31, 2022, along with some key changes that occurred during the first quarter of 2022:
- Working capital of $56.4 million including $111.2 million of amounts drawn on our $250.0 million of bank credit facilities.
- Total net debt ($638.4 million) to operating cash flow ($250.4 million) of 2.55:1 as defined per our Private Placement Debt agreement (threshold of 3.50:1).
- Private Placement Debt of $456.5 million with no scheduled maturities until 2024 (average fixed rate of 3.93 percent per annum). Private Placement Debt decreased by $4.2 million due to the foreign exchange gain on our U.S. $229.0 million debt.
- Book value of Derivative Financial Instruments down $7.5 million to $29.9 million, which swaps our $229.0 million of U.S. dollar debt at an average foreign exchange rate of $1.1096.
- Net book value of property, plant and equipment of $983.0 million, which includes $627.0 million of carrying costs of owned real property.
- Repurchased and cancelled 926,961 Common Shares at an average price of $12.01 per share under our normal course issuer bid.
Officer Appointment
Carson Urlacher has been appointed as Senior Accounting Officer of Mullen Group which aligns with his current roles and responsibilities managing the Corporation's disclosure compliance and internal controls. Additionally, we advise that Stephen Clark has been on leave for the majority of the first quarter. In his absence, Mr. Urlacher has assumed Mr. Clark's CFO responsibilities and will continue to do so until his return.
About Mullen Group Ltd.
Mullen Group is one of North America's largest logistics providers. Our network of independently operated businesses provide a wide range of service offerings including less-than-truckload, truckload, warehousing, logistics, transload, oversized, third-party logistics and specialized hauling transportation. In addition, we provide a diverse set of specialized services related to the energy, mining, forestry and construction industries in western Canada, including water management, fluid hauling and environmental reclamation. The corporate office provides the capital and financial expertise, legal support, technology and systems support, shared services and strategic planning to its independent businesses.
Mullen Group is a publicly traded corporation listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "MTL". Additional information is available on our website at www.mullen-group.com or on the Corporation's issuer profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Contact Information
Mr. Murray K. Mullen - Chair, Chief Executive Officer and President
Mr. Richard J. Maloney - Senior Vice President
Ms. Joanna K. Scott - Corporate Secretary & Vice President, Corporate Services
Mr. Carson Urlacher - Senior Accounting Officer
121A - 31 Southridge Drive
Okotoks, Alberta, Canada T1S 2N3
Telephone: 403-995-5200
Fax: 403-995-5296
Disclaimer
This news release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risk factors associated with the overall economy and the oil and natural gas business. Mullen Group believes that the expectations reflected in this news release are reasonable, but results may be affected by a variety of variables. The forward-looking information contained herein is made as of the date of this news release and Mullen Group disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly any such forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise, other than as required by applicable Canadian securities laws. Mullen Group relies on litigation protection for "forward-looking" statements. Additional information regarding the forward-looking statements is found on pages 28 and 29 of Mullen Group's Management's Discussion and Analysis.
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Police in Japan have launched a murder investigation into the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe -- but little is known about the suspect who was arrested at the scene of the fatal shooting on Friday.
Abe, 67, was pronounced dead by doctors at the Nara Medical University Hospital, at 5:03 p.m local time on Friday, just over five hours after being shot while delivering a campaign speech in front of a small crowd on a street.
Who is the suspect?
Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, admitted to shooting Abe, Nara Nishi police said during a news conference on Friday. Yamagami, who is unemployed, told investigators he holds hatred toward a certain group that he thought Abe was linked to.
Police have not named the group.
Yamagami is being investigated as a suspect in a murder case, to which 90 investigators have been assigned, according to police.
What kind of gun was fired?
The suspect used a homemade gun in the shooting, police said, and images from the scene showed what appeared to be a weapon with two cylindrical metal barrels wrapped in black tape. Authorities later confiscated several handmade pistol-like items from the suspect's apartment.
The weapon was a gun-like item that measured 40 centimeters (about 16 inches) long and 20 centimeters wide, police said.
Yamagami made multiple types of guns with iron pipes that were wrapped in adhesive tape, Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported, citing the police. The police found guns with three, five, and six iron pipes as barrels.
The suspect inserted bullets in the pipe, which he had bought parts for online, police said, according to NHK. Police believe the suspect used the strongest weapon he made in the assassination, NHK added.
How have security forces reacted?
At the time of the shooting, Abe was speaking in support of ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidates ahead of Upper House elections on July 10. Despite resigning as Japan's prime minister in 2020 due to health reasons, Abe remained an influential figure in the country's political landscape and continued to campaign for the LDP.
Japan's National Police Agency said it will review security arrangements put in place before Friday's shooting, according to NHK. Security was being handled by Nara prefectural police, which drew up a security plan for the former prime minister while he was in the city.
The agency said several dozen officers and security personnel from the Tokyo Metropolitan police were on duty and had reportedly watched Abe from all sides during his speech, NHK said.
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NEW YORK, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Bakkt Holdings, Inc. f/k/a VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings.
Shareholders who purchased shares of BKKT during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Bakkt securities between March 31, 2021 and November 19, 2021, both dates inclusive; and/or (b) Bakkt Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with the business combination between the Company and Bakkt Holdings, LLC completed on or about October 15, 2021.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company had defective financial controls; (ii) as a result, there were errors in the Company's financial statements related to the misclassification of certain shares issued prior to the business combination between the Company and Bakkt Holdings, LLC; (iii) accordingly, the Company would need to restate certain of its financial statements; (iv) the Company downplayed the true scope and severity of these issues; (v) the Company overstated its remediation of its defective financial controls; and (vi) as a result, the documents issued in connection with the business combination and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
DEADLINE: June 20, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/bakkt-holdings-inc-f-k-a-vpc-impact-acquisition-holdings-loss-submission-form/?id=27902&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of BKKT during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is June 20, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Report: Cuomo wrongly used state resources to promote book
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo improperly used state resources for a book he received $5.1 million to write, according to a report by a law firm.
New York’s soon-to-be-disbanded ethics commission, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, voted Thursday to make the report public. It had sought the investigation by the law firm to learn more about how the book deal was approved and the role played by the commission itself.
The report says the ethics commission failed to assert itself as a watchdog agency against the governor and should have asked for more information from Cuomo’s office.
Cuomo had already written 70,000 words of what was expected to be an 80,000-word book before he submitted a request seeking approval by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics for the book in 2020.
That meant Cuomo wrote and publicized the book at a time when it interfered with his responsibilities as a governor leading the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the report said.
In December, the commission ordered Cuomo to turn over money from his book, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Cuomo has filed a lawsuit accusing the commission of violating his rights and showing bias against him.
The commission is being disbanded by Gov. Kathy Hochul, like Cuomo a Democrat, over concerns about its transparency and independence. The commission is exempt from the Freedom of Information Law and the Open Meetings Law, and it is made up of 11 members nominated by the governor.
Cuomo spokesperson Richard Azzopardi in a statement that the report provided a measure of vindication by confirming the governor’s office provided all that was required by the commission for approval.
“There is some poetry to the fact that this feeble stunt — authored by the very law firm that is representing JCOPE in our lawsuit — is the last act from this incompetent biased, score settling dinosaur of a bureaucracy,” he said.
Meanwhile, the state attorney general’s office continues to investigate whether Cuomo broke the law by having members of his staff help write and promote his pandemic leadership book. Attorney General Letitia James’ office said Friday that the investigation, which began in April 2021, is ongoing.
The former special counsel in the governor’s office, Judith Mogul, said that no state resources were used in writing the book, and that any staff assisting the former governor on the book were doing so on their own time, in a memo accounting her interactions with the ethics commission.
The report said the book raised several ethical issues, finding Cuomo “misused the power and authority of his office to create, market and promote for enormous personal profit.”
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Company to Present Corporate Update During Investor Conference, Sept. 14, 2022, at 9:00am ET
RADNOR, Pa., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: NRXP), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced its Chief Executive Officer, Stephen Willard, and other executive leaders will be presenting an update to the company's business at the H.C. Wainwright & Co. 24th Annual Global Investment Conference.
Webcast Presentation Details:
Event: H.C. Wainwright 24th Annual Global Investment Conference
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time
Link to register for the NRx Pharmaceuticals' presentation at the conference:
CLICK HERE. (A replay will be available on the NRx Pharmaceuticals website for thirty (30) days following the presentation at www.nrxpharma.com).
Up to 50% of individuals with bipolar disorder attempt suicide over their lifetime, and estimates indicate that up to 20% may succumb to suicide. The only FDA-approved treatment for patients with bipolar depression and acute suicidal ideation & behavior (ASIB) remains electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Conventional antidepressants can increase the risk of suicide in certain patients; hence their labels contain a warning to that effect. NRX-101 is a patented, fixed dose combination of D-cycloserine and lurasidone, neither of which has shown addiction potential. Based on the results of a Phase II study, NRX-101 received Breakthrough Therapy designation (BTD) from the FDA for the Treatment of Severe Bipolar Depression in Patients with ASIB after initial stabilization with ketamine or other effective therapy.
NRX-101 is one of the first oral antidepressants currently in late-stage clinical studies targeting the NMDA-receptor in the brain, which represents potentially a key new mechanism to treat depression with and without suicidality, as well as PTSD and other indications. To date, NRX-101 is the only oral NMDA investigational medicine focused on bipolar depression in patients with acute and sub-acute suicidality.
NRx Pharmaceuticals expects to begin its registration trial for NRX-101 under a SPA in 4Q 2022.
NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. draws upon decades of collective, scientific, and drug-development experience applying innovative science to known molecules to address very high unmet needs and bring improved health to patients. NRx Pharmaceuticals is led by executives who have held leadership roles at Lilly, Pfizer, and Novartis as well as major investment banking institutions.
This announcement of NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which may include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our financial outlook, product development, business prospects, and market and industry trends and conditions, as well as the Company's strategies, plans, objectives, and goals. These forward-looking statements are based on current beliefs, expectations, estimates, forecasts, and projections of, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, the Company's management.
The Company assumes no obligation to revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Accordingly, you should not place reliance on any forward-looking statement, and all forward-looking statements are herein qualified by reference to the cautionary statements set forth above.
CORPORATE CONTACT
Molly Cogan
Sr. Director, Global Communications & Government Affairs
mcogan@nrxpharma.com
INVESTOR RELATIONS
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Investor Relations
suzanne.messere@sternir.com
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Which gaming laptop on Amazon is best?
Gaming hardware for your personal computer is more powerful and more efficient than ever before. This results in today’s wide variety of highly dependable and effective gaming laptops. While it’s not for everybody, laptop gaming can be a fun and exciting experience. For some people, such as students, artists and busy professionals, a decent gaming laptop can also serve as a computer for school or work.
The best high-end gaming laptop is the Asus ROG Strix Scar 17, which comes in high-powered and extremely high-powered versions that should satisfy the pickiest portable PC gamers.
What to know before you buy a gaming laptop on Amazon
They aren’t cheap
Granted, neither is a desktop gaming PC, but you’ll pay significantly more for a laptop than you would for a comparable full-size gaming rig.
They’re big and heavy
While the rest of the laptop industry trends toward razor-thin, ultralight designs, gaming laptops are cumbersome by necessity. It takes a lot of space to accommodate the powerful hardware and advanced cooling systems that keep said hardware safe. Don’t be alarmed when most of the gaming laptops you look at are nearly an inch thick and weigh several pounds.
Be wary of battery life claims
Gaming laptops don’t run well on battery power. Like non-gaming laptops, manufacturers usually set different power usage and performance parameters for battery vs. plugged-in use. In other words, always keep your laptop plugged in for the best results.
Being such a power-hungry task, gaming also drains a battery remarkably fast. You’d be lucky to get more than two hours of full-tilt gaming in fast-paced titles such as first-person shooters.
Due to that increased battery drain, gaming laptops typically see their batteries lose capacity far quicker than normal laptops. To counter that problem, most gaming laptops are reasonably easy to take apart for battery replacement.
What to look for in a quality gaming laptop
15 inches vs. 17 inches
The two measurements may not sound too different, but 15- and 17-inch gaming laptops are worlds apart. There’s nothing inherently wrong with a 15-inch laptop, but playing games on one significantly reduces the field of view. This reduces the immersion in first-person titles and can make it hard to play top-down games with many tightly packed characters, enemies and statistical information.
The pros and cons of each are pretty straightforward. Seventeen-inch laptops offer better immersion and easier play, while 15-inch models cost less and are more portable.
Central and graphics processing units
The CPU and GPU have the clearest impact on gaming performance. It’s best to avoid the RTX 3050 in favor of the 3050 Ti, as Nvidia’s most entry-level laptop GPU offers seriously underwhelming performance. The RTX 3060 is highly cost-effective, the 3070 hits the sweet spot for many gamers and the 3080 is reserved for the most demanding players.
However, laptop manufacturers set the clock speeds and power profiles of their computers’ specific GeForce RTX chipsets. This means one RTX 3070 could perform far differently from another. To help make this a more consumer-friendly issue, Nvidia now requires manufacturers to disclose the specific wattage their GPUs are designed for. That gives prospective buyers some idea of how well those graphics cards perform.
How much you can expect to spend on a gaming laptop on Amazon
The most affordable gaming laptops cost slightly less than $1,000. The absolute most premium can cost more than $4,000, but some of the best performers actually cost just over half of that.
Gaming laptop FAQ
Can you play games on MacBooks?
A. You can play an increasing number of mostly casual games on Apple’s iconic laptops. If you need something mostly for everyday use and don’t plan on playing highly resource-intensive games, a MacBook might be right for you. Dedicated gamers, however, should steer clear of Apple’s locked-down ecosystem.
Is Windows 10 or Windows 11 better for gaming?
A. There’s very little difference at the moment. Some evidence suggests that Windows 11 offers a better HDR experience, an area where Windows 10 is sorely lacking, but in terms of performance, they’re nearly identical.
For what it’s worth, most brand new laptops have the hardware needed for Windows 11 compatibility. Plus, for the time being, it’s free to upgrade to the newest version of Microsoft’s operating system.
What’s the best gaming laptop on Amazon to buy?
Top gaming laptop on Amazon
What you need to know: It’s a collection of top-of-the-line components from one of the most respected gaming hardware manufacturers.
What you’ll love: It comes with an advanced, 12th-generation Intel processor and your choice of an RTX 3070 Ti or 3080 GPU. The more premium version is the most impressive of the two, due largely to the 1440p resolution. On the other hand, the Full HD model does have a higher refresh rate, capable of 360 frames per second compared to 240.
What you should consider: Either variant of this cutting-edge laptop will set you back a significant amount of money.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top gaming laptop for the money on Amazon
What you need to know: This 1080p laptop sports a powerful Intel Core i7 CPU and highly cost-effective RTX 3060 GPU.
What you’ll love: From reputable, budget-friendly manufacturer Acer, it’s a potent and reasonably priced blend of hardware. The display can reach up to 144 hertz, and advanced features such as Wi-Fi 6 connectivity and an RGB backlit keyboard are nice to have.
What you should consider: It struggles to run the latest and most resource-intensive games at high settings. You’ll have to turn down some of the graphics sliders for the best results.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This offers possibly the perfect balance of price, performance and size.
What you’ll love: The 165-hertz display is the most impressive part of this notebook PC. It sports G-Sync variable refresh rate certification up to 165 hertz plus a peak brightness of 500 nits. Both of those specifications are rare, even among powerful gaming laptops. It also boasts a 1440p resolution for an even crisper image than the rest. Driven by a powerful AMD Ryzen processor and RTX 3070 graphics card, this is a hard laptop to pass up.
What you should consider: At 16 inches, the screen isn’t quite as immersive as many others, as nice as it does look.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top 15-inch gaming laptop on Amazon
What you need to know: It’s one of the extremely rare laptops with an RTX 3070 graphics controller at such a reasonable price.
What you’ll love: Few laptops can compete with the Pulse GL66 in terms of performance per dollar. Its processor and graphics card combine to deliver stellar performance at a resolution of 1080p. It’s even noticeably thinner and lighter than most gaming laptops.
What you should consider: The manufacturer has scaled down its GPU performance, so it won’t perform quite as well as other RTX 3070 systems.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top 15-inch gaming laptop for the money on Amazon
What you need to know: It’s just about the most affordable gaming laptop worth buying today.
What you’ll love: At right around a grand, it’s as economical as they come while still delivering the performance needed for a fun and modern gaming experience. You can be confident that its well-engineered and relatively recent components will remain useful for years to come.
What you should consider: It has only 8 gigabytes of system memory, but there is an empty slot for adding more.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Long-Term Corporate Strategy Initiatives Taking Shape, Driven by Operations Emphasis on High-Value Opportunities within Retail and Agency Verticals
Renewed Contracts with Major Partners and $3 Million Annualized Reduced Operating Expenses Setting Foundation for Future Revenue Growth and Enhanced Profitability
SPOKANE, Wash., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaspien Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: KSPN) ("Kaspien" or the "Company"), a leading e-commerce marketplace growth platform, today reported financial results for the fiscal first quarter ended April 30, 2022.
Recent Operational Highlights
- Continued execution of corporate strategy designed to generate sustained revenue growth and profitability. In recent months, Kaspien has begun implementing a long-term plan designed to realign organizational focus to the following key areas:
- Greater operational rigor to drive enhanced profitability metrics – Reduced cost structures across the business, resulting in nearly $3 million of annualized savings to date.
- Our portfolio of Private Label Brands continues to outperform – Revenues are up 55% vs. the prior year period and margins have expanded more than 500bps.
- Simplified reporting structure through Retail and Agency businesses – Streamlined the cadence of communications to improve focus on operations and execution in these key segments.
- More deliberate engagement with higher value partners and industry verticals – Deemphasized spend in noncore areas, allocated additional investment in client acquisition as well as retained partnerships with major, existing customers.
- Promoted CFO Brock Kowalchuk to Interim CEO, effective March 11, 2022. Kowalchuk joined Kaspien in 2018 after several years at Goldman Sachs, where he held roles of increasing responsibility. Kowalchuk, along with the rest of Kaspien's senior leadership team, has been actively involved in implementing the Company's new strategic plan.
Management Commentary
"In the first quarter, we took several necessary steps to better align the focus of our organization for long-term stability," said Kaspien Interim CEO Brock Kowalchuk. "During the period, we reconcentrated our efforts on our Retail and Agency partners and have so far generated expense reductions of $3 million on an annualized basis. In keeping with our renewed focus on core partners, we have further rationalized our partner relationships to highlight profitability and growth potential."
"Externally, against the backdrop of a challenged macroeconomic environment, we continued to engage with core partners and successfully renewed contracts with some of our top customers. We also further leaned into our portfolio of Private Label Brands, which saw a 55% increase in Net Revenue vs. the first quarter of 2021, and began key supply chain initiatives to help reduce excess inventory from late last year. While our transition process will take time, we have seen encouraging signs as our gap against the prior year has continued to close as the year has progressed. We are excited to unlock further growth opportunities with our existing brand partners as we continue driving our working capital improvements and executing on our updated corporate strategy."
Fiscal First Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Results compare 2022 fiscal first quarter ended April 30, 2022 to 2021 fiscal first quarter ended May 1, 2021 unless otherwise indicated.
- Net revenue decreased 21.7% to $31.8 million from $40.6 million in the comparable year-ago period. The decrease in net revenue was primarily attributable to ongoing supply challenges in the Company's Fulfillment by Amazon ("FBA") US segment.
- Gross profit decreased 30.1% to $6.9 million, or 21.6% of net revenue, from $9.8 million, or 24.1% of net revenue in the comparable year-ago period. The decrease in gross profit was primarily attributable to the decrease in net revenue and a decrease in merchandise margin to 44.2% from 46.7% in the comparable year-ago period.
- Selling, General & Administrative ("SG&A") expenses decreased 1.3% to $10.5 million, or 33.1% of net revenue, from $10.7 million, or 26.2% of net revenue, in the comparable year-ago period. The decrease in SG&A expenses was primarily attributable to a decrease in sales expenses related to the sales decrease, partially offset by increased wages and marketing expenses and a one-time charge for severance expenses.
- Loss from operations was $3.7 million, compared to a loss from operations of $0.9 million in the comparable year-ago period. The increase in operating loss was the result of the decline in sales and lower gross margin.
- Net loss was $4.4 million, or $1.78 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $1.4 million, or $0.61 per diluted share, in the comparable year-ago period.
- Adjusted EBITDA loss (a non-GAAP metric reconciled below) was $3.4 million compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $0.3 million in the comparable year-ago period.
- As of April 30, 2022, the Company had $0.8 million in cash and cash equivalents, compared to $1.2 million as of January 29, 2022 and $5.0 million as of May 1, 2021.
- Inventory at quarter end was $32.3 million, compared to $22.6 million as of May 1, 2021. The increase in inventory was primarily due to an increase in tier 1 partners and excess inventory from the holiday season. The Company is implementing several initiatives to reduce inventory including adjusting our pricing strategy, enhancing supply chain management and renegotiating purchasing terms with our partners.
- As of April 30, 2022, the Company had borrowings of $10.5 million under the Credit Facility and had $3.6 million available for borrowing. On March 2, 2022, the Company entered into an Amendment to its Subordinated Loan and Security Agreement with Alimco RE Ltd pursuant to which Alimco made an additional $5.0 million secured term loan with a scheduled maturity date of March 31, 2024, which is the same maturity date as the existing loans under the Subordinated Loan Agreement.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Unless otherwise specified, KPI data has been recorded as of fiscal first quarter (April 30, 2022).
- Fiscal first quarter 2022 Gross Merchandise Value ("GMV") was $69.7 million as compared to $63.4 million in the comparable year-ago period. Subscription GMV increased 72.2% to $36.0 million, or 56.7% of total GMV, compared to $29.0 million, or 33.0% of total GMV, in the comparable year-ago period.
Kaspien plans to file its quarterly Form 10-Q today, June 14, 2022, in accordance with SEC filing deadlines.
About Kaspien
Kaspien Holdings Inc. (f/k/a Trans World Entertainment Corporation) (NASDAQ: KSPN) is a leading, global e-commerce accelerator that deploys AI-driven software and end-to-end services to optimize and grow brands on Amazon, Walmart, Target, eBay, and other online marketplaces. Rebranded as Kaspien in 2020, the Company has spent more than a decade developing a marketplace growth platform of proprietary technologies that maximize supply chain resilience, optimize marketing, strengthen brand control, and provide predictive analytics. Serving a variety of brands, distributors, agencies and FBA aggregators, Kaspien accelerates growth by tailoring an extensive suite of seller services to its partners' dynamic e-commerce needs. The Company has a long track record of success, having served over 4,000 brands in 20 countries. Kaspien's mastery of the e-commerce space and commitment to rapid innovation has earned the trust of many leading brands. For more information, visit kaspien.com.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net loss, adjusted to exclude: (i) income tax expense; (ii) interest expense; and (iii) depreciation expense. Our method of calculating adjusted EBITDA may differ from other issuers and accordingly, this measure may not be comparable to measures used by other issuers. We use adjusted EBITDA to evaluate our own operating performance and as an integral part of our planning process. We present adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental measure because we believe such a measure is useful to investors as a reasonable indicator of operating performance. We believe this measure is a financial metric used by many investors to compare companies. This measure is not a recognized measure of financial performance under GAAP in the United States and should not be considered as a substitute for Loss from operations, net loss or cash used in operating activities, as determined in accordance with GAAP.
About Key Performance Indicators
Gross Merchandise Value ("GMV") is the total value of merchandise sold over a given time period through a customer-to-customer exchange site. For Kaspien, it is the measurement of merchandise value sold across all channels and partners within the Kaspien platform.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Certain statements in this communication are forward-looking statements. The statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may include forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties.
We have used the words "anticipate", "believe", "could", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "may", "plan", "predict", "project", and similar terms and phrases, including references to assumptions, in this document to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made based on management's expectations and beliefs concerning future events and are subject to uncertainties and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results expressed in the statements. The following factors are among those that may cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's forward-looking statements: risk of disruption of current plans and operations of Kaspien and the potential difficulties in customer, supplier and employee retention; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the Company; the Company's level of debt and related restrictions and limitations, unexpected costs, charges, expenses, or liabilities; the Company's ability to operate as a going-concern; deteriorating economic conditions and macroeconomic factors; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; and other risks described in the Company's filings with the SEC, such as its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Annual Reports on Form 10-K.
The reader should keep in mind that any forward-looking statement made by us in this document, or elsewhere, pertains only as of the date on which we make it. New risks and uncertainties come up from time-to-time and it's impossible for us to predict these events or how they may affect us. In light of these risks and uncertainties, you should keep in mind that any forward-looking statements made in this document or elsewhere might not occur.
Company Contact
Ed Sapienza
Chief Financial Officer
509-202-4261
esapienza@kaspien.com
Investor Relations Contact
Gateway Investor Relations
Matt Glover and Tom Colton
949-574-3860
KSPN@gatewayir.com
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Lead development candidate SG-5-00455 shows potential to become first in class PAI-1/2 inhibitor that directly targets mucosal healing in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
BRISBANE, Calif., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Second Genome, a biotechnology company that leverages its proprietary platform to discover and develop precision therapies and biomarkers, presented data demonstrating the Company's development candidate, SG-5-00455, improves epithelial barrier function and promotes mucosal healing by effectively inhibiting plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI)-1/2 activity in the intestines. The data were presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022 Annual Meeting, held May 21-24 virtually and in San Diego, California.
There is a strong correlation between the upregulation of SERPINE1 (PAI-1) and chronic inflammation in IBD. Local delivery of SG-5-00455 to the gastrointestinal mucosa of diseased mice demonstrated efficacy by inhibiting PAI-1 activity, which in excessive amounts adversely impacts wound healing, immune cell modulation and tissue remodeling. By selectively targeting the PAI-1 pathway at the mucosa, SG-5-00455 improves epithelial barrier function by regulating extracellular matrix production and reducing profibrotic inflammation. SG-5-00455 demonstrates the potential to directly target mucosal healing, a key therapeutic goal in the treatment of IBD," said Joseph Dal Proto, Ph.D. "SG-5-00455 has the potential to become a first-in-class treatment for patients with IBD in which mucosal healing is inadequately addressed by current standards of care."
This data was presented during a poster session at DDW 2022. The information is provided below:
Session Title: Non-Immune Cells in Intestinal Inflammation: Epithelium and Stroma
Abstract Number: 3698252
Title: Identification and Development of a 1st in Class Naturally-Derived Protein that Drives Mucosal Healing and is Orally Delivered by an Engineered Cellular Therapy Targeting the Gastro-Intestinal Tract
In addition to SG-5-00455, Second Genome has presented data on the identification of immunomodulatory peptides with therapeutic potential using their proprietary technology-enabled platform (abstract number: 3699744) which was presented during another poster session at DDW 2022.
SG-5-00455 is an orally delivered, engineered biotherapeutic modulator of the PAI1/2 pathway that is designed to work locally within the gastrointestinal tract to promote mucosal healing and improve barrier function in IBD patients. In vitro, SG-5-00455 demonstrated direct binding to PAI-1, functional inhibition of PAI-1/2 function and improvement in epithelial barrier function. In pre-clinical colitis models, oral administration of SG-5-00455 reduced pathology scores for inflammation and restored barrier function levels, as well as improved dysregulated tissue repair and fibrosis-associated gene expression and proteins levels. Mechanism of action studies revealed interaction with, and modulation of, fibrinolysis pathway members, which were found to be upregulated in IBD patient samples in multiple clinical cohorts. This will provide the basis for a potential biomarker to identify patients likely to respond to SG-5-00455. SG-5-00455 is currently in IND-enabling studies, and the Company anticipates filing an investigational new drug (IND) application with the U.S. FDA late 2022.
The SG-5-00455 poster (#3698252) entitled, "Identification and Development of a 1st in Class Naturally-Derived Protein that Drives Mucosal Healing and is Orally Delivered by an Engineered Cellular Therapy Targeting the Gastro-Intestinal Tract," and the poster on the identification of immunomodulatory peptides utilizing our proprietary technology-enabled drug discovery platform (#3699744) will be made available on the Company's website at https://www.secondgenome.com/events/.
About Second Genome
Second Genome is a biotechnology company that leverages its proprietary technology-enabled platform to discover and develop transformational precision therapies based on novel microbial genetic insights. We built a proprietary drug discovery platform with machine-learning analytics, customized protein engineering techniques, phage library screening, mass spec analysis and gene-editing that we couple with traditional drug development approaches to progress the development of precision therapies for wide-ranging diseases. Second Genome is advancing lead programs in IBD and cancer into IND-enabling studies. We also collaborate with industry, academic and governmental partners to leverage our platform and data science capabilities. We hold a strategic collaboration with Gilead Sciences, Inc., utilizing our proprietary platform and comprehensive data sets to identify novel biomarkers associated with clinical response to Gilead's investigational medicines. We also hold a strategic collaboration with Pfizer (formerly Arena Pharmaceuticals) to identify microbiome biomarkers associated with clinical response for their lead program in gastroenterology, etrasimod. For more information, please visit www.secondgenome.com.
Investor / Media Contact:
650-440-4606
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LONDON, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HICX, the leading Supplier Experience Management provider, is announcing a $30 million investment led by Boston, US-based growth equity firm Wavecrest Growth Partners and Toronto-based venture debt provider Espresso Capital.
HICX's low-code/no-code SaaS platform and applications enable large companies full visibility into their supplier ecosystems and interactions, building resilient and competitive supply chains. Unilever, Mondelez, BAE Systems, Baker Hughes, and Lenovo, among other mega-brands, use HICX as a single source of truth for supplier data and the focal point for supplier interactions.
CEO and Co-founder of HICX, Costas Xyloyiannis, said, "At the most basic level, companies deliver value to customers through the combined effort of their internal teams and suppliers. Companies often under-invest in the supplier experience – in making it easy for suppliers to deliver their best work. However, we've seen a significant shift recently and many of the world's leading brands are investing in technology to address this and to become 'customer of choice' for as many of their suppliers as possible."
Vaibhav Nalwaya, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Wavecrest, said, "The last three years of global turmoil have highlighted the importance of the mutually beneficial customer-supplier relationship and yet the incumbent procurement and supply chain tech stacks often actually add friction and complexity. We have been super-impressed by the combination of HICX's vision and the team's ability to deliver large-scale solutions to the biggest and best global brands. HICX's customers speak very highly of the company's domain expertise and its solutions."
"We believe HICX can play a pivotal enabling role for companies as they digitize their buy-side technology landscape and we're excited to support their future growth," added Shane Jayaprakash, Director at Espresso Capital, London.
The HICX platform serves the most complex tech landscapes in Fortune-1000 accounts. It uses proprietary low-code/no-code technology for rapid configuration to each unique customer requirement and is designed to integrate with, and operate alongside, the customer's existing investments in procurement, supply chain and financial tech.
Dr Elouise Epstein, partner at global management consulting firm Kearney commented, "The way we work with suppliers has to change. Traditional technology is wholly inadequate to support the digital revolution. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence to say that the way we've done it in the past doesn't work. It's abundantly clear that we have to do something different and I'm excited to see investment in a company like HICX as it seeks to be part of the solution."
"Spend Matters Q2 2022 SolutionMap Insider report suggests HICX excels at a range of supplier management requirements which are particularly needed in today's world," said Jason Busch, Spend Matters Founder and CEO. "The ability to manage both internal supplier master data and multi-tier information is becoming imperative for procurement and supply chain risk as companies face continued uncertainty on multiple fronts, and HICX is well positioned to support market requirements."
ABOUT HICX
HICX helps Global 5000 companies to take control of their supplier data and to deliver a great supplier experience. The HICX Supplier Experience Platform enables businesses with thousands of suppliers to efficiently on-board and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of all suppliers, to achieve a single version of truth for all supplier data, and to remove the friction from supplier relationships. Some of the world's largest companies trust HICX for the management of their supplier data, these include Unilever, Mars, Mondelez, Lenovo, Baker Hughes and BAE Systems.
ABOUT WAVECREST GROWTH PARTNERS
Wavecrest Growth Partners is a growth equity firm focused on investing in and partnering with leading B2B software and technology-enabled services companies based in both North America and Western Europe. Wavecrest targets investments in high-growth companies with proven products and business models and brings to bear a differentiated combination of investing and operating experience and networks to help accelerate growth and profitability. Wavecrest's team has over five decades of collective investing and operating experience in growth-stage B2B technology companies, including numerous successful outcomes. For more information, visit www.wavecrestgrowth.com
ABOUT ESPRESSO CAPITAL
Espresso empowers companies with innovative venture debt solutions. Since 2009, we've helped more than 300 technology companies and their investors accelerate growth, extend runway, and increase strategic flexibility with non-dilutive capital. Learn more at espressocapital.com.
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana State receiver Dante Hendrix sees the slow, steady steps his teammates have taken since a program-changing tragedy nearly two weeks ago.
Mourning and sadness replaced X’s and O’s. Visiting dorms and food runs were more important than studying the playbook. Talking through the emotions of a car crash that left three students dead and two hospitalized with serious injuries, four of them football players, was suddenly a critical part of Indiana State’s routine.
Players and coaches were coping with the most daunting opponent of all — grief.
“I’ve never been through anything like this,” Hendrix said. “I’ve been a captain for about three years now and I never really experienced how to lead in this type of situation. I’ve never had a teammate or two teammates die like this.”
The vocal, sixth-year senior and his teammates quickly adapted.
Hendrix was one of four players who spent nearly 90 minutes inside a freshman dorm after the crash, talking and listening about the two first-year teammates who died: Caleb VanHooser of Liberty Township, Ohio, near Cincinnati and Christian Eubanks of Waukegan, Illinois, in the suburbs north of Chicago. Jayden Musili of Fort Wayne, Indiana, who attended Indiana State but was not an athlete, also was killed.
Two redshirt freshmen players — John Moore of Wheaton, Illinois, and Omarion Dixon of Lafayette, Indiana — survived after another student pulled them from the burning wreckage 11 miles from campus, about an hour’s drive west of Indianapolis. They have been released from a hospital.
The group was returning from home in the early morning hours of Aug. 21. According to the county sheriff’s report, a wet road, excessive speed and alcohol may have played roles in the single-car accident.
Back at Indiana State, players weren’t looking for explanations. They needed support. Coach Curt Mallory canceled practice while the Sycamores’ upperclassmen did everything they could think of to assauge the pain, even taking one teammate to an ice cream shop.
“They were upset because when we went to the dorms it was very, very fresh,” said Hendrix, adding that some players wrote Post-It notes to their late teammates.
“We sat there and just talked,” he said. “You’ve got to talk about what you’re feeling because if you don’t and you’re holding anything back, that’s when it can really creep up on you and you never know what can happen.”
Indiana State honored its two late teammates with a helmet sticker and by playing last week’s season opener in all-white uniforms and all-white helmets. Two crosses have been placed at the scene of the accident, one of which bears a blue-and-white Indiana State pennant and a small teddy bear.
Familiar mottos such as “March On” and “All In” have different meanings now and are reminders of how much has changed.
The 53-year-old Mallory, a former Michigan player who followed his father and brothers into coaching, has spent three decades in the profession. He had never gotten a pre-dawn knock on the door for something like this, not until athletic director Sherrard Clinkscales showed up at 4 a.m.
“It’s been a tough couple weeks,” Mallory said. “When you lose part of the family, you get through it together. To get back on the practice field was the hardest thing to do, but it was the right thing to do and once we did, things started to get a little better.”
Hendrix, Geoffrey Brown and Kris Reid Jr., all team leaders, also sensed the workouts helped.
So did last Thursday’s opener. Following a pregame moment of silence, the defense helped Indiana State hang on for an emotional 17-14 overtime victory over North Alabama.
“It was very difficult to get through but when stuff like this happens you have to lean on each other,” Brown said. “And win or lose, we were happy with the way we played for those guys.”
After one practice this week, players left the field smiling, joking and looking ahead to Saturday’s game at Purdue (0-1). The Boilermakers will hold a moment of silence for the three students who died.
If they beat Purdue for the first time, it would give the Sycamores their first 2-0 start since 1986.
But this season is about much more than a record for a school perhaps better known as the alma mater of basketball star Larry Bird. Everyone wants this football season to be remembered for what Indiana State achieves — not what’s been lost.
”They’ll always be with us, you know,” Hendrix said. “They’re gone, but they’re not forgotten and that (helmet sticker) is a great sign they’ll always be here as Sycamores.”
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Pharmactive targets Asia Pacific Market with new collaboration
MADRID, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmactive Biotech Products, S.L.U., announces a new strategic partnership with Singapore-based Nutraconnect Pte, Ltd. to bring innovative, scientifically backed nutraceutical ingredients to the Asia-Pacific marketplace (not including Australia and New Zealand).
The partnership will combine the strengths of both companies into a greater whole. Pharmactive will provide its well-supported, clean-label botanical extract ingredients, while Nutraconnect will function as a growth engine for the region, connecting Pharmactive with local and regional nutraceutical players seeking high-quality, pure ingredients. Nutraconnect Pte., Ltd. is a start-up led by Rohit Noronha, co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, and Nikhil Prabhakar Sawant, co-founder and CEO. Both are highly experienced leaders in the nutraceutical industry.
"We are very fortunate to partner with Nutraconnect, as their team possesses a great deal of market and customer information and strategic insight, allowing for quick responses to potential customers in their local time-zone," confides Jean-Marie Raymond, CEO and Founder of Pharmactive. "Asia is a tremendous growth-hub for Pharmactive. We already have had successes in Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Malaysia with Affron® pure saffron extract and Aged Black Garlic [ABG+®]. Many Asian industry players, formulators, and brand owners approach us about new compounding formats or innovative product concepts to cross the nutraceutical/functional food and beverage divide. Asia is clearly the frontrunner in terms of new ingredient concepts."
"When it comes to nutraceuticals, Asia-Pacific is a fast-moving region, with multiple players constantly on the lookout for the latest ingredients," adds Sawant. "They expect great service and rapid response, even with difficult custom-made formulations,
questions about the regulatory framework in certain countries, etc., and this is exactly where our core strength lies. We look forward to helping Pharmactive meet challenges and grow its business in the APAC market."
About Pharmactive
Pharmactive Biotech Products, S.L.U., is a Madrid-based pioneering biotechnology company that develops and manufactures differentiated natural ingredients supported by science, such as pure saffron extract and aged black garlic. The company's mission is to make a daily positive and significant impact on people's health and well-being through premium botanical ingredients backed by scientific studies and approved by ethics committees. Pharmactive grows, cultivates, and produces farm-to-fork botanical ingredients with a minimal ecological footprint.
About Nutraconnect
Founded in 2022, Nutraconnect Pte., Ltd., is a nutraceutical business growth acceleration service headquartered in Singapore. The company provides end-to-end solutions for global nutraceutical ingredient manufacturers that are looking to establish a foundation for sustainable growth in the fragmented, but booming APAC market. Visit www.nutraconnect.com.sg to learn more about the company and its services.
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NEW YORK, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID).
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This lawsuit is on behalf of a class of all persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Lucid common stock between November 15, 2021, and February 28, 2022, inclusive.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until May 31, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
The filed complaint alleges that defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and failed to disclose material adverse facts about Lucid's business and operations. Specifically, the Company overstated its production capabilities while concealing that "extraordinary supply chain and logistics challenges" were hampering Lucid's operations. As a result of the defendants' wrongful acts and omissions, and the significant decline in the market value of Lucid's common stock, Lucid investors have suffered significant damages.
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| 2022-05-27T11:40:32Z
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FBI arrests former Kansas detective long accused of corruption
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective who has long been accused of sexually preying on Black women during criminal investigations was indicted Thursday on charges that he sexually abused two women, the FBI said.
Roger Golubski, 69, was arrested at his home in Edwardsville after a federal grand jury indicted him on six counts of civil rights violations. He was expected to make his first court appearance Thursday afternoon.
Golubski retired in 2010 after working for the Kansas City (Kansas) Police Department for 35 years. The FBI has been investigating allegations that Golubski, who is white, sexually assaulted Black women in the city and exchanged drugs for information during criminal investigations.
The federal indictment announced Thursday accuses Golubski of sexually assaulting two women, identified as S.K., and O.W., on several occasions between 1998 and 2002.
He is accused of raping both women and forcing them to perform oral sex on him several times in his vehicle and at the women’s homes. Golubski’s conduct included aggravated sexual abuse and kidnapping, according to the indictment.
If convicted of any of the counts, Golubski could be sentenced to life in prison.
Golubski’s attorney, Morgan Roach, didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
Civil rights groups for years sought an investigation into Golubski’s conduct. The allegations against him drew more attention after Lamont McIntyre, who spent 23 years in prison for a double murder he didn’t commit, sued Golubski and other Kansas City, Kansas, officers after he was released.
McIntyre and his mother, Rose McIntyre, alleged in the lawsuit that Golubski framed Lamont for a double homicide in 1994 because she refused the detective’s sexual demands. The local government agreed in June to settle the lawsuit for $12.5 million.
When deposed by McIntyre’s lawyers in the case, Golubski invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination hundreds of times. He has consistently declined media requests to comment on the allegations.
In 2020, a coalition of Kansas lawmakers, religious leaders and racial justice advocates asked the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to investigate Golubski and other members of the department who were accused of misconduct and abuse.
And in 2021, an organization run by rapper Jay-Z filed a petition seeking records from the police department related to what it called a history of officer misconduct within the department.
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Wildlife and Parks Commission to vote on several items in second-to-last meeting of 2022
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (WIBW) - Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commissioners will meet on Thursday, September 8th for their second-to-last public meeting of the year.
The meeting will start at 1:00 p.m. with general public comment on items not listed on the agenda, followed by an agency and state fiscal status update from Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks Secretary Brad Loveless.
A general discussion period will follow and the following topics will be discussed:
- Antelope seasons, bag limits and permits: Poor production in Kansas, and rangewide, have caused apparent declines in pronghorn populations in many areas. As such, KDWP is considering several approaches to reducing harvest.
- Elk seasons, bag limits and permits: During this annual review, staff do not currently anticipate any changes to season structure, bag limits, or permit types.
KDWP Commissioners will then hear several different workshop session items, which may be voted on at a future time:
- Big Game Permanent Regulations
- Deer hunting season dates for 2023-2024
- Turkey seasons, bag limits, permits, and game tags
- Big game and wild turkey permit applications
- Updates to regulations related to the commercial harvest, salvage, and sale of freshwater mussels
Staff and Commissioners will then recess at 5:00 p.m. and reconvene at 6:30 p.m. to commence on the Public Hearing portion of the meeting, then they will vote on the following:
- Amount of fees
- Purchase of lifetime hunting or lifetime combination hunting & fishing license without certificate of completion of an approved hunter education
- Big game and wild turkey permit applications
- Fisheries reference document annual review
KDWP said the public is welcome and encouraged to participate either in person at the Holiday Inn Express in Chanute or virtually via Zoom.
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| 2022-09-07T22:46:32Z
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(NEXSTAR) – So you’ve beaten the infinitesimal Mega Millions odds and are now staring down a life-changing influx of cash – but what you do next with that jackpot money will decide how rich you ultimately remain.
On Tuesday, the jackpot surpassed $1 billion. While many fantasize about spending the cash, the actual winners may be overwhelmed with a different feeling – anxiety.
“The biggest fear that pretty much all sudden wealth recipients have, and especially lottery winners, is that they’re going to screw it up,” Robert Pagliarini, author of “The Sudden Wealth Solution,” told Nexstar.
Pagliarini has been advising clients, including lottery winners, for over 20 years on how to handle large influxes of money. He says that the goal is always to turn that lump sum into lasting wealth, but added that for lottery winners there are some must-dos.
Protect the ticket
Holding a winning ticket and knowing that a single slip of paper could easily be lost or stolen can be a terrifying feeling.
Until it’s signed, a lottery ticket is a bearer instrument, meaning that whoever has the ticket can claim the money.
“That means that they really need to document that they are the owner of the ticket,” Pagliarini said. “So I would take a selfie with the ticket, I would take a video of me and the ticket, I would sign the ticket and I would keep that ticket in a very, very safe place.”
Over the years, there have been horror stories when it comes to this nerve-wracking period after a lottery win – there was a woman in California who said she lost a $26 million ticket in the laundry. A man in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina thought he lost his winning ticket forever – only to have his wife find it.
Build your team
For lottery winners, it can be their own friends and family – or complete strangers – who try to siphon away their money.
“They will want to try to separate you from your new lottery winnings, and that happens often,” Pagliarini said. “And so you need a team to insulate you and to protect you from that.”
He recommends hiring an attorney, tax advisor and a financial advisor, as well as keeping the lottery win a secret for as long as possible. If you live in a state where you have to disclose the victory, that adds a number of challenges “because now the entire world, especially this size of a jackpot, everyone’s going to be talking about.”
There’s going to be helicopters flying overhead when you go and collect the winnings like this. This stuff happens because the world gets excited. And now everyone knows that you’ve got a billion dollars that’s not good. In no circumstances is that a good thing.
Robert Pagliarini, founder, Pacific Wealth Advisors
Pagliarini recommends building a media plan, sharing the news with only one trusted family member at first and staying out of the public eye when possible.
The big decision
A monumental decision that Mega Millions jackpot winners face is how to receive their winnings – in a big lump sum or spread out over years in annuity payments.
If someone beats the 1-in-302,575,350 odds and wins the current Mega Millions jackpot on Friday, they will ultimately have to choose between taking the pot in 30 payments over 29 years, or the reduced lump cash sum of roughly $602 million.
The decision is ultimately a personal one, and what might be ideal for one could be disastrous for another.
“My gut is that 99-plus percent of people choose the lump sum because they want the money, but the problem with that is now that they’ve got this money, if they if they mess up, if they make some bad decisions, if they get the wrong people on their team, they spend too much and there’s no do-over button,” Pagliarini said. “With an annuity, you know, you can screw up year after year after year, and it’s OK because the next year you’re gonna get a new paycheck. And so maybe for the first seven or eight years, you just blow it. But by year eight or nine, you kind of got things figured out. That means you’ve got another 20 years of paychecks coming your way to just sort of redeem yourself.”
“You’ve got to see what is the best option for you,” echoed Steven Evensen, CFP, a financial advisor with Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management.
While the lump sum is more popular and would grant immediate access to the cash, it also means more taxes.
“You’d be taxed up to 37% federally, and then even more so depending on your state tax,” Evensen cautioned. “So I would speak to an accountant about that to make sure you aren’t kind of overspending in your head before you actually receive the money and receive your tax bill at the end of the day.”
Regardless of which payout plan you choose, Evensen recommends investing some of the money. What you invest in depends on your goals, but “low cost mutual funds, index funds are a great place to start.”
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| 2022-07-28T20:14:17Z
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For many low-income Americans, owning a home is a reliable path to wealth accumulation. In terms of wealth inequality, though, how far does home ownership go toward closing the gap between minority households and white households?
An award-winning paper co-authored by Ashleigh Eldemire-Poindexter, assistant professor of finance at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Haslam College of Business, Kimberly F. Luchtenberg (American University) and Matthew M. Wynter (Stony Brook University) examines this question.
The researchers used internal administrative data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. This is the first large-scale empirical study of the program, which provides rental payment assistance for low-income households. Some recipients are eligible for assistance with mortgage payments and homeownership expenses.
The team evaluated households that had access to the same level of housing assistance to buy or rent in the same area but faced different opportunities for wealth accumulation due to race. Tracing wealth outcomes of households that previously had accessed housing assistance and eventually became homeowners during the sample period of 2000 to 2020, the authors investigated how homeownership affected racial disparities in wealth.
"The takeaway is that homeownership helps to build wealth for low-income households but the effect is much less for minorities," Eldemire-Poindexter said.
Measuring wealth in terms of cash value of financial assets (as reported from HUD) plus home equity, the study found that low-income households transitioning to homeownership experience significant wealth gains compared to renting. However, while white households accumulated $6,100 relative to their tenure as renters, minority households accumulated a mere $1,500, a difference of $4,600. As renters, the wealth difference between minority and white households was only $1,200.
Numerous factors contribute to the wealth disparities between minority and white households transitioning to homeownership, financial fragility and home location being chief among these.
The study found that households with a higher degree of financial fragility (the ratio of total housing expenses to monthly income) while transitioning to home ownership accumulate less wealth from the transition and that financial fragility increases racial wealth disparities. Minority and white households that were above the median for financial fragility increased their wealth by about $1,300 and $6,600, respectively. For those below the median, the transition increased the wealth of minority and white homeowners by about $2,300 and $5,800, respectively.
Home location also plays a significant role in wealth accumulation. Because a neighborhood's racial composition can affect the appreciation of home values there, minority households may find that their homes appreciate at lower rates relative to white households.
The researchers found that these racial wealth disparities become more pronounced over time, noting that the wealth differences they documented occurred upon the transition to homeownership and not before. In each of the three years prior to making the transition, the wealth differences between minority and white households were relatively small. However, within the third year of homeownership, white households accumulate significantly more wealth than minority households.
"Our results suggest that homeownership can significantly help households to accumulate wealth, but that homeownership can make wealth disparities between minority and white households more pronounced," the study concluded.
Eldemire-Poindexter expressed gratitude toward the researchers' colleges and universities for their assistance in facilitating the proposal for this study, enabling them to highlight a population not often featured in finance academia.
"We're talking about low-income households, so if any group of people is in need of having some liquidity, some type of real assets, this is that pool," she said. "It just feels so real to do work that actually matters."
"Does Homeownership Reduce Wealth Disparities for Low-Income and Minority Households?" was published in the Review of Corporate Finance Studies in April 2022 and received the journal's award for Best Registered Report of 2022. The paper is available online.
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| 2022-08-03T18:19:33Z
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Moid Alwy will join ATD as the company's newest executive
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. , Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Tire Distributors, Inc. (ATD) today announced the expansion of its leadership team with the addition of Moid Alwy as Chief Supply Chain Officer. In this role, Alwy will oversee ATD's sprawling supply chain and evolve the vision and strategy for the supply chain's function and innovation.
"I am pleased to welcome Moid to ATD's leadership team," said Stuart Schuette, President & CEO. "As we continue to transform our business, we are focused on creating a sustainable supply chain of the future to serve our customers and partners. Moid has a proven track record in designing network strategies and driving supply chain innovation."
Alwy joins ATD following nearly 20 years at Target, where he began as a lead analyst in 2003 and rose through the ranks to become Vice President of Global Supply Chain and Logistics. For more than four years as VP, Alwy led the Global Operational Intelligence team responsible for overall network steering, data & analytics, and critical transformation initiatives. He was part of the Supply Chain Leadership team that played a vital role in scaling Target from a $70B retailer to more than $100B over the last two years.
Prior to his time at Target, Alwy spent two years at US Bancorp where he was responsible for the successful technology integration and implementation of mergers and acquisitions.
Alwy graduated with a degree in Information Systems and Mathematics from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He holds a Lean Six Sigma black belt certification for exceptional leadership capability.
This executive role addition marks the latest transformative business strategy for ATD. "Bringing Moid on board to lead our supply chain initiatives is just one piece of our ongoing plan to optimize ATD's business and creating a truly contemporary, omni-channel, and intelligent supply chain to support our customers and manufacturer partners.," said Schuette. "Moid's efforts will be key to transforming the ATD supply chain from a traditional tire distributor to an omni-channel solutions provider."
About American Tire Distributors
American Tire Distributors is one of the largest independent suppliers of tires to the replacement tire market. It operates more than 130 distribution centers, including 25 distribution centers in Canada, serving approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada. The company offers an unsurpassed breadth and depth of inventory, frequent delivery and value-added services to tire and automotive service customers. American Tire Distributors employs approximately 5,000 associates across its distribution center network, including approximately 600 associates in Canada. In 2022, ATD was recognized by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace.
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Determines Continued Ownership of ISP Segment Represents Best Path Forward
Review Reflects Improved Macro Environment for Energy Industry, Including Stronger Cash Flow Generation Potential
KATY, Texas, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLCA), a diversified industrial minerals company and the leading last-mile logistics provider to the oil and gas industry, today announced that its Board of Directors has concluded its previously announced review of strategic alternatives for its Industrial & Specialty Products ("ISP") segment.
Over the course of the review, which began in October 2021, the Board considered a range of options with a goal to maximize shareholder value, including the potential sale or separation of the ISP segment. As part of the review, the Company, among other actions, contacted and engaged with both strategic industry parties, as well as private equity investors. After extensive evaluation and deliberation, and in consultation with its independent financial and legal advisors, the Board unanimously determined that retaining ownership of the ISP segment represents the best path forward for U.S. Silica and its shareholders. In making its determination, the Board determined that a transaction would fail to provide superior value to shareholders as compared to the Company's standalone strategic and financial outlook, which has improved substantially since the review began. The Board also considered and is pursuing a refinancing of the Company's debt at more attractive terms than previously available.
Charles Shaver, Chairman of the Board, commented, "After an independent and exhaustive review of strategic alternatives, the Board believes continuing to operate the ISP segment and pursuing the Company's business plan is the best path forward to maximize value for all shareholders. The Board is confident in the Company's long-term strategy, growth prospects and ability to generate cash, and will continue to be open to additional opportunities to maximize shareholder value."
Bryan Shinn, Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Since announcing the strategic review, the macro environment has improved dramatically. North America experienced a substantial rebound in energy prices and demand for our products and services has grown, fueling increased profitability, cash generation and a more robust overall financial profile. We continue to see strength across both business segments and remain focused on the execution of our strategy to drive growth and generate substantial cash flow while creating shareholder value. We also remain committed to improving the Company's financial flexibility and capital structure, which includes pursuing a refinancing from a position of strength and paying down a portion of our debt."
Centerview Partners LLC served as the Company's exclusive financial advisor and Morrison & Foerster LLP as its legal advisor in connection with the strategic review.
About U.S. Silica
U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. is a global performance materials company and is a member of the Russell 2000. The Company is a leading producer of commercial silica used in the oil and gas industry, and in a wide range of industrial applications. Over its 122-year history, U.S. Silica has developed core competencies in mining, processing, logistics and materials science that enable it to produce and cost-effectively deliver over 600 diversified products to customers across our end markets. U.S. Silica's wholly-owned subsidiaries include EP Minerals and SandBox Logistics™. EP Minerals is an industry leader in the production of products derived from diatomaceous earth, perlite, engineered clays, and non-activated clays. SandBox Logistics™ is a state-of-the-art leader in proppant storage, handling and well-site delivery, dedicated to making proppant logistics cleaner, safer and more efficient. The Company currently operates 24 mines and production facilities and is headquartered in Katy, Texas.
Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains certain forward-looking statements regarding the Company, including statements regarding our conclusion of our review of strategic alternatives for our Industrial & Specialty Products segment and the Company's ability to drive growth, generate substantial cash flow and refinance its debt at more attractive terms than what were previously available. All of these statements are based on management's expectations as well as estimates and assumptions prepared by management that, although they believe to be reasonable, are inherently uncertain. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, economic, competitive, governmental and other factors outside of the Company's control that may cause its business, industry, strategy, financing activities or actual results to differ materially. More information on potential factors that could affect the Company's financial results is available in the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" section within the Company's most recent annual report on Form 10-K, and in other documents that we have filed with, or furnished to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. If one or more of these or other risks or uncertainties materialize (or the consequences of such a development changes), or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual outcomes may vary materially from those reflected in our forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof, and we disclaim any intention or obligation to update publicly or revise such statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Investor Contact
Donald A. Merril
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(301) 682-0302
Merril@ussilica.com
Patricia Gil
Vice President, Investor Relations
(281) 505-6011
gil@ussilica.com
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PFL live events and on-demand video content available year-round in Sub-Saharan Africa
PFL MMA Regular Season kicks off on April 20 to more than 160 countries
NEW YORK, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Professional Fighters League, (PFL), the fastest growing and most innovative sports league, today announced a media rights agreement with ESPN Africa for the 2022 Season, highlighting the company's commitment to bringing the world's best MMA action to fight fans on the continent. Under the agreement, the network will become the exclusive PFL content provider in Sub-Saharan Africa and include live coverage of the Regular Season, Playoffs and PFL World Championship.
In addition to live event coverage, audiences will have access to the PFL highlights show and other thrilling content from the league. ESPN is the home of U.S. sports in Africa and PFL will be broadcast alongside other leading global sports properties, such as the NFL and NBA.
PFL Lightweight Don Madge, a Johannesburg, South Africa native, will make his PFL Regular Season debut on April 20 in the co-main event against 2021 PFL Lightweight World Champion Raush Manfio. Madge defeated Nate Williams by a 2nd round submission at the PFL World Championship in October 2021 in a showcase bout and will look to continue the momentum at PFL 1 at Esports Stadium Arlington.
"The PFL is thrilled to announce our exclusive broadcast agreement with ESPN Africa to deliver the PFL 2022 Season events to MMA fans across the continent and expand our partnership with the worldwide leader in sports," said PFL CEO Peter Murray. "Africa is a priority market for the PFL and we are committed to signing fighters from the continent as well as hosting future events there to help accelerate the growth of the sport."
"We are excited to have secured the broadcast rights to the 2022 season of the Professional Fighters League for ESPN Africa," said Kyle De Klerk, Director: Sports, The Walt Disney Company Africa. "The PFL will complement our current international and local sports offering, bringing viewers the excitement, adrenalin and exhilaration that are synonymous with this no holds barred, world-class mixed martial arts league," he added.
PFL is the first and only MMA league with a true sports-season format where elite fighters from around the world compete in a regular season, playoffs and championship. The four competitors in each division who earn the most points in the regular season advance to the win-or-go-home playoffs, followed by the biggest night in MMA – the PFL World Championship – with each winner going home with the $1 million prize.
Professional Fighters League is the No. 2 MMA company globally and features an elite talent roster with 25 percent of its fighters independently ranked in the top-25 of the world, including 2021 PFL champions Kayla Harrison and Ray Cooper III. PFL has live event coverage in 160 countries on leading distribution platforms and delivers a unique, innovative product to the more than 600 million MMA fans globally.
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- All times are stated in CAT / SAST.
- Schedule subject to change
About Professional Fighters League
Professional Fighters League (PFL) is the fastest growing and most innovative sports league. PFL is the #2 MMA company worldwide and the only with the sports-season format where individual fighters compete in Regular Season, Playoffs, and Championship.
PFL is primetime in the U.S on ESPN and ESPN+ and was broadcast and streamed live worldwide last year to 160 countries with partners including RMC Sport, FPT, Sky Sport, and more. The PFL roster is world-class, with 25% of PFL fighters independently ranked in the top 25 in the world. The PFL proprietary SmartCage data and analytics platform powers real-time betting and provides next-gen viewing experience.
PFL has over two-dozen blue-chip brand sponsors such as Anheuser-Busch, IBM, GEICO, DraftKings, Bose, Socios.com, Air Force Reserve, U.S. Marine Corps, and more. PFL is backed by major investors including Ares Capital, Luxor Capital, Elysian Park Ventures, Swan Ventures, Knighthead, Legends, and several NBA, MLB, and NHL team owners.
MMA is the growth sport of this decade, with 600 million fans worldwide, the youngest audience demo of any sport, and true global revenue streams.
PFLmma.com; Instagram (@PFLmma); Twitter (@PFLMMA); Facebook (/PFLmma)
About ESPN
ESPN, Inc., is the world's leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment enterprise featuring a portfolio of more than 50 multimedia sports assets. It has eight U.S. television networks and 26 International Networks, ESPN Audio (broadcast, satellite, digital, podcasts), the leading portfolio of digital sports services in the world, ESPN The Magazine, consumer products, ESPN Events and more. ESPN is 80 percent owned by ABC, Inc., which is an indirect subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Hearst holds a 20 percent interest in ESPN.
For updates regarding PFL and other sports, fans can connect to @ESPNAfrica on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram or visit https://www.espn.com/.
About The Walt Disney Company EMEA:
The Walt Disney Company has been in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for over 80 years and employs thousands across the region. Between Disneyland Paris and its other iconic brands, including Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, 20th Century Studios and ESPN, The Walt Disney Company EMEA entertains, informs and inspires millions of consumers in more than 130 countries through the power of unparalleled storytelling. Disney+, the company's direct-to-consumer streaming service, is currently available in 17 markets across Europe.
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ALBANY – The holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States will be celebrated in a big way on Saturday, with two street festivals downtown, a gospel concert, dramatic performance and several other events.
Dougherty County’s first-ever Juneteenth celebration kicks off at 11 a.m. at the Government Center Plaza at 222 Pine Ave.
“It’s food, community, family and friends,” Wendy Howell, Dougherty County’s public information officer, said. “It’s kind of what the national celebration is about, and that’s what we wanted to do. It’ll be a good day for the family.”
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when U.S. troops entered Galveston, Texas, but is more broadly recognized as the effective end of slavery. On that day, a Union general read a proclamation declaring that slaves in Texas and throughout the country were free by order of the president.
Among the activities that will be offered by the county are food trucks with a variety of offerings, games for children and live music.
At noon there will be a welcome from the Dougherty County Commission followed by renditions of the National Anthem and “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” known as “the black national anthem.”
Rutha Harris and the Freedom Singers will follow and perform three songs, accompanied by dancers, and should take the stage at about 12:15 p.m., Howell said.
The Dougherty County Sheriff's Office will be on hand to provide security and, with a nod to the extreme heat on tap, Emergency Medical Services will there.
“The lobby area of the Government Center will be open for people to cool off and get a drink,” Howell said.
At noon, the Albany Juneteenth Committee’s street festival will start at Riverfront Park just down the street. It too will feature food, drinks and games for kids. There is no set program, but there will be the opportunity for fun and celebration, Frank Wilson, one of the event organizers, said.
“It will kind of be a free flow of events, depending on the weather,” he said. “That’s going to affect whether some of these things are going to take place.”
The county’s festival ends at 3 p.m., so visitors will have the chance to take in both, as the festival at Riverfront Park is set to end at dusk, or about 7:30 p.m.
“We hope the community comes out,” Wilson said. “We’ve obviously decided we’re going to have a lot of ice and a lot of water.”
The committee also has scheduled a gospel concert for 7 p.m. Friday at Union Missionary Baptist Church. On Sunday the group will present the play “The Conversation,” an imagined conversation between former President Barack Obama and Malcolm X at 4 p.m. at the Fine Arts Building at Albany State University’s East Campus.
On Saturday, The Albany Museum of Art is hosting a Freedom’s Eve program starting at 2 p.m. Retired Albany educator Angie Gibbs Jones will read from her book “The Underground Railroad Under My Feet.”
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NEW ORLEANS, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") and KSF partner, former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., remind investors that they have until August 15, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in a securities class action lawsuit against Unilever PLC (NYSE: UL), if they purchased the Company's American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") between September 2, 2020 and July 21, 2021, inclusive (the "Class Period"). This action is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
What You May Do
If you purchased ADRs of Unilever as above and would like to discuss your legal rights and how this case might affect you and your right to recover for your economic loss, you may, without obligation or cost to you, contact KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn toll-free at 1-877-515-1850 or via email (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-ul/ to learn more. If you wish to serve as a lead plaintiff in this class action, you must petition the Court by August 15, 2022.
About the Lawsuit
Unilever and certain of its executives are charged with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period, violating federal securities laws.
On July 19, 2021, the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Ben & Jerry's, announced a resolution to end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory" upon the expiration of the current licensing agreement by which its products had been distributed in Israel for decades. Then, on July 22, 2021, media sources reported that the states of Texas and Florida were investigating Ben & Jerry's actions for possible violations of the states' Anti-BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel) legislation.
On this news, ADRs of Unilever fell $3.19 per share, or approximately 5.4%.
The case is City of St. Clair Shores Police and Fire Retirement System v. Unilever PLC, et al., No. 22-cv-05011.
About Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. KSF serves a variety of clients – including public institutional investors, hedge funds, money managers and retail investors – in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, California, Louisiana and New Jersey.
To learn more about KSF, you may visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Contact:
Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
Lewis Kahn, Managing Partner
lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com
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‘The pain will never go away’: Daughter killed on 26th birthday, father says
DOUGLAS, Ga. (WALB/Gray News) - Troopers in Florida are investigating an incident where a 26-year-old woman died on her birthday.
Authorities said A’Ryshanae McTear was walking on Interstate 10 in Jacksonville, Florida, when two vehicles struck and killed her on June 25.
WALB reports her family doesn’t know why she was walking alone on the highway. They described McTear as the glue that kept their family together.
The 26-year-old’s father, Latrell Wallace, said his daughter was an honor student who had just graduated college with her medical and phlebotomist degree. She was starting her career in the medical field.
Wallace said McTear went to Jacksonville from Douglas with her two friends to celebrate her 26th birthday. He said the family was waiting for her to return because they had a family cookout planned.
“We don’t know what happened. This is the hardest thing I ever did in my life,” Wallace said.
McTear leaves behind her nieces, nephews and her siblings.
“This will never go away. The pain will never go away for this family. Saying goodbye to her will never happen. We will never get to say goodbye to our daughter. We will never have closure because we don’t know what happened,” Wallace said.
McTear ‘s family said they plan to celebrate her life with a balloon release in her honor.
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Refuel With Chocolate Milk
SYRACUSE, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Refuel Her Greatness – Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Title IX" is the theme of the 54th Annual Butter Sculpture at the New York State Fair. This year's butter sculpture, sponsored by Wegmans, spotlights female athletes and how today's athletes refuel with chocolate milk.
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The butter sculpture features a progression of female athletes ranging in age from a child skier to a high school-aged gymnast to a college lacrosse player to an adult runner. A chocolate milk bottle serves as the centerpiece, reinforcing the role chocolate milk plays in helping female athletes recover, refuel, and rebuild for what comes next.
Participating in today's unveiling, U.S. Olympic Athlete and professional runner Elle St. Pierre said, "As a professional athlete and a dairy farmer, I am proud to produce a product—chocolate milk—that I know helps athletes refuel and recover after a tough workout or competition." St. Pierre went on to say, "To be able to celebrate Title IX in this way, I am reminded of all the opportunities this ruling made available for female athletes like myself – it's powerful."
"Who would have thought that when Title IX was passed back in 1972, that we would be standing here 50 years later acknowledging the strides that women have made in sports," said Gabriella Taylor, New York State Dairy Ambassador. "As a dairy farmer, I am proud to represent New York's 3,500 dairy farmers as we celebrate how many athletes refuel their bodies with chocolate milk."
Richard A. Ball, New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Commissioner said, "The Butter Sculpture is an iconic, long-time tradition of the Great New York State Fair that shines the spotlight on our dairy community, while also conveying an important message in its theme that's important to New York. I'm thrilled to be back at the Fair for the unveiling of this year's Butter Sculpture and encourage fairgoers to come see it for themselves; and while they're at it, to enjoy all things dairy in the Dairy Products Building—from our ice-cold 25 cent milk to ice cream and cheese."
"Wegmans is proud to sponsor this year's Butter Sculpture, which is such an integral part of the New York State Fair," said Evelyn Ingram, Director of Community Relations at Wegmans Food Markets. "We are delighted to once again be a participant in this long-standing tradition."
This is the first time in 16 years, since 2006, that color is featured in the butter sculpture. The sculpture was constructed over a 10-day period by artists Jim Victor and Marie Pelton of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, using more than 800 pounds of butter from O-AT-KA Milk Products in Western New York. This year's sculpture also celebrates another anniversary. It is the 20th consecutive year Victor and Pelton have created the butter sculpture at the New York State Fair.
Along with viewing the butter sculpture and enjoying some delicious dairy products, fairgoers can visit the "Reset Yourself with Dairy" photo experience in the Dairy Products Building to discover how dairy and its simple nutrition help you take flight! Snap a photo with beautiful milk wings, scan the QR code on our giant milk carton, and receive some great recipes to help "Reset Yourself with Dairy."
After the Fair, the sculpture will be deconstructed, with assistance from the Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners, and transported to Noblehurst Farms in Linwood, N.Y., where it will be recycled in a methane digester to create renewable energy.
Visit americandairy.com/nystatefair for more New York State Fair-related information.
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CINCINNATI, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) has appointed Jeff Kiernan to the role of vice president and general manager for KTNV, Scripps' ABC affiliate in Las Vegas, effective Monday, July 25.
Kiernan has served as senior director of news at WXYZ and WMYD, Scripps' ABC affiliate and independent local television stations in Detroit, since January 2021.
"Jeff is a veteran journalist dedicated to serving the community with enterprise, objective journalism," said Local Media President Brian Lawlor. "With his experience leading large newsrooms, Jeff knows how to connect with the community on the issues that matter and build brands that will benefit our advertisers. His career path across multiple Scripps stations is a great example of the culture of employee growth and development we are cultivating at Scripps. We're proud to have him step into this new role."
During his tenure at WXYZ and WMYD, Kiernan led the news department's implementation of Scripps' content strategy across all media platforms. Prior to his time in Detroit, he led the newsroom at WTMJ, Scripps' local television station in Milwaukee. In this role, he guided WTMJ's coverage of drunk driving – its signature local reporting issue – and steered the development and launch of the station's local news on over-the-top platforms.
"I am very proud of what we were able to accomplish in Detroit, and I know the team there will continue to improve the lives of those it serves through its high-caliber reporting," said Kiernan. "I look forward to continuing my Scripps journey in Las Vegas, and I am thankful to be given the opportunity to lead the great team at KTNV."
Kiernan received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Marquette University in Milwaukee. Marquette named him Communicator of the Year in 2010 and honored him with its James T. Tiedge Award for ethics and responsibility in 1999. He also served as a visiting faculty member for new managers at the Poynter Institute in 2007.
About Scripps
The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating a better-informed world. As one of the nation's largest local TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets. The Scripps Networks reach nearly every American through the national news outlets Court TV and Newsy and popular entertainment brands ION, Bounce, Defy TV, Grit, ION Mystery, Laff and TrueReal. Scripps is the nation's largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held for decades to the motto, "Give light and the people will find their own way."
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CARTERET, N.J., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- URSB, Carteret's hometown bank providing over 100 years of outstanding personalized banking service with a commitment to the community, has recently made three new additions to its management team.
James Raborn joins the Bank's management team as Head of Retail Banking. Mr. Raborn brings over 15 years of banking experience to URSB. His experience includes the implementation of business development and marketing strategies to promote deposit and lending growth, as well as the introduction of new retail products and platforms for consumer and business customers. Jim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University and a Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers University School of Law (Camden).
Having grown up in nearby Woodbridge Township, Mr. Raborn is familiar with Carteret and the surrounding communities. He currently resides in Flemington, NJ.
In addition, in March 2022, Christine Germann joined URSB as Vice President – Loan Servicing Manager. She has over 20 years of experience in loan operations and administration in the banking industry. Christine has a proven track record of supporting a bank's consumer, residential and commercial lending functions while ensuring timely responses to customer inquiries about their loans. Ms. Germann currently resides in East Windsor, NJ.
Theodore R. Kawoczka was hired in December 2021 as Senior Vice President – BSA and Information Security Officer. Ted has more than 30 years of experience in BSA and information technology management. He possesses vast knowledge of how customers rely on technology to support personal and business banking needs and what regulators expect of financial institutions in the areas of BSA/AML, OFAC and Cybersecurity compliance. Ted holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University and currently resides in Yardley, PA.
Kenneth R. Totten, President/CEO and Chairman of URSB explained that "these additions to URSB's management team positions the Bank for continued growth over the next few years and ensures that the Bank will be able to continue to serve its customers from Carteret and surrounding communities with the most up-to-date suite of deposit and lending products." He added "Jim Raborn, who brings extensive banking experience in many areas to URSB, will focus on the enhancement and expansion of the Bank's retail/deposit banking services. Christine Germann is a welcome addition to our team with vast experience in loan administration who will help to ensure a high level of support for our lending customers. Ted Kawoczka, as BSA/ISO Officer, will help to the Bank comply with regulatory requirements which directly benefits the Bank and its customers."
With over 100 years of an outstanding reputation for providing personalized service to its customers and a passionate commitment to its community, URSB, Carteret's only hometown-based bank, serves the business and personal banking needs of customers throughout Central New Jersey. The Bank's suite of products and services includes business and personal accounts, mobile banking, residential mortgages, home equity loans and lines of credit, as well as commercial mortgages for multi-family and mixed-use properties.
Online and mobile services allow secure access to accounts and provides the ease of banking at a customer's convenience. Offering high interest checking accounts and among the most competitive CD rates in the market, URSB is a modern financial institution dedicated to providing powerful financial tools to allow customers to pursue their dreams while remaining financially secure.
Contact:
Kenneth R. Totten
URSB
(732) 541-5445
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MISSISSAUGA, ON , June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Valvoline Inc. (NYSE: VVV), a global leader in vehicle care powering the future of mobility through innovative services and products, announced today a multi-year sponsorship agreement between Valvoline Canada and Honda Indy Toronto. The 2022 event is scheduled to take place July 15-17 at Exhibition Place, along the shores of Lake Ontario.
This sponsorship confirms Valvoline's ongoing commitment to growing the brand's presence in Canada and furthering its storied legacy in motorsports.
"Valvoline's heritage in motorsports — across all types of racing — is known around the world," said Mark Coxhead, president and general manager of Valvoline Canada. "We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Honda Indy Toronto, and we are excited to showcase Valvoline to customers and consumers alike during the three days of racing this summer."
Valvoline™ branding will be displayed throughout the race venue, and attendees will have the opportunity to connect with Valvoline in Thunder Alley as part of a large-scale, interactive brand activation. Additional plans for a unique Honda Indy Toronto experience for select attendees, hosted by Valvoline, are in development.
NTT INDYCAR Series first started racing on the streets of downtown Toronto in 1986. Today, the Honda Indy event has become one of the most attended motorsport festivals in the country.
About Valvoline
Valvoline Inc. (NYSE: VVV) is a global leader in vehicle care powering the future of mobility through innovative services and products for vehicles with electric, hybrid and internal combustion powertrains. Established in 1866, the Company introduced the world's first branded motor oil and developed strong brand recognition and customer satisfaction ratings over the years across multiple service and product channels. The Company operates and franchises approximately 1,600 service center locations and is the No. 2 and No. 3 largest chain in the U.S. and Canada, respectively, by number of stores. With sales in more than 140 countries and territories, Valvoline's solutions are available for every engine and drivetrain, including high-mileage and heavy-duty vehicles, and are offered at more than 80,000 locations worldwide. Creating the next generation of advanced automotive solutions, Valvoline has established itself as the world's leading supplier of battery fluids to electric vehicle manufacturers, offering tailored products to help extend vehicle range and efficiency. To learn more, or to find a Valvoline service center near you, visit valvoline.com.
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About Honda Indy Toronto
Honda Indy Toronto is a world-class motorsports festival which takes place annually on a 2.89-kilometer, 11-turn temporary circuit using the streets surrounding Exhibition Place near Lake Ontario in downtown Toronto. The event features many attractions, food trucks, interactive displays and activities, and supports local charities. Honda Fan Friday offers general admission courtesy of the Ontario Honda Dealers Association. Over $820,000 has been raised in ten years for Make-A-Wish® Canada. As one of Ontario's largest annual sporting events with the first race held in 1986 first known as the Molson Indy, it has become a prestigious meeting place for some of the world's fastest race car drivers including past NTT INDYCAR SERIES champions like Scott Dixon, Josef Newgarden, Simon Pagenaud and Will Power as well as Canadian racing greats Scott Goodyear, James Hinchcliffe, Greg Moore, Alex Tagliani, Paul Tracy, Jacques Villeneuve, Robert Wickens, and more. Canadians Dalton Kellett and Devlin DeFrancesco will be in this year's starting field. Honda Indy Toronto is owned and operated by Green Savoree Toronto, ULC, whose affiliates also promote three additional INDYCAR races, Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg presented by RP Funding (Feb. 25-27, 2022), The Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio (July 1-3, 2022), and Grand Prix of Portland (Sept. 2-4, 2022).
For more information, visit hondaindy.com, 'like' its Facebook page @HondaIndyToronto or follow the event on Twitter @HondaIndy and Instagram @HondaIndy using #indyTO.
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Investor participation from prior round demonstrates confidence in the company's current and future performance
NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cymulate, the market leader in Extended Security Posture Management (XSPM), today announced a $70 million Series D investment led by existing investors One Peak, together with Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE), Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Growth and Dell Technologies Capital. Cymulate has raised $141M to date.
The latest investment, which is among the largest for continuous security testing vendors, doubles Cymulate's funding raised to date and accelerates the Company's global expansion and pace of innovation.
In a recent report on Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) GartnerⓇ analysts observed, "Previous approaches to managing the attack surface are no longer keeping up with digital velocity — in an age where organizations can't fix everything, nor can they be completely sure what vulnerability remediation can be safely postponed. CTEM is a pragmatic and effective systemic approach to continuously refine priorities, walking the tightrope between those two impossible extremes."* The global shortage of 2.72 million cybersecurity professionals, and overstretched in-house security resources further exacerbates the need for Cymulate's real-world solutions which closes security gaps quickly and efficiently, rationalizes technology, helps upskill staff and improves processes.
"We are thrilled to lead this round of investment in Cymulate," said David Klein, Managing Partner of One Peak. "Cyber posture management and continuous security validation have dramatically increased in popularity in response to the onslaught of ransomware and cyber warfare for businesses across all size ranges. Cymulate is the clear leader in the sector, and we look forward to continuing to support the Company in further accelerating its already strong growth trajectory."
Cymulate sets the industry standard for organizations to use automation to continuously validate their threat exposure and cyber posture, by testing their cloud and on-premise networks against the latest threats in the wild. The Company's Extended Security Posture Management platform leverages its native offensive security technology and capabilities to widely support customers' security and business needs. XSPM incorporates four fundamental pillars tied together with analytics to provide actionable security posture insights: Attack Surface Management, Continuous Automated Red Teaming, Breach & Attack Simulation, and Advanced Purple Teaming. Cymulate's customers see their cyber risk reduced by nearly 50% during the first three months of use. Running daily risk assessments, the cyber risk of Cymulate's customers continues to decrease in the first year without any security drift.
The Series D funding will be used to extend Cymulate's technological capabilities and further accelerate its global growth. The Company more than doubled its ARR in 2021 and grew more than 200% in North America alone. Cymulate has more than 500 customers globally, including Fortune 500 companies and strategic partners such as Optiv and Wipro. By the end of this year, Cymulate plans to further expand its staff by 75% to continue supporting its go-to-market efforts.
"In a market where every business must be prepared to fight advanced threats, I am proud of our team's ability to innovate and respond quickly to the constant turbulence of cybersecurity," said Eyal Wachsman, CEO and Co-Founder of Cymulate. "Our funding from existing investors is a further testament to their confidence in our company, direction, and continued vision. We look forward to reaching our next innovation milestones and expanding into new markets across the globe."
Alongside their Series D funding, Cymulate also recently announced two C-level executive appointments to bolster the company's leadership, namely the appointment of Maria Mastakas as Chief Operating Officer and Carolyn Crandall as Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Security Advocate of Cymulate.
*Gartner, Implement a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) Program, July 2022.
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About Cymulate
Cymulate's SaaS-based Extended Security Posture Management (XSPM) provides security professionals with the ability to continuously challenge, validate and optimize their on-premises and cloud cyber-security posture with visualization end-to-end across the MITRE ATT&CK® framework. The platform provides automated, expert and threat intelligence led risk assessments that are simple to deploy and use for organizations of all cybersecurity maturity levels. It also provides an open framework to create and automate red and purple teaming by generating penetration scenarios and advanced attack campaigns tailored to their unique environments and security policies.
For more information, visit www.cymulate.com.
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About One Peak
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Revamped AI-Based Study Reveals Disney Ranks First in the Industry, Followed by YouTube and Netflix
NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The media & entertainment industry topped MBLM's Brand Intimacy 2022 Study, the largest study of brands based on emotions, now in its 12th year. The enhanced study combines MBLM's proven Brand Intimacy model with the power of AI to analyze more brands and data, assessing how consumers bond with the brands they use and love. Disney ranked first in the industry, followed by YouTube and Netflix. These three brands were also in the top 10 brands in the overall study, with Disney ranking first overall. Through its advanced tech-enabled analysis, MBLM found that the top keywords for Disney were Endorse, Love, Anticipation, and 😊.
The remaining brands in the top 10 for media & entertainment are: Amazon Prime, ESPN, HBO, Hulu, Peacock, SHOWTIME, and beIN SPORTS. Consistent with previous years, MBLM also found that top intimate brands outperformed Fortune 500 top brands across profit, revenue, and stock performance.
"With issues ranging from societal turmoil and Covid to political unrest plaguing the world, our collective need for escapism continued to be a dominant force in 2021," stated Mario Natarelli, managing partner at MBLM. "Media & entertainment remained the top industry in our study due to its ability to distract us and provide a quick avenue for enjoyment. Brands across the space are creating more shows, movies and videos and promoting more user content in order to retain and attract audiences."
Media & entertainment has an average Brand Intimacy Quotient score of 51.6, well above the cross-industry average of 36.8. The category has improved its Quotient score performance by three percent since MBLM's last study. Fulfillment, which means to exceed expectations, is the dominant archetype, a pattern or marker that is consistently present among intimate brands, for the industry.
MBLM also released an article analyzing YouTube's rapid rise in rankings in less than 10 years. "YouTube and Streaming Brands: The platform of and for escapism, education, and delight" also focuses on Netflix, which has had a difficult year, and looks into the challenges the brand has faced. MBLM concludes that in comparing the two, YouTube is emerging as the stronger brand and appeals to both Gen Z and millennials and also has a strong business model for future success.
The Brand Intimacy 2022 Study contains the most comprehensive rankings of brands based on emotion. The scale of the study included more than 600 brands and more than 1.4 billion words analyzed over 2021.
To download the Brand Intimacy 2022 Study or explore the rankings click here.
Methodology
To read the study methodology, click here.
About MBLM
MBLM invented Brand Intimacy, the emotional science behind the brands we use and love. For our clients, we deliver expertise and value through our agency insights, services, and software offerings.
With offices in five countries, our multidisciplinary teams invent, transform, and enhance brands for businesses of every kind. We deliver marketing that creates stronger emotional connections with stakeholders. These bonds create better performance and long-term returns. To learn more about how we can help you create and sustain ultimate brand relationships, visit mblm.com.
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| 2022-06-15T15:19:31Z
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Goals: Eliminate screening barriers, reduce mortality
BETHESDA, Md. , June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Gastroenterological Association today released a series of evidence-based position statements that amount to a call to action for a national colorectal cancer screening approach, which would enable everyone to participate in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programs without barriers.
CRC experts developed eight statements, which highlight the continuum of CRC screening, identify barriers and provide a platform for physician groups, patient advocates, industry, employers, payers and the government to work together eliminate screening barriers.
"CRC screening saves lives, but only if people get screened. Cost sharing is an important barrier to screening, which contributes to racial, ethnic and socioeconomic inequities in colorectal cancer outcomes. The full cost of screening – including non-invasive tests and follow-up colonoscopies – should be covered without cost to patients," says David Lieberman, MD, AGAF, chair of the AGA Executive Committee on the Screening Continuum. "AGA wishes to collaborate with key stakeholders to eliminate obstacles to screening, which disproportionately impact those with low income and lack of insurance."
AGA position statements on reducing the burden of colorectal cancer:
- AGA supports the development of a national approach to CRC screening to ensure accessibility to all individuals in the United States with the goal to eliminate suffering and death from CRC.
- There is strong evidence from randomized controlled trials, observational clinical studies, and modeling studies that increasing CRC screening rates will reduce CRC incidence and mortality.
- A screening program should include both colonoscopy and noninvasive screening options, patient education, outreach, and navigation support.
- Co-pays and deductibles are barriers to screening and contribute to socioeconomic disparities. The full cost of screening should be covered by payers without cost sharing.
- Screening with high-quality colonoscopy should be covered by payers without cost sharing, consistent with the aims of the Affordable Care Act. These costs include the bowel preparation, facility and professional fees, anesthesia, and pathology.
- Noninvasive colorectal screening should be considered as programs with multiple steps, each of which, including follow-up colonoscopy if the test is positive, should be covered by payers without cost sharing as part of the screening continuum.
- AGA supports expansion of the continuum of screening to include the follow-up of patients found to have high-risk adenomas* (HRA) or advanced sessile serrated lesions (SSLs).
- AGA, working with a broad coalition of stakeholders, envisions the creation of a national resource to help manage population health focused on ensuring high-quality CRC screening and eliminating barriers to CRC screening.
AGA published these position statements in Gastroenterology.
Groups interested in collaborating with AGA should contact Kathleen Teixeira, AGA Vice President, Public Policy and Advocacy, at kteixeira@gastro.org.
Colorectal cancer resources
- Coding guide for CRC screening (for physicians)
- CRC screening: what to expect when paying (for patients)
- For patients: CRC Screening Options
- Updates on Age to Start and Stop Colorectal Cancer Screening: Recommendations From the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer
- Clinical Practice Update: Approach to the use of non-invasive CRC screening options
About the AGA Institute
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| 2022-06-14T19:25:22Z
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Demand for time-saving automation from business teams has increased in more than 90% of companies
New easy-to-use solution combines MuleSoft RPA and MuleSoft Composer to automate complex business tasks across legacy and modern systems
ADT, AT&T, Bayer Crop Science, and Western Union are using MuleSoft to drive business growth and increase operational efficiency, productivity, and agility
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MuleSoft CONNECT 2022 – Salesforce, [NYSE: CRM], the global leader in CRM, today introduced the next generation of MuleSoft, a unified solution for automation, integration, and APIs to easily automate any workflow so any technical or non-technical team can adapt to constant change and business complexity.
The solution now includes no-code capabilities to automate repetitive manual tasks using bots with MuleSoft RPA (robotic process automation) and to quickly connect data from any system, such as Slack, Stripe, and Workday, with MuleSoft Composer. The new capabilities are fully integrated into Salesforce Flow1, a complete suite of automation technologies across the Customer 360 to help save time, increase productivity, and deliver better experiences. Business teams like sales can close deals more efficiently and service agents can quickly sync customer records to improve customer service interactions.
"As an integral part of Salesforce Customer 360, MuleSoft helps companies integrate complex systems and data, while expanding the universe of people who can use automation across any system or workflow," said Shaun Clowes, Chief Product Officer, MuleSoft. "The result is empowered business and IT users, from sales and customer service to HR and finance, who can do more with less – quickly creating workflows and integrations that drive efficient growth and faster time-to-value."
Modern, easy automation and integration bring the future of work to every team
With macroeconomic uncertainty across markets, hiring, prices, and more, businesses are focused on efficient growth, cost savings, and productivity. More than 90% have seen a rise in demand for time-saving automation from business teams over the past two years, according to new Salesforce research. However, the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world has increased the number of systems and amount of data companies must manage and connect, creating integration roadblocks to automation progress. And when new systems are needed or business requirements change, 96% of companies find it difficult to modify existing automations.
MuleSoft Automation addresses those concerns with capabilities that allow customers to:
- Deliver intelligent automation anywhere: MuleSoft RPA enables any team to replace repetitive and manual tasks with bots that can intelligently process data from any system, document, photo, or legacy user interface. These bots can also be securely shared and reused across teams.
- Drive faster innovation with clicks, not code: Purpose-built for business teams, both MuleSoft Composer and MuleSoft RPA seamlessly connect applications with pre-built enterprise connectors and bots.
- Automate and integrate anything: MuleSoft RPA and MuleSoft Composer work seamlessly with Anypoint Platform, MuleSoft's industry-leading integration and API management platform. Automations can benefit from hundreds of connectors to important systems and even directly invoke APIs created by technical teams.
- Achieve end-to-end automation at scale: Teams can use MuleSoft RPA to automate workflows across multiple systems and apps by integrating RPA bots seamlessly with Salesforce Customer 360, Anypoint Platform, and MuleSoft Composer.
- Maintain security and governance: With Anypoint Platform, IT teams can govern, monitor, and secure any automation and integration built with APIs or bots.
Salesforce customers drive value for their employees, customers, and business with automation
Salesforce customers are running 4.8 billion MuleSoft transactions daily and decreasing operational costs by 74%, while saving over 100 billion hours of work every month with Salesforce Flow.2
Across industries, customers are using Customer 360 with MuleSoft to automate workflows at scale and enable business growth:
- ADT is dedicated to creating personalized customer service. "ADT's strong growth, through acquisitions and purposeful change, provided an opportunity to assess and improve employee and customer experiences by streamlining our technology stack. With MuleSoft, we've been able to integrate systems and automate processes more seamlessly to deliver unified and premium customer experiences from anywhere and across all our business divisions," said Sam Jaddi, CIO, ADT.
- AT&T is using Salesforce to deliver new types of connected experiences and improved customer service for its millions of customers. "MuleSoft has streamlined and fortified customer support across all channels at AT&T. With its automation and integration capabilities, we've reduced the time our teams are taking to complete administrative tasks. MuleSoft and Salesforce save our sales and services teams more than 1 million work hours a year to focus on what they do best — helping our customers," said Brad Ringer, Principal Solution Engineer, AT&T.
- Bayer Crop Science is using Salesforce to become more customer-centric, helping farmers and communities sustainably feed the planet with innovative agricultural solutions. "By integrating Salesforce and legacy systems with MuleSoft, we're able to provide better customer service experiences with a single view of the customer for teams across our business. And with a modernized integration and automation framework, it's incredible to see our teams developing a product 200% faster and increasing speed to market by 5x so that our customers can use the latest technologies," said Geoff Hickman, Technical Architect, Bayer Crop Science.
- Western Union, a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, is using Salesforce Customer 360 to transform the customer journey with a digital banking platform. "Our continued focus on customer experience requires that we increase our efficiency and productivity to deliver new experiences wherever our customers are. MuleSoft allows us to quickly access the information we need and automate workflows to drive omnichannel messaging capabilities, so our business teams can focus on providing great service and real-time conversations with our customers," said Tom Mazzaferro, Chief Data and Innovation Officer, Western Union.
Additional Information
- Tune into MuleSoft CONNECT to learn how Salesforce Customer 360 with MuleSoft, Slack, and Tableau is helping customers transform.
- Learn about MuleSoft Automation: MuleSoft RPA, MuleSoft Composer, and Anypoint Platform.
- Learn more about Salesforce's complete suite of automation technologies, Salesforce Flow.
- Read the latest Salesforce research on automation trends.
Pricing and Availability
- MuleSoft RPA is expected to be generally available in early August 2022.
- MuleSoft Composer is generally available.
1Flow Integration and Flow RPA are built into Salesforce Flow. Flow Integration is powered by MuleSoft Composer, and Flow RPA is powered by MuleSoft RPA.
2Multiply the assumed human capital needed to execute a typical process by the total number of processes automated in March 2022. The calculation assumes $20/hr, and 5 minutes of time saved. Money saved = # processes * (assumed money saved/process = $20/hr*5min/process or $1.67/process) = 1,311,913,101,975 processes*$1.67/process = $2.1908949e+12. Time and hours-saved calculations are based on the number of processes automated in March 2022, multiplying the assumed time (5 minutes) and cost ($20/hr) to complete a typical business process. Hours saved = # processes * (estimated avg time saved/process = 5 min) = 1,311,913,101,975 *5 min = 109,326,091,831 hours.
About Salesforce
Salesforce, the global CRM leader, empowers companies of every size and industry to digitally transform and create a 360° view of their customers. For more information about Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), visit: www.salesforce.com.
Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase Salesforce applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM." For more information please visit https://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
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— Fast-growing Franchise Expects to Approach 1,000 by End-of-Year and Continues to Expand Franchisee Network Nationwide —
TORRANCE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grand Welcome, one of the fastest growing short-term vacation rental management franchise concepts, announces that it has surpassed 750 properties nationwide in its franchise network, representing a more than 200% year-over-year increase. Franchisee and revenue growth have doubled in 2022, as well, as the franchise has developed innovative operational strategies to aid franchisees effectively scale their businesses.
"In less than three years we have been able to launch the Grand Welcome franchise and have it become one of the fastest growing concepts in the market. We expect sustained growth over the next year, as we continue to address market needs in a manner unlike any other short-term vacation rental company," said Brandon Ezra, founder and CEO of Grand Welcome.
Grand Welcome now has franchisees and properties in 13 states. Each property is locally owned and operated, unlike other short-term vacation rental franchises. Grand Welcome exceeded 30 franchisees in July of this year and expects to double that number by the end of 2022.
Ezra points to three pillars for Grand Welcome's growth and appeal to franchisees:
- Community-based – By having each franchisee serve as a member of their community, Grand Welcome is giving back to the areas in which they manage properties. This aids in the long-term success of the franchisee and helps the respective communities prosper.
- Advanced Technology – Grand Welcome has developed a proprietary reservation and accounting system that helps franchisees operate efficiently from the first day of business. It also helps franchisees scale more efficiently for effective expansion.
- Support – Franchisees have access to a back office administrative support team of highly qualified and trained professionals skilled in reservations, customer service, marketing, and accounting. It allows the franchisees to better focus on the properties in their territories.
"Our vision is to grow Grand Welcome through a shared passion and innovation that recognizes opportunities and seizes them. That approach led us to recently introduce a Tier 1 program to best address an underserved part of the short-term vacation rental business efficiently. Additionally, our expansion plans include international properties, as we expect to continue to set the pace in our market segment," said Ezra.
About Grand Welcome
Named one of Entrepreneur magazine's Top New and Emerging Franchises of 2022, Grand Welcome has become one of the leading short-term rental property management businesses in the United States. Founded in 2009, the company is consistently growing the number of franchise locations, properties, and range of destinations it offers to valued and loyal customers.
To learn more about Grand Welcome franchise opportunities, visit www.grandwelcomefranchise.com or call 803.991.4297.
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Dear Annie: I am 75. Two years ago, my oldest son, age 53, died suddenly from a massive heart attack. He was single and worked hard to amass a very large estate, which he left to me. The plan once his estate closed was to use some of the money to move to another state, pay cash for a house, get a couple of dependable cars, keep the remainder invested and, if necessary, use it to supplement our Social Security for the rest of our lives or for emergencies.
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Airlines count on business travelers to keep recovery going
DALLAS (AP) — With summer vacations winding down, airlines are counting on the return of more business travelers to keep their pandemic recovery going into the fall.
Air travel in the United States, bolstered by huge numbers of tourists, has nearly recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
Inflation — and especially this year’s sharp rise in airfares — raises concern about how long vacationers can afford to keep flying at their current pace. Airlines say they see no signs of a slowdown in leisure travel.
Business travel, however, remains about 25% to 30% below 2019 levels, according to airlines and outfits that track sales.
And it is not clear when — or if — road warriors will return to their old travel habits.
“The whole challenge for the industry is around the return of the corporate traveler, and whether he is going to come back in enough volume and frequency that is going to help these airlines,” says John Grant, an analyst with travel-data provider OAG.
The Global Business Travel Association recently predicted that corporate travel won’t fully return until mid-2026, 18 months later than the trade group had previously forecast.
Business travelers generally pay higher fares, so their absence has an outsized impact on airline revenue and profit.
Business travel is slower to return because it is more complicated than somebody deciding they want to take a vacation after staying home during the first two years of the pandemic, says Chuck Thackston, who leads data research at the Airlines Reporting Corp., a ticket-settlement firm that operates as a middleman between airlines and travel agents.
“On the corporate side, it just takes a little more to restart that because there are so many moving parts,” Thackston said. “If you want to go visit clients in New York, it could be that nobody is in the office in New York. That is slowly building back.”
Conventions and other big meetings are another key driver of business travel, and also seem to be coming back, Thackston said.
Airline officials say that travel by small-business operators has recovered nearly fully, but that many corporate travelers have not returned to the road or skies.
The chief commercial officer of Southwest Airlines, Andrew Watterson, said that since business travel began picking up this spring, “it was skewed toward smaller businesses and government and education were traveling. Our largest corporates are the ones that are lagging, particularly banking, consulting and technology.”
Watterson said that among Southwest’s biggest corporate accounts, they all have employees traveling — but not as many of them, and not as often.
The nature of business travel is changing as companies become accustomed to smaller travel budgets. Some trips are being replaced by video calls, perhaps permanently. Speculative sales trips could be especially easy for companies to cut.
Conventions now routinely offer a “hybrid” format with an option to stay behind and watch online — although that means missing the hallway conversations and other opportunities to network.
Standard & Poor’s said this week that many convention center operators are running summer and fall schedules similar to those in 2019, but a recession or new COVID-19 variant are still risks.
Vasu Raja, the chief commercial officer at American Airlines, said demand has dropped for one-day business trips in which someone leaves in the morning and flies home that evening.
“But interestingly, we’ve seen more demand for blended trips where somebody leaves on a Thursday from Dallas to go to New York, they don’t return on the Friday — they stay through the weekend and they come back on Sunday,” he said. Sometimes a spouse goes with them, he added.
Business travel is big business worldwide. The Global Business Travel Association estimates that it was worth more than $1.4 trillion in 2019, then plummeted by more than half each of the next two years. The trade group estimates that after being hindered by the omicron variant early this year, business travel will hit $933 billion in 2022 — still 35% below the pre-pandemic mark.
The widespread availability of vaccines and better treatment of COVID-19 — along with relaxation of mandatory quarantines and other travel restrictions — have boosted leisure and corporate travel. However, travel is now threatened by deteriorating economic conditions including surging inflation and labor shortages. New COVID-19 variants remain a concern among travel managers, particularly in Asia.
The cost of travel is expected to keep rising, putting pressure on corporate budgets. A recent report from travel-management company CWT predicted that fares paid by business travelers will rise nearly 50% this year and 8% next year, and hotel rates will rise 19% this year and 8% in 2023.
Most U.S. airlines reported profits for the April-through-June second quarter. For American and United, it was their first profitable quarter excluding government aid since the pandemic started, and they should be in the black for the third quarter, which ends with vacation-heavy July and August.
Business travel traditionally enjoys a peak in the spring and another in September and October. Airlines are about to find out whether that happens this year.
“There has been a lot of discussion about, yeah, business travel is coming back, and U.S. airline CEOs being quite bullish about it,” said Grant, the OAG analyst. “But the hard evidence now needs to come forward.”
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SSP Kicked Off 2022 With Significant Revenue Growth – Q1 2021 vs Q1 2022 Marks 540% Upswing – Driven by Diverse Marketplace Approach & Opportunity for Marketers to Invest in Under-Represented Communities
HOUSTON, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Direct Digital Holdings (Nasdaq: DRCT) announced today that its supply-side advertising platform, Colossus SSP, had a strong first quarter, with comparisons between Q1 2021 to Q1 2022 showing a 540 percent surge in revenue. This uptick comes on the heels of year-over-year revenue growing by 330 percent between 2020 and 2021, as well as a triple digit increase the previous year, with the platform's revenue rising by 235 percent between 2019 and 2020. Leadership credits the dramatic growth to the company's commitment to normalize diversity in the field of programmatic advertising – delivering multicultural and general market audiences at scale. In addition, it points to several brands living up to their promises to support under-represented communities in their media buys.
"Colossus SSP's approach has always been one of inclusivity, bringing together a diverse set of audiences – Black, Hispanic, Asian, LGBTQ, and more – alongside general market, to serve as a one-stop-shop for advertisers who want to reach a cross-section of consumers," said Lashawnda Goffin, CEO, Colossus SSP. "Not only has this allowed savvy marketers the opportunity to reach a vibrant range of consumers, but it has helped them increase investment in minority-owned media properties that have often been left out of the programmatic mix. Moreover, by putting their budgets to work to support multicultural voices, these brands are seeing remarkable results in meeting critical KPIs."
The number of brands and media agencies tapping into Colossus SSP's inclusive audience approach rose by 87 percent comparing Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, with clients such as Bayer, HP, and the NBA coming on board.
"At Bayer, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live the healthiest life possible, and that we have a responsibility to make our vision of Health for All, Hunger for None a reality," said Gary Guarnaccia, Head of Platform & Publisher Investment, Bayer Consumer Health, North America. "Partnering with Colossus SSP and their growing marketplace of diverse content and minority-owned publishers has enabled our in-house digital media buying team to expand our reach to consumers with important information about our healthcare products and brands, such as Aleve, Midol and One-A-Day."
In lockstep with demand, in Q1 2022 Colossus SSP significantly expanded its publisher inventory supply. Currently Colossus SSP makes over approximately 90 billion impressions available each month with a diverse audience marketplace that includes over 13,000 sites and apps.
Blavity Inc, a market leader for Black media, reaching over 100 million millennials per month, began working with Colossus SSP in January 2020 and over the course of the following two years saw a 7-fold increase in revenues derived from the partnership.
"Colossus SSP has proven to be a valuable partner, one that has a deep understanding of publishers – especially multicultural publishers – as well as the media and marketing landscape at large," said Orchid Richardson, Senior Vice President of Digital, Blavity Inc. "After two years of exponential growth, we are on track to see revenues from our relationship with Colossus SSP rise at a steady clip – if not outpace."
"Colossus SSP's rapid growth is a testament to its distinct approach to diversity, technology and the dynamic team that Lashawnda Goffin has been able to build," said Mark Walker, CEO, Direct Digital Holdings. "Marketers are experiencing the benefits through multiple ROI metrics and subsequently publisher partners are experiencing significant growth in revenues. It's a win-win situation."
About Direct Digital Holdings
Direct Digital Holdings (Nasdaq: DRCT) brings state-of-the-art sell- and buy-side advertising platforms together under one umbrella company. The holding group's Sell-side platform Colossus SSP offers advertisers of all sizes extensive reach within general market and multicultural media properties. Its operating companies Huddled Masses and Orange142 deliver significant ROI for middle market advertisers by providing data-optimized programmatic solutions at scale for businesses in sectors that range from energy to healthcare and travel to financial services. Direct Digital Holdings' sell- and buy-side solutions manage approximately 70,000 clients monthly, generating over 90 billion impressions per month across display, CTV, in-app, and other media channels. The company has been named a top minority-owned business by The Houston Business Journal ("HBJ").
About Colossus SSP
Part of Direct Digital Holdings (Nasdaq: DRCT), Colossus SSP is a leading custom supply-side platform (SSP) that delivers a diverse marketplace, enabling programmatic media buyers to connect with multicultural and general market audiences at scale. Colossus SSP's consulting arm provides brands of all sizes with meaningful insights and actionable guidance for reaching curated audiences. For more information, visit www.colossusmediassp.com.
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| 2022-07-20T14:03:47Z
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Biden, first lady host teachers of the year
WASHINGTON (Gray News) - The president and first lady plan to host national and state teachers of the year at an event Wednesday.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, who also is a teacher at Northern Virginia Community College, will be joined by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in the East Room of the White House.
The Council of Chief State School Officers named Kurt Russell, a high school history teacher from Oberlin, Ohio, its national teacher of the year on April 19. He is in his 25th year in the classroom, teaching classes including African American history; U.S. history; International Baccalaureate History of the Americas; and Race, Gender and Oppression.
Russell also is the school’s head varsity basketball coach.
“I am truly humbled and honored to be selected as the National Teacher of the Year,” Russell said, via CCSSO news release. “With this recognition, I hope to bring attention and awareness to the importance of diverse faculty and representative curriculum that helps students feel more empowered in their education.”
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| 2022-04-27T19:17:58Z
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NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marpai, Inc. ("Marpai" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: MRAI), a deep learning technology company transforming third-party administration (TPA) in the self-funded health insurance market, will host a conference call and webcast on Thursday, August 11 at 8:30 a.m. ET to answer questions about the Company's operational and financial highlights for its second quarter in 2022. The Company will report its second quarter results after the close of trading on Wednesday, August 10, 2022.
Event: Marpai Q2 2022 Financial Results Conference Call
Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022
Time: 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time
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About Marpai, Inc.
Marpai, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRAI) is a technology company bringing AI-powered health plan services to employers that directly pay for employee health benefits. Primarily competing in the $22 billion TPA (Third Party Administrator) sector serving self-funded employer health plans representing over $1 trillion in annual claims, Marpai maximizes the value of the health plan as measured in health outcomes. Marpai takes a member-centric approach that uses AI and big data to connect members to health solutions predicted to have a high probability of positive outcomes, and aims to bring value-based care to the self-insured market. With effective early intervention, disease management, claims processing and proactive member outreach, Marpai works to deliver the healthiest member population for the health plan budget. Operating nationwide, Marpai offers access to provider networks including Aetna and Cigna and all TPA services. For more information, visit www.marpaihealth.com.
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High-Speed Data Revenue from continuing operations of $102.6 million, up 4% compared to the second quarter of 2021
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WideOpenWest, Inc. ("WOW!" or the "Company") (NYSE: WOW), one of the nation's leading broadband providers, with an efficient, high-performing network that passes 1.9 million residential, business and wholesale consumers, today announced financial and operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Second Quarter 2022 Highlights (1)(2)
- Total Revenue from continuing operations of $176.1 million, a decrease of $5.8 million or 3%, compared to the second quarter of 2021
- HSD Revenue from continuing operations totaled $102.6 million, an increase of $3.9 million, or 4%, compared to the second quarter of 2021
- Net Income from continuing operations was $4.0 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022
- Net Profit Margin was 2.3% compared to 4.3% for the second quarter of 2021
- Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA was a record $70.6 million, an increase of $6.3 million, or 10%, compared to the second quarter of 2021
- Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA Margin was a record 40.1% compared to 35.3% for the second quarter of 2021
- Added 2,200 HSD RGUs
- Announced the launch of 1.2 Gig speeds across entire footprint
- Greenfield progress on track and construction has begun in Central Florida
"I am pleased with our second quarter results which reflect the strength of our broadband-first strategy and the progress we have made on our strategic initiatives as we delivered record Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA margin," said Teresa Elder, WOW!'s CEO. "We continue to meet our operational goals as we grow our high-speed data subscriber base, increase edge-out penetration and accelerate our Greenfield expansion."
"Our HSD revenue grew 4% from the same period last year and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA grew by nearly 10% from last year, to a record high $70.6 million and a record Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA margin of 40.1%," said John Rego, WOW!'s CFO. "The combination of HSD revenue growth and the realization of strategic efficiencies has brought our Pro Forma Adjusted Margin very close to the levels attained prior to last year's divestitures."
Revenue
Total Revenue from continuing operations was $176.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, down $5.8 million, or 3%, as compared to the corresponding period in 2021.
Total Subscription Revenue from continuing operations for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 was $163.2 million, down $5.4 million, or 3%, as compared to the corresponding period in 2021. The decrease is primarily driven by a shift in service offering mix as we continue to experience a reduction in Video and Telephony RGUs, partially offset by an increase in average revenue per unit ("ARPU") as HSD customers continue to purchase higher speed tiers coupled with HSD and Video rate increases issued in the first quarter of 2022 and an increase in volume attributable exclusively to the addition of HSD subscribers.
Other Business Services Revenue from continuing operations totaled $5.4 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, down $0.3 million as compared to the corresponding period in 2021. The decrease is primarily due to a decrease in data center revenue.
Other Revenue from continuing operations totaled $7.5 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, down $0.1 million as compared to the corresponding period in 2021, primarily related to decreases in advertising and line assurance revenue partially offset by an increase in late fee revenue.
Costs and Expenses
Operating Expenses (excluding Depreciation and Amortization) from continuing operations totaled $83.0 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, down $12.1 million, or 13%, compared to the corresponding period in 2021 primarily driven by decreases in direct operating expenses, specifically programming expense, which aligns with the reduction in Video RGUs between periods and lower bad debt expense, partially offset by decreases in capital eligible expenses. Selling, General, and Administrative expenses from continuing operations totaled $39.3 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, down $6.2 million, or 14%, compared to the corresponding period in 2021 primarily attributable to decreases in costs associated with digital transformation initiatives, marketing, and legal and professional services expenses, partially offset by an increase in stock compensation expense.
Net Income
Net Income for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 was $4.0 million as compared to $12.4 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2021. Net Profit Margin was 2.3% for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 as compared to 4.3% for the quarter ended June 30, 2021.
Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA
Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 was $70.6 million, an increase of $6.3 million, compared to the corresponding period in 2021. Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA margin was 40.1% for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 as compared to 35.3% for the quarter ended June 30, 2021.
Subscribers
WOW! reported Total Subscribers from continuing operations of 536,600 as of June 30, 2022, an increase of 6,100, or 1%, compared to June 30, 2021, up 1,900 compared to March 31, 2022. HSD RGUs totaled 517,200 as of June 30, 2022, an increase of 9,300 or 2%, compared to June 30, 2021, up 2,200 compared to March 31, 2022.
Edge-Outs
Edge-Out Projects from continuing operations reached a total of 78,900 homes passed and 19,700 Subscribers since inception.
The 2020 Edge-Out projects from continuing operations include 800 Subscribers, which represents 23.5% penetration on such nodes. The 2021 Edge-Out projects from continuing operations include 800 Subscribers, which represents 40.0% penetration on such nodes. The 2022 Edge-Out projects from continuing operations include 100 Subscribers, which represents 14.3% penetration on such nodes.
Capital Expenditures
Capital Expenditures from continuing operations totaled $34.7 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, representing a $6.8 million decrease compared to the quarter ended June 30, 2021. The decrease is primarily related to a reduction network enhancement and customer premise equipment ("CPE") expenditures partially offset by increases in line extensions as we focus on expanding our network.
Capital Expenditures from continuing operations for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 equates to 20% of Total Revenue from continuing operations for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Liquidity and Leverage
As of June 30, 2022, the total outstanding amount of long-term debt and finance lease obligations was $738.5 million, and cash and cash equivalents were $49.9 million. Total Net Leverage as of June 30, 2022, was 2.6X in line with the first quarter of 2022 on a LTM Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA basis and undrawn revolver capacity totaled $245.6 million.
Third Quarter and Full Year 2022 Guidance
Webcast
WOW! will host a webcast on Friday, August 5, 2022, at 8:00 a.m. ET to discuss the financial and operating results contained in this press release. The conference call and webcast will be broadcast live on the Company's investor relations website at ir.wowway.com. Those parties interested in participating can use the information as follows:
A replay of the call will be available on August 5, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. ET, on the investor relations website or by telephone. To access the telephone replay, which will be available until August 19, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. ET, please dial (800) 770-2030 or (647) 362-9199 and use conference ID 4844814.
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About WOW!
WOW! is one of the nation's leading broadband providers, with an efficient, high-performing network that passes 1.9 million residential, business and wholesale consumers. WOW! provides services in 14 markets, primarily in the Midwest and Southeast, including Michigan, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia. With an expansive portfolio of advanced services, including high-speed Internet services, cable TV, phone, business data, voice, and cloud services, the company is dedicated to providing outstanding service at affordable prices. WOW! also serves as a leader in exceptional human resources practices, having been recognized seven times by the National Association for Business Resources as a Best & Brightest Company to Work For, winning the award for the last four consecutive years. Visit www.wowway.com for more information.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release that are not historical facts contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements represent our goals, beliefs, plans and expectations about our prospects for the future and other future events. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical fact and can be identified by terms such as "may," "intend," "might," "will," "should," "could," "would," "anticipate," "expect," "believe," "estimate," "plan," "project," "predict," "potential," or the negative of these terms. Although these forward-looking statements reflect our good-faith belief and reasonable judgment based on current information, these statements are qualified by important factors, many of which are beyond our control that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors and other risks that could cause our actual results to differ materially are set forth in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report filed on Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and other reports subsequently filed with the SEC. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this report are made as of the date hereof or the date specified herein, based on information available to us as of such date. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The Company has included certain non-GAAP financial measures in this release, including Adjusted EBITDA and Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA margin. These terms, as defined herein, are not intended to be considered in isolation, as a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP"). These terms may vary from the use of similar terms by other companies in our industry due to different methods of calculation and therefore are not necessarily comparable.
We believe that these non-GAAP measures enhance an investor's understanding of our financial performance. We believe that these non-GAAP measures are useful financial metrics to assess our operating performance from period to period by excluding certain items that we believe are not representative of our core business. We believe that these non-GAAP measures provide investors with useful information for assessing the comparability between periods of our ability to generate cash from operations sufficient to pay taxes, to service debt and to undertake Capital Expenditures. We use these non-GAAP measures for business planning purposes and in measuring our performance relative to that of our competitors. We believe these non-GAAP measures are measures commonly used by investors to evaluate our performance and that of our competitors.
Adjusted EBITDA eliminates the impact of expenses that do not relate to overall business performance and is defined by WOW! as net income (loss) before interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization (including impairments), impairment losses on intangibles and goodwill, write-off of any asset, loss on early extinguishment of debt, integration and restructuring expenses and all non‑cash charges and expenses (including stock compensation expense) and certain other income and expenses. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to net income (loss), operating income or any other performance measures derived in accordance with GAAP as measures of operating performance, operating cash flows or liquidity. Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA takes into account the recent sales of five service areas as though such transactions had occurred prior to the periods presented.
Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA margin is defined as Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA divided by total revenue, expressed as a percentage. Adjusted EBITDA margin should not be considered as an alternative to Net Profit margin.
Refer to "Reconciliations of GAAP Measures to Non-GAAP Measures" and the accompanying tables below for a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA margin to Net Profit margin which are the most directly comparable corresponding GAAP financial measures.
Subscriber Information
The Company uses the terms defined below throughout this release.
Homes passed are reported as the number of serviceable addresses, such as single residence homes, apartments and condominium units, and businesses passed by our broadband network and listed in our database.
We deliver multiple services to our customers, as such we report Total Subscribers as the number of Subscribers who receive at least one of our HSD, Video or Telephony services, without regard to which or how many services they subscribe. We define each of the individual HSD Subscribers, Video Subscribers and Telephony Subscribers as a Revenue Generating Unit ("RGU").
While we take appropriate steps to ensure subscriber information is presented on a consistent and accurate basis at any given balance sheet date, we periodically review our policies in light of the variability we may encounter across our different markets due to the nature and pricing of products and services and billing systems. Accordingly, we may from time to time make appropriate adjustments to our subscriber information based on such reviews.
Additional Information Available on Website:
The information in this press release should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and footnotes contained in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, which will be posted on of our investor relations website at ir.wowway.com, when it is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). A slide presentation to accompany the conference call and a trending schedule containing historical customer and financial data will also be available on our website.
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Vice President, Head of Investor Relations
303-927-4935
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Vice President, Corporate Communications
720-527-8214
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NEW YORK , May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. ("Axsome" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: AXSM) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and docketed under 22-cv-03925, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Axsome securities between December 30, 2019 and April 22, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of the federal securities laws and to pursue remedies under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"), and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, against the Company and certain of its top officials.
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired Axsome securities during the Class Period, you have until July 12, 2022 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Axsome is a biopharmaceutical company that engages in the development of novel therapies for central nervous system disorders in the United States. The Company is developing, among other product candidates, AXS-07, a novel, oral, rapidly absorbed, multi-mechanistic, and investigational medicine for the acute treatment of migraine.
Axsome consistently touted AXS-07's regulatory and commercial prospects in anticipation of the Company's submission a New Drug Application ("NDA") to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for AXS-07 for the acute treatment of migraine (the "AXS-07 NDA") based on the drug's positive results in two Phase 3 trials. However, unbeknownst to investors, the Company's preparation and eventual submission of the AXS-07 NDA was plagued with chemistry, manufacturing, and control ("CMC") issues.
The complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Axsome's CMC practices were deficient with respect to AXS-07 and its manufacturing process; (ii) as a result, Axsome was unlikely to submit the AXS-07 NDA on its initially represented timeline; (iii) the foregoing CMC issues remained unresolved at the time that the FDA reviewed the AXS-07 NDA; (iv) accordingly, the FDA was unlikely to approve the AXS-07 NDA; (v) as a result of all the foregoing, Axsome had overstated AXS-07's regulatory and commercial prospects; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
On November 5, 2020, Axsome issued a press release reporting the Company's third quarter 2020 results. That press release disclosed that the Company "plans to submit the [AXS-07] NDA to the FDA in the first quarter of 2021, versus previous guidance of the fourth quarter of 2020, to allow for inclusion of supplemental manufacturing information to ensure a robust submission package."
On this news, Axsome's stock price fell $5.22 per share, or 6.99%, to close at $69.51 per share on November 5, 2020.
Then, on April 25, 2022, Axsome disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that, "[o]n April 22, 2022, Axsome . . . was informed by the [FDA] that [CMC] issues identified during the FDA's review of the Company's [NDA] for its AXS-07 product candidate for the acute treatment of migraine are unresolved." That filing also disclosed that "[b]ased upon the time remaining in the NDA review cycle, the Company expects to receive a Complete Response Letter [('CRL')] with respect to this NDA on or about the Prescription Drug User Fee Act target action date of April 30, 2022."
On this news, Axsome's stock price fell $8.60 per share, or 21.99%, to close at $30.50 per share on April 25, 2022.
Finally, on May 2, 2022, Axsome announced that it received a CRL from the FDA regarding the AXS-07 NDA for the acute treatment of migraine. According to the Company, "[t]he principal reasons given in the CRL relate to [CMC] considerations" including "the need for additional CMC data pertaining to the drug product and manufacturing process."
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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Supreme Court Justice Breyer to retire Thursday
(Gray News) - Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will officially retire Thursday.
In a letter to President Joe Biden, Breyer wrote that he would retire at noon, after the Supreme Court issues its last opinions for the current term.
“It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the Rule of Law,” Breyer wrote.
Breyer, a nominee of then-President Bill Clinton, has served on the court since 1994.
Breyer will be replaced by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was nominated by Biden and confirmed by the Senate after Breyer announced in January that he’d retire at the end of the term.
“You have nominated and the United States Senate has confirmed the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson to succeed me in the office, and I understand that she is prepared to take the prescribed oaths to begin her service as the 116th member of this Court,” Breyer wrote.
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Influential CS leaders share best practices, success stories, and actionable takeaways to help companies develop their own winning strategies
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Totango, Inc., the industry's only Composable Customer Success (CS) platform that helps companies drive immediate value, launches CS No BS. The new podcast shares practical advice from CS industry thought leaders at Schneider Electric, SAP, Swiftly, PetDesk, Sentinel One, and more to empower listeners to build customer-centric organizations that deliver world-class customer experiences so their businesses can thrive in any market.
With a focus on revealing what it takes to become a high-impact leader in the burgeoning field of CS, the new podcast is hosted by Totango President & COO, Jamie Bertasi – who has led the company to significant growth since its $100 million in Series D funding last September. With a track record for building high-value experiences for customers and delivering strong business results, Bertasi will interview customer success leaders from B2B companies about their own experiences in order to equip listeners with actionable tips and solutions.
"Let's face it, CS is full of it," said Bertasi. "Whether you work in customer success or you're interested in integrating it into your company, you know there's a lot of fluff out there. You don't need any more generic advice about 'putting the customer first' or how to run a QBR. You need practical, real-world tips to help you solve the problems you're facing right now. In this podcast, I'll talk to the top CS leaders in the world about the strategies and tactics they're using to drive results. No nonsense – just a practical playbook for delivering net revenue retention, the holy grail of customer growth."
The first CS No BS episode, available now, features Totango CEO and founder Guy Nirpaz, who explains his core philosophy of treating the customer journey like a product. In addition to founding a CS company that propels scale-up growth for over 5,000 organizations of all sizes, Nirpaz is a widely-respected thought leader and award-winning author of the book Farm Don't Hunt: The Definitive Guide to Customer Success.
With episode two dropping today, the first season of the podcast is slated to feature Brent Cogswell, Head of CS at Schneider Electric; Maranda Dziekonski, Chief Customer Officer at Swiftly; Shona Fenner, Sr. CS Operations Manager at PetDesk; Kerri Brown, Head of LACE Franchise for CS at SAP; Eran Ashkenazi, Chief Customer Officer at Sentinel One; and many more.
"In the early days of CS, we were a bunch of churn-busters, there to protect the revenue, but it's evolved into something much bigger today," said upcoming guest Maranda Dziekonski, Chief Customer Officer at Swiftly. "In a consumer-driven market, companies that don't have the CS motion down will get left behind. This podcast will be a great way to find fresh ideas so you can experiment and build your own CS strategies."
In addition, Bertasi will host a live panel discussion at Totango's upcoming Customer Success Summit: Teams—an in-person training and networking event in Miami from September 14–16, 2022—that will be featured on an upcoming podcast episode.
Produced by Caspian Studios, CS No BS will release a new 35-45-minute episode every two weeks. The first episode is available now on Totango.com, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Simplecast, and most podcast apps and services.
Founded in 2010, Totango is the industry's only Composable Customer Success Platform. Totango's no-code, visual software enables businesses to deliver and quickly optimize best-in-class customer journeys, accelerate product onboarding and adoption, maximize customer retention, and increase user satisfaction leading to strong business results. Totango's ready-to-use journey templates (SuccessBLOCs) eliminate the friction of time and money spent on implementation and maintenance of old-school customer success platforms. As the only customer success software that combines a modern visual design and collaboration canvas, easy-to-use workflow orchestration tools, and out-of-the-box templates, Totango gives teams instant clarity and full control to create and consistently execute best-in-class customer journeys. Start where you are and go with a modular platform that provides immediate Day 1 value, continuous recalibration as needed, and predictable scale-up growth. For more information and to start Totango for free, visit Totango.com.
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- The STAMINA-001 study will evaluate the safety, pharmacology and preliminary efficacy of ATG-037 as a monotherapy or in combination with pembrolizumab, an immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), in patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors
- ATG-037 is an orally-available, small molecule CD73 inhibitor. Antengene has exclusive global rights to develop, commercialize and manufacture ATG-037
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG, May 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene" SEHK: 6996.HK), a leading innovative, commercial-stage global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class and/or best-in-class therapeutics in hematology and oncology, today announced that the first patient has been dosed in the Phase I STAMINA-001 trial to evaluate ATG-037 as a monotherapy or in combination with pembrolizumab in patients with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors in Australia.
The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, recommended Phase II dose and preliminary antitumor efficacy of ATG-037 as a monotherapy and in combination with pembrolizumab. Secondary objectives include characterization of the pharmacology of ATG-037.
ATG-037 is an orally available, small molecule CD73 inhibitor. CD73 is an "immune checkpoint mediator"[1] that interferes with anti-tumor immune responses by generating adenosine, which leads to immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment. ATG-037 can reverse adenosine-mediated immunosuppression[2]. It has demonstrated promising preclinical efficacy as a monotherapy and in combination with ICIs and chemotherapy agents. In preclinical studies, this compound overcomes the "hook effect" that is common in anti-CD73 antibodies. In addition, GLP toxicology studies indicate the compound has a potentially wide therapeutic window.
"While ICIs are widely used in the treatment of various cancers, many patients have resistant or refractory disease, which has created a large unmet need," said Dr. Ganessan Kichenadasse, principal investigator, Southern Oncology Clinical Research Unit in Adelaide, Australia. "Mounting evidence suggests that adenosine plays a critical role in suppressing anti-tumor immunoactivity. CD73 can convert adenosine monophosphate (AMP) to adenosine. ATG-037, an orally available, small molecule CD73 inhibitor, can block the generation of adenosine. We are excited to be a part of the STAMINA-001 Trial. This Phase I study brings together a group of highly experienced Australian investigators to collaborate with Antengene. We are excited to assess the therapeutic potential of ATG-037 for patients with solid tumors as a single agent as well the exploring the opportunity for benefit with the addition of an ICIs."
"Developing agents that can act in the tumor microenvironment to reverse immunosuppression is one of the key focus areas for Antengene, " said Dr. Kevin Lynch, Antengene's Chief Medical Officer. "Preclinical data presented at the 2022 American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting (AACR 2022) showed that ATG-037 had a stronger ability to restore T-cell function in higher-AMP environments compared with anti-CD73 monoclonal antibodies. These data highlighted the potential therapeutic advantages of small molecule inhibitors of CD73 over blocking antibodies, either as a monotherapy, or in combination with other immune-oncological treatments. We have been very pleased with the drug's performance in preclinical studies and are hopeful that in this Phase I study ATG-037 can demonstrate the tolerability and signals of activity that will allow us to move forward into a broader development program. We are very excited about the start of this first in human clinical trial and look forward to next steps with ATG-037."
About the STAMINA-001 Trial
The STAMINA-001 trial is a Phase I multi-center, open-label, dose finding study of ATG-037 monotherapy or combination therapy with pembrolizumab in patients with locally advanced and metastatic solid tumors. Subjects will begin with two monotherapy cycles and then be allowed to receive the addition of pembrolizumab. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of ATG-037 and to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and/or recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) and/or optimal biological dose of ATG-037 monotherapy and preliminary efficacy. Secondary objectives include characterization of the pharmacology of ATG-037. As a Phase I study, there will be intensive safety monitoring throughout the trial.
About ATG-037
ATG-037 is an orally-available, highly selective small molecule that completely blocks the activity of CD73. CD73, an ecto-5'-nucleotidase, catalyzes the conversion of adenosine monophosphate (AMP) to adenosine. Adenosine production leads to significant immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment, now recognized as one of the most important immunomodulatory pathways in the tumor microenvironment.
Many human tumors overexpress CD73 and this expression is frequently associated with poor prognosis. Blocking CD73 has been shown to be effective in controlling tumor growth and metastases and CD73 inhibitors may increase the therapeutic activity of ICIs and chemotherapy agents. Clinical data so far indicate that CD73 inhibitors add little additional toxicity to standard of care treatments.
About Antengene
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Haitian gang leader charged in kidnapping of US missionaries
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged the leader of a notoriously violent Haitian gang in connection with the kidnapping of 16 Americans last year, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Germine Joly, 29, who is also known as “Yonyon,” is accused of leading the 400 Mawozo gang and is the first person charged by Justice Department prosecutors with having any involvement in the kidnapping of the Christian missionaries. He was extradited to the U.S. last week and faces separate charges in a firearms trafficking case, prosecutors said.
The indictment says Joly was in a Haitian prison during the kidnapping but was nonetheless able to direct his group’s operations, including ransom negotiations for the captives’ release. One of the stated goals of the hostage-taking was to get the Haitian government to release Joly from prison, prosecutors said.
A total of 17 people from the missionary group — 12 adults and five minors — were abducted Oct. 16 shortly after visiting an orphanage in Ganthier, in the Croix-des-Bouquets area, the group has said. The group included 16 Americans and one Canadian.
Twelve of the captive missionaries escaped during a daring overnight caper, eluding their kidnappers and walking for miles over difficult, moonlit terrain with an infant and other children in tow. The group navigated by stars to reach safety after a two-month kidnapping ordeal, according to officials with the Christian Aid Ministries, the Ohio-based agency that the missionaries work for.
Their captors from the 400 Mawozo gang initially demanded millions of dollars in ransom. Five other captives had earlier reached freedom. It is still unclear if any ransom was paid. The 12 hostages who escaped were flown to Florida on a U.S. Coast Guard flight, and later reunited with the five hostages who had been released earlier.
Joly is due to make his first court appearance Wednesday. It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer to comment on his behalf.
“This case shows that the Justice Department will be relentless in our efforts to track down anyone who kidnaps a U.S. citizen abroad,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “We will utilize the full reach of our law enforcement authorities to hold accountable anyone responsible for undermining the safety of Americans anywhere in the world.”
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NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Equum Medical, a leading provider of telehealth-enabled specialty care to rural, critical access and community hospitals, has been named a Pipeline Partner of the National Rural Health Association (NRHA). For more than 10 years, Equum's national network of world-class physicians has helped rural hospitals fill gaps in care delivery caused by a lack of specialists and cleared bottlenecks in patient flow resulting from inappropriate care transitions, adverse events and delayed discharge.
NRHA's mission is to provide leadership on rural health issues through advocacy, communication, education, and research to its 26,000 members across all 50 states. Equum is now one of the valuable resources available to NRHA members.
"We welcome the opportunity to start a dialogue with NRHA members, many of whom depend on telehealth services to be able to provide comprehensive care and keep patients in the community," said Equum CEO Corey Scurlock, MD, MBA. "In addition to working with individual NRHA members, we want to use this partnership to provide information and insight to all rural providers on how to navigate profound changes going on in the healthcare industry."
Equum doesn't sell technology; it uses trusted partner companies or the hospital's existing telehealth infrastructure for the video and audio feeds. Equum applies a proprietary algorithm to optimally distribute the capacity of its network of remote specialist physicians so that needed care is delivered to the right patients at the right time.
Equum's services include:
Tele-ED. On-demand multi-specialty clinical teams support surge/capacity and early intervention
Tele-Critical Care: Scheduled or continuous models of intensivist-led care for ED and ICU and step-down units
Virtual sitters. Remote observation program decreases adverse events at the bedside and reduces costs
Patient Transfer and Hospital Flow Optimization: Support level-loading and bed utilization to keep patients in-network
Post-acute Remote Patient Monitoring. Care teams support higher acuity care beyond the hospital into the home
Telehealth Maturity Consulting: Helps organizations implement a virtual care road map across the care continuum
"We are pleased to add to our Partnership Program a company with Equum's depth and breadth of service, quality of physician network and track record of success in delivering much-needed specialist expertise to rural hospitals," said Larry Bedell, Executive Director of NRHA Services Corp. "Telehealth at this level is needed to maximize resources and efficiency to meet rural hospitals' goal of equitable, affordable and high-quality care for all patients."
Equum Medical will participate in this years NRHA Rural Health Clinic and Critical Access Hospital Conference September 20-23 in Kansas City as a designated NRHA Partner. Find more information on this event and rural telehealth opportunities here.
Equum helps hospitals and health systems enhance care and serve more patients, while delivering a positive clinical, operational and financial impact. Equum works with providers large and small, urban and rural, focusing on ensuring that medically underserved areas have access to world-class specialist expertise from physicians fully licensed in the states where they practice. Our work has special resonance for critical-access and rural hospitals, which can take advantage of our wide menu of services as well as our flexible and nimble approach to hybrid care. For more information, visit https://equummedical.com/
NRHA is a nonprofit organization working to improve the health and well-being of rural Americans and provide leadership on rural health issues through advocacy, communications, education, and research.NRHA's membership is made up of diverse individuals and organizations, all of whom share the common bond of an interest in rural health. For more information, visit https://www.ruralhealth.us/
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KISSIMMEE, Fla., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hasbro's immensely popular children's brand, PJ MASKS, and the nonprofit Give Kids The World Village have partnered to give two Give Kids The World alumni a once-in-a-lifetime experience fit for real life superheroes.
This summer, the PJ MASKS and Give Kids The World selected two very special kids to write and cameo in their very own episodes of PJ Masks: In Real Life: Kid Heroes edition. The successful YouTube series features kids acting out their favorite heroic show-inspired adventures with over 300 million lifetime views since its launch in October 2020. In addition, Hasbro will donate $10,000 to support Give Kids The World's mission to deliver happiness and hope to critically ill children and their families during their life-changing wish vacation. Additional fundraising will also be conducted to support the organization via https://give.gktw.org/pjmasks.
On September 20, little heroes Kellan Hoang and Madison Hendricksen will join Give Kids The World wish families and alumni families for a special day of PJ MASKS activities, including a screening of Kellan's and Madison's PJ MASKS IRL episodes. Give Kids The World Village is an 89-acre, whimsical nonprofit resort in Central Florida that provides critically ill children and their families from around the world with magical week-long wish vacations at no cost. From life's simple pleasures to the stuff that dreams are made of, every wish family is treated to an all-inclusive, customized experience in a storybook resort imagined from the pages of a fairytale.
A resident of Roseville, CA, Kellan was diagnosed with very high risk acute lymphocytic leukemia in April 2019 at age four and bravely won his battle against the rare blood cancer two years later. Madison, from Portland, OR, has hypotonic cerebral palsy and makes a daily commitment to joy while being one of only six people in the world with her rare genetics — and the only one who is symptomatic. Building on the mission of Give Kids The World, PJ MASKS is proud to celebrate Kellan's and Madison's stories with an event at the Village featuring:
- A special screening of Madison's and Kellan's episodes in The Hoppening Place
- Ice Cream for Breakfast PJ (Masks) Party in the Gingerbread House with an appearance by Koda the Fluff
- Giveaways of the newest PJ Masks: Animal Power toys to all event attendees
- Meet and greet with Catboy, Owlette and Gekko as well as Give Kids The World's whimsical six-foot rabbit, Mayor Clayton
- Chance to meet baby alligators and other reptiles provided by Gatorland
"We are excited to support real life little heroes and our friends at Give Kids The World. Together, we aim to empower families everywhere with the tremendous power of hope. Like the PJ MASKS Madison and Kellan are strong and courageous, even through difficult times. We loved seeing their imaginations come to life as they crafted and acted out adventures in episodes of PJ Masks: In Real Life" said eOne/Hasbro Entertainment Brand Marketing Senior Vice President Jessica Murphy.
Audiences have fallen in love with PJ MASKS' three kid heroes: Catboy, Owlette and Gekko. Each night they team up, donning their masks and pajamas to become a hero team and help young kids learn the power of compassion, develop autonomy and discover their own special powers through teamwork. As Kellan and Madison have shown, they are kid superheroes in real life and their stories inspire other children and families as they navigate their own journeys with critical illnesses.
Hasbro has supported Give Kids The World for more than 15 years, helping to create some of the cornerstone experiences of the Village, including Matthew's Boundless Playground, a MY LITTLE PONY-themed spa and a toy or game for every child at the weekly Winter Wonderland celebration.
"We are delighted to work with our wonderful partners at Hasbro and PJ MASKS to showcase the stories and talents of our own little superheroes," said Give Kids The World President and CEO Pamela Landwirth. "Children with critical illnesses face unimaginable challenges every day, and we appreciate the opportunity to create awareness for the courage of wish families and the tremendous power of hope."
The Give Kids The World Village PJ MASKS event will take place on September 20 and is open to media by invitation only.
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PJ Masks has become a global phenomenon since its launch on Disney Junior back in 2015 as a leading storyteller for preschoolers across the globe, broadcast in over 180 territories worldwide across several FTA and VOD platforms. The heroes have a digital footprint including 20.8 billion lifetime views globally on YouTube and 300+ million global music streams as well as 168+ million lifetime app downloads. The brand is also maximized through a multitude of consumer products programs from apparel and role play, to publishing and location-based entertainment, firmly established in 85 markets worldwide. PJ Masks inspires ordinary kids everywhere to be extraordinary heroes and save the day.
Give Kids The World Village is an 89-acre, whimsical nonprofit in Central Florida that provides critically ill children and their families with magical week-long wish vacations at no cost. Every wish family is treated to transportation, accommodations, donated theme park tickets, all meals and snacks, nightly entertainment, daily gifts, and unique interactive experiences at the Village, a remarkable storybook destination featuring an array of accessible rides and attractions. Since 1986, Give Kids The World has welcomed more than 178,000 families from all 50 states and 76 countries. For more information, visit www.gktw.org.
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MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian police said Wednesday night a fisherman confessed to killing British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the remote Amazon, ending more than a week of searching as he led officers deep into the forest to where he buried their bodies.
After night fell in the Javari Valley, near Brazil’s border with Peru and Colombia, search teams brought body bags to the docks at the city of Atalaia do Norte. Officials said an autopsy would be needed to confirm whether the remains are Phillips, 57, and Pereira, 41.
Police said at a news conference in the Amazon city of Manaus that the prime suspect in the case confessed Tuesday night and detailed what happened to the pair who went missing June 5. They said other arrests would be made soon in the case, but gave no details.
The federal investigator, Eduardo Alexandre Fontes, said Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, 41, nicknamed Pelado, told officers he used a firearm to kill Pereira and Phillips.
“We would have no way of getting to that spot quickly without the confession,” Torres said of the place where police recovered human remains Wednesday after being led there by Pelado.
Torres said the remains are expected to be identified within days, and if confirmed as the missing men, “will be returned to the families of the two.”
“We found the bodies three kilometers (nearly two miles) into the woods,” the investigator said, adding that rescue teams traveled about one hour and forty minutes on the river and 25 more into the woods to reach the burial spot.
Pelado’s family had said previously that he denied any wrongdoing and claimed police tortured him to try to get a confession.
Another officer, Guilherme Torres of the Amazonas state police, said the missing men’s boat had not been found yet but police knew the area where it purportedly was hidden by those involved in the crime.
“They put bags of dirt on the boat so it would sink,” he said. The engine of the boat was removed, according to investigators.
The news conference at Brazil’s federal police headquarters in Manaus also included military leaders, who joined the effort to find Phillips and Pereira a few days after their disappearance was reported. Indigenous leaders who sounded the alarm over their disapperance and made searches deep into the forest from the first day were not invited.
President Jair Bolsonaro, a frequent critic of journalists and Indigenous experts, has drawn criticism that the government didn’t get involved fast enough. Earlier on Wednesday, he criticized Phillips in an interview, saying without evidence that locals in the area where he went missing didn’t like him and that he should have been more careful in the region.
His main adversary in October’s election, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said in a statement that the killings “are directly related to the dismantling of public policies of protection to Indigenous peoples. ”It is also related to the current administration’s stimulus to violence,” said da Silva, who leads in opinion polls.
The efforts to find the two were started by Indigenous peoples in the region. UNIVAJA, an association of Indigenous peoples of the Javari Valley, mourned the loss of “two partners” in a statement Wednesday, adding they only had help and protection from local police.
As federal police announced they would hold a news conference, colleagues of Pereira called a vigil outside the headquarters of the Brazilian government’s Indigenous affairs agency in Brasilia. Pereira was on leave from the agency.
Pereira and Phillips were last seen on their boat in a river near the entrance of the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, which borders Peru and Colombia. That area has seen violent conflicts between fishermen, poachers and government agents.
Developments began moving Wednesday when federal police officers took a suspect they didn’t identify at the time out on the river toward search parties looking for Phillips and Pereira.
An Associated Press photographer in Atalaia do Norte, the city closest to the search zone, witnessed police taking the suspect, who was in a hood.
On Tuesday, police said they had arrested a second suspect in connection with the disappearance. He was identified as Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, 41, a fisherman and a brother of Pelado, who police already had characterized as their main suspect.
Police investigators said Wednesday that de Oliveira had not confessed to any participation in the crime, but added they had evidence against him.
Indigenous people who were with Pereira and Phillips have said that Pelado brandished a rifle at them on the day before the pair disappeared.
Official search teams concentrated their efforts around a spot in the Itaquai river where a tarp from the boat used by the missing men was found Saturday by volunteers from the Matis Indigenous group.
Authorities began scouring the area and discovered a backpack, laptop and other personal belongings submerged underwater Sunday. Police said that evening that they had identified the items as the belongings of both missing men, including a health card and clothes of Pereira. The backpack was said to belong to Phillips.
Police previously reported finding traces of blood in Pelado’s boat. Officers also found organic matter of apparent human origin in the river that was sent for analysis.
Authorities have said a main line of the police investigation into the disappearance has pointed to an international network that pays poor fishermen to fish illegally in the Javari Valley reserve, which is Brazil’s second-largest Indigenous territory.
Pereira, who previously led the local bureau of the federal Indigenous agency, known as FUNAI, took part in several operations against illegal fishing. In such operations, as a rule the fishing gear is seized or destroyed, while the fishermen are fined and briefly detained. Only the Indigenous can legally fish in their territories.
“The crime’s motive is some personal feud over fishing inspection,” Atalaia do Norte’s Mayor Denis Paiva speculated last week to reporters without providing more details.
While some police, the mayor and others in the region link the pair’s disappearances to the “fish mafia,” federal police have not ruled out other lines of investigation, such as narco trafficking.
Torres, the federal police officer, reiterated that point Wednesday night, saying he could not discuss specifics of the investigation.
“We are working with several lines of investigation,” he said.
After the news of the recovery of human remains, Phillips’ wife, Alessandra Sampaio, said the find “puts an end to the anguish of not knowing Dom and Bruno’s whereabouts.”
“Now we can bring them home and say goodbye with love,” Sampaio said in a statement. ”Today, we also begin our quest for justice.”
____ Maisonnave reported from Manaus and Savarese reported from Sao Paulo.
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ATHENS -- Building on research by others, a new study by UGA virologist Malak Esseili points to the reasons that some patients have gastrointestinal issues with COVID-19 and others do not.
From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts and health officials have witnessed a wide variety of symptoms — one patient may have a severe cough, while another may have no symptoms at all.
While reported symptoms were predominately respiratory, a percentage of patients also reported digestive issues such as upset stomach and diarrhea. A new study by University of Georgia virologist Malak Esseili points to the reasons that some patients have gastrointestinal issues with COVID-19 and others do not.
“We know that the virus is respiratory, but we didn’t know whether there were other routes of transmission,” Esseili, who wanted to examine if food is a transmission route for the virus, said. “We know other viruses do it. Animal coronaviruses do it, so why not SARS-CoV-2?”
A virologist at UGA’s Center for Food Safety in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Esseili has often worked with norovirus, which causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea and is easily transmitted by infected people and through food and water.
Scientists classify viruses by the bodily systems they infect. Viruses that infect the nose and lungs are called respiratory, and those that infect the digestive system are classified as enteric. From the onset, experts knew that COVID-19 was respiratory, as it predominantly infects the lungs, but Esseili said there was plenty of evidence that the virus has enteric properties.
Esseili built on an earlier study that examined the use of proton pump inhibitors while infected with SARS-CoV-2. Proton pump inhibitors are common medications often sold over the counter to help reduce ailments such as heartburn or acid reflux. The research found that when PPIs were used in conjunction with COVID-19, it resulted in more severe cases for some patients. Esseili wanted to know how.
When she began her research, it was generally believed that the digestive system could stop, or inactivate, the virus due to the high acidity of the stomach. Esseili explained that levels of stomach acidity can fluctuate widely and are influenced by various conditions. For example, when the stomach is empty, such as when a person first wakes up in the morning, the level of acidity is high. When a person eats a large meal or takes certain medications such as PPIs, the acidity is low.
When the acidity is low, Esseili found that SARS-CoV-2 can easily survive in the digestive system, even though it is an enveloped virus. An enveloped virus has a lipid, or fat, layer around it that is traditionally thought of as being easy to degrade. Things such as detergents are one way of degrading this fat layer. Researchers assumed this easily degraded envelope was another reason that SARS-CoV-2 would break down in the digestive system.
More surprising was the finding that bile, which is a component of the digestive juice needed to help absorb fats in the intestine, has less of an effect on SARS-CoV-2 than expected. The amount of bile produced is affected by how much a person eats. When a person eats a large meal, they produce large quantities of bile to aid in digestion. Yet the study found that these high levels of bile did not inactivate the virus to the degree that the researchers expected.
“When a person first wakes up in the morning and drinks a glass of water, the stomach acidity is high and the intestinal bile is low," Esseili said. "There we see the highest level of virus inactivation both by the stomach and the intestine. This is opposite to what we see during feeding when stomach acidity is lower and bile is high. This was a surprise to us.
“We used to think the acidity of the stomach was going to inactivate the virus so it cannot pass that harsh route, but our data show that the virus can escape stomach acidity and bile under certain conditions and go to the intestines and replicate. It proves that SARS-CoV-2 also behaves as an enteric virus. This is a major shift in how we think about the virus, and whether oral ingestion of the virus on food, for example, is a route of transmission.”
Esseili says further research is needed to understand the full implications, but that this finding helps lay to rest one mystery of the pandemic: why some people with COVID have digestive symptoms and others do not.
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This the fifth year that Yext has earned a spot on this prestigious list, a recognition that solidifies Yext's status as one of the best companies to work for in New York.
NEW YORK, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT), the Answers company, today announced that it has been named one of the Best Workplaces in New York™ in 2022 by Great Place to Work® and Fortune Magazine, ranking #15 for large-sized businesses.
This year's Best Workplaces in New York award is based on employee feedback collected through America's largest ongoing annual workforce study of over 1 million employee survey responses and data from companies representing more than 6.1 million U.S. employees. In that survey, 89% of Yext's employees said Yext is a great place to work. This number is 32% higher than the average U.S. company.
"We're incredibly proud that our efforts to create an inclusive, collaborative, and fun work environment continues to be recognized," said Brian "Skip" Schipper, Chief People Officer at Yext. "We're grateful to have a team of smart, capable employees who care about one another's success."
The Best Workplaces in New York list is highly competitive. Great Place to Work, the global authority on workplace culture, selected the list using rigorous analytics and confidential employee feedback. Companies were only considered if they are a Great Place to Work-Certified™ organization and headquartered in the New York metropolitan statistical area.
Great Place to Work is the only company culture award in America that selects winners based on how fairly employees are treated. Companies are assessed on how well they are creating a great employee experience that cuts across race, gender, age, disability status, or any aspect of who employees are or what their role is.
"As employee demands and expectations have dramatically changed over the past year, these companies have risen to the occasion — and it's not been easy," said Kim Peters, EVP of Global Recognition, Research & Strategic Partnerships at Great Place to Work. "Their hard work and dedication to listen to and care for the well-being of every employee, and support them in a way that's meaningful to all, is the standard all organizations will be held to."
In 2021, Yext also ranked as a Best Workplace in the Bay Area™ and a Best Workplace for Parents™. Learn more about Yext and explore open positions here.
About Yext
Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the Answers company and is on a mission to empower every company in the world to provide authoritative answers to every question about their organization. Yext leverages AI to collect and organize a company's information and deliver it — in the form of answers — to customers, employees, and partners. Yext's Answers Platform works by pulling in information, organizing it into a Knowledge Graph and then delivering it via a set of platform services, including Listings, Search, Pages & Reviews. Brands like Verizon, Subway, and Marriott — as well as organizations like the U.S. State Department — trust Yext to radically improve their business and deliver perfect answers everywhere.
About the Best Workplaces in New York™
Great Place to Work selected the Best Workplaces in New York by gathering and analyzing confidential survey responses from its study of thousands of companies representing more than 6.1 million U.S. employees at Great Place to Work-Certified™ organizations. Companies must be headquartered in the state of New York to be eligible. Company rankings are derived from 60 employee experience questions within the Great Place to Work Trust Index™ survey. Read the full methodology.
To get on this list next year, start here.
About Great Place to Work®
Great Place to Work is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, it has surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Its employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything it does is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.
Learn more at greatplacetowork.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia county has filed a lawsuit seeking to force a company to sell land on which the county has long planned to build a launchpad for commercial rockets.
Commissioners in coastal Camden County said in a statement Thursday that Union Carbide Co.’s refusal to sell the 4,000 acre (1,600 hectare) property, if allowed to stand, “will cause the County the loss of the Spaceport Project as well as an enormous financial loss in excess of $11 million.”
County officials have spent that sum over the past decade seeking to license and build Spaceport Camden, a site for launching satellites into space. Opponents say the project would pose safety and environmental risks that outweigh any economic benefits. The county held a referendum in March in which a large majority voted to kill the land deal.
Commissioners opted to disregard the vote, which they contend violated Georgia’s constitution. But Union Carbide balked at the county’s efforts to move forward with closing on the property. The company said last week that the deal was off because it had been “repudiated” by voters.
The county filed a civil suit Wednesday in Camden County Superior Court in hopes of keeping the spaceport project alive. Commissioners said the company still has a “contractual obligation to sell the property.”
“The County believes that Union Carbide’s real reason for repudiating the contract had nothing to do with the referendum but was instead to allow Union Carbide to make more money on the property than what the County had agreed to pay,” the commissioners’ statement said. “That is not a legitimate reason for repudiating a contract.”
Union Carbide declined to comment Thursday on the accusations by Camden County. The company had not yet been served with a copy of the lawsuit, said spokesman Tomm Sprick.
The county government in 2015 entered into an option agreement with the company to buy the land once the county obtained a spaceport operator license from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA awarded the license in December. But before county commissioners could close on the land, opponents forced a referendum on the project by gathering more than 3,500 petition signatures. The project was put to a vote in March, and 72% cast ballots to block the deal.
Commissioners have insisted the spaceport project would bring economic growth not just from rocket launches, but also by attracting related industries and tourists to the community of 55,000 people on the Georgia-Florida line.
Opponents say building the spaceport on an industrial plot formerly used to manufacture pesticides and munitions would pose potential hazards.
Critics, including the National Park Service, have said rockets exploding soon after launch could rain fiery debris onto Little Cumberland Island, which has about 40 private homes, and neighboring Cumberland Island, a federally protected wilderness visited by about 60,000 tourists each year.
County commissioners hired consultants to study potential threats to the island. Their report concluded that “after routine operational risk mitigations are applied the overall risk for fire to Cumberland Island from a failed rocket launch was found to be so low as to not be credible.”
Meanwhile, county officials are trying to have the referendum declared invalid by the Georgia Supreme Court. Their legal appeal argues that Georgia’s constitution doesn’t allow voters to veto government projects such as the spaceport. The court is scheduled to hear the case Aug. 23.
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An annual Louisiana police audit determined agency ignored auditors’ orders to keep records of its equipment, report says
By Nick Valencia and Jade Gordon, CNN
An annual audit of the Louisiana State Police determined that for at least the past four years the agency ignored state auditors’ orders to keep records of its equipment, including appropriately tagging property such as cell phones, according to a state representative who has shared the final version of the report with CNN.
The findings follow allegations that the cell phones of the state police’s second ranking member, Lt. Col. Doug Cain, and two other state police officers were erased after the 2019 death of Ronald Greene while he was in police custody.
Cain testified last month before a special state legislative committee investigating Greene’s death, saying he could not comment when asked if his cell phone was sanitized in the wake of the incident.
Cain was placed on administrative leave on April 8 due to the ongoing investigation into the sanitization of his cell phone, nearly three years after the Black motorist’s death. CNN affiliate WBRZ was first to report on the audit findings.
CNN has reached out to the Louisiana State Police for comment.
Greene died in the overnight hours of May 10, 2019, after an encounter that police initially described as a struggle with officers during which Greene resisted arrest. Greene’s family, however, said they were told he died in a car crash after a police chase, CNN has previously reported.
More than two years after the fatal encounter, body camera video showed Greene being tased, kicked and dragged by officers before appearing to become unresponsive.
Louisiana State Representative C. Denise Marcelle, a Democrat who is on the special legislative committee and has seen the 2022 Louisiana Legislative Audit report, told CNN it is yet another example of the state police “acting above the law.” She said the committee plans to question two state troopers about the report during an ongoing hearing and ask why the state police ignored the auditors’ findings.
The ongoing special committee hearing is set to resume Thursday.
Marcelle also told CNN the committee, which was granted subpoena power, recently subpoenaed a journal kept by former-Louisiana State Police Superintendent Col. Kevin Reeves during his tenure, but he has not complied with the order.
Reeves’ attorney told CNN he and the committee were still in the process of working out what would be submitted into evidence. “It’s due tomorrow,” attorney Lewis Unglesby told CNN about Reeves’ journal, adding, “and we’re trying to work out an agreement as to what exactly they want to see or are entitled to see.”
Last month, Triet Le, an IT specialist at the state police department, testified that former coworkers instructed him not to keep records of state police property “if it’s under $1,000.” Le also testified that he was the one who sanitized the phones, after Reeves, Cain and trooper Mike Noel turned them in.
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From left, ABAC’s Chris Beckham, Abby Clark, Sunny Sparrow and Mike Chason had background roles in scenes from a movie shot partially on the college’s campus.
From left, ABAC’s Chris Beckham, Abby Clark, Sunny Sparrow and Mike Chason had background roles in scenes from a movie shot partially on the college’s campus.
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Movie production vehicles line ABAC Circle in front of Tift Hall for the filming of a holiday movie partially shot on the college’s campus.
TIFTON — Making the magic happen is what moviemakers do. This week, the production crew from Workhorse Cinema spun the web of fiction and frivolity at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College for a holiday-themed movie that is scheduled to be released in 2023.
“Tifton has been good to us, and we’re using many locations in the area,” Associate Producer Ava Paloma said. “The plot of the movie is kind of ‘Hitch’ meets ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,’ set over the holidays.”
Portions of Tift Hall and Lewis Hall, two of the original three buildings at ABAC, were transformed into holiday bundles of joy for the movie, complete with Christmas trees, ornaments, presents, and even a snow-covered sidewalk.
Yes, that’s a snow-covered sidewalk in the 96-degree steam bath that Tifton sweltered through on that day. But hey, it’s the movies.
“The lead character, Jack McNeal, is one of the top publishers in the East, and we wanted something that looked very grand to represent those surroundings,” Paloma said. “We thought we would have to go to Atlanta for the day.
“But we came over to look at the water fountains at ABAC, and everyone saw these buildings and thought they would be great.
Timing is indeed everything. For just a brief moment in the life of the college, the ABAC president’s office was vacant as Dr. David Bridges was leaving Tift Hall to transition into his impending retirement, and new President Tracy Brundage has yet to move into her office.
Just what the movie doctor ordered, particularly for Workhorse Cinema, which had previously filmed “Gasoline Alley” and “White Elephant” in Tifton.
“Oh, yes, we love the people here, and we wanted to do a non-action movie here because it would be something different,” Paloma said. “There are dozens of people on the crew, most with very specific jobs.”
Mike Chason, ABAC’s acting Vice President for Communications and Transition, had a moment of fame with a tiny background part in the production.
“What was so amazing was that one minute I was working in my office, and the next minute, I was concentrating on my steps just outside my office in an actual movie,” Chason said. “It was lots of fun.
ABAC’s Chris Beckham, Abby Clark and Sunny Sparrow also had background roles in the movie.
“Being ‘inside’ the move as an extra showed me just how much attention to detail is involved in the process,” Chason said. “Every facial expression, every prop, every piece of clothing is analyzed to see if that fits the scene.”
Chason, who joined the ABAC staff in 1979, said the visit by the production crew represented a landmark for ABAC.
“Spot locations at ABAC have been used in movies before, but this is the first time that I can remember a full-scale movie production company utilizing the ABAC campus,” he said. “The crew was great to work with and very considerate of the fact that we wanted to preserve the integrity of the buildings.”
Paloma said filming in the Tifton area will continue through the first part of August. Interested persons who want to fill the role of extras can email their name, phone number, and a recent photo to tiftmovie@gmail.com .
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NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of IonQ, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of IONQ during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: March 30, 2021 to May 2, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) IonQ had not yet developed a 32-qubit quantum computer; (2) the Company's 11-qubit quantum computer suffered from significant error rates, rendering it useless; (3) IonQ's quantum the computer is not sufficiently reliable, so it is not accessible despite being available through major cloud providers; (4) a significant portion of IonQ's revenue was derived from improper roundtripping transactions with related parties; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were the materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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Believes Shareholder Vote Should Be Contingent on Provisions that Protect the Integrity of the Communication Platform
WILMINGTON, Del., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Shareholder Commons, a not-for-profit organization that advocates for the fiduciary interests of diversified shareholders, today issued an open letter to Elon Musk in response to his agreement to acquire Twitter, Inc. for $54.20 per share.
The mission of The Shareholder Commons is to help investors respond to companies within their portfolios that threaten critical systems to boost business enterprise value. Given that most investors own a diversified portfolio of businesses and funds, their investment performance is more closely tied to the success of the economy overall than of individual companies.
The Shareholder Commons urges all diversified shareholders of Twitter to carefully review the letter that follows to better understand how a sale of Twitter to Elon Musk without the proper provisions in place is not in their best interests.
Dear Mr. Musk,
Congratulations on reaching an agreement with the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Twitter to take the Company private.
As the sole owner of Twitter, you will have virtually unrestricted power over one of the most important communication platforms on the planet. But with great power comes great responsibility, and we write this letter to propose that you take measures to ensure that Twitter will be a force for good, even if your tenure as controller comes to an end. Indeed, it is in the best interests of Twitter shareholders to insist upon such measures prior to approving the sale.
Protecting the Public Square
Social media platforms are today's public square. They are where good ideas can do battle with bad and where the genuinely curious can discover different perspectives and new ideas. They are where the intellectually brave can allow their own minds to be changed.
But free speech and worthwhile social exchange do not just happen without an infrastructure designed to deliver. A digital platform cannot serve as a useful medium to exchange views and information without algorithms and rules any more than a physical public square can operate without regulation and order.
You have promised to bring better rules to Twitter, and we have no reason to doubt your ability or sincerity. But your control will be contingent. There will be Company creditors, personal creditors and perhaps other equity holders; your circumstances may change. It would be naïve to believe that you will always control the platform or that you will not be subject to pressures to compromise its purposes. It is thus imperative that Twitter adopt a mechanism to ensure that integrity and independence is protected.
Protecting the Portfolios of Twitter Shareholders
Even though Twitter shareholders will be selling their shares when the transaction closes, preserving platform integrity into the future is an important source of value for most Twitter shareholders, the vast majority of whom own diversified portfolios. For diversified investors, a healthy economy is the primary determinant of success or failure. And because the economy depends on the health of the public square, ensuring that Twitter is a positive social force long into the future is much more financially material to shareholders then receiving a premium for their shares today.
By accepting your offer, the Board has met what it perceives to be its fiduciary duty, determining that the sale maximizes shareholders' financial return on their shares. Shareholders, however, must recognize that in order to protect the rest of their portfolios, they need to ensure that Twitter does not become a threat to healthy public debate. Even asset managers who are concentrated in Twitter stock may realize that their clients are diversified in the rest of their holdings, and that these clients deserve an opportunity to ensure that the platform's public value is preserved.
Integrity-Preserving Mechanisms
What are we suggesting? While that is ultimately a question for you and the shareholders whose votes you need, we have ideas:
- Make Twitter a public benefit corporation (a corporation that is expressly designed to do more than maximize value for shareholders).
- Establish a set of parameters to ensure that the Twitter is transparent about its operations and that it protects its public square aspects, from the need for free speech to the need to identify and preclude speech that is equivalent to shouting "fire" in a crowded venue.
- Establish an independent trust that can enforce these procedures, not just against a Musk-owned Twitter, but also against any successor.
These principles should be neutral as to ideology and politics. The goal is to identify the characteristics of a social media platform that promote an effective public square--and consequently a healthy economy--and to embed them in the governance structure so as to preserve them through changes in ownership and management.
Agreeing to an accountable governance structure at Twitter would not just assure your legacy at Twitter—it could also provide an example for other social media companies that appear to operate with little regard for the impact they have on the public or the global economy. You have the power to create such an accountable governance structure, and Twitter shareholders should condition their votes on it.
We wish you the best of luck and strongly encourage you and the Twitter shareholders to choose the right path.
Regards,
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Founded by former corporate governance lawyer Rick Alexander in 2019, The Shareholder Commons is a not-for-profit organization that advocates for the interests of diversified shareholders. The Shareholder Commons seeks to address an uncomfortable economic fact that all parties to the current debate around sustainable business prefer to ignore: that the best financial outcome for a business is not always the best financial outcome for its diversified shareholders. For more information, please visit: https://theshareholdercommons.com/
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioVaxys Technology Corp. (CSE: BIOV, FRA: 5LB, OTCQB: BVAXF) ("BioVaxys" or the "Company") announces that it has extended the expiry date of 4,483,689 share purchase warrants with an exercise price of $0.50 and expiry date of August 26, 2022 and 1,477,291 share purchase warrants with an exercise price of $0.50 and an expiry date of September 3, 2022 (the "Warrants") that were issued pursuant to private placements that closed on August 26, 2020 and September 3, 2020, respectively. The Warrants amended expiry date is January 26, 2023.
Based in Vancouver, BioVaxys Technology Corp. (www.biovaxys.com) is a British Columbia-registered, clinical stage biotechnology company that is developing viral and oncology vaccine platforms, as well as immuno-diagnostics. The Company is advancing vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, and a pan-sarbecovirus vaccine based on its haptenized viral protein technology, and is planning a clinical trial of its haptenized autologous cell vaccine used in combination with anti-PD1 and anti-PDL1 checkpoint inhibitors that will initially be developed for Stage III/Stage IV ovarian cancer. Also in development is CoviDTH®, a diagnostic for evaluating the presence or absence of a T cell immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. BioVaxys has two issued US patents, and multiple US and international patent applications related to its cancer vaccines, antiviral vaccines, and diagnostic technologies. BioVaxys common shares are listed on the CSE under the stock symbol "BIOV" and trade on the Frankfurt Bourse (FRA: 5LB) and in the US (OTCQB: BVAXF).
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This press release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, without limitation, statements relating the future operating or financial performance of the Company, are forward looking statements. Forward-looking statements are frequently, but not always, identified by words such as "expects", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "potential", "possible", and similar expressions, or statements that events, conditions, or results "will", "may", "could", or "should" occur or be achieved. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and projections on the date the statements are made and are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates, primarily the assumption that BioVaxys will be successful in developing and testing vaccines and diagnostic tools, that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies including, primarily but without limitation, the risk that BioVaxys' vaccines and diagnostic tools will not prove to be effective and/ or will not receive the required regulatory approvals. With regards to BioVaxys' business, there are a number of risks that could affect the development of its biotechnology products, including, without limitation, the need for additional capital to fund clinical trials, its lack of operating history, uncertainty about whether its products will complete the long, complex and expensive clinical trial and regulatory approval process for approval of new drugs necessary for marketing approval, uncertainty about whether its autologous cell vaccine immunotherapy can be developed to produce safe and effective products and, if so, whether its vaccine products will be commercially accepted and profitable, the expenses, delays and uncertainties and complications typically encountered by development stage biopharmaceutical businesses, financial and development obligations under license arrangements in order to protect its rights to its products and technologies, obtaining and protecting new intellectual property rights and avoiding infringement to third parties and their dependence on manufacturing by third parties.
The Company does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
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NEW YORK, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Amazon.com, Inc. ("Amazon") (NASDAQ: AMZN) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between February 1, 2019 and April 5, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Amazon, 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 Amazon includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Amazon engaged in anticompetitive conduct in its private-label business practices, including giving Amazon products preference over those of its competitors and using third-party sellers' non-public data to compete with them; (ii) the foregoing exposed Amazon to a heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny and/or enforcement actions; (iii) Amazon's revenues derived from its private-label business were in part the product of impermissible conduct and thus unsustainable; and (iv) as a result, the defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading.
DEADLINE: July 5, 2022
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DALLAS, April 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) will issue its first quarter 2022 results on Friday, April 22 with a news release issued via PR Newswire and First Call at approximately 6:30 a.m. CDT.
In addition to the news release, the company will make available prepared management remarks from Kimberly-Clark's Chairman and CEO Mike Hsu and CFO Maria Henry at approximately 7 a.m. CDT. These materials, as well as a link to the company's live question and answer webcast for analysts at 9 a.m. CDT, will be provided through the Investors section of Kimberly-Clark's website at www.kimberly-clark.com.
Kimberly-Clark will continue to post the date of future quarterly earnings releases and related webcasts on its website. Interested stockholders and others should monitor the website for these announcements.
About Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people's most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what's important to them. Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Intimus, Neve, Plenitud, Sweety, Softex, Viva and WypAll, hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in 80 countries. We use sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, build stronger communities, and ensure our business thrives for decades to come. To keep up with the latest news and to learn more about the company's 150-year history of innovation, visit kimberly-clark.com.
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Hormel is recalling 161,692 pounds of Skippy peanut butter
By Rob McLean, CNN Business
Hormel Foods is recalling thousands of pounds of Skippy peanut butter because of stainless steel fragments possibly contaminating “a limited number of jars.”
The company said Wednesday that it was recalling more than 9,000 cases of reduced fat peanut butter voluntarily. That amounts to 161,692 pounds of the brown-bag lunch staple.
The fragments, Hormel said, were “from a piece of manufacturing equipment.”
“Skippy Foods, LLC, out of an abundance of caution and with an emphasis on the quality of its products, is issuing the recall to ensure that consumers are made aware of the issue. The manufacturing facility’s internal detection systems identified the concern,” the company said.
Products included in the recall are:
– SKIPPY Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter, 40oz with “best if used by” dates of MAY0423 and MAY0523
– SKIPPY Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter — Club, 2/40oz with “best if used by” date of MAY0523
– SKIPPY Reduced Fat Chunky Peanut Butter, 16.3oz with “best if used by” dates of MAY0623 and MAY0723
– SKIPPY Creamy Peanut Butter Blended With Plant Protein, 14oz with a “best if used by” date of MAY1023
Hormel indicated on its website that customers who purchased a recalled product can return it to their retailer or contact the company.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- G20 members have urged the World Bank to immediately prepare for the establishment of the Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF), Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati stated.
FIF should be formed immediately in the framework of pandemic preparedness and response (PPR) in the future, the minister emphasized.
"The (G20) presidency concluded that the World Bank should start exploring the process for developing and establishing FIF," Indrawati remarked at the second meeting of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Banks Governors (FMCBG) press conference here on Thursday.
According to the minister, G20 members view FIF as being the most effective choice for new financial mechanisms, especially in preparing for other potential pandemics in future.
Indrawati believes this is because the establishment of FIF is viewed as being able to overcome the financing gap in the health sector as what had occurred during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
"Most (G20) members agree on the need for a new financial mechanism dedicated to addressing the financing gap in PPR," she stated.
Hence, she explained that G20 members hope that the establishment of FIF would mitigate the health financing needs in line with the World Health Organization's (WHO's) expectations.
Moreover, G20 members called on the World Bank to explore discussions on the governance and operational regulations of FIF by involving the WHO.
"There is widespread support for WHO and the World Bank regarding the assessment of significant financing gaps that need to be addressed," Indrawati remarked.
Earlier, on April 1, the Indonesian finance and health ministries resumed the third G20 Joint Finance and Health Task Force (JFHTF).
At the meeting, JFHTF co-chair Wempi Saputra invited G20 member countries to draw up a financing action plan for pandemic preparedness and response (PPR).
"The third JFHTF meeting is an important step for all member countries in drafting the financing strategies for prevention, preparedness, and response to the pandemic or PPR," Saputra stated.
Meanwhile, one of the main agendas of Indonesia's G20 Presidency is global health architecture.
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Net Sales of $1,463M; Comparable Sales of (23)% Consistent with Early Quarter Trends as Previously Shared
GAAP Gross Margin of 23.9%; Adjusted Gross Margin of 23.8% including 840bps Impact from Transient Costs Related to Inventory Markdown Reserves and Port-Related Supply Chain Fees
Excluding the Two Aforementioned Impacts, Q1 Adjusted Gross Margin of 32.2%
Announcing Aggressive Actions on Inventory, Cost and Capex
UNION, N.J., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBY) today reported financial results for the first quarter of Fiscal 2022 ended May 28, 2022.
As announced earlier today in a separate press release, Sue Gove has been named Interim Chief Executive Officer, replacing Mark Tritton, who will leave his role as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board.
Ms. Gove commented, "I step into this role keenly aware of the macro-economic environment. In the quarter there was an acute shift in customer sentiment and, since then, pressures have materially escalated. This includes steep inflation and fluctuations in purchasing patterns, leading to significant dislocation in our sales and inventory that we will be working to actively resolve. The simple reality though is that our first quarter's results are not up to our expectations, nor are they reflective of the Company's true potential. The initiatives we are instituting today are just the first steps in putting our business on firm footing to drive our future success. I look forward to working with the Board, the management team, and our Associates to immediately address our supply chain challenges, market share recapture, inventory and cash optimization, and cost structure alignment."
Q1 Highlights
- Net Sales of $1,463M declined (25)%, reflecting a Comparable1 Sales decline of (23)% and (2)% related to the impact from fleet optimization activity
- GAAP Gross Margin of 23.9%; Adjusted2 Gross Margin of 23.8%
- Cash Flow from Operations of approximately $(0.4) billion, Cash Flow from Investing Activities of $(0.1) billion and Cash Flow from Financing Activities of $0.2 billion
Fiscal 2022 First Quarter Results (ending May 28, 2022)
Net sales of $1,463M declined (25)%, reflecting a Comparable1 Sales decline of (23)% and (2)% related to the impact from fleet optimization activity.
- By channel, Comparable1 Sales declined (24)% in Stores and (21)% in Digital versus the fiscal 2021 first quarter.
- Bed Bath & Beyond banner Comparable1 Sales decreased (27)% compared to the prior year period. Results exclude the impact from the Company's previously announced store fleet optimization program, which began in the second half of fiscal 2020.
- The buybuy BABY banner Comparable1 Sales decreased in the mid-single digits compared to the Fiscal 2021 first quarter consistent with market trends.
GAAP Gross Margin was 23.9% for the quarter. Excluding special items, Adjusted2 Gross Margin was 23.8%, inclusive of transient costs associated with a 620 basis point negative impact from markdown inventory reserves and 220 basis point negative impact from supply chain-related port fees compared to last year. Excluding the aforementioned 840 basis points of transient costs, Q1 Adjusted2 Gross Margin was 32.2%. The Company is proactively working with suppliers to adjust future inventory receipts and accelerating markdowns in order to right-size inventory levels commensurate with the declining sales trends.
SG&A expense on both a GAAP and Adjusted2 basis remain at lower levels compared to the prior year period, primarily due to cost reductions and lower rent and occupancy expenses on a lower store base following the Company's fleet optimization program. SG&A Margin for the quarter increased on a GAAP and Adjusted2 basis versus last year due to lower Net Sales. Bed Bath & Beyond is in the midst of further refining its supply chain infrastructure and adjusting cost structure to reflect lower sales levels. At the same time, the Company is pausing its new store and remodel programs for the remainder of fiscal 2022 which is expected to reduce its Fiscal 2022 planned capital expenditures by a minimum of approximately $100 million to $300 million from a prior expectation of approximately $400 million.
Adjusted2 EBITDA for the period was ($224) million reflecting lower Net Sales and lower Adjusted2 Gross Margin.
Net Loss per diluted share of ($4.49) for the quarter reflected approximately $1.66 of special items for the quarter. Excluding special items, Adjusted2 Net Loss per diluted share was ($2.83). Special items during the first quarter included restructuring and costs associated with the Company's transformation initiatives. Adjusted2 Net Loss per diluted share also reflects an income tax benefit on the Company's Adjusted2 Pre-Tax Loss.
During the quarter, the Company reported operating cash flow of approximately $(0.4) billion. Investing cash flow of $(0.1) billion was primarily driven by planned capital expenditures in connection with store remodels, supply chain and information technology systems.
Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and investments totaled approximately $0.2 billion in the Fiscal 2022 first quarter. Total Liquidity3 was approximately $0.9 billion as of the Fiscal 2022 first quarter, including the Company's asset based revolving credit facility less borrowings of $0.2 billion.
Fiscal 2022 Outlook Commentary
At this time, the Company is providing the following outlook parameters for Fiscal 2022:
– Sequential Comparable1 Sales recovery to occur in the second half of Fiscal 2022 versus the first half of Fiscal 2022 driven by inventory optimization plans, including incremental clearance activity
– Adjusted2 SG&A expense for Fiscal 2022 below last year, reflecting aggressive actions to align cost structure to sales
– Capital Expenditures of approximately $300 million (from $400 million previously) for Fiscal 2022, reflecting a minimum reduction of $100 million
The Company will provide further commentary and context for its Fiscal 2022 outlook during its conference call as well as in its investor presentation available on the investor relations section of the Company's website at http://bedbathandbeyond.gcs-web.com/investor-relations.
Fiscal 2022 First Quarter Conference Call and Investor Presentation
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.'s Fiscal 2022 first quarter conference call with analysts and investors will be held today at 8:15am EDT and may be accessed by dialing 1-404-400-0571, or if international, 1-866-374-5140, using conference ID number 80961020#. A live audio webcast of the conference call, along with the earnings press release, investor presentation and supplemental financial disclosures, will also be available on the investor relations section of the Company's website at http://bedbathandbeyond.gcs-web.com/investor-relations. The webcast will be available for replay after the call.
The Company has also made available an Investor Presentation on the investor relations section of the Company's website at http://bedbathandbeyond.gcs-web.com/events-and-presentations.
About the Company
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") is an omnichannel retailer that makes it easy for our customers to feel at home. The Company sells a wide assortment of merchandise in the Home, Baby, Beauty and Wellness markets. Additionally, the Company is a partner in a joint venture which operates retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond.
The Company operates websites at bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, buybuybaby.com, buybuybaby.ca, harmondiscount.com, facevalues.com, and decorist.com. As of May 28, 2022, the Company had a total of 955 stores, including 769 Bed Bath & Beyond stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Canada, 135 buybuy BABY stores and 51 stores under the names Harmon, Harmon Face Values or Face Values. During the Fiscal 2022 first quarter, the Company opened 5 buybuy BABY stores. Additionally during the fiscal 2022 first quarter, the Company closed 3 stores including 2 Bed Bath & Beyond stores and 1 Harmon store. The joint venture to which the Company is a partner operates 12 stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond.
Non-GAAP Information
This press release contains certain non-GAAP information, including adjusted earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA"), adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted gross margin, adjusted SG&A, adjusted net earnings per diluted share, and free cash flow. Non-GAAP information is intended to provide visibility into the Company's core operations and excludes special items, including non-cash impairment charges related to certain store-level assets and tradenames, loss on sale of businesses, loss on the extinguishment of debt, charges recorded in connection with the restructuring and transformation initiatives, which includes accelerated markdowns and inventory reserves related to the planned assortment transition to Owned Brands and costs associated with store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization and the income tax impact of these items. The Company's definition and calculation of non-GAAP measures may differ from that of other companies. Non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed in addition to, and not as an alternative for, the Company's reported GAAP financial results. For a reconciliation to the most directly comparable US GAAP measures and certain information relating to the Company's use of Non-GAAP financial measures, see "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21 E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 including, but not limited to, our progress and anticipated progress towards our long-term objectives, as well as more generally the status of our future liquidity and financial condition and our outlook for our 2022 Fiscal second quarter and 2022 Fiscal year. Many of these forward-looking statements can be identified by use of words such as may, will, expect, anticipate, approximate, estimate, assume, continue, model, project, plan, goal, preliminary, and similar words and phrases, although the absence of those words does not necessarily mean that statements are not forward-looking. Our actual results and future financial condition may differ materially from those expressed in any such forward-looking statements as a result of many factors. Such factors include, without limitation: general economic conditions including the recent supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, wage pressures, rising inflation and the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine; a challenging overall macroeconomic environment and a highly competitive retailing environment; risks associated with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the governmental responses to it, including its impacts across our businesses on demand and operations, as well as on the operations of our suppliers and other business partners, and the effectiveness of our and governmental actions taken in response to these risks; changing consumer preferences, spending habits and demographics; demographics and other macroeconomic factors that may impact the level of spending for the types of merchandise sold by us; challenges in executing our omni-channel and transformation strategy, including our ability to establish and profitably maintain the appropriate mix of digital and physical presence in the markets we serve; our ability to successfully execute our store fleet optimization strategies, including our ability to achieve anticipated cost savings and to not exceed anticipated costs; our ability to execute on any additional strategic transactions and realize the benefits of any acquisitions, partnerships, investments or divestitures; disruptions to our information technology systems, including but not limited to security breaches of systems protecting consumer and employee information or other types of cybercrimes or cybersecurity attacks; damage to our reputation in any aspect of our operations; the cost of labor, merchandise, logistical costs and other costs and expenses; potential supply chain disruption due to trade restrictions or otherwise, and other factors such as natural disasters, pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic, political instability, labor disturbances, product recalls, financial or operational instability of suppliers or carriers, and other items; inflation and the related increases in costs of materials, labor and other costs; inefficient management of relationships and dependencies on third-party service providers; our ability to attract and retain qualified employees in all areas of the organization; unusual weather patterns and natural disasters, including the impact of climate change; uncertainty and disruptions in financial markets; volatility in the price of our common stock and its effect, and the effect of other factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, on our capital allocation strategy; changes to statutory, regulatory and other legal requirements or deemed noncompliance with such requirements; changes to accounting rules, regulations and tax laws, or new interpretations of existing accounting standards or tax laws; new, or developments in existing, litigation, claims or assessments; and a failure of our business partners to adhere to appropriate laws, regulations or standards. Except as required by law, we do not undertake any obligation to update our forward-looking statements.
Contacts
INVESTOR CONTACT: Susie Kim, IR@bedbath.com
MEDIA CONTACT: Eric Mangan, media@bedbath.com
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The following table reconciles non-GAAP financial measures presented in this press release or that may be presented on the Company's first quarter conference call with analysts and investors. The Company believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide management, analysts, investors and other users of the Company's financial information with meaningful supplemental information regarding the performance of the Company's business. These non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered superior to, but in addition to other financial measures prepared by the Company in accordance with GAAP, including comparisons of year-to-year results. The Company's method of determining these non-GAAP financial measures may be different from other companies' methods and, therefore, may not be comparable to those used by other companies. As such, the Company does not recommend the sole use of these non-GAAP measure to assess its financial and earnings performance. For reasons noted above, the Company is presenting certain non-GAAP financial measures for its Fiscal 2022 first quarter. In order for investors to be able to more readily compare the Company's performance across periods, the Company has included comparable reconciliations for the 2021 period in the reconciliation tables below. The Company is not providing a reconciliation of its guidance with respect to Adjusted EBITDA because the Company is unable to provide this reconciliation without unreasonable effort due to the uncertainty and inherent difficulty of predicting the occurrence, the financial impact, and the periods in which the adjustments may be recognized. For the same reasons, the Company is unable to address the probable significance of the unavailable information, which could be material to future results.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QurAlis Corporation, a biotech company developing breakthrough precision medicines for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases with genetically validated targets, today announced that Kasper Roet, Ph.D., founder and chief executive officer, will present at the H.C. Wainwright Private Company Showcase on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 2:50 PM ET.
The QurAlis corporate presentation can be accessed by visiting the presentations section of the Company's website at www.quralis.com.
About QurAlis Corporation
QurAlis is trailblazing the path to conquering amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases with genetically validated targets with next-generation precision medicines. QurAlis' proprietary platforms and unique biomarkers enable the design and development of drugs that act directly on disease-causing genetic alterations. Founded by an internationally recognized team of neurodegenerative biologists from Harvard Medical School and Harvard University, QurAlis is advancing a deep pipeline of antisense oligonucleotides and small molecule programs including addressing sub-forms of ALS that account for the majority of ALS patients. For more information, please visit www.quralis.com or follow us on Twitter @QurAlisCo.
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MOSCOW (AP) — Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on Friday agreed to a cease-fire on a shared border where clashes earlier in the day wounded dozens of people.
The Kyrgyz border service said in a statement that the two countries’ security chiefs agreed to cease the hostilities starting from 4 p.m. local time (1000 GMT). According to Kyrgyz health officials, a total 42 people have been hospitalized with injuries in Kyrgyzstan as the result of the clashes.
According to the Kyrgyz border service, the fighting erupted early in the morning, when Tajik forces fired at Kyrgyz border guards. As tensions mounted, the border service accused Tajikistan of using mortars, tanks and armored vehicles to shell Kyrgyzstan’s positions, as well as shelling an airport in the town of Batken near the border with multiple rocket launchers and destroying civilian infrastructure.
Tajik border officials, meanwhile, charged that the Kyrgyz forces subjected Tajik villages near the border “to intensive mortar bombardment and shelling” from “all types of available heavy weapons and firearms.” Tajik authorities said they proposed negotiations and a cease-fire, but Kyrgyz troops reportedly ignored the offers.
It was not immediately clear what ignited the clashes. However, the serpentine Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan border is often a tense area. In 2021, at least 55 people died in clashes that erupted near the border in a dispute over water rights and the installation of surveillance cameras by Tajikistan.
The Kyrgyz parliament on Friday announced plans to hold an emergency session to discuss the situation on the border.
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RED BANK, N.J., July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Provention Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRVB) (the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to intercepting and preventing immune-mediated diseases, today announced it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors for the private placement of approximately $60 million of shares of its common stock and warrants to acquire 13,318,535 additional shares of its common stock (the "Warrants") (collectively, the "Securities"). The Warrants will be exercisable immediately upon issuance, in whole or in part, at an exercise price of $6.00 per share and will have a five-year term. The Company anticipates aggregate gross proceeds from the offering will be approximately $60 million, before deducting fees to the placement agent and other estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, based on the offering price of $4.505 for each share of the Company's common stock plus one Warrant. The Company expects to use net proceeds from the private placement to fund expenses in preparation for the potential launch of teplizumab, to advance its clinical development candidates, as well as for working capital and other general corporate purposes. The transaction is expected to close on or about July 13, 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The private placement investors include Sessa Capital and Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd.
Jefferies acted as sole placement agent on the transaction.
The Securities to be sold in the private placement have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or any state or other applicable jurisdiction's securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state or other jurisdiction's securities laws. The Company has agreed to file a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") registering the resale of the Securities issued in the private placement.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these Securities, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of these Securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state. Any offering of the Securities under the resale registration will only be made by means of a prospectus.
About Provention Bio, Inc.:
Provention Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRVB) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing the development of investigational therapies that may intercept and prevent debilitating and life-threatening immune-mediated disease. The Company's pipeline includes clinical-stage product candidates that have demonstrated in pre-clinical or clinical studies proof-of-mechanism and/or proof-of-concept in autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes, celiac disease and lupus.
Forward-Looking Statements:
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking, including but not limited to, statements regarding the expected timing for the closing of the private placement and the expected use of proceeds from the private placement. These statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "expect" and "anticipates," among others. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current expectations and actual results could differ materially. There are a number of factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, risks related to the Food & Drug Administration (the "FDA") disagreeing with the Company's interpretation of data, analysis or information in the Biologics License Application (the "BLA") resubmission; delays in or failure to obtain the FDA approvals for teplizumab or other Company product candidates and the potential for noncompliance with the FDA regulations; risks related to the FDA's extension of its review period by three months for the BLA for teplizumab; any inability to successfully work with the FDA to find a satisfactory solution to address its concerns in a timely manner or at all during the review process for teplizumab, including any inability to provide the FDA with data, analysis or other information sufficient to support an approval of the BLA for teplizumab; any inability to, in the BLA resubmission or otherwise, satisfactorily address matters cited in the FDA's complete response letter including relating to pharmacokinetic comparability, product quality, the safety update required by the FDA or any other FDA requirements for an approval of teplizumab; the potential impacts of COVID-19 on the Company's business and financial results; changes in law, regulations, or interpretations and enforcement of regulatory guidance; uncertainties of patent protection and litigation; the Company's dependence upon third parties; substantial competition; the Company's need for additional financing and the risks listed under "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report of Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 and other filings the Company makes with the SEC. Because forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified and some of which are beyond the Company's control, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. As with any pharmaceutical under development, there are significant risks in the development, regulatory approval and commercialization of new products. The Company does not undertake an obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable law. The information set forth herein speaks only as of the date hereof.
Investor Contact:
Robert Doody, VP of Investor Relations
rdoody@proventionbio.com
484-639-7235
Media Contact:
Kaelan Hollon, VP, Corporate Communications
khollon@proventionbio.com
212-421-4921
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Alexander Volkanovski has already beaten Max Holloway twice in UFC featherweight title fights, and that still wasn’t enough to settle this rivalry.
That’s a measure of the excitement generated by the first two bouts between these two electrifying strikers. It’s also an illustration of the sport-wide respect for Volkanovski, the Australian with a 21-fight winning streak, and for Holloway, Hawaii’s former 145-pound champ.
Along with being brilliant fighters, they’re two well-liked guys in a sport with some unsavory characters.
Volkanovski and Holloway will go again at UFC 276 at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday night, each hoping to complete this trilogy with a statement victory.
“It’s a legacy fight,” Holloway said. “We’re on the higher end of the pound-for-pound ranks, and these fights don’t happen very often. People are calling us the main event of this card, and that’s saying a lot about how good this fight is.”
The mixed martial arts promotion’s biggest event of the summer is headlined by Israel Adesanya’s fifth middleweight title defense against Jared Cannonier. The UFC’s typically stacked Fourth of July weekend card also features Brazilian kickboxing star Alex Pereira against middleweight contender Sean Strickland, along with the returns of Robbie Lawler, Suga Sean O’Malley, Jim Miller and Uriah Hall.
But the most compelling matchup is Volkanovski (24-1) against Holloway (23-6), who held the featherweight belt from 2016 until Volkanovski took it from him in December 2019 with a relentless tactical performance. Holloway lost to Volkanovski for the second time in July 2020 in Abu Dhabi in a razor-thin decision.
Not many rivalries stretch to three fights when the first two bouts weren’t split, but this is no ordinary rivalry. Volkanovski has defended the belt twice since that second bout with Holloway, while Holloway outpointed Calvin Kattar and Yair Rodríguez in a pair of thrillers to stay in prime position to reclaim his belt.
“It’s the biggest fight I could do right now,” Volkanovski said. “Everyone wants to see it, and that’s it. I give him credit. He was stubborn. He goes, ‘Ain’t no one taking that No. 1 contender spot from me.’ He stood there and took out all the guys and didn’t let them have a shot at me, and now he gets the shot. Good on him. That’s exactly what I would do in the same situation.”
While Holloway and Volkanovski trade verbal jabs like any top contenders, there’s a clear respect between the two best featherweights in UFC history not named Jose Aldo. Holloway has been gracious about his second loss while making sure nobody thinks he agreed with the decision in which he out-landed the champion in each of the first three rounds and then fought a tenacious fifth.
“If you watch from the first to the second fight, I’m two different fighters, and this is going to be different fighters again,” Holloway said. “I got to spend 50 minutes with this guy, 10 rounds with this guy. This one, he’ll be blessed if we go above three (rounds).”
Holloway’s formidable chin kept him upright against Volkanovski’s power, but Holloway absorbed a daunting amount of cumulative damage during 25 fights over his first decade in the UFC. Volkanovski believes he can punctuate this rivalry by becoming the first opponent to register a knockdown of Holloway.
“If I could take that chin and put him out, that’s really sending a statement, because no one has done that,” Volkanovski said. “He takes damage. It can’t hold up forever, but let’s see if it holds up in this fight, because I’m going to land some big shots. Let’s see if that legendary chin holds up.”
Volkanovski and Adesanya are teammates at City Kickboxing in Auckland, New Zealand, where Adesanya (22-1) grew from a kickboxing star into an MMA champion.
He’s a big favorite to beat Cannonier (15-5), who has earned his first UFC title shot at 38 years old. Cannonier is on an impressive run of five victories and one narrow defeat to ex-champ Robert Whittaker over the past four years.
Adesanya has been talking up Cannonier as a future opponent for years, but he still expects to extend his title reign in the main event at UFC 276.
“His fighting spirit and his essence, I recognize that, because I’m an empath myself,” Adesanya said. “I can kind of feel the energy from a great man and a great fighter. I like to take care of these guys, and I saw that in him early on. I tried to boost him up early on. He fell short once, and then came back and proved his worth as the next contender.”
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Free feminine hygiene dispensers installed at Madison High School
REXBURG, Idaho (KIFI) - Female students at Madison High School will no longer have to pay to get feminine hygiene products out of a dispenser, thanks to the East Idaho Period Project.
Board member Carly Firth says it was a great moment.
"It's really exciting," Firth said. "We dropped off ten dispensers and then we also dropped off 5,000 menstrual products."
The pads and tampons will be available for free to every female student at Madison High School.
It's part of an effort to end an overlooked health problem in the gem state.
"Period poverty is a huge thing here in Idaho," Firth said. "I think people sometimes don't talk about it, don't think about it, but it is truly huge. We want to make it so a girl doesn't have to worry about all the other things that are going on."
The nonprofit is also donating more than two dozen other dispensers to middle and high schools throughout eastern Idaho.
"We received a grant from the child advocacy center, which was huge. That actually is what funded a bunch of these," Firth said.
MHS office manager Lesa Jackson says the dispensers are placed in bathrooms all through the school.
"The gymnasium locker area, the main commons cafeteria area," Jackson said. "We have them in the classroom area, the fine arts wing, the auditorium, and out in our agricultural building."
Jackson says the dispensers will make a big difference.
"They don't have to come to the office and be embarrassed or have any issues or go home," Jackson said. "They can take care of whatever they need. We're just excited to be able to offer that to them because it's a needed thing for the girls, so they feel safe and comfortable and don't have any problems."
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CENTENNIAL, Colo., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) today announced that it has been invited to present at the following investor conferences:
Sidoti Micro-Cap Virtual Conference
- Thursday, August 18 at 9:15AM ET
- Virtual Event
- Formal presentation and one-on-one meetings
Lake Street 6th Annual Best Ideas Growth (BIG6) Conference
- Wednesday, September 14
- The Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Ave, New York, NY 10007
- One-on-one meetings
Art Zeile, Chief Executive Officer, and Kevin Bostick, Chief Financial Officer, will hold one-on-one and small group meetings with institutional investors at both conferences. The formal presentation at the Sidoti conference will be webcast live and available for replay via the investor relations section of the Company's website at www.dhigroupinc.com.
To schedule a one-on-one meeting with management, please contact the firm hosting each conference or MKR Investor Relations, DHI's investor relations firm, at ir@dhigroupinc.com.
Investor Contact
Todd Kehrli or Jim Byers
MKR Investor Relations, Inc.
212-448-4181
ir@dhigroupinc.com
Media Contact
Rachel Ceccarelli
VP of Engagement
212-448-8288
media@dhigroupinc.com
About DHI Group, Inc.
DHI Group, Inc (NYSE: DHX) is a provider of AI-powered career marketplaces that focus on technology roles. DHI's two brands, Dice and ClearanceJobs, enable recruiters and hiring managers to efficiently search for and connect with highly skilled technologists based on the skills requested. The Company's patented algorithm manages over 100,000 unique technology skills. Additionally, our marketplaces allow technology professionals to find their ideal next career opportunity, with relevant advice and personalized insights. Learn more at www.dhigroupinc.com.
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FBI testing leads to new findings in ‘Rust’ movie shooting
(CNN) - Actor Alec Baldwin is taking issue with an FBI report about the October shooting death of a cinematographer on the set of his movie “Rust.”
The FBI says the gun Baldwin was holding when cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot could not have been fired without the trigger being pulled.
Baldwin’s attorney said Sunday that the report is being “misconstrued” and that “the gun fired in testing only one time – without having to pull the trigger – when the hammer was pulled back and the gun broke in two different places.”
The attorney added, “The FBI was unable to fire the gun in any prior test, even when pulling the trigger, because it was in such poor condition.”
Baldwin told ABC News in December he cocked the gun, but that “the trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger.”
The FBI forensics report says if the gun was cocked the trigger had to have been pulled for the gun to fire.
The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office now has the FBI report as it continues its investigation into the shooting. Investigators will focus on how a live round of ammunition may have made it onto the movie set.
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Gamel 3-run homer, Hayes’ 4 hits lift Pirates over Cubs 6-2
By ALAN SAUNDERS
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Gamel hit a three-run homer in the first inning, Ke’Bryan Hayes went 4 for 4 a day after getting a big contract and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs 6-2 for a two-game series split. Kevin Newman hit a two-run triple in the third for the Pirates, who went 3 for 7 with runners in scoring position, a day after going 0 for 10. Seiya Suzuki was 1 for 3 with an RBI single in the fourth. He is 6 for 20 (.400) with three homers and nine RBIs in six games.
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COPENHAGEN (AP) — A 14-year-old girl died Thursday at a popular amusement park in northern Denmark, police said, reportedly when the rear part of a roller-coaster ride came off the rails.
A 13 year-old boy suffered injuries to one hand, police said.
Henrik Ragborg Olsen, manager of the Tivoli Friheden amusement park in Aarhus, Denmark’s second-largest city, told local newspaper Aarhus Stiftstidende that “the rear two seats” of the Cobraen roller-coaster were hanging “under the wagon train.”
Police said they got a call at 12:50 p.m. that a car was stuck in a ride in Tivoli Friheden and several people were stuck. Two people were sitting on the rear seats and were taken by emergency workers, the newspaper reported. Ragborg Olsen told the Ekstra Bladet daily that the two had been seriously injured and were taken to the hospital.
The accident occurred on the Cobraen roller-coaster and the park has been shut down, police said.
An investigation has been launched into what caused the accident with police questioning witnesses.
The roller-coaster is 25 meters (82 feet) tall and the wagons have a top speed of 70 kilometers per hour (44 mph), according to the Tivoli Friheden Website.
The amusement park sits in the southern part of Aarhus, 156 kilometers (97 miles) northwest of Copenhagen.
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Chemistree Technology Inc. (CSE: CHM) and (OTCQB: CHMJF) (the "Company" or "Chemistree"), is providing Notice of the semi-annual payment of interest on its convertible debentures maturing March 29, 2024. Pursuant to the Supplemental Indenture entered into with the Debenture Trustee, Odyssey Trust Company, effective January 17, 2022, the Company will pay the interest due on June 30, 2022 - via the issuance of common shares in lieu of payment in cash.
According to data provided by the Debenture Trustee, $7,789,000 in convertible debentures remain outstanding. The debentures bear interest at 10% per annum, paid semi-annually at the end of June and December. Common shares to be issued in satisfaction of the interest payment are calculated according to a market price formula set-out in the Supplemental Indenture and are subject to a minimum issue price of $0.05 per share.
The convertible debentures accrue interest daily, with such accrued interest paid immediately upon conversion of the debentures. The principal amount of the debentures is convertible into common shares of the Company at a price of $0.50 per share.
About Chemistree Technology Inc.
Chemistree Technology Inc. is a Canadian investment company with holdings in the U.S. cannabis sector, a consumer-targeted biotechnology venture and a renewable energy developer in the wind and solar sector.
The Company's corporate strategy is to focus on opportunistic investments across a broad range of industries, and is seeking to invest in early stage, promising companies where it may be the lead investor and can additionally provide investees with advisory services, mentoring and access to the Company's management expertise. For more information, visit www.Chemistree.ca.
Advisory
The Company wishes to inform shareholders that there are significant legal restrictions and regulations that govern the cannabis industry in both Canada and the United States.
Cannabis-related Practices or Activities are Illegal Under U.S. Federal Laws
The concepts of "medical cannabis" and "recreational cannabis" do not exist under U.S. federal law. The Federal Controlled Substances Act classifies "marihuana" as a Schedule I drug. Under U.S. federal law, a Schedule I drug or substance has a high potential for abuse, no accepted medical use in the United States, and a lack of safety for the use of the drug under medical supervision. As such, cannabis related practices or activities, including without limitation, the manufacture, importation, possession, use or distribution of cannabis are illegal under U.S. federal law. Strict compliance with state laws with respect to cannabis will neither absolve the Company of liability under U.S. federal law, nor will it provide a defence to any federal proceeding which may be brought against the Company. Enforcement of U.S. federal laws will be a significant risk to the business of the Company and any such proceedings brought against the Company may adversely affect the Company's operations and financial performance.
Further information regarding the legal status of cannabis related activities and associated risk factors, including, but not limited to, risk of enforcement actions, risks that third-party service providers, such as banking or financial institutions cease providing services to the Company, and the risk that Company may not be able to distribute profits, if any, from U.S. operations up to the Company, are included in the Prospectus, the Company's annual information form and other documents incorporated by reference therein and in the Company's Form 2A annual listing statement filed with the CSE and available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
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By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the risks identified in the Company's reports and filings with the applicable Canadian securities regulators. Forward-looking statements are made based on management's beliefs, estimates and opinions on the date that statements are made, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as required by applicable securities laws. Investors are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no responsibility to update or revise forward-looking information to reflect new events or circumstances unless required by applicable law.
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ARLINGTON, Va., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the American Trucking Associations announced the hiring of veteran transportation and government affairs professional Ryan Bowley as the executive director of the ATA Moving & Storage Conference.
"We are extremely fortunate to be able to bring in a professional with Ryan's experience and industry knowledge in to lead our Moving & Storage Conference," said ATA President and CEO Chris Spear. "Ryan is well-known in Washington and has a reputation for effective advocacy on behalf of trucking and small businesses, so it is a pleasure to welcome him into the ATA federation."
Prior to joining MSC, Bowley has worked in government and public affairs at SC Johnson, BHP, the Petroleum Equipment & Services Association and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association after several years as a professional staffer on Capitol Hill.
"I'm very excited to begin representing the moving industry," Bowley said. "Every day, Americans depend on the hardworking men and women in this industry to deliver their most precious possessions and I'm proud to work on their behalf."
American Trucking Associations is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. Through a federation of 50 affiliated state trucking associations and industry-related conferences and councils, ATA is the voice of the industry America depends on most to move our nation's freight. Follow ATA on Twitter or on Facebook. Trucking Moves America Forward.
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Russian navy evacuates flagship in Black Sea. Ukraine claims it was hit by a missile
By Brad Lendon, CNN
One of the Russian Navy’s most important warships is either floating abandoned or at the bottom of the Black Sea, a massive blow to a military struggling against Ukrainian resistance 50 days into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his neighbor.
Russian sailors have evacuated the guided-missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of its Black Sea fleet, after a fire that detonated ammunition aboard, Russian state media reported Wednesday.
State media outlets TASS and RIA, citing the Russian Defense Ministry, said the Moskva had been seriously damaged in the incident and that the cause of the fire was being investigated. The Russian reports gave no information on possible casualties.
But hours earlier, a Ukrainian official claimed the Russian warship had been hit by cruise missiles fired from Ukraine.
Due to large storms over the Black Sea obscuring satellite imagery and sensory satellite data, CNN has not been able to visually confirm the ship has been hit or its current status, but analysts noted that a fire on board such a ship can lead to a catastrophic explosion that could sink it.
Whatever the reason for the fire, the analysts say it strikes hard at the heart of the Russian navy as well as national pride, comparable to the US Navy losing a battleship during World War II or an aircraft carrier today.
“Only the loss of a ballistic missile submarine or the Kutznetsov (Russia’s lone aircraft carrier) would inflict a more serious blow to Russian morale and the navy’s reputation with the Russian public,” said Carl Schuster, a retired US Navy captain and former director of operations at the US Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center.
Alessio Patalano, professor of war and strategy at King’s College in London, said losing the warship would be a “massive blow” for Russia.
“Ships operate away from public attention and their activities are rarely the subject of news. But they are large floating pieces of national territory, and when you lose one, a flagship no less, the political and symbolic message — in addition to the military loss — stands out precisely because of it,” he said.
The 611-foot-long (186 meters) Moskva, with a crew of almost 500, is the pride of the Russian naval fleet in the Black Sea. Originally commissioned into the Soviet navy as the Slava in the 1980s, it was renamed Moskva in 1995 and after a refit reentered service in 1998, according to military site Naval-Technology.com.
The Moskva is armed with a range of anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles as well as torpedoes and naval guns and close-in missile defense systems.
All those represent massive amounts of explosive ordnance in its ammunition magazines. Any fire nearing them would have given the crew limited options to deal with the threat, Schuster said.
“When a fire reaches your ammunition magazine(s), you have two choices; 1) flood them or 2) abandon ship,” Schuster said. “Otherwise your crew is onboard to be wiped out by the catastrophic explosion that follows a fire reaching several hundred tons of ordnance.”
Odesa state regional administrator Maxim Marchenko claimed in a post on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had used Neptune cruises missiles to attack the Moskva. If that’s true, the Moskva would potentially be the largest warship ever taken out of action by a missile, Schuster said.
Such an achievement would represent a big advance for Kyiv’s forces.
The Neptune is a Ukrainian weapon, developed domestically based on the Soviet KH-35 cruise missile. It became operational in the Ukrainian forces just last year, according to Ukrainian media reports.
If it was used to attack the Moskva, it would be the first known use of the Neptune during the war, according to a post on the website of the Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC) from Lt. Cmdr. Jason Lancaster, a US Navy surface warfare officer.
His post for the CIMSEC on Tuesday said the threat posed by mobile shore-based cruise missiles like the Neptune “changes operational behavior” of an enemy.
Russian “ships will operate in ways to minimize the risk of detection and maximize their chances to defend themselves,” Lancaster wrote. “These behavioral changes limit Russia’s ability to utilize their fleet to their advantage. The added stress of sudden combat increases fatigue and can lead to mistakes.”
According to Patalano, the war professor: “It would appear the Russians have learned that the hard way today.”
In the CIMSEC post, Lancaster notes the British Royal Navy lost several ships to missiles fired by Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War.
During that war, a British submarine sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, a former World War II US Navy ship similar in size to the Moskva.
The Moskva also poses symbolic significance to Ukraine as it was one of the ships involved in the famous exchange at Snake Island in February, according to Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to a purported audio exchange in late February, as the Russians approached the Ukrainian garrison on Snake Island, also known as Zmiinyi Island, in the Black Sea, a Russian officer said: “This is a military warship. This is a Russian military warship. I suggest you lay down your weapons and surrender to avoid bloodshed and needless casualties. Otherwise, you will be bombed.”
A Ukrainian soldier responded: “Russian warship, go f*** yourself.”
If the Moskva is lost, it would be the second large-sized Russian naval vessel to suffer that fate during Moscow’s war with Ukraine.
In late March, Ukraine said a missile strike had destroyed a Russian landing ship at the port of Berdiansk.
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LOUISVILLE, KY., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Paula Lambert, founder of the Mozzarella Company in Dallas, Texas, and Bev Shaffer, a Cleveland-based chef, recipe developer, author and culinary instructor, will be recognized with the Grande Dame Lifetime Achievement Award by Les Dames d'Escoffier International (LDEI).
The Grande Dame award recognizes extraordinary lifetime contributions within the food, beverage and hospitality industries. Every other year, recipients are determined by nominations and votes from LDEI's 2,400 members in 43 chapters around the world.
"LDEI's Grande Dame Award is one of the highest honors for a woman in food, beverage and hospitality," said LDEI President Deborah Mintcheff. "We are extremely proud to celebrate these two successful, inspirational women with the 2022 Grande Dame Award. Their accomplishments are nothing short of phenomenal."
Paula Lambert (Dallas Chapter) founded the Mozzarella Company in Dallas, Texas in 1982. She is an internationally renowned, award-winning artisanal cheesemaker, teacher, philanthropist and cookbook author. Among her many honors, Lambert was named one of the Top 50 Cheesemakers in America in 2021 by "Food & Wine" magazine, and is included in the James Beard Foundation's "Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America." Lambert is a sought-after cheese expert and speaker, having been featured on Food Network and multiple other media outlets. She is the author of two books on cheese: "The Cheese Lover's Cookbook and Guide" and "Cheese, Glorious Cheese."
Bev Shaffer (Cleveland Chapter) is a chef, instructor, recipe developer, author and entrepreneur. She opened "What's Cooking?," a kitchen store, cooking school and catering company in Cleveland in 1984. Subsequently, Shaffer led the Cooking School and Market Kitchen and Bakery at the Mustard Seed Market & Café, Ohio's largest retailer of natural and organic products. There, she authored the first of six cookbooks under her name. With her weekly food columns in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Bev brought her expertise and inspiration to home cooks throughout the region. Bev also served as Corporate Chef and Manager of Recipe Development at Vitamix World Headquarters from 2011 – 2016. Bev also is known for her tireless support to find a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, to which her husband succumbed in 2021.
Both women will be honored on Oct. 22 at the LDEI Annual Conference in New York City.
Les Dames d'Escoffier International (LDEI) is an international organization of women leaders who create a supportive culture in their communities to achieve excellence in the fields of food, beverage and hospitality. The organization's 2,400 members in 43 chapters in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and France provide leadership, educational opportunities and philanthropy. LDEI chapters raised and donated more than $525,000 to community non-profits and philanthropic organizations in 2021. For more information, visit www.ldei.org and follow LDEI on Instagram and Twitter @lesdamesintl and Facebook Les Dames d'Escoffier Int'l.
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Gapcloud partners with Bright Pattern to provide cloud-based omnichannel contact center software to businesses and users, and deliver cost-effective Microsoft Teams integrations with the business's contact center operations.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bright Pattern, a leading provider of cloud-based omnichannel communication software for innovative companies, partners with Gapcloud to deliver contact center software solutions to businesses that are looking to deploy an omnichannel call center solution easily and integrate Microsoft Teams as part of their customer service operations. Gapcloud is based out of Australia and has been a provider of contact center technology and cloud services since 2009. Based out of Sydney, Gapcloud has delivered over 150 contact center projects across the APAC region to a broad range of different industries. Many of these projects included transitioning users from Skype for Business platforms onto Microsoft Teams. To deliver these projects cost effectively and quickly, Gapcloud relies on Bright Pattern's call center software.
Bright Pattern provides an out-of-the-box Microsoft Teams integration that is simple-to-implement. and allows Gapcloud's customers to integrate the best parts of Microsoft Teams, i.e. Active Directory, presence and collaboration, directly into their contact center platform, while maintaining omnichannel communications and support. Bright Pattern is also built on the cloud and is 100% cloud-based, lowering the cost barrier for Gapcloud customers who are more easily able to access powerful call center software technology without the burden of expensive Microsoft enterprise voice licensing.
Since Bright Pattern is based on the cloud, easy-to-implement, fast-to-deploy, and provides out-of-the-box integrations with business critical third-party software, including Dynamics 365, Gapcloud has been able to move from an on-premise model to a subscription model and grow year on year as more customers are brought on and retained on the Bright Pattern platform. With no dependency on the customer's infrastructure, Gapcloud can completely de-risk the transition to Microsoft Teams and the moving of customer service functions to the cloud. Unlocked by the seamless integration of Microsoft Teams with the omnichannel call center software, Bright Pattern is enabling a wider range of Microsoft-based organizations to enjoy the benefits of best of breed contact center as a service.
"Partnering with Bright Pattern was absolutely the right decision for our team. It gives us a premium service on which we can create an amazing contact center experience for our customers. It has allowed them to break their dependency on complex, on-premise contact center systems and it's allowed them to set up for the future." said Stuart Marsh, Regional Director at Gapcloud.
"With the rise of Microsoft Teams in the world of business communication and with the need to connect with customers on increasingly digital channels, the need for an omnichannel platform that can be easily implemented, easy-to-use, and with effective out-of-the-box integrations with important third-party technologies is more important than ever," said Michael McCloskey, CEO of Bright Pattern. "Bright Pattern integrates with Microsoft Teams out-of-the-box, is 100% based on the cloud and eliminates the need for long set-up times and complex technology systems, and allows businesses to communicate on all digital channels. We are happy to partner with Gapcloud to lower the cost barrier for customers to get access to the most advanced call center technology."
About Bright Pattern
Bright Pattern provides the simplest and most powerful AI-powered omnichannel contact center software for innovative midsize and enterprise companies. With the purpose of making customer service brighter, easier, and faster than ever before, Bright Pattern offers the only true omnichannel cloud platform with embedded AI that can be deployed quickly and nimbly by business users—without costly professional services. Bright Pattern allows companies to offer an effortless and personal customer experience across channels like voice, text, chat, email, video, messengers, and bots. Bright Pattern also allows companies to measure and act on every interaction on every channel with embedded AI omnichannel quality management. The company was founded by a team of industry veterans who pioneered the leading contact center solutions and are now delivering an architecture for the future with an advanced cloud-first approach. Bright Pattern's cloud contact center solution is used globally in over 26 countries and 12 languages.
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SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BGI has topped the Asia Pacific and China life science corporate institution ranking table for the seventh year running, released in the 2022 Nature Index Annual Tables. With a 19 percent increase in its adjusted share metric, BGI ranked eighth among global life science corporate institutions, which is an improvement over the preceding year's tenth-place result.
The Nature Index is an indicator of institutional research performance. Share — Nature Index's key metric — is a fractional count for an article allocated to an institution, that considers the proportion of authors on the article from that institution.
Among the top ten life science corporate institutions worldwide, there are six institutions from the U.S such as Pfizer, three from Europe such as Roche, with BGI as the only APAC and Chinese institution on this list.
BGI's key research highlights from 2021 include:
- Zhou, Yang, et al. "Platypus and Echidna Genomes Reveal Mammalian Biology and Evolution." Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 6 Jan. 2021.
- Bi, Xupeng, et al. "Tracing the Genetic Footprints of Vertebrate Landing in Non-Teleost Ray-Finned Fishes." Cell, vol. 184, no. 5, 2021.
- Wei, Tong, et al. "Whole-Genome Resequencing of 445 Lactuca Accessions Reveals the Domestication History of Cultivated Lettuce." Nature Genetics, vol. 53, no. 5, 2021, pp. 752–760.
- Yang, Chentao, et al. "Evolutionary and Biomedical Insights from a Marmoset Diploid Genome Assembly." Nature, vol. 594, no. 7862, 2021, pp. 227–233.
- Xiang, Xi, et al. "Enhancing CRISPR-Cas9 Grna Efficiency Prediction by Data Integration and Deep Learning." Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021.
- Varshney, R.K., Roorkiwal, M., Sun, S. et al. "A chickpea genetic variation map based on the sequencing of 3,366 genomes. "Nature 599, 622–627 (2021).
BGI was "born global" as they were established on Sept. 9, 1999 by a group of young scientists to participate in the global Human Genome Project and fulfill China's mission of sequencing about 1% of the entire human genome. Since then, BGI's research often involved cooperation with various global institutions.
BGI is currently leading international research projects such as the Ten Thousand Plant Genome Project and Ten Thousand Bird Genome Project to sequence the genomes of 10,000 plants and birds respectively. BGI is also active in clinical research collaboration involving gene tests with high specificity and sensitivity.
About the Nature Index
The Nature Index was first released in November 2005. The metrics of Count and Share used to order Nature Index listings are based on an institution's publication output in 82 natural science journals, selected on reputation by an independent panel of leading scientists in their fields. The Nature Index provides absolute Count and fractional Share counts of article publication at the institutional and national level and, as such, is an indicator of global high-quality research output and collaboration.
About BGI Genomics
BGI Genomics, headquartered in Shenzhen China, is the world's leading provider of genomic sequencing and proteomic services. We enable scientists and researchers to reach their full potential by providing them with fully integrated genomic sequencing, proteomic services, and high-quality solutions across a range of applications. Our services cover more than 100 countries and regions, involving more than 2,300 medical institutions.
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(NEXSTAR) – Stargazers won’t want to miss July’s full moon.
July’s upcoming full moon, also known as the Buck moon, will occur shortly after the moon is at its closest point to Earth in 2022 — which would effectively qualify it as a so-called “supermoon,” according to NASA.
July’s full moon is scheduled for 2:38 p.m. EDT on July 13, the space agency says. But less than 10 hours later, the moon’s orbit will bring it within 90% of its closest approach for the year, or only 221,994 miles from Earth, Space.com reported. That said, the moon won’t technically be “full” by the time it passes closest in the sky, but rather in the early stages of a waning gibbous. Even still, the moon should appear full to the naked eye, per NASA.
In fact, the moon will likely appear brighter and larger for three whole days between Tuesday and Friday, the space agency said.
“At its closest point, the full moon appears about 17 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the faintest Moon of the year, which occurs when it’s farthest from Earth in its orbit,” NASA writes of the phenomenon.
July’s moon also earned the name “Buck moon” because it coincides with new antler growths on male deer, NASA added.
The term “supermoon” was popularized by astronomer Richard Nolle, who used it to describe full moons, or even new moons, that coincide with especially close approaches to Earth. NASA said supermoons usually occur three or four times per year, but the Old Farmer’s Almanac acknowledges a more strict definition, which states that only one full moon and one new moon — the closest ones — qualify as supermoons in any single year.
July’s moon meets the requirements for the latter, effectively making it an undisputed supermoon.
August’s full moon, meanwhile, won’t be anything to sneeze at, either. According to NASA, Saturn will appear near the full moon on Aug. 11, and the planet will appear “near its brightest for the year” within days.
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Drilling Highlights:
- TARQ4D – 0.32% copper equivalent over 218 metres from surface
- TARQ10D – 0.18% copper equivalent over 72 metres from 72 metres down hole
VANCOUVER, BC, July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Luminex Resources Corp. (TSXV: LR) (OTCQX: LUMIF) (the "Company" or "Luminex") would like to provide an update on its Tarqui project, where BHP Group Limited ("BHP") has completed its Phase 2 drill program that commenced in late 2021, pursuant to a July 2019 earn-in and joint venture agreement. BHP completed the current drill program in June 2022 and has received assays from seven of ten holes. Drilling at the project has now totaled 6,862 metres, over thirteen drill holes between the Phase 1 and Phase 2 programs.
BHP has formally notified Luminex that it will not be continuing with the earn-in at Tarqui and will begin the process of transitioning the operatorship back to Luminex, with expected completion in Q4 2022. Luminex will review all of the project data and work completed to date and evaluate next steps for the Tarqui project.
Prior to drilling, BHP conducted surface geological mapping and rock chip and soil sampling comprised of 1,015 samples and 2,815 samples respectively. Additionally, the company contracted Geotech to conduct a helicopter borne survey with a VTEM (Versatile Time Domain Electromagnetic) system comprising 349 line kilometres over the property.
Drilling targeted two large (>2 square kilometre) copper-molybdenum anomalies (illustrated in Figure 1) with coincident conductive and magnetic response. At these two target areas, mineralization is related to diorite and granodiorite porphyry stocks hosted within the Jurassic Zamora batholith, which in turn intrudes Cretaceous Sedimentary rocks. At both, mineralization is associated with potassic alteration and outboard propylitic alteration that is overprinted by intermediate sulphidation zinc-lead-silver veins. Drilling within the two copper soil anomalies consistently intersected reportable copper-molybdenum intervals, that are provided in Table 1, with drill hole locations illustrated in Figure 1.
Table 1. Drill results from Tarqui Hole TARQ4D to TARQ10D.
Note: Intervals in the reported holes are calculated using a cut-off of 0.10% Cu with maximum internal dilution of eight continuous metres. Sampling is done in consistent, continuous 2-metre intervals. Equivalent values were calculated using copper equivalent values were calculated using the following prices: a gold price of US$1,600 per ounce, a copper price of US$3.00 per pound, a molybdenum price of US$8.00 per pound and a silver price of US$20.00 per ounce. No allowances have been made for recovery losses that may occur should mining eventually result.
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Leo Hathaway, P. Geo, Senior Vice President Exploration of Luminex and the Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, has reviewed, verified and approved the scientific and technical information concerning the Tarqui Project in this news release and has verified the data underlying that scientific and technical information.
About Luminex Resources
Luminex Resources Corp. (TSXV:LR, OTCQX:LUMIF) is a Vancouver, Canada based precious and base metals exploration and development company focused on gold and copper projects in Ecuador. Luminex's inferred and indicated mineral resources are located at the Condor Gold-Copper project in Zamora-Chinchipe Province, southeast Ecuador. Luminex also holds a large and highly prospective land package in Ecuador, including the Pegasus and Orquideas projects, which are being co-developed with Anglo American and JOGMEC respectively.
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Certain statements and information herein, including all statements that are not historical facts, contain forward-looking statements and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Such forward-looking statements or information include but are not limited to statements or information with respect to timing for BHP transitioning operatorship back to Luminex and determining future Tarqui work programs. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements or information can be identified by the use of words such as "will" or variations of that word and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "will", "could" or are "intended to" be taken, occur or be achieved.
With respect to forward-looking statements and information contained herein, the Company has made numerous assumptions including among other things, assumptions about general business and economic conditions, the prices of gold and copper, and anticipated costs and expenditures. The foregoing list of assumptions is not exhaustive.
Although management of the Company believes that the assumptions made and the expectations represented by such statements or information are reasonable, there can be no assurance that a forward-looking statement or information herein will prove to be accurate. Forward-looking statements and information by their nature are based on assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information. These factors include, but are not limited to: risks associated with the business of the Company; business and economic conditions in the mining industry generally; the supply and demand for labour and other project inputs; changes in commodity prices; changes in interest and currency exchange rates; risks relating to inaccurate geological and engineering assumptions (including with respect to the tonnage, grade and recoverability of reserves and resources); risks relating to unanticipated operational difficulties (including failure of equipment or processes to operate in accordance with specifications or expectations, cost escalation, unavailability of materials and equipment, government action or delays in the receipt of government approvals, industrial disturbances or other job action, and unanticipated events related to health, safety and environmental matters); risks relating to adverse weather conditions; political risk and social unrest; changes in general economic conditions or conditions in the financial markets; and other risk factors as detailed from time to time in the Company's continuous disclosure documents filed with Canadian securities administrators. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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HONG KONG, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Govee, a global leader in RGBIC technology, and Razer, the world's leading lifestyle brand for gamers, have teamed up to pair Govee's smart lights with Razer Chroma RGB. Govee and Razer users can enjoy a 360° immersive gaming experience while playing Chroma-enabled games.
With this integration, gamers can sync their Govee smart lights with the Razer Chroma RGB ecosystem and enjoy the immersive lighting effects that enhance their gameplay experience. When gamers activate gaming mode, Chroma and their library of compatible games will use their interactive lighting system to react to various actions while playing. Govee smart lights improve the aesthetics of every gaming room, turning it into an open world and taking it to the next level.
"We are so excited for our collaboration with Razer, and we can't wait to introduce this 360° gaming ecosystem with next-level immersive gaming experience to all gamers." says Govee founder and CEO Eric Wu.
Govee's first wave of Razer Chroma-enabled products starts from the popular Govee Glide Hexa Light Panels, Glide Wall Light, Neon Rope Light and RGBIC LED Strip Lights. More Govee products will be updated into the Razer Chroma RGB ecosystem.
Once connected, gamers can begin the journey to unleash the ultimate battlestation. Moreover, gamers can enjoy the music-responsive mode and preset scenes on the Govee Home App, spreading the joy of these amazing RGBIC lighting effects to users's entire home.
ABOUT GOVEE
Since November 2017, Govee has committed to upholding the highest standards in quality for our smart home technology.
We have created cutting-edge lighting and home products for consumers from around the world. Our products are consistently rated as Amazon's Choice with highly-rated reviews from our consumers.
The Govee Home App, our corresponding app for all of our products, has a growing community of over 10 million registered users on iOS and Android. We have also received rave reviews from trusted publications such as Make Use Of and Android Authority.
For more information on Govee and its products, please visit our website at govee.com
ABOUT RAZER
Razer™ is the world's leading lifestyle brand for gamers.
The triple-headed snake trademark of Razer is one of the most recognized logos in the global gaming and esports communities. With a fan base that spans every continent, the company has designed and built the world's largest gamer-focused ecosystem of hardware, software and services.
Razer's award-winning hardware includes high-performance gaming peripherals and Blade gaming laptops.
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ROCKDALE — Services for Pat “Patsy” Lucero Olivas, 73, of Taylor will be 10 a.m. today at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale.
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ROCKDALE — Services for Pat “Patsy” Lucero Olivas, 73, of Taylor will be 10 a.m. today at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale.
Mrs. Olivas died Sunday, Aug. 21, at a Temple hospital.
She was born Jan. 28, 1949, in Amarillo to Edward and Teresa Fajardo Lucero. She attended Caprock High School. She worked in customer service. She was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Amarillo.
She was preceded in death by a son, Joey Anthony Lucero.
Survivors include a daughter, Tamara Lucero Hernandez; three sons, Jerry Lucero, Chon Montelongo Jr., and Lupe Montelongo, all of Rockdale; two sisters, Maria Sandra Cera and Mary Louise Lucero; a brother, Edward Lucero; and nine grandchildren.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sesame Place Philadelphia apologizes to the Brown family. The park is taking action to deliver a more equitable and inclusive experience. The park releases the following statement today.
"We sincerely and wholeheartedly apologize to the Brown family for what they experienced. To be very clear, what the two young girls experienced, what the family experienced, is unacceptable. It happened in our park, with our team, and we own that. It is our responsibility to make this better for the children and the family and to be better for all families.
We have been in contact with the family since Sunday morning and have spoken with their lawyers as recently as today. We have offered to meet the family and their attorneys in person to personally deliver an apology and an acknowledgement that we are holding ourselves accountable for what happened. We want to listen to them to understand how the experience impacted their family and to understand what we can do better for them and all guests who visit our parks. We are committed to learning all we can from this situation to make meaningful change. We want every child who comes to our park to feel included, seen and inspired.
We are taking action and are reviewing our practices to identify necessary changes, both in the immediate and long-term. We are instituting mandatory training for all our employees so that we can better recognize, understand, and deliver an inclusive, equitable and entertaining experience for all our guests. We have engaged with nationally recognized experts in this area.
We take this extremely seriously. We are heartbroken by what these young girls and this family experienced in our park. It is antithetical to our values, principles, and purpose. We are committed to working tirelessly and intentionally to make this situation better. We will do the necessary work for the long haul -- not just in the public eye, but also behind the scenes and within ourselves."
About Sesame Place
Sesame Place Philadelphia, the only theme park on the East Coast based entirely on the award-winning show, Sesame Street®, was the first theme park in the world to become a Certified Autism Center. The park has more than 25 Sesame Street-themed attractions, entertaining character shows and parades, an interactive Sesame Street Neighborhood, and everyone's favorite furry friends. Celebrate family-friendly events all year long at Sesame Place including Elmo's Furry Fun Fest, Elmo's Eggstravaganza, Elmo's Springtacular, Summer Fun Fest, The Count's Halloween Spooktacular, and A Very Furry Christmas. Conveniently located 30 minutes from Philadelphia and 90 minutes from NYC, Sesame Place is ideal for families with kids of all ages. For more information, visit www.sesameplace.com and follow the park on Facebook and Instagram.
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JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The first image Jackson State University Archivist Darlita Ballard scanned as part of the inaugural Getty Images Photo Archives Grant for Historically Black Colleges was of royalty: A photo of a JSU queen.
"We had started putting together photos of the queens in anticipation of an event for the queens," she said, explaining how that photo kicked off digitizing photos from the archives and making them available for a worldwide audience.
JSU is one of four recipients of the $500,000 Getty Images Photo Archives Grant made possible by the Getty Family and the philanthropic organization Stand Together. The program supports the digitization of 50,000 archival photographs from JSU's library. The support extends to future images captured with camera equipment donated by Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace. Watch video here.
Locord Wilson, Ph.D., dean of libraries at JSU, said the grant provides equipment, training and the ability to illuminate the university's photo archives in a way the university could only once dream about.
"It allows the world to see what we have to offer and to take it beyond the four walls," she said. "We have photographs from our early leaders to historic events such as those in the Gibbs-Green Collection to those that depict campus life and our well-known Sonic Boom of the South."
Cassandra Illidge, vice president of global partnerships at Getty Images and executive director of the HBCU Grants Program at Getty Images, said the program fits with her role of making available more diverse content for Getty's customers, which are advertising agencies, corporations and media outlets.
Some of the JSU photos scanned and licensed on gettyimages.com will most likely appear in textbooks, publications and other outlets relevant to African Americans, she said. Getty Images will not profit from such, she said.
JSU retains all copyright of its photos and one digitized, the historical content is placed in a newly created stand-alone photo collection named the Historically Black Colleges & Universities Collection that is available for licensing on gettyimages.com.
All revenue generated from the images that are preserved through the grant will be funneled into programs, with 50 percent going to grant recipients, 30 percent for a financial donation to a scholarship fund focused on furthering the education of students at HBCUs and 20 percent reinvested to fund the Getty Images Photo Archive Grants for HBCUs each year.
So far, 4,000 photos from the JSU archives have been digitized, Illidge said. The three other HBCUs, who received the same grant after JSU, have each scanned about 100 photos from their archives, she said.
Using a professional quality, flatbed scanner and software donated by Epson, a partner in the project, and after training from Getty Images' team, Ballard and three JSU students have focused their attention on scanning the 256 photos in the Gibbs-Green Collection. The photos document the May 15,1970, tragic shooting that took place on campus and resulted in the deaths of Phillip Lafayette Green, a JSU student, and James Earl Green, a Jim Hill High School senior.
"It ties into Black Lives Matter and police injustice," Ballard said of the relevance of 1970 event to current news. "Everyone needs to know that police injustice isn't a new thing."
The 90 photos in the Tracy Sugarman Collection that document the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 have been digitized. So has the collection of photography by Richard Beadle, a Jackson photographer known for documenting life in Jackson on Farish Street when it was one of the largest African American districts in the South.
"A lot of the photos are historic and have never been seen," said Ballard of the images being digitized.
The photos being scanned are diverse in subject matter and includes images of JSU sports legends such as Walter Payton, Robert Brazile and Willie Richardson as well as author Margaret Walker Alexander and female writers such as Alice Walker and Nikki Giovanni that Alexander invited to campus to participate in the Phyllis Wheatley Poetry Festival in 1973.
With a wide range of photos, the project is one students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of JSU can be proud of, Illidge said.
Securing information about when a photo was taken, the name of the photographer and the names of people pictured is an important detail of the program.
Ballard and students search through old yearbooks, newsletters and newspapers such as the Jackson Advocate and speak with professors and staff members to uncover the names of people in photos and learn more.
"You can scan a photo, but what people want to know is 'Who are the people in the photo? Who was the photographer? Where was it taken?'" Ballard said. "I provide as much information as I can."
Adnet Global, a renowned post-production agency that specializes in the digitization, restoration and discoverability of visual analog historic libraries, a partner in the project, lends its expertise when a photo needs refurbishment.
Adnet Global restored a photo in fragile condition that dated to about 1898 and pictured all women, Ballard said. The photo is part of the Jane Ellen McAllister Collection that documents her career as a professor of teacher education from 1951-969 at Jackson State College (now JSU). McAllister, born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in education in the United States and the first African American female in the world to be a doctoral candidate in education.
"They pull all the details you may not be able to see and keep the originality of the photo," Ballard said of the restoration by Adnet Global. "I was amazed."
Denny's, a partner in the project, is providing stipends for students who are selected as recipients of the Getty Images Photo Archive Grants for HBCUs.
So far, three students have been trained to scan photos and the plan is for those students to train additional students, Ballard said, mentioning how the work in the archives can be a springboard to careers in the arts, history, photography, media and more.
Claflin University, North Carolina Centra University and Prairie View A&M University also received inaugural Getty Images Photo Archives Grant for Historically Black Colleges grants.
"We are encouraging the universities to talk to each other and learn from each other," Illidge said.
President Thomas K Hudson, J.D., spoke about JSU's participation in the program during a panel at the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival in August. EBONY Media Chief Operating Officer Keija Minor moderated the panel that also included as participants Brenda Lauderback, board chair of Denny's, and Illidge.
"President Hudson so eloquently spoke about why this project was important," Illidge said.
JSU's involvement in the program is not only good for the library and the entire university but also for the state of Mississippi, Wilson said. "I've had many people call and tell me they've read about what we're doing."
The goal is to expand the program to all HBCUs as well as to their sororities and fraternities, Illidge said.
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Talk That Talk™ encourages potentially lifesaving conversations about prostate cancer risk and importance of screening among Black men
HORSHAM, Pa., Sept. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today the launch of Talk That Talk™, an educational campaign and call to action to drive prostate cancer awareness and reinforce the importance of screening for early detection among Black men. Utilizing a new educational website and social media channels, Talk That Talk™ creates safe and supportive spaces to learn about prostate cancer, share resources, and take proactive steps to live healthier lives. The ultimate goal is to encourage and elevate the importance of consistent prostate cancer screenings to help reduce longstanding healthcare disparities in prostate cancer, including late-stage diagnoses and shorter life expectancies.
Shannon Sharpe, Pro Football Hall-of-Fame tight end and co-host of FOX Sports "Undisputed," joins the effort to bring together leaders of Black communities, Black health organizations, and a team of diverse people with a shared purpose to ensure Talk That Talk™ authentically portrays the richness of the Black experience and help save the lives of Black men.
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for Black men.1 Despite advances in care, Black men have the highest death rate for prostate cancer in the U.S., two times higher than most other men.2 Early detection, when the cancer is confined to the prostate or the region around it, reduces the risk of death from prostate cancer.1,3
Research has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic may have delayed prostate cancer diagnostic procedures and diagnoses. Even as the risk of COVID is minimized, patients may encounter difficulty resuming healthcare visits for routine screenings and cancer care.4
"Too many families are losing their brothers, their fathers, their uncles, their grandfathers – pillars of our homes – to the disease," Sharpe said. "Talk That Talk is an incredible opportunity to help save lives by getting more people to have these crucial conversations with each other and our doctors no matter how difficult it is. I've been so blessed many times over in life – with my career and my family – and I want to use it to help save lives."
www.TalkThatTalkPC.com supports these conversations with downloadable resources, such as a screening checklist and a guide on talking to physicians. Talk That Talk™ Facebook and Instagram pages offer community spaces that inspire action so men don't have to navigate this journey alone.
"The disproportionate incidence and severity of prostate cancer in Black men means they are considered a higher risk population. As such, we need to be proactive and follow the American Cancer Society recommendations to talk to a doctor about screening beginning in their early 40s," said Dr. Fenwa Famakinwa Milhouse, a urologist and social media influencer who is partnering with Janssen on Talk That Talk™. A prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurement, via blood test, is one type of screening for prostate cancer.5
"There is still work to be done within our healthcare systems on behalf of patients and their communities," said Tyrone Brewer, U.S. President, Oncology, Janssen Biotech, Inc. "Talk That Talk can help inspire a potentially lifesaving conversation, an important first step on our journey to close the prostate cancer inequity gap and part of our mission to reimagine care so that patients can redefine living."
To get involved, follow on social media using hashtags #TalkThatTalkTime and #TalkThatTalkPC.
About the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
At Janssen, we're creating a future where disease is a thing of the past. We're the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular, Metabolism, & Retina; Immunology; Infectious Diseases & Vaccines; Neuroscience; Oncology; and Pulmonary Hypertension.
Learn more at www.janssen.com. Follow us at @JanssenUS. Janssen Biotech, Inc. is part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
References
1 American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures for African American/Black People. American Cancer Society 2022-2024. https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/cancer-facts-and-figures-for-african-americans/2022-2024-cff-aa.pdf. Accessed August 2022.
2 SEER Prostate Cancer Stats 2022 https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/prost.html. Accessed August 2022. 3 American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts & Figures, 2022. https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics/all-cancer-facts-figures/cancer-facts-figures-2022.html. Accessed August 2022.
4 Englum et al. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diagnosis of new cancers: A national multicenter study of the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. Cancer 2022;128: 1048-1056. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34866184/ Accessed August 2022.
5 NCCN Guidelines Prostate Cancer Early Detection Version 1.2022 https://www.nccn.org/login?ReturnURL=https://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/pdf/prostate_detection.pdf Accessed August 2022.
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QINGDAO, China, April 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Final Draw for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ was held in Doha on April 1st, FIFA, Qatar Government, Hisense and many organizations attended the event. As the official global sponsor for two consecutive FIFA World Cup tournaments, Hisense showcased its widely praised L9G TriChroma Laser TV at the event and announced the upcoming #PerfectMatch World Cup Global Marketing Campaign.
Hisense L9G Laser TV Widely Praised at the Event
FIFA's senior management team and representatives from various soccer associations visited Hisense's booth during the event. Fatma Samoura, Secretary-General of FIFA, was deeply impressed by the immersive viewing experience of Hisense L9G Laser TV. A renowned football coach stated that Hisense Laser TV is great for watching football matches at home.
Mr. Jason Ou, President of Hisense Middle East and Africa, highlighted that Hisense L9G Laser TV was designed as eye-friendly and recently certified Low Blue Light (Hardware Solution) by TÜV Rheinland. "The perfect home entertainment system and cinema-quality sound can provide the ultimate immersive match viewing experience to consumers when watching the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. From the product strategy development perspective, Hisense will continue to promote the technological breakthrough of the product structure, to create premium and high-quality products. Hisense's premium products will become the first choice of consumers in the future." Jason Ou added.
#PerfectMatch World Cup Global Marketing Campaign Officially Launched
During the event, Hisense launched a global World Cup marketing campaign with the tagline "Perfect Match", which means the World Cup will be a perfect football event, and Hisense products will be the best choice for football fans to watch matches at home.
As a reliable home appliances brand, Hisense shouts out to the world through the FIFA World Cup platform with the determination to present each Perfect Match to the global audience. Hisense will also create perfect matches for consumers and fans through a series of marketing campaigns across the FIFA World Cup journey, including the Disappearing Football Pitches CSR project, Super Brand Week, etc.
Hisense Increased Investment in Middle East, Consolidating Global Market Position
The Middle East is one of Hisense's fastest-growing markets. At present, Hisense's first global flagship store has been opened in the Middle East, and Hisense has won tremendous recognition through incredible technology and product quality. In the future, Hisense will leverage the "Qatar" World Cup sponsorship rights and continue to accelerate the strategic implementation of the Middle East market. To achieve this, Hisense will invest more in creating premium hi-tech products; Meanwhile, Hisense will also increase the overall investment in establishing factories to fulfill the integration of R&D, manufacturing, and sales.
Moving forward, Hisense aims to achieve globalization and enhance the brand's global competitiveness through the success of the Middle East market and sports marketing, to become a global renowned technology brand worldwide.
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The Republican matchup in the Wisconsin governor’s race on Tuesday features competing candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump and his estranged vice president, Mike Pence. Democrats are picking a candidate to face two-term GOP Sen. Ron Johnson for control of the closely divided chamber.
Meanwhile, voters in Vermont are choosing a replacement for U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy as the chamber’s longest-serving member retires. In Minnesota, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar faces a Democratic primary challenger who helped defeat a voter referendum to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new Department of Public Safety.
What to watch in Tuesday’s primary elections in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut:
WISCONSIN
Construction company co-owner Tim Michels has Trump’s endorsement in the governor’s race and has been spending millions of his own money, touting both the former president’s backing and his years working to build his family’s business into Wisconsin’s largest construction company. Michels casts himself as an outsider, although he previously lost a campaign to oust then-U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold in 2004 and has long been a prominent GOP donor.
Establishment Republicans including Pence and former Gov. Scott Walker have endorsed former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, who along with Walker, survived a 2012 recall effort. She argues she has the experience and knowledge to pursue conservative priorities, including dismantling the bipartisan commission that runs elections.
With Senate control at stake, Democrats will also make their pick to take on Johnson. Democratic support coalesced around Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes late in the race, when his three top rivals dropped out and threw their support to him. He would become the state’s first Black senator if elected.
Several lesser-known candidates remain in the primary, but Johnson and Republicans have treated Barnes as the nominee, casting him as too liberal for Wisconsin, a state Trump won in 2016 but lost in 2020.
Four Democrats are also running in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District, a seat that opened up with the retirement of veteran Democratic U.S. Rep. Ron Kind. The district has been trending Republican, and Derrick Van Orden — who narrowly lost to Kind in 2020 and has Trump’s endorsement — is running unopposed.
MINNESOTA
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz faces a little-known opponent as he seeks a second term. His likely challenger is Republican Scott Jensen, a physician and former state lawmaker who has made vaccine skepticism a centerpiece of his campaign and faces token opposition.
Both men have been waging a virtual campaign for months, with Jensen attacking Walz for his management of the pandemic and hammering the governor for rising crime around Minneapolis. Walz has highlighted his own support of abortion rights and suggested that Jensen would be a threat to chip away at the procedure’s legality in Minnesota.
Crime has emerged as the biggest issue in Rep. Omar’s Democratic primary. She faces a challenge from former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels, who opposes the movement to defund the police and last year helped defeat efforts to replace the city’s police department. Omar, who supported the referendum, has a substantial money advantage and is expected to benefit from a strong grassroots operation.
The most confusing part of Tuesday’s ballot was for the 1st Congressional District seat that was held by U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn, who died earlier this year from cancer. Republican former state Rep. Brad Finstad and Democrat Jeff Ettinger, a former Hormel CEO, are simultaneously competing in primaries to determine the November matchup for the next two-year term representing the southern Minnesota district, as well as a special election to finish the last few months of Hagedorn’s term.
CONNECTICUT
It’s been roughly three decades since Connecticut had a Republican in the U.S. Senate, but the party isn’t giving up.
In the GOP primary to take on Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the party has endorsed former state House Minority Leader Themis Klarides. She’s a social moderate who supports abortion rights and certain gun control measures and says she did not vote for Trump in 2020. Klarides contends her experience and positions can persuade voters to oppose Blumenthal, a two-term senator who in May registered a 45% job approval rating, his lowest in a Quinnipiac poll since taking office.
Klarides is being challenged by conservative attorney Peter Lumaj and Republican National Committee member Leora Levy, whom Trump endorsed last week. Both candidates oppose abortion rights and further gun restrictions, and they back Trump’s policies.
VERMONT
Leahy’s upcoming retirement has opened up two seats in Vermont’s tiny three-person congressional delegation — and the opportunity for the state to send a woman to represent it in Washington for the first time.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, the state’s at-large congressman, quickly launched his Senate bid after Leahy revealed he was stepping down. Leahy, who is president pro tempore of the Senate, has been hospitalized a couple of times over the last two years, including after breaking his hip this summer.
Welch has been endorsed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and is the odds-on favorite to win the seat in November. He faces two other Democrats in the primary: Isaac Evans-Frantz, an activist, and Dr. Niki Thran, an emergency physician.
On the Republican side, former U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan, retired U.S. Army officer Gerald Malloy and investment banker Myers Mermel are competing for the nomination.
The race to replace Welch has yielded Vermont’s first wide-open U.S. House campaign since 2006.
Two women, including Lt. Gov. Molly Gray and state Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, are the top Democratic candidates in the race. Gray, elected in 2020 in her first political bid, is a lawyer and a former assistant state attorney general.
The winner of the Democratic primary will be the heavy favorite to win the general election in the liberal state. In 2018, Vermont became the last state without female representation in Congress when Mississippi Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith was appointed to the Senate.
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Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin; Doug Glass in Minneapolis; Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut; and Wilson Ring in Montpelier, Vermont, contributed to this report.
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BERLIN (AP) — Dock workers at Germany’s North Sea ports went on strike Friday in the latest of several walkouts that have added pressures on shipping as their union demands a hefty pay rise to counter high inflation.
The 48-hour strike, which is to end on Saturday morning, has largely paralyzed cargo handling at major ports including Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven, news agency dpa reported. It follows a 24-hour walkout in June and a previous one-shift warning strike.
However, there will be no further strikes before late August under a deal reached at the labor court in Hamburg on Thursday night, the court said. The agreement calls for the two sides to set three further dates for negotiations up to Aug. 26. Courts in several cities had rejected bids by employers for injunctions halting this week’s strike.
So far, seven rounds of negotiations haven’t produced any results. The ver.di union has been calling for a one-year deal that would include a raise of 1.20 euros (dollars) per hour for around 12,000 employees in Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony state, plus a 7.4% increase to balance out inflation.
The dispute comes as shipping already has been disrupted by a variety of issues, including the coronavirus restrictions in China.
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(The Hill) – President Trump is taking a beating from the Jan. 6 panel, with ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson this week offering particularly damaging testimony about the former president’s temperament and knowledge of what was happening in the attack on the Capitol.
The hearing underscored the panel’s effort to build a public case that Trump is unfit to serve as president again as he moves toward launching a possible new bid for the White House.
Yet it’s unclear how much the testimony of Hutchinson and others is breaking through.
A poll published Friday by Emerson Polling found Trump with a sizable lead among potential 2024 GOP primary candidates. Fifty-five percent of respondents said they’d back Trump for the nomination, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) garnering 20 percent.
And in a hypothetical 2024 rematch between Trump and President Biden, the Emerson poll found Trump leading with 44 percent support to Biden’s 39 percent.
The poll was conducted June 28-29, meaning the effects of Hutchinson’s testimony may not have been fully taken into account by some respondents.
Multiple former Trump aides have argued the Jan. 6 hearings amount to a television production that is bipartisan in name only given the two Republican members, Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who are among the most outspoken Trump critics.
GOP strategists also believe that while the Jan. 6 hearings may cost him among voters who were reluctant to vote for him in 2016 before backing him in 2020, it may not be enough to cost Trump in a hypothetical matchup with Biden, particularly given all the other problems the country is facing.
“It’s all too soon to say. We’ll see what the final product is,” one GOP strategist with ties to Trump’s orbit said.
“I think that the biggest problem for folks that want this commission to be everything and anything is the American people are facing real life daily problems and that can be directly attributed to the policies of the Biden administration,” the strategist added.
Hutchinson, who served as a top aide to then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, painted a picture with her testimony on Tuesday of a former president with a temper who disregarded warnings things could get violent on Jan. 6 and seethed with anger when he was unable to join his supporters at the Capitol that day.
The most explosive piece of testimony – that Trump lunged for the wheel of his SUV and then at a Secret Service agent when told he couldn’t go to the Capitol – has faced pushback from some of the individuals involved in the episode, though they have not testified publicly to dispute the account.
But Hutchinson’s testimony that Trump and his chief of staff were warned some in the crowd had weapons and that Trump wanted to go the Capitol with the scores of supporters who went on to storm the complex have not been refuted by others involved.
Hutchinson’s appearance before the committee built on a larger narrative the House panel has laid out: That Trump was told repeatedly by officials that his claims of election fraud were not supported by evidence but pushed his claims that the 2020 election was stolen anyway, culminating in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
One hearing featured Department of Justice officials testifying in detail about how Trump pushed the agency to investigate fraud claims even as those same officials said they explained one-by-one why those claims were false.
Another hearing featured officials close to former Vice President Pence testifying about how Trump and his allies pressured Pence to overturn the 2020 election results without legal basis.
And at the end of Tuesday’s hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) showed text messages that indicated Trump allies may have engaged in witness intimidation.
With at least a few more public hearings still to come, followed by the committee’s final report, Trump’s standing among potential 2024 voters could still take a hit. And there are signs that the public is taking the committee’s findings seriously.
An Associated Press-NORC poll published Thursday found 48 percent of adults believe Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the Jan. 6 riots, while 31 percent said he should not be charged.
The poll, which was conducted before Hutchinson’s public testimony, also found 58 percent believe Trump bears a great deal or quite a bit of responsibility for the events of Jan. 6.
A pair of conservative editorial boards this week also raised concerns about Trump’s viability should he run in 2024.
The Washington Examiner editorial board wrote that Hutchinson’s testimony “ought to ring the death knell for former President Donald Trump’s political career. Trump is unfit to be anywhere near power ever again.”
The Wall Street Journal noted that some of Hutchinson’s testimony was second hand and wrote that the committee “is steeped in partisanship.”
“But that doesn’t mean Republicans should look away from the considerable evidence it is producing about Mr. Trump’s behavior that would surely be relevant to voters if he runs in 2024,” the editorial board wrote.
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Greitens RINO video spurred threats to family, lawyer says
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The family of Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens has been subjected to “serious threats” in the days since he released a violent campaign video in which he declares he’s “hunting” RINOs, or Republicans in Name Only, the lawyer for his ex-wife said in court Thursday.
Attorney Helen Wade said Sheena Greitens has received written threats, noting her email address is a public record because she’s an employee at a public university.
After the gun-toting campaign video was released, “she’s received some serious threats,” Wade said.
“She’s scared,” Wade added during a hearing in the former couple’s child custody case. She said the video “has created a situation where others may perceive it as a call to arms.”
The hearing was part of the case to decide whether custody of the couple’s two sons should be overseen by a court in Missouri or in Texas, where Sheena Greitens and the boys now live. In a March affidavit as part of the case, Sheena Greitens accused her ex-husband of verbal and physical abuse.
Greitens, who resigned as Missouri governor in June 2018 after an extramarital affair spawned a criminal charge in St. Louis, has repeatedly called the abuse allegations lies. He accused Sheena Greitens of collaborating with people he considers RINOs — Republicans in Name Only — such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and longtime GOP operative Karl Rove, in an effort to sabotage his Senate campaign.
The 38-second campaign ad that dropped Monday shows Eric Greitens brandishing a shotgun. An armed tactical team breaks into a home and throws what appear to be flash-bang grenades. Greitens enters through the smoke and says: “Join the MAGA crew. Get a RINO hunting permit. There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”
Eric Greitens said the ad was meant to be humorous and not taken literally. He was not at the hearing.
“I’m disappointed Eric isn’t here today because we were hoping that we would be able to get him to make a statement clearly denouncing the use of any sort of violence against my client,” Wade said.
Eric Greitens’ attorney, Gary Stamper, said in court “it’s disingenuous to suggest” that Greitens “would want harm to befall her.” But Stamper said he will talk to him about making a statement denouncing any threats of violence against Sheena Greitens and his children.
Wade said the threats should be taken seriously and referred in court to written threats the family had received. She did not specify how the threats came, whether by email, social media or other means.
“We live in a country where this kind of rhetoric has resulted in violence,” she said. “It’s in writing, `Wouldn’t it be awful if someone hunted down and killed Eric Greitens and his entire family. Golly that would be terrible.’ That’s one of them. The other one is so horrible I can’t read it aloud in court.”
Eric Greitens is among 21 Republicans running for the Senate seat being vacated by incumbent Roy Blunt’s retirement. Most polling has shown Greitens at or near the top of the field, though in close competition with U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler and Attorney General Eric Schmitt.
Some GOP leaders fear that if Greitens wins the Aug. 2 primary, he could lose in November. With the Senate evenly divided, the GOP can’t afford to lose what would otherwise be a safe seat.
Greitens is a former Navy SEAL officer and Rhodes Scholar who was largely unknown in politics before he was elected governor in 2016. With abundant charisma, good looks and his military background, Greitens was seen by many as a future presidential contender. He didn’t hide his ambition, reserving the website EricGreitensForPresident.com.
His star seemed to fade as fast as it rose. In January 2018, he admitted to a 2015 extramarital affair with his St. Louis hairdresser and a month later, he was indicted on an invasion-of-privacy charge that accused of taking a compromising photo of the woman.
In short order, a Missouri House committee began investigating campaign finance issues, and Greitens faced a second felony charge in St. Louis related to campaign finances. Both charges were eventually dropped. Under the risk of the charges being refiled, and still facing possible impeachment, Greitens resigned in June 2018. Eric and Sheena Greitens divorced in 2020.
In the March affidavit, Sheena Greitens said her ex-husband demonstrated such “unstable and coercive behavior” as his political career appeared to be collapsing in 2018 that steps were taken to limit his access to firearms.
At one point, she said, Eric Greitens purchased a gun but refused to tell her where it was. He also threatened to kill himself “unless I provided specific public political support,” she wrote. The behavior was so alarming, she wrote, that on three separate occasions in February, April and May 2018, “multiple people other than myself were worried enough to intervene to limit Eric’s access to firearms.”
The latest campaign ad sparked pushback on some social media sites. Facebook removed the video “for violating our policies prohibiting violence and incitement.” Twitter said Greitens’ post violated its rules about abusive behavior but said it was leaving it up because it was in the “public’s interest” for the tweet to be viewable. The company’s move prevented the post from being shared any further.
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Salter reported from O’Fallon, Missouri.
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MADRID (AP) — Algeria has threatened to suspend its gas exports to Spain, the latest twist in a complex triangle of diplomatic tensions between the gas supplier, the gas importer and their shared neighbor Morocco — all against the background of skyrocketing prices driven by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Spain has been in talks with Morocco about helping the North African kingdom boost its gas supplies. That could possibly be done by allowing Morocco to use processing facilities in Spain that could handle imports by ship of liquified natural gas, which could come from a variety of suppliers. Gas could then be sent to Morocco via an existing pipeline that crosses the Strait of Gibraltar.
Spain, however, also imports natural gas from Algeria. And Algeria is in the midst of a deep diplomatic freeze with Morocco, with which it shares a land border. Algeria severed ties with Morocco last August. Then it choked off one of Morocco’s sources of gas by switching off a gas pipeline that runs across their shared border.
Morocco has turned to Spain for help in trying to make up the shortfall — a prospect that appears to be raising hackles in Algiers.
In a statement late Wednesday, Algeria’s energy ministry warned that gas supplies it sends to Spain via a separate pipeline under the Mediterranean could be suspended if the gas is then diverted elsewhere. Such a diversion could be regarded as a contract breach, “and, as a consequence, could lead to the breaking of the contract,” the ministry warned.
With Spain heavily dependent on Algerian gas, its energy ministry scrambled to calm the storm, saying in a statement that “in no case will the gas acquired by Morocco come from Algeria.”
Until last October, part of the supplies of Algerian gas to Spain came via the pipeline through Morocco. Morocco got a sliver of that supply, getting enough gas to produce 10% of its electricity. But the kingdom lost that energy source when the 25-year gas distribution agreement ended on Oct. 31, with Algeria refusing to renew it.
Algeria still sends gas to Spain through a second, longer pipeline direct from Algeria to Almería on Spain’s southeastern shore and in the form of LNG shipped in tankers.
But deprived of gas from its neighbor, Morocco has to go hunting much further afield.
Spain’s energy ministry said Morocco could acquire LNG on international markets and unload it at a re-gasification plant on the Spanish mainland. Once processed, the gas could then be exported to Morocco by sending it down the pipeline that, until October, used to carry Algerian gas up to Spain.
The Spanish ministry said the plans were devised after it was approached by Morocco for help in guaranteeing its energy security. The ministry said it had spoken to Algeria in past months about activating this mechanism and communicated its plans to Algeria’s energy minister on Wednesday.
Spain wants tostrengthen ties with Rabat, a key player in the EU’s efforts to manage an increase in immigration from Africa northward.
The triangular tensions over gas come amid a broader international crisis over supplies and prices for the fossil fuel — driven by the war in Ukraine.
Major supplier Russia is using gas for leverage against countries that oppose its invasion of Ukraine. Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom this week informed Poland and Bulgaria, both members of the European Union and NATO, that it is suspending their supplies. Polish and Bulgarian leaders accused Moscow of blackmail.
As European countries seek alternatives to Russian gas, supplies from Algeria have taken on added importance. Italy, which is also scrambling to wean itself off Russian energy, struck a deal this month to boost gas imports from Algeria. Spain is a leader in wind and solar power but continues to rely on energy imports — with Algeria providing more than a third of its natural gas.
The spat between Morocco and Algeria has forced Spain into a delicate balancing act.
The feud between Morocco and Algeria is largely rooted in the disputed region of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony in North Africa that is rich in phosphates and borders fertile fishing grounds. It was annexed by Morocco in 1976.
Algeria backs the Polisario Front independence movement in Western Sahara. In March, it recalled its ambassador to Madrid in protest when Spain backed a Moroccan plan to give more autonomy to the contested territory.
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MONETA, Va., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sadler/Stanley Racing Team owners, former NASCAR® driver and Fox Sports® Analyst Hermie Sadler and Virginia State Senator Bill Stanley announced today that the team will be racing their #39 Open-wheel modified car, powered by Pace-O-Matic, in the historic return to racing at the North Wilkesboro Speedway on August 2nd and 3rd. The two-car Sadler/Stanley Racing Team has been competitive in their first year running in the Southern Modified Auto Racing Teams (SMART) series, garnering two poles, three top five finishes and a victory in 6 races thus far in the 2022 SMART series with their primary #22 car and driver, Jonathan Brown.
Team President Hermie Sadler announced that NASCAR® Legend Ryan Newman will drive the team's second car, the #39 on the opening night at Wilkesboro, and that their primary driver Jonathan Brown will be piloting the same car at the Wednesday August 3rd race. Each race will be a 55-lap contest, with the green flag dropping at 7 pm each night.
Newman, who has 18 NASCAR Cup Series Wins and 51 Poles to his credit, has previously driven for Sadler/Stanley Racing in the NASCAR® Whelen modified race in Richmond this past April getting a top-15 finish in the race.
Hermie Sadler made the following statement: "Ryan is having a memorable run this year in the SRX Series®, and he continues to demonstrate that he still is one of the best drivers of his generation. Having him compete in our race car at the return of racing to the North Wilkesboro track is a win for the fans, as well as for our sponsor Pace-O-Matic. We love having Ryan as a part of the Sadler/Stanley Race Team because he brings with him both the necessary racing experience and an unquenchable drive to win every race that he competes in. Senator Stanley and I are taking our team to this historic track to win, and both Ryan and Jonathan Brown give us the absolute best chance to do just that."
Virginia State Senator and Attorney Bill Stanley, also a co-owner of Sadler Stanley Racing with Hermie Sadler, says having "the one-two punch of Ryan Newman back in the car along with our premier SMART series driver Jonathan Brown fits perfectly with the vision of the team at the North Wilkesboro open-wheel modified races. We are excited to see the Pace-O-Matic/Stanley Law Group #39 running with these two great drivers, and we know that we will give the fans the show that they deserve when the modifieds return to the original asphalt at North Wilkesboro Speedway. It is just so important that we preserve the rich histories and economic benefits that these short tracks provide to our local communities, and that we bring the needed attention to grass-roots racing that is so very critical to the sport's future."
Newman is looking forward to his return to North Wilkesboro for the Sadler/Stanley Racing Team: "North Wilkesboro is historically significant to racing in the south, and to get a chance to race when this great track re-opens after so many years will be special. Sadler/Stanley Racing always brings top notch equipment to the track and with Pace-O-Matic on-board, we hope August 2nd is a night to remember."
Ticket for these historic races at the North Wilkesboro Speedway can be purchased at the door, and can be purchased in advance at: www.northwilkesborospeedway.com
Contact: Autumn Johnson, ajohnson@vastanleylawgroup.com
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees outfielder Andrew Benintendi has a broken bone in his right wrist that will need surgery, but said he didn’t know whether it was a season-ending injury.
“It’s all too early to say right now, obviously,” Benintendi said. “We’re still trying to learn some more things. That’s what it is right now. Just take it day by day at this point right now, I guess.”
Manager Aaron Boone revealed the diagnosis of a broken hook hamate bone and the need for surgery after the AL East leaders beat Tampa Bay 2-1 on Sunday. Benintendi will be further examined by doctors Monday back in New York.
Benintendi said he had a previous surgery that removed hook during his freshman year of college and was surprised by Sunday’s developments.
“I don’t really know about bones or anything like that,” Benintendi said. “So, I’m just listening to what they’re telling me. Yeah, I didn’t know you could grow another bone or whatever it may be.”
Benintendi was hurt while taking a swing Friday night and was put on the 10-day injured list the next day.
The 28-year-old Benintendi was an All-Star this season with Kansas City, then was traded to the Yankees in late July. He got off to a slow start with New York, but recently had been more productive at the plate.
Benintendi is hitting .304 overall with 51 RBIs. He is batting .254 with 12 RBIs in 33 games for the Yankees.
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Consistent High Grade Drilling Results to be included in upcoming Pre-Feasibility Study
VANCOUVER, BC, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Graphite One Inc. (TSXV: GPH) (OTCQX: GPHOF) ("Graphite One" "G1" or the "Company"), planning a complete domestic U.S. supply chain for advanced graphite materials, is pleased to announce drill results from its 2021 field program at its Graphite Creek Project ("Graphite Creek" or the "Project"), located in the Kigluaik Mountains on the Seward Peninsula approximately 37 miles north of Nome, Alaska. Graphite Creek is currently recognized by the US Geological Survey as the largest and highest grade graphite resource in the United States1.
The 2021 field program was conducted from July to October 2021 and comprised a total of 2,150 meters This included 8 core holes in the areas of inferred resources to upgrade them to measured and indicated resources, and 9 geotechnical holes.
The drill results will be included in the upcoming pre-feasibility study ("PFS"), with details provided below.
- 21GOC060 returned 16.03m of 6.9% Cg, 18.75m of 5.04% Cg and 28.5m of 5.13% Cg in three separate intervals starting from 54m downhole.
- 21GOC061 returned 29.15m of 5.83% Cg including 3m of 11.73% Cg starting from 51m downhole.
- 21GC062 returned 42.4m of 11.61% Cg from 45m including 15.21m of 22.2% Cg and 5.81m of 35.78% Cg.
- 21GC064 returned 53.95m of 5.67% Cg from 77.3m.
- 21GOC68 returned 24.99m of 5.56% Cg from 57.73m, including 5.51m of 9.1% Cg.
- Drill results continue to show consistent, near surface high-grade intercepts with numerous holes returning grades greater than 10% and up to 35.78% graphitic carbon (Cg).
- The deposit remains open downdip, as well as along strike to the east and west demonstrating potential for Graphite Creek to become a generational domestic graphite asset.
- The fault boundary to the north was more accurately identified, extending the mineralized zone in this direction by 50 to 75 meters down dip.
- Drilling targeted Inferred resources to upgrade to measured and indicated resource.
"Our 2021 drill results continue to demonstrate excellent continuity with our past exploration programs and should provide the opportunity to increase the resource and reserve estimates for the PFS", said Anthony Huston, CEO of Graphite One. "With our planned mine area of approximately 1 km of the overall 16 km anomaly, our deposit remains open downdip and along strike to the east and west of the known resource -- demonstrating that Graphite Creek has potential to become a critical domestic graphite supply for the United States for a long time to come."
Graphite One will be incorporating these drill results in its upcoming PFS, which is expected to be filed within 45 days from the date of this press release. The PFS will update the known mineral resource, while providing new economic guidance on the Project.
"The PFS will include the results from our 2021 program and should increase confidence that Graphite Creek is a generational asset -- a vital graphite resource in the United States," continued Mr. Huston. The United States currently has no domestic production and relies 100% on importing graphite to meet the nation's energy transition needs.
On January 15, 2021 Graphite One received notice that the Company's Graphite Creek Project has been designated a High-Priority Infrastructure Project (HPIP) by the U.S. Government's Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Committee (FPISC). The approval is the culmination of a process that began on October 4, 2019 with Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy's nomination of Graphite One's project for High-Priority Infrastructure Project designation.
"Designating the Graphite Creek Project as a High-Priority Infrastructure Project will send a strong signal that the U.S. intends to end the days of our 100% import-dependency for this increasingly critical mineral," said Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy in his nomination letter.
According to the FPISC's notice letter, the FPISC has "…determined, in consultation with [Office of Management and Budget] OMB and [Council on Environmental Quality] CEQ, that this project clearly qualifies under the 'manufacturing' and 'renewable energy' sectors, among several other sectors."
The Graphite Creek designation came as the Biden Adminstration highlighted electric vehicles ("EV") and EV infrastructure as central to green energy policy. According to renewable energy analyst Simon Moores of the UK's Benchmarket Minerals Intelligence: "What we expect from the Biden Administration is to simply make one of their policies to make gigafactories across the whole country at scale in order to turbo-charge and protect their biggest automobile companies such as Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F) and General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM)." As Shane Lasley of North of 60 Mining News reports in regard to the EV and renewable energy sectors, "Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is not the only automarket vying for graphite and other battery metals. With every major carmaker adding electrified models to their lineup, the number of EVs being built each year is expected to expand from about 2 million this year to more than 25 million by 2030 and 55 million by 2040."
Table 1: Length-Weighted Select Composites from 2021 Drill Results2
The 2021 field program also included engineering and environmental studies in proposed millsite and tailings/mine rock management areas, and along the proposed access corridor connecting to the State-maintained road system on the Seward Peninsula. The field program also continued environmental baseline studies across the project area. This work will provide input for the PFS that is anticipated to be completed by mid-2022 and will also help guide the 2022 field program and the anticipated Feasibility Study to follow.
Graphite One maintains a rigorous QA/QC program with respect to the preparation, shipping, analysis and checking of all samples and data from the property. Quality control for drill programs at the Company's projects covers the complete chain of custody of samples, including verification of drill hole locations (collar surveys and down-hole directional surveys), core handling procedures (logging, sampling, sample shipping) and analytical-related work, including duplicate sampling, "check analyses" at other laboratories and the insertion of standard and blank materials. The QA/QC program also includes data verification procedures.
Mr. Andrew K. Angel, P. Geo, with Alaska Earth Sciences, Inc. (AES) provided oversite to the 2021 drilling and sampling program. Mr. Angel is a Qualified Person as defined under NI 43‐101 and has reviewed and approved the technical content of this release.
With the United States currently 100 per cent import dependent for natural graphite, Graphite One is planning to develop a complete U.S.-based, advanced graphite supply chain solution anchored by the Graphite Creek resource near Nome, Alaska. The Graphite One project plan us anticipated to include an advanced graphite material and battery anode manufacturing plant expected to be sited in Washington State with the development of the Graphite Creek resource. The plan includes a recycling facility to reclaim graphite and the other battery materials, to be co-located at the Washington State site, the third link in Graphite One's circular economy strategy.
As announced on March 7th3, Graphite One's Graphite Creek resource in Alaska has been cited as the largest known graphite deposit in the United States by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in its updated U.S. Mineral Deposit Database (USMIN).
The USGS report confirms Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy's statement in support of Graphite One's designation as a U.S. government high-priority infrastructure project, stating, "Graphite Creek is the largest deposit of graphite in the nation and would be a superior domestic supply of this critical mineral.
GRAPHITE ONE INC. (GPH: TSX‐V; GPHOF: OTCQB) continues to develop its Graphite One Project (the "Project"), whereby the Company could potentially become an American producer of high grade anode materials that is integrated with a domestic graphite resource. The Project is proposed as a vertically integrated enterprise to mine, process and manufacture high grade anode materials primarily for the lithium‐ion electric vehicle battery market. As set forth in the Company's Preliminary Economic Assessment, potential graphite mineralization mined from the Company's Graphite Creek Property, is expected to be processed into concentrate at a graphite processing plant. The proposed processing plant would be located on the Graphite Creek Property situated on the Seward Peninsula about 60 kilometers north of Nome, Alaska. Graphite anodes and other value‐added graphite products would be manufactured from the concentrate and other materials at the Company's proposed advanced graphite materials manufacturing facility, the location of which is the subject of further study and analysis. The Company intends to make a production decision on the Project once a feasibility study is completed.
"Anthony Huston" (signed)
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
All statements in this release, other than statements of historical facts, including those related to the timing and completion of the anticipated Preliminary Feasibility Study, future production, establishment of a processing plant and a graphite manufacturing plant, establishment of a battery materials recycling facility, and events or developments that the Company intends, expects, plans, or proposes are forward-looking statements Generally, forward‐looking information can be identified by the use of forward‐looking terminology such as "proposes", "expects", "is expected", "scheduled", "estimates", "projects", "plans", "is planning", "intends", "assumes", "believes", "indicates", "to be" or variations of such words and phrases that state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved". The Company cautions that there is no certainty that tests of the Company's material will be successful or that such tests will result in the development of successful products. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitation and exploration successes, continuity of mineralization, uncertainties related to the ability to obtain necessary permits, licenses and title and delays due to third party opposition, changes in government policies regarding mining and natural resource exploration and exploitation, and continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on this forward-looking information, which is given as of the date it is expressed in this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking information, except as required by applicable securities laws. For more information on the Company, investors should review the Company's continuous disclosure filings that are available at www.sedar.com.
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The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is offering a $1,000 grant to a kindergarten through fifth-grade public or private school teacher in the state who demonstrates exceptional energy and innovation in teaching life sciences.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is offering a $1,000 grant to a kindergarten through fifth-grade public or private school teacher in the state who demonstrates exceptional energy and innovation in teaching life sciences.
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The Conservation Teacher of the Year grant is coordinated by the Wildlife Conservation Section, part of DNR’s Wildlife Resources Division.
SOCIAL CIRCLE — The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is offering a $1,000 grant to a kindergarten through fifth-grade public or private school teacher in the state who demonstrates exceptional energy and innovation in teaching life sciences.
Science specialists covering those grade levels also can apply. The grant recipient will be recognized as the DNR Conservation Teacher of the Year.
Teachers who apply must use Georgia’s native animals, plants and habitats as the context for covering Georgia Standards of Excellence. Although the grant emphasizes life science, cross-curricular teaching is highly encouraged. Preference will be given to teachers who demonstrate creativity in project design and take learning outside, as well as for projects that could not be funded otherwise. Teaching may take place in-person on school grounds or online.
“The outdoors is an ever-changing, real-world learning lab for a variety of subjects,” DNR outreach coordinator Linda May said. “Students are more calm, engaged and focused as they observe and experience nature first-hand. The result is improved academic performance and well-being.”
The Conservation Teacher of the Year grant is coordinated by the Wildlife Conservation Section, part of DNR’s Wildlife Resources Division. Through education, research and management, the Wildlife Conservation Section works to safeguard Georgia’s native diversity of wild animals, plants and their habitats, while also striving to increase public enjoyment of the outdoors. Funding is provided by the section’s friends group, The Environmental Resources Network, better known as TERN.
The deadline to apply is Oct. 17. DNR will notify the grant winner by Oct. 31.
For more information about the Conservation Teacher of the Year grant, visit georgiawildlife.com/TeachingConservationGrant or contact May (linda.may@dnr.ga.gov, 706-319-0211) or Anna Yellin (anna.yellin@dnr.ga.gov, 678-459-8393).
GRANT AT A GLANCE
$1,000 grant to a Georgia K-5 public or private school teacher (including science specialists) who demonstrates exceptional energy and innovation in teaching life sciences.
Provided by the Georgia DNR Wildlife Conservation Section and The Environmental Resource Network, or TERN, the section’s friends group.
Deadline to apply: Oct. 17. Recipient announced by Oct. 31.
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Biden announces Sept conference on hunger, nutrition, health
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House will hold a conference on hunger, nutrition and health in September to notch progress on the Biden administration’s goals of ending hunger, improving nutrition and physical activity and reducing diet-related diseases.
The gathering will be the first of its kind by the White House since 1969. The White House described that gathering as a “pivotal event” that influenced the U.S. food policy agenda for the next 50 years and said President Joe Biden “sets out to do the same with this year’s conference.”
The Biden administration has set a goal of ending hunger and increasing healthy eating and physical activity in the U.S. by 2030 so that fewer people are afflicted with diabetes, obesity, hypertension and other diet-related diseases.
Anti-hunger and nutrition advocates, food companies, health care representatives, government officials and others will help the administration develop a national plan outlining how to achieve those goals, the White House said.
“Hunger, diet-related disease, and the disparities surrounding them impact millions of Americans, and the COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the urgency of addressing these issues,” said Susan Rice, the president’s adviser for domestic policy. “No one should have to wonder where their next meal will come from.”
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Fully diluted Shareholders' Equity up 15%
Achieves Break-even Cash Flow from Operations
Subscription-based Revenue Increased 40%
DENVER, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Intermap Technologies (TSX: IMP) (OTCQX: ITMSF) ("Intermap" or the "Company"), a global leader in geospatial content development and intelligence solutions, today announced filing of consolidated financial statements for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, along with management's discussion and analysis for the corresponding period and related management certifications for first quarter financial results. The documents are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
For the quarter ending March 31, 2022, the Company reported revenue of $2.0 million, compared with $0.9 million for the first quarter and $2.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2021. Acquisition services revenue recovered to $0.6 million after a challenging year in 2021 because of COVID-19. Recurring value-added data services were up 66% due to increased defense spending. Recurring software and solutions were up 43% as the company continues to grow its commercial elevation data-as-a-service (EDaaS) offerings. Consistent with prior periods, Intermap experienced seasonal decline in revenue for the first quarter as government customers allocate the bulk of their contract dollars in the summer months to accommodate September and November year-end budget cycles. Government revenue represented 34% of total revenue for the quarter.
In spite of government customer payment delays caused by COVID-19 quarantines during the quarter, Intermap earned positive operating cash flow. On a fully diluted basis, Intermap revenue per share increased 93% to $0.065 per share, and Shareholders' Equity increased 11% to $0.038 per share, compared with the same period in 2021.
Intermap is engaged with the U.S. Department of Defense and other allied national government agencies on critical strategic initiatives. Defense-related revenue from all countries currently represents approximately 27% of total revenue for the quarter, up from nil in 2021. Some ongoing unclassified government work that has been previously announced includes:
- · Supporting Ukraine's Ministry of Defense with high-resolution, 3D data and analytic services
- · Working with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to supply low latency foundation data for high-priority national security areas of interest
- · Working on prime contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to support its development of GPS-denied navigation solutions
Intermap's subscription-based revenue increased 40% over the first quarter of 2021. Year over year, the Company's insurance business increased 65% and key data contracts increased 28% with increases in the number and size of subscriptions. With the industry recovering from COVID-19, Intermap's aviation business began to recover. Some commercial highlights include:
- New InsitePro® subscription with a top-5 underwriter in the U.S., providing flood risk assessment and flood premium pricing
- First contract for rail solution with Class 1 North American railway company for flood and fire risk management
- New NEXTView™ contract to support automated aircraft landing in the U.S.
- New data subscription contract with leading European airline to provide elevation data as a service for flight planning operations
- Expanded European insurance subscription with Generali for its customized flood hazard maps and analytics
- Renewed flood risk web services subscription to support real estate transactions in the Czech Republic
"We are pleased to report strong year-over-year revenue growth for the first quarter and we are on track for 2022," said Patrick A. Blott, Intermap's Chairman and CEO. "Our government and commercial businesses are winning new customers under high-margin programmatic recurring contract awards and expanding existing relationships. We are confident in our pipeline and well-positioned to execute on our strategy of efficient resource allocation towards highly profitable, recurring revenue and scalable growth."
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Certain information provided in this news release constitutes forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate", "expect", "project", "estimate", "forecast", "will be", "will consider", "intends" and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Although Intermap believes that these statements are based on information and assumptions which are current, reasonable and complete, these statements are necessarily subject to a variety of known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Intermap's forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties pertaining to, among other things, cash available to fund operations, availability of capital, revenue fluctuations, nature of government contracts, economic conditions, loss of key customers, retention and availability of executive talent, competing technologies, common share price volatility, loss of proprietary information, software functionality, internet and system infrastructure functionality, information technology security, breakdown of strategic alliances, and international and political considerations, as well as those risks and uncertainties discussed Intermap's Annual Information Form and other securities filings. While the Company makes these forward-looking statements in good faith, should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary significantly from those expected. Accordingly, no assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what benefits that the Company will derive therefrom. All subsequent forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, attributable to Intermap or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as at the date of this news release and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the forward-looking statements made herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable securities law.
About Intermap Technologies
Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap (TSX: IMP; OTCQX: ITMSF) is a global leader in geospatial intelligence solutions. The Company's proprietary 3D NEXTMap® elevation datasets and value-added geospatial collection, processing, analytics, fusion and orthorectification software and solutions are utilized across a range of industries that rely on accurate, high-resolution elevation data. Intermap helps governments build authoritative geospatial datasets and provides solutions for base mapping, transportation, environmental monitoring, topographic mapping, disaster mitigation, smart city integration, public safety and defense. The Company's commercial applications include aviation and UAV flight planning, flood and wildfire insurance, environmental and renewable energy planning, telecommunications, engineering, critical infrastructure monitoring, hydrology, land management, oil and gas and transportation. For more information, please visit www.intermap.com.
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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.V., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenPower Motor Company Inc. (NASDAQ: GP) (TSXV: GPV) ("GreenPower"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of zero-emission, electric-powered, medium and heavy-duty vehicles, today announced the launch of its West Virginia state pilot project to demonstrate all-electric school buses in school transportation operations across West Virginia starting with Cabell, Kanawha and Mercer Counties. The first buses in each County will be deployed this week bringing school children safely to their school without contamination from NOx emissions.
Through the pilot project done in cooperation with Governor Jim Justice, the West Virignia Department of Economic Development and the West Virginia Department of Education, three all-electric GreenPower Type D BEAST school buses will be deployed the week of September 5th in the first three counties – Cabell, Kanawha and Mercer - along with the required charging infrastructure. In the coming weeks, a fourth pilot bus using the Type A Nano BEAST with ADA capabilities will be deployed in Clay County.
"West Virginia is a perfect location for the first true pilot project of all-electric, purpose-built, zero-emission school buses," said Fraser Atkinson, CEO of GreenPower. "The terrain, weather conditions and the combination of rural and urban settings will give a real-life demonstration of the school buses' capabilities. The only way for school districts to become comfortable with the new technology is through hands-on experience."
In June, Gov. Jim Justice directed his Secretary of Economic Development Mitch Carmichael to work with GreenPower to develop a pilot project to provide real-world testing of the vehicles in areas of the state, both rural and urban, and to understand the opportunities and challenges associated with using all-electric school buses to provide safe, reliable, cost-effective school transportation.
"Governor Justice's forward thinking in directing this pilot is another effort by him and his administration to become an all-of-the-above energy state," Atkinson continued. "GreenPower appreciates his efforts along with his staff at Education and Economic Development in making this possible."
Each county will test the electric buses for a six-week period and then each all-electric school bus will move to a different county to demonstrate the buses in different parts of the state. The data collected by the pilot project will not only be beneficial to West Virginia, but also to schools across the nation. As one of the only true real-world all-electric school bus pilots, the data will help school districts understand more about EV school buses as they look to deploy them in their fleets on a permanent basis.
Among some of the data that will be collected is: range, charging infrastructure needs, handling and maneuverability, operating and maintenance savings, student and parent acceptance and more. The data will help with the anxiety of change as districts look to create a new beginning of a clean school day.
This week, beginning today, each county participating in the pilot will hold a press conference. Media are invited and encouraged to attend. The first deployments of the electric buses in each county will also take place this week.
"Our school district is always searching for new, innovative ways to serve our students and communities," says Dr. Ryan Saxe, Cabell County Schools Superintendent. "We are honored to have been chosen to participate in the state's electric school bus pilot program. West Virginia has long been a dominant force in the energy economy, and, as new technologies are adopted, we want to do everything we can to support that continued leadership far into the future. Electric school buses like the ones utilized for this pilot program will soon be manufactured right here in West Virginia. No one can do it better, and I cannot wait to see the multitude of benefits this investment will yield for the deserving people of the Mountain State."
- Press Conference: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 3 pm. ET at Cabell County Schools, 2850 5th Avenue, Huntington, WV 25702.
- First Deployment of GreenPower Electric School Bus: Friday, September 9 at 7:05 a.m. ET at Huntington Middle School at 925 3rd St, Huntington, WV 25701
"Kanawha County Schools is proud to be one of three West Virginia counties participating in this GreenPower pilot project and we look forward to seeing what an electric school bus could do for our district and students," said, Dr. Tom Williams, superintendent at Kanawha County Schools.
- Press Conference: Wednesday, September 7 at 2 p.m. ET at South Charleston Bus Garage, 4225 Kanawha Turnpike South Charleston, WV 25309
- First Deployment of GreenPower Electric School Bus: Thursday, September 8 at 6:15 a.m. ET at South Charleston Bus Garage, 4225 Kanawha Turnpike South Charleston, WV 25309
"Mercer County Schools is excited to be part of the GreenPower Pilot project. We are proud that Mercer County will be one of the first counties in West Virginia to utilize an electric bus in our fleet to provide valuable feedback to the program," said Edward T. Toman, superintendent at Mercer County Schools.
- Press Conference: Tuesday, September 6 at 10 a.m. ET at the Mercer County Technical Education Center's Seminar Center at 1397 Stafford Drive, Princeton, WV 24740
- First Deployment of GreenPower Electric School Bus: Wednesday, September 7 at 7:30 a.m. ET at Princeton Senior High School at 1321 Stafford Dr, Princeton, WV 24740
There are 55 public school districts in the state of West Virginia. According to the most recent School Bus Fleet Fact Book there are approximately 2,900 school buses in operation in the state transporting approximately 220,000 K-12 public students daily representing 75% of the total students enrolled making it the 10th highest school rate in the nation. The school buses today consist only of traditional propulsion systems and presently there are no electric school buses in operation in the state.
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fraser@greenpowermotor.com
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Skyya PR for GreenPower
(218) 766-8856
greenpower@skyya.com
GreenPower designs, builds and distributes a full suite of high-floor and low-floor all-electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles, including transit buses, school buses, shuttles, cargo van, and a cab and chassis. GreenPower employs a clean-sheet design to manufacture all-electric vehicles that are purpose built to be battery powered with zero emissions while integrating global suppliers for key components. This OEM platform allows GreenPower to meet the specifications of various operators while providing standard parts for ease of maintenance and accessibility for warranty requirements. GreenPower was founded in Vancouver, Canada with primary operational facilities in southern California. Listed on the Toronto exchange since November 2015, GreenPower completed its U.S. IPO and NASDAQ listing in August 2020. For further information go to www.greenpowermotor.com
This document contains forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, GreenPower's business and operations and the environment in which it operates, which are based on GreenPower's operations, estimates, forecasts, and projections. Forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts, but rather on current expectations and projections about future events, and are therefore subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from the future results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "upon", "may", "should", "will", "could", "intend", "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "believe" or "continue", or the negative thereof or similar variations. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict or are beyond GreenPower's control. A number of important factors, including those set forth in other public filings (filed under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com), could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. Consequently, readers should not place any undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. In addition, these forward-looking statements relate to the date on which they are made. GreenPower disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. © 2022 GreenPower Motor Company Inc. All rights reserved.
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Best aerators for your lawn
Aeration is important for any lawn because it loosens up tightly compacted soil so water, air and nutrients can get down to the roots. This lets the grass grow lush and healthy. There are several types of lawn aerators, ranging from manual to electric, each with its advantages. Regardless of which type you get, it’s a good idea to aerate your yard at least once a year.
Aeration and dethatching
Over time, yards collect organic matter such as dead grass, leaves, stems, shoots and other debris. This is called thatch and can be harmful for three reasons:
- It blocks essential resources such as sunlight, water and oxygen from reaching the grass roots.
- It can add stress to the grass roots and keep them from growing properly.
- It creates a breeding ground for pests and plant diseases.
If you have no more than half an inch of thatch, you shouldn’t need to dethatch the lawn before aerating it. Otherwise, use a dethatcher tool to remove the top layers of organic matter to make the process easier.
Types of aerators
The main types of aerators that exist are:
- Core: Core aerators have hollow tines that dig into the dirt and remove core or plugs of soil. This loosens up the earth, keeping it from becoming too compact and preventing resources from reaching the grass roots. Most core aerators are manual and leave behind small, round holes around 2 to 3 inches deep. They’re best for heavily compacted yards.
- Spike: These are similar to core aerators, but they use thin spikes to create very small holes throughout the yard. They don’t remove any plugs. Instead, they push down the soil, leaving more room near the surface.
- Slicing: Slicing aerators use rotating blades to cut through the grass and thatch into the soil. They’re best for yards with a lot of compact dirt and organic matter.
- Liquid: A newer method, this works by using a liquid solution with a garden hose that has a spray nozzle. The solution, which is usually ammonium lauryl sulfate, can break down soil and other dense particles found in the yard. This method doesn’t require heavy equipment, but it’s a slower process and best for moderately compacted yards.
Manual vs. electric
Aerators are either manual or electric.
- Manual aerators: There are two types of manual aerators: shoes and step-on. The shoes attach to your boots and have spikes on the soles. Step-on ones usually also have spikes or tines and require you to push them down into the ground with your foot. Both options are good for small to medium-sized yards.
- Towing aerators: A type of manual aerator, these can be attached to the back of a lawn mower or pushed by hand. They’re ideal for larger yards. Most are either core or spike aerators, but there are also slicing variants. Some models can fertilize the ground at the same time.
- Electric aerators: These models are usually more expensive than manual ones, but they can handle larger projects, making them great for avid landscapers. Most can also dethatch the yard.
When you should aerate your yard
The best time to aerate a yard is right before the grass starts growing. For warm-season grasses that grow in the south, aerate from late spring to the beginning of summer. For cool-season grasses or if you live in a northern region, do the process at the start of spring or fall. Avoid aerating in the middle of summer or winter, or when the grass is dormant.
Most lawns, especially those with a lot of foot traffic or clay soil, benefit from yearly aeration. If you have loose or sandy soil, you can aerate the lawn once every two to three years. Also, if you notice a buildup of thatch or water puddles in the yard, it might be time to aerate.
8 best lawn aerators
Agri-Fab 45-0299 48-Inch Tow Plug Aerator
This tow core aerator has 32 galvanized knives that can dig 3 inches deep, making it ideal for larger yards with heavily compacted soil. It easily attaches to the back of a lawn mower or tractor and has a weight tray capable of holding up to 140 pounds to make aeration even easier.
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Brinly SAT2-40BH-P Tow-Behind Spike Aerator
This tow-behind aerator has 11 tine stars, each with 12 spike tips that can pierce up to 2 inches deep. The tines consist of galvanized steel, which helps prevent rust, corrosion and bending, regardless of how compact the soil is. It also comes with a weight tray that can hold up to 150 pounds for extra penetration.
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Yard Butler ID-6C Manual Lawn Coring Aerator
Perfect for smaller yards, this manual core aerator can reach into the soil and pull up 3.5-inch cores. It’s made with durable steel and is resistant to rust and bending. It also has a cushioned grip to make the process more comfortable for the user. It comes with a lifetime guarantee.
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This one-piece spike aerator consists of steel and can handle even the toughest of yards. It’s small, easy to use and is designed to limit strain on your back while using it. It can create holes up to 4 inches deep.
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These lawn aerator shoes come with 13 spikes, each of which is 2 inches long and can easily attach to your regular boots. They come in adjustable sizes and work well on hard, compacted soil and small rocks.
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Plantnomics Lawn Aerator Shoes with Hook-and-Loop Straps
With adjustable straps and a total of 26 spikes, these lawn aerator shoes can attach to your footwear with ease. They use hook-and-loop fasteners to create a firm fit that doesn’t slip while aerating the yard. They can also handle up to 220 pounds.
Sold by Amazon
With 13 metal spikes on each one, these shoes can pierce up to 2 inches of compact soil with ease. They have adjustable nylon straps that can fit around most shoe sizes. They’re also adjustable and durable.
Sold by Amazon
Corona Max Yardbreather Aerator with Auto-Eject 3.5-Inch Soil Plugs
This manual aerator auto-ejects 3.5-inch plugs of soil with ease. It comes with a slip-resistant footplate and comfortable grip handles for extra stability and support. Both the spikes and footplate are heat-treated, making them long-lasting.
Sold by Home Depot
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis endorsed a state legislator Thursday over U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn in their upcoming Republican primary, saying the first-term congressman has “fallen well short” of expectations.
Tillis’ backing of state Sen. Chuck Edwards adds another consequential voice in North Carolina’s GOP willing to oppose Cawthorn, who has received criticisms from a larger swath of Republicans for recent comments, including one in which he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug.”
The top Republican leaders in the state legislature — House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger — also were featured guests at a lunch fundraiser Thursday for Edwards, one of seven Republicans challenging Cawthorn for the nomination in the May 17 primary.
“The 11th Congressional District deserves a congressman who is fully dedicated to serving their constituents,” Tillis said in a news release. “Unfortunately, Madison Cawthorn has fallen well short of the most basic standards western North Carolina expects from their representatives, and voters now have several well-qualified candidates to choose from who would be a significant improvement. I believe Chuck Edwards is the best choice.”
Cawthorn, who was elected in 2020 at age 25, is a strong supporter of Donald Trump. Cawthorn spoke at a rally in Washington on Jan 6, 2021, that questioned the outcome of the White House election won by Democrat Joe Biden. The riot at the U.S. Capitol took place after that rally.
A Cawthorn campaign commercial posted Thursday on Twitter includes what appears to be text from a quote from Trump stating Cawthorn has “my complete and total endorsement.”
Recently, Cawthorn has received negative publicity for being cited three times in five months for traffic violations — speeding and driving with a revoked license among them — and for the video about Zelenskyy. In the same short video, Cawthorn said the Ukrainian government “is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”
Cawthorn and a spokesperson later attempted to clarify those remarks, with the congressman calling actions by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his country’s invasion of Ukraine “disgusting.” After recent comments Cawthorn made on a podcast that angered fellow Republicans in Congress, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., met with Cawthorn this week and reprimanded him publicly.
Moore said Thursday that someone like Cawthorn doesn’t deserve to be in Congress.
“If you have clowns in office who aren’t serious about what they’re doing, you can’t get somewhere,” Moore told WNCN-TVwhile attending a fundraiser for Edwards. “I’m just kind of without the words to describe what Congressman Cawthorn is doing and saying. I mean, some of these ridiculous recent comments that continue to build on one another.”
A Cawthorn spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment about the Republican opposition.
Cawthorn announced in November that he planned to run in a proposed congressional district closer to Charlotte, rather than to keep representing the far western mountains. Moore had also considered a run in that new district but decided against it. That district ultimately was thrown out by judges, and Cawthorn returned to a run in the reconfigured 11th District, which leans Republican.
Cawthorn’s campaign raised $2.8 million in 2021 but had only $282,000 in cash entering this year, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Other primary opponents includes former political ally Michele Woodhouse and Wendy Marie-Limbaugh Nevarez, who is being supported by a super political action committee linked to Moe Davis, the 11th District Democratic nominee in 2020.
The top vote-getter in the upcoming primary would have to receive more than 30% of the vote to avoid a July 26 runoff with the second-place finisher.
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