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CASPER — Outdoor recreation is poised to become more accessible.
A bill to modernize mapping of federal lands that was championed by Wyoming’s U.S. senators cleared Congress last week and headed to the president’s desk.
The Modernizing Access to Our Public Land, or MAPLand, Act allocates $47 million to federal land management agencies for the digitization and online publication of maps detailing how public lands can be accessed, when roads and trails are open or closed, what types of vehicles are permitted on those roads and where certain activities, such as hunting, fishing and shooting, are allowed.
It also requires federal officials to update the maps at least twice per year.
Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, R-WY, both co-sponsored the bill, which was introduced in the Senate a year ago and in the House of Representatives last May.
The bill “isn’t just great for land owners and Americans who love the outdoors, it’s great for America’s economy too,” Barrasso wrote in a Star-Tribune column following the bill’s introduction in the House. “The legislation will help boost our growing outdoor recreation industry, as well as the many businesses located near or on public lands.”
Much of Wyoming’s public land is surrounded on all sides by private land. Under current state law, it’s unclear whether the controversial practice of corner crossing — stepping from the corner of one private-landlocked parcel of public land to another — is legal or not.
However, as Barrasso’s column noted, non-digitized agency records, including agreements with landowners allowing access to public lands via private property, can be inaccessible to recreators.
Approved by the House in March with a vote of 414 to nine (Rep. Liz Cheney, R-WY, voted in favor), the bill cleared the Senate by unanimous consent vote last week.
The only opposing votes came from Republicans representing states east of Wyoming, including three from Texas.
“The bill will help fishermen, hunters, and hikers to easily plan their adventures,” Barrasso said in a statement on Friday. “The people of Wyoming understand the importance of promoting outdoor access while ensuring private property rights are protected.”
Some of the West’s most prominent outdoors and conservation groups have watched the bill’s progress closely and celebrated its passage last week.
“Inadequate or faulty data can spell disaster for the public land hunter,” Land Tawney, president and CEO of Montana-based Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, said in a statement. “The importance of reliable, comprehensive information on access opportunities on our public lands cannot be overstated.”
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Following her confirmation as the Constitution Party of Wyoming’s candidate for the state’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, Marissa Selvig faces two Republican frontrunners with millions of dollars flowing into their campaigns.
But the Riverton resident said she doesn’t believe money defines a candidate’s ability to win.
“People in Wyoming are hungry for change,” she told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. “And I personally don’t believe that whoever has the most money is the best candidate.”
Quarterly campaign finances reports were posted Friday by the Federal Elections Commission for contenders in the 2022 election, totaling nearly $4 million in contributions in this race. Incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., raised more than $2.5 million between January and the end of March, close to $90,000 of which came from political action committees, according to her campaign’s filing. She was trailed by Trump-endorsed challenger Harriet Hageman, who received almost $1.3 million in contributions, of which $58,500 was from PACs.
Selvig said she understood this helped those candidates get their message out faster and farther than her at this point, but she criticized the thousands of dollars coming from out of state and super PACs contributing to races. She said concerns over raising millions of dollars prevents qualified candidates from running, and also leaves room for hidden influence.
“When big money comes into one campaign or another, those candidates are really beholden to those people who are giving them hundreds of thousands of dollars,” she said. “And is that good for their constituents? I don’t think it is. I think there’s a lot of money exchange in government that is unhealthy for our country.”
She said this was one of the reasons she doesn’t want to be involved with big money, and why she plans to run her campaign as frugally as possible. The Constitution Party candidate raised close to $8,000 in the first quarter in individual contributions, and spent around $7,000. As time progresses, she said she will gain more financial support, but it is not what qualifies her as a candidate.
“I am a qualified candidate because I am a citizen of this nation who loves it, and I believe in the Constitution,” she said. “Nowhere in the Constitution does it say you have to be from a fancy family, or be an attorney, or be a rich person.”
Although positions of power or family influences did not play a part in her decision to become a candidate in the race for the U.S. House of Representatives, her identity as a woman of faith did. Selvig said she was called by God to run, and she obeyed.
It also played a part in her leaving the Republican Party last fall.
“The Constitution Party really puts God first, and an emphasis on the Constitution,” she said. “And I know that the Republicans say they do the same thing, but I feel that the Constitution Party is more serious about it.”
Her goals align with these ideals in that she wants to restore fiscal responsibility in the federal government, bring back proper communication into the role of a representative and return virtue to government. She said standing up for moral excellence, being prudent and conducting yourself with integrity are all missing in politics today.
But she also said she sees an absence of constitutional values and policies. Changes she would advocate for, if elected, are to remove many bureaucratic organizations, such as the Department of Education and the USDA, repeal the 16th Amendment to remove personal income tax and give more responsibility back to the states.
“We take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution,” she said. “And people aren’t doing that. They aren’t voting for things that are constitutional, and I hope to.”
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Austin Rosenau was supposed to meet his mother at Mount Pisgah Cemetery earlier this month.
It wasn’t a special occasion, per se. And it certainly wasn’t an issue that he missed their afternoon meeting, because there will be plenty more.
Rather, it served as a reminder of how close they now are, as well as just how much their family has changed over the past few years.
That’s because just about every day, his mother, Lana Dicus, visits the hand-picked headstone of her daughter, Tristan, who died by suicide more than a year ago. Now that Austin, his wife Autumn and daughter Aspyn have returned to Gillette from Rock Springs, he can be there beside his mother, remembering their loss together.
He and Autumn are both 29 years old and in the middle of three generations of a family that calls Gillette home. After their own past struggles with mental health and substance abuse, their focus is on living a clean life and raising their daughter to avoid similar missteps.
Aspyn is a happy and healthy 7-year-old, unaware of the lives her parents lived before she was born and the family history she has inherited.
But as parents who have navigated the community mental health resources themselves, they hold the challenge of helping their own child traverse that landscape, or help prevent the need from ever arising.
“Now I’m also trying to break that cycle of these other things that may have stigmas attached, mental health being one of them with my child,” Austin said.
The increased demand for mental health services for adults in Gillette has trended similarly for children and adolescents as well. A similar question of whether there are more problems developing or more people aware of treatment options also looms over the recent uptick.
The mental health problems facing some children this past year haven’t necessarily been new problems, said Lexie Honey, a social worker at the Kid Clinic. Yet the volume of patient visits and referrals is noticeably higher.
Depression, anxiety, ADHD and other behavioral problems have continued to affect children and adolescents, but more have sought help in Gillette this past year. Meanwhile, the number of counselors, therapists and available resources have stayed relatively stable, leading to long wait lists at the Kid Clinic and other providers.
“We’ve seen still the same thing, just more,” Honey said. “If we could have more therapists that would be great.”
Akin to the question surrounding the increase in adults seeking mental health treatments, when it comes to children and adolescents, it’s unclear whether there are more of them needing treatment or more awareness to help them find treatment.
It’s also unclear to what extent the myriad of pandemic-related factors may have contributed to the rise in demand for services. That’s a trend noted nationally.
“It’s hard to say necessarily that it’s the pandemic or if it’s the push that we’ve put on mental health during this pandemic time to be more aware and pay attention to those aspects, to get that help and that it’s OK to ask for help,” Honey said.
In order to accommodate the growing wait list of patients, the Kid Clinic expanded its hours and added a fourth clinician to its staff and hopes to add another.
“We’ve definitely have had people who had to wait, because I can only see so many kids in a week,” Honey said.
Its counselors tried offering 7 a.m. sessions, noon sessions and 5 p.m. sessions to fit in extra kids, Honey said. The early morning ones weren’t very successful and the extra workload took a toll on the well-being of the providers themselves at times.
“We’re doing what we can to try and get them all in,” she said.
Natalie Tucker, chief nursing officer at Campbell County Health, talked about the growing number of behavioral health patients of all ages entering the hospital and emergency room for all different kinds and levels of care. Through that wave, an obvious need for more inpatient and long-term availability for children emerged, she said.
It hasn’t happened only in Campbell County, but throughout the region. Finding long-term placements for children has been a national trend, Tucker said, with a shortage of beds a widespread issue.
“I think we need to have even more availability in the region for kids for long-term placement,” Tucker said. “I think that’s where the shortage really is, that we can tell.”
For kids and teenagers, the path toward treatment often begins with recognition. Although they may not always see it in themselves, changes in mood and behavior, or uncharacteristic comments, are often the warning signs when help is needed.
Part of the increase in referrals has come from an awareness by parents, teachers, friends and peers who recognize and report that kind of change in demeanor. Part of increasing awareness comes from reducing the stigma around mental health.
“At times we’re doing really well, but at times we’re still stuck in that stigma of, ‘We don’t talk about that,’” Honey said. “We have seen that push for being more open and more assessments, talking through things to see what the need is.”
In some cases, comments that may have once seemed harmless are held under higher scrutiny these days, which results in some of the new referrals to the Kid Clinic, she said.
At Gillette College, the increased awareness among students and staff has also led to more referrals at the college, which ties into a broader trend of more need for mental health services in higher education.
‘I think our stigma is reducing, which is a beautiful thing,” said Susan Serge, a counselor and director of student affairs at Gillette College.
The college has an Active Minds chapter, a national nonprofit organization that promotes conversation about mental health, with the goal of reducing stigma and raising awareness.
That recognition is becoming more needed because the long-haul effects of the pandemic may be impacting more students at the college level.
“I do think resiliency is wavering,” Serge said. “I think there have been so many hard hits for our students that it’s just been one thing after another and they’re tired.”
The post-high school time in life, including college years, is still when mental health struggles often manifest in young people. But that has been further complicated for students who graduated from high school and entered college amid the pandemic.
“I would say our sophomores have never had a true college experience and that everything has changed so much that it’s just not the typical, you know, get to know your friends and spend time — that social aspect has really been compromised,” Serge said.
As the college’s counselor, Serge has seen the rise in students entering her doors firsthand, but said that uptick has also shown in the number of referrals for medication management, long-term therapy and even occasional inpatient stays.
“It’s not a new trend, it’s been happening for years, that we’ve seen a huge increase in anxiety and depression specific to college students but just across the board, really, even in our communities,” Serge said. “The pandemic just escalated that.”
The trend in higher education pre-dates the pandemic, but was accentuated by some of the added stressors that students dealt with over the past two years.
Distance learning, financial burdens, less connectivity and in-person social interaction are some of the factors that may have added to the burden students carry around Gillette College. Employees and professors are trained to recognize and report warning signs in students, which helps them find the resources that are available through the college.
Not only have more services been needed, but in some cases, the severity of the depression, anxiety or other problems has been greater than in the past, Serge said. What was once relationship problems or homesickness — typical college trials and tribulations — has morphed in some cases into greater levels of depression and even higher levels of suicidal thinking.
“I think it’s been a really exhausting couple of years but I do have hope that our students are building their resiliency, and they’re doing that by reaching out and getting help when they need it,” Serge said. “That’s what we want for our entire community. We want them to understand that they’re not alone.”
Back in Gillette, Austin mines coal for Black Thunder and Autumn works as a forensic peer specialist and case worker for Personal Frontiers, helping people living through the struggles she and Austin once felt themselves.
Now raising a daughter in the same community where they developed mental health and substance abuse problems of their own, Austin and Autumn feel they have learned the tools to keep their daughter from those same pitfalls.
But the community, in their eyes, may still have some catching up to do.
“I would want more access and funding to these places,” Autumn said. “Less stigma about what is happening around mental health and substance abuse.”
Gillette has mental health services for people who need them, but that doesn’t make those options affordable for everyone. The sheer volume of demand has already tested the timeliness of those services, but cost can also serve as a barrier for many.
Parents often do the best they can with what they know, but that “tough love” parenting model of the past is not one Austin adheres to when it comes to his own daughter. Using the communication skills he learned from his own recovery and treatment processes, he said that open and honest communication is something he wants his daughter to grow up knowing.
“I try to always encourage her to talk about everything, talk about her feelings, talk about what she’s got going on,” he said.
That can mean talking about the fun parts of growing up and going to school, or the more difficult conversations that may await them down the road.
“I just have conversations with her,” Austin added. “(I’m) being honest and open with my child.”
Kids inherit traits and grow up in environments often dictated by their parents, then become adults who pass on traits of their own to the next generation, which does what they can with the circumstances they’re given.
And so the cycle continues.
Both children and adults have contributed to the rise in demand for mental health services in Campbell County. Regardless of their age, patient problems may be as unique as the individuals themselves, but in each community, they share the same pool of resources to lean on when in need.
“We care about our daughter so much that we’re going to seek whatever resources we can,” Autumn said. “And I think that might be the pattern we’re seeing. Maybe it’s not more kids who are aware of it, but it’s more parents.”
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In the ramp-up to Easter, people may have noticed eggs are another commodity to show a dramatic price hike as part of a global surge of inflation and supply chain disruptions.
The price of a dozen eggs is up more than 25% compared to a year ago, according to analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture data from Texas A&M University economists. Overall, egg prices are up 59% from pre-pandemic levels, according to the Food Institute.
Egg prices average more than $2 a dozen nationally or more, according to USDA data. And prices continue to rise north of $2.50, as much as $5 or more a dozen for some varieties at certain grocers.
While an increase in the range of $1.50-$3 may not be seem like much to the daily consumer, local restaurants are feeling the impact in their bulk orders.
Maria’s Mexican Grill and Cantina in Laramie had to raise the price of its breakfast burritos that contain eggs by $1 to make up for an increase in cost, said co-owner Edna Galvan.
Its supplier, Shamrock Foods Co., has been struggling with an avian flu outbreak, which also is contributing to a national supply issue and inflation for eggs. While the restaurant used to pay between $30 to $45 for 30 dozen eggs when buying in bulk, that has increased to about $90 over the past two weeks.
“It’s tough,” Galvan said. “Right now it’s eggs, but another thing is the price of chicken. Sometimes there’s not even any there (available to order).”
Finding a balance
Flocks totaling a combined 5.4 million chickens in Wisconsin, Delaware and Iowa are among the largest avian flu outbreaks in the United States. The outbreak had reached Wyoming by the end of March, and is posing a threat to small, local farms in Albany County.
“We are at the mercy of nature since our chicken flocks are free-range and we don’t have the means for them to be confined from the outdoors completely,” said BJ Edwards, co-owner of Taste of the Wind farm located about 30 miles west of Laramie. The farm is bracing for the possibility of losing its entire flock.
Edwards and her husband, Chris, have been feeding their animals indoors and at night in an effort to keep food remnants away from wild birds that could spread avian flu. They also are experimenting with the use of deterrents like scarecrows and owl decoys to keep birds away from livestock areas.
“It is a tough balance, as we do not want to reduce habitat availability for these birds as they pass through this part of the state, but we do want them to avoid certain areas of the land we are on in order to minimize contact with our birds,” Edwards said.
She expects the risk to increase as the weather gets warmer and more birds migrate into the area.
Unlike other farms, Taste of the Wind processes its own meat birds on location. While this is legal, insurance companies refuse to cover their operations because of the practice.
“Our only strategy at this point is prevention, and a lot of prayers,” Edwards said.
Other local farmers have less concern their flocks will be impacted by the avian flu, but report having felt the brunt of increasing prices for gas and other supplies.
“Prices are outrageous right now,” said Mollee Gilgen. Her family operates Middle Fork Farm, which is down the street from Taste of the Wind. “We have high fuel prices, which drives up feed costs, and it costs more to drive to town and pick up your feed.”
Gilgen said that because it’s hard enough for people to afford food, she’s chosen to absorb the increased costs of producing milk, eggs and meat rather than pass it on to her customers.
An important way to combat the supply chain issues at the ranch has been diversifying products and services, Gilgen said. The ranch produces fodder to cut down on feed costs and sells other products like lettuce and pesto. It also has branched out as a venue for ranch weddings.
“I think anyone in agriculture understands that everything fluctuates,” Gilgen said. “You never know what your day’s (going to bring), so you prepare for anything.”
Global scramble
Higher egg prices are part of an inflationary wave that has seen food prices increase 7.9% from February 2021 to February 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is the largest increase since 1981.
“Egg prices are set by the commodity market based on supply and demand, and farmers don’t usually get to set the price of their eggs,” said Marc Dresner, director of integrated communications for the American Egg Board. “Like many industries, egg farming is experiencing supply chain challenges related to increases in costs and availability of feed and grain, labor and transportation.”
Supply chain issues have caused the Laramie Walmart to increase egg prices despite efforts to minimize the impacts of higher costs, said company spokesperson Tricia Moriarty.
Taste of the Wind also has slightly increased some prices to account for delivery cost increases because of higher fuel prices.
For Edwards, localizing all aspects of the food production process is the best defense against experiencing these problems to a greater degree like large producers.
“We are seeing, on a massive scale, just how fragile our supply chains and global economies are. When we source our products locally, we automatically insulate ourselves from being affected by large-scale issues like we are seeing,” Edwards said. “With local producers … I do feel that eating can sustain us and our families and support healthy communities built on relationships and trust, rather than speed, greed and convenience.”
American consumers are adjusting some of their Easter spending with persistent inflation hitting their pocketbooks.
The National Retail Federation projects consumers will spend $169.79 on the Christian holiday. Eighty percent of Americans will celebrate Easter and are projected to spend $20.8 billion this year, down from $21.6 billion in 2019.
The retail group also reports that 42% of consumers will comparison shop for Easter items if the price is considered too high. Another 31% of consumers will choose a different brand or color because of higher costs.
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The Biden administration will resume oil and gas leasing on federal lands, the Department of the Interior said last week.
Officials issued final environmental assessments and notices Monday for a “significantly reformed” sale that address “deficiencies” in the existing federal oil and gas leasing program. Roughly 173 parcels will be offered across Wyoming and seven other states, down from the 646 originally considered for sale, more than 70% of which were located in Wyoming.
“For too long, the federal oil and gas leasing programs have prioritized the wants of extractive industries above local communities, the natural environment, the impact on our air and water, the needs of Tribal Nations, and, moreover, other uses of our shared public lands,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement. “Today, we begin to reset how and what we consider to be the highest and best use of Americans’ resources for the benefit of all current and future generations.”
In November, following additional environmental review, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) reduced the number of Wyoming parcels from 459 to 195. The agency then postponed the sale — the first federal onshore lease sale since President Joe Biden took office last January — over a since-reversed court decision blocking the administration from using its estimate of the social cost of carbon, a measure of climate harm, in federal analyses.
The BLM has not yet released the date of the upcoming sale or the number of Wyoming leases it will offer.
Regardless of the details, Wyoming’s oil and gas industry isn’t satisfied.
“Once again, President Biden’s words don’t match his actions,” Ryan McConnaughey, director of communications for the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, said in a statement. “Instead of ‘working like the devil’ to bring down gas prices, the administration has decided to lease just 20% of the acreage nominated for potential production by the oil and natural gas industry, all while making production more expensive.”
The royalty rate at the upcoming sale will — as anticipated — be set at 18.75%, up from the minimum 12.5% the BLM has used for more than a century. Wyoming’s oil and gas companies have been bracing for the royalty increase since November, when the Department of the Interior recommended in its internal review of the federal leasing program that the rate be raised. Two months later, the BLM briefly posted a draft notice that included the 18.75% royalty rate.
“While we don’t know the exact number and location of the Wyoming parcels, after 15 months without a lease sale in our state, to learn that royalty rates will be increased and available acreage significantly reduced is hardly cause for unbridled celebration,” Gov. Mark Gordon said in a statement. “I am concerned that these changes will have a chilling effect on Wyoming companies as they prepare their bids.”
For many conservation groups, however, the higher royalty rate is a victory.
“At a time when a lot of folks around the country are thinking about increased oil and gas production as a way to kind of bring us a little closer to economic security, there is a focus on on doing it right,” said Alan Rogers, communications director for the Wyoming Outdoor Council. “To make sure that we’re, No. 1, getting a good value for taxpayers, and No. 2, acknowledging the other values of our public lands.”
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CHEYENNE — Kevin Phillips is still getting used to his mustache.
For the most part, he can hardly grow a beard. It comes in thick around his jawline, but he points and laughs at how not a follicle will appear on his cheeks.
After a year of perseverance, the hair above his lip is sculpted with classic, maniacal handlebars that curl up next to his nose. His inspiration was one of his earliest influences, Salvador Dali, who grew his own mustache out to where its ends nearly reached his eyes.
“Everybody is gonna be a brand in the future,” he said over coffee. “It’s like, ‘How do I differentiate myself from them?” In the last month and a half, I’ve decided to go full on with a mustache, and I’m gonna go Salvador Dali with it.”
Phillips is a Front Range artist. He grew up in Nebraska, moved to Cheyenne when he was 16, and now lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. It was here that he pursued a degree in fine art at Laramie County Community College, and where he learned to really critique his own work, refine it and, only after mastering the technicalities, break all the rules.
Phillips has taken on an unexpected new endeavor in the past year, one that’s growing more and more prevalent in the life of a professional artist. He’s sharing his work, critiquing others and creating a community more than he ever expected.
“My brother was the one that convinced me to get a TikTok a couple years ago, and it was like within the first month, my first viral post went crazy.” Phillips said about being “moderately famous” on the popular video sharing app. “Two million views … Hanging art in a coffee shop is nice, and people see it, but $300 to $400 worth of sales isn’t paying the bills when a 15-second clip on TikTok makes thousands of dollars.”
His popularity on TikTok escalated quickly. He’d spent years marketing his artwork on other social media platforms, like Instagram, but had failed to gain a following.
He now has about 55,000 followers that he consistently interacts with. One of his earliest videos reached more than 2 million views, several others are in the hundreds of thousands, while others fail to gain any traction.
“It’s like, that’s Cheyenne,” he said, comparing his number of followers to the city’s population. “Minus the military base, that’s Cheyenne. It’s like, holy smokes, what if everybody in Cheyenne just knew about me? How would I be perceived around here?”
Phillips has a unique art style. He’s influenced by Dali, but then there’s the famous street artists Banksy and Shepard Fairey, and Alyssa Monks, an American figurative painter who creates abstract, hyperrealistic portraits.
For so long, Phillips was absorbing the work of artists like these, incorporating abstract elements and street art techniques to create colorful multimedia projects of pop art and psychedelic oddities.
Phillips mentions the quote ‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’ in reference to the most unexpected experience he’s had online. Recently, he’s been tagged in videos of people recreating some of his original artwork as he did in his tutorials.
“It’s kind of come to a full circle, where I’m seeing people that are recreating pieces that I’ve done. It’s weird,” he said.
But it hasn’t come without a good deal of change – like growing a mustache, for instance. It’s a product of the realization that to build a fanbase, he first must build a persona.
Always the introvert, Phillips now has to work to be a more approachable character. In a sense, the person in his videos is different than himself – he needs to smile, crack jokes and keep energy high. Growing his presence on the popular app has forced him to reconsider how people perceive him.
His image dictates how people interact with him and his content, which makes all the difference in whether his art is selling. Already, he’s started making a small amount of money through some viral videos, and the rest through traffic to his website, all while continuing to gain a following on the app.
It’s a precarious position to be in. On one end, he has to please viewers and structure videos so that the mysterious TikTok algorithm curates them into everyone’s feed. Serve the viewers too much, though, and he’ll lose sight of his craft.
“I’m doing it for the craft,” he said. “I’m putting a lot more thought into the stories that my artwork is telling now. I used to want the artwork to speak for itself. Now, I need to speak for the artwork a little bit more.”
About a year ago, he leaned a little too far into his pop art style with the intent of attracting views on TikTok, sticking mainly to recreating celebrities’ likenesses in colorful portraits. Thanks to this approach, he had a good three- to four-month period where he was questioning his passion for art.
Then he had a realization. Phillips was letting the social media algorithms control him, and there was something to that concept that he wanted to explore.
Combining his fine art experience – including a fascination with color theory – and his talent for multimedia street art, he chased the concept of humanity’s increasing interaction with artificial intelligence.
It’s possible that humans and AI programs aren’t so different in their actions. Phillips came across a growing movement of artwork created by AI, where programmers create algorithms that instruct AI to learn a specific aesthetic to create an image, similar to the inner workings of the human brain.
The result is a new kind of art, one that is the accumulation of thousands of codes. This is what his “Glitch” series is about, along with much of his work since – finding the parallel between AI and how humans interact with one another electronically.
“I wanted to tell a story and put forth the narrative that things are chaotic, but very structured,” he said about his “glitch art.” “That’s kind of an AI type of thing. They create these really crazy looking images, but AI is extremely structured.
“Line by line, you could tell it what it’s doing and why it’s doing it. I’m trying to replicate that, but in a more human way.”
Out of his catalogue, this concept heavily applies to his personal “Last Supper,” titled “Rebirth.”
The painting conceptualizes time as a cyclical entity, creating a chaotic and multifaceted image of color and abstract symbolism, detailed and eclectic, that comes together as one image, similar to the thousands of digital coded dots laid in place by a computer program.
The big difference is that all of Phillips’ work is painted, not digitally designed.
“I’m definitely putting my own twist on it,” he said of his AI-inspired art. “I’m making a reference to how AI interacts with humans and how humans interact with AI. Humans really are being affected by social media and things like it.”
There’s more work to be done in the field of AI art, and Phillips’ ability to forge his own style becomes more evident as he continues to paint. He’s identified a connection between his TikTok presence and his artwork, and his most recent series draws a connection between the hidden algorithms of the popular app and the controlled chaos of AI art.
Visit the online forum Reddit, and search the subreddit called “place.” It’s both a forum and an art movement where thousands of people contribute to one moving image, one pixel at a time. Somehow, complex images comes together in the end, though they’re constantly changing over a span of five minutes.
Phillips remembers watching one of these come together. Then, as the timer wound down, there was a coordinated attack on the final product, anonymous participants sabotaging the image with white pixels.
“It blanked out the whole thing,” Phillips said. “But it was really strange to me how it looked like an AI was doing it. It made me think that AI might be more like us than we think.
“If you told somebody that an AI did that, they would believe it with the way it was branching out.”
Both on the canvas and online, Phillips is learning think in algorithms.
A body of Phillips work will be hanging in Freedom’s Edge Brewing Co. beginning April 14 as a part of the final installment of the second-Thursday Cheyenne Artwalk. His work is also online at https://linktr.ee/KAPGallery.
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When President Joe Biden announced a new federal rule banning the manufacture of unserialized, privately made firearms last week, state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, went to social media to defend his Second Amendment protection bill that was killed in the 2022 budget session.
Senate File 87 would have prohibited the enforcement of unconstitutional federal actions infringing upon Second Amendment rights, denied immunities for law enforcement and provided cause for civil action against officers who knowingly denied law-abiding citizens the right to bear arms.
“My bill, SF-87 REAL SAPA was for this day with Biden’s Executive Order,” he posted to his congressional campaign page. “The RINOS Killed the bill.”
He shared with the Wyoming Tribune Eagle his concern that without his legislation in place, Wyoming residents would be at risk of federal overreach and loss of their gun rights.
The executive action recently taken by the Biden administration not only impacts gun manufacturers, it updates regulatory definitions of firearms. It is meant to reign in the increasing number of unserialized, privately made firearms that are known as “ghost guns,” according to the announcement. The president said the decision was influenced by the more than 20,000 suspected ghost guns reported in 2021 to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that were recovered by local law enforcement in criminal investigations.
Due to the difficulty involved in tracking the weapons without the serial number to the individual purchaser, the final rule put forward bans the manufacturing of the most accessible ghost guns.
One of the most popular is the unserialized “Buy-Build-Shoot” kits that can be purchased online or at a store without a background check. They can be assembled in as little as 30 minutes with common household tools.
“You know, if you buy a couch you have to assemble, it’s still a couch,” Biden said in his speech announcing the federal action. “If you order a package, like this one over here, that includes the parts you need, the directions for assembling a functioning firearm, you bought a gun.”
As well as banning the manufacturing, he included provisions that will turn some ghost guns already in circulation into serialized firearms. Federally licensed dealers and gunsmiths are required to take any serialized firearm into inventory to serialize it before they sell it to a customer, regardless of whether it was made from individual parts, kits or 3-D printer pieces.
Outside of his actions on ghost guns, Biden placed regulatory definitions and requirements on firearms with split receivers. By updating the regulatory definitions of “frame” and “receiver” to include multi-parts, he ensured the weapons are subject to serial numbers and background checks when customers purchase them from a licensed dealer, manufacturer and importer.
Finally, federally licensed firearm dealers have to retain key records until they shut down their business or licensed activity. They then transfer their records to the ATF, which is common practice, but now they are not permitted to destroy records after 20 years.
Although these do not directly ban individuals from possessing or the sale of unserialized firearms, Bouchard said the nation and Wyoming are a part of an experiment now. Instead of Congress passing a law, the executive branch is using the administration of rules and orders to control the circulation of weapons.
Bouchard, a founding member of Wyoming Gun Owners, condemned the action and said even the former President Barack Obama believed it was ultimately the responsibility of Congress to address gun control, not the executive branch. Obama announced efforts in 2013 to support gun safety measures following a series of shootings, but, ultimately, he asked for action by lawmakers to develop laws requiring a universal background check, to ban assault weapons and to create tougher penalties.
Now, Bouchard said he fears this ideal won’t be upheld. This is one of the reasons he said his Second Amendment Preservation Act should have been passed, because it would have protected citizens and provided significant recourse if their rights were infringed upon.
“Now that this shift is coming back and going through administrative changes, it’s flat out wrong,” he said. “And that’s why we needed to stand up during our last session, instead of sitting on our hands.”
But there was action taken by the Wyoming Legislature.
Instead of introducing Bouchard’s legislation, lawmakers passed a separate bill called the Second Amendment Protection Act. The two bills created a division among senators and representatives, because there were arguments made on the floor that Senate File 102 wasn’t strong enough. The Cheyenne lawmaker continues to be one of the harshest critics of the bill, and said those who supported it showed their true colors and do not care about the values of Republican constituents.
Bringers of the bill said this is not the case, and there was a reason the Second Amendment Protection Act received the majority of support from legislators and law enforcement.
“I would expect him to say that,” bill sponsor Sen. Larry Hicks, R-Baggs, told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. “He’s got to defend a bad piece of legislation.”
Hicks said Bouchard cannot admit SF 87 would have provided no relief for citizens under the argument of nullification of federal law, and would have put police officers at risk of thousands of dollars of legal fees. He argued if they removed qualified immunity for law enforcement, which was outlined in the bill not passed, there was risk of civil action every time a cop inadvertently implemented a federal law. This doesn’t mean there wasn’t a punishment for those who knowingly infringed upon Second Amendment rights, it was just done in a different way.
“They want people to be able to sue the cops personally to get their houses, to get their children’s college education trust fund,” he said. “That’s the difference in the bill. We said there’s a criminal penalty here.”
SF 102 first declares authority under the U.S. Constitution and Printz v. United States that prohibits the enforcement of federal regulation of firearms, accessories, magazines and ammunition.
“This state and all political subdivisions are prohibited from using any personnel or funds appropriated by the Legislature of the state of Wyoming or of Wyoming to enforce, administer or cooperate with any unconstitutional act, law, treaty, executive order, rule or regulation of the United States that infringes on or impedes the free exercise of individual rights guaranteed under the Second Amendment to the Constitution,” it states.
Following the standing and prohibition of enforcing actions such as the Biden administration’s on Monday, it lays out guidelines for public officers. Although nothing in the bill limits or restricts a public officer from providing assistance to federal authorities in other areas, or accepting federal funds, there are still consequences for enforcing an unconstitutional act. Violators who knowingly committed the misdemeanor are at risk of up to one year of jail time, a fine of $2,000 or both.
However, Bouchard and other critics of the bill said they have an issue with the fact that there is no way for people to take action into their own hands. The public officer would have to be prosecuted by local authorities, and no civil damages could be given out to those impacted. During the session, some legislators even alleged legal authorities might not take action against law enforcement agents they continually work with.
Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police President Dwane Pacheco, an advocate for the bill, said this was the furthest from the truth. He said there was no question that a county attorney would prosecute a police or peace officer, and he had seen cases where they were charged across the state.
“I feel like law enforcement officers are held to a higher standard because of who we are and what we do for a living,” he told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.
While there is a debate over how the bill works and which is more effective, the Rock Springs police chief also said he is not concerned about the impacts of the most recent executive order in regards to local law enforcement anyway. He said often executive orders impact federal agencies, such as ATF or the FBI, and they don’t participate.
He said the cases where Second Amendment rights might be infringed upon by a police officer are often when weapons are seized directly. Because there are very few instances where Wyoming residents would be at risk of their weapons being taken by an officer, such as a domestic violence or other criminal act, he said the chances are even lower.
“I’ve heard from my officers, ‘They are coming to take our guns,’ And I always look at them, and I always say, ‘Who is they? They is we,’” Pacheco said. “That’s who the public thinks are coming to take their weapons. And I do not believe that law enforcement is going out and looking to take anyone’s weapons. We are Wyomingites, we strongly believe in the Second Amendment.”
The executive rule also has low risk in regards to weapon seizing because it directly impacts manufacturers and definitions under which certain receivers are placed; it does not ban the sale or possession of ghost guns by individuals. However, there may be certain barriers to purchasing an unserialized weapon now under the new definitions, which legislators and gun advocates are still concerned about.
Hicks said he is unsure whether the Biden’s administration’s action will even go into effect for manufacturers and licensed dealers due to a point similar to one made by Bouchard. He said not only is it unconstitutional to require a serial number on a firearm and infringes upon rights, it is not a law. He is confident lawsuits will be filed against the rule, and it is no different than the argument made against vaccine mandates through OSHA rules.
If no lawsuit is filed, he said, a risk assessment will be made. But he believes his bill will protect citizens when the legislation goes into effect in July, because unconstitutional acts will not be enforced in the state of Wyoming. He is also comfortable with the timeline, even as federal acts come to fruition. He said he wants the few months to analyze the legal options, create a tight argument for challenges and understand how it is going to affect people in Wyoming thoughtfully.
“When somebody comes out and announces these things, you really have to be clear-headed, thoughtful, and evaluate, instead of just running in there and jumping on a hand grenade,” he said.
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For Brent Bien, there were three incidents that motivated his run for governor.
The first time the idea came up was when former President Bill Clinton was elected in 1992. The second time was when current Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon “shut the state down” because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are 20,000 square miles bigger, 300,000 people fewer than South Dakota, and (they were) open for business,” Bien told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on Thursday.
The final trigger for Bien came with President Joe Biden’s election in November 2020.
At that point, Bien thought, “We have a governor that’s already put our freedom on the table, (and now) there’s nobody at the federal level that’s going to stand up for our freedom,” he said.
After speaking with some other conservatives in the state and learning they weren’t planning to challenge Gordon in 2022, Bien decided he was the man for the job.
Bien, who is running as a conservative Republican, is originally from Laramie. He and his wife, Susan, moved back to Wyoming about three years ago, following Bien’s retirement as a colonel from the U.S. Marine Corps after close to three decades.
Working primarily as a Marine Corps aviator, Bien provided support in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Kosovo, and spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most recently, the candidate was in Guam, leading the ongoing Defense Policy Review Initiative, which he said included building a Marine Corps base on the island territory.
Bien then worked as director of safety and standardization for Bighorn Airways in Sheridan until last fall, when he retired to focus on his run for governor.
Throughout all of his travel, Bien said he had maintained his Wyoming residency and has voted in every Wyoming election since he was 18.
Having watched the state’s politics for decades, Bien said he’s seen “a lack of leadership” among Wyoming’s governors – especially the current one. In shutting down the state, Gordon hurt businesses and workers, and allowed an appointed health official to run the state, Bien said.
The gubernatorial candidate wants to see “proactive leadership” in Cheyenne – a strong governor like Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota or Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, he said.
“Wyoming should be leading,” he said. “I know that we are involved in some lawsuits against certain things that are coming down federally, but it seems like we always jump on the bandwagon. ... Let’s be the first.”
‘The three P’s’Bien said his campaign “revolves around making Wyoming the freest state in the nation.” To do that as governor, Bien would emphasize “the three P’s”: protecting personal freedoms, pursuing government accountability and promoting state sovereignty.
When it comes to personal freedoms, Bien said he’s particularly focused on “protecting private property rights, rights of the unborn, and, of course, the Second Amendment.”
Bien said working toward government accountability means protecting voter integrity and ending crossover voting, moving toward more limited government, “fiscal discipline,” and school choice and educational transparency.
In promoting state sovereignty, Bien said the goal would be to protect the state from federal overreach and reduce dependency on the federal government.
“I’m all about working with the federal government, as long as it doesn’t encroach upon personal freedoms, nor the sovereignty of the state,” Bien said.
He said that overreach has been happening for a long time, but has really ramped up since Biden took office. As an example, he cited what he called “the Biden 30/30 land and water grab,” referring to a goal announced early in Biden’s presidency to conserve at least 30% of land and water in the U.S. by 2030.
Bien also said he is a “big believer in promoting energy expansion.”
“I think that fossil fuels are just as much our future as they were our past – we just have to change the narrative on them,” he said. “We have the technology to make – particularly coal, because we’re such a coal state – to make this extremely clean.”
Bien said coal coming from the Powder River Basin is “the cleanest coal in the world” because of its low sulfur content.
Bien also spoke in favor of what he called “insulationism.” At its core, he said, it means strengthening certain industries within Wyoming so the state doesn’t have to rely as much on the federal government and industry outside the state.
The candidate drew a distinction between “insulationism” and isolationism, which he said he’s not at all interested in.
“It’s just to better protect the state, to insulate the state from bad federal policy,” he explained. “And there’s no way to completely do that by any means. But when I look at the cost of everything in the grocery store, the gasoline and all this stuff – I mean, there is a way to do this.
Grassroots campaigning
When he spoke to the WTE Thursday morning, Bien was readying for an evening visit to Thermopolis.
Visiting towns across the state, even those with a small number of residents, has so far been a significant part of his campaign. In the past month, Bien has made stops in Hudson, Recluse, Thayne and even tiny Spotted Horse, according to his Facebook page, alongside larger destinations like Gillette, Casper and Cheyenne.
During one recent visit to Cody, Bien said a campaign event originally scheduled for two hours lasted about eight.
These visits and interactions with potential voters have only strengthened his commitment to his core campaign principles, Bien said.
Bien acknowledged that the road ahead would be difficult in terms of challenging an incumbent for the gubernatorial seat. Even so, he feels he’s developed a following through grassroots campaigning.
“I’ve had a career successfully leading people to accomplish desired results, but it does come down to putting teams together and listening,” he said. “I always listen. And some ideas may work, some may not, but I always listen to the folks on what their concerns are.”
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First wild horse adoption of year is April 30The Bureau of Land Management’s Rock Springs Wild Horse Holding Facility will kick off BLM Wyoming’s 2022 adoption schedule with an event April 30, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
BLM will offer approximately 50 wild horses for this adoption, including weanlings/yearlings. The weanlings/yearlings were gathered in 2021 from the Divide Basin, Salt Wells, Adobe Town, White Mountain and Little Colorado herd management areas. There will also be approximately eight 4- to 8-year-old mares from Antelope Hills and Lost Creek herd management areas that were gathered in 2020.
The offered horses will be available for adoption on a first-come, first-served basis. Any person wishing to adopt a wild horse must fill out an application, be able to conform to the BLM’s minimum adoption requirements and have their application approved by the BLM. BLM specialists will be on hand to answer questions and assist with the adoption applications.
“Wyoming wild horses make great companions and trail animals,” Supervisory Wild Horse Specialist Jake Benson said in a news release. “We want to see them all adopted into good homes.”
To reach the holding facility from I-80, take Elk Street Exit 104 and go north one mile, then turn right onto Lionkol Road and follow for a half-mile.
To learn more about BLM Wyoming’s wild horse adoption program, or the Rock Springs Wild Horse Holding Facility, visit blm.gov/WHB.
Yellowstone National Park announces road opening scheduleJACKSON (WNE) – Roads in Yellowstone National Park’s northwestern reaches are set to open April 15, though the south entrance will remain closed.
Four main roads will be open April 15, per the park’s press release.
Three will be newly open for the season: those from the West Entrance to Old Faithful, from Mammoth Hot Springs to Old Faithful via Norris, from Norris to Canyon Village.
One is open year round: from the north entrance near Gardiner, Montana, to the northeast entrance near Cooke City, Montana.
Other roads in the park will open sequentially, according to Yellowstone National Park’s website.
The roads from the East Entrance to Lake Village over Sylvan Pass and from Canyon Village to Lake Village are set to open May 6.
The road from Cooke City to the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway is scheduled to open May 11.
Three other main byways are then set to open May 13: those from the South Entrance to West Thumb, from Lake Village to West Thumb, from West Thumb to Old Faithful over Craig Pass, and from Tower Junction to Tower Fall
Then, on May 27, the roads from Tower Fall to Canyon Junction over Dunraven Pass, and the Beartooth Highway will open.
Fishing and boating seasons will begin May 28 and close Oct. 31.
Park roads are set close for the season at 12:01 a.m. Nov. 1.
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JACKSON — Nadine Salas is interested in going into law enforcement but has had concerns, reflecting on what she’s heard about the profession and being a young Latina woman. She’s wondered whether the space is necessarily safe for her — and whether she should even ask questions about it.
“I think I’ve internalized a bit of that,” said Salas, 25. “I’m trying actively to break out of that.”
That’s why, a few weeks back, she decided to ask law enforcement ranger Shelby Barbay a handful of questions about policing in Grand Teton National Park.
Salas was one of 20 or so participants in this year’s National Park Service Academy, a federal program aimed at introducing a diverse slate of American students and young professionals to Park Service careers. Through a weeklong orientation in Grand Teton and internships at other American parks, participants get training, exposure to the Park Service’s different jobs and connection with mentors and peers.
For Salas, the program — and the conversation with Barbay, in particular — inspired her and gave her more confidence to explore a career in law enforcement.
“Which I know that I absolutely want to do,” Salas said.
Fear, she said, had been getting in the way.
On a gray afternoon in March, Salas and the other members of the 2022 National Park Service Academy cohort were bouncing around Grand Teton’s administrative headquarters, talking with Jenny Lake rangers about search and rescue and emergency medical services, getting experience throwing a mock spike strip under the wheels of a fleeing vehicle and experimenting with a fire hose connected to one of the park’s structure fire engines.
The games, the conversations on that gray afternoon — all of it was in service of introducing them to the Park Service’s various career paths.
But Julie Gonzalez, Grand Teton’s community engagement coordinator, said Park Service employment isn’t necessarily the end goal. She graduated from the program.
“If that’s a byproduct of what we do, we’re all here for it,” Gonzalez said. “But, really, we just want to create this understanding and connection with folks to what the National Park Service does. And help create that sense of belonging, that this is something that you can do if you want to.”
After their week of orientation in Grand Teton the participants in this year’s National Park Service Academy will go on to summer internships at Glacier, Rocky Mountain, Mount Rainier and Yellowstone national parks, Gonzalez said.
But the program isn’t focused on one type of work in the park — or participant. Internships focus on wildlife, trails, interpretation, fire and more. And, while there are people in the academy with backgrounds that center around environmental science and conservation, the program is open to people of all majors and backgrounds, including people from technical and vocational schools.
“I think that’s representative of the National Park Service as a whole,” Gonzalez said.
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SHERIDAN — Public commenters at the Sheridan County School District 2 Board of Trustees meeting Monday brought up concerns with transgender individuals using bathroom facilities at SCSD2.
Currently, SCSD2 “does not have a specific policy pertaining to the use of restroom facilities under these types of situations,” said Scott Stults, SCSD2 superintendent. He added the law concerning these issues are complex and evolving.
Issues concerning transgender individuals using the bathrooms of the gender they identify with has entered the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years. Previous cases like Bostock v. Clayton County, Virginia, has reinforced the U.S. Supreme Court’s stance on Title VII according to supremecourt.gov as well as upheld Title IX, which “prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity offered by a recipient of federal financial assistance,” according to the U.S. Department of Education website.
In early March, Senate File 51 was passed by the Wyoming Senate but ultimately failed to become law. The bill, also known as the “fairness in women’s sports act” would prohibit “biological males from athletic teams and sports designated for females in public schools” according to the State of Wyoming legislative website. The bill failed for a lack of introduction in the House..
Legislator concerns with the bill were echoed by public commenters Monday.
“Gender identity conflict — otherwise known as gender dysphoria — means that an individual is dissatisfied with their gender. It does not mean they are the gender they wish to be,” said Tara Schultz, the first commenter of the meeting.
Schultz, as well as Andrew Patceg and Brandy Patceg, said it was a moral issue to allow transgender students to use the bathroom matching their gender identity. Commenters shared a concern toward biological males using female facilities like locker rooms and bathrooms.
Andrew Patceg said this is an issue that creates a “breeding ground for predators.”
“It is common sense to keep the facilities separated based on biology rather than identity to keep, to protect women and children,” Andrew Patceg said.
Patceg expressed his concern using instances in which men gained access to women’s facilities. In these cases, biological males used it to commit crimes against women and children or violated their privacy, Patceg said.
“Letting biological boys into girls’ restrooms is immoral. Women and children have been hurt because of this policy, and I don’t want this happening anywhere and I don’t want them happening here,” Andrew Patceg said.
Concerns persisted over the usage of female bathrooms by biological males.
“It is unfair and wrong for my child or anyone else’s child to feel unsafe or sexually intimidated when someone of the opposite sex is allowed to use the bathroom with them,” Schultz said.
Schultz also proposed transgender students have their own bathrooms.
“Why are we, the majority, being forced to change our feelings and beliefs on the imaginary actions of a few. Giving transgender students their own bathroom provides the safety needed for all,” she said.
Brandy Patceg ended the meeting by saying more people need to speak the truth about the issue.
“No one is speaking truth. I would really like to see that start to happen. I don’t blame the kids, who are confused at this age. Their hormones are raging through their bodies and there’s also all sorts of things going on. It could be at home. I don’t blame them. No one is speaking truth to them,” Brandy Patceg said.
At the end of the public comments, Stults encouraged the commenters to reach out to him about concerns and questions.
“As issues arise with students and families, we work with them directly to understand their concerns. It is always our goal to treat everyone with dignity and work to protect all students. We are making a concerted effort to listen and understand all voices, with a clear goal of keeping our students and staff safe,” Stults said to The Sheridan Press.
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2nd Judicial District Court Judge Tori Kricken to retireThe state Judicial Nominating Commission is accepting expressions of interest to fill an upcoming seat in the Wyoming 2nd Judicial District, which covers Albany County.
Judge Tori Kricken is retiring from the bench effective Aug. 15.
Kricken, a former District Court judge in Albany County, was appointed to the 2nd Judicial District bench by former Gov. Matt Mead in October 2016, and began her service Jan. 2, 2017.
The Judicial Nominating Commission will accept applications from qualified persons (a qualified elector in the state and authorized to practice law here), which are available the Wyoming Supreme Court website at courts.state.wy.us/administration/careers. The completed forms must be received no later than 5 p.m. May 13.
The commission asks people to not submit letters of recommendation, as only review documents specifically required by the expression of interest will be considered.
Gov. Mark Gordon will appoint a new 2nd Judicial Court judge from a list of three names submitted to him by the Nomination Commission.
The salary for the position is $160,000 a year with state benefits, retirement and a generous judicial pension, as per Wyoming statute.
Enroll Wyo. offers free health insurance assistanceMany people don’t realize they currently qualify for comprehensive and affordable health insurance, and could sign up today. Expanded benefits and cheaper costs can be found by connecting with Enroll Wyoming, a nonprofit that provides free assistance to explore health options.
People may qualify for the Health Insurance Marketplace based on income or recent life-altering experiences like marriage, a new child joining the home or losing health insurance. This allows Americans to access the Marketplace, where cost savings like tax credits make four out of five health plans as cheap as $50 a month.
People also qualify if their household income is between 100% and 150% of federal poverty levels. For example, a four-member family qualifies if its annual income is between $26,500 and $39,750. Find out if you qualify by talking to an Enroll Wyoming Navigator or visiting www.healthcare.gov/screener.
Enroll Wyoming is a grant-funded nonprofit and doesn’t have sales incentives or quotas. Navigators provide detailed information so families and individuals can make the choices that best benefit their situations, according to a news release.
Connecting with an Enroll Wyoming is as easy as calling 211 and asking for a health insurance navigator.
Wyoming deaths again higher than normalOfficial records filed with Vital Statistics Services, which is part of the Wyoming Department of Health, show another sharp increase in deaths last year over what would have been expected before the COVID-19 pandemic; there were also more births, more marriages and fewer divorces among residents.
Among Wyoming residents, there were 6,572 deaths recorded in 2021, 5,986 deaths recorded in 2020 and 5,122 deaths in 2019, according to official death certificate information. Death certificates are completed by attending physicians and coroners and then filed with VSS.
“Before the pandemic, our data has shown steady, small increases in deaths for several years, largely due to our state’s aging population. That’s something we would have reasonably expected to continue,” Guy Beaudoin, VSS deputy state registrar with WDH, said in a news release. “However, the dramatically increased numbers of deaths over the last two years are unprecedented in Wyoming. It’s clear COVID-19 was a driving factor.”
Beaudoin noted the top five causes of death in Wyoming for 2021 were cancers (1,151), heart diseases (1,113), COVID-19 (1,025), various types of accidents and adverse effects (379) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and related conditions (355).
“Unfortunately, Wyoming continues to have a high suicide rate,” Beaudoin said. “There were small increases in the number of suicide completions in each of the last two years, but there have been other times over the last decade with significantly larger year-over-year jumps, as well as some years with reductions.”In 2021, 189 (+7 over 2020) suicides were recorded among Wyoming residents, compared to 182 in 2020 (+13 over 2019). Previously, there were 169 in 2019 (+22 over 2018), 147 in 2018 (-8 over 2017), 155 in 2017 (+12 over 2016), 143 in 2016 (-12 over 2015), 155 in 2015 (+36 over 2014), 119 in 2014 (-9 over 213), 128 in 2013 (-44 over 2012) and 172 in 2012.
Wyoming’s data shows that about 72% of suicide deaths in 2021 were due to firearms, with 22% due to hanging and 4% due to poisoning.
“Deaths attributed to overdoses are another area of interest where over time we have seen increases between some years and decreases between others,” Beaudoin said. “Of note, we do continue to see the percentage of overdose deaths caused by illicit drugs rather than prescription drugs as growing within our state.”In 2021, there were 95 (+5 over 2020) overdose deaths recorded among Wyoming residents, compared to 90 in 2020 (+9 over 2019). Previously, there were 81 in 2019 (+16 over 2018), 65 in 2018 (+5 over 2017), 60 in 2017 (-34 over 2016), 94 in 2016 (-1 over 2015), 95 in 2015 (-12 over 2014), 107 in 2014 (+11 over 2013), 96 in 2013 (-3 over 2012), and 99 in 2012.
“Last year was the first in quite some time with an increase recorded in the number of new babies in Wyoming,” Beaudoin said. “Previously, we had seen an ongoing significant downward trend over several years.”There were 6,232 births among Wyoming resident mothers in 2021, compared with 6,132 in 2020. The high over the past decade was in 2015, with 7,678 resident births.
VSS also holds marriage and divorce records. There were 4,274 marriages recorded in Wyoming last year, compared to 3,986 in 2020 and 4,062 in 2019, before the pandemic. As far as divorces, there were 2,158 finalized in 2021, compared with 2,227 divorces in 2020 and 2,253 in 2019, before the pandemic.
Gordon supports lawsuit challenging border policyGov. Mark Gordon has announced that Wyoming is among the states joining a lawsuit filed by Arizona, Louisiana and Missouri challenging the Biden administration’s revocation of Title 42 border control measures.
These Trump-era border policies helped reduce the flow of illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border, according to a Thursday news release from Gordon’s office.
Last fall, Gordon visited the southern border and joined 25 other governors in releasing 10 policy solutions that the Biden administration could enact immediately to address the crisis at the southern border. Among those solutions was a continuation of the Title 42 orders, an effective tool at limiting border crossings and supporting public health, Gordon’s office said.
“The Biden administration’s continued failure to fulfill its constitutional duty and secure our border impacts all Americans,” Gordon said in the release. “When the federal government does not fulfill its responsibilities, states are compelled to take legal action to protect their residents from the impacts of this border crisis. Wyoming will stand by our fellow states to protect our borders.”
The lawsuit “challenges an imminent, man-made, self-inflicted calamity:
the abrupt elimination of the only safety valve preventing this administration’s disastrous border policies from devolving into unmitigated chaos and catastrophe.” A copy of the complaint is available at https://tinyurl.com/border-policy-lawsuit.
Child Support program No. 1 for 9th year
Wyoming’s Child Support Program was ranked number one in the nation for the ninth consecutive year based on performance and federal standards. The CSP is managed by the Department of Family Services.
Maximus, a company that specializes in health and human services programs, compiles the data for all states and territories. Then, the North Dakota child support director calculates and determines the ranking.
“We believe this recognition as the nation’s number one performing program demonstrates Wyoming families are receiving the services they need, and families are receiving their court-ordered child support,” said Kristie Arneson, economic security senior administrator with DFS, in a news release. “Those are always our goals.“
CSP goals include finding biological parents; establishing paternity; establishing child support and medical support orders; enforcing child support and medical support orders, and modifying existing orders. The CSP also serves as a “pass through” by receiving and disbursing child support payments to custodial parents.
The federal child support performance measures are: the number of cases with a child support order; paternity establishment; collection of current support; collection of arrears (back-owed child support) and cost effectiveness.
To learn more about the CSP, or to apply for services, go to https://childsupport.wyo.gov/.
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We are done with COVID, but COVID is not done with us.
The subvariant of Omicron, dubbed BA.2, is causing spikes in infections, hospitalizations, deaths and lockdowns in different parts of the world. In the United States, the statistics have been promising, but cases have been rising enough to prompt the CDC on Wednesday to extend the national mask mandate for travel hubs and public transit, including planes, for an additional two weeks, until May 3, and also extended the national public health emergency determination for an additional 90 days.
While BA.2 creates uncertainty in the course of the pandemic, one fact has become increasingly clear: COVID-19 has exposed significant disparities in how health care is delivered and accessed in our society. In the initial months of the pandemic in early 2020, Black Americans were three times more likely than whites to contract COVID-19 and to require hospitalization, and twice as likely to die of the disease.
“The pandemic exacerbated preexisting social and economic disparities that have long festered in the U.S., including a deeply divided society, widespread poverty, a weak social safety net, inadequate living conditions, and a lack of trust in science that predated COVID-19,” the Poor People’s Campaign summarized in its recent “Poor People’s Pandemic Report.”
These dysfunctions and inequity won’t be overcome until everyone, regardless of who they are or where they’re from, are guaranteed healthcare as a fundamental right.
One of the most compelling speakers on the subject of universal healthcare is no longer able to physically speak at all. Activist Ady Barkan was diagnosed with terminal ALS in 2016 and uses a system that translates his eye movements into spoken words.
“It’s shameful that in the richest country in the world, we choose to inflict so much suffering,” Barkan said, testifying remotely before a recent House committee hearing on “Medicare for All.” “The pandemic has revealed and exacerbated the existing inequalities in our profit-driven healthcare system. It has hit hardest on disabled people, poor people, Black, Latino and Indigenous people, and especially people who live at the intersections of these categories. And one out of three COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are related to gaps in health insurance. Nearly a million Americans have already died from the coronavirus. How much more is necessary to shock our legislators into action?”
Medicare for All is a proposed reform of the U.S. healthcare system that would take the popular Medicare health insurance program currently available to citizens and permanent residents 65 years of age and older and extend eligibility to all. Medicare is a form of single-payer health care, in which the government itself does not provide medical services but makes the payments on behalf of those who it covers. Thus, hospitals, doctors’ offices, pharmacies and the like all remain as they are. The for-profit health insurance companies, however, are removed from the equation, saving over $500 billion dollars per year, as estimated in a report by Public Citizen.
Medicare For All also guarantees that no one would be left uninsured. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates the current number of uninsured people in the U.S. at around 30 million.
“When this pandemic started, there was an awareness that our healthcare system was not going to perform well with 30 million uninsured, with far more underinsured,” Dr. Adam Gaffney of Harvard Medical School said on the Democracy Now! news hour. He co-authored a study that showed uninsured people are more likely to contract COVID-19. “We need to be expanding our public health infrastructure to tackle not only the pandemic of the present but the pandemics of the future, to say nothing of the other health threats that face us in the years to come, like the impact of climate change and much more.”
The pandemic has hit Black Americans particularly hard. In a new report, “The State of Black America and COVID-19” by the Black Coalition Against COVID (BCAC), the Yale School of Medicine, the Morehouse School of Medicine and others, Yale’s Dr. Marcella Nuñez-Smith writes, “In January of 2022, rates of COVID-19 hospitalization for Black Americans were the highest they have been since the pandemic’s start.”
Dr. Oni Blackstock, an African American primary care and HIV physician and founder of Health Justice, said on Democracy Now!, “The reality is that we are all interconnected and that if the Black community has access to care, to safety measures, that actually is something that can protect all of us.”
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I’ve been a Wyoming Democrat for my entire adult life. I certainly can’t speak for all members of my party, but some elections are easier on my psyche than others.
It helps when I know our candidates are going to be competitive in at least a few races. Registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than 150,000. Even if every unaffiliated voter decided to back a Democratic candidate, it would only cut that advantage by 35,000.
Yet, it’s not impossible for Democrats to beat those lopsided odds. Three of Wyoming’s past six governors have been Democrats, and they were all re-elected. Ed Herschler served three terms.
The official candidate filing period doesn’t start until May 12, but it’s mid-April, and the party hasn’t announced hopefuls for any of the five statewide elected offices or Wyoming’s lone U.S. House seat. I haven’t even heard any rumors about candidates, which worries me.
I don’t want to see a repeat of 2014, when no Democrats ran for secretary of state, treasurer or auditor. That was embarrassing for the party, and not healthy for the state. Voters deserve a choice between candidates from both major parties.
It’s important to have Democratic candidates in the big-ticket races where they can also attract voters to participate in contested legislative races. Some of those elections are decided by less than a few hundred votes.
I asked Joe Barbuto, Wyoming Democratic Party chairman, where they’ve been hiding. He said he’s confident there will be a full slate for the major races.
Barbuto said several Democrats are looking at the superintendent of public instruction contest, which doesn’t have an elected GOP incumbent. Jillian Balow, who ran unopposed in her 2018 re-election bid, resigned in January to take a similar, but appointed position in Virginia. She had nearly a year left in her second Wyoming term.
Theoretically, Balow’s replacement has an advantage over other candidates because he’s already in the job. The state Republican Party nominated three far-right candidates over several more qualified moderates seeking the office. Gov. Mark Gordon chose Brian Schroeder, head of a private Christian school in Cody.
Schroeder is running the Department of Education as an extreme-right ideologue. He threw his weight behind several hot-button bills — to ban critical race theory and to ban transgender athletes from girls sports — all of which died.
Schroeder won’t just skate to the nomination in the Aug. 16 primary. One GOP challenger has already emerged: Megan Degenfelder, who was bypassed by her party’s leaders. I’m told other Republicans will also throw their hats in the ring.
Degenfelder was the DOE’s chief policy officer under Balow for four years.
Barbuto said Gordon’s appointment of Schroeder is an example of the governor trying to appease the right wing of his party – a constituency that’s remained suspicious of him.
“I’m not sure that Mark Gordon has been a very popular governor in a lot of ways,” he said. “I don’t think he’s shown much resistance to some of the shenanigans in the Legislature [compared to] past governors of both parties.”
Barbuto said he’ll be shocked if at least one candidate from the extreme right doesn’t challenge Gordon. So would I, since conservative Republicans can’t stop whining about how their candidates split the vote in 2018 and enabled Gordon to win.
Divisive GOP primaries can pave the way for Democratic victories. In 1986, Pete Simpson defeated Bill Budd by a mere 453 votes. A scarred Republican Party couldn’t unite to defeat Democrat Mike Sullivan in the general election.
History repeated itself in 2002, when a bitter battle between primary winner Eli Bebout and Ray Hunkins tore the state GOP apart. Moderate Democrat Dave Freudenthal appealed to enough of Hunkins’ supporters to be elected governor.
Speaking of upsets, what do you think might happen if Harriet Hageman defeats Rep. Liz Cheney in her bid for a fourth term?
Wyoming Republican leaders are deathly afraid Democrats will cross over to vote in their congressional primary and save Cheney’s job. They have drummed the incumbent out of the state party, foolishly declaring she’s no longer their representative.
Cheney’s “crime” was voting to impeach former President Donald Trump. As vice chair of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection, Cheney continues to hold Trump to account.
Hageman is adored by her party’s right wing. Cheney, a conservative who used to have their allegiance — even from her former friend, Hageman! – is now the favorite of the party’s old establishment. They’re the ones Cheney’s detractors denigrate as RINOs — “Republicans in name only.”
Barbuto said Democratic voters will be highly motivated to defeat either Cheney or Hageman.
“We want to make certain [Wyoming’s congressman] is going to look out for working families,” he said. “They don’t want a person who is the exact opposite of that.”
When Republicans fight, Democrats sometimes win. To do so, of course, means one has to step up and run. Not just put a toe in to test the water, but jump all in. And soon, please — I don’t want us to lose these elections because we didn’t even try.
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After the COVID-19 pandemic sent the economy into a tailspin, Congress enacted a system to help struggling renters stay in their homes: the Emergency Rental Assistance Program. Nationally, lawmakers earmarked $46 billion to assist low-income tenants in paying their rent.
The program offers several benefits. Along with covering rent, the relief funding can be used to move into a new apartment, pay utilities or take care of previous housing costs — even at places where they no longer live. Those who qualify can receive up to 18 months of assistance.
For some, the program has been a lifeline, a way to keep a roof over their heads during a time of so much economic suffering. And in Wyoming, there’s plenty of funding to go around.
In fact, the state gave back $168 million in first-round federal rental relief money because it wasn’t being used, and because the restrictions around it were too cumbersome. Wyoming received another $152 million for rental relief that won’t expire until 2025.
But accessing the money has proven difficult for many. Recent reporting by Star-Tribune staff writer Mary Steurer highlighted an application process that is “lengthy, confusing and prone to pitfalls.” Those problems have made it harder for renters to access aid. It’s been so frustrating to some landlords that they’ve stopped renting to those who use the program, defeating the entire purpose of the effort.
Landlords and tenants have reported multiple problems. Applicants told Steurer that even simple paperwork mistakes can take weeks to resolve. A scanned document that’s too fuzzy is enough to slow the process. The complaints aren’t coming from just tenants. Last month, the Department of Family Services, which administers the program for Wyoming, held a virtual town hall that attracted about 150 landlords. They expressed frustration with a system in which even minor errors left applications in limbo.
Other complaints centered on the lack of information concerning where an application was in the pipeline. There is a website that can track what stage the paperwork is in, but it doesn’t offer many details. An informational phone line, meanwhile, spurred complaints of excessive waits.
The cumbersome system is having real consequences for renters who need the aid. It’s not just that they have to wait for lengthy periods. It’s that the system is so unwieldy that it’s prompting some landlords to no longer accept potential tenants who use the program. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. The rental market is tight in Wyoming, and landlords may have multiple tenants to choose from for a unit. Why pick a tenant who carries the risk of a lengthy bureaucratic wait? Steurer spoke with multiple Casper renters who said they were pre-approved for the program, but couldn’t find a landlord who would take them.
We recognize that the department wants to ensure that the money is spent appropriately and effectively. We also understand that quickly starting up a major program is bound to be difficult.
But given that this program doesn’t expire for another three years, it’s essential that these issues get addressed. Simple mistakes shouldn’t take weeks to resolve. Communication problems can be fixed.
The Emergency Rental Assistance Program was established to help renters. There’s evidence now that the difficulties surrounding it are bad enough that landlords are simply avoiding renters who use it. That needs to change now. At stake is more than $150 million in aid and housing for vulnerable Wyomingites.
Two years have passed since the pandemic began.
It’s time for the state to do better.
Casper Star-Tribune
April 10
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CHEYENNE – When Laramie made one of its few mistakes against Cheyenne Central on Tuesday evening, the Lady Plainsmen quickly put the miscue behind them.
In the 55th minute, Laramie fell victim to scoring a goal on itself, which tied the match 1-1. But less than a minute later, Mercedes Garcia netted her second goal of the contest to put the Plainsmen back ahead and help lift them to a 3-1 win at Riske Field.
“When we had that goal scored on us to tie up the match, we responded right away, and that’s what we’ve been looking for. That’s what we’ve been talking a lot about, is staying positive from the beginning of the game to the end of the game,” Laramie coach Justine Tydings said. “And that’s what stood out the most to me.”
Garcia’s first goal came in the fourth minute when she beat a Central defender to a loose ball in front of the net, got past Central goalkeeper Gracie Osterland who tried to make a play on the ball, and buried the shot. It was the first shot of the game for both teams.
“We were making beautifully passes and we were getting out wide, and that was really good for us,” Garcia said. “We were able to make those runs and finish the goals.”
Midway through the first half, Central senior Calie Mosely placed a free kick from near 30 yards out to the top right corner of the far post, but Laramie goalie McKenna Barham made a play on the ball to keep the Lady Indians scoreless. That was the best look the Indians had in the first half.
Central saw less empty possessions during the second half, especially early. It found itself with a pair of corner kicks and a pair of scoring chances through the first three minutes of the half, but couldn’t take advantage.
“We were holding on to the ball too long, which kind of hurt us,” Central coach Kaylin Olivas said. “And when we found our pockets of space, we were truly successful and we got in multiple occasions when we did find our pockets.”
Laramie controlled possession for most of the second half after its self-inflicted wound. It was able to continue to stretch out the Central defense and create shots on goal. The visiting team finished with eight shots on goal to the Indians’ one.
“We’re finally able to move the ball comfortably where we want to wide, and move it back to the inside,” Tydings said. “We obviously have some quick people up top, too, that do a good job of pushing the ball into space.”
Destiny Gabbidon scored Laramie’s final goal when she gathered a ball that deflected off two Central defenders and managed to squeeze it between Osterland and the bottom of the right post. Laramie did its best to take advantage of defensive breakdowns throughout the match.
“It wasn’t our best game, our mentality wasn’t at its best today and as a team we weren’t just putting it together and it kind of hurt us in the end,” Olivas said. “It was just a tough day for us, but the good thing is we come back tomorrow … we can always move forward and we can learn from it.”
LARAMIE 3, CENTRAL 1
Goals: Laramie, Garcia (unassisted), 4. Central, Laramie, 55. Laramie, Garcia (Lucero) 56. Laramie (Gabbidon), 66.
Shots: LH 9, CC 8. Shots on goal: LH 8, CC 1. Saves: LH 1 (Barham), CC 5 (Osterland).
Corner kicks: LH 4, CC 5. Offsides: None. Fouls: LH 5, CC 2. Yellow cards: Laramie 1 (Beeston, 58).
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LARAMIE — Laramie and Cheyenne Central played stout defenses although the run of play was all over the field, proving how evenly-matched the teams are against each other.
Although offensive pushes and scoring chances were plentiful with 15 shots for Central and 14 for Laramie, the Plainsmen notched the 2-0 East Conference win Tuesday night at Deti Stadium with two scores in the second overtime period.
“The best soccer we played was definitely in overtime when we started moving the ball a little bit quicker,” Laramie coach Anne Moore said. “I have to give Central credit as they really defended well and pressured us into mistakes we don’t normally make. It was a very even game, and then we stepped up in overtime to finish two great shots.”
With the scoreboard reading double-zero’s for the first 91 minutes, Laramie junior Gage Hepworth passed the ball to senior Christian Smith, who fired a 35-yard shot from left of the penalty box into the upper right corner of the netting for what proved to be the game winner.
Laramie sophomore Karson Busch added an unassisted insurance goal in the 97th minute after a corner kick wasn’t completely cleared by the Indian defense and the rebound went right to Busch.
The third-ranked Plainsmen (8-1 overall, 6-0 East) and Indians matched each other in just about every aspect of the game with the biggest flurry of action in the final 20 minutes of regulation as both teams tried gain the lead with the clock winding down.
Central (5-3, 4-2) had six shots on goal, all gathered in by Plainsman senior goalkeeper Talon Luckie in addition to cutting off a couple of corner kicks and crossing passes. Central senior keeper Jackson Cook faced eight shots on frame by Laramie, making six saves.
“It was well-represented, back-and-forth for the entire game,” Central coach Tim Denisson said. “But too much time (allowed) on two balls in overtime. That’s the way this game should go – goals should count because they were meant to be and they fit in and impossible balls for our goalkeeper to get to.
“We kind of retreated and should’ve stepped on those, but compliments to the goal scorers. It’s tough to lose 2-0 on two moments in overtime.”
LARAMIE 2, CENTRAL 0, OT
Halftime: 0-0. Regulation: 0-0
Goals: C. Smith (Hepworth), 92; Bush (unassisted), 97
Shots: CC 15, LH 14. Shots on goal: CC 6, LH 8. Saves: CC 6 (Cook), LH 6 (Luckie)
Corner kicks: CC 2, LH 3. Offsides: CC 0, LH 4. Fouls: Central 13, Laramie 9. Yellow cards: CC (Patterson, 71; Ignatius, 83); LH (L. Smith, 71; Hoberg, 87)
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BOYS SOCCER: East scores four in the first half to beat South Apr 20, 2022 2 hrs ago Comments Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save CHEYENNE – Brenden Bohlmann scored two goals and assisted on another to help Cheyenne East to a 6-2 win over Cheyenne South on Tuesday.Elijah Cudney also netted two goals and Chase White and Brian Mead had one apiece. Mead also tallied an assist.South’s two goals from Caden Hart in the second minute and from Will Bechtel in the 43rd. East outshot South 25-14 and 16-8 on goal.EAST 6, SOUTH 2Goals: South, Hart, 2. East, Bohlmann (unassisted), 4. East, Cudney (Miller), 21. East, White (unassisted), 32. East, Mead (Bohlmann), 38. East, Bohlmann (Kling), 39. South, Bechtel, 43. East, Cudney (Mead), 58.Shots: CE 25, CS 14. Shots on goal: CE 16, CS 8. Saves: CE 6 (Fisbeck); CS 10 (Potter).Corner kicks: CE 6, CS 4. Offsides: CE 2, CS 0. Fouls: CE 7, CS 5. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Recommended for you Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. comments powered by Disqus Latest Special Section 2021 Wyoming Football Preview To view our latest e-Edition click the image on the left. Trending Now UW standouts and questions as spring ball hits home stretch LCSD1 unveils new Cheyenne East pool College rodeo’s top-ranked Cowboys host final event Linder talks new additions, contract extension Catcher Kaden Anderson has become leader for Post 6 Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. 2022 Wyoming Legislature Updates Sign up to receive daily headlines on the 2022 Wyoming Legislature session. News Updates Would you like to receive our daily news? Sign up today! News Updates - Laramie Boomerang Want to keep updated on news headlines? Sign up today! News Updates - Rawlins Times Would you like to receive our daily news? Sign up today! News Updates - Wyoming Business Report Would you like to receive our daily news? Sign up today! You must select at least one email list. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up Manage your lists
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Cheyenne East’s Lillian Vallejo slides into home safe as Cheyenne South pitcher Alyssa Albaugh tries to tag her during East's 25-0 win on Tuesday. Michael Smith/For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Cheyenne East’s Aleah Brooks, left, and Ella Neider, right, scramble to field a ground ball against Cheyenne South on April 19, 2022 in Cheyenne. Michael Smith/For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Cheyenne East freshman Aleah Brooks fields a ground ball during East's 25-0 win over Cheyenne South on Tuesday at the Cheyenne Junior League Complex. Michael Smith/For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Cheyenne East’s Gracie Oswald dives back to third base as Cheyenne South’s Sierra Adams tags her April 19, 2022 in Cheyenne. Oswald was called safe on the play. Michael Smith/For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Cheyenne East’s Lillian Vallejo slides into home safe as Cheyenne South pitcher Alyssa Albaugh tries to tag her during East's 25-0 win on Tuesday. Michael Smith/For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
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Cheyenne East’s Aleah Brooks, left, and Ella Neider, right, scramble to field a ground ball against Cheyenne South on April 19, 2022 in Cheyenne. Michael Smith/For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
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Cheyenne East freshman Aleah Brooks fields a ground ball during East's 25-0 win over Cheyenne South on Tuesday at the Cheyenne Junior League Complex. Michael Smith/For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
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Cheyenne East’s Gracie Oswald dives back to third base as Cheyenne South’s Sierra Adams tags her April 19, 2022 in Cheyenne. Oswald was called safe on the play. Michael Smith/For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
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Cheyenne East pitcher Jaylyn Christensen winds up during East's 25-0 win over Cheyenne South on Tuesday. Michael Smith/For the Wyoming Tribune Eagle
CHEYENNE – An 11-run second inning propelled Cheyenne East to a win at Cheyenne South on Tuesday afternoon.
The Lady Thunderbirds led 2-0 after the first frame, but grabbed control of the contest in the second.
“The last time we played South, we didn’t make adjustments right away, but we’re in a good place and ready to hit now,” East coach Adam Galicia said. “We’re finally getting to where we need to be, and I’m excited about where we go from here offensively.”
The second inning got off to an inauspicious start for East. Lillian Vallejo and Bailey Early both drew walks to lead off the frame, but Vallejo was thrown out trying to steal third before Emily Schlagel flew out to center field.
Early scored on a passed ball before Ella Neider hit a run-scoring ground-rule double to left-center field. Freshman Aleah Brooks drove a two-run single up the middle for a 6-0 lead. Brooks was the first of two runners to score on Rylee Stephenson’s triple down the left field line that gave East an 8-0 advantage.
“We went one time through the lineup and got to see what the pitching was like,” Stephenson said. “That helped us get to them in the second inning.”
The T-Birds tacked on four runs in the third and eight more in the fifth to end the game after five frames because of the 10-run mercy rule.
“This game is humbling and, at times, relentless,” South coach Curtis Quigley said. “Where we are with our experience and our understanding of the game is learning how to get out of one of those innings. I want us to learn how to minimize the damage.
“If we can learn that this year, that’s a valuable lesson we can carry into the future. We just aren’t there yet. This is back-to-back games we’ve had that happen.”
Neider was 4 for 4 with five RBI, while Brooks was 3 for 4 with a pair of RBI. Gracie Oswald added three hits, while Vallejo and Schlagel posted two knocks apiece.
Christensen was hit in the right calf by a pitch during her second-inning at bat, but stayed in the game. She fanned 10 hitters, allowed just two hits and walked one despite dealing with chronic tightness in her throwing shoulder.
“I took a couple days off to give my shoulder some rest, and that helped a lot,” Christensen said. “I wanted to come out and be solid, and that’s what I was able to do.”
Jeremiah Johnke is the WyoSports editor. He can be reached at jjohnke@wyosports.net or 307-633-3137. Follow him on Twitter at @jjohnke.
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CHEYENNE – A couple early offsides calls forced the Cheyenne East girls to alter how they attacked Cheyenne South on Tuesday evening.
The tweaks worked as the Lady Thunderbirds ran away with a 6-0 victory at Okie Blanchard Stadium.
Jordan Griess had a goal called back due to offsides early in the first half. The T-Birds finished the match with seven offsides.
Sophomore Haley Pierson put East up for good by following up her own rebound and putting it past South goalkeeper Sarah Keefe in the 17th minute after being fed the ball by Tayler Miller. Junior Camary Sallee made it 2-0 in the 22nd when she scored off an assist from junior Isabelle Hunt.
Pierson netted her second goal of the match by scoring on the rebound off a Griess direct kick in the 23rd.
“After the first few times we were called offsides, we did a better job of delaying our runs so we were still on,” Pierson said. “That’s when we started getting our goals.”
Keefe was shaken up and had to be helped off the field by an athletic trainer during Pierson’s second goal. South assistant coach Christian Padilla was given a straight red card while arguing for a foul on the play. Bison head coach Brandon McHenry picked up consecutive yellow cards while doing the same.
Assistant Maria Grogan led South the rest of the way. The Bison put four of their seven shots on goal, while East got 12 of its 18 attempts on frame.
“We got unorganized on defense a few times, got split a few times and allowed some through-balls,” Grogan said. “We had some kids playing positions they don’t normally play, but they really played hard and did a good job, even though they were unorganized at times.
“That’s going to happen. Also, we don’t have a deep bench, so our legs were very tired from having a lot of kids play 80 minutes. We still stuck with (East) and got some great opportunities.”
Senior Maddison Escajeda extended East’s lead to 4-0 in the 46th when a through-ball from Miller left her one-on-one with the keeper. Zoey Woods added a tally in the 64th on an assist from Avery Brinkman.
Griess netted her own goal in the 77th when she ran onto a pass Escajeda slipped between two defenders and struck a right-footed shot to the far post.
“(McHenry) always has his kids ready to go, they play really hard and always give us a good matchup,” East coach Rebecca Valdez said. “We’ve been working and working on trying to find the goal, and it finally came together. It was really nice to see the kids put what we’ve been practicing into play and have it work out.
“The runs have been there, but we’ve been waiting too long to make the pass. We still had a lot of offsides, but we played quicker, found the runs and kept them on.”
EAST 6, SOUTH 0
Halftime: 3-0.
Goals: CE, Pierson (Miller), 17. CE, Sallee (Hunt), 22. CE, Pierson (J. Griess) 23. CE, Escajeda (Miller), 46. CE, Woods (Brinkman), 64. CE, J. Griess (Escajeda), 77.
Shots: CS 7, CE 18. Shots on goal: CS 4, CE 12. Saves: CS 6 (Keefe); CE 4 (Kershaw).
Corner kicks: CS 2, CE 2. Offsides: CS 2, CE 7. Fouls: CS 8, CE 9. Yellow cards: CS 3 (Head coach, 23. Head coach, 23. Cortez, 31). Red cards: CS 1 (Assistant coach, 23).
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CHEYENNE – Lauren Lucas has needed a few weekends to get back into the groove of hitting against live pitching the past two springs.
The Cheyenne Central senior entered last season having not played competitive softball for a few years. She also didn’t play over this past summer.
The result was a pair of starts offensively that weren’t up to her personal standards. It certainly looks like Lucas has broken out of her slump, and is once again a potent bat for the Lady Indians.
Last week, Lucas went 3 for 5 with two doubles and three RBI. Those efforts helped Central beat Cheyenne South, and also earned Lucas Prep Athlete of the Week honors from WyoSports’ Cheyenne staff.
“It took me a while to get used to seeing live pitching again and having the right mentality in the (batters) box,” Lucas said. “I was thinking too much when I needed to shut my brain off and just hit.”
Lucas is currently batting .457 (16 for 35), which is the third-best average among Indians regulars with at least 30 at-bats. She also has rapped five doubles and driven home eight runs.
Lucas endured a five-game stretch this spring that saw her go 3 for 16 with four strikeouts. Her batting average dipped to .389 during that slump, but has been as low as .385 this season. Lucas has raised her average 72 points over the past three games.
Lucas describes herself as hesitant, worrying more about what she could do with the types and locations of pitches she was being thrown instead of just hitting them.
“I don’t know that she was ever really in a slump because she was still making good contact and having good at-bats,” Central coach Carrie Barker said. “Maybe she wasn’t hitting as well as she wanted to, but she was having good at-bats, which is what we’re looking for.”
Lucas earned second team All-East Conference honors last season. She batted .343 (33 for 76) with 12 doubles, two triples and 26 RBI to help the Indians finish as state runners-up during the inaugural season of Wyoming High School Activities Association-sanctioned high school softball.
The season rekindled Lucas’ passion for softball, a sport she grew up playing, but set aside years earlier.
“This environment has been the best environment I’ve played sports in, by far,” Lucas said. “I’ve had a lot of fun with these people, and it’s brought my love for the game back. I realize what an incredible game it is.
“It’s an honor to be able to play it. I don’t want to take for granted that I get to be out here with all these people I love, doing what I love and winning games.”
Lucas describes herself as previously reserved and somewhat unconfident. She has grown out of that.
“I’m a different player than I used to be,” she said. “I’m a lot more confident in myself and a lot more outgoing. I’m really looking to be a leader for the team, and that’s something I didn’t do before.
“Having that confidence and being extroverted has made softball so much better.”
Lucas grew up playing in the middle of the infield, but moved to first base last season. It’s a position her mother played collegiately, and it seemed to come naturally to her. Lucas quickly earned the trust of her teammates and coaches while playing first base, Barker said.
“She has a real calming sense about her, and people know she’s going to be there and catch just about everything,” the coach said. “That’s huge for our team. Not having her there would make our defense tense up more because they don’t know if they can trust the person there.
“They trust Lauren. She has good movement and stretches well. That makes the fielders really comfortable. We’re really going to miss her presence of there next year.”
Others recognized for their efforts include:
n Brogan Allen, Maddie Birt and Ashley Bunch, softball, Central: Allen, a senior, went 4 for 5 with a double and five RBI during the Indians’ 27-2 win over Cheyenne South. She also struck out six hitters and allowed just two hits during five innings in the pitcher’s circle.
Birt, a freshman, went 2 for 3 with two triples and five RBI.
Bunch, a sophomore, was 3 of 4 with a double and three RBI.
n Jaylyn McMahon, Ella Neider and Lillian Vallejo, softball, Cheyenne East: McMahon, a sophomore, was 2 for 2 with a triple and two RBI during a 20-0 win over Cheyenne South.
Neider, a senior, was 3 of 4 with a double and an RBI.
Vallejo, a sophomore, went 2 for 3 with a triple and three RBI.
n Nolee Parker, girls soccer, Central: The junior forward scored one goal and assisted on two more to help the Indians to a 3-0 win at Cheyenne South.
n Caden Smith, boys soccer, Central: The senior scored two goals during the Indians’ 9-0 win over Cheyenne South.
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Regional Overview
Temperatures take a dip today, but bounce back to end the week. In fact, Thursday and Friday will be very pleasant, with breezes. Those are two good days to dust off the tackle box and head for the plentiful open water. The next storm arrives late Friday, making the weekend more of a snow sport option. It is possible the bulk of the storm tracks to the north, hitting the Dakotas yet again. Southeast Wyoming will see moisture. The crystal ball is cloudy yet on how much rain or snow will fall. The moisture is a good thing. Fire warnings are already being issued, especially in Colorado, where wildfires made the news last week.
Fishing Conditions
Anglers are trickling out to the area waters in between the bouts of cold and wet weather. The fishing is generally on the slow side, as water temperatures remain cool. The ice is out, or on the way out, at the lower elevations. While the catching might be on the slow side, just tossing a line to get outdoors can be very therapeutic. The trick is making it out on one of our rare calmer days.
Ranking Categories
H (One fish) – To ensure fish dinner, go to the local grocery store
HHHHH (Five fish) – Toss a line and get a fish; the fish aren’t picky
Granite, Crystal and North Crow reservoirs
HH
The buzz: The ice is off, and the fish are beginning to move. The fishing is on the slow side, but anglers are catching a few. The biking and hiking trail conditions change with the weather. This weekend could be a wet one. It’s best to give the paths a chance to clear, although the lower-elevation routes could be ready for mountain biking soon.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Salmon eggs
Panther martins
Mepps spinners
Wooly buggers
Hothead leeches
Chironomids
Laramie Plains lakes
HH
The buzz: The open-water fishing season is off and running across the Laramie Basin. The ice is off all reservoirs, although it lingers here and there. The fish are sluggish, making for slow catching, but anglers report catching a few fish across the basin.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Kastmasters
Hothead leeches
Chironomids
Bead head prince nymphs
Orange blossom specials
North Platte River and Encampment River – Saratoga Valley
HH
The buzz: Fishing is on the slow side, but the North Platte and Encampment rivers are wide open. Nights are still nippy, keeping the angling on the sluggish side.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Panther martins
Rapalas
Hares ear nymphs
Copper Johns
Flash bang midge
Pat’s rubber legs
Thin mints
North Platte River – Grey Reef
HHH
The buzz: The fishing is good, with the flow around 450 cubic feet per second, making it possible to fish from the bank. Water temperatures remain on the cool side.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Juju midges
Split foam backs
Friffith gnat
Platte River spider
Hot head leeches
Thin mints
Goldies
North Platte River – Miracle Mile
HHH
The buzz: The Mile is fishing well, with the flow around 550 cubic feet per second. Road construction is expected to start on Kortez Road and continue through September. To get to the Mile from Alcova, take the Pathfinder/Fremont Canyon Road.
Suggested bait, lures and flies:
Pat’s rubber legs
Zebra midges
San Juan worms
Amber scuds
Egg patterns
Flash bang midge
Goldies
Wheatland Reservoir Number 3
HH
The buzz: The fishing is slow, with some ice lingering; it should clear soon, and then the fishing should really pick up.
Suggest bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers
Powerbait
Rapalas
Hot head leeches
Egg patterns
Glendo
HH
The buzz: Anglers are starting to get out, but the action is slow across the reservoir. Snow this weekend could muddy the biking and hiking trails, but they should clear as the weather warms.
Suggest bait, lures and flies:
Nightcrawlers with worm harnesses
Twistertails
Crankbaits
Snow Report
For those with an itch to still enjoy snow sports, the season continues, thanks to last weekend’s blast of winter, with more in the forecast this weekend. Grooming on the Nordic ski trails at the Happy Jack Recreation Area had ended, only to start up again. It is expected grooming ends by this weekend, but check the Medicine Bow Nordic Association website for the grooming blog for updates.
In the Medicine Bow Mountains, snow depths increased this past week, adding needed depth to the snowpack. According to the Open Snow website, the Snowy Range is at 94% of average for this time of year, a 12% increase from last week.
At Keystone, near Rob Roy Reservoir, as of Tuesday, there had been a total of 209 inches of snow so far this season, according to Don Day Jr. at www.dayweather.com. This is a 22-inch increase from last week, but still lags behind the 233 inches reported by this time last year.
A significant dump of snow is possible this weekend “up top” in the Snowy Range. Twenty inches of snow could fall from Friday night through Sunday evening. Temperatures drop, too, with a return to winter conditions through the weekend.
Conditions are fair to good on the Chimney Park trails, located nine miles west of Woods Landing off Highway 230. There’s very nice crust skiing off in the trees for the early birds, and then the trails get soft by mid-morning, making snowshoes a better option. Later in the day, expect rather sticky to slushy conditions.
Conditions are fair to good on the trails off of Highway 130: Barber Lake, Little Laramie, Corner Mountain and Libby Creek. Expect spring conditions that change from day to day.
Personnel at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center report the avalanche danger for the southern Wyoming and northern Colorado mountains is rated “moderate” at all elevations. Northerly facing steep slopes with a shallow snowpack are the most likely places to trigger a large and dangerous avalanche. The hazard continues with snow in the forecast for the weekend.
Snow depths increased this past week across the Medicine Bow National Forest. As of Tuesday morning, the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service snow-measuring station reports 63 inches at Brooklyn Lake, a 7-inch increase from last week. The report showed 48 inches of snow at Cinnabar Park, a 6-inch decrease from last week. The report at Sand Lake on the north end of the Medicine Bow Mountains is 82 inches, a 10-inch increase from last week. The measuring station at Medicine Bow Peak, at an elevation of 10,500 feet, reports 94 inches, a 13-inch increase from last week. At North French Creek, on the western side of the Medicine Bow Mountains, the reported snow depth is 72 inches, a 10-inch increase from last week. The Crow Creek station on Pole Mountain shows 9 inches of snow, a 1-inch decrease from last week.
Quick Numbers
Wyoming downhill areas
All ski areas in Wyoming are closed for the season.
Colorado downhills areas
Arapahoe Basin: 69-inch base; 9 lifts, 127 trails and 88% of terrain open.
Breckenridge: 65-inch base; 31 lifts, 177 trails and 95% of terrain open.
Copper Mountain: 65-inch base; 14 lifts, 136 trails and 86% of terrain open.
Eldora: Closed for the season.
Keystone: Closed for the season.
Loveland: 64-inch base; 7 lifts, 85 trails and 90% of terrain open.
Steamboat: Closed for the season.
Vail: 63-inch base; 20 lifts, 147 trails and 54% of terrain open.
Winter Park: 77-inch base; 14 lifts, 128 trails and 76% of terrain open.
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CHEYENNE – Burns saddle bronc rider Colby Smith picked up a pair of top-4 finishes during the Wyoming High School Rodeo Association’s stop in Torrington over the weekend.
Smith scored 55 points to place fourth during the Saturday rodeo. He backed that with a 61-point effort, which was good enough for third during Sunday’s rodeo. Smith is sitting third in the WYHSRA’s season standings with 52 points.
Cheyenne’s Isabelle Loeffler placed sixth in Sunday’s reined cow horse competition with 122 points. She was ninth on Saturday (104.5).
Kaydence Bartlett took eight in pole bending Sunday (21.396 seconds) and ninth Saturday (21.336).
Jordan Kennedy was ninth in breakaway roping Sunday with a time of 3.55 seconds.
JR. HIGH RODEO Farella Thompson win in Torrington
CHEYENNE – Judson Farella won the boys goat tying competition during the first rode in the junior high portion of the Wyoming High School Rodeo Association’s trip to Torrington.
Farella clocked in at 10.39 seconds. He split third in the second rodeo at 13.25.
Farella and heeler Stesha Tidyman of Carpenter placed second in ribbon roping at the second rodeo, clocking in at 13.69 seconds. Farella and heeler Trigg Thompson were third in team roping in the first rodeo (13.69).
Thompson and heeler Kaycee Kosmicki of Yoder won ribbon roping in the second rodeo with a time of 11.97 seconds. They were second in the first rodeo (12.54).
Thompson also placed second in the light rifle shooting competition in the first rodeo (137 points). He was sixth in Boys goat tying (13.01) in the first rodeo
Tripp Thompson took third in light rifle in the first rodeo (89 points).
Tidyman placed fourth in barrel racing in the first rodeo (15.836 seconds), she and Kosmicki were second in team roping in the second rodeo (10.53).
Cheyenne’s Colin Kofron finished sixth in boys breakaway roping during the second rodeo (5.39 seconds).
Farealla is second on the season in boys goat tying. Thompson and Kosmicki lead the state in ribbon roping, while Thompson is second in both boys breakaway and light rifle shooting.
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LARAMIE – University of Wyoming coach Craig Bohl was pleased with what he saw last Saturday in the Cowboys’ first scrimmage of the spring, with a pair of younger players turning in noteworthy performances.
Defensive end has been a source of positivity over the past few weeks, and it continued to be during Tuesday’s post-practice news conference. Bohl pointed to redshirt freshman Oluwaseyi Omotosho as one of the top standouts from Saturday’s 77-play scrimmage.
“I’m really pleased, once again, with our pass rush,” Bohl said. “Olu, when we recruited him, we saw him run a 4.5 (40-yard dash). You knew it was there, but it hadn’t transitioned into football speed. The next step was to become more of an effective defensive end, where he could play run and pass.
“He’s still not where we want him on run, but I thought he did some great things with his speed. There would’ve been a couple sacks there.”
As for the offensive side of the ball, redshirt freshman running back D.Q. James stood out in both Saturday’s scrimmage and Tuesday’s practice, which featured full-contact situational work.
“D.Q. did some great things on Saturday, and also (Tuesday),” Bohl said. “He is an added running back that gives us a different pace. He has good speed, but he has excellent change in direction. He did some super jobs there.”
Starting running back Titus Swen – who says James is “the fastest back we have” – is happy with the progress he’s seen, as well.
“I’m seeing a lot of growth,” Swen said. “From freshman year to last year to this year, there has been tremendous growth. He’s been following his keys and slowing down the whole process in order to speed it up. Most young guys want to keep speeding it up to get people to notice them, but he’s growing at slowing things down and being coachable.”
The offense had a fairly clean performance Saturday, with a fumble off a hard hit by the defense resulting in the only turnover of the day. Bohl said there were no illegal procedure or “foolish” penalties during the scrimmage, with the defense showing promise with its speed and pass coverage.
UW followed this up by working through third-and-long situations Thursday. Bohl acknowledged junior quarterback Andrew Peasley and sophomore safety Wyett Ekeler as two players that performed well in these scenarios.
The Cowboys got through the start of full-contact work mostly unscathed, but they have suffered a few injuries since Saturday.
Senior offensive lineman Eric Abojei is dealing with what is believed to be a minor knee issue, while sophomore linebacker Shae Suiaunoa tweaked his knee Saturday and was unable to finish Tuesday’s practice. Senior cornerback Deron Harrell is being evaluated for a concussion, with sophomore defensive tackle Gavin Meyer also out with an unspecified injury.
“It was a physical day,” Bohl said. “This spring, we’ve probably been more physical and more full-contact than I can remember. We’ll do the full allotment the NCAA allows. It doesn’t mean that schools have to, but I feel like we have a lot of unproven players, and we need to expose them to full-contact.
“Anytime you do that, you get concerned about exposing your team to injury. But that’s the line we need to walk.”
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Family awarded $1.5 million for wrongly being told family member had died
SANTA ANA, Calif. (KCAL) - A California family has been awarded $1.5 million after they were wrongly told their family member had died.
The family even held a funeral for him and didn’t learn he was alive until weeks later.
“Well, ... it was unbelievable ... I mean, we had buried him a couple of weeks prior,” Carole Meikle said.
When her brother, Frankie Kerrigan, showed up at his pall bearer’s house in Orange County in May 2017, everyone was stunned.
The family had buried who they thought was Kerrigan a few weeks earlier.
It turns out it was a different man who was discovered dead behind the Verizon store in Fountain Valley, California.
Jurors sided with the family on Tuesday, awarding them more than $1 million for the mix-up at the coroner’s office.
“Today we achieved a verdict, and the jury awarded compensation in the amount of $1.5 million for the emotional stress and mental anguish they suffered,” the family’s attorney, James Desimone, said.
The Orange County coroner isn’t commenting on the unusual case. However, in a statement in 2017, the department apologized to the Kerrigan family.
Policies and procedures will be reviewed to ensure no further misidentifications occur, the coroner’s office said.
According to the family’s attorney, the family was told their loved one was identified through fingerprints, which was not true.
Meikle said the identification was done with a 12-year-old DMV photo of Kerrigan and little information from a police officer.
“A positive ID was made without verifying his fingerprints, without any biometrics, without any science, and it was wrong,” she said.
Kerrigan’s father, Frank Kerrigan, said that while the experience was traumatizing for the family, there was some good that came out of it.
“It’s traumatic for us in every way from the beginning to now, but now it’s in a good way because we’re helping Frank, and we’re helping everybody else that could possibly have this kind of mistake,” he said.
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Feds: ‘Intruder’ shot at Peruvian ambassador’s residence
Published: Apr. 20, 2022 at 9:19 AM EDT|Updated: 39 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secret Service officers shot “an intruder” Wednesday at the residence of the Peruvian ambassador to the United States in Washington, authorities said.
The shooting was reported at the residence in the Forest Hills neighborhood of northwest Washington.
The Secret Service said the person was shot by uniformed Secret Service officers at the home “following a confrontation.” Officials provided no additional details of the circumstances of the shooting.
The extent of the person’s injuries was also not known. The Secret Service said no officers were injured. The agency has jurisdiction at embassies and diplomatic residences.
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Police: Suspect in wax museum shooting thought gun was a prop
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF/Gray News) - The suspect arrested in connection to a shooting at the Hollywood Wax Museum in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is set to make his first court appearance.
Investigators said that Keal Brown and several others went into the Hollywood Wax Museum Haunted House on Saturday. While inside, several members of the group were frightened by a performer in the haunted house, WMBF reported.
One person in the group fell to the ground, and during the scramble, a gun slid back and hit Brown in the foot, according to police.
Brown told investigators he believed the gun was a prop and part of the experience, so he picked it up and fired twice, hitting the performer once in the shoulder. The victim’s condition hasn’t been released.
A bond hearing is expected for Brown Wednesday morning.
Brown was taken into custody on Monday in Charleston, South Carolina. He was brought back to Myrtle Beach on Tuesday.
The investigation into the shooting included statements from the victim, witnesses and Brown. They also reviewed video surveillance of the incident.
He has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor in connection to the shooting, but additional charges are likely.
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TAIPEI, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GIGABYTE Technology has once again been recognized by the Red Dot Design Award, one of the world's most prestigious design competitions, known as a seal of quality for finest design. This year marks GIGABYTE's third consecutive year winning the Red Dot Design Award, a testament to GIGABYTE's innovation and design excellence. Standing out from tens of thousands of entries, this year's winners include the Z690 AERO series motherboards, AORUS 15 gaming laptop, and AERO 17 creator laptop.
Engineered for creative professionals, the Z690 AERO series motherboards made their presence felt with their sleek aesthetics and creator-oriented features. The exclusive VisionLINK was designed specifically with creators in mind, offering a versatile connection with the pen display via a single USB Type-C cable. By combining power supply and data transmission in one, the VisionLINK clears up cable clutters, leaving a clean, organized work space for creators.
The Red Dot was also awarded to the brand-new AERO 17 creator laptop for its subtle aesthetics and top-notch performance. With its completely re-designed look and state-of-the-art hardware, the laptop meets demands of the content creators and wins the hearts of the jury.
GIGABYTE's winning streak at the Red Dot not only marks a significant milestone for the brand, it also underlines GIGABYTE's brand commitment to its slogan, 'Upgrade Your Life'. GIGABYTE will continue to explore new possibilities and introduce exciting innovative and forward-looking designs for all PC users.
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NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Cannabis Awareness Day, 5WPR, one of the largest independently-owned PR firms in the U.S., announces the continued expansion of their CBD PR and Cannabis PR teams in both its New York City and Miami offices, as a result of an increasing client base within the category.
5W possesses the industry knowledge and creative experience to craft and execute campaigns that not only garner national attention through top-tier placements, but also result in exponential growth on behalf of industry clients. To ensure success of our mainstream media campaigns in a niche industry, it is important to maintain senior talent across the agency who specialize in CBD and cannabis and understand the industry's complexities. 5W is hiring key CBD and cannabis professionals to strengthen the team in support of this growth, overall, who will undergo various trainings and secure key certifications that further build expertise. Likewise, to strengthen our campaigns, the agency is expanding capabilities to include affiliate marketing as there is increased interest and need in that area for clients in the space.
"5W has a tremendous history working with innovators across the space and has already navigated the intricacies of working within the industry," said 5WPR CEO, Dara A. Busch. "As an early adapter of the industry, we have been able to grow our team and client roster beyond just direct-to-consumer products, tapping into the larger industry and working with clients that are building the future of CBD and cannabis."
Since its launch in 2018, 5WPR's CBD and cannabis division has seen unprecedented growth year-over-year, attracting clients across both the agency's consumer, corporate, and technology divisions. Clients in the space offer a range of product categories including women's and men's skincare, nail care, pet products, edibles, wellness, pain relief, sleep aids, food, beverage, cannabis delivery services, and consultancy services for cannabis start-ups.
About 5WPR
5W Public Relations is a full-service PR agency in NYC known for cutting-edge programs that engage with businesses, issues and ideas. With more than 250 professionals serving clients in B2C (Beauty & Fashion, Consumer Brands, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Travel & Hospitality, Technology, Nonprofit), B2B (Corporate Communications and Reputation Management), Public Affairs, Crisis Communications and Digital Marketing (Social Media, Influencer, Paid Media, SEO). 5W was awarded 2020 PR Agency of The Year and brings leading businesses a resourceful, bold and results-driven approach to communication.
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Findings suggest credit-reporting firms' grip on the industry is wavering as consumers demand more accuracy, transparency, and options
LOS ANGELES, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zest AI, a leader in AI-powered software for underwriting, today released a new study of over 1,000 consumers' views on the financial and credit scoring systems in America.
More than two-thirds of those surveyed believe there is racism and bias present in our financial system and in our credit scoring system. The financial services industry has struggled for years to achieve more equitable outcomes in lending practices and, while many banks are realizing that legacy methods of measuring creditworthiness aren't working, Zest AI's survey findings suggest a persistent lack of consumer trust.
Survey Highlights
- 68% of Americans believe the financial services industry at least sometimes treats customers differently based on race and gender.
- Millennials feel particularly passionately about this, with 74% believing the financial services industry at least sometimes treats customers differently based on race and gender.
- 40% of people overall believe racism is at least somewhat built into the credit scoring system, but that number jumps to 55% among millennials.
- 41% of those surveyed either knew nothing at all about FICO's scoring system and how each score is calculated or were not very familiar with it.
- 55% of respondents believe the government should allow for more competition in credit scoring methods.
Consumers believe there is racism present in our financial system and our credit scoring system - but not at their particular bank.
Many consumers have a more positive outlook on their own bank than the financial system overall, with only 45% saying their bank at least sometimes treats people differently based on race and gender. Consumers tend to have a blind spot when it comes to their bank. While more than two-thirds of consumers believe the financial services industry treats customers differently based on race and gender, they feel better about their own bank. This holds true across age demographics, including Millennials.
"The apparent lack of transparency and trust in financial and credit-scoring systems underscores the importance of challenging legacy lending practices," says Mike de Vere, CEO of Zest AI. "The disparate impact of unfair lending practices on consumers cannot be ignored, especially in the wake of Covid-19, and Zest AI is dedicated to securing the accuracy, transparency, and options consumers deserve."
Survey Background
This survey was conducted on behalf of Zest AI by Toluna. The survey comprised more than 1,600 respondents across a variety of age demographics.
About Zest AI
Zest AI software helps lenders make better decisions and better loans—increasing approvals, reducing risk, and automating compliance. Since 2009, it has made fair and transparent credit available to everyone and is now the leader in software for more inclusive underwriting. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Learn more at www.zest.ai and connect with us on Twitter at @Zest_AI or Zest AI's Insights blog.
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WASHINGTON, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AdvIntel, a next-generation cyber security threat prevention and loss avoidance company launched by a team of certified investigators, reverse engineers, and security experts, today announced it has formed an advisory board to provide support and guidance for national security, critical infrastructure and public safety. The initial advisory board member is Michael Brown, Rear Admiral, USN (Retired), a widely renowned cybersecurity industry expert who will apply his experience to help AdvIntel identify new strategic and tactical opportunities, provide expert guidance on growth execution and continued customer delivery excellence.
"We are proud to welcome Admiral Brown as our first Advisory Board member," said Vitali Kremez, CEO and founder of AdvIntel. "At AdvIntel, our experience in the governmental, legal, and corporate finance sectors allows us to develop the most actionable intelligence tailored to the needs of our clients, and Brown's technical background and deep knowledge of the cybersecurity space will bolster our team of experts and the innovative approaches we take to solving complex information security challenges and producing strategic results."
Brown is the founder and president of Spinnaker Security LLC. Prior to his current position, he was president of RSA Federal LLC and vice president/general manager Global Public Sector of RSA Security LLC, where he oversaw RSA Information Technology, Security and Enterprise Risk Management portfolios. Brown joined RSA after a career of more than 31 years in the United States Navy, where he held leadership positions within the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security regarding cybersecurity. His last position on active duty was as the Director, Cybersecurity Coordination for DHS and DOD, where he was responsible for increasing interdepartmental collaboration in strategic planning for the nation's cybersecurity, mutual support for cybersecurity capabilities development, and synchronization of current operational cybersecurity mission activities.
"It's a great opportunity for me to work with Vitali and the team at AdvIntel as a member of the Advisory Board. The unique approach that AdvIntel takes regarding today's threats to the public and private sector is exactly what is needed to successfully combat those threats in today's environment," said Michael Brown.
For more information about AdvIntel, visit the company's website at https://www.advintel.io/ or contact AdvIntel via email at info@advintel.tech.
About AdvIntel
AdvIntel is a next-generation threat prevention and loss avoidance company launched by a team of certified investigators, reverse engineers, and security experts. They offer state-of-the-art solutions, such as Andariel® to combat fraud, ransomware, and botnets by providing early-warning alerting, applied threat intelligence and long-term strategic services to the private sector and government organizations.
Their experience in the governmental, legal, forensics, and corporate finance sectors allows them to develop the most actionable intelligence tailored to the needs of your clients.
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Leading CPG and cannabis packaging design and development company to take charge in addressing the 100,000-metric ton plastic elephant in the room
MIAMI, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Earth Day, AE Global (AEG), a custom packaging design company and supply chain solution provider, today announced it is joining 4G Recycling, its joint venture and event sponsor Ocean Recovery Group (ORG), and Clean Miami Beach for a beach cleanup. Together with 100 volunteers, they will clean one of the dirtiest stretches of public waterways along Interstate 195 in the heart of Miami.
Plastic waste in the cannabis industry is a growing problem, and AE Global has estimated that in North America in 2021, the sector created 100,000 metric tons of plastic waste in purchased products alone - or roughly 50,000 cars stacked on top of each other. To combat the global plastic problem, AEG recently partnered with 4G Recycling to form the joint venture, Ocean Recovery Group. ORG is a social-business enterprise that leverages over 100 years of recycling-industry experience to better collect, clean, and recycle ocean-bound plastics.
"As a CPG packaging design and development company, we are acutely aware of the growing plastic problem, both on land and in the ocean," said AE Global Managing Partner Mike Forenza. "We want to be good stewards of sustainable practices and walk the walk. This beach cleanup with 4G Recycling, Ocean Recovery Group, and Clean Miami Beach ensures we keep our beautiful, shared beaches in our backyard pristine for everyone to enjoy."
The inaugural beach cleanup will be held on Friday, April 22, 2022, at 3 PM EST at Julia Tuttle Causeway, 195 E, Miami, FL 33140.
Volunteers can reach out to info@aegpkg.com to learn more or join.
About AE Global:
AE Global is a custom packaging design company and supply chain solution provider with more than 75 years of packaging experience. The cannabis-focused division provides SSOs, MSOs and wholesale brands with proactive solutions to bring products to market from concept to execution. AEG has launched brands and innovative packaging solutions, including Curaleaf's Select Squeeze Bottle and patented and patent-pending products EZ-Lock™ and Amplify™. AEG develops custom packaging solutions via its in-house innovation lab. AEG invests in vertically integrated manufacturing locations to promote supply chain efficiencies and bolster sustainability initiatives. AEG has partnered with 4G Recycling to form the Ocean Recovery Group (ORG), a social-business enterprise leveraging over 100 years of recycling-industry experience to better collect, clean and recycle ocean-bound plastics.
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mPharma has already seen immense success with TytoCare in improving access to physicians and specialists in remote communities throughout Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Nigeria
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TytoCare, the global health care industry's first all-in-one modular device and examination solution for AI-powered, on-demand, remote medical exams, is announcing today its partnership with mPharma, a technology-driven healthcare company building Africa's largest health management organization with a focus on making medications affordable and accessible to every African. The integration of the TytoCare solution into mPharma's telehealth offerings enables pharmacies to provide patients with enhanced remote care through in-depth, physical examinations. Since the rollout of the partnership in June 2021, over 8,000 people have been examined and treated by mPharma using TytoCare's platform, spanning 35 pharmacies across Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Nigeria.
In Africa, community pharmacies play a central role in a patients' primary care journey. Through the partnership with TytoCare, mPharma is reimagining the community pharmacy as more than just a place where patients fill prescriptions, but instead a virtual doctor's office where they can conduct remote appointments with doctors and specialists they normally wouldn't be able to access. TytoCare brings this vision one step further by enabling remote physical exams of the heart, skin, ears, throat, abdomen, and lungs, and measurement of heart rate and body temperature, allowing the doctors and specialists to gain the vital clinical data they require to monitor, diagnose, and treat patients remotely.
mPharma is using TytoCare's TytoPro system, a turnkey telehealth solution that enables providers to transform remote locations such as pharmacies, schools, nursing homes, home care facilities, clinics, employee work sites, and urgent care facilities into connected care sites.
"As a continent with a deficit of 2.4 million nurses and doctors, digital health solutions remain key in solving Africa's primary healthcare challenges," said Gregory Rockson, CEO and Co-Founder of mPharma. "Our partnership with TytoCare helps us bridge the gap in the primary healthcare space in Africa. We have seamlessly implemented our virtual doctor consultation program, mutti doctor, recording over 8,000 consultations across our partner mutti pharmacies since we launched last year. mPharma's vision is to make affordable healthcare accessible to every African, with our primary care strategy focused on ensuring that community pharmacies become primary healthcare providers. Our TytoCare partnership allows us to leverage modern technology to offer life-saving care to hard-to-reach areas and people who need it most."
By using TytoCare, mPharma's mutti pharmacy network has been able to reduce costs, improve community members' access to doctors and specialists, and save patients the long wait times that are common in hospitals and clinics. On average patients can wait two to three hours to see a doctor at public hospitals and one hour in private hospitals. A recent mPharma survey revealed that over 90% of patients who visit the company's mutti doctor locations have a virtual consultation with a doctor within 10 minutes. In the coming months mPharma plans to expand its mutti doctor locations, powered by TytoCare, across Africa.
"We've already seen great success in our partnership with mPharma, offering patients a robust, accessible, and affordable primary care experience through local pharmacies," said Dedi Gilad, CEO and Co-Founder of TytoCare. "mPharma is reshaping healthcare in Africa and we're proud to be their partner on this journey, enabling them to up the level of remote care they're providing with comprehensive physical examinations during virtual visits. We look forward to our continued joint success and seeing more TytoPro systems in pharmacies across Africa."
About TytoCare
TytoCare is a telehealth company using AI to transform primary care by putting health in the hands of consumers. TytoCare seamlessly connects people to clinicians to provide the best virtual home examination and diagnosis solutions. Its solutions are designed to enable a comprehensive medical exam from any location and include a hand-held, all-in-one tool for examining the heart, lungs, skin, ears, throat, abdomen, and body temperature; a complete telehealth platform for sharing exam data, conducting live video exams, and scheduling visits; a cloud-based data repository with analytics; and built-in guidance technology and machine learning algorithms to ensure accuracy and ease of use for patients and insights for healthcare providers. Co-founded by Dedi Gilad and Ofer Tzadik in 2012, TytoCare has FDA and CE clearances and has partnered with over 170 major health systems, health plans, and strategic partners in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Israel. To watch a demo video, click here.
For more information, please visit https://www.tytocare.com/.
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About mPharma
mPharma is a technology-driven healthcare company. We specialize in vendor-managed inventory, retail pharmacy operations, and market intelligence serving hospitals, pharmacies, and patients. Our mission is to build an Africa that is in good health by increasing access to drugs for all patients at reduced costs while assuring and preserving quality. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Ghana, mPharma has expanded to Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Gabon. We currently have a network of over 250 pharmacies in our key markets serving more than 100,000 patients each month. Our partner pharmacies across Africa, have dispensed over a million drugs to patients all across the continent. Follow us on Twitter: @mPharmahealth and join the discussion on the mPharma Insights Blog.
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With a growing suite of high-performing premium game products, an expanded core game library, and the industry's most innovative table game progressive system, AGS continues to grow and diversify its product portfolio to turbo-charge operators' casino floors
LAS VEGAS, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AGS (NYSE: AGS) is bringing home the bacon at the Indian Gaming Trade Show & Convention April 19-22, 2022, as the company plans to unveil a new multi-denomination game play feature for its high performing Rakin' Bacon Deluxe slot theme on the Orion Curve Premium cabinet. The fun doesn't stop with slots, as AGS will also showcase its award-winning Bonus Spin Xtreme table game progressive side bet, building on its tremendous success since launch. Visit booth 1431 for AGS' full display.
AGS will introduce the player-selectable multi-denomination feature to its Rakin' Bacon Deluxe slot theme, which is celebrating its one-year launch anniversary during the show.
Mark Dedeaux, SVP & GM, Slots for AGS, says: "This year, we're focused on diversifying our portfolio by entering new game categories like high-denom reels with our Mega Diamond title, as well as innovating on traditional gameplay to enhance the player experience. The introduction of multi-denom functionality on our Rakin' Bacon Deluxe premium game package has the potential to further amplify the performance on this already high-performing product. Additionally, we're showing a mix of proven winners like Captain Riches and Lucky O'Reilly, plus new titles like Ultimate Rise and Mighty Power, which truly highlight the AGS spirit. The AGS portfolio is stronger and more diverse than it's ever been, as we continue to heat up casino floors with strong themes and vibrant graphics that players love."
The AGS table games team continues to look for ways to allow operators to earn a little extra bacon of their own, supported by the launch of the award-winning Bonus Spin Xtreme progressive side bet. The feature links all games across the entire casino floor to a single shared jackpot, upping the ante with massive potential prizes. The Bonus Spin Xtreme compatible library is ever-growing; player-favorite games like roulette and baccarat will be available at the AGS booth to try out this innovative progressive feature firsthand.
John Hemberger, SVP & GM, Table Products for AGS, says: "We're always rethinking what is possible with table game jackpots and community-style play. Bonus Spin Xtreme fires up player engagement by linking all tables on the floor to a single jackpot pool, creating a bigger and faster-growing jackpot. It's the only progressive side bet on the market to provide one unique progressive jackpot winner for community-style table games like roulette, baccarat and craps. The Indian Gaming Trade Show is the perfect place to showcase this innovative progressive system, in addition to our new single-deck PAX S card shuffler on our commission-free Dragon Dai Bacc game."
AGS will showcase Rakin' Bacon Deluxe, Bonus Spin Xtreme, and various other innovations from its ever-expanding portfolio at the Indian Gaming Trade Show from April 19-22. Visit AGS at booth 1431. For more, visit PlayAGS.com.
About AGS
AGS is a global company focused on creating a diverse mix of entertaining gaming experiences for every kind of player. Our roots are firmly planted in the Class II Native American gaming market, but our customer-centric culture and growth have helped us branch out to become a leading all-inclusive commercial gaming supplier. Powered by high-performing Class II and Class III slot products, an expansive table products portfolio, real-money gaming platforms and content, highly rated social casino solutions for operators and players, and best-in-class service, we offer an unmatched value proposition for our casino partners. Learn more at www.playags.com.
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Julia Boguslawski, Chief Marketing Officer
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HSCA Releases Issue Brief Detailing Learnings and Best Practices from Industry COVID-19 Response
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA), which represents the nation's leading healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs), today released an analysis of key learnings, best practices, and case studies on the role of GPOs in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The issue brief, "Healthcare Group Purchasing Organizations: Critical Partners in the COVID-19 Response Effort," highlights specific ways in which GPOs were able to shore up domestic manufacturing and help new suppliers come to market, communicate about anticipated demand surge to allow manufacturers to increase capacity, avert supply and drug shortages, and protect healthcare providers and patients from counterfeit or inferior medical products.
"Healthcare group purchasing organizations have long helped avert drug shortages and safeguard access to essential medical supplies, a role that has become even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic. GPOs are critical partners helping hospitals and the healthcare system avert and mitigate the impact of shortages, and have helped reduce the number of shortages by half over the last decade," said HSCA President & CEO Todd Ebert, R. Ph. "HSCA's examination of the role of GPOs in national COVID-19 response efforts revealed that GPOs helped safeguard provider and patient access to essential supplies; added new manufacturers and shored up domestic manufacturing; protected hospitals from counterfeit and inferior products, and harnessed data and cutting-edge technology to improve patient care."
Specific finings and best practices about the ways in which GPOs helped healthcare stakeholders navigate the COVID-19 pandemic included:
- Demand Surge Notices Led to Increased Manufacturer Capacity. Communications from one GPO to manufacturers about anticipated demand surge resulted in expanded manufacturer capacity and an additional 17 million N95 respirators, 57.5 million isolation gowns, 2.1 million face shields, and 25.8 million 3-ply adjustable cotton masks, among other products.
- Supply Chain Resiliency Programs Resulted in New Manufacturers Coming to Market. Multiple GPOs launched programs aimed at increasing supply chain resiliency and redundancy to prevent shortages of critical products. One GPO's program resulted in the availability of an additional 676,000 units of the sedative propofol. Another GPO added 40+ new manufacturers of COVID-19 supplies, signed more than 100 new contracts, and evaluated supplies from more than 2,500 brokers.
- Vetting Prevented Fraudulent or Inferior Products from Getting to Caregivers and Patients. One GPO vetted thousands of potential gray market suppliers and found that more than 90% were illegitimate. Another GPO vetted 2,400 new manufacturers to confirm registration with FDA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
- Expanding to Non-Traditional Suppliers Helped Ensure Continuous Supply of Essential Products. By expanding partnerships beyond traditional healthcare vendors into non-traditional and adjacent industries, such as distilleries, textile manufacturers, steel and automobile manufacturers, and others, GPOs were able to help fill supply gaps for essential products such as hand sanitizer, face shields, isolation gowns, shoe coverings, surgical caps, and nasal swabs.
- Building Essential Medications Lists Helped Avert Drug Shortages. Multiple GPOs compiled and identified lists of essential medications whose absence would threaten the ability of hospitals to provide immediate and high-quality patient care and shared the lists with government authorities. One GPO identified 200 essential medications, including 77 acute and chronic life-saving drugs that have no alternatives in the event of a supply disruption.
To view the full HSCA issue brief, click here.
About the Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA)
The Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA) represents the nation's leading healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs), which are critical cost-savings partners to America's hospitals, nursing homes, nursing home pharmacies, clinics, home healthcare providers and surgery centers. GPOs deliver billions in savings annually to healthcare providers, Medicare and Medicaid, and taxpayers. HSCA and its member GPOs are committed to delivering the best products at the best value to healthcare providers, to increasing competition and innovation in the market, and to being supply chain leaders in transparency and accountability. For more information, visit www.supplychainassociation.org. Follow HSCA on Twitter @HSCA.
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The Largest Fitness Event on the West Coast
LOS ANGELES, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TheFitExpo™, presented by Subway Restaurants, announces the highly anticipated 2022 LA show returning to the LA Convention Center, Saturday and Sunday, May 21-22. The expo includes over 50,000 wellness enthusiasts ranging from bodybuilders and powerlifters to jiu-jitsu and functional fitness, personal trainers, Group X instructors, competitive athletes, and even the weekend warrior for one epic weekend.
NEW 2022 FEATURE:
USA Pickleball Exhibition. There will be Certified USA Pickleball Instructors demonstrating all skill levels of the sport. Continuous round-robin play by players of all ages and skill will be continuously showcased. In addition, attendees can try out Pickleball on three short specially designed courses as well as experience new playing equipment and learn where they can join a local pickleball group in their community.
MEET CELEBRITIES:
Leading fitness professionals will provide hot training tips, informational seminars, demonstrations, and pose for photos. Celebrities include: Dana Linn Bailey (First Women's Physic Pro in NCP/IFBB), Rob Bailey (Bodybuilder), Billy Blanks (creator of Tae Bo), Big Boy (Powerlifter & Viral Video Sensation), Jay Cutler (4X Mr. Olympian), Starr Hawkins (WCO Calisthenics), Phil Heath (7X Mr. Olympian), Brandon Hendrickson (2021 Men's Physique Olympic Winner), Kali Muscle (YOUTUBE SENSATION and Hardcore Bodybuilder), Sugar Shawn Ray (Hall of Fame Bodybuilder), Julian Smith (NPC Bodybuilder), and many more. View the list of celebrities.
JOIN IN THE COMPETITIONS:
TheFitExpo™ will host thousands of competitors in over 20 events during the show. You could win some cash prizes. Early registration is encouraged.
MORE COOL STUFF:
The Healthy Eating Pavilion will be hosted by Chef Mareya Ibrahim. Also, appearing on stage, "5 Keys for Vegan Fat Loss" by Dani Taylor, Vegan Strong, "Growing up Foreman – the Grit and Fight of a Legendary Boxing Family" by George Foreman III and George Foreman IV, and "How to be a Healthy Vegan" by Korin Sutton, Vegan Strong. A full schedule of presenters and times.
Shopping & Sampling. Hundreds of companies will be selling and sampling the best in nutrition products and services with many offering cool products at discounted prices as well as giving out FREE samples.
Group Training Zone. (GTZ) Wow the Crowd! Fit Pro Contest is for dance enthusiast and dance instructors. If you are an instructor and you want to put your skills to the test, let us know you are coming and prepare a 3–5-minute song to WOW our attendees. Bring your back up crew and compete against other instructors. There will also be a More Dance in the House contest. The GTZ will feature Country Fusion with Elizabeth Mooney, a Workout with Kymberlee Raya from Fly Girl Dance and Fitness during the Celebrity and Influencer Bootcamp. Sign up at wowthecrowdcomp@gmail.com. Cash prizes for the top winners.
Tickets including the competitions, wellness seminars, demonstrations, and celebrity autograph sessions. Purchased online
Adults - $30/day or $50/weekend
Children 12 - 6 are $10/ day
Kids under 6 free
Hours 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. both days
Information on all the programs, celebrity greetings, classes, competition sign ups, class demonstrations, seminar schedules, Continuing Education (CEU) workshops, etc. Visit www.thefitexpo.com or call 1-888-FIT-EXPO.
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CONCORD, Mass., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied BioMath (www.appliedbiomath.com), the industry-leader in providing model-informed drug discovery and development (MID3) support to help accelerate and de-risk therapeutic research and development (R&D), today announced their participation at the PEGS Boston Summit occurring May 2-6, 2022.
John Burke, PhD, Co-founder, President and CEO of Applied BioMath will present "De-risking Bispecifics Early-on: How tight is too tight? How weak is too weak?" within the conference program, Engineering Bispecific Antibodies on Friday, May 6, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. E.T. In this presentation, Dr. Burke discusses how bispecific antibodies are exciting due to their specificity, but development is complex and resource intensive. He will present a T-cell engager case study to highlight Applied BioMath Assess™, a web enabled model informed drug discovery and development (MID3) analysis that helps generate actionable hypotheses for bispecific antibody design and development, impacting critical thinking and portfolio decisions.
Additionally, Raibatak Das, PhD, Principal Scientist at Applied BioMath will present "A Systems Model of Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease" within the conference program, Gene Therapy R&D Analytics on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. E.T. In this presentation, Dr. Das will discuss a collaboration between Applied BioMath and CSL Behring where they developed a quantitative systems pharmacology model to predict how varying treatment will affect post-treatment hemoglobin and red blood cell dynamics after autologous stem cell gene therapy.
"We are excited to highlight both our software and collaborations during PEGS this year," said Dr. Burke. "Both presentations are prime examples of how computational tools and technologies help provide critical insight to project teams working on complex R&D projects."
In addition to their presentations, Applied BioMath will also host an informational and social networking meeting, where they will further discuss how computational tools aid in therapeutic R&D development.
To learn more about Applied BioMath's presence at the PEGS Boston Summit, please visit www.appliedbiomath.com/PEGS2022.
About Applied BioMath
Founded in 2013, Applied BioMath's mission is to revolutionize drug invention. Applied BioMath applies biosimulation, including quantitative systems pharmacology, PKPD, bioinformatics, machine learning, clinical pharmacology, and software solutions to provide quantitative and predictive guidance to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to help accelerate and de-risk therapeutic research and development. Their approach employs proprietary algorithms and software to support groups worldwide in decision-making from early research through all phases of clinical trials. The Applied BioMath team leverages their decades of expertise in biology, mathematical modeling and analysis, high-performance computing, and industry experience to help groups better understand their therapeutic, its best-in-class parameters, competitive advantages, patients, and the best path forward into and in the clinic to increase likelihood of clinical concept and proof of mechanism, and decrease late stage attrition rates. For more information about Applied BioMath and its services and software, visit www.appliedbiomath.com.
Applied BioMath and the Applied BioMath logo are registered trademarks of Applied BioMath, LLC.
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CHANTILLY, Va. , April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcfield announced today that it has named John Avalos as chief growth officer (CGO) and Ted Fidder as chief technology officer (CLO). In their roles, Avalos and Fidder will work closely together to bring cutting-edge technology solutions to the government market. Arcfield is a leading provider of innovative solutions in systems engineering and integration, C5ISR and digital transformation for air, sea, land, space and cyber domains in support of our nation's most critical intelligence and defense missions.
As CGO, Avalos is responsible for all business development activities for the company, including managing the company's pipeline; developing new business opportunities; and managing Arcfield's capture and proposal processes. He brings more than 25 years of experience serving customers across defense, intelligence and civilian agencies, and has proven success building and managing high-performing teams and driving growth.
As CTO, Fidder is charged with leading overall technical innovation, differentiation and strategy for the company, and will lead various initiatives including the creation and execution of technology roadmaps, the development of technical solutions for priority captures, and the management of Arcfield's internal research and development portfolio. Fidder brings more than 30 years of experience in technology development to the company with a proven ability to convert technological advancements into mission solutions for government customers.
"We are very excited to welcome Ted and John to the Arcfield family," said Kevin Kelly, chairman and chief executive officer, Arcfield. "These two leaders will be instrumental in developing and executing strategies to support our growth from both a business and innovation perspective and will be vital in ensuring we continue to serve our customers with the latest advancements in technology and processes."
Before coming to Arcfield, Avalos served as chief operating officer at SOSi and lead day-to-day operations for the company. Prior to that, he led the business development organization at Booz Allen Hamilton after serving as a vice president in BAE System's intelligence and security sector.
Fidder, a Bell Labs Fellow, most recently served as the vice president of innovation and technology at CACI International. Prior to that he spent five years at LGS Innovations, most recently as CTO where he led teams that provided mission-critical wireless solutions services to the federal government. Earlier in his career he served as CTO of applied research and technology at Lucent Technologies and was a consulting member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs for more than 20 years.
About Arcfield
Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nation's most critical national security missions. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers' missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR. Visit arcfield.com for more details.
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With Initial Implementation at San Diego's Pechanga Arena, ASM Global Set to Revolutionize the Future Face of Event Experiences Worldwide
SAN DIEGO, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ASM Global, the worldwide leader in live event experiences, this week will officially launch an industry-first facial verification network in partnership with technology innovator PopID, beginning at San Diego's Pechanga Arena on tonight (Wednesday, April 20, 2022) when the AHL's Gulls take on the Abottsford Canucks. The deployment comes on the heels of a multi-year investment by ASM Global to redefine the return to live events by creating the most seamless and secure event experiences ever developed.
"The deployment of this technology in our venues represents the beginning of a revolutionary change in the entertainment world," said ASM Global CEO and President Ron Bension. "The PopID platform will allow us to eliminate the dependence on cards and phones at our events and ensure that every guest interaction is secure, speedy, and seamless."
These industry-first biometric advances are part of a digital transformation taking place across ASM's vast network of more than 300 arenas, stadiums, theaters, and convention centers across the globe. As part of the technology roll-out, ASM will also be able to provide unmatched benefits and amenities to premium ticket holders at events, delivering an enhanced VIP guest experience.
PopID's unique connected infrastructure, including payments, terminals, and point-of-sale integrations, streamlines consumer transactions, no matter the payment method or the network they cross. In the process, it provides guests with personalized interactions, unmatched speed and secure verification, for the most frictionless experiences ever developed.
"We are excited to partner with ASM and take the initial steps to truly revolutionize the event experience of the future with highly secure, phone-less entry and digital payments," said John Miller, CEO of PopID and Chairman of Cali Group. "When customers opt to enroll in our platform, they'll be able to enter the venue by requesting facial verification at the gate – instead of having to rely on a QR code on their phone. The seamless experience will continue at concession stands, where a guest can choose to 'check in' with facial verification at the point of sale, enabling them to instantly see personalized food and beverage recommendations, and order and pay without the need for IDs, credit cards, or phones."
PopID's technology will soon begin verifying payments and authenticating tickets via a fan's face at numerous other ASM venues. Upcoming deployments include the Save Mart Center in Fresno, CA, Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), and Toyota Arena in Ontario (Canada).
About ASM Global
ASM Global is the world's leading producer of entertainment experiences. It is the global leader in venue and event strategy and management—delivering locally tailored solutions and cutting-edge technologies to achieve maximum results for venue owners. The company's elite venue network spans five continents, with a portfolio of more than 325 of the world's most prestigious arenas, stadiums, convention and exhibition centers, and performing arts venues. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. asmglobal.com
About PopID
PopID provides a comprehensive, connected platform built for the future of digital purchases and payments. We enable businesses, employees and customers to authenticate entry, purchases and payments using advanced facial verification – for a more personalized and secure experience. To learn more about PopID, visit our site: https://www.popid.com
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ASM Global
Jim Yeager
breakwhitelight (for ASM Global)
jim@breakwhitelight.com
(818) 264-6812
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Diane Zuniga
Golin (for PopID)
dzuniga@golin.com
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SANTIAGO, Chile, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlas Renewable Energy (Atlas) marks a new milestone with the development of its first wind power project with a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Enel Generación Chile S.A. for 1.3 GWh/year. The portfolio's three wind projects total 417 MW throughout Chile, helping accelerate its clean energy transition.
"Our first wind energy project solidifies our position as a company capable of developing different renewable technologies and adapting to the needs of customers in multiple markets across the globe," said Alfredo Solar, general manager of Atlas Renewable Energy in Chile.
Enel Generación Chile Trading and Commercialization Manager, Alfredo Hott, said: "With this agreement, Enel complements its renewable energy portfolio with additional wind power to offer its customers clean and competitive energy, in line with the contribution that the company is making to promote the country's energy transition."
Atlas' Alpaca Portfolio consists of three wind projects that are set to begin operation in 2025. They will be located in the Araucania, Los Lagos and Maule regions of Chile.
"We are very proud to expand our work to the south of the country. Atlas already has a presence in Antofagasta, Atacama, and the Metropolitan Region. But with these projects, we'll expand into Chile's south and establish a presence in six regions of the country," Solar said.
With the signing of this PPA, Atlas solidifies itself as the preferred partner for large-scale utilities in Latin America to procure clean, renewable energy. Previously, Atlas signed a similar PPA with Engie to develop Sol del Desierto, a solar plant located in Chile's Atacama desert, which recently began operations.
1.3GWh/yr is equivalent to powering the homes of 628,512 families in Chile, avoiding 671,488 tons of carbon pollution and equivalent to getting rid of about 145,975 cars from the streets of Santiago.
The construction of the project will facilitate the development of localized social programs designed by Atlas and will prioritize the inclusion and development of the local labor force. Similar programs that were developed during the construction of Sol del Desierto. One of that project's initiatives was the "We are part of the same energy" program, which provided technical trainings to 66 local women, enabling them to apply for skilled jobs during the construction of the project as well as in other local jobs.
About Atlas Renewable Energy
Atlas Renewable Energy is a renewable energy generation company that has been developing, financing, constructing, and operating renewable energy projects under long-term contracts throughout the Americas since early 2017. Atlas Renewable Energy includes an experienced team with the longest track record in the renewable energy industry in Latin America. The company is recognized for its high standards in the development, construction, and operation of large-scale projects.
Atlas Renewable Energy is part of the Energy Fund IV, raised by Actis, one of the leading private equity investors in the energy sector. Atlas Renewable Energy's growth is focused on the most stable markets in the region, using its proven expertise in development, marketing, and structuring to accelerate the transformation to clean energy. By actively engaging with the community and stakeholders at the heart of its strategy, the company works every day to deliver a cleaner future.
To learn more about Atlas Renewable Energy, visit www.atlasrenewableenergy.com.
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The Gateway, a growing campus for life sciences companies, will expand and diversify the footprint of Perfect Day's technology capabilities and teams
SALT LAKE CITY, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gateway is pleased to welcome its newest life sciences tenant, Perfect Day, Inc. — the biotechnology leader that developed the world's first animal-free milk protein. The nearly 60,000-square-foot space is part of The Gateway's BioHive hub, a campus featuring commercial and laboratory space in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City that has been designed to uniquely accelerate the growth of life sciences and biotech companies. As downtown's arts and culture district with a variety of dining and retail offerings, The Gateway is a vibrant setting for employers and their workforce. Perfect Day will join The Gateway's community of life science tenants with over 200,000 sq ft currently leased. Construction will begin immediately on the state-of-the-art facility, which will serve as Perfect Day's second United States location (in addition to Berkeley, CA), and a critical base for its fast-growing Enterprise Biology business, through which other world-changing companies can benefit from the Perfect Day's powerful biology platform that enabled their current commercial success.
The expansion to Salt Lake City is in partnership with the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity (Go Utah) for an EDTIF tax credit. Utah will serve as a critical site for Perfect Day to pursue its mission to create a kinder, greener tomorrow. Over the next four years, Perfect Day plans to add over 60 new high-paying positions to its Salt Lake City team.
"Perfect Day is an exciting addition to Salt Lake City, which is home to a fast growing life sciences industry. Having evolved into a dynamic campus for life sciences companies to grow and innovate, The Gateway is a valuable partner in supporting our initiatives to grow the city's biotech and life sciences ecosystem," commented Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall.
This new U.S. location will accelerate Perfect Day's ability to scale its Enterprise Biology business unit, delivering scale-up production, IP licensing, strain services, and other offerings to a diverse range of biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, and life science customers. As Perfect Day's investment into Utah deepens, so does its ability to deliver on its environmental impact initiatives. Perfect Day harnesses biology to create novel ingredients that cater to evolving consumer demands for more compassionate, sustainable products and help companies of all sizes, across multiple industries, improve and scale their sustainability efforts within their organization and across the supply chain.
"This second US base will expand and diversify our technology capabilities, allowing us to accelerate our impact and business reach with the addition of new infrastructure, resources, and connection to the vitality of the biotech talent growing in the Salt Lake City community," said TM Narayan, Perfect Day's Chief of Business Operations. "This move further solidifies our commitment to the region following the acquisition of our Enterprise Biology facility in 2020 and partnership with the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity last year."
"We are thrilled to have Perfect Day bring its mission to create more sustainable, environmentally friendly products to The Gateway and join our emerging life sciences community of businesses," said Jenny Cushing, VP of Leasing for Vestar, the Arizona-based development company that owns The Gateway. "We are fortunate to partner with Mayor Erin Mendenhall to further her vision to nurture and grow the life sciences industry in Salt Lake City. As downtown's vibrant destination for dining, entertainment, and community events, The Gateway is an enticing location for companies and their employees."
For more info, visit www.vestar.com, www.atthegateway.com and www.perfectday.com.
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(The Gateway) Hilary Reiter, Redhead Marketing & PR, 435.901.2071, hilary@redheadmarketingpr.com
(Perfect Day) Anne Gerow, Senior Manager, Corporate Communications, 510.849.6371, press@perfectday.com
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Three-times more powerful, patented formulation of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM-e) further deepens Company's pipeline
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bonafide®, the women's healthcare company that is pioneering a new and more natural approach to managing menopause symptoms with first-of-its-kind, evidence-based, over-the-counter medical products, has announced its acquisition of a patented, enhanced formulation of S-adenosylmethionine (SAM-e), with triple the bioavailability of competitor products. This acquisition boosts Bonafide's patent holdings to more than 50 issued and pending patents that it owns or exclusively licenses and exemplifies its strategy of bringing innovative R&D to the women's health space.
SAM-e is a naturally occurring substance that is a key nutrient, widely used by the body. The SAMe composition, referred to as MSI-195, is a high bioavailability formulation of the dietary ingredient SAM-e, which is primarily used as a dietary supplement to support mood, joint health, and liver function. As part of this acquisition, Bonafide owns all assets and world-wide patents related to the supplement.
Jim Komorowski, Bonafide's Chief Science Officer said, "This unique and potent form of SAM-e has been studied as a potential pharmaceutical product over the past decade with a significant amount of safety, pre-clinical and clinical research supporting the enhanced bioavailability of this compound. We are very enthusiastic about MSI-195 because it has the potential to help women in a number of important areas, including mood. This technology will be added to Bonafide's already robust pipeline that includes products for overactive bladder, sleep and other symptoms that are critical to women's health."
With the dietary supplements market expected to reach $128 billion by 2028, the demand for quality, efficacious products is predicted to be the driver behind this growth in the coming years.
Bonafide's commitment to identifying and studying natural products that target the same mechanistic pathways as pharmaceutical drugs, is supported by the company's multimillion-dollar investments each year in technology and clinical trials. Bonafide's portfolio of proprietary, patented ingredients and products set a strong scientific foundation for its work with physicians to develop natural solutions for common patient needs. With the completion of this acquisition, Bonafide plans to continue rigorous clinical trials to leverage the patented ingredient into future Bonafide products.
Alyssa Dweck, MD, Bonafide's Chief Medical Officer said, "During my over 25 years in practice as an OB-GYN, I have seen that women want and need non-drug, natural alternatives for the treatment of symptoms from hormonal changes during menopause. Bonafide is not only bringing unique and naturally powerful products to market, but also leveraging its national team of physician educators to bring this important information directly to mainstream doctors and other healthcare providers. In fact, Bonafide regularly interacts with more than 11,000 healthcare providers, including many of the top menopause specialists in the US."
Since launching in 2018, Bonafide has expanded its suite of products to include five signature natural menopause symptom relief solutions, in addition to a line of best-selling essential everyday vitamins. Today, Bonafide has over 120,000 active customers and a 92% monthly customer retention rate, making Bonafide an industry-leading developer of women's menopause products.
For more information on Bonafide, visit hellobonafide.com.
About Bonafide
Bonafide Health was launched with a simple mission in mind: to provide women with novel, safe and highly effective treatment options for relief from symptoms throughout their menopause journey. As part of Bonafide's scientific research and product development process, the brand prides itself on its deep understanding of the biological and physiological changes that affect women due to hormonal fluctuations experienced as they age. Trusted by more than 11,000 health care professionals, Bonafide provides first-of-its-kind, evidence-based solutions developed from naturally derived ingredients that are hormone-free and drug-free.
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HOUSTON, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boots For Troops, today announced the launching of the Jimmy Rogers Military Spouse Scholarship. The scholarship(s) will be awarded annually to military spouses whose significant others are serving on active duty. Awards can be up to $10,000. The Scholarship can be used for tuition, books, and supplies. Applications are open now through May 15th. To be eligible for this award, you must meet all the following criteria:
- Be the spouse of someone on active duty who has a rank of E6 or below and enlisted in the state of Texas.
- Be a high school senior, high school graduate or equivalent, or current post-secondary undergraduate student.
- Plan to attend an accredited college, university, or vocational/technical school in the United States in the Fall of 2022
Boots For Troops mission is to uplift and empower the overall morale and mental well-being of active-duty troops and veterans. The organization was founded in 2015 onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt by Navy veteran Jimmy Rogers while he was deployed with Navy in the Persian Gulf. From the other side of the world Petty Officer Rogers launched a GOFUNDME page to raise the money for the start-up of the organization. Seven years later the organization is thriving, and the scholarship program is now the 4th program Boots For Troops is operating to support active-duty troops and veterans.
Boots For Troops is mostly known for delivering the world's greatest care packages to troops around the world. Each care package being customized to the service member and including a new pair of combat boots. Additionally, during the holidays and emergency situations Boots For Troops funds flights for service members to return to their hometowns. The charity also funds concerts for military bases and service dogs for veterans.
"The scholarship program is just another way we can serve our active-duty military families. Spouses serve alongside our heroes, and I believe they deserve an opportunity to earn their education, or a skill set so they can better serve their family. Ultimately, we are setting military families up to be more successful especially when they transition back into civilian life," said Jimmy Rogers, U.S. Navy Veteran and Co-Founder of Boots For Troops.
To get more information on the new Jimmy Rogers Military Spouse Scholarship and Boots For Troops, visit Boots4troops.org
For more information please contact:
Shelby@Boots4troops.org or Jimmy@boots4troops.com
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BERLIN, Conn., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Inc. announced today that it has launched Pencillamine Capsules, USP (generic for Cuprimine®). The product was developed by Aggrega Pharma, LLC. Breckenridge will market the product in its own label and offer the 250mg strength in bottles of 100. According to industry sales data, Cuprimine and its generics had annual sales of $42 million during the twelve months ending February 2022. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration previously granted Breckenridge final approval of the Abbreviated New Drug Application for this product.
About Breckenridge:
Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Inc., a subsidiary of Towa Pharmaceutical (Osaka, Japan), partners with manufacturers nationwide and around the world to bring quality, cost-effective generic pharmaceuticals to U.S. patients. With our dedication to customer service, on-time delivery, reliable supply and quality manufacturing, we improve the health and quality of life of the patients we and our customers serve.
www.bpirx.com
About Aggrega:
Aggrega Pharma is a specialty generic pharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing and marketing niche, complex, high-barrier-to-entry generic medications (injectable, ophthalmic, ER/IR oral, transdermal, spray, and topical finished dosage forms) for the US Market. The shareholders are 4 European companies: Bluepharma (Portugal), Rafarm (Greece), Substipharm (France) and Welding (Germany). Aggrega Pharma is committed to building a selective, valuable pipeline of generic products by leveraging the vast R&D, clinical and manufacturing experience and capabilities of its members.
www.aggregapharma.com
For further information, please contact:
Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Robert Gasparino, Associate Vice President – Business Development
Tel: 860-828-8140
E-mail: rgasparino@bpirx.com
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Cohn, former head of marketing at Goldman Sachs' Marcus and Wealth Management, will lead performance marketing and brand awareness for the firm
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cadre, the technology-driven commercial real estate investment platform, today announced the hire of Dustin Cohn as Chief Marketing Officer to continue driving awareness around the accessibility and advantages of real estate investing. With decades of experience across brand development and performance marketing, Cohn will report to Cadre Founder and CEO Ryan Williams to support Cadre's mission of democratizing commercial real estate (CRE) investing, a traditionally exclusive asset class.
According to a recent survey, 73% of consumers earning $75k - $500k are interested in CRE, but only 14% are invested in it.1 This may be due to a number of misconceptions about the asset class. Many consumers assume CRE is exclusive to the ultra wealthy, institutions, or requires at least $100k to invest. There is also a knowledge gap about the benefits CRE can provide – by and large, consumers are worried about inflation (86%), they want to diversify their portfolios (68%), but many do not recognize CRE's potential for inflation-hedging or historically high risk-adjusted returns.2 Cadre, now with the help of Cohn, is working to dispel misconceptions by providing and promoting unprecedented access to CRE.
"At Cadre, we are keen to educate individuals about the financial opportunities the commercial real estate market can provide. I founded Cadre to serve those typically excluded from accessing high-quality assets and opportunities to build wealth," said Cadre Founder and CEO Ryan Williams. "Dustin's proven experience reaching individuals and raising awareness is unparalleled, and I am eager to work with him as we bring the transparency, accessibility and liquidity of our platform to more people."
Cohn joins Cadre following its most successful quarter to date, as platform users rose by more than ~20% and the firm raised nearly as much capital from individual investors as it had throughout all of 2021. Cohn's experience helping consumers access wealth-building tools will help build off that momentum.
Prior to Cadre, Cohn served as Head of Brand and Marketing for Marcus and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs, leading the development of the Marcus brand—notably inventing its name—and launching a number of firsts for the storied firm, including its first-ever consumer advertising campaign and athlete sponsorship. He also led brand and marketing efforts for the firm's Asset Management division.
"Cadre's platform already disrupted the status quo by giving individuals access to institutional-quality real estate," stated Cohn. "Commercial real estate is no longer just for the uber wealthy and institutions. For many consumers, the remaining barrier is simply awareness. A modern wealth-building tool is already available to individual investors right now, a few clicks away. I am honored to join the firm's mission to not only deliver this access, but also educate more investors that it exists."
Cohn also has experience leading marketing for a number of global consumer brands. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he served as CMO for Jockey International, CMO for Optimer Brands, and spent several years at PepsiCo as Marketing Director for Gatorade and Propel.
About Cadre
Cadre is a groundbreaking technology-driven commercial real estate investment platform that offers both institutional and individual investors the opportunity to access expertly curated real estate assets with lower minimums, low fees, and unprecedented potential for liquidity. Via its data-driven and transparent approach, Cadre opens participation in a historically opaque and illiquid asset class.
Along with its traditional investment offerings, Cadre also provides investors with the ability to pursue highly vetted commercial real estate opportunities and the opportunity to seek liquidity through its proprietary secondary market, a unique offering within the industry.
Since Cadre's founding, Cadre has closed more than $4.5 billion in real estate transactions across 23 U.S. markets and delivered an 18+% average net IRR across all completed property sales,3 resulting in the return of more than $300 million of capital to Cadre investors to date. For additional information, please visit www.cadre.com.
Disclaimer
Not Advice: This communication is not to be construed as investment, tax, or legal advice in relation to the relevant subject matter; investors must seek their own legal or other professional advice.
Performance Not Guaranteed: Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Any historical returns, expected returns, or probability projections are not guaranteed and may not reflect actual future performance.
Risk of Loss: All investments involve a high degree of risk and may result in partial or total loss of your investment.
Liquidity Not Guaranteed: Investments offered by Cadre are illiquid and there is never any guarantee that you will be able to exit your investments on the Secondary Market or at what price an exit (if any) will be achieved.
1 Source: Underground Research. Survey in April 2022 among n=1,81 consumers with a HHI of $75-$500k.
2 Source: Bloomberg and NCREIF. Historical refers to a 20-year time period, beginning December 31, 1999 and ending December 31, 2019. Commercial real estate is represented by the NCREIF Open-End Diversified Core (ODCE) Index, an equal weighted, time weighted index representing a blended portfolio of institutional-quality real estate funds reported net of management and advisory fees. The S&P 500 Index represents an unmanaged index of the 500 largest stocks (in terms of market value), weighted by market capitalization and considered representative of the broader stock market. Indices are unmanaged and investors cannot invest directly in an index. Unless otherwise noted, performance of indices does not account for any fees, commissions or other expenses that would be incurred.
3 IRR calculation represents an equity-weighted average annualized internal rate of return (IRR) for realized real estate investments of offerings by Cadre since the formation of our Investment Committee through to the date of calculation, after deduction of fees and expenses. Equity multiple represents the investment multiple on equity, which is calculated by dividing the aggregate realized proceeds for the applicable investment after deduction of fees and expenses. For recently realized investments, an estimate of proceeds to vehicles managed by Cadre may be used. The use of a different methodology may result in a materially different return metric. Our realized investments consist of: (1) Astoria Portfolio, a 143-unit multifamily asset in Queens, NYC, acquired January 2015, with a realized net IRR of 15.1% and a net equity multiple of 1.4x, (2) Sugarloaf trails, a 268-unit multifamily asset in Suburban Atlanta, acquired April 2017, realized net IRR of 27.4% and net equity multiple of 1.8x, (3) Skyridge Apartments, a 364-unit multifamily asset in suburban Chicago, acquired November 2016, with a realized net IRR of 15.0% and net equity multiple of 1.4x, (4) Avida, 421-unit multifamily project, located in Salt Lake City UT, acquired August 2017, realized net IRR of 16.8% and realized net equity multiple of 1.4x, (5) Crestleigh Apartments, a 389-unit multifamily asset in Laurel, MD, acquired September 2016, with an updated target net IRR of 10.2% and a net equity multiple of 1.6x, (6) Trails Portfolio, two multifamily properties totaling 810 units in Houston, TX, acquired January 2018, with an updated target net IRR of 22.4% and a net equity multiple of 2.0x, (7) Solis at Winter Park, a 596-unit multifamily asset Winter Park, FL, acquired, September 2018, with an updated target net IRR of 18.1% and a net equity multiple of 1.7x, (8) Lodge at Copperfield, a 330-unit multifamily asset in Houston, TX, acquired November 2018, with a updated target net IRR of 11.0% and a net equity multiple of 1.8x and (9) Lincoln Place, a multifamily asset in Sacramento, CA, acquired July 2018, with a updated target net IRR of 11.1% and a net equity multiple of 1.8x.
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Nearly half of young people plan to celebrate 4/20 this year
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cassandra, ENGINE's insights and strategy group that studies trendsetting young consumers, and Miss Grass, a female-founded and community-driven cannabis brand, are releasing a new trends analysis, Seeing Green. Based upon Cassandra's own proprietary qualitative and quantitative research, the report showcases how as cannabis becomes increasingly socially acceptable – not to mention legal – Gen Z is poised to embrace weed with very different attitudes than previous generations, including a more equitable lens, fewer stigmas, and with an eye for product design and sleek branding.
For youth today, cannabis is seen as a more wellness-oriented, holistic alternative to other vices. Seventy-eight percent of Gen Z say that society is more accepting of cannabis these days, and Cassandra found nearly 50% of young people surveyed plan to celebrate 4/20, the unofficial "weed holiday," this year. The report also found that 50% of Gen Z anticipate that "people into wellness and mental health" will actively consume cannabis products.
Seeing Green also explores that as cannabis grows in acceptance, so too does the importance of branding and design within the category. Millennials and Gen Z alike are accustomed to well-designed products and packaging, and the cannabis category will be no different for them. "I want nice, cool, trendy, funny, accessible, and portable packaging," said Robert, a 26-year-old participant in the report. Young people are also increasingly treating cannabis like any other brand, with 1 in 4 youth 18+ saying they plan to invest in a cannabis brand or stock, and nearly 40% saying they have discussed a specific branded cannabis product.
"Attitudes around cannabis have been shifting significantly with Gen Z, setting them apart from Boomers, Gen X, and even Millennials, which indicates continued growth in the marketplace," said Kathy Sheehan, Senior Vice President, Cassandra. "Cannabis is now increasingly viewed as a means of 'self-care,' which is a dramatic shift from prior generations."
While young people may not have grown up with the stigma of marijuana use, they are aware of the criminalism and racial history and are expecting brands to prioritize cannabis activism. Gen Z overwhelmingly thinks it's crucial to acknowledge the racist history of marijuana – and feel brands must address this as well.
Kate Miller, CEO, and Founder of Miss Grass, agrees. "The report demonstrates how Gen Zs expect brands to address prior generations' inequities related to cannabis. Every brand, every leader, every executive working in the space – it is their responsibility to do what they can to right the wrongs of the war on drugs."
Cassandra, ENGINE's insights and strategy group, studies trendsetting young consumers, revealing the key characteristics and strategies that drive the relationship between influencers and consumers.
To learn more about the Cassandra Report® and the benefits of becoming a Cassandra client, please contact us. https://cassandra.co.
ABOUT CASSANDRA
We empower Fortune 500 companies to See Tomorrow® through trend forecasting, research, brand strategy, and consulting services that drive innovation and build deeper engagement with youth. Cassandra is an insights and cultural strategy group within ENGINE, a global, full-service media and marketing and services company. As the leading experts on young consumers and the cultural forces shaping their lives for nearly 20 years, Cassandra is the foremost authority on Millennials and Generation Z. Membership includes a 12-month engagement with our insights platform where you will have access to the leading syndicated study of the behaviors, mindsets, and preferences of young consumers as well as cross-industry examples and implications to inspire your brand. To learn more about the Cassandra Report® and the benefits of becoming a Cassandra client, please contact us. https://cassandra.co
ABOUT ENGINE
ENGINE is a global, full-service media and marketing services company that unites culture and commerce to move brands forward faster. We are: Driven by data. Fueled by imagination. Powered by technology. Founded in 2005, ENGINE has global headquarters in New York and 16 offices across North America, the UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific. ENGINE empowers clients to outperform in the present and win in the future with its vast range of marketing solutions including – insights, creative, media, data and technology. Find out more at enginegroup.com and follow @engineworldwide.
ABOUT MISS GRASS
Miss Grass is on a mission to help the world get good at weed. With signature THC and CBD products and a carefully curated online smoke shop and marketplace, the female-founded, community-driven cannabis brand offers everything the discerning, modern cannabis user needs. In addition to introducing consumers to the latest and greatest in the weed world, Miss Grass also offers a wealth of resources that educate on the history, science, and culture of cannabis—all in the spirit of conscious consumption. Miss Grass is working to eradicate the stigma around cannabis and make it more accessible to everybody, everywhere. Learn more at www.missgrass.com.
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- Point72 Ventures led the round with support from legendary music entrepreneur Tommy Mottola, Hollywood star Sofia Vergara, Hollywood and entertainment executive Luis Balaguer, music executive Lex Borrero, and Mexican superstar Thalia.
- Created by four Latina founders, Influur streamlines the influencer marketing process by connecting multiplatform celebrities and creators directly to brands.
MIAMI, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Influur, the marketplace platform that connects multiplatform stars, digital celebrities, and influencers with brands, today announced a $5 million seed round. The round, led by global venture capital firm Point72 Ventures, will fuel the growth of the platform in the United States and Latin America. Other high-profile Influur investors include Sofia Vergara, Luis Balaguer, Tommy Mottola, Thalia, Lex Borrero, Magma Partners, H20 Capital, LatinWe, and Loud and Live.
Influur also accounts with high-profile influencer investors like Evaluna Montaner, Juan Pablo Zurita, Danna Paola, Calle y Poché, Mario Ruiz, among others.
The Miami-based start-up is founded by four women: Chief Executive Officer and former CNN journalist Alessandra Angelini; Chief Product Officer and data analyst Valeria Angelini; Chief Operating Officer and Emmy-nominated journalist Paula Coleman; and Chief Influencer Officer Fefi Oliveira, a Nickelodeon and Netflix actress, and influencer with more than 9 million followers across her platforms.
"Influur was born from the communication struggles between influencers and brands, an experience we've all had at some point in our careers. Together with my co-founders, we created a streamlined solution built from the influencer perspective. This makes Influur the first platform where influencers feel they belong in a professional space," said CEO Alessandra Angelini. "For us, an influencer is anyone who creates an impact on other people's lives. Someone who can reach global masses as well as someone who can influence your friends and family circle."
"Influur is a wonderful example of the power of young, smart, entrepreneurial Latina women, working together and supporting each other in the tech and influencer marketing industry to build something amazing. I couldn't be more proud of the opportunities the Influur platform is bringing," said Sofia Vergara.
"I'm very proud of these four Super Latinas who have created a platform that has already greatly impacted the creator market economy," said Luis Balaguer.
With a total reach of more than one billion people, Influur simplifies all aspects of the traditional, and often bureaucratic, influencer marketing process in a simple, digital way, featuring prospecting, negotiating, and payment in one place.
Hard Rock Cafe, Paramount Latin America, Boxy Charm, and Warner Music Latina are some of the brands already activating campaigns.
"The Influur app is groundbreaking and will be completely disruptive to the way companies and influencers will be able to work and communicate together. Finally, there is a platform we can use to simplify the process of connecting with the right influencer," said Tommy Mottola. "Influur is the full expression of diversity by having four powerful Latina founders leading the company."
For more information on Influur or to join the waiting list, visit www.influur.com
ABOUT INFLUUR
Influur is a global professional platform where brands post their advertising opportunities, and influencers apply. Influur makes it easy for brands and influencers to connect and work in less than 24 hours. Currently, only invited users can join the platform since quality is a high priority for the founders. Brands and influencers who want to be part of the platform can visit www.influur.com and join the waitlist to be accepted into the app.
The company is growing the team in the technology, product, sales, and marketing sectors. Potential candidates can get in contact with the Influur team at: recruitment@influur.com
EXECUTIVE BIOS
Alessandra Angelini
Alessandra Angelini is Influur's co-founder and CEO. She is a former CNN Journalist. Her mission is to help creators live off their talent. Alessandra is passionate about women empowerment and she believes Influur will be the first tech company able to close the gender gap starting from executive roles - to entry-level roles. Alessandra is a University of Miami graduate with a Master in Business Administration and Leadership.
Valeria Angelini
Valeria Angelini is Influur's co-founder and CPO. She worked on multiple data science projects for Fortune 500 companies. As a Chief Product Officer, her mission is to create a global professional platform for the creator's workforce where millions of users get connected and find job opportunities. She encourages women to get involved in tech and generate impactful innovations to the future of technologies. Valeria has a Business Analytics Masters with a Data Science concentration from the University of Miami.
Paula Coleman
Paula Coleman is Influur's co-founder and COO. She is an Emmy nominated former CNN Journalist, and professional tennis player. With Influur she wants to provide unlimited job opportunities for creators, and give brands the resources to create the most effective advertising campaigns. Her mission is to help people believe that anything can be accomplished through hard work. She graduated with a Masters in Applied Economics from Auburn University in Montgomery.
Fefi Oliveira
Fefi Oliveira is Influur's co-founder and Chief Influencer Officer. She is a Nickelodeon-Netflix Actress and Influencer with more than 9MM followers across her platforms. Fefi wishes she would have had Influur at the beginning of her career. Her mission is to support creators while changing the perspective of parents that don't believe their kids can live off their talents. She wants to show that creating content is more than a hobby, it is a real job. Fefi graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Miami.
About Point72 Ventures
Point72 Ventures is a global venture capital strategy led by a diverse set of domain experts with the capital and mandate to lead rounds through all stages of a company's growth, from idea to IPO. The team invests in founders with bold ideas who use the latest technologies to drive transformational change across industries. Point72 Ventures offers entrepreneurs access to expertise and insights, executive and technical talent, and hands-on support. With offices in the U.S. and Europe, Point72 Ventures is an affiliate of Point72, the global asset manager founded by Steven A. Cohen. For more information, visit p72.vc.
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BLOOMFIELD, Conn., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global health services company Cigna Corporation (NYSE:CI) announced today that Brian Evanko, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will present at the BofA Securities 2022 Healthcare Conference on May 11, 2022 in Las Vegas, NV.
Cigna's presentation is expected to begin at approximately 1:40 p.m. ET. A live webcast of the presentation will be available at https://investors.cigna.com/events-and-presentations/default.aspx in the Investor Relations section of Cigna's website.
To listen to this presentation live on the Internet, visit https://investors.cigna.com/events-and-presentations/default.aspx at least 15 minutes prior to the presentation to download and install any necessary audio software.
Cigna Corporation is a global health services company dedicated to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve. Cigna delivers choice, predictability, affordability and access to quality care through integrated capabilities and connected, personalized solutions that advance whole person health. All products and services are provided exclusively by or through operating subsidiaries of Cigna Corporation, including Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Evernorth companies or their affiliates and Express Scripts companies or their affiliates. Such products and services include an integrated suite of health services, such as medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, supplemental benefits and other related products.
Cigna maintains sales capability in over 30 countries and jurisdictions, and has over 185 million customer relationships around the world. To learn more about Cigna®, including links to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, visit www.cigna.com.
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Ralph Giacobbe
1 (804) 787-7968
Ralph.Giacobbe@cigna.com
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TEL AVIV, Israel and MIAMI, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cipia (TASE: CPIA), a computer vision AI in-cabin automotive solutions provider, and Digital Communications Technologies (DCT), a leading developer of fleet telematics solutions, today announced the finalization of integration and the availability of the Cipia-FS10 driver monitoring (DMS) device on DCT's Pegasus IoT cloud platform using the Syrus 4G IoT Gateway. The availability of Cipia's DMS device will augment the already vast fleet telematic offering for DCT's customers.
The Cipia-FS10 is a hardware and software solution that offers an advanced in-cabin video telematics and driver monitoring system. It is designed to answer the fleet industry's need to increase fleet efficiency and safety. The Cipia-FS10 utilizes Computer Vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor the driver's state behind the wheel, providing real-time audio and visual alerts to the driver while providing tailored alerts to the fleet manager or dispatcher.
DCT's Syrus 4G IoT robust telematics gateway is designed for the most demanding fleet management operations and offers an open API for accessories scalability and multi-platform compatibility. The gateway is video-telematics ready and includes two CAN interfaces, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (BT) connectivity, multiple input/outputs, and an internal SD card for additional data storage. Syrus 4G gateway is the preferred option for mining fleet operations and the oil & gas industries, where fleet and driver safety and security are a must-have functionality.
The Cipia-FS10 utilizes an Infra-red (IR) sensor on the device for real-time detection of distraction, drowsiness, smoking, and holding a cellphone while driving as well as improper seat belt usage. The Cipia-FS10 device communicates with the Pegasus IoT Platform via the Syrus 4G IoT Gateway, triggering the DCT existing dash-cam to record the event. The video of such events are processed and delivered to the Pegasus IoT Cloud where fleet operators can evaluate driving performance and improve fleet safety.
With the addition of the Cipia-FS10 DMS offering to DCT's Pegasus IoT Platform, fleet operators can provide a complete fleet and driver safety solution. This includes driver monitoring functionalities combined with detailed trip data analysis in real time for fleet managers to take actions and save lives. All safety generated events are processed by a robust automation module sending notifications via pop-up alerts, emails, text SMS, Telegram, voice call and or any API integration with existing platforms. The solution also encompasses dashboarding functionality making it simple to visualize which drivers are the best performers in terms of safety.
"The demand for driver monitoring is growing both as a driver safety tool and a source of information," said Israel Ronn, VP Aftermarket Business at Cipia. "TSPs are looking for solutions that can provide crucial data to help improve the efficiency and safety of their fleets and we look forward to working with DCT to support their fleets with our DMS."
"We are very excited to start working with Cipia," said Ignacio Escallon, CEO at DCT. "Combining the intelligence of the Cipia-FS10 DMS together with ADAS and other accessories connected to Syrus 4G helps generate crucial data necessary for advanced real time tracking and assessment of safety across our customers' fleets."
About Cipia:
Cipia is a leading provider of intelligent sensing solutions that use edge-based computer vision and AI for safer and better mobility experiences. The company focuses on the automotive in-cabin environment, offering Driver Sense - driver monitoring system, Cabin Sense - occupancy monitoring systems and Cipia-FS10 - a driver monitoring and video telematics device for fleets. Over a decade of research and development stands behind the company's proprietary market-leading computer vision technology. Cipia is constantly pushing the boundaries of what intelligent sensing solutions can see and accomplish, for better and safer mobility, and its solutions are already on the road in commercial and private vehicles models today.
About Digital Communications Technologies LLC:
Since 2000, DCT – based in Miami / Florida – has been developing IoT devices and accessories for applications focused on fleet telematics and industrial solutions; trusted by integrators, service providers and fleet operators around the world. We make it simple to build and deploy Fleet Telematics from device to cloud. Our expertise in product design and development together with firmware and software makes the perfect combination to start building amazing applications. By providing a secure edge-to-cloud ecosystem we connect things and transform data into actionable insights.
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Lazer Cohen
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DENVER, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CirrusMD, the fastest growing provider of on-demand virtual primary care, today announced it will lead several interactive sessions at HR Retail, the leading human resources and employee benefits-focused conference for retail and ecommerce organizations. The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency Austin, April 25-26, 2022.
This year, HR Retail welcomes attendees back in person, as the community gathers to address the transformation brought about by the pandemic, share success stories, and identify key strategies to thrive in the new normal. It's expected that 200+ HR executives will be participating in discussions that include industry thought-leader panels, round tables and workshops.
CirrusMD will lead facilitated sessions in which participants are invited to collaborate on new ways to deliver healthcare to underserved and underrepresented employees, and how to meld virtual care with Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives.
Workshop: "Can Your DE&I Programs Help Increase Healthcare Accessibility & Equity?"
On Tuesday, April 26th, at 1:40 PM CT, CirrusMD's Vice President of Employer Markets, Jeff Voss will lead an interactive workshop focusing on the needs of underrepresented employee groups and allowing attendees to explore the building blocks of healthcare-related DE&I initiatives. Voss stated, "Although DE&I is top of mind for HR & benefits leaders, lots of employees are still underrepresented — especially when it comes to healthcare access. In this session, we'll brainstorm ways to address gaps in care often due to ethnicity, gender, occupation, age, income, geography and culture."
Roundtable Discussion: "Delivering Cost-Effective, Integrated, Whole-Person Care to Your Employees"
On Monday, April 25th at 1:05 PM CT, CirrusMD's Strategic Accounts Director, Laura Clark will lead roundtable discussions aimed at identifying new ways for participants to deliver whole-person care for their employees, particularly underserved or underinsured workers. "In our discussion, we'll define what whole-person care is, how healthcare services can impact it, and brainstorm ideas to help HR leaders implement whole-person care within their organizations," said Clark.
Exhibit Area
Visit CirrusMD (Booth 101) and learn why some of the largest retailers in the U.S. rely on CirrusMD to deliver virtual primary care to both full-time, fully insured employees, and also their uninsured, seasonal and part-time employees. CirrusMD will be showcasing several product innovations, including a patient-facing language support tool, designed to improve the ability for a patient to chat in their native language. This will help improve access to care for persons with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), allowing them to receive chat-based care from CirrusMD physicians.
About CirrusMD
CirrusMD is a different kind of telemedicine company. In less than a minute, patients reach a live, licensed physician via our text-based (or web) app, then conduct a care encounter at their pace and convenience. Available 24/7/365, CirrusMD's integrated care is delivered via multi-speciality, board-certified doctors who can treat a broad range of conditions, from acute to chronic, and from primary care to specialty areas, including behavioral health. CirrusMD is available to nearly 10 million users across all 50 states, and exclusively offered through employers and health plans.Learn how CirrusMD is transforming virtual care: cirrusmd.com
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The investment comes on the heels of a $375M investment round raised by Palmetto to support the company's nationwide expansion
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Palmetto, a clean energy platform leveraging proprietary technology designed to drive the adoption of renewable energy like solar power, today announced that Main Street Advisors, whose clients include Maverick Carter, LeBron James, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell, Jimmy Iovine, Drake, and Bono have invested in the company to help accelerate the adoption of residential solar and clean energy independence across the United States. The announcement of Main Street Advisors' investment follows news of Palmetto's $375M Series C funding round, which was completed in 2021.
"Clean energy should be accessible for everyone, not just households with expendable income," said Maverick Carter. "Palmetto's work to provide more affordable clean energy can have an immediate positive impact on the environment as well as families and communities across the country. Empowering people with access, information, and opportunities is something we're passionate about and always excited to get behind."
While residential solar represents a more than $100 billion total addressable market, only 3% of the more than 70 million homes across the U.S. utilize solar energy. The investment from Main Street Advisors and other investors will help enable Palmetto to close the gap between the potential of residential solar and the current reality. Palmetto's innovative clean energy platform allows homeowners to make a cost-benefit analysis within minutes to determine their energy bill savings, the amount of carbon offset by solar installation, and the number of years it will take to earn back the solar installation investment.
Chris Kemper, Palmetto Chairman, Founder, and CEO said, "Our mission is to democratize clean energy and fundamentally alter the trajectory of climate change. The key to the clean energy revolution is to educate people and bring awareness to the issues and solutions. We've been at this for over a decade and honestly, I can't think of better partners to help us share our company's mission and message that clean energy is a choice for everyone."
Chris Kemper founded Palmetto after years working with the world's leading organizations on climate change. Through Palmetto, Kemper has aligned stakeholders–including policymakers, investors, business leaders, financiers, demand channels, local operators and consumers–in his call for a New Utility Revolution and a shared mission of leading the world into a clean energy future.
For more information about Palmetto and its services, please visit: www.palmetto.com.
About Palmetto
Palmetto is an award-winning clean technology platform, with proprietary technology designed to make it easier and more affordable for homeowners to source their energy from renewables like solar power. Palmetto believes that choosing clean energy sources is a right, not a privilege. Palmetto is leading the call for a New Utility Revolution, which is focused on the democratization of energy. The Company continues to innovate with proprietary products that reduce costs and drive widespread distribution of simple energy management solutions. Palmetto is a triple bottom line, fully distributed company with teammates throughout the United States. Palmetto's Get-Solar, Give-Solar program provides underserved communities with access to solar energy systems. For more information please visit: palmetto.com.
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Inspiring Creative Ways to Do More Together through National Crayola Experience Takeover Events with Real Kubota Equipment & Interactive Experiences, Online Activities that Engage Families
GRAPEVINE, Texas, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kubota Tractor Corporation and Crayola announced a partnership today to inspire the next generation of business owners, builders, farmers, do-it-yourselfers, and leaders by highlighting the unique and creative role that machines play in building and shaping communities.
Kids across the country are encouraged to dream big through a myriad of national partnership activities, including experiencing an immersive, interactive event touring Crayola's hands-on family attractions; a special edition Kubota Coloring & Activity Book; classroom activities and educational content; and at-home crafts.
"We are proud of the important part our dealers and equipment play in farming and food production, in building and maintaining our communities, and in enhancing our overall way of life," said Todd Stucke, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Product Support and Strategic Projects for Kubota Tractor Corporation. "This year marks our 50th year in the U.S., powering and empowering the American dream through bright orange equipment, and our partnership with Crayola is a new and engaging way to highlight how communities have helped us become one of the leading equipment manufacturers in the U.S. Our hope is to inspire creativity and learning for the next generation to help kids see what's possible when we all work together to better our towns, cities and countrysides."
In-Person with Kubota and Crayola
The brands will transform Crayola Experience family attractions into "Kubota Machine Adventures" in a five-market national takeover tour beginning in May. The limited-time takeovers will have kids (and kids at heart) engaging in more than 20 hands-on activities featuring Kubota's iconic orange equipment—such as excavators, tractors, mowers and RTVs—across the fictional town of Crayonville. Throughout the immersive experience, kids will discover how the human power of creativity and the machine power of Kubota equipment together can drive innovation to build better and stronger communities.
"Our collaboration with Kubota allows us to create an amazing opportunity for thousands of children to learn through creativity how equipment is used to design and build the world around us," said Victoria Lozano, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Crayola Attractions and Retail. "Kids will have fun using their imagination, creativity, and problem-solving skills—along with Kubota machines—to bring to life the colorful community of Crayonville and discover how they can build a better future."
The Kubota Machine Adventures takeover will tour throughout 2022, making stops at Crayola Experience's five locations in Orlando, Fla. (May 17-June 18); Mall of America/Bloomington, Minn. (June 30 -July 21), Easton, Pa. (Aug. 2-Sept. 12); Plano, Texas (Sept. 27-Oct. 31); and Chandler, Ariz. (Nov. 15-Dec. 31).
Extending the Experience Nationwide
Kubota and Crayola will also be creating the Kubota Coloring & Activity Book. The coloring book features scenes of Crayola characters using Kubota equipment to get Crayonville ready for a big town festival—digging a pond for a fishing contest, manicuring the baseball field for a tournament, harvesting Granny Smith Apple's garden for her food tent, and more. The 48-page book will be available for purchase at participating dealers within Kubota's network of more than 1,100 dealerships across the U.S. and at The Crayola Store inside Crayola Experience locations.
Kids will also be able to interact with Kubota in colorful and creative ways at home through online experiences at CrayolaExperience.com/Kubota with free, downloadable Kubota-themed crafting activities and information about the takeover events, and at Crayola.com with free, downloadable coloring pages. Additionally, educators across the country will have access to classroom resources developed by Crayola Education and Kubota that inspire students to think of ways they can add their voices to community improvement plans. Kubota dealers will have the opportunity to engage with their local schools, libraries and community centers, and bring to life how machines and people can do more together for their community.
Also, young artists can get creative and enter the second-annual Kubota Country Kids Coloring Contest for a chance to showcase their artwork and win a $200 Kubota merchandise gift card. Kids ages 12-years-old and younger can submit an original drawing of Kubota equipment hard at work in their community, or color a downloadable template from KubotaCountryKids.com. The contest runs from May 17 to Dec. 31, 2022. KubotaCountryKids.com is a new online experience where adults can engage with kids through activities and projects around their property and in their communities and will launch in June 2022 with more Kubota activities.
To learn more about the Kubota Machine Adventures at Crayola Experience locations, please visit CrayolaExperience.com/Kubota. For more media-ready assets, please see the following link, featuring images, video and logos: https://crayexp.com/Kubota.
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Kubota Tractor Corporation and Crayola announced a partnership today to inspire the next generation of business owners, builders, farmers, do-it-yourselfers, and leaders by highlighting the unique and creative role that machines play in building and shaping communities. The national partnership offers families across the country an immersive, interactive event touring Crayola's hands-on family attractions; a special edition Kubota Coloring & Activity Book; classroom activities and educational content; and at-home crafts. The limited-time engagement will travel to Crayola Experience's five locations throughout the country: Orlando, Fla. (May 17-June 18); Mall of America/Bloomington, Minn. (June 30 -July 21), Easton, Pa. (Aug. 2-Sept. 12); Plano, Texas (Sept. 27-Oct. 31); and Chandler, Ariz. (Nov. 15-Dec. 31). Kubota will also launch an online learning destination, KubotaCountryKids.com, for kids and grownups alike in June 2022.
About Kubota Tractor Corporation
Kubota Tractor Corporation, Grapevine, Texas, is the U.S. marketer and distributor of Kubota-engineered and manufactured machinery and equipment, including a complete line of tractors of up to 200 Gross HP, performance-matched implements, compact construction equipment, consumer lawn and garden equipment, hay tools, commercial turf products and utility vehicles. For product literature or dealer locations, contact: Kubota Tractor Corporation, 1000 Kubota Drive, Grapevine, TX 76051, (888) 4-KUBOTA [(888) 458-2682], Ext. 900, or visit KubotaUSA.com.
About Crayola
Crayola LLC, a subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, Incorporated, is the worldwide leader in children's creative expression products. Known for the iconic Crayola Crayon first introduced in 1903, the Crayola brand has grown into a portfolio of innovative art tools, crafting activities and creativity toys that offer children innovative new ways to use color to create everything imaginable. Learn more at www.crayola.com.
About Crayola Experience
Crayola Experience is Crayola's premier and one-of-a-kind family destination packed with creative activities and attractions. The colorful adventures of Crayola Experience help kids and adults alike explore art and technology, express their creativity, and experience color in a whole new way. The brand's flagship attraction is located in Easton, Pa., the birthplace of Crayola crayons. Other locations include Orlando, Fla.; Mall of America (Bloomington, Minn.); Plano, Texas; and Chandler, Ariz. To learn more, visit www.crayolaexperience.com.
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WESTBOROUGH, Mass., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Covectra, a leader in track and trace solutions, today announced the issuance of US Patent Number 11,295,126 by the United State patent Office (USPTO) for its StellaGuard security labeling device. StellaGuard is a smart security label that offers a dual layer of protection - both overt and covert technology - in a single label. StellaGuard is the only security device in the market that enables the consumer direct access to confirm authenticity of a product either at the point of purchase or prior to purchase.
"StellaGuard is a game changer for brands looking for a highly secure anticounterfeiting technology to serialize products," said Ron Ducharme, Vice President of Covectra. "Unlike current technologies, StellaGuard is singular in nature - each security labeling device is uniquely protected. Counterfeiters count on static images that continuously repeat, which are easy to reproduce. Each StellaGuard label has a non-reproducible film that combines both a covert feature of holographic "stars" that create a random, non-repeatable, three-dimensional pattern as well as an overt feature of a randomly serialized QR code. A simple scanning of the QR code by the consumer using the StellaGuard mobile app can immediately authenticate the product."
About Covectra's StellaGuard Solution
Covectra's StellaGuard solution combines this smart label with its mobile authentication solution to enable brand managers and consumers for the first time to easily and more accurately identify, authenticate, and track genuine products and combat counterfeiting. Today's top brands – from clothing, handbags, shoes, cosmetics, liquor, and sporting goods to consumer electronics, automotive spare parts, and pharmaceuticals–rely on StellaGuard to protect buyers, identify illicit sellers, provide universal brand protection, and strengthen track and tracing capabilities throughout the supply chain. Using any smartphone, consumers simply scan the product's barcode using the free StellaGuard mobile app and verify the product's authenticity within seconds. When combined with Covectra's AuthentiTrack track and trace solution, StellaGuard can also provide complete insight to the sales channel and location where the product was purchased. Brand owners can now get valuable information on sales channels, diversion attempts and other valuable consumer information.
About Covectra
Covectra provides complete serialization, track & trace, and authentication technologies to secure, trace and manage products across the entire supply chain, extending to the unit dose level. Transforming supply chains with end unit traceability from the packaging line to the cloud, we enable customers to ensure brand protection, product safety and supply chain integrity in the pharmaceutical, food & beverage, luxury goods, and tobacco industries. With over 3 billion serial numbers issued worldwide, Covectra helps to combat counterfeiting & product diversion and to facilitate product recalls. To learn more, visit us at www.covectra.com, or follow us on Twitter at @COVECTRA1 and LinkedIn.
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- Marking an expansion into wider sports entertainment, DAZN Group today announces an exclusive multi-year partnership with Pragmatic Solutions and Pragmatic Play ("Pragmatic Group") to launch a next generation betting product for sports fans.
- Under the agreement, a new group of companies has been established to operate a betting service under the DAZN BET brand.
- This historic deal signals the future of the casual betting landscape. Over the next few years, it will see the development of the world's first service that combines OTT live sports viewing and betting, creating a more engaging and interactive experience for fans.
- DAZN is changing the way people enjoy sport. Through this strategic partnership and others, the DAZN platform will become the first truly immersive sports entertainment ecosystem in which fans can watch live and non-live content, consume news and highlights, socialise, and bet.
LONDON, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DAZN Group, the leading sports entertainment business, today announces a strategic partnership with Pragmatic Group to develop a refreshed betting product for sports fans.
Pragmatic Group, a leading platform technology and content provider for the betting and gaming industry, was chosen by DAZN for its innovative and entrepreneurial spirit.
Under this exclusive, multi-year agreement, a new business headquartered in Gibraltar will launch and operate a new betting service under the DAZN BET brand.
DAZN BET will leverage the DAZN customer base and brand under a licensing agreement with DAZN Group. Pragmatic Group will supply the underlying platform and content and be responsible for the ongoing product development.
Responding to what DAZN customers say they want and the trend towards recreational in-play betting, over the next few years the partnership will develop a fun, convenient, and integrated experience for casual bettors to enjoy alongside DAZN's live sports streaming. There will be both play for fun and play for money products.
Shay Segev, CEO of DAZN Group, said, "The convergence of sports media and betting is the future. This historic partnership brings together the leading sports media company and a technology partner who is committed to developing innovative experiences for fans. It underscores DAZN's commitment to revitalise the sports viewing experience by offering a broader spectrum of digital entertainment for fans."
Ashley Lang, CEO of Pragmatic Solutions, said, "It's an honour for us to partner with DAZN. We know that fans want more integrated, immersive, and interactive experiences, and through our exclusive partnership with DAZN, we can deliver this".
DAZN BET is expected to soft launch a beta product to coincide with the start of the new football season.
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Del Monte® Gut Love and Boost Me Fruit Infusions are the Company's Latest Products to be Upcycled Certified™ as it Delivers Food that Nourishes People and the Planet
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Furthering its focus on reducing food waste, and in support of its commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, Del Monte Foods, Inc. announced today that two more of its products — Del Monte® Gut Love and Boost Me Fruit Infusions — have been Upcycled Certified™ by the Upcycled Food Association, the world's only third-party certification program for upcycled food ingredients and products. Through these two products, Del Monte Foods is re-directing approximately 130,000 pounds of pineapple juice each year, helping to provide nutritious and affordable food, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Last year Del Monte Foods announced the industry's first canned vegetable product to be Upcycled Certified™ by the Upcycled Food Association. The company's Del Monte® Blue Lake® Petite Cut and Blue Lake® Farmhouse Cut Green Bean products are 100% upcycled and sustainably grown green beans from Wisconsin and Illinois.
"As Growers of Good, Del Monte Foods is focused on producing nutritious food while also protecting the health of our planet," said Greg Longstreet, President and CEO of Del Monte Foods. "The food industry has a huge opportunity to reduce food waste and Del Monte Foods is committed to playing a leadership role through our expanded focus on upcycling."
According to a report by the World Wildlife Fund, Driven to Waste, nearly 2.5 billion tons of food are wasted each year globally, generating 10% of heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. From the water used to grow and produce food that doesn't get consumed, to the greenhouse gases emitted when food decomposes in landfills, food waste profoundly affects the environment.
As part of Del Monte Foods' mission to nourish people and communities with earth's goodness, the company has been focused on reducing all forms of food waste across its supply chain. Over the past 24 months alone, the company has diverted more than 25 million pounds of food from landfills through a focus on upcycling and food donations.
"Cutting food waste is the single-most effective thing companies and people can do to address climate change," said Turner Wyatt, Co-Founder and CEO of the Upcycled Food Association. "As a household brand, the early leadership that Del Monte Foods is showing in the upcycling space will have an important impact on consumer awareness of reducing food waste for a healthier planet and future."
"Food that is produced but never eaten still requires enormous resources to grow, harvest, transport and prepare," said Molly Laverty, Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Senior Manager at Del Monte Foods. "Producing and choosing upcycled products and ingredients is important in the fight against food waste."
Introduced in Summer 2021, Del Monte® Fruit Infusions was recently named a 2022 Product of the Year in the fruit snack category. Product of the Year is the world's largest consumer-voted award for product innovation. Del Monte Fruit Infusions provide a full serving of fruit and are rich in antioxidant vitamin C. Made with real fruit juice, they do not contain added sugar, artificial sweeteners, artificial certified colors or GMO (genetically modified organism) ingredients. The product line's Gut Love and Boost Me are the two flavors that have been Upcycled Certified™ by the Upcycled Food Association.
Learn more about Del Monte Foods' comprehensive Environmental, Social & Governance focus, including its commitment to achieve net-zero emissions. To learn more about the Upcycled Foods Association, visit, https://www.upcycledfood.org/the-standard.
About Del Monte Foods
For more than 130 years, Del Monte Foods, Inc. has been driven by our mission to nourish families with earth's goodness. As the original plant-based food company, we're always innovating to make nutritious and delicious foods more accessible to consumers across our portfolio of beloved brands, including Del Monte®, Contadina®, College Inn®, S&W® and Joyba™. We believe that everyone deserves great tasting food they can feel good about, which is why we grow and produce our products using sustainable and earth-friendly practices for a healthier tomorrow.
Del Monte Foods, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of Del Monte Pacific Limited (Bloomberg: DELM SP, DELM PM) and is not affiliated with certain other Del Monte companies around the world, including Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., Del Monte Canada, or Del Monte Asia Pte. Ltd. For more information about Del Monte Foods and our products, please visit www.delmontefoods.com or www.delmonte.com.
About the Upcycled Food Association
Upcycled Food Association (UFA) is a nonprofit focused on preventing food waste by accelerating the upcycled economy. With hundreds of members across dozens of countries, UFA is changing the consumer product supply chain to eliminate food waste by design. Through consumer education and networking, UFA is empowering consumers to prevent food waste with the products they buy. To learn more, visit https://www.upcycledfood.org
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Participation helps DENSO reach its sustainability goals
- DENSO becomes a Better Plants program partner to help reduce energy use in U.S. manufacturing facilities
- DENSO's U.S. and regional manufacturing facilities will benefit from energy-efficiency best practices
- Partnership is just one way DENSO is advancing toward carbon neutrality
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DENSO, a leading mobility supplier, is an official partner in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Better Plants program. One of DENSO's Two Great Causes is "Green" – achieving carbon neutrality by 2035. Collaborating with the DOE helps DENSO reach its sustainability goals by reducing the environmental impact of its manufacturing operations and energy use.
Five of DENSO's U.S. manufacturing sites are part of the program, including facilities in Athens and Maryville, Tennessee; Osceola, Arkansas; Statesville, North Carolina; and Battle Creek, Michigan. Through the initiative, more than 950 plants share proven energy-efficiency strategies and best practices. The lessons learned from the partnership will help shape DENSO's sustainability activities across the region.
This innovative collaboration plus DENSO's long-time commitment to continuous improvement (kaizen) will help DENSO reduce its energy use by 25% by 2030. This goal also aligns with DENSO's overall commitment to use 40% less energy by 2035.
"Partnering with the Department of Energy and other leaders in energy innovation is an important step in helping us quickly pave the way for a safer, greener mobility future," said Denise Carlson, vice president of the North America Production Innovation Center at DENSO. "We're developing technologies that support a better planet, and we're also focused on how we can make sustainability gains in our manufacturing operations and energy use across the company, from our offices to our production facilities."
The Better Plants program works with leading U.S. manufacturers and wastewater treatment agencies to set ambitious energy, water, waste, and carbon reduction goals and commit to reducing energy intensity by 25% over a 10-year period across U.S. operations. By partnering with industry, the Better Plants program helps its partners boost efficiency, increase resilience, strengthen economic competitiveness, and reduce carbon footprints through improvements in energy efficiency.
With manufacturing at its core, DENSO produces leading thermal, powertrain, mobility, electrification, and electronic systems to make the vehicles of today and tomorrow both cleaner and safer. If you're interested in working at a company committed to sustainability and making a difference, look for open positions at https://densocareers.com/.
About DENSO
DENSO is a $44.6 billion global mobility supplier that develops advanced technology and components for nearly every vehicle make and model on the road today. With manufacturing at its core, DENSO invests in its 200 facilities to produce thermal, powertrain, mobility, electrification, & electronic systems, to create jobs that directly change how the world moves. The company's 168,000+ employees are paving the way to a mobility future that improves lives, eliminates traffic accidents, and preserves the environment. Globally headquartered in Kariya, Japan, DENSO spent 10.0 percent of its global consolidated sales on research and development in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021. For more information about global DENSO, visit https://www.denso.com/global.
In North America, DENSO is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, and employs 27,000+ engineers, researchers and skilled workers across 51 sites in the U.S, Canada and Mexico. In the United States alone, DENSO employs 17,700+ employees across 14 states (and the District of Columbia) and 41 sites. In fiscal year ending March 31, 2021, DENSO in North America generated $9.3 billion in consolidated sales. DENSO is committed to advancing diversity and inclusion inside the company and beyond – a principle that brings unique perspectives together, bolsters innovation and pushes DENSO forward. Join us, and craft not only how the world moves, but also your career: densocareers.com. For more information, go to https://www.denso.com/us-ca/en/.
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THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digi-Key Electronics, which offers the world's largest selection of electronic components in stock for immediate shipment, announced that it has appointed Kashu Suzuki as regional business development manager – Japan, enhancing its commitment to the country which is a highly important market for Digi-Key.
Suzuki will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies to drive the continuous growth of sales and customer experience in Japan.
Because Digi-Key's customers are always the company's primary focus, Digi-Key has developed a broad suite of online tools to support a variety of customers, including self-service search tools with parametric search and part selection, a vast library of technical content and suppliers' product information, and most importantly, immediate access to inventory.
Digi-Key understands its B2B customers are looking for more, including fast quotation of full BOMs, automated order entry, credit support, consolidated shipment solutions, and supply chain programs for repeated high mix/low volume demand. Suzuki will focus on customer engagement by bringing these solutions to Digi-Key's B2B customer base in Japan and supporting their digital transformations.
"Japan has been a major market for Digi-Key globally and there is still a lot of untapped potential for us in the region," said Tony Ng, vice president, business development APAC at Digi-Key Electronics. "We are excited to have Kashu on board who knows the country well and has extensive knowledge of creative, digital marketing and customer engagement. He will play a major role in the team driving continuous development of our business and bringing all the available solutions to our wide customer base in Japan."
Prior to his appointment with Digi-Key, Suzuki was a business development representative for Algolia, helping to expand their Japan market. He also served as marketing manager for xpd inc., a Japanese media agency propelling B2B marketing for both domestica and global clients. Prior to that he worked for Future Electronics Japan as a sales manager, focusing on new business development. Suzuki also has extensive project management exposure as a producer, director and designer in architecture and design fields with Panasonic, Jigowatt and other domestic design firms. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in architecture from Temple University in Philadelphia.
About Digi-Key Electronics
Digi-Key Electronics, headquartered in Thief River Falls, Minn., USA, is recognized as both the leader and continuous innovator in the high service distribution of electronic components and automation products worldwide. As the original pioneer in this space, Digi-Key provides more than 13.4 million components from over 2,300 quality name-brand manufacturers with an industry-leading breadth and depth of product in stock and available for immediate shipment. Beyond the products that drive technology innovation, Digi-Key also supports design engineers and procurement professionals with a wealth of digital solutions and tools to make their jobs more efficient. Additional information can be found at digikey.com and on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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Designed for collaboration, ECRI's new headquarters meets the needs of its hybrid virtual workforce and symbolizes the nonprofit's transformation as a global leader in patient safety and healthcare technology
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ECRI, a global, independent authority on healthcare technology and safety, celebrates the opening of its new state-of-the-art global headquarters and medical device evaluation laboratory on a 24-acre campus near Philadelphia. The opening marks an historic opportunity for the nation's largest patient safety organization to fulfil its mission to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally.
"The new building symbolizes the transformation that ECRI has been undergoing over the past few years," says Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD, president and CEO of ECRI.
The independent nonprofit organization, founded more than 50 years ago, has evolved the scope of its capabilities with data-rich, cloud-based patient safety and technology solutions, partnering with hospitals and health systems in every state in the U.S. With offices in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia, ECRI works internationally with clients in more than 150 countries. In 2020, ECRI's acquisition of the Institute of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) created the largest healthcare quality and safety entity in the world, driving greater value to healthcare across all care settings, including community, specialty, and hospital pharmacies.
"As we expanded our global footprint and forged new solutions for a rapidly changing healthcare market, we also reshaped our business structure to support a virtual hybrid workforce. For these reasons and more, we designed a global headquarters that reflects our core values and engages our diverse and talented employees in helping us achieve our strategic vision," explained Schabacker.
The overarching goal of the headquarters transformation was envisioning a new workspace for a new virtual hybrid workforce for ECRI and its affiliate ISMP. The building pays tribute to the legacy of the organization's founder, Joel Nobel, MD, and his invention of the Max Cart, the first medical crash cart.
"The pandemic posed an incredible opportunity for ECRI to completely reimagine how to transform our existing space to meet the changing needs of the healthcare community. For us, creating collaboration spaces for our mainly virtual workforce was the unifying element and we accomplished this with a design centered on transparency, flexibility, and smart technology," says Pete Catalano, chief financial officer of ECRI, and executive project manager of the headquarters renovation.
ECRI's new headquarters features an independent medical device evaluation laboratory, an environmental lab, and accident and forensic investigation lab, multi-use, high-tech meeting rooms, open collaboration areas, and flexible workstations. The building's third level, which has yet to be built out, is being envisioned as a hub for healthcare innovation, a place where local healthcare organizations with similar goals can collaborate on healthcare advancements.
Philadelphia-based Irwin & Leighton were the contractors on the building project that was designed by Meyer Architecture+Interiors. The building officially opened on April 19, 2022, with a formal ribbon cutting ceremony.
For further information about ECRI, visit www.ecri.org, contact clientservices@ecri.org, or call (610) 825-6000.
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About ECRI
ECRI is an independent, nonprofit organization improving the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care across all healthcare settings. With a focus on patient safety, evidence-based medicine, and health technology decision solutions, ECRI is respected and trusted by healthcare leaders and agencies worldwide. Over the past fifty years, ECRI has built its reputation on integrity and disciplined rigor, with an unwavering commitment to independence and strict conflict-of-interest rules.
ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices PSO is a federally certified Patient Safety Organization as designated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) formally became an ECRI Affiliate in 2020. Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD, President and CEO of ECRI, has been recognized by the Philadelphia Business Journal as a Healthcare Leader in 2021. Visit www.ecri.org and follow @ECRI_Org.
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Digital marketing automation platform announces integration with Microsoft Power Apps, providing powerful marketing automation capabilities to Power Apps.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- emfluence, llc, a leading digital marketing automation platform, today announced its integration with Microsoft Power Apps. The integration will enable marketers to incorporate the full scope of the emfluence Marketing Platform with applications built on the Microsoft Power Apps platform.
"The emfluence Marketing Platform integration with Power Apps means app creators will be able to deploy our powerful marketing automation technology within applications they have built on the Microsoft platform," said David Cacioppo, emfluence President and CEO. "This enables marketers to create, deploy and track online campaigns through email, workflows, SMS, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, landing pages, surveys, online forms, website tracking and contact scoring."
"The integration with Power Apps is an incredible example of how emfluence is partnering with highly scalable, leading technology solutions that empower marketers to take control of their data and build more intuitive, elegant, and engaging solutions," said Rick McCutcheon, 8x Dynamics MVP.
emfluence's integration with the Power Apps ecosystem is further enhanced by its existing connection with Microsoft Dynamics. The integration gives business owners complete control over their data from the point of collection to how it's stored and shared across the organization and deployed as a marketing asset.
For more details about emfluence, visit the emfluence Marketing Platform blog, follow emfluence on Twitter @emfluence, like emfluence on Facebook, or connect with emfluence on LinkedIn.
About emfluence
emfluence is a full-service digital marketing agency and marketing automation platform based in Kansas City, MO. emfluence works with clients to develop and execute ROI-driven digital strategies across Search Engine Marketing, Paid and Social Media, Creative and Content Development, Branding Services, Website Development, and a suite of in-house Marketing Automation Tools. Every service we provide for our clients is focused on driving quantifiable results.
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Awards Spotlight the Company's Explosive Growth, Outstanding Culture, and Employee Satisfaction
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Encora, a global next-gen product engineering provider, today announced it has been named the winner of five awards in Comparably's 2022 'Best Places to Work' Awards Series, which are selected based on anonymous employee feedback to a comprehensive survey. Encora outperformed tens of thousands of large global companies considered in the categories below, and is ranked among the top 50 large, global organizations alongside technology giants such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
The company was awarded among the top 50 large, global companies in the following categories:
- 34th Best Engineering Teams
- 44th Best Global Culture
- 32nd Best Company Outlook
- 1st Best Places to Work in Phoenix
- 2nd Best HR Teams
"We're honored to be recognized by Comparably and to receive such positive feedback from our employees," said Venu Raghavan, president and CEO, Encora. "We wouldn't be able to provide the quality of work we do for our clients without our incredible people, and it is our highest priority to create a diverse and caring culture. We feel that these awards reinforce the work we've done to create that type of environment that both supports and empowers our employees across the company."
Comparably's award program celebrates the companies and leaders that are deemed the most exceptional across a wide variety of categories by those who know best – employees. With over 15 million employee ratings from over 70,000 companies and the most comprehensive data on what it's like to work at large organizations, Comparably is the world's leading workplace culture and brand reputation platform. Winners are determined based on a series of 50+ structured and comprehensive workplace questions in nearly 20 core culture categories including: leadership, work-life balance, compensation, professional development, perks & benefits, and a number of other categories.
Details about Comparably's 2022 'Best Places to Work' Awards Series and the list of award winners are available at https://www.comparably.com/awards.
About Encora
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, and backed by private equity firm Advent International, Encora is the preferred innovation partner to some of the world's leading technology companies. It provides Next-Gen services like predictive analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence, IoT, cloud, and test automation. Encora has deep cluster vertical capabilities in HealthTech, FinTech, HiTech, IAM & Cybersecurity, Digital Commerce, EdTech, Supply Chain & Logistics, Telecom, and other specialized industries. Encora has over 6,800 associates in 40+ offices and innovation labs across U.S., Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Columbia, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, India, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.encora.com.
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SAN DIEGO, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Especia Rum, the latest product from the Philippines' Tanduay Distillers, Inc., has won a Double Gold at the San Diego Spirits Festival. The rum was only recently introduced and is made available in the United States early this year.
"We feel truly honored that our spiced rum has already won an award as it enters the US market. We thank the San Diego Spirits Festival for this recognition. This only shows the kind of craftsmanship that goes in our Tropical Spiced Rum," said Kyle Tan, Executive Vice President of Tanduay and head of its international distribution.
The San Diego Spirits Festival is "the major cocktail culinary extravaganza celebrated every summer on San Diego Bay". Apart from Especia, Tanduay Double Rum also won a gold medal for its design.
A Spiced Rum from the Tropics
A blend of rums aged up to seven years in bourbon barrels, Especia Spiced Rum tastes of cinnamon, honey, and ginger, mingled with hints of tropical fruits. Its finish is a warm persistence of caramel, cinnamon, and baking spices, and has sweet and elegant aromas. It has 80 proof or has 40% alcohol/volume. It has a bright, golden amber color, and a mellow and smooth body.
Especia comes in a bottle with black and white textured background design, featuring an illustration of the snake coiled around a bamboo stalk with flowers and leaves inherent to the tropical island of its origin.
A stylized letter "T" representing Tanduay and "1854" which represents the year the rum company was founded are also prominently displayed on the bottle.
From a Heritage Brand with a Storied History
Especia continues Tanduay's tradition of winning, which started way back in the 1800s when its first distillery was established.
Tanduay was founded during the latter years of the Spanish colonial period. It is one of only a few Filipino brands that have reached their centennial year.
The company has always been meticulous in its rum-making process -- from choosing only quality sugarcane in the sugar lands of Bacolod that has been known for its sugarcane production since the 1800s. Tanduay uses only heirloom sugarcane, which are harvested after 10 to 12 months.
Rum-Making in a Tropical Climate
Temperature and the container where the rum is aged are factors that affect its ageing process, and Tanduay has the advantage of having its own distilleries in premier locations in the main islands of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
Rum aged in tropical climate results in faster ageing; it matures two times faster than those aged in much cooler climates.
Barrel-aging, meanwhile, gives rum an additional flavor and aroma, as oxygen enters the barrel and is absorbed by the oak. Tanduay rums are matured in bourbon oak barrels, which have been alligator charred prior to filling with whisky. The company has an arsenal of more than 200,000 oak barrels with a combined capacity of 40 million gauge liters.
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Eukanuba™ announces the launch of Premium Performance Puppy Pro, a nutritional formula designed specifically for highly active puppies. Sporting and working breed puppies may require advanced nutrition during their developmental months to support their needs for growth and activity, and Premium Performance Puppy Pro can help puppies build the strong physical and mental foundations they will need for an active and healthy life.
ST. CHARLES, Mo., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eukanuba™, the pet food company founded in 1969 to bring scientifically developed kibble for sporting and working dogs, now launches a new puppy formula Premium Performance Puppy Pro. Puppy Pro joins the company's award-winning, Premium Performance line, and provides sporting and working puppies with the unique nutrition to support their active lives.
"Athletic puppies and dogs are truly remarkable and remain the focus of our research and development. We continue to define ways Eukanuba™ nutrition can help unleash their innate abilities not just as athletes, but also as working partners. This commitment is what lead us to our newest innovation, Premium Performance Puppy Pro,"said Brad Wadler, Vice President of Eukanuba™ North America. "You only have one chance to support a puppy's physical and mental development, which is why it is our mission to provide nutrition with comprehensive benefits to help unleash the potential of our active puppies."
Premium Performance Puppy Pro is a premium complete and balanced puppy formula that contains high quality protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals in the specific amounts that active puppies need throughout their development. Puppy Pro reinforces the Eukanuba™ full range of products, and fuels canine athletes of all life stages. Each Premium Performance formula has been specifically designed to help active dogs maintain their health while achieving peak performance.
- Growth & Activity. Active puppies have elevated nutritional needs. Eukanuba™ Premium Performance Puppy Pro provides the nutrition to help build the body and sustain energy for play and activity.
- Digestive Health. Eukanuba™ Premium Performance Puppy Pro features a tailored fiber complex to support digestive health by optimizing absorption. Optimal efficiency of vital nutrients helps give puppies the nutrition they need, when they need it.
- Trainability. Nutrition fuels healthy brain function and learning. Eukanuba™ Premium Performance Puppy Pro delivers a training edge with clinically proven levels of DHA for smarter, more trainable puppies.
- Agile Joints. High energy, active puppies can place increased load on their joints. Eukanuba™ Premium Performance Puppy Pro provides glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate with EPA to promote agile joint health.
- Immune Support. Active puppies need support to help protect them from the effects of high activity and from their natural exploration. Eukanuba™ Premium Performance Puppy Pro is equipped with a tailored antioxidant complex to help support a healthy immune system and age-appropriate exercise recovery.
- Advanced Kibble Design. Puppies with higher energy tend to eat with enthusiasm. Eukanuba™ Premium Performance Puppy Pro helps increase chewing and slow the intake of food through a special kibble design that's easily hydratable.
- Gestation and Lactation Benefits. Eukanuba™ Premium Performance Puppy Pro meets the needs of growth, gestation, and lactation. This highly nutritional diet delivers appropriate levels of DHA, antioxidants, high energy content needed in final stages of reproduction, and essential levels of core nutrients like essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals.
Learn more about Premium Performance Puppy Pro at eukanuba.com/us/premium-performance-puppy-pro.
Eukanuba™
With nearly 50 years of research, Eukanuba™ offers a complete food lineup, and delivers exceptional, customized nutrition. Eukanuba's products cater to all types of dogs and are categorized according to life-stage, breed size, and health-and-performance requirements. For more information visit www.eukanubasportingdog.com or www.eukanuba.com.
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The Doge NFT, PleasrDAO, and Amber Group partner up to make NFTs more accessible
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PleasrDAO, a collective of DeFi leaders, early NFT collectors and digital artists today announced a partnership between Amber Group and world's most famous meme, The Doge NFT (fractionalized into DOG as a first-class ticket to entertainment), to bring greater accessibility to the rapidly growing fractionalized NFT ecosystem.
As part of this work, Amber Group is excited to work with The Doge NFT (DOG) as it launched on Huobi, the #5 largest crypto exchange in the world according to CoinGecko, on March 29.
The partnership aims to address a key challenge unique to the NFTs – the lack of accessibility. The expensive nature of NFTs presents challenges for fans, collectors, and potential community members who often lack the capital to participate in the NFT marketplace. Amber Group's relationships put it in a unique position to bring greater convenience into the NFT ecosystem, enabling for the fractionalizing of NFTs. Through fractionalization, NFTs can be owned by multiple individuals, creating openness for a broader segment of crypto enthusiasts who would otherwise not be able to participate in the trading of NFTs.
PleasrDAO turned one year old in March 2022 making it one of the longest running DAOs and was formed when its members purchased pplpleasr's Uniswap V3 "x*y=k" animation for 310 ETH. The NFT depicts a pink unicorn making its way towards an Ethereum logo-cradling oasis. Foreshadowing at its finest.
Since then, PleasrDAO has collected other big-ticket items — all linked to what it describes as "culturally significant" ideas and causes. This includes the original Doge meme turned NFT from the owner of Kabuso in Japan and the one-of-a-kind unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin purchased from the US government.
PleasrDAO last raised an undisclosed sum from a16z and top crypto investors in December.
"Amber Group moved quickly and thoughtful providing us with doge-class service," explains Tridog, head of The Doge NFT project." We are excited to allow easier access to our tokenized community and first class ticket to dogentertainment."
"NFTs are integral to the broader digital asset ecosystem, and greater accessibility to NFTs will undoubtedly accelerate the overall awareness and growth of the entire industry," said Tiantian Kullander, Co-founder of Amber Group. "We're excited to partner with PleasrDAO in bringing this convenience to fractionalized NFTs. We have every confidence that with this partnership, PleasrDAO will catalyze greater experimentation and innovation of digital art and communal ownership. We are looking forward to transforming the NFT ecosystem together."
About The Doge NFT
The Doge NFT is the most famous meme in the world fractionalized into DOG giving you a first-class ticket to entertainment via the DOG community.
About PleasrDAO
PleasrDAO is 'the People's Louvre of the 21st century' and a collective of DeFi leaders, early NFT collectors and digital artists who have built a formidable yet benevolent reputation for acquiring culturally significant pieces with a charitable twist.
About Amber Group
Amber Group is a leader in digital assets, products and infrastructure, working with companies ranging from crypto-native companies, banks and fintech firms, to sports teams, game developers, brands and creators.
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Flutura to deploy Cerebra Digital Twin & Pharmacologist Workbench, a self-service AI platform to accelerate impact to Pharmaceutical outcomes
HOUSTON, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Flutura Business Solutions LLC, an Industrial IoT Intelligence provider, is collaborating with global pharma major Lupin Limited (Lupin) to accelerate its digital transformation and automation journey.
Lupin and Flutura will collaborate to create a massive pharmaceutical data lake as the foundation for configuring digital twins of mission critical pharmaceutical processes as well as bolt-on battle-tested AI applications at scale that can sense and respond to events in real-time.
A digital data foundation will host data for all of Lupin's operational processes. Starting with Manufacturing, Quality, and Sales & Marketing functions, it will expand to finance and supply chain function until all the information converges into a Central Data Lake. "We were seeking a solution that is scalable and flexible to meet the range of disparate data that needs to be stored, Cerebra was the most suitable choice. Cerebra Analytics' Work Bench (AWB) can complement our operational experts (citizen data scientists) in a way that will add significant value to our business," said Narendra Saini, Chief Digital Officer at Lupin.
Flutura will support Lupin in accelerating its AI journey and develop advanced analytics and high value use cases in order to uncover actionable insights from the massive data lake. "We like working with visionary customers who are looking to break new barriers in value creation. We were truly inspired when Lupin shared their transformative, yet pragmatic vision for digitalization in Lupin," said Srikanth Muralidhara, Chief Customer Officer at Flutura.
About Lupin
Lupin Pharmaceuticals, a global Pharmaceuticals Powerhouse, operates globally through its facilities in 11 countries across 6 continents and is firmly seated as one of the top 10 generic companies in the world. Lupin operates through 15 state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities that are spread across India, the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. Lupin's R&D division boasts of 1,500+ scientists in seven research centers spread across five countries – India, the US, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands.
About Flutura
Flutura is an Industrial AI company impacting outcomes in the energy, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical sector. Flutura's flagship AI platform, Cerebra, is a field-tested platform and has been globally scaled and tuned for operational AI use cases. Flutura has also envisaged the industry's first self-service AI tool, Cerebra Analytics Work Bench (AWB), consisting of templatized automated workflows, prebuilt analysis toolboxes and automated data science execution democratizing artificial intelligence (AI) for operations experts.
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Update on Drill Permitting and New Concessions Awarded
VANCOUVER, BC, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Forte Minerals Corp. ("Forte" or the "Company") (CSE: CUAU) (OTQB: FOMNF) (Frankfurt: 2OA), a junior mining exploration company has blended assets with GlobeTrotters Resources Perú SAC to build an attractive portfolio of high-quality copper and gold assets in Perú. The Company's portfolio combines early-stage and drill-ready targets with a historically discovered and drilled porphyry system that is strategically positioned for copper and gold resource development.
Forte Minerals Corp. is pleased to announce exploration plans for its 100% owned Pucarini Gold Project ("Pucarini"), a high sulphidation epithermal gold system located in the department of Puno, in Southern Perú. The Company also announces the awarding of full title to additional claims applications surrounding Pucarini that were staked in late 2020.
The original Pucarini property comprises 1000 hectares of prospective, high sulphidation epithermal gold mineralization. This property has been the Company's main exploration focus as outlined in the Company's 43-101 technical report and summarized in the Company's initial public offering prospectus dated November 12, 2021. In late 2020, the Company staked 10 satellite claims surrounding Pucarini, comprising 16,100 hectares (See figure 1). The Company is pleased to announce it has recently been awarded full title to these new claims. The awarded concessions cover prospects that exhibit a similar argillic-sericitic hydrothermal alteration signature to that of Pucarini. The area selection was influenced by knowledge gained at Pucarini and the expression of similar hydrothermal alteration signatures recognized in the ASTER satellite imagery as part of the Company's regional remote sensing exploration program. Following the successful surface exploration programs at Pucarini that identified anomalous gold on surface, it was determined a priority to control more prospective ground in the district. A regional exploration program will be deployed in 2022 with follow-up sampling and mapping programs on the recently awarded concessions.
The Company completed an extensive surface exploration program in 2021 at Pucarini which included geological mapping, geochemical sampling and geophysical surveys. The induced polarization (IP) geophysical survey lines were positioned over the strongest mineralization and alteration as recognized from preceding surface mapping and geochemical sampling programs. Four exploration targets (A-D) were interpreted from the exploration program which will require drilling as the next step in testing the potential for economic gold mineralization on the property. An initial 4 hole, core drill program (+1000m) is planned to test three of four exploration target areas (see Figure 2).
Drill holes will be positioned to test these geophysical anomalies coincident with elevated gold values from surface sampling. Locations of these drill holes may be modified following further interpretation of the exploration program's database by the Company's geologic staff.
The first hole, DH_P01, is designed to test the north end of the north-trending chargeability anomaly at target area A, where it coincides with a resistivity anomaly and a domain of strong demagnetization. This hole will be collared near outcrops of hydrothermal breccia containing ~5% fine-grained disseminated pyrite.
Drill hole DH_P02 is positioned to test a northwest-trending zone defined by abundant quartz veining, hydrothermal breccia veins and breccia dikes associated with an advanced argillic mineral assemblage in target area A. This hole will be located where the vein zone intersects the north-trending chargeability anomaly and coincident resistivity anomaly.
Drill hole DH_P03 is designed to test beneath the cluster of rock chip samples that returned anomalous gold values in target area B that coincide with advanced argillic alteration and a resistivity anomaly on the west flank of the north-trending chargeability anomaly.
Drill hole DH_P04 is positioned to test the large resistivity anomaly in target area C near the east flank of the north-trending chargeability anomaly where it intersects the northern margin of the northwest-trending zone of veining.
The CIRA Report, which is the first step in the permitting process, has been submitted and approval is expected shortly. The field studies and technical documents have been completed and the Company is in the process of finalizing the DIA Report which will be submitted to MINEM for approval of the drill permits. Forte is working with an experienced ESG consulting firm based in Perú to guide the exploration and permitting, with a goal of maintaining a positive working relationship with the communities near its projects.
Paul Johnston, P.Geo., is the Company's Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this news release.
Pucarini is an early-stage, high-sulfidation epithermal gold project located in Lampa Province, Department of Puno. The 1,000 ha concession is 43 km from Juliaca, the region's largest commercial centre and 830 km southeast of Lima. The property is 100% owned by Forte Copper Corp with a 1% Net Smelter Return royalty held by Globetrotters Resource Group Inc.
The Pucarini project is in the southern segment of the Miocene magmatic belt which is the host to large Miocene high-sulfidation gold deposits in northern Perú including Pierena, Yanacocha, and Alto Chicama.
Globetrotters Resources Perú SAC acquired the property through the Peruvian auction process in 2018 and transferred ownership to Forte Copper Corp in 2020 under a share purchase agreement. Prior to Globetrotters exploration activity, Teck Resources Perú SAC carried out preliminary mapping and sampling programs between 2011 and 2015 before relinquishing the property. No drilling has been completed to date. Forte Copper Corp continued exploration by completing magnetic, induced polarization and resistivity geophysical surveys and a soil geochemical survey.
The property is underlain by a thick volcanic succession comprised of Miocene andesite to dacite pyroclastic and lava assigned to the Sillapaca Formation. Geological mapping outlined extensive argillic hydrothermal alteration measuring approximately 3 x 4 km, which encloses smaller zones of advanced argillic alteration. Outcrop sampling indicates gold mineralization is associated with quartz veining, hydrothermal breccia veins and dikes, and advanced argillic alteration. Geological, geophysical, and geochemical evidence combine to establish drill targets at 100 to 250 metres below surface across the property.
The Company is committed to maximizing shareholder value through acquiring, exploring, discovering, and developing copper and gold projects in Perú. Moving rapidly along the line of opportunity towards a value maxima is very attractive to investors. Significant value growth is generated when early-stage exploration moves towards resource definition while zoning in on target development and eliminating the early-stage grassroots risk. All three of Forte's properties offer this opportunity, with tremendous upside considering their geological potential.
On behalf of FORTE MINERALS CORP.
(signed) "Patrick Elliott"
Chief Executive Officer
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Forte Minerals Corp.
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Forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions which are difficult to predict. Factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include the continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions, including the effects of COVID-19. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. These statements should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those implied by such statements. Although such statements are based on management's reasonable assumptions, there can be no assurance that the statements will prove to be accurate or that management's expectations or estimates of future developments, circumstances or results will materialize. The Company assumes no responsibility to update or revise forward-looking information to reflect new events or circumstances unless required by law. Readers should not place undue reliance on the Company's forward-looking statements.
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Globant Acquires Low-code Platform GeneXus to Foster Business Reinvention and Expand its Product Portfolio
Published: Apr. 20, 2022 at 9:55 AM EDT|Updated: 29 minutes ago
Globant becomes one of the first leading digital players to invest in a low-code platform to propel business transformation.
GeneXus developed a leading low-code platform that simplifies software development and evolution and is being used by leading companies in several Latin American and Asian countries.
With this agreement, the Company strengthens the offering of Globant X, its product division.
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a digitally native technology services company, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GeneXus, a renowned company that developed a leading low-code platform extensively used in several industries. With this operation, Globant became one of the first leading digital players to invest in a low-code platform as a tool to deliver faster and high-quality digital transformation. GeneXus will also strengthen the offering of Globant X, a dedicated group in charge of productizing the Company's most transformative tech into scalable platforms.
With over 30 years in the market and being used by 1,700+ companies in Latin America and Asia, GeneXus is a solid product that offers a world-class low-code platform enriched with Artificial Intelligence (AI) features in a friendly tool to create, develop and maintain end-to-end solutions ready to run in all sorts of devices.
"We are thrilled to add GeneXus to our platform´s portfolio. Low-code platforms can foster business reinventions as they enable organizations to create new applications and solutions faster. This is absolutely critical in this era where technology evolves to meet end-users expectations", said Martín Migoya, CEO and Co-Founder of Globant. "We are proud to have Nicolás Jodal, GeneXus CEO and Co-Founder, join our team as we keep expanding GeneXus globally with his leadership and knowledge and our deep experience in AI and presence in 18 countries", he added.
Founded in Uruguay in 1988, with 150+ professionals, GeneXus has developed an impressive client portfolio including large well-reputed corporations as Mitsubishi Electric, Itaú, Honda, Pan American Energy, and TV Azteca, among others, in key industries such as Financial Services, Retail, and Industrial & Manufacturing. Nicolás Jodal, CEO and Co-Founder of GeneXus, and his team will join Globant to continue expanding GeneXus globally.
"We are proud to partner with Globant. Together, GeneXus will enter a new era and definitely become the world's most innovative low-code platform", said Nicolás Jodal, Co-Founder and CEO of GeneXus.
"I am very excited about this agreement. Globant is the ideal strategic partner to extend automatic software development and keep on simplifying the creation and maintenance of software for clients worldwide", said Breogán Gonda, Co-Founder and Chairman of GeneXus.
Guibert Englebienne, Co-Founder of Globant and President of Globant X, said: "We welcomeGeneXus to the Globant X family with perfect timing, when we are expanding and solidifying our platform portfolio and reaching new markets. Both company cultures will fit seamlessly and partnering with such an innovative and talented team led by Nicolás Jodal will be amazing".
Completion of this transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
About Globant
We are a digitally native company that helps organizations reinvent themselves to create a way forward and unleash their potential. We are the place where innovation, design and engineering meet scale.
We have more than 23,500 employees and we are present in 18 countries working for companies like Google, Electronic Arts and Santander, among others.
We were named a Worldwide Leader in CX Improvement Services by IDC MarketScape report.
We were also featured as a business case study at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
We are a member of the Green Software Foundation (GSF) and the Cybersecurity Tech Accord.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The expectations related to the businesses of Globant and GeneXus may differ from their actual results and consequently, you should not rely on these forward looking statements as predictions of future events. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "believe," "may," "will", "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "should," "plan," "expect," "predict," "potential," or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, expectations with respect to the anticipated benefits of the proposed acquisition. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. Most of these factors are outside of the control of Globant and GeneXus and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) the ability of the parties to complete the proposed acquisition; (2) the risk that the conditions to the closing of the acquisition are not satisfied in a timely manner or at all, (3) or the regulatory approvals required for the transaction may not be obtained on the terms expected, on the anticipated schedule, or at all (4) the risk that disruption from the transaction materially and adversely affects GeneXus's business and operations; (5) restrictions during the pendency of the transaction that impact GeneXus's ability to pursue certain business opportunities or other strategic transactions; (6) the Globant's ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the proposed acquisition, (7) costs related to the proposed acquisition, (8) Globant's ability to successfully grow GeneXus's business; (9) potential adverse reactions or changes to business relationships resulting from the announcement, pendency or completion of the proposed acquisition; (10) the ability of Globant to retain and hire key GeneXus employees; (11) changes in applicable laws or regulations, (12) the demand for GeneXus's services together with the possibility that GeneXus may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and (13) other factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in our most recent Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and any other risk factors included in subsequent reports on Form 6-K. Because of these uncertainties, you should not make any investment decision based on these forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements for any reason after the date of this press release whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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A New York based jury of authors and academics selected Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott as the 2022 Gotham Book Prize award
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gotham Book Prize, an annual award created to encourage and honor writing about New York City in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, announced today that Andrea Elliott has been selected as the 2022 winner of the annual Gotham Book Prize for Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City. A leading jury nominated a shortlist of ten books this winter and voted Elliott as the winner for being able to tell the story of tragedy and triumphs following main character Dasani as she navigates life in New York City.
"New York City remains a special place for us, and it's a privilege to continue honoring talented authors who write about the city with such passion," said Howard Wolfson and Bradley Tusk in a statement. "The jury was incredibly impressed with how thoroughly and sensitively Elliott captured the challenges of homelessness and poverty in our city and wanted to recognize her deep reporting and powerful writing."
The Gotham Book Prize award was created during the height of Covid-19 as a way to honor New York City and support novelists and the community during a hard time. As New York City continues to recover from Covid-19, Bradley Tusk and Howard Wolfson will continue the Gotham Book Prize to help New York's writers and continue to tell stories that celebrate and highlight the city's unique vitality and diversity. The prize is awarded annually to the best book set in or about NYC each year and winners will receive $50,000.
INVISIBLE CHILD follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. She was named after the bottled water signaled Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani's childhood with the history of her family, tracing the passage of their ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, the homeless crisis in New York City has exploded amid a deepening chasm between rich and poor.
"Winning this prize is a profoundly special gift, both as a New Yorker and as a journalist with the city as her canvas. I can't think of another place that generates so many unforgettable stories, or such a gifted community of writers -- including the other finalists I am humbled to be among," said Andrea Elliott, author of Invisible Child. "In my 23 years as a journalist, no story has taken possession of me like Dasani's, or taught me more about the city I thought I knew. When this 11-year-old girl stared out her shelter window at the Empire State Building, she was seeing the height of her city's promise. I hope that readers of Invisible Child also come to see that Dasani's story is their story, too; and that to enter her world is to see New York – and even America – in all its dimensions."
A jury of New York leaders and authors came together to select the award's winner, including:
- Writer, entrepreneur and sociologist Anna Akbari
- Documentarian and filmmaker Ric Burns
- Novelist and memoirist Stephanie Danler
- Fordham professor and political scientist Dr. Christina Greer
- Writer, poet and Director of the Curator Culture series at The Bass Museum Tom Healy
- NYU Professor and Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Mitchell Moss
- American University professor and novelist Patricia Park
- Novelist Melissa Rivero
- Poet Safiya Sinclair
- Queens Public Library CEO and former NYC Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott
"Now more than ever New Yorkers need to read to feel less alone. I am so thankful the Gotham Book Prize exists to highlight a writer like Andrea Elliott who writes with a clear eye for the policies and compassion needed in the city. Elliott has written a book that contextualizes the complexities and inequities in New York City and has given us a clear narrative as we continue to have difficult conversations." - Dr. Christina Greer, Fordham professor and political scientist
"Cities are changing rapidly. What defines New York — then vs. now? Is there an enduring spirit? What does it mean to be a New Yorker? The Gotham Book Prize recognizes literary contributions that explore the answers to these and many more questions about the ever-evolving metropolis that is New York." - Anna Akbari, writer, entrepreneur and sociologist
"Andrea Elliott's riveting and deeply moving account of the life of a remarkable homeless girl and her family, struggling to find a way forward in a homeless shelter in the heart of Brooklyn, is the most important and powerful work written in the 21st century about life in American cities. Based on nearly a decade of indefatigable research and original reporting, the story that emerges of Dasani and her family is an indictment, a heartful cry of moral outrage, and a call for change." Ric Burns, Documentarian and filmmaker
"Meticulously researched, lyrically written, Andrea Elliott casts an unflinching eye to the issue of homelessness—utterly visible yet neglected in the larger discourse. INVISIBLE CHILD has forever changed the way I look at our city." -Patricia Park, American University professor and novelist
"This book is a phenomenal portrait of the lives of the unhoused and underprivileged in the New York City, a beautifully written and clear-eyed record of the unimaginable struggles of the people we pass by daily in the street, while not even realizing the depths of poverty that exist in the greatest city in the world, and the cruel and crushing wheel of a system that does little to change it. I was deeply moved by Andrea Elliot's incisive reporting and how tenderly and painterly she renders Dasani and her family. From the first moment we met Dasani, her luminous spirit stayed with me indelibly, page after page, as I rooted for her, cried, laughed, and raged. I can't think of a more relevant portrait of New York in particular, and America's crumbling governmental systems in general, than Invisible Child. What better way to understand a city, a nation, a people, than holding a mirror up to the lives that we are never asked to look out for? A truly magnificent book and a most deserving winner of this prize." - Safiya Sinclair, poet
"Communities across the nation are confronting homelessness and the need for new policies to assist families and children caught in a devastating web of poverty, addiction and mental illness. Andrea Elliott's penetrating analysis offers new insights in her book." - Mitchell Moss, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, NYU
"We award the Gotham Book Prize to books that teach us about our city and ourselves. "Invisible Child" is an eloquent, searing revelation about a New York most of us misunderstand or ignore: every night, thousands of families and children are homeless. Andrea Elliott writes about this crisis with rigor, insight, beauty and moral clarity. She shows us a New York we have an urgent obligation to change." - Tom Healy, Writer, poet and Director of the Curator Culture series at The Bass Museum
"With moving prose and detail, Andrea Elliot's Invisible Child is something of a call to arms. Here, we see Dasani Coates, a vibrant and precocious child, as she and her tightly-knit family navigate life and the city through homelessness, poverty, and addiction. But the systems and infrastructures meant to support and protect her and her family are the very ones we need to reexamine, if not entirely dismantle - not just in New York City, but across the country." - Melissa Rivero, novelist
Wolfson works for Bloomberg Philanthropies, serving as its Education program lead and also runs Mike Bloomberg's SuperPAC. Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, writer and philanthropist. The two became friends while working on Bloomberg's 2009 re-election campaign.
Nominations for the 2023 Gotham Book Prize will open in Fall of 2022. For more information, please visit gothambookprize.org.
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LOS ANGELES, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GrayMatter Robotics today announced that it won an RBR50 Innovation Award as one of the 50 leading robotics companies in the world. The Innovation Award, selected by a committee of industry experts and the Robotics Business Review editorial team, recognized GrayMatter's Scan&Sand™ solution as a new robotic product introduction with the high potential to positively impact the surface finishing and sanding markets.
"We are excited to have GrayMatter's Smart Robotic Sanding solution selected for the RBR50 award" said Ariyan Kabir, CEO. "With a global shortage in surface finishing labor, manufacturing reshoring in the U.S., and the need to make a safer and more efficient workplace for high-mix manufacturers, we are honored to have our Scan&Sand™ solution recognized as the robotic solution that can effectively automate the sanding process."
GrayMatter Robotics pioneered Scan&Sand™ technology to utilize industrial robots to sand parts of nearly any shape or material without prior programming, allowing operation by existing production personnel. Using an optical-scan based system that plans optimized sanding tool and robot motion with a physics-informed artificial-intelligence framework, the Scan&Sand™ solution permits users to multiply their productivity, quality, and output without the need for robot programmers or engineers. Designed for rapid and flexible integration into existing high-mix manufacturing lines, Scan&Sand™ is offered as a turnkey service solution without upfront capital costs.
"Finding and retaining employees willing to do sanding has always been challenging and in the current labor shortage it has prevented us from growing," said Francis Hu, president of Performance Composites, a GrayMatter customer. "GrayMatter's Scan&Sand automation solution has allowed us to free up current sanding employees to work on higher-value tasks and provides a good return on investment."
"GrayMatter's Scan&Sand™ is a uniquely flexible robotic sander," said Brianna Wessling, author at Robotics Business Review. "The quick adjustment times and flexibility are what make it stand out from other robotic sanders. Operators do not need to know how to code to program the robot. Scan&Sand's exceptional flexibility and easy implementation make it surpass typical robotic sanders."
About RBR50: For over a decade, Robotics Business Review's RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards have highlighted the most creative and influential innovations from around the world that have advanced the state of robotics. Widely recognized throughout the world as a leading indicator of robotics innovation leadership, the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards are also a critical measure of robotics sector growth. "For the robotics sector, the role, importance, and impact of innovation has never been greater," said Dan Kara, Vice President, Robotics at WTWH Media. "With this year's RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards, Robotics Business Review highlights those critical innovations, and the organizations responsible for them, that will spur the development of new robotics solutions and drive robotics adoption forward."
About GrayMatter Robotics: GrayMatter Robotics is improving the quality of life of manufacturing workers and enhancing the productivity of manufacturers by leveraging robotics and artificial intelligence. The company creates solutions to assist humans in tedious and ergonomically challenging tasks in high-mix manufacturing and service applications.
Contact: GrayMatter Robotics, admin@graymatter-robotics.com
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Grohe Americas Reaches Milestone in Combatting Global Plastic Waste
PISCATAWAY, N.J., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Every year, eight million tons of plastic waste fill the world's oceans1, and the pollution of the oceans by plastic waste alone has increased tenfold since 19802. GROHE, part of LIXIL, a global manufacturer of pioneering water and housing products, reaches a milestone in its efforts to tackle the global waste problem and its impact on water by continuously improving its products, processes and services. This initiative is in line with LIXIL's Plastic Action Statement, a commitment that serves as the basis for all business processes, products and services to reduce plastics across the world.
"With water at the core of our business, it is our responsibility to care for every drop of this precious resource and commit to paving a pathway for clean water worldwide. GROHE's Less Plastic Initiative will bring us a step closer to this goal," said Trey Northrup, Leader, LIXIL Americas. "As a purpose-driven business, we are wholly dedicated to reducing the use of plastic within our own footprint and encouraging our customers to live more sustainably. Our belief is that it's critical to give our planet the utmost care and attention now and into the future."
GROHE, known globally for its sleek German design and engineering technology which provide exceptional experiences that consistently deliver the Pure Freude an Wasser (Pure Joy of Water), has environment and sustainability at the forefront of its brand strategy. It is committed to protecting the environment and conserving resources through its environment sensible business processes. This starts with a comprehensive approach, including eliminating the use of all unnecessary plastic and a move to establish carbon-neutral facilities.
In 2022 and beyond, GROHE will greatly contribute to tackling the global plastic waste problem with its three-step Less Plastic Initiative:
- Removal of Plastic from Packaging – To date, GROHE has removed and replaced all unnecessary plastic from product packaging. This has resulted in savings of around 37 million items of product packaging made of plastic. To do this, GROHE has increasingly used molded pulp inserts – which consumers may know from egg cartons – instead of expanding polystyrene or wrapping film solution. They are made of recycled paper and can be recycled again and again. Though GROHE achieved this major milestone this spring, the brand will continue to work on innovative packaging solutions and make its packaging even more sustainable.
- Development of GROHE Blue Water System – The GROHE Blue Chilled & Sparkling 2.0 water system provides chilled, filtered and, if desired, carbonated water straight from the kitchen tap – with a perfect taste. Thanks to this intelligent functionality, this resource-saving solution not only reduces the ecological footprint, but also enables consumers to live more sustainably.
- Partnership with everwave – Since 2019, GROHE has supported the non-governmental organization (NGO), everwave—an interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers and marine biologists developing active and passive clean-up technologies for rivers, to collect waste before it pollutes the oceans. GROHE's cooperation goes beyond financial support—both GROHE and everwave also are working to raise public awareness of the plastic problem and create understanding and desire for a more sustainable lifestyle.
In addition to its global plastic waste initiatives, becoming carbon-neutral has been a long-term goal for the GROHE brand and parent company, LIXIL, which began in 2007 by assessing its carbon footprint. As a result, since 2020 all eight LIXIL fittings plants as well as the German logistics centers of the GROHE brand are CO2-neutral*. In 2021, the GROHE outbound logistics became CO2-neutral*, and to offset unavoidable CO2 emissions in the future, GROHE has pledged to support compensation projects.
To learn more about GROHE's sustainability initiatives, please visit https://www.grohe.com/sustainability/.
About GROHE
GROHE is a leading global brand for complete bathroom solutions and kitchen fittings and has a total of over 7,000 employees in 150 countries – 2,600 of them are based in Germany. Since 2014 GROHE has been part of the strong brand portfolio of the Japanese manufacturer of pioneering water and housing products LIXIL. In order to offer "Pure Freude an Wasser" (Pure Joy of Water), every GROHE product is based on the brand values of quality, technology, design and sustainability. Renowned highlights such as GROHE thermostat series as well as groundbreaking innovations such as the GROHE Blue Chilled & Sparkling water system underline the brand's profound expertise. Focused on customer needs, GROHE thus creates intelligent, life-enhancing and sustainable product solutions that offer relevant added value – and bear the "Made in Germany" seal of quality: R&D and design are firmly anchored as an integrated process in Germany. GROHE takes its corporate responsibility very seriously and focuses on a resource-saving value chain. Since April 2020, the sanitary brand has been producing CO2-neutral* worldwide. In spring 2022, GROHE reached another major milestone by removing all unnecessary plastic packaging from its products.
In the past ten years alone, more than 490 design and innovation awards as well as several sustainability awards confirmed GROHE's success. GROHE was the first in its industry to win the CSR Award of the German Federal Government and the German Sustainability Award 2021 in the categories "Resources" and "Design". As part of the sustainability and climate campaign "50 Sustainability & Climate Leaders," GROHE is also driving sustainable transformation.
*includes CO2 compensation projects, more on green.grohe.com
About LIXIL
LIXIL (TSE Code 5938) makes pioneering water and housing products that solve everyday, real-life challenges, making better homes a reality for everyone, everywhere. Drawing on our Japanese heritage, we create world-leading technology and innovate to make high quality products that transform homes. But the LIXIL difference is how we do this; through meaningful design, an entrepreneurial spirit, a dedication to improving accessibility for all, and responsible business growth. Our approach comes to life through industry leading brands, including INAX, GROHE, American Standard, and TOSTEM, [as well as specialty brands such as DXV]. Approximately 55,000 colleagues operating in more than 150 countries are proud to make products that touch the lives of more than a billion people every day.
1 Our planet is drowning in plastic pollution – it's time for change: https://www.unep.org/interactive/beat-plastic-pollution/
2 The Global Risks Report 2020: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risk_Report_2020.pdf; page 46
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The renewed partnership continues to support Ripken Foundation programs across the country, beginning with a new Youth Development Park opening in Prince George's County, Maryland this month.
BALTIMORE, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation (CRSF) has renewed a five-year $5 million partnership with Group 1001. Their gift will continue to support the foundation's initiatives to impact underserved kids and communities across the country every day.
The CRSF and Group 1001 initially came together in 2018 when they donated $5 million over a five-year span. The success of the partnership resulted in an estimated impact of 66,000 youths, 985 mentors engaged, and 14 Youth Development Parks. The Youth Development Parks (YDPs) are nationwide in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
The renewal of the partnership demonstrates Group 1001's commitment to supporting underserved communities through the CRSF's programs and YDPs. The next project they are set to unveil is a Youth Development Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, the first YDP in the nation to be built on the grounds of a police department.
"Group 1001 is committed to creating positive change in our communities," said Dan Towriss, CEO and President of Group 1001. "This renewed partnership allows us to roll up our sleeves and work alongside the remarkable people at Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation."
Bill Shelton, Chief Marketing Office for Group 1001 added, "As a graduate and first all-American athlete from Eleanor Roosevelt High School, it will mean a lot to be able to go back to Prince George's County and be a part of the ribbon cutting ceremony alongside Dan and the Ripken team. I am excited to see what we can do with the next five years."
The CEO of the CRSF, Steve Salem added, "Group 1001 continues to be an amazing partner, and this renewed partnership not only symbolizes a commitment to provide resources for our programs and projects, but also shows that we share a common goal to serve communities that need the most support. Thanks to Dan Towriss and his team, the results of this partnership have been nothing short of astounding and we look forward to the impact we will continue to have together over the next five years."
The partnership will provide funds to support STEM Centers, Community Enhancement Projects, Healthy Lifestyles programs, and I'm GREAT programs throughout Indianapolis, Miami, and Nashville, as well as the development of an additional five YDPs.
About the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation
The Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation helps to strengthen America's most underserved and distressed communities by supporting and advocating for children, building Youth Development Parks and STEM Centers, partnering with law enforcement and youth-service agencies, and addressing community needs through its national program initiatives.
About Group 1001
Group 1001 is an insurance holding company in the United States, with current combined assets under management of approximately $59 billion as of December 31, 2021. Group 1001 powers the next generation of insurance businesses with useful and intuitive solutions and products accessible to everyone. Group 1001 invests in strategic partnerships as part of its mission to transform communities through sports and education.
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Stanley, Zippo USA, Rocky Boots and Kelty Among New Partners
BOZEMAN, Montana, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Guidefitter, the online community and marketplace for hunting, fishing, and other outdoor recreational gear, fueled by the opinions of thousands of pro guides and other outdoor professionals, today announced it has added over one hundred new brand partners. These new partners bring the total to over three hundred brands now working with Guidefitter to leverage the largest audience of influential pro guides and other true outdoor professionals as proactive brand promoters.
"As a former fly fishing guide, I'm intimately familiar with the significant influence pro guides have over brand and product choices with outdoor enthusiasts," said Will Morgan, Marketing Director at Outdoor Edge Cutlery. "We're excited about our new partnership with Guidefitter and look forward to significantly expanding the number of outdoor professionals who both use and recommend our products. Other industries are already deploying new social marketing and sales channels to reach more customers at lower cost vs. Facebook and others. Guidefitter is clearly leading that charge in outdoor."
Among the brands Guidefitter has added to its roster of leading outdoor manufacturing partners includes Rocky Boots, Mustad, Pnuma Outdoors, Tenzing, Zoleo, Zippo Manufacturing, FroggToggs, Outdoor Edge, Stanley and Kelty. These brands join Guidefitter's existing partners who tap into Guidefitter's expansive audience of true outdoor professional influencers, including pro guides, to position themselves as the brands of choice for outdoor pros and to leverage these influencers to reach more consumers with a genuine and authoritative voice for the brand..
"We first partnered with Guidefiter in 2016 and then doubled-down on that partnership in 2019 to help us continue the growth of our business," said Matthew Davis, VP Sales & Marketing at MTN Ops, the leading brand for outdoor performance supplements. "Outdoor professionals like pro guides especially understand the importance of operating at peak performance, and Guidefitter's platform has been instrumental in helping us expand our reach into that audience to introduce them to our brand and to help them achieve more successful outcomes for themselves and their clients."
"We are excited to sign many new partnerships with forward-thinking brands looking to win the loyalty of true outdoor professionals," said Brian Worthington, VP Brands for Guidefitter. "These brands are among those that realize, and are trying to get ahead of, the changes in consumer buying behavior. They understand that brands that can truly call themselves the preferred choice of outdoor professionals will have a clear advantage in the long run."
Last year proved to be one of the most difficult years for outdoor brands due to severe inventory constraints caused by the COVID-19 supply chain crisis and the ripple effects that impacted manufacturing, shipping and fulfillment. Now, brands are gearing up for the 2022 season as inventory levels begin to recover in the face of continued strong consumer demand for outdoor rec activities and products. New, more efficient marketing channels to reach consumers, including influencer-driven marketing and social commerce, are emerging as important strategic initiatives for the industry.
More information about Guidefitter's solutions for outdoor brands can be found at https://www.guidefitter.com/grid. Individuals seeking to join Guidefitter's growing audience of industry influencers, including employees of select outdoor gear manufacturers, can apply at https://www.guidefitter.com/insiders.
About Guidefitter
Guidefitter is the online community and e-commerce marketplace of choice for genuine outdoor industry professionals and other consumers who love to enjoy the great outdoors. We are pioneering the outdoor industry's first online experience where brands, true outdoor pros and consumers engage in a common digital community, marketing and e-commerce platform oriented around a shared passion for outdoor recreation and great gear. Industry pros have access to hundreds of pro purchase programs from a central location, tools to easily promote the brands they love and a like-minded community to demonstrate their abilities and expertise. Consumers benefit from a community that understands their passion for the outdoors, access to thousands of outfitters through a comprehensive search engine, and opportunities to discover and purchase great gear based on the insights from people who know better than anyone else - true outdoor professionals. Over 300 outdoor brands, including Swarovski Optik, Kenetrek Boots, Weatherby, Polaris RANGER, and SMITH Optics work with Guidefitter to promote their brand with authentic messages through large, managed audiences of genuine outdoor professionals. Guidefitter is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. For more information, please visit www.guidefitter.com, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
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LOS ANGELES, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Aero Club of Southern California is proud to honor legendary hero, both on and off-screen, Harrison Ford with the prestigious 43rd annual Howard Hughes Memorial Award. Ford will be presented the award during a live ceremony event on Friday, June 10, 2022, in Los Angeles at the California Science Center Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Pavilion.
Best known for his renowned acting career, Harrison Ford is a licensed fixed and rotary-wing aircraft pilot. He began flight training in the 1960s flying in a Piper PA-22 Tri-Pacer, but at $15 an hour, he could not afford to continue the training. In the mid 1990s, he continued lessons when he bought a used Gulfstream II and asked one of his pilots, Terry Bender, to teach him.
Ford shared his love of flying with young people serving as Experimental Aircraft Association Young Eagles program chairman for five years. During this time, he flew more than 280 children in his DHC-2 Beaver.
In 2010, he commanded an Operation Smile medical volunteer and supply airlift for Haiti earthquake victims. Ford is a volunteer search and rescue helicopter pilot in Teton County, Wyoming. He traveled to Washington, D.C. multiple times to advocate for pilots' rights. He serves as an honorary board member of the humanitarian aviation organization, Wings of Hope and as Vice Chair of Conservation International.
"It is an honor to celebrate Harrison Ford, the illustrious actor, pilot, and passionate aviation advocate for his volunteer work with Young Eagles, humanitarian and aircraft rescue efforts," states George Butts, President of Aero Club of Southern California. "The Aero Club's mission is to honor the giants of aviation and aerospace while providing generous scholarships to students pursuing an education in either field. We look forward to bringing industry professionals and the public together to recognize Mr. Ford this June and to celebrate the visibility he brings to the aviation and aerospace industries through his aviation accomplishments and iconic film career."
The Howard Hughes Memorial Award honors exceptional leaders who advanced the fields of aviation or aerospace technology. Harrison Ford's name will be added to the Howard Hughes Memorial trophy, a beautiful mid-century modern globe and vehicle sculpture, joining forty-two aviation and aerospace pioneers.
To purchase tickets and learn more about the 43rd annual Howard Hughes Memorial Award, visit https://www.aeroclubsocal.org/events/.
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SANTIAGO, Chile, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the result of an exhaustive study of Chilean terroirs that lasted more than 10 years, the Morandé Wine Group introduces HAX, a 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from specific zones throughout the country that have precise climatic and solar conditions that guarantee the highest concentration of polyphenols in the grapes with a more ample aromatic profile and a broader flavor palette than those of a traditional wine.
EEUU – HAX (haxwine.com). Integral to its innovative spirit, the Morandé Wine Group has consistently focused on obtaining wines of the highest quality. And in this case, 10 years of research with Japanese and French technologies has resulted in HAX, a wine that is high in polyphenols, which means it has more aromas, flavors, and intensity, positioning it as a wine of unprecedented category and quality.
HAX breaks the rules through a state-of-the-art method that achieves a perfect extraction of high-quality tannins and bring an exceptional wine to life, especially for those who set trends and are always looking for new experiences.
This wine's exceptional vinification process begins with a selection of only those grapes that have a greater polyphenol content—a higher level of anthocyanins, a substance found in the grape skins that results in wines with better color, more concentrated tannins, and ultimately, greater structure, aromas, and intensity.
HAX incorporates a revolutionary technology in a multi-valley, multi-vintage wine with 13.5% alcohol, an intense violet color, and aromas of red and black fruits such as strawberries, plums, and blackberries intermingled with very well-integrated notes of cedar and pencil lead. The palate offers a velvety sensation with good structure, round body, and a vibrant, juicy finish.
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Next Pathway Research: With Businesses Eager to Generate Revenue From Cloud's Transformational Promise, They Are Demanding More Services to Accelerate and Ease the Migration Path to the Cloud
TORONTO, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Today, Next Pathway Inc., the Automated Cloud Migration company, unveiled The State of Enterprise Cloud Migrations, a new report that highlights that businesses are under great pressure to enable digital transformation from the cloud to generate new revenue streams. Although businesses believe a multi-cloud strategy has advantages, currently they are selecting one primary cloud platform to move their enterprise legacy workloads. For this reason, Cloud Providers are in a race to bring enterprise workloads to their cloud platform. In the highly competitive cloud market, businesses are being lured to cloud platforms with industry solutions, faster migration paths and enhanced capabilities. Cloud Providers understand the benefits of first mover advantage and are using a range of tactics to gain market share, including employing their hefty balance sheets to buy business.
The February 2022 survey of approximately 1,200 IT professionals and decision-makers also reveals that there are no clear winners in the battle for market share among the hyperscale public cloud providers, although Microsoft Azure, at 37.3%, does have a slight advantage. But Amazon AWS (32.1%) and Google Cloud Platform (29.7%) also hold a prominent share of the public cloud market.
The State of Enterprise Cloud Migrations underscores the heightened sense of urgency by businesses to move their workloads to the cloud to realize new revenue streams through digital transformation: 78.3% of IT leaders report an increase in demand for moving workloads to the cloud. However, just one-third (33.6%) of respondents have completed a workload migration, which is only slightly more than the finding from Next Pathway's July 2021 survey, when 31% had completed the process. We are still in the early days of the move to the cloud.
"Our research reveals that companies that want to move to the cloud, need help—they want more services, industry solutions and enhanced products," says Chetan Mathur, Next Pathway CEO. "A close examination of the cloud providers' market share reveals that there is no clear winner. In this highly competitive market, the cloud wars are on and likely to continue for some time."
The lack of a clear winner in the cloud wars presents both opportunities and challenges for cloud service providers. Given the effort it takes to move legacy workloads to the cloud, customers will be reluctant to switch cloud providers. Service providers realize that moving new customers to their cloud platform and turning on consumption is paramount for winning the cloud wars.
The research reveals that over the past year companies continued to run proof-of-concepts with multiple public cloud warehouse platforms, which suggests that they aren't rushing their entry into the cloud and are assessing which platform is the most appropriate platform for specific business use cases.
Asked which services they want cloud providers to offer, nearly half (49%) of respondents named migrating existing applications, which topped the list. Companies realize the need to expedite their migration to their cloud. They understand the revenue potential when they digitally enable their business, but moreover, they appreciate the potential revenue loss if their competitors get to the cloud first.
"We are still in the early stages of the emerging cloud market, and as this market matures and we realize that the race to the cloud rewards those that move quickly, more is being demanded from the vendors to accelerate cloud migrations," said Clara Angotti, Next Pathway President. "Companies are eager to move to the cloud fast. Cloud Providers that move workloads to their platform will reap huge financial benefits and a long-term competitive advantage. However, companies need help. Moving to the cloud is not easy. Companies are asking for more services that will automate their migration and mitigate their risk to enable transformation."
Additional services requested include multi-cloud strategies (45.2%), a robust partner ecosystem (41.9%), increased storage capacity (40.3%), and industry specific solutions (39.3%).
When asked what they would do differently if they were to start their migration all over again, the majority of respondents would have spent more time planning their migration and used more automation to migrate workloads faster. For 40.6%, the planning process took longer than expected, as did the actual implementation phase.
IT leaders also uncovered limitations in the cloud platform that they did not expect. Not surprisingly, more than one-quarter (26.9%) feel that data migration presents the highest risk element of a cloud migration.
A major concern of companies moving to the cloud is that they lack the automated tooling necessary for a smooth migration process. They understand that speed to market is critical to ensuring they can sustain a competitive advantage, but close to half (47.5%) of companies acknowledge that they lack the automated tooling that would expedite the translation and migration of code from on-premises to the cloud.
Looking to the future, IT leaders anticipate that more services will be provided around the area of automation and data analytics. Cloud Providers that can enhance their services to make the migration leap from legacy data warehouses to their cloud platform will differentiate themselves from their competitors and turn on consumption revenue faster.
Nearly every company (97%) acknowledged that there are benefits to a hybrid cloud strategy. More than half (55.3%) said it allows organizations to benefit from the automation of public clouds and the security and privacy of private clouds, while 41.4% said the strategy delivers more flexibility to select the right applications for the two cloud structures. However, despite the attraction to a hybrid cloud and the considerable market opportunity, only 30% have a hybrid cloud in production.
"While the urgency to move to the cloud becomes greater each passing day, challenges and fears surrounding the migration process continue to hold companies back from beginning the journey," says Mathur. "It is a complex process. Cloud service providers that can deliver on the promise to ease the transition from on-prem to the cloud have an enormous opportunity to capture a hefty share of the market. However, most businesses are continuing to perform proofs of concept with a multitude of providers. Those cloud platforms that move customers first and keep them on their platform will be rewarded for their efforts and investments."
Next Pathway is the Automated Cloud Migration company. Powered by Crawler360™, the Migration Planner and the SHIFT™ Migration Suite, Next Pathway automates the end-to-end challenges companies experience when migrating applications to the cloud. For more information, please visit nextpathway.com.
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Analysis by Milliman determines that Assura is actuarially appropriate
AVENTURA, Fla., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Abarca, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) that is disrupting the industry with a new approach to technology and business practices, has released the findings of an independent report about their drug cost guarantee solution, Assura. The review, conducted by the respected global healthcare consulting firm Milliman, found Abarca's approach to be actuarially appropriate.
"This is the first solution of its kind – PBMs typically don't take on the financial risk of higher drug costs," said Jason Borschow, Abarca's President & CEO. "We created Assura because we are fully committed to the success of our clients, and we're ready to put our money where our mouth is."
Assura guarantees the net cost of drugs, including specialty medications, by offering an annual fixed per script cost for a health plan's entire population. The guarantee is adjusted each year based on drug benefit coverage changes. This helps protect payers from the risks of high-cost medications and drug mix changes, and brings much-needed predictability to drug spend.
To evaluate this approach, Milliman conducted a thorough independent methodology review of Abarca's reconciliation process to ensure that all calculations and methodologies used to deliver the net-cost guarantee were appropriate. As a result, the study affirmed that Abarca's methodology and calculations are actuarially appropriate.
"We agree that it is an appropriate methodology and that the calculations we reviewed from Abarca follow the prescribed methodology and are actuarially appropriate," the report stated. "We believe the arrangement provides transparency and predictability while including a straightforward methodology for reconciliation."
A copy of Milliman's report can be found here.
"Assura reflects two principles that are fundamental to our company," continued Borschow. "We do what we say, and we are ready to discard the traditional PBM playbook in order to deliver greater value and find a better way in healthcare."
To learn more about Assura, click here.
About Abarca
Abarca is igniting a revolution in healthcare. It started by redefining pharmacy benefits, but this is just the beginning. It is built on the belief that there is a better way for people and companies to work together, connect with each other, and make healthcare awesome for everyone. With smarter technology and a straightforward approach to business, Abarca provides a much better experience and higher value for payers and consumers. For nearly a decade, they have challenged many industry conventions and trampled on a few. So, call them a PBM for discussion purposes, but they are unlike any other company out there. Join the revolution at abarcahealth.com.
About Milliman
Milliman is among the world's largest providers of actuarial and related products and services. The firm has consulting practices in healthcare, property & casualty insurance, life insurance and financial services, and employee benefits. Founded in 1947, Milliman is an independent firm with offices in major cities around the globe. For further information, visit milliman.com.
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- A New Smart System Makes Growing Easier and More Fun for All Experience Levels
LOS ANGELES, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VIVOSUN, the leader in indoor horticulture equipment and technology unveiled today its latest generation of proprietary smart technology: The VIVOSUN Smart Grow System. The system comprises of the VIVOSUN GrowHub Controller, that allows users to control all of the environmental systems at work, the 2022 Red Dot Product Design Winner AeroLight, the world's first ever LED grow light with a completely integrated circulatory fan, and the AeroZesh, a fully programmable inline duct fan. The entire system is controllable through the new Vivosun App, which allows growers to easily manage their growth, from anywhere in the world. These are the first in a coming line of smart products for the Internet of Things designed by VIVOSUN that simplify the science of being a grower down to a manageable yet powerful level for everyone, regardless of experience.
The VIVOSUN GrowHub Controller is the first complete system that monitors, reacts, and balances a grow space environment automatically. Designed with user-friendliness in mind, the VIVOSUN GrowHub Controller is WIFI-enabled and syncs to an App on any cell phone. The App is able to alert growers to problematic changes in the grow space and to make alterations to the environment automatically, based upon expert-grower-designed "Grow Recipes," or upon Grow Recipes designed by end users themselves.
"The VIVOSUN Grow Hub and App empower growers of any skill level in a way that hasn't been seen before in the industry," said Nick Dew, Chief Brand Officer of VIVOSUN Inc. "It allows seamless communication between the environmental equipment -- ventilation, lights, and circulation systems -- and collects, organizes, and uses data to establish a baseline that protects plants while also bringing them through all stages of growth, from seed to harvest, automatically. Growers will now have the freedom to grow high quality plants how they choose with ease."
The VIVOSUN GrowHub Controller and App are the heart of the Smart Grow System. It controls everything that creates a good Grow Recipe including light intensity, light spectrum, ventilation airflow, ventilation timing, and air circulation that are entirely customizable. As well, the Smart Grow System logs and organizes localized environmental data -- from temperature to humidity to data on lighting -- that are extremely useful for growers of all experience levels to diagnose problems and to define the perfect indoor growing environment.
The second product in the Smart Grow System line is the 2022 Red Dot Product Design Winner AeroLight (patent pending), the first-ever LED grow light with an integrated high-efficiency circulation fan.
The AeroLight is a full-spectrum, fully programmable LED grow light that uses the newest Samsung 301B diodes that emphasize blue, red, UV and far-red spectrum for efficient plant and flower growth. Built into the center of the system is a powerful circulation fan -- positioned directly above the canopy, the AeroLight creates uniform airflow, balancing humidity and temperature, increasing CO2 exposure, improving transpiration rates and photosynthesis. The fan is designed with unique air outlet flanges that spread air uniformly beneath the light.
The AeroLight system was designed to make growing easier and more fun for everyone, regardless of experience. AeroLight grow lights are fully programmable with the VIVOSUN GrowHub so growers can establish light intensity, program photoperiods, and even mimic natural wind and sunrises and sunsets inside their tent. The VIVOSUN GrowHub Controller extends control over the fan as well, which is built with dual ball bearings for quiet operation and longer life of 70,000 hours. This latest generation of smart grow lights also features an H-bracket (patent pending) that helps connect and extend the AeroLight system from 100W to 400W across a larger space so growers can link multiple AeroLights together to cover any size grow space.
The final release for the Smart Grow System is the AeroZesh, VIVOSUN's smart inline duct fan. Like the AeroLight, the AeroZesh is compatible with the VIVOSUN Grow Hub and is covered in the Grow Recipe programming. The VIVOSUN GrowHub automatically measures environmental changes and controls the AeroZesh to optimize temperature, humidity, and airflow for indoor growing, or it can be programmed independently for unique environmental conditions required by each grower.
The VIVOSUN Smart Grow System is an ecosystem of products that are designed as the next generation of growing. VIVOSUN will continue to release new specialized smart products that are a part of the Internet of Things to make growing more accessible and enjoyable for growers, new and experienced alike.
The VIVOSUN Grow Hub and AeroLight package is available in limited quantities now on Vivosun.com for $299. A limited time early bird pre-order price is for the package is $249. The package will also be available on Amazon.com and Vivosun.com in late May, 2022.
The VIVOSUN GrowHub AeroZesh and AeroLight package will be available now on Vivosun.com for $409. A limited time early bird pre-order price is for the package is $339. The package will also be avialable on Amazon.com and Vivosun.com in late May, 2022.
More details on the entire lineup of the Smart Grow System will be announced in the coming weeks.
About VIVOSUN
VIVOSUN is an industry leader in indoor growing and horticulture equipment. VIVOSUN pioneers smart products that are designed to improve grower enjoyment and experience, while also making growing more accessible to everyone. More information about VIVOSUN and its products can be found at www.VIVOSUN.com.
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Insider, a single platform for delivering individualized, cross-channel customer experiences, helps 1000+ leading enterprise brands and high growth startups, including Samsung, GAP Marks & Spencer, Virgin, IKEA, Burger King, Toyota, Santander, Vodafone, Madeira Madeira, Puma, Singapore Airlines, CNN, Lenovo and Estée Lauder accelerate digital growth by connecting data across channels, predicting future behavior with AI, and individualizing experiences to deliver the fastest time to value.
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Insider — one platform for individualized, cross-channel customer experiences, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Customer Data Platforms Focused on Front-Office Users 2021-22 Vendor Assessment. The report is a comparative study of the functional capabilities aligned with customer needs and growth strategies of 12 worldwide CDP vendors that predominantly benefit front-office users in marketing, customer experience, loyalty, customer service, support, and sales; outlining their respective strengths, challenges, and buyer considerations.
Access your complimentary excerpt of the report here.
Hande Cilingir, Co-founder and CEO of Insider said, "Our vision of building an industry-leading cross-channel marketing platform built on a solid CDP foundation that helps our customers easily collect, manage, analyze, and activate customer data is validated with our recent positioning as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape Report 2021-22. We have bold plans in place to continue disrupting the marketing technology industry as we endeavor to help global enterprise brands reinvent the future of customer experience."
Insider's core customer data capabilities that enable it to outplay other vendors in the market include:
- Identity Resolution: Ability to stitch customer identities across devices and channels by merging zero, first-, second-, and third-party customer data in real-time
- Audience Insights: Enables marketers to analyze their entire customer base and find profitable audiences to target
- Next Best Channel Predictions: Enables marketers to predict the right channel to engage a customer (from 12+ channels) based on their likelihood to convert or revenue potential
- Multi-Armed Bandit Testing: Allows marketers to automatically test different cross-channel strategies and remove the manual guesswork to deliver high-converting, 1:1 experiences
Insider's expansive related product offering portfolio, built on its CDP foundation, further makes it a strong cross-channel customer experience solution that enables 3 key capabilities:
- Segmentation: Helps marketers define segments based on past or real-time behavior and leverage 7+ AI-led segments to predict purchase, interest, churn, CLTV, and more
- Contextual Personalization: Data streaming APIs allow marketers to listen to customer actions and trigger contextual 1:1 experiences that increase product discovery, repeat purchases, and loyalty
- Cross-Channel Activation: Allows marketers to build and deploy individualized journeys across 12+ channels including web, app, email, SMS, messaging platforms like WhatsApp, LINE, RCS, and more
Access your complimentary excerpt of the report here.
About Insider
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
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LIMA, Peru, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Intercorp Financial Services Inc. ("IFS" or "the Company") (BVL/NYSE: IFS) announced today that it will host its First Quarter 2022 earnings conference call & video webcast presentation.
The conference call will take place on Friday, May 13 2022 at 9:00 am Lima Time / 10:00 am New York Time.
Presenting for IFS:
Mr. Luis Felipe Castellanos - Chief Executive Officer, Intercorp Financial Services
Ms. Michela Casassa - Chief Financial Officer, Intercorp Financial Services
Mr. Gonzalo Basadre – Chief Executive Officer, Interseguro
Mr. Bruno Ferreccio – Chief Executive Officer, Inteligo
The conference call can be accessed through the following numbers:
From within the U.S.: 1 (866) 807-9684
From outside the U.S.: +1 (412) 317-5415
Conference ID: IFS
There will be a live video webcast presentation on this event available at:
https://services.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=TFmrTVGE
A replay of this conference call will be available shortly after its conclusion at: www.ifs.com.pe
Intercorp Financial Services will release First Quarter 2022 results on Thursday, May 12, 2022, after the market closes.
In accordance with IFS's corporate disclosure policy, the Company's Quiet Period begins on April 20, 2022, and concludes after First Quarter 2022 financial results have been published. During the Quiet Period, IFS will not disclosure any financial information or comment on its financial results or operations.
About the Company:
Intercorp Financial Services Inc. ("IFS") is a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Panama, and has securities listed on the Lima Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. IFS is a leading provider of financial services in Peru. IFS' main subsidiaries are Banco Internacional del Perú, S.A.A.-Interbank ("Interbank"), Interseguro Compañía de Seguros, S.A. ("Interseguro") and Inteligo Group Corp. ("Inteligo"). Interbank is a full-service bank providing general banking services to retail and commercial customers. Interseguro is a leading insurance company, providing annuities, individual life insurance, disability insurance and survivor benefits, and mandatory traffic accident insurance. Inteligo is a fast-growing provider of wealth management services through Inteligo Bank Ltd. and Interfondos, as well as brokerage services through Inteligo SAB
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PITTSBURGH, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "We wanted to create a way for individuals with visual impairments to engage in archery and other target shooting activities," said one of two inventors, from Limon, Colo., "so we invented the ARCHERY BUDDY. Our design can be used recreationally by archers, as well as in target shooting competitions by para-Olympians."
The invention provides an innovative new product for target archers with visual impairments. In doing so, it offers an improved way to point and fire an arrow at the target. As a result, it enables the user to engage in an activity that might otherwise be difficult or impossible and it could provide a sense of independence and self-reliance. The invention features a lightweight and compact design that is easy to use so it is ideal for visually-impaired individuals. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Denver sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-DNV-315, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International travel is reopening as restrictions ease around the globe and it has Americans busy researching and booking trips and rescheduling previously delayed travel. ItsEasy.com, a leading provider of passport and visa expediting services since 1976, is ensuring travelers enjoy hassle-free International trips this summer.
As the authority on visas and passport requirements in countries across the globe, ItsEasy.com suggests the number one thing everyone should know if they're planning international trips this summer: If your passport is expiring soon, apply to renew it right now.
Passport renewals are often overlooked, yet crucial, when planning travel. It's important travelers do not wait to initiate the application process to renew theirs.
"The passport renewal process is still taking longer than it should and travelers are forced to expedite their renewal when they book last minute trips or don't plan ahead," said David Alwadish, founder of ItsEasy.com and travel industry veteran. "That oversight can cost consumers hundreds, even thousands of dollars. The high demand to travel internationally again, combined with fewer available appointments at the passport agency, has many third-party services gouging the public for expedited renewals."
Passports that have six months or less validity at time of travel may NOT be considered acceptable for travel to most countries and you will be refused boarding the aircraft. Alwadish urges people to check their passport expiration date and to apply for their passport renewal NOW or risk getting charged unnecessary and unusually high amounts by competitors.
ItsEasy.com's mission is "no passenger left behind" and more times than not, this means planning ahead. Alwadish is committed to keeping these services affordable, and says if you don't renew now for summer travel, you risk being overcharged by competitors.
"Some third-party passport renewal services are charging upwards of $2,000 just to secure them in three to five days, in order for their desperate customers to keep their travel plans."
As the authority on visas and passport requirements in countries across the globe, ItsEasy.com is the easiest, safest and most cost-effective way to renew right now. Their five-star rated, All-inclusive ItsEasy Passport Renewal and Photo App provides photos, trackable Round Trip shipping, complimentary full review of all documents and passport renewal reminders ALL for just $34.95 (compare to online merchants charging up to $200 and more and they don't include the photos). Download the ItsEasy.com app for free on iOS or Android to get started with a passport renewal today (search word: ItsEasy).
Over the last 40 years, ItsEasy.com has helped millions of travelers with their passports and visas. The company recently added e-visa services as an offering, furthering their team's commitment to providing best-in-class, personalized support and affordable services for clients. They also provide ongoing communication and continuous updates on new travel guidelines, which are crucial amidst the everchanging COVID-19 landscape. Their dedicated team is available to help 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at 1-866-ITS-EASY (487-3279).
About ItsEasy.com
ItsEasy.com has been a trusted agent of the US Department of State since 1976, authorized to provide US passport services to the public for a fee. It is the safest and most cost-effective way to renew your passport from your home or office.
ItsEasy.com has helped millions of travelers over the last 40 years. The company's mission: "No Passenger Left Behind", coupled with its unsurpassed customer service and honest and fair pricing set ItsEasy.com apart. Founder David Alwadish is so passionate about helping people travel safely, he has been volunteering his services for free to those who must travel during the pandemic for a life and death emergency. Plan ahead. Renew early. Avoid the lines. Stay safe. Save time and money.
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Events include an in-person reception as well as a virtual program
CHERRY HILL, N.J., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 12, 2022, the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA) will bring our community "Together at Home" for our second annual virtual Improving Lives Benefit, showcasing more than 50 years of hope, impact, and support for the MS community. This very special virtual event will take place at 7:00 pm ET from the comfort of one's own home. In addition to this year's virtual event, those interested in supporting MSAA in-person may attend the Improving Lives Benefit "Together at Last" at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA on May 5, 2022, at 6:00 pm ET.
We are delighted to announce the return of last year's host, Tyler Campbell, who will be the emcee for both the virtual and in-person events. Tyler — an MS advocate and son of Hall of Fame legend Earl Campbell — was diagnosed with MS while playing college football and had to sideline his dreams of playing in the NFL. An entrepreneur in his own right, Tyler travels the country as a professional speaker delivering powerful messages of self-worth. MSAA is honored to include Tyler in both exciting events.
In addition to Tyler serving as host, MSAA's 2022 Improving Lives Benefit honorees include Alexandra von Plato, MSAA Board Member and CEO of Publicis Health as our Corporate Honoree and visual artist, Hannah Garrison as the event's Mission Honoree.
Chief Executive Officer of Publicis Health, Alexandra von Plato joined the MSAA Board of Directors in 2019. Across Publicis' network of 11 agency brands, a key focus is connecting healthcare and wellness brands with the people who need them. That's what drew Alex to MSAA — the idea of working together with an organization with a history of bringing that focus to life was a perfect fit. In her time with MSAA's Board, Alex has led the Communications and Marketing Committee, providing key insights from her vast professional experience. In addition, her team has financially supported a range of events and initiatives, including MSAA's Improving Lives Through Art series, several MSAA golf tournaments, and past Improving Lives Benefits. Beyond that, her team has a strong commitment to build connections that make sense — expanding MSAA's corporate reach one introduction at a time.
A long-time visual artist from San Antonio, Texas, Hannah Garrison was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2017, and used her painting as a safe space for exploration, mindfulness, and a chance to practice self-love when she needed it the most. While she makes some adjustments to the way she creates art to accommodate difficulty holding tools or other physical issues related to her MS, Hannah maintains a focus on creating art for her personal wellbeing and sharing that with others. In addition to contributing to the MSAA Art Showcase each year, she serves as a volunteer and community leader bringing the arts to people facing life-altering health challenges. Hannah significantly helped drive the success of the Improving Lives Through Art series from its inception — her infectious smile, simple directions, and an ability to help people make art their own has hooked participants from the first event.
"We are so pleased to recognize two talented and inspirational advocates as our honorees for MSAA's Improving Lives Benefit, which is once again being hosted by the incredible motivational speaker Tyler Campbell," says Gina Ross Murdoch, MSAA President and CEO. "Both Alex and Hannah have provided their immense expertise to our organization, helping to advance our mission of Improving Lives Today while truly making a positive impact on the MS community."
Those interested in going one step further to support the second annual virtual Improving Lives Benefit can create a viewing party fundraiser with friends and family to help MSAA provide even more free programs and services to the MS community. All viewing parties will be recognized live during the event on May 12, 2022 and have an opportunity to earn prizes to enjoy during their party based on meeting fundraising milestones!
To learn more about the virtual Improving Lives Benefit "Together at Home" or the in-person Improving Lives Benefit "Together at Last," please visit MSAA's website at https://engage.mymsaa.org/benefit2022.
For more information about both Improving Lives Benefit events or the honorees, please contact Kaitlyn Gallagher, Manager of Public Relations & Marketing at (800) 532-7667, ext. 122 or via email at kgallagher@mymsaa.org.
About MSAA
The Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA) is a national nonprofit organization and leading resource for the entire MS community, improving lives today through vital services and support. MSAA provides free programs and services, such as: a Helpline with trained specialists; award-winning publications, including, The Motivator; MSAA's nationally recognized website, featuring educational videos, webinars, and research updates; a mobile phone app, My MS Manager™; safety and mobility equipment products; cooling accessories for heat-sensitive individuals; MRI funding; My MSAA Community, a peer-to-peer online support forum; MS Conversations blog; a clinical trial search tool; podcasts; and more. For additional information, please visit www.mymsaa.org or call (800) 532-7667.
About Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system (CNS), which consists of the brain, optic nerves, and spinal cord. MS damages or destroys the protective covering (known as myelin) surrounding the nerves of the CNS, and can potentially injure the nerves as well. This damage causes reduced communication between the brain and nerve pathways. Common MS symptoms include visual problems, overwhelming fatigue, difficulty with balance and coordination, depression and cognitive issues, and various levels of impaired mobility. The prevalence of multiple sclerosis is estimated at nearly one million people nationwide and most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 15 and 50. MS is not contagious and researchers continue to look for both a cause and a cure.
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NEW ORLEANS, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, pursuant to an Order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, that a hearing will be held on July 25, 2022, at 4:30 p.m., before the Honorable Lorna G. Schofield in Courtroom 1106 of the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse at 40 Foley Square, New York, NY 10007, for the purpose of determining: (1) whether the proposed Settlement for the sum of $44,000,000 in cash should be approved by the Court as fair, reasonable and adequate; (2) whether, after the hearing, this Action should be dismissed with prejudice pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement dated as of February 4, 2022; (3) whether the proposed Plan of Allocation is fair, reasonable, and adequate and should be approved; and (4) whether the application of Class Counsel for the payment of attorneys' fees and reimbursement of expenses incurred in this Action, and any application of Lead Plaintiff and Additional Plaintiffs for a compensatory award, should be approved.
If you purchased Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. ("CB&I" or the "Company") common stock (trading symbol "CBI") between October 30, 2013 and June 23, 2015, inclusive, your rights may be affected by the Settlement of this Action. Please visit the website listed in the Notice of Pendency and Proposed Settlement of Class Action ("Notice") and obtain a copy of the Proof of Claim and Release. You may also obtain copies of these documents by writing to Chicago Bridge & Iron Securities Litigation, c/o A.B. Data, Ltd., P.O. Box 170800, Milwaukee, WI 53217, by calling the Claims Administrator at 1-855-958-3609, or by visiting the website at www.chicagobridgeironsecuritieslitigation.com. The Notice contains details about this Action and Settlement, including what you must do to file a Proof of Claim, exclude yourself from the Settlement, or object to the Settlement. If you are a Class Member, in order to share in the distribution of the Net Settlement Fund, you must submit a Proof of Claim and Release electronically by, or mail it postmarked no later than, July 1, 2022, establishing that you are entitled to recovery.
If you desire to be excluded from the Class, you must submit a Request for Exclusion postmarked by July 1, 2022, in the manner and form explained in the detailed Notice referred to above. All Members of the Class who have not timely and validly requested exclusion from the Class will be bound by any judgment entered in the Action pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Stipulation of Settlement. Your objection(s) must be mailed on or before July 1, 2022, to: Class Counsel Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC; and Counsel for the Defendants, at the following addresses:
CLASS COUNSEL:
Lewis S. Kahn
KAHN SWICK & FOTI, LLC
1100 Poydras Street, Suite 3200
New Orleans, LA 70163
Lead Counsel for Class Representative and Lead Plaintiff
ALSAR Ltd. Partnership and Class Counsel
DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL:
David D. Sterling
BAKER BOTTS L.L.P.
910 Louisiana Street
Houston, TX 77002
Counsel for Defendants Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.,
Philip Asherman, Ronald Ballschmiede, and Westley Stockton
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT OR THE CLERK'S OFFICE REGARDING THIS NOTICE. If you have any questions about the settlement, you may contact Class Counsel at the address listed above.
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- 83% of survey respondents willing to substitute beef at least once a week
- Omnivores' interest in purchasing plant-based alternatives is cooling off
- Food companies mobilizing now will win the future of food
CHICAGO, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, global management consulting firm Kearney released its 2022 Earth Day Survey. The report looks into the climate impact of consumer food-purchasing choices and measures consumer momentum toward "climavorism," the making of mindful food purchasing and consumption choices based on their impact on climate and the larger environment. This year's Earth Day Survey polled 1,000 U.S. consumers on their awareness of, and attitudes toward, the relationship between their eating preferences and the climate crisis, and found a measurable shift in consumer awareness of the environmental impact of their food-buying choices.
"Daily food choice is a call to action for consumers keen to make a positive impact on climate outcomes, with nearly one-third of consumers in our survey considering environmental impact at the grocery store," said Corey Chafin, Associate Partner in Kearney's consumer practice, and the study's principal author.
The study found the three largest drivers of respondents' food purchasing choices were Access (the ability to find and prepare food), Culture (taste preferences and familiar connection to foods), and Hunger (the desire to eat immediately). "We are entering into a new era of climate-conscious eating – giving rise to the Climavores – with 80% of consumers indicating at least some awareness of the connection between food choice and the environment," Chafin said.
Kearney looked at respondents' self-reported buying behavior across three channels – grocery, foodservice, and online ordering. Taste and Cost were the Number One and Two largest considerations, with Cost leading respondent purchases online and in-store and Taste capturing the top slot for restaurant purchases.
The study concludes consumer packaged good manufacturers and other food processors need to pay attention to the growing Climavore consumer segment for two reasons. First, it is clearly building momentum. Second, since food production is the second-largest source of adverse climate change, things have to change if manufacturers have any hope of hitting their Green House Gas (GHG) emission targets, before those voluntary targets become mandates.
"Food companies must add 'Climate Impact' to their product re-formulation and design-to-value campaigns to prepare for the rise of the Climavore consumer," Chafin said. But the study also surfaces several major caveats for branders.
Climate-conscious foods which reduce GHG must taste good and be on a par with or below the market cost of products with larger carbon footprints. Chafin also points to declining interest in plant-based foods and respondents' concerns about being identified as vegans or vegetarians. "Consumers have become alienated by the binary Omnivore/Vegetarian thinking and plant-based burger craze," he said. "Instead we should focus on climate-conscious food choices of any type – for example, trading chicken for beef on a per lb. basis reduces GHG emissions by 90%."
A copy of Dawn of the Climavores is available at this link.
About Kearney
As a global consulting partnership in more than 40 countries, our people make us who we are. We're individuals who take as much joy from those we work with as the work itself. Driven to be the difference between a big idea and making it happen, we help our clients break through. Learn more at Kearney.com.
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TAMPA, Fla., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lazydays Holdings, Inc. ("Lazydays" or the "Company") (NasdaqCM: LAZY) provided preliminary results for the quarter ending March 31, 2022. It is important to note that results are preliminary and unaudited, and should be read in conjunction with the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2021, which the Company filed on March 11, 2022. Preliminary Revenue for the first quarter ending March 31, 2022 is $376 million, up $105 million versus first quarter 2021. Net income for the quarter is $27.5 million, up $18.7 million versus first quarter 2021 net income of $8.8 million.
Preliminary key metrics for the quarter are provided below, along with a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, to net income.
Quarter ending March 31, 2022 Preliminary Results:
- Adjusted EBITDA increased 61% to a record $44.8 million versus $27.8 million in the first quarter of 2021
- RV unit sales increased 17% to 3,748 units versus 3,195 units in the first quarter of 2021
- Total Revenue increased 39% to $376 million compared to $271 million in the first quarter of 2021
- The Company ended the quarter with a cash balance of $89.6 million
As an iconic brand in the RV industry, Lazydays, The RV Authority, consistently provides the best RV sales, service, and ownership experience, which is why RVers and their families become Customers for Life. Lazydays continues to add locations at a rapid pace as it executes its geographic expansion strategy that includes both acquisitions and greenfields.
Since 1976, Lazydays RV has built a reputation for providing an outstanding customer experience with exceptional service excellence and unparalleled product expertise, along with being a preferred place to rest and recharge with other RVers. By offering the largest selection of RV brands from the nation's leading manufacturers, state-of-the-art service facilities, and thousands of accessories and hard-to-find parts, Lazydays RV provides everything RVers need and want.
Lazydays Holdings, Inc. is a publicly listed company on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker "LAZY."
Forward‐Looking Statements
This news release contains 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. All statements other than statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements describe Lazydays future plans, projections, strategies and expectations, including statements regarding Lazydays' expectations for future operating results, its expectations regarding the impact of its acquisitions of recently acquired dealerships in Maryville, Tennessee, Portland, Oregon, Vancouver, Washington and Milwaukee, Wisconsin and are based on assumptions and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of Lazydays. Actual results could differ materially from those projected due to various factors, including the impact of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, including from current and future sanctions imposed by governments or other authorities, economic conditions generally (including increases in fuel costs), conditions in the credit markets and changes in interest rates, conditions in the capital markets, the continuing impact of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), other factors described from time to time in Lazydays' public announcements and SEC reports and filings, which are available at www.sec.gov and other factors that Lazydays may not have currently identified or quantified. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release speak only as of the date of this news release, and Lazydays undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, unless otherwise required by law.
Disclaimer
Information in this news release is not an offer to sell securities or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
The preliminary results in this press release should not be read as an indication of the Company's future financial position or results of operations. The extent and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its short- and long-term effects on the Company's business, financial position and results of operations is impossible to predict.
Non-GAAP Financial Measure
Adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA is a not a U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principle ("GAAP") financial measure, but it is one of the primary non-GAAP measures management uses to evaluate the financial performance of the business. Adjusted EBITDA is also frequently used by analysts, investors, and other interested parties to evaluate companies in the recreational vehicle industry. The Company uses Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin to supplement GAAP measures of performance as follows:
- as a measurement of operating performance to assist in comparing the operating performance of the Company's business on a consistent basis, and remove the impact of items not directly resulting from the Company's core operations;
- for planning purposes, including the preparation of the Company's internal annual operating budget and financial projections;
- to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of the Company's operational strategies; and
- to evaluate the Company's capacity to fund capital expenditures and expand the business.
The Company believes Adjusted EBITDA can provide a more complete understanding of the underlying operating results and trends and an enhanced overall understanding of financial performance and prospects for the future. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as net income excluding depreciation and amortization of property and equipment, non-floor plan interest expense, amortization of intangible assets, income tax expense, stock-based compensation, transaction costs and other supplemental adjustments which for the periods presented includes LIFO adjustments, severance costs and other one-time charges, and gain on sale of property and equipment. The Company believes Adjusted EBITDA, when considered along with other performance measures, is a useful measure as it reflects certain operating drivers of the business, such as sales growth, operating costs, selling and administrative expense and other operating income and expense.
Adjusted EBITDA is not intended to be a measure of liquidity or cash flows from operations, or a measure comparable to net (loss) income as it does not take into account certain requirements such as non-recurring gains and losses which are not deemed to be a normal part of the underlying business activities. The Company's measure of Adjusted EBITDA is not necessarily comparable to similarly titled captions of other companies due to different methods of Calculation. The Company compensates for these limitations by using Adjusted EBITDA as only one of several measures for evaluating business performance. In addition, capital expenditures, which impact depreciation and amortization, interest expense, and income tax expense, are reviewed separately by management.
A reconciliation of preliminary net income to preliminary EBITDA and preliminary Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented follows:
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The first-of-its-kind survey uncovers 2 in 3 creators have never collaborated with a brand on social channels and market size insights among other key findings
MELBOURNE, Australia, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Linktree, the link-in-bio category leader and creator enabler, released its proprietary 2022 Creator Report of key trends and industry insights with data from more than 9,500 creators across the globe.
Linktree's ground-breaking research has uncovered one of the industry's greatest mysteries - just how large is the burgeoning creator economy? According to the data, there are 200 million individuals using their influence, creativity, or skills to aggregate and monetize their audience.
Five key findings stand out from the survey results:
- Despite popular belief, the creator economy has expanded well beyond sponsored Instagram posts:
- Niche creators are seeing unexpected success:
- Creators are leaving money on the table with a significant opportunity to monetize:
- It's easier than ever to become a creator:
- Creators are battling burnout, regardless of income level:
Learn more about the findings of the 2022 Creator Report here
Alex Zaccaria, co-founder and CEO of Linktree, shares: "It is impossible to imagine our online ecosystem without creators. Without them, it simply would not exist and their influence and prominence is growing by the day. Our team's mission is to develop products and integrations for creators that evolve with them and make their lives easier. The feedback we are driving as a business enables that process and demonstrates why we built this business in the first place - for our creators. For many creators, finding ways to monetize their passions has been a challenge we are more determined than ever to solve."
Eric Jacks, Chief Strategy Officer, Collab, Inc. who partnered with Linktree on this research, says: "68% of part-time creators make less than 1K. This vital research underscores how difficult it can be to be a creator, and just how important it is for creators to find partners, platforms, and services that streamline monetization opportunities. Linktree does just this, acting as a gateway to other revenue streams that contribute to monthly income and makes the creators job a little easier."
Creators can use Linktree to streamline their online identity, and to showcase and personalize their profile in the following ways:
- Request links, Support Me links, and Affiliate links, all designed to streamline monetization.
- Payment integrations with Shopify, Square, Venmo, PayPal, Spring, and GoFundMe.
- Music Links in addition to partnerships with Bandsintown, Audiomack, Soundcloud, and Community partnerships, specifically designed with artists in mind for touring, merchandise, and streaming.
- Podcast links for creators with podcasts and QR codes for reaching audiences offline too.
These insights from global creators will enable Linktree to continue building new solutions customized to the needs of creators, ensuring Linktree remains easy to use and best promotes streamlining the creator economy at large, developing fresh, leading edge products.
About Linktree
Linktree enables creators, brands, artists, publishers, agencies, and businesses of all sizes to curate an online ecosystem, engage with their audience and monetize their passion. Linktree is among the top 300 most popular website destinations globally, with 1.2 billion unique visitors a month. In 2021 alone, Linktree enabled over 1 million artists to generate 90 million visits to streaming providers – twice as many artists and three times as many clicks as in the year prior. The platform is utilized by more than 24 million creators, artists, and brands globally including TikTok, Selena Gomez, Noah Beck, Bella Poarch, Red Bull, Shawn Mendes, the Los Angeles Clippers, Comedy Central, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, and HBO.
Founded by brothers Alex and Anthony Zaccaria and Nick Humphreys in 2016, Linktree is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
For more information visit https://linktr.ee/.
*Beginner creators: Creators with less than 12 months of experience.
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Libbie Wilcox
lwilcox@hstrategies.com
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Leading innovation to address chronic pain with neuromedicine
TORONTO, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Today, LongTermGevity is pleased to announce that they have received a Dealer's Licence from Health Canada that allows for the possession, production, packaging, sale, transport, R&D, laboratory analysis, Special Access Program (SAP) participation and clinical trials on controlled substances including psilocybin, psilocin, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine ("MDMA"), N,N-dimethyltryptamine ("DMT"), among others.
"We are thrilled about receiving our Dealer's Licence. Our deep expertise in organic synthesis, product development and pre-clinical testing will give us an edge in the industry by enabling in-house development of novel psychedelic medicines, delivery systems, molecules, and formulations." Says co-founder, CEO Sena Herath.
LongTermGevity has a laboratory in Toronto to support Phase I/IIa clinical trials in the U.S. and Canada using Q112 Electrogel on patients suffering from chronic lower back pain.
Our lead product, Q112 Electrogel, which is the first product to stabilise psilocin (active ingredient in psilocybin) for transdermal delivery, is a novel, non-invasive electrotherapeutic technology that targets a profound need highlighted by the World Health Organisation and is poised to disrupt a $12b neuromodulation industry.
Q112 Electrogel uses a proven neuromodulation technique in combination with a proprietary stabilised psilocin gel that can be applied on the skin to directly target an injury site in the spinal cord to help reduce inflammation and promote nervous tissue repair.
The company is currently in the process of closing a $2m seed fundraising round, of which the majority is earmarked for clinical trials, data generation, Q112 Electrogel product development and novel molecule development. Learn more at www.longtermgevity.com
About LongTermGevity
LongTermGevity Inc. ("LTG") is a psychedelic neuromodulation therapeutics company developing novel medications for musculoskeletal disorders. LTG's core technology includes a proprietary transdermal psilocin neuromodulation therapy to alleviate pain, promote nervous tissue repair and improve motor function performance. LTG is focused on researching and developing rehabilitative psychedelic pharmaceuticals to treat leading causes of disabilities including chronic pain, spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis.
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Developed by Chef Bobby Flay and his cat Nacho Flay, Made by Nacho unveils new products, expanded distribution partners and releases limited-edition merchandise
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This month, Made by Nacho, the world's first cat-crafted, chef-approved cat food, celebrates its one-year anniversary. Launched in April 2021 by Chef Bobby Flay and his cat, Nacho, alongside food industry veteran Elly Truesdell, the brand offers premium, flavorful ingredients that support the needs of cats everywhere. On the heels of announcing its Series A funding round, Made by Nacho is commemorating its first year in business by debuting more than 18 new products, launching new distribution partnerships with Chewy and Petco.com, and releasing its first-ever merchandise collection, amongst other initiatives.
"When Nacho and I set out to create Made by Nacho, we wanted to provide cats with food that was not only healthful and nutritious, but also delicious - something we truly felt was missing in the market," said Co-Founder Bobby Flay. "Our rapid growth in our first year proves to me that other cat parents have been feeling the same way, and we're grateful to all who have welcomed Made by Nacho into their homes. For us, the work has just begun; we can't wait to show you the exciting things we have in store as we head into year two."
Although only 12 months old, Made by Nacho has already emerged as an innovative leader in the premium cat space, surpassing over 400,000 transactions to date and filling a sizable void in the pet industry.
"Though cats now outnumber dogs as household pets in the U.S., there's huge stagnation in the marketplace when it comes to cats," said Tessa Gould, CEO of Made by Nacho. "Half of all cat parents don't think enough attention is paid to cats, and nearly three-quarters wish there were healthier options available for felines. Yet, despite the clear consumer desire for innovation and the fact that cat food is a large, $40b+ and growing market globally, nearly all venture capital funding in the pet industry goes to dog-centric companies. Made by Nacho is changing that. When we launched a year ago, we knew we had something special with our culinary-first approach - thanks to Chef Bobby Flay - but we're blown away by the consumer response to our brand and recipes in our first year in business."
In February 2022, Made by Nacho closed a $14M Series A funding round, led by CAVU Venture Partners with participation by New Fare Partners and Mars' Companion Fund, bringing total funds raised to date to $24M. Mars also participated in Made by Nacho's seed round in 2021, which was led by Sonoma Brands.
Headquartered in New York City, Made by Nacho has 18 full-time employees that bring years of experience in consumer brands, pet retail and wholesale, digital and growth - including from Whole Foods, Petco, SoulCycle, Buzzfeed, Glossier and other leading companies. Additionally, the Made by Nacho Advisory Board includes entrepreneurs and executives from top brands, including Michael Dubin, former CEO of Dollar Shave Club, as well as other prominent industry leaders.
Beginning this month, Made by Nacho will expand its distribution through new partnerships with two major retailers; the brand will now be stocked and distributed through Chewy, as well as will launch on Petco.com. Made by Nacho launched with a six-month nationwide exclusive in more than 1,300 PetSmart stores, as well as on their own direct to consumer site. The brand is also sold on Amazon.com.
To celebrate its one-year anniversary, Made by Nacho recently debuted its first merchandise collection - limited-run hats and mugs that pay homage to Nacho's instincts as a founder and business mogul - which sold out in the first week. One hundred percent of all profits from the "Very Serious Business Cat" collection were donated to the Made by Nacho Charitable Fund at New York Community Trust, which supports feline rescue and research organizations.
Giving back is a core aspect of the brand, which is committed to helping every cat live a happy, healthy life. In addition to providing assistance to those making a difference on the ground—including shelters, adoption initiatives, cat health researchers and more through the Made by Nacho Charitable Fund at the New York Community Trust—Made by Nacho has donated over 200,000 meals to cats in need to date. Most recently, Made by Nacho teamed up with the International Fund for Animal Welfare, a non-profit rushing emergency aid to shelters in Ukraine.
Also launching this month, Made by Nacho will roll out 18 new SKUs, including the brand's first-ever Pâté - its most-requested texture - and recipes designed specifically for kittens. While Made by Nacho is chef-inspired, the brand works with Nacho's lifelong veterinarian, Dr. Katja Lang, to help craft the menu, which now includes 48 items that deliver the balanced nutrition cats need.
New products include:
- Pâté ($2.99/6.4 oz): Grain-Free Pollack & Salmon; Grain-cat Free Chicken; Grain-Free Skin & Coat Support Herring & Cod
- Functional Puréed Toppers ($1.19/1.4 oz): Cage-Free Chicken with Bone Broth available in Immune Support; Digestive Support; and Bone & Joint Support
- Culinary Kibble ($13.99/2 lb; $24.99/4 lb; $44.99/10 lb): Paella-Inspired Sustainably caught Whitefish, Chicken, and Bone Broth Recipe with Freeze-Dried Pork Livers; Provençal-style Grain-Free Cage-Free Chicken, Turkey, and Bone Broth Recipe with Freeze-Dried Pork Livers
- Kitten Kibble ($13.99/2 lb; $24.99/4 lb): Chicken, Chicken Liver & Bone Broth Formula
- Additional Minced Recipes ($2.99/6.4 oz): Grain-Free Pollack & Salmon, Grain-Free Chicken
- Value Sized Treats ($9.99/1.6-1.9 oz): Freeze-Dried Salmon, Freeze-Dried Ahi Tuna
- Made by Nacho's complete line is available on madebynacho.com
Founded by Nacho Flay and his dad, Chef Bobby Flay—Made by Nacho is made for cats, by a cat. After years of watching his dad use only the best ingredients for his recipes, Nacho realized his cat food didn't measure up. That was his a-ha moment: Cats deserve more out of their food than they were getting—and Nacho was the cat to change all that. So Nacho and Bobby got to cooking and got some help from the best in the biz—like his lifelong vet, Dr. Katja Lang, who knows her stuff. Thousands of taste tests later, Made by Nacho was born. We use a culinary approach for our cat-crafted cat food, starting with no-compromise, premium proteins like cage-free chicken, grass-fed, grain-finished beef, and sustainably caught salmon. Nacho's constantly cooking up new recipes to help combat palate fatigue (aka the finickiness humans always talk about.) Every recipe that leaves his kitchen pairs the flavors and textures cats crave with the chef-inspired quality they deserve.
SOURCES: APPA, IMARC, Made by Nacho Consumer Research
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HONG KONG, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 20th, Chinese Language Day is celebrated. Chinese is nowadays more important than ever. With a total of 1.3 billion native speakers in the world and a booming economy, it is the language with the most native speakers and one of the most important languages of tomorrow.
After more than a year of R&D work, Youdao, China's leading AI-learning company, has recently launched Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 Global Version, a one of its kind device that helps global language learners, people with reading difficulties and children who are learning how to read.
With its powerful self-developed technology, the pen can scan multi-line sentences and translate them in 1 second without using the internet. It has an HD Touch Screen where the scanned text and translations appear, a built-in speaker, a microphone and various official dictionaries. The device is also equipped with OCR technology with up to 99% of accuracy scanning rate, Neural Machine Translation and Text-to-Speech technology.
For Chinese learners, the pen provides character stroke order, recognizes traditional and simplified Chinese, provides pinyin, pronunciation and an extensive list of examples. For Spanish learners, the pen gives translation, pronunciation and verb conjugation. For English learners, the pen provides Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and also US/UK accents to choose from.
The pen currently supports bidirectional translation between English and Chinese and English and Spanish. In the future, the pen will also include bidirectional translation between English, Korean and Japanese, all available in the upcoming software updates.
Dyslexia, a reading disability that before posed a challenge and disadvantage for children at school or professionals at their workplace, has now been covered by the Text to Speech technology of Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 Global version, which allows turning scanned text into audio, users can adjust the volume, its speed and also listen to the audio through the pen's speaker or with earphones paired via Bluetooth. This reading pen helps dyslexic people read independently in many different scenarios.
With their Optical Character Recognition technology, the pen becomes versatile, it scans on different surfaces such as paper, computer screens, phone screens, kindle, cardboard, packing materials and more. It can be used with the right or left hand, and it is also light and portable.
Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 Global Version is available worldwide now on Amazon, as well as their official store.
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TAMPA, Fla., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MaxHealth, a Florida based organization, focused on providing patient-centered healthcare primarily to Medicare-eligible patients, announces the appointment of Prakash Patel, M.D., as Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Patel succeeds Michael Bernstein, who served as the interim CEO of MaxHealth during its first year of transformative growth and who will retain his current role as Executive Chairman.
"Serving as CEO of MaxHealth has been an honor. Over the past 18 months, MaxHealth has undergone a period of explosive growth and is now well positioned to bring on a CEO with the widely recognized industry leadership and deep experience of Prakash Patel. We are very excited to welcome Prakash into the MaxHealth family and are eager for him to continue to lead the organization in its mission to become the nation's leading provider of high-quality, patient-centered, primary care services," said Michael Bernstein.
Mr. Bernstein went on to say, "We set out to find the ideal leader for one of Florida's premier Primary Care organizations that is charged with caring for over 66,000 patients, and we're thrilled to find a phenomenal talent like Prakash Patel, a physician leader who understands the provider and patient journey."
Dr. Patel has 25 years of healthcare leadership experience and a proven track record of driving strategy and operations to deliver growth across a broad spectrum of healthcare services. In particular, he has been an innovator at the intersection of the payer, provider, and technology landscapes and has driven solutions around integrated pharmacy, physical and behavioral health care models to meet the needs of those with chronic and complex conditions. "I have been truly impressed by each of the organizations that have come together to form MaxHealth. The providers, along with the clinical and operational leadership, have developed an impressive infrastructure that has propelled MaxHealth's growth over the past year. I am excited to continue to build upon this foundation as we create a world-class primary care organization focused on high-quality patient care and generating value for all of our stakeholders" said Dr. Patel.
Prior to joining MaxHealth, Dr. Patel served as Anthem Executive Vice President and President of the Diversified Business Group (DBG), where he launched and led DBG's strategic direction and its multibillion-dollar growth. Dr. Patel was responsible for delivering new sources of growth by advancing integrated in person and virtual behavioral, medical, and pharmacy care models, and developing innovative solutions to improve quality and health outcomes for its members.
He is a graduate of Cornell University Medical College (Alpha Omega Alpha) and of the University of Michigan (Magna Cum Laude).
About MaxHealth
Founded in 2006, MaxHealth is a leading primary care platform dedicated to simplifying healthcare and ensuring healthier futures. The company's value-based primary care platform is focused on Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and Managed Medicaid patients throughout Central and South Florida, with more than 66,000 value-based-care members. The 526-member team includes 93 primary care providers and 15 specialists across 54 owned clinics and 15 affiliated clinics.
The organization's patient-centered offerings extend beyond traditional primary care, employing experienced specialists in a variety of disciplines, including senior wellness, oncology, cardiology, and women's health. The company also offers diagnostic testing and pharmacy services.
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Kimberly Ficocelli
Chief Growth Officer
MaxHealth
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kimberly.ficocelli@mymaxdoc.com
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Powered by the latest MEDIT technology, the all new i700 wireless intraoral scanner is light, fast, accurate, and now – wire-free.
SEOUL, South Korea and LONG BEACH, Calif., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Moving beyond the proven tech and best-selling success of the i700 intraoral scanner, MEDIT announces the release of the i700 wireless – newly designed as a portable wand with the same speed, accuracy, and lightness.
"We're tirelessly listening to our customers to provide them with the utmost customer care, which is at our core to continuously evolve," said GB Ko, CEO of MEDIT. "Our i700 wireless model is a game-changer with its effortless, wire-free capabilities and powerful, long-lasting battery."
Free from wires, the light, weight-balanced i700 wireless offers a smooth and quick scanning experience utilizing mm wave based next generation wireless communication technology. One battery offers 1 hour of continuous scanning and 8 hours in standby mode. The super-fast camera captures up to 70 frames per second, collecting more data with each pass in realistic color and crisp images. The updated design boasts a reversible tip and wider scanning area allowing for easy, comfortable scanning at any angle with no constraints to movement. To counter COVID-19 concerns, a convenient remote control button means clinicians can check scan data from the scanner, and show patients, without worry of cross-contamination. The self-disinfecting UV-C LED further keeps the unit clean. For a complete, trouble-free experience, the i700 wireless runs on MEDIT Link, MEDIT's software featuring integration with various other CAD/CAM providers as well as MEDIT's own popular apps including Medit Design, Smile Design, Ortho Simulation, Model Builder, Crown Fit, and more.
"Packed with the latest MEDIT technology, the i700 wireless continues our commitment to delivering an amazing digital dentistry experience through better tools and solutions," added GB Ko.
About MEDIT
MEDIT is a global provider of 3D measurement solutions for dental clinics and labs, including intraoral scanners, based on its own patented state-of-the-art technology. The company also develops platform solutions for digital dentistry, supporting collaborative workflows. The company's goal is to provide innovative technology and the highest quality products to ensure mutual growth for all partners. MEDIT has been headquartered in Seoul, South Korea since its inception in 2000. The company also has representatives located in the Americas and Europe and boasts a global network of distributors in over 100 countries.
For detailed information about MEDIT products and software, please visit MEDIT official website (www.medit.com/, https://www.i700wireless.com/), and for other various content, please refer to MEDIT official YouTube (youtube.com/user/meditcompany) and other social media channels (instagram.com/meditcompany/)
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Life Time provides support anywhere and anytime to help people be their healthiest self - online and at its nearly 160 athletic country clubs in the U.S. and Canada
CHANHASSEN, Minn., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 13,000 people across the U.S. and Canada are starting the spring season feeling happier and healthier after taking part in Life Time's (NYSE: LTH) 60day challenge. Four have been named national winners by a panel of Life Time coaches - taking home prizes valued at nearly $5,000.
Life Time 60day provides daily support, resources, and motivation for anyone looking to jumpstart their wellness goals and live a healthier life. The eight-week challenge, which is offered several times each year, includes daily workouts, a meal plan, 150+ healthy recipe ideas, in-app accountability messages, weekly challenges for prizes and access to a team of in-person and virtual coaches.
Prizes for winners include ten personal training sessions from the most accredited trainers in the industry, LT BUCK$ (in-club currency for products and services), and a LifeSpa gift card, along with prizes from partners Hoka ONE ONE and a yearlong supply of products from RxSugar.
The winners of the first 60day challenge in 2022 are:
- Michael Kulp (Gainesville, VA) – Kulp joined the 60day to "jumpstart treating myself well again" after being stuck in a rut with a busy work schedule. His success includes dropping more than 25 pounds and 8.8% body fat by participating in Life Time's Alpha and GTX Signature Group Training classes. He also religiously tracked his workouts and club visits on the Life Time Digital app, visiting Life Time Gainesville 50 times throughout the program.
- Jarron Lucas (Centreville, VA) – One of Lucas' goals during the 60day was to log everything he ate and drank for the entire challenge. "I really was able to master eating everything in moderation so that I didn't have to cut anything out." He also took Alpha classes at his Life Time five days a week. He is now less than 10 pounds away from his goal weight and is excited to continue his healthy habits into 2022.
- Patrecia Rainey (Flower Mound, TX) – Rainey was "reaching her breaking point" as a mom to a teenager and a younger child with an autoimmune disease and the stress of working two jobs. She joined Life Time's 60day program and started to take 20-minute walks outside to reduce her stress. Upping her protein intake and working with personal trainers and taking group studio classes all fueled her energy and success.
- Brooke Simmons (Folsom, CA) – A mom of two toddlers, Simmons lost nearly 15 pounds during the challenge, gaining muscle definition and new healthy habits. Simmons was used to putting her health on the back burner and didn't feel her best. "Motherhood was a lifelong dream of mine and yet here I was in the thick of it and I could barely get through the day, let alone enjoy and participate in the wonderful busyness." In addition to workouts, the key to her success was adding weekly meal prepping into her routine.
"People join our 60day program for the unique, supportive tools and guidance we provide them in-person and online that truly help them achieve their goals – unlike so many fads or gimmicks out there. It's beyond rewarding to see such amazing success happening from coast to coast," said Anika Christ, Life Time's Senior Director of Nutrition and Weight Loss. "Since 2010, nearly 580,000 Life Time members have lost more than 1 million pounds. However, what's most important is that we help people become – and feel – healthier, whether their goal is to gain muscle, eat healthier, lose weight or reduce stress."
At the end of each Life Time 60day, participants are invited to submit an essay and photos in the contest. Life Time coaches select the top contenders and winners.
The next in-person 60day kicks off in September. It's also available anytime on-demand through Life Time's digital membership. Life Time also makes available a variety of other strength and weight loss programs to help people get started and remain on track. For more information on the program, visit www.lifetime60day.com.
About Life Time®
Life Time (NYSE: LTH) empowers people to live healthy, happy lives through its portfolio of nearly 160 athletic country clubs across the United States and Canada. The company's healthy way of life communities address all aspects of healthy living, healthy aging and healthy entertainment for those 90 days to 90+ years with integrity and respect for everyone. With a team of more than 30,000 Life Time is committed to providing the best programs and experiences through its clubs, iconic athletic events and via a complementary and comprehensive digital platform.
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ST. PAUL, Minn., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicare beneficiaries in low socioeconomic status (SES) areas have fewer physician and care management visits and are less likely to be admitted from the emergency department for low severity medical care or admitted to a skilled nursing or rehabilitation facility following hospital discharge, as compared to Medicare beneficiaries in high SES areas, according to a recent research study from 3M Health Information Systems.
The report, Socioeconomic Status and Health Care Delivery System Performance, also found that beneficiaries in low SES areas have more per capita inpatient complications, admissions and emergency department visits, and readmission and post-discharge returns to the emergency department, as well as higher surgical mortality rates.
"We conducted this study to help identify differences in health care delivery system performance in low SES areas. When we understand exactly what the differences are, then health care leaders and policy makers can begin to develop plans that address those performance differences," said report co-author Rich Averill, a research consultant and former 3M HIS vice president of clinical and economic research. "Leveraging the power of data and using clinically credible research methodologies can provide actionable information and identify performance differences that are real opportunities for improvement."
The report's authors applied the socioeconomic status component of the Social Vulnerability Index from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to identify high and low SES geographic areas. Performance was evaluated using 3M potentially preventable events tools. These tools examine potentially preventable outcomes -- e.g. hospitalizations, readmissions, complications and emergency department visits -- and their associated costs on a risk-adjusted basis using 3M™ Clinical Risk Groups (CRGs).
CRGs, a highly advanced population classification system that identifies medically complex individuals and assigns them to a severity-adjusted group, provided the basis for comparing the outcomes for patients with the same severity of illness and overall health status. Combining CRG risk adjustment with the identification of potentially preventable outcomes uniquely allowed performance differences associated with socioeconomic factors such as income, poverty and education to be identified and quantified.
Identifying patients whose clinical circumstances indicated that an event such as a readmission was potentially preventable allowed the potentially preventable event's rate of occurrence to be compared to expected levels based on national CRG risk-adjusted performance levels. According to Averill, this two-tier filtering of performance differences identifies differences in performance that are real opportunities for health care delivery system improvement.
The study used 2018 Medicare Standard Analytic Files (Limited Data Set) containing 100% of Medicare fee-for-service claims for inpatient, hospital outpatient (including the emergency department), skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies. The analysis data encompassed 3,049 counties located in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, representing 25,346,514 beneficiaries with 7,255,736 inpatient hospitalizations.
"By identifying performance differences in the health care delivery system that disproportionately impact low SES patients, we can help health care leaders and policy makers develop and initiate targeted improvement efforts to improve health equity," said Dr. Sandeep Wadhwa, 3M HIS global chief medical officer.
About 3M
At 3M (NYSE: MMM), we apply science in collaborative ways to improve lives daily as our employees connect with customers all around the world. Learn more about 3M's creative solutions to global challenges at www.3M.com or on Twitter @3M or @3MNews.
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RazorMetrics' drug cost survey reveals consumers want their physician to take the lead on lowering their prescription costs.
AUSTIN, Texas, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RazorMetrics' recent consumer opinion survey about drug costs found some surprising results. Despite the explosion in consumer-driven savings apps, healthcare consumers want their physician to take the lead. The survey found that 80% of respondents would prefer their physician be the one to choose a lower cost drug for their prescription and do so automatically.
Sticker shock at the pharmacy is a lose-lose situation for everyone. High prescription costs are forcing some patients to skip doses, split pills, or stop treatment altogether. RazorMetrics' drug cost survey asked, "if a prescription is too expensive what do you do?" 9.3% of survey respondents said they "Forget about it and go home." Other responses included "Pay for it anyway" (22.3%), "Ask the pharmacist about a discount" (35.3%), "Call my doctor" (21.7%), and "Call my insurance" (11.3%). To patients, physicians, and pharmacists none of these options is a good outcome.
Physicians are trying to control costs; 72% of survey respondents said their physician talks to them about drug prices but, unfortunately, physicians cannot prescribe the lowest cost medication without help. A study published in Jama Network Open, "Accuracy of Physician Estimates of Out-of-Pocket Costs for Medication Filling," found that when physicians were given drug price and patient insurance data, only 21% could accurately estimate out-of-pocket costs for their patient. The study authors said, "one-third of US residents have trouble paying their medical bills. They often turn to their physicians for help navigating health costs and insurance coverage." This sets the physician up for failure.
"As a cardiologist with an active practice, I can attest to the frustration doctors feel when we get a call from a patient at the pharmacy. We try another medication hoping that it will be covered by the patient's health plan. The system is built on a trial by error model," said Dr. Siva Mohan, MD and co-founder of RazorMetrics. "It's inefficient and deeply frustrating for everyone involved."
It's clear most consumers want to save money on prescriptions, but rather then chase down lower drug options themselves, they would prefer that their physician help them navigate the process. Eighty-eight percent of RazorMetrics survey respondents said they would be more satisfied with their provider if they talked to them about drug prices. Two-thirds reported they would have a more favorable opinion of their provider if they changed the prescription to a lower cost option. Put simply, patients want their physician to lead on getting affordable prescriptions.
About RazorMetrics
RazorMetrics is a healthcare technology company whose SaaS-based platform uses AI and ML to lower drug spend for health plans, self-insured employers, and consumers. RazorMetrics unique, physician-first approach process that is simple, requires no extra clicks in the EHR and no external programs or apps to access. Switches are straightforward, easy to make, and the entire process stays within the normal clinical workflow. The platform is complementary to existing pharmacy initiatives and works with PBMs and other drug cost savings solutions to optimize results. RazorMetrics is fully scalable and customizable to each client's unique variables and formularies. For more information, visit www.razormetrics.com.
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Asurion Appliance Repair Provides Fast, In-Home Expert Repair of Major Appliances Including Refrigerators, Dishwashers, Washers, Dryers and More
OKLAHOMA CITY , April 20, 2022 A new appliance repair company has opened in Oklahoma City with highly trained experts providing quality, fast repairs as soon as next day. Asurion Appliance Repair experts can provide in-home repairs of major appliance brands including Samsung, GE™, LG®, Electrolux®, Whirlpool and more.
From refrigerator repair to fixing a broken dishwasher or dryer, Asurion Appliance Repair experts are able to complete many repairs in a single visit.
"Whether it's a broken ice maker, a freezer that stops freezing or a washer that leaks, our appliance repair experts can help," said Ernesto Gutierrez, Manager, Asurion Appliance Repair in Oklahoma City. "We understand that life gets disrupted when the appliances you count on daily stop working correctly, and we're here with highly trained experts to get you back up and running quickly."
Appliance Repair Experts You Can Trust
Asurion Appliance Repair experts are highly trained in repairing Samsung, GE™, LG®, Electrolux®, Whirlpool and other major brands to provide quality repairs for today's modern appliances. Asurion Appliance Repair also has authorized service partnerships with major appliance brands which provides their repair experts with direct access to manufacturer parts to help fix customers' appliances fast. All Asurion appliance repairs are backed by a 60-day warranty on parts and labor.
"At Asurion Appliance Repair, we understand the disruption our customers experience when their appliances stop working," said Asurion Appliance Repair CEO Luke Smiley. "As we continue to build and expand our appliance repair business, we are making customer experience our top priority. The Asurion mission is about more than repairing broken refrigerators and dryers. We fix tech and appliances fast so our customers can get their lives back up and running."
Fast Repair, Because Waiting Isn't an Option
Oklahoma City-area customers can call to schedule an appliance repair or book an appointment online. A technician will arrive at your home to complete your repair as soon as the next day. Service visits include a $99 diagnostic fee, which is waived when Asurion Appliance Repair is hired to fix your appliance.
For more information, to view a service menu, or to book a repair appointment, visit appliance-repair.asurion.com. Or contact Asurion Appliance Repair in Oklahoma City at:
Asurion Appliance Repair
(405) 669-4382
About Asurion
Asurion is a global tech care company that provides insurance, installation, repair, replacement, and 24/7 support for a wide range of technology, from mobile phones and laptops to major household appliances. Our 12,000 experts are available online, on the phone, in store, or can even come to you. Asurion eliminates the fears and frustrations associated with technology to ensure its 300 million customers get the most out of their devices and connections.
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A new website from Contact Center Compliance is offering free TCPA litigator list scrubbing and collecting demand letters to build its database
StopLitigators.com is compiling resources for callers that go beyond traditional TCPA litigator lists and allows callers to fight back against predatory litigators
SANTA ROSA, Calif., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- StopLitigators.com is a new, free, crowdsourced database of Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigators compiled from demand letters submitted by industry users. StopLitigators.com is offering free access to check phone numbers against the database in exchange for signing up. Marketers can sign up at StopLitigators.com, submit their demand letters and lawsuits to the crowdsourced litigator list, help contribute to an industrywide resource to eliminate predatory litigators from the marketing ecosystem, and receive free access to check their calling lists against the database.
"The abusive act of predatory litigation presents a significant challenge even for those that make every effort to manage their compliance properly," said Ron Allen, creator of StopLitigators.com. He continues, "Many repeat litigators find ways to intentionally 'trick' legitimate entities into making a call that is a violation and then prey upon the company by demanding money, under threat of a class action suit. Further, we often find that no call was ever placed, and the demand is simply sent to many entities to get money from companies that do not reject the demands out of fear. StopLitigators.com is a way for the contact center industry to cooperatively work together and fight back. I have spent over 30 years in this industry and believe strongly in helping protect it."
Predatory TCPA litigators are a threat to all legitimate telemarketers. While multiple compliance providers offer litigator scrub lists based on court filings, not every TCPA plaintiff and litigator shows up in those filings. Sometimes, litigators simply send demand letters, hoping for a settlement, without ever pursuing the sorts of legal action that shows up in court record databases. These demand letters fall through the cracks of the existing systems for cataloguing dangerous TCPA litigators. But StopLitigators.com allows call centers and defense lawyers the opportunity to build a better database that includes the litigators and plaintiffs who merely send demand letters.
Call center-related businesses and law firms are allowed to register for free. Access to the free list-scrubbing is given as soon as the registrant's information is verified. For more information about this database, visit StopLitigators.com and for additional information about and services for TCPA compliance, visit DNC.com. Sign up now for free at https://bit.ly/37kT5hu.
Stop Litigators & Contact Center Compliance
StopLitigators.com is a crowdsourced database of predatory TCPA litigators. Call centers can utilize this database to eliminate those litigators from their data. It is a new endeavor from Contact Center Compliance, one of the industry leaders in TCPA and DNC compliance solutions for more than 20 years.
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LITTLETON, Colo., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers will be able to make no-fee cannabis purchases using CanPay, the largest legitimate payment network for cannabis merchants and consumers, at six leading New Jersey recreational retail stores when recreational sales launch there on April 21, 2022.
CanPay provides an easy-to-use app that allows consumers to pay for purchases at cannabis retailers with a simple debit from their checking account using the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network. Merchants with a compliant bank account at a CanPay-approved financial institution may join the CanPay network quickly and easily.
"If you're looking to buy cannabis products in the new recreational market in New Jersey, CanPay is the way to do it," said Dustin Eide, CEO of CanPay. "With instant activation for most, the service is fast and free for consumers to use and much safer than cash – benefits that more than 100,000 consumer members of the CanPay community have come to understand. For additional convenience, recreational consumers can even prepay with CanPay for their online orders at participating stores."
The dispensaries, which previously were only permitted to sell cannabis for medicinal use, were recently approved for recreational sales to any adult over 21 years of age by the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission. The first six New Jersey recreational dispensaries accepting CanPay are: The Apothecarium locations in Maplewood and Phillipsburg, The Botanist locations in Egg Harbor Township and Williamstown and Curaleaf locations in Bellmawr and Edgewater Park.
With more than half a billion dollars in transparent transactions and more than 800 participating merchant locations across 31 states, CanPay is the leader in legitimate payments for the cannabis industry.
About CanPay
CanPay offers a payment solution for the state regulated cannabis industry and other emerging markets. CanPay started with one goal – to bring traditional and legitimate electronic payment solutions to highly-regulated industries. We've spent years learning about the unique challenges that face consumers and retailers in these industries and used that experience to design CanPay as the stable payment solution they can rely on. With over 20 years of industry experience, the CanPay team of payments professionals is building a proprietary network of consumers, retailers, financial institutions, and specialized technology providers that make payments at regulated businesses just like payments everywhere else. For more information, visit https://www.canpaydebit.com.
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This Fall, NFL FLAG-In-Schools Will Offer 2.3 Million New Students the Opportunity to Engage in and Develop Their Love of Sport Through the Distribution of More Than 4,000 NFL FLAG-In-Schools Flag Football Kits
NEW YORK, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Football League (NFL), GENYOUth, Fuel Up to Play 60 and RCX Sports announced today the return of GENYOUth's NFL FLAG-In-Schools program and the opening of its national application for the 2022-2023 school year. Beginning today, educators and community-based organizations can apply for a free NFL FLAG-In-Schools flag football kit to strengthen and enhance their physical education curriculum and equipment. Applications will close Wednesday, May 18, 2022.
Through a renewed commitment of $1.5 million from the NFL Foundation, NFL FLAG-In-Schools continues to expand and open new physical activities for students of all genders, abilities, and skill levels. A total of 32,000 kits have been provided to U.S. schools and school-based community organizations since 2014, engaging an estimated 15 million students to become more active before, during and after school.
Inspiring boys and girls to participate in school-based sports, NFL FLAG-In-Schools is a proven resource that is both scalable and sustainable. New students are reached each year by the program's resources, fueling increased interest and engagement in the sport. Since NFL FLAG-In-School's inception, flag football has become the fastest growing team sport in the nation among children ages 6-14, and has undergone a tremendous level of expansion which the program has undoubtedly contributed to.
In particular, NFL FLAG-In-Schools has had a positive impact on girls, with schools reporting increased female students' participation in physical activity and a growing movement toward girls' flag football as a varsity sport due to NFL FLAG-In-Schools. Female students' affinity for the program is especially important in light of research showing girls are at greater risk than boys of falling short of the CDC's youth physical activity guidelines, with girls twice as likely to drop out of sports upon reaching middle school.
NFL FLAG-In-Schools, building on the success of previous years with new and engaging program elements, is now an official part of the State of Nevada's high school digital learning physical education course. GENYOUth has teamed up with the Nevada State Department of Education to integrate NFL FLAG-In-Schools as a core school curriculum component. Over the course of three years, FLAG-In-Schools kits will be available in all public schools across the state, beginning with high schools in the 2022-23 school year, middle schools in 2023-24 and, finally, elementary schools in 2024-25. By the time Super Bowl LVIII arrives in Las Vegas in February 2024, every public school in Nevada will have access to NFL FLAG-In-Schools resources.
"As GENYOUth's fastest growing program with over 25,000 school communities reaching over 15 million students, NFL FLAG-In-Schools continues to innovate in providing schools with tools and resources that engage, excite and connect kids to sports," said Alexis Glick, CEO of GENYOUth. "As it enters its ninth year, we are proud of NFL FLAG-In-Schools' demonstrated record of success at increasing students' participation in physical activity."
"The NFL Foundation is a proud partner, along with GENYOUth, Fuel Up to Play 60 and Reigning Champs Experiences, in delivering resources that schools need and kids enjoy," said Alexia Gallagher, NFL Vice President of Philanthropy and Executive Director of NFL Foundation. "When children have the opportunity to participate in team sports that are fun and supportive, it's a win-win for both educators and students. We are excited to be embarking on our ninth year of NFL FLAG-In-Schools this upcoming academic year."
"RCX Sports prides itself on our commitment to making sports accessible to all athletes," said Izell Reese, NFL FLAG Executive Director and GM of RCX Sports. "As the official operating partner of NFL FLAG, RCX Sports works to continue that mission and ensure that the game of flag football is available to athletes across the country."
"We are proud to partner with GENYOUth, the NFL Foundation, and RCX Sports to incorporate NFL FLAG-In-Schools as an official part of Nevada's high school physical education curriculum," said Jhone Ebert, Nevada State Superintendent of Public Instruction. "By 2024, Nevada will be the first state in the nation to offer this valuable program at every Nevada public school, enriching the experience on behalf of our students. Thank you to the NFL Foundation for the generous contribution to our schools."
"The Raiders are committed to fostering the growth of youth football at all levels, to broaden opportunities for all of Southern Nevada's youth athletes to participate in this great game. Flag football tournaments for boys and girls, coaching clinics and supporting high school girls' flag football as a varsity sport in Nevada are important to this community and to the Raiders. We are grateful for the opportunity to partner in programs like NFL FLAG-In-Schools in Nevada," said Las Vegas Raiders President Dan Ventrelle.
To learn more about NFL FLAG-In-Schools, or to find or start an NFL FLAG league in your community, visit https://flag.genyouthnow.org. For NFL FLAG-In-Schools updates and more, follow @nflflag, @GENYOUthNow and @FUTP60 on Twitter. And use hashtag #PlayFootball to share your stories of NFL FLAG-In-Schools best practices and on how the program is positively contributing to youth development in your community.
About The NFL Foundation
The National Football League Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of those touched by the game of football – from players at all levels to communities across the country. The NFL Foundation and its members, the 32 NFL clubs, support the health, safety and wellness of athletes, youth football, and the communities that support our game. For more information on the NFL Foundation, visit: www.NFLFoundation.org.
About GENYOUth
GENYOUth is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that creates healthier school communities. We convene a network of private and public partners, including Fortune 100 companies and foundations, to raise funds for youth wellness initiatives that give youth the inspiration, motivation, and programs to be healthy high-achieving students. GENYOUth's flagship program, Fuel Up to Play 60, enrolls over 73,000 U.S. schools, reaching over 38 million students. Our school nutrition grants increase access to healthy school meals among food insecure students. NFL FLAG-In-School is GENYOUth's fastest growing program with over 25,000 school communities reaching over 15 million students. GENYOUth is also the official charitable partner of Taste of the NFL, a purpose-driven Super Bowl culinary experience which raises awareness and generates funds to fight hunger and food insecurity. For more information on GENYOUth, visit www.genyouthnow.org.
About Fuel Up to Play 60
Fuel Up to Play 60 is an in-school nutrition and physical activity program launched by National Football League (NFL) and National Dairy Council (NDC), which was founded by America's dairy farmers, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Fuel Up to Play 60 is designed to engage and empower youth to take action for their own health by implementing long-term, positive changes for themselves and their schools. Visit FuelUpToPlay60.com to learn more.
About NFL FLAG
NFL FLAG is an NFL-licensed property of more than 1,600 locally operated leagues and over 500,000 youth athletes across all 50 states. NFL FLAG is a fun and accessible non-contact program available for girls and boys ages 5-17. Players benefit by being physically active through non-contact, continuous action while learning the fundamentals of football as well as lessons in teamwork and sportsmanship. RCX Sports is the official operator of NFL FLAG.
About RCX SPORTS
RCX Sports is the premier youth-sports experiences business, running and operating leagues, camps, combines, tournaments and events. RCX works with professional leagues, national governing bodies, sports-centric businesses, and brands to reimagine youth sports experiences. RCX produces events with world-class partners including the NFL, Jr. NBA, MLB, NHL, NAIA, Rivals.com and the 2022 World Games. RCX is committed to improving the accessibility and inclusivity of sports by enhancing the youth sports experience and creating opportunities for all athletes to play. We believe sports have the power to transform lives and that every athlete should have the opportunity to experience the value of sports. For more information, visit www.rcxsports.com.
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Recognition for Nintex channel partner program for the technology industry and Joe Peterson named a 2022 CRN® Channel Chief
BELLEVUE, Wash., April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nintex, the global standard for process intelligence and automation, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized the Nintex Partner Program with a 5-Star rating in the 2022 CRN Partner Program Guide, and named Joe Peterson, Nintex's Vice President of Channel Sales and Strategy, to CRN's Channel Chiefs list for 2022.
- To learn more about the Nintex Partner Program visit: https://partner.nintex.com/
The Nintex Partner Program is comprised of more than 1,000 consulting and ISV partners around the world with wide and deep expertise in process intelligence, workflow automation, robotic process automation and document automation. Nintex partners work with public and private sector organizations in every industry to discover, automate and optimize a wide range of business processes with the powerful and easy-to-use capabilities of the Nintex Process Platform.
"Nintex partners are industry experts who play a critical role in helping customers achieve their business goals," said Ben Brewer, Nintex's President of Sales, Marketing & Customer Success. "I want to congratulate Joe Peterson and the entire Nintex Partner organization for helping our global network of partners and technology specialists deliver modern digital business solutions to rapidly solve enterprise-wide process problems."
Honored for the fourth year in a row in 2022, Nintex's partner program offers comprehensive support and resources including pre-sales assistance, co-funded marketing campaigns, demonstration environments, technical training, sales training, referrals, an online partner portal, and more. Peterson was recognized as a 2022 CRN Channel Chief which identifies top IT channel vendor executives who continually demonstrate expertise, influence and innovation in channel leadership.
The annual CRN Partner Program Guide provides a definitive list of the most notable partner programs from industry-leading technology vendors that provide innovative products and flexible services through the channel. The 5-star rating is achieved only by select vendors like Nintex that deliver the best of the best, going above and beyond in their partner programs to drive growth and positive change.
"CRN's Partner Program Guide delves into the strengths of each organization's partner program in order to honor those that consistently support and promote good change within the IT channel," said The Channel Company CEO Blaine Raddon. "As innovation fuels the speed and complexity of technology today, solution providers want partners that can keep up with and assist their growing business."
Companies in the Partner Program Guide are scored based on their investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support, and communication. A 5-star rating helps narrow the field to find the best fit, identifying the most rewarding partner programs and providing crucial insight into their strengths.
The 2022 Partner Program Guide will be featured in the April 2022 issue of CRN and online at www.CRN.com/PPG.
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Nintex is the global standard for process intelligence and automation. Today more than 10,000 public and private sector organizations across 90 countries turn to the Nintex Process Platform to accelerate progress on their digital transformation journeys by quickly and easily managing, automating and optimizing business processes. Learn more by visiting www.nintex.com and experience how Nintex and its global partner network are shaping the future of Intelligent Process Automation (IPA).
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